Episode 3039 CWSA 12/07/25

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So, I found a second use for the Dilbert calendar.

Turns out it's ex it's exactly the right width to put on my crotch to elevate my laptop to the right height.

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So, if you have a problem with your crotch being too low for your laptop, that Dilbert calendar will fix that.

they will um I don't want to say happy Pearl Harbor Day.

So I guess I would say thank you for your service to all the service people who have served past and present.

And uh is there anything else we need to say about Pearl Harbor?

Pearl Harbor was uh on my list of things that I thought well I I think it's probably a conspiracy theory.

the idea that, you know, the United States or somebody in the United States knew that the attack was coming.

How many of you believe that we knew the attack was coming?

What do you think?

I don't know.

I I feel like maybe yet the one thing that I'm sure of is that there's not a single thing in history that is exactly the way the history books tell us.

I don't think any of it is real.

Now, it might be realish and it might be directionally true and parts of it might be true, but I just don't really believe any of the stories were told about history.

Not not completely.

Yeah.

So, I don't know.

Um, what else is new?

If you haven't seen my impression of a person receiving a Dilbert calendar for Christmas, you should go to X and go to the uh top posted uh video and you will see my acting skills on display and you you'll probably say, "Well, it's a good thing you didn't become an actor because you're terrible at this." Yeah, true.

True.

In other news, um I completed yesterday the second phase of my Bioshield um shots.

So Bioshield, that's Dr.

Sunun Shanun's um I don't know what I'd call it, protocol or uh what what would be the right word, but uh it's a series of four shots.

You get two and then you wait a little while and you get the other two.

And uh what it does is it boosts your natural immunity so against cancer obviously.

And uh so I've now completed that.

Now if it works it doesn't you know it doesn't destroy tumors.

I don't think it does that although maybe I don't know maybe for some people but it's more about uh making sure it doesn't come back if you find anything that works.

I I'm probably saying that wrong, but anything that boosts your uh natural immunity probably a good thing.

So, my natural immunity is getting boosted even as we talk.

So, we'll see.

Uh I will be your real life um example of, you know, how that goes.

Uh I'm still on the plto path as well because those two paths do not interfere.

They're actually complimentary.

One of them plums and then the bio shield will just make sure that your natural immunity does the best they can of keeping you cancer-free.

So neither of them are cures, but they could push you back in a meaningful way.

Well, let's talk about the news.

I I have to warn you that the news is boring as hell today.

Oh my god, the news is boring.

I guess it's because it's too close to Christmas or something, but there is nothing going on.

There's nothing going on.

We'll talk about it anyway because that's what we do.

Uh so I guess Dell computer has warned its customers that one of its components the DRAMs are going to go up in price and that's probably because the uh the AI data centers are using a lot of those chips and so there's more competition and therefore the price is going up.

So it might go up 15 to 20%.

So, I I'll try to give you updates on what part of the economy is experiencing inflation, but anything that an AI data center wants to use is probably going to get more expensive because the competition for those will be insane.

Um, but at least, you know, you could if if you're just a regular consumer, you don't buy too many laptops.

I mean, you might get one every several years, so it won't worry you too much.

Not like it's not like gas or food.

Speaking of food, according to Newsmax, uh Trump is ordering the uh DOJ and the uh FTC to probe food price fixing.

So, there's a suspicion that the especially the foreign food companies might be colluding with each other to keep prices high.

Do you think they are?

Well, probably.

Probably.

Uh, as I tell you almost every time that I come on here, uh, any anything that's possible to be corrupt eventually will be.

It just has to be possible.

And there has to be a lot of money involved.

If there's a lot of money involved and a lot of people involved and that would explain the food industry, then sooner or later it will be completely corrupt.

So, I'm guessing we're already there and that there will be some chilling surprises when they look into it.

Well, are you worried about microlastics?

How many of you think that's real?

you know, the the whole idea that uh our microlastics are in all the water and we're I don't know, we're eating like a credit card worth of plastic every day and it will destroy our bodily functions.

Why is that not a bigger deal?

And why don't we blame that for, let's say, excess mortality?

Do do you think that excess mortality could be influenced by microlastics?

Because we never really mention that when when we talk about, hey, everybody's dying of more things.

We just automatically go to vaccinations or or uh viruses.

But it can't be good for you to eat a credit card worth of plastic every day.

However, it seems to me that if it were as bad for you as we're told, it would have already destroyed all of human civilization.

So, I'm kind of in this weird place where I think it can't possibly be totally true, you know, at least the the alarm over it.

Uh if it were, we'd we'd be dead already.

We we wouldn't be able to reproduce.

But I also can't see how it's not true because if you fill your body up with plastic, that can't be good, right?

So So I've got a I've got a uh climate change like question mark.

I've got a hole in the ozone question mark.

Yeah.

So, if you have bad credit, I'm sure it's even worse.

Yeah, that makes no sense.

Anyway, the reason I bring it up is that there's a new news from the University of Bon that they've figured out how to imitate a fish's um filtering system.

There are some fish that apparently eat by just opening their mouth and swimming and whatever goes in there, it gets filtered and the bad stuff gets filtered out.

There's something about the architecture of the the mouth that uh causes them to easily filter stuff.

And apparently they figured out how to use that kind of filtering on plastic.

So we might be right at the cusp of being able to just filter the heck out of it.

So we'll we'll make some uh whale drones.

That's what we need.

We need some drones that look and act like whales and just swim around with their mouth open and all they do is filter the plastic.

All right.

Well, that would be the scariest thing you ever saw in your life.

A gigantic whale floating toward you with its mouth open.

Yep.

You could be a Bible character if that didn't work out.

Or if it did work out, I guess.

Um, did you know that some of the energy traders, that would be people who bet and make investments based on their anticipated direction of energy costs, that they're not acting as if energy is going to go up in price as much as everybody's telling you.

So, you've got a little inconsistency going on.

Uh, this is according to Financial Times.

Martha Mure is writing about this.

So on one hand, we're being told by everybody smart that the price of energy is going to go through the roof because of all the AI demand.

And I don't think anybody says anything different.

But when you look at the people who are betting on it, putting their actual money on it, they're not really betting that it'll go up that much.

So there's a disconnect between the people who know the most and the people who invest the most.

Are the people who invest the most really the only ones who know the most or are they just playing some kind of, you know, riskreward game and uh they're they're not fully convinced that prices will go up that much?

Well, I'm I'm kind of on the same side as the energy traders, meaning that I don't believe that if you look at a 20-year future period, I don't believe that we would get um the high prices that pretty much everybody smart says we're going to get because there would be such a gigantic economic benefit for either figuring out how to do AI cheaper or how to build a a data center cheaper or how to produce energy cheaper because the you know the uh the upside potential of getting any of those things to work is trillions of dollars.

So when you have trillions on the line and it's more of an engineering problem.

You don't have to probably don't have to like invent some new technology.

It's probably more of an engineering thing.

Um, I've got a feeling that we will figure out how to make AI and energy way more accessible.

Might be 10 years from now, but um I think that's a guarantee.

Well, there's a story I don't believe, but it's in the news that some Reddit user claims that he was using a Google AI and the AI deleted his entire hard drive and then begged for forgiveness after it was done.

Do you believe that?

How many of you believe that?

First of all, it's coming from Reddit, and I believe there's only one source, and it's a little bit too on the nose, isn't it?

It would be sort of the exact thing that you'd be worried about if you used an AI agent.

Oh, no.

It would go rogue.

It's going to delete all my stuff.

Yeah, I'm going to say I don't believe it.

It's possible.

It's definitely possible, but I'm going to say no.

If I had to put a bet on it, I'd bet no.

What do you think?

Do you think the Reddit users are credible?

I don't believe it at all.

Well, uh, Tim Pool's home, uh, I think he has more than one home, so I don't know which state this one is in, but, uh, his home was shot at by a gunman who approached the property in a some kind of vehicle and shot into it.

My god, you know, after all the times he's been swatted to to see that somebody drove up to his house and actually put a bullet into it.

Good lord.

But uh the Daily Mail was writing about this and they call him a right-wing commentator.

Is that accurate?

Would you call Tim P a right-wing commentator?

That doesn't sound right, does it?

Now, I do understand that uh a lot of his opinions would be compatible with a lot of people on the right, but that's not exactly how he defines himself, right?

Isn't he more independent?

Yeah.

So, that that doesn't seem fair at all.

Um, you know, partly I guess this would just be a compliment.

So, I'll give Tim a compliment that if you can't tell exactly, you know, what his label is.

That's sort of where you want to be if you're in his job.

You you want to be unlabelable so that people don't know what you're going to do.

They're they they trust that you could have an opinion that might match one side today and the other side tomorrow.

That would be the place to be.

So, I just don't see rightwing as the right the right label.

I'd love to see what he says about it.

But I I was also reading up because it was just context to the story uh just how wonderfully successful he's been, you know, building his little empire.

He's got several studios working for him and uh they they say his revenue from his many operations is really impressive.

Um so good for you, Tim Pool.

I I think Tim P has one of these talent stack situations where there are a number of podcasters who are good at podcasting but they wouldn't be good at running a big operation.

He seems to be good at both.

So he seems to be, you know, really good at pretty much all the elements that you would need to do what he does.

