Episode 3036 CWSA 12/04/25

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Well, let's check uh the science news.

You'll never guess this one.

Scypost has an article that says that people with children report lower romantic love, intimacy, and passion.

Um, did they really need to do a study to find out that people with children have lower romantic love, intimacy, and passion?

Um, they could have just asked me or anyone who's ever been around any child ever.

I'm pretty sure we all knew that, right?

Or let me put it another way.

If you could be in a room alone with the children and you were feeling feelings of romantic love, intimacy, and passion, um, I don't want you around my children.

You know what I mean?

So, I think there's a fairly logical reason why being around children turns off those emotions, at least for most people.

We don't know about Epistine, but for everybody else.

Uh, let's see.

We got another science thing.

Uh, oh, according to interesting engineering, your heating may soon come from a data center.

You know how data centers use a lot of electricity, but they also create a lot of heat and that heat has to go somewhere.

So you can either pipe it into the atmosphere, total waste of heat, or you can pipe it into homes and indoor swimming pools and stuff like that.

How many of you remember that uh several years ago I did a little project with Bill PTE in which we were designing sort of the ideal city and one of the concepts was to build a small city around a data center and it was for that very reason.

So, you'd want to have a small nuclear um generator for the city, but also for the data center.

And then you want to use that uh warmth that comes from it to heat your homes.

And I I imagined that the that designed city would be a profit center so that you would literally design it so that uh some big company like Google would pay to use your data center and they would pay for all your electricity from your small futuristic nuclear power plant and then the city wouldn't need no taxes because you know, as long as they were generating sort of income from having an awesome uh setup, you would need no taxes.

So, how about that?

Um, so I think that's going to happen.

Well, in the world of robots, you didn't ask, but I've got the answer.

In the world of robots, uh, I keep seeing stories where they try to make a robot with human or humanlike muscles.

So, apparently, if you if you design your uh your robot muscles with, you know, human type organs, you can make it pretty strong and responsive.

And now MIT has figured out according to interesting engineering how to get your robot to be uh let's see way way stronger than a mechanical robot and uh it increases the force output by 30 times and it's a biohybrid.

So it's not exactly a uh what do you call it when it's part human part robot cyborg?

It's not exactly a cyborg, but it would have humanlike or animallike muscles.

Now, let me ask you this.

How weird would it be to have a robot that humanlike muscles on the outside?

Wouldn't that be super creepy?

Or are you going to want to have sex with it?

or would you not want to have sex with it if there were childlike robots in the room?

So many questions.

So many questions.

Well, the big news, which uh I'm I'm not up to date on.

Oh, damn it.

My I I changed the uh ink in my printer and it still can't print.

So, has smooshed all of my documents into a terribly well, you can't see it, but what what is causing that?

If it's a brand new ink cartridge, if anybody knows what's causing that, let me know so I can fix it.

Anyway, the uh so the pipe bomber from January 6, you remember the pipe bomber um has been allegedly arrested.

They know who it is.

Um but do you remember it wasn't long ago that the news was um which probably was fake news was that it was a woman and uh there was a lot of chatter that the pipe bomber was a woman.

Do you know why?

Do you know why I knew it wasn't a woman?

Because it was a pipe bomb.

Would you ever make a bet?

Let's say I came to you and said, "Hey, um, yeah, I want you to place a bet.

There was a person who planted a bomb, and it was a pipe bomb.

Probably had to make it themselves.

Uh, was it a man or a woman?

How much money would you bet that it was a man who planted the pipe bomb?

Well, I think I would have bet a pretty large amount.

In fact, the least likely possibility was that a pipe bomber is a woman.

So, you can you can uh ask yourself this.

If you were ever thinking that that story was true, that a woman planted a pipe bomb, uh, you should probably stop saying things in public for the rest of your life.

The odds of a woman planting a pipe bomb still very close to zero.

I mean, it's possible.

you know, she could have been paid to do it or something like that.

But women in bombs, no.

No, don't see it.

Not in this country.

But I do wonder if this is the beginning of what we will call the lone wolf narrative.

When they say they caught the person, does that suggest that they're going to say it was just one person with some idea that was just their own?

Do you believe that the pipe bomber, be it male or female, do you believe that the pipe bomber could have possibly been acting alone?

Does that seem likely?

It's possible.

You know, if it's a guy, especially.

Yeah.

If it was a woman, there's not a slightest chance that the woman was working alone.

There definitely was a man involved, even if it was only to make the bomb and hand it to her and say, "Go put this over there." But, uh, it feels like we're going to be told it's a lone wolf.

Are you going to believe that?

Now, maybe the FBI believes that, but I don't know.

This This doesn't really have the lone wolf vibe to it, does it?

It feels like it's a little bit bigger conspiracy wise, but it's a brand new story.

Fog of war.

We don't even know if they got the right person, but I guess we'll find out more today.

Well, Megan Kelly is reporting that the uh FDA is preparing to uh add what they call a blackbox warning to the COVID vaccines for children.

And the the idea here is that I guess Alex Baronson's been doing the base reporting on this and uh he says he's been reliably informed that uh that there will be an FDA blackbox warning.

Now the black the blackbox warning is sort of the most dangerous thing that they could say about a product.

It would still be on the market but the blackbox warning would be watch out.

It could kill you.

Now, how many of you think this is new news?

Because it's presented as new.

Didn't we know since the middle of the pandemic, didn't we always know that it was uh dangerous for young people, especially men, boys?

I guess boys.

Haven't we known that?

So, the only thing I can imagine that was added was maybe some new statistics about how dangerous it is, but we've always known, at least I have.

Did Did you not know?

And and I'm not talking about what we suspected.

I thought we knew for sure that it was more danger than benefit for young boys especially.

Am I wrong about that?

Like why does this feel like just groundhog day?

Are we really just finding this out or is the news that the FDA is agreeing with it for the first time?

Is that the only thing that's new?

I mean, it just feels like we've been on this road for years and we all knew it for years.

Anyway, now we'll find out more about that, I guess.

In related news, uh RFK Jr.

was saying that uh Fizer uh had data about their that their vaccine was not really a vaccine meaning it didn't stop transmission and they knew it seven months before the injections went on the market.

Do you believe that?

So apparently there was some monkey study where the Makox No, I'm not I know that sounded naughty, but if you have a if you have any minors listening to this, could you cover their ears because I'm going to say the name of a type of monkey, but it's going to sound like I'm talking dirty.

I won't be talking dirty at all.

I'll just be naming a kind of monkey.

You ready?

Cover your children's ears.

If you have a pet, cover their ears.

The type of monkey is macock.

That's right.

That's what those monkeys are.

Macock.

So if you put the virus in Makok um apparently if your if your monkey has a nose like Makok does uh they found out that had the same amount of virus in there as if they didn't get the uh vaccination.

And so in theory, at least for Makok uh Makox, uh it showed that it didn't stop the spread at all.

And uh allegedly RFK Jr.

says Fizer knew that seven months before it went on the market.

Well, that would be pretty damning if that were true.

But do I have it right that the big pharma companies have no liability risk?

They don't, do they?

Like even if they knew, does that change their liability risk?

because this would seem to me like insanely criminal, you know, not not just a um not just some kind of a civil thing you could do a lawsuit about, but it feels like it's just flatout criminal because they had a lot of money on the line and they would have been knowingly killing people in large numbers allegedly, right?

I don't know.

true, but allegedly that would be like the crime of the century.

Uh, so I don't know.

We'll find out more about that.

Um, Christine Gnome said they've just discovered that 50% of the visas um in Minnesota are fraudulent.

50%.

Boy, Tim Walsh is having a bad bad month.

the governor of Minnesota.

Is Minnesota just the biggest criminal enterprise you've ever seen in your life?

Remember when you thought all the sketchy stuff happened in Las Vegas or, you know, maybe New York?

No.

Turns out that Minnesota was quietly racking up the biggest criminal uh record of any state.

Unbelievable.

They don't have a really a good news day ever lately.

So 50% of the visas, the visas in this case would be the instrument for allowing you in the country.

I'm not talking about Mastercard and Visa.

That's a different visa.

So that's happening.

But luckily, there's nothing else illegal that's ever happened in Minnesota except that Visa stuff.

Oh, wait a minute.

Uh Mario Noel is reporting that uh apparently uh although you and I know that there's been massive fraud uncovered in Minnesota, um how many times do you think ABC, CBS or NBC mentioned um mentioned it or mentioned Tim Walls?

Uh the answer is nothing.

Yeah.

So the the big three networks are sort of acting like this story doesn't exist.

This is like one of the biggest stories of all time.

Decided, no, we'll talk about something else instead.

All right.

Um, wow.

None of those networks, this is what Mario is saying on X.

None of those networks have mentioned Wals by name in the past week.

So, I think what they did mention is that there were problems.

So, they may have mentioned the crime, but they didn't mention the governor's name even once.

Okay.

All right.

Um, and then according to Wall Street Apes, um, a real good account you should follow an X, Wall Street Apes is reporting that, uh, investigations found that, uh, Simoleons in Minnesota were caught early on stealing millions of dollars.

But do you know why it didn't become a story?

And do you know why they kept on stealing even though they had been discovered?

And apparently multiple people had discovered it and reported it.

So it wasn't like there was one whistleblower.

Apparently a lot of people were aware of it and some number of people were reporting it and saying, "Hey, hey, there's a whole bunch of money getting stolen here.

Maybe we should do something about it." Why do you think nothing happened until recently?

Do you think it had to do with DEI?

Yes, it did.

So apparently the Simoleons were smart enough to say if you cause trouble, we're going to we're going to brand you as a big old racist and we're going to say that you're only reporting this as trouble because we're black and you're a racist and by the way uh George Floyd did not have it coming.

So, I guess it was around the George Floydish time that people wanted to report this, but it was just sort of impossible.

It was just politically impossible to make this damning accusation against a large population of black uh black residents of the country.

There just wasn't anybody to do it.

So, people weren't willing to take the chance.

So, people did see it, they knew about it, and they did report it.

But nothing happened until recently.

Now, that would be one of the many advantages of having Trump as your president because people have somewhat gotten past that.

Not 100%.

But I feel like we're we're in a more I don't know, a more realistic world, a more common sense world where you can actually say, "Oh, yeah.

It looks like we have a problem here." and you're not automatically the worst person in the world because you brought it up.

All right, here's another uh accusation against Tim Walls.

I'll tell you, he's just having the worst month.

Now, I don't know if this is true.

I'll just say it's an allegation, but I also saw this in the Wall Street Apes um account on X that apparently the men who work with Tim Walsh in the National Guard in Nebraska went to the FBI when Tim Walsh was in the National Guard because they believed that Tim Walsh had given classified military secrets to the Chinese government.

Now, how certain would you have to be before you went to the FBI and turned in your fellow National Guardsmen for giving secrets to China?

You would have to be really, really sure, wouldn't you?

I mean, you don't have to be a 100% sure, but you wouldn't do it if you just had a mild suspicion, would you?

I mean, I feel like you'd have to have a, you know, pretty solid reason for even going there because remember, if you go to the FBI, you're putting your own life in a trajectory that's going to be a lot of trouble, right?

Whether you're correct or whether you're incorrect, you're kind of donating your your own freedom uh because you think it's important.

So, the one thing we can know with some degree of certainty is that the people who reported it, they must have thought it was serious.

I don't I don't think you would report that.

I mean, it's just such an allegation.

Would you report that unless you really thought you had the goods?

Well, they did report it and nothing happened.

But the uh allegation is that there was there were some secret documents about a new tank that the United States was producing and uh some of those documents allegedly disappeared disappeared the plans for the tank and that soon after uh China where Wals had a history of visiting quite often that soon after China produced a tank that looked just like the one that had the stolen plans and nobody knows where the plans went.

Now, is that enough to say that Tim Walsh did it?

We only know that Tim Walsh had a strong connection to China.

We know that he had access to those plans.

We know that his co- uh soldiers believe that he might have been the one who stole them.

And we know that the timing is such that China created the tank coincidentally.

Coincidentally, just like the one that had the stolen documents.

Well, that's not proof of anything, but sort of suspicious.

All right.

What else happened?

Uh, also in Minnesota, I I tell you, Minnesota is just this bed of crime.

So, the Minnesota director of uh elections, this guy named Paul Lenell, he admitted uh recently, and this is also a Wall Street Apes uh post.

He admitted recently that all you need to vote in Minnesota is a driver's license, and all you need to do to get a driver's license is ask for one.

I mean, you probably have to take a test like everybody else, but you don't need to be a citizen to get a driver's license.

If you get a driver's license, apparently, uh, let's see.

It doesn't have to match your social security number, which could be fake.

And if they if you try to register to vote, they will identify a fake social security number.

But if you have a fake social security number, which they identify, so they know it's fake, but you have a real driver's license, which would be totally legal in Minnesota, they still let you vote.

Even though they know your your social security doesn't match a real social security number, they still let you vote.

And that they admit that.

Now, in the story, I didn't see how many people voted.

I don't know if it's a big problem or a small one.

But what the hell is wrong with Minnesota?

They can't control.

It's where I I think wherever Tim Walls is, there's crime.

