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00:06:12.320But what I was going to say is that half of those schools have equitable grading.
00:06:17.180So, how do you suppose the students in those schools do when they know they don't have to do the homework and they can retake all the tests?
00:06:28.700Well, it turns out that they'll do terrible.
00:06:30.760So, equitable grading is just another way that probably the teachers' union is destroying the country, if not the whole world.
00:06:41.780Well, there's a problem, as you know, with fake science.
00:06:51.660And part of it is that there's fake science, but there's also fake scientific journals.
00:06:59.800Especially useful for other countries where they don't have as much, you know, I guess, infrastructure built out for science.
00:07:09.360There are these fake publications that will say, if you give us $1,000, we will publish your paper and tell people it was peer-reviewed, even though they don't actually peer-review it.
00:07:23.540So, a whole bunch of papers, like a lot of them, got published that were not peer-reviewed.
00:07:31.640They were just fake, fake peer-reviewed.
00:07:34.680But, a bunch of computer scientists figured out how to use AI to look for the sketchy ones.
00:07:43.120Now, those would just be the ones who are outright fraud.
00:07:47.740What we also know is that the ones that are not trying to be a fraud, about half of them turn out to be not reproducible studies.
00:08:01.620One is that even if everybody's trying to do the right thing, more than half the time they fail, so that a peer-reviewed paper is just BS.
00:08:11.500On top of that are these massive problems with frauds.
00:08:18.700It's not just like a little thing that happened a few times.
00:08:21.640It's massively integrated with the whole system that there's all these fake publications.
00:08:30.500So, science is halfway to making itself look like guessing.
00:08:37.420And, right now, honestly, science is worse than guessing, because guessing is sort of a coin flip, you know, 50-50.
00:08:48.480But, if you add together all the problems with allegedly peer-reviewed papers, probably more than half of them, you know, as in more than 50%, are fake.
00:09:01.360So, if you think that science is better than guessing, it's the other way around.
00:09:10.180Guessing, if you flipped a coin, you'd be right about half the time, that either the study worked or it didn't work, or they proved their case or they didn't.
00:09:18.800You can't reach 50% with the current scientific process, because there are too many frauds.
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00:10:41.820But, if you want to hear the good news, if you've done a fake scientific study, and you knew it, you knew it was fake, and then you apply to one of the fake scientific journals, I think since both of you would be frauds in that case, it would be peer review.
00:11:04.180Well, there's an article in the Washington Times by Seth MacLachlan, who's talking about, well, the title is that feats of strength become the 2025 limits in Trump's era of masculine politics.
00:11:28.840And it's giving a bunch of anecdotes that are not terribly persuasive, but I think they lead in the right direction.
00:11:37.980You know, P. Hegseth and Bobby Kennedy did the push-ups and everything.
00:13:58.940So, maybe it was just the college effect.
00:14:01.020It won't necessarily spread to every city.
00:14:04.180Well, according to the Gateway Pundit Joel Gilbert is writing, this is so perfect.
00:14:13.300So, you know how Letitia James, she's one of the people who was accused of mortgage fraud for calling her second home also a primary home.
00:14:24.660So, if you're confusing the stories, the Lisa Cook, the Fed chief, is also accused of the same thing.
00:14:34.560So, it's easy to get those two confused.
00:14:37.200But Letitia James allegedly, and I think this is not confirmed, but it was, you know, confirmed enough that the Gateway Punda published it.
00:14:47.320And the idea is that there's a family member who is staying at her secondary home who is wanted by the department of, is wanted by the authorities for, what did she do, charge, what was her crime?
00:15:10.500Letitia James, she's an absconder, whatever that means, is wanted for violating probationary terms.
00:15:20.660So, that would make her sort of a wanted criminal, if you will, in a way.
00:15:26.860And, but the interesting thing is if Letitia James knows that she's wanted by the law and she's harboring her in her home, that would be a crime.
00:15:40.500So, Letitia James, she's, she's really going to regret that she wouldn't have to drop.
00:15:50.080You know, the, the thing about, you know, what they always say, if you make a, if you try to kill the king, you better make sure it succeeds.
00:15:59.820Because if the king finds out you took a run at him, it's going to be pretty bad.
00:16:05.480So, that's what, that's what Letitia James is learning.
00:16:11.200That if you decide to lawfare the president, you better get the job done.
00:16:34.860Well, apparently, there's what's being called a gold rush for podcast stars.
