Episode 2797 CWSA 04⧸02⧸25
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1 hour and 24 minutes
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134.45091
Summary
The death of actor Val Kilmer, a conspiracy theory about smart kids getting less college, and why Elon Musk might be a little bit toxic to the midterms. Plus, a Wisconsin Supreme Court election that didn t go the way most Republicans wanted it to go.
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Well, you've probably heard by now, actor Val Kilmer has tragically died at age 65 from
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I don't have anything to say about that, but when people who are younger than me die, it
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According to Futurism, Maggie Harrison Dupre's writing, that after a single concussion, kids
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After one concussion, kids are 15% less likely to go to college.
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Do you know what else could be behind that number?
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Could it be that smart kids get fewer head injuries?
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If I showed you a bunch of mathletes, and they were standing next to a bunch of athletes,
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the athletes probably are going to break their heads a little bit more often.
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And the mathletes are probably going to be joining the band and maybe working on the, I don't know,
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I hate to be all stereotypical, but I'm pretty sure that intelligence is highly correlated with
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Do you think that people of all intelligence levels are equally likely to wear a helmet?
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My experience is the dumber you are, the less likely you'll wear a helmet when you're riding
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Well, the Wisconsin Supreme Court elections didn't go the way a lot of Republicans wanted
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So the Democrat Crawford won, which means that there will be likely some reapportionment,
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which means Wisconsin will subtract some Republicans and add some Democrats to the House, which means
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the Republicans could lose the majority in the House.
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Now, I don't know how close it is to guaranteeing that that will happen.
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How close are we to guaranteeing that we lose the majority or Republicans lose?
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Is it just very likely or is it guaranteed now?
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According to The Hill, they say that Elon Musk might be toxic to elections.
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Charlie Kirk says that the low-propensity voters, a lot of low-propensity voters voted for Trump.
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But if Trump's not on the ticket, are they really going to show up for a local election?
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I think a lot of it is that the Democrats had nothing else going for them.
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So they had this one thing, that if they could find this clever way to sort of beat the system,
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that they wouldn't have to act like they live in a democratic society.
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They'd rather live in a lawfare-driven kleptocracy or something.
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So they found this little weaselly way to win if they could put all their energy into it.
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But they didn't have anything else to put energy into.
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But they sure liked this idea of reapportioning so they have power.
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So some of it has to do with the fact that nothing else was happening.
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And so they could put all of their hopes and dreams and energy into this one little weaselly thing.
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And I'll tell you, Democrats love weaselly shit.
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But do you think Elon Musk is toxic to elections and that that might lead to the midterms?
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Do you think the midterms will go poorly because of Elon?
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The interesting part is that he'll be done with his role.
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So he'll be done, I don't know, for the summer or something.
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And he thinks he can get his trillion dollars of savings before he's done.
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Now, if he does that, if he succeeds and, you know, the major news sources agree that, okay, he did find a trillion dollars, didn't think he could do it, will that still make him toxic?
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But it seems like after he's no longer working on the government, isn't it going to be harder to say it's his fault?
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Because the actual cuts are going to be made by, you know, cabinet heads and group leaders who are in the government.
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So are you really going to blame Doge or Musk if they get a trillion dollars and every one of the cuts, every one of them at this point, would be approved by people who, you know, are at least...
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Most of them, I think, had to be at least approved by Congress before they can get in their job.
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I don't know, it could feel completely different in six months, just the fact that you don't see his face associated with it all the time.
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And the main thing is, when it comes to Democrats, I saw a Dr. Insensitive Jerk on X saying that you won't understand Democrats until you understand that they're thieves.
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And they like letting people out of prison and they like, you know, prisoners having freedom because they relate to the thieves.
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But it does seem a little bit like when you show them a...
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It seems to me that Democrats are about transferring wealth from people who made it.
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So you got one party that creates wealth, and that's their main thing, and one party that wants to just take it away from them.
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Well, today's Liberation Day, April 2nd, and President Trump will be announcing at 4 p.m., I think, in East Coast time.
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From the Rose Garden, he'll tell you what exactly the tariffs are going to look like.
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Will they be done with a scalpel or a jackhammer?
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The press is going to say they hate it because, you know, what else they have to do except say they hate everything he does.
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The stock market's going to react to the uncertainty.
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Now, Israel, quite cleverly, got out in front of it and dropped all their duties and tariffs on American goods,
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to which a lot of us said, wait a minute, they had tariffs on American goods?
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They weren't very high, and it wasn't much of it.
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So, they didn't give up much by giving up their tariffs.
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But it's so smart to do it before the tariffs kick in.
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Like, given that there wasn't much money involved and Israel's very free market oriented,
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it was just a clever move to get out of it and, you know, be one of the first, let's call it a victory for Trump.
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Because, sure enough, he threatens, and Israel just says, okay, we'll drop ours.
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So, that's how the negotiation is supposed to work.
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Did India drop their tariffs in anticipation of the U.S. tariffs?
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You know, the funny part is, people are still treating it like it's intended to be permanent.
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And it doesn't matter how many times it's explained.
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The end goal is that we don't have tariffs, they don't have tariffs.
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Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.
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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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The insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.
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Everything was taken care of under one roof, and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.
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I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.
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Unusual whales on X, that's an account on X, said that tariffs would add as much as $10,000 to the cost of the average new home.
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That the costs of tariffs, the extra cost, would add $10,000 to the price of building the average new home.
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What's the first thing I teach you when they show you a number without a percentage?
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What does it mean when the news gives you a number without the percentage?
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Because you don't know how much the average house costs to build, do you?
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So, this is propaganda or just really lazy, lazy work.
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Because I had to go to AI and say, what's the cost of the average house?
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And somewhere in the $300,000 range would be the average cost of a new house.
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So, $10,000 added to that would be about 3% extra.
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Now, would it be fair to say that, now that we know the number and the percentage, would it be fair to say that the tariffs will add 3%?
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No, no, no, because the point of the tariffs is not to leave them in place.
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So, what we don't know is where it all shakes out.
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But what we do know for sure is that nobody, including the administration, plans for them to be permanent.
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So, everything about that estimate is misleading.
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Or even ever, it's possible, it will never even touch us.
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If I told you that the cost of a new house was $300,000, blah, blah, blah.
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Versus the first time I ever talked to you about it, I told you it was 3% higher.
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It wouldn't make any difference to your decision, would it?
