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00:01:00.260It's the best thing that ever happened to you.
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00:05:13.580But they are in the kind of business where, you know, going fast and making mistakes and fixing them is exactly what they probably need to be doing.
00:05:24.300As long as it doesn't release a superintelligence into the world with no guardrails, it will kill us all.
00:05:34.480Um, Harvard has announced a major breakthrough in the fight against dementia, they say.
00:05:42.080Um, they believe that micro doses of a new lithium compound will, uh, maybe just really make a big difference.
00:05:50.960Because apparently it makes a big difference in dementia-ridden mice.
00:05:56.820Now, I believe I looked up on Grok once how often a drug that works with mice ends up working and being approved and everything for a human being.
00:08:08.660And the idea is, don't know the details, but it looks like, uh, Tesla, um, at least a component of Tesla, will be involved with maybe power walls and, I don't know what else.
00:08:21.540Maybe solar panels, but at least power walls.
00:08:26.360And, uh, it feels like the market for power walls is almost unlimited, doesn't it?
00:08:34.860Because, you know, my, my house, I looked into it.
00:08:38.780The only reason that I don't have a power wall is because the process of buying one is so bad that I gave up.
00:08:47.920So, I, I was sold, like, oh yeah, I'm going to get a power wall.
00:08:53.200And they made the process so unpleasant of all the things I have to do and the information I have to give them and the scheduling and the phone calls and the phone calls and the follow-up phone calls for the follow-up meeting.
00:09:06.020And it's just an initial meeting for the follow-up.
00:09:09.380Oh my God, it was just unbearable process.
00:09:13.220So, I just bailed out in the middle of it because I couldn't handle the incompetence.
00:09:18.680But, as a product, if you just had a normal-sized house, which I don't, um, I would definitely get one.
00:09:27.000I can't imagine that I wouldn't if I could afford it.
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00:09:59.700That, uh, Trump puts another true social post in which it's just this long, uh, complain-y thing about, uh, AOC and AOC, the other three that we never remember, the, uh, squad.
00:10:16.660And then, uh, Jasmine Crockett, and he's calling both of them low IQ.
00:10:20.900And then he, he clarifies, Trump does, when he says low IQ, he puts in parentheses, very, with lots of exclamation points, very.
00:10:33.260They're not just low IQ in his opinion.
00:10:37.100They're very, uh, all of which I find funny.
00:10:40.740And sure enough, but, uh, I love what it does.
00:10:47.420It makes us wonder if they're, which one is dumber.
00:10:50.820And instead of thinking, well, that's not very nice.
00:10:55.040All I'm thinking is, I wonder which one is dumber.
00:12:17.680But I feel like they might want to tiptoe into it and make sure that they got a, maybe make sure that they got something like a conviction on a lower level person.
00:12:32.360Maybe, maybe it just makes it easier to sell to the public.
00:12:35.740If somebody has already been convicted as being on his team, it makes it a little more obvious that if people are convicted, you know, for their participation with him, it wouldn't surprise you if he got indicted.
00:12:50.640But Hillary Clinton, how in the world do you avoid indicting her, like right up front?
00:13:02.880Because she's literally the genesis for the entire Russiagate hoax.
00:13:08.760If she gets away with it, I don't know, we might see some prosecutors being murdered or, as Hillary likes to say, suicide.
00:13:31.220But he was going to tell us what he planned for Washington, D.C.
00:13:36.040We believe, according to the reporting, that there will be FBI agents who maybe have already been assigned to help the D.C. police to prevent a violent crime.
00:13:47.420Now, the FBI agents would not be pulling people over and giving them tickets or anything like that, but they might be there to assist.
00:13:55.220And then, separately, Trump is reportedly considering sending the National Guard into D.C., again, for policing, but probably not doing what police do, not arresting people, just being a military presence and maybe an assistant to the police, whatever they need.
00:14:19.500So, Trump seems very determined to make Washington, D.C. a livable city again.
00:14:28.840I feel like this is a 90-10 issue, not even 80-20.
00:14:36.980Now, I saw Christopher Ruffo saying on social media that it's a timing, it's going to be a timing challenge.
00:14:47.480If Trump can solve Washington, D.C. and just clean it up really quickly, then the bad guys won't have time to organize any kind of counter-message and it'll just be over.
00:15:00.740It'll just be a safe place and they'll have to ignore it.
00:15:03.760They'll have to pretend he didn't accomplish that.
00:15:06.620But, if it takes him a while to get his act together, then the bad people might move and maybe slow it down and turn it into, he's being an authoritarian oligarchy guy, or as I call it, an author-ogarchy.
00:15:30.340But, it does seem to me that there would be very few people who would complain about making the streets safer.
