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00:07:20.940Well, according to The Independent, there's this new scientific breakthrough in China where they made camouflage material that will instantly change color to match your background.
00:08:34.700Meanwhile, here's a story that is so good that I can't believe it's true.
00:08:42.060According to EV Central, Mercedes-Benz has developed a paint, a paint for the car, that would be enough to charge your car for almost all normal business.
00:08:53.860In other words, Mercedes-Benz allegedly has developed a paint that would be as robust as the paint on your car is now.
00:09:06.080So, it wouldn't be a bad kind of paint either.
00:09:08.620But it can actually create enough electricity.
00:09:12.540The paint itself is designed to be like a solar panel, but just paint.
00:09:17.060And it's so efficient that you could drive, you know, like 50 miles a day or something.
00:09:25.020Basically, your commute without ever buying fuel.
00:09:45.540They're saying five to ten years, but I'm going to say probably not.
00:09:52.760If I had to place a bet, I would place a bet that you will not be able to completely power your car for normal business because of the paint.
00:10:06.140That's the sort of thing that never really happens.
00:10:07.760In other news, the University of Canterbury said they fed kids these little micronutrients and reduced their irritability, anger, and aggression.
00:10:20.640And supposedly had a big difference in their improving their emotional and regulatory systems.
00:10:27.800Do you know how they could have saved a little bit of money on that?
00:10:35.440I've told this story before, but it's one of my favorites of understanding human behavior.
00:10:40.120When I was in my first marriage, there were two stepkids, and they were young, very young, and they would often get in arguments with each other because they were close in age.
00:10:52.140And they'd be fighting it out, you know, verbally fighting it out, and I would say, oh, we're going to have to do something.
00:12:22.800The House Intel panel, according to the New York Post, is thinking that it's increasingly likely, increasingly likely, that the mysterious Havana syndrome actually comes from some foreign actor.
00:12:37.400In other words, the stories of the mostly embassy people, American embassy people, having some kind of brain disruption that they thought was maybe some kind of a secret sonic Russian weapon.
00:12:50.580And then people looked into it, and they couldn't find any evidence there was a weapon.
00:12:54.480But now there is further investigation.
00:13:00.180And according to subcommittee chairman Rick Crawford of Arkansas, quote, I've discovered that there is reliable evidence to suggest that some anomalous health, so they have a name for it now, anomalous health incidents, the AHIs, are the work of foreign adversaries.
00:13:19.660Now, I like Representative Rick Crawford.
00:13:27.080But I don't think I quite believe that there's evidence of adversaries.
00:13:34.380I think the only thing there is is evidence that people have complained they have certain kind of jobs and that when investigated, they have real damage.
00:13:45.300But the symptoms are all over the place.
00:13:48.700And when I see too many symptoms, I immediately think it's not a weapon.
00:14:25.020You know, I could imagine someday I could be convinced this was real.
00:14:28.400But I would place a really large bet that it isn't at this point.
00:14:34.540I will say that if you attended a subcommittee in which people gave you lots of evidence, which is like, oh, this person had this problem, doctor says this problem, it's the documentary effect.
00:14:48.740So if you have a bunch of people coming in saying, it sure looks like a weapon to me, and nobody comes in to say, here's the evidence that it's not a weapon, it's going to feel like you really had a lot of evidence that an adversary did it.
00:15:03.240So I would be, I would say, beware of the documentary effect if you have a subcommittee that's taking testimony that all kind of leads in one direction.
00:15:38.760It turns out that the most important part of AI was to force countries like America to take nuclear power seriously for the first time.
00:15:50.380I feel like that might be the enduring legacy, like the most important part of AI is not even the AI.
00:15:57.100Why is that it got us to completely revamp our whole understanding of our energy situation?
00:16:04.360Because as many people have pointed out, if you're making a lot of money from energy or you're doing your energy stuff right, your country does well.
00:18:17.160If you look at all the data centers in the U.S., it's like this gigantic bar and all the other countries are just those little dots.
00:18:24.440How in the world can other countries ever compete with us in that scenario?
00:18:32.380Because it seems like ability to quickly build gigando data centers is what's going to drive AI.
00:18:41.120And that's what's going to drive robotics.
00:18:43.660And that's what's going to drive basically everything in the future.
00:18:46.860So, if we have like a, I don't know, it looks like a 50-to-1 advantage or something over the next best country that's doing data centers, that feels like really big.
00:18:59.560So, we'll see if that makes a difference.
