Episode 3034 CWSA 12/02/25

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Ah, well, uh, somebody gave me this, uh, this Tim Pool like, uh, podcasting hat and I said, you know, I can't really watch I can't really wear that when I'm podcasting because it will look like I'm copying Tim Pool.

But I decided today I'll just be a Tim Pool uh, tribute podcast or something.

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I don't know how many of you are following me um on Locals the subscription site, but if you are, you notice that I not only show you the today's um Dilbert, but I show you the Dilbert that ran exactly 10 years before.

How many of you have noticed that the Dilbert comic from 10 years ago, exactly 10 years ago, is matching the headlines today?

It is literally all about AI and robots, and the robot becomes a co-orker and becomes a regular character in Dilbert's uh environment.

So if you if you were to look at it today, you would have absolutely no clue that it was written 10 years ago.

And it's kind of wild, you know.

It's kind of wild.

You have to see it to to believe it.

Anyway, speaking of the future, Samsung has a uh a new phone.

I guess it's going to launch uh in the next several months, but it's a triplefold phone, smartphone.

So, they already had the one that that just folds out for a bigger screen.

Now, it's a threefold.

It's a three-parter.

So, you you can make your your uh smartphone about the size of a small i.

Pad.

All you have to do is unfold it.

Now, do you know how much I want that?

I want that a lot, but I'm stuck in the uh the Apple ecosystem, and it would be such a pain in the ass to uh to get out of that ecosystem.

Let me let me tell you how much I love the Apple ecosystem.

I got a Apple Watch right here, and I didn't think I would love it, but has some cool features, so I'm kind of hooked.

This morning the uh the alarm went off on my phone which uh is paired to the watch.

So it has an alarm that goes off at the same time.

But you have to turn them off separately.

So I turn off my phone and uh now I have to turn off the alarm on the on the watch which was being charged at the moment.

So, I go to put in turn off the alarm and it doesn't turn off, but it goes to the uh password, you know, four-digit code.

And of course, obviously, I know my four-digit code.

Use it every day.

There's no doubt about it, but it acted like it was the wrong code.

So, I tried again and still said it was the wrong code.

And I tried again and I I pushed buttons and I poked at it and I could not turn off the alarm until I came up with the following idea.

Now, I don't know if your if your devices work the same as mine.

This is just something I do.

I took my watch off of my um wrist and I threw it as hard as I could against the wall, which successfully turned off the alarm.

So, can't say I don't know how to do it.

Now, it didn't seem to break, but it did turn off the alarm.

So, if any of you have a Apple Watch and you have that same problem where it won't turn off the alarm for whatever reason, it won't even accept your password, take it and heave it at a wall.

That's my recommendation.

I'm just saying it worked for me.

I can't guarantee it's going to work for everybody, but you can get a Samsung if you don't like that.

All right.

Uh let's look at uh the news, especially science because you know how much I love the science.

Well, there's a study that York University Amina Gamalin is writing about uh that if you plan for sex, if you're a couple in a committed relationship, let's say, and you make plans to have sex, you will end up having more sex than if you try to spontaneously have sex.

Now, how many of you didn't know that?

How many of you didn't know that if you make plans to have sex, you will end up with at least one more per month on average than if you had not planned it?

Um, I think you could just ask Scott about that one, Scott.

Now, would it be as satisfying as unplanned spontaneous sex?

No.

But I'm talking about people who are in a long-term relationship.

They're sort of over the they they sort of got past the spontaneous part.

You can't have that forever.

So, if you can plan it and have it, do it.

Here's another one.

Curtain University uh is looking at a study that says where you live influences your body weight.

So they did a study in Australia and they found out that if you live in a town where people are heavier, you will gain weight toward their average.

And if you move to a town where people were lighter, you would actually start losing weight.

Now, how many of you didn't know that?

That your weight is at least partially dependent and actually in a fairly big variable uh dependent on the people around you.

Well, I think it was maybe decades ago the first time I saw a study that said that people will uh tend to the average of their friends.

So, if you've got five friends who have a weight problem uh and you don't, well, there's a pretty good chance you're going to start drifting toward their weight.

It makes sense.

The pe they're the people who influence you the most.

Uh if your friends want to eat fast food and you know there's five of them and only one of you, maybe you eat some fast food.

So there's pretty obvious reasons why that works.

So why wouldn't it work?

Were you moving to a town where people are bigger or smaller?

Of course it would.

You didn't have to do this study.

You could have asked me or you could ask the last 50 years of science which has known this for a long time.

Uh what else we got?

Uh, and by the way, that would have been obvious to a hypnotist.

A hypnotist would have known that the people around you influence your weight.

That that would just be basic hypnotist stuff.

How about this one?

How many of you wouldn't have known this?

According to Scypost Karina Pachova, um, men who were in a family life situation have lower testosterone than when they're single.

Did you know that?

So, if you're a husband type, let's say, and you're spending time around the little kids and your family, your testosterone will drop.

Now, how many of you didn't know that?

I knew that.

They didn't need to do a study.

If you if you're a man and you've spent time around small children, especially your own small children, if your testosterone doesn't go down, uh I wouldn't let you babysit my children.

You know what I mean?

If you did not feel a total decrease in your overall sexual desire when you're spending time, let's say feeding breakfast to little kids, if that doesn't lower your sexual desire and let's say your testosterone, I'd worry about you a little bit.

So, yeah, that was obvious.

I mean, you can even feel it when you're doing it.

Am I right, men?

Back me up in the comments.

Am I right that you can actually feel the difference when you're doing, you know, dad stuff and around kids?

Your testosterone drops like a rock.

Likewise, your testosterone will go up if you're doing single things and you're winning competitions and you're, let's say, you're giving a speech in front of a crowd.

There's a whole bunch of stuff that we know raises your testosterone and you can kind of feel it.

So, this study did not need to be done.

Just ask Scott.

You see how much money I could save the scientific community?

All right, here's one.

Um, did you know according to Fox News, it's interesting that this is on Fox News, uh, heavy drinkers cut alcohol use by nearly 30% after adopting one new habit.

Do you know what the habit is?

Uh, if you saw this story, don't cheat.

But if you had not seen the story, what one habit will reliably cause heavy drinkers to drink less?

The answer is smoking marijuana.

And again, it's funny that Fox News would carry that story, but apparently there's a pretty big difference.

So the heavy drinkers who replaced it with marijuana drank less.

Now, do you know how they could have determined that without doing a scientific study?

You could have asked me because there's a shelf space issue.

You only have so many hours in the day.

If you add smoking marijuana to your heavy drinking, well, I suppose some people will just spend more hours a day inebriated.

But more likely, if you've decided that this will be the time you're going to be inebriated, if you use one kind of drug, it probably takes your desire away from the other drug.

So, and they don't mix very well.

If you've ever tried, do not mix.

If if you're already drinking and somebody offers you some marijuana at a party, totally legal.

If you're if you're above a certain age and and you're in the right state, it would be totally legal.

But don't do it.

Do not do not do not mix marijuana and alcohol.

You You're going to have a really bad night.

Now, some people can do it, but I think they're unusual people.

So, yes, of course, marijuana reduces alcohol consumption.

Well, OpenAI's Sam Alman apparently has put out a memo to his staff.

Uh, sort of a red alert, it's being called Code Red.

Code Red and it was a companywide memo among the Open AI staff telling them that uh they're kind of falling behind the competition, the Wall Street Journal reporting this.

The competition in this case would be uh Google.

So, if you're not paying attention to the AI race, and I didn't know this actually, um, and I do pay attention, but I didn't know this.

The, uh, the latest Gemini AI, that's Google's version of AI.

Apparently, it just trashed OpenAI and benchmark tests.

So imagine being open AI and you've sucked up all the training material in the known universe and you're behind your competition.

What do you do then?

Panic.

You send out a companywide memo and you say, "Uh, we better figure out how to do something better." Because you don't want to get behind Google.

I just have a presumption.

I don't I don't have any data for this, but my presumption is that whenever Google gets ahead of a competitor, it stays that way.

Don't you think?

How would you like to be a competitor to Google and find that Google just pulled ahead of your product?

How many people are going to make up that gap and then go back into a leadership position to Google?

I mean, Google probably will always have the most access to new training material, I'm guessing, but uh they're not going to run out of money.

So, that's pretty interesting.

Well, the competition is heating up.

Um, did you know uh you if you're following the story about Minnesota and Minnesota apparently lost I don't know billion dollars in money they thought was going to go to charity and good use but it got stolen by Somali refugees uh mostly and uh the accusation is that the governor Tim Walsh had been informed about all these potential corrupt things, but uh decided to punish the whistleblowers allegedly instead of going after the corrupt people.