It's like it's like he's the you some sort of attractor for major crime.

That's what it feels like.

Anyway, so they don't have control of their elections.

They don't have control of their budget.

They don't have control of their governor.

What is wrong with you, Minnesota?

Well, according to uh Patrick Burn, you know Patrick Burn, he was the CEO of Overstock uh.com and uh he's been in the news a lot talking about Venezuela and our election systems and uh allegations of problems that involve Venezuela and our elections.

But uh he was doing an interview on Lindell TV and he his claim is that the people there are people on the Venezuelan payroll who still are inside the US government and that some of these names and he knows who they are.

He just can't tell us for various reasons.

Um he's under oath not to name them for some reason.

Um but that they there are they're people who have a lot of seniority in some cases.

So there might even be names that you've heard of that allegedly are literally just on the payroll of Venezuela, but they're part of our government.

Now, that's a hell of a claim, but we'll see.

So, I don't have I really don't have a way to form an independent opinion of whether the Patrick Burn Venezuelan election stuff is true or not.

Uh because I how would I I mean if you asked me does Patrick Burn seem credible I would say yes.

Yes.

Uh you know I've communicated with him a number of times and it seems credible but I don't know that I'm smart enough or wise enough that I could tell the difference between something that seems credible and something that's true.

It's very different.

So remember, I always make a big deal about credible.

Doesn't mean it's real.

It just means you can't tell any reason that it looks fake, except that it's a let's say in this case, the only thing that would be a flag would be it would be a a big story.

And you expect big stories to spread, but they don't have to.

they could they could stay as small, you know, skeptical stories for a long time until they're not.

So, I don't I really don't have an opinion about whether this is true, but the claim is that uh um there are people of such seniority secretly on the payroll it will shake this nation.

So, I guess he thinks we'll find out someday about that.

He says, quote, "We have diaries.

We have the witnesses.

It's all documented." Well, that would be a hell of a thing if we have diaries and documents and and people and all that.

So, we'll see.

Well, in other news, um I I can barely read my notes.

My printer just just totally hashed them up.

But in other news, um let's see.

Back in uh April of 2024, just nearly a year and a half ago, the prestigious journal Nature um did a big study on climate change and how much damage it would cause by the end of the century.

And wow, was it bad.

Wow.

So, according to nature or a study that was in nature, that that climate change is going to get you.

It's going to really mess up the whole country, the world.

uh update.

They have retracted they have retracted their big study and find that it had flaws and uh they do not stand behind the idea that climate change is a you know huge existential threat.

They're not saying it's not.

They're just saying that that study that they had a lot of people had relied on was BS.

So they retracted it.

Do you remember, as others have pointed out, that Kla Harris didn't really make a big deal about climate change, did she?

Imagine, imagine you were Kla Harris.

You're running against Trump.

Trump has said that climate change, or at least the way, you know, people want it funded, etc., was a hoax.

Uh, if you believed it was not a hoax and you believe the science, wouldn't you hammer on that all the time?

Like, wouldn't that be the number one thing you'd say every time you open your mouth?

You know, we're all going to die if you elect a Republican, especially Trump, who thinks it's a hoax because it's the most important thing.

It's a it's it's going to kill us all.

The water's going to be up to your nose by Tuesday.

If she believed that, you don't think that would come out of her mouth every time she talked?

It would be by far the most important thing by far.

But no.

And have you noticed that the the mainstream news don't really talk about it much compared to how much they did?

I mean, keep in mind that the current president says it's a hoax.

And for years, decades, I guess decades, it's been treated as the biggest problem in the world.

And now, h is it a problem?

I don't know.

Is it real?

Well, it might be realish, but it doesn't mean that the that the downside is going to be bad.

Now, you remember that uh Bill Gates recently uh changed his emphasis and he said, you know, climate change is real, but you know, we'll find ways to, you know, remediate it, ways to work around it.

probably will, you know, nobody's going to die.

Too many extra people anyway.

So, little by little, you're going to see the the climate change people just walking it back.

Now, is that because the the climate models have not predicted?

Well, yeah.

Yeah.

If you looked at all the predictions since since I was born, uh they're pretty bad at predicting.

And I guess there's finally some acknowledgment that uh the news is not really accurate and maybe the science is a little bit hyperbolic and maybe it's not really backed up by that much science.

So, if you were on the side of this doesn't look real to me, which is the side I've been on for a long time.

Um, have you noticed that reality is starting to conform around me?

Has anybody noticed that?

Because for years I've been saying this is obviously not true.

And I would give my arguments and now the news is sort of saying, well, yeah, these studies are not that true.

Do you remember when I was sort of alone?

Not really alone, but there weren't many of us saying that uh we just have to do nuclear power.

There's really no other way around it.

We're going to have to go gung-ho with nuclear power, not only because it's a green technology, but because if we want to conquer space, you're going to need nuclear and uh other reasons.

And now nuclear is just the biggest thing.

and everybody agrees that these new generation of nuclear is we're going to have to have lots of them.

I'll talk more about that, etc.

So, that's conforming around my view of that.

Um, remember I told you that the war in Ukraine would very quickly be a robot war, robots including drones.

Well, there it is.

We got a robot war.

We've got nuclear power and we've got climate change that maybe it's not so scary.

But is that a coincidence?

Is it a coincidence that some of the biggest factors in the world are all starting to conform around my opinion of what they are?

I don't know why.

Am I good at predicting or am I living in some kind of simulation where my opinion is becoming reality?

I don't know.

But it's getting hard to ignore, isn't it?

How how often my opinion is matching what you observe, but eventually not right away.

Well, according to uh a exclimate alarmist, as he's being called, somebody named Tom Harris, he says that wind turbines, windmills, um require fossil fuel backup plants that continuously burn 90% of the time and that basically that means that the wind turbine is just for show.

So, this is a guy who used to be an alarmist who now has I guess gone to something like my side of it.

And he's saying that uh now I I'm not sure exactly what he means, but what I think he means is that since the windmill is not churning all the time, it would have to be paired with something that is churning all the time just so you have energy all the time.

So I it's hard to believe they don't they don't add anything, but his take is that you're getting literally nothing from a wind turbine because the you know by the time you spend enough money to build the thing and then you put it in and they've got lots of maintenance problems and then you need some kind of backup power anyway that's a different kind of power.

Once you've looked at the whole picture, Trump is right again.

Trump is right.

The windmills are a hoax.

He got that right, too.

I'll tell you the one thing that Trump does better than just about anybody is that man can spot from a thousand miles away.

Now, it could be because he's good at making up his own BS, but wow, is he good at spotting He I mean literally you can see it from you can see around corners when it comes to that stuff.

All right.

uh you know the SNAP program, the SNAP is uh provides uh funds for people who can't afford to buy food and it's a federal program and the feds asked the states to give them data on the people who receive the SNAP benefits apparently so that they can do an audit essentially to find out if the people getting it are the people who should be getting it because it's a lot of money involved.

Um, it turns out that 21 states, all Democratcontrolled, coincidence, um, have decided not to give the federal government information on who gets the SNAP benefits.

But I think, uh, I think all of the Republican governments have said yes and and are cooperating.

But what we know is um so far, and I'm sure these numbers will grow, uh the states that did not comply, they found 186,000 dead people uh with social security numbers being used.

They found half a million people that received that benefits more than twice.

Um and multiple people received benefits in six different states.

So the the SNAP program is just wildly fraudulent and the Democrats are protecting the frauds.

Can you think of any reason that they would not provide that information to the people who are giving them money?

If I can give you one piece of advice, if someone gives you money, in this case the federal government is funding the SNAP program in the states.

If somebody's giving you money and then they ask for a little detail about how you're spending it to make sure it's not all being wasted, if you don't give them that information, you're a fraud.

There there's just no way around it.

You're a fraud.

Now, you might have some Democrat argument about, oh, if we give you this information, you'll find some way to discriminate against minorities or something.

But it just looks like they're protecting fraud.

So, I'm going to assume that there might be a little bit of a kickback situation where the politicians are getting a little taste of this fraud somehow.

Otherwise, they wouldn't they wouldn't be protecting it, but they're very clearly protecting the fraud.

Democrats.

Um, meanwhile, MSNBC is reporting that Ken Delaneian, who is a NBC guy, is reporting that Leticia James is going to be indicted again.

So, she was indicted before, but the indictments got dropped because there was a challenge to whether or not the prosecutor was correctly and legitimately appointed, but it did not it didn't create any kind of double jeopardy kind of situation.

So, uh, they just had to get a prosecutor who was legitimately, um, selected according to everybody and then they can just go at it again.

So, Leticia James will not have a good holiday because she is now going to be indicted.

Um, in other news, the uh the cost of apartments has gone down 1%.

which doesn't seem like a lot, but if you com just from October to November, now that doesn't seem like a lot, but if any kind of major cost goes down at all, like ever.

That's worth noting because you don't expect them to ever go down.

Seems like they would just go up and up and up.

And uh people are quite reasonably saying that the reason that uh apartment costs are going down is probably not because the supply has increased.

As far as I know, there's no reason to think the supply of housing has gone up, right?

Especially for rentals.

But what has happened is that two and a half million people have been deported and they all live somewhere.

They weren't living on the street.

So, the competition for rentals, the kind of thing that you would expect non-residents to be in, they'd be more likely to be in a rental than buying a house.

So, probably this is the first sign of uh the Trump administration's deportation creating an economic benefit for at least in terms of lowering costs.

Don't know that that's why it is.

It might be 1% could also be just uh a noisy data.

So it's possible that this this won't um hold up for another month, but I think it might.

In other news, that Biden era fuel rule.

Um so Biden had created a set of standards where you had to have your car on average um on average you'd have to get 51 miles per gallon if you had a a gas car that you were selling.

It would have to reach that standard.

Now I don't know about you but that seems like if they could have done that they would have already done it.

So some people were thinking that uh that standard would have made it essentially impossible to sell a gas car in the United States by what year?

I for I forget what year but it's within 10 years I think.

And uh Trump administration just got rid of that.

Um, so now you can get an electric car if you want one, but it would now be affordable to get a another gas powered car if if that's what you want.

So that should also lower the costs compared to what they would have been uh of automobiles.

So rent might be stabilizing, maybe a little bit down.

Automobiles might be stabilizing and maybe at some point go down.

Um, Jensen Wang, who's the head of uh, Nvidia, was on Joe Rogan show and he said a whole bunch of interesting things.

So, I'm just going to mention some of them.

They're in video clips all over X.

Um, you said uh, basically you gave Trump all kinds of credit for making it possible for the AI industry to explode as it has.

and uh he said uh his point is we need energy growth without energy growth we can have no industrial growth so uh Jensen is uh very complimentary about Trump's uh understanding of the economics of AI and how important it is and how as president he needed to get rid of as many obstacles as possible and the biggest obstacle is energy so uh Jensen says in the next six to seven years you're going to see a bunch of small nuclear reactors.

We will all be power generators just like somebody's farm.

So yes, and that would be directly a Trump administration um success because the Trump administration is very much understanding that they need to get rid of all kinds of obstacles to creating uh uh power and that the only way we'll be able to onshore and have a huge manufacturing base is if we just go with making more power and uh so far it's looking like uh Trump and his people have made that possible.

So the gigantic boom that you're seeing in our economy which seems to be limited very much to the AI robot world um we finally have a administration that is completely compatible with that.

I don't think that the Trump administration is fighting with that industry in any way.

If they are, let me know.

I'm not aware of any, but they seem to be completely on board on you need a lot of energy.

We need to get out of the way.

We need to make it easier.

You know, go make some energy.

So, that's pretty exciting.

What the the most fun story that uh Jensen Hang said again, CEO of Nvidia, he was on uh Joe Rogan show and uh he told a story about uh the first customer for Nvidia's first um AI specialty board and chips, I guess.

And he they built this board and they couldn't find anybody to buy it.

So, he had a product that became, you know, the the beginning of the the entire AI boom.

And he's just sitting there and like nobody knows what it is.

Nobody understands it.

Nobody wants to buy it.

And he ends up talking to Elon Musk and Elon says, "You know what?

I've got a I've got a company that could use that." And I guess he took uh Jensen to a little room that was the entire company.

It was like this crowded little room.

Do you know what company it was?

What what company was it?

It was Open AI.

So it was Open AI back when uh Elon thought it would be a nonprofit, but he knew because he understood the technology.

He knew that that board could be, you know, the difference between AI working and and not working.

So he was the one who created the entire market for AI.

If if Jensen Wang had not had a conversation with Elon Musk, there would be no AI.

Now, I might be exaggerating, but I don't think so.

I I think that that chance encounter and the fact that Elon is smart enough to know what that board could do, but he was also rich enough that he was funding this, you know, AI somewhat, you know, speculative endeavor and he put the two together and uh and now the entire the entire economy, the everything it changed everything.

If if you were to look at all the things that Elon Musk has done that affected the world, you know, you'd have this long list of everything from, oh my god, you know, he's sending rockets up that are reusable, he's got electric cars and all that.

Probably none of it would be as big as this in the long run.

Literally, that one guy is the reason that AI is the biggest thing in the world.

