Episode 2763 CWSA 02⧸27⧸25
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Summary
A new kind of digital assistant is on the way. And Tesla gets a patent on self-driving car technology that could change the way we think about autonomous vehicles. Plus, a new service from Amazon that can do just about anything you want with your computer.
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Well, if you're subscribing to the Dilbert comic, which continues every day, and you can get it on
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the X platform, just look at my profile and hit subscribe, or you can get it on Locals,
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you would know that Dilbert's CEO is trying to do a doge project on his own company,
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trying to reduce expenses, and he's trying to do it with a scalpel, with a scalpel, not a chainsaw.
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No, not a real scalpel, but, you know, figuratively. It's not working out. Yeah, it's not working out
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that well, but you'd have to subscribe to know what went wrong. Now, here's some news that is a really
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big deal to me. It won't mean anything to the rest of you. The rest of you won't care about this a bit,
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but this is transformative to my actually daily experience. So Amazon is finally coming up with
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an AI version of its digital assistant, whose name I will not say so I don't activate yours at home,
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but A-L-E-X-A. And, you know, as you know, I've been hooked on that product for a long time. I have
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one in most of my rooms that matter, including this one. And so my daily life involves walking
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around, and then when I have a question, I just say it out loud. You know, I just ask my digital
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device as I'm walking through the room, you know, what time is it? What's the weather? What will the
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weather be at this time? Where's my package? You know, I always have some kind of little question,
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sometimes math, you know, some fact, but it's not great compared to AI. And it doesn't always
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recognize what you're asking, whereas AI will be, you know, way better at recognizing what you're
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saying. So my great dream had been that my experience would be like a starship captain
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in my own house, and that I could literally ask anything, or even have a conversation with my
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computer, just by talking. And it would just hear me and talk back. And it looks like that's going to
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be available in a month or so. $19.99 per month. $19.99. Wow. I'm so glad it's not $20. Because at $20,
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I would have said, you know, that's a little pricey. But in 1999, I don't know, am I being
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manipulated? That seems so cheap. Okay. Well, Tesla was granted a patent on some of the self-driving
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car technology. But what the patent spotters spotted is that it's kind of a broad patent,
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which means that other self-driving cars seems like they would likely violate the patent.
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So here's just sort of generally what the patent claim is. I won't read it all, but it's basically
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a system with processors that look at objects and use a visual to figure out how to maneuver
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around, et cetera. And it makes me wonder, is the reason that Tesla got this patent so that they can
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have a competitive moat and own the self-driving car world? Or, and this would be actually not
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surprising, could it be? Because I think Tesla has a history of giving away their patents for making
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them available to all. This one's a big one. I mean, this is the patent of all patents. If they can
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control essentially the idea of training your car with lots of visual images and then using sensors to
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predict where the other objects are, that's kind of the entire game. So unless somebody uses, I don't
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know, only LiDAR or some other technology, which seems unlikely at this point, would they just own the
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entire category for as long as the patent is on? Maybe. The other possibility is that it's a
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defensive patent, meaning that the other car companies might intentionally or accidentally be
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violating this patent, but Tesla could be accidentally violating someone else's patent.
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Because there are so many patents on so many things that you can't make a product like a new
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self-driving car without almost guaranteed you're violating a dozen patents you didn't even know
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existed. And then those patent people can come after you and they can pester you forever. But if
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they're a car company, you can say, well, would you like to trade patents and stay on the court? Now, I
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don't know if this is the right kind of patent for dealing, negotiating, versus maybe you want to keep it
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as a moat. But it's very interesting, just knowing that this exists and that the patent was granted.
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Well, you're all excited about Epstein Island Reveal Day, right? Has it happened yet? Do we have a
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timing yet for when the Epstein files, a small portion of them, just a tiny little sliver of them
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will be revealed? Has that been announced yet? Here's what I expect. The first release will be
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underwhelming. And it will not indicate any crimes by anybody. That's what I think. Oh, noon. So noon
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East Coast. Okay, well, that'll be fun. So here's my prediction. So this is based on the real world,
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right? So in the real world, I don't think you're going to see the good stuff ever. I don't think
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it'll ever come out. I do think that since the administration has made such a big deal about
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transparency, they had to release something. They couldn't release nothing. So I think they're
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going to release the things that are kind of similar to what we already knew, but maybe it gives you a
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little detail about who flew on the flights. And if you only knew who flew on the flights,
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would you know who committed any terrible crimes? No. Because I don't believe that 100% of the people
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who went to the island or 100% of the people who got on his plane or 100% of the people who visited
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him in one of his homes, I don't think 100% of them committed crimes. I don't even know what percentage
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I would think. I don't know if it's 10% or 90%. But you cannot assume if somebody took a flight
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that they committed a crime. You could assume that almost all of them were targets and Epstein was
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trying to get them in a bad situation. But that doesn't mean they all accepted. There were a lot
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of sophisticated people who probably could see through the whole thing and just thought, okay,
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you know, I'll take some of the offers, but I won't do this one. You know, I'm not going to be in a room
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alone with somebody underage, for example. So I expect nothing. So my prediction is nothing.
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We'll see. Meanwhile, Rubio cut over $60 million in waste from the State Department and USAID,
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according to the Daily Wire. But the first question you have to ask is, is this new?
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Or is this just because he absorbed USAID and those cuts really are coming mostly from USAID?
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I think that's probably true. So this looks like it overlaps what we already knew. But now we're
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calling it the State Department instead of USAID. And they didn't count 100% of USAID. There's a few
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things he thought were critical to keep. But here's why I don't do a lot of reporting on the dollar
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amounts. I don't trust the news to make sure that they're counting everything once and that they're
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counting it correctly. I think Trump said yesterday that he's looking for a balanced budget by maybe
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next year. Now, that's what I wanted to hear. That's what I wanted to hear. I think the hardest
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budget to balance would be your first one. Because, you know, you don't have that much time. You just
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got into office. You're looking for waste. But they're still arguing over it. And there's still
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court cases. And just because you've identified it doesn't mean it's really going to stay cut. So
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it doesn't surprise me if you're going to need one year of, damn it, we're going to run up the
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debt a little bit more. But we didn't have enough runway. Like we didn't have enough preparation
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because we just got into office. So knowing that his own target, Trump's, is to look for a balanced
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budget by the next budget one year from now, that would be acceptable. In fact, I would consider that
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amazing. You know, if you can get it done by the second year, nobody's going to look at the first
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year and say the first year was a failure. Like history will look at that and say, you got that
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done by the second year? That'll be incredible. I would be so impressed if they balanced the budget
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by the second year. And just knowing that that's, that's how they're looking at it changes everything
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for me. Because you know how much I was bitching about, you know, how could you possibly insult us
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by talking nonstop about cutting costs and then giving us a budget that doesn't do that?
