Episode 3021 CWSA 11/17/25

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Well, I saw that Elon Musk had noted that his competitor Whimo, the self-driving car taxi company, has expanded to the entire Bay Area, San Francisco Bay Area.

That's where I live.

So now I could take a way more way more way more than I could.

Yep.

Way more than I could.

Um, and I was wondering how big a deal it is to be the first self-driving car company in an area.

Don't you think that if you loaded one app and it worked out, let's say you put the Whimo app on your phone and then you called the Whimo and it showed up and you were happy with the experience, would you even do another one or would you say, "I'm a Whimo person now.

Does everything I need to do?" I think going first is going to be a really big deal.

So Elon better give some get some local firsts.

Although if you were going to try two things, you'd try Whimo and then you would definitely try Tesla.

So if you're going to try two things, the second one would if not the first thing would definitely be Tesla.

Uh Elon says that AI has run out of human knowledge to train on.

So now the knowledge it trains on is knowledge it makes up.

How in the world does that work?

It just makes up knowledge and then it trains itself on the stuff it made up.

Does that sound like it would work?

>> >> Does does your common sense tell you that that AI could get smarter by simply elus hall elucinating what's true and then acting like it just got trained on something that was true?

How does that work?

I don't know.

I'm a little bit suspicious that that's a real thing.

Um, but I like I like the idea that AI has already run out of human knowledge to train on.

All of human knowledge has now been, you know, basically used.

Nothing left.

So that's how smart the AI is.

So there was this guy Lun Lun who is the head AI guy at Meta.

Um he's reporting leaving Meta.

I think I told you this before, but I didn't give you the reason which I just found out today.

The reason he's leaving Meta, the top AI guy, is that he doesn't think the large language models are a path to human level AI.

He calls it a dead end.

So, one of the guys who arguably would be the top AI guys in the country is in complete agreement with the cartoonist who has spent really no time in AI and we have exactly the same prediction.

Hey, this doesn't look like it could go very far.

It looks like you've already reached your limit of what you can do.

Well, well, Lu and I, we agree it's already reached its limit.

All right.

What else is happening?

Yeah.

The one thing that never gets less funny is when a Democrat says something and then there's a compilation clip that shows that the Democrat was lying or said the opposite thing.

Well, we got another one.

So, Gavin Newsome is uh complaining on video.

He goes, "Not one person ever in my office has ever used the word Latinex.

How long did it take someone to make a compilation clip of all the times that Gavin Newsome, not just people in his office, but how many times did Gavin Newsome use the word Latinex on video in public?" There's a few times.

Yeah.

Not only did people in his office use it, he used it.

And he's acting like, "Oh, no, no, no.

I never would have used that." And people in my office, are you kidding me?

Why would we ever use that?

Oh, good compilation clip.

And as somebody asked, I saw this in a post on asked by one bad dude.

One bad dude.

Um, do you think that Gavin knew he was lying?

Cuz sometimes it's ambiguous, isn't it?

Maybe he knew he was lying.

He just figured nobody would check.

Or did he not remember that he used it?

Or did he use it for a week and got over it and doesn't remember he used it for a week?

I don't know.

Probably just forgot.

It's my best guess.

Anyway, um Trump wants to, not that it's going to happen, but he expressed a desire that the FCC would cancel the licenses of ABC and NBC for being fake news and deep state propaganda for the Democratic Party.

Uh so he accused them ABC and NBC.

Uh yeah, deep state propaganda.

So are you happy with that?

Are you okay if the president of the United States tries to take down ABC and NBC as in won't even be networks anymore?

Well, I don't think it's going to happen.

So, probably looks again like one of these uh really just a threat so that they'll say less bad things about him in the future.

I think he has a totally legitimate case.

I believe that what Trump is complaining about is real.

It's fake news.

And I think he has every right to complain about it.

Also has every right to try to put him out of business because they're trying to put him out of business.

So it's not an ideal situation that our main uh two of our main news sources are so undependable that the president wants them banned.

That's pretty bad.

But he's not wrong.

They do seem to be legitimately and really fake news.

All right.

Um, we of course have to talk about the Epstein files.

The the story that never ends.

It never ends.

Can I wake up one morning and not have a news story about the Epstein files that are not really news stories?

All right.

What's the latest news story that's not a news story?

So Trump is still calling the Epstein files a hoax, a Democrat hoax.

And now what's new is he's called on House Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files.

So he's completely reversed from don't re don't release them to release them.

Now what do you think happened when he reversed from don't release them to release them?

Because when he said don't release them, his critics said, "Oh, there must be some bad stuff in there for Trump because that's why you don't want him released." But now that he says do release them, what do his own people say?

Well, everybody, basically, they say, "Oh, he must have I think it was uh who was it?

Wasn't it Bill Crystal?" So, Bill Crystal uh is suggesting that the only reason that Trump would say release him is he's already scrubbed out all the bad stuff that would pertain to him.

You think that's true?

We'll never know.

Um and then uh let's see what else.

We have nothing to hide, Trump says.

Well, we'll find out.

Uh, and he says, "I don't care.

They can have whatever they are legally entitled to.

I don't care," he says in all caps.

Uh, but he doesn't want some of these big names in the Democrat side looked into the Bill Clinton, Reed Hoffman, Larry Summers.

He mentions them again.

And then there's the other possibility that uh there was never any risk to Trump.

There was nothing in there, but there was some risk to somebody important that he wanted to protect.

You know, maybe a head of state, maybe maybe somebody in our intelligence group said, "Oh, you don't want to throw that country under the bus, so just pretend there's nothing in there." Yeah.