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00:26:28.800We got to talk about this UnitedHealthcare CEO stuff.
00:26:31.600On one hand, I usually don't like to talk about individual crimes, so I usually don't talk about the murderer or the one migrant who did some terrible things, no matter how bad they are.
00:27:35.960And that it said something about delay, deny, and defend, which is the name of a book, which is about how healthcare insurance companies deny claims to make money.
00:27:50.440And so, the thinking is, oh, this was a sort of a political statement, something about the company and the way it did business.
00:27:59.540But, I don't think it's confirmed that those shell casings have that, have anything engraved.
00:28:51.060Now, if there is something on the shell casing, does that mean that it was a political event?
00:28:55.720No, because the one thing we know about the shooter is there was a lot of preparation.
00:29:02.720If there was a lot of preparation, it also opens up the possibility that part of his escape plan was to make you think it was done for a different reason.
00:29:11.540So if he had done it for personal reasons, and he wanted to make you look for, you know, people who had political reasons, so, you know, the attention would be diverted, well, maybe that would be exactly how you do it.
00:29:26.720Maybe you'd put something on a shell casing so they think, ah, we got it now.
00:30:37.400I believe that he was experienced at using that weapon because he kind of quickly cleared it or reloaded it or recocked it or whatever he had to do.
00:30:46.900He seemed to know that whatever the problem was, was immediately fixable.
00:30:52.540So that would suggest that he had experience with the weapon.
00:30:58.640I would disagree with anyone who says he's a professional hitman who has ever done this kind of work before.
00:31:04.920Because as one of the gun experts said, if your job is just to be a professional hitman, you would walk up to him, you'd put one bullet in his head, and then you'd drop the weapon.
00:31:18.060And I don't know if that still makes sense in today's ability to find DNA on anything.
00:31:25.140But, you know, you probably would have done a headshot, and then you would have left right away.
00:31:32.060Maybe left the weapon there if it was untraceable and you didn't have any fingerprints on it.
00:31:37.800But, to me, he didn't look like a professional.
00:31:43.520He looked like somebody who was prepared, but not a professional.
00:31:47.480One of the shots apparently hit the CEO in the calf.
00:31:51.720And I just don't see that being a professional job.
00:32:02.080Some people say that the reason the gun appeared jammed or had to be, you know, a reset was that there was some kind of crappy silencer on it.
00:32:13.600And he didn't calculate that if you put a silencer on it, the gun doesn't reset itself after every shot, and they had to do it manually, blah, blah, blah.
00:32:25.520It looks like just somebody who did a lot of homework and did a little practice.
00:32:31.340But then there's a photo, allegedly, of the shooter with his mask down, where he was allegedly flirting with somebody at some hostel.
00:32:40.400And he had this big smile on his face, and he looked kind of young and handsome, and he looked like a particular movie star that I'm not going to mention.
00:32:50.840And I thought to myself, I don't know.
00:32:54.920He just doesn't, he didn't look like an angry person who was out to avenge, you know, maybe a family member who had a bad experience with insurance.
00:33:05.980He just sort of looked like he was having a good time.
00:33:10.400But there's something wrong about all of it.
00:33:49.640Did you know he was separated from his wife for a long time?
00:33:53.160So, my first impression was her reaction didn't sound like a spouse, like there wasn't enough, it wasn't enough anguish or something.
00:34:03.240But they've been separated for a while, so, you know, maybe they weren't on ideal terms.
00:34:08.880That doesn't make her a suspect, obviously.
00:34:11.220But it would explain why she was a little bit, a little less emotional than you would expect if they were living in the same house for the last several years.
00:34:20.660Anyway, there's a new poll by JL Partners that says that Biden will be the worst president in modern history.
00:34:46.160I guess there were only nine presidents that were ranked, but he was ranked last.
00:35:21.120According to some kind of new study, the government, only 6% of federal workers show up in person on a full-time basis, according to a Senate report.
00:35:32.9606% of federal workers work in the office.
00:37:46.040A quarter billion dollars sounds like a lot of money, doesn't it?
00:37:48.720Until you realize that Twitter was 44 billion.
00:37:53.420So, for 44 billion, he basically saved free speech and whatever we have left of the democratic process.
00:38:02.540For a quarter of a billion, he may have pushed, you know, Trump over the finish line and gave us a chance of getting rid of, you know, some of the worst situations we've ever been in.
00:38:16.160So, I'll tell you, Elon Musk, he spends a lot of money, but he sure spends it in good ways.