And now we have a very direct um a direct accusation from the Minnesota state government employees that that some of them had been trying to warn the DNC and warn Kla Harris when she was picking Walsh for vice president um running mate.

Now first of all do you believe that's true?

Do you believe that the Kla Harris campaign and the DNC had received multiple, not one, not one, but multiple letters saying, "Don't do it.

Don't do it.

Tim Walsh is a big old corrupt, incompetent, untrustworthy guy.

You know, the state is full of corruption.

We've told him he's not doing anything about it.

In fact, he's punishing us for bringing it up." Now, do you think that happened that the the Kaml Harris campaign was in fact warned multiple times?

Well, just because it's in the news doesn't mean it happened.

So, that's the first the first thing we should all understand and I think most of my audience understands that doesn't mean it really happened.

But it is it is a claim made by not one person but a bunch of people.

So the fact that a bunch of people are saying it happened, I would say that increases the odds that it might have actually happened.

So how would you explain the complete nonresponse and non non-action uh from the uh Kla Harris campaign and from the DNC?

How do you explain it?

Well, I don't know, but there are several possibilities.

One is that they got so many emails and so many letters that it was nobody could really look at at all.

So it could be that they were in fact contacted many times, but it was within a an avalanche of other communications.

They didn't know how to know which ones were the important ones.

Maybe it was just, you know, too much data and got lost in the mix.

That's possible.

Possible.

The other possibility is that uh there's some corrupt reason that we don't know about that Tim Walsh was going to be the choice no matter what.

And the no matter what might have included uh he's a big old crook.

there might have been some compelling reason that had nothing to do with his talent as a as a politician because he didn't have a lot of talent as a politician.

And it makes you wonder if the if the uh the big reason why they picked him is that he was knowingly corrupt.

Is it possible that corruption was a feature and not a flaw?

because you know I can't prove it.

That's just sort of a conspiracy theory, you know, kind of thinking.

But there's there seems to be a pattern developing, you know, the pattern is that wherever there's any big organization, be it the DNC or be it Minnesota or, you know, be it anything big, all the NOS's, that wherever you find Democrats and a big pile of money, somebody's stealing it.

And it it's hard to pretend we don't see the pattern because the pattern is everywhere.

Everywhere you find a whole bunch of Democrats and a whole bunch of money.

One of those Democrats, maybe more, has their beak in it and they're just sucking it like like it's the, you know, the last ham sandwich in the world.

You don't really suck on a ham sandwich, but it was all I could do.

It was the best I could do.

Um, so I'm g I'm just going to say the you know how people always say it's not just avoiding corruption, but you should avoid the appearance of corruption.

This is one of those times where they need to avoid the appearance of corruption, too.

And I'm not so sure they did it in this case because this is sketchy as hell.

Well, let's change topic to uh Kirsten Cinema uh who as you know had uh retired from her government service and I guess she's working for some law firm now.

But uh on top of her work for a law firm, she's apparently looking to be an advocate for psychedelics.

Uh specifically, she likes something called ibo gain.

It's an African shrub.

And uh I wonder if that's legal.

Do you think you could grow an African shrub in your backyard and not get arrested?

Could you grow your own ibo gain?

I know it's just a shrub.

If it's a shrub, I imagine it's pretty easy to raise.

Anyway, uh apparently she went down to Mexico and tried it for herself, so she knows what she's talking about.

and uh she and other advocates want to uh get it state funded for clinical trials and eventually hope to get FDA approval to make a drug and uh she thinks that she's got a chance of getting that done with the Trump administration which means RFK Jr.

right so if RFK Jr.

And by the way, I've I I'm not familiar with RFK Jr.'s opinion on psychedelics, but I feel like I know what it is without um knowing what it is.

Do Do you think that would be fair to say?

I'll tell you what I think it is without any real data or information or story or anything.

If RFK Jr.

is consistent and he does seem to be consistent then he would say um we don't know if it's good or bad but uh if we tried it and it worked we could maybe get it approved.

So I think he would be pro let's test it and uh he wouldn't be pro uh let's make it legal without without knowing the downside.

So probably as long as there's some data to back it um she might be able to get this through and that would be a good bipartisan thing to do.

One of the better things that could come out of current government.

Um there's a uh GOP senator, I think he's a state senator, Senator Marino, and he want he's introducing some legislation to uh end dual citizenship for Americans.

In other words, there are people who are citizens of America and at least one other one other place uh often Israel, but it it could include other places as well.

and he would like to make it such that if you're a dual citizen and uh after a certain warning and a some and a little time to get it done, if you do not renounce your other nation's citizenship, you would automatically lose your American um American citizenship.

What do you think of that?

I I'm going to say that's too far.

I feel like that's too far.

Um, but I would, here's what I would prefer instead.

I would prefer that if you're a dual citizen, you cannot run for office.

And there might be, you know, maybe you can imagine some other public service kind of job.

That's not an elected job, but maybe something you wouldn't want a dual citizen in.

But wouldn't it be wouldn't it be cleaner and easier if you just said you can be a dual citizen, but if you run for office, you just can't do it.

You You've got to be an American citizen, not just for the presidency, but for every elected office.

I'd be fine with that.

And then people can choose.

You know, if you really need to be a senator, you better be our senator, right?

If you if you need to be a House of Representatives, you just got to be our House of Representatives.

But for an ordinary person, I don't know how many dual citizenship people there are in the whole country.

It's not a lot, is it?

It's not like the immigrants are coming over with dual citizenship.

I think it's kind of a rare situation like you know 1% or something.

So I wouldn't worry too much about just ordinary citizens but definitely don't want my elected people to be dual citizens.

Um here's a story that you could all you almost could have guessed that this was going to happen.

So, you know, Senator Mark Kelly, uh he's one of the six people, we call the sedicious six, who did the video telling the people in this in the armed forces to uh be careful about any illegal orders.

Now, now we find out that he's, of course, we already knew he had a twin brother, but his twin brother is allegedly, according to the Amuse account on Acts, that's where I first saw it.

Um, apparently he had been hired to help uh Zalinski uh propagandize America and uh maybe more than America.

So he was part of some NGO kind of funded sketchy thing.

Uh so they they used a USID funded infrastructure.

So it wasn't USA ID but it was a uh oh yeah it was it was a USA ID funded infrastructure.

Okay.

Um but it looks like maybe this was uh based on donations not based on tax dollars.

But that's not the important point here.

The important point is that he raised $2.72 billion dollars um for the purposes of helping Zilinski and Ukraine.

Now, the fact that his brother is a senator, does that bother you?

Especially his twin brother.

Well, you know, if it's if it's all disclosed and it's legal, there's no crime involved.

But didn't you know without actually knowing, didn't you know that the Mark Kelly andor his brother probably were up to their neck and something that you wouldn't love?

Didn't it feel like that was just going to happen?

that if he waited long enough, there would be a story about either he or his brother or a spouse or, you know, some damn thing that had been maybe not doing anything illegal, but you know, had their had their nose and stuff that makes you a little uncomfortable.

Sure enough, there it is.

And apparently they tried the organization he was in running I guess uh tried to sell themselves as fact checkers and anti-corruption efforts but really it was just a propaganda engine to support Ukraine.

So I'm going to call that not ideal.

Probably legal.

probably I don't see an allegation that it's illegal, but not ideal.

Yeah.

Um apparently the Treasury Department uh and a House panel are going to look into Tim Wals's handling of that billion dollars of stolen food aid in his state.

And uh it might it might re might end up in criminal referrals.

So Tim Walsh may go from almost vice president to well jail.

I doubt that uh I doubt that he'll be indicted or sent to jail or anything.

Uh because I think it's just going to look like incompetence.

There'll just be a bunch of questions like didn't you know this was happening and why are you punishing the whistleblowers?

But there will be reasons.

And if there are reasons, they don't have to be good ones, but probably that would be enough to get him off.

He just has to he has to use the typical Democrat defense in these situations.

Do you know what it is?

What is the most typical Democrat uh defense when accused of being, let's say, complicit by incompetence uh for letting a billion dollars get stolen?

The defense is always the same.

Well, I'm not a criminal.

I'm just really bad at my job.

You know, that's where it's going, right?

You know, it's going toward I didn't break any laws.

I'm just super bad at doing my job.

So, no crime.

No crime.

Just incompetence.

The usual baseline.

All right.

Meanwhile, Russia has claimed, and uh there's no push back on this, they claim to have taken uh another city, the key city of uh Pakra.