Meanwhile, remember I told you about a year ago I sold my Nvidia stock because I didn't believe it could go up forever.

Well, Soft Bank sold their Nvidia stock and Peter Teal sold his and um some investor named Drunken Miller.

Drunken Miller, it's a terrible name for an investor.

Uh sold all his.

So, there are a number of people who are looking to sell all their Nvidia.

They think it's had its run.

There's no way to know.

And do not take any financial advice from me because I'm not good on financial advice.

I can tell you what I did, but I can't tell you it's a good idea unless it's just straight diversification, which in this case I was.

In my case, I wasn't diversified enough.

So, I got rid of my Nvidia stock and just diversified.

So, that that part's not uh really an investment.

It's just sort of a normal thing people do.

All right.

Um, Thomas Massie believes that some highprofile government official, but we don't know if it's our government, is linked to the Epstein crimes and that that's the most likely reason that they haven't been released.

And it could be that Trump is just really, really tired of protecting whoever it is.

And he just decided, you know what?

You're on your own.

You You're totally killing me politically.

I can't protect you anymore.

You're on your own.

you think that's going to happen?

So, yeah, Massie points out that uh Republicans have been saying it's a hoax and uh Massie says he expects a quote deluge of Republicans uh House Republicans will vote to compel the release of it.

Do you think if you had to bet now that presumably all the obstacles have been removed, would you bet that the Republicans would vote to release it?

Because whatever whatever was the situation, you know, there were important people being protected or some national secret or whatever, that probably didn't change.

meaning that in all likelihood uh the Republicans will have a new reason not to release it.

What do you think?

You want to take a bet?

So, my bet is that there will just be a new reason, maybe one we haven't heard, maybe a recycled one for why Republicans don't want to release it.

But it will release Trump from that danger because he'll say, "I'm in favor of releasing it.

Why don't you guys release it?" What's wrong with you guys?

I say release it.

Why won't Why don't you want to?

What What have you done?

So, I think that's where it's headed.

It's headed where nobody can prove anything, but at least if you're Trump, at least you can be the one who said full disclosure because that doesn't look nearly as bad as wanting to keep it a secret, right?

No matter what the reason is, if you're protecting another country or state secret, it doesn't matter what the reason is.

It's a bad look.

And now Trump has the option, if he wants to turn that bad look into a good look by uh just saying, "Hey everybody, release those files." I sure would if I were you.

All right.

Um, Scott Jennings is trying to uh explain what happened between uh Marjorie Taylor Green and Trump.

As you know, they're not getting along right now.

Trump wants to primary her and he's promoting somebody else for her job.

Um, and uh, it's kind of interesting to watch, but the most interesting thing is that uh, Marjorie Taylor Green has kind of taken some kind of a change in life and change in approach.

Uh, and so when Dana Bash on CNN was criticizing her, she's talking about attacks on people.

So Marjorie Taylor Green doesn't like the attacks that Trump is doing to her and Dana Bash quite reasonably said we have seen these kinds of attacks or criticism um from the president at other people.

It's not new and with respect I haven't heard you speak out about it until it was directed at you.

That's a that's a pretty good you know biting criticism right?

Hey, Marjorie Taylor Green, why are you only cons why are you only concerned about Trump's uh narrative when it's about you?

And what did Marjgerie Taylor Green say?

Uh Dana, I think that's a fair criticism.

What?

I think that's a fair criticism of her.

Now, you don't hear that much, do you?

That would surprise me.

Uh she says, "I'm sorry for taking part in toxic politics." She just totally owned it.

It's very bad for the country.

It's been something I thought about a lot, especially since Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

What do you think of that?

You know, MTG Marjorie Taylor Green is one of the most famously pugilistic fighting kind of a politician.

So you just sort of automatically expect her to fight against whatever push back she's getting.

But here she not only didn't fight, she said, "Dan, Dana, I think that's a fair criticism." I almost fell off my chair because I thought it was a fair criticism, too.

But to hear somebody say something that's true in public, it felt kind of brave just to say something that's just true.

All right, betting against the Epstein file.

You can make money probably.

So, we'll see what happens there.

Uh, but I guess uh Marjorie Taylor Green is now being contacted by private security firms.

People are warning her that she's not safe.

I guess they want to get a contract to protect her.

And uh I don't know, she might not be safe.

If if there are enough people who think that she's stopping Trump's progress, that's not a safe place to be because there are crazy people in this world and some of them are Trump supporters.

So, I would worry about her safety and she she said in her post, "As a woman, I take threats from men seriously." Okay.

I'm not sure you had to go, you know, full gender on that, but we get what you're saying.

Now, I've said before that I like I like MTG, so I certainly don't want her to be hurt or lose her job over any of this, right?

But on the other hand, you can certainly see why Trump would want, you know, the most loyal, obedient people in office so he can get done what he needs to get done.

So, you can you can see both sides.

Um, and Trump was uh Did uh uh Trump said, "I don't think your life is in danger." Somebody asked him about it because frankly uh I don't think anyone cares about her.

I don't think anyone cares about her.

That's such a Trump thing to say.

No, people do care about her.

I I care about her.

Don't you?

Is there anybody here who cares about her?

I I care about her because she's pro-America, which means she cares about me, right?

If she cares about me because I'm an American, I can care back.

That's fair.

So, yeah, I care.

But apparently, she's now getting the pizza doxing where people will send pizzas to your house just to scare you that they know your address.

I guess that's happening.

Bomb threats.

Man, it is tough to be a politician.