00:38:21.980Because that's like the best quarter billion ever spent.
00:38:28.640David Sachs has been picked as the White House AI and crypto czar, according to Trump.
00:38:38.140So, here's the first part that's fascinating, that there would be a czar over these two things that you think are unrelated, AI and crypto.
00:38:48.360But they're not, because, you know, it just seems that those two worlds are going to come together in a variety of ways.
00:38:56.820But I love the fact that they combined them.
00:39:01.140It just feels kind of smart, because if somebody is going to be, you know, your czar and advising you, probably someone who's smart in both of these domains is a pretty good way to go.
00:39:14.980So, if you've watched the All In Pod or you've been paying attention to politics, you know that David Sachs is the, probably one of the smartest observers of American politics and one of the smartest people in the investment world.
00:39:32.820And having him on the most critical new technologies, God, it feels good.
00:39:39.460Have any of you had this feeling with a number of the appointments and a number of things that Trump's doing, that it just feels like something special is happening?
00:39:51.620Like, you know, everything from Bezos kind of saying, well, you know, let's give this a chance.
00:39:58.500And, you know, Jamie Dimon saying similar things like, hey, let's give this a chance.
00:40:04.300But David Sachs, I mean, the fact that there are people who have, you know, built really successful lives and don't need any of this trouble, are willing to take on the biggest, hardest tasks in the world to save the country.
00:40:25.660And it's no less than saving the country, by the way, because we're on a doom loop at the moment.
00:40:31.400And I couldn't be happier that the smartest, most capable, and I think the least nefarious people we've ever seen in public life, because I don't think for a second that, you know, somebody like Sachs or Elon Musk was trying to figure out how to make money off of this.
00:40:49.960I mean, they were really taking on hard, hard jobs.
00:40:53.160And I could not be more proud to be an American at the moment, because this is what America looks like to me.
00:41:05.000The people who have the most capability, you know, doing their own thing until they're called upon and then dropping everything and going full on to help the country.
00:42:20.140That the political frame for all of this just seems to have dissolved.
00:42:23.920Because you're taking people who used to be Democrats in many cases, and, you know, active Democrats in some cases, but they're working with Trump.
00:43:29.260But here again, here's a now prominent Democrat who is saying something about the Hunter case and the Trump case that I consider common sense.
00:43:41.840To me, it's common sense that both of those had a political dimension on it.
00:43:47.060And so, therefore, you know, maybe you should be treated that way.
00:43:51.440Okay. So, yeah, Federman's just saying this is not political.
00:44:24.060She compared the state of Tennessee, who didn't want to give gender altering care to minors, compared it to Nazi Germany.
00:44:32.160So, if you don't give minors surgery that will change them for the rest of their life, even if they change their minds when they're older, you're like Nazi Germany.
00:44:45.640Now, I say this every day, but it's true.
00:44:49.280The best laugh I have every morning is just watching actual MSNBC coverage with no commentary, just a clip.
00:45:07.460Apparently, according to the George account on X, a coalition of black churches that represent as many as 28 million black Americans issued a letter to MSNBC demanding that they fire Al Sharpton.
00:45:27.380And investigate the payments, because you know the story.
00:45:30.120Al Sharpton received half a million dollars from Kamala Harris's campaign before he interviewed her and didn't disclose that, which is a big no-no.
00:45:39.640So, do you believe that a coalition of black churches, on their own, decided to send a letter to MSNBC suggesting that a prominent black commentator, Al Sharpton, should be investigated or fired?
00:46:05.440Sharpton does not have a degree in journalism, and it undermines the career of black men and women who have more experience in journalism integrity.
00:46:13.960Well, does anybody really care that he doesn't have a degree in journalism?
00:46:19.020Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the media world full of people who didn't have a degree in journalism, doing journalism?
00:46:30.420I thought it was the most common thing.
00:46:47.960I think this story is too on the nose, doesn't sound organic, and sounds like maybe some people at a black church are receiving some money from somebody who's got a Republican bias.
00:47:10.680I don't think that they sat around and said, you know what?
00:47:13.940This Al Sharpton guy is bad for black Americans.
00:47:17.280We better weigh in on this important issue because we've already solved all the problems with people's souls and getting to heaven and all that.
00:51:51.500And correct me if I'm wrong, but has Obama become the person who just makes everything worse?
00:51:58.320I think Obama came to believe his own publicity, which is to say that since he would be considered a successful president, especially by Democrats, two terms got overwhelmingly reelected.