Pakra.

Well, I know that makes you sad that the city of Pacro has been taken over cuz I remember I remember it was seems like it was only yesterday that Pacro was a free Ukrainian city.

Not anymore.

Pocks is now totally owned by the Russians.

Now, let me give you a persuasion negotiation tip.

If you were Witoff and the other negotiators and you were trying to get a peace deal done and then you found out that right in the middle of the peace deal, Russia had captured another important they called a key city.

It it's not it's not that populated.

There's 60,000 people there, but it seems to be strategically important.

So if one side conquered a city and occupied it while you were doing the negotiations, what would you do?

Well, you might you might reflexively say, "I'm walking away.

I'm not going to negotiate with you darned stealers of land.

You know, you're not taking it seriously." You could do that, but that would also be the end of the peace process.

If you wanted to get a peace deal done, but this happened, how would you handle it?

I'm going to give you um a persuasion trick that somebody like Trump and probably somebody like Wickoff, but not many people could pull off.

You ready for this?

It It's a little bit of a fake because, but not exactly.

Here's what I would say in the negotiations.

Well, uh, I understand that you took a new city today.

We're adding to the negotiation a 29th point, which is that anything captured after we started negotiating has to be given back.

And then the Russians would say, "Yeah, yeah, no.

We lost a bunch of people.

We've been fighting for months to capture the city.

We're not going to give back the city." And then you look at them and say, "That's a requirement.

You cannot take any land after we started negotiating.

Now, is there a reason for that?

Not really.

No, there's no reason for it.

It's a purely emotional request.

But you just stick to it and you never change.

And at the end if if Russia and Ukraine let's say they agreed on every other thing and then you say just one more thing just one more thing got to give back everything you took from the time we started negotiating seriously till now every bit of it that that stuff just doesn't count.

Could you get them to back down on that?

Well, it would depend how much they wanted a peace deal, and I don't think they won it badly enough yet.

But if they ever got to the point where they it looked like Russia really seriously for the first time wanted an actual peace, you could use this irrational reason.

No, we're not going to we're not going to give you anything that started after we started talking peace because that's not even a fair fight.

We were barely trying.

Yeah.

So, as illogical as it is, you could probably get away with it, but you would need just the right negotiator saying it just the right way, inserting it at just the right time, but you get away with it.

It's doable.

All right.

What else?

Uh, so Venezuela's leader, Maduro, apparently is not dead and he has not escaped the country.

So, he's been spotted uh doing some public thing like chanting.

He was he was somewhere in the country giving away prizes and singing with the locals.

Um what do you think's going to happen there with Maduro?

I I feel like something has to happen pretty quickly, but they've kind of given him two choices.

you can stay and get killed or maybe jailed because we're coming in hard and probably he believes that uh land forces are, you know, ready to strike and they probably are.

Um or he can leave the country.

Apparently, um Trump has said, you know, we won't stop you from leaving the country, but we're also not going to pardon you and we're not going to protect you.

So, you're sort of on your own.

You just have to get out of here.

And then then Venezuela can you have a new start.

Don't you think he the odds of him being killed or captured is pretty high if he leaves Venezuela?

Like how in the world could he be protected unless he went, I don't know, directly to China and lived there forever or went directly to Russia and lived there forever.

But short of those two countries, is there anywhere he could go that he wouldn't be captured and killed no matter what?

So if you know, I've said this a million times, but we need the we need the retired dictator island, an island where all the dictators that, you know, know they have to leave because otherwise they'll get killed.

They want to go somewhere where they won't be killed.

We should have one island with nothing but dictators and their servants.

No military, just dictators and servants.

They can even take their stolen money uh to support themselves and nobody will bother them.

They just can never leave.

They can never leave.

And maybe maybe you prevent them from communicating so they don't start a coup.

Yeah, like Ela Island.

Exactly.

Cuba.

Yeah.

Oh, you know that's a possibility, right?

Venezuela's been a big sport of Cuba.

So, I guess there's possibility that uh Maduro could go to Cuba and be protected, but I wouldn't feel very safe if I were in Cuba so close to the United States.

I feel like we could get to him if we wanted to.

Um, so we'll see where that goes.

Uh, let's see.

According to the Brussels signal, which I know you all read, the Brussels signal, um, the head of France, Mcronone, has proposed labeling news outlets for their reliability.

What do you think of that idea?

It's almost funny that it's even he's even floating the idea.

So Mcronone wants an official media label that would tell people if the if the news site was trustworthy.

Doesn't that sound like that can't be real?

That can't be real.

In 2025, are there people who don't know that if the government tells you a site is trustworthy, that's the last thing you should trust?

I mean, even in a democratic type of uh civilization, if the government tells you this is the one to believe, that's the one to not believe.

But, uh, that's that's his idea.

And he wants to do that to teach young people how to spot fake news.

No, that's not what you're teaching them.

You're teaching them to be fooled by fake news so long as it's the government approved fake news.

That's what this is.

And it makes you wonder, does Mcronone not know what he's doing?

Does he not know that these, you know, official sites are going to be obviously propaganda?

Does he not know that?

I feel like he does know it.

Like, because everybody in that position would know that.

So, he's uh I This is This is terrible idea.

Terrible idea.

What?

If you really wanted young people to be able to spot fake news, they should watch my uh they should watch my podcast.

They'd have to learn English or get it translated.

But let me teach the young people in France how to spot fake news.

You ready?

This will be a little lesson so they won't have to they won't have to look for what news sites are labeled trustworthy.

I will teach them how to spot it.

And all I have to do is tell you about the very next story that I was going to talk about anyway.

Did you know that uh did you know that the Washington Post is reporting that there are two anonymous whistleblowers that say that Pete Hegath gave the order to kill the two survivors from a narco boat that the that our military blew up coming from Venezuela?

Did Did you learn your lesson?

It's in the Washington Post and there are two anonymous sources.

And I could add that it's bad for Republicans.

It's bad for Republicans.

So young people in France, if you're watching this, that's what fake news looks like.

Now, I don't know what's true and what's not.

So, I like to put things in in the the frame of credible versus not credible.

Maybe sometimes the the uh the Washington Post gets a story right and maybe sometimes they have anonymous sources who are completely legitimate.

But if you ever see a story that's bad for Republicans, and weirdly, not just bad for Republicans, but bad for Republicans in a way that perfectly fits the narrative coming from the Democrats.

You know, the narrative is that the military might be asked to do illegal things by the Trump administration.

And then well well lo and behold by amazing coincidence at the exact time the narrative is being formed that maybe these illegal acts will be ordered.

Well, we've got a story in the Washington Post with two anonymous sources saying that something that looked sort of illegalish may have happened.

That's some fake news looking stuff.

So again, I don't know what's true and what's not.

But I could say that this is not a credible story.

It's not credible.

We don't know it's true, but we can certainly say that you should treat it like it's not true because it's just so not credible.

Not even a little bit.

So, let's see France do that.

And the latest update on that story is that Heg Seth was not directly involved in any orders at all.

So he was not watching the the action and saying, "Hey, you know, there's two guys that got away.

Blast those two guys." So apparently that never happened that or or at least that's the counter to the allegation is that he wasn't involved at all.

He did give, you know, orders for the attacks, but there were general orders.

They were not about kill those survivors or anything like that.

the uh there was an admiral who was more directly involved or d he was the direct leader of this um and I don't know what his name is but apparently there was an admiral who if anybody gave any orders and there's no indication that he gave the orders to kill those people no indication of that but uh if anybody did it would have been him not he um do you believe that Yeah.

Well, that entire story seems to have taken over the news.

So, have you noticed that the Democrat narrative has successfully uh conquered all the news there?

There's basically not a lot else happening, but we're going to talk about the sedicious sex.

We're going to talk about Heg Seth and the, you know, and Maduro and what legal or illegal things we're going to do.

So that uh that play has completely taken over the news and you don't do that unless it's a coordinated effort.

In my opinion, that doesn't happen by itself.

So, so Elon Musk continues to make news.

He did this one podcast who's and I still don't know who the host of it was.

Um, oh, recent interview with investor Nquille KTH.

Anyway, so one of the things that uh Elon said is that uh he's looking at creating what he's calling a galaxy mind, which would be shooting AI into space on satellites.

So, you'd have AI in space, but the the tough part about AI is having enough energy.

But apparently if you get your um assets outside of Earth's uh cover and and atmosphere um the amount of energy that you have access to directly from the sun is practically unlimited.

So the idea is they put some solar panels in space that would be super effective because they would be beyond their atmosphere and they would be um toward the sun all day long instead of half the day.

