Episode 2992 CWSA 10⧸18⧸25
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1 hour and 4 minutes
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137.02528
Summary
A quick update from a recent medical scan where I had to endure the worst pain of my life and not move for 20 minutes in order to get a chance to try a new cancer drug called Pluvicto, and it was the most painful thing I ve ever experienced.
Transcript
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does anybody see the kings any kings i think it's working no kings here
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all right everybody come in and grab a beverage get a comfortable seat
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if you have a cat or two put them on your lap because this show goes better with a cat on your
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lap good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called
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oh so good so good well i gave an update to my local subscribers but i'll give you a quick update
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yesterday i did a special kind of a medical scan that is specific to test to see if you would be a good
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candidate for this new cancer drug called pluvicto i do not know how to read the results of my tests
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but the results do say that i have high sensitivity to this psma stuff that they put in your body which i
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believe means i'm highly qualified for the drug because they test they test the radioactive drug to
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see if it can reach to all the right places and light them up and apparently it did so i spent 20 minutes
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in a pet scan machine which forced me to lay straight on my back which is insanely painful
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in my particular situation and despite having really good pain meds they made no difference at all
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it was like i didn't have any pain meds at all so for 20 minutes i had to endure the worst pain of my life
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and not move or i would die well let me say that again since this is the only path that i have
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identified that might you know keep you alive for a while if i had moved and therefore ruined the pet scan
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probably i wouldn't have tried it again because it was it wasn't just a little bit painful
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it was monstrously painful i can confidently say it was the worst 20 minutes of my life
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and i doubt it will ever be worse it's the worst thing i've ever experienced in my life and you and
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you have to not move you know so i'm like holding on to this thing trying not to move if i moved a little bit
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i might die because i wouldn't be able to get the treatment
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let me tell you that was no fun at all but you know what is really good you know what is good news
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it's over oh my god does it feel good when it's done you know how when when something's bad happens
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and it feels extra good when it's done imagine the worst pain you've ever felt in your life and then
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when it's over because when it's over it's completely over i mean it takes 60 seconds to get in a position
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that doesn't hurt so what a day anyway so the good news maybe we'll have to see is that i should be
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qualified for the drug and there's a probably a one in three chance it'll make a big difference so we'll
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see well i know that you like to see the reframes from my book reframe your brain changing your life a
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little bit at a time so here's one of the reframes i'll just pick one here randomly
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this is one of my favorites uh one of the usual frames that people think is that the odds of success
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are low whatever it is you're doing you know it doesn't matter what you're doing we often think our
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odds of success are low but uh the reframe is maybe i'm bad at estimating the odds
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because i remember when i went to become a tried to become a cartoonist
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i was told the odds were you know one in ten thousand but it turns out i was bad at estimating
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the odds because i made it and it turns out that it never was one in ten thousand that if you looked
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at all the people who tried to become a cartoonist there might be ten thousand a year who try to
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become professional cartoonists and fail because it's hard but the number of those ten thousand who
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actually could draw a comic and write a joke a dozen so i was really only i was only competing with maybe
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a dozen people in the entire country all the rest wanted to be cartoonists but it you know even you
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could look at their work and say no no this is this is not close so here i thought i was competing with
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10 000 people an almost impossible task probably it was 12. so here's the the reframe is that sometimes
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a task is impossible sometimes you're bad at estimating how possible it is and you have to get those
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clear so that's your uh reframe for the morning i might have another one for you when we're done
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after our uh podcast today owen gregorian will be doing his uh spaces after parties so just look for uh
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owen's space uh after after we're done here tomorrow sunday toward the end of my podcast i'm gonna have a guest
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king randall uh i tried to have king randall on before but i had a little medical emergency when
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i was gonna so anyway but i think it'll work tomorrow if i do it as part of the end of the show
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so what it won't be its own broadcast it'll just be tackled on the end um so probably
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let's look at the news we'll see if there's any uh science that they didn't need to do oh yeah
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did you know that people's views on immigration are shaped by whether they think the immigrants will
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vote the same way they do are you surprised by that is there anybody who didn't know
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that that would be true so apparently if you think the immigrants are going to vote the same
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way your political party votes suddenly you don't mind those immigrants nearly as much
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so do you think that that is something that they needed to study no you didn't need to do a study to
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find out that people like it when people agree with them people like it when people agree with them
