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Back to episode — Episode 3006 CWSA 11/01/25

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was some online chatting about shooting something up on Halloween. And once I guess they called it pumpkin day online and once the FBI said, "Oops, they got weapons. They're talking about a big terrorist act and they've picked a date." That's when they moved in. The picking the date, I think, was the trigger. But one wonders, is the FBI now so good, and maybe they have been for some time, so good…

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as you treat your investments as part of a portfolio, you know, even if you get some part of it wrong, you probably could still get the rest of it right. So if you see it as part of my diversification, it would make sense. If you saw it as an individually good decision, well, you're just guessing. I don't know if it's a good decision. I really don't know.

All right. Apparently French President Macron, according to the Brussels Signal, has reached a historic low rating, 11%. His approval rating in France is 11. How in the world do you stay in charge when your approval is 11? Well, it works in Chicago.

And in other French news, apparently they've activated, so it's in production now, the first highway that charges your electric cars and trucks as they drive. ZME Science is writing about this. Apparently they've already put up a mile, a kilometer and a half, which is about a mile. And they've turned it on and it works. Now I don't know how much you can charge anything in one mile. So it's just a proof of concept thing, but they built it. It's in the road. It works. They're testing it.

Don't you think that would be ultimately the way to do this? The one thing I don't like about the electric car situation is that you have to charge it. Now, if I had one, which I don't, I would charge it at home and I would barely ever need to charge it anywhere else. But wouldn't it be great if you never had to plug it in? Wouldn't it be great if at least, you know, I'll just pick a random number. Let's say 30% of your roads that were the ones most traveled. Or they don't even have to be the ones most traveled. Maybe you could even build the road just for that purpose. But wouldn't it be great if you just got charged by going where you're going? It'd be hard to beat that as a business model.

Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, that's what I had for you today. Let's see. I feel like I'm forgetting something. Am I forgetting

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anything? Did I mention that on the All-In Pod? I saw a clip of the All-In Pod. So Elon was not only on Joe Rogan show, but he also was on the All-In Pod. One of the best pods in the whole world, as they'll tell you. But Elon was talking about some particular bureaucratic problem in some companies and he made a Dilbert reference and he said on the Dilbert scale this would be 11 out of 10. Yeah Ow…

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