I'll tell you the it it's so sad that you have to risk your life just to have a to be a politician and have an opinion.

Oh, well going to risk my life today just for have an opinion.

All right.

Uh apparently Jen Saki who's talking about an article in Pro.

Publica.

So, they think they've got a scoop about uh Trump's Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome, who is apparently spending, they say, um, a whole bunch of money, $200 million of taxpayer dollars into TV ads to promote her work at DHS.

Does that sound real?

Do you believe Pro.

Publica that Christine Gnome is going to spend $200 million to promote her work at DHS, what what is slightly more likely if you look at that story and you didn't know anything about it, what is more likely than the way they've presented it.

Well, what's more likely is it's the commercials every one of us has seen where Christie says some version of if you don't take this uh you know this airplane home, you're going to be on the airplane home anyway because we're going to send you home and uh you might as well do it the right way.

You might be able to come back.

Now, would that be an example of promoting her work at DHS?

Yeah, it would be.

That would be an example of promoting her work.

But it also is in our benefit because she's promoting that all these people can get a ride home and then it's cheaper for us, it's cheaper for them.

You know, we're deporting peacefully.

So, do you think the Pro.

Publicico story is legit or they're really just telling you what you already knew, which is she does commercials showing that the border is closed and she's doing a good job?

I don't have any problem in that particular job.

If it were a different job, I wouldn't want her to spend money, you know, saying she's doing a good job.

But when she says she's doing a good job, it's telling all the people who might want to sneak into the country, it's not going to work.

Don't you want that?

Don't you want the potential illegal immigrants who are thinking about coming to look at her commercials and say, "Oh, looks like she does a really good job of keeping people out.

Maybe I won't go.

Any story sounds like BS to me.

But uh this is funny.

According to Headline USA, Ben Sers is writing that I guess Comey and maybe some others back in Comey's day in government.

Uh they were allegedly misspelling the names of people in their files so that when you did a search, you couldn't find them because they thought they were up to no good.

So they spelled Clinton, C L I N I N, Clinton.

And uh I guess some of the other names were also, you know, humorously misspelled.

So and uh Comey himself used the alias Reinhold and Neber.

Reinhold Neber.

Is that a German name?

All right.

Pain chip eaters.

All right.

I see you there.

All right.

Um, so apparently the whole Comey situation is still bubbling around and uh I think uh Cash Patel is saying, "Oh, we're definitely going to get some people on this." I don't know how long we have to wait before they get some people.

Uh, >> all right.

Oh, and then Weiner's name was spelled wiser and huba abiden was spelled abadin with two T's instead of one.

And there were no other misspellings in the email.

So the only misspellings were the people they were trying to hide and there it was their last names.

So So um Dr.

Oz CMS administrator tells us that Trump is considering doesn't mean he's going to do it, but he is considering extending the Obamacare subsidies at least until figuring out something better to do.

That makes sense.

He should at least consider it.

Doesn't mean he's going to do it.

Fared Zakaria of CNN uh shocked the world today um by going hard at Democrats.

He he's been hinting at it before, but boy did he go hard at Democrats today.

And he said that if Democrats want to rebuild uh faith in their electorate, they must rediscover the lost art of competence.

Competence.

That that's the the bar they have to cross.

Competence.

That's not a very high bar, is it?

All right.

But uh freeze says when government seems incapable of building housing, schools, or balancing budgets, even sympathetic voters lose faith.

Well, he's right.

You are right, Fared.

You're going to have to do something right or it's going to be hard to get elected.

Just do something right.

Anything.

Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos is taking over another CEO job.

It'll be a coco I think in a new AI startup called project prometheus and they would use AI for engineering and manufacturing and computer audios and spacecraft.

It's got about $6 billion in it.

100 hires.

Now why would Jeff Bezos of all people want a regular job again?

Oh yeah, I think I'll go to work and you know get a paycheck, have a regular job.

Now, obviously as CEO, it's not a regular job, but why would he even want to do this?

Well, here's something I know that maybe you don't know.

If AI does what it's supposed to do, and some people think it won't, but if it does, uh, imagine the impact it would have on engineering and manufacturing and the big stuff like autos and and computers and spacecraft.

It would be the biggest thing So you think that Amazon is big because it sells things to every basically everyone.

Do you know how big it would be if there were an Amazon for learning how to build stuff?

So suppose that Amazon was the thing that sold things, but the that Jeff Bezos builds this other company that can manufacture anything.

And then he's got another company that can sell anything.

He would kind of own everything, wouldn't he?

If they can build anything and then they can sell anything.

He's got it done.

That's all he needs to do.

So that'd be cool.

Well, allegedly, uh, Trump is thinking about focusing on affordability for 2026 and beyond.

Affordability.

Do you believe that?

Do you think Trump would just borrow the Democrat rallying cry, the one that Mami, the communist, as he would say, is pushing affordability?

Do you think he'd just steal it and say, "Oh, that's pretty good.

I'll just take that." affordability.

Well, it wouldn't be a bad play to just adopt it because it works.

There's nothing wrong with adopting the part that the other person does that works.

Just don't adopt the parts that don't work.

So, affordability, yes.

Um, the trouble is I don't think there's anything that the Republicans do on affordability.

They don't really have any secret sauce for that, do they?

They can use the words and they can say things like, "We're going to fight.

We're going to fight for you affordability." Uh, what does that mean?

Well, we're going to fight.

We got really fight.

Okay, but what are you actually going to do?

Fighting.

We're going to fight.

Okay, but how's that make anything more affordable?

Uh, Scott, if you don't fight, you're not going to get anything.