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and guess what eric dolan of psypost is writing yet again about psychedelic experiences and apparently
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a brief experience with psychedelics can reduce your lifetime use of cannabis
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yes so apparently uh one of the benefits if you're looking to cut down on your marijuana use
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is that psychedelics might do that for you even with a limited exposure to them you might have a lifetime
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decrease in marijuana use do you think that's a surprise not really because if if you've had
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experience with both of those things you would totally understand why the one would make the other less
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less desirable well apparently the x platform is going to have a whole new recommendation system
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uh in a few weeks elon musk is telling us so at the moment i have no idea why x shows me what it shows
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me i haven't i just can't figure it out it doesn't show me anything i disagree with anymore so x completely
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stopped showing me anything from any left-leaning anything now maybe they all went to blue sky or
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something but i don't get anything that's on the other side of uh of my political opinions never
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so i don't know if that'll change but what they're trying to do is make sure that
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awesome small accounts can get recognized which doesn't happen at the moment
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so i guess and then i guess you'll be able to just talk to grok and uh just tell it
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what to prefer in its algorithm and then it will just do it that's kind of cool
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but grok will literally read every post elon says and watch every video 100 million per day
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that to match users with content they're most likely to find interesting do you think that'll
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make a difference i don't know there have been a lot of changes to algorithms that did not
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did not seem to be doing that but maybe he can pull it off with amex platinum access to exclusive
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speaking of elon um he's one of the people who pointed out and i think jd vance did too
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that in new england um there are six states that have collectively around 40 percent of their population
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votes republican forty percent so six states forty percent of them are republican guess how many
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republican representatives in in congress they have forty percent of six states none they have zero zero
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republicans even though forty percent of six different states are republican and they have
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no representation do you feel bad about redistricting now i don't i don't
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well uh apparently there's a new leonardo dicaprio movie um that's called uh one battle after another
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and my understanding is that the critics like it and the public are saying what kind of uh antifa
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propaganda garbage is this some are saying it's a pro-antifa um movie apparently it's on it's on uh
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it's on a track to lose a hundred million dollars but i think warner brothers disputes that
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so but the public doesn't like it nearly as much as the as the elites well as you know today is the
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no kings rally the no kings organizers think that they might get more than five million people at
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2 500 cities all around the country to march and uh i for one am certainly glad that they're marching for
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keeping the kings away because so far they're doing a great job have there been any kings since the last
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no kings march no no so if the last one worked that well it just makes sense they'd keep doing it
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because you know if something works keep doing it so no kings so far and i think this one's going to work
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too um i'm not feeling any kings emerging so kind of genius it's working it's funny that we even know
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the name of the organizers you know this guy joel pain he's the chief communication officer for move on
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it's one of the organizers so maybe i'm wrong about this but uh give me a fact check on this
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if you do a protest and there's no violence and no threat of violence does anything change in the real
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world answer i don't think so because why would anybody do anything differently if there's no risk
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there's just people marching around why would i change what i'm doing because some people took a
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walk but if a protest looks like it is violent or could be violent do things change sometimes
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because that that would be a signal that whatever they're protesting is so important just so amazingly
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important that people are willing to get violent over it so the no kings thing is aggressively non-violent
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right is there any chance that will make a difference in any way on any topic i think the answer is no
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there's no there's no way it could there's not even there's not even an argument about how these set
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of actions could have a ripple effect that would cause something good to happen there's not there's
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not even a case right it's just completely disconnected from anything in the real world it's just people
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marching around and getting paid so i think the organizers get paid that's why they organize it
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some of the protesters get paid and some of the protesters are going to be probably you know bad
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people trying to make bad things happen so you're gonna fake protesters and your fake uh completely
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useless protest anyway um i asked grok what would be some of the examples of what the trump administration
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is doing that would look like authoritarianism which would cause the entire country to want to do a no
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kings uh kind of uh protest so what exactly are the complaints here are the things that grok said that
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doesn't mean it's right this is just coming from one ai firing prosecutors and inspector generals is
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that authoritarian firing prosecutors doesn't it matter if the prosecutors were doing their job that
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they were asked to do if you fired them for no reason maybe that would be bad but suppose you
