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Back to episode — Episode 2965 CWSA 09/21/25

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g we heard is that China was going to own the algorithm and just sort of feed it to the American company. There's no way that worked. I mean, that was sort of defeating the whole point. But according to Caroline Levitt, the algorithm will now be controlled by Americans, the American owners. Do you believe this is going to get signed? There's something, there's a dog not barking in this story. Isn…

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ething on a spreadsheet or on a word processor, just give me a user interface that essentially mocks Microsoft and just act like you're Microsoft and I'll just use you AI. I feel like that it's within the realm of maybe.

So there's some possibility that the entire Microsoft corporation could turn into one super prompt. Hey, give me a suite of products exactly like Microsoft maybe. I don't know. But we do know that Elon also kicked off an AI project in which he is trying to literally and directly knock off the Microsoft products with AI versions. Do you think that Elon Musk and whoever he hires will have the capability to knock off Microsoft? Well, the answer is maybe. Pretty good chance because I don't see how Microsoft can last in the long run, not with their current suite of products. The only way Microsoft lasts is as a different company. Now, the different company would also be AI. So they might be replacing their own products with AI before somebody else does it or something. That's possible.

But yeah, I guess Microsoft the CEO is staying up late at night because he's already seen that there's no way that the Microsoft model lasts forever. And we're definitely close enough to the end of it that you can kind of sense it coming and it'll happen fast when it happens.

All right. President Trump also announced, if you believe this, that on Monday there's going to be a bombshell news release about the true cause of autism. And he called it one of the most important things that they'll ever do. Do you believe that's a possible thing? Do you believe that our government is going to tell us the real cause of autism and that they didn't know before? Nobody knew before and they just found out this week or last few weeks.

I don't know if anybody's going to believe it. Would you knowing as you do that all data is fake? Because it is. Why would you believe whatever they say about autism? Why would you believe what anybody says about anything if it's based on data? It's never there just isn't any data that's accurate. It's just whoever made up the data decided to show you this data instead of that data.

All right. Well, we'll see. What do you think it is? Do you think it's going to be vaccinations or Tylenol for pregnant people or food? My guess is that they're going to say there are three or four things that are very connected and especially if they all happened at the same time, you know, you might have an extra risk. I don't know.

What I don't expect is for them to say, "We got solid data. Nobody's going to doubt it once they see it themselves, and here's the cause." I don't think that's going to happen. Do you in the real messy world do things like that happen? Might be food, but I kind of doubt it because little babies are getting it. And the little babies, are they, don't babies all eat the same food? Don't they just eat baby food? So although I think our food is not especially safe and could be way way better, I'm going to say that probably won't be the thing that they identify. Might, it's not a zero chance, but I don't know. I think I would go with more likely pharma, you know, some kind of pharmaceutical. More likely that, but I don't know.

Stephen A. Smith decided that Kamala Harris has ended her political career with her new book. And he says it was the last straw. He says, "I think we've seen the last of her," meaning politically. And he says that based on the excerpts of the book, it's too little too late. Now, I think what he's talking about specifically is that she admits she knew that Joe was not all there, but she didn't do anything about it. And Stephen A. Smith says that's the end of your career.

If you admit that you could see it and you also admit that you decided not to make waves by doing something about it, then you were never the real vice president, were you? Let me say it again. If Kamala Harris knew that Joe had the cognitive problems that he did, if she knew and decided not to act on it for loyalty or whatever other reasons, she wasn't really the vice president, right? Is there a more important job than being

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the one who identifies that the president's time has reached an end and he can't handle his job? Probably nothing more important than that, right? Except filling in if he were to pass away. So I get why there was tremendous pressure on her to just ride it out. Yeah, we all understand. There's no mystery there. But if your only job is to be able to overcome exactly that problem, hey, people might…

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