Now, how could we not know that?

I mean, just think about the fact that that is just by itself.

The fact that he recognized what that board would do and and created a market for it and uh you know, spawned open AI.

That is more contribution to civilization than I've ever seen anybody do in any domain.

I mean, you'd have to go back to like, you know, Jenis Khan or something to find somebody who changed civilization that much.

Um, and we didn't even know about it.

How many of you had never heard that story?

I'd never heard it.

And it's gigantic.

I mean, it's just wildly, wildly impressive.

Never even heard the story until today.

Anyway, so put that on your resume.

Um, and then there's a story uh that Jensen Wang was telling about uh the contact he got from the Trump administration when they first got into power.

He said that Secretary Lutnik called him sort of out of the blue and uh he said this um he said he told me what was important to President Trump which was uh that the US would bring its manufacturing onshore.

So Lutnik is, you know, talking to Nvidia's head, telling him it's important.

And uh here's what he started the conversation with.

According to Jensen, this Lutnik called him and his first sentence was um he said, "This is Secretary Lutnik and I just want to let you know that you're national treasure and whatever you need uh whenever you need access to the president, the administration, you call us.

We're always going to be available to you." Literally, that was his first sentence.

Now, you know, I've said to you, I don't know much about Lutnik, but I'm just I'm kind of intuiting from the things we see him do that he's not ordinary.

Like, like he's the real deal and uh you know, a superstar within the administration, but imagine being so aware that you call Nvidia and you say, "You're you're a national treasure.

If you need anything, you call us and we're going to pick up the phone." How would that feel?

I mean, that's pretty impressive because he was right on point and that was before before there was any AI.

He he could see it coming.

And so, uh, Jensen says that, uh, President Trump single-handedly flat out saved the AI industry.

And uh primarily it was because of Trump's progrowth energy policy uh because without that nobody would feel comfortable building a thing that required so much energy and you couldn't you didn't have a way to get it.

Now there is a way to get it.

You can build your own power plant and you'll find a way to get approval.

Um, and then, uh, Jensen Wang of Nvidia had some comments about meeting Trump and how how different he is when you actually meet him in person.

Now, see if this sounds familiar.

Has anybody else said this?

That when he met Trump in person, he said he quote, quote, "He surprised me." First of all, he's an incredibly good listener.

Have you ever heard that before?

that he's an incredibly good listener.

That's almost the first thing I said after after I met him.

So in 2018, I I met Trump in the Oval Office and got to chat with him a little bit and I came away with exactly the same impression.

I was like, "Oh my god, he's such a good listener." He asks questions, right?

So the first of all but if somebody asks questions that you know shows interest and then he really listens and then he interacts you know with your answer so you know he's engaged and he's totally focused on you when you're giving the answer and you feel it.

It's a hell of a superpower but uh I'm happy to know that it wasn't just my own impression.

It seems like everybody who meets him I think I think Bill Maher said something similar that you don't expect it but he's just a really good listener and that that's just a superpower because everybody appreciates it.

Um anyway so on another topic Trump says that the big beautiful bill is going to give uh some uh deductions tax deductions for the middle class.

So, if you borrow money to buy a car, now with the uh the new rules, you're allowed to deduct the interest from your income tax.

So, it's only the interest.

Um, and I think you have to have a loan to make this uh possible.

And, uh, Trump says that's going to be a big deal.

Um, it will be a big deal.

Now, the only thing it will make less expensive is the interest on the loan because you get to write it off.

you you're not going to get a deal on the price of the car, but the interest on it um may be a lot less.

Um but the deductions up to 10,000 annually.

So, and I imagine there's probably an income off because he mentioned middle class.

So, I suppose if you earn too much money, you don't get that.

But the middle class will love it.

Um, I saw a podcast in which Victor Davis Hansen was talking to Dr.

Scott Atlas.

I think I don't know which podcast it was, one of their podcast, but uh Victor had a uh an interesting summary of Trump and uh I just I'm just going to repeat it because it's such an interesting way to put it.

He said, quote, "At one point, uh, Trump was looking at $500 million in fines.

They took his name off the ballot in 25 states, raided his home, debanked his wife and son, they impeached him twice, and tried him as a private citizen.

That would have broken any other person." To which I say, we forget how much peril he was in.

Trump was in this situation where you couldn't really go around it.

You couldn't avoid it.

You couldn't really minimize it.

He had one and only one strategy which looked damn near impossible at the time.

The one way he could survive is to become president of the United States against all odds with with all of that hanging over him.

you know, he was a convicted felon and, you know, every other accusation and, you know, hundreds of millions of fines.

The only way he could stay in a jail, the only way he could recover his reputation, the only way was to become president of the United States, really against all odds.

Now, here's the fun part.

You know who knew that besides Trump?

I did.

I I knew he had one way out, but so did you.

You knew it.

You knew that the only way out was directly through it.

Right through the middle.

He he had to carve the carve the intestines out of the whole situation and just walk right through the body of it.

Short of that, he didn't have a chance.

And I don't know about you, but it felt personal to me.

Did you have that feeling?

It didn't feel like I was watching a show and oh, there's this person in the news who's got peril.

It felt personal.

I felt that if he went down, it would be real easy to get to me and other people who talked about the news and not the way that people liked.

So that was personal.

And so when I would advocate and use social media and try to play with messaging and try to add to as much as I could add to his odds of getting elected, I was also fighting for my life.

Now, that wouldn't be true of everybody, but I'm a public figure and I watched the January 6 people being taken down for practically nothing.

I watched all of his lawyers being taken down for practically nothing.

I watched the destruction of the reputation of everybody around him.

And then I got cancelled.

I got cancelled.

And do you know what I said when I got cancelled?

I can't go around this.

I can't avoid it.

I've got to go right through the middle of it.

That's the only way I'm going to get out.

So, I went through the middle of it.

I doubled down.

Here I am.

So I feel that uh you know we were in this death match and we were sort of in it together.

You were helping me as I was trying to help myself but also help the president and help uh the country.

Uh, so I I had very high stakes, very high stakes.

And it's easy to forget, you know, once things turn your way and hey, you know, golden age is happening and we got I got the president I wanted and he's not going to jail and all that, it's real easy to forget how how dangerous that was, you know, the level of peril that uh we we were in.

And I definitely shared, you know, a minor, I mean, nothing like what Trump was going through, of course, but uh I shared that and uh I'm quite proud of the fact that I doubled down on the fight and that turned out to be the right strategy.

Anyway, um, believe it or not, the Washington Post had an article today saying that food prices are actually more affordable if you take into account uh, inflation plus the increase in uh, people's pay.

So pay is up a little bit.

Inflation's a little bit under control.

And although food prices might be going up a little bit or flat in some cases, Washington Post wants you to know if you factor everything in, it's a little bit more affordable, relatively speaking.

Now, that is a very surprising thing to see in the Washington Post because it's very pro.

Trump in its in its factual basis.

Um, but then even more surprising, ABC uh ABC kind of went against the Washington Post and their story about the the uh the Venezuelan cokebo and what we're calling the double tap hoax.

The double tap hoax.

So the idea is that Haggath is being accused of ordering a second missile to kill the two survivors of the first missile attack of the first uh cocaine boat.

Now uh of course there's a lot of question about the factual situation.

We don't know.

It sounds like Hexath wasn't even aware that there were any um survivors.

But according to ABC News, their version of it is that the survivors climbed back into the boat, which I guess was still floating, and tried to salvage the drugs that had not been blown up.

Now, if you climb back in the boat, and the boat is still afloat and it still has, I don't know, half of its drugs there, why wouldn't they be allowed to shoot again?

That pretty much would be a continuation of what it was that got them missiles in the first place.

So if the if the first missile made sense, the second missile made sense because they had not finished the job.

So ABC News is very much supporting the administration's point of view without without saying they're doing that, but factually it would support their version that uh the job wasn't finished.

All they did was finish the job, which I think would be completely allowed.

I'm no I'm no JAG uh or military guy, but it seems to me that's all you need to know.

if you know if a full boat was a problem then half a boat was a problem too.

So we'll see.

Um and then I saw that uh Senator Mark Warner was on one of the shows, Morning Joe, I guess, and he said that uh in many ways the uh uniformed military may help save us from this president.

What?

Seriously, a a a sitting senator is saying in public that the that the military might be how we save ourselves from this president.

Does he not know that?

Sounds like uh an insurrectionist or a sedition or a coup or something terribly un inappropriate.

If you're even suggesting in America that you need the military to control your president instead of our current situation where you have a military leader of the of the military, you have a civilian leader of the military.

Um, does he really not know how that sounds?

Because to me it sounds like the worst thing you could ever say in public if you're a sitting senator.

I mean, seriously, name one thing that would be worse than that.

He could say something racist, but then that would just be his problem, right?

He could say something that's not true, but that would be, you know, business as usual for a senator.

What could he say that would be worse than suggesting you might need the military to take out the president or somehow control the president?

I can't think of anything that would be worse than that.

That is the dumbest, most dangerous thing you'll ever hear a senator say.

Unfreakingbelievable, but it happened.

And then I'd like to tell you this story.

You know, this one right here that my printer has completely hidden from me.

I'll bet it was a good story, but we'll have to go without that today.

Um, meanwhile, Rasperson reports, uh, who you you should follow on X, they they've been following the whole, uh, election integrity thing and especially the Venezuelan Smartmatic connection.

Now, because I don't want to be sued, there's nothing I'm going to say next about this story that I know to be true.

These are allegations from other people.

And apparently we have some uh Venezuelan general is in a US jail and the the general he was a three-star general in Venezuela and he was among other things he was the director of military intelligence right so that's pretty serious job Venezuelan threear general director of military intelligence and he wrote a letter to Trump saying that uh the smartmatic system um can be altered and this is a fact.

He said this technology was later exported abroad um according to the United States.

So he says that quote I do not claim that every election is stolen but I state with certainty that elections can be rigged with the software that would be the smartmatting software and has been used to do so.

Now, why would he be doing that?

Now, of you can't really trust it, right?

You know, you're not going to trust the jailed Venezuelan general.

If if there were a type of person to not trust, I would say, well, put at the top of the list, Tim Walls.

Anybody who went to Epstein Island, okay, there are a lot of people you don't want to trust, but somewhere in the top 10 of people you shouldn't trust at all would be a jailed director of military intelligence from Venezuela.

So, I'm going to say his credibility is as low as you could possibly get.

However, um, and I'm assuming that he's trying to angle for maybe a pardon or something that I can't imagine why else he'd be doing it.

But, uh, that doesn't mean it's true.

Uh, it does mean he was in a position to know if it's true.

So, I think you could say for certain that he knows whether that's true, what he's saying.

Um, and uh, it seems like our FBI or somebody should be talking to him and hooking him up to some uh, hook him up to the lie detector and maybe see if they can catch him in some kind of inconsistency or something.

But I'd sure like to know if there's anything to it, wouldn't you?

Does it feel to you that the the election stuff, especially the the voting machine stuff, does it feel to you a lot like climate change used to where you knew there was something wrong, but the entire world seemed to act like there wasn't something wrong and you just felt like you were in some kind of weird um not real situation because I would say to myself, you know, this climate change stuff.

How do you not see not see that this is Maybe not every part of it, but isn't it super obvious?

And yet most of the people would be on the on the side of a thing that looked to me like super obviously fake.

Now, I don't have any specific knowledge that our elections were rigged, but I do have this thought, which is a very powerful one.

What are the odds that in a world where everything else is corrupt, our elections are the one thing that are not?

And that we have we have electronic uh voting machines for no reason.

No reason.

They're not faster, cheaper, easier.

In fact, they're worse on everything as far as I can tell.

You know, I' I'd be willing to be corrected on that, but they appear to be worse at everything except what would be the one thing the electronic voting machines would be better at?

Cheating.

Cheating.

That doesn't mean that's what they're used for, but I can't think of any other reason they would even exist.

unless you want to use them for cheating.

So that doesn't mean American elections were cheated, but the odds that we had used them or had or somebody had used them to cheat in some other election somewhere else, well, again, to imagine that it hadn't happened would be a pretty big stretch.

And to me, it just seems obvious.

It just seems super obvious that you just wouldn't even have these machines.

We wouldn't even be having the conversation about keeping them unless somebody saw some advantage that uh they can't say out loud.

Are are you at all convinced by the fact that nobody who wants to keep electronic voting machines has ever given a reason why to keep them?

Nobody.

Right.

If you can find it, send it to me.

Send me the article where there's some country or some election entity who says, "Oh, no.

We want the machines because the machines are better for this reason." What is that reason?

If if you've ever seen them even claim a reason, show it to me.

I believe that nobody even tries to make an argument because what are they going to say?

is cheaper.

It's not.

It's more reliable.

It's not.

It's faster.

It's not sort of the dog not barking, wouldn't you say?

So, again, I have no specific knowledge of anything that was, you know, any rigged elections.

I just look at it and I say, I don't know how they could not be rigged.

Um, the Trump administration is debuting what they're calling their fentinyl free America plan.

So I guess that would be a variety of actions all aimed at uh reducing the fentinol risk.