So uh I'm always impressed by his operation and his talents.

Um, so here's a new science story.

There's not much happening in politics because it's December and it's the weekend and blah blah blah.

So I'll do some more science stuff.

So scientists, according to interesting engineering, scientists have developed a recyclable building material that absorbs CO2 instead of emitting it.

Now you've probably heard that story a million times.

I think I've probably talked about maybe a dozen times.

I've talked about, hey, they developed some kind of new futuristic material that absorbs CO2 instead of giving it off.

Well, they got another one.

They call it a carbon negative building, blah blah blah.

But what what caught my attention is not that the technology is real or not real or that it works or it doesn't work.

Imagine if you will that you had spent the last 10 years of your life trying to figure out how to solve climate change and then suddenly the news changed from climate change is real.

It's a it's a crisis and we better do everything we can to fix it where you felt really good when you went to work because you're like, "Yeah, I I'm part of the solution." But now that the news cycle is kind of shifting, have you noticed?

It's more like uh there was a study that said climate change is bad and it's been reversed.

Um turns out the uh the coral reefs are growing, not shrinking.

Oh, we had fewer uh fewer hurricanes reached land landfall in the United States than any recent year.

Yeah, that the ice the ice seems to be more, not less.

The greenery is more, not less.

So, wouldn't you feel really duped if you had dedicated your life to solving this big crisis for humanity only to find out it wasn't real?

And by the way, I don't know if it's real.

I mean, the certainly I don't trust science.

that it could be real, but it doesn't look like it to me.

Uh, I'm not seeing the the signals for it.

I am seeing the signals for hoax.

Those are really strong, but you know, I could be fooled by that as well.

All right.

One of you is eating squirrel gravy over biscuits.

I don't even want to ask what squirrel gravy is.

But you do that and I'll keep doing this.

And the rest of you, you probably don't want to try the squirrel gravy.

I don't even want to think about it.

Squirrel gravy.

Speaking of animals, did you know that the state of Idaho has an insulting name for people like me?

They do.

Uh, I would be called a cow.

CO.

So, apparently the Idaho governor revealed that uh they refer to people who came from these three states, California, Oregon, and Washington.

So, the letters would spell cow.

Uh because they're always leaving they're leaving their home state to go to Idaho where the taxes are, you know, the taxes are easier.

But, uh I feel quite insulted that the governor of Idaho is calling me a cow.

Well, technically I'm not a cow unless I leave California, which is too hard to do right now.

But Idaho, all right, Idaho, I'll give you that.

It makes me want to come up with a insulting nickname for your state, but uh I'll accept that I'm a cow.

Well, we're still talking about that January 6 pipe bomber guy uh who looks like Urkl.

He's the Urkl looking pipe bomber.

And uh we're still talking about whether he was a Trump supporter.

Like that was the important part.

Uh and apparently his family says no, he was not politically affiliated with anything.

You know, his grandmother said, "I don't know if his grandmother knows." How many of your grandmothers know your political views?

I don't know how many know that.

But uh his family family seems to be backing the idea that he wasn't, you know, big on politics.

And uh apparently he was a recluse who lives in his mother's basement.

Well, I don't know how much longer he'll be living there.

Um assuming he's in jail by now.

And he works in a data entry job and he's been grieving the loss of his pet dog.

I do I do feel bad for him if he lost his dog.

So, that's the saddest part of the story.

But, uh, what do you think of that?

Isn't that like way too on the nose that the guy literally lives in his mother's basement?

You know, we always say that about certain people.

Uh, you're probably a basement dweller, but he actually lives in his mother's basement.

Yeah.

I I don't have anything else to say about that except Well, that looks like exactly the thing you'd want.

He's probably down there eating squirrel gravy on biscuits.

Just a guess.

Um I guess the House of Representatives passed a bill.

I guess this Senate would have to vote on it next that uh anyway the the House bipartisan in a bipartisan way uh voted to block China's influence on schools.

So I guess China does a bunch of things that would I don't know create materials that they would use in school and they they have a number of ways that they might be influencing the the classrooms.

But uh the US House passed three bills this week aimed at protecting your K through2 classrooms from the influence of Chinese Communist Party.

Is that a good idea?

Probably.

That's probably a good idea.

So I'm glad that has bipartisan support.

Meanwhile, in other news, uh you remember the Epstein victim that died?

Her name was Virginia Joffrey and uh she tragically I think it was a motor motor vehicle accident and she hung on for a while but then then she passed.

Um, the latest news about her is that according to leading report, I don't know who they are, but they're on X, that she had multi-million dollar fortune, which I assume came from settling settling cases with rich people that wanted to stay on the news, but she allegedly had multi-million dollar estate that has gone missing.

How did millions of dollars go missing?

If you know where they used to be, how how would you even do that?

Can you move millions of dollars without leaving a trail?

If you can, can you tell me how to do that?

Cuz I'll become a money launderer for the cartels.

I don't think there's a way to do that.

Is there?

Uh, unless you turned it into a some bizarre crypto and then changed it back at some point.

Is there any actual way for millions of dollars to just disappear from the American system?

Well, I don't know.

It couldn't have been in a bank.

If it had been in a bank, we'd know where it went.

All right.

So, I have I have some questions whether there really was a million dollar fortune and whether they really don't know how to find it.

I feel like they do.

May maybe it would take the FBI to find it.

So, it could be that the family doesn't know where it is, but I don't think it's lost forever, is it?

Anyway, the uh SBA, the Small Business Administrator head, Kelly Laughler, um says that the discovery of uh according to Fox News, says that the discovery of this, you know, billions of dollars of Somali fraud uh is leading the SBA to expand its investigation across the entire state of Minnesota.

So, this is what Kelly Laughler said, and see if this sounds like something I've said.

quote, "It appears that this fraud ring is being perpetrated across all types of government assistance, all types of government assistance that is meant for families that are hungry, families that need housing, young children that need education, and it's being exploited." Doesn't that sound like exactly what I've been saying?

That wherever there is a large bunch of money, it's always fraud.

There doesn't seem to be any other condition.

Lots of money.

Time goes by, lots of people involved.

Yeah, it's going to it's going to turn into a fraudulent mess.

And apparently the SBA thinks it's already happened.

I would not be surprised.

Well, did you know that over in Europe they've got some buses made in China?

And uh the Europeans have just discovered that their buses made by China have some kind of a secret kill switch.

So so China could just turn off your bus anytime it wanted to.

Now I guess the the mechanism is sort of a software update mechanism.

So there might be there might be some legitimate, you know, use for it, but the non-legitimate uses are a little scary because it would allow China to to just, you know, put some uh code in your bus that you were not expecting.

Have you noticed that every single time there's a large expensive Chinese product, you know, be it switches in your your energy grid, be it telephone uh switches, be it buses.

Have you noticed that every time there's a secret kill switch?

Every time.

It does look like China could turn off all of civilization if it wanted to.

But are they really I mean is that really why all these things have a back door?

Or is it because you would want to put some kind of software upgrading thing in anything that anything that had software?

If you have a if you have anything that needs software, wouldn't you want to put a remote software upgrade feature into it?

So, I'm not I'm not entirely sure it's part of like the Chinese plan to take down all of civilization because if they took down all of civilization, they would go at the same time.

Don't you think if China ever, you know, pulled the trigger on that and and suddenly, you know, a bunch of cars stopped started, you know, stopped the the phone network was crippled and the buses stopped.

Suppose they did that.

That would completely destroy their ability to sell anything to anybody in the future because everybody would say, "Oh, we can't trust you." It wouldn't matter what the product was.

We'd say, "All right, you're up to no good.

We will never buy a piece of technology from you again forever." So, it's hard for me to understand, you know, any kind of situation where China would actually pull the trigger on this kind of thing where it would take down a whole industry.

I know that they can and I know I don't trust them, but I don't know how it could ever look like it's a good idea from their side.

Like, oh, we'll just we'll just take down all of their telephone networks in the United States.

I don't think they'll try to, you know, reciprocate.

Of course we would.

Of course we would reciprocate.

So how in the world could it ever be a good idea?

So I'm skeptical about some of these China can turn it off stories.

I I'm not skeptical that it's technically possible.

I'm skeptical that they have a plan to do it or under any circumstance because it just seems like it would be a terrible idea.

Anyway, but you know, it's a complicated world, so maybe um did you see the Gavin Newsome uh photograph of him sitting in a chair at some event and he had his legs crossed, which for reasons I've not quite understood, uh conservatives like Jesse Waters and number of other people have decided that men are not allowed to sit with their legs crossed.

When did that start?

Why in the world am I not allowed to cross my legs if it's more comfortable?

Is there some that did somebody write a set of laws or regulations for leg crossing?

I object.

But anyway, um so Gavin Newsome got a bunch of uh mocking because he was sitting with his legs crossed and the conservatives went after him.

Uh, so his response was a meme where he's kind of exaggerated yoga pose.

His his legs are up here.

His legs are up by his ears and he's he's in sort of a yoga pose.

It's a very funny picture.

And I I have to say, if I'm judging him just on meme warfare, nicely done.

Nicely done.

Yeah, it it would have been a mistake for him to defend how he was sitting.