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According to Mario Knopfel, and he's quoting somebody named Alec Stapp.
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So, I guess Mario thinks this is a real number.
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But the stat is that the U.S. is now producing 50% more oil than Saudi Arabia.
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Does it sound right that the U.S. makes 50% or is producing 50% more oil than Saudi Arabia?
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I think I'm going to need a fact check on that one, too.
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So, I guess Saudi's share of the world oil has declined steadily.
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And anyway, so that would, the U.S. is leading the world, accounting for 16% of the total global
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output, whereas Saudi is 11% and Russia is 12%.
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Now, if this is true, and it's newish, I also don't know how newish it is, but if we suddenly
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have created a surge in oil production, wouldn't that tell you that that would make a bigger
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difference to lowering prices than the tariffs might have to increasing prices?
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Well, as you know, Senator Cory Booker, he broke the record for talking nonstop in Congress
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But they're calling it a talk-a-thon, not a filibuster, because it's not a filibuster because
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he wasn't trying to stop any particular legislation.
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I've been watching this news for like two days, and it's a headline story.
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I don't even think the news told us why he did it.
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I feel like he just needed some attention, and so he just put on a play.
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How about I put on a play, and I'll pretend to be the very tired senator who cares a lot
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Somebody said it had something to do with immigration.
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But what exactly is he disagreeing about immigration?
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So, the ridiculousness of it, the complete weakness of it, can only be beaten by the fact that
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apparently his really good friend, who works for him sometimes, was led into the building
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around the security check, and then later he told people he had a gun.
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And he was immediately arrested because no guns are allowed in the Senate.
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But it's a little unclear whether Senator Booker is the one who escorted him in, because it
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seems like Booker was probably just at the podium most of the time, or somebody else did.
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But I think it was reported as a member of Congress led him in, and led him around the screening.
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Why does anybody get to go around the screening?
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If you're the security person, and a member of Congress says, oh, this is somebody I know really well,
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we're going to let him go around the screening, I would say to you, isn't that the most dangerous
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person who came to the building, the one who has a, you know, somebody who is going to take him
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around the screening? Why would you ever let anybody do that?
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So, first of all, I'd probably fire the security people for allowing a member of Congress to take
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anybody around the screening, especially when you find out later they have a gun.
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Now, apparently there was nothing dangerous about it, but, I mean, he wasn't threatening
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anybody or anything like that. But that's just crazy. Now, do you think that's bigger, or is
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that a worse problem than Mike Waltz? Fat fingering, probably. We don't know the exact story. But
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however, he invited Jeffrey Goldberg accidentally, and then he saw some plans for the attack, which
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they don't call plans for the attack. I don't know. I think these are both nothings. You know,
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they both led to nothing. Nobody got hurt. You know, could have been a problem, but wasn't.
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So, I'm going to treat this, you know, the friend who brought a gun in, I'm going to treat this the
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same as the Mike Waltz thing. I don't really think, you know, even if Booker is the one who
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took him around the security, we don't know that. But even if he is, I don't think Booker should be,
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you know, resigning. I don't think Mike Waltz should be resigning. These are just tiny little,
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you know, human problems. They were dumb. You know, I'm not defending any of it,
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but not the biggest problem in the world. Well, meanwhile, CNN and Harry Yen has some new numbers
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that are bad for Democrats. So, according to a new poll, Quinnipiac, Democrats' opinion of their own,
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well, actually the entire voters' opinion of Democrats in Congress is a 21% approval.
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Now, this is Democrats in Congress, so it's not about the party of Democrats, just the ones
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that are elected in Congress. And only 40% of Democrats approve of their own bunch of Congress
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people. It's the lowest approval on record for Quinnipiac. So, even though the Democrats had a
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so they could do their little reapportionment scheme, they're not doing so well. By the way,
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there were also, there were some elections in Florida, some special elections, and the Republicans
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both won, but not by as much as people thought they would. So, it kind of, everything is sort of
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suggesting, all the special elections, are sort of suggesting that the Republicans have some weakness
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whenever Trump is not on the ticket. So, that could be a bad signal coming up.
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All right. So, yesterday, I didn't know during the show that Bill Maher had already had dinner
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with Trump at the White House. And there's a little bit of feedback. I think Bill Maher's going to talk
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about it on Friday on the show. That will be interesting. But the dinner was Bill Maher, Trump,
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Kid Rock, who set it up, and Dana White, who was just there because he's a good dinner date,
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I guess. And I was thinking to myself, how could that not be fun? I mean, just think about it.
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Bill Maher, Trump, Kid Rock, Dana White. There was no chance that that could be anything but a good
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time. But here are the little bit of stories we've heard from it. We'll hear more. I think I heard
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this on Gottfeld. That Bill Maher brought with him a list of insults Trump had said about Bill Maher
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over the years and handed it to him. So, what do you think Trump did with it? The list of insults
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that Trump had used against Bill Maher. What's the funniest thing that Trump could do? He autographed
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it and gave it back. He signed it. Now, how much do you love that? And how disarming is that?
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So, you're Bill Maher and you're coming in with, okay, these are all the things you said about me,
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which, you know, in itself was kind of a humorous thing to do. But I think Trump topped him by signing
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it. Especially if he hadn't been asked to sign it. It's funnier if Bill Maher didn't ask him to sign
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it and he just said, give me a pen. Oh, that was funny. But apparently a good time was had by all
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they got along. And there was a little guided tour of the White House and even the private residence.
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That's the good stuff. People don't get to usually see that. And then we learned that Bill Maher,
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the Democrat that he's been forever, has never been to the White House. Even I've been to the
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White House. There's so many like podcasters and Republicans of all kinds who have been invited to
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the White House. Generally, you know, because the president wants to, you know, make sure you're on
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board and just work the crowd a little bit. But Bill Maher had never been invited. But here's the
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kill shot. Now, we might hear more about this, but this is what we know so far, that apparently during
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dinner, Trump asked Bill Maher about Maher's opinion about Iran and Israel and the Middle East.
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Now, what I was looking for was the kill shot. The kill shot is where Trump, who has crazy charisma,
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he can turn anybody in person. Like you cannot dislike him in person. It would just be so hard.
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Because in person, I mean, he just glows. I had the experience. You just want to be talking to him.