So they're going to try to work on the demand as well as the supply.

So the supply part is you know blowing up the narco ships and Trump is teasing and I think is somewhat serious about going in on the ground in Venezuela and maybe other places.

But one thing I learned today is that the fentinel in the US uh may be largely controlled by the Hell's Angels in Canada.

So I guess the Hell's Angels in Canada are sitting somewhere in that distribution.

And uh that's not the biggest surprise in the world, but uh it does it does suggest that we have a way to deal with it because it wouldn't be hard to figure out who's in the Hell's Angels and it probably wouldn't be that hard because you know they're not the most let's say uh technologically sophisticated.

Um so I would think that we could penetrate their you know at least their communications fairly easily.

Um and uh maybe that'll make a difference.

But you know there there's one thing that maybe I could help on which is the demand part.

Now if you didn't know this uh most of the people who take fentinyl uh I think most let's see 29% of fentinel pills contained a potential lethal dose.

Jesus.

Uh, a significant drop from 766% of pills tested two years ago.

Wow.

Um, but if you didn't know it, fentinyl is often in pills that are that are sold as not being fentinyl.

So, if you bought a Xanax, for example, on the street, um, it might look exactly like a Xanax, and it may have been made in a a pill machine uh to look exactly like Xanax, but it might actually have fentinyl in it.

So, that's the big risk.

When people know they're taking fentinyl, they either are um experienced at it, which reduces the odds of them overdosing quite a bit.

The people are experienced.

Um but if you're not experienced and you don't know what's in the pill, you're in trouble.

Uh my guess is that's that's what got my stepson.

He probably didn't know it was in the pill because he never would have taken a fentinyl pill.

I mean, he told me that directly.

He he would have considered that insane to take a pill that he knew was fentinyl.

He wouldn't do it.

Uh but he did take a pill and it must have had some fentinyl in it.

Um and that was not something that he could say no to apparently.

So I was thinking is there any kind of messaging that would reduce the chance that somebody would take a pill that might have fentinel in it but you don't know?

and I don't have an answer for it, but I'm going to test this out with you.

Uh, don't be a gullible fentinel victim.

Now, this is not a refined message.

This is just first draft.

So, I don't know if this is a good idea, but let me tell you the thinking.

Nobody wants to be gullible.

If I said to you, don't be a drug addict.

I can tell you from, you know, lots of life experience that people will say, well, sorry, I am a drug addict.

I am.

So that they'll just say I am a drug addict.

It wouldn't stop them from taking a pill.

But if you said that you're a gullible fentinel victim, nobody wants to be gullible.

So even people who are, you know, drug addicts, they like to think that they know what they're doing.

Nobody wants to be thought of as gullible.

So if you say instead of you're a victim or you're a drug addict, those two things don't motivate anybody.

But if I said to you, damn, you're gullible.

Seriously, you took a pill that could have had fentinel and you just believe the person who told you it doesn't have it.

That's gullible.

So gullible is something that people will actually try not to be.

But drug addict, once they are a drug addict, they they they kind of live with it.

It just becomes who they are.

But I think gullible is a powerful word.

I there's no way to know without testing it.

But uh that that's the sort of thing that could reduce demand.

Uh yeah, don't be a sucker.

But I think gullible maybe even better than sucker.

Yeah, sucker is not bad, but I think gullible is worse.

All right, works for you.

All right.

Uh remember, you know, it it might seem to you like this is not a powerful thing, but uh those of you who saw what happened when I started saying that alcohol is poison, it was just one word, poison.

And apparently some hundreds of people that that watch this uh show cut down or completely stopped alcohol because of one sentence.

Alcohol is poison.

So I'm not sure if uh don't be gullible is that strong, but it could be.

It could be that strong.

All right.

Uh Ran Paul's uh pushing back on the Venezuelan narco boat attacks.

Now, I often say this about Rand and I say this about Thomas Massie as well.

When when they disagree with me or they disagree with a policy that I think is a good policy, I don't say to myself, you idiots or you know, you selfish guys or I don't say that.

I say these are smart people and they do mean well and they do want what's best for the country.

If they have a different opinion on stuff, I stop and listen.

I might still disagree as I do with Rand Paul on this this topic, but I have complete respect for the fact that they're willing to present, you know, a um a sincere and welle expressed alternate view.

That is really useful even if you disagree because you know what you're disagreeing with with some specificity.

Okay.

Um so Rand Paul thinks that uh he says about the narco boats if they're armed show us who the u who they're armed.

Show us who they're armed.

Well I guess you know prove to us that they're armed.

If they're not armed explain to us why we kill people who are not armed.

Now, that's a reasonably good push back.

So, it sounds like he's saying if they're not an immediate threat, uh, why are you killing them?

Because it would need to be an immediate threat.

Now, where I disagree is that I think, uh, allowing them to live and even allowing other people to think the risk is low if they do the same kind of boat thing.

I think those are immediate risks.

And I think that the the weapon is the drug.

So when he says, "Show me that they're armed." That's the big tanks of drugs.

And you can see in the pictures that they have these big blue tanks.

They're quite obviously full of drugs because those big blue tanks are exactly what they ship drugs in.

So, if you believe, as I do, that the drugs are the weapon and you believe that uh that they're definitely going to cause overdoses if they make it to the mainland, that's good enough for me.

But I absolutely respect and appreciate that Rand Paul is doing a good job of, you know, steelmanning the side of being better people.

I guess, you know, maybe in his view.

So, good job, Rand Paul.

Uh, I just respectfully disagree.

Um, apparently Maduro, head of Venezuela, is uh asking OPEC to help him survive essentially.

Um, and uh, it looks like OPEC's not going to give him a good answer, but I would say that this is pretty good evidence that Maduro is running out of options.

If he thought that appealing to OPEC was going to help him.

That that was sort of a sort of a Hail Mary, right?

If your best play is to try to get OPEC involved, I mean really, you would have to get a Saudi Arabia involved or else, you know, nothing's going to happen.

And Saudi is good friends with the the Trump administration and Trump in particular.

And there's just no way, you know, the Saudis don't get involved in this sort of thing smartly.

They they wisely don't get involved.

So, I would say there's no real chance that OPEC is going to, you know, sort of weigh in and try to influence Trump on this.

I think they'll just stay out of it.

Um, but the fact that Maduro thinks this is one of his options means he's out of options.

So, it would suggest that something might be happening soon because he's got no plays.

No cards.

No cards.

Um, I saw Mike Cernovich talking about Trump's pardons that he's issuing, and some of those pardons look a little uh a little bit of a headscratcher to even his supporters.

Um, and so Mike Cernovich says, "I voted for Trump." He said this on X.

"I voted for Trump, drove support for him, and I'm glad each day I did.

The pardons will be his downfall if this isn't handled immediately." and he in a separate post he'd made an appeal for someone who was in the administration to see if they can maybe dial back some of these sketchy pardons that are coming out now.

I again Mike Cernovich is one of these valuable voices.

even if you don't agree with him, uh you want to hear what he has to say because that'll be a valuable, you know, uh stake in the ground and you might not agree with all of it, but you should be better off by knowing what that point of view is.

So, I agree that I am uncomfortable with some of the recent pardons because there doesn't seem to be a pattern to them.

And without seeing the pattern, you have to wonder what's going on.

So it doesn't look like it's just for um humanitarian reasons.

It doesn't look like just because they were unfairly treated, although Trump tends to say that about his pardons, they were unfairly treated.

That doesn't mean that's why he did it.

But there's also no obvious reason for some of the pardons.

So, I'm left to speculate.

My speculation goes like this.

There's something that Trump or the administration or the country is getting in return.

I'm guessing information because I don't think Trump would do pardons for money because I mean, how much money could anybody pay for a pardon?

If if you're Joe Biden and you can get a million dollars for a pardon, you probably do it because a million dollars would be real money for the Biden family.

But would a million dollars be anything for Trump?

Not really.

A million dollars.

And how much do you think anybody would pay?

Is somebody going to pay a billion dollars for a pardon?

Probably not.

So, I don't think it's about money.

It it doesn't really like it doesn't really uh you know light up any bells for me.

Light up any bells.

Doesn't light up any lights.

I just don't feel like it could be about money.

Although if it were someone else I might say maybe, you know, somebody who didn't have as much money.

Um so if it's not about money and we can't see any other pattern to it, what is it about?

Here's my best guess.

There must be something.

And when I say must, I should change that to might.

There might be something that these particular people know or have access to or can control that Trump needs to know or control.

So, it's probably about someone else.

And it could be um something along the lines of if I pardon you, do you think you would tell us who did this?

If I pardon you, do you think you would show us or tell us where to look to, I don't know, give some extra control over Venezuela or to uh learn what bad behavior happened during the Biden administration or something like that.

So, but I'm I'm very much with uh Cernovich on the fact that we don't know why these pardons are happening and they don't look they don't look legit.

They don't look necessarily corrupt.

Not necessarily.

We're just left with the mystery and I think we'll keep it that way.

Now, whenever whenever these kind of sketchy pardons happen, somebody always brings up, well, maybe maybe it shouldn't be legal to pardon anybody.

And I don't love that idea because there are going to be times when a pardon is the thing that creates justice.

Uh, not most of the time, but it's, you know, sometimes.

And that's valuable.

So, but if you're going to allow pardons at all, you have to live with the fact that they're not going to always be ones you like.

And indeed, probably most of them will be ones you hate.

So, if you think pardons should be a thing, you have to live with a little bit of discomfort if you're observing it.

And I have a little bit of discomfort.

Well, actually, more than a little bit.

the the recent pardons, they really raise some questions.

But since I don't I don't distrust Trump in sense that I don't think he's selling it, um there must be something he's getting out of it because he doesn't leave free money on the table.

Let let me put it this way.

He would know, Trump would know that he's going to get push back from these sketchy looking pardons, but he did it anyway.

Does he ever leave money on the table that other people could pick up?

Because this would be just money that his um that his enemies could pick up.

He's just giving them an easy shot.

Oh, look, I did this sketchy pardon and then they're going to make, you know, days of headlines about it.

So, when does Trump ever do something where he's just giving away money?

In this case, money being uh not literally money.

He never does.

So, we have to assume that he or the country or the administration are getting something in return.

And I don't think it's money.

So, we'll see.

Maybe we'll never know.

Well, Microsoft has dropped its AI sales targets because people were not being able to sell them.

Who would have guessed that?

I would.

So, from the beginning, fairly early on, I've been saying that AI is a little bit overdone, a little bit overrated, and that it's hard for me to imagine that people will buy it when it hallucinates.

And I've got a feeling that was Microsoft's problem.

Hey, we've got this AI agent that will change everything in your company.

Why don't you buy it?

Does it hallucinate?

What does it hallucinate?

Stop mumbling.

Does it hallucinate?

Yes.

Well, I don't want it.

I imagine that's how the sales calls go.

That as soon as you find out it hallucinates and as soon as you find out that it would be dangerous or you wouldn't want to connect it to your other apps, what does it do?

If it doesn't give you the truth reliably and you can't connect it to your other apps and trust it, I don't know.

I don't know what I don't know what market value it has, honestly.

So, I'm not surprised that they had to knock back their sales expectations.

Oh, I'm going way too long today.

Um, there's some new drones in Ukraine and blah blah blah.

Um, oh, we're putting some some German company is putting a uh in space a little mission to build solar arrays to do manufacturing in space.

So, they're they're actually moving on the idea of having manufacturing in space.

So, they're they're doing some experiments to see what they need to what they need to do.

So, that's actually happening.

Uh, and now one in three students at top colleges are claiming to be disabled to get extra time to complete exams, but they're claiming their disabilities are ADHD and depression.

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All right. Well, let's check uh the

science news.

You'll never guess this one. Scypost has

an article that says that people with

children report lower romantic love,

intimacy, and passion.

Um, did they really need to do a study

to find out that people with children

have lower romantic love, intimacy, and

passion?

Um, they could have just asked me or

anyone who's ever been around any child

ever. I'm pretty sure we all knew that,

right?

Or let me put it another way. If you

could be in a room alone with the

children and you were feeling feelings

of romantic love, intimacy, and passion,

um, I don't want you around my children.

You know what I mean? So, I think

there's a fairly logical reason

why being around children turns off

those emotions, at least for most

people. We don't know about Epistine,

but for everybody else.

Uh, let's see. We got another science

thing. Uh, oh, according to interesting

engineering, your heating may soon come

from a data center. You know how data

centers use a lot of electricity, but

they also create a lot of heat and that

heat has to go somewhere. So you can

either pipe it into the atmosphere,

total waste of heat, or you can pipe it

into homes and indoor swimming pools and

stuff like that.

How many of you remember that uh several

years ago

I did a little project with Bill PTE in

which we were designing sort of the

ideal city and one of the concepts was

to build a small city around a data

center and it was for that very reason.

So, you'd want to have a small nuclear

um generator for the city, but also for

the data center. And then you want to

use that uh warmth that comes from it to

heat your homes. And I I imagined that

the that designed city would be a profit

center so that you would literally

design it so that uh some big company

like Google would pay to use your data

center and they would pay for all your

electricity from your

small futuristic

nuclear power plant and then the city

wouldn't need no taxes

because

you know, as long as they were

generating sort of income from having an

awesome uh setup,

you would need no taxes. So, how about

that?