00:16:41.540So, so you already know that left-leaning podcasters are getting paid by some big dark money group that, you know, wants to, wants to make sure they have their own Joe Rogan, but they can't get one.
00:16:57.000So, they're going to pay a bunch of much lesser Joe Rogans and see if they can add them all together, I guess.
00:17:03.240And then there are some big media companies that apparently are talking to some big podcasters to see if they can kind of bring them under their brand and pay them way too much, millions of dollars.
00:17:15.960Apparently, Sean Ryan, reportedly, is talking to some media entity that would pay him millions of dollars.
00:17:25.520And so, apparently, being a popular podcaster is a real good way to make millions of dollars.
00:17:33.240Unless, unless you've been canceled for a rant, I'll tell you again that nobody's ever tried to bribe me.
00:18:26.240But no matter how independent they're supposed to be, there's going to be some clause in their contract that they can't have, you know, Hitler as a guest or whatever it is.
00:18:35.880So, there's always going to be a little bit of, you know, independence lost if you're part of a big deal.
00:18:43.860But I do not begrudge anybody who takes, let's say, $10 million when they get offered.
00:18:57.340Well, Tucker Carlson had some expert on his speaking of podcasts talking about antidepressants and mental health.
00:19:09.320And what this expert, whose name I did not write down, was saying that if you studied people who are depressed and you, you know, look at their blood and their chemistry, it all looks normal.
00:19:25.080So, they don't actually have less serotonin.
00:19:30.760So, apparently, the experts don't really know what causes somebody to be depressed.
00:19:39.840And according to this guy, he says that they just sort of give up and say, well, just tell people it's a chemical imbalance because we assume it is.
00:19:50.080But nobody knows what chemical might be imbalanced.
00:19:52.560If you did, then you could give somebody whatever is the part that's missing, in theory, and it might fix them.
00:19:59.700But nobody can identify any chemical imbalance that you could fix.
00:20:06.200Now, I have a hypothesis, which I checked with Grock, just to make sure it wasn't crazy.
00:20:14.060So, Grock did not confirm my hypothesis, but it's one I've had for a long time.
00:24:45.960But how many think that porn is the reason that, uh, there's less real world sex?
00:24:52.660Um, I wonder if it doesn't work the other way around.
00:24:56.920As in, if you've decided to not have real world sex, or you're unable to get it, are you just going to go without?
00:25:06.460Or are you going to say, well, at least I can fall back on this.
00:25:10.740So, I've got a feeling that a lack of access to sex is one of the things that makes people look at porn.
00:25:19.320Um, you know, if, if you could have sex three times a day with your favorite partners or partner, how much porn would you even be interested in?
00:25:30.360I mean, you might, you might like a little just for a change of pace or something, but it's not going to, you're not going to be obsessed with it.
00:25:39.880Anyway, maybe it's the phone usage too.
00:25:52.440So, we know now that the, uh, dark money, as I mentioned, is going from, uh, Democrats to a variety of, um, left-leaning podcasters.
00:26:03.800And, uh, data Republican figured out, you know, where the money's coming from.
00:26:09.340And you can see it flowing through and getting to the podcasters.
00:26:12.440I don't believe that that exists for Republicans, right?
00:26:17.720I believe that Republicans get their influencers the honest way, which is somebody just is good at what they do and they became a good influencer.
00:26:26.760Why is it that only one side of politics has legitimate, organic, talented influencers and the other side doesn't have any unless they're paid and even they're not breaking through.
00:26:59.400Uh, so I guess, uh, David Pakman is allegedly one of the people who's getting paid to be a podcaster.
00:27:09.680Uh, they say, well, speaking of sketchy things, um, apparently there was a ex-postal, uh, employee who was in charge of being a postal investigator.
00:27:24.460So his job was to investigate, uh, mail fraud.
00:27:29.100Um, do you want to take a guess of what, what happened with the guy whose job it is to investigate mail fraud?
00:27:40.300Part of his job is to figure out when somebody was being scammed with a mail scam, uh, which ones of those letters coming from the people being scammed would have cash in them.
00:27:54.380Because apparently there's a scam where they get old people probably to mail them cash just through the mail.
00:28:01.000So the investigator told the, the, the people to look for certain kinds of mail.
00:28:07.220That would have cash in it because they were victims of a scam.
00:28:11.380And then he told them instead of delivering the cash to the fraudster, they should give all the envelopes with the cash to the U.S. postal inspector.
00:30:10.360I, it doesn't look like it's, you know, necessarily deadly or anything, but I'm concerned.