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And he never runs out of things to say. He always gives you full attention and treats you like you're
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the only person in the room. But here's the kill shot. Imagine being Bill Maher, and you think of
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yourself as basically a well-informed political comedian. And then the most powerful and important
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person, maybe in the world, the president of the United States looks at you and says, what do you think
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I should do about the Middle East? And you might actually have some ideas, because you've been thinking
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about it, and you're well-informed. I can tell you what happened next, because I experienced it.
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Whatever Maher said, unless he just said a joke, which I doubt, so maybe we'll find out about that later,
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if he gave him any actual advice, or treated it as seriously, like, you know, I think the only thing
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you can do is this or that, I guarantee you that Trump gave him his full attention, listened to him
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completely without interrupting, and then, you know, maybe commented on his comments or something. Do you know
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what that does to a person? I had that experience, where I've told you this story before. It's not really
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private. When Trump asked me who I thought would be his running opponent, the next time he ran, because I saw
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him in 2018. And I said, I thought it would be Kamala Harris. And then, you know, he said he thought it
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would be Biden. So he was right. But when the president of the United States asks for your opinion,
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and then he listens for the answer, like he really actually, no joke, in the real world,
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wanted to hear your opinion. The power of that is incalculable. So I expect Bill Maher will try to
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act like nothing happened. You know, like there were two adversaries who had a good dinner, and it was
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fun, but it doesn't change anything about how he feels, or how he's going to act, or how hard he's
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going to be on Trump. I imagine that that's the look we're going to get. But I'll tell you,
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that experience will change you. And that's one of the superpowers that Trump has. He can ask for
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your opinion, treat you like you're the only one in the room and your opinion matters, and you'll
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never be the same. You'll never be the same. It will just change you forever. It's like an incredible
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thing. Anyway, do you remember a while back, it was in 2020, there was a study that went all over
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the internet that said that black infants have a lower survival rate if they're cared for by white
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doctors? How many of you remember that? I remember it. So that would be pretty horrible, right? It's so
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racist if black infants didn't do as well if they had white doctors. So guess what happened?
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Turns out somebody looked at the data and found out the data was maybe not so reliable, and here's why.
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There was a little bit of a selection bias. It's so bad. Science is so terrible. Here's what the
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selection bias was. There are more white doctors in the specialties where you go to those specialties
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because somebody might die. So the white doctors were in the sort of dangerous jobs, more of them.
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There were more of them. So that it looked like when you went to a white doctor, you'd have bad
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outcomes. But you would only go to those specialists who just happened to be more staffed by white
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doctors if you were already in dire trouble, right? So it might be the oncologist or heart surgeon or
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something like that. So all it was was they didn't select an equal set of black doctors and an equal
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set of white doctors. The white doctors were more often in specialties that involved more dangerous
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kinds of situations. And that's all it was. And once you corrected for that, the difference kind of went
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away. Now, you know, even if you didn't know that, what was the credibility you should have given the
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study from day one as soon as you heard it? The answer is none. From the first time you heard it
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without even knowing what the problem was, you should have said, oh, it's one of those. Here's why.
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Half of all these studies, half, are not reproducible, meaning that it's a coin flip,
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whether it's real or not. Even if it's peer-reviewed, there's a 50% chance it's not reproducible,
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meaning it was never valid in the first place. Now, if the question is sort of a yes-no,
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which this is, do the black babies do as well if the doctor is a different race? Yes or no,
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right? It's like a coin flip. It's yes or no. Under those conditions, when the studies themselves
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are only 50% reliable, what is the difference between doing a study
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and not knowing if it's reproducible and flipping a coin? Because it's just going to be yes or no,
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heads or tails. And the answer is there's no difference. There's no difference between that
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study, even if you didn't know that it was flawed. At the very, at the start of it, you should have said,
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well, that means nothing. Now, it could become, it could become meaningful. Let's say if the study
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were reproducible, that would mean something. Suppose other people did studies in the same
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domain and got similar answers. Well, now you have my attention. You know, as long as it's not all
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being funded by one kind of entity that has a, has a horse in the race. But no, when you first hear a
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study like this, it's just a coin flip. It means nothing. Here's another one. Lab grown meat. I saw this
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in the internet today. Lab grown meat, potentially worse for the environment than retail beef.
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So this is told to us by an account called No Farms, No Food. So it's an entity that is sort of pro-farm,
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which means probably not pro-lab grown meat. And they say an interdepartmental study from the
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University of California, University of California, concluded that lab grown meat may be up to 25 times
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worse for the environment than natural pasture-raised cattle retail beef. Now, here's the first tell
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that something's amiss. The, the poster that's pro-farm did a screenshot instead of a link.
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So if I wanted to click and see the details of the study, couldn't do it. So that's your first,
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you know, that's a, that's a little signal there. Secondly, we don't know who funded the study.
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Was it big meat? I mean, who else would fund it? Is there anybody, was there anybody else even going
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to look into it? I don't know. So if you don't know who funded it, you should ignore it.
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And then again, you have to put it into the context of the studies being 50% false anyway.
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So I don't know. I don't know if any of that's true, but it's a low reliability. Speaking of low
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reliability, Catherine Herridge and a number of other people reporting about the, I guess we have
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some new information about the internal deliberations at the FBI during the time that the Hunter laptop
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story was breaking. And the news is that the FBI knew that it was real, but they just shut up and told
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everybody to shut up about it. Now, did you have the same experience with this story that I did,
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if you already heard it? That didn't you think, didn't we already know that everybody in the
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government was lying about the laptop and that they knew it was real? I had trouble figuring out
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what was the new part. Maybe I just assumed it. Didn't you? Is there even one person listening
00:35:31.180
who thought the FBI thought that that was fake or the Department of Justice or those 51 Intel people
00:35:40.280
who said it looked like Russian craft or something like that? I didn't think that there was anybody
00:35:49.000
who thought that was real. I didn't think there was anybody who thought it was anything but real.
00:35:54.220
I thought we knew everybody in the government was lying in every capacity, in every place,
00:35:59.560
including the FBI. But I guess Catherine Herridge is going to do an expose with, or a deep dive
00:36:07.440
with Michael Schellenberger. I don't think they've worked together before, so this could be interesting.
00:36:14.900
And so they got newly released FBI chat messages and basically people were told to stand down and shut
00:36:23.020
up about it. But again, why does it feel like I saw the future or something, right? Because I kept reading
00:36:35.060
and thinking, didn't everybody know this? Didn't everybody know the FBI was lying if they were involved
00:36:41.700
at all? Well, the New York Times has inexplicably written a very long story about the U.S. involvement in Ukraine.