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How could you insult us that much? But all I needed to hear was that we're targeting next year to hit
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that target. Now that might be true. It might be hyperbole. It might be wishful thinking. We don't
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know yet, but I don't think Trump knows either. We don't know what Doge will look like a year from now.
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But that little bit of clarity of when they think they can get it done, that changes everything for
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me. It really does. It just reframes it as, oh, this is the preparation year where we learn everything
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about how everything works. You know, the stuff we didn't know. And then next year is the execution.
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Perfect. If you can get it done in two years, I'm not going to bitch about the first year.
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But, you know, I think everybody on social media has been laughing about this next story.
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So Jake Tapper has a book out with co-author Alex Thompson called Original Sin.
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And it's all about how all the bad people kept the secret of Joe Biden's mental decline.
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Yeah. All those bad people. Now, you know why this is funny, because it's Jake Tapper and CNN.
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And CNN, and most people are saying Jake Tapper, were very much kind of not talking about the obvious
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degradation of Biden. Now, I think what CNN and maybe Jake Tapper need to do is reframe it from
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the news was lying to you the entire time, which is what I believe to be true. The reason I believe
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that is everybody can see that Biden was degraded. I called it out in 2019. There are probably,
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I don't know, 50 public figures who called him out in public around 2019. That doesn't look like a
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brain that's working. What's it going to look like in four years? And accurately, we've predicted it.
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And so the thought that, so the reframe that the news business needs and Jake Tapper needs is that
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the news business could not have possibly deduced this without the insiders telling them.
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So he talks to all the insiders, I guess 200 or something, quite a few. And then they get the story
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of what was really happening behind the scenes, which by the way, is interesting enough that
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I recommend the book. I haven't read it. But if you'd like to know how ugly it was behind the scenes,
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I think it's probably a good source if they really talk to that many insiders who are willing to talk
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because the administration is over. So I'll bet you that the book is actually fascinating and I
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recommend it. But you can't overlook the fact that it's an attempt to rewrite history a little bit.
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Not a little bit, a lot. Yeah, the poor press, how could they have possibly known without those
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insiders telling them? Anyway, there's yet another clip of Scott Jennings on a CNN panel,
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speaking of CNN. And I swear to God, he keeps chewing up the guests in the panel that are the
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anti-Trumpers are all crazy. But now when I watch it, it's like they're finding new sheep to feed to
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the lion. And Jennings has been so successful in turning the other panelists into clowns that it looks
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like just there's a lion sitting at the table and CNN is like, I got your new sheep. Mmm, delicious.
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And then we watch him just chow down on the new sheep. So.
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Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament. I've been visualizing my match all week.
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She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.
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Good thing Claudia is with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the
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country. Everything was taken care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no
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time. I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round. But you got there on time.
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The latest one, I think they got the new, the new stupidest one they've ever had on the panel.
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So the new stupid guy is warning you just wait until Trump steals our democracy.
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Now I'm paraphrasing, but they literally are relying on the fact that he hasn't done anything yet
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because Scott Jennings says, what would be an example of him stealing your democracy?
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And they don't have anything. But the best that the new stupid guy, the new sheep said was,
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bah, he's going to steal it. Wah. In the future, in the future, you'll feel dumb after he steals our
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democracy. Bah. And then Scott Jennings slays him and eats him in front of the camera.
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I'm starting to wonder if it's intentional. It makes me wonder if the producers say to themselves,
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all right, we seem to get a lot of crossover viewers who are just watching, just only watching
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to watch Scott Jennings slay the sheep. And so maybe they're thinking they don't want somebody who
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might be a fair fight. You know, somebody who could actually make a good argument. You know,
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one of their good lawyers, for example, they have a million lawyers, right? I would say that
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probably a hundred percent of the guests, the CNN could have on who have degrees or experience,
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let's say as lawyers would not look like any of the sheep they're putting on. The people they're
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putting on just don't even know how to put a coherent argument together. So even if you allow
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that, you know, it's a difference of political opinion, the lawyers do a pretty good job in
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defending themselves because they're experts. But they're just putting on people who don't have
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any skill and just letting Jennings just slaughter them. So maybe it's intentional. It would be kind
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of clever. I'll bet the shows with Jennings do well relative to what they've had on that time period
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before. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom has introduced his own podcast. Now, of course, he's being widely
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mocked because we like mocking him no matter what he does. But I watched it for about three minutes.
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And here's my update. He's not the new Joe Rogan. Yeah. I'm pretty sure he's not the new Joe Rogan.
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He is hard to listen to. And it's because there's something wrong with his energy.
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Did anybody watch it? It's his energy. Now, I'm not going to make an accusation I can't back up.
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I will just say that if you were to look at his behavior, he looks like he's on something.
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You know what I mean? And I'm not judging because a lot of people are on a lot of things and sometimes me.
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So it's not a judgment. But as a worker, not a worker, as an observer, if I see somebody talking
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in a relaxed way, like any of the all-in pod, you know, sort of joking and relaxed or
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joking and relaxed. That's who I want to spend time with. But you look at Newsom and he's got
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this energy that's a little bit too much energy for sitting in a chair. And it feels like he's just
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got too much and is trying to get out of it. And it just makes me a little nervous because of all
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the energy. And I say to myself, did you have a lot of coffee? Is it caffeine? Because I hope it's
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just caffeine because it looks like you've got really strong coffee there. And I can't get past it.
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So if he can't find some way to relax, I don't know how many people can watch that. But he might
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be able to get that. You know, as I've often said, I remember watching Conan O'Brien when he first got a
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in a nighttime show. And the first, I don't know, first several months of Conan, he had that same
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problem, not from any drugs, as far as I know. But he just seemed nervous. And you can't really
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watch a nervous person. It just makes you nervous. But over time, he, you know, picked up all the right
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skills, got comfortable with it, became, you know, one of the best in the business, and doesn't have any
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that nervous energy. Or when he does, he makes it work. So it's possible that Newsom is just new,
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and he'll figure it out. But wow, hard to watch at the moment. All right. Agricultural Secretary
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Brooke Rollins has a billion dollar plan to lower egg prices. A billion dollar plan to lower egg prices?
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What costs a billion dollars? I don't know the details of the plan. But there's some thought that
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they'll do a little less culling of the chickens, you know, killing them because they have some
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bird flu. And a little more maybe letting them build up immunity and whatever else. But a billion dollars?