I know, but I'm still not connecting all the dots.

What's all the fighting got to do with me lowering my expenses?

How does that work?

I don't know.

I guess I'll tell us someday.

Like I said before, Cash Patel says there's a 100% chance you're going to see people accountable for the grand conspiracy of of Russia and also J6.

Can't wait for that.

Um, did you know that LA, which is always at least a little bit interested in affordable housing, uh, they're going to go big on affordable housing now, probably because of the fire.

They got more more land that's sitting there not being used.

They'd like to use it.

Um, but apparently building affordable housing is now the hottest thing.

Now, when I say affordable housing, what do the NPCs say?

NPCs, do your thing.

Say the thing that you always say whenever I mention affordable housing.

Go.

I know what you're going to say.

You're going to say, "I'm not going to live in any tiny house." Who mentioned a tiny house?

No one.

No.

Tiny house was never a part of the conversation.

So, get out of here with your tiny house talk.

Um, affordable is different than tiny, although sometimes they can be the same.

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know what they'll be.

Um, but it's hard to get approval for anything, but it'll probably be easier to get approval for lowcost stuff.

Toyota is going to build a battery factory in the US.

Another one.

I guess we've got some already.

And, uh, $10 billion investment.

Wow.

create up to 5,100 new American jobs.

We'll take it.

And meanwhile, over in Ukraine and Russia, New York Post is reporting the Ukraine attacked a major Russian oil refinery and also the site of elite drone units.

So there are about 10 of them, the Russian oil refineries.

So I think at the current rate that Ukraine is destroying them, they're probably rebuilding at about the same rate.

So I'm not really feeling like there's any progress.

All right.

So they're just a little robot war going after each other.

Meanwhile, uh according according to the Wall Street Journal, Hamas is more popular than ever among the Palestinians.

Wait, what?

Hamas is more popular than ever among the Palestinians.

Do you think we did something wrong there?

Did somebody do something wrong?

Because not really wasn't really looking for Hamas to get more popular.

That's that's a scary situation, but apparently that's happened.

Meanwhile, in Venezuela, Trump said he would talk to Maduro, head of Venezuela.

Um, but I like I like that Trump in general is willing to talk to whoever he needs to talk to.

I always thought it was the dumbest thing that our leaders would say, "Oh, we cannot talk to you until you make these, you know, concessions." How about you just talk to us?

How about everybody talks to everybody?

Yeah, how about that?

So anyway, Trump says he'll talk to Madura if it comes to that, which is the right answer.

Uh, but I think that Trump wants to wait for those talks until he's frightened Venezuela with his military buildup.

So once you have the entire military surrounding Venezuela, then you say stuff like, you know, this would be a good time to talk.

Anybody want to talk?

talking would be fun.

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

It's gonna be a short show because Monday is boring.

Yeah, Monday is boring.

Did I read you a reframe yet or was that upcoming?

I can't remember if I read it.

Did I or was I planning to read it?

All right.

Did I already read you uh No.

Um All right.

Here's one.

Here's one that it might be additional, but All right.

So, this might be on top of or maybe not.

So, usual frame is that some people have willpower and some people do not.

And if you do not have willpower, you would be called weak.

And if you do have willpower, somebody would say, "Hey, you got some willpower there." But here's a reframe from not thinking you have enough willpower and that people who who also don't seem to have willpower are weak.

The reframe is that some people get more pleasure from certain vices than you do, and that's it.

So, let me put it this way.

I'm not somebody who loves eating, although sometimes I do, but it's not like my passion or anything.

But have you seen people whose passion is eating or their passion is wine or their passion is something that's not good for them?

Yeah.

So, let me let me open that up again.

So the uh the reframe is that sometimes you just like things more than other people.

If you said to me, Scott, you can never ride a motorcycle again.

I would say, oh, I kind of liked riding motorcycles, but wouldn't be the biggest problem in the world.

But what if you loved motorcycles?

Like you love them beyond what anybody could even understand.

It just it just set you on fire, your your brain.

It made you happy.

It changed your whole day.

Would you be able to resist it?

And the answer is you probably wouldn't be able to resist it because it would just be too too much fun.

So, as long as you're thinking that there are some people who are weak and some people are strong, you're in the wrong frame.

The right frame is that some people like stuff more than others.

So, if you like eating more than I do, you probably weigh more.

If you like drinking more than I do, you probably drink more.

Am I right?

There's not much of an argument to be made by that, right?

You you do the things that you really like.

So, stop thinking that you're weak if you can't resist a temptation.

Far more likely that you just like that temptation more than other people.

There's nothing wrong with you at all.

You can still quit it, but the reason you're doing it at all is that you like it more than other people do.

Um, flying insects is the worst thing about motorcycles.

Well, that and the dying.

I would say the dying would be slightly worse than the the insects.

Yes, on both counts.

Do some this beautiful day.

What?

Oh, go get some.

Get now, girl.

Uh, yeah, you can do anything that you have to do.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to end here today.

I'm going to say a few words to my beloved local subscribers.

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Well, I saw that Elon Musk had noted

that his competitor Whimo, the

self-driving car taxi company, has

expanded to the entire Bay Area, San

Francisco Bay Area. That's where I live.

So now I could take a way more way more

way more than I could. Yep. Way more

than I could. Um,

and I was wondering how big a deal it is

to be the first self-driving car company

in an area. Don't you think that if you

loaded one app and it worked out, let's

say you put the Whimo app on your phone

and then you called the Whimo and it

showed up and you were happy with the

experience,

would you even do another one or would

you say, "I'm a Whimo person now. Does

everything I need to do?" I think going

first is going to be a really big deal.

