Back to episode — Episode 2900 CWSA 07/17/25
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w bid of the best company that was qualified to do it. And I would take it to my boss and I'd say, here's the one that's the lowest bid for this exact thing that we want. And then what would happen after I signed the deal every time? What would happen as soon as you sign it or maybe as soon as you install it, you immediately learn that you needed to spend more for something that hadn't been mentio…
← Previous segment →lots of different entities — but about every one of the entities said, all right yes totally. Yep. Our portion would only cost a billion. Well unless you want to go all the way down to state which is what you want. Well that would be two billion. And then all the other people involved do the same thing. So well now that it's all approved, I got to admit, we're taking a closer look and we probably can't do it for that price, but for twice that price we can totally get it done. So that's the way of the world. Everything gets approved at an artificially low price and then the bad people creep it up.
But apparently the federal amount was only 4 billion. So if we think it'll cost 128 billion and Trump only took away 4 billion, it shouldn't make any difference at all to whether it gets built. I mean it's such a small percentage. But we'll see. I expect nothing to happen. But do other countries have the same problem where they can't get stuff done? Well turns out that the UAE is planning to build an underwater bullet train which doesn't exist anywhere. So they would connect Dubai and Mumbai. So from Dubai to Mumbai there wou
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ld be this cool underwater train experience, high-speed train, and they would make it so that the underwater view is amazing so that you're looking at amazing underwater stuff as you go. So that's what the UAE is doing. How does the UAE get something done like that? Because it feels like in the Middle East that things are getting done. Maybe not that big city or whatever is Saudi Arabia. I think S…
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