It was not a mistake to take the uh you know to take the meme and exaggerate it another level.

That was pretty well done.

I'm going to give him that.

I don't want him to be my president and I'm not really delighted about him being my governor, but his meme game is definitely improving.

you know, it's not it's not Trump level, of course, but uh it's getting better.

Well, according to the University of Eastern Finland, who I go to for all of my Sunday stories, uh people swear on social media more with acquaintances than with friends.

Is that true?

Do you feel that you swear more with somebody you know, but they're not necessarily a friend, than you would with your friends?

I don't know about that.

And uh the story says that Americans use the f-word more on social media than Australians or Britons.

Really?

Uh have you ever met somebody from Britain?

Have you ever met anybody from Australia and you're telling me that we use the f-word more than they do?

All right, I'm gonna I'm going to question your data there because if you've never spent any time with anybody from either of those countries, well, maybe you'd believe that, but I don't know.

Anyway, this this continues to amuse me that uh people are still driving by Tim Wals's house in Minnesota and yelling the rword, Uh and his daughter just did a uh did a little video.

Uh she's fuming about it online.

She doesn't like it.

And I feel I feel like what happened was that it's turned somehow it's turned into a tourist event.

Now imagine, you know, this wouldn't make sense for me in my current situation because I'm a public figure, but you tell me, true or false, if you were in Minnesota for, let's say you didn't live there, but you were there for visiting or whatever, and you knew that you were a short drive away from Tim Walsh's house, and you knew that people were driving by and yelling Are you telling me you wouldn't want to do it?

You You wouldn't want to just, you know, get in on the fun.

Come on.

You would.

You would think it was funny.

You might not do it, but you would definitely think it's funny and you would definitely consider it.

So, I think what's happened is not just that uh people are doing it, but now it's sort of becoming a thing.

You know, it's sort of like the the thing you say when you see a certain thing.

So, I feel like for the rest of time, even after Tim Walls has left the job, that people will still drive by that house, roll down their windows, and yell the or word as loud as they can, laugh like hyenas, and then drive home and feel like they had a good time.

So, that's going to happen.

But I guess uh part of the question is whether whether it's fair that Trump is bullying uh poor Tim Walsh.

But uh I was reminded that apparently Tim Walsh said in May at a keynote speech in at the South Carolina Democratic Party convention, he said that he urged Democrats to quote be a little meaner talking about Trump and more fierce in pushing back against Trump and Republicans.

And apparently Walsh used a schoolyard analogy.

This is according to Grock.

um from his experience as a teacher, he said uh when it's a child, you talk to him and you tell him why bullying is wrong, but when it's an adult like Donald Trump, you bully the out of him back.

So Tim Walsh apparently has in public encouraged Democrats to bully Trump by saying things that would be hurtful.

So, do you feel bad that people are driving by by his house and yelling No, you don't feel bad about that.

Talk about inviting it.

Oh my god, nobody nobody ever invited it harder than he did.

So, um I don't have an opinion whether people should do it or not, but I think it's funny that it might become a forever thing.

You know, it could be a hundred years from now, people will still yell drive by that that house and yell and nobody will even remember why.

It's just something that everybody does.

I think that's going to happen.

Well, according to the Massimo account on X, which has a lot of good content, Massimo, M- SS I M O, um BYD, I guess that's a Chinese company, they're building a new factory in Zen Xiao that the size of the factory is 50 square miles.

That would be larger than the entire surface area of San Francisco.

That's going to be one company, one building.

I I think actually it' be multiple buildings, but they they would cover the surface area of 50 square miles and they're in the process of finishing that up.

I feel like we've entered the era of massive construction because when we see the size of let's say a a new a new uh battery factory, it just looks massively large.

anything that Elon Musk is planning to do, be it in space or on the ground, massively large.

And all the the AI um data centers, they're not normal.

They are massively large.

So, I think we've just entered this massively large construction era.

I don't know if that's good or bad, but it's impressive.

I I did worry that humans had lost the ability to do big things, but apparently not.

Anyway, um as you know the uh FIFA or FIFA, Fifa, the the big international soccer, but they would call it football organization, they came up with they invented a uh a peace medal and awarded it to Trump.

You know, sort of like the uh Nobel Peace Prize except it would be the FIFA Peace Prize.

Now, what do you think Trump did?

He accepted it graciously and uh reminded us how many how many wars he stopped etc as he likes to do.

And then the uh Democrats in this country decided that it was uh embarrassing and humiliating that other countries could manipulate our president so easily by just offering him, you know, childlike um rewards.

To which I say, is that treating him like a child?

Is that how you see it?

Because the way I see it is that people understand that giving him what he wants is a good strategy.

That's the president I want.

I want the president where when somebody says, "Oh my god, we're going to meet with the president, but what does he want?

We got to give him what he wants." I want them all thinking like that.

And if they decided that what he wants is to be recognized for creating peace more than any president ever has, what's wrong with that?

What's wrong with that?

I would want that.

Now, I don't see why it makes sense that there's a FIFA peace medal.

It doesn't really make any sense.

But every time somebody reminds the world that he's worthy of a peace prize, I don't mind that.

That feels like that's good for him.

Good for him, good for me, good for the world.

Yeah, it makes him probably more effective the next time he tries to end a war because people just think, "Oh, he's the guy who ends wars." And you just sort of automatically start acting like it's just a done deal.

Yeah, he's he's that guy.

He ends wars, so I guess he'll end this one, too.

So, no, I have no problem with people making up brand new uh peace prizes and giving it to my president.

Um Trump has apparently directed RFK Jr.

to review the childhood vaccine schedule and maybe revise it to get it more in line potentially.

They they haven't done the analysis yet, so they don't know what changes they might make, if any.

But, uh, the thinking is that Europe, uh, does fewer shots and we might take a look at that and see if they're getting a better result or a worse result with their fewer shots, which is smart.

So, every I like everything about that.

We don't know where it's going to end up.

Bill Gates was at some event according to Disclosed TV and uh he said that African farmers will soon have AI advisors, you know, just on their phone AI will advise them and they'll better seeds and animal genetics and that they will become with all those things a significant net food exporter.

So Africa might go from that starving continent to hello look at all the food we can create and that would be AI driven but better seeds and animal genetics too.

Uh do you believe that?

I don't know.

So I did a little uh groing.

I used Grock to ask some questions and I was trying to see if there's any low trust civilization that did well economically because it seemed to me that if you don't have a high trust um society that you can't really make economics work because everybody's stealing and nobody trusts anybody and you know you got to have a little bit of trust or you can't make anything work.

And then I wondered if Africa was a low trust um situation and Grock actually gave a mixed answer.

He said that uh if you're looking at the whole the entire continent, yes, it would be a low trust uh situation.

But here's what Gra said that there would be many pockets, you know, like a tribe or a half a tribe or whatever where the trust was very high.

So the actual African culture uh according to Grock or this is Grock I wouldn't know one way or the other but Grock says that on the individual base level you can often really trust people.

I assume that's because they would be relatives and you know it's a small tribe and if somebody tried to screw you you would know their name and you could get back at them.

So it could be that the smaller the the group of people is, the more the trust is just cuz you know what's going on with a small group.

But if you're looking at the larger group, there seems to be not a lot of trust.

So, I'm I'm going to differ with Bill Gates and say that if you gave a low trust continent um a bunch of really good tools like AI and better seeds and better genetics that that wouldn't turn into necessarily economic success.

You you'd have to get to the point where at least your Department of Justice, your police, and your courts would be trusted.

And I think that's the biggest thing that the United States has done right.

Even though maybe we shouldn't have trusted them as much as we did, but we did.

And uh yeah, I I think they need that stuff more than they need AI and seeds.

They need to figure out how to have a high trust court system and uh you know less graft and corruption.

That would be true for everybody.

That's not just true for Africa.

Well, according to the Associate Press, the AP, um there's a place in Canada, Edmonton, the city of Edmonton, um they've got AI powered police body cams.

So, if you're a police uh person that if you walk by somebody who's wanted for some kind of crime, your body cam will go boop boop boop wanted for a crime and then you could arrest them.

And it's got about 7,000 people uh that they would call high risk on their watch list.

What do you think of that?

Now, that's just 7,000 people in one city in Canada.

I don't know how big Edmonton is.

Several million.

But uh that feels like a lot of people.

7,000, right?

It just feels like a lot.

Um so do you do you like that idea that the police would know who the bad people are just by walking past them?

Well, it would depend what they do about it.

Yeah.

If they arrest them because there's some Yeah.

withstanding warrant.

I guess that would be good for those of us who are not criminals.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I think we're going to get to the point where people are wearing masks and everything else.

If you were one of those 7,000 low trust people, the first thing you should do is move the heck out of Edmonton, you know, and go somewhere where they don't have that technology.

That's the first thing.

U So that's my advice for you criminals.

All you Edmonton criminals, move now.

All right.

There was an article in Axios today.

Such a slow news day.

Wow.

That uh they say the title of the article on Axios was how Trump flipped America's race conversation.

And the the essence of the article is that we used to get all worked up when people said racist stuff, especially Trump, but now we just shrug it off.

Do you believe that's true?

Do you believe that Trump single-handedly made it okay or at least not as dangerous to say flagrantly racist stuff in public?

