Episode 3042 CWSA 12/10/25

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Um, I saw a quote on X from Aaron Gwyn.

I don't know who Erin is, but Aaron says funny things.

And, uh, the quote was, "We know psychology is a scam for two reasons." Do you believe that?

Do you think psychology is a scam?

Well, Erin gives two reasons, but I think they might come from somebody else.

Number one, all the children of psychologists are insane.

Well, it's a little bit harsh, isn't it?

But it does seem to me that the children of psychologists tend to be a little insane.

Okay, I'm not going to say that's true, but I'm not going to say it's not true.

Then the second reason that psychology is a scam uh this is according to David uh Mamemoth.

Uh in a 100 years of psychoanalysis, no one has ever gotten better.

Do you believe that?

Have you ever known anybody who had bad psychological problems?

Then they went to their uh they went to their uh psychoanalysts and then they got better.

I've never heard of it.

Have you?

Well, let's assume maybe it's working for somebody.

But, you know, I do think sometimes that just the the the mere act that you're doing something to try to improve your situation.

Yeah.

Maybe that does something for your psychology because you feel like at least you're, you know, taking it into your own hands.

Well, Samsung is reportedly making uh millions of uh OLED displays for an Apple foldable phone.

Don't know when that Apple foldable phone is coming out, but I saw it being mocked as Apple's finally caught up to 2019.

Did we have a foldable phone?

Not an Apple phone, but did Samsung or somebody have a foldable phone in 2019 and Apple's just catching up to it seven years later?

Is that real?

I got to say, uh, Apple doesn't make bad decisions.

So, probably there was some problem like supply chain or, you know, maybe they weren't reliable, they broke or something.

Maybe something like that.

But it does feel it does feel like Apple's not exactly the leading edge at the moment, doesn't it?

All right.

I don't know who is asking for a foldable phone, uh, but I'd like one.

How many of you would not want a foldable phone?

Is there a reason not to have one?

Because if it's not folded, it's sort of exactly like a regular phone, right?

Almost exactly, except the screen would be using up too much real estate compared to the battery.

All right.

Well, here's sort of a big day, but it kind of comes with a small squeak instead of a roar.

And uh goes like this.

Elon Musk was at some event.

he was talking and uh he said that full unsupervised driving is pretty much solved at this point and that robo taxis with no safety monitors that would be a human who was sitting there just for safety.

Um we'll roll out in Austin in about three weeks.

So, in three weeks, that day will finally have come.

We're at least in Austin, and we assume it will roll out pretty quickly other places.

Maybe not quickly in California because we're bad at everything.

But that does seem like an impressive point in in history, doesn't it?

Like one of those days that will be remembered forever.

the the day that full self-driving became ordinary.

Like nobody's even I don't think anybody's even complaining that it would be less safe than a human.

Have you heard anybody make that argument?

I think that argument is solved.

So, of course, self-driving would have to be, you know, 10 times safer or some number than uh human driving or else we won't trust it.

But I think it's there.

So, this is a whole new world just in time because I'll need that self-driving car.

All right.

Um, and then Elon says they're going to add a lot of reasoning and um and more to the car.

Uh, to get to serious scale, Tesla will probably need to buy it to build, this is what Musk says, to build their own giant chip fab have a few hundred gigawatts of AI chips per year.

And Elon says, I don't see that capability coming online fast enough.

So, we'll probably have to build a fab.

Now, how would you like to be that confident about your business abilities?

Let me read this again and and just try to hold this in your head that there there wouldn't be anyone else who would be able to make enough of the giant uh of the chips.

So, they're going to get into the business and scale up faster than people who are already in the business.

and it will it will get to a superior place so fast that it would be better than waiting for them.

That's pretty confident.

Um, can they do it?

Probably.

Probably.

I I do think they probably can.

So, it'll be impressive when they do.

Well, here's a story that just keeps popping up and I don't believe didn't believe it the first time and I don't believe it the second time.

And that is uh I don't know was it on was it on Joe Rogan show again?

It was on somebody's podcast that uh new radar scans reveal a massive engineered substructure beneath the Giza pyramids.

Does that sound familiar?

Like it's not the first time you've heard this exact story.

You know, maybe the picture is different, but do you believe that we can with any kind of technology that we have, do you believe that we can look under the pyramids and see a giant structure and we've determined that it might be an energy grid beneath the pyramids?

I'm going to say no.

I'm going to say no.

the so so far I've got a pretty good record of when I say nope uh just on the surface I don't have to do any research um it's definitely not true so far I've been right we do have a question mark about the uh what what was it called the uh the sonic weapon under the embassies I'm still open to that being a sonic weapon but my first impulse and I'm staying with it is that it was fake and that there was no sonic weapon.

Possible though.

It's possible.

I'm going to stick with no no sonic weapon.

Um yeah, and it the uh claim about the pyramid seems a little complex.

Yeah, I don't believe it.

All right, what else we got going on?

So, it's going to be all fake news today.

How many of you remember when I used to bug the hell out of you by claiming that the slippery slope is not a logical structure?

Meaning that if your reasoning comes from the slippery slope that you haven't done any reasoning at all.

Do you remember I used to say that all the time and people would get so mad.

They'd say, "What about this example?

What about this example?

It's obvious that if you go down the slippery slope, you can predict where it's going to go because it's slippery.

It's slippery.

And I kept saying that's not a thing there.

There's no kind of logic called the slippery slope.

Well, you can still argue with me on that, but Eric Nolan at Sidepost uh is talking about a study in which they found that conservatives are more prone to slippery slope thinking.

Do you think that's true?

That if you're a conservative and something, you know, starts going in the direction you don't want it to go, you're more likely to think it's going to keep going.

Uh, I don't know how much more, but apparently there's, you know, an identifiable difference.

Now, that would explain everything because, you know, I didn't really spend much time interacting with anybody conservative for most of my early, you know, early adulthood.

But as soon as I did, um, I kept seeing people claim the slippery slope.

And I kept saying, there's no logic called the slippery slope.

Sometimes sometimes things keep going the way they're going and sometimes they don't.

There's no logic to it.

You can't use that to predict.

Uh but people did they did use it to predict and sometimes they would get it right because there were only two ways that something could go.

You're either going to get more of it or you're not.

So since there are only two ways a thing can go.

There's either going to be more of it or there's not going to be more of it.

you had at least something like a it's not literally true, but it's something like a 50/50 chance that you're going to get the right answer for no logic whatsoever.

So, half of you are going to say, "Yeah, I told you it was a slippery slope." And look, as soon as as soon as we let our 17-year-old get a tattoo, uh next thing you know, she comes home and she's all tatted up.

No, you know, yeah, it it's not as if things never go in one direction.

Sometimes they do, but it doesn't mean you can predict it based on slippery slope.

Anyway, so the only reason I bring this up is that I'm pretty sure almost every one of you Oh, actually, I'm kind of curious.

Show me in the uh in the comments.

How many of you believe that the slippery slope is a way for predicting the future?

That that's a that's a valid uh kind of a logical way to predict the future.

How many how many think that?

Um I'm just looking at your comments now.

All right.

It'll take a while for the comments to catch up to uh where we are, but uh you might be right.

As far as I can tell, the slippery slope is not part of logic.

Um President Trump continues to be quotable.

So, here's here's something Trump said uh about Somalia.

Uh he said, quote, "I've also announced a permanent pause on third world migration, including from hell holes like Somalia." To which I say, "Oh, well, that feels like a step in the right direction." Because if he called it a hole, well, that would obviously be racist.

But if you call it a hell hole, not so bad, right?

So maybe he's maybe he's going in the right direction.

He's gone from a hole to Well, no.

A hole would be below hell hole.

Well, no.

Hell hole would be pretty low.

What is worse, a hell hole or a hole?

I think we need to know that.

Hell hole or a hole?

I'm going to run a uh I think I'll run a pole.

Uh or maybe one of you can run a poll.

What's worse, a hell hole or a hole?

All right.

Uh Trump is also and at some event he said that he believes that New York Times and the legacy media have committed treason with their fake news.

Uh and the fake news that he's mad about is that they seem to be reporting that his health is slowing him down.

Do you believe that?

Do you believe that Trump's health is slowing him down?

I'm not really seeing it.

I mean, it wouldn't be unusual that somebody has, you know, one week that's different than the other week, but are you think so?

Do you think he's uh slowing down?

I can't tell if your comments are to what?

Sometimes I see the answer, but then I've lost the the thread of what it was to.

All right.

People confuse intentional with being slippery.

Yeah, intentional would be predictable.

If you knew somebody was intentionally driving something in some direction, that would be that would be somewhat predictable.

All right.

So, we're we're still back there because we got lots of people watching.

All right.

Um, so I don't I don't know that the New York Times has committed treason by by reporting that they think he's slowing down at at the age of 80ish.

I don't think that's the worst problem in the world.

Like if you've got a president who is so experienced and so good that at age 80, people are saying, "Yeah, that's a good president." Uh, I don't think I'd worry about him slowing down.

All right.

But definitely not a treason.

I think he goes too far when he calls stuff like that treason.

Clearly it's political and clearly it's fake news.

But treason treason is a little bit of a threat and I don't think we need that.

Although you could argue that they're just using free speech and you could argue that he's just using free speech, but it's not the kind of free speech I appreciate.

It's legal, but I don't appreciate it.

All right.

Um, did you know that there is a apparently a sophisticated smuggling network that was operating in the country and the uh attorney general for it looks like uh Texas uh got a hold of them and uh justice will be coming.

