Back to episode — Episode 2780 CWSA 03/16/25
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No, didn't see that coming. I don't know how anybody could have ever predicted that not doing the one thing that you're biologically maximized to do, how could that make you unhappy? I don't know. So next time, just ask me. Just ask me. I could have saved you so much time. Well, JD Vance is confident. He says that there'll be a deal for TikTok so that it can stay but we have a non-Chinese ownersh…
← Previous segment →about his qualifications to talk about that topic, which are very high because he's been in that business, versus Mike Pence. What would Mike Pence have to say about this that we would care about? JD Vance is way more capable and, I think, ultimately powerful than we might be understanding right now. So he is really well poised for what comes next.
In other good news, it's so far a half good news. We expect more good news coming. But the SpaceX crew has docked with the International Space Station. Imagine if you were an alien and you were just reaching Earth's outer atmosphere and you're trying to observe what the locals are doing. And you say, "Wait, hold on. We see something happening up here in space. Oh, there they are. It looks like we see one of the people. They seem to be able to float in space, and they look kind of made of metal. Oh, here's another one. Oh, we're going to see a mating practice. I think they're mating. Oh, yep, they're mating. They're mating." No, they're not mating. They're just docking. It's called docking, not fucking. And that's the first step to rescue those stranded NASA astronauts.
So it seems to me that in normal times this would be one of the biggest stories in the whole country, and we'd be ob
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sessed by it. And every time you turned on the TV, they'd say it's halfway done. The rescue is halfway done. Elon Musk is the hero that we needed. He's doing it with nothing in return. He's just amazingly created a company that can rescue astronauts in space when nothing else can do it. Do you think that's what's going to happen, or will it be ignored because it's just so obviously positive, patr…
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