we'll try as hard as we can to replace ourselves. We don't need humans. We got this Manhattan Project.

Now, what do you think about that? I've got dual feelings about that. Number one, when I think of a Manhattan Project, I think of accomplishing one very specific thing at a time. Don't you? As in, is there a way to build this bomb? Very specific.

But if you wanted to do a Manhattan Project for 40,000 scientists... and hold on a second. I need some oxygen. Put on my oxygen. Oh, that's better. Oh, much better. Yes, I am on oxygen. But I'm just talking too excitedly. That's the reason.

All right. It seems like that's too many people to coordinate, but we'll find out.

Ukraine has allegedly agreed to a peace deal. Does that mean anything? I don't think it does. I might have to quit in a moment because I'm going to pass out. I was putting a little too much energy into the show here for a moment.

Let's see. What shall we do? If you don't mind just hanging a little bit. We'll just hang a bit and see if I can go on. I'm perfectly healthy. You don't have to call 911. Don't worry. Take a break. Everybody, if you have a banana at home, make sure you have one. We're good. Potassium.

All right. What was happening there was I was trying too hard. I was trying too hard to show energy on a day when maybe I didn't have much. But I will mumble through the rest of it.

By the way, did any of you try to find the Dilbert calendar on Amazon? And did it say that it's sold out? It's not really sold out as far as I know. We're looking into it today, but Amazon says it's sold out. Now, I did tell you that if you don't get it early and it's the only place to get it, you can't get it anywhere else. I did tell you that if you don't get it early, it might be sold out.

But there is apparently a second potential problem, which is that it's not sold out. Sold out, but they just show it sold out, which by the way is not the first time it's happened with my books. It happened as well, I think. So we think it's just a system error and we're trying to get that fixed. There should be more of them.

Anyway, what else is in the news? So how about this? Instead of me presenting the news today like a proper podcast, we're just going to have a conversation. Everybody okay with that? We're just going to hang. We're going to eat bananas and drink coffee and see what's what. Okay.

Apparently Ukraine agreed to a US peace deal. Does that mean anything? Because doesn't Russia have to agree with it? And if Ukraine agrees, doesn't that mean Russia won't agree? So that would be a lot like nothing happened at all. So that's how I'm going to treat that. I'm going to treat that like nothing happened.

President Trump said he had a very good phone call with President Xi of China. I wonder what that feels like to have a good phone call with the president. Do you think that they agreed on anything? Well, I think they agreed they want to get together. They agreed that we need to be good friends. Basically, nothing happened. So you got Ukraine, nothing happened. You got China, a phone call happened. This is the worst news ever.

All right. How about this? Did you know that Sacramento, the utilities in Sacramento would give information to the local police so the police could find the pot farmers so that they'd look for stuff like water usage and electricity usage? And if it was higher than residential places usually have, they'd send the police. Can you imagine getting busted because of your water usage? They're like, "Well, we got you. Nobody uses that much water." And then I thought about how long showers I take. I'm thinking, "Wait a minute. If I take a long shower, am I going to get arrested for being a pot dealer?" Maybe.

Anyway, that was struck down now. Now you're not allowed to do that. You cannot be a utility and give the police information unless there's suspicion of a crime. Then you can.

Well, Lara Logan interviewed a former CIA person who claims to know how our elections are being stolen in America. How many times have you seen that story? Have you all seen that story more than once? I've got a scoop. How many times has Lara Logan had this story with not these particular people, but with other entities? I'm not sure we should believe any story that says, "Here's a guy that participated in the theft of elections. He's telling you exactly how he did it" because the other news isn't even covering it. So what's going on?

Is it possible that Lara Logan is the only person who got this scoop and knows exactly how our elections have been thrown for years? Is that possible and nobody else is talking about it? Just one person, Lara Logan? Well, this has a category problem. That's what I call a category problem. It's in the category of things that are just never true. It just won't check out. So I feel like I don't know where these stories come from, but there's a never-ending line of, "Well, here's another person who claims to know how our elections have been stolen." I don't know. I don't believe any of it yet.

So James Comey and Letitia James are out of legal trouble temporarily because their judge decided that the prosecutor was not properly appointed. Yeah. Lindsey Halligan, who led the prosecution, wasn't properly appointed, and therefore Comey and Letitia James get off. But I believe they can come back around and try it again, can they? So that doesn't mean that they won't come back at them. There's a government appeal process. It was just a technical ruling. It did not rule on the merits of anything. And on the merits, I think they got trouble.

Trump signed an executive order to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. To which I say that wasn't already done? That feels like exactly the sort of thing they should have already done.

All right. Well, that looks good. Apparently Trump was going to unveil his healthcare plan yesterday and that didn't happen and we don't know why and we don't know what the Republicans have in mind, but we'll find out.

Let's see what else is happening. Character AI, a chatbot company, decided that they're not going to allow children, minors anyway, to use their product anymore. And the teenagers are crying because they're losing their digital boyfriends and girlfriends. So it sounds like they made the right decision to make that unavailable. Can you imagine being a teenager and falling in love with a digital character? Well, I can. I totally can.

Let's see. Something about steel tariffs. Boring.

Remember the Vindman twins? Well, they're in legal trouble apparently, according to Headline USA. They're being accused of doing some work for Ukrainian oligarchs to get them some business without properly registering or something. And it's sort of a boring story. I don't know if they... I mean it's just a technical problem. It's not the worst problem in the world. But don't you wonder about the identical twin defense? Suppose they had good evidence, the Department of Justice, that the twins had done something bad, but you never knew which twin was at which meeting. Would that be a defense? Could you just say, "Well, yeah, one of them was at the meeting. Can you prove which one it was?" And if you can't, well, there you go.

Well, Seattle is going to stop giving people free crack pipes. That didn't work out. Surprise. And Democrats are after Republicans because they think the ballroom is just a bribery mechanism. But it'd be a terrible bribery mechanism because the money wouldn't go to any place but the ballroom. What kind of bribery is that?

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