ive numbers because China does so much shipping that they just have massive numbers of cargo ships. It looks like they found a way. And this is not confirmed, but videos are showing it looks like they're putting some kind of weapons platforms on the commercial ships. And the idea is, and again this is just speculation, that China is trying to create a situation where if war happened, they could quickly militarize their massive fleet of commercial ships.

Now, that would be a really good strategy. It seems to me those ships would be a little bit vulnerable to attack, but they have so many of them that if you imagine that war breaks out and suddenly China has 10,000 ships that are warships, that would be presumably an interesting military strategy. But again, I feel like those ships would be so vulnerable to attack from unmanned missiles and drones that they would get sunk quickly. Unless some of the military hardware you're putting on their ships is some kind of amazing anti-missile, anti-drone lasers on top of the offensive weapons.

So I just thought that was interesting.

Well, there's some teacher, according to Breitbart, there's a teacher in the UK who has been referred to the UK terror program. I didn't know they had a terror program because he shows them Donald Trump videos. So apparently if you're a school teacher in England and you even show a video of Trump, you could be accused of being a terrorist and referred to some kind of terrorist handling thing. And I guess this program was established to stop people from becoming radicalized. So the UK is so afraid of Trump that they make it illegal to show young people Trump videos.

Now, I suppose it might matter which video you're showing them, but what has Trump ever done that would be so dangerous that it would radicalize the youth to become terrorists? That's pretty crazy.

Speaking of Trump, let's see what's happening elsewhere in the world. I guess Netanyahu is going to visit Trump on Monday for what's called a crucial conversation about what's going to happen in Gaza.

Now, if you have a situation, and I think we do, in which what's good for America and what's good for Trump is that the Gaza thing is fixed in some way that's acceptable to at least America, right? But Netanyahu does not represent America. His job is to represent Israel. And it seems pretty clear that Netanyahu does not want to, let's say, give up his military control of Gaza, which might be a requirement to get to whatever the peace plan calls for.

So let's say you have a situation which we do in which the interests of the president of the United States and arguably America itself is to get this thing settled and to do that they need some things that Israel with its current government would never agree to. So they're never going to agree to a safe solution when Netanyahu is in charge and they're never going to agree to give up security in Gaza.

So how would you predict how that turns out? Well, if I were Israel, time would seem to be on my side because eventually Trump will be out of office and he might be the only president strong enough to move Israel in a way they don't want to move. So if Netanyahu, and again, I'm just speculating because I can't read minds, but it seems to me that Israel has time on their side and they can outwait Trump unless Trump puts so much pressure on him that like pressure they've never seen before that Netanyahu caves. But even then, it feels like Israel could wait him out. Because even if they agreed today to do XYZ and even if they did those things, they could reverse it, they just have to wait three years.

So the thing I'd be looking for in these conversations is whether Israel agrees to anything that looks like it would solve this problem in a way that Trump would be happy. And I'm thinking that the only logical way this is going to go is that they will not agree or Netanyahu will agree in a way that he can kick the can down the road and change his mind later.

I remind you that I don't have opinions on whether Israel is good or bad or any of that. I simply observe them as a foreign country that is an ally of the United States. My interest is in the United States and I'm an observer when it comes to Israel. Just an observer. They don't need nobody needs no one needs my opinion of what they should be doing. But I'll give you an opinion of what maybe is the predictable future.

Well, there's a report from British scientists that they think they have a cancer vaccine that could be available within 10 years. To which I say, every year of my life, there has been a cancer vaccine that could be available within 10 years. So far, not so much.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is the end of my prepared remarks. And I believe you need a simultaneous sip. If you joined us late, there's still time. Simultaneity go. Very good.

And I remind you that there will be an Owen Gregorian hosted Spaces event right after this. You should give them a few minutes to set up whenever he's ready and you can continue the conversation. If you happen to be on X, then Spaces is available to you as audio only. And if you don't know where to find it, search for Owen Gregorian. It'll pop right up. You'll see it. It'll be at the top of his feed on X.

All right. Was there anything you liked or didn't like about today's show? I will take your comments now.

You find yourself quoting me consistently, you know, I'm going to do an X post in a little while, not today, but sometime soon in which I'm going to ask you to give me some feedback on who I might have influenced be it you or somebody notable because I wonder about that myself and I would love to know your opinion of who I've influenced.

You know, one of the things I'd love to influence is the Trump pirate ship approach to building a coalition. I've always loved the fact that Trump could ignore how much he disagrees with you if you're willing to be a pirate on his ship. And that's really worked well. I think people respect being included even if you disagree with some or even all of their views as long as you're not listen as long as it's not personal. And if he says, "Hey, you're a pirate. I'm a pirate. We can both be in the pirate ship."

I influenced Trump by prepping him that Kamala was his future opponent. Well, I did predict she would be his future opponent, but I doubt I influenced him in some important way about that. I did not invent the term Trump derangement syndrome. That was Charles Krauthammer, I think. And it was first introduced not about Trump, but I think it was Bush. I think it was Bush derangement syndrome first. I'm definitely a booste