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If you just gave a direct subsidy to the eggs of a billion dollars, you know, economically,
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that would be a bad idea. But how much would that lower the price of eggs per person? Probably not
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that much. We eat a lot of eggs. Anyway, it doesn't seem like egg prices should be a multi-year problem,
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does it? Because you can basically create a new chicken in just like weeks. And then it's only
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a few weeks until the new chicken can lay eggs. So in what world can the United States not solve the
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chicken shortage in six months? What was going wrong? So this would be a good test of the Trump
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administration. In my opinion, what went wrong is competence. There must have been a competence
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problem. So now introducing a new cast of characters, and I think the Trump administration is the best
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ever. Maybe that's all it takes. Maybe you just needed smarter people. But we'll find out.
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Anyway, you probably all saw a video from the big, well-attended and publicized cabinet meeting
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that Trump had. He had all his cabinet people in one room, and Elon Musk was not at the table,
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because he's not a cabinet member. But he was in the outside chairs, and he got a chance to speak.
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And the press was there, and they asked a bunch of questions, and it was great transparency,
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and it was a great show, and it was great TV. And it looked like The Apprentice on steroids.
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So the one thing I always say about him is he understands the value of the show.
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You know, his critics will say, hey, he's just a TV guy, you know, and all he cares about is how
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things look and stuff. Well, obviously, he's full of substance, and he's got more substance than any
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president's ever had. In his second term, it's pretty obvious, especially with the EOs. But he also
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has that extra skill. You know, his skill stack, Trump's skill stack includes how to put it on a
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TV show. You know, where to light it, what the room should look like, whether or not the camera
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should be there. He knows that stuff. And you've seen him direct things when they do the little
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video before the interview starts. You know, he'll be asking questions like, you know, is that light
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good? You know, maybe you should move this over there. And he's usually right on. By the way,
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if you get interviewed a lot, you end up doing that. You know, I've been interviewed,
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I don't know, many hundreds of times, and photographed and photo shoots many hundreds
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of times. And you end up being the director of your own photo shoot. So I can't tell you how many
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times after I became, you know, extremely experienced in the process, the photographer would come in and
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say something like, all right, let's look at the house. And I'll figure out where to photograph you
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and, you know, what positions. And then I'll say, all right, here's this big Dilbert cutout.
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And it'll be, yes, yes, we'll put that big Dilbert cutout. And like, yeah, just like every other
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photographer, just like 100% of the other photographers, they got to put that Dilbert cutout in
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there. And then I'll say, well, you know, you should probably get some photos of me at my drawing,
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my drawing tablet, you know, so they can see what it looks like when I'm creating the cartoon.
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And the photographer will be like, yes, yes, that's exactly right. Yeah. Put you at the desk.
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And then I'll arrange the desk. And I'll be like, okay, we're gonna, we're gonna cheat the monitor
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in this direction. It'll look good on camera. And if you close those blinds, you'll have the blackout.
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And then I can use the, I can use the ring cameras over here and the photographer will be,
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yes, yes, that's exactly right. So it's definitely a thing that if you get photographed enough and
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you're in enough videos and you're in the public enough, you end up being your own director
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because you know what works. So you just become an active partner with the, with the production crew
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and they like it. They like it. They don't have to do what you say because it's still their production.
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But they definitely take the good, the good suggestions they do. Anyway, so he puts on this
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great show, which was great TV, great stuff. And it was transparent. It made you think,
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you know, you, that you could ask any questions and the press could ask any questions.
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And there's one, there's one event where a reporter asked, he asked Elon Musk, because Musk got up and
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spoke a little bit. He asked Elon Musk if anyone in the room, meaning the cabinet members and mostly,
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if anyone in the room wasn't happy about his work on Doge. Now, of course, that's a messed up,
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stupid, are you still beating your spouse kind of question. You know, is it, it's just sort of
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a troublemaking question, right? It's, it's not even pretending to be useful for the public. Do you
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think the public really cared about which cabinet members were on board with Doge? Oh, oh no. What
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if the, what if the head of the interior is not fully on board? What? We don't care. It's just,
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it's just a troublemaking question to try to sow some division. Well, Trump being Trump and knowing
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everything about public appearances and everything about a show, Trump interrupts and he takes the
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question. So it wasn't directed to Trump, but he's smart enough and quick enough that he knew
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where to take this. He's so good at the moment. His understanding of a moment is unparalleled,
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Trump's. And he goes, he goes, uh, basically I'll take this. He goes to the room. He goes,
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anybody unhappy with Elon? If you are, we'll, we'll throw them out of here. So he turns it into a joke,
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which is perfect. Do you remember the first debate when he was first running for office,
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the Rosie O'Donnell question? Did he answer the question? No, it was a troublemaking question.
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He turned it into a joke and the joke became the viral video. So he did it again and the joke became
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the viral video and nobody gave a flying fig about the question. All they cared is that he put on a
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better show than the reporter did. That's it. He just put on a better show and then he got all the
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attention and the reporter looked like a clown, but it gets better. Uh, so everybody laughs and they
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laugh and they clap. So they look like they're agreeing with Trump. And then Musk was still standing,
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you know, for his part, because he was, he was the center of attention for just that moment.
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And he said this, he said, President Trump has put together, I think the best cabinet ever,
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literally. And I do not give false praise. This is an incredible group of people. I don't think
00:27:58.000
that such a talented team has actually ever been assembled. I think is literally the best cabinet
00:28:04.480
the country has ever had. And I think the country should be incredibly appreciative of the people in
00:28:09.200
this room. Now I agree with that a hundred percent. I've never seen a more, um, I'm going to say,
00:28:20.800
I don't even know if capable is the right answer, but, um, people I trust, let's put it that way.
00:28:30.080
So there, there's some people who don't have as much experience as you'd expect for that job,
00:28:36.400
but I definitely trust them. And I trust them to be fast learners. And I trust them to be on point.
00:28:44.400
I trust them to have their priorities straight. I trust them to root out DEI. I trust them to get
00:28:50.000
rid of the, the bad eggs. I trust them to cut expenses and I trust them to make adjustments quickly
00:28:58.000
when they make mistakes. So my level of trust is just through the roof. I mean, this is, this is a
00:29:05.840
seriously powerful group of people. It's very impressive, but that's not what I wanted to talk about.
00:29:13.440
There's this one thing that, uh, Musk said in that, which is this sentence. He said, and I do not give
00:29:20.320
false praise and you know, then he praised them. Now think about that superpower that he has.
00:29:28.960
Imagine if Trump said, I don't give false praise, you would kind of laugh when you, because Trump
00:29:35.600
basically praises everybody who's on his team and insults everybody who isn't. So most people,
00:29:43.600
most people in the public do give false praise. They just care if you're on their team.
