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00:01:43.080 the regular coffee and tea assumption lowers your risk of osteoporosis? Did you notice when you

00:01:50.180 accept that your osteoporosis seemed a little bit better? Yeah. Good science. Well, Elon Musk has

00:01:58.700 raised almost a billion dollars in new equity for X. And here's the fun part. That would value X at about

00:02:11.520 $32 billion. And that would be close to what he bought it for. So basically, the outrageous price

00:02:26.000 that he paid for X has already paid for itself. Do you remember when the biggest thing you could say

00:02:36.660 against Elon Musk was, well, he's not such a genius. He overpaid for X. And those of us who were a little bit

00:02:45.340 smarter said, you know, just wait, you know, I'd wait a little bit on that. So based on the amount you just raised,

00:02:54.500 which means he has plans for X, I think. I assume that's not just to retire some debt. It's probably also to make

00:03:03.420 sure he can do some new stuff. But it looks like his purchase of X was a good investment.

00:03:13.780 Of all the things in the world, it was one of the very few things his critics had to cling to.

00:03:21.860 Oh, yeah. Well, OK, maybe SpaceX is kind of cool. And yeah, Tesla was doing all right. But OK,

00:03:29.700 Starlink was good. And, you know, Neuralink seems like it's changing the world. But but but but

00:03:34.520 he definitely overpaid for X. Can't say that anymore. All right. That's fun.

00:03:46.180 Apparently, a bunch of Hollywood celebrities, according to Breitbart News, they got together

00:03:53.020 and wrote a letter to the president begging him to help with their copyright protection.

00:03:59.700 So the same people who are the biggest critics of Trump are now begging for help to protect them

00:04:07.100 from A.I. I don't think this is going to work too well. But here's what I think. So do you remember

00:04:15.880 when A.I. could first make pictures and little little very short videos, you know, like just a few

00:04:23.460 seconds? And then you thought, oh, if I can do that, I can maybe make a movie just by saying, OK,

00:04:32.740 start with that, change this, you know, add another character. But it could never do anything

00:04:38.700 that took up from where the last image ended. It would just be a brand new image. So you couldn't

00:04:44.060 do anything with continuity. But the continuity has been fixed recently, at least by a few apps.

00:04:50.220 So I'm going to guess that we're one year away from anybody being able to create a feature length

00:04:57.860 movie by just talking to the app. Now, you'd still have to be good at it. So the app isn't going to do

00:05:05.040 all the work for you. But if you were good at it, I think you could do it. And I'm pretty sure I could

00:05:12.160 feed my books, at least my one book that's fiction. I'll bet I could just feed it to the AI

00:05:19.300 and say, make a movie out of this. Now, the problem would be that the AI wouldn't want to violate my

00:05:26.660 copyright. So I'd have to somehow convince it that I had the rights to the book. So that hasn't been

00:05:32.620 solved yet. But I think we're really close to here's a book, turn it into a movie. Boom. We're very close.

00:05:42.160 Well, speaking of books, according to Wired magazine, Lily Hay Newman is writing that

00:05:49.020 now you can buy these low-cost drones from big Chinese companies like Timu and AliExpress,

00:05:56.960 that you can add add-ons to the drone to turn them into terrorist weapons. Let me say that again.

00:06:04.620 China is now selling just commercially to anybody who wants to buy it, drones that will take add-ons

00:06:14.780 that will turn them into terrorist devices. And I don't think that there's any doubt about why

00:06:23.500 they're doing this. Because I don't think these are going to be available in China. So it looks like

00:06:29.480 they're setting up the United States to be destroyed by drones. Now, one of the things that

00:06:35.640 you can add is the ability to avoid... First of all, it'll carry a payload. So if you want to carry a bomb

00:06:45.500 or some poison or something, they'll sell you that. You can just buy it off the shelf now.

00:06:51.000 I mean, through the mail, but it's off the shelf-ish. And you can even get the kind that if it gets

00:06:58.560 jammed, it can turn to visual. So as long as it knows what's supposed to be on the ground,

00:07:05.320 it can thwart the jamming. Yeah. This is really happening. Now, you might know that about 20-some

00:07:13.700 years ago, I wrote a book in which I predicted this very time. You've seen the book. It's God's

00:07:20.920 Debris. So God's Debris, the complete work, has three different books in it. But the middle one,

00:07:25.900 The Religion War, is about this exact time. So 20-some years ago, I said, you know, terrorists 1.00

00:07:33.880 are going to be able to buy a little drone. They're going to be able to weaponize it. And they're going to

00:07:39.720 be able to launch it. And you won't know where it came from. And it will be able to snake through

00:07:44.600 your city and attack anything it wants. And then we're going to be in big trouble. So that's where

00:07:50.640 that is. By the way, some of you have asked, but now this is an audio book. So you can buy God's

00:07:59.260 Debris, the complete works as an audio book. So a bunch of you are asking, when's the audio book

00:08:04.800 going to be available? It's available now. So it's not me, but I picked the reader of the book.

00:08:13.640 The reason I couldn't do it is I have too much. I'm just too dyslexic. You know, I think I'm worse

00:08:21.320 than I used to be. I tried to do the audio book myself, spend some time at the studio, but I can't

00:08:27.960 really read sentences anymore because I can't read them in the order they're written, even if I wrote

00:08:32.940 the sentence, weirdly. So I was unable to do it just from mental disability. But also, you were

00:08:40.700 asking me about the audio book for my other book. Had it failed almost everything, it still wouldn't

00:08:45.620 make. This is a second edition, not the first edition. This is the one you want. But the audio

00:08:50.660 book for that is also available. So there's that.

00:08:54.820 Well, but there's even more danger coming. Apparently, China, according to the register, 0.99

00:09:04.420 Chinese satellites are already practicing dogfighting in space, which would be

00:09:11.120 military preparation for a war in space. So it's not a theoretical. They're already practicing dogfights

00:09:21.100 in space. But here's the just sort of slipped into the story. Apparently, they already have

00:09:27.360 a refueling station in space. China does for refueling satellites. Now, I don't even know

00:09:35.040 what that means. How do you refuel a satellite? What are you refueling it with? I don't even

00:09:41.700 know what that means. But apparently some kind of refueling satellite thing. So we'll probably

00:09:47.780 be fighting in space before long. Trump is looking, according to the Hill, Trump is looking

00:09:56.340 to boost the amount of coal energy this country creates. Now, you may say to yourself, what?

