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understand is there some big uniparty power behind politics that we don't see directly? Like you need to know that, right? But doesn't it feel as though both Vivek and Trump are a new American Revolution against these hidden powers that maybe we don't even know who they are? I don't know if that even exists. I don't even know if it exists. I know there are a lot of people pretty sure it does but…

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witter really well. How exactly do you write a hit piece about a populist? Doesn't that sound almost like that's backwards? What the hell is a populist except somebody that the people really like once they get to know him and they really agree with him once they get to know him? That's what a populist is. Somebody who's popular because they're doing the right things according to the public.

So they've got to make populism look bad because Trump does it. Trump's the best populist ever. I don't know, maybe of all time. But Elon Musk is definitely a populist as well in the sense that he's trying to do things that make sense and are popular. I don't think he does it because they're popular. That's obvious. But he does seem to be very dedicated to what would be good and make sense such as population increase instead of decrease. So got that going on.

How many of you saw the AI-created George Carlin stand-up comedy? How many of you saw or listened to that clip? Anybody see that? So the story was that AI had finally done what I said couldn't be done, which is write humor. There was high quality humor and in fact as good as the real George Carlin.

So there was a video that was going around and people were impressed because the writing seemed to be almost humanlike quality. And I think I tweeted it before I listened to it. I listened to one joke or something and I thought the joke was so — I thought well you know it's word play so probably AI did write it. So I spent the time to listen to more of it and about five minutes in it was super obvious that AI did not make that. AI didn't make that.

How many of you thought the AI really made it? That that was your AI hoax of the week? All right. So it was confirmed by the way that it wasn't real. Yeah it wasn't AI. But here's — I'm going to give you, well I guess I'm giving myself a pat on the back. It took me just a few minutes of listening to it to know it couldn't be AI because AI can't do that. AI can't do that. So I was pretty sure the AI can't do that and sure enough it didn't. It didn't even come close.

So here's what it did that was my tip off. Part of the comedy was that George Carlin was insulting God for creating us and then creating all these diseases to kill us. Now on one hand that's very George Carlinish. It's right in his sweet spot. On the other hand there is no AI that will ever insult God. AI is not going to insult God and it's certainly not going to mock people who have diseases. It's not going to do that.

Yes, as soon as I heard the God part I was like come on, there's no way this is AI. But then the story was okay it was written by a human and we know the name of the human. They admit it. I think at the end of the video it actually says it. Actually somebody said at the end of the video which I didn't get to. It reveals that it's not real. But the claim is that the impersonation of George Carlin was AI. Even the impersonation didn't sound like him. There wasn't one thing that sounded

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like George Carlin. It didn't sound like his voice. The writing actually was pretty close but it sounded like a human imitating George Carlin. And I picked it out immediately. Now the only reason I watched it, let me give a little credit here, is that Greg Gutfeld had watched it and he sent me a message and said I probably shouldn't tell you what private messages people send but he wouldn't mind…

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