Back to episode — Episode 2908 CWSA 07/25/25
Context —
op of their head. You couldn't tell by reading what they wrote because they would put a lot of thought into that. But if they're just speaking casually and they say something like, "My hands are tied." If you were to guess that that judge likes being tied up, you would have about a 75% chance of being right. It's not guaranteed, but when you see an unusual choice of words like my hands are tied, i…
← Previous segment →eds to leave and he's thinking about firing and then he has to go to this event and they have to stand next to each other.
So first of all, Jerome Powell looks like that old grandfather guy from the Disney movie Up. Do you remember that movie Up where there's this guy who has this perpetual frown? So Jerome Powell looks like that guy from Up and he's smaller than Trump and he has to stand there like a whipped dog and Trump of course is Trump so you'd think that that would be an awkward situation for anybody but not for Trump because he's the boss so it's got to be awkward for Powell like really awkward but for Trump it's probably just a good time because he could make Powell stand there like a completely broken guy, I guess.
So then Trump says that the cost of the building had gone up from 2.5 to now 3.1 billion. And Powell shakes his head. He's like, "What? No, no, it didn't go up." And then Trump reaches in his pocket and takes out something that had the cost on it. He actually had it in writing in his pocket. And he hands it to Powell. And on camera, Powell has to read this thing. He's like, "Oh, no, no, you're including a building that was completed 5 years ago." So, and Trump being Trump, instead of saying, "Oh, we'll take that out then because that includes that building that was built five years ago," Trump just kind of waves his arm at it and acts like that didn't matter. He goes, "Well, it's all part of the same operation, blah blah blah." And then he just goes on and then they ask him what he would say to Jerome Powell now that he's standing right next to him. And Trump slaps him on the back and says, "Oh, ask him to lower interest rates." But the slap on the back was also like a dominance thing because there was no possibility that Jerome Powell was going to make a joke and slap Trump on the back. Do we agree? There is no world in which Jerome Powell was going to jokingly say something and slap the president of the United States on the back. But Trump, he says exactly what he wants. He slaps him on the back and the whole thing was Trump theater and oh my god it was just wonderful to watch. But you have to look at Jerome Powell's face when he's standing there. He looks like the unhappiest person in the world of unhappy people.
All right. Here's some potentially good news. The technical university of Denmark has built an AI platform that allegedly can help people solve cancer. So the AI platform would allow them to design specific treatments for people's specific bodies and specific cancers and it would do it very fast and apparently it looks very good. So it's not really rolled out yet, but at least in the trials, well, I don't know if it's trials, maybe in the lab, they have designed proteins that will stick to your T cells and give them molecular GPS to locate cancers, specific ones that they've designed it for. So that's pretty cool.
Now, I should tell you, if you didn't know, that pretty much every day, and I mean every day, there's a new story like this one that says that any moment now, cancer will be cured. We're almost there. I've been hearing that kind of story for about 40 years now. The good news is a lot of cancers have been cured in 40 years. Still a long way to go, but I wouldn't get too excited about these.
If you saw on X, I was putting my PSA scores. As you know, I've got metastatic prostate cancer, but at the moment I'm on some testosterone blocking pills, which I posted on X, so you could see them. And I got my newest blood test. And a year ago, my PSA, October last year, was getting outside of the acceptable zone. Not a lot, but was definitely just outside the acceptable zone. And then it just zoomed over the next several months. It just went to like 1,400. A good PSA would be seven. That would be a good PSA score, seven if you're perfectly healthy. Mine went to 1500. And it was in June of this year. And that's when I was in so much pain, I was looking to end my life by the end of the month. But instead, I tried these testosterone blocking pills and they removed all of my pain and might allow me to live several more years.
Now, I don't know that my health care provider would have recommended those specific pills or if the ones that they would have done because they do recommend the hormonal treatments. So it's not like they don't recommend it, but there are some new really expensive pills that I'm using right now that I suspect they would not be keen on prescribing because they're trying to not go broke. So I suspect that I got lucky. So at the moment I feel fine. And maybe I've got years to go. I don't know. Nobody knows. But it's a race for science to come up with some other solution. And what are the odds? You know, I often say this. I won't name a name, but I was saying this the other day to someone else who always finds himself in the center of history. Have you noticed that there are some people for whatever reason that you can't determine are always in the center of history? And I'm one of them. So what are the odds that I would get this specific problem at exactly the time in history when AI is going to be making huge leaps we think in curing it. It's kind of a weird coincidence, isn't it? I'm just always in. That's why I think I live in a simulation because
Context —
that's just a weird coincidence. Anyway, Trump has signed some executive order to require cities to remove homeless people from the streets. So it's not that simple. I think there's a process they're putting together where the attorney general, Bondi, will work with the other secretaries, some other secretaries in the government to prioritize cities for funding if they take people off the street.…
Next segment → →