So Elon better give some get some local

firsts.

Although if you were going to try two

things, you'd try Whimo and then you

would definitely try Tesla. So if you're

going to try two things, the second one

would if not the first thing would

definitely be Tesla.

Uh Elon says that AI has run out of

human knowledge to train on. So now the

knowledge it trains on is knowledge it

makes up. How in the world does that

work? It just makes up knowledge and

then it trains itself on the stuff it

made up. Does that sound like it would

work?

>> [clears throat]

>> Does does your common sense tell you

that that AI could get smarter by simply

elus hall elucinating what's true and

then acting like it just got trained on

something that was true?

How does that work? I don't know. I'm a

little bit suspicious that that's a real

thing.

Um, but I like I like the idea that AI

has already run out of human knowledge

to train on. All of human knowledge has

now been, you know, basically used.

Nothing left.

So that's how smart the AI is. So there

was this guy Lun Lun who is the head AI

guy at Meta.

Um he's reporting leaving Meta. I think

I told you this before, but I didn't

give you the reason which I just found

out today. The reason he's leaving Meta,

the top AI guy,

is that he doesn't think the large

language models are a path to human

level AI. He calls it a dead end.

So, one of the guys who arguably would

be the top AI guys in the country is in

complete agreement with the cartoonist

who has spent really no time in AI

[laughter]

and we have exactly the same prediction.

Hey, this doesn't look like it could go

very far. It looks like you've already

reached your limit of what you can do.

Well, well, Lu and I, we agree it's

already reached its limit.

All right. What else is happening?

[clears throat] Yeah. The one thing that

never gets less funny is when a Democrat

says something and then there's a

compilation clip that shows that the

Democrat was lying or said the opposite

thing. Well, we got another one. So,

Gavin Newsome is uh complaining on

video. He goes, "Not one person ever in

my office has ever used the word

Latinex.

How long did it take someone to make a

compilation clip of all the times that

Gavin Newsome, not just people in his

office, but how many times did Gavin

Newsome use the word Latinex on video in

public?"

There's a few times. Yeah. Not only did

people in his office use it, he used it.

And he's acting like, "Oh, no, no, no. I

never would have used that." And people

in my office, are you kidding me? Why

would we ever use that? Oh, good

compilation clip.

And as somebody asked, I saw this in a

post on asked by one bad dude. One bad

dude.

Um, do you think that Gavin knew he was

lying?

Cuz sometimes it's ambiguous, isn't it?

Maybe he knew he was lying. He just

figured nobody would check. Or did he

not remember that he used it? Or did he

use it for a week and got over it and

doesn't remember he used it for a week?

I don't know. Probably just forgot. It's

my best guess.

Anyway, um Trump wants to, not that it's

going to happen, but he expressed a

desire that the FCC would cancel the

licenses of ABC and NBC for being fake

news and deep state propaganda for the

Democratic Party. Uh so he accused them

ABC and NBC. Uh yeah, deep state

propaganda.

So are you happy with that?

Are you okay if the president of the

United States tries to take down ABC and

NBC as in won't even be networks

anymore? Well, I don't think it's going

to happen. So, probably looks again like

one of these uh really just a threat so

that they'll say less bad things about

him in the future. I think he has a

totally legitimate case.

I believe that what Trump is complaining

about is real. It's fake news. And I

think he has every right to complain

about it. Also has every right to try to

put him out of business because they're

trying to put him out of business. So

it's not an ideal situation that our

main uh two of our main news sources are

so undependable that the president wants

them banned. That's pretty bad.

But he's not wrong. They do seem to be

legitimately and

really fake news.

All right. Um, we of course have to talk

about the Epstein files. The the story

that never ends. It never ends.

Can I wake up one morning and not have a

news story about the Epstein files that

are not really news stories? All right.

What's the latest news story that's not

a news story? So Trump is still calling

the Epstein files a hoax, a Democrat

hoax. And now what's new is he's called

on House Republicans to vote to release

the Epstein files. So he's completely

reversed from don't re don't release

them to release them. Now what do you

think happened when he reversed from

don't release them to release them?

Because when he said don't release them,

his critics said, "Oh, there must be

some bad stuff in there for Trump

because that's why you don't want him

released." But now that he says do

release them, what do his own people

say? Well, everybody, basically, they

say, "Oh, he must have I think it was uh

who was it?

Wasn't it Bill Crystal?" So, Bill

Crystal

uh is suggesting that the only reason

that Trump would say release him is he's

already scrubbed out all the bad stuff

that would pertain to him. You think

that's true? We'll never know. Um

and then uh let's see what else.

We have nothing to hide, Trump says.

Well, we'll find out.

Uh, and he says, "I don't care. They can

have whatever they are legally entitled

to. I don't care," he says in all caps.

Uh, but he doesn't want some of these

big names in the Democrat side looked

into the Bill Clinton, Reed Hoffman,

Larry Summers. He mentions them again.

And then there's the other possibility

that uh there was never any risk to

Trump. There was nothing in there, but

there was some risk to somebody

important that he wanted to protect. You

know, maybe a head of state, maybe maybe

somebody in our intelligence group said,

"Oh, you don't want to throw that

country under the bus, so just pretend

there's nothing in there."

Yeah.

Meanwhile, remember I told you about a

year ago I sold my Nvidia stock because

I didn't believe it could go up forever.