00:37:05.180
I guess this was yesterday or the day before. And it kind of reveals what all of us already knew
00:37:13.300
again. So this is like the same thing I said about the last story. Didn't you already know
00:37:19.880
that the U.S. was deeply involved in creating the situation that caused war in Ukraine?
00:37:26.900
But now the New York Times is revealing to us through their investigation that, yes, the U.S.
00:37:35.780
was very involved. But what they were keying on here is that the targeting information was coming
00:37:42.900
from U.S. people at a German military base. And even General Milley was directly involved in planning
00:37:52.080
for the Ukraine military. And there were even troops on the ground, U.S. troops on the ground
00:37:58.600
in Ukraine, presumably advising, but I would think helping with targeting. And I would think helping
00:38:07.720
tell people which button to push on the weapons, if they're American weapons. And so again, I asked the
00:38:16.300
question, didn't we all know that? Is there anybody who was watching this who didn't know
00:38:23.020
that there must have been U.S. military people sort of embedded with the Ukrainians from day one?
00:38:31.620
I just thought everybody knew that. So now it's a big story in the New York Times and people are like,
00:38:37.140
what? But seriously, in the comments, didn't you all know that we had boots on the ground from day
00:38:45.060
one? Because that's the way everything works. You don't have to know about Ukraine. You just have to
00:38:52.060
know anything about the United States. And anything about the United States would tell you,
00:38:58.840
of course, we had people pretending not to be our military who are our military. Might have been CIA,
00:39:05.460
might have been just special forces or something. But they just take off their outfits, dress like
00:39:11.960
Ukrainians, which I guess dress like Americans. And they're just training them. Maybe they're just
00:39:20.220
training them. This is the least surprising story of all. But there's some speculation. I saw Jack
00:39:29.140
Posobiec talking about it. And that the New York Times might be trying to maybe cover their own asses or
00:39:38.340
get ahead of the fact that there will be more coming out. So it doesn't look like they didn't do their
00:39:45.340
job. So I don't know. So apparently the U.S. has been directly involved in a war with Russia
00:39:53.880
the entire time, which again, I thought everybody knew it. None of you are surprised, right?
00:40:03.440
It's just how we operate. Anyway. So now that there are multiple offers for TikTok,
00:40:11.880
Wall Street Journal is reporting that Trump is going to be briefed on all the offers and
00:40:17.320
make some kind of a decision. But here's my question. Isn't it up to China? If China says you
00:40:25.800
can't sell it or TikTok says it, but really we would imagine that China was banned it. And I don't
00:40:33.640
think China is going to sell it. So if I had to predict, I think that China would eat the billions of
00:40:42.820
dollars of revenue that they could have made, 50 billion or whatever it is, because a lot of that
00:40:49.160
would go to the investors. It wouldn't go to China. If you were China and you knew you were going to
00:40:54.960
lose control of TikTok in America anyway, just America, would you sell it? If you thought you had
00:41:03.520
a little money involved, you know, maybe a billion here or there? Or would you just say, no, we'll just
00:41:11.620
go on a business in America and just sell it everywhere else? I think China is not going to
00:41:17.960
approve the sale. So I think Trump is going to have to kill TikTok, which China would be challenging
00:41:25.900
him to do, because you know how unpopular that would be? That would be super unpopular because
00:41:35.940
even Trump has said he's TikTok. So I think that China is going to want to corner Trump
00:41:41.900
and put him, especially during the tariff situation, they're going to want to corner and embarrass Trump
00:41:48.820
by saying, hard no, we're not selling it. So if you want to put it down to business,
00:41:54.280
that will be you, Trump, putting it down to business. So explain that to all the small
00:41:59.880
businesses who go out in business because they lose their TikTok access. It would be a nightmare.
00:42:08.900
So I feel like Trump may have accidentally walked into a trap that he set himself. How in the world
00:42:16.920
does he get out of this? So that's my prediction. China will be a hard no on the sale, and they'd rather
00:42:24.020
embarrass Trump into being the one who kills TikTok. I think that's where it's heading.
00:42:34.100
Apparently in New York State, there was some kind of a big strike by the corrections professionals.
00:42:44.900
And so there won't be enough or there are not enough people to operate the jails. So what they're
00:42:53.360
going to do is release a whole bunch of prisoners, not the most dangerous ones, but they're going to
00:42:59.980
release some massive amount of prisoners that should be in jail just by saying they don't have
00:43:06.820
jails. They don't have a staff to manage it. So I guess the corrections officers have been on
00:43:16.520
strike since February. They don't like the forced overtime and tough working conditions,
00:43:21.740
to which I say, why did you ask for a job in a prison?
00:43:29.360
Why? Why? Imagine asking for a job in a prison and then complaining about the difficult working
00:43:38.020
conditions. What did you think it would be? Like when you decided to work in a prison,
00:43:44.580
did you think you'd have a nice cubicle and a window view? It seems to me that job would be the hardest
00:43:55.440
job of all jobs, you know, and also the most dangerous. So I certainly understand why they'd go
00:44:04.300
on strike. I just don't understand why they'd take the job in the first place.
00:44:07.820
Well, meanwhile, Project Veritas has a new undercover video involving the NASA and the State Department
00:44:19.280
in which the employees are saying that they're not getting rid of DEI, they're just rebranding it,
00:44:25.580
and they're going to defy Trump's orders on DEI being illegal. So they said they canceled their DEI
00:44:34.680
stuff, but people just did it and called it something else. They work around the rules.
00:44:41.920
What do you think is going to happen? Do you think that the Department of Justice,
00:44:47.860
I guess it would be them, Pam Bondi, would come after them when the undercover investigation shows
00:44:56.980
that they were just lying and they were just continuing to racially discriminate? At what point
00:45:04.620
do you go to jail for it? Because it's illegal. If you're doing a scheme so that you can continue
00:45:13.740
illegally discriminating against white people, is there no jail for that? You know, at what point
00:45:22.900
is it jailable? Maybe is it a civil, you know, you get sued for it, you lose your funding? What
00:45:30.840
exactly is a penalty for that? Because if there's no penalty, nothing's going to happen. But apparently
00:45:37.360
racism is very important to NASA and the State Department, at least parts of it.