Um, so I think that's going to happen.

Well, in the world of robots,

you didn't ask, but I've got the answer.

In the world of robots,

uh, I keep seeing stories where they try

to make a robot with human or humanlike

muscles.

So, apparently, if you if you design

your uh your robot muscles with, you

know, human type organs, you can make it

pretty strong and responsive. And now

MIT has figured out according to

interesting engineering

how to get your robot to be uh let's see

way way stronger than a mechanical robot

and uh it increases the force output by

30 times and it's a biohybrid.

So it's not exactly a uh what do you

call it when it's part human part robot

cyborg? It's not exactly a cyborg,

but it would have humanlike or

animallike muscles.

Now, let me ask you this.

How weird would it be to have a robot

that humanlike muscles on the outside?

Wouldn't that be super creepy?

Or are you going to want to have sex

with it? or would you not want to have

sex with it if there were childlike

robots in the room?

So many questions. So many questions.

Well, the big news, which uh I'm I'm not

up to date on.

Oh, damn it.

My I I changed the uh ink in my printer

and it still can't print. So, has

smooshed all of my documents into a

terribly well, you can't see it, but

what what is causing that? If it's a

brand new ink cartridge,

if anybody knows what's causing that,

let me know so I can fix it. Anyway, the

uh so the pipe bomber from January 6,

you remember the pipe bomber

um has been allegedly arrested. They

know who it is. Um

but do you remember it wasn't long ago

that the news was um which probably was

fake news was that it was a woman

and uh there was a lot of chatter that

the pipe bomber was a woman. Do you know

why? Do you know why I knew it wasn't a

woman?

Because it was a pipe bomb.

Would you ever make a bet? Let's say I

came to you and said, "Hey,

um, yeah, I want you to place a bet.

There was a person who planted a bomb,

and it was a pipe bomb.

Probably had to make it themselves. Uh,

was it a man or a woman?

How much money would you bet that it was

a man who planted the pipe bomb? Well, I

think I would have bet a pretty large

amount. In fact, the least likely

possibility was that a pipe bomber is a

woman.

So, you can you can uh ask yourself

this. If you were ever thinking that

that story was true, that a woman

planted a pipe bomb,

uh, you should probably stop saying

things in public for the rest of your

life. The odds of a woman planting a

pipe bomb still very close to zero. I

mean, it's possible. you know, she could

have been paid to do it or something

like that. But women in bombs, no. No,

don't see it.

Not in this country. But I do wonder if

this is the beginning of what we will

call the lone wolf narrative.

When they say they caught the person,

does that suggest that they're going to

say it was just one person with some

idea that was just their own?

Do you believe that the pipe bomber, be

it male or female,

do you believe that the pipe bomber

could have possibly been acting alone?

Does that seem

likely?

It's possible. You know, if it's a guy,

especially. Yeah. If it was a woman,

there's not a slightest chance that the

woman was working alone. There

definitely was a man involved,

[laughter] even if it was only to make

the bomb and hand it to her and say, "Go

put this over there." But, uh, it feels

like we're going to be told it's a lone

wolf. Are you going to believe that?

Now, maybe the FBI believes that, but I

don't know. This This doesn't really

have the lone wolf vibe to it, does it?

It feels like it's a little bit bigger

conspiracy wise, but it's a brand new

story. Fog of war. We don't even know if

they got the right person, but I guess

we'll find out more today.

Well, Megan Kelly is reporting that the

uh FDA is preparing to uh add what they

call a blackbox warning to the COVID

vaccines for children.

And the the idea here is that I guess

Alex Baronson's been doing the base

reporting on this and uh he says he's

been reliably informed that uh

that there will be an FDA blackbox

warning. Now the black the blackbox

warning is sort of the most dangerous

thing that they could say about a

product. It would still be on the market

but the blackbox warning would be watch

out. It could kill you.

Now,

how many of you think this is new news?

Because it's presented as new.

Didn't we know since the middle of the

pandemic, didn't we always know that it

was uh dangerous for young people,

especially men, boys? I guess boys.

Haven't we known that? So, the only

thing I can imagine that was added was

maybe some new statistics about how

dangerous it is, but we've always known,

at least I have. Did Did you not know?

And and I'm not talking about what we

suspected.

I thought we knew for sure that it was

more danger than benefit for young boys

especially.

Am I wrong about that? Like why does

this feel like just groundhog day? Are

we really just finding this out or is

the news that the FDA is agreeing with

it for the first time? Is that the only

thing that's new? I mean, it just feels

like we've been on this road for years

and we all knew it for years. Anyway,

now we'll find out more about that, I

guess. In related news, uh RFK Jr. was

saying that uh Fizer uh had data about

their that their vaccine was not really

a vaccine meaning it didn't stop

transmission and they knew it seven

months before the injections went on the

market.

Do you believe that?

So apparently there was some monkey

study where the Makox

No, I'm not I know that sounded naughty,

but if you have a if you have any minors

listening to this, could you cover their

ears because I'm going to say the name

of a type of monkey, but it's going to

sound like I'm talking dirty. I won't be

talking dirty at all. I'll just be

naming a kind of monkey. You ready?

Cover your children's ears. If you have

a pet, cover their ears. The type of

monkey is macock.

That's right.

That's what those monkeys are. Macock.

So if you put the virus in

Makok

um apparently if your

if your monkey has a nose like

[clears throat] Makok does

uh they found out that had the same

amount of virus in there as if they

didn't get the uh vaccination. And so in

theory, at least for Makok

uh Makox,

uh it showed that it didn't stop the

spread at all. And uh allegedly RFK Jr.

says Fizer knew that seven months before

it went on the market.

Well, that would be pretty damning if

that were true. But do I have it right

that the big pharma companies have no

liability risk?

They don't, do they? Like even if they

knew,

does that change their liability risk?

because this would seem to me like

insanely criminal, you know, not not

just a

um not just some kind of a civil thing

you could do a lawsuit about, but it

feels like it's just flatout criminal

because they had a lot of money on the

line and they would have been knowingly

killing people in large numbers

allegedly, right? I don't know. true,

but allegedly

that would be like the crime of the

century.

Uh, so I don't know. We'll find out more

about that.

Um, Christine Gnome said they've just

discovered that 50% of the visas

um in Minnesota are fraudulent.

50%.

Boy, Tim Walsh is having a bad bad

month. the governor of Minnesota. Is

Minnesota just the biggest criminal

enterprise you've ever seen in your

life? Remember when you thought all the

sketchy stuff happened in Las Vegas or,

you know, maybe New York? No. Turns out

that Minnesota was quietly racking up

the biggest criminal uh record of any

state. Unbelievable. They don't have a

really a good news day ever lately. So

50% of the visas, the visas in this case

would be the instrument for allowing you

in the country. I'm not talking about

Mastercard and Visa. That's a different

visa.

So that's happening. But luckily,

there's nothing else illegal that's ever

happened in Minnesota except that Visa

stuff. Oh, wait a minute. Uh Mario Noel

is reporting that uh apparently uh

although you and I know that there's

been massive fraud uncovered in

Minnesota, um how many times do you

think ABC, CBS or NBC

mentioned

um mentioned it

or mentioned Tim Walls?

Uh the answer is nothing. Yeah. So the

the big three networks are sort of

acting like this story doesn't exist.

This is like one of the biggest stories

of all time.

Decided, no, we'll talk about something

else instead.

All right. Um,

wow. None of those networks, this is

what Mario is saying on X. None of those

networks have mentioned Wals by name in

the past week. So, I think what they did

mention is that there were problems. So,

they may have mentioned the crime, but

they didn't mention the governor's name

even once.

Okay.

All right.

Um,

and then according to Wall Street Apes,

um, a real good account you should

follow an X, Wall Street Apes is

reporting that, uh, investigations found

that, uh, Simoleons in Minnesota were

caught early on stealing millions of

dollars. But do you know why it didn't

become a story? And do you know why they

kept on stealing even though they had

been discovered? And apparently multiple

people had discovered it and reported

it. So it wasn't like there was one

whistleblower. Apparently a lot of

people were aware of it and some number

of people were reporting it and saying,

"Hey, hey, there's a whole bunch of

money getting stolen here. Maybe we

should do something about it." Why do

you think nothing happened until

recently?

Do you think it had to do with DEI?

Yes, it did. So apparently the Simoleons

were smart enough to say if you cause

trouble, we're going to we're going to

brand you as a big old racist and we're

going to say that you're only reporting

this as trouble because we're black and

you're a racist and by the way uh George

Floyd

did not have it coming. So, I guess it

was around the George Floydish time that

people wanted to report this, but it was

just sort of impossible. It was just

politically impossible to

make this damning accusation against a

large population of black uh black

residents of the country. There just

wasn't anybody to do it. So, people

weren't willing to take the chance. So,

people did see it, they knew about it,

and they did report it.

But nothing happened until recently.

Now, that would be one of the many

advantages of having Trump as your

president because people have somewhat

gotten past that. Not 100%.

But I feel like we're we're in a more

I don't know, a more realistic world, a

more common sense world where you can

actually say, "Oh, yeah. It looks like

we have a problem here." and you're not

automatically the worst person in the

world because you brought it up. All

right, here's another uh accusation

against Tim Walls. I'll tell you, he's

just having the worst month. Now, I

don't know if this is true. I'll just

say it's an allegation, but I also saw

this in the Wall Street Apes um account

on X that apparently the men who work

with Tim Walsh in the National Guard in

Nebraska went to the FBI when Tim Walsh

was in the National Guard because they

believed that Tim Walsh had given

classified military secrets to the

Chinese government.

Now, how certain would you have to be

before you went to the FBI and turned in

your fellow National Guardsmen for

giving secrets to China?

You would have to be really, really

sure, wouldn't you? I mean, you don't

have to be a 100% sure, but you wouldn't

do it if you just had a mild suspicion,

would you? I mean, I feel like you'd

have to have a, you know, pretty solid

reason for even going there because

remember, if you go to the FBI, you're

putting your own life in a trajectory

that's going to be a lot of trouble,

right? Whether you're correct or whether

you're incorrect, you're kind of

donating your your own freedom

uh because you think it's important. So,

the one thing we can know with some

degree of certainty is that the people

who reported it, they must have thought

it was serious. I don't I don't think

you would report that. I mean, it's just

such an allegation. Would you report

that unless you really thought you had

the goods? Well, they did report it and

nothing happened. But the uh allegation

is that there was there were some secret

documents about a new tank that the

United States was producing and uh some

of those documents allegedly disappeared

disappeared the plans for the tank and

that soon after

uh China where Wals had a history of

visiting quite often that soon after

China produced a tank that looked just

like the one

that had the stolen plans and nobody

knows where the plans went. Now, is that

enough to say that Tim Walsh did it? We

only know that Tim Walsh had a strong

connection to China. We know that he had

access to those plans. We know that his

co- uh soldiers believe that he might

have been the one who stole them. And we

know that the timing is such that China

created the tank coincidentally.

Coincidentally,

just like the one that had the stolen

documents.

Well, that's not proof of anything, but

sort of suspicious.

All right. What else happened? Uh,

also in Minnesota, I I tell you,

Minnesota is just this bed of crime. So,

the Minnesota director of uh elections,

this guy named Paul Lenell, he admitted

uh recently, and this is also a Wall

Street Apes uh post. He admitted

recently that all you need to vote in

Minnesota is a driver's license, and all

you need to do to get a driver's license

is ask for one.

I mean, you probably have to take a test

like everybody else, but you don't need

to be a citizen to get a driver's

license. If you get a driver's license,

apparently,

uh, let's see.

It doesn't have to match your social

security number, which could be fake.

And if they if you try to register to

vote, they will identify a fake social

security number. But if you have a fake

social security number, which they

identify, so they know it's fake,

but you have a real driver's license,

which would be totally legal in

Minnesota, they still let you vote.

Even though they know your your social

security doesn't match a real social

security number, they still let you

vote. And that they admit that. Now, in

the story, I didn't see how many people

voted. I don't know if it's a big

problem or a small one. But what the

hell is wrong with Minnesota? They can't

control. [laughter]

It's where I I think wherever Tim Walls

is, there's crime. It's like it's like

he's the you some sort of attractor for

major crime. That's what it feels like.

Anyway, so they don't have control of

their elections. They don't have control

of their budget. They don't have control

of their governor.

What is wrong with you, Minnesota?

Well, according to uh Patrick Burn, you

know Patrick Burn, he was the CEO of

Overstock

uh.com and uh he's been in the news a

lot talking about Venezuela and our

election systems and uh allegations of

problems that involve Venezuela and our

elections. But uh he was doing an

interview on Lindell TV and he his claim

is that the people there are people on

the Venezuelan payroll who still are

inside the US government and that some

of these names and he knows who they

are. He just can't tell us for various

reasons. Um he's under oath not to name

them for some reason. Um but that they

there are they're people who have a lot

of seniority in some cases. So there

might even be names that you've heard of

that allegedly are literally just on the

payroll of Venezuela, but they're part

of our government. Now, that's a hell of

a claim, but [clears throat] we'll see.