00:29:50.240
That's it. But when I heard this, when Musk said, I don't give false praise, I thought to myself,
00:29:57.920
oh my God, how many people have earned that? That's a superpower. The superpower is that you
00:30:05.200
can say something of this magnitude, that it's the best group of people ever assembled for this sort of
00:30:10.160
thing. And you say to yourself, he actually means that. That's like a legitimate opinion with no
00:30:17.200
hyperbole. And that's what I think. I think that is a no hyperbole legitimate, actually his opinion,
00:30:24.160
and that he has the credibility built over a lifetime. You don't get that. You don't get that
00:30:29.360
overnight where he can say this sentence. And I do not give false praise. Nobody is going to laugh at
00:30:36.080
that. Nobody, the press didn't pick it up, right? The press didn't say, oh yeah, he says he doesn't
00:30:42.880
give false praise, but look at this compilation clip of all the false praise he gave before.
00:30:48.720
Nope. There's no compilation clip of that because he doesn't give false praise.
00:30:54.880
It's just literally true. What a superpower. What a superpower to be able to say that in public
00:31:02.240
and have nobody question you about it. It's really remarkable.
00:31:05.840
I saw a post on X from the libs of TikTok. And it was a summary of all the things that came out of
00:31:17.280
the meeting. I won't read the whole summary because some of them you've heard before. But it was the
00:31:21.520
most useful news that I saw about the meeting because it was just really tight and long. It was a
00:31:29.600
long list, but it was a tight bullet point to this, to this, to this, to this. And I thought to myself,
00:31:35.920
there's something happening in the pro-Trump world that I can't figure out what the cause of it is,
00:31:44.800
but it's a really big thing. And what it is, is there are a whole bunch of individual or independent
00:31:53.040
superstars who have just entered the fight, not right away, some over time, but really special
00:32:04.000
analysts and voices. The libs of TikTok started out as just mocking weird liberal stuff on TikTok.
00:32:12.480
That was it. That was the whole game. But now has completely transformed because you can't just
00:32:20.480
mock people on TikTok all day long and expect much out of that. But now libs of TikTok has transformed
00:32:26.720
into what today was the best summary I've seen of the news. It's the best summary. Now there's a
00:32:33.360
reason that the libs of TikTok can do the best summary. It's because the news needs to sell advertising.
00:32:40.720
So they can't do summaries. They have to write a lot and then they fit a lot of advertising on that
00:32:46.000
page because there's a lot of text there, or they have to have a TV show where it goes for half
00:32:50.320
an hour so they can fit in lots of commercials. But libs of TikTok can just say, here's the 12 things
00:32:55.840
you need to know. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. So it's like filling a space that was
00:33:03.280
absolutely useful and additive and really good work. So you should follow libs of TikTok.
00:33:10.720
But the other ones in the same space are data Republican who just came out of nowhere and turns out to,
00:33:17.040
uh, I may have this story wrong because I just saw hints of it before I went live.
00:33:22.720
But did data Republican who, if you don't know who that is, you really just need to look it up on X,
00:33:28.400
um, an amazing data analyst who just is just doing amazing work with the Doge discoveries and putting
00:33:38.160
them in context and letting us know who's connected to who and where the money's flowing and,
00:33:43.040
you know, what people are connected to other people, the, the real stuff, the stuff that really,
00:33:48.800
really helps you understand it. Cause the surface stuff doesn't help. Oh, USAID spent 60 billion
00:33:56.720
dollars. Okay. Is that good or bad? Who got it? Was there a reason for it? But then you get to the
00:34:04.960
data Republican level and suddenly everything becomes bright, brightly, you know, clear, uh,
00:34:12.080
the, everything has a clean edge and you understand it for the first time.
00:34:17.200
And I think data Republican is building some kind of tool that will let you see who's connected to what.
00:34:24.720
You know, I always tell you that what happened won't tell you anything. You have to know who,
00:34:29.440
who happened. You got to know the players or you don't know anything. So, you know,
00:34:35.280
I always use Norm Eisen as my example, and I'm not going to, I'm not going to give away what my
00:34:41.200
opinion is of his work, but if you see Norm Eisen attached to any story, you need to go a little deeper.
00:34:50.080
Yeah. So, sorry. Lives of TikTok is run by, uh, uh, wait, let me get the name right. Chaya.
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00:36:12.080
Benton's who seemed to come out of nowhere and be the best explainer of how the real world works
00:36:17.120
in terms of our funding and the intelligence people and what we're trying to do with other
00:36:22.400
countries and all the dirty tricks. Then you've got a Michael Schellenberger who comes out of nowhere and
00:36:28.400
suddenly he's putting everything in context from nuclear energy to all the bad behavior in the
00:36:35.760
government and probably the best. I think Schellenberger is the best independent journalists at the moment.
00:36:43.520
I think it's the best in the business. Um, and I could go on, right? I can name a bunch of other people.
00:36:49.600
I I'm going to put myself on the list. So my own little domain is reframing things. Yeah. Helping you look
00:36:56.880
at it in a different way and putting the Dilber filter on things. So, you know, okay, in the real world,
00:37:03.920
you know, sort of a Dilber world, what would it really look like? So that's something I can add
00:37:08.880
that is a little bit unique. And then I add the persuasion filter. So you can look at things from a
00:37:15.200
persuasion view as opposed to a policy view. Now, there's nobody on the Democrat side who does what data
00:37:24.560
Republican does, Mike Benz does, Schellenberger does, or I do. And again, that's just four examples.
00:37:32.720
Or Libs of Tidcock even. The, the fact that such, um, effective people just rose up. There's this
00:37:42.320
whole independent reporting network, because I can name another 12 people who are doing a great job
00:37:50.640
of identifying the stories you need and, and bringing them up and adding just the right amount of summary
00:37:58.560
so that we can understand them quickly and then move on to the next story.
00:38:02.400
Unbelievably strong independent reporting, independent analysis, independent data,
00:38:11.280
independent history. How about Victor Davis Hanson?
00:38:15.280
Who's the Victor Davis Hanson on the Democrat side? They've got a bunch of historians that are
00:38:20.640
just obviously just liars. And then we've got Victor Davis Hanson,
00:38:28.240
who's like probably the best, the best I've ever seen in that kind of work. And they've got literally
00:38:36.000
just historians. They use, in my opinion, they use them as professional liars. They don't even seem
00:38:42.160
like they're being serious. So, and then on top of that, on top of that, uh, Elon Musk gets to be
00:38:52.480
sort of a kingmaker on X. And, uh, I think it was yesterday, maybe the day before.