00:45:43.080
Well, according to The Hill, Tim Walsh's daughter has decided not to go to grad school.
00:45:53.780
It turns out the daughter might be as dumb as Tim Walsh. So listen to her reason for not going to
00:45:59.440
grad school. And she announced this on TikTok, that she's not going to go to grad school because she
00:46:06.480
says there's a lack of support, at least in the school that she wanted to go to, for the right
00:46:13.260
to protest at higher education institutions. She said, I applied for one school. I kind of had my
00:46:20.700
heart set on it. I'm not going to name the institution. But given the recent events, I'm not going to give
00:46:26.340
my money, go into debt for or support institutions that do not support students and the right to protest
00:46:33.140
protest and speak out for their communities. So that's why she's not going to graduate school?
00:46:44.660
So she's destroyed her own career because she thinks she doesn't have free speech on a college campus?
00:46:54.060
I'm not entirely sure this was about free speech, was it? I thought it was about
00:47:00.480
gross antisemitism. Was anybody complaining about free speech? Because I don't know that free speech
00:47:10.640
protects you from a level of antisemitism that pretty much guarantees there's going to be
00:47:17.300
violence attached. I don't know. Tim Walsh's daughter, I don't think you made a good decision.
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Concerns. As you know, Democrats have a lot of drama and a lot of imaginary concerns. So we're
00:48:40.020
going to check in on those. Imaginary concern number one, Elon Musk is not elected.
00:48:46.400
That is an imaginary concern. Now, it's true. He's not elected. You know what else is true?
00:48:55.200
There are only two people in the executive branch who are elected. Just two. But I haven't given you
00:49:01.600
the percentage yet. Remember, number within a percentage is misleading. But there are about
00:49:08.360
2.4 million federal government workers. I think those are just within the president's domain.
00:49:18.320
So of the millions, let's just say a few million, of the millions of workers, only two of them are
00:49:26.780
elected. The rest are appointed or in some cases, Congress had to agree. But the vast majority of
00:49:35.520
people who work for the executive base, the vast majority, like 99.99999% are all unelected.
00:49:47.480
So the unelected claim is both true, but it belongs in the domain of the imaginary concerns.
00:49:55.980
We'll put that with things that could have happened, but didn't. Anyway, here's another one.
00:50:06.220
There's a Yale professor who said, I think this was on MSNBC, they were interviewing a Yale professor
00:50:16.860
who's going to leave the United States for Canada because he fears that Trump is implementing fascism
00:50:23.460
and he wants to highlight it and make a point. So he's a professor of fascism. So he's a scholarly
00:50:32.240
expert on fascism. Now, what happens if you're a scholarly expert on fascism? Do you notice a lot of it?
00:50:43.600
Yes, you do. What would happen if you were a scholarly expert on ghosts?
00:50:51.580
Would you see more ghosts than other people? Yes, you would. Suppose you were a scholarly expert
00:51:00.800
on narcissists. Do you think you'd see more of them than other people? Yes, you would. You'd see them
00:51:08.120
everywhere. So whatever you're the scholarly expert on, you're just going to sort of be primed to see
00:51:16.280
it everywhere. But what examples do you think are there? Because you've been hearing it too, right?
00:51:23.020
Trump's a fascist, Trump's a fascist. What exactly are the examples? So I went to Grok
00:51:30.640
to find out what Trump is doing specifically that his critics would call fascism.
00:51:39.280
And here's what Grok told me fits under that category of fascism. And what I want you to look
00:51:47.460
for is this the sort of thing that looks like confirmation bias, meaning if you were the Yale
00:51:55.220
fascism scholar expert, you could interpret all of this as fascism. But if you were not fucking crazy,
00:52:02.460
you could interpret it as just ordinary stuff, right? So the first indication that Trump is a fascist
00:52:10.460
is his America first policy. If you happen to be the Yale fascism scholar expert, well, that's a pretty
00:52:20.340
big signal that you're going to be a fascist. If you were a normal person who's not bad shit crazy,
00:52:26.540
you'd say, oh, you mean like every country does? Is there a country that doesn't put themselves
00:52:32.840
first? Well, maybe Great Britain, maybe France and a little bit of Germany at the point. But
00:52:42.760
don't you think that countries in general should manage their own situation first with an eye to
00:52:52.660
the fact that they have to work productively with other countries? So taking care of America first
00:52:59.560
and doing things like making sure that our tariff situation is at least reciprocal?
00:53:09.480
Is that what makes a fascist? Only if that's how you're primed. If you're not primed to see it,
00:53:17.820
it just looks like ordinary, the most obvious ordinary thing that the president
00:53:21.860
has the country in mind first. Here's another one. Trump pardoned the January Sixers,
00:53:29.320
which would suggest that he is in support of violent insurrectionists. Hmm. But that's just a media
00:53:40.060
narrative. It's not true. What's true is it was a protest. It's not true they were insurrectionists.
00:53:48.740
So if you believe they were insurrectionists and he pardoned them, well, I could see how you might
00:53:55.020
think, oh, that's a little too far. But if you happen to know that the media and the Democrats
00:54:00.820
cooked up this horrific scheme to hunt and jail Republicans, then you would say, oh, well, this is
00:54:09.680
just justice. What part of justice is fascism? And has not Trump also pardoned over time a lot of other
00:54:21.200
people who are not a bunch of white Republicans? He has. So looking at pardons, because pardons are
00:54:29.900
always sketchy. You know, every president does pardons, does at least a few that you say, what?
00:54:35.200
So pardons, I think that's a crazy standard. How about strict immigration policies? Again,
00:54:43.320
this is from Grok, trying to give you examples of how Trump is a fascist, or his critics would say
00:54:50.440
it. Grok is not saying it. Strict immigration policies? That's just common sense. That's literally
00:54:59.960
just protecting your country from what? Criminal Venezuelan gangs and degradation of the workforce
00:55:08.480
in the United States, or at least the pay for it. How in the world is that fascist to not let other
00:55:15.740
people come in and take your stuff? Then Grok says Trump has a rhetoric that talks about toughness,
00:55:28.320
like, you know, break those heads. And, you know, we might involve the military to do this.