So, I don't have I really don't have a

way to form an independent opinion of

whether the Patrick Burn Venezuelan

election stuff is true or not. Uh

because I how would I I mean if you

asked me does Patrick Burn seem credible

I would say yes. Yes. Uh you know I've

communicated with him a number of times

and it seems credible

but I don't know that I'm smart enough

or wise enough that I could tell the

difference between something that seems

credible and something that's true. It's

very different. So remember, I always

make a big deal about credible. Doesn't

mean it's real. It just means you can't

tell any reason that it looks fake,

except that it's a let's say in this

case, the only thing that would be a

flag would be it would be a a big story.

And you expect big stories to spread,

but they don't have to. they could they

could stay as small, you know, skeptical

stories for a long time until they're

not. So, I don't I really don't have an

opinion about whether this is true, but

the claim is that uh

um there are people of such seniority

secretly on the payroll it will shake

this nation. So, I guess he thinks we'll

find out someday about that. He says,

quote, "We have diaries. We have the

witnesses. It's all documented."

Well, that would be a hell of a thing if

we have diaries and documents and and

people and all that. So, we'll see.

Well, [clears throat] in other news, um

I I can barely read my notes. My printer

just just totally hashed them up. But in

other news, um let's see. Back in uh

April of 2024, just nearly a year and a

half ago, the prestigious journal Nature

um did a big study on climate change and

how much damage it would cause by the

end of the century. And wow, was it bad.

Wow. So, according to nature or a study

that was in nature, that that climate

change is going to get you. It's going

to really mess up the whole country, the

world.

uh update. They have retracted

[laughter]

they have retracted their big study and

find that it had flaws and uh they do

not stand behind the idea that climate

change is a you know huge existential

threat. They're not saying it's not.

They're just saying that that study that

they had a lot of people had relied on

was BS.

So they retracted it. Do you remember,

as others have pointed out, that Kla

Harris didn't really make a big deal

about climate change, did she? Imagine,

imagine you were Kla Harris. You're

running against Trump. Trump has said

that climate change, or at least the

way, you know, people want it funded,

etc., was a hoax.

Uh, if you believed it was not a hoax

and you believe the science, wouldn't

you hammer on that all the time? Like,

wouldn't that be the number one thing

you'd say every time you open your

mouth? You know, we're all going to die

if you elect a Republican, especially

Trump, who thinks it's a hoax because

it's the most important thing. It's a

it's it's going to kill us all. The

water's going to be up to your nose by

Tuesday. If she believed that,

you don't think that would come out of

her mouth every time she talked? It

would be by far the most important thing

by far.

But no. And have you noticed that the

the mainstream news don't really talk

about it much compared to how much they

did? I mean, keep in mind that the

current president says it's a hoax. And

for years, decades, I guess decades,

it's been treated as the biggest problem

in the world. And now, h

is it a problem? I don't know. Is it

real? Well, it might be realish,

but it doesn't mean that the that the

downside is going to be bad. Now, you

remember that uh Bill Gates recently

uh changed his emphasis and he said, you

know, climate change is real, but you

know, we'll find ways to,

you know, remediate it, ways to work

around it. probably will, you know,

nobody's going to die. Too many extra

people anyway.

So, little by little, [clears throat]

you're going to see the the climate

change people just walking it back.

Now, is that because the the climate

models have not predicted? Well, yeah.

[laughter]

[clears throat] Yeah. If you looked at

all the predictions since since I was

born,

uh they're pretty bad at predicting. And

I guess there's finally some

acknowledgment that uh the news is not

really accurate and maybe the science is

a little bit hyperbolic

and maybe it's not really backed up by

that much science. So, if you were on

the side of this doesn't look real to

me, which is the side I've been on for a

long time. Um, have you noticed that

reality is starting to conform around

me?

Has anybody noticed that?

Because for years I've been saying this

is obviously not true. And I would give

my arguments and now the news is sort of

saying, well, yeah, these studies are

not that true. Do you remember when I

was sort of alone? Not really alone, but

there weren't many of us saying that uh

we just have to do nuclear power.

There's really no other way around it.

We're going to have to go gung-ho with

nuclear power, not only because it's a

green technology, but because if we want

to conquer space, you're going to need

nuclear and uh other reasons. And now

nuclear is just the biggest thing. and

everybody agrees that these new

generation of nuclear is we're going to

have to have lots of them. I'll talk

more about that, etc. So, that's

conforming around my view of that. Um,

remember I told you that the war in

Ukraine would very quickly be a robot

war, robots including drones. Well,

there it is. We got a robot war. We've

got nuclear power and we've got climate

change that maybe it's not so scary.

But is that a coincidence?

Is it a coincidence that some of the

biggest

factors in the world are all starting to

conform around my opinion of what they

are?

I don't know why. Am I good at

predicting or am I living in some kind

of simulation where my opinion is

becoming reality? I don't know. But it's

getting hard to ignore, isn't it? How

how often my opinion is matching

what you observe, but eventually not

right away.

Well, according to uh a exclimate

alarmist, as he's being called, somebody

named Tom Harris, he says that wind

turbines, windmills,

um require fossil fuel backup plants

that continuously burn 90% of the time

and that basically that means that the

wind turbine is just for show.

So, this is a guy who used to be an

alarmist who now has I guess gone to

something like my side of it. And he's

saying that uh now I I'm not sure

exactly what he means, but what I think

he means is that since the windmill is

not churning all the time, it would have

to be paired with something that is

churning all the time just so you have

energy all the time. So I it's hard to

believe they don't they don't add

anything, but his take is that you're

getting literally nothing from a wind

turbine because the you know by the time

you

spend enough money to build the thing

and then you put it in and they've got

lots of maintenance problems and then

you need some kind of backup power

anyway that's a different kind of power.

Once you've looked at the whole picture,

Trump is right again. Trump is right.

The windmills are a hoax.

He got that right, too. I'll tell you

the one thing that Trump does better

than just about anybody is that man can

spot from a thousand miles

away. Now, it could be because he's good

at making up his own BS, but wow, is he

good at spotting He I mean

literally you can see it from you can

see around corners when it comes to that

stuff.

All right. uh you know the SNAP program,

the SNAP is uh provides uh funds for

people who can't afford to buy food and

it's a federal program and the feds

asked the states to give them data on

the people who receive the SNAP benefits

apparently so that they can do an audit

essentially to find out if the people

getting it are the people who should be

getting it because it's a lot of money

involved. Um, it turns out that 21

states, all Democratcontrolled,

coincidence,

um, have decided not to give the federal

government information on who gets the

SNAP benefits. But I think, uh, I think

all of the Republican governments have

said yes and and are cooperating. But

what we know is um so far, and I'm sure

these numbers will grow, uh the states

that did not comply, they found 186,000

dead people uh with social security

numbers being used. They found half a

million people that received that

benefits more than twice.

Um and multiple people received benefits

in six different states.

So the the SNAP program is just wildly

fraudulent and the Democrats are

protecting the frauds.

Can you think of any reason that they

would not provide that information to

the people who are giving them money?

If I can give you one piece of advice,

if someone gives you money, in this case

the federal government is funding the

SNAP program in the states. If

somebody's giving you money and then

they ask for a little detail about how

you're spending it to make sure it's not

all being wasted,

if you don't give them that information,

you're a fraud. There there's just no

way around it. You're a fraud. Now, you

might have some Democrat argument about,

oh, if we give you this information,

you'll find some way to discriminate

against minorities or something. But it

just looks like they're protecting

fraud. So, I'm going to assume that

there might be a little bit of a

kickback situation where the politicians

are getting a little taste of this fraud

somehow. Otherwise, they wouldn't they

wouldn't be protecting it, but they're

very clearly protecting the fraud.

Democrats.

Um,

meanwhile, MSNBC is reporting that Ken

Delaneian,

who is a NBC guy, is reporting that

Leticia James is going to be indicted

again. So, she was indicted before, but

the indictments got dropped because

there was a challenge to whether or not

the prosecutor was correctly and

legitimately appointed, but it did not

it didn't create any kind of double

jeopardy kind of situation. So, uh, they

just had to get a prosecutor who was

legitimately,

um, selected according to everybody and

then they can just go at it again. So,

Leticia James will not have a good

holiday because she is now going to be

indicted.

Um,

in other news, the uh the cost of

apartments

has gone down 1%.

which doesn't seem like a lot, but if

you com just from October to November,

now that doesn't seem like a lot, but if

any kind of major cost goes down at all,

like ever. That's worth noting because

you don't expect them to ever go down.

Seems like they would just go up and up

and up. And uh people are quite

reasonably saying that the reason that

uh apartment costs are going down is

probably not because the supply has

increased. As far as I know, there's no

reason to think the supply of housing

has gone up, right? Especially for

rentals. But what has happened is that

two and a half million people have been

deported and they all live somewhere.

They weren't living on the street. So,

the competition for rentals, the kind of

thing that you would expect

non-residents to be in, they'd be more

likely to be in a rental than buying a

house. So, probably this is the first

sign of uh the Trump administration's

deportation

creating an economic benefit for at

least in terms of lowering costs.

Don't know that that's why it is. It

might be 1% could also be just uh a

noisy data. So it's possible that this

this won't um hold up for another month,

but I think it might. In other news,

that Biden era fuel rule. Um so Biden

had created a set of standards where you

had to have your car on average um on

average you'd have to get 51 miles per

gallon [clears throat]

if you had a a gas car that you were

selling.

It would have to reach that standard.

Now I don't know about you but that

seems like if they could have done that

they would have already done it. So some

people were thinking that uh that

standard would have made it essentially

impossible to sell a gas car in the

United States by what year? I for I

forget what year but it's within 10

years I think. And uh Trump

administration just got rid of that. Um,

so now you can get an electric car if

you want one, but it would now be

affordable to get a another gas powered

car if if that's what you want. So that

should also lower the costs compared to

what they would have been uh of

automobiles. So rent might be

stabilizing, maybe a little bit down.

Automobiles might be stabilizing and

maybe at some point go down.

Um, Jensen Wang, who's the head of uh,

Nvidia, was on Joe Rogan show and he

said a whole bunch of interesting

things. So, I'm just going to mention

some of them. They're in video clips all

over X. Um, you said uh, basically you

gave Trump all kinds of credit for

making it possible for the AI industry

to explode as it has. and uh he said uh

his point is we need energy growth

without energy growth we can have no

industrial growth so uh Jensen is uh

very complimentary about Trump's uh

understanding of the economics of AI and

how important it is and how as president

he needed to get rid of as many

obstacles as possible and the biggest

obstacle is energy so uh Jensen says in

the next six to seven years you're going

to see a bunch of small nuclear

reactors. We will all be power

generators just like somebody's farm.

So yes, and that would be directly a

Trump administration

um success

because the Trump administration is very

much understanding

that they need to get rid of all kinds

of obstacles to creating uh uh power and

that the only way we'll be able to

onshore and have a huge manufacturing

base is if we just go

with making more power and uh so far

it's looking like uh Trump and his

people have made that possible. So the

gigantic boom that you're seeing in our

economy which seems to be limited very

much to the AI robot world um we finally

have a administration

that is completely compatible with that.

I don't think that the Trump

administration is fighting with that

industry in any way. If they are, let me

know. I'm not aware of any, but they

seem to be completely on board on you

need a lot of energy. We need to get out

of the way. We need to make it easier.

You know, go make some energy. So,

that's pretty exciting.

What the the most fun story

that uh Jensen Hang said again, CEO of

Nvidia, he was on uh Joe Rogan show and

uh he told a story about uh the first

customer for Nvidia's first um AI

specialty board and chips, I guess. And

he they built this board and they

couldn't find anybody to buy it. So, he

had a product

that became, you know, the the beginning

of the the entire AI boom. And he's just

sitting there and like nobody knows what

it is. Nobody understands it. Nobody

wants to buy it. And he ends up talking

to Elon Musk and Elon says, "You know

what? I've got a I've got a company that

could use that." And I guess he took uh

Jensen

to a little room that was the entire

company. It was like this crowded little

room. Do you know what company it was?

What what company was it? It was Open

AI.

So it [clears throat] was Open AI back

when uh Elon thought it would be a

nonprofit, but he knew because he

understood the technology. He knew that

that board could be, you know, the

difference between AI working and and

not working. So he was the one who

created the entire market for AI. If if

Jensen Wang had not had a conversation

with Elon Musk,

there would be no AI.

Now, I might be exaggerating, but I

don't think so. I I think that that

chance encounter and the fact that Elon

is smart enough to know what that board

could do, but he was also rich enough

that he was funding this, you know, AI

somewhat, you know, speculative endeavor

and he put the two together and uh and

now the entire

the entire economy, the everything it

changed everything. If if you were to

look at all the things that Elon Musk

has done that affected the world, you

know, you'd have this long list of

everything from, oh my god, you know,

he's sending rockets up that are

reusable, he's got electric cars and all

that. Probably none of it would be as

big as this in the long run.