00:38:58.800
I, uh, made a comment on, you know, one of the posts, doesn't matter which one it is,
00:39:05.440
something political. I think it was a post on, uh, there was a survey that said 75%
00:39:11.360
of Democrats, uh, didn't think that the border was open intentionally.
00:39:18.240
And I made some comment on it, reposted it. And then, uh, Elon Musk, he, uh,
00:39:24.960
he, he made a comment on it too. So it was on, on my post. And, uh, the last I checked,
00:39:31.840
they had over 30 million views. Now, what do you think that does to an individual voice on X?
00:39:39.680
If, if you just get a little tap on the shoulder from, from Elon Musk, you get 30 million views.
00:39:47.040
Now, um, if you watch Elon Musk's posts, you'll see that he has, he has a little constellation of,
00:39:54.880
I don't know how many people I'm going to say several dozen. So there's several dozen people
00:40:00.400
that he's identified as voices he wants to look at every day. So, um, I think he's boosted or replied to
00:40:10.320
my posts, just mine, um, several times this year. I don't know the exact number, but let's say a
00:40:17.520
handful of times just since the beginning of the year and other people as well. And so he becomes
00:40:24.320
the, the person who gets to say, I think a million, you know, 30 million more people should see this idea
00:40:31.360
or this person. And it's incredibly powerful. Do, do the Democrats have anything like that?
00:40:39.200
Where one of them can make some other strong player who is way, way below them. And let's say,
00:40:45.840
you know, power and can just boost their message right to the top.
00:40:51.200
I don't know. I'm not sure they can do it. And then we talk about the podcast world
00:40:56.000
where the conservative world has created an unbelievably good podcasting, uh, what would
00:41:04.960
you call it? Environment or architecture or platform. And they're all independence.
00:41:12.960
Like, like, you know, of course, Joe Rogan is the standard, right? But then the all in pod
00:41:18.240
just bursts on the scene. I don't know. Was it a year or two ago? The all in pod just had such smart,
00:41:26.800
insightful people that it just went bang. And, you know, they don't lean completely right,
00:41:33.680
but that's part of their value that, uh, that you can see both sides. And then you look at the
00:41:40.320
Megyn Kelly show, the Megyn Kelly show, in my opinion, is probably one of the greatest podcast
00:41:46.960
successes ever because it has all the production quality has, you know, the very best on air
00:41:52.800
personality you're ever going to see. And every bit of it, um, is interesting. Like I probably
00:41:59.680
consume, I don't know, five or six reels from just Megyn Kelly show every day and they're always good.
00:42:08.400
And everything she says is worth listening to. Now, do they have that? You know, maybe, maybe,
00:42:16.400
maybe they have some podcasts that are doing a well, okay, in terms of, um, viewership, but
00:42:24.320
I don't think they have as many superstars. It feels like the political, the political right just
00:42:31.360
absolutely owned podcasting because they had to, because they, they were shut down from most of the
00:42:36.080
major media or, you know, the major media would look like enemies. So yeah, the, the success of
00:42:45.040
individuals just saying, you know, I got to take control of this. Here's what it is. I feel like
00:42:52.720
when there's a successful Democrat leading, leaning show of any sort, whether it's a podcast or whether
00:43:01.680
it's, um, you know, on a, uh, on a traditional platform, it feels like it's coming from the top
00:43:09.120
as in, Hey, we need a Joe Rogan. Who's our best person. And then somebody gets pulled in like, you
00:43:16.640
know, Gavin Newsom or something. And it's artificial. It's just somebody trying to do the thing that was
00:43:23.200
the missing thing. I don't think a single one of the people I mentioned who are podcasters on the
00:43:30.240
right. I don't think a single one of them said, I have to fill a spot. There's an empty spot. I
00:43:35.840
have to fill it. I think every one of them said, what can I do? That's additive. What can I do?
00:43:41.440
That's additive. And then within the constraints of, you know, a media that doesn't allow everybody
00:43:47.760
to do everything and podcasting was it. And they just said, I could add to this. And then they did.
00:43:55.040
Okay. So there is something beautiful and magical about what's happening on to so many strong voices
00:44:04.960
on the right that I'm just so impressed. And I don't know what's causing it. The only thing I
00:44:11.520
could think of is that right leaning people feel that their destiny is in their own hands.
00:44:19.040
That's the best I can come up with. Because if you think your destiny is in your own hand,
00:44:23.680
you say, what can I do? How can I help? But also how can I monetize it? Which is perfectly fair.
00:44:30.400
That's our system. And I think the people on the left are like, who's going to tell me what I should
00:44:37.440
do to win? So our team wins. I mean, it's something completely different driving them. So I don't think
00:44:44.320
it's an accident that the most talented people are all on the same side. There's something behind it.
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All right. Here's my favorite story. I like to have at least one story that can really sink my
00:45:28.080
teeth in. And here's an example that clarifies my last point. I'm going to give you a spin on something.
00:45:37.520
Oh, we used to use that word, right? The spin. I'm going to call it a reframe. I'm going to reframe
00:45:43.920
something. And when you see it, you're going to laugh because you didn't see it already. You ready for
00:45:49.200
this? What is MSNBC's main thrust of their commentary for weeks and weeks? The answer is anti-doge.
00:45:59.920
Doge. Oh, doge is causing chaos. Doge is not communicating enough with people. Doge is causing
00:46:06.800
a fall-off in morale. Doge is causing confusion and flight and people are leaving and we don't
00:46:14.720
know if all the work will get done, right? Now, first of all, can you confirm that that's MSNBC's
00:46:21.520
almost their total message for weeks and weeks and weeks, right? Now, here's the fun part. This
00:46:28.320
is where the Dilbert filter comes in. They're doing massive reorganization and cost cutting at MSNBC
00:46:38.400
at the same time. They're doging themselves at the same time they're criticizing Elon Musk's doge.
00:46:48.800
Now, here's the fun part. They say that the real doge is causing chaos, morale is bad, there's
00:46:57.920
confusion, the communication is not sufficient. Let me ask you this. If you could find one of their
00:47:04.960
fired staff members who just got fired in this big reorganization, what do you think they would say
00:47:12.160
about how MSNBC is handling their own little doge? Do you think they'd say, you know, unlike the
00:47:19.600
government, they communicated so well, they led with empathy, there was no chaos whatsoever,
00:47:28.160
and the morale was still high even while we were getting fired. What do you think? And so,
00:47:34.400
I challenge the independent voices, see if you can find even one staff member who got fired or doesn't
00:47:45.520
know where they're going to end up. Now, if they're still with the company, they're not going to talk.
