Back to episode — Episode 2888 CWSA 07/05/25
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s has accepted the framework of a proposed 60-day ceasefire. But it would only involve releasing 10 living hostages. My understanding is there might be 50. I don't know how many are living. But did Trump really get Israel to agree to a deal that would not free all of the hostages? Really, that doesn't seem like something they would agree to. So Trump must be putting a lot of pressure on Israel if…
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But I like to think — my favorite story I'll tell myself is that maybe they're stolen. Could be somebody hacked them. But wouldn't it be fun if they didn't know they had the Bitcoin and one day they just were looking through their papers and said, oh wow, yeah, I forgot I bought some Bitcoin 14 years ago. Oh, I wonder how. Oh, here's my instructions on how to get into my wallet. And then suddenly just some ordinary person is worth a billion dollars. I like to think of it that way, but it was probably some rich investor who didn't need it.
Joe Rogan was talking to the CEO of a big company — I forget which company, some big company, doesn't matter which one — and he asked the CEO or the CEO had an opinion about why wokeness died. Did wokeness die? What do you think? It feels like it. You know, it's been a long time since somebody insisted I pay reparations or use their pronouns. So I don't know if wokeness is dead dead. You know, the universities are holding on tight to their racist ways.
Oh yeah, it was the CEO of Perplexity. Perplexity, which is an AI company. I don't know. But anyway, the CEO of Perplexity said that he thinks that America's woke culture was ended by Elon Musk buying Twitter. Do you buy that? Do you think the reason that wokeness died was directly related to Elon Musk buying Twitter, which allowed for the first time something close to free speech? I don't know.
I feel like it had more to do with Trump winning the election because he got rid of DEI. He made DEI basically illegal, not basically illegal but illegal at the federal level. As much as I think that Elon Musk rescued free speech, which I believe he
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did, I don't know if that rescue of free speech is what ended wokeness. I feel like what might have ended it is finding out that most of the country was against it and Trump made it illegal, at least the DEI part. He made it illegal. Also the trans athletes on women's teams. So I feel like Trump is the one who did it by simply making it illegal to be woke at a point where it's destructive to soci…
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