So you would have just enormous enormous parts of energy if you did it in space.

So you essentially link together your satellites with their AI components and uh link it with the uh the power that they're getting from the sun and you can build this enormous space fairing data center that would be way smarter than anything you could ever do on Earth because on Earth you're always going to be bound by energy but as soon as you take it out of the atmosphere the sky's is the limit.

so to speak.

So Elon is basically saying that's where it's going because that's where the economics will drive it.

And coincidentally, um the companies that he owns would would have rockets for sending things to space.

They would have the satellites, you know, the uh he's got the satellite business.

He's got the Tesla engineering.

He's got the uh the AI that's also under his control.

and all of those components and the solar stuff.

He even has the solar panels that's under Tesla.

So, every part of this so-called galaxy mind he already has.

So, you don't have to wonder if this is going to happen.

Elon says it's going to happen.

The economics would be overwhelming.

I mean, it's not even close.

You're definitely 100% going to be having data centers in space.

There's no doubt about it and he has every every asset to make that happen.

Now in a related story which I find super interesting is that uh the CEO of Google um has also started talking about data centers in space for exactly the same reason.

So Google is already starting their own little test of putting data centers in space.

They're just going to do it at a very small scale.

you know, literally it might be some racks on a on a satellite, but they're going to put it up there and see if it works on a small scale, which would be getting the energy from space, getting it inside your satellite into your AI uh circuitry and then seeing if it works or doesn't.

If it doesn't, it's infinitely if it does work, it seems like it's infinitely scalable.

You need need some more energy, put up another rocket with solar panels on it.

You need some more AI, put up another rocket.

You need to um upgrade the AI software, just send it a message.

So, you're going to have a uh Elon Musk and Google fighting it out for domination of AI and space.

And I will go further.

Whoever wins the AI and space race and one assumes that, you know, China is going to be all over this as well.

Whoever wins that is gonna kind of own Earth because if you own everything outside of Earth, I don't know how Earth can survive that.

Like if if they decided to attack the Earth with infinite energy.

Imagine having your AI in space and you have this, you know, uh, this intelligence that you could never build on Earth and it comes up with a way to build an efficient, let's say, space laser and then you build it on Earth, but AI told you how to and then you ship it up there and then you've got this galaxy mind with, you know, AI built laser weapons pointed at Earth.

Well, I don't think Tesla would do that, but somebody will.

China certainly will.

Um, and certainly our defense people are probably looking at it.

So, yeah, whoever owns space seems like they're going to own Earth eventually.

Well, according to I don't know what source this is, but um there's an allegation that 36% of new voter registrations last year in Michigan uh did not have valid social security numbers.

36% of all the new voter registrations did not have valid social security, which kind of means they were not citizens, right?

I don't think those were typos.

They're not citizens.

And then on top of that, Michigan has allegedly half a million more voters registered than they have voting age adults.

So, there's a whole bunch of sketchy nonvoters um or people maybe shouldn't have voted in Michigan.

So, state senator Johnson is the one sounding the alarm about this and he's pointing to the help America vote verification system.

So, I I guess there's something that would solve this.

Um the 36% applied to a 100,000 people.

So, 100,000 people registered to vote in Michigan and 36% of them, 36,000 people did not have a valid uh social security number and and they were allowed to register anyway.

Now, how in the world do you imagine that's a credible voting system when you're asked to give your social security number, but when your social security number is invalid, it doesn't change whether you can vote?

Does that look like they're even trying to have a credible system or does it look like no matter what the situation is, if you're going to vote Democrat, you're definitely going to be able to vote?

Kind of looks like the latter.

Pretty sketchy looking, but you know, um I feel like there's a there's a version of Gellman amnesia that applies here to our election systems.

Now I'll remind you what galman amnesia is.

Most of you have heard it a hundred times.

But that's the idea that um there was this physicist, his name was Galman, and he noticed that when he saw stories about physics and he knew what was true and what wasn't, he could tell that the story was fake or full of errors.

But then he would turn the page on what was the newspaper at the time and he'd see the next story and he would just assume that the next story is probably accurate.

And then and finally after seeing that pattern for years, wait a minute.

Could it be true that every time I see a story that I know the truth, I can tell the reporting is wrong, but every time I see a story where I don't have any expertise, I assume it's true.

Isn't it more likely that they're all fake or nearly all fake?

And so that's the the Gail man amnesia.

But there's a version of that that we do.

Um, and it's not that, but I'm sort of reminded of it.

And it needs its own name.

We'll call it the the the Scott Adams uh the Scott Adams Amnesia.

Yeah, that's it.

We'll call let's call it Scott Adams Amnesia because you get to name it after who comes up with it, right?

So Scott Adams amnesia is that you read a story in the newspaper about let's say um the the charities in Minnesota stealing a billion dollars and then you turn the page and it's a story about um some other criminal behavior in the government and you turn the page and you find out that some other big money entity was also stealing your money and then you turn the page to the story about the our elections and it says our elections are pristine.

Even though they're run by different people with different processes and different states and precincts, every one of them has got a pristine perfect record.

And uh even if there was some little problem, it wouldn't be anything important.

And uh so we live in a world in which everything is corrupt except for our election systems.

Now, Scott Adams Amnesia says, "You could not possibly believe that our election systems are pristine if you've noted that every other thing is not right.

You don't have to have specific information about what's wrong with their elections.

You don't need that.

You don't need specific proof.

You don't need a court case.

If everything else is corrupt, come on.

Everything else is corrupt.

This is the one thing that's not.

You You would have to have some form of amnesia about everything else you'd seen in the world to imagine that this one thing is the non-corrupt thing.

Sorry, not buying it.

There was a man, according to a new scientist, there was a man who was quote unexpectedly cured of HIV after a stem cell transplant.

Now, unknown to me, and I don't know why I didn't know this, but did you know that um several people have been cured of HIV with stem cell transplants that were um specifically modified for, you know, that particular patient, but what's different is this patient got a stem cell for that, I I guess wasn't even um intended to fix this HIV.

So, it wasn't tuned for that purpose, but just getting the stem cells seemed to have cleared him of HIV.

That's the claim.

I'd have to see I'd have to see a few more people get cured before I believe that's true.

But were you aware that five people had their HIV completely cleared by getting a specific kind of stem cell?

I guess the stem cells came from uh people who had some natural defense against HIV, but you could take a stem cell from someone who does not have a natural defense and apparently it still worked.

So, I don't know how often that works, but that'd be amazing.

According to new scientists also uh we now have an understanding of how exercise uh fights cancer.

So now they know the mechanism.

So if you have cancer or you want to avoid it, exercise turns out to be super effective.

Um and they've got a pretty good idea why it works.

So the problem is as someone who has cancer, I can tell you that the last thing you want to do is exercise.

>> >> I get it.

Exercise would be good for me, but it's sort of the last thing you want to do.

And especially uh if your particular form started with testosterone blockers.

Yeah, try that.

My last story is about, you may have seen the story about the uh high-rise buildings in Hong Kong that caught on fire.

Yeah, I guess there were several of them uh that were near each other.

They all caught on fire.

Well, guess what is the name of that um Hong Kong center?

It's called the Wang Fuk W space fuk.

And I'm being charitable by calling it fuke.

The Wang fire.

And that is all I have for you people.

Um, I'm in quite a bit of uh discomfort at the moment.

So, I'm going to call it.

That will be my show for the day and I will uh see you tomorrow.

Uh, locals, I can't join you after the show.

So, um, I need to meditate some pain away.

But, uh, thanks for joining.

We'll see you tomorrow.

Come on in.

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Ah,

well, uh, somebody gave me this, uh,

this Tim Pool like, uh, podcasting hat

and I said, you know, I can't really

watch I can't really wear that when I'm

podcasting because it will look like I'm

copying Tim Pool.

But I decided today I'll just be a Tim

Pool uh, tribute podcast or something.

All right, looks like the comments

stopped working.

See if I can make that

uh fixed. All right, we're good. We're

good to go. All right. I don't know how

many of you are following me um on

Locals

the subscription site, but if you are,

you notice that I not only show you the

today's um Dilbert, but I show you the

Dilbert that ran exactly 10 years

before.

How many of you have noticed

that the Dilbert comic from 10 years

ago,

exactly 10 years ago, is matching the

headlines today?

It is literally all about AI and robots,

and the robot becomes a co-orker and

becomes a regular character in Dilbert's

uh environment.