But did you know that's that that's a big thing?

So, a bunch of chips um for AI, I think, were uh being stolen and sent to China, it looks like.

I feel like we should just steal our own stuff and give it to China.

Cut out the middleman because it always ends up there, right?

How would you like to be the uh the person who receives the new technology, you know, the stuff that China doesn't have, but you're you're a Chinese scientist.

You're like, "All right, here's a chip.

Uh, reproduce this chip.

Uh, uh, how do I do that?" Ah, just copy it.

It doesn't really work that way.

It can't be easy to copy a microchip, can it?

Is there some way to actually like take a photo of it and then, you know, move it directly over to another machine to make a copy?

There might be.

Maybe that's a thing.

I don't know how you copy a microchip.

Well, CIA director or former CIA director, he's not there now, but John Brennan actually according to Wall Street apes, I saw them, they found a video of him recently, in which he said the CIA pays people to be spies and then blackmails them if they change their mind.

So, so what they try to do, CIA, according to Brendan, is that they try to make sure that the spy takes some money when it when it's early on in the relationship because if the spy has taken money and then they get cold feet later and they, you know, think maybe it's too risky and they don't want to do it, then the CIA could just sort of whisper to him.

So, uh, so then you don't want to take money for spying against your home country.

Is that what you're saying?

No, no, no.

Don't tell anybody.

I thought we had a deal.

Oh, we do have a deal.

Yeah.

I'm just trying to get clear.

Are you saying that are you saying that uh you're no longer going to take money for spying against your home country?

Now, just that question alone, I'm I'm making this part up.

This did not come from Brennan.

But if you simply frame the situation that way, a spy is going to assume that you're going to turn him in if if uh if you stop spying for them or at least be at risk.

So if you wondered, is the CIA a uh a spy organization that's also a blackmail organization?

The answer is apparently yes.

Apparently yes.

that the CIA uses blackmail as part of their normal operations, which is no surprise to anybody who's ever watched a movie about a spy.

I mean, is there anybody who didn't know that?

So, that puts the whole Epstein thing in a different light, doesn't it?

It is one thing if you knew well I suppose it's possible that these intelligence agencies are using blackmail and I guess it's possible they might have used Epstein for that but if you go from it's possible to it's the routine way we do this and always have well that looks pretty different doesn't it?

Yeah.

So I saw a factoid today that I did not fact check.

Can somebody give me a fact check on this?

Is it true that famous gangster Whitey Bulgar Bulier or Bulgar uh from Boston who was an informant for the FBI but also a you know a top criminal in the area?

Um is it true that the day he got to prison he was murdered?

So that I wasn't aware of, but it might not be true.

Can somebody give me a fact check on that?

Did Whitey Bulier get murdered like the day he walked in?

Because there's a big difference between going to jail for a number of years and then something happens to you one day versus being killed the same day you go into jail.

That feels like it's sending a message, doesn't it?

Well, one of them is just the way things work and the other one is sending a message.

Okay.

Well, yeah, maybe maybe you were a you were a what do you call them?

A a weasel.

Maybe you were a weasel.

Maybe you were a rat.

But and then, you know, 10 minutes after you reach jail, you get murdered.

Yeah, that's a message.

So, it makes me wonder if Epstein was just more of that, that there's no point in having this blackmail situation unless uh all the people involved can be murdered the first day that they resist it.

So, all right.

Uh, according to Rasmmanson poll, 43% of voters believe that Pete Haggath should be impeached over the narco boat attacks.

43%.

Now, you know, these are the kinds of uh polls that I say to myself, I don't know what it's measuring exactly because it's not exactly measuring people's opinion.

It's kind of, you know, what they want to happen.

Uh so it'd be one thing if the people were looking at some other planet and they were just analyzing, oh, and this other planet, 43% think this should happen.

But if it's political as this is, it's purely political.

Um, all it really tells you is how many people are Democrats and how many how many are Republican with a little bit of adjustment for an independent who will fall one way or the other.

Is it really telling you anything?

Yeah.

I I don't think people's opinion um Well, politically it matters.

So, if you're following the politics of it, of course it matters.

All right.

Um, how many of you are following the Candace Owens Turning Point USA drama?

I've been trying not to.

I've been trying not to uh for all the usual reasons that the the stories about individuals I find just less compelling is it doesn't really you affect the world.

But it seems to me that uh Candace continues to make this so interesting that it's very hard to ignore.

So I'm not really caught up on it all.

Uh but uh I'll give you a little bit of an update.

So see if I have this right.

Um is the story that Candace believes that some people who worked with Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA were somehow complicit in his murder.

Is is that the accusation?

So, in the comments, tell me if I have that right because that's sort of the starting point for this.

Um, and again, I don't have any sense.

My my instinct is that they did not because it just seems too wild, but you know, we live in a wild world.

I I suppose it would be hard to hard to rule out anything these days.

Like, it seems like there's just always something going on.

Uh, Bogger was transferred.

All right, let's see.

I got an answer to my question.

He was transferred and murdered.

Uh, and murdered.

Yeah, I just can't stop the comments from going by.

It looks like he was transferred and then quickly murdered.

I think that's what you told me.

That would make sense.

All right.

So, the Turning Point USA and I don't know if I don't know if the story still assumes that some other country is involved or is Israel involved.

I don't have any evidence to suggest that.

Um, but according to um Natalie Jean Bisner, who I don't know who that is, but somebody at X um noted that uh that uh uh Candace uh she's she's got a claim that she has in her possession um that she's in possession or people at Turning Point USA are in possession of text messages sent the day before Charlie died in which he allegedly wrote out to somebody and also to security guards that he thought that they were going to kill him tomorrow and then that was the day that he was he was murdered.

Now Natalie asked the following completely reasonable question.

If it's true that Turning Point USA has in their possession actual screenshots or something that would show that he knew he was going to be killed that day, don't you think we would have seen them by now?

Don't you think somebody would have produced that screenshot if that were true?

So, I think that's what uh Natalie is pointing out that if that were true, we would have seen it by now.

Now, there's always possibility that, you know, there's some reason we wouldn't, but I don't know what that would be.

And then, uh, Trump apparently got involved with this drama, and he didn't like the accusation that, uh, uh, the Erica, the widow of Charlie Kar, didn't like the idea that, you know, she was involved in anything sketchy.

So, I guess he likes her.

Trump likes her.

Um, and what did uh so Candace is actually asking people who donated to Turning Point USA that they asked for a refund for their donations.

Now, that's that's a pretty serious allegation.

So bad that you should ask for your money back.

I don't know about that.

Um and then what it was that Trump got involved in is that there was some accusation that uh there were four taxexempt organizations under TPUSA and that uh there was some allegation that they were under investigation.

So, if you were donating to an organization and you found out that there were four entities under their umbrella and that some or all of them were being investigated for criminal behavior, would you donate again?

Probably wouldn't.

So, it's a pretty big deal whether that's true or false.

And I guess uh Trump uh debunked it.

So now the government has said, "Nope, none of the four taxexempt organizations are under investigation." So I don't want to uh He was beaten to death in his prison cell.

This is Whitey.

I can never read the last sentence of your comments because they go by too fast and I don't have a way to stop them.

All right.

But you can read the comments yourself and you'll see the corrections on the Whitey Bulgar Bulier story.

So, I don't believe that there's necessarily anything bad going on with Turning Point USA.

Uh, but let me give you this context.

When was the last time a large well-funded organization was not corrupt?

That's a tough question, isn't it?

Because almost every time there's a story in the news and it's about, oh, there's this big well-funded political organization, isn't the story always that it was corrupt?

Like every time.

Now, when I say every time, there does seem to be maybe an exception.

And the the ex the exception would be uh if it's a conservative organization.

Now I'm saying that with maybe a little wishful thinking because I don't know that that's true.

But it seems to me that in the bubble that I live, the news bubble I'm in, um I see left-leaning organizations being corrupt essentially 100% of the time.

But what percentage of the time are large, well-funded, established conservative groups also corrupt?

It seems like not as much, right?

In fact, I can't I can't even think of one.

But if you said, can you name some left-leaning organizations that are corrupt?

I mean, I'd be here for a while, right?

So, you would have to believe that Turning Point USA was somehow an exception to the rule and that it would be an exception that it wasn't corrupt because it seems like everything else has money and funding.

Seems like they're all corrupt, but there is no I don't think there's a specific valid accusation about Turning Point USA.

And it could be that it just doesn't happen that much in conservative organizations.

I hope that's the case, but I don't know.

Fog of War.

Yeah, there's probably a little of that going on.

Well, Tucker Carlson, according to the Vigilant Fox on X, has quote made the Jeffrey Epstein death impossible to ignore again.

So, this is what Tucker believes.

He was on some podcast.

He said they did it on purpose and he was murdered clearly by another inmate.

All right.

And Tucker says, "I've been a journalist my whole life.

It was not a perfect It was not a perfect storm of screw-ups." Because that's the official story.

It was just this weird coincidence of screw-ups.

They never did the investigation into how this guy died.

Is that true?

They never investigated it.

Maybe they didn't investigate it enough.

I don't know that they never investigated it.

Um, do you investigate things if you think you know exactly what happened?

So maybe they didn't.

May maybe his standard for how much is enough investigating was not met.

Um, here's something I didn't know.

Uh, according to Tucker, they redressed him in clothes that he wasn't wearing when he died for the pictures in the hospital infirmary.

