Episode 2825 CWSA 04⧸30⧸25
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1 hour and 12 minutes
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Summary
A UPS robot company is talking about bringing in more than 500 robots to help sort boxes, and a new drug that could help you grow a better penis. Plus, a new kind of private member club, and why you should avoid bad people.
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Well, UPS is talking to the robot company called Figure, and they're talking about maybe bringing
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in these 546 robots to work on sorting boxes, according to Bloomberg. Do you think that's
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I don't think there's any robot company that's making a robot that doesn't act like it's stoned.
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Like all the robots are like, pick up a box, look at the box, walk slowly. I don't know.
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I just do not think we're quite ready to replace a bunch of warehouse people with robots.
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According to CNBC, 30% of Microsoft's code is now AI-generated.
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According to the CEO, there might even be some other software that is completely written by AI.
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So I'm thinking of becoming a programmer, because apparently all you need is AI, and you can make
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anything. Is anybody tempted to just become a computer programmer without any experience?
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I don't think we can get there yet. I think you have to be a programmer to make sure that AI is
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doing what it's supposed to do. Meanwhile, Waymo, the self-driving car company,
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and Toyota are in some kind of partnership. I assume they have to do that, because they're
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going to be competing with Tesla really quickly, and Tesla is going to lap them unless they do
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something big and bold. So we'll see if Waymo and Toyota can make something work.
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So does that mean that your Toyotas will have a self-driving car option? I don't know.
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Or maybe it's just a cheaper way to get the Waymo cars. Could be either one. We'll see.
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I saw a post by Michael Miraflor that apparently in New York City, there's a sudden boom in what
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they call members' clubs. So you pay some amount of money and you can go to a members' club, and
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there's just a bunch of them that popped up. And so Michael's theory is that the reason that these
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are all popping up is the deterioration of civil society. In other words, people are looking for a
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place they can go where they don't have to worry about their laptop getting stolen and getting beaten
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up and, you know, some fentanyl addict falling on their lap. So they're starting their own little
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private member clubs. Now, you can get canceled for that kind of thinking, that you have to start at
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your own private member club just to get away from the riffraff. But it looks like it's going to be
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kind of popular. So you might want to start your own members' club to stay away from the people you
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want to avoid. I've often thought that the secret to happiness is who you avoid. You know, you think
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of it in terms of making friends and, you know, being with people you love and stuff like that. And
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that's good. You should be with good people. But at least half of happiness is avoiding bad people.
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So these member clubs get you there. Well, there's a hair loss pill. I didn't even know this existed.
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But apparently there's this pill you can take to grow back your hair. But now the doctors,
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the top urologist, is saying that it might have a really bad side effect, which is it will affect
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your penis if you're a man. So it can make your testicles burn and give you suicidal thoughts and
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make your penis bend and get smaller. Now, this reminds me of a rule that I developed 30 years ago.
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Every time I saw anything that was supposed to help you grow hair, it would be bad for your penis.
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Every time. How in the world is your hair and your penis so connected? So if you see a bald guy,
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probably has a great penis. But if you see a guy who's like 50 and has a full head of hair,
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I don't know. One in 10 chance he's got something going on down there. So that's the iron rule of
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science. That whatever is good for your hair is bad for your penis. So remember that.
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Apparently the Trump administration has published a hoax list.
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So don't you love that? So you're probably, most of you are aware that I used to publish a hoax list,
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you know, the top 12, and then it was the top 14, and then it was the top 20. And it got a lot of
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attention. And now the White House is publishing their own hoax list. So it shows all the fake news
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and Trump deranged syndrome. Now it's not the same as the list that I would post, so that there's no
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overlap. So theirs is more like the more recent stuff. And of course, they have plenty of material to work
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with. The hoax list. Good idea. Well, if you didn't see it, Trump did an interview with ABC News
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with a reporter named Moran, last name Moran. Here's some of the highlights from the interview.
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do you have a 100% confidence in PA, Seth? And Trump says, that's a stupid question. I don't have
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100% confidence that we're going to finish this interview. I will never get enough of that.
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Every time Trump insults a reporter who had it coming, it just gets funnier. Do you have 100%
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confidence? That's a stupid question. I don't have 100% confidence that we're going to finish this
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interview? Oh, then the same interviewer said to Trump that there had been no fraud referrals
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from Doge. So he couldn't understand why nothing had been referred to the Department of Justice
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for prosecution if they found all these fraud instances. And Trump says, well, you don't know
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that, do you? And he forced the reporter to admit that he wouldn't know if any referrals had been made
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or not. So the question was more like an accusation. But Trump very cleverly made him sort of admit,
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okay, I have no idea whether you've referred anything or not, because it'd be too early to
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know. But Trump says, yes, that there have been fraud referrals. Do you believe that? We'll find out.
