Dogs and Casino were not good movies? Yes those are. No I'm not going to say they're not good because that would be treating art like it's subjective. They are not movies I enjoyed or that I would recommend. But I don't mind if you do. Don't mind if you do.

There's news about this election software firm called Konnech. And the CEO I guess is in jail. He's been picked up. Hasn't been convicted of anything but they say that he was storing the database in China and it was a database of all the election volunteers, all the workers. Now apparently that's what his software does. It's a database for managing your election volunteers. So that was the information that was allegedly, yeah the poll workers and stuff. So that was allegedly what was stored on a Chinese database.

How big of a problem is that? Is it a huge problem that they've got information about the poll workers? Is that because then they could influence the poll workers? Because I don't see that that would really work. I feel like that would be too easy like you'd be caught pretty easily. Yeah no I do have to ask why. It's not obvious to me. I mean I have a pretty suspicious mind but it's not obvious to me how China would use that information. Bribes? So you think you would tell China who to bribe or hacking targets or who to blackmail? Who's a bribe or blackmail? Yep I don't buy that. Yeah I get that that could be a vulnerability but it doesn't seem like the kinds that China would want to use unless they knew something about, I don't know most of the poll workers would have no access to anything right? I don't know.

All right I guess I can see the point. I know why it needs to be illegal. I get why it needs to be illegal but I guess you could find some way to weaponize that anyway. The company's defense is that nothing like that happened which is an interesting defense because it feels like the easiest thing in the world to prove or disprove is whether you have a database in a certain place at a certain time. But they're actually saying nope, nope that didn't happen. We do not have our data in China. You know it's weird that they would make that defense. It makes me think that it's true. It makes me think that the defense is true because that's not exactly the defense you would mount if you actually had a database in China because obviously that could be detected. The defense you would mount is we didn't know it was there or China stole it from us or it was one employee and yes we fired him. Something like that. But it would be weird to say it's not there because that would be the easiest thing to prove or disprove, right?

So I think I would hold off on this. It feels fake news. I'm not going to declare it fake news but it's got something wrong with it. There's something that doesn't feel right about the story. Do you feel that too? Do you think we're tracked on Locals? I doubt it.

All right, so Elon Musk was going to go ahead and buy Twitter. That's the news unless it changed in the last few minutes. But why do you think he changed his mind and decided not to go to trial? Several possibilities. We'd only be guessing. One is that he didn't think he'd win. Two is that it would just take too much time out of his life. Maybe he just didn't want to spend the time on it. The other possibility is that he knew if he didn't wrap up and buy Twitter right away the next few elections would be influenced by whatever badness you imagine might be there. He might be trying to save the world or save the Republic. He might be trying to do it because even for the extra 10 billion he might say 10 billion dollars to save the Republic is not really expensive for him.

Yeah I wonder if this is purely a patriot move for free speech and to protect the election. I feel like this is for us. There's no way to know. I saw an interview in which he was talking about how when he was young he went through an existential crisis and he was trying to figure out what's the meaning of life and why are we here and all that. And he read all the religious texts and he said he was not persuaded, which was a funny way to put it. He found them not persuasive. So he didn't buy religion. So he was sort of looking for a purpose. It was the purpose.

Now if you look at the companies that he's formed and how they're oriented he seems to have dedicate