Do you believe that they dressed him in clothes for the photographs after he was dead?

Maybe.

I mean, I don't know.

Would that be a mistake?

Would that be a crime if they did that?

Well, it would certainly change how you felt about it.

Um, Tucker says he asked former attorney general Bill Bar for the names of the inmates on Epstein's block and Bar wouldn't give them to him.

And uh, I'm not sure if you're allowed to do that.

Do you think that would be legal?

Are you allowed to give the names of people and what block they're in?

I feel like that would be dangerous.

So, I'm not so sure that Bill Bar had an option there.

But, um, but Tucker says, "They're convicted felons, dude.

This is not secret information or national security.

Why can't you tell me that?" All right.

Um, then Tucker says, this is his view.

They allowed him, Epstein, to be murdered in federal lockups.

How could we continue to live in a country where a high-profile inmate can be murdered in our prison system by someone who is powerful enough to do that?

So, that is the big question, isn't it?

Who would be powerful enough to murder the most watched person in the entire world?

And if they get him, and it looks like they did, don't know for sure, but it looks like they did, then how afraid would you be of crossing the same people?

It'd be pretty scary, wouldn't it?

If you knew that they could get to him, if they could get to Epstein, they could get to anybody.

Well, speaking of Minnesota and Somalia, um, Right Angle News is reporting that there's this scam going on in Columbus, Ohio.

So, that this one's, uh, this one's not Minnesota.

This is Columbus, Ohio.

that uh there's Somali families that own a restaurant and a grocery store right next door, sometimes literally attached, and usually a daycare for home health business, too.

The wives and kids get loaded up on EBT cards.

That's food stamps or on a debit card paid for you by your taxes.

But instead of going to Kroger or Walmart, they quote shop at their own family grocery store with those cards.

All that food immediately walks 10 feet into the restaurant kitchen and boom, you've got free inventory for the restaurant paid 100% by taxpayers.

I got to tell you, uh, you know, I certainly don't like the Simoleons ripping off the taxpayers, especially me, but you have to you have to kind of give them credit because they are some good scammers.

They got some clever stuff going on here.

And the fact that it went as long as it did without being shut down is it's just amazing.

Anyway, so the grocery store reports giant losses every year, which is a perfect tax writeoff.

And uh so Uncle Sam gets screwed twice.

All right.

And then the the same families often run the daycare and the home health companies that also pull in government cash.

So they basically built a city block of scammers and the scammers would, you know, be complimentary to each other.

I That's some That's good.

Some good Somalian uh crime there.

Wait, these are Somalians, right?

Or are they not?

I hope I didn't Yeah, it is Somali.

Okay.

Want to make sure I'm not blaming the wrong bunch of people.

All right.

Well, Trump is becoming more and more uncensored every day he gets closer to the end of his second term.

Uh, this is pretty uncensored.

Trump said, I guess yesterday, quote, I love this Elon Omar, whatever the hell her name is.

The first part is to imagine that he doesn't know her actual name.

I love this.

Elon Omar, whatever the hell her name is, uh, with the little turban.

with a little turban.

C can you imagine your president actually said this in public?

I I love this Elon Noir or whatever the hell her name is with the little turban.

I love her.

She comes in, does nothing, but she's always complaining.

We ought to get her the hell out.

She married her brother in order to get in.

Now, I don't know if there's any truth to the fact that she married your brother to help him get into the country or to get her into the country or somebody.

Uh, I don't know if there's any truth to that, but uh, does the news debunk it?

I I feel like I've been reading about the allegations of Elon Omar and her brother and immigration.

I've been reading about this for years now and what I've never seen is the mainstream news debunk it.

Has it been debunked?

I I kind of assumed it must have been debunked or there would have been some action taken by now, but maybe not.

What do you think?

Is that is that story real or is that just a hoax?

because that might be one of the, you know, the hoax bubbles that the conservatives are in.

I don't know.

I'm not going to automatically believe the brother Somali brother part.

But it is very dismissive to talk about her little turban.

I don't know why that makes me laugh.

Her little turban.

Why is it Why is it funnier when he calls it little?

Is does that make you think her brain is little or something with her little turban?

Anyway, um so now there's a new bombshell from Alpha News.

I saw Eric Dhy writing about this on X.

Uh that apparently Ramsey County gave 38.4 million4 million to 213 NOS's.

Now, kind of depends where the money came from, how you feel about that, but apparently the uh proposed budget for next year's budget, the proposed budget for next year, let me say that in English, uh is that apparently they're being told that their their property tax money will go to NOS's.

Do you think that your property tax money should ever go to an NGO, especially 213 of them?

And when you hear that there are 213 NOS's, does your brain go, "Oh, there must be 213 worthy things for funding, do you?" Or do you automatically say, "Wow, the fact that there are 213 NOS's pretty much guarantees that something suspicious is happening." Yeah, some something suspicious is happening.

And apparently the state is not auditing these NOS's receiving the money.

Oh, surprise surprise.

So, a huge amount of your tax money, at least if you were in this state, uh your Minnesota tax money will go to these 213 hard to understand, impossible to audit entities.

You know what that is, right?

That that couldn't be more obviously corrupt.

It couldn't be.

That's as that's as corrupt as you can make something look.

Wow.

I I wish Minnesota well, but I don't know how you're going to unwind all of that, you know, once it gets to the point where the criminals are clearly have more control than the honest people, and we're we're definitely there in Minnesota.

How do you ever fix it?

Because even if you got rid of the people there, they would be replaced with other criminals because the criminal thing is totally working out.

It's totally working out.

Why would you change it?

So, you believe she married her brother?

Um, why would you believe it that Omar married her brother?

If you believe it because you saw a story in the news, is that credible?

I'm going to say no.

Might be true, but it's not credible just cuz it was in the news.

Yeah.

Anyway, uh Trump is funny when he talks about her.

You know, there was a time when I would have agreed with even Trump's critics who said, you know, you really just shouldn't talk about people like that.

It it just gives them something to complain about and then it makes all of your supporters look like we're just as bad.

But I'm completely over that.

I'm totally over it.

If he wants to talk that way, fine.

If people don't want to, if they don't want to vote for him, fine.

That they have the option.

But I do like him being funny.

That that part I'm unambiguously in favor of.

Be funny.

Well, economist Steven Moore, Republican type, I think he's Republican, maybe he's independent, but uh he points out that an MRI can cost $600 at one hospital.

In other words, the cost of getting an MRI could be $600 at one hospital, but 6,000 at another.

And uh and if you're the patient, you wouldn't know which one you went to.

Now, I've had some MRIs, number of MRIs this year, a few of them, and uh nobody ever told me what they cost because my insurance covered it.

Um do you think that if something is wildly different prices, wildly different, and the numbers are pretty big, do you think that uh that lack of transparency is going to create a bunch of fraud?

Of course it will.

100% chance if if you have wildly desperate um pricing and uh you don't have any transparency and it doesn't look like there's any auditing at least any important auditing and you as the customer don't get to uh you know choose the MRI you're using most of the time of course it's corrupt of course the entire thing is a mess So Stephen Moore, you are correct about that.

Um and uh Stephen Moore suggests that the fix would be that if the patients are not told in advance what the cost of the MRI is that the provider doesn't get paid.

Well, good luck with that.

I mean, they'd find a way to get paid anyway.

Um people are too afraid of not paying bills.

Uh, I don't think they'd want to be the ones who, you know, not every person's going to want to fight that battle, if you know what I mean.

Uh, Ran Paul has a suggestion for a Republican looking um, healthcare plan.

He said, uh, what if you could join Costco?

He said this on a recent interview.

Uh, what if you could join Costco?

Has 44 million members.

Wow.

44 million members in Costco in one country.

Is that just America?

I don't know.

44 million seems like a lot.

Um and they and let's say the 44 million bought a group health care plan like Toyota or General Motors.

Uh they would be the largest collective entity in the country and they would drive prices down by sheer might.

Do you believe that?

Now, that makes sense to me from an economic perspective that if you have more competition, prices should go down.

If you had more transparency, prices should go down.

If you've got one negotiator for a large group of people, price should go down.

So, it makes sense, but I'm a little bit skeptical that it could be that easy.

Because here's what I see.

The minute you did this, let's say tomorrow you could snap your fingers and uh suddenly Costco was offering um healthcare.

Do you think that Costco alone could massively lower their prices and that the rest of the industry would be, you know, unheard?

I don't know.

It feels to me like the current system, this will be hard to express, but it seems to me that the current terrible health care system is so entrenched that if you were to change any large part of it, even with the best intentions and even with the best philosophies and the best economic theories that you're going to create some unintended problems and I don't know what they would be, but Does it not feel to you that it couldn't possibly be as easy as just changing the number of people who are in each organization?

How in the world could that be enough?

I mean, I can see that it would make some difference, but we're talking about, you know, the Obamacare subsidies, you know, doubling your health care.

There's nothing in that neighborhood.

It's not like it's not as if a Costco health care plan would lower your uh healthcare by you know 50%.

I don't think that's going to happen.

And if there were this this big bunch of money that uh is just essentially sitting there waiting to be picked up, why wouldn't somebody have picked that up already?

See, I I feel like the industry is very corrupt and inefficient, but I don't think there's a whole bunch of I don't think there's a whole bunch of money being made in healthcare that you could just, you know, cut your expenses in half and everybody would still get paid.

I feel like people wouldn't get paid if you made that big of a difference in the pricing.

