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people in society are going to do whatever the AI tells them because the AI is smarter than them. So I believe there will be a point where the AI actually tells their owner how to vote. Like, actually literally. I think there will be a point where people below a certain level of, I'm going to say intelligence or at least below a certain level of paying attention to the world, they're going to wait…

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many more hours. So you have this situation where AI can't close the gap between what you want to do and what it can do. So you still need a human being to figure out it's going to take, I think in my case, maybe six different AI apps to just make a clip. Now it would work really well because the apps are excellent.

But take a look at the app created by Descript. So it's going around today. It's kind of viral. So my clip that got taken out of my larger show the other day in which I... yes, I already did this simultaneous sip. Can you shut up about it? If you missed the sip, it's just because you're late. Okay? Yeah, you could all stop talking about it. All right.

Anyway, so there's an app called Descript that added the captions. Take a look at it on my video clip in which I'm saying that Vivek is the obvious choice for vice president for Trump. And you'll like the... you might like the video itself. It looks like it's going slightly viral. People seem to like it a lot. But look at the technology. Just look at how the captions are added. And you can see that nobody's going to do it without AI in the future.

All right. Here's the least surprising thing in the world. Can you believe it that Taylor Swift's boyfriend's team is going to get to the Super Bowl? Huh. Nobody saw that coming. Taylor Swift, the person that everybody thinks might be part of some giant Democrat influence campaign because she's so popular. And now she likes the Chiefs and she's very, very Democrat at the moment.

How many of you think that that game was fixed? Meaning that there was something going on that's bigger than football that needs Taylor Swift to be part of the Super Bowl. Because we're already hearing that Joe Biden wants to use a Taylor Swift strategy to get her to endorse him, maybe at the Super Bowl or something crazy. And none of it feels real, does it? Like everything else in the world is so fake and so rigged that even something like football, which I've always assumed was pretty straight, I don't believe it this time.

Now I'm not going to make an accusation because then you get sued. I'm not going to say the game was rigged. I'm just going to say that in today's environment that was a pretty big coincidence. Pretty big coincidence that Taylor Swift picked the guy who got 11 catches. He got 11 catches. Do you think they were looking for him a little extra hard because he's Taylor's boyfriend? Maybe. You can't tell. You know, he's also a star. He's also a star. So it could also happen completely naturally. Yeah. Anyway, so we'll keep an eye on that.

If it is rigged, you would expect the Chiefs to beat the 49ers in the Super Bowl. So the 49ers made it so far. My technique of picking the winner by the mascot is working out well. I hear other people have used that technique as well. But I've been doing it for 25 years or so in newspapers. Newspapers used to ask me before the Super Bowl who I thought was going to win just because they like asking some celebrity types. And I had a pretty good record just picking the mascots.

But now what happens when the Chiefs and the 49ers meet? This one's ambiguous because a chief has a spear or a bow and arrow and a 49er would just have a shovel. So normally, normally I'm going to say spear beats shovel or pick. Oh, pickaxe. Oh, pick. A dynamite. Okay, now it's getting interesting. It might be spear versus dynamite. Rifle. Okay, there you go. Yes. If you looked at them as individuals, one chief might get lucky with a spear and beat one 49er. But if you look at the arc of history, the chiefs didn't do as well as the 49ers. So I would say the big picture supports the 49ers winning. Unless it's rigged. No, it's not rigged. Enjoy your Super Bowl and pretend that it all happened naturally.

I don't know if it's rigged. I'll tell you, I have a persuasion theory as well. The Super Bowl doesn't need to be rigged if all the players think that it would be better if Taylor Swift had more exposure with the NFL. Because imagine what that does for future viewership of the NFL. Yeah. Even if you're on the team that's trying to win the Super Bowl, which seems like that would be the highest goal for you, there's probably a little bit of your brain that says, you know what, weirdly it would be better if we lost because then NFL does better and then they have more money and then I get paid more maybe. So there is a weird incentive structure there.

I think both Jack Posobiec and Vivek both said that the Super Bowl looks a little bit suspicious. But Jack points out that Taylor Swift was no fan of the Soros family because they bought her entire music rights and without asking her permission they owned all her music. But I guess she got around that by re-recording a lot of stuff. And then she came out as super liberal in 2020, as Jack points out. And Vivek posted something that suggested just a little bit of

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a coincidence, just a little bit of a coincidence that Taylor is getting so lucky in her choice of boyfriends. It looks like it's intentional, but I won't make that accusation. I'll just say every bit of it looks like that. And in fact the New York Times is saying that Biden is going to pursue a Taylor Swift strategy of getting her to endorse him if possible. Imagine being Taylor Swift and having…

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