00:15:41.280Apparently, the big problem, I don't know if you knew this, but in Washington, D.C., if you're a minor and you get caught stealing a car, you're basically, you don't even get it on your record, I think.
00:16:24.160So, I'm watching, or listening to, I guess, some video of RFK Jr., and have you noticed that just very recently, and I mean maybe only the last week, has his voice improved?
00:16:43.580Because I heard a video of him talking where he had the raspiness he always has, but he didn't have all that catch in his voice, where his voice would fall apart.
00:16:57.580It feels like he's taking it up to the next level, and I was sure that he could.
00:17:05.440I was fairly sure that if he changed his voice production technique, that he could smooth that out.
00:17:12.940And I'm wondering, a couple of possibilities.
00:17:17.360One is that they're using AI on the video, which would be very smart, by the way, because they could clone his voice and then just dub his own voice in over his own voice.
00:17:30.380And having the imperfect voice just replaced with an AI version of a perfect one.
00:17:35.700I feel like they could do that, like, really easily with AI.
00:17:40.320So, it might be that, because none of them were live.
00:21:31.900He over-gerrymandered his state to completely remove power from one side.
00:21:37.600And that's why he's complaining about taxes.
00:21:39.860And so what does he do when he's challenged and he's on camera and it's live and he has to answer to doing exactly, exactly the thing that he's on camera to complain about the other people doing?
00:24:53.900They like saying that other people aren't talking about them enough.
00:25:00.100They like saying that Republicans are stealing from them.
00:25:04.020They like saying that Democrats need to focus on them more.
00:25:08.000They like to say that they need to fight harder for the working class people.
00:25:15.240But what they don't say ever is what the hell they're going to do for the working class people.
00:25:22.120And when they do, it's being said by Kami Mondami.
00:25:26.600And everybody who knows anything about anything says, well, those are the worst ideas I've ever heard in my life.
00:25:33.340It's amazing to me that the Democrats even have a party.
00:25:38.000Like who goes to the party, the political party, and they don't have a single policy recommendation for the core group that they all believe that everybody's ignoring too much except for them.
00:27:24.600It's why they say Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party.
00:27:29.600It's just all they're trying to do is find a way to smear him by association because they don't have enough actual policy preferences that would be better than whatever the hell he's doing.
00:27:43.480So, no, I'm not going to read that, Wall Street Journal.
00:28:50.340Did they cancel some power plants or something?
00:28:54.960There must be more to this story, but I didn't see it.
00:28:59.020Anyway, but apparently New Jersey in general is getting more expensive.
00:29:03.860So, besides that, property taxes are up 6%.
00:29:09.120Now, given that 60% of the country is living paycheck to paycheck, the numbers I just gave you, these are all the things that a middle-class family just has to have.
00:29:30.920They have to pay for gas, they have to pay for gas, they have to have electricity, they have to have health care.
00:29:35.540And these increases for New Jersey would make it completely unlivable for the middle class.
00:29:45.840If they were already right, if they were already right at the edge, 60% of them could just barely get to the next paycheck, how in the world do they all handle insurance up 17%, health insurance up 19%, etc., etc., tripling of your electric costs?
00:30:04.320How in the world do they all handle insurance up 19% of your electric costs?
00:30:05.320How in the world can they afford that?
00:30:08.060Something's getting ready to tip really hard, and I don't think it's just voting.
00:30:15.140There will certainly be some voting changes, I would hope, but I don't understand how New Jersey can even still be a viable state with these increases.
00:30:29.320Like, actually, I don't know how they can be a viable state.
00:30:34.460There must be something going on that I don't know about.
00:30:40.940There's been a lot of chatter online about who invented slavery and the history of slavery.
00:30:46.800And I saw a post that says that there was some survey that found out that most Hispanic, Black, and Asian women think that, quote, white people invented slavery.
00:31:02.020Is there even one person who's watching this podcast, even one, out of many thousands at this point?
00:31:10.620I'll bet there's not one of you who believes that white people invented slavery.
00:31:31.160And the movement against it, according to Thomas Sowell, was not until the Quakers and some other religious groups went after it in the 18th century.
00:32:17.940I don't care what anybody, any strangers' relatives were doing hundreds of years ago.
00:32:25.660Are you telling me that I should be somehow taxed or pay some money or something for something that strangers' relatives did hundreds of years ago?
00:32:39.980I don't care who's relatives, whether they're mine or anybody else's.
00:32:46.940So I care about what's happening today and now.
00:32:49.740And it might be true that there's, you know, some groups that are disadvantaged because of the history of slavery, to which I say, I don't care.