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Then there's a, I hate to say this, but there's a little fake news that I think Trump himself fell for.
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So the topic of that so-called Maryland dad, the potential or alleged MS-13 gang member came up.
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And the topic of his tattoos on his hand, his knuckles came up. Now, you might remember that
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Trump held up a photo that showed that each of his knuckles had a tattoo, and that the images on the
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knuckles, if you took the first letter of each of the images, it would say MS-13. And so the thinking was
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that it was just a sort of a clever, subtle way to say he was MS-13 without actually using the letters MS-13.
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But to make it easier to know that that was the point, the photo had just the actual letters MS-13
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to help you know what each of the images was standing for. But apparently, and I'll take a fact check on
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this, but it sure sounded like Trump believed that the actual text letters were part of the tattoo.
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Because the way it was put on the page, it looked like, that was actually my first thought too. The
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first time I saw it, I was like, really? Why does he have the letters on his knuckles? But the letters
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are not on his knuckles. It's only the images. And the reporter knew that. So he fact checked
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Trump in real time, but Trump wasn't having it. And he was insisting that it actually said MS-13.
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And the reporter said, well, you know, the tattoos suggested that it could be, but it didn't actually
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say. And Trump was, oh, yes, it said it. It was right there. Didn't you see the picture? And I thought,
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oh, well, that's not good. But I have to admit, the very first time I saw the same picture,
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I thought that was part of the tattoo. And I couldn't believe it when I saw it. But then,
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you know, after thinking about it a little bit, I thought, oh, no, that's just they're labeling the
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tattoo. That's not the actual tattoo. Speaking of fake news, you've heard that when scientific
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studies get rechecked to see if they're reproducible, that at least in the United States,
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half of them turn out to be not reproducible, which means that the science was bad.
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And Brazil did the same thing with their biomedical studies. Guess how many Brazilian biomedical
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studies are reproducible, meaning valid? 50%. So they got the same result as in America. So half
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of the things that we consider science, because there's some study that says something worked,
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half are not true. And nobody knows which half. So if it's either true or false,
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and half of them are not reproducible, science and flipping a coin are very, very similar in accuracy,
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because you really can't tell if it's a 50-50 proposition. Well, apparently, Paramount,
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the board is ready to settle with Trump on his 60 Minutes lawsuit. Newsmax, money is reporting on this.
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You remember that Kamala Harris was interviewed by 60 Minutes, and allegedly, they edited in a
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different answer than the one she gave for the question, which made her look smarter. And Trump was
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suing because it was suing because it, you know, basically, it looked like they were helping her win
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the election. Now, you could argue, as Jake Tapper does, that the edit was sort of a normal edit and
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didn't really change anything. I would confirm that it's also normal for big entities like that to
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change a quote or to put in a quote that wasn't exactly what you said, but maybe you said it at
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a different time. It's not that unusual. But because Paramount wants to do some kind of big merger,
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which would require the Trump administration to approve it, Trump sort of has them by the gonads.
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So it looks like they're going to pay up some big money. We'll see. We'll see what they come up with.
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Also, during that ABC interview, Trump may have gotten himself in a bit of a legal problem,
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because when he was talking about the Maryland ad, according to Jonathan Turley,
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Trump said that he could get Garcia back, but does not want to do so. And he said that he's got lawyers,
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you know, basically the ones that tell him he can't do it or shouldn't do it.
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But as Turley points out, if he admits that he can do it, it's going to look like he's ignoring
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the court order to facilitate it, which he sort of is. So that story could change pretty quickly,
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Here's some more fake news. Do you remember the story that said that Amazon
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was going to show the tariffs as part of your checkout basket, so you can see how much
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more expensive things were with the tariffs? That was never true.
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Apparently, there's some sub-entity within Amazon where they were plagued with that idea,
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but it was never Amazon. It was just some sub-entity that you and I have never seen.
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And then Trump's version is that he called Jeff Bezos and asked him to get rid of those tariff
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things. And then Jeff Bezos was a great guy, according to Trump, but did exactly what he was asked.
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But I think all they did was change that little sub-unit that had some special purpose that you
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and I had never seen anyway. Then, but just so you have a little better understanding of the
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whole tariff situation, I saw a post by Dr. Insensitive Jerk, who is a working economist.
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He obviously doesn't go by his real name. And he was explaining that even if Amazon had shown the
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tariff cost on top of the base price, you still wouldn't know how much extra you're paying
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because the vendor might be eating some of it. So, for example, if somebody was producing something for
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$0.10 and selling it for $2, and they had a big tariff, they might say, our margins are so good,
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we won't pass it all on to the consumer. We'll just lower our base price. And then when you add
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the tariff on, it will be pretty close to the price you were paying before. So you never know
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how much the vendor is eating. So even if you saw the tariff cost, that wouldn't necessarily tell you
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that you were seeing the extra cost. It might not be extra. So just know that.