Well, Soft Bank sold their Nvidia stock

and Peter Teal sold his and um some

investor named Drunken Miller. Drunken

Miller, it's a terrible name for an

investor. Uh sold all his. So, there are

a number of people who are looking to

sell all their Nvidia. They think it's

had its run. There's no way to know. And

do not take any financial advice from me

because I'm not good on financial

advice. I can tell you what I did, but I

can't tell you it's a good idea unless

it's just straight diversification,

which in this case I was. In my case, I

wasn't diversified enough. So, I got rid

of my Nvidia stock and just diversified.

So, that that part's not uh really an

investment. It's just sort of a normal

thing people do.

All right. Um,

Thomas Massie

believes that some highprofile

government official, but we don't know

if it's our government, is linked to the

Epstein crimes and that that's the most

likely reason that they haven't been

released. And it could be that Trump is

just really, really tired of protecting

whoever it is. And he just decided, you

know what? You're on your own. You

You're totally killing me politically. I

can't protect you anymore. You're on

your own. you think that's going to

happen?

So, yeah, Massie points out that uh

Republicans have been saying it's a hoax

and uh Massie says he expects a quote

deluge of Republicans

uh House Republicans will vote to compel

the release of it. Do you think

if you had to bet

now that presumably all the obstacles

have been removed, would you bet that

the Republicans would vote to release

it?

Because whatever whatever was the

situation, you know, there were

important people being protected or some

national secret or whatever, that

probably didn't change.

meaning that in all likelihood

uh the Republicans will have a new

reason not to release it.

What do you think? You want to take a

bet?

So, my bet is that there will just be a

new reason, maybe one we haven't heard,

maybe a recycled one for why Republicans

don't want to release it. But it will

release Trump from that danger because

he'll say, "I'm in favor of releasing

it. Why don't you guys release it?"

What's wrong with you guys? I say

release it. Why won't Why don't you want

to? What What have you done? So, I think

that's where it's headed. It's headed

where nobody can prove anything, but at

least if you're Trump, at least you can

be the one who said full disclosure

because that doesn't look nearly as bad

as wanting to keep it a secret, right?

No matter what the reason is, if you're

protecting another country or state

secret, it doesn't matter what the

reason is. It's a bad look. And now

Trump has the option, if he wants to

turn that bad look into a good look by

uh just saying, "Hey everybody, release

those files." I sure would if I were

you.

All right. Um,

Scott Jennings is trying to uh explain

what happened between uh Marjorie Taylor

Green and Trump. As you know, they're

not getting along right now. Trump wants

to primary her and he's promoting

somebody else for her job.

Um,

and uh,

it's kind of interesting to watch, but

the most interesting thing is that uh,

Marjorie Taylor Green has kind of taken

some kind of a change in life and change

in approach.

Uh, and so when Dana Bash on CNN was

criticizing her, she's talking about

attacks on people. So Marjorie Taylor

Green doesn't like the attacks that

Trump is doing to her and Dana Bash

quite reasonably said we have seen these

kinds of attacks or criticism

um from the president at other people.

It's not new and with respect I haven't

heard you speak out about it until it

was directed at you. That's a that's a

pretty good you know biting criticism

right? Hey, Marjorie Taylor Green, why

are you only cons why are you only

concerned about Trump's uh narrative

when it's about you? And what did

Marjgerie Taylor Green say?

Uh Dana, I think that's a fair

criticism. What? I think that's a fair

criticism of her. Now, you don't hear

that much, do you? That would surprise

me. Uh she says, "I'm sorry for taking

part in toxic politics." She just

totally owned it. It's very bad for the

country. It's been something I thought

about a lot, especially since Charlie

Kirk was assassinated. What do you think

of that?

You know, MTG Marjorie Taylor Green

[snorts] is one of the most famously

pugilistic fighting kind of a

politician.

So you just sort of automatically expect

her to fight against whatever push back

she's getting. But here she not only

didn't fight, she said, "Dan, Dana, I

think that's a fair criticism." I almost

fell off my chair because I thought it

was a fair criticism, too. But to hear

somebody say something that's

true in public, it felt kind of brave

[laughter] just to say something that's

just true.

All right, betting against the Epstein

file. You can make money probably.

So, we'll see what happens there. Uh,

but I guess uh Marjorie Taylor Green is

now being contacted by private security

firms. People are warning her that she's

not safe. I guess they want to get a

contract to protect her. And uh I don't

know, she might not be safe. If if there

are enough people who think that she's

stopping Trump's progress, that's not a

safe place to be because there are crazy

people in this world and some of them

are Trump supporters. So, I would worry

about her safety and she she said in her

post, "As a woman, I take threats from

men seriously."

Okay. I'm not sure you had to go, you

know, full gender on that, but we get

what you're saying. Now, I've said

before that I like I like MTG, so I

certainly don't want her to be hurt or

lose her job over any of this, right?

But on the other hand, you can certainly

see why Trump would want, you know, the

most loyal,

obedient people in office so he can get

done what he needs to get done. So, you

can you can see both sides.

Um,

and Trump was uh

Did uh

uh Trump said, "I don't think your life

is in danger." Somebody asked him about

it because frankly uh I don't think

anyone cares about her. [laughter]

I don't think anyone cares about her.

That's such a Trump thing to [laughter]

say.

No, people do care about her. I I care

about her. Don't you? Is there anybody

here who cares about her?

I I care about her because she's

pro-America,

which means she cares about me, right?

If she cares about me because I'm an

American, I can care back. That's fair.