00:10:04.080 Coal? That's dirty. And it's old school. And it's not as good as nuclear. And there are lots

00:10:13.000 of reasons not to use coal. However, as Trump points out, China is building a ton of coal power

00:10:22.100 plants. And if there's one thing I can teach you about economics, it's that whoever has the most

00:10:28.880 energy usually wins for economics. So if the only way you can have enough energy, and it looks like

00:10:39.200 we're going to have a massive energy squeeze with all the AI and everything else, if the only way you

00:10:44.800 can do it is with coal power, even with all the downsides, the pollution, et cetera, probably it's

00:10:53.400 worth doing. Now, here's the fun part. I think Trump picked exactly the right week to announce this,

00:11:01.860 because it's the week that the left is planning to destroy Tesla as a company. And they're going big

00:11:08.860 on trying to destroy Tesla, which proves they were never serious about climate change. So at the

00:11:16.100 same week that the left has proven that they were never serious about climate change, Trump comes out

00:11:21.900 with the most anti-climate change policy you could ever even imagine, which is, hey, let's build a whole

00:11:29.000 bunch of coal power plants. I think Trump says stuff like, you know, clean, beautiful coal. I don't know how

00:11:37.380 clean you can make a coal plant. But I do know if your options are making the atmosphere a little

00:11:46.540 dirtier and having enough energy, you're going to want that as bad as that is. I mean, you know,

00:11:54.880 I'm not trying to downplay any of the negatives. There's a lot of negatives. But the positives are,

00:12:02.840 unfortunately, in a competitive world, it's going to be necessary. So I'm very grudgingly in favor of this,

00:12:12.800 but I hate it. I hate it, but I understand it. Well, the JFK files are not completely out, but the ones

00:12:22.140 that are out, it's mostly out. But the ones people look through do not seem to have any bombshells. But let me just

00:12:28.340 give you, you know, sort of the things that people are saying about it. So according to Grock, the files so far

00:12:38.240 would be supportive of the single gunman theory. Is that what you think? Do you think that the files so far are

00:12:46.640 supportive of the single shooter? I don't know. I'm not entirely sure that's what it's telling us. I am sure that it's not

00:12:57.680 telling us anybody else did it. So it's not really suggesting somebody else did it. But it's not really supportive of the

00:13:04.500 lone gunman theory. It's more like it's not ruling it out, I guess. That would be one of the things. One of the revelations is

00:13:12.840 that, you already heard this, that one of Kennedy's main trusted advisors, Schlesinger,

00:13:20.900 he warned that the CIA was running its own foreign policy. 40% of the embassies were CIA. And the deep

00:13:29.420 state already existed. And he was telling Kennedy that he needs to dismantle it. Otherwise, basically,

00:13:35.220 you've lost your country and that the CIA would be in charge. And not long after that, Kennedy was

00:13:43.700 assassinated. We do know there's more information that the CIA had a mafia connection. The connection

00:13:52.340 seems to be related to Cuba, you know, maybe efforts to assassinate Castro. We do know that Oswald was

00:14:02.320 known to be a poor marksman, which sort of suggests he wasn't the shooter. But I think Russia, the Soviet 0.98

00:14:10.140 Union, also had been watching him and said he was a poor marksman. And I guess we said he's a poor

00:14:15.880 marksman. So everybody agreed he was a poor marksman. We know Oswald was being watched by the CIA for some

00:14:24.360 good time before the shooting. That's a little suspicious. If you want to go full conspiracy

00:14:33.020 theory, there are a bunch of references to Israeli intelligence that had been, I guess, long,

00:14:42.080 long redacted in these files, but now they're unredacted. But they don't say anything that's

00:14:47.460 interesting about Israel. So the only thing that it tells us about Israel is that the CIA and Israel

00:14:54.800 intelligence, I guess they did a lot of work together, which kind of made sense. Somebody said

00:15:00.060 that in the Middle East at that time, the Soviet Union had a lot of control over the Arab countries

00:15:06.400 and the only non-Soviet Union controlled entity was Israel. So we had a tight relationship with them

00:15:14.240 with intelligence. But there's no indication that Israel had anything to do with the assassination.

00:15:19.640 It's just referenced a bunch of times. Let's see. There's some information that there was this

00:15:27.880 telephone call the CIA intercepted when Lee Harvey Oswald was trying to talk to a KGB agent in Mexico

00:15:37.300 City. I guess Oswald was trying to get to Mexico, to get to Cuba, to get to the Soviet Union. But we

00:15:46.260 don't know how that's related to any shooting. Let's see. There's a story about this CIA agent,

00:15:53.600 Gary Underhill. So he was a CIA guy who said that he knew that the shooting was done by a small

00:16:03.340 group of CIA agents. But somebody else said that the only information about that guy

00:16:10.640 was in a communist publication. So I would put the credibility of that one guy pretty low. I don't

00:16:19.260 think that means anything. And let's see. And then that guy was allegedly found shot to death and there

00:16:27.660 was ruled a suicide. But that seems low credibility. So here's my take. Do you remember my prediction

00:16:35.780 about the JFK files? Well, what were my predictions? My prediction was there'd be nothing new.