So if you if you were to look at it

today, you would have absolutely no clue

that it was written 10 years ago. And

it's kind of wild,

you know. It's kind of wild. You have to

see it to to believe it. Anyway,

speaking of the future, Samsung

has a uh a new phone. I guess it's going

to launch uh in the next several months,

but it's a triplefold phone, smartphone.

So, they already had the one that that

just folds out for a bigger screen. Now,

it's a threefold. It's a three-parter.

So, you you can make your your uh

smartphone about the size of a small

iPad. All you have to do is unfold it.

Now, do you know how much I want that?

I want that a lot, but I'm stuck in the

uh the Apple ecosystem,

and it would be such a pain in the ass

to uh to get out of that ecosystem. Let

me let me tell you how much I love the

Apple ecosystem. I got a Apple Watch

right here, and I didn't think I would

love it, but has some cool features, so

I'm kind of hooked. This morning the uh

the alarm went off on my phone which uh

is paired to the watch. So it has an

alarm that goes off at the same time.

But you have to turn them off

separately. So I turn off my phone

and uh now I have to turn off the alarm

on the on the watch which was being

charged at the moment.

So, I go to put in turn off the alarm

and it doesn't turn off, but it goes to

the uh password, you know, four-digit

code. And of course, obviously, I know

my four-digit code. Use it every day.

There's no doubt about it, but it acted

like it was the wrong code. So, I tried

again and still said it was the wrong

code. And I tried again and I I pushed

buttons and I poked at it and I could

not turn off the alarm until I came up

with the following idea. Now, I don't

know if your if your devices work the

same as mine. This is just something I

do. I took my watch off of my um wrist

and I threw it as hard as I could

against the wall,

which successfully turned off the alarm.

So,

can't say I don't know how to do it.

Now, it didn't seem to break, but it did

turn off the alarm. So, if any of you

have a Apple Watch and you have that

same problem where it won't turn off the

alarm for whatever reason, it won't even

accept your password, take it and heave

it at a wall.

That's my recommendation.

I'm just saying it worked for me. I

can't guarantee it's going to work for

everybody,

but you can get a Samsung if you don't

like that.

All right. Uh let's look at uh the news,

especially science because you know how

much I love the science.

Well,

there's a study that York University

Amina Gamalin is writing about uh that

if you plan for sex, if you're a couple

in a committed relationship, let's say,

and you make plans to have sex, you will

end up having more sex than if you try

to spontaneously have sex.

Now, how many of you didn't know that?

How many of you didn't know that if you

make plans to have sex, you will end up

with at least one more per month on

average than if you had not planned it?

Um, I think you could just ask Scott

about that one, Scott.

Now, would it be as satisfying

as unplanned spontaneous sex? No. But

I'm talking about people who are in a

long-term relationship. They're sort of

over the [laughter]

they they sort of got past the

spontaneous part. You can't have that

forever.

So, if you can plan it and have it, do

it. Here's another one. Curtain

University

uh is looking at a study that says where

you live influences your body weight. So

they did a study in Australia and they

found out that if you live in a town

where people are heavier, you will gain

weight toward their average. And if you

move to a town where people were

lighter, you would actually start losing

weight. Now, how many of you didn't know

that? That your weight is at least

partially dependent and actually in a

fairly big variable uh dependent on the

people around you. Well, I think it was

maybe decades ago the first time I saw a

study that said that people will uh tend

to the average of their friends. So, if

you've got five friends who have a

weight problem uh and you don't, well,

there's a pretty good chance you're

going to start drifting toward their

weight. It makes sense. The pe they're

the people who influence you the most.

Uh if your friends want to eat fast food

and you know there's five of them and

only one of you, maybe you eat some fast

food. So there's pretty obvious reasons

why that works. So why wouldn't it work?

Were you moving to a town where people

are bigger or smaller? Of course it

would. You didn't have to do this study.

You could have asked me or you could ask

the last 50 years of science which has

known this for a long time.

Uh what else we got? Uh, and by the way,

that would have been obvious to a

hypnotist. A hypnotist would have known

that the people around you influence

your weight. That that would just be

basic hypnotist stuff.

How about this one? How many of you

wouldn't have known this? According to

Scypost Karina Pachova,

um, men who were in a family life

situation have lower testosterone

than when they're single.

Did you know that? So, if you're a

husband type, let's say, and you're

spending time around the little kids and

your family, your testosterone will

drop. Now, how many of you didn't know

that?

I knew that. They didn't need to do a

study. If you if you're a man and you've

spent time around small children,

especially your own small children, if

your testosterone doesn't go down,

uh I wouldn't let you babysit my

children. You know what I mean?

If you did not feel a total decrease in

your overall sexual desire when you're

spending time, let's say feeding

breakfast to little kids, if that

doesn't lower your sexual desire and

let's say your testosterone,

I'd worry about you a little bit. So,

yeah, that was obvious. I mean, you can

even feel it when you're doing it. Am I

right, men? Back me up in the comments.

Am I right that you can actually feel

the difference when you're doing, you

know, dad stuff and around kids? Your

testosterone drops like a rock.

Likewise, your testosterone will go up

if you're doing single things and you're

winning competitions and you're, let's

say, you're giving a speech in front of

a crowd. There's a whole bunch of stuff

that we know raises your testosterone

and you can kind of feel it. So, this

study did not need to be done. Just ask

Scott.

You see how much money I could save the

scientific community?

All right, here's one. Um, did you know

according to Fox News, it's interesting

that this is on Fox News, uh, heavy

drinkers cut alcohol use by nearly 30%

after adopting one new habit. Do you

know what the habit is?

Uh, if you saw this story, don't cheat.

But if you had not seen the story, what

one habit will reliably cause heavy

drinkers to drink less?

The answer is smoking marijuana.

And again, it's funny that Fox News

would carry that story, but apparently

there's a pretty big difference. So the

heavy drinkers who replaced it with

marijuana drank less. Now, do you know

how they could have determined that

without doing a scientific study?

You could have asked me

because there's a shelf space issue.

You only have so many hours in the day.

If you add smoking marijuana to your

heavy drinking, well, I suppose some

people will just spend more hours a day

inebriated.

But more likely, if you've decided that

this will be the time you're going to be

inebriated, if you use one kind of drug,

it probably takes your desire away from

the other drug. So, and they don't mix

very well. If you've ever tried, do not

mix.

If if you're already drinking and

somebody offers you some marijuana at a

party, totally legal. If you're if

you're above a certain age and and

you're in the right state, it would be

totally legal. But don't do it. Do not

do not do not mix marijuana and alcohol.

You You're going to have a really bad

night. Now, some people can do it, but I

think they're unusual people. So, yes,

of course, marijuana reduces alcohol

consumption. Well, OpenAI's Sam Alman

apparently has put out a memo to his

staff. Uh, sort of a red alert, it's

being called Code Red. Code Red and it

was a companywide memo among the Open AI

staff telling them that uh they're kind

of falling behind the competition, the

Wall Street Journal reporting this. The

competition in this case would be uh

Google. So, if you're not paying

attention to the AI race, and I didn't

know this actually, um, and I do pay

attention, but I didn't know this. The,

uh, the latest Gemini AI, that's

Google's version of AI. Apparently, it

just trashed OpenAI and benchmark tests.

So imagine being open AI and you've

sucked up all the training material in

the known universe and you're behind

your competition.

What do you do then? Panic. You send out

a companywide memo and you say, "Uh, we

better figure out how to do something

better." Because you don't want to get

behind Google.

I just have a presumption. I don't I

don't have any data for this, but my

presumption is that whenever Google gets

ahead of a competitor, it stays that

way.

Don't you think? How would you like to

be a competitor to Google and find that

Google just pulled ahead of your

product?

How many people are going to make up

that gap and then go back into a

leadership position

to Google?

I mean, Google probably will always have

the most access to new training

material, I'm guessing, but uh they're

not going to run out of money.

So, that's pretty interesting. Well, the

competition is heating up.

Um, did you know

uh you if you're following the story

about Minnesota

and Minnesota apparently lost I don't

know billion dollars in money they

thought was going to go to charity and

good use but it got stolen by Somali

refugees

uh mostly and uh the accusation is that

the governor Tim Walsh had been informed

about all these potential corrupt

things, but uh decided to punish the

whistleblowers

allegedly instead of going after the

corrupt people. And now we have a very

direct um a direct accusation from the

Minnesota state government employees

that that some of them had been trying

to warn the DNC and warn Kla Harris

when she was picking Walsh for vice

president um running mate. Now first of

all do you believe that's true? Do you

believe that the Kla Harris campaign and

the DNC had received multiple, not one,

not one, but multiple letters saying,

"Don't do it. Don't do it. Tim Walsh is

a big old corrupt, incompetent,

untrustworthy guy. You know, the state

is full of corruption. We've told him

he's not doing anything about it. In

fact, he's punishing us for bringing it

up." Now, do you think that happened

that the the Kaml Harris campaign was in

fact warned multiple times? Well, just

because it's in the news doesn't mean it

happened. So, that's the first the first

thing we should all understand and I

think most of my audience understands

that doesn't mean it really happened.