00:47:49.760
But if you can find somebody that is fired, who's a little bit disgruntled,
00:47:55.120
why don't you ask them if their experience is exactly, exactly, exactly
00:48:04.480
what Rachel Maddow is criticizing the big doge of doing? Because it is.
00:48:12.000
So they're exactly in the middle of their own little doge that you know,
00:48:18.240
because if you've lived in the real world for a minute and a half,
00:48:21.920
you know that nobody can do as extensive changes as MSNBC is trying to do.
00:48:26.960
They just cut Rachel Maddow's staff after she complained about them being racist.
00:48:38.240
Do you think the morale is just terrific? That they're so happy that the staff got cut?
00:48:48.000
Well, this couldn't be more perfect. So that's my challenge. Find me that staff member,
00:48:55.520
because they're going to have something to say about the MSNBC firings. Meanwhile, the White House has
00:49:01.440
ejected, according to the post-millennium, Hayden Cunningham is writing, that the White House is
00:49:08.000
ejecting the Huffington Post and Reuters and some foreign press from the cabinet meeting.
00:49:12.800
Now, imagine working for the Huffington Post, and your organization has spent 10 years just
00:49:23.760
absolutely defecating on every Republican that has ever lived, and especially, especially on Trump,
00:49:33.680
and then they would be insulted that they're ejected. What did they expect?
00:49:40.080
In fact, if you're a nonstop right-crapping group, of course you're going to have a little pushback.
00:49:49.520
So yeah, it's perfect. All right, here's another great one. Governor Pritzker, J.B. Pritzker,
00:49:57.600
he was on MSNBC, and I saw a post about it on X, and I thought, oh, that's fake,
00:50:06.000
because there was a quote attributed to him that looked like, you know, obviously made up because
00:50:11.280
nobody could be that stupid. But it came from a source that didn't look like it was a joke.
00:50:17.840
So I thought, hmm, could this possibly be something that actually came out of his mouth? So I had to
00:50:23.120
play the video to find out if the quote that was in the post was actually real. It's real. Here's what
00:50:30.800
he actually said. I promise I'm not making this up. Quote from J.B. Pritzker,
00:50:38.000
the prices at the grocery store are going up because democracy is being taken away.
00:50:42.880
Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. They can't stop with the intersectionality stuff. You know,
00:50:55.600
the intersectionality is, okay, you might be black, but what if you're also gay? You know,
00:51:02.720
that's two things. And I feel like there's some kind of instinct to connect everything that doesn't
00:51:09.120
need to be connected. And so somehow he's trying to put together the price of eggs with the democracy
00:51:16.720
being stolen around. And as Scott Jennings proved on the CNN panel, they don't really have examples
00:51:25.520
of anybody losing their democracy. So the democracy has not yet been stolen. I guess we're waiting for
00:51:32.000
that any minute. Uh-oh, they took my democracy when I wasn't paying attention. But yeah, once that
00:51:38.640
democracy goes away, well, there's your price of eggs. Your price of eggs is going to go right through
00:51:42.960
the roof. Now, seriously, is there anyone smart left on the left? Anyone? I did hear that Jon Stewart
00:51:54.480
had an offer to Elon Musk to do an interview. And I guess Elon said yes,
00:51:59.760
Elon Musk has, um, with a couple of conditions. It's unedited and it's on X.
00:52:04.720
Now, I don't know if Stewart has agreed to that because he might want to do it for his own podcast,
00:52:08.800
but he might, he might do it. And, um, at least Jon Stewart is capable of understanding an argument on
00:52:20.640
each side. Now, he might not embrace it, but he's capable of understanding it and then even repeating it
00:52:28.560
back. So that could be the most interesting conversation of the entire year. I am so down
00:52:35.760
for that. You, you haven't seen anybody on the right interview Musk who could actually ask good
00:52:42.880
questions, could actually accept that some things are good and some things are bad, could accept that
00:52:48.080
maybe his intention is not to destroy the country or just make money. You know, just get rid of the crazy
00:52:53.920
stuff because here's what I don't think Jon Stewart will ever say. I don't think you'll say, Elon Musk,
00:53:02.000
you're stealing my democracy. What do you say about that? I don't think he's going to ask that question
00:53:07.120
because it's a dumb ass question. And obviously he knows that. So, wow, I'm there for that. I'd love to
00:53:13.040
see that conversation. Anyway, Trump and Zelensky are supposed to meet on Friday for the big mineral
00:53:19.920
deal. I think I'm going to not hold my breath that the mineral deal is going to go off smoothly,
00:53:27.200
but at the moment it looks like they have a mineral deal. Um, I'm going to wait a little bit on the
00:53:33.760
details because I think we're still in the fog of war and there might be some last minute tweaks to it.
00:53:39.280
But the basic idea is that we would be partners in some kind of a mineral exploration deal.
00:53:45.440
They would make some money. We would make some money. Um, allegedly both sides have backed down
00:53:52.240
on something. So, uh, Ukraine backed down on security guarantees because presumably they thought it was
00:54:00.880
good enough that America would have a big financial interest in the country. And that might be enough
00:54:07.120
to incentivize America to protect its own interests, which would protect Ukraine at the same time.
00:54:12.800
So it could be that they don't need it to be explicit if it's sort of built into the business model,
00:54:19.440
I guess. Um, let's see what else. And then, uh, then the U S uh, is not going to try to claw back 500
00:54:28.640
billion from their natural resources. They're just going to split the money in what looks like a
00:54:33.760
better deal. And, uh, apparently there's some bigger picture things that they've not told us about.
00:54:41.520
So, so there might be some non-mineral related stuff. Now here's, here's what I think is the
00:54:49.920
amazing part of this story. While we're watching, one of the greatest things I've ever seen any leader
00:54:58.400
ever do is happening. And I don't see anybody calling it out as directly as I'm going to call it
00:55:03.760
out. We don't know if this is going to work yet. Right? So it's too early to say the, you know,
00:55:10.720
the mineral deal is a spectacular success, but it looks good at the moment. It looks,
00:55:16.320
looks like it has a pretty good chance of working. Um, but here's my take.
00:55:21.360
If Trump succeeds in reframing a hot war into a series of business deals that are good for everybody
00:55:31.360
in the history of leadership, that will be the greatest thing anybody ever did.
00:55:37.280
If it holds now, I'm not naive. Putin is Putin. We know that we can't predict or trust what he does.
00:55:45.280
We know that people with the best of intentions, you know, maybe things don't work out. We know that
00:55:51.840
implementation might matter as much as having a good idea. So if it's not implemented properly,
00:55:56.800
it doesn't work. A million things could go wrong. I get it. I get it. You don't have to tell me that
00:56:01.280
it could go wrong. I get it. But just think about this. He's on the verge of maybe
00:56:08.880
reframing an actual hot war into a business deal. And so far, all sides have entered his frame.