Well, so they they gave examples of the racist things that Trump has done in the past.

Do you think any of them were real?

No.

No.

Axio still believes that the Obama birth certificate situation was racist.

Now, I don't know how you define racist, but one of the ways you could tell if something is racist or not would be if you could change the race of the person involved and it would look exactly the same.

So, the Obama birth certificate thing, if you changed him from uh, you know, black to anything else, Irish, we'll say Irish, but there was still some open question about his uh, where he was born and what his citizenship is.

Are you telling me that Trump would not have mentioned it if it had been an Irish guy?

Of course he would.

The most common thing that people do in politics is question whether their opponent is qualified to even be in that in that area.

Haven't we been talking about uh Swallwell and whether he actually has a home in California?

Haven't we talked about Ted Cruz having a Canadian connection?

Is that racist?

Why Why is that racist?

If if you can totally change the the person in it and you can change their race and it's exactly the same story, that's not racist.

It would have to be something where if you change the race, it would go from right to wrong or, you know, or something like that.

But if it doesn't make any difference and it's the normal way that even politics work, I don't know.

Axios, let's see.

I think they have some other examples.

Another example was that Trump allegedly called some countries hole countries.

Now, do you think he was talking about their color?

No.

Do you do you believe that if there had been a third world country that were just all white people, but they they had uh very low educational attainment and they were, you know, a lot of them were criminals, for example.

I'm not saying that the hole countries were that, but can you not imagine an all-white country that he would throw in the hole category because maybe they just uh were low trust people.

I I just don't see the racist part.

again, if you could change the race and he would still say the same thing, cuz I would if you put me in that situation and I knew there was some, you know, sketchy high crime but all white neighborhood or let's say country.

Um, I would call that a hole country.

I don't see how that would be racist if it's all white people.

Anyway, so again, that would be an interpretation by Axios.

It's not something that Trump did wrong.

It's something that they interpret as wrong, which is really different.

Uh, and then they mentioned Trump's 2016 campaign opening claiming that Mexico was sending rapists into the US.

Now, how many people thought that when Trump said they're sending, you know, criminals and rapists, how many thought that he believed that's all that was being sent or that's all that was coming?

Did anybody believe that?

There's not a single person in the world who would have interpreted that as every single one of them was a rapist because remember some large number of them are children and women.

Did they think Did Axios think he was calling the women and children who were coming across the border illegally?

Was he calling them rapists?

No.

No.

No.

It's It's ridiculous.

So, the bubble that Axios has been in or at least the writers of that article, it it's the problem is them.

There there's no story here about Trump being one way and then turning another way.

Trump has been exactly the same for the entire time.

The only difference is that the people observing him went from thinking, you know, their narrative was correct to again thinking their narrative is correct.

It's just a narrative.

They don't understand the difference between what's true and what's a interpretation or what's a narrative.

All right.

Now, let's play my favorite game, stupid or lying.

I'm gonna tell you what happened on TV, I think yesterday, and you tell me if the person involved is stupid or lying, cuz I actually can't tell.

So, I guess uh there was some kind of a MSNBC uh show in which uh one of the hosts of NBC of MSNBC is Stephanie Rule.

So Stephanie Rule was there, but also Charlemagne the God and several other people were at the table.

Charlemagne was saying uh that when you tune you tune into MSNBC, you know what you're going to get, meaning that they would be taking the the lefty view on things.

Stephanie Rule said, "I challenge that.

You don't." and she insisted that you would not be able to predict what the MSNBC take on a story would be.

Really?

You really think that we can't anticipate what the story would be?

I'm pretty sure I could get every one of them pretty close.

You maybe not every detail, but I think we can all guess which way they'd go.

Let's say let's say Trump does a State of the Union.

Could you possibly anticipate what uh what MS I guess or MS now?

Now, could you possibly anticipate what their take would be?

Will they say it's unhinged and that he needs to get uh he needs to be removed for office because he's losing his mind?

Do you think they'll say that?

Yes.

Yes, they will.

And I'm not wrong.

Do you think they'll say it was dark and that it was racist?

Of course they will.

We all know exactly what their takes would be.

So I I asked the question again.

Is Stephanie Rule stupid?

Does she really not know that we can anticipate all of their takes?

I mean, you know, maybe there's 2% we get wrong, but essentially there's no surprises.

Or is she lying?

I don't know.

This This one I can't tell.

This could be stupid or lying.

I don't know.

Anyway, apparently there's an asteroid coming our way that has some kind of sugar essentials in it.

Some little nucle nucleioases, whatever that is.

Uh amino acids and amino acids and nucleobases.

And these are apparently some of the ingredients that you would expect to see for life.

Doesn't mean there's any life on the asteroids, but it would suggest that the building blocks of life could be widespread across the universe because this asteroid has been many places before it was here.

And uh if the by the time it gets here, it's got these building blocks for life, that would suggest there's probably more of them out there.

All right.

Um, the prime minister of Hungary, Victor Orban, uh, he he says that, uh, I guess he told Trump that the European Union is charging Hungary 1 million euros per day for not allowing illegal migration into Hungary.

Can you believe that?

So Hungary doesn't want to allow illegal illegal migration into their country.

And uh the European Union is so mad that they're not allowing illegal people into the country that they're going to charge them a million euros a day.

Oh my god.

So you've probably seen that uh uh Elon Musk started advocating for the European Union to disband and that the individual countries should just you know go their own way and you know pursue their own best destiny because the European Union is just a bureaucratic layer that's ruining everything.

Do you think he'll be able to get away with that?

Do you know because I would say that the European Union is trying to destroy X.

You know, they've got that $140 million fine they're trying to put on him.

If the European Union is trying to destroy X, but they're also trying to destroy free speech in the United States, what should be your opinion about them?

You should want them to go away.

And uh I don't know.

I I think that Elon might be persuasive enough that he could get the conversation going in a way that it has not been going up to this point.

And if the only thing he does is make people talk about it, it's going to go from things we don't even consider as an option to, well, what about this, what about that?

So, I believe that he's already succeeding in step one of persuasion.

And I've taught you this many times.

Step one of persuasion is that you want the person you're trying to persuade to at least imagine that the thing you're trying to persuade them toward is an option.

If they don't even think of it as an option, doesn't matter what you say.

So you first have to get it in their mind that this is a potentially real thing that maybe they can reverse the European Union and go back.

Now, the the second part is harder, which is where you actually change their minds if they need to have their minds changed.

I don't know.

I don't know where the starting point is.

They might be closer to agreeing with him than I know.

Uh, Belgium may suffer.

Yep.

Well, I would I would like to know how Great Britain is doing after Brexit.

So, and whether or not they're happy they Brexited, I don't know that.

I don't know the answer to that.

What do you think?

Is Great Britain happy they Brexited?

I feel like they're probably happy.

I don't know if they're actually better off.

That would be a separate question, but they're probably happier because it gives them, you know, more more feeling of autonomy.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, we'll see how that goes.

I might I I might be interested in entering that persuasion contest, but I would have to know more about what's going on before I do that.

Uh I would not mind lending Elon a hand in the persuasion game there, but only if I can only if I can feel comfortable that uh it's a good decision that they might exit the EU.

might be good for the United States, but I'd also like to think it would be good for them.

If it's not good for them, well, then they get to choose.

They get to choose.

All right.

Well, I managed to stretch that all the way to just about 8:00, top of the hour.

Um, I'm going to say a few words privately to the uh the beloved members of uh of locals.

And uh if you're just joining, um this is kind of interesting.

Um because I'm not my normal uh desk, uh I'm using my i.

Phone as a microphone.

Now, the the new i.

Phones have just tremendous circuitry.

So, as a microphone, it works really well, doesn't it?

Yeah, you're listening to it right now.

So, all you have to do is in the Rumble Studio, uh, it automatically shows up if you're on the same if you're on the same networks.

It automatically shows up as an option and you just choose it.

It's kind of awesome.

All right.

Um, and that is all I had for you.

All right, locals, I'm going to come at you in 30 seconds if I can get this to work.

All right, locals only in 30 seconds.

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Thanks for joining.

Everybody, come on in here. We're uh

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because the iPhone has a very good

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Uh yes, I'm working without a printer.

Um put the phone on my chest.

I believe I will. Good idea. So, I found

a second use for the Dilbert calendar.

Turns out it's ex it's exactly the right

width to put on my crotch to [laughter]

elevate my laptop to the right height.

That's right. So, if you have a problem

with your crotch being too low for your

laptop, that Dilbert calendar will fix

that. they will um I don't want to say

happy Pearl Harbor Day. So I guess I

would say thank you for your service to

all the service people who have served

past and present. And uh is there

anything else we need to say about Pearl

Harbor?

Pearl Harbor was uh on my list of things

that I thought well I I think it's

probably a conspiracy theory. the idea

that, you know, the United States or

somebody in the United States knew that

the attack was coming. How many of you

believe

that we knew the attack was coming? What

do you think?

I don't know. I I feel like maybe

yet the one thing that I'm sure of is

that there's not a single thing in

history that is exactly the way the

history books tell us. I don't think any

of it is real. Now, it might be realish

and it might be directionally true and

parts of it might be true, but I just

don't really believe any of the stories

were told about history. Not not

completely.