00:52:18.060So, historically, if you were a historian, you'd say very successful.
00:52:21.840But do you think that he believes he was successful because he was smart?
00:52:30.600Or does he not know that maybe it was his charisma and there was just something about his personality and the time in history where people said, yeah, I want a black president?
00:53:04.660That just feels healthy because then we don't have to prove it again because we could say, oh, OK, that's a good it's just a good symbol for everybody.
00:53:13.040And, you know, it's a good sign for everything.
00:54:07.120The identity messaging is what made the entire Democrat Party completely destroyed.
00:54:13.520Because once Trump created an alternative, which was common sense, when you compare common sense to identity politics, those are not close.
00:54:27.240And, of course, the public picked common sense over identity this time.
00:54:31.040So, I really think he maybe is fooled by thinking that he was a brilliant president.
00:54:57.700David Hogg, who you know as an anti-gun activist, he's one of the survivors of the Parkland shooting, right?
00:55:06.440He is apparently noodling with the idea of trying to run the Democrat Party.
00:55:12.620So, he might want to run the DNC because he thinks he can fix the problem of what he thinks is the party's main problem of talking down to voters.
00:55:24.540Now, first of all, has he accurately identified the problem with the Democrats?
00:55:54.160Quote, I think the main one overall, the main problem with the Democrats, is that we would rather live in a comfortable delusion than an uncomfortable reality.
00:58:26.280But wouldn't it be good to have Democrats who, if they got elected, could apply some common sense?
00:58:35.640Here's a story that might tell you something about the future.
00:58:39.580Did you know that there are 11 media outlets that are local, I guess they're local newspapers, that are owned by one entity that doesn't even try to be news?
00:58:52.460They're just a Democrat activist organization.
00:59:35.680The local news publications would advertise their own publication, which is legal, of course.
00:59:44.480And, of course, they would show an example of some of their work.
00:59:48.000So, they would buy Facebook ads and then show an example of one of their article.
00:59:52.080And this would be an advertisement for their platform.
00:59:55.720Except that they would only show, you know, anti-Trump, pro-Democrat examples.
01:00:00.580So, when you thought you were looking at an advertisement for just local news, you were being brainwashed by looking at some negative story about a Republican.
01:00:34.320You know, Dilber used to be in the local newspaper, but I haven't even seen one or held it in my hand in 10 years.
01:00:41.220So, yeah, that's a pretty clever trick to use the fake advertisement as really just a political brainwashing.
01:00:51.100Meanwhile, over in Syria, Joel Pollack is reporting for Breitbart that the IDF is sort of staying out of the fight in Syria.
01:01:04.580So, you might know that there are some rebels that are trying to take over the government of Syria, and the rebels seem to include some extremists.
01:01:15.740So, the rebels include people America likes, but also people that want to destroy America, and Israel, the same situation.
01:01:23.920Some of the people trying to destroy the Syrian government, which Israel doesn't love, are also people that Israel doesn't love.
01:01:34.420So, there's so many bad guys over there that they're not taking sides, so that seems smart.
01:01:43.060Apparently, the rebels are being unusually successful, and it looks like it's because Iran and Russia may be stretched a little too far with what they're doing elsewhere.
01:01:55.840So, it may be that Syria being sort of a client of Iran and Russia is now unprotected, and it's the very best time in the world to back some military to take them over, if that's what you want it to do.
01:02:11.320But, I think there's a bigger play here.
01:02:14.360I think that this is all related to Ukraine and Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran, and I feel like what it's doing is creating another variable for negotiation.
01:02:30.340So, I've told you that I think what Trump's going to do, Trump administration is, I think he's going to go for the, I think he's going for a base-clearing home run.
01:02:41.320So, typically, politicians will say, what do you think we can negotiate?
01:02:45.380And they'll think, well, probably the best we can do is a temporary ceasefire that won't hold.
01:02:50.220Okay, well, if that's the best we can do, let's go do that.
01:02:53.820And then they get a temporary ceasefire that doesn't hold.
01:02:56.420I think Trump is so much smarter than that, that he will throw into the negotiations just a whole bunch of different things.
01:03:05.660So, everybody will, first of all, get confused because it'll become complicated.
01:03:10.600And when people get confused, they look for the person who's the most certain.
01:03:14.760In any kind of confusing situation, whoever speaks with the most certainty just absorbs all the attention because you want the certainty.
01:03:26.040So, if Trump creates this massive negotiating playing field in which we're talking about, what do you do about Gaza?