00:56:21.840
They've all entered his frame. Nobody else can do that. You're seeing a once in a thousand years
00:56:29.920
a set of talent from Trump and the people that he's hired to help him. This is so unprecedented
00:56:43.360
that. And I haven't seen anybody report it the way I just described it. Have you? Have you seen
00:56:51.280
anybody describe it the way I did? Everybody knows the facts. But has anybody described this as the
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greatest reframe maybe in history? Like whoever did anything even close to this? If you can turn a hot
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war into a business deal where everybody wins and it sticks, and of course, I'll say it again, we don't
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know if it'll work. We don't know if it'll stick. We don't know if Putin will just use it as a delaying
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tactic until he does worse things. Maybe. But it definitely has a chance of working. And more than a
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good chance. It's got a solid chance of working. Incredible. Incredible. Anyway, this is also incredible.
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So Senator Jim Banks and Representative Kat Kamek, they're introducing a bill to defund NPR,
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because it's a liberal propaganda network, they say. Now, I don't know if that means NPR would go
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in a business where they just have less funding. But I don't care about the NPR part of the story.
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Maybe it'll work. Maybe it won't. Here's the bigger picture. Trump has created a situation
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in which everyone in the government, in every way, from Congress to every one of the
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the cabinet positions to all of his appointments. They're competing to see who can do the best job
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Did I just tell you that Trump reframing a hot war into a business deal is the greatest thing anybody
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ever did in history? If Trump pulls off reframing governments as a competition among peers to see who
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can cut the government costs the most? Standing ovation. Standing ovation.
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To be clear, and to be fair, I'm not excited about the cost cutting yet.
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I think there's going to be a whole bunch of, we thought we could cut that, but we didn't get as much.
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You know, where people will argue about whether the numbers are accurate. And even though,
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even though Doge is showing exactly what they're doing and they publish it.
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So there's a lot of messiness to come. But the hard part,
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the hard part was the reframe. He turned it from a bunch of people just, I don't know what,
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pursuing their own self interest in the government. What was the old model into literally, they're
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publicly competing, publicly competing to see who can cut the most fat and waste and fraud out of
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their own, their own departments or their own domains. When, when have you ever seen that?
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Never, never. You've never seen it. It's never been done in the history of the whole frickin world.
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It's never been done. And you're watching it being done right in front of you.
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Have I ever mentioned, there are some things that America can do, that nobody can come close.
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You know, I have, I have plenty of criticism from my own country, as a patriot, you know,
01:00:22.480
I love it, of course. And, you know, we're not perfect. You know, we make a lot of false starts,
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we've done a lot of things we wish maybe we hadn't done, etc. But there are just some things
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nobody else can do. Europe can't do that. China can't do that. Japan can't do that.
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Name a country that can do that. Even when Miele did it, I don't know that he got everybody to compete.
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I think maybe he just took the chainsaw. I could be wrong. He might have, he might have actually
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pulled that off in Argentina. But this is incredible. If you think of it in terms of the reframe,
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then suddenly it goes from just a thing they're trying to do to, holy cow, are you kidding me?
01:01:10.560
He pulled off that, making them compete to see who can cut the cost the most. Unbelievable. Wow.
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Let's compare that to the main focus under the prior administration.
01:01:25.760
So the main focus, the thing that gets you attention, the thing that will get you the
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most praise from the president is how you cut costs and made it work.
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What would have been the same kind of focus, a different focus, but what would have been the Biden
01:01:41.520
focus? I'm not making this up. This was the Biden focus. It was, you got promoted if you cared the most
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about people's genitalia, what color the genitalia is, and what is being done with it.
01:02:00.400
That was the Biden focus. How'd that work out for you? Did the country get really better,
01:02:08.160
a lot better when the focus was genitalia, what color it was, and what it was being used for?
01:02:16.320
That was your government. We actually lived through that.
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I mean, just think about that. We went from caring about your genitalia,
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and everybody else's, I guess, and how it all fit together to competing to reduce waste and fraud in
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the government. Talk about the golden age. Oh my God. Meanwhile, you know, case in point,
01:02:45.280
Lee Zeldin of the EPA plans to cut 65% of it. In other words, he's competing.
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He's publicly competing to see how much he can cut in his own domain. Unbelievable. So good.
01:03:03.760
Over at HUD, the housing group there, HUD, according to Just the News, HUD Secretary Scott Turner
01:03:12.080
announced yesterday, I guess, they're going to terminate some rules that had been terminated
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under the Trump first term, but then Biden put him back in place. And I guess it was a rule. I'm
01:03:25.280
just going to paraphrase because it gets a little technical. The rule was we can't build a house for you
01:03:30.880
unless your genitalia is the right color and it's being used for the right things.
01:03:38.480
Okay. I'm probably exaggerating a little bit, but that's basically what it was.
01:03:42.240
It was sort of DEI and housing. So the federal government put restrictions on what you could
01:03:49.440
and could not do because it had to be diversity, inclusive. It created a whole bunch of obstacles
01:03:57.520
to building anything. So it probably just made the cost of housing go up because it created a situation
01:04:04.400
where a lot of people would say, uh, I don't even know how to satisfy all those rules. So I'm not
01:04:09.920
even going to bother. So getting rid of burdensome rules doesn't mean that you're getting rid of
01:04:16.800
diversity. It doesn't mean that you're getting rid of anything you wanted. It just means that if the
01:04:23.280
states want to put those, if the states want to put those, I don't know, some kind of rules on
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themselves, I guess they can. But he's just saying that the federal government isn't going to prevent
01:04:34.000
you from building homes. How great is that? The federal government is not going to prevent you
01:04:41.120
from building homes. Thank you. I just want the federal government not to prevent me because the
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state will do a good job of making sure my home doesn't fall down on its own. You know, that it's safe.
01:04:53.600
It's built in a place I can insure. I mean, I'll work it out in the state. So that's good.