Yeah. So, I don't know.

Um, what else is new? If you haven't

seen my impression of a person receiving

a Dilbert calendar for Christmas, you

should go to X and go to the uh top

posted uh video and you will see my

acting skills

on display

and you you'll probably say, "Well, it's

a good thing you didn't become an actor

because you're terrible at this."

Yeah, true. True.

In other news, um I completed yesterday

the second phase of my Bioshield

um shots. So Bioshield, that's Dr. Sunun

Shanun's

um I don't know what I'd call it,

protocol

or uh what what would be the right word,

but uh it's a series of four shots. You

get two and then you wait a little while

and you get the other two. And uh what

it does is it boosts your natural

immunity so against cancer obviously.

And

uh so I've now completed that. Now if it

works it doesn't you know it doesn't

destroy tumors. I don't think it does

that although maybe I don't know maybe

for some people but it's more about uh

making sure it doesn't come back if you

find anything that works. I I'm probably

saying that wrong, but anything that

boosts your uh natural immunity probably

a good thing. So, my natural immunity is

getting boosted even as we talk.

So, we'll see. Uh I will be your real

life um example of, you know, how that

goes. Uh I'm still on the plto

path as well because those two paths do

not interfere. They're actually

complimentary. One of them plums

and then the bio shield will just make

sure that your natural immunity does the

best they can of keeping you

cancer-free.

So neither of them are cures, but they

could push you back in a meaningful way.

Well, let's talk about the news. I I

have to warn you that the news is boring

as hell today. Oh my god, the news is

boring. I guess it's because it's too

close to Christmas or something, but

there is nothing going on. There's

nothing going on. We'll talk about it

anyway because that's what we do. Uh so

I guess Dell computer has warned its

customers that one of its components the

DRAMs are going to go up in price and

that's probably because

the uh the AI data centers are using a

lot of those chips and so there's more

competition and therefore the price is

going up. So it might go up 15 to 20%.

So, I I'll try to give you updates on

what part of the economy is experiencing

inflation, but anything that an AI data

center wants to use is probably going to

get more expensive because the

competition for those will be insane.

Um, but at least, you know, you could if

if you're just a regular consumer, you

don't buy too many laptops. I mean, you

might get one every several years, so it

won't worry you too much. Not like it's

not like gas or food.

Speaking of food, according to Newsmax,

uh Trump is ordering the uh DOJ and the

uh FTC to probe food price fixing. So,

there's a suspicion that the especially

the foreign food companies might be

colluding with each other to keep prices

high.

Do you think they are?

Well, probably.

[clears throat] Probably. Uh, as I tell

you almost every time that I come on

here, uh, any anything that's possible

to be corrupt

eventually will be. It just has to be

possible. And there has to be a lot of

money involved. If there's a lot of

money involved and a lot of people

involved and that would explain the food

industry, then sooner or later it will

be completely corrupt. So, I'm guessing

we're already there and that there will

be some chilling surprises when they

look into it.

Well, are you worried about

microlastics?

How many of you think that's real?

you know, the the whole idea that uh our

microlastics are in all the water and

we're I don't know, we're eating like a

credit card worth of plastic every day

and it will destroy our bodily

functions.

Why is that not a bigger deal?

And why don't we blame that for, let's

say, excess mortality?

Do do you think that excess mortality

could be influenced by microlastics?

Because we never really mention that

when when we talk about, hey,

everybody's dying of more things. We

just automatically go to vaccinations or

or uh viruses.

But it can't be good for you to eat a

credit card worth of plastic every day.

However,

it seems to me that if it were as bad

for you as we're told,

it would have already destroyed all of

human civilization.

So, I'm kind of in this weird place

where I think it can't possibly be

totally true, you know, at least the the

alarm over it. Uh if it were, we'd we'd

be dead already. We we wouldn't be able

to reproduce.

But I also can't see how it's not true

because if you fill your body up with

plastic, that can't be good, right?

So So

I've got a I've got a uh climate change

like question mark. I've got a hole in

the ozone

question mark.

Yeah. [clears throat] So, if you have

bad credit, I'm sure it's even worse.

Yeah, that makes no sense. Anyway, the

reason I bring it up is that there's a

new news from the University of Bon that

they've figured out how to imitate a

fish's

um filtering system. There are some fish

that apparently eat by just opening

their mouth and swimming and whatever

goes in there, it gets filtered and the

bad stuff gets filtered out.

There's something about the architecture

of the the mouth that uh causes them to

easily filter stuff. And apparently they

figured out how to use that kind of

filtering on plastic.

So we might be

right at the cusp of being able to just

filter the heck out of it. So we'll

we'll make some uh whale drones. That's

what we need. We need some drones that

look and act like whales and just swim

around with their mouth open and all

they do is filter the plastic.

All right. Well, that would be the

scariest thing you ever saw in your

life. A gigantic whale floating toward

you with its mouth open. Yep.

[clears throat] You could be a Bible

character if that didn't work out.

Or if it did work out, I guess. Um, did

you know that some of the energy

traders, that would be people who bet

and make investments based on their

anticipated

direction of energy costs, that they're

not acting as if energy is going to go

up in price as much as everybody's

telling you. So, you've got a little

inconsistency going on. Uh, this is

according to Financial Times. Martha

Mure is writing about this. So on one

hand, we're being told by everybody

smart that the price of energy is going

to go through the roof because of all

the AI demand. And I don't think anybody

says anything different. But when you

look at the people who are betting on

it, putting their actual money on it,

they're not really betting that it'll go

up that much.

So there's a disconnect between the

people who know the most and the people

who invest the most. Are the people who

invest the most really the only ones who

know the most or are they just playing

some kind of, you know, riskreward game

and uh they're they're not fully

convinced that prices will go up that

much? Well, I'm I'm kind of on the same

side as the energy traders,

meaning that I don't believe that if you

look at a 20-year future period, I don't

believe that we would get um the high

prices that pretty much everybody smart

says we're going to get because there

would be such a gigantic economic

benefit for either figuring out how to

do AI cheaper or how to build a a data

center cheaper or how to produce energy

cheaper because the you know the uh the

upside potential of getting any of those

things to work is trillions of dollars.

So when you have trillions on the line

and it's more of an engineering problem.

You don't have to probably don't have to

like invent some new technology. It's

probably more of an engineering thing.

Um, I've got a feeling that we will

figure out how to make AI and energy way

more accessible. Might be 10 years from

now, but um I think that's a guarantee.

Well, there's a story I don't believe,

but it's in the news that some Reddit

user claims that he was using a Google

AI and the AI deleted his entire hard

drive

and then begged for forgiveness after it

was done. Do you believe that?

How many of you believe that?

First of all, it's coming from Reddit,

and I believe there's only one source,

and it's a little bit too on the nose,

isn't it? It would be sort of the exact

thing that you'd be worried about if you

used an AI agent. Oh, no. It would go

rogue. It's going to delete all my

stuff.

Yeah, I'm going to say I don't believe

it. It's possible. It's definitely

possible, but I'm going to say no. If I

had to put a bet on it, I'd bet no.

What do you think? Do you think the

Reddit users are credible?

I don't believe [clears throat] it at

all.

Well, uh, Tim Pool's home, uh, I think

he has more than one home, so I don't

know which state this one is in, but,

uh, his home was shot at by a gunman who

approached the property in a some kind

of vehicle and shot into it.

My god, you know, after all the times

he's been swatted to to see that

somebody drove up to his house and

actually put a bullet into it. Good

lord. But uh the Daily Mail was writing

about this and they call him a

right-wing commentator.

Is that accurate?

Would you call Tim P a right-wing

commentator? That doesn't sound right,

does it? Now, I do understand that uh a

lot of his opinions would be compatible

with a lot of people on the right, but

that's not exactly how he defines

himself, right? Isn't he more

independent?

Yeah. So, that that doesn't seem fair at

all. Um, you know, partly I guess this

would just be a compliment. So, I'll

give Tim a compliment that if you can't

tell exactly, you know, what his label

is. That's sort of where you want to be

if you're in his job. You you want to be

unlabelable

so that people don't know what you're

going to do. They're they they trust

that you could have an opinion that

might match one side today and the other

side tomorrow. That would be the place

to be. So, I just don't see rightwing as

the right the right label. I'd love to

see what he says about it.

But I I was also reading up because it

was just context to the story uh just

how wonderfully successful he's been,

you know, building his little empire.

He's got several studios working for him

and uh they they say his revenue from

his many operations is really

impressive.

Um so good for you, Tim Pool. I I think

Tim P has one of these talent stack

situations

where there are a number of podcasters

who are good at podcasting but they

wouldn't be good at running a big

operation. He seems to be good at both.

So he seems to be, you know, really good

at pretty much all the elements that you

would need to do what he does. So uh I'm

always impressed by his operation and

his talents.

Um,

so here's a new science story. There's

not much happening in politics because

it's December and it's the weekend and

blah blah blah. So I'll do some more

science stuff. So scientists, according

to interesting engineering,

scientists have developed a recyclable

building material that absorbs CO2

instead of emitting it. Now you've

probably heard that story a million

times. I think I've probably talked

about

maybe a dozen times. I've talked about,

hey, they developed some kind of new

futuristic material that absorbs CO2

instead of giving it off. Well, they got

another one. They call it a carbon

negative building, blah blah blah. But

what what caught my attention is not

that the technology is real or not real

or that it works or it doesn't work.