00:16:44.820 There's a little bit new about Schlesinger saying that the CIA was out of control, but we kind of knew

00:16:51.340 that. I mean, I feel like we knew that, right? I knew it. We knew that Kennedy wanted to get rid of

00:16:59.340 the CIA. So that's not really new. So you remember that allegedly Trump said that if you saw what I saw,

00:17:10.120 you would not have released the JFK files? Is there anything in these documents that would have scared

00:17:17.600 Trump and told him not to release him? Answer? No. So do you believe that there's more documents

00:17:26.960 that maybe we've yet to see that's the good stuff? Or do you think that the good stuff was simply

00:17:33.580 removed and we're just given a bunch of not interesting stuff to just keep us diverted and

00:17:40.480 make us think we saw something? I think it's the dumbest question in the world. Because if it's true, 1.00

00:17:48.660 if it's true that there was something horrible in the files, wouldn't the most obvious thing to do

00:17:56.140 just remove those few documents and then try to sell the rest as complete? It's the most obvious thing

00:18:03.060 you would do. If you were in that situation and there was something you really wanted to cover up,

00:18:08.780 would you say, well, I'm not going to release anything? Because then you look pretty guilty.

00:18:15.320 Or would you say, here's 80,000 pages. Is anything left out? No, no, it's all in there. Totally.

00:18:24.380 Believe us. Trust us. It's all in there. And I also think, what are the odds that if it were that damning,

00:18:31.560 that it would be kept in a file? Do you believe that somebody would have taken a file

00:18:37.120 that was so damning, it would have like changed the entire nature of our understanding of America

00:18:43.520 from due to something terrible? And it would just be a document. And it would just be in a file

00:18:49.320 somewhere. That so stretches the imagination. Now, there wasn't any damning document that they

00:18:58.500 kept in a file just in case somebody wanted it. No. Anyway, Doge has discovered $4.7 trillion

00:19:08.320 that the Treasury Department didn't put any tracking codes on, meaning that there was no way to audit

00:19:16.480 or to find out after the fact where $4.7 trillion went. There was no way to find out.

00:19:26.620 Now, my bigger question is, since this seems to be the case with all the government agencies,

00:19:33.460 I think USAID, you couldn't really tell where the money was going, partly because it was going to this

00:19:38.040 vast web of NGOs. But shouldn't there have been, and didn't you kind of think that the government

00:19:48.060 was auditing itself as a routine basis? Didn't you assume that the government was keeping track of

00:19:56.860 where their trillions of dollars were going? Apparently not. So don't you think we need some

00:20:03.700 kind of, you know, the auditing department or something? Because I don't know that Doge is

00:20:10.380 going to create an auditing fix. And how in the world did we not know this until now? Just amazing.

00:20:21.700 Anyway, so Doge is at it. Meanwhile, Trump is expected to sign an executive order to abolish

00:20:30.280 the Department of Education. I feel like this is one of those Groundhog Day stories.

00:20:36.720 How many times have we been told that Trump is going to abolish the Department of Education,

00:20:41.780 and then it doesn't happen? Maybe this time it will. I'll be optimistic. But I'd be a little

00:20:49.440 cautious of this one. It just feels like we always go right to the edge. It's like, oh, yeah,

00:20:55.080 everybody's, we're going to ban this thing. Is it banned yet? No, no, any minute.

00:20:59.900 Any minute. Later. Well, how about now? No, no, not now, but later. Later, we're going to ban

00:21:07.380 this. Totally ban it. How about now? No. So we'll see. Meanwhile, designated liar Jamie Raskin, 0.99

00:21:18.540 he's one of the Democrat designated liars. And when I say designated liars, there's a small group of 0.95

00:21:25.100 Democrats who apparently are willing to say absolutely anything, you know, just any outrageous 0.67

00:21:31.060 lie. Whereas the more normal Democrats, you know, the ones you don't see on TV too much,

00:21:37.180 they would be embarrassed. Like, okay, you know, I can't say that in public. But Jamie Raskin,

00:21:43.980 nothing will stop him from any lie in public. I guess he went on MSNBC yesterday, and he claimed that

00:21:52.020 Trump fired the director of the FAA. And that's what caused the American airline collision in DC.

00:22:00.760 Can you believe they even tried to get away with that? So it turns out that the FAA director was not

00:22:07.520 even fired by Trump, but did resign, but was not fired. And there doesn't seem to be any connection

00:22:14.260 between any of that and why the American airline's collision happened. But just think about that

00:22:22.420 from a, you know, an ignorant Democrat viewer of MSNBC, because you'd have to be pretty dumb to be 1.00

00:22:29.500 watching MSNBC and think you're seeing news. So you're already filtered to be dumb. And then this 1.00

00:22:36.620 allegedly, you know, credible guy comes on and he tells you, yeah, the reason for the accident

00:22:43.000 was Trump fired the only guy who could have prevented it. It's sort of a dumb lie. But the MSNBC 0.99

00:22:52.540 audience is dumb enough to say, huh, huh, I guess Trump keeps firing people and the planes are going 0.99

00:22:59.060 to fall out of the air. Yeah, that's not happened. So speaking of lying Democrats, the Washington 1.00

00:23:09.280 Examiner has a scoop, an exclusive, that apparently the Democrats put up billboards

00:23:17.020 in some of the areas where the Republican representatives were weak, you know, the places

00:23:25.100 that they want to win and get a Democrat in there. And the billboards said that the Republicans want to

00:23:32.440 cut Medicaid and use the money to give tax breaks to Elon Musk. So they put that on six different

00:23:43.560 billboards in six different locations. And it looks like they're being threatened by the Republicans to

00:23:53.980 take that down because it's a defamation. So they've already sent a cease and desist letter. So I don't

00:24:04.320 know how that works. So correct me if I'm wrong. Politicians are allowed to lie and you can't sue them,

00:24:13.240 right? So Jamie Raskin can literally just say anything. And you can't say, oh, that's defamation

00:24:20.000 because he's an elected official. But maybe the billboard company, since the billboard company are

00:24:26.740 not elected officials, then if they say something that's patently untrue, I think they can be sued

00:24:33.700 for defamation. Now, the truth is that there is talk about the need to decrease the overall budget

00:24:41.340 in stuff like Medicaid. But they're looking at like a, you know, 10% cut that maybe we can get

00:24:49.660 entirely from fraud and abuse. And apparently there's no Republican who's ever said we're going to cut

00:24:56.320 benefits. So you could argue that if there's an idea that it needs to be cut to meet our, you know,

00:25:04.480 meet our targets for the deficit, that sort of is going to lead to that. But it does sound like the Republicans

00:25:14.380 are holding tight. They don't want to change the benefits to the actual individual user. So they

00:25:21.320 would only go after their waste, fraud, and abuse, and maybe a little, you know, overhead kind of stuff.

