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irely concealed by the shadows. Notice how I avoided saying black so it didn't sound racist. And then he takes down the hood and his face and you're like, "Ah, grim reaper. The grim reaper. He would be the best grim reaper ever." All right. Well, as you know, Turning Point USA had an event in Berkeley, UC Berkeley, and there was some dusting up and some people got roughed up and there was a littl…

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're on the same page, which is you need to get rid of this proxy voting stuff. And apparently the White House has opened up some kind of a project to look into it.

You say Fidelity, State Street. Yeah. I'm not sure. I don't want to throw out names because I don't know.

How many of you saw the video of the Russian humanoid robot? I thought it was fake. The video shows the Russians introducing on stage something you think you've seen lots of times in America which is hey this is our new humanoid robot and it's going to dance or something. So the humanoid robot stumbles forward and it walks like Joe Biden on a bad day through tall grass and then it just falls on its face and can't get up and that's the Russian humanoid robot.

Now I thought it was a joke because the way it walked was so much like Joe Biden that I didn't think that could be a coincidence. It looked like they were either mocking him or it was AI or something, the Biden bot. So I waited on it. My first reaction was I did repost it, but then I undid my repost because I was not confident that could have been real. How in the world was that real?

All right, so go find that on social media. I'm sure you can just do a normal internet search and look for Russian humanoid robot. You're going to laugh so hard when you see that robot. You're also going to think that Ukraine is going to win the war when you see their best technology. It's pretty funny.

Anyway, also in the AI world, Variety is reporting that Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine, both of them, they're teaming with an AI audio company called 11 Labs. 11 Labs is the one that does really accurate voices and faces, and it looks like they're licensing their voices is how I would interpret this. So you'll be able to use 11 Labs to reproduce either of their voices.

Now here's why I think that's smart. Don't you think at some point a lot of other people are going to be doing this? So whoever goes first is just going to get all the goodness. It's one of those things where going first is just sort of obvious. If you're Matthew McConaughey and you're a certain age, he can't play the same roles he's played forever. Although he's a good actor. I like what he does. So he might have a longer shelf life than a lot of people. But he's smart enough to know that he's not going to be a forever actor because AI will take that work. Why wouldn't he try to get in first and get the best possible deal and get a perpetual license on his very interesting voice? Same with Michael Caine. Very interesting voice.

So I believe whoever is representing them, their management, good job management. You don't usually think you look at an actor and say, "Wow, that's

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some good management there." And maybe they're just both smart. I think McConaughey probably does a lot to run his own affairs. That would be my guess. You know, he looks like he's a good generalist that he would be able to figure out everything from his career strategies to what he's doing in the next movie. But smart. The CEO of Eli Lilly says he uses AI every day and likes asking science quest…

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