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you're richer than you think. Meanwhile, there's a new, uh, Trump, Trump picked a, uh, pardons are
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a pardons are so somebody to help him decide who to pardon. And, uh, who he picked was, uh,
01:05:30.000
Alice Marie Johnson, who you might remember was, uh, pardoned or did she come out during the,
01:05:37.600
the first step thing where I think she was just pardoned, right? And she was a famous pardon. And
01:05:43.360
she's a black woman who I think, uh, was involved in some drug stuff way long ago, but was in jail for
01:05:52.000
what was an unreasonable amount of time in my opinion. And, uh, even Van Jones who had worked on
01:05:58.320
that, that, that process of, you know, allowing people to get out of jail earlier. Um, he was
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praising Trump for picking, uh, Alice Marie Johnson as the pardons are now. I appreciate that. Now, again,
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I'm not telling you that Van Jones turned Republican, uh, or that everything he says next,
01:06:18.640
you're going to agree with. So it's not about that. It's just, you know, it's like a little, uh,
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flower growing out of the sidewalk. You know, if, if you hear somebody on the left say, okay,
01:06:30.080
I can't even argue with that one. That's just a good idea. Um, there's a, uh, AI created a video
01:06:40.480
of what Gaza would look like if Trump got to redevelop it. And I guess Trump actually, uh,
01:06:46.400
reposted it on truth. Um, but, uh, what's funny is, uh, it shows a giant golden statue of Trump
01:06:55.680
in, in what, what would be a Gaza that looks like a, you know, a seaside luxury resort,
01:07:02.240
perfect situation. And then I think there's a part of it shows him lounging poolside, uh, topless with,
01:07:10.720
uh, Benjamin Netanyahu, which I didn't see that part, but that's funny. There's something
01:07:16.320
with Elon Musk there and the fact that Trump reposted it when it shows a giant golden statue
01:07:24.000
of Trump. Again, it's just something that Trump can do. You know, Biden couldn't do that. Like
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nobody else could do that. He's the only one who could repost that. And you would understand
01:07:36.240
it's just a mild troll. It's just a little mild troll. Hey, does this bother you?
01:07:42.320
Do you want to complain about it? Go ahead. That'd be fine. It's just a little mild troll. Love it.
01:07:54.480
Well, the Hill is reporting that, uh, the IAEA, the international atomic energy agency says Iran's
01:08:02.000
going to be, uh, trying to accelerate its, uh, its process for being able to make a nuclear weapon.
01:08:10.000
Um, do you think they had to research that story? Let's see. How else could they have gotten that
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story without doing research? Oh, here's an idea. They could have asked me, hey, Scott,
01:08:25.520
do you think Iran is working harder to build a nuclear weapon? Um, yes, yes.
01:08:34.320
Well, are you sure that they're not moving in the other direction? Um, checking my brain. Um,
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it's the only thing they have left to protect themselves. Uh, no, they're accelerating.
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But is it possible that they just say they're accelerating, but maybe they don't have even the
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capability to, to get it done? Uh, yeah, that's possible. That's possible. Did you really need to
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research that? I mean, what do you think they're doing? Of course they are. They have nothing left.
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It's the only thing they have to bargain with or, or keep an attack away.
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So I do think there's a really good chance that, uh, at some point Israel will
01:09:22.320
bury everything that they have with giant bombs. So we'll see how that works out.
01:09:27.200
Um, I've got a feeling that Netanyahu is enjoying winning and he's never going to have a better
01:09:35.200
chance for total victory. You know how they talk about total victory and you thought, not you, but
01:09:44.800
some people thought, oh, and then when they're done with their total victory, they'll build a two state
01:09:50.160
solution and move all the, uh, all the Palestinians and Hamas back into Gaza and they'll live happily ever
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after. Does that sound like total victory to you? No, no, there was never any intention
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because total victory is about the clearest statement of intention you could ever make.
01:10:07.840
Total victory. Now take that to what's going to happen with Iran. Do you think
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that, uh, Israel would, would say, well, we got total victory when all Iran is doing is building
01:10:22.720
back his capability to do it to him again through their proxies? Nope. Let me explain it again. Total
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victory. Total victory. Total victory means that Iran can't do nuclear weapons one way or the other.
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They're not going to stop until Iran has no nuclear program. How do I know that for sure? Well, uh,
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can the reporters ask me, Scott, what do you think Israel plans to do? Let's see. What does total mean?
01:10:56.320
Does total mean we stop halfway and let them rebuild? Wait, wait. No, total, total. Okay. I got it.
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Total victory. It means that they're going to destroy the nuclear program, whatever it takes,
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whatever it takes, whatever it takes. Guaranteed. I think we've clearly left the domain of maybe.
01:11:21.200
I think maybe is over. Now there is a possibility that Iran will get that message too, because someone
01:11:28.960
could explain to them, do you know what total means? Have you heard of total? Yeah. Total means
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they're going to solve the problem once and it's not coming back. And this would be the time to talk.
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And if there is some way that you can reach a non-military agreement and not develop nuclear
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weapons, you know, we can talk about that because that would still be total and it would be the easiest
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way to get there. But no, if you're wondering if Israel is bluffing, they're not. Total is total.
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And they could not be more clear about it. So that's the beauty of being credible too.
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If Israel had not done everything that it's done so far, which is pretty darn impressive if you're just
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looking from a military perspective. You can make up your own mind about who's right and who's wrong
01:12:25.600
in this. And I don't even have an opinion. My opinion on the whole situation is in the Middle East,
01:12:32.000
the strongest person gets what they want. Why would I need more of an opinion than that?
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That covers everything. Whoever is strongest is going to go get what they want.
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That's it. Everything else is just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Do you support Israel?
01:12:50.000
What's the difference? What's the difference? Is that going to make a difference? No. If they can get
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it and they have the strength to do it, they're going to go get it. And if that ever changed,
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and I don't see how it would happen soon, but if something changed where the
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Palestinians suddenly got all the power, what do you think they would do? You know exactly what they
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would do. And I wouldn't be for it. I would just be saying, well, I told you, whoever has the strength
01:13:21.520
gets what they want. So that's the entire story. You don't have to be more complicated than that.
01:13:27.840
All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's everything I have on the topics of the day. Thank you for
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joining. You're all wonderful. I will see you again tomorrow, same time, same place.
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Yeah. God supports genocide. Of course you say that. No, I support understanding what the words
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total and victory mean. What happens after that? I won't say it's not my concern. It's just that
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having an opinion on it wouldn't make any difference. So I just don't bother. So no, I do not support
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Israel just reflexively, no matter what they do. Nothing like that. They have to be a good ally to
01:14:13.440
us. And that's all I care about. And I would like to spend less money and I would like them to spend
01:14:19.600
more of their money. But there are lots of variables that go with that because I think a lot of the money
01:14:26.320
that we give to Israel for military stuff is really money that they have to spend on our own military
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industrial complex. So maybe that's more of a us problem. You know, something we need to work out
01:14:40.000
on our end, whether that still makes sense for us as a country. But I only care how Israel's treating us.
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That's it. All right, I'm going to talk to the locals, people privately, the subscribers,
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and the rest of you. I'll see tomorrow. Same time, same place.