Since it's a slow news day, I'm going to do something for fun. I promised you when I had my other technology that today I was going to do a demonstration of cognitive dissonance. I'm going to plug in my other headphone and we're going to do that.

All right, assuming that you can hear me, I'm going to take some calls. But I'm going to take some calls from people who want to tell me that Uranium One was a big problem for the country. So the only topic I'm going to take is somebody who wants to tell me that the Uranium One situation was a big problem and Hillary Clinton should go to jail for it. Or whether or not she goes to jail, it doesn't matter, but that you think it was a big scandal and a big problem.

So anybody who thinks that, that's the only topic I'm taking. And I will take some guest callers and we'll see. And I'll make the call quick if you only wanted to talk about something else.

Hello, Alex. Hey, are you here to talk about Uranium One?

"Sure am."

Do you think Uranium One was a big problem that affects the United States in a strategic way?

"I think it is a problem. Legally, the way that has been handled, I think that it was swept under the rug."

Oh, hold on. That's—I will accept that there are some legal questions there, but that's not the interesting part. Would you say that beyond the fact there are some legal questions, does it have an effect on the readiness of the United States, the strategic strength of the United States, or in any way?

"That's what I was going next, is that I think that it may have. Only if it had been uncovered we would have known. But we are unable to see because none of the information has really ever come out other than little tidbits here and there that were reported because media mostly has been just, you know, CNN and all."

So aside from the legal part, which is important, what are you worried that there's a strategic thing that we lost because we sold those rights? Are you worried that we're worse off as a country?

"I would have no idea to that information. Like I wouldn't know, but I'm not concerned."

That's fair. You have a reasonable view. But I'm going to take another caller. I want to get somebody who's going to argue that it matters.

All right, let's see if Doug—this looks like a troll, possibly a troll because he's using my own character as his icon. Caller, can you hear me?

"Hey, are you here to talk about Uranium One?"

"Yes I am."

Do you think that the United States was weakened or lost anything by the Uranium One deal?

"I believe that's possible if things I've heard are true. I don't know that they're true. I have no way to confirm it. But if what I heard is true, then yes, I believe so."

And what would be an example of something you heard that if it were true would be bad for the country for the Uranium One deal?

"What I believe I read was that the uranium going through Russia was being processed out to Iran for their program, which would of course be a huge problem for us."

Okay, I haven't heard any of that. I have heard that the stuff from the United States couldn't be released from the United States without official permission. So for example another country couldn't buy it if they wanted to. It would have to be sold inside the United States. But I'm not sure about that. That's one.

All right, let me take another caller. I'm looking for somebody who really buys into the whole story. Let's say Joe. All right, Fyrus Joe coming at you. Joe, good. How are you? Do you have a Uranium One opinion?

"Yes I do. I don't know if it's going to be able to trump what you're about to lay down. But basically with Uranium One, what the issue I think would be, other than potential corruption in the future as far as what other countries think that they're going to get from us as well, but the crossover of the nuclear going around to different countries. That if, you know, as the media says Russia is their enemy, then it's sort of odd that we're in bed in a situation where we're getting uranium, trading it to different places, doing it in a way that is, I guess, national security wise, the biggest danger would be the fact about how they're actually transferring it because—"

Okay. Do you know that the uranium is a product on the open market and that pretty much anybody can buy it from one of the countries that sells it?

"I did not know that."

Yeah. So what I was hoping to get here is apparently most of you are too smart, or there was a trap. I was trying to see if anybody would come here and say that Russia got 20% of our critical uranium resources. Oh no, because that's sort of the story you hear from some pundits. And that by itself is the problem. The problem is that this is a valuable national resource and that we're giving it to our potential nemesis, Russia. But it sounds like everybody here is too smart for that.

So thanks, Joe. And I will end my experiment there.

All right. What I expected was that some of you would come on here and say, no, we're giving away our critical resource. And then I was going to tell you that your critical resource is 6% of domestic production. Six. It's 6% of domestic production. And you can buy it anywhere. You can buy it from Canada. You can get your uranium from Australia.

Now you might say to yourself, well wait a minute, wouldn't it be better to have it than to have to go buy it? And the answer is either way you have to buy it. Just the fact that the mine is in the United States doesn't make it free. There's some company that owns the mine. You can go to that company and you can buy it. You can still go to that company and buy it. Just because Russia has an interest in a mine that's located in the United States, that doesn't make it Russia's. Not really.

I mean if we got in a war with Russia, would Russia still be able to take their uranium out of their mine that's located in the United States? I don't think so. So we still have control over it. We can buy it on the open market. Uranium One was never a real problem except that there might have been some Clinton quid pro quo there that we'll never identify anyway.

Yeah, I thought this would be interesting because I thought some of you would be hypnotized by the story. But apparently you're not. You're all way beyond that and that's good.