But it is it is a claim made by not one

person but a bunch of people. So the

fact that a bunch of people are saying

it happened, I would say that increases

the odds that it might have actually

happened. So how would you explain the

complete nonresponse and non non-action

uh from the uh Kla Harris campaign and

from the DNC? How do you explain it?

Well, I don't know, but there are

several possibilities.

One is that they got so many emails and

so many letters that it was nobody could

really look at at all.

So it could be that they were in fact

contacted many times,

but it was within a an avalanche of

other communications.

They didn't know how to know which ones

were the important ones. Maybe it was

just, you know, too much data and got

lost in the mix. That's possible.

Possible. The other possibility is that

uh

there's some corrupt reason that we

don't know about that Tim Walsh was

going to be the choice no matter what.

And the no matter what might have

included uh he's a big old crook.

there [clears throat] might have been

some compelling reason

that had nothing to do with his talent

as a as a politician because he didn't

have a lot of talent as a politician.

And it makes you wonder if the if the uh

the big reason why they picked him is

that he was knowingly corrupt.

Is it possible that corruption was a

feature and not a flaw?

because you know I can't prove it.

That's just sort of a conspiracy theory,

you know, kind of thinking. But there's

there seems to be a pattern developing,

[laughter] you know, the pattern is that

wherever there's any big organization,

be it the DNC or be it Minnesota or, you

know, be it anything big, all the NOS's,

that wherever you find Democrats

and a big pile of money,

somebody's stealing it.

And it it's hard to pretend we don't see

the pattern because the pattern is

everywhere. Everywhere you find a whole

bunch of Democrats and a whole bunch of

money. One of those Democrats, maybe

more, has their beak in it and they're

just sucking it like like it's the, you

know, the last ham sandwich in the

world.

You don't really suck on a ham sandwich,

but it was all I could do. It was the

best I could do.

Um,

so I'm g I'm just going to say the you

know how people always say it's not just

avoiding corruption, but you should

avoid the appearance of corruption. This

is one of those times where they need to

avoid the appearance of corruption, too.

And I'm not so sure they did it in this

case because this is sketchy as hell.

Well, let's change topic to uh Kirsten

Cinema uh who as you know had uh retired

from her government service and I guess

she's working for some law firm now. But

uh on top of her work for a law firm,

she's apparently looking to be an

advocate for psychedelics.

Uh specifically, she likes something

called ibo gain. It's an African shrub.

And uh I wonder if that's legal.

Do you think you could grow an African

shrub in your backyard and not get

arrested? Could you grow your own ibo

gain? I know it's just a shrub. If it's

a shrub, I imagine it's pretty easy to

raise. Anyway,

uh apparently she went down to Mexico

and tried it for herself, so she knows

what she's talking about. and uh she and

other advocates want to uh get it state

funded for clinical trials

and eventually hope to get FDA approval

to make a drug and uh she thinks that

she's got a chance of getting that done

with the Trump administration

which means RFK Jr. right so if RFK Jr.

And by the way, I've I I'm not familiar

with RFK Jr.'s opinion on psychedelics,

but I feel like I know what it is

without

um knowing what it is. Do Do you think

that would be fair to say? I'll tell you

what I think it is without any real data

or information or story or anything. If

RFK Jr. is consistent

and he does seem to be consistent then

he would say um we don't know if it's

good or bad but uh if we tried it and it

worked we could maybe get it approved.

So I think he would be pro let's test it

and uh he wouldn't be pro uh let's make

it legal without without knowing the

downside.

So probably as long as there's some data

to back it um she might be able to get

this through and that would be a good

bipartisan thing to do. One of the

better things that could come out of

current government.

Um there's a uh GOP senator, I think

he's a state senator, Senator Marino,

and he want he's introducing some

legislation to uh end dual citizenship

for Americans.

In other words, there are people who are

citizens of America and at least one

other one other place uh often Israel,

but it it could include other places as

well. and he would like to make it such

that if you're a dual citizen and uh

after a certain warning and a some and a

little time to get it done, if you do

not renounce your other nation's

citizenship, you would automatically

lose your American um American

citizenship. What do you think of that?

I I'm going to say that's too far. I

feel like that's too far.

Um, but I would, here's what I would

prefer instead. I would prefer that if

you're a dual citizen, you cannot run

for office.

And there might be, you know, maybe you

can imagine some other public service

kind of job. That's not an elected job,

but maybe something you wouldn't want a

dual citizen in. But wouldn't it be

wouldn't it be cleaner and easier if you

just said you can be a dual citizen,

but if you run for office,

you just can't do it. You You've got to

be an American citizen, not just for the

presidency, but for every elected

office. I'd be fine with that. And then

people can choose. You know, if you

really need to be a senator, you better

be our senator, right? If you if you

need to be a House of Representatives,

you just got to be our House of

Representatives. But for an ordinary

person, I don't know how many dual

citizenship

people there are in the whole country.

It's not a lot, is it? It's not like the

immigrants are coming over with dual

citizenship. I think it's kind of a rare

situation like you know 1% or something.

So I wouldn't worry too much about just

ordinary citizens but definitely don't

want my elected people to be dual

citizens.

Um

here's a story that you could all you

almost could have guessed that this was

going to happen. So, you know, Senator

Mark Kelly,

uh he's one of the six people, we call

the sedicious six, who did the video

telling the people in this in the armed

forces to uh be careful about any

illegal orders.

Now, now we find out that he's, of

course, we already knew he had a twin

brother, but his twin brother is

allegedly, according to the Amuse

account on Acts, that's where I first

saw it. Um, apparently he had been hired

to help uh Zalinski

uh propagandize America and uh maybe

more than America. So he was part of

some NGO kind of funded sketchy thing.

Uh so they they used a USID funded

infrastructure. So it wasn't USA ID but

it was a uh oh yeah it was it was a USA

ID funded infrastructure. Okay. Um but

it looks like maybe this was

uh based on donations not based on tax

dollars. But that's not the important

point here. The important point is that

he raised $2.72 billion dollars

um

for the purposes of helping Zilinski and

Ukraine.

Now, the fact that his brother is a

senator, does that bother you?

Especially his twin brother. Well, you

know, if it's if it's all disclosed and

it's legal, there's no crime involved.

But didn't you know without actually

knowing, didn't you know that the Mark

Kelly andor his brother probably were up

to their neck and something that you

wouldn't love?

Didn't it feel like that was just going

to happen? that if he waited long

enough, there would be a story about

either he or his brother or a spouse or,

you know, some damn thing that had been

maybe not doing anything illegal,

but you know, had their had their nose

and stuff that makes you a little

uncomfortable. Sure enough, there it is.

And apparently they tried the

organization he was in running I guess

uh tried to sell themselves as fact

checkers and anti-corruption efforts but

really it was just a propaganda engine

to support Ukraine.

So I'm going to call that not ideal.

Probably legal. probably I don't see an

allegation that it's illegal, but not

ideal. Yeah.

Um apparently the Treasury Department

uh and a House panel are going to look

into Tim Wals's handling of that billion

dollars of stolen food aid in his state.

And uh it might it might re might end up

in criminal referrals.

So Tim Walsh may go from almost vice

president to well jail. I doubt that uh

I doubt that he'll be indicted or sent

to jail or anything. Uh because I think

it's just going to look like

incompetence.

There'll just be a bunch of questions

like didn't you know this was happening

and why are you punishing the

whistleblowers? But there will be

reasons.

And if there are reasons, they don't

have to be good ones, but probably that

would be enough to get him off. He just

has to he has to use the typical

Democrat defense in these situations. Do

you know what it is? What is the most

typical Democrat

uh defense when accused of being, let's

say, complicit by incompetence

uh for letting a billion dollars get

stolen?

The defense is always the same. Well,

I'm not a criminal. I'm just really bad

at my job.

You know, that's where it's going,

right? You know, it's going toward I

didn't break any laws. I'm just super

bad at doing my job. So, no crime. No

crime. Just incompetence. The usual

baseline.

All right.