Imagine if you will that you had spent

the last 10 years of your life trying to

figure out how to solve climate change

and then suddenly the news changed

from climate change is real. It's a it's

a crisis and we better do everything we

can to fix it where you felt really good

when you went to work because you're

like, "Yeah, I I'm part of the

solution."

But now that the news cycle is kind of

shifting,

have you noticed? It's more like uh

there was a study that said climate

change is bad and it's been reversed.

Um turns out the uh the coral reefs are

growing, not shrinking.

Oh, we had fewer uh fewer hurricanes

reached land landfall in the United

States than any recent year. Yeah, that

the ice the ice seems to be more, not

less. The greenery is more, not less.

So, wouldn't you feel really duped if

you had dedicated your life to solving

this big crisis for humanity only to

find out it wasn't real?

And by the way, I don't know if it's

real. I mean, the certainly I don't

trust science.

that it could be real, but it doesn't

look like it to me. Uh, I'm not seeing

the the signals for it. I am seeing the

signals for hoax. Those are really

strong, but you know, I could be fooled

by that as well.

All right. One of you is eating squirrel

gravy over biscuits. I don't even want

to ask what squirrel gravy is. But you

do that and I'll keep doing this.

And the [clears throat] rest of you, you

probably don't want to try the squirrel

gravy. I don't even want to think about

it. Squirrel gravy. Speaking of animals,

did you know that the state of Idaho has

an insulting name for people like me?

They do. Uh, I would be called a cow.

CO. So, apparently the Idaho governor

revealed that uh they refer to people

who came from these three states,

California, Oregon, and Washington. So,

the letters would spell cow. Uh because

they're always leaving they're leaving

their home state to go to Idaho where

the taxes are, you know, the taxes are

easier.

But, uh I feel quite insulted that the

governor of Idaho is calling me a cow.

Well, technically I'm not a cow unless I

leave California, which is too hard to

do right now.

But Idaho, all right, Idaho, I'll give

you that.

It makes me want to come up with a

insulting nickname for your state, but

uh I'll accept that I'm a cow.

Well, we're still talking about that

January 6 pipe bomber guy

uh who looks like Urkl.

He's the Urkl looking pipe bomber. And

uh we're still talking about whether he

was a Trump supporter. Like that was the

important part.

Uh and apparently his family says no, he

was not politically affiliated with

anything. You know, his grandmother

said, "I don't know if his grandmother

knows." How many of your grandmothers

know your political views?

I don't know how many know that. But uh

his family family seems to be backing

the idea that he wasn't, you know, big

on politics.

And uh apparently he was a recluse who

lives in his mother's basement. Well, I

don't know how much longer he'll be

living there. Um assuming he's in jail

by now. And he works in a data entry job

and he's been grieving the loss of his

pet dog. I do I do feel bad for him if

he lost his dog. So, that's the saddest

part of the story. But, uh, what do you

think of that? Isn't that like way too

on the nose that the guy literally lives

in his mother's basement?

You know, we always say that about

certain people. Uh, you're probably a

basement dweller,

but he actually lives in his mother's

basement.

Yeah.

I I don't have anything else to say

about that except Well, that looks like

exactly the thing you'd want. He's

probably down there eating squirrel

gravy on biscuits.

Just a guess.

Um I guess the House of Representatives

passed a bill.

I guess this Senate would have to vote

on it next that uh anyway the the House

bipartisan in a bipartisan way uh voted

to block China's influence on schools.

So I guess China does a bunch of things

that would I don't know create materials

that they would use in school and they

they have a number of ways that they

might be influencing the the classrooms.

But uh the US House passed three bills

this week aimed at protecting your K

through2 classrooms from the influence

of Chinese Communist Party.

Is that a good idea?

Probably. That's probably a good idea.

So I'm glad that has bipartisan support.

Meanwhile, in other news,

uh you remember the Epstein victim that

died? Her name was Virginia Joffrey and

uh she tragically I think it was a motor

motor vehicle accident and she hung on

for a while but then then she passed.

Um, the latest news about her is that

according to leading report, I don't

know who they are, but they're on X,

that she had multi-million dollar

fortune, which I assume came from

settling settling cases with rich people

that wanted to stay on the news, but she

allegedly had multi-million dollar

estate that has gone missing.

How did millions of dollars go missing?

If you know where they used to be,

how how would you even do that?

Can you move millions of dollars without

leaving a trail? [clears throat]

If [laughter] you can, can you tell me

how to do that? Cuz I'll become a money

launderer for the cartels. I don't think

there's a way to do that. Is there? Uh,

unless you turned it into a some bizarre

crypto and then changed it back at some

point. Is there any actual way for

millions of dollars to just disappear

from the American system? Well, I don't

know. It couldn't have been in a bank.

If it had been in a bank, we'd know

where it went.

All right. So, I have I have some

questions whether there really was a

million dollar fortune and whether they

really don't know how to find it. I feel

like they do. May maybe it would take

the FBI to find it. So, it could be that

the family doesn't know where it is, but

I don't think it's lost forever, is it?

Anyway, the uh SBA, the Small Business

Administrator head, Kelly Laughler,

um says that the discovery of uh

according to Fox News, says that the

discovery of this, you know, billions of

dollars of Somali fraud uh is leading

the SBA to expand its investigation

across the entire state of Minnesota.

So, this is what Kelly Laughler said,

and see if this sounds like something

I've said. quote, "It appears that this

fraud ring is being perpetrated across

all types of government assistance,

all types of government assistance that

is meant for families that are hungry,

families that need housing, young

children that need education, and it's

being exploited."

Doesn't that sound like exactly what

I've been saying? That wherever there is

a large bunch of money,

it's always fraud. There doesn't seem to

be any other condition. Lots of money.

Time goes by, lots of people involved.

Yeah, it's going to it's going to turn

into a fraudulent mess.

And

apparently the SBA thinks it's already

happened. I would not be surprised.

Well, did you know that over in Europe

they've got some buses made in China?

And uh the Europeans have just

discovered that their buses made by

China have some kind of a secret kill

switch.

So so China could just turn off your bus

anytime it wanted to. Now I guess the

the mechanism is sort of a software

update mechanism. So there might be

there might be some legitimate, you

know, use for it, but the non-legitimate

uses are a little scary because it would

allow China to to just, you know, put

some uh code in your bus that you were

not expecting.

Have you noticed that every single time

there's a large expensive Chinese

product, you know, be it switches in

your your energy grid, be it telephone

uh switches,

be it buses. Have you noticed that every

time there's a secret kill switch?

Every time.

It does look like China could turn off

all of civilization if it wanted to. But

are they really I mean is that really

why all these things have a back door?

Or is it because you would want to put

some kind of software upgrading thing in

anything that anything that had

software? If you have a if you have

anything that needs software,

wouldn't you want to put a remote

software upgrade feature into it? So,

I'm not I'm not entirely sure it's part

of like the Chinese plan to take down

all of civilization because if they took

down all of civilization, they would go

at the same time. Don't you think

if China ever, you know, pulled the

trigger on that and and suddenly, you

know, a bunch of cars stopped started,

you know, stopped the the phone network

was crippled and the buses stopped.

Suppose they did that.

That would completely destroy their

ability to sell anything to anybody in

the future because everybody would say,

"Oh, we can't trust you." It wouldn't

matter what the product was. We'd say,

"All right, you're up to no good. We

will never buy a piece of technology

from you again forever."

So, it's hard for me to understand,

you know, any kind of situation where

China would actually pull the trigger on

this kind of thing where it would take

down a whole industry. I know that they

can and I know I don't trust them, but I

don't know how it could ever look like

it's a good idea from their side. Like,

oh, we'll just we'll just take down all

of their telephone networks in the

United States. I don't think they'll try

to, you know, reciprocate. Of course we

would. [laughter] Of course we would

reciprocate. So how in the world could

it ever be a good idea?

So I'm skeptical about some of these

China can turn it off stories. I I'm not

skeptical that it's technically

possible. I'm skeptical that they have a

plan to do it or under any circumstance

because it just seems like it would be a

terrible idea.

Anyway, but you know, it's a complicated

world, so maybe

um did you see the Gavin Newsome

uh photograph of him sitting in a chair

at some event and he had his legs

crossed, which for reasons I've not

quite understood, uh conservatives like

Jesse Waters and number of other people

have decided that men are not allowed to

sit with their legs crossed.

When did that start?

Why in the world am I not allowed to

cross my legs if it's more comfortable?

Is there some that did somebody write a

set of laws or regulations for leg

crossing?

I object.

But anyway, um

so Gavin Newsome got a bunch of uh

mocking because he was sitting with his

legs crossed and the conservatives went

after him. Uh, so his response was a

meme where he's kind of exaggerated yoga

pose. His his legs are up here. His legs

are up by his ears and he's he's in sort

of a yoga pose. It's a very funny

picture. And I I have to say, if I'm

judging him just on meme warfare, nicely

done. Nicely done. Yeah, it it would

have been a mistake for him to defend

how he was sitting. It was not a mistake

to take the uh you know to take the meme

and exaggerate it another level. That

was pretty well done. I'm going to give

him that. I don't want him to be my

president and I'm not really delighted

about him being my governor,

but his meme game is definitely

improving. you know, it's not it's not

Trump level, of course, but uh it's

getting better.