00:25:27.120 So we'll see if that's enough. But the Democrats have gone to just complete lying as their defense.

00:25:35.040 Do you remember when Democrats had ideas about policies? And they'd say, hey, we get a better idea.

00:25:40.820 Yeah. They don't have that. The only thing they have is they sit in a room and they come up with

00:25:47.460 creative lies. And then they figure out who's going to say them. Hey, I've got an idea. Let's just make

00:25:54.420 up some shit about Medicaid. And we'll have Jamie Raskin go out and say it. And, you know, the other 0.99

00:26:00.360 designated liars. We can get Adam Schiff to say anything. Swalwell, he'll say anything. Designated liar.

00:26:06.340 Anyway. So Dean Phillips, who's a Democrat, who, you know, remember he ran for president against Biden

00:26:18.060 because he refused to be a stupid liar, even though he was in the stupid liar party. So he tries to 1.00

00:26:28.020 position himself as the last reasonable person who's also a Democrat. He does a pretty good job.

00:26:35.020 Pretty good job. Which also means he has no chance of being elected.

00:26:39.740 He can't get elected as a Democrat because he's sort of common sense centrist. But he said that he

00:26:48.860 was appalled at how Tim Walsh was sort of laughing about the destruction of Tesla. And he said that,

00:26:58.440 you know, I really don't recognize my party. I don't recognize its principles. What I saw,

00:27:04.260 my governor and my friend, Tim Walsh, say today was appalling. And I'm just shocked that someone

00:27:10.080 who should know better read the room so poorly. And I'm going to give him a little bit of credit.

00:27:18.420 I know sometimes some of you hate it when I give any Democrat any credit. But he didn't look like he was

00:27:24.860 acting. That's a big deal. The other Democrats, they look like they know they're lying.

00:27:32.200 And they look like they know they're acting. He's either the best actor I've ever seen,

00:27:39.480 and I don't think that's the case, or he really meant that. He really meant that he was appalled

00:27:44.260 by his own party. I think he meant it. And I don't know. I think he's too reasonable to really make it

00:27:55.180 to the top of the party. You need to be a little bit crazy, I think, to get even nominated to run

00:28:01.700 for president. Well, there's some gigantic study about the safety or lack of it for the COVID-19

00:28:10.100 shots. And there's some appalling outcomes. So here's some of the things they found

00:28:19.460 that these shots would cause. Just assume that there are gigantic percentages of increase that

00:28:26.720 are in the three-digit category. So 610% increased risk of myocarditis following the mRNA injection.

00:28:35.920 378% more chance of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis.

00:28:47.300 323% increased risk of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. 249% extra risk of Gillian-Barr.

00:28:57.900 Is that how you say it? Gillian-Barr syndrome. Now, is that what...

00:29:01.420 Who's the singer? The young male singer whose face had a little problem. Didn't he have that

00:29:10.740 Gillian-Barr thing after a shot? So that's pretty awful. I did check with Grok to see if there was

00:29:19.340 anything in terms of cancer. But so far, the shots are not confirmed, not confirmed, to have any impact

00:29:28.880 on cancer rates. But I don't know that that's been studied as much as it could be. But no indication

00:29:35.120 of extra cancer. But these other things are pretty awful. Secretary Marco Rubio says that DEI is gone

00:29:44.880 forever, but he means in the State Department. And he said, this divisive and discriminatory practice

00:29:52.200 has no place in our country or our diplomacy. So good for you, Secretary Marco Rubio. Get rid of DEI.

00:29:59.840 I like that. So I posted on X, and I think I need to explain it a little bit. I said that it feels like

00:30:10.760 this week is the end of the Democrat Party as a political force that can win elections. Now,

00:30:16.920 what I mean is national. So obviously, the Democrats will still be dominant in a lot of cities and a lot

00:30:23.960 of states. But I feel like they've so destroyed their reputation at this point that I don't know

00:30:32.140 how they can recover. It could be the end of them as a national party. And if you look at sort of

00:30:39.860 what's happening at the moment, the Tesla stuff, I don't think they've calculated that this just

00:30:47.180 completely took away their biggest issue. One of the few things that Democrats had left to tell

00:30:54.920 other Democrats that they should vote for Democrats is that the Republicans didn't take climate change

00:31:02.720 seriously. But Democrats did. And now we see with the Tesla protests, they never meant that. That was

00:31:11.860 all fake. So the biggest thing they had left has been debunked. Now, I'm not saying I know what is the

00:31:20.620 answer of climate change. I'm just saying that as a political point, it's completely dead. It's dead as

00:31:27.460 it could be. Nobody's going to complain about Trump's coal plants this week because it just makes

00:31:34.000 you look like an idiot. Because if you're still in favor of the Tesla protests, you can't really say 1.00

00:31:40.900 you're all in on climate change. All right. Nobody's going to believe that. So that just sort of went

00:31:47.560 away. Remember when abortion was the biggest question in national politics? Well, one of the smartest

00:31:54.940 things the Republicans did is they knew that they would take a hit by moving it to the states,

00:32:01.320 but it got there. So now that time has passed, that's very much a state issue. And there's

00:32:09.820 Justin Bieber. Yes. He's the one who got his face at a little droopiness for a while. I think it wasn't

00:32:16.220 permanent, right? So they lost abortion as an issue. They lost climate change as an issue.

00:32:23.160 They certainly lost border as an issue because the border policy is very clearly in favor of

00:32:30.080 Trump. They might lose inflation as an issue because eggs are down and gas is down. And

00:32:37.720 Trump's going to meet with the big oil companies today, I think. And he's going to... Oh, is it Bell's

00:32:44.380 Palsy? Is that what Justin Bieber had? Okay. I guess I'm not up to my pop star health issues. But in the

00:32:53.500 comments, I'm seeing people say Bell's Palsy. I think that the Doge stuff that is now currently the

00:33:04.780 Democrats' biggest thing, the only thing they really have is the scalpel versus the chainsaw.

