ecause it's just a robot dog. Doesn't really have enough hands for that. I guess we'll have the Optimus for that.

All right. Well, the Jake Tapper book is out with co-author Alex Thompson. Now that's the one that promised to be, we imagined would be full of really shocking things about Joe Biden from behind the scenes. And so far the only thing I've heard from the book is that Joe Biden's physical deterioration was so severe that his advisors privately discussed the possibility he might need a wheelchair if he won re-election.

Now that's not too surprising if anybody saw him walk and fall over and stuff like that. So and the fact it was privately discussed, that makes perfect sense. But is that the most shocking thing in the book of all the things in the book? We're not even going to talk about his mental deterioration. We're going to talk about his ability to walk.

That I feel like I was expecting a lot more. Weren't you? So maybe somebody only read the first chapter or something, but shouldn't there be way more shocking relevant revelations? I'm a little low on shocking revelations here. So Jake, we're expecting more. I hope there's more of this going to come out.

Apparently Apple is now working with a startup called Synchron to connect their phone to your brain directly. So this would be for disabled people at least initially. Wall Street Journal was reporting this. So Synchron is trying to do the same thing that Neuralink does, which is literally physically connect some device to your brain.

So they have a stent-like device that's implanted in a vein at the top of the brain's motor cortex. Now that's kind of surprising. Does it surprise you that connecting to one vein near the brain would allow you to read brain signals? And that's pretty amazing if you could do that.

Anyway, and then it translates the signals into icons on screen. Now I saw some critic in the comments saying that Apple hasn't developed basically anything useful since Steve Jobs left. Left as in died. And I wonder if this will be it. But even this is sort of a follower thing because Neuralink would be way ahead. Brain vein signaling. Anyway, so we'll see about that.

It seems to me that if it starts with disabled people, it wouldn't be long before you would want to have one of those brain stents in your own brain. How many of you would let somebody drill into your head and give you a brain stent just so you could control your phone better? I don't know if I'd be up to be the first person to do that, but you go first.

Well, as you know, one of the biggest problems in the United States for developing anything is it takes too long to get approval, especially in the uranium nuclear front. But according to Interesting Engineering, the US is going to fast-track a Utah uranium mining permit.

Now how long do you think it would normally take to get a uranium mining permit? And I guess this isn't a mine that used to exist but got closed for some reason. They're reopening it. But how long do you think it would take? Probably years, right? And why would it take years? Well, you know, there's always environmental issues, etc.

But apparently they're trying to slash that to 14 days. Fourteen days. Do you think they're going to make that work? Because I always wondered why can't you do it in 14 days. Now I'm not talking about the analysis that would be presented to the whoever has to approve the thing. The analysis might take a while. You know, they might say can you analyze the impact on the special frogs or whatever is there. So I could see why that would take a while, but it seems like once you've done the analysis that getting the approval shouldn't take that long.

So do you think this will really get approved in 14 days? Because we need local uranium so we don't have to rely on Russia. Russia is one of the main sources of uranium. So seems like a bad idea to depend on Russia for our uranium.

Well, when Trump is talking he's still talking about the China tariff agreements and apparently there's a deeper level of stuff that we don't all understand. So one of the things I talked about is the tariffs, of course, but there was something about a whole bunch of other restrictions and things that China puts on people bey