So, I'm no expert in this domain and nobody else is either, which I think is why nothing ever happens because you would have to know you would have to know so much to make a good decision on any of this stuff.

All right, so let's talk about uh Ukraine.

So, I've been watching with some amusement that the uh the US plan for peace with Ukraine started in as 28 items and then we haven't seen any of the items but then the reporting was no it's not 28 it might be 19 or 20 and then I say to myself 19 or 20 but I keep I keep waiting for that 19 or 20 to collapse to maybe three because if you could get the most the three most important things, whatever you thought they were, if you could get the three most important things, you could probably work out the rest.

But it doesn't work the other way.

It doesn't work that if you get these 17 least important things that that will make it easy to do the three most important things.

It doesn't work both ways.

So, here's my question.

Can you identify three things that Ukraine could say yes to that maybe Russia would say yes to and then that would be enough because it's the biggest three that that would be enough to force the others down their throats.

Maybe they want it to be forced down the throats.

All right.

So here are the three that I think it's starting to settle on.

Um, so the things they want are they we definitely want a uh an election in Ukraine.

But Zalinski says yes, we'll definitely get a you better catch up with the news.

Did something happen in the news today?

So somebody's yelling at me in all caps.

I need to catch up with the news.

Is there a big headline story happening right now?

Tell me.

Is there something happening right now?

All right.

Well, let me know if you see something.

All right.

You can send me a text if you have my if you have my text.

Um, give me a text and tell me if I missed something.

All right.

Could be just a troll.

I don't know.

But, uh, so on one hand, uh, what Zalinski needs to know is that Russia won't take over the rest of the country.

Uh, has to be some obviously a property deal.

Who gets what?

Um and uh yeah, so those are the big things.

It it does seem like it's really down to real estate.

And does Zensky ever want to leave office?

Idiocracy did it.

Oh, add Sam's Club.

Yeah.

All right.

Speaking of military, I guess the US military now has a thousand mile drone boat for attacking other boats or ships, I guess.

And it can go 1,000 nautical miles and can carry a,000 pound bomb payload.

And it can go up to 35 knots.

Boy, I'd hate to see that coming at me.

It feels like every day there's a there's a breakthrough in military drones.

Yeah, we're if we don't have a good military drone fight war, I don't know.

That's a lot of a lot of work.

Costco sells auto and home and it is cheaper.

Yeah, but insurance, we'll see.

Well, I'm not sure how much cheaper it would be.

I I would agree that it would have to be cheaper, but I don't know if we're talking 5% or 50%.

It'd be lawyer free.

I don't know if you want that.

All right.

I guess that's why they put the Costco far away from each other so you don't get all those samples and live on it.

No, this is not the warm-up.

This is the actual show.

This is not very good.

All right.

There's a new pill according to No Ridge that uh lowers your blood sugar and burns your fat without um appetite loss or muscle loss.

So, does it seem to you like we went hundreds of years not having any good way to lose weight except for exercise and diet?

Um, then suddenly there's a pill and then there's another pill and then there's another pill and then there's another pill and then there's pills that do it different ways.

So, we went from, well, there's no way you're going to lose weight with a pill to, wow, there sure are a lot of ways to lose weight with a pill.

All right.

I'm looking at your comments.

All right.

And uh you know uh Trump Trump was a little angry at uh Bondi because the attorney general is not indicting anybody.

Does it seem to you that Pam Bondi is stalling?

Or does it seem to you that there's no good reason for why we haven't seen some of the bad guys of back from the Russia hoax era?

Why have we not seen any of them get indicted?

Is the problem that the person to indict is going to be Obama?

Or is the problem?

Could it be that what Brennan was warning us about in that interview about the CIA and about um blackmail?

Was Brennan warning people that that they do have blackmail on anybody who would try to take down the ex CIA people?

Because when Trump talks about, hey, we need to uh, you know, indict these ex people, some number of them are intelligence people, right?

And if it's true that the intelligence people use blackmail to stay in charge, it seems like he's warning them that they're definitely going to have some blackmail come out the minute they go after Brennan.

Does it feel like that?

So, here's the thing I'd be watching for.

I'm I'm still going to presume that we don't see indictments for the biggest players.

So I think we won't see an Obama, Susan Rice, I don't even know if she's in she's on the list.

Brennan Clapper, I don't think any of them will be indicted.

And the reason is is what Brennan said that they have blackmail on everybody important.

So, I suspect that there's no real way that we're ever going to see what Trump wants, which is the normal, you know, a normal Department of Justice process where they look at evidence and they indict people and then they go to trial.

I don't think that's possible.

I I think that the only thing possible is that they might wave their hand at it and then just dismiss everything.

I do not see that any of that can really happen in the real world.

In a world where Epstein is killed in his jail cell and we act like we don't know anything about it.

In that world, I don't see Brennan going to jail.

Do you?

Um Elon Musk also at one of his recent events said that the assassination of Charlie Kirk has made it even more impossible for people like him to go out in public.

He says there are serious security issues.

It's not that I don't want to.

I simply can't.

Now can't must mean that his security people say you cannot do this.

We're not going to let you walk out in this this situation.

So, it looks like he's taken their advice.

Uh, and he says that Charlie's assassination has reinforced the severity of the situation where life is uh is on hardcore mode.

You can make one mistake and you're dead.

It only takes one mistake.

So, imagine being Elon Musk and you go from, "Hey, I'm just a rich guy and everybody likes me.

I've got some security issues, but everybody rich does." to I can't go out.

I I can't go out because I might get murdered.

Now, uh I saw Sean Davis from the Fed Federalist had a comment about this on X and he said this is the only this is only the case meaning there's this big security problem.

He said this is only the case for people on the right.

No left-wing podcaster, politician, or journalist have to look around every corner or hire private security everywhere they go.

Only conservatives are forced to live this way.

Is that true?

Is that an exaggeration or are we just in a bubble?

Because I I could certainly name several conservative people who can't go outside without security, right?

the the Daily Wire guys and um I don't know I don't know if any of the Federalists have that problem but uh you know obviously Elon Musk has that problem, Charlie Kirk had that problem.

So are we at a point where it's true that conservatives can't go outside but liberals can?

That might be a bit of an exaggeration.

Surely there have to be some liberals who need security.

If you were, let's say, uh that Mark Beni off that of Salesforce, you don't think he has security?

Well, I don't know, but I would guess he does.

Now, is that because he's just a rich guy and CEOs always need security?

I mean, it might be that.

Or are there specifically death threats that people on the left are getting?

I don't know.

Do you know?

Yeah, I don't know.

So anyway, Pam Bondi is I think is in a tough spot.

I believe that she doesn't have the option of going after the people that Trump wants her to go after because I think that it would be dangerous and that ultimately they would get released or or pardoned or something.

So, it could be that the option of justice is just not possible.

It wouldn't matter if Trey Gaudy was replacing Pam Bodney or not.

But I did note that Trey that Trey Gaudy is a golf partner of Trump.

And it feels to me like the very best um people that Trump could have in his cabinet or any of his appointees would be somebody who can golf with them.

Because if you golf with somebody, you get to know them pretty well and you know you you'd spend a lot of time with them.

I I kind of like the idea of Trump having golf partners who are also very capable.

I mean, Trey Gaudy would be super capable.

Um, feels like that would be a stronger team if he golfed with them.

All right.

Uh, wealthy people are at the mercy of their security personnel.

Yeah, that's true.

All right.

Um, what else we got?

Uh, so I guess it was a journalist who went to LA city council recently, Wall Street Apes is reporting on this and uh, he said at the public hearing said, "So far we have spent $450 million to permanently house44 people." Does that sound like we did a good job?

$450 million and it housed, 1100 people.

That doesn't sound good.

That sounds sort of the way we do bullet trains and everything else.

Um, and he said that money is going somewhere.

It's not like that money is falling into the abyss.

That money ends up being somebody's profit.

The nonprofit industrial complex who's making a ton of money.

And most of those people are politically connected to Hugo and Nitia and Karen Bass.

I don't know Karen Bass is the mayor, but I don't know the others, of course.

And actually all of you people uh and he talked about how uh in his area in LA, not a single street light works.

Not a single street light.

Well, I got a feeling if you fix the street lights in those neighborhoods, somebody would shoot it out in about a minute.

So, I'm not sure if fixing it is even an option.

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All right, everybody feeling like they

want to find out what's happening in

this world?

All right, I've got my notes. I'm not

printing them out anymore. I did buy a

new printer, by the way. So, I've got a

brand new functional printer, but I got

hooked on not printing them out. So,

saved a few minutes. Saved a few

minutes. All right. Um, I saw a quote on

X from Aaron Gwyn. I don't know who Erin

is, but Aaron says funny things. And,

uh,

the quote was, "We know psychology is a

scam for two reasons." Do you believe

that? Do you think psychology is a scam?

Well, Erin gives two reasons, but I

think they might come from somebody

else. Number one, all the children of

psychologists are insane.

Well, it's a little bit harsh, isn't it?

But it does seem to me that the children

of psychologists

tend to be a little insane. Okay, I'm

not going to say that's true, but I'm

not going to say it's not true. Then the

second reason that psychology is a scam

uh this is according to David uh

Mamemoth. Uh in a 100 years of

psychoanalysis, no one has ever gotten

better.

Do you believe that?

Have you ever known anybody who had bad

psychological problems?

Then they went to their uh they went to

their uh psychoanalysts

and then they got better.

I've never heard of it. Have you?