Literally, that one guy is the reason

that AI is the biggest thing in the

world. Now, how could we not know that?

I mean, just think about the fact that

that is just by itself.

The fact that he recognized what that

board would do and and created a market

for it and uh you know, spawned open AI.

That is more contribution

to civilization than I've ever seen

anybody do in any domain. I mean, you'd

have to go back to like, you know, Jenis

Khan or something to find somebody who

changed civilization that much. Um, and

we didn't even know about it. How many

of you had never heard that story? I'd

never heard it. And it's gigantic. I

mean, it's just wildly, wildly

impressive. Never even heard the story

until today.

Anyway,

so put that on your resume.

Um,

and then there's a story uh that Jensen

Wang was telling about uh the contact he

got from the Trump administration when

they first got into power. He said that

Secretary Lutnik called him sort of out

of the blue and uh he said this um he

said he told me what was important to

President Trump which was uh that the US

would bring its manufacturing onshore.

So Lutnik is, you know, talking to

Nvidia's head, telling him it's

important. And uh here's what he started

the conversation with. According to

Jensen, this Lutnik called him and his

first sentence was

um

he said, "This is Secretary Lutnik and I

just want to let you know that you're

national treasure and whatever you need

uh whenever you need access to the

president, the administration, you call

us. We're always going to be available

to you." Literally, that was his first

sentence.

Now, you know, I've said to you, I don't

know much about Lutnik, but I'm just I'm

kind of intuiting from the things we see

him do that he's not ordinary.

Like, like he's the real deal and uh you

know, a superstar within the

administration, but imagine being so

aware that you call Nvidia and you say,

"You're you're a national treasure. If

you need anything, you call us and we're

going to pick up the phone."

How would that feel?

I mean, that's pretty impressive because

he was right on point and that was

before before there was any AI. He he

could see it coming.

And so, uh, Jensen says

that, uh, President Trump

single-handedly flat out saved the AI

industry. And uh primarily it was

because of Trump's progrowth energy

policy

uh because without that nobody would

feel comfortable building a thing that

required so much energy and you couldn't

you didn't have a way to get it. Now

there is a way to get it. You can build

your own power plant and you'll find a

way to get approval.

Um,

and then, uh, Jensen Wang of Nvidia had

some comments about meeting Trump and

how how different he is when you

actually meet him in person. Now, see if

this sounds familiar.

Has anybody else said this? That when he

met Trump in person, he said he quote,

quote, "He surprised me." First of all,

he's an incredibly good listener.

Have you ever heard that before?

that he's an incredibly good listener.

That's almost the first thing I said

after after I met him. So in 2018, I I

met Trump in the Oval Office and got to

chat with him a little bit and I came

away with exactly the same impression. I

was like, "Oh my god, he's such a good

listener." He asks questions, right? So

the first of all but if somebody asks

questions that you know shows interest

and then he really listens and then he

interacts you know with your answer so

you know he's engaged and he's totally

focused on you when you're giving the

answer and you feel it. It's a hell of a

superpower but uh I'm happy to know that

it wasn't just my own impression. It

seems like everybody who meets him I

think I think Bill Maher said something

similar that you don't expect it but

he's just a really good listener and

that that's just a superpower because

everybody appreciates it. Um

anyway so on another topic Trump says

that the big beautiful bill is going to

give uh some uh deductions tax

deductions for the middle class. So, if

you borrow money to buy a car, now with

the uh the new rules, you're allowed to

deduct the interest from your income

tax. So, it's only the interest. Um, and

I think you have to have a loan to make

this uh possible. And, uh, Trump says

that's going to be a big deal.

Um, it will be a big deal. Now, the only

thing it will make less expensive is the

interest on the loan because you get to

write it off. you you're not going to

get a deal on the price of the car, but

the interest on it um may be a lot less.

Um but the deductions up to 10,000

annually.

So, and I imagine there's probably an

income off because he mentioned middle

class. So, I suppose if you earn too

much money, you don't get that. But the

middle class will love it.

Um, I saw a podcast in which Victor

Davis Hansen was talking to Dr. Scott

Atlas. I think I don't know which

podcast it was, one of their podcast,

but uh Victor had a uh an interesting

summary of Trump and uh I just I'm just

going to repeat it because it's such an

interesting way to put it. He said,

quote, "At one point, uh, Trump was

looking at $500 million in fines. They

took his name off the ballot in 25

states, raided his home, debanked his

wife and son, they impeached him twice,

and tried him as a private citizen. That

would have broken any other person." To

which I say,

we forget

how much peril he was in. Trump was in

this situation where you couldn't really

go around it. You couldn't avoid it. You

couldn't really minimize it. He had one

and only one strategy which looked damn

near impossible at the time. The one way

he could survive

is to become president of the United

States against all odds

with with all of that hanging over him.

you know, he was a convicted felon and,

you know, every other accusation and,

you know, hundreds of millions of fines.

The only way he could stay in a jail,

the only way he could recover his

reputation, the only way was to become

president of the United States,

really against all odds.

Now, here's the fun part. You know who

knew that besides Trump?

I did. I I knew he had one way out, but

so did you. You knew it. You knew that

the only way out was directly through

it. Right through the middle. He he had

to carve the carve the intestines out of

the whole situation and just walk right

through the body of it. Short of that,

he didn't have a chance.

And I don't know about you, but it felt

personal to me. Did you have that

feeling? It didn't feel like I was

watching a show and oh, there's this

person in the news who's got peril. It

felt personal. I felt that if he went

down, it would be real easy to get to me

and other people who talked about the

news and not the way that people liked.

So that was personal. And so when I

would advocate and use social media and

try to play with messaging and try to

add to as much as I could add to his

odds of getting elected, I was also

fighting for my life. Now, that wouldn't

be true of everybody, but I'm a public

figure and I watched the January 6

people being taken down for practically

nothing. I watched all of his lawyers

being taken down for practically

nothing. I watched the destruction of

the reputation of everybody around him.

And then I got cancelled. I got

cancelled. And do you know what I said

when I got cancelled?

I can't go around this.

I can't avoid it. I've got to go right

through the middle of it. That's

the only way I'm going to get out. So, I

went through the middle of it. I doubled

down.

Here I am.

So

I feel that uh you know we were in this

death match and we were sort of in it

together. You were helping me as I was

trying to help myself but also help the

president and help uh the country. Uh,

so I I had very high stakes, very high

stakes. And it's easy to forget, you

know, once things turn your way and hey,

you know, golden age is happening and we

got I got the president I wanted and

he's not going to jail and all that,

it's real easy to forget how how

dangerous that was, you know, the level

of peril that uh we we were in. And I

definitely shared, you know, a minor, I

mean, nothing like what Trump was going

through, of course, but uh I shared that

and uh I'm quite proud of the fact that

I doubled down on the fight and that

turned out to be the right strategy.

Anyway, um, believe it or not, the

Washington Post had an article today

saying that food prices are actually

more affordable if you take into account

uh, inflation plus the increase in uh,

people's pay. So pay is up a little bit.

Inflation's a little bit under control.

And although food prices might be going

up a little bit or flat in some cases,

Washington Post wants you to know

if you factor everything in, it's a

little bit more affordable, relatively

speaking. Now, that is a very surprising

thing to see in the Washington Post

because it's very proTrump in its in its

factual basis. Um, but then even more

surprising, ABC uh ABC kind of went

against the Washington Post and their

story about the the uh the Venezuelan

cokebo and what we're calling the double

tap hoax. The double tap hoax. So the

idea is that Haggath is being accused of

ordering a second missile to kill the

two survivors of the first missile

attack of the first uh cocaine boat. Now

uh of course there's a lot of question

about the factual

situation. We don't know.

It sounds like Hexath wasn't even aware

that there were any um survivors.

But according to ABC News, their version

of it is that the survivors climbed back

into the boat, which I guess was still

floating, and tried to salvage the drugs

that had not been blown up.

Now, if you climb back in the boat, and

the boat is still afloat and it still

has, I don't know, half of its drugs

there,

why wouldn't they be allowed to shoot

again?

That pretty much would be a continuation

of what it was that got them missiles in

the first place. So if the if the first

missile made sense, the second missile

made sense because they had not finished

the job. So ABC News is very much

supporting the administration's point of

view without without saying they're

doing that, but factually it would

support their version that uh the job

wasn't finished. All they did was finish

the job, which I think would be

completely allowed. I'm no I'm no JAG

[laughter]

uh or military guy, but it seems to me

that's all you need to know. if you know

if a full boat was a problem then half a

boat was a problem too. So we'll see. Um

and then I saw that uh Senator Mark

Warner

was on one of the shows, Morning Joe, I

guess, and he said that uh in many ways

the uh uniformed military may help save

us from this president.

What?

Seriously, a a a sitting senator is

saying in public that the that the

military might be how we save ourselves

from this president.

Does he not know that? Sounds like uh an

insurrectionist or a sedition or a coup

or something terribly un inappropriate.

If you're even suggesting in America

that you need the military to control

your president instead of our current

situation where you have a military

leader of the of the military, you have

a civilian leader of the military. Um,

does he really not know how that sounds?

Because to me it sounds like the worst

thing you could ever say in public if

you're a sitting senator. I mean,

seriously, name one thing that would be

worse than that. He could say something

racist, but then that would just be his

problem, right? He could say something

that's not true, but that would be, you

know, business as usual for a senator.

What could he say that would be worse

than suggesting you might need the

military to take out the president or

somehow control the president?

I can't think of anything that would be

worse than that. That is the dumbest,

most dangerous thing you'll ever hear a

senator say. Unfreakingbelievable,

but it happened.

And then I'd like to tell you this

story. You know, this one right here

that my printer has completely hidden

from me. I'll bet it was a good story,

but we'll have to go without that today.

Um, meanwhile, Rasperson reports, uh,

who you you should follow on X, they

they've been following the whole, uh,

election integrity thing and especially

the Venezuelan Smartmatic connection.

Now, because I don't want to be sued,

there's nothing I'm going to say next

about this story that I know to be true.

These are allegations from other people.

And apparently we have some uh

[clears throat] Venezuelan general

is in a US jail and the the general he

was a three-star general in Venezuela

and he was among other things he was the

director of military intelligence

right so that's pretty serious job

Venezuelan threear general

director of military intelligence

and he wrote a letter to Trump saying

that uh the smartmatic system

um can be altered and this is a fact. He

said this technology was later exported

abroad um according to the United

States. So he says that quote I do not

claim that every election is stolen but

I state with certainty that elections

can be rigged with the software that

would be the smartmatting software and

has been used to do so.

Now, why would he be doing that?

Now, of you can't really trust it,

right? You know, you're not going to

trust the jailed Venezuelan general. If

if there were a type of person to not

trust, I would say, well, put at the top

of the list, Tim Walls. [laughter]

Anybody who went to Epstein Island,

okay, there are a lot of people you

don't want to trust, but somewhere in

the top 10 of people you shouldn't trust

at all would be a jailed director of

military intelligence from Venezuela.

So, I'm going to say his credibility is

as low as you could possibly get.

However,

um,

and I'm assuming that he's trying to

angle for maybe a pardon or something

that I can't imagine why else he'd be

doing it.

But, uh, that doesn't mean it's true.

Uh, it does mean he was in a position to

know if it's true. So, I think you could

say for certain that he knows whether

that's true, what he's saying. Um, and

uh, it seems like our FBI or somebody

should be talking to him and hooking him

up to some uh, hook him up to the lie

detector and maybe see if they can catch

him in some kind of inconsistency or

something. But I'd sure like to know if

there's anything to it, wouldn't you?

Does it feel to you that the the

election stuff, especially the the

voting machine stuff, does it feel to

you a lot like

climate change used to

where you knew there was something

wrong, but the entire world seemed to

act like there wasn't something wrong

and you just felt like you were in some

kind of weird

um not real situation because I would

say to myself, you know,

this climate change stuff. How do you

not see not see that this is

Maybe not every part of it, but isn't it

super obvious? And yet most of the

people would be on the on the side of a

thing that looked to me like super

obviously fake. Now, I don't have any

specific knowledge that our elections

were rigged, but I do have this thought,

which is a very powerful one. What are

the odds that in a world where

everything else is corrupt,

our elections are the one thing that are

not? And that we have we have electronic

uh voting machines for no reason.

No [clears throat] reason. They're not

faster, cheaper, easier. In fact,

they're worse on everything as far as I

can tell. You know, I' I'd be willing to

be corrected on that, but they appear to

be worse at everything except

what would be the one thing the

electronic voting machines would be

better at?

Cheating.

Cheating. That doesn't mean that's what

they're used for, but I can't think of

any other reason they would even exist.

unless you want to use them for

cheating. So that doesn't mean American

elections were cheated, but the odds

that we had used them or had or somebody

had used them to cheat in some other

election somewhere else, well, again, to

imagine that it hadn't happened would be

a pretty big stretch. And to me, it just

seems obvious. It just seems super

obvious that you just wouldn't even have

these machines. We wouldn't even be

having the conversation about keeping

them unless

somebody saw some advantage that uh they

can't say out loud.

Are are you at all convinced by the fact

that nobody who wants to keep electronic

voting machines has ever given a reason

why to keep them? Nobody.

