border was the main thing that sold him because he just thought it was insane that you would open the border. And imagine being a billionaire founding Airbnb and knowing that it was just being destroyed by opening the border along with everything else. But yeah, so apparently that got him interested enough to sort of look into the whole Trump phenomenon a little deeper and he liked that RFK Jr. was part of the package. He liked that Elon Musk was going to get involved and put it all together and decided to work on DOGE, etc. But here's what I want to add to this story. Do you believe that the Airbnb co-founder would have been able to publicly support Trump unless the fine people hoax had been debunked? Could a CEO go public as pro-Trump while the fine people hoax was still raging? I don't think so. Now I've told you before that the fine people hoax has been named by both Joe Rogan and Elon Musk as something that kind of turned them. The reason that the fine people hoax was so important is that respected people could never back Trump as long as that was out there. Everything else they could deal with if they didn't like a policy or something, you could deal with that. But you couldn't deal with the reputational destruction of saying you were going to back the guy who, according to the hoax, had complimented neo-Nazis. So I'll hearken back to the time I told you that I would help destroy that hoax with the good work of Steve Cortes and Joel Pollak and Greg Gutfeld and a number of people who we just hammered on that thing until eventually even Snopes said it was a hoax. That's the current situation. But to me, if you look at how RFK Jr. and Musk, their acceptance of Trump's policies made it easier for the Airbnb founder to move in that direction. So he's confirming that that's the case. So do you see the dominoes? And I told you that the fine people hoax was what I call the tentpole hoax. That if you got rid of that, it would allow respected people to say, "All right, let's take the good policies I like." Because the respected people wanted to close the border. They just couldn't say it out loud because it would sound pro-Trump. Now they can. So that's kind of cool.

Howard Stern has said he's not coming back to his show this Tuesday. It's a little unclear what his future is because I guess Sirius said they wouldn't renew his contract. Was his contract really $100 million a year for five years? I think it was. And over the course of his career, Stern's audience has been as high as 20 million people. And at the moment, it's 125,000 daily listeners. He went from 20 million to 125,000. Now, some large percentage of that is just moving to Sirius exclusively. That probably takes away most of it, but boy, that's a big difference.

All right, you want to get scared? I'm going to scare you. There is something called the Pentagon pizza report which does report on the traffic in the Domino's and the Papa John's that are closest to the Pentagon. Now why would you report on the volume of pizza being bought next to the Pentagon? Well, I believe the idea is that if they're buying a lot of pizza, it's because they're working through dinner and that if you track the pizza, you can find out when the Pentagon is getting ready for some big action because they would all be working through the night and stuff. So apparently there's above average traffic at the Domino's and the Papa John's near the Pentagon, as if something's brewing. On top of that, Trump has said he's making an announcement from the Oval Office today at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time. At the same time, we've got military in Venezuela. We've got the president saying he's going after the cartels, and we've got the ever-present Ukraine-Russia war. And who knows? I don't think Taiwan's going to be invaded by China this week, but there's a lot of warish stuff that's just sort of in the atmosphere. It just enough to worry you. But on top of that, France has apparently put out the order domestically for the hospitals to prepare for war. Now the way they're explaining it is that that would be more normal. They should always be having a plan that if there were mass casualties from a war that they would know how to handle it just in case. So it's more of a just in case thing. But still, if France is preparing for a land war in Europe and we've got ships around Venezuela and the cartels are active and Russia and Ukraine are going on and the Pentagon's ordering more pizza and Trump's got an announcement today. It makes you wonder if there's anything brewing. I'm going to say probably not. Probably not. But it is weird that there are a number of signals in that direction. So we'll see. The Trump announcement could be anything really. He's so good at getting attention and teasing things. It really could be anything.

Leaders are in China and cozying up to President Xi, but apparently Putin and India's Modi seem to be a little extra chummy in China. If people are wondering about that, I guess India buys their military equipment and a lot of the oil from Russia. And even their weapons industry in India is based on the Russian models. So they need the Russian parts and help to even have a weapons industry. But it looks like there are a whole bunch of countries that coincidentally are not pro-America that are trying to send the message that they're all good buddies. I don't know if a coalition of dictators like that can really hang together because it seems like it'd be hard to trust any of them. But Russia's biggest gas company, Gazprom, is signing a pipeline deal. Put a pipeline through Siberia to Mongolia. So I would say that the chess board is moving quite a bit and I'm kind of impressed by the BRICS countries and even this meeting here. It does seem like there is a hardening of the anti-American position and I would not ignore that because it's starting to look serious. I wasn't too worried about BRICS until recently but I would be worried if India gets cleaved off and gets into more of Russia and China's, probably Russia's, orbit. That would worry me but I am impressed with Modi. He's a smart player and he knows when not to cause trouble and when to be friends and I feel like he could pull off being friends with everybody if he wants to and it looks like he is.

In other news, there's a new AI product called Hunyuan World Voyager or something and it's an AI in which it creates I think infinite worlds. If I understand it correctly, I saw a bunch of examples. That's what it looks like. So in other words, you could tell your AI to create you an early history, let's say primitive dwellings or something and just like a video game and you could walk through the streets of whatever you told it to create forever and it would just create new streets or remember what the old ones were and you could go back to them. Now if you can create an on-demand simulation where no matter where the characters go or wherever you go it just creates new landscape and it remembers it. So you could come back later. What does that tell you is going to happen? Well let me predict. If it becomes routine to be able to create entire infinite environments of all kinds of different kinds, it's guaranteed that somebody's going to populate them with avatars or characters. You might call them agents, but they'd be AI-run little characters. Now some of them could be NPCs, meaning that they don't have an internal voice. That doesn't mean you're an NPC if you don't have an internal voice. But they wouldn't be main characters and there would be some main characters in there but you could program the main characters to act as though they believe that they are the base reality and that they do not understand that they are a simulation. They think that's the real world and they would live their life maybe in a sped up time even but they could live their whole life believing that they have consciousness and free will and that they are the base reality.

Now when that happens and I guarantee it's going to happen there's a 100% chance that's going to happen that somebody will make little characters that believe they're real and act like they're real and everything else. What will that tell you about our base reality? It's going to get a little bit dicey believing that you're not a simulation because the evidence for us being a simulation is largely going to be based on whether we could make one that we knew was a simulation, but the people in it did not. And th