00:33:11.060 And if Doge works, which we will know for sure, and let's say by the third year of Trump's presidency,

00:33:19.860 if it works, nobody's going to remember the scalpel versus the chainsaw. It just has to work. If you

00:33:27.140 can make it work, everybody's going to say it worked. And that's how history will record it. They won't

00:33:33.140 remember the little talking point. Oh, the scalpel, not the hatchet. Oh, the scalpel, not the chainsaw.

00:33:40.020 It'll just completely go away. What about ending the war in Ukraine? I think we're not that close

00:33:48.020 to getting that to end. But I think it'll be done before Trump is done with his term. So that looks

00:33:57.300 like it might go away. So there's a whole lot of things that gave you a reason. Oh, what about DEI?

00:34:04.980 So DEI is being just crushed by the Republicans, as Marco Rubio said. Where's all the pushback?

00:34:16.180 Where are the protests in the street to say, yes, we want more DEI? Apparently, that was never very

00:34:25.140 important to Democrats. It was important to the people who were grifting off it. It was important

00:34:31.220 as a talking point. But apparently, it wasn't very important. And that people, pretty much everybody

00:34:38.580 understands that you'd rather have capability and skill rather than identity. So that went away.

00:34:46.260 Okay. So what do they have left? They're going to fight against common sense? That's all they have

00:34:54.180 left, the fight against common sense. How can that possibly work except locally and maybe at the state

00:35:01.460 level? So we'll see. I can be very wrong on that. Here's the alternate argument. The alternate argument

00:35:08.980 is that it's always a pendulum. It doesn't matter what one is doing. You could just say, all right,

00:35:14.820 who's winning this 10 years? Okay. 10 years from now, the other ones will be winning. And after that,

00:35:21.220 we'll go back to the other one winning. And I think there's something to that because each side adjusts

00:35:26.420 and they come up with new lies and new plans.

00:35:30.980 Anyway, so this was a week we learned that Democrats were never serious about climate change.

00:35:34.980 Do you remember there was the undercover video? And I wish I could remember if it was OMG or

00:35:44.820 O'Keeffe's old group. I can't remember which got that video. I'm going to say OMG because I like,

00:35:50.420 I like O'Keeffe. So I'll just say it was his. Where it showed the CNN producer saying, oh yeah,

00:35:57.780 the next big thing we're going to be hitting on is climate change. And once you see that they're

00:36:03.700 treating it as content and they're trying to frame how people think about it, it's hard to say that

00:36:13.060 you can take seriously that they care about it. I mean, they talked about it as a thing to put on

00:36:18.580 the news. They didn't really talk about it as, we're going to have to save the world by telling

00:36:23.300 everybody that climate change is bad. And by the way, I just saw Greta Thunberg's name go by in the

00:36:30.340 comments. And one of my comments was, don't you think if climate change were real, that Greta Thunberg

00:36:38.100 would have already come out and said, guys, guys, take this seriously. Tesla's not your enemy.

00:36:46.340 You know, I get how you're mad. You know, I get it. I get it. But don't, don't destroy the climate

00:36:54.020 because you're mad at one individual for one reason that has nothing to do with Tesla.

00:37:00.340 So the fact that Greta Thunberg is quiet and all the other grifters seem to be quiet,

00:37:07.540 that tells you a lot. I saw a clip of Jimmy Dore, you know, I guess, podcast comedian, Jimmy Dore.

00:37:15.620 He says he's now doubting climate science because of his COVID experience, you know,

00:37:21.860 learning that the government will lie about literally anything and maybe everything.

00:37:28.020 So he was talking to Matt Taibbi. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but both Matt Taibbi and Jimmy Dore

00:37:36.340 either were or are registered Democrats, right? But both of them got a little red-pilled just by,

00:37:45.620 you know, recent events. But it's funny to see Jimmy Dore. He's like the canary in the coal mine,

00:37:52.100 you know, since he would be one of the ones who would go first because he's already got a foot in

00:37:57.620 each world. But yeah, Dore was even saying that you can't really believe anybody about anything

00:38:04.820 anymore. And, you know, he talked about all the projections that are not coming true, the coral

00:38:10.020 reefs and all that. But here's the argument, the worst argument. And I want to convince you all not

00:38:16.580 to make this argument. The argument goes, if this were real, Obama never would have bought beachfront

00:38:24.740 property. That's a terrible argument. Do you want to know why? Because rich people don't give a flying

00:38:33.300 fig about maybe I'll lose one of my many houses. Once you reach a certain level of wealth, you can

00:38:42.740 kind of put your beach house there and say, well, if in 20 years the water starts rising, I could either

00:38:49.940 sell it or by then I'm dead or, you know, I've got five other houses or I'll move it up the beach.

00:38:57.300 They don't make decisions like regular people. If they were regular people and they had most of

00:39:03.220 their net wealth in their house and then they put it on the beach, well, that would be a pretty good

00:39:08.420 point. But when you talk about rich people, no, none of those rules apply. They just want to live by

00:39:14.340 the beach. That's the whole story. So stop saying that they don't believe in climate change because

00:39:20.660 they have a beach house. Those two things just don't connect for rich people.

00:39:27.780 Well, Owen Schroyer, who was, I think he's still part of Infowars, right? But he got swatted recently

00:39:38.020 and he had an update today. He said that one of the big problems with chasing after the swatters

00:39:45.380 is that if you're in an area with a Soros DA, the Soros DA will just kill it. So the Soros DA will have

00:39:54.340 no interest whatsoever in going after a swatter of a conservative. Just think about that. Now,

00:40:01.780 I'll bet this is real. Yeah, I think he heard it from good sources, but that is so awful. He also said

00:40:12.900 that, you know, there have been pizzas that have been ordered in somebody's name that seemed somehow

00:40:20.100 associated with the swatting. Well, the pizzas that were ordered in his name were from the same location

00:40:26.820 that his coworker at Infowars was murdered recently. And it's not even the closest pizza place to him.