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And Trump had mentioned something about that too. He said, you know, the tariff costs are not
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necessarily going to be what you pay because the vendor might, you know, have to use some of it.
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There's also some, what I think is fake news, that Trump says he might be coming up with a huge
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tax cut because we'd be making so much money from the tariffs, they would use the tariff income instead
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of tax income. Does anybody think that's true? I don't think the numbers come even close to working
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because on one hand, he's put these big tariffs on everybody. But on the other hand, the whole point
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of the tariffs is to negotiate away tariffs so that they're either really small or they go away.
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So he can't have it both ways. He can't be using it as a negotiating tool with the purpose of getting
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rid of tariffs both directions. At the same time, he's going to use that as a major source of income.
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You got to kind of pick one. And I don't think the one where he uses that as a source of income makes
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sense. And also it would be a tax. It would just be a different form of tax. It wouldn't be replacing
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a tax. And I also wonder, would that be better or worse for low-income people?
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If you're a low-income person and you're probably not paying a lot in federal income tax in the first
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place, but everything you buy is going to be a little more expensive if there's a tariff on top of it.
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So are you going to be happier because you're paying your taxes through a tariff
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than if you just paid it directly to the government? Yeah, none of this works.
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And then Trump says, in the coming weeks and months, we'll pass the largest tax cuts in American history.
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I don't think that's even a little bit true, but there may be somebody who gets some tax cuts. We'll see.
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I doubt it will be the biggest one in American history.
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According to The Hill, the EU's Ursula von der Leyen, Ursula von der Leyen,
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she was saying that Trump's tariff policy was, quote, unpredictable.
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Now, is that an insult to say that his tariff policy is unpredictable?
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Well, it feels like she doesn't understand the tariff policy.
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Because you know how the Europeans could make the tariff policy predictable?
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It doesn't matter if they're unpredictable now.
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Now, the entire point is that they would sit in a room and come up with a very predictable,
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but different set of tariffs and or no tariffs.
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So if anybody wants to solve the problem of the tariffs looking unpredictable,
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all you have to do is call a meeting and then negotiate it and you'll know exactly what you're getting.
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So all the Democrats who are complaining because Trump's tariff rule out looks like it was poorly planned and it looks like it's chaos and he keeps changing it and all that.
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None of that matters because the entire point is to get you in the same room and then make it predictable.
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So you don't have to worry about any of the unpredictable stuff.
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But the unpredictable part is what gets you in the room because you can't handle the unpredictable.
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Trump's approach to negotiating the tariffs is kind of perfect.
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It just doesn't look like it if you don't know how things work in the real world.
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Every one of these people complaining about the chaos and the unpredictability, they have complete control over that.
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Just call a meeting, negotiate a trade deal, you have all the predictability you want.
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Apparently, China has sort of quietly, they say, issued a white list, meaning some things that will not be tariffed.
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And that would include pharma, microchips and aircraft parts.
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I'd seen the tech part before because I knew that they were getting flexible on microchips and aircraft parts.
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But the thing I was most worried about in terms of shortages was the pharma.
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And it could be that China has figured out that if they make it difficult for us to buy socks, no big deal.
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If they make it difficult for us to buy a new paperweight for the office, no big deal.
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Most of the things that you buy on Amazon, if you couldn't buy them for three months, how much would that really affect you, right?
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There are things you want and there's things you prefer and it'd be great if he could get it quickly.
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But most things are not going to make any difference at all.
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But I'll tell you what would make a difference if you can't get your meds.
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So they may have correctly determined that if they turn off the meds, China is just done.
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Because that's the difference between it would be inconvenient to do business with you versus we can never do this again.
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We have to immediately bring all our pharma locally.
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If they cut off our pharma, we're not going to forgive that.
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You know the story about all of the power outages in Europe, I guess it was Spain and Portugal and a little bit of France.
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Oh, it's because you have solar and wind and your renewables don't work.
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Well, I saw a report from Reuters that it's not the renewables.
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So it's not the reliance on renewables that's to blame.
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Rather than blaming the renewables, the issue appears to be the management of renewables.
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It's just the management of the renewables in the modern grid.
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I guess a bunch of conservative groups, mostly libertarian groups, are urging Congress to overturn the Biden administration's approval of California's gas car ban.
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So you might not know this, but California is one of several states, there are 11 states now, that have signed on to sort of match the California plan that would essentially eliminate gas-powered cars by 2035.
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And that would start phasing in very quickly in 2026.
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So there would be a real big impact on all that stuff.