Meanwhile, Russia has claimed, and uh

there's no push back on this, they claim

to have taken uh another city, the key

city of uh Pakra.

Pakra.

Well, I know that makes you sad that the

city of Pacro

has been taken over cuz I remember

I remember it was seems like it was only

yesterday that Pacro was a free

Ukrainian city.

Not anymore. Pocks

is now totally owned by the Russians.

Now, let me give you a persuasion

negotiation tip.

If you were Witoff and the other

negotiators and you were trying to get a

peace deal done and then you found out

that right in the middle of the peace

deal, Russia had captured another

important they called a key city. It

it's not it's not that populated.

There's 60,000 people there, but it

seems to be strategically important. So

if one side conquered a city and

occupied it while you were doing the

negotiations, what would you do? Well,

you might you might reflexively say,

"I'm walking away. I'm not going to

negotiate with you darned

stealers of land. You know, you're not

taking it seriously." You could do that,

but that would also be the end of the

peace process. If you wanted to get a

peace deal done,

but this happened, how would you handle

it? I'm going to give you um a

persuasion trick that somebody like

Trump and probably somebody like

Wickoff, but not many people could pull

off. You ready for this? It It's a

little bit of a fake because, but not

exactly.

Here's what I would say in the

negotiations.

Well, uh, I understand that you took a

new city today. We're adding to the

negotiation a 29th point, which is that

anything captured after we started

negotiating has to be given back.

And then the Russians would say, "Yeah,

[laughter]

yeah, no. We lost a bunch of people.

We've been fighting for months to

capture the city. We're not going to

give back the city." And then you look

at them and say, "That's a requirement.

You cannot take any land after we

started negotiating.

Now, is there a reason for that? Not

really. No, there's no reason for it.

It's a purely emotional

request.

But you just stick to it and you never

change. And at the end if if Russia and

Ukraine let's say they agreed on every

other thing and then you say just one

more thing just one more thing got to

give back everything you took from the

time we started negotiating seriously

till now every bit of it that that stuff

just doesn't count.

Could you get them to back down on that?

Well, it would depend how much they

wanted a peace deal, and I don't think

they won it badly enough yet. But if

they ever got to the point where they it

looked like Russia really seriously for

the first time wanted an actual peace,

you could use this irrational reason.

No, we're not going to we're not going

to give you anything that started after

we started talking peace because that's

not even a fair fight. We were barely

trying.

Yeah. So, as illogical as it is, you

could probably get away with it, but you

would need just the right negotiator

saying it just the right way, inserting

it at just the right time, but you get

away with it. It's doable.

All right. What else? Uh,

so Venezuela's leader, Maduro,

apparently is not dead and he has not

escaped the country. So, he's been

spotted uh doing some public thing like

chanting. [laughter]

He was he was somewhere in the country

giving away prizes and singing with the

locals.

Um

what do you think's going to happen

there with Maduro?

I I feel like something has to happen

pretty quickly, but they've kind of

given him two choices. you can stay and

get killed or maybe jailed because we're

coming in hard and probably he believes

that uh land forces are, you know, ready

to strike and they probably are. Um or

he can leave the country. Apparently, um

Trump has said, you know, we won't stop

you from leaving the country, but we're

also not going to pardon you and we're

not going to protect you. So, you're

sort of on your own. You just have to

get out of here. And then then Venezuela

can you have a new start. Don't you

think he the odds of him being killed or

captured is pretty high if he leaves

Venezuela? Like how in the world could

he be protected unless he went, I don't

know, directly to China and lived there

forever or went directly to Russia and

lived there forever. But short of those

two countries,

is there anywhere he could go

that he wouldn't be captured and killed

no matter what?

So if you know, I've said this a million

times, but we need the we need the

retired dictator island, an island where

all the dictators that, you know, know

they have to leave because otherwise

they'll get killed. They want to go

somewhere where they won't be killed. We

should have one island with nothing but

dictators and their servants. No

military, just dictators and servants.

They can even take their stolen money uh

to support themselves and nobody will

bother them. They just can never leave.

They can never leave. And maybe maybe

you prevent them from communicating so

they don't start a coup.

Yeah, like Ela Island. Exactly. Cuba.

Yeah. Oh, you know that's a possibility,

right? Venezuela's been a big sport of

Cuba. So, I guess there's possibility

that uh Maduro could go to Cuba and be

protected, but I wouldn't feel very safe

if I were in Cuba so close to the United

States. I feel like we could get to him

if we wanted to. Um,

so we'll see where that goes. Uh, let's

see. According to the Brussels signal,

which I know you all read, the Brussels

signal, um, the head of France,

Mcronone, has proposed labeling news

outlets for their reliability.

What do you think of that idea?

[gasps]

It's [clears throat] almost funny that

it's even he's even floating the idea.

So Mcronone wants an official media

label that would tell people if the if

the news site was trustworthy.

Doesn't that sound like that can't be

real? That can't be real. In 2025,

are there people who don't know that if

the government tells you a site is

trustworthy, that's the last thing you

should trust? I mean, even in a

democratic type of uh civilization, if

the government tells you this is the one

to believe, that's the one to not

believe.

But, uh, that's that's his idea. And he

wants to do that to teach young people

how to spot fake news. No, that's not

what you're teaching them. You're

teaching them to be fooled by fake news

so long as it's the government approved

fake news. That's what this is. And it

makes you wonder, does Mcronone not know

what he's doing? Does he not know that

these, you know, official sites are

going to be obviously propaganda? Does

he not know that? I feel like he does

know it. Like, because everybody in that

position would know that. So, he's uh

I This is This is terrible idea.

Terrible idea. What? If you really

wanted young people to be able to spot

fake news,

they should watch my uh they should

watch my podcast. They'd have to learn

English or get it translated. But let me

teach the young people in France how to

spot fake news. You ready? This will be

a little lesson so they won't have to

they won't have to look for what news

sites are labeled trustworthy. I will

teach them how to spot it. And all I

have to do is tell you about the very

next story that I was going to talk

about anyway. Did you know that uh did

you know that the Washington Post is

reporting that there are two anonymous

whistleblowers

that say that Pete Hegath gave the order

to kill the two survivors from a narco

boat that the that our military blew up

coming from Venezuela?

Did Did you learn your lesson?

It's in the Washington Post

and there are two anonymous sources.

And I could add that it's bad for

Republicans. It's bad for Republicans.

So young people in France, if you're

watching this, that's what fake news

looks like. Now, I don't know what's

true and what's not. So, I like to put

things in in the the frame of credible

versus not credible. Maybe sometimes the

the uh the Washington Post gets a story

right and maybe sometimes they have

anonymous sources who are completely

legitimate. But if you ever see a story

that's bad for Republicans, and weirdly,

not just bad for Republicans, but bad

for Republicans in a way that perfectly

fits the narrative coming from the

Democrats. You know, the narrative is

that the military might be asked to do

illegal things by the Trump

administration. And then well well lo

and behold by amazing coincidence at the

exact time the narrative is being formed

that maybe these illegal acts will be

ordered. Well, we've got a story in the

Washington Post with two anonymous

sources saying that something that

looked sort of illegalish

may have happened.

That's some fake news looking stuff. So

again, I don't know what's true and

what's not.

But I could say that this is not a

credible story. It's not credible. We

don't know it's true, but we can

certainly say that you should treat it

like it's not true because it's just so

not credible. Not even a little bit. So,

let's see France do that.

And the latest update on that story is

that Heg Seth was not directly involved

in any orders at all. So he was not

watching the the action and saying,

"Hey, you know, there's two guys that

got away. Blast those two guys." So

apparently that never happened that or

or at least

that's the counter to the allegation is

that he wasn't involved at all. He did

give, you know, orders for the attacks,

but there were general orders. They were

not about kill those survivors or

anything like that. the uh there was an

admiral who was more directly involved

or d he was the direct leader of this

um and I don't know what his name is but

apparently there was an admiral who if

anybody gave any orders and there's no

indication that he gave the orders to

kill those people no indication of that

but uh if anybody did it would have been

him not he

um do you believe that

Yeah.

Well, that entire story seems to have

taken over the news. So, have you

noticed that the Democrat narrative has

successfully

uh conquered all the news there? There's

basically not a lot else happening, but

we're going to talk about the sedicious

sex. We're going to talk about Heg Seth

and the, you know, and Maduro and what

legal or illegal things we're going to

do.

So that uh that play has completely

taken over the news and you don't do

that unless it's a coordinated effort.

In my opinion, that doesn't happen by

itself.

So,

so Elon Musk continues to make news. He

did this one podcast who's and I still

don't know who the host of it was. Um,

oh, recent interview with investor

Nquille KTH.