00:33:51.680So apparently NVIDIA and AMD, the chip makers, agreed with Trump to provide the U.S. with 15% of revenue from their chip sales to China in return for the U.S. government removing export controls on those high-end chips.
00:34:16.340So, once again, if this is true, so this is this morning's reporting, but if this is true, Trump has once again monetized a problem that was unsolvable.
00:34:32.920The unsolvable problem was that we could try to prevent China from getting these chips, but they were going to get them anyway.
00:34:40.960So they would just, you know, get them through cutouts and illegal ways, and then maybe they would just, you know, try harder to replace them with their own homegrown chips.
00:34:52.100So Trump realizing, here I'm just speculating what he was thinking, Trump realizing that you can't really stop China from getting the chips.
00:35:02.320You know, you could work really hard at it, you could ban them, but they're going to get the chips.
00:35:06.060So instead, he simply says, all right, you can sell them chips, but you have to give 15% to the government.
00:35:41.960You know, even, you can look at the individual situations and say, I don't like that one, or I don't like that one.
00:35:48.160But I kind of love what he's doing to reframe the role of the government.
00:35:55.560That if the government is part of your success, well, the government gets a taste.
00:36:01.440And you and I are the government, right?
00:36:03.320So, why should you and I pay a bunch of taxes for our American defense and American government, but it's just going to help some company that I don't own stock in?
00:36:36.940Well, Mexico's president is taking the side of Venezuela's Maduro, who has been attacked by Trump and the administration as being a terrorist and a drug trafficker.
00:36:55.180And he's being accused by the U.S. government of being a leader of the Cartel de las Soles, which is responsible for drug trafficking.
00:37:07.580Now, I've never really seen this before.
00:37:28.820Because once you say the guy's the head of a cartel, it feels like there's nothing that we wouldn't be willing to do to him.
00:37:37.960So, if Maduro gets, let's say, taken out, you shouldn't be too surprised, right?
00:37:49.320China has been, they began construction on the world's biggest hydropower project, water power.
00:37:58.160Apparently, there's this enormous river in China, and they've got this almost unimaginably ambitious project to conquer it and turn it into an energy supply.
00:39:32.980We're going as hard as we can on rare earth, and they're going as hard as they can on energy, because we live in this big connected world.
00:39:41.340And I hate to say it, but it's the economic requirement that we all have to live off of each other that probably keeps us from going to war.
00:39:51.980I'm a little bit afraid if the big powers become self-sufficient with everything, because if we don't have a little bit of dependence on those other countries, it's going to be kind of easier to get into a war.
00:41:37.220So, I don't know why it's happening everywhere.
00:41:40.020So, there's a deeper mystery to the lack of babies.
00:41:43.780And I would say again, that if the problem is the cost of living, that we should build freedom cities that are optimized for having a family.
00:41:57.800Because I've told you this a number of times, but until it gets solved, I'll just keep saying it.
00:42:05.140The ultimate place to live, if you have a young family, is where there are other young families.
00:42:12.720And you can't do better than that, because you can take turns watching kids, and, you know, they have sleepovers with your friend, et cetera.
00:42:22.800So, it's way easier to raise kids if you're around other people raising kids.
00:42:28.160So, if you build a freedom city that's optimized for a low cost of living and a high quality contact with other people in the same age range and same interests, it would be amazing.
00:42:42.760You know, it would just be, you just need approvals, basically.
00:42:47.080Apparently, colleges are having a tough time scrambling to fill their roles because of all the foreign students who are staying home or have been banned from their colleges.
00:43:03.000And apparently, it's a pretty big deal.
00:43:07.900There's going to be a 30 to 40 percent decline in new international student enrollment.
00:43:13.060So, 150,000 fewer international students in this country.
00:43:18.980So, people who are much deeper on the wait list, in other words, people who didn't get in, will be getting it.
00:44:39.160And he says that, Zelensky says, that the constitution of Ukraine prevents him from even having that conversation.
00:44:49.280Because he doesn't have the power to give anything away.
00:44:51.580Now, will Trump come back and say, I got a deal.
00:44:57.160And your part of the deal is you got to do a constitutional convention and vote on whether or not we can end the war by giving away this property.
00:45:45.120Well, Israel bombed an Al Jazeera reporter who was in Gaza and killed him as well as four of his co-workers who were also Al Jazeera reporters.
00:46:01.460Because they said that the one guy, they said the one guy was actually a Hamas operator.
00:46:10.480Now, I don't know if that's true, but they killed him and his whole team.
00:48:49.940The only thing I have to say about that is that I try not to impose my own ethical or moral standard on a situation which does not operate in ethics or morality.
00:49:02.060It's purely the self-interest of the countries.
00:49:05.880And if I observe that Israel is effectively pursuing their own national self-interest,