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So it does seem to me that if Congress stays Republican, that might get overturned.
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Now, that would just be one example of something that California is doing to ruin the entire country.
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When was the last time you heard a story about California and did something smart or that it was good for the rest of the country?
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Well, let's look at a few other things that are in the news from California.
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Apparently, Governor Newsom has said about California, quote,
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We've been doing doge but better for literally six years.
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Do you think California has been cutting things with a scalpel for six years?
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I saw Joel Pollack of Breitbart writing about this, and he points out that Gavin Newsom's first budget in 2019 was $209 billion,
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and his latest budget proposal for 2025 is $322 billion.
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So maybe he should have used the chainsaw and not the scalpel.
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And the state, as Joel points out, the state is borrowing money to fund basic health care.
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It's unbelievable that Gavin Newsom would even try to convince people that he's been doing doge for six years.
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Meanwhile, according to the Financial Times, the big oil companies look like they're going to have their worst year since the pandemic
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So if the price of oil goes down, won't that make your inflation go down?
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And if your inflation goes down, wouldn't that make the Federal Reserve lower interest rates?
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And if you've got lower interest rates, wouldn't that make everything better?
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So if you're worried about the oil companies themselves, they might be having not their best year coming up.
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But if you're looking at the country, what we're looking at is let's get a lot of oil going so that we can,
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you know, that the supply and demand will fix our inflation.
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At the same time, and also related to inflation, we got the new jobs report from ADP anyway.
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We were hoping for 114,000 jobs, but we got about half of that.
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And it was the lowest monthly total since February 2022.
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But what happens when jobs are not looking so strong?
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Then the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates.
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So if you look at the price of energy going down, and you look at the employment going down,
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we should be in a situation where the Fed is almost certainly going to have to lower interest rates.
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And when you lower interest rates, stock market goes up, and it's easier to handle your national debt, and everything else is a little bit better.
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So with economics, it's hard to know what's good news, because almost everything that's good news for somebody is bad news for somebody else, and vice versa.
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According to Newsmax, some Republican senators are trying to make the Trump investment executive order a law.
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So apparently Trump has an executive order to accelerate the external investments in the United States.
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So if somebody wanted to invest a billion dollars or more in the United States, rather than taking a bunch of red tape and regulations and approvals and whatever else, that the United States would make it easy.
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And so these, I guess, I guess a couple of Republican senators, Blackburn and Budd and Ricketts, have introduced legislation to make that permanent, which seems to me like just a perfectly good idea.
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You all know, I think most of you know, Robbie Starbuck.
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He's been one of the activists who's gotten a bunch of big companies to change their DEI policy.
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So that's one of the things he's most known for.
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But apparently he checked on himself on the meta AI.
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And Metta says some really untrue and horribly defamatory things about him.
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But you have to understand none of this is true.
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So according to Metta, and he's doing a lawsuit to sue Metta for a lot, Metta claims that Robbie Starbuck appeared on Nick Fuente's show and that he's spoken at his rallies and supported him.
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Metta AI claims that Starbuck engaged in Holocaust denial, which has literally never happened.
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Metta says that Starbuck tells advertisers not to advertise with him because of the lies that he invented.
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Metta tells employers not to hire me because of the lies that Metta itself invented.
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Metta suggested that Robbie Starbuck's kids be taken away from him because it would be better for them to be raised by someone more friendly to DEF.
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And Metta claims that he's been sued for defamation and emotional distress, which has never happened.
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And he said he's been trying to fix it privately since last year.
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But instead of fixing it, Metta has given them the runaround.
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So I decided to go on Metta and see what it says about me.
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And I've certainly never said that on a podcast or anywhere else.
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So apparently Metta doesn't like me any more than it likes Robbie Starbuck.
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so you have to listen carefully to what I actually say
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so that meta doesn't come up with a whole new rumor about me, okay?
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And Carville was making the claim that Trump is a Nazi.
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So, here's some of Carville's evidence that Trump is a Nazi.
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He claimed that Trump had a copy of Mein Kampf in his bedside.
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How many of you think it's true that Trump had a copy of Hitler's book Mein Kampf in his bedside?
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Had claimed to someone else who made the claim,
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What was rumored was that he had a copy of Hitler's speeches
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How many books has Trump read that you're aware of?
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because he doesn't have the attention span to read a whole book.
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Do you think that Trump actually read that book?
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No, because I don't think he read any other books.
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I asked Grok to give me a list of books that we know Trump did read.
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And one of the ones was Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
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So whether or not this book had been given to him or not,
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I think there's a reason that somebody would give it to him.
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For the people who are familiar with persuasion
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one of the most obvious things that you'd like to do
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you'd want to see what might someone else be doing to me
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Do you know why I've never read Hitler's speeches or Mein Kampf?