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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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ing will happen.

How many, let's do an instant poll. How many of you think the Clinton Foundation despite the fact that 100% of you think it was corrupt because of course you do, how many of you think there'll be any arrests or indictments of let's say the Clintons specifically the Clintons? How many think that? It feels like zero, right? So you have this weird situation where our assumption that the crimes happened and are sort of just obvious is 100%. And then our faith that it will be treated the way you think crime should be treated is 0%. That's not ideal. Not ideal at all.

Well, according to Ed Martin who was working for the Department of Justice and was talking about Jack Smith when he was trying to convict Trump that he was running all across the country building this conspiracy network as some would call it and we're going to get to the bottom of that.

Do you think the Jack Smith thing, although it does seem to me I think there's enough reporting that I'd call it obvious that it was a RICO, hugely coordinated Democratic thing? We know all the players. We know how they're connected. We know what meetings they had. We know what memos they sent. We know their handwriting notes. We kind of know exactly what this was. It was an attempt to control the government without the normal democratic process that we know and love.

How many of you think that that will result in meaningful indictments and or convictions? I already know the answer. None of you think this will result in conviction. Do you? I don't. I do. I do think that maybe not in a beyond a shadow of a doubt court sense, but certainly in every common sense way that you can imagine this, it looks like just exactly what it was in my opinion. A very organized RICO-like criminal enterprise with the worst possible intentions. Yeah. 25%.

All right. Well, apparently the Olympics themselves, so the Olympics, whoever controls the IOC, they're going to stop having transgender women athletes. Apparently they've looked at all the science and they've determined that even if you discontinue or even if you do start the right hormone therapy really early, people who were born male have an undeniable advantage. And so they don't think it would be fair to have any competition except men and women. So those would be the only two categories.

Did you expect that to happen? I didn't even know that was brewing. But the athletic thing has to be seen in its own category. I wouldn't put that in the trans category. It's just its own specific thing. Same with the questions about children. I don't put that exactly in the trans bucket. It's its own thing. It's not like any other thing.

All right. Apparently JFK Jr.'s relative Jack Schlossberg, who is JFK's grandson. So Jack Schlossberg's running for Congress. And as part of that he's throwing his relative RFK Jr. under the bus and he's being really mean. He's being very mean. This is him talking about his own relative. "When he's not making infomercials for Steak and Shake and Coca-Cola, he's spreading misinformation and lies. They're leading to deaths around the country." And then he talks about measles and vaccines and stuff like that.

God, I hate watching this because have you noticed that whenever they do these laundry list of accusations of RFK Jr., they never actually mention anything specific and real. It's always sort of these general things. Do you think you can explain RFK's complicated opinion on vaccines by saying something like he's against them, that he's anti-vaccine? That would not even come close to the nuance of his opinion. Not even close.

Or how about that he was making infomercials for whatever those products are. I don't even know what he's talking about. I never heard of him making any infomercials, but he did give some of the diet sodas, right? I don't think Coca-Cola loves him as much as they did, if they ever did. So it's all this generic stuff.

And I guess Florida's happy because the courts have upheld that they can block Chinese land buys in Florida. So if you go to Florida and you're Chinese and you want to buy some property, no go. No property for you. Do you think other states will follow suit now that has passed at least one court's judgment? Maybe you might.

Saudi Aramco, so Saudi's one of the biggest or the biggest energy company. They're gonna make this giant push into gas because they think electricity is the future. So generating electricity with gas and they got to do a lot of desalinization and then they want to have enough power to power ginormous data centers. So even Saudi Arabia needs more than oil. So they were more about the oil, but now they're just going to go wild in the gas business.

Anyway, speaking of climate change, did you know that climate models have not included plankton? And now the green people according to the university have decided that plankton is really important. So they call it the ocean's tiniest engineers, calcifying plankton. They play a vital yet often unnoticed role in regulating Earth's climate. So they're very important to the climate and they're currently not included in any climate models. Huh.

Way to find out about those climate models, people. Plankton. They forgot the plankton. The next time somebody argues with you about climate models, bring up plankton and act like it's a really big deal. And if they don't understand the plankton problem, why are they even in this topic?

"Scott, you seem to be quite a troglodyte. 98% of scientists have concluded with their advanced climate models and all their smartness and their gigantic brains have concluded that climate change will end us all possibly within a few years and you're so dumb that you don't know that." And then you just wait for it to stop and then you look at it and you go, "Did you know that the climate models didn't even include plankton?" And then they'll look at you and go, "What? Plankton?" "I mean it's vital to the climate." And yet the climate models don't even have any plankton variable in it. Did anybody tell you that there's no plankton? "Oh well I'm sure that they've really proven to be very accurate. How could they be accurate without plankton? You have totally plankton-free climate models. That's crazy. That's crazy. Plankton free. Come on. You're not even trying, you plankton-denying bastard." That's how you handle that.

Well, Trump is trying to get the courts to throw out that E. Jean Carroll lawsuit that he lost. His argument still is that she's not his type. His strongest argument was she's not my type. And what's funny about that is it's actually a pretty good argument. I mean we weren't there and there's no actual evidence. It's just he said she said, right? That's as close as it is to evidence. There's no video of it. I don't know. I guess what they would call evidence might be different than what you would call evidence, but I find that completely compelling. Yeah, she's not really his type. I know how that sounds.

According to Interesting Engineering, there's some reporting that the Ukrainians are getting so good with their drone warfare and their anti-drone warfare that they found out to use some music to disrupt the Russian drones. Now you might say, "How does music disrupt a drone?" Well, it's not the music per se. It just has to be any consistent sound source. You'd want a sound source that has variety but is persistent, a persistent sound. And apparently if you beam that just right with the right electronics working, you can confuse a Russian drone. So the music is not important except as a sound source and then they use a sound source as part of the jamming protocol. And apparently they're doing it really well.

And there's some thought that the Ukrainians are sort of ahead of even America in their technology deployment, but even maybe understanding and engineering. I don't know about that. I've got a feeling that Anduril is making better drones than Ukraine. You know what I mean? Maybe not every company is doing better than Ukraine. I think Anduril probably is or will soon without the music. Anyway, we'll see.

And as I've said many times before, why in the world don't we hear casualty numbers from Ukraine anymore or Russia? I saw one person who seemed a little bit knowledgeable saying that Russia is right on the verge of winning. You know, Ukraine's going to collapse any minute because it's really about people and Russia has more people. Do you believe any of that? Does it look like t

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his war is on the verge of ending one way or the other? Doesn't look like it's on the verge of anything. It looks like it's just stuck in time. You found Def Leppard works best on Russian drones. We'll get that information to Ukraine immediately. Well, meanwhile the UK allegedly stopped sharing intel about Caribbean boat locations because the US is blowing up Caribbean boats that it says are car…

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