00:55:34.200
But that's just talk. And it's just how it gets reframed. If you said to yourself, that's just how
00:55:41.600
he talks, it means nothing. If you say to yourself, well, that's the only, the only people who talk like
00:55:49.360
that are fascists because you're the Yale fascism scholar expert, well, then suddenly it looks like
00:55:56.080
something. But it's so thin. Then about Trump makes attacks on the media. So this is on Grok's list
00:56:07.580
of why Trump's critics call it fascist. Attacks on the media. Well, if you thought that the media was
00:56:15.900
fair and honest, then attacking it would look a little fascist. And do you think that the Yale
00:56:23.340
fascism scholar expert believes that CNN and MSNBC, he was actually appearing on MSNBC?
00:56:31.620
He was appearing on MSNBC and didn't notice that the entire media landscape is so biased that attacking
00:56:42.220
it is just common sense. Because they're, in many cases, just completely lying. And there are plenty
00:56:50.320
of examples where the media just ran schemes, that they ran plays against Trump. And they knew they
00:56:56.660
were doing it. We know they knew they were doing it. So attacking the media makes sense if the media
00:57:02.940
is worthy of attack. And boy, are they. And then Grok says that on Twitter, Trump allegedly praised Hitler.
00:57:16.340
Okay, I don't need to tell you that never happened. But there it is. That's what Grok says. No,
00:57:22.460
that never happened. And then they're saying that Trump made racist stereotypes of prosecutors.
00:57:32.320
Did he? I think the racist stereotype, if he did anything, was that there's a coincidence to the
00:57:41.240
type of people who are coming after him, which we all noticed, which is not a racist stereotype.
00:57:48.340
It's more complaining about people being racist against him. Now, and then the summary is that
00:57:58.600
Trump likes nationalism, suppression of dissent, and authoritarian government. Suppression of dissent?
00:58:07.300
What part was that? Attacking the media? The media are liars. It's suppression of misinformation,
00:58:15.080
maybe, by arguing back. And authoritarian government. What makes it authoritarian versus effective?
00:58:26.920
Where's the line between getting stuff done and being an authoritarian? Does the authoritarian
00:58:38.440
It seems to me that this is one of those framing hypnosis cult situations, where if you've been trained
00:58:50.300
to see the world through the eyes of everything's fascism, or it's not, then you could sort of talk
00:58:57.240
yourself into it. But no, the evidence is purely open to interpretation.
00:59:07.700
And I don't see it. But once you're a ghost hunter, you're going to see a lot of ghosts.
00:59:15.300
According to the Daily Signal is writing, Tyler O'Neill, that Tesla owners not connected to Doge,
00:59:23.700
just people who own a Tesla, are acceptable victims, according to 31% of Democrats.
00:59:29.680
Democrats. So, roughly a third of Democrats in a poll said that attacking people who simply owned a Tesla,
00:59:41.600
which would include, you know, probably half of them are Democrats or leading Democrat,
00:59:49.280
that they would be acceptable targets. Now, remember I told you that Democrats are basically
00:59:56.320
the thieves, and they're looking to take things from people who have things. That includes Democrats
01:00:04.480
who have things. So, if anybody has nice things, you're going to find a lot of Democrats who are
01:00:10.380
willing to take it away. And I don't think it goes deeper than that. So, I think that probably 31%
01:00:17.420
of Democrats can't afford a Tesla. So, if you say to them, hey, how about these people who can afford
01:00:23.880
a Tesla, or even just afford a car, what do you think of them? And they're like, ah, I think they
01:00:31.600
should be victims just because I don't like Elon Musk. But really, is that the reason? Or is it just
01:00:39.040
because they can afford a nice car and you can't? So, that's crazy. I think in general that people
01:00:49.860
who don't have money are in favor of violence against people who do. Do you think that's a good
01:00:57.540
generalization? People who don't have money and don't expect that they're going to make any in any
01:01:04.100
legal way, are going to say they're going to be open to violence to take money from the people who
01:01:10.400
have it. Because everybody wants more money. And if you can't figure out a way to make it yourself,
01:01:16.280
maybe you'd rather take it from people. I had the experience of going from a low-income situation to a
01:01:25.520
high-income situation. And I can tell you that while I thought my character was improving and my morality,
01:01:32.860
as I got richer, all I eventually realized I was protecting my own class, like I got, I became
01:01:42.880
really anti-crime when I had money that people could steal from me. But when I had nothing and I
01:01:51.100
saw somebody maybe ripped off a rich person, it didn't bother me a bit. Is it because I used to have
01:01:57.900
low character and then I developed a conscience and higher character and morality and ethics?
01:02:04.460
No, probably just made more money. And then joining the people who said, you shouldn't attack
01:02:11.620
people who have more money because they earned it themselves. So the difference, I think, with
01:02:17.800
Republicans who don't have money and Democrats who don't have money is that Republicans who don't have
01:02:23.580
money are more likely to think, but I could have money if I worked harder and did all the obvious
01:02:29.480
things that people do to make money. So they're not thinking, I want to steal things and go to jail.
01:02:36.260
They're thinking, how do I work harder? Where's my mentor? Where do I get a foot in the door so I
01:02:43.040
can make something of myself? I think the Democrats are more likely to think that the system is rigged
01:02:49.320
and they need some reparations or they need some, basically, they need the government to take money
01:02:55.960
from the rich and give it to them. And whether you deserved it or worked for it, none of that matters.
01:03:04.180
They just don't have money. Other people do. So they're trying to figure out ways to get it.
01:03:11.260
And if you can make the government be your criminal enterprise, which is what Democrats have done,
01:03:18.780
you notice the Democrats have turned the entire government, you know, through USAID and all the
01:03:25.040
NGOs, they've turned the entire thing into a criminal organization to take money from the people who have
01:03:32.040
it and give it to themselves. In many cases, they're rich and they're still doing it. So there's that.
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Here's a story that sounds like you've heard it before, but it's actually just a third one like it.
01:04:04.020
There's yet another law firm that Trump went after because they had been involved in
01:04:09.640
investigating the January 6 attacks and some other stuff. And let's see, this one is called
01:04:19.100
Wilkie, Farr and Gallagher. So Trump was getting ready to go after them, but they cleverly got ahead of it.
01:04:27.220
And they said that they'll provide the equivalent of $100 million in pro bono legal services
01:04:34.120
for causes the administration supports. Now, this is the third major law firm
01:04:40.560
to offer a gigantic pro bono, you know, essentially bribe. Could you call it a bribe?
