rth in your own mind. Well could it be this? Could it be that? What if it's this? What if it's that? The political right. And I'm not going to use the word intellectuals. I'm going to say the smartest people. So I'm going to include like your Charlie Kirks, your Steve Bannons, your Tucker Carlsons. Nobody would say that they're intellectuals per se. They're just some of the many smart people on the right.

But what happens when the right disagrees, which has happened a few times recently, the conversation is all public and we all look at each other and I might be looking at what Charlie Kirk says. I might be looking at Jack Posobiec, what he says. I might be looking at a couple of other podcasters. You know me, maybe I'm looking at what Megyn Kelly says. And then I'm forming my opinion which is informed by all of their opinions and I might make some mistakes. I might make some corrections, but overall, doesn't it seem to you that the right has a system in which you get to see a pretty good debate over what's real and what's not and they don't all agree, but that you get to a point where the smartest people seem to have surfaced. And there might be more than one. So there might be smart people that say we should do A and smart people say we should do B.

I think that happened with the big beautiful bill that you saw not a smart opinion and a dumb opinion. I think you saw two smart opinions. One smart opinion is we have to deal with the deficit. That's just got to be top priority. And another smart opinion has said, "We will, but not on this bill because we have these other priorities." But trust us, we're going to get to it. We understand that that's top priority. Now to me that's a system that is really, really good.

And part of it is driven by the fact that we know that Trump listens. I don't know how he does it. Presumably it's people talking in his ear that did the listening. But Trump is paying attention to all these people I mentioned plus dozens more. And because he pays attention, it kind of makes your game a little bit better. You know that somebody important might be listening to you. So you kind of make sure you think it through as well as you can.

So I would argue that it's not so much the grind of producing because I do this every day. I mean seven days a week and I don't feel it a grind at all. In fact the more I interact with content, the more I see the connections. So I would argue that the right has developed a system somewhat accidentally. I don't think it was conscious in which the smartest people act like one brain that often has more than one opinion, but the smartest opinions eventually bubble to the top and consistently so. And on the left, the least capable thinkers, for whatever reason, bubble up to the top. It's a big, big difference.

So that's my take but I appreciate Orin McIntyre raising... well actually a perfect example. So you know we might have a different opinion of this intellectual stuff but we both get to say our thing and then you get to decide which one bubbles to the top.

Axios is saying that the top MAGA influencers are warning that this Epstein stuff is going to cause a loss of trust in Trump. Well we already talked about that, but do you believe that? Do you believe that the top MAGA influencers are going to lose trust? Maybe a little bit temporarily, but I'll bet they'll get over it because the alternative is to trust Democrats. Not much of an alternative. So I think a disagreement looks completely different on the right. It doesn't look like it's a game ender. We just go forward with a little disagreement about what we just saw. That's it. It doesn't drive the MAGA apart. It's not some long-term beginning of the end. It's just we recognize that there are other smart people who have a different opinion and that's it. And then we allow that and then we go forward.

The College Fix has an article that says that college grads are now unprepared and more unpopular with hiring managers than ever. Now doesn't that feel like a story you heard every year of your life, for your entire life, that the young people are worse than they've ever been? And I thought to myself, if it's true every single year that the young people are worse, worse character, they're lazier, they have the wrong priorities, etc. If every year, I remember when I was the college graduate, I'm positive that we were being blamed for being the worst generation of all time. You hippies, get a haircut. You've ruined everything. You've ruined America.

So do you believe even though there are plenty of examples and you may have seen plenty of them yourself, do you believe that the recent batch of job applicants are the worst we've ever seen? Do you believe that? I always have this view that the people who matter in commerce and science is maybe 1%. And everybody else is just keeping the lights on and that it doesn't matter that much how many bad ones there are because they weren't moving the needle anyway. But if the top 1% is as good as they've always been, and I would argue that they're better than they've ever been, better because we have more people to choose from, and now they have AI tools to boost their intelligence, etc. As long as our top 1% is the best it's ever been, everybody else is just making sure that the garbage gets picked up and the lights stay on and that's fine. So I'm not too worried, but maybe I should be.

You know how I keep telling you that there are all these breakthroughs in battery technology? I saw a counter to that on What's Up With That. Willis Eschenbach did an article saying that one of the recent stories I told you about about a new battery that could charge in very short time, that there's no practical way to do it. It's just something you can do in the lab. But if you wanted to do that fast charging in the real world, you would have to vastly change the entire charging network in ways that would be impractical to change them. So just be aware that whenever you hear these stories about amazing breakthroughs in battery technology, they might be a little exaggerated and they may not be so practical to actually roll out in our lifetime.

So here's another difference between Democrats and Republicans. I always tell you that Democrats get the incentives wrong, that they don't understand people for some reason. I mean it's weird. Like who could live in the world their whole life surrounded by people and then not understand people at least a little bit? So here's an example compared to the Republicans.

Brooke Rollins was noting that the new rules about Medicaid that were part of the big beautiful bill, which would cause people to need to work