00:40:36.580 So somebody intentionally picked the location that was where his coworker got murdered recently and

00:40:46.340 that's sending a message. That's clearly sending a message. So what Owen says is that he's begging

00:40:58.580 people to keep it in the news and make as much noise as possible. Don't forget it because if the

00:41:03.700 public doesn't push it, the Soros DAs can just ignore it. But if there's enough public pressure,

00:41:12.340 then maybe something can get done. On the good news, the administration's taking it very seriously.

00:41:18.500 So Brendan Carr, the head of the FCC, he just said recently that the surge in swatting attacks is

00:41:28.820 dangerous form of political violence. He says, I've been in touch with law enforcement to ensure that

00:41:33.620 they have access to the trace back resources that locate a call's originating point. And bad actors

00:41:41.380 will face accountability, he says. Now, I have a technical question. Maybe some of you know the answer.

00:41:48.820 Does the government have the ability to trace back the source in every case,

00:41:55.620 no matter what technology is being used by the swatters? If it's a burner phone, 0.81

00:42:04.740 can they at least find out where it was transmitting from? I mean, that won't tell you necessarily

00:42:11.780 the identity of the person, but it might. I mean, it might be the burner phone was in an apartment.

00:42:18.980 Yeah. You don't know if they're smart enough to take the burner phone to

00:42:22.500 someplace public to use it. So I'd love to know if the bad actors have found a way to avoid this traceback.

00:42:31.140 My guess is that you can trace a burner phone, but not the identity of the owner. So we'll see. But we also

00:42:44.020 have strong statements by Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Kristi Noem that they're taking this very seriously,

00:42:51.460 and they're going to catch these people and they're going to take them to justice. So we'll see. Well, over in

00:42:58.420 Egypt, probably most of you saw this story, there's a claim that scientists using this powerful ground

00:43:06.900 penetrating radar have discovered that beneath the pyramids in Egypt, or at least one in particular,

00:43:14.900 there are structures that are maybe twice the height of the tallest building on earth

00:43:20.180 under the Kafri pyramid in the Giza complex. Now, I think they're assuming that maybe other pyramids

00:43:29.620 have structures too, but they allegedly have figured out that there's this enormous complicated structure

00:43:37.940 and that the pyramid would just be the top of it. And if you were to dig down two gigantic

00:43:44.180 buildings worth, you would see this big structure in there. So how many of you believe that's true?

00:43:54.900 I want to see in the comments, how many of you think that's true?

00:44:00.100 I'm going to remind you of one of my more famous and effective BS filters. This is what I call the

00:44:08.740 Scott Alexander filter. So it's not named after me. It's named after a guy named Scott Alexander,

00:44:15.060 which also was not his real name, by the way, it was a pseudonym. And he, he once wrote an article

00:44:21.460 that was just changed me forever. It just changed me forever. And here's the rule. If you ever read a

00:44:28.740 story in the news, and it doesn't have to be about Egyptian pyramids. If you ever read the story in the

00:44:34.580 news where your first reaction is, Oh my God, I can't believe that's true. It's not true. Let me say

00:44:43.940 it again. This is a very reliable indicator. If your first impression is Holy cow. I can't believe that's

00:44:53.780 true. It's almost always not true. What was your first impression when you found out that under the

00:45:04.100 pyramids that somebody, well, that first of all, somebody had ground penetrating radar that could

00:45:09.780 look two gigantic skyscrapers into the ground. Well, if that technology really exists, holy cow,

00:45:20.260 I can't believe it. I guess we'll be spotting all those tunnels on the borders that the cartel has been

00:45:26.740 using, right? I guess Israel will be really happy about this new technology because the Hamas will never 0.99

00:45:33.460 be able to build a tunnel that they can't detect. I mean, wow, they can look that deep under the ground.

00:45:41.540 I don't think so. So I'm going to go on record as saying that I think the Scott Alexander rule

00:45:49.540 fits this one really well. If I had to make a bet, I'd say 50 to one, it's not real. 50 to one. I don't

00:45:59.620 think it's even close to real. And you know, they've got pictures and images and no, no, not,

00:46:07.700 not even close. I also don't believe that the Egyptians, the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids

00:46:15.620 and then forgot how to do it. Do you believe that all over the planet in different continents at around

00:46:22.740 the same time people had independently, without being able to travel, you know, there wasn't that

00:46:28.820 much travel, um, that they independently figured out how to move gigantic rocks in ways that even in

00:46:36.500 the modern world, we wouldn't be able to move. Do you believe that all over the world they learned it?

00:46:42.660 And then even better, every one of those, um, independent societies that learned how to make

00:46:49.140 pyramids with gigantic boulders and the pyramids are all over the world. They're just different kinds,

00:46:54.660 but they'll have gigantic rocks that we don't know how they moved. Do you think they all forgot?

00:47:02.180 They all forgot. Like nobody wrote it down. Nobody made a hieroglyph to, you know, show it being done.

00:47:09.940 It didn't get passed down or they just got tired of doing it. You know, so after hundreds of years or

00:47:15.620 whatever it was of building pyramids, they just said, you know, now we're done with pyramids.

00:47:22.020 Does that sound even a little bit likely? I'm going to say that the evidence is strongly suggestive

00:47:32.340 of, uh, some culture that came before that was teaching all of them how to move big rocks. So I'm

00:47:40.740 sure that there was somebody who did have the ability to go from one continent to the other,

00:47:45.620 did have the technology to move these big rocks because somebody did. And it wasn't just

00:47:50.980 whipping the slaves harder. You know, we know that all the ways we can think of wouldn't work

00:47:56.180 for the largest ones. Some of the smaller rocks you could imagine, you know, was just

00:48:01.060 sliding it on sand or something like that. But the biggest ones, no, there's no way that no way that

00:48:07.300 the existing population made any of that stuff. Um, so I don't believe any of the Egyptology stuff.