Well, according to the University of

Eastern Finland, who I go to for all of

my Sunday stories, uh people swear on

social media more with acquaintances

than with friends.

Is that true? Do you feel that you swear

more with somebody you know, but they're

not necessarily a friend, than you would

with your friends?

I don't know about that. And uh the

story says that Americans use the f-word

more on social media than Australians or

Britons.

Really?

Uh have you ever met somebody from

Britain?

Have you ever met anybody from Australia

and you're telling me that we use the

f-word more than they do?

All right, I'm gonna I'm going to

question your data there because if

you've never spent any time with anybody

from either of those countries,

well, maybe you'd believe that, but

I don't know.

Anyway, this this continues to amuse me

that uh people are still driving by Tim

Wals's house in Minnesota and yelling

the rword, Uh and his daughter

just did a uh did a little video. Uh

she's fuming about it online. She

doesn't like it. And I feel I feel like

what happened was

that it's turned somehow it's turned

into a tourist event.

Now imagine, you know, this wouldn't

make sense for me in my current

situation because I'm a public figure,

but you tell me,

true or false, if you were in Minnesota

for, let's say you didn't live there,

but you were there for visiting or

whatever, and you knew that you were a

short drive

[laughter]

away from Tim Walsh's house, and you

knew that people were driving by and

yelling Are you telling me you

wouldn't want to do it?

You You wouldn't want to just, you know,

get in on the fun. Come on. You would.

You would think it was funny. You might

not do it, but you would definitely

think it's funny and you would

definitely consider it. So, I think

what's happened is not just that uh

people are doing it, but now it's sort

of becoming a thing.

You know, it's sort of like the the

thing you say when you see a certain

thing. So, I feel like for the rest of

time, even after Tim Walls has left the

job, that people will still drive by

that house,

roll down their windows, and yell the or

word as loud as they can, laugh like

hyenas,

and then drive home and feel like they

had a good time.

So,

that's going to happen.

But I guess uh part of the question is

whether whether it's fair that Trump is

bullying

uh poor Tim Walsh. But uh I was reminded

that apparently Tim Walsh said in May at

a keynote speech in at the South

Carolina Democratic Party convention, he

said that he urged Democrats to quote be

a little meaner talking about Trump and

more fierce in pushing back against

Trump and Republicans.

And apparently Walsh used a schoolyard

analogy. This is according to Grock. um

from his experience as a teacher, he

said uh when it's a child, you talk to

him and you tell him why bullying is

wrong, but when it's an adult like

Donald Trump, you bully the out of

him back.

So Tim Walsh apparently has in public

encouraged Democrats to bully Trump by

saying things that would be hurtful.

So, do you feel bad that people are

driving by by his house and yelling

No, you don't feel bad about

that. Talk about inviting

[clears throat] it. Oh my god, nobody

nobody ever invited it harder than he

did. So,

um I don't have an opinion whether

people should do it or not, but I think

it's funny that it might become a

forever thing. You know, it could be a

hundred years from now, people will

still yell drive by that that house and

yell and nobody will even

remember why. It's just something that

everybody does. I think that's going to

happen.

Well, according to the Massimo account

on X, which has a lot of good content,

Massimo, M- SS I M O, um BYD, I guess

that's a Chinese company, they're

building a new factory in Zen Xiao that

the size of the factory

is 50 square miles. That would be larger

than the entire surface area of San

Francisco. That's going to be one

company,

one building. I I think actually it' be

multiple buildings, but they they would

cover the surface area of 50 square

miles and they're in the process of

finishing that up. I feel like we've

entered the era of massive construction

because when we see the size of let's

say a a new a new uh battery factory, it

just looks massively large. anything

that Elon Musk is planning to do, be it

in space or on the ground, massively

large. And all the the AI um data

centers, they're not normal. They are

massively large. So, I think we've just

entered this massively large

construction era. I don't know if that's

good or bad, but it's impressive. I I

did worry that humans had lost the

ability to do big things, but apparently

not.

Anyway, um as you know the uh FIFA or

FIFA, Fifa, the the big international

soccer, but they would call it football

organization, they came up with they

invented a uh a peace medal and awarded

it to Trump. You know, sort of like the

uh Nobel Peace Prize except it would be

the FIFA Peace Prize. Now, what do you

think Trump did? He accepted it

graciously and uh reminded us how many

how many wars he stopped etc as he likes

to do. And then the uh Democrats in this

country decided that it was uh

embarrassing and humiliating that other

countries could manipulate our president

so easily by just offering him, you

know, childlike

um rewards.

To which I say, is that treating him

like a child? Is that how you see it?

Because the way I see it is that people

understand that giving him what he wants

is a good strategy.

That's the president I want. I want the

president where when somebody says, "Oh

my god, we're going to meet with the

president, but what does he want? We got

to give him what he wants." I want them

all thinking like that. And if they

decided that what he wants is to be

recognized for creating peace more than

any president ever has, what's wrong

with that?

What's wrong with that? I would want

that. Now, I don't see why it makes

sense that there's a FIFA peace medal.

[laughter]

It doesn't really make any sense. But

every time somebody reminds the world

that he's worthy of a peace prize,

I don't mind that. That feels like

that's good for him. Good for him, good

for me, good for the world. Yeah, it

makes him probably more effective the

next time he tries to end a war because

people just think, "Oh, he's the guy who

ends wars." And you just sort of

automatically

start acting like it's just a done deal.

Yeah, he's he's that guy. He ends wars,

so I guess he'll end this one, too. So,

no, I have no problem with people making

up brand new

uh peace prizes and giving it to my

president.

Um Trump has apparently directed RFK Jr.

to review the childhood vaccine schedule

and maybe revise it to get it more in

line potentially. They they haven't done

the analysis yet, so they don't know

what changes they might make, if any.

But, uh, the thinking is that Europe,

uh, does fewer shots and we might take a

look at that and see if they're getting

a better result or a worse result with

their fewer shots, which is smart. So,

every I like everything about that. We

don't know where it's going to end up.

Bill Gates was at some event according

to Disclosed TV and uh he said that

African farmers will soon have AI

advisors, you know, just on their phone

AI will advise them and they'll better

seeds and animal genetics and that they

will become with all those things a

significant net food exporter.

So Africa might go from that starving

continent to hello look at all the food

we can create and that would be AI

driven but better seeds and animal

genetics too. Uh do you believe that?

I don't know. So I did a little uh

groing. I used Grock to ask some

questions

and I was trying to see if there's any

low trust

civilization that did well economically

because it seemed to me that if you

don't have a high trust um society that

you can't really make economics work

because everybody's stealing and nobody

trusts anybody and you know you got to

have a little bit of trust or you can't

make anything work. And then I wondered

if Africa was a low trust

um situation and Grock actually gave a

mixed answer. He said that uh if you're

looking at the whole the entire

continent, yes, it would be a low trust

uh situation. But here's what Gra said

that there would be many pockets, you

know, like a tribe or a half a tribe or

whatever where the trust was very high.

So the actual African culture uh

according to Grock or this is Grock I

wouldn't know one way or the other but

Grock says that on the individual base

level you can often really trust people.

I assume that's because they would be

relatives and you know it's a small

tribe and if somebody tried to screw you

you would know their name and you could

get back at them. So it could be that

the smaller the the group of people is,

the more the trust is just cuz you know

what's going on with a small group. But

if you're looking at the larger group,

there seems to be not a lot of trust.

So, I'm I'm going to differ with Bill

Gates and say that if you gave a low

trust

continent

um a bunch of really good tools like AI

and better seeds and better genetics

that that wouldn't turn into necessarily

economic success. You you'd have to get

to the point where at least your

Department of Justice, your police, and

your courts

would be trusted. And I think that's the

biggest thing that the United States has

done right. Even though maybe we

shouldn't have trusted them as much as

we did, but we did. And uh yeah, I I

think they need that stuff more than

they need AI and seeds.

They need to figure out how to have a

high trust

court system and uh you know less graft

and corruption. That would be true for

everybody. That's not just true for

Africa.

Well, according to the Associate Press,

the AP,

um

there's a place in Canada, Edmonton,

the city of Edmonton, um they've got AI

powered police body cams. So, if you're

a police uh person that if you walk by

somebody who's wanted for some kind of

crime, your body cam will go boop boop

boop wanted for a crime and then you

could arrest them. And it's got about

7,000 people

uh that they would call high risk on

their watch list. What do you think of

that? Now, that's just 7,000 people in

one city in Canada.

I don't know how big Edmonton is.

Several million.

But uh that feels like a lot of people.

7,000,

right? It just feels like a lot. Um so

do you do you like that idea that the

police would know who the bad people are

just by walking past them?

Well, it would depend what they do about

it.

Yeah. If they arrest them because

there's some Yeah. withstanding warrant.

I guess that would be good for those of

us who are not criminals.