Well, let's assume maybe it's working

for somebody. But, you know, I do think

sometimes that just the the the mere act

that you're doing something to try to

improve your situation.

Yeah. Maybe that does something for your

psychology because you feel like at

least you're, you know, taking it into

your own hands.

Well, Samsung is reportedly making uh

millions of uh OLED displays for an

Apple foldable phone. Don't know when

that Apple foldable phone is coming out,

but I saw it being mocked as Apple's

finally caught up to 2019.

Did we have a foldable phone? Not an

Apple phone, but did Samsung or somebody

have a foldable phone in 2019 and

Apple's just catching up to it seven

years later? Is that real?

I got to say, uh, Apple doesn't make bad

decisions. So, probably there was some

problem like supply chain or, you know,

maybe they weren't reliable, they broke

or something. Maybe something like that.

But it does feel it does feel like

Apple's not exactly the leading edge at

the moment, doesn't it? All right.

I don't know who is asking for a

foldable phone,

uh, but I'd like one. How many of you

would not want a foldable phone?

Is there a reason not to have one?

Because if it's not folded, it's sort of

exactly like a regular phone, right?

Almost exactly, except the screen would

be using up too much real estate

compared to the battery. All right.

Well, here's sort of a big day,

but it kind of comes with a small squeak

instead of a roar.

And uh goes like this. Elon Musk was at

some event. he was talking and uh he

said that full unsupervised driving is

pretty much solved at this point and

that robo taxis with no safety monitors

that would be a human who was sitting

there just for safety. Um we'll roll out

in Austin in about three weeks. So, in

three weeks,

that day will finally have come.

We're at least [clears throat] in

Austin, and we assume it will roll out

pretty quickly other places. Maybe not

quickly in California because we're bad

at [clears throat] everything. But

that does seem like an impressive point

in in history, doesn't it? Like one of

those days that will be remembered

forever. the the day that full

self-driving

became ordinary. Like nobody's even I

don't think anybody's even complaining

that it would be less safe than a human.

Have you heard anybody make that

argument?

I think that argument is solved. So, of

course, self-driving would have to be,

you know, 10 times safer or some number

than uh human driving or else we won't

trust it. But I think it's there. So,

this is a whole new world

just in time because I'll need that

self-driving car.

All right. Um, and then Elon says

they're going to add a lot of reasoning

and um and more to the car. Uh, to get

to serious scale, Tesla will probably

need to buy it to build, this is what

Musk says, to build their own giant chip

fab have a few hundred gigawatts of AI

chips per year. And Elon says, I don't

see that capability coming online fast

enough. So, we'll probably have to build

a fab. Now, how would you like to be

that confident about your business

abilities?

Let me read this again and and just try

to hold this in your head that there

there wouldn't be anyone else who would

be able to make enough of the giant uh

of the chips.

So, they're going to get into the

business and scale up faster than people

who are already in the business.

and it will it will get to a superior

place so fast that it would be better

than waiting for them. That's pretty

confident.

Um, can they do it? Probably. Probably.

I I do think they probably can. So,

it'll be impressive when they do.

Well, here's a story that just keeps

popping up and I don't believe didn't

believe it the first time and I don't

believe it the second time. And that is

uh I don't know was it on was it on Joe

Rogan show again? It was on somebody's

podcast that uh new radar scans reveal a

massive engineered substructure

beneath the Giza pyramids.

Does that sound familiar? Like it's not

the first time you've heard this exact

story. You know, maybe the picture is

different, but do you believe that we

can with any kind of technology that we

have, do you believe that we can look

under the pyramids and see a giant

structure and we've determined that it

might be an energy grid beneath the

pyramids?

I'm going to say no.

I'm going to say no. the so so far I've

got a pretty good record of when I say

nope uh just on the surface I don't have

to do any research um it's definitely

not true so far I've been right we do

have a question mark about the uh what

what was it called the uh the sonic

weapon under the embassies

I'm still open to that being a sonic

weapon but my first impulse and I'm

staying with it is that it was fake and

that there was no sonic weapon. Possible

though. It's possible. I'm going to

stick with no no sonic weapon.

Um

yeah, and it the uh claim about the

pyramid seems a little complex. Yeah,

I don't believe it. All right, what else

we got going on?

So, it's going to be all fake news

today.

How many of you remember when I used to

bug the hell out of you by claiming that

the slippery slope is not a logical

structure? Meaning that if your

reasoning comes from the slippery slope

that you haven't done any reasoning at

all. Do you remember I used to say that

all the time and people would get so

mad. They'd say, "What about this

example? What about this example? It's

obvious that if you go down the slippery

slope, you can predict where it's going

to go because it's slippery. It's

slippery. And I kept saying that's not a

thing there. There's no kind of logic

called the slippery slope. Well, you can

still argue with me on that, but Eric

Nolan at Sidepost uh is talking about a

study in which they found that

conservatives are more prone to slippery

slope thinking.

Do you think that's true? That if you're

a conservative and something, you know,

starts going in the direction you don't

want it to go, you're more likely to

think it's going to keep going.

Uh, I don't know how much more, but

apparently there's, you know, an

identifiable difference. Now, that would

explain everything because, you know, I

didn't really spend much time

interacting with anybody conservative

for most of my early, you know, early

adulthood.

But as soon as I did,

um, I kept seeing people claim the

slippery slope. And I kept saying,

there's no logic called the slippery

slope. Sometimes sometimes things keep

going the way they're going and

sometimes they don't. There's no logic

to it. You can't use that to predict. Uh

but people did they did use it to

predict and sometimes they would get it

right because there were only two ways

that something could go. You're either

going to get more of it or you're not.

So since there are only two ways a thing

can go. There's either going to be more

of it or there's not going to be more of

it.

you had at least something like a it's

not literally true, but it's something

like a 50/50 chance that you're going to

get the right answer for no logic

whatsoever.

So, half of you are going to say, "Yeah,

I told you it was a slippery slope." And

look, as soon as as soon as we let our

17-year-old get a tattoo, uh next thing

you know, she comes home and she's all

tatted up. No, you know, yeah, it it's

not as if things never go in one

direction. Sometimes they do, but it

doesn't mean you can predict it based on

slippery slope. Anyway, so the only

reason I bring this up is that I'm

pretty sure almost every one of you Oh,

actually, I'm kind of curious. Show me

in the uh in the comments. How many of

you believe that the slippery slope is a

way for predicting the future?

That that's a that's a valid uh kind of

a logical way to predict the future. How

many how many think that?

Um I'm just looking at your comments

now.

All right. It'll take a while for the

comments to catch up to uh where we are,

but uh you might be right. As far as I

can tell,

the slippery slope is not part of logic.

Um

President Trump continues to be

quotable. So, here's [laughter]

here's something Trump said uh about

Somalia.

Uh he said, quote, "I've also announced

a permanent pause on third world

migration, including from hell holes

like Somalia." To which I say, "Oh,

well, that feels like a step in the

right direction." Because if he called

it a hole, well, that would

obviously be racist. But if you call it

a hell hole,

not so bad, right? So maybe he's maybe

he's going in the right direction. He's

gone from a hole to Well, no. A

hole would be below hell hole.

Well, no. Hell hole would be pretty low.

What is worse, a hell hole or a

hole? I think we need to know that. Hell

hole or a hole? I'm going to run a

uh I think I'll run a pole.

Uh or maybe one of you can run a poll.

What's worse, a hell hole or a

hole?

All right.

Uh Trump is also and at some event he

said that he believes that New York

Times and the legacy media have

committed treason with their fake news.

Uh and the fake news that he's mad about

is that they seem to be reporting that

his health is slowing him down. Do you

believe that? Do you believe that

Trump's health is slowing him down?

I'm not really seeing it. I mean, it

wouldn't be unusual that somebody has,

you know, one week that's different than

the other week, but are you think so?

Do you think he's uh slowing down? I

can't tell if your comments are

to what? Sometimes I see the answer, but

then I've lost the the thread of what it

was to.

All right.

People confuse intentional with being

slippery.

Yeah, intentional would be predictable.

If you knew somebody was intentionally

driving something in some direction,

that would be that would be somewhat

predictable.

All right.

So, we're we're still back there because

we got lots of people watching. All

right. Um, so I don't I don't know that

the New York Times has committed treason

by

by reporting that they think he's

slowing down at at the age of 80ish.

I don't think that's the worst problem

in the world. Like if you've got a

president who is so experienced and so

good that at age 80, people are saying,

"Yeah, that's a good president."

Uh, I don't think I'd worry about him

slowing down.

All right. But definitely not a treason.

I think he goes too far when he calls

stuff like that treason.

Clearly it's political and clearly it's

fake news. But treason

treason is a little bit of a threat and

I don't think we need that.

Although you could argue that they're

just using free speech and you could

argue that he's just using free speech,

but it's not the kind of free speech I

appreciate.

It's legal, but I don't appreciate it.

All right. Um,

did you know that there is a apparently

a sophisticated smuggling network that

was operating in the country

and the uh attorney general for it looks

like uh Texas

uh got a hold of them and uh justice

will be coming. But did you know that's

that that's a big thing? So, a bunch of

chips

um for AI, I think, were uh being stolen

and sent to China, it looks like.

I feel like we should just steal our own

stuff and give it to China. Cut out the

middleman because it always ends up

there, right?

How would you like to be the uh the

person who receives the new technology,

you know, the stuff that China doesn't

have, but you're you're a Chinese

scientist. You're like, "All right,

here's a chip.

Uh, reproduce this chip.