Right. If you can find it, send it to

me.

Send me the article where there's some

country or some election entity who

says, "Oh, no. We want the machines

because the machines are better for this

reason."

What is that reason?

If if you've ever seen them even claim a

reason, show it to me. I believe that

nobody even tries to make an argument

because what are they going to say? is

cheaper. It's not. It's more reliable.

It's not. It's faster. It's not

sort of the dog not barking, wouldn't

you say?

So, again, I have no specific knowledge

of anything that was, you know, any

rigged elections. I just look at it and

I say,

I don't know how they could not be

rigged.

Um, the Trump administration is debuting

what they're calling their fentinyl free

America plan. So I guess that would be a

variety of actions all aimed at uh

reducing the fentinol risk. So they're

going to try to work on the demand as

well as the supply. So the supply part

is you know blowing up the narco ships

and Trump is teasing and I think is

somewhat serious about going in on the

ground in Venezuela and maybe other

places. But one thing I learned today is

that the fentinel in the US uh may be

largely controlled by the Hell's Angels

in Canada. So I guess the Hell's Angels

in Canada are sitting somewhere in that

distribution.

And uh that's not the biggest surprise

in the world, but uh it does it does

suggest that we have a way to deal with

it because it wouldn't be hard to figure

out who's in the Hell's Angels and it

probably wouldn't be that hard because

you know they're not the most let's say

uh technologically sophisticated.

Um so I would think that we could

penetrate their you know at least their

communications fairly easily. Um

and uh maybe that'll make a difference.

But you know there there's one thing

that maybe I could help on which is the

demand part. Now if you didn't know this

uh most of the people who take fentinyl

uh I think most let's see

29% of fentinel pills

contained a potential lethal dose.

Jesus.

Uh, a significant drop from 766% of

pills tested two years ago. Wow. Um, but

if you didn't know it, fentinyl is often

in pills that are that are sold as not

being fentinyl.

So, if you bought a Xanax, for example,

on the street, um, it might look exactly

like a Xanax, and it may have been made

in a a pill machine uh to look exactly

like Xanax, but it might actually have

fentinyl in it. So,

that's the big risk. When people know

they're taking fentinyl,

they either are um experienced at it,

which reduces the odds of them

overdosing quite a bit. The people are

experienced. Um but if you're not

experienced and you don't know what's in

the pill, you're in trouble. Uh my guess

is that's that's what got my stepson. He

probably didn't know it was in the pill

because he never would have taken a

fentinyl pill. I mean, he told me that

directly. He he would have considered

that insane to take a pill that he knew

was fentinyl. He wouldn't do it. Uh but

he did take a pill and it must have had

some fentinyl in it. Um and that was not

something that he could say no to

apparently.

So I was thinking is there any kind of

messaging that would reduce the chance

that somebody would take a pill that

might have fentinel in it but you don't

know?

and I don't have an answer for it, but

I'm going to test this out with you.

Uh, don't be a gullible fentinel victim.

Now, this is not a refined message. This

is just first draft. So, I don't know if

this is a good idea, but let me tell you

the thinking. Nobody wants to be

gullible. If I said to you, don't be a

drug addict. I can tell you from, you

know, lots of life experience that

people will say, well, sorry, I am a

drug addict.

I am. So that they'll just say I am a

drug addict. It wouldn't stop them from

taking a pill. But if you said that

you're a gullible

fentinel victim, nobody wants to be

gullible. So even people who are, you

know, drug addicts, they like to think

that they know what they're doing.

Nobody wants to be thought of as

gullible. So if you say instead of

you're a victim or you're a drug addict,

those two things don't motivate anybody.

But if I said to you, damn, you're

gullible. Seriously, you took a pill

that could have had fentinel and you

just believe the person who told you it

doesn't have it. That's gullible.

So gullible is something that people

will actually try not to be. But drug

addict,

once they are a drug addict, they they

they kind of live with it. It just

becomes who they are. But I think

gullible is a powerful word.

I there's no way to know without testing

it. But uh that that's the sort of thing

that could reduce demand.

Uh yeah, don't be a sucker. But I think

gullible

maybe even better than sucker.

Yeah, sucker is not bad, but I think

gullible is worse.

All right, works for you. All right. Uh

remember, you know, it it might seem to

you like this is not a powerful thing,

but uh those of you who saw what

happened when I started saying that

alcohol is poison, it was just one word,

poison. And apparently

some hundreds of people that that watch

this uh show cut down or completely

stopped alcohol because of one sentence.

Alcohol is poison. So I'm not sure if uh

don't be gullible is that strong, but it

could be. It could be that strong.

All right. Uh Ran Paul's uh pushing back

on the Venezuelan narco boat attacks.

Now, I often say this about Rand and I

say this about Thomas Massie as well.

When when they disagree with me or they

disagree with a policy that I think is a

good policy, I don't say to myself, you

idiots or you know, you selfish guys or

I don't say that. I say these are smart

people and they do mean well and they do

want what's best for the country. If

they have a different opinion on stuff,

I stop and listen. I might still

disagree as I do with Rand Paul on this

this topic, but I have complete respect

for the fact that they're willing to

present, you know, a um a sincere

and welle expressed alternate view. That

is really useful even if you disagree

because you know what you're disagreeing

with with some specificity.

Okay. Um so Rand Paul thinks that uh he

says about the narco boats if they're

armed show us who the u who they're

armed. Show us who they're armed. Well I

guess you know prove to us that they're

armed. If they're not armed explain to

us why we kill people who are not armed.

Now, that's a reasonably good push back.

So, it sounds like he's saying if

they're not an immediate threat, uh, why

are you killing them? Because it would

need to be an immediate threat. Now,

where I disagree is that I think, uh,

allowing them to live and even allowing

other people to think the risk is low if

they do the same kind of boat thing. I

think those are immediate risks. And I

think that the the weapon is the drug.

So when he says, "Show me that they're

armed." That's the big tanks of drugs.

And you can see in the pictures that

they have these big blue tanks. They're

quite obviously full of drugs because

those big blue tanks are exactly what

they ship drugs in. So,

if you believe, as I do, that the drugs

are the weapon and you believe that uh

that they're definitely going to cause

overdoses if they make it to the

mainland, that's good enough for me. But

I absolutely respect and appreciate

that Rand Paul is doing a good job of,

you know, steelmanning

the side of being better people. I

guess, you know, maybe in his view. So,

good job, Rand Paul. Uh, I just

respectfully disagree.

Um, apparently Maduro, head of

Venezuela,

is uh asking OPEC to help him survive

essentially. Um, and uh, it looks like

OPEC's not going to give him a good

answer, but I would say that this is

pretty good evidence that Maduro is

running out of options. If he thought

that appealing to OPEC was going to help

him.

[laughter]

That that was sort of a sort of a Hail

Mary, right? If your best play is to try

to get OPEC involved, I mean really, you

would have to get a Saudi Arabia

involved or else, you know, nothing's

going to happen. And Saudi is good

friends with the the Trump

administration and Trump in particular.

And there's just no way, you know, the

Saudis don't get involved in this sort

of thing smartly. They they wisely don't

get involved. So, I would say there's no

real chance that OPEC is going to, you

know, sort of weigh in and try to

influence Trump on this. I think they'll

just stay out of it. Um, but the fact

that Maduro thinks this is one of his

options means he's out of options. So,

it would suggest that something might be

happening soon because he's got no

plays. No cards. No cards.

Um, I saw Mike Cernovich

talking about Trump's pardons that he's

issuing, and some of those pardons look

a little uh a little bit of a

headscratcher to even his supporters.

Um, and so Mike Cernovich says, "I voted

for Trump." He said this on X. "I voted

for Trump, drove support for him, and

I'm glad each day I did. The pardons

will be his downfall if this isn't

handled immediately." and he in a

separate post he'd made an appeal for

someone who was in the administration to

see if they can maybe dial back some of

these sketchy pardons that are coming

out now.

I again Mike Cernovich is one of these

valuable voices. even if you don't agree

with him, uh you want to hear what he

has to say because that'll be a

valuable, you know, uh stake in the

ground and you might not agree with all

of it, but you should be better off by

knowing what that point of view is. So,

I agree that I am uncomfortable

with some of the recent pardons because

there doesn't seem to be a pattern to

them. And without seeing the pattern,

you have to wonder what's going on. So

it doesn't look like it's just for um

humanitarian reasons. It doesn't look

like just because they were unfairly

treated, although Trump tends to say

that about his pardons, they were

unfairly treated. That doesn't mean

that's why he did it. But there's also

no obvious reason for some of the

pardons.

So, I'm left to speculate.

My speculation goes like this. There's

something that Trump or the

administration or the country is getting

in return. I'm guessing information

because I don't think Trump would do

pardons for money because I mean, how

much money could anybody pay for a

pardon? If if you're Joe Biden and you

can get a million dollars for a pardon,

you probably do it because a million

dollars would be real money for the

Biden family. But would a million

dollars be anything for Trump? Not

really. A million dollars. And how much

do you think anybody would pay? Is

somebody going to pay a billion dollars

for a pardon?

Probably not. So, I don't think it's

about money. It it doesn't really like

it doesn't really uh you know light up

any bells for me. Light up any bells.

Doesn't light up any lights. I just

don't feel like it could be about money.

Although if it were someone else I might

say maybe, you know, somebody who didn't

have as much money. Um so if it's not

about money and we can't see any other

pattern to it, what is it about? Here's

my best guess. There must be something.

And when I say must, I should change

that to might. There might be something

that these particular people know or

have access to or can control

that Trump needs to know or control. So,

it's probably about someone else. And it

could be um something along the lines of

if I pardon you, do you think you would

tell us who did this? If I pardon you,

do you think you would show us or tell

us where to look to, I don't know, give

some extra control over Venezuela

or to

uh learn what bad behavior happened

during the Biden administration

or something like that. So, but I'm I'm

very much with uh Cernovich on the fact

that we don't know why these pardons are

happening and they don't look they don't

look legit.

They don't look necessarily corrupt. Not

necessarily.

We're just left with the mystery and I

think we'll keep it that way. Now,

whenever whenever these kind of sketchy

pardons happen, somebody always brings

up, well, maybe maybe it shouldn't be

legal to pardon anybody.

And I don't love that idea because there

are going to be times when a pardon is

the thing that creates justice.

Uh, not most of the time, but it's, you

know, sometimes. And that's valuable.

So,

but if you're going to allow pardons at

all, you have to live with the fact that

they're not going to always be ones you

like. And indeed,

probably most of them will be ones you

hate. So, if you think pardons should be

a thing, you have to live with a little

bit of discomfort if you're observing

it. And I have a little bit of

discomfort. Well, actually, more than a

little bit. the the recent pardons,

they really raise some questions. But

since I don't I don't distrust

Trump in sense that I don't think he's

selling it, um there must be something

he's getting out of it because he

doesn't leave free money on the table.

Let let me put it this way. He would

know, Trump would know that he's going

to get push back from these sketchy

looking pardons,

but he did it anyway. Does he ever leave

money on the table that other people

could pick up? Because this would be

just money that his um that his enemies

could pick up. He's just giving them an

easy shot. Oh, look, I did this sketchy

pardon and then they're going to make,

you know, days of headlines about it.

So, when does Trump ever do something

where he's just giving away money? In

this case, money being uh not literally

money. He never does. So, we have to

assume that he or the country or the

administration are getting something in

return. And I don't think it's money.

So, we'll see. Maybe we'll never know.

Well, Microsoft has dropped its AI sales

targets because people were not being

able to sell them. Who would have

guessed that? I would. So, from the

beginning, fairly early on, I've been

saying that AI is a little bit overdone,

a little bit overrated, and that it's

hard for me to imagine that people will

buy it when it hallucinates. And I've

got a feeling that was Microsoft's

problem. Hey, we've got this AI agent

that will change everything in your

company. Why don't you buy it? Does it

hallucinate?

What does it hallucinate?

Stop mumbling. Does it hallucinate?

Yes. Well, I don't want it. I imagine

that's how the sales calls go. That as

soon as you find out it hallucinates and

as soon as you find out that it would be

dangerous or you wouldn't want to

connect it to your other apps,

what does it do? If it doesn't give you

the truth reliably and you can't connect

it to your other apps

and trust it,

I don't know. I don't know what I don't

know what market value it has, honestly.

So, I'm not surprised that they had to

knock back their sales expectations.

Oh, I'm going way too long today.

Um, there's some new drones in Ukraine

and blah blah blah.

Um, oh, we're putting some some German

company is putting a uh in space a

little mission to build solar arrays to

do manufacturing in space.

So, they're they're actually moving on

the idea of having manufacturing in

space. So, they're they're doing some

experiments to see what they need to

what they need to do. So, that's

actually happening.

Uh, and now one in three students at top

colleges are claiming to be disabled to

get extra time to complete exams, but

they're claiming their disabilities are

ADHD and depression. All right, that's

all I got for you. I'm going to say a

few words uh privately to the beloveds

uh subscribers on locals if you're still

with me. The rest of you, thanks for

hanging in there and uh I will talk to

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