00:48:15.700 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners, I started wondering,

00:48:21.220 is every fabulous item I see from winners? Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

00:48:26.980 Are those from winners? Ooh, are those beautiful gold earrings? Did she pay full price? Or that

00:48:32.580 leather tote? Or that cashmere sweater? Or those knee-high boots? That dress? That jacket? Those

00:48:37.700 shoes? Is anyone paying full price for anything? Stop wondering. Start winning. Winners find fabulous for less.

00:48:45.620 Well, there's an update on the, uh, the LA fires, the Palisades fires. Um, heard from, uh, Joel Pollack,

00:48:56.020 he was posting about this on X, that, uh, he had insurance with, or does have insurance with State Farm.

00:49:03.140 And, uh, he says, uh, State Farm may be the worst insurer in the history of the industry. I just received

00:49:09.860 their laughable estimate for repairs to my home and the contents after the Palisades fire.

00:49:16.420 He says, it is charitably one-tenth of the actual cost. Um, and, uh, and he says that, uh,

00:49:26.660 I guess this is who's in charge of the insurance industry should shut it down, but he's too busy in

00:49:32.100 Bermuda. Now, are other people having the same experience? Because I'll bet they are. Can you imagine

00:49:40.180 having insurance, having a fully paid up insurance? And then when you have the disaster, they're only

00:49:47.860 willing to give you about 10% of what it would cost to fix your house? Yeah. His house survived,

00:49:52.900 but it needs, you know, substantial work to make it livable. 10%. So State Farm has some explaining to do.

00:50:03.380 And I feel like somebody in the government needs to drag their asses into a room and say, 0.96

00:50:08.980 all right, you know, what's going on here? Um, so this is completely unacceptable. So State Farm, you need to, 0.98

00:50:19.700 you need to fix that. You need to fix that. I guess Trump had a call with Zelensky, um, yesterday,

00:50:29.220 and it was a fantastic conversation. Fantastic. And one of the ideas was that instead of doing a mineral

00:50:36.740 deal, so I guess the U S has moved away from, we'll take your minerals and as payment to we'll run your

00:50:44.340 nuclear power plants because we have expertise. I don't know how much expertise we have, but

00:50:50.500 sounds like a good idea. And I think the idea would be similar to the mineral deal in the sense that it

00:50:57.540 would give the U S a, uh, important presence and some of the more important assets, nuclear power.

00:51:04.260 Um, so that might be a disincentive for Russia to attack if they knew that America was running the

00:51:12.340 power plants. I don't know if that's enough of a reason for Russia not to attack. I don't know. Um, 0.78

00:51:22.420 meanwhile, the U S announced the sanctions on Iran. So I always think how many sanctions could there be

00:51:30.100 left? Like do we have infinite sanctions and you could just do more of them all the time. So some

00:51:37.460 of them are about, uh, targeting Iran's oil minister and it's shadow fleet of tankers. So I guess the

00:51:44.420 shadow fleet would be, uh, ships that Iran has control of, but they're not, not branded as Iranian

00:51:51.700 ships so they can sneak by the sanctions. So somehow I guess we can figure out what the shadow fleet is

00:51:58.100 and I don't know how we're going to stop them unless militarily, but, uh, maybe if they're,

00:52:05.380 maybe if they're registered to some private company, we can sanction that private company. I don't know.

00:52:10.980 Um, but we'll see if that makes any difference.

00:52:13.780 Uh, in other news, a federal judge has ruled against, uh, the Trump administration,

00:52:20.580 dismantling the USA ID. Um, and the question is whether Elon Musk in his advisory capacity exceeded

00:52:29.780 his authority to which I say, was there really some point where Elon Musk was making that kind of

00:52:37.220 decision without checking it with the boss? Couldn't Trump do that if he wanted? Wouldn't,

00:52:44.020 wouldn't Trump be able to cut the budget on USA ID? Because if Trump could cut the budget,

00:52:51.380 and Musk was talking to him every day about, you know, what, what the big stuff is, he was

00:52:57.780 definitely talking to him about USA ID, right? So at what point, if you're in continuous conversation

00:53:09.700 with the boss, can you really say that it wasn't the boss who authorized it? It's not, it's not like he had

00:53:16.500 a conversation with Trump and Trump said, well, whatever you do, don't cut USA ID. And then Elon

00:53:22.820 Musk went and cut it. That didn't happen. Now, no matter what those conversations look like,

00:53:30.020 they were clearly on the same side. So I don't know how the courts can stop that, but we'll see.

00:53:38.660 We'll see. Meanwhile, Kash Patel, you've heard this story before. It says he's going to shield

00:53:45.300 his staff at the FBI from any retribution from Trump. So the retribution would be if there were any FBI

00:53:54.340 agents who were involved in any of that lawfare against Trump or any of the dirty tricks against

00:54:00.260 Trump. But I kind of like this. You know, I like that Kash Patel is willing to publicly say, you know,

00:54:09.540 this is a line we're not going to cross. And he's the one who will decide if somebody has done something

00:54:15.780 worthy of firing. So I kind of like a little bit of pushback, a little bit. That makes sense to me.

00:54:23.140 So that would be more, I would put this in the scalpel, not the chainsaw category. So if he wants to

00:54:30.980 shield some of them because he thinks they're more valuable than the power of your retribution,

00:54:39.380 I'm okay with that. Well, according to Mario Knopfel, he's talking about there's a new UK defense

00:54:49.060 intelligence report, estimating that Russia has suffered around 900,000 casualties in the Ukraine

00:54:56.500 war so far, and up to a quarter million soldiers killed. And that's the highest Russian losses since

00:55:03.300 World War II. But I guess Putin quite cleverly is doing most of his recruiting, not from Moscow.

00:55:11.780 So if you lived in, you know, the populist, the more populated parts of Russia, more metropolitan areas,

00:55:19.860 you might not be feeling the war because they're not running out of money in Moscow. And that's not

00:55:26.900 where most of the recruits are coming from. So they're getting the recruits from, you know, minorities

00:55:32.740 and places that are further away. But my question is, how do you kill them and wound that many people 0.98

00:55:41.620 without eventually everybody in the country saying, what did we get out of this? What was the point of 0.96

00:55:48.660 that? You know what, if you were wounded, if you were a Russian citizen and you were wounded in that, 0.57

00:55:55.780 what exactly were you fighting for? It's not like Ukraine was going to attack you.