01:04:51.380
They don't call it a bribe. Let's not call it that. But here's my question. So pro bono means that
01:05:00.240
nobody would have to pay for it and they would do $100 million in legal services for
01:05:07.800
Trump-related or Republican-related areas. Now, here's my question. Do they put the top lawyers
01:05:18.540
on that kind of pro bono work? Are you going to get the A-plus players or are you going to get the
01:05:26.040
lawyers that maybe won't make it with the law firm and, you know, they're junior and, you know,
01:05:33.020
well, we can say we tried, but, you know, we put our lawyers on it and we did not prevail, but
01:05:40.800
I'm going to call that $10 million of legal service. And nobody's really going to check
01:05:46.380
that it was really $10 million in legal service. And they will burn through that $100 million
01:05:52.140
commitment in no time at all. And they will probably not win a single case.
01:05:59.720
They'll somehow, you know, like, you know, it seems to me that the odds of them giving the A-team
01:06:07.480
to the pro bono work for the other side is really low, really low. So I'm not so sure that this is a
01:06:16.780
real victory, but it's fun. All right, here's a question that I can't wrap my head around.
01:06:26.240
It doesn't seem like that long ago we were talking about China was in terrible trouble because their
01:06:31.960
demographics are bad. They don't have enough young people. They're full of bureaucracy and they can't
01:06:38.180
get anything done. And, you know, they might have a lot of debt and they build a bunch of cities that
01:06:43.140
they're just knocking down because it was a waste of money. And they're stretched kind of thin everywhere
01:06:48.920
and they're getting ready to collapse at any moment because the U.S. is moving its manufacturing
01:06:55.340
out of there, et cetera. On the other hand, it seems like the United States doesn't know how to
01:07:02.780
make anything. And China has entire industries of people that they've trained in the art of making
01:07:11.680
stuff. So if you wanted to build a manufacturing facility in the United States, you'd have to find
01:07:18.120
somebody who knows how to do that. And there aren't that many compared to China, where I think it's a
01:07:23.240
major. And you got all these, you know, armies of trained engineers and everything else who just
01:07:29.860
know how to build a manufacturing plant. So how do you compete with that? That we've got our kids who
01:07:36.140
can barely read. Every time there's a new report coming out, it's worse. So China is educating its
01:07:42.380
kids. We're not. It feels like we stopped being able to invent things. You know, only a few things have
01:07:51.340
come out recently. Mostly AI. But China's AI seems to be cheaper and open source. So if they keep their AI
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almost as good and cheaper and open source, how do our big companies that we think are the jewels in our
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crown, how do they even survive? How would chat GPT survive if it's competing against just as good
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and almost free? I don't know how. And I don't think that China's going to, you know, suddenly start
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charging for AI or at least charging more. Suppose there's a war.
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The smart people, I think Naval said this recently, whoever has the most drones that are, you know,
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at least good enough to be in military, whoever has the most drones is going to win every war
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because they're going to be all drone wars. And whoever has the most is going to win. How in the
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world are we going to have more drones than China? China will instantly go to complete military
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dominance because it can manufacture. They can just make drones all day long and they would have
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rare earth minerals and they would have everything they needed. They wouldn't need anything from
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anybody. So that's crazy. So here's what I can't tell. Is China in trouble? Do they have debt
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problems and, you know, population problems and bureaucracy and they can't get anything done?
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Or have they become this competitive monster that will never be able to match militarily,
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technologically, or manufacturing wise? And if we can't match them as a economy, then eventually they will
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dominate us. And it seems like there's nothing we could do about it.
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I saw a post by Hotep Jesus on X. And Hotep Jesus is funny because he says things that you're not
01:10:05.000
supposed to say in public. Very provocative things. And I don't have an exact quote, but I think he said
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something like, if you're not expanding your empire, somebody is going to basically expand onto
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you. So you don't have a choice of just staying the same. In this world, that's just not an option.
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You can be growing and growing your empire or somebody else is going to grow their empire and
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take yours. Those really are the only two choices. Because if you look at any civilization that was
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thriving, they were usually conquering at the same time, you know, whether it was Rome when it was
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growing. China right now is looking to, you know, conquer. It's already conquered what? Tibet. And now
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it's going to conquer Taiwan. It's already conquered Hong Kong. So China's growing and it's looking to
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dominate the oceans around China. It's expanding. Russia is expanding. It got bigger and in a pretty
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important way. And we don't know. I mean, it doesn't look like he's done. He just added more
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people. He just increased the size of his army substantially. Putin did. And then the United
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States, we're looking to pick up Greenland and maybe something about Panama and maybe even Canada.
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So when you see Trump overtly trying to expand, don't feel like that's a risk to the United States.
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Think about it in terms of there are only two ways that big countries can go. They can keep expanding
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everything or they die. Somebody else expands onto them. So, you know, maybe Europe is the only place
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that's operating the opposite and it looks like they're doomed, right? So I don't see anybody in
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Europe who's trying to expand their country. Instead, they're looking to give it away through mass
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migration. So you should be able to predict that Europe is doomed and that the US, Russia, and China
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are still expansionist countries. And we might, you know, come to blows with each other.
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I think we'd be smart enough to avoid world wars, but those are three healthy competitive situations
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if we don't go broke from debt. Anyway, Russia says it won't accept the U.S. ceasefire proposal
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because it doesn't give them what they want, which is no NATO in Ukraine and something else,
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some kind of security guarantee. No, what is it? What did they say? They want to, I don't know,
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consolidate the land that they've already gotten and make sure that there's no NATO and blah, blah.
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So, but I'm going to go further. I don't think that Putin's going to say yes to any deal.
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So I hate to predict this because I would have, well, I did. I predicted that Trump could wrap up
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the Ukraine war fairly quickly because I thought to myself, well, he's just going to say there's an
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obvious deal to be made. Russia keeps what it already got. Ukraine doesn't join NATO. But as it's,
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shaping up, I think I'm going to bet against any kind of a peace deal. I wouldn't bet that we'll
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necessarily stay supporting Ukraine, which maybe isn't the worst thing that could happen. So
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I'm going to say that there's not going to be a Ukraine peace deal. And I don't think Putin wants
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it. I don't think Zelensky wants it. I don't think the European Union wants it, but the U.S. wants it.
