do that right now while Ukraine is raging. But I feel you can even give Putin a win on paper. You know one of the problems is Putin needs to get something out of his actions, right? He needs to show that he won. And what would be a better win for everybody involved than to form a space alliance before anybody's got any real spaceships except for the ISS, right? It would look like a win, wouldn't it? It would be. Russia would actually establish itself as a space force and that would give Putin something to say. Not only did I solve things on the ground, you know maybe we work on a deal with NATO or something and stop fighting. So you know the Ukraine war is going to wind down. So you could say the reason I'm winding it down is that we've reached not just an agreement on Ukraine but all of space. Putin can sell the hell out of that and we would be happy if he did, right? Wouldn't you be happy if Putin could go to his own people and say look you know this was all ugly and certainly was worse than we expected and you know that's on me. But we got something really good. We got a permanent arrangement on the ground because I think they'll get there eventually. But we also have a path into space that's far more important than what was happening in Ukraine.

You don't watch or listen to Trump since 2020. You said before that too. Well send it to me. Oh okay. Let me see. Trump says he would consider alliance with Russia over an Islamic State. And that's not the same. And an alliance over a specific topic is not what I'm talking about. So I do agree with you that Trump said we could work with Russia on specific things like terrorism and stuff. That's not even close to what I'm talking about. I'm talking about like literally treating them like Great Britain, you know, eventually.

Yeah, Space Force is still around doing great. Oh is that right? Is one of the reframes that Russia invaded to stop Ukraine from going on an offensive in those same contested areas? Yeah. By the way there's a, I forget where it is, is it on Netflix? There's a series on Richard Branson and the starting of Virgin which was way more interesting than I thought it was going to be. I didn't realize that he was on the brink of bankruptcy pretty much the entire time until he was rich. Like he was always basically broke and everything had gone to hell a whole bunch of times from the time he was a record store to the time he started an airline. Like every part of that was pretty sketchy. But he made it all work and then he lost six satellites. Were some satellites damaged last night with the solar flares or was it just one rocket that didn't work? I don't know anything about any satellites or there was a launch that failed. A Virgin launch with a Virgin. Oh it was a Virgin launch and it didn't work. Well I guess Elon Musk has a big advantage there. You know I don't think we can discount how important it is that Musk is the engineer as well as the company owner. Because I can't see Richard Branson being the right leader for a technical project right now. You can argue that having the airline is technical but it's such a well understood technical that that's different. But going into space is inventing something new and I don't think that Richard Branson is the right leader for that. But Musk is because Musk can just say why are you doing that, unplug it if it's nothing.

Bezos and Blue Origin yet? Well no, Bezos doesn't have a technical background, does he? Or does he? What is Bezos' educational background? He's not an engineer, is he? Banking, financial. Yeah you built Amazon and that's impressive. But I would argue that Amazon is a little bit closer to extending current technology than going to Mars. Going to Mars you have to invent the whole process. But Amazon was taking something that existed, you know websites, and they grew as the technology for the internet grew. I think they just grew with it. I'm not sure that they were in some ways like their server farms and stuff they were leading the internet I think you could say. But mostly they just followed the technology. So Bezos I think would not be the right head of a rocket company. Yeah they were brilliant in their marketing and sales and psychology and a whole bunch of things. They did some inventing on logistics, that's true. But as did Walmart, right? Yeah but logistics is something that a smart operator can do, right? Building rockets to Mars is not just not something a somebody who's good at finance can pull off.

All right. Question for you as we have reached the end of my prepared remarks. I understand that my image here on YouTube and probably Rumble is a lower grade than it should be. It looks like a 720 because I have the 1080 set but for some reason it's coming through as 720. My camera is 1080. This looks about, is it only because the lighting? I'm going to change the lighting and see if that changes it. Hold on. See if I can reach it. I can't reach it. That was that better? All right. So you think it was just the light that gave it the bad luck? Yeah the same resolution. All right. All right. So maybe it's a lighting issue. When I use the iPad, the iPad is so good in low light that I have to have it dark in here but it and it looks like on the iPad I'm overexposed. Right, I look super white. So I'm not sure I can get both of these devices. So I might have to stream on a laptop for both of them. Well I can't do the StreamYard stuff on the iPad and my head is shinier.

All right. That's all I got for now. Best livestream you've ever seen. Let's go see what Clod Adams is doing. My evil me. Like I actually have an evil me, Clod Adams. You know not everybody has one but Robert Barnes is really mad at that guy. My evil twin, right? My evil twin. Use a thermal cam. More makeup. Yeah I'm trying not to do makeup. I mean I don't even shave. I don't know if you can tell but because I have light here but I don't even shave before I do this. Like I'm literally in my pajamas and I think you'll like it that way, don't you?

By the way you're all aware that I'm doing everything I can to not get bigger, right? Is that obvious? Can you tell I'm going out of my way to not let this grow any bigger than, you know, I wouldn't want the Locals group to be more than ten thousand and I think you'll stay well below that. It's like six thousand something. But it's not going to be better if it's bigger. I would make a lot more money but it's not really the primary goal at the moment. So I'll just wrap up with this thought. If you've never had the experience of going from having nothing to having plenty you wouldn't know what this feels like. But I'm at that phase of my life where I kind of took care of myself, right, and the people closest to me. And now I'm looking for something that makes sense for waking up. And pleasure isn't good enough. Like I wouldn't wake up happy every day. Oh it's another day of pleasure. I hate to say it but the