00:56:01.220 So wouldn't you feel like that was sort of your Vietnam? You know, there wasn't any strong reason

00:56:06.580 to do it. And there certainly wasn't a strong reason to lose a quarter million people.

00:56:11.780 So we'll see. I think maybe Putin has enough control over the media and the country that he can just,

00:56:19.220 you know, come up with a frame that, you know, can keep him in power. But in the US, that'd be a bit of a problem.

00:56:30.340 All right. So what else is going on? So in The Hill, the publication, The Hill,

00:56:36.100 there's a opinion piece on Ukraine from Alan Cooperman. Now, what makes David Sachs was

00:56:42.900 pointing this out at X. What makes this unusual is that it starts out with, quote,

00:56:48.500 I rarely agree with President Trump. So this is not a Trump supporter. But he's going to go on to say that

00:56:55.700 Trump was right about Ukraine. So I want to read just some of the opinion of somebody who

00:57:02.020 apparently is a Democrat who's not bad shit crazy, who's just saying, okay, I don't agree with Trump. 0.96

00:57:09.060 But he did get this spot on. So here's what he said. And by the way, you don't have to agree with 0.97

00:57:15.620 this. It's just interesting what his argument is. He said that about Trump that his latest

00:57:23.620 controversial statements about Ukraine are mostly true. They only seem preposterous because Western 0.97

00:57:29.940 audiences have been fed a steady diet of disinformation about Ukraine for more than a decade.

00:57:36.980 So he goes on, Alan Cooperman does. He said it was Ukraine's right wing militants who started the

00:57:42.820 violence in 2014 that provoked Russia's initial invasion of the country's Southeast, including

00:57:48.260 Crimea. Now, here's where I'm going to say, hmm, maybe. But it's also possible, the Boris Johnson

00:57:58.900 hypothesis, that Putin had long signaled he was going to take Ukraine. It's in writing. He didn't

00:58:06.740 say I'll take it militarily in writing, but it was well signaled far in advance. And then maybe Putin

00:58:13.860 was using whatever excuse was available as the justification. So I'm not sure I agree with him,

00:58:21.060 but he's agreeing with Trump and that's the news. And he says, second, Zelensky contributed to a wider

00:58:28.500 war by violating peace deals with Russia, the Minsk one and Minsk two, and seeking NATO military aid and

00:58:36.500 membership. Now, I do think there was some violating of the agreements, but I'd be surprised if there

00:58:43.060 wasn't a little violating in both directions. And third, Joe Biden also contributed crucially to the

00:58:52.740 escalation and perpetuation of the fighting. And Biden raised false hopes that somehow Ukraine could

00:59:00.500 win if you just gave it enough support. And nothing's really changed since then. You know,

00:59:07.140 basically the borders have changed about 1% in a few years. And he says, even more tragic,

00:59:15.540 whatever peace deals emerge after the world will be worse for Ukraine than the Minsk Accords.

00:59:21.380 Now, you could put this in the category of whether or not this interpretation of things is correct.

00:59:27.300 And I do think the Boris Johnson interpretation that Putin was going to do it and he just needed

00:59:33.300 whatever excuse worked. And then there were a few excuses that were given him and made it easy.

00:59:40.020 So at least easy to make the decision, not easy to do. So my earlier point was, what do the Democrats have?

00:59:48.900 If Trump is right about everything in Ukraine and Biden was really the problem and Biden destroyed Ukraine,

00:59:58.900 it's really going to be tough for another Democrat to say, but trust me, I'm not going to make that Biden

01:00:04.340 mistake. Yeah. Meanwhile, over at the University of Glasgow, they did a study in Scotland and apparently

01:00:13.700 they found that four out of five men who were in prison in Scotland have a history of head injury.

01:00:22.180 Four out of five. Now, do you believe that? Now, a lot of people ask, but what does the normal male have?

01:00:32.500 It's not unusual for a normal male to have a head injury. Anybody who played a sport, anybody who rode a

01:00:39.940 bicycle? You know, head injuries are really common for men, boys especially. So I don't know if that's

01:00:48.260 way in a line or it could be that the, you know, the same people who would not worry about a crime,

01:00:55.300 don't worry about doing something dangerous that could hurt your head. So it could be just that it shows

01:01:00.980 that there's a certain group of people who are not afraid of stuff. Maybe they should be more afraid, but

01:01:05.700 but aren't. So I'm not sure if it's exactly telling us what we think, but I will tell you

01:01:11.460 my stepson, who is now deceased, he had a serious head injury on a bicycle. Now he was wearing a helmet,

01:01:22.180 so it was a very freak situation that the helmet didn't protect him. But he had a very serious head

01:01:28.420 injury and his personality completely changed. So he went from the most cautious boy you've ever met,

01:01:37.220 just super cautious about sports, about anything, to having no fear about anything. And that no fear

01:01:46.100 about anything is eventually what killed him because he wasn't afraid of taking dangerous drugs. And so he

01:01:52.900 overdosed. And he knew it because I talked to him not long before it happened and said, all right,

01:01:58.980 you do understand that this stuff here, you know, these pills likely have fentanyl in them. And he

01:02:05.540 would tell me, yes, we all know that these have fentanyl in them and that they could kill you. But he

01:02:12.820 wasn't afraid of anything. And so I've seen it in my real life that somebody's personality goes from

01:02:22.020 cautious in a way that keeps you alive to willing to take risks that I've never even seen before. I

01:02:30.260 mean, just hard to believe risks. So I'm willing to believe that this head injury thing has some

01:02:37.700 validity. I don't know. Based on anecdote. One anecdote. All right. Ladies and gentlemen,

01:02:46.900 that's all I have for you today. That's my show for today. Thanks for joining. I'm going to

01:02:51.700 say some private stuff to the local subscribers. But the rest of you, I'll see you next time.

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