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So I think we'll just bow out. I think maybe we might sell weapons to people who want to buy them,
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but I think Europe's going to have to cash the check. So yes, no peace deal, in my opinion. It
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doesn't look like anything's pointing in that direction. According to Tech Explorer, there's
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this new EV battery breakthrough that you could charge 500% faster, even in sub-zero weather.
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University of Michigan engineers have it. And apparently it's working so well that it's already
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being commercialized. So we might see that. If battery driven cars didn't have the cold weather
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problem, and you could also charge them 500% faster, that's a big deal. Now, I will tell you that I do see
01:15:08.300
a battery breakthrough story every single day. But they all start sounding the same, so I stopped
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reporting on all of them. But the battery stuff is really interesting. It's really interesting.
01:15:25.140
All right, here's on Andrew Huberman's show, Huberman Lab. He had an expert on who said
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that if a mom has diabetes, the risk of an autistic child doubles. If the mom has obesity,
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the risk of having an autistic child doubles. And if the mom has diabetes and obesity, which often go
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together, it would quadruple the risk of the autistic child. Now, I don't know if I'm fully believing that
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yet, because that would fall into the somebody who did a study. But I don't know. But first of all,
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it doesn't match any of my anecdotal experience. Because every time I think of somebody who had a
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who had an autistic kid, I don't really think of them as being overweight. And so, and I don't know
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that they had diabetes. So, I haven't really seen it. It's not like something I've noticed or anything
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like that. So, I'm a little skeptical of this one. But if it's true, it might be at least part of the
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puzzle of why there's so much of it lately. And it wouldn't surprise me if diabetes and obesity,
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you know, created a whole bunch of, you know, health problems that you didn't see coming.
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So, that part sort of makes sense. But I don't know if I'm quite buying into
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that it might be a big part of the answer. I don't know. I'm a little skeptical. But it could be that
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there are multiple reasons and they're all environmental and or health. And it'll be hard to untangle it.
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Meanwhile, according to HR Dive, Emily Shumway is writing that the judge says that IBM must face
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the discrimination claim from the white male worker who believes that he was fired because he was white
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so that the bosses could make room for their diversity goals. And let me just read this part.
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The plaintiff alleged that IBM CEO set specific percentage targets for the racial and gender
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composition of IBM's workforce. Now, I know that's true because I've seen video of the CEO saying
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exactly that. And then IBM implemented a system of financial incentives to reward executives who worked
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to achieve those targets, the DEI targets, according to the lawsuit. And the IBM CEO suggested that executives
01:18:16.460
who did not make progress on getting that diversity they wanted could be penalized or be fired or have their
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pay reduced. Now, this is the goal versus system problem. As a goal, a little extra diversity might be
01:18:38.060
just positive as a goal. But you have to develop a system to make it happen. The system that he developed,
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IBM CEO, guarantees that there would be massive discrimination against white people. Why? Follow
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the money. He created a massive financial interest in discriminating against white people and trying to
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make it look like it didn't happen. So suddenly, this guy who had been getting good reviews suddenly
01:19:15.460
puts on a gets put on a performance, you know, improvement plan, which is sort of the last thing they do before
01:19:22.260
they fire you, so that they would have some paperwork, allegedly, they would have some paperwork that would
01:19:28.740
support the firing the white guy. Because every time you fired a white guy, and replaced them with a non white
01:19:35.940
guy, you would make more money. Or, or to put it the other way, the more successful you were discriminating
01:19:45.060
against your white workforce, the less risk there would be that you would get fired, which is all
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about money too. So how in the world does the CEO of IBM not understand how money is an incentive? And he
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didn't realize that people would massively break the law as soon as money was involved. Because they could
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pretend they weren't doing it. It wouldn't be hard to pretend, right? No, Carl was doing a inexplicably
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bad job. Autism Capital is saying that Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum says she will not impose
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reciprocal tariffs on the US. I'll need to know more about that. But today is going to be fascinating. So if the
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stock market turns green today, and it might, it would be because a few countries, it wouldn't take
01:20:47.540
many, decided to play ball with Russia, I'm sorry, play ball with the tariff situation, and just be
01:20:58.820
reasonable, and come up with something that makes sense. So maybe that's what Mexico is doing. Maybe that's
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what Israel did, although they didn't have much tariffs. So we'll keep an eye on that. I think there
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is a real good chance that the stock market will end up in positive territory by the end of the day.
01:21:19.300
All it takes is a little bit of a trend that countries are looking to avoid the economic
01:21:30.180
war and make something work. It wouldn't take much, maybe two or three countries, and the stock market is
01:21:38.340
going to love it. So we'll see. Oh, but I think Trump's announcement will be after the market closes.
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I'm not sure. Yeah. So we'll see. All right. So IBM's got to figure that out.
01:21:59.300
Elon Musk is getting a lot of attention for saying he posted an X. As I mentioned several years ago,
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it is increasingly, it increasingly appears that humanity is a biological bootloader for digital
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super intelligence. Now, of course, he's 100% right. It's just an analogy. It's not like you have
01:22:21.940
to buy into the analogy. But here's what I think. The reason that Elon Musk says we need to be an
01:22:31.060
interplanetary species is that if you stayed on Earth, eventually you would be destroyed
01:22:38.180
by a meteor or the sun burns down or something. So the only way humans can survive is if they're
01:22:45.220
interplanetary. And even that seems like a risk because, you know, I mean, Mars might get destroyed
01:22:53.780
before the United States and before we find a third planet, because it's not like there's a bunch of
01:22:58.500
other planets. But suppose there was some kind of a gigantic risk to all life on Earth. Would that risk
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be equal to the AI? Could you launch a rocket that just takes the best AIs and puts them on there and
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has a solar panels and the AI just lives forever as a digital entity that's super intelligence?
01:23:31.140
So it could be that you need the biological entities, we humans, for a brief period of time
01:23:38.820
just to get super intelligence going, which could last forever, potentially. Could last through suns
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burning out and everything else? Whereas the biological parts are unlikely to survive as easily
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for, you know, for millions of years anyway. I think you're fine this week. I don't know. I agree
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with his statement, but people are taking it wrong. They're taking it as if he's saying that AI is more
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important than human beings, which is exactly the opposite of anything that Elon Musk ever said or believed.
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Wait, the stock market's already up? Is that true? Oh, I'll be down. The stock market's up already.
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Well, there you go. There you go. All right, everybody. That's all I have for today. Thanks for joining on
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