00:30:18.260Um, but he was asked, uh, recently by the, the daily caller, I think, uh, Reagan Reese asked Trump, uh, if he'd be bothered if, uh, James Comey and John Brennan, uh, got handcuffed and arrested for their role in Russiagate and maybe other things.
00:30:38.980And Trump said, would not bother me at all.
00:30:42.600Now, uh, and then he went on to say that four years ago or during his first term, um, you know, that he sort of shut down the law fair.
00:30:53.060Uh, and he explained how, you know, Hillary Clinton obviously could have been, you know, arrested for something.
00:30:58.960And he decided to not let that happen.
00:31:02.720But then now, now that we know so much about Russiagate and we know what all the bad people did pretty, pretty reliably.
00:31:11.360And specifically, we know what they did.
00:31:13.400And you can see, you know, the entire structure of the, uh, the coup attempt.
00:31:21.020And, uh, I feel like what Trump's doing is softening up the room.
00:31:26.840I feel like, you know, one of the things you need to do is make sure there are lots of news stories about the things that, that his, uh, enemies did.
00:31:45.020Because if you just went, you know, hog wild and, and had your people arrest all of your critics, there's no way the country would put up with that.
00:31:55.300So first, he has to make sure that everybody's at least aware that there are credible reports of all these people doing illegal things.
00:32:07.260Now that doesn't mean you necessarily would arrest them all.
00:32:10.460But I feel like then the next thing would be for him to make you think about it.
00:32:15.320So when he says stuff like it wouldn't, like it wouldn't bother me at all, you can really now visualize, you know, Brennan and Clapper and maybe even Obama literally in handcuffs, you know, being taken to the car, the perp walk.
00:32:31.580Now, that doesn't mean it will turn out that way.
00:32:34.640But it does mean that if you've seen the stories in the press, which has happened, and then you also, you also talk about it so that people imagine it like it's already happened.
00:32:49.900And knowing that the wheels of justice are kind of slow.
00:32:54.920So if you imagine those guys getting arrested, and you just keep imagining it for months, and then one day you turn on the TV and you see the thing you've been imagining for months.
00:33:08.600Yeah, if you're a Democrat, you're definitely going to pretend to have some feelings about that.
00:33:15.240But all your feelings will have sort of been dissipated by the fact that you've been thinking about it for months.
00:33:21.840And it hadn't happened, and by the time it does, you will have heard a million times what they're accused of, and you'll know that there are documents to back it up.
00:33:30.740So I feel as though the Trump administration, and Trump in particular, they have softened up the environment just right.
00:33:40.780Meaning that I believe that they can arrest these people if they have the goods, and that the country would complain, but it's got a lot on its plate.
00:33:52.000So as long as Trump is ending crime and closing the border and getting some tariff deals done, I think that the country is ready to see some of these bad guys arrested.
00:37:59.580So, whoever gets to have the most influence on the rules of voting, somewhat reliably will be in charge.
00:38:07.660So, given that Trump has a majority in the Supreme Court, in theory, he can bend the rules and get away with it, with the Supreme Court's approval,
00:38:22.920until he's just got a dominant control position for the Republicans, which would be for them to lose.
00:39:14.640So, that the rules changes are the determinative factors.
00:39:19.500So, anyway, that's the world you live in.
00:39:22.760It's certainly not any kind of democratic republic or anything close to it.
00:39:27.080The Wall Street Journal is talking about the middle class squeeze, which means financially.
00:39:35.820And, of course, people have been talking about that for a number of years now, because the middle class keeps getting hollowed out.
00:39:42.840But I feel like it may be reaching some kind of a breaking point, finally.
00:39:50.480Because unless rent does go down a lot, and food prices do go down a lot, and somebody figures out how to do child care.
00:40:00.660By the way, why does child care cost so much?
00:40:03.360Are there really no retired grandmas who would take, you know, three kids and charge you a fraction of what the professionals are charging?
00:40:13.740There's just, there's no way to work that out?
00:40:34.320I feel like there's some big response coming.
00:40:38.580And it will be something like, I talk about this endlessly, some kind of a Lego house that you can build yourself, so that the cost of building is really low.
00:40:47.820Or, some kind of arrangement, where people who want to have babies are in good shape.
00:41:05.160We'll fix that whole middle class problem.
00:41:07.800So, one of the people who got ousted from the CDC, I forget if he was fired or he quit in protest.
00:41:21.400But anyway, he was the CDC vaccine chief, Dmitry Daskalakis, who apparently had a very colorful personal life, which is documented in social media.