So, yeah, I care. But apparently, she's

now getting the pizza doxing where

people will send pizzas to your house

just to scare you that they know your

address. I guess that's happening. Bomb

threats. Man, it is tough to be a

politician. I'll tell you the it it's so

sad that you have to risk your life

just to have a to be a politician and

have an opinion. Oh, well going to risk

my life today just for have an opinion.

All right. Uh

apparently Jen Saki who's talking about

an article in ProPublica.

So, they think they've got a scoop about

uh Trump's Department of Homeland

Security Secretary Christy Nome, who is

apparently spending, they say, um, a

whole bunch of money, $200 million of

taxpayer dollars into TV ads to promote

her work at DHS.

Does that sound real?

Do [clears throat] you believe

ProPublica

that Christine Gnome is going to spend

$200 million

to promote her work at DHS,

what what is slightly more likely

if you look at that story and you didn't

know anything about it, what is more

likely than the way they've presented

it. Well, what's more likely is it's the

commercials every one of us has seen

where Christie says some version of if

you don't take this uh you know this

airplane home, you're going to be on the

airplane home anyway because we're going

to send you home and uh you might as

well do it the right way. You might be

able to come back. Now, would that be an

example of promoting her work at DHS?

Yeah, it would be. That would be an

example of promoting her work. But it

also is in our benefit because she's

promoting that all these people can get

a ride home and then it's cheaper for

us, it's cheaper for them. You know,

we're deporting peacefully.

So, do you think the ProPublicico story

is legit or they're really just telling

you what you already knew, which is she

does commercials showing that the border

is closed and she's doing a good job?

I don't have any problem

in that particular job. If it were a

different job, I wouldn't want her to

spend money, you know, saying she's

doing a good job. But when she says

she's doing a good job, it's telling all

the people who might want to sneak into

the country, it's not going to work.

Don't you want that? Don't you want the

potential illegal immigrants who are

thinking about coming to look at her

commercials and say, "Oh, looks like she

does a really good job of keeping people

out. Maybe I won't go.

Any story sounds like BS to me.

But

uh this is funny. According to Headline

USA, Ben Sers is writing that I guess

Comey and maybe some others back in

Comey's day in government. Uh they were

allegedly misspelling the names of

people in their files so that when you

did a search, you couldn't find them

because they thought they were up to no

good. So they spelled Clinton, C L I N I

N, Clinton.

And uh I guess some of the other names

were also, you know, humorously

misspelled.

So and uh Comey himself used the alias

Reinhold and Neber. [laughter]

Reinhold Neber. Is that a German name?

All right. Pain chip eaters. All right.

I see you there.

All right. Um,

so apparently the whole Comey situation

is still bubbling around and uh

I think uh

Cash Patel is saying, "Oh, we're

definitely going to get some people on

this." I don't know how long we have to

wait before they get some people.

Uh,

>> all right. Oh, and then Weiner's name

was spelled wiser

and huba abiden was spelled abadin with

two T's instead of one. And there were

no other misspellings in the email. So

the only misspellings were the people

they were trying to hide and there it

was their last names. So

So

um Dr. Oz CMS administrator tells us

that Trump is considering doesn't mean

he's going to do it, but he is

considering extending the Obamacare

subsidies at least until figuring out

something better to do. That makes

sense. He should at least consider it.

Doesn't mean he's going to do it. Fared

Zakaria of CNN uh shocked the world

today um by going hard at Democrats. He

he's been hinting at it before, but boy

did he go hard at Democrats today. And

he said that if Democrats want to

rebuild uh faith in their electorate,

they must rediscover the lost art of

competence.

Competence.

That that's the the bar they have to

cross. Competence.

That's not a very high bar, is it? All

right.

But uh freeze says when government seems

incapable of building housing, schools,

or balancing budgets, even sympathetic

voters lose faith. Well, he's right. You

are right, Fared. You're going to have

to do something right or it's going to

be hard to get elected. Just do

something right. Anything.

Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos is taking over

another CEO job. It'll be a coco I think

in a new AI startup called project

prometheus

and they would use AI for engineering

and manufacturing and computer audios

and spacecraft.

It's got about $6 billion in it. 100

hires.

Now why would Jeff Bezos

of all people want a regular job again?

Oh yeah, I think I'll go to work and you

know get a paycheck, have a regular job.

Now, obviously as CEO, it's not a

regular job, but

why would he even want to do this? Well,

here's something I know that maybe you

don't know. If AI does what it's

supposed to do, and some people think it

won't, but if it does, uh, imagine the

impact it would have on engineering and

manufacturing

and the big stuff like autos and and

computers and spacecraft. It would be

the biggest thing

So you think that Amazon is big because

it sells things to every basically

everyone. Do you know how big it would

be if there were an Amazon for learning

how to build stuff?

So suppose that Amazon was the thing

that sold things, but the that Jeff

Bezos builds this other company that can

manufacture anything.

And then he's got another company that

can sell anything.

He would kind of own everything,

wouldn't he? If they can build anything

and then they can sell anything. He's

got it done. That's all he needs to do.

So that'd be cool.

Well, allegedly, uh, Trump is thinking

about focusing on affordability for 2026

and beyond. Affordability.

Do you believe that? Do you think Trump

would just borrow the Democrat rallying

cry, the one that Mami, the communist,

as he would say, is pushing

affordability?

Do you think he'd just steal it and say,

"Oh, that's pretty good. I'll just take

that." affordability.

Well, it wouldn't be a bad play to just

adopt it because it works. There's

nothing wrong with adopting the part

that the other person does that works.

Just don't adopt the parts that don't

work. So, affordability, yes. Um, the

trouble is I don't think there's

anything that the Republicans do on

affordability. They don't really have

any secret sauce for that, do they? They

can use the words and they can say

things like, "We're going to fight.

