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out of the other one with a few punches and the other one just gave up and took off her helmet and said goodbye I'm not going to do this. Now let me tell you all the things I think about this. Boxing is the stupidest sport. I never want to see boxing in the Olympics or anywhere else. Why is this a sport? Punching people in the head until they get brain damage. Why is that a sport? Now if it's goi…

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never even get an interview with the presidential candidate unless I play ball a little bit. All right I'll play ball a little bit.

Then the CIA contacts you and says you know you've heard a story that's kind of bad for the United States. It'd really be good if you were a patriot if you kind of didn't tell that story. And then the publisher or the CEO says oh no we are a news organization that is the news we're going to tell the news. And then the CIA guy says well I mean you're free to do that but probably there'll be situations in which you'd like let's say the law to go your way. You know maybe regulation is a little too strong. Maybe there's something that you've invested in separately from your media entities that you'd like to go a good way but all that's going to start getting really tough for you. The government's going to look at you as sort of an unfriendly entity and suddenly you're going to get audited. Your businesses will come under pressure. The Department of Justice will start investigating things you've done and it's going to be really really tough for you to stay in business. But if you write things that we like you get to be invited to all the parties. The president will have you over at the White House.

So in a million different ways they can either blackmail or bribe media entities and then at some point it becomes like Stockholm syndrome. Stockholm syndrome is where if you kidnap somebody like Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army decades ago it's a known thing that you end up identifying with your captors. So our media has been captured for so long that I don't think they're aware that they're owned. At least most of them. I think they look around and they say okay if I tell the story this way I could probably get promoted and write a book and be invited on little shows. If I write the story this other way as soon as there's a financial problem in the company and they have to reduce the staff I'm first in line to go. So you don't have to explain it to anybody. Everybody understands at some point and it becomes a Stockholm syndrome. We've got to protect our side. And it's all fake.

So there is no country that has real news. Does anybody disagree with that? There's no country that has real news and never has and never has. And anything that you believe in which some countries have free press, never. There is no way the government can survive if the free press can tell the public the truth. Never. It's completely 100% unsurvivable. So all news has to be fake everywhere all the time about the political stuff. Other stuff could be real. How many of you didn't know that? Is there anybody here saying really? Wait you're telling me we can't fix it? No you can't fix it. It is fixed. The fake news is the fix. It's not broken. The only way that we can have a strong country or anybody else, China, anybody, is to have fake press. There's no other way. And once you realize that the gears of the machine are that, well then you can see it. Then it just becomes transparent.

All right so Zuckerberg says Meta is going to need 10 times more computing power to train their next version of AI Llama 4. So 10 times more than they needed for Llama 3 and that's just one generation. 10 times more computing which means 10 times more energy. So you know how you may have seen that Vivek Ramaswamy is saying that the introduction of Kamala Harris maybe was a bit of a surprise, bit of a blind spot for Republicans and they weren't ready to run against her and that what they need is a new approach that's less Biden-focused and something that's more future-oriented and optimistic and tells a better story of what Republicans will do.

Now the first time I heard him say that I said to myself hm do they? Because it seems like Republicans are saying exactly what they want to do. You know close the borders and better on crime and stop the wars and stuff. So I thought well if all those things are good things and they poll well why not just keep doing that? But because it's Vivek I don't treat it the way I might treat it if it were somebody I didn't respect intellectually and so I thought about it a little bit more and I said really what would that look like? And I thought oh my God it's obvious he's right.

Here's what the story is that only the Republicans can tell. It's energy. Energy is the only story. We are in a global competition for energy because if you don't have energy you're not going to be able to avoid wars because you know us if we don't have enough energy we're going to go get it and you might be in the way so might need a war. We need energy to survive wars. If you don't have energy you're not going to look very good as a defensive operation. We need more energy to lower inflation because we're going to have to produce a ton of it so that we can lower the cost and then the energy cost gets into every product so energy would be the most direct inflation-fighting thing you could do is create more energy.

We're going to need that energy for electric cars whether they're mandated or just free market wants them. We're going to need it for the self-driving taxis which Tesla and others will be rolling out. Those will be mostly electric I think. We're going to need it for robots right? Elon Musk is still talking about the mind-boggling size of the robot market. He thinks there could be 10 billion sold at $20,000 a piece which is like 200 trillion dollars or something. The size of the robot market will be bigger than anything we've ever seen by a lot and they all need electricity all day. And the AI will need even more electricity like crazy amounts. Like if you're new to the topic when I say AI is going to need more electricity your brain says oh wow we're going to need 20% more electricity. No no it's more like a hundred times. It's like we're not even close. We need something like around 100 times more energy than we have and we need it really fast. It's the only story. It's the only story is energy. And the Republicans can make that case because Democrats don't have any energy story. They only have a climate change story which is the opposite of energy. It's like how do we get rid of our energy?

We cannot compete against China unless we have a hundred times more energy. Not a chance. Not a chance or anybody else. So the only way we could have a dominant position in the world is if we unleash every bit of our energy. And I've been calling Trump an energy monster because he attracts energy and then he uses it for his messaging but he needs to be the energy monster for the country. He needs to be the energy monster. The person who opens ANWR, the person who pushes Gen 4 nuclear energy into the American market faster. By the way there is a Gen 4 nuclear reactor breaking ground in the US according to the new Atlas. Kairos Power broke ground at Oak Ridge. So we'll be building our first Gen 4. If you're new to this Gen 4 would be nothing we've ever built. China's built one and tested it and Gen 4 basically doesn't melt down. Did you hear that? Doesn't melt down. The Gen 3 that we have have never melted down either but they have the potential to if you were to lose power for an extended period of time it could melt down. That's like Fukushima. Fukushima melte

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d had its problems because the tsunami hit their backup generators right? It was pretty dumb to put the backup generators where a tsunami could potentially hit them. So it was a design problem too but and that I think that was a generation two that wasn't even a Gen 3. So Gen 4 basically takes the risk out of nuclear power enough. Right there's nothing that's zero risk but it basically eliminates…

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