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very domain, whether it's your marriage or your co-workers or anything else? What happens next when you prove somebody wrong with documentation that's irrefutable? They always change the topic and pretend they were always talking about something else. And that's what happened. So already this morning, some of the commenters are coming in saying, "Well, it wasn't really about the question of wheth…

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or something. It's really not preventing anything. It's just filling in some hours. So I'm not sure if I'm addicted or I just found a new hobby that I like.

But in related news, the co-founder of YouTube, one of the people who invented the thing and launched it, Steve Chen, he says he doesn't want his own kids watching YouTube shorts or even TikTok or any of that kind of content because he says that pure dopamine junk is rewiring kids so that they won't do anything if it doesn't last, you know, 15 seconds. If it's more than that, they just won't do it. Actually, 15 minutes. And according to Steve Chen, some parents are now forcing their kids to do long-form stuff, whatever that is, just so that their brains are not destroyed by all the fast-form AI stuff.

So I guess AI is what created all the clickable content for those reels. And I have to say the AI-generated stuff does make me click it, but it's not as good as human-made stuff that would be much more expensive to make. It looks like somebody just has a prompt where they go in and say, "Hey AI, I want you to make me a video that would be like one of the viral ones on YouTube, and it will be about something in history that's not covered, but you can make it look interesting. Go." And then it makes you a little reel that's so clickable you can't believe it.

The big news today is that President Trump has another big win. He will tell you he got a huge trade deal between the US and the European Union. And would you be surprised to know that like everything else, this is one of those two movies on one screen situations?

Quiet, Gary. There might be some cats in the room. So the positive news about this deal with the EU is that even allies outside of the EU are saying that Trump got an amazing deal and the United States got everything it wanted and the European Union basically rolled over and caved on everything. So it's basically just better for us.

Now, do you believe that it might be true? I'm quite open and willing to believe that that's the case. This is Gary. I want to introduce Gary who may be disturbing our future. His brother Roman is around here somewhere roaming around.

But anyway, as I was saying, not everybody will agree that this is the best trade deal of all time. Peter Schiff, who's famous for accurately predicting things in the past — I don't know how he's done lately, but he's one of these famous predictors about the economy — he says it's basically a bad deal for the US and it's good for the EU. So there's at least one famous smart guy who believes that the deal is better for Europe. But the larger consensus looks like about 99 to 1 is that the US got a great deal.

And there's even some thinking about why that is. And the why is that the European Union has become sort of an irrelevant zone of the world and the US is the hot country as Trump says. And to put it in summary form, Europe needs the US more than the US needs Europe because they can't even defend themselves. So they need markets to sell to and they need somebody to defend them. And I guess Trump did a good job of

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convincing them that giving us a good trade deal would be really good for their future defensive needs, which would have been sort of a brilliant way to approach that. So Trump's legend continues. And I will point out once again the high risk, but ultimately it's starting to look brilliant, the strategy of having all these different trade deals, which on one hand you say to yourself, my goodness,…

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