We're going to fight for you

affordability." Uh, what does that mean?

Well, we're going to fight. We got

really fight. Okay, but what are you

actually going to do? Fighting. We're

going to fight. Okay, but how's that

make anything more affordable? Uh,

Scott, if you don't fight, you're not

going to get anything. I know, but I'm

still not connecting all the dots.

What's all the fighting got to do with

me lowering my expenses? How does that

work? I don't know. I guess I'll tell us

someday.

Like I said before, Cash Patel says

there's a 100% chance you're going to

see people accountable for the grand

conspiracy of of Russia and also J6.

Can't wait for that.

Um, did you know that LA,

which is always at least a little bit

interested in affordable housing, uh,

they're going to go big on affordable

housing now, probably because of the

fire. They got more more land that's

sitting there not being used. They'd

like to use it. Um, but apparently

building affordable housing is now the

hottest thing. Now, when I say

affordable housing, what do the NPCs

say? NPCs,

do your thing. Say the thing that you

always say whenever I mention affordable

housing. Go.

I know what you're going to say. You're

going to say, "I'm not going to live in

any tiny house."

Who mentioned a tiny house? No one. No.

Tiny house was never a part of the

conversation.

So, get out of here with your tiny house

talk. Um, affordable is different than

tiny,

although sometimes they can be the same.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what

they'll be. Um, but it's hard to get

approval for anything, but it'll

probably be easier to get approval for

lowcost stuff.

Toyota is going to build a battery

factory in the US. Another one. I guess

we've got some already. And, uh, $10

billion investment. Wow.

create up to 5,100 new American jobs.

We'll take it.

And meanwhile, over in Ukraine and

Russia,

New York Post is reporting the Ukraine

attacked a major Russian oil refinery

and also the site of elite drone units.

So there are about 10 of them, the

Russian oil refineries.

So I think at the current rate that

Ukraine is destroying them, they're

probably rebuilding at about the same

rate. So I'm not really feeling like

there's any progress.

All right. So they're just a little

robot war going after each other.

Meanwhile,

uh according according to the Wall

Street Journal, Hamas is more popular

than ever among the Palestinians.

Wait, what?

Hamas is more popular than ever among

the Palestinians.

Do you think we did something wrong

there?

Did somebody do something wrong? Because

not really wasn't really looking for

Hamas to get more popular.

That's that's a scary situation, but

apparently that's happened. Meanwhile,

in Venezuela, Trump said he would talk

to Maduro, head of Venezuela.

Um, but I like I like that Trump in

general is willing to talk to whoever he

needs to talk to. I always thought it

was the dumbest thing that our leaders

would say, "Oh, we cannot talk to you

until you make these, you know,

concessions." How about you just talk to

us? How about everybody talks to

everybody? Yeah, how about that?

So anyway, Trump says he'll talk to

Madura if it comes to that, which is the

right answer.

Uh, but I think that Trump wants to wait

for those talks

until he's frightened Venezuela with his

military buildup.

So once you have the entire military

surrounding Venezuela, then you say

stuff like, you know, this would be a

good time to talk. Anybody want to talk?

talking would be fun.

All right, that's all I got for you

today. It's gonna be a short show

because Monday is boring.

Yeah, Monday is boring.

Did I read you a reframe yet

or was that upcoming?

I can't remember if I read it. Did I or

was I planning to read it? All

right. Did I already read you uh

No.

Um

All right. Here's one. Here's one that

it might be additional, but All right.

So, this might be on top of or maybe

not. So, usual frame is that some people

have willpower and some people do not.

And if you do not have willpower, you

would be called weak. And if you do have

willpower,

somebody would say, "Hey, you got some

willpower there." But here's a reframe

from not thinking you have enough

willpower and that people who who also

don't seem to have willpower are weak.

The reframe is that some people get more

pleasure from certain vices than you do,

and that's it. So, let me put it this

way.

I'm not somebody who loves eating,

although sometimes I do, but it's not

like my passion or anything. But have

you seen people whose passion is eating

or their passion is wine

or their passion is something that's not

good for them?

Yeah. So,

let me let me open that up again.

So the uh the reframe is that sometimes

you just like things more than other

people. If you said to me, Scott, you

can never ride a motorcycle again.

I would say, oh, I kind of liked riding

motorcycles, but wouldn't be the biggest

problem in the world. But what if you

loved motorcycles? Like you love them

beyond what anybody could even

understand. It just it just set you on

fire, your your brain. It made you

happy. It changed your whole day. Would

you be able to resist it? And the answer

is you probably wouldn't be able to

resist it because it would just be too

too much fun. So, as long as you're

thinking that there are some people who

are weak and some people are strong,

you're in the wrong frame. The right

frame is that some people like stuff

more than others. So, if you like eating

more than I do, you probably weigh more.

If you like drinking more than I do, you

probably drink more. Am I right?

There's not much of an argument to be

made by that, right? You you do the

things that you really like. So, stop

thinking that you're weak if you can't

resist a temptation.

Far more likely that you just like that

temptation more than other people.

There's nothing wrong with you at all.

You can still quit it, but the reason

you're doing it at all is that you like

it more than other people do.

Um, flying insects is the worst thing

about motorcycles. Well, that and the

dying. I would say the dying would be

slightly worse than the the insects.

Yes, on both counts.

Do some this beautiful day. What? Oh, go

get some.

Get now, girl.

Uh, yeah, you can do anything that you

have to do.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm

going to end here today. I'm going to

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