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place where you get to have unpleasant opinions and you can express them in public. And you can do it all day long. And what happens is the country doesn't get weaker. It just reminds us every day that we've got this flag that gets stronger when you try to burn it. So that's my take. That's my reframe. Meanwhile, ex-ABC News correspondent Terry Moran, that poor bastard who's having the worst mont…

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ntext that I didn't know. And I usually remember it. But it's easier, it's way easier to look it up with AI than it is to Google things and look at every source. So I feel in my own experience that AI makes me smarter faster than any technology I've ever been associated with. Now I don't forget the things I look up on AI and it's not like I could just take its writing and read it to you on this podcast. I have to understand it and then I put it in my own words and that's the only model that works. If I were to just read a script that AI wrote or Grok wrote, you would know it was a script and you wouldn't love it.

So I think this is a very forward-thinking and aware. Ohio State University has at least one person there who is very smart and understands what's coming. So yeah, I think all the colleges should adapt to AI or maybe we should get rid of colleges and just use AI. That's coming.

Well, let's talk about our nuclear power policy. Apparently China plans to build 100 new nuclear power plants in the next 10 years. So 10 nuclear power plants per year for 10 years till they have 100 of them. The US has built only three power plants since 1995. And I can't name them. I didn't know we even built three since 1995. I thought it was zero, but all right, I guess there are three. So we're way behind.

But the good news and a real test of the Adams law of slow-moving disasters. Now the Adams law of slow-moving disasters says that if we all recognize the problem coming, we've got lots of time. We're really good at dealing with the problem. And the problem coming is that AI is going to use way more electricity than we have. If we don't do the best in AI, we'll fall behind militarily, economically, and every other way to China and maybe other countries. So we really understand the risk and we see it coming and we kind of agree what the problem is and we also agree on the solution which is if you don't make nuclear work and fast there's probably not a second way to handle all the electrical needs. I think Elon Musk would say you could get there with solar panels and batteries, but probably we need all of it.

So the good news according to The Hill is that Trump has proposed getting rid of all climate rules for power plants. So that there will be any kind of power plant. But a lot of the rules were really allegedly not really helping the atmosphere or anything else. The rules were mostly don't pollute and don't add this or that to the atmosphere. But apparently those rules might have been overdone. So those might get rolled back. That would make a big difference.

And apparently we've opened a uranium enrichment facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Because it turns out that we currently import 99% of our US nuclear fuel. What? When did that happen? When did we get to the point? Scott, you were falling for the Home Depot hoax. Now did you hear me explain that when I talk about Home Depot, I'm not talking about a specific Home Depot and any specific thing happening at Home Depot. I'm using it as a general holder for non-criminal immigrants who were being picked up. Now are you arguing that no non-criminals are being picked up because otherwise you're just being an all right. So I accept that the stories, the specific stories about the Home Depot are not re

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presentative of anything. So we're both on the same page, right? Whatever story there is about any specific Home Depot or even more than one has nothing to do with my opinion. Everybody understand that? I use it just as a holding place basically to talk about people who are not criminals. All right, you got that? Can you handle that? All right. It's not an analogy. Oh god. So I'm going to have to…

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