Uh,

uh, how do I do that?" Ah, just copy it.

It doesn't really work that way.

[laughter] It can't be easy to copy a

microchip, can it? Is there some way to

actually like take a photo of it and

then, you know, move it directly over to

another machine to make a copy? There

might be. Maybe that's a thing. I don't

know how you copy a microchip.

Well, CIA director or former CIA

director, he's not there now, but John

Brennan

actually according to Wall Street apes,

I saw them, they found a video of him

recently, in which he said the CIA pays

people to be spies and then blackmails

them if they change their mind.

So, so what they try to do, CIA,

according to Brendan, is that they try

to make sure that the spy takes some

money when it when it's early on in the

relationship because if the spy has

taken money and then they get cold feet

later and they, you know, think maybe

it's too risky and they don't want to do

it, then the CIA could just sort of

whisper to him. So, uh, so then you

don't want to take money for spying

against your home country. Is that what

you're saying? No, no, no. Don't tell

anybody. I thought we had a deal. Oh, we

do have a deal. Yeah. I'm just trying to

get clear. Are you saying that

are you saying that uh you're no longer

going to take money for spying against

your home country? Now, just that

question alone, I'm I'm making this part

up. This did not come from Brennan. But

if you simply frame the situation that

way,

a spy is going to assume that you're

going to turn him in if if uh if you

stop spying for them or at least be at

risk. So if you wondered, is the CIA a

uh a spy organization that's also a

blackmail organization?

The answer is apparently yes. Apparently

yes. that the CIA uses blackmail as part

of their normal operations, which is no

surprise to anybody who's ever watched a

movie about a spy. I mean, is there

anybody who didn't know that?

So, that puts the whole Epstein thing in

a different light, doesn't it?

It is one thing if you knew well I

suppose it's possible

that these intelligence agencies are

using blackmail and I guess it's

possible they might have used Epstein

for that but if you go from it's

possible to it's the routine way we do

this and always have well that looks

pretty different doesn't it? Yeah. So I

saw a factoid today that I did not fact

check. Can somebody give me a fact check

on this? Is it true that famous gangster

Whitey Bulgar

Bulier or Bulgar uh from Boston who was

an informant for the FBI but also a you

know a top criminal in the area? Um is

it true that the day he got to prison he

was murdered?

So that I wasn't aware of, but it might

not be true. Can somebody give me a fact

check on that? Did Whitey Bulier get

murdered like the day he walked in?

Because there's a big difference between

going to jail for a number of years and

then something happens to you one day

versus being killed the same day you go

into jail. That feels like [snorts] it's

sending a message, doesn't it?

Well, one of them is just the way things

work and the other one is sending a

message. Okay. Well, yeah, maybe maybe

you were a you were a what do you call

them? A a weasel.

Maybe you were a weasel. Maybe you were

a rat. But

and then, you know, 10 minutes after you

reach jail, you get murdered.

Yeah, that's a message.

So, it makes me wonder if Epstein was

just more of that, that there's no point

in having this blackmail situation

unless uh all the people involved can be

murdered the first day that they resist

it.

So,

all right.

Uh, according to Rasmmanson poll, 43% of

voters believe that Pete Haggath should

be impeached

over the narco boat attacks. 43%.

Now,

you know, these are the kinds of uh

polls that I say to myself, I don't know

what it's measuring exactly because it's

not exactly measuring people's opinion.

It's kind of, you know, what they want

to happen. Uh so it'd be one thing if

the people were looking at some other

planet and they were just analyzing, oh,

and this other planet, 43% think this

should happen. But if it's political as

this is, it's purely political.

Um, all it really tells you is how many

people

are Democrats and how many how many are

Republican

with a little bit of adjustment for an

independent who will fall one way or the

other. Is it really telling you

anything?

Yeah. I I don't think people's opinion

um Well, politically it matters. So, if

you're following the politics of it, of

course it matters.

All right.

Um, how many of you are following the

Candace Owens

Turning Point USA

drama?

I've been trying not to.

I've been trying not to uh for all the

usual reasons that the the stories about

individuals I find just less compelling

is it doesn't really you affect the

world.

But

it seems to me that uh Candace continues

to make this so interesting that it's

very hard to ignore.

So I'm not really caught up on it all.

Uh but

uh I'll give you a little bit of an

update. So see if I have this right. Um

is the story that Candace believes that

some people who worked with Charlie Kirk

at Turning Point USA were somehow

complicit in his murder.

Is is that the accusation?

So, in the comments, tell me if I have

that right because that's sort of the

starting point for this. Um, and again,

I don't have any sense.

My my instinct is that they did not

because it just seems too wild, but you

know, we live in a wild world. I I

suppose it would be hard to hard to rule

out anything these days. Like, it seems

like there's just always something going

on.

Uh, Bogger was transferred.

All right, let's see. I got an answer to

my question.

He was transferred

and murdered.

Uh,

and murdered. Yeah, I just can't stop

the comments from going by. It looks

like he was transferred and then quickly

murdered. I think that's what you told

me. That would make sense. All right.

So, the Turning Point USA

and I don't know if I don't know if the

story still assumes that some other

country is involved or is Israel

involved. I don't have any evidence to

suggest that. Um,

but according to

um Natalie Jean Bisner, who I don't know

who that is, but somebody at X um noted

that uh

that uh

uh Candace

uh she's she's got a claim that she has

in her possession

um

that she's in possession or people at

Turning Point USA are in possession of

text messages sent the day before

Charlie died in which he allegedly wrote

out to somebody and also to security

guards that he thought that they were

going to kill him tomorrow

and then that was the day that he was he

was murdered.

Now Natalie asked the following

completely reasonable question.

If it's true that Turning Point USA has

in their possession

actual screenshots or something that

would show that he knew he was going to

be killed that day, don't you think we

would have seen them by now? Don't you

think somebody would have produced that

screenshot if that were true? So, I

think that's what uh Natalie is pointing

out that if that were true, we would

have seen it by now.

Now, there's always possibility that,

you know, there's some reason we

wouldn't, but I don't know what that

would be. And then, uh, Trump apparently

got involved with this drama,

and he didn't like the accusation that,

uh, uh, the Erica, the widow of Charlie

Kar, didn't like the idea that, you

know, she was involved in anything

sketchy. So, I guess he likes her. Trump

likes her. Um,

and what did uh

so Candace is actually asking people who

donated to Turning Point USA that they

asked for a refund for their donations.

Now, that's that's a pretty serious

allegation. So bad that you should ask

for your money back. I don't know about

that.

Um

and then what it was that Trump got

involved in is that there was some

accusation that uh there were four

taxexempt organizations under TPUSA

and that uh there was some allegation

that they were under investigation.

So, if you were donating to an

organization and you found out that

there were four entities under their

umbrella and that some or all of them

were being investigated for criminal

behavior,

would you donate again? [clears throat]

Probably wouldn't. So, it's a pretty big

deal whether that's true or false. And I

guess uh Trump uh debunked it. So now

the government has said, "Nope, none of

the four taxexempt organizations are

under investigation."

So

I don't want to uh He was beaten to

death in his prison cell. This is

Whitey.

I can never read the last sentence of

your comments because they go by too

fast and I don't have a way to stop

them.

All right. But you can read the comments

yourself and you'll see the corrections

on the Whitey Bulgar Bulier story.

So,

I don't believe that there's necessarily

anything bad going on with Turning Point

USA. Uh, but let me give you this

context.

When was the last time a large

well-funded organization

was not corrupt?

That's a tough question, isn't it?

Because almost every time there's a

story in the news and it's about, oh,

there's this big well-funded political

organization, isn't the story always

that it was corrupt? Like every time.

Now, when I say every time, there does

seem to be maybe an exception.

And the the ex the exception would be uh

if it's a conservative organization.

Now I'm saying that with maybe a little

wishful thinking because I don't know

that that's true. But it seems to me

that in the bubble that I live, the news

bubble I'm in, um I see left-leaning

organizations being corrupt essentially

100% of the time. But what percentage of

the time are large, well-funded,

established

conservative groups also corrupt?

It seems like not as much, right?

In fact, I can't I can't even think of

one. But if you said, can you name some

left-leaning organizations that are

corrupt? I mean, I'd be here for a

while,

right? So, you would have to believe

that Turning Point USA was somehow an

exception to the rule

and that it would be an exception that

it wasn't corrupt because it seems like

everything else has money and funding.

Seems like they're all corrupt, but

there is no I don't think there's a

specific

valid accusation about Turning Point

USA. And it could be

that it just doesn't happen that much in

conservative organizations. I hope

that's the case, but I don't know. Fog

of War. Yeah, there's probably a little

of that going on.

Well, Tucker Carlson, according to the

Vigilant Fox on X, has quote made the

Jeffrey Epstein death impossible to

ignore again.

So, this is what Tucker believes. He was

on some podcast. He said they did it on

purpose and he was murdered clearly by

another inmate.

All right. And Tucker says, "I've been a

journalist my whole life. It was not a

perfect It was not a perfect storm of

screw-ups." Because that's the official

story. It was just this weird

coincidence of screw-ups. They never did

the investigation into how this guy

died. Is that true? They never

investigated it.

Maybe they didn't investigate it enough.

I don't know that they never

investigated it. Um, do you investigate

things if you think you know exactly

what happened?

So maybe they didn't. May maybe his

standard for how much is enough

investigating was not met. Um, here's

something I didn't know. Uh, according

to Tucker, they redressed him in clothes

that he wasn't wearing when he died for

the pictures in the hospital infirmary.