Yeah. Yeah. But I think we're going to

get to the point where people are

wearing masks and everything else. If

you were one of those 7,000 low trust

people, the first thing you should do is

move the heck out of Edmonton, you know,

and go somewhere where they don't have

that technology. That's the first thing.

U So that's my advice for you criminals.

All you Edmonton criminals,

move now.

All right.

There was an article in Axios today.

Such a slow news day. Wow. That uh they

say the title of the article on Axios

was how Trump flipped America's race

conversation.

And the the essence of the article is

that we used to get all worked up when

people said racist stuff, especially

Trump, but now we just shrug it off. Do

you believe that's true? Do you believe

that Trump single-handedly

made it okay or at least not as

dangerous to say flagrantly racist stuff

in public?

Well, so they they gave examples of the

racist things that Trump has done in the

past. Do you think any of them were

real?

[clears throat] No. No. Axio still

believes that the Obama birth

certificate situation was racist.

Now, I don't know how you define racist,

but one of the ways you could tell if

something is racist or not would be if

you could change the race of the person

involved and it would look exactly the

same.

So, the Obama birth certificate thing,

if you changed him from uh, you know,

black to anything else, Irish, we'll say

Irish, but there was still some open

question about his uh, where he was born

and what his citizenship is. Are you

telling me that Trump would not have

mentioned it if it had been an Irish

guy? Of course he would.

The most common thing that people do in

politics is question whether their

opponent is qualified to even be in that

in that area. Haven't we been talking

about uh Swallwell and whether he

actually has a home in California?

Haven't we talked about Ted Cruz having

a Canadian connection?

Is that racist?

Why Why is that racist?

If if you can totally change the the

person in it and you can change their

race and it's exactly the same story,

that's not racist. It would have to be

something where if you change the race,

it would go from right to wrong or, you

know, or something like that. But if it

doesn't make any difference and it's the

normal way that even politics work, I

don't know. Axios, let's see. I think

they have some other examples.

Another example was that Trump allegedly

called some countries hole

countries.

Now, do you think he was talking about

their color?

No. Do you do you believe that if there

had been a third world country that were

just all white people, but they they had

uh very low educational attainment and

they were, you know, a lot of them were

criminals, for example. I'm not saying

that the hole countries were that,

but can you not imagine an all-white

country that he would throw in the

hole category because

maybe they just uh were low trust

people.

I I just don't see the racist part.

again, if you could change the race and

he would still say the same thing, cuz I

would if you put me in that situation

and I knew there was some, you know,

sketchy high crime but all white

neighborhood or let's say country. Um, I

would call that a hole country.

I don't see how that would be racist if

it's all white people. Anyway, so again,

that would be an interpretation by

Axios. It's not something that Trump did

wrong. It's something that they

interpret as wrong, which is really

different.

Uh, and then they mentioned Trump's 2016

campaign opening claiming that Mexico

was sending rapists into the US. Now,

how many people thought that when Trump

said they're sending, you know,

criminals and rapists, how many thought

that he believed that's all that was

being sent or that's all that was

coming? Did anybody believe that?

There's not a single person in the world

who would have interpreted that as every

single one of them was a rapist because

remember some large number of them are

children and women. Did they think Did

Axios think he was calling the women and

children who were coming across the

border illegally? Was he calling them

rapists?

No. [laughter]

No. No. It's It's ridiculous. So, the

bubble that Axios has been in or at

least the writers of that article, it

it's the problem is them. There there's

no story here about Trump being one way

and then turning another way. Trump has

been exactly the same for the entire

time. The only difference is that the

people observing him went from thinking,

you know, their narrative was correct to

again thinking their narrative is

correct. It's just a narrative. They

don't understand the difference between

what's true and what's a interpretation

or what's a narrative.

All right. Now, let's play my favorite

game, stupid or lying. I'm gonna tell

you what happened on TV, I think

yesterday, and you tell me if the person

involved is stupid or lying, cuz I

actually can't tell.

So, I guess uh there was some kind of a

MSNBC

uh show in which uh one of the hosts of

NBC of MSNBC is Stephanie Rule. So

Stephanie Rule was there, but also

Charlemagne the God and several other

people were at the table. Charlemagne

was saying uh that when you tune you

tune into MSNBC,

you know what you're going to get,

meaning that they would be taking the

the lefty view on things. Stephanie Rule

said, "I challenge that. You don't." and

she insisted that you would not be able

to predict what the MSNBC take on a

story would be.

Really? You really think that we can't

anticipate what the story would be?

I'm pretty sure I could get every one of

them pretty close. You maybe not every

detail, but I think we can all guess

which way they'd go. Let's say let's say

Trump does a State of the Union.

Could you possibly anticipate what uh

what MS I guess or MS now? Now, could

you possibly anticipate what their take

would be? Will they say it's unhinged

and that he needs to get uh he needs to

be removed for office because he's

losing his mind? Do you think they'll

say that? Yes. Yes, they will. And I'm

not wrong. Do you think they'll say it

was dark and that it was racist? Of

course they will.

We [clears throat] all know exactly what

their takes would be. So I I asked the

question again. Is Stephanie Rule

stupid? Does she really not know that we

can anticipate all of their takes? I

mean, you know, maybe there's 2% we get

wrong, but essentially there's no

surprises.

Or is she lying? I don't know. This This

one I can't tell. This could be stupid

or lying. I don't know.

Anyway, apparently there's an asteroid

coming our way that has some kind of

sugar essentials in it. Some little

nucle nucleioases,

whatever that is. Uh amino acids and

amino acids and nucleobases.

And these are apparently some of the

ingredients that you would expect to see

for life. Doesn't mean there's any life

on the asteroids, but it would suggest

that the building blocks of life could

be widespread across the universe

because this asteroid has been many

places before it was here. And uh if the

by the time it gets here, it's got these

building blocks for life, that would

suggest there's probably more of them

out there.

All right.

Um,

the prime minister of Hungary, Victor

Orban,

uh,

he he says that, uh, I guess he told

Trump that the European Union is

charging Hungary 1 million euros per day

for not allowing illegal migration into

Hungary.

Can you believe that? So Hungary doesn't

want to allow illegal illegal migration

into their country. And uh the European

Union is so mad that they're not

allowing illegal people into the country

that they're going to charge them a

million euros a day.

Oh my god. So you've probably seen that

uh uh Elon Musk started advocating for

the European Union to disband and that

the individual countries should just you

know go their own way and you know

pursue their own best destiny because

the European Union is just a

bureaucratic layer that's ruining

everything. Do you think he'll be able

to get away with that? Do you know

because I would say that the European

Union is trying to destroy X. You know,

they've got that $140 million fine

they're trying to put on him. If the

European Union is trying to destroy X,

but they're also trying to destroy free

speech in the United States, what should

be your opinion about them? You should

want them to go away. And uh

I don't know. I I think that Elon might

be persuasive enough that he could get

the conversation going in a way that it

has not been going up to this point. And

if the only thing he does is make people

talk about it, it's going to go from

things we don't even consider as an

option to, well, what about this, what

about that? So, I believe that he's

already succeeding in step one of

persuasion. And I've taught you this

many times. Step one of persuasion is

that you want the person you're trying

to persuade to at least imagine that the

thing you're trying to persuade them

toward is an option. If they don't even

think of it as an option, doesn't matter

what you say. So you first have to get

it in their mind that this is a

potentially real thing that maybe they

can reverse the European Union and go

back. Now, the the second part is

harder, which is where you actually

change their minds if they need to have

their minds changed. I don't know. I

don't know where the starting point is.

They might be closer to agreeing with

him than I know.

Uh,

Belgium may suffer. [laughter]

Yep. Well, I would I would like to know

how Great Britain is doing after Brexit.

So, and whether or not they're happy

they Brexited,

I don't know that. I don't know the

answer to that. What do you think? Is

Great Britain happy they Brexited?

I feel like they're probably happy. I

don't know if they're actually better

off. That would be a separate question,

but they're probably happier because it

gives them, you know, more more feeling

of autonomy.

Yeah. All right. Well, we'll see how

that goes. I might I I might be

interested in entering that persuasion

contest, but I would have to know more

about what's going on before I do that.

Uh I would not mind

lending Elon a hand in the persuasion

game there, but only if I can only if I

can feel comfortable

that uh it's a good decision that they

might exit the EU. might be good for the

United States,

but I'd also like to think it would be

good for them. If it's not good for

them, well, then they get to choose.

They get to choose.

All right. Well, I managed to stretch

that all the way to just about 8:00, top

of the hour. Um,

I'm going to say a few words privately

to the uh the beloved members of uh of

locals. And uh if you're just joining,

um this is kind of interesting. Um

because I'm not my normal uh desk, uh

I'm using my iPhone as a microphone.

Now, the the new iPhones have just

tremendous circuitry. So, as a

microphone, it works really well,

doesn't it? Yeah, you're listening to it

right now. So, all you have to do is in

the Rumble Studio, uh, it automatically

shows up if you're on the same if you're

on the same networks. It automatically

shows up as an option and you just

choose it. It's kind of awesome.

All right. Um, and that is all I had for

you. All right, locals, I'm going to

come at you

in 30 seconds if I can get this to work.

All right, locals only in 30 seconds.

and the rest of you. Thanks for joining.