Anyway, so one of the things that uh

Elon said is that uh he's looking at

creating what he's calling a galaxy

mind, which would be shooting AI into

space on satellites. So, you'd have AI

in space, but the the tough part about

AI is having enough energy.

But apparently if you get your um assets

outside of Earth's uh cover and and

atmosphere um the amount of energy that

you have access to directly from the sun

is practically unlimited.

So the idea is they put some solar

panels in space that would be super

effective because they would be beyond

their atmosphere and they would be um

toward the sun all day long instead of

half the day. So you would have just

enormous enormous parts of energy if you

did it in space. So you essentially link

together your satellites with their AI

components and uh link it with the uh

the power that they're getting from the

sun and you can build this enormous

space fairing data center that would be

way smarter than anything you could ever

do on Earth because on Earth you're

always going to be bound by energy but

as soon as you take it out of the

atmosphere

the sky's is the limit.

so to speak. So Elon is basically saying

that's where it's going because that's

where the economics will drive it. And

coincidentally,

um the companies that he owns would

would have rockets for sending things to

space. They would have the satellites,

you know, the uh he's got the satellite

business. He's got the Tesla

engineering. He's got the uh the AI

that's also under his control. and all

of those components and the solar stuff.

He even has the solar panels that's

under Tesla. So, every part of this

so-called galaxy mind he already has.

So, you don't have to wonder if this is

going to happen.

Elon says it's going to happen. The

economics would be overwhelming. I mean,

it's not even close. You're definitely

100% going to be having data centers in

space. There's no doubt about it and he

has every every asset to make that

happen.

Now in a related story

which I find super interesting

is that uh the CEO of Google

um has also started talking about data

centers in space for exactly the same

reason. So Google is already starting

their own little test of putting data

centers in space. They're just going to

do it at a very small scale. you know,

literally it might be some racks on a on

a satellite, but they're going to put it

up there and see if it works on a small

scale, which would be getting the energy

from space, getting it inside your

satellite into your AI uh circuitry and

then seeing if it works or doesn't. If

it doesn't, it's infinitely if it does

work, it seems like it's infinitely

scalable. You need need some more

energy, put up another rocket with solar

panels on it. You need some more AI, put

up another rocket. You need to um

upgrade the AI software,

just send it a message. So, you're going

to have a uh Elon Musk and Google

fighting it out for domination of AI and

space. And I will go further.

Whoever wins the AI and space race and

one assumes that, you know, China is

going to be all over this as well.

Whoever wins that is gonna kind of own

Earth

because if you own everything outside of

Earth, I don't know how Earth can

survive that. Like if if they decided to

attack the Earth with infinite energy.

Imagine having your AI in space and you

have this, you know, uh, this

intelligence that you could never build

on Earth and it comes up with a way to

build an efficient, let's say, space

laser

and then you build it on Earth, but AI

told you how to and then you ship it up

there and then you've got this galaxy

mind with,

you know, AI built laser weapons pointed

at Earth. Well, I don't think Tesla

would do that, but somebody will. China

certainly will. Um, and certainly our

defense people are probably looking at

it. So, yeah, whoever owns space

seems like they're going to own Earth

eventually.

Well, according to I don't know what

source this is,

but um there's an allegation that 36% of

new voter registrations last year in

Michigan uh did not have valid social

security numbers.

36%

of all the new voter registrations

did not have valid social security,

which kind of means they were not

citizens, right? I don't think those

were typos.

They're not citizens. And then on top of

that, Michigan has allegedly half a

million more voters registered than they

have voting age adults.

So,

there's a whole bunch of sketchy

nonvoters

um or people maybe shouldn't have voted

in Michigan. So, state senator Johnson

is the one sounding the alarm about this

and he's pointing to the help America

vote verification system. So, I I guess

there's something that would solve this.

Um the 36% applied to a 100,000 people.

So, 100,000 people registered to vote in

Michigan and 36% of them, 36,000 people

did not have a valid uh social security

number

and and they were allowed to register

anyway. Now, how in the world

do you imagine that's a credible voting

system when you're asked to give your

social security number, but when your

social security number is invalid, it

doesn't change whether you can vote?

Does that look like they're even trying

to have a credible system or does it

look like no matter what the situation

is, if you're going to vote Democrat,

you're definitely going to be able to

vote? Kind of looks like the latter.

Pretty sketchy looking,

but you know,

um I feel like there's a there's a

version of Gellman amnesia that applies

here to our election systems. Now I'll

remind you what galman amnesia is. Most

of you have heard it a hundred times.

But that's the idea that um there was

this physicist, his name was Galman, and

he noticed that when he saw stories

about physics and he knew what was true

and what wasn't, he could tell that the

story was fake or full of errors. But

then he would turn the page on what was

the newspaper at the time and he'd see

the next story and he would just assume

that the next story is probably

accurate. And then and finally after

seeing that pattern for years, wait a

minute. Could it be true that every time

I see a story that I know the truth, I

can tell the reporting is wrong, but

every time I see a story where I don't

have any expertise, I assume it's true.

Isn't it more likely that they're all

fake or nearly all fake? And so that's

the the Gail man amnesia. But there's a

version of that that we do. Um, and it's

not that, but I'm sort of reminded of

it. And it needs its own name. We'll

call it the the the Scott Adams uh the

Scott Adams Amnesia. Yeah, that's it.

We'll call let's call it Scott Adams

Amnesia because you get to name it after

who comes up with it, right? So Scott

Adams amnesia is that you read a story

in the newspaper about let's say

um the the charities in Minnesota

stealing a billion dollars

and then you turn the page and it's a

story about um some other criminal

behavior in the government and you turn

the page and you find out that some

other big money entity was also stealing

your money and then you turn the page to

the story about the our elections and it

says our elections are pristine. Even

though they're run by different people

with different processes and different

states and precincts, every one of them

has got a pristine perfect record. And

uh even if there was some little

problem, it wouldn't be anything

important. And uh so we live in a world

in which everything is corrupt

except for our election systems.

Now, Scott Adams Amnesia says, "You

could not possibly believe that our

election systems are pristine if you've

noted that every other thing is

not

right.

You don't have to have specific

information about what's wrong with

their elections. You don't need that.

You don't need specific proof. You don't

need a court case. If everything else is

corrupt,

come on. Everything else is corrupt.

This is the one thing that's not. You

You would have to have some form of

amnesia about everything else you'd seen

in the world to imagine that this one

thing is the non-corrupt thing. Sorry,

not buying it.

There was a man, according to a new

scientist, there was a man who was quote

unexpectedly cured of HIV after a stem

cell transplant. Now, unknown to me, and

I don't know why I didn't know this, but

did you know that um several people have

been cured of HIV

with stem cell transplants that were um

specifically modified for, you know,

that particular patient, but what's

different is this patient got a stem

cell for that, I I guess wasn't even um

intended to fix this HIV. So, it wasn't

tuned for that purpose, but just getting

the stem cells seemed to have cleared

him of HIV. That's the claim. I'd have

to see I'd have to see a few more people

get cured before I believe that's true.

But were you aware that five people had

their HIV completely cleared

by getting a specific kind of stem cell?

I guess the stem cells came from uh

people who

had some natural defense against HIV,

but you could take a stem cell from

someone who does not have a natural

defense and apparently it still worked.

So, I don't know how often that works,

but that'd be amazing. According to new

scientists also uh we now have an

understanding of how exercise

uh fights cancer. So now they know the

mechanism. So if you have cancer or you

want to avoid it, exercise turns out to

be super effective.

Um and they've got a pretty good idea

why it works. So the problem is as

someone who has cancer, I can tell you

that the last thing you want to do is

exercise.

>> [clears throat]

>> I get it. Exercise would be good for me,

but it's sort of the last thing you want

to do. And especially uh if your

particular

form started with testosterone blockers.

Yeah, try that. My last story is about,

you may have seen the story about the uh

high-rise buildings in Hong Kong that

caught on fire.

Yeah, I guess there were several of them

uh that were near each other. They all

caught on fire. Well, guess what is the

name of that um Hong Kong center?

It's called the Wang Fuk

W space fuk.

And I'm being charitable by calling it

fuke. The Wang fire. And that is

all I have for you people. Um, I'm in

quite a bit of uh discomfort at the

moment. So, I'm going to call it. That

will be my show for the day and I will

uh see you tomorrow. Uh, locals, I can't

join you after the show. So, um, I need

to meditate some pain away. But, uh,

thanks for joining. We'll see you

tomorrow.