Do you believe that they dressed him

in clothes for the photographs after he

was dead?

Maybe. I mean, I don't know. Would that

be a mistake? Would that be a crime if

they did that? [snorts] Well, it would

certainly change how you felt about it.

Um, Tucker says he asked former attorney

general Bill Bar for the names of the

inmates on Epstein's block and Bar

wouldn't give them to him. And uh, I'm

not sure if you're allowed to do that.

Do you think that would be legal? Are

you allowed to give the names of people

and what block they're in? I feel like

that would be dangerous.

So, I'm not so sure that Bill Bar had an

option there. But, um, but Tucker says,

"They're convicted felons, dude. This is

not secret information or national

security. Why can't you tell me that?"

All right. Um, then Tucker says, this is

his view. They allowed him, Epstein, to

be murdered in federal lockups. How

could we continue to live in a country

where a high-profile inmate can be

murdered in our prison system by someone

who is powerful enough to do that?

So, that is the big question, isn't it?

Who would be powerful enough to murder

the most watched person in the entire

world? And if they get him, and it looks

like they did, don't know for sure, but

it looks like they did, then how afraid

would you be of crossing the same

people?

It'd be pretty scary, wouldn't it? If

you knew that they could get to him,

if they could get to Epstein, they could

get to anybody.

Well, speaking of Minnesota and Somalia,

um, Right Angle News is reporting that

there's this scam going on in Columbus,

Ohio. So, that this one's, uh, this

one's not Minnesota. This is Columbus,

Ohio. that uh there's Somali families

that own a restaurant and a grocery

store right next door, sometimes

literally attached, and usually a

daycare for home health business, too.

The wives and kids get loaded up on EBT

cards. That's food stamps or on a debit

card paid for you by your taxes. But

instead of going to Kroger or Walmart,

they quote shop at their own family

grocery store with those cards. All that

food immediately walks 10 feet into the

restaurant kitchen and boom, you've got

free inventory for the restaurant paid

100% by taxpayers.

I got to tell you, uh, you know, I

certainly don't like the Simoleons

ripping off the taxpayers, especially

me, but you have to you have to kind of

give them credit because they are some

good scammers. They got some clever

stuff going on here. And the fact that

it went as long as it did without being

shut down is it's just amazing. Anyway,

so the grocery store reports giant

losses every year, which is a perfect

tax writeoff. And uh so Uncle Sam gets

screwed twice. All right. And then the

the same families often run the daycare

and the home health companies that also

pull in government cash. So they

basically built a city block

of scammers and the scammers would, you

know, be complimentary to each other. I

That's some That's good. Some good

Somalian

uh crime there. Wait, these are

Somalians, right? Or are they not? I

hope I didn't Yeah, it is Somali. Okay.

Want to make sure I'm not blaming the

wrong bunch of people.

All right. Well, Trump is becoming more

and more uncensored every day he gets

closer to the end of his second term.

Uh, this is pretty uncensored. Trump

said, I guess yesterday, quote, I love

this Elon Omar, whatever the hell her

name is. The first part is to imagine

that he doesn't know her actual name.

I love this. Elon Omar, whatever the

hell her name is, uh, with the little

turban. with a little turban.

C can you imagine your president

actually said this in public? I I love

this Elon Noir or whatever the hell her

name is with the little turban. I love

her. She comes in, does nothing, but

she's always complaining.

We [clears throat] ought to get her the

hell out. She married her brother in

order to get in.

Now, I don't know if there's any truth

to the fact that she married your

brother to help him get into the country

or to get her into the country or

somebody. Uh, I don't know if there's

any truth to that, but uh,

does the news debunk it? I I feel like

I've been reading about the allegations

of Elon Omar and her brother and

immigration. I've been reading about

this for years now

and what I've never seen is the

mainstream news debunk it. Has it been

debunked? I I kind of assumed it must

have been debunked or there would have

been some action taken by now,

but maybe not.

What do you think?

Is that is that story real or is that

just a hoax? because that might be one

of the, you know, the hoax bubbles that

the conservatives are in. I don't know.

I'm not going to automatically believe

the brother Somali brother part.

But it is very dismissive to talk about

her little turban.

I don't know why that makes me laugh.

[gasps]

Her little turban. [laughter]

Why is it Why is it funnier when he

calls it little?

Is does that make you think her brain is

little or something with her little

turban?

Anyway,

um

so now there's a new bombshell from

Alpha News. I saw Eric Dhy writing about

this on X. Uh that apparently Ramsey

County

gave 38.4 million4 million to 213 NOS's.

Now,

kind of depends where the money came

from, how you feel about that, but

apparently the uh proposed budget for

next year's budget,

the proposed budget for next year, let

me say that in English, uh is that

apparently they're being told that their

their property tax money will go to

NOS's.

Do you think that your property tax

money should ever go to an NGO,

especially 213 of them? And when you

hear that there are 213 NOS's,

does your brain go, "Oh, there must be

213 worthy things for funding,

do you?" Or do you automatically say,

"Wow, the fact that there are 213 NOS's

pretty much guarantees

that something suspicious is happening."

Yeah, some something suspicious is

happening. And apparently the state is

not auditing these NOS's receiving the

money. Oh, surprise

surprise. So, a huge amount of your tax

money, at least if you were in this

state, uh your Minnesota tax money will

go to these 213 hard to understand,

impossible to audit entities.

You know what that is, right? That that

couldn't be more obviously corrupt. It

couldn't be. That's as that's as corrupt

as you can make something look. Wow.

I I wish Minnesota well, but I don't

know how you're going to unwind all of

that, you know, once it gets to the

point where the criminals are clearly

have more control than the honest

people, and we're we're definitely there

in Minnesota. How do you ever fix it?

Because even if you got rid of the

people there, they would be replaced

with other criminals

because the criminal thing is totally

working out. It's totally working out.

Why would you change it?

So, you believe she married her brother?

Um, why would you believe it that Omar

married her brother? If you believe it

because you saw a story in the news,

is that credible?

I'm going to say no.

Might be true, but it's not credible

just cuz it was in the news.

Yeah. Anyway, uh Trump is funny when he

talks about her. You know, there was a

time when I would have agreed with even

Trump's critics who said, you know, you

really just shouldn't talk about people

like that. It it just gives them

something to complain about and then it

makes all of your supporters look like

we're just as bad. But I'm completely

over that. I'm totally over it. If he

wants to talk that way, fine. If people

don't want to, if they don't want to

vote for him, fine. That they have the

option.

But I do like him being funny. That that

part I'm unambiguously in favor of. Be

funny. Well, economist Steven Moore,

Republican type, I think he's

Republican, maybe he's independent, but

uh he points out that an MRI

can cost $600 at one hospital. In other

words, the cost of getting an MRI could

be $600 at one hospital, but 6,000 at

another.

And uh and if you're the patient, you

wouldn't know which one you went to.

Now, I've had some MRIs,

number of MRIs this year, a few of them,

and uh nobody ever told me what they

cost because my insurance covered it. Um

do you think that if something is wildly

different prices, wildly different, and

the numbers are pretty big,

do you think that uh that lack of

transparency is going to create a bunch

of fraud?

Of course it will. 100% chance if if you

have wildly desperate

um pricing

and uh you don't have any transparency

and it doesn't look like there's any

auditing at least any important auditing

and you as the customer don't get to uh

you know choose the MRI you're using

most of the time of course it's corrupt

of course the entire thing is a mess So

Stephen Moore, you are correct about

that.

Um and uh Stephen Moore suggests that

the fix would be that if the patients

are not told in advance what the cost of

the MRI is that the provider doesn't get

paid.

Well, good luck with that. I mean,

they'd find a way to get paid anyway. Um

people are too afraid of not paying

bills.

Uh, I don't think they'd want to be the

ones who, you know, not every person's

going to want to fight that battle, if

you know what I mean.

Uh, Ran Paul has a suggestion for a

Republican looking um, healthcare plan.

He said, uh, what if you could join

Costco? He said this on a recent

interview. Uh, what if you could join

Costco? Has 44 million members. Wow. 44

million members in Costco

in one country. Is that just America? I

don't know. 44 million seems like a lot.

Um

and they and let's say the 44 million

bought a group health care plan like

Toyota or General Motors. Uh they would

be the largest collective entity in the

country and they would drive prices down

by sheer might. Do you believe that?

Now, that makes sense to me from an

economic perspective that if you have

more competition, prices should go down.

If you had more transparency,

prices should go down. If you've got one

negotiator for a large group of people,

price should go down. So, it makes

sense, but I'm a little bit skeptical

that it could be that easy. Because

here's what I see. The minute you did

this, let's say tomorrow you could snap

your fingers and uh suddenly Costco was

offering

um healthcare.

Do you think that Costco alone

could massively lower their prices and

that the rest of the industry would be,

you know, unheard?

I don't know. It feels to me like the

current system, this will be hard to

express, but it seems to me that the

current terrible health care system is

so entrenched that if you were to change

any large part of it, even with the best

intentions and even with the best

philosophies and the best economic

theories that you're going to create

some unintended problems

and I don't know what they would be, but

Does it not feel to you that it couldn't

possibly be as easy as just changing the

number of people who are in each

organization?

How in the world could that be enough?

[snorts]

I mean, I can see that it would make

some difference, but we're talking

about, you know, the Obamacare

subsidies, you know, doubling your

health care.

There's nothing in that neighborhood.