00:41:33.360And, you know, I won't get into it because I'm not judgy.
00:41:38.140But I have to say, he's an interesting guy.
00:41:43.220His social life looks like it's more interesting than yours, I will say.
00:41:49.240But he said that the crux of his concern about the CDC is that the data coming out soon will be showing that, quote, something is causing autism and that it will be blamed on vaccines.
00:42:31.220But do you believe that RFK Jr. would find it to his advantage to give the country fake science and then kill people by taking away their vaccines that hypothetically could be totally safe or safe enough?
00:42:53.080I'm very curious what is going to come out of this.
00:42:56.720To me, one of the biggest stories of the year will be when Kennedy comes out and says, well, we may not have every answer, but we have determined and we're positive that this or that or this is causing autism.
00:43:12.240That is going to be really, really a big deal.
00:43:19.540Because for one thing, it might open up somebody to lawsuits, right?
00:43:24.700If he finds out there's something in the food supply, whoever makes that thing or sells that thing, they got some, you're going to have to answer some questions.
00:43:36.560Anyway, so back to the story of Lisa Cook, the Fed governor that's Trump fired, but she says she's not fired because he can't do that.
00:43:46.980So she's like Schrodinger's cat of Fed governors.
00:44:16.140And I've always enjoyed his commentary because he does the best job of taking the politics and the bias out of the legal discussion, which means somewhat frequently he will say something that sounds unambiguously like you heard it on Fox News.
00:44:38.240Now, that's a compliment because it means that he's just following the law where the law goes.
00:44:45.220And so he's not like, oh, we got double cats.
00:44:48.860I thought that was Gary, but that was Roman.
00:44:55.480So Ellie Honig is talking about Lisa Cook and does find that her activities with her mortgage, which, again, is that two homes and calling them both the primary resident.
00:45:14.380So he does say that's kind of sketchy, and he thinks that a judge might agree with Trump, that her behavior is within the domain of the president to decide if she's gone too far and that's cause for removal.
00:45:31.540So he's not saying that Trump is right.
00:45:34.240He's saying that the argument is strong enough that he can easily imagine a judge siding with Trump.
00:47:23.060I mean, you literally have to risk your life and your freedom to make a difference in any of the immigration or that stuff.
00:47:34.180But also, there are reports, so maybe this is all related, that for the first time in modern history, according to the Wall Street Journal,
00:47:45.280populist conservative parties are leading the polls in all three of Europe's biggest economies, the UK, France, and Germany.
00:54:54.880Or were they just, you know, they were bad guys, but we had to work with them to win a war?
00:55:01.960There's not really an analogy for that.
00:55:06.540Can you think of any situation in which the two leaders who genuinely tried to kill each other and essentially did great damage to each other's countries?
00:55:17.820Can you put them in the room without anybody else?
00:55:58.740Well, did you know that more than 60%, according also New York Post is writing about this, more than 60% of Gen Zs, the American Gen Zs, support Hamas over Israel?
00:56:16.20060% of Gen Z supports Hamas, not just the Palestinians, but Hamas.
00:57:03.820Separately, but related, the Israeli government is reportedly, according to people who have knowledge of the inside conversations, the Israeli government is reportedly debating annexing part of the occupied West Bank.
00:57:19.980And it might be a big part, like 60% of it or something.
00:57:23.680To which I say, as I always remind you, I don't have advice for Israel.
00:58:13.220Whether or not annexing the West Bank and making sure that there's never a two-state solution – and if it is, that the second state is just a little bit of a nothing.
00:58:25.140So no matter whether you think that's a good idea or a bad idea, I'll tell you what is true.
00:58:32.240There's never been a better time to do it.
00:58:44.480But there's definitely not going to be a better time to do that bad idea.
00:58:50.580So if they feel lucky, and I don't know if they do, they might make a run at it.
00:58:56.940If I had to predict, I'll predict that they don't.
00:59:01.920I'll predict that they debate it, but decide the risk is too high because they need to wrap up Gaza.
00:59:09.560They can't – probably don't want to open up a whole, you know, extra can of worms right now.
00:59:15.620So at the same time, it's no better time for them to do it.
00:59:21.980And the reason I say that is that their reputation is so bad already, if the Gen Zs are 60% in favor of Hamas, that it's not going to get much worse.
00:59:31.360And there's so much happening there that it's a good sort of confusing environment where there's too much to talk about.
00:59:41.680Well, then you can sneak in the stuff that people don't like because there's just so much to talk about that people don't like that there's just one more thing.