It's not like it's not as if a Costco

health care plan would lower your uh

healthcare by you know 50%.

I don't think that's going to happen.

And if there were this this big bunch of

money that uh is just essentially

sitting there waiting to be picked up,

why wouldn't somebody have picked that

up already?

See, I I feel like the industry is

very corrupt and inefficient, but

I don't think there's a whole bunch of I

don't think there's a whole bunch of

money being made in healthcare that you

could just, you know, cut your expenses

in half and everybody would still get

paid. I feel like people wouldn't get

paid if you made that big of a

difference in the pricing.

So, I'm no expert in this domain and

nobody else is either, which I think is

why nothing ever happens

because you would have to know you would

have to know so much to make a good

decision on any of this stuff.

All right, so let's talk about uh

Ukraine.

So, I've been watching with some

amusement that the uh the US plan for

peace with Ukraine started in as 28

items

and then we haven't seen any of the

items but then the reporting was no it's

not 28 it might be 19 or 20 and then I

say to myself 19 or 20 but I keep I keep

waiting for that 19 or 20 to collapse to

maybe three

because if you could get the most the

three most important things, whatever

you thought they were, if you could get

the three most important things,

you could probably work out the rest.

But it doesn't work the other way. It

doesn't work that if you get these 17

least important things that that will

make it easy to do the three most

important things. It doesn't work both

ways. So, here's my question.

Can you identify three things that

Ukraine could say yes to that maybe

Russia would say yes to and then that

would be enough because it's the biggest

three that that would be enough to force

the others down their throats.

Maybe they want it to be forced down the

throats. All right. So here are the

three that I think it's starting to

settle on.

Um,

so

the things they want are they we

definitely want a uh an election in

Ukraine. But Zalinski says yes, we'll

definitely get a

you better catch up with the news.

Did something happen in the news today?

So somebody's yelling at me in all caps.

I need to catch up with the news.

Is there a big headline story happening

right now?

Tell me. Is there something happening

right now?

All right. Well,

let me know if you see something.

All right. You can send me a text if you

have my if you have my text.

Um,

give me a text and tell me if I missed

something.

All right. Could be just a troll. I

don't know.

But, uh, so on one hand,

uh, what Zalinski needs to know is that

Russia won't take over the rest of the

country. Uh, has to be some obviously a

property deal. Who gets what?

Um

and uh

yeah, so those are the big things. It it

does seem like it's really down to real

estate. And does Zensky ever want to

leave office?

Idiocracy did it.

Oh, add Sam's Club.

Yeah.

All right.

Speaking of military, I guess the US

military now has a thousand mile drone

boat for attacking other boats or ships,

I guess. And it can go 1,000 nautical

miles and can carry a,000 pound bomb

payload.

And it can go up to 35 knots. Boy, I'd

hate to see that coming at me.

It feels like every day there's a

there's a breakthrough in military

drones.

Yeah, we're if we don't have a good

military drone fight war, I don't know.

That's a lot of a lot of work.

Costco sells auto and home and it is

cheaper.

Yeah,

but insurance,

we'll see. Well, I'm not sure how much

cheaper it would be. I I would agree

that it would have to be cheaper, but I

don't know if we're talking 5% or 50%.

It'd be lawyer free.

I don't know if you want that.

All right. I guess that's why they put

the Costco far away from each other so

you don't get all those samples and live

on it.

No, this is not the warm-up. This is the

actual show. This is not very good.

All right. There's a new pill according

to No Ridge

that uh lowers your blood sugar and

burns your fat without um appetite loss

or muscle loss. So, does it seem to you

like we went hundreds of years not

having any good way to lose weight

except for exercise and diet? Um, then

suddenly there's a pill and then there's

another pill and then there's another

pill and then there's another pill and

then there's pills that do it different

ways. So, we went from, well, there's no

way you're going to lose weight with a

pill to, wow, there sure are a lot of

ways to lose weight with a pill.

All right.

I'm looking at your comments.

All right. And uh you know uh Trump

Trump was a little angry at uh Bondi

because the attorney general is not

indicting anybody. Does it seem to you

that Pam Bondi is stalling?

Or does it seem to you that there's no

good reason for why we haven't seen some

of the bad guys of back from the Russia

hoax era? Why have we not seen any of

them get indicted?

Is the problem that the person to indict

is going to be Obama?

Or is the problem? Could it be that what

Brennan was warning us about in that

interview about the CIA and about um

blackmail?

Was Brennan warning people that that

they do have blackmail on anybody who

would try to take down the ex CIA

people?

Because when Trump talks about, hey, we

need to uh, you know, indict these ex

people, some number of them are

intelligence people, right?

And if it's true that the intelligence

people use blackmail to stay in charge,

it seems like he's warning them that

they're definitely going to have some

blackmail come out the minute they go

after Brennan.

Does it feel like that? So, here's the

thing I'd be watching for.

I'm I'm still going to presume that we

don't see indictments

for the biggest players. So I think we

won't see an Obama,

Susan Rice, I don't even know if she's

in she's on the list. Brennan Clapper,

I don't think any of them will be

indicted. And the reason is is what

Brennan said that they have blackmail on

everybody important.

So,

I suspect

that there's no real way that we're ever

going to see what Trump wants, which is

the normal, you know, a normal

Department of Justice process where they

look at evidence and they indict people

and then they go to trial. I don't think

that's possible.

I I think that the only thing possible

is that they might wave their hand at it

and then just dismiss everything. I do

not see that any of that can really

happen in the real world. In a world

where

Epstein is killed in his jail cell and

we act like we don't know anything about

it.

In that world, I don't see Brennan going

to jail.

Do you?

Um Elon Musk also at one of his recent

events said that the assassination of

Charlie Kirk has made it even more

impossible for people like him to go out

in public.

He says there are serious security

issues. It's not that I don't want to. I

simply can't. Now can't must mean that

his security people say you cannot do

this. We're not going to let you walk

out in this this situation. So, it looks

like he's taken their advice.

Uh, and he says that Charlie's

assassination has reinforced the

severity of the situation where life is

uh is on hardcore mode. You can make one

mistake and you're dead. It only takes

one mistake. So, imagine being Elon Musk

and you go from, "Hey, I'm just a rich

guy and everybody likes me. I've got

some security issues, but everybody rich

does." to I can't go out.

I I can't go out because I might get

murdered.

Now,

uh I saw Sean Davis from the Fed

Federalist had a comment about this on X

and he said this is the only this is

only the case meaning there's this big

security problem. He said this is only

the case for people on the right. No

left-wing podcaster, politician, or

journalist have to look around every

corner or hire private security

everywhere they go. Only conservatives

are forced to live this way.

Is that true?

Is that an exaggeration or are we just

in a bubble?

Because

I I could certainly name several

conservative people who can't go outside

without security,

right? the the Daily Wire guys and um I

don't know I don't know if any of the

Federalists have that problem but uh you

know obviously Elon Musk has that

problem, Charlie Kirk had that problem.

So are we at a point where it's true

that conservatives can't go outside

but liberals can? That might be a bit of

an exaggeration. Surely there have to be

some

liberals who need security. If you were,

let's say, uh

that Mark Beni off that of Salesforce,

you don't think he has security? Well, I

don't know, but I would guess he does.

Now, is that because he's just a rich

guy and CEOs always need security? I

mean, it might be that. Or are there

specifically death threats that people

on the left are getting?

I don't know. Do you know?

Yeah, I don't know. So anyway, Pam Bondi

is I think is in a tough spot. I believe

that she doesn't have the option of

going after the people that Trump wants

her to go after because I think that it

would be dangerous

and that ultimately they would get

released or or pardoned or something.

So, it could be that the option of

justice is just not possible. It

wouldn't matter if Trey Gaudy was

replacing Pam Bodney or not. But I did

note that Trey that Trey Gaudy is a golf

partner of Trump. And it feels to me

like the very best um people that Trump

could have in his cabinet or any of his

appointees would be somebody who can

golf with them.

Because if you golf with somebody, you

get to know them pretty well and you

know you you'd spend a lot of time with

them. I I kind of like the idea of Trump

having golf partners who are also very

capable. I mean, Trey Gaudy would be

super capable. Um, feels like that would

be a stronger team if he golfed with

them.

All right. Uh, wealthy people are at the

mercy of their security personnel.

Yeah, that's true.

All right.

Um, what else we got? Uh,

so I guess it was a journalist who went

to LA city council recently, Wall Street

Apes is reporting on this and uh, he

said at the public hearing said, "So far

we have spent $450 million to

permanently house44

people."

Does that sound like we did a good job?

$450 million and it housed, 1100 people.

That doesn't sound good. That sounds

sort of the way we do bullet trains and

everything else. Um, and he said that

money is going somewhere. It's not like

that money is falling into the abyss.

That money ends up being somebody's

profit. The nonprofit industrial complex

who's making a ton of money. And most of

those people are politically connected

to Hugo and Nitia and Karen Bass. I

don't know Karen Bass is the mayor, but

I don't know the others, of course. And

actually all of you people

uh and he talked about how uh in his

area in LA, not a single street light

works. [snorts]

Not a single street light. Well, I got a

feeling if you fix the street lights in

those neighborhoods, somebody would

shoot it out in about a minute. So, I'm

not sure if fixing it is even an option.

All right, people. Um,

I'm going to I'm going to end it here.

I'm going to talk to my beloved uh

members of locals. So, beloveds, coming

at you privately in 30 seconds. The rest

of you, thanks for joining. We will see

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