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fired them because you asked them to do something and they were democrats so they decided not to do it
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is that authoritarian to fire somebody for not doing what you asked them to do for their job
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doesn't feel like it how about uh the law fairing of uh john bolden and comey well as far as we can
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tell those are real crimes and at least comey was trying to overthrow the government allegedly
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and uh and bolden apparently was uh accusing trump of all the same things that he was doing at the same
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time he was accusing him in terms of mishandling of classified information so is that authoritarian to
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to uh to uh to indict bolton when the crimes look really sort of obvious like you know maybe as a
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defense but what we know looks like a crime to me and comey's the same thing uh grok also said that
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part of the authoritarian vibe is that the hyper macho military the hegseth and trump are making the
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military hyper macho is that authoritarian or is that just what a military should be
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shouldn't a military be hyper macho even if you have women in the military shouldn't it still be
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hyper macho i don't know and then there's the issue of the national guard in cities um because they would
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be let's say walking on or ignoring the local government's preferences but correct me if i'm
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wrong the national guard is only guarding federal federal assets and if the local people say no no we
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don't need help then they don't do it right i don't know if any case where the national guard is
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doing what the locals said don't do except protecting federal assets as far as i know
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then there's the uh the law faring with the doj which i'm totally in favor of as long as they're
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law faring the lawfarers and the insurrectionists which they are
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um grok says that trump is punishing critics is he well a lot of people getting fired but that feels
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like what happens on both sides you know don't don't the democrats fire republicans when they take power
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it's sort of ordinary and uh let's see grok says the authoritarianism included cia ops in venezuela
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well really i mean don't we have cia ops in other countries especially south america like all the time
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with every government is that is that some new thing uh then there's a rhetoric the rhetoric is macho
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according to grok and uh and uh grok also thinks that the administration is uh let's say
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misbehaving or disobeying the courts but it's doing it by foot dragging and workarounds and you know
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nothing illegal but but that it's not kind of coordinating and and uh obeying the courts as much
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as it could now which one of those things seems real do any of those feel real to you
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they don't feel real to me it just feels like list persuasion yeah i've told you about list persuasion
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if you don't have a good reason put a bunch of bad reasons on the list and people will get the
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impression well you know i i don't know about anyone any one of those reasons but there's so many i mean
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it's a list so there must be something to it because it's a whole list doesn't work that way list
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persuasion is persuasive even if everything on the list is bs and i don't know i i can see how they can
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cobble together a vibe but no this doesn't look like anybody's becoming a king to me
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now compare this to what democrats believed let's say even a year ago were their most important issues
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okay so so a year ago most important issues uh whatever's happening in israel and gaza
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but now they just are sort of ignoring that so i guess that's not important now uh climate change
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there was a i'll tell you there's an article in wall street journal saying that the democrats have
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backed off from climate change so it was an existential threat last year and for 20 years before that but
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suddenly yeah yeah they're not going to pay much attention to it now from existential threat biggest
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threat in the world to yeah let's de-emphasize this then there was the uh the big issue of uh anybody
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questioning our elections was a insurrectionist just just even questioning the but now it's uh even you
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know kathy griffin and um some other prominent democrats are questioning whether the elections
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are rigged or not so they went from you cannot even question to questioning complete reversal from there's
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no way that these elections are rigged to hey you republicans are going to rig these elections
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then there was the open borders which were terribly important to keep open
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but now they're closed and don't hear a lot about it there were the coveted shots that
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were just the everybody had to get them but now not so much and then there was the everything has to
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be trans and now not so much so so they got rid of all the things that they were worried about
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all the big things all the big things and i guess you could throw in tariffs
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it wasn't that long ago that tariffs were like the big big problem and uh elon musk being in doge was
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the big big problem both of them just went away so elon started working on tesla again and uh
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uh they just sort of let go those things that they were trying to sell us as the most important
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problems in the world were never problems so what did they do they have to come up with a whole new
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imaginary thing to bitch about and it's this whole uh authoritarian king thing
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everything they do is imaginary everything that trump does is measurable
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is is there still a war in ukraine yes we could measure that yeah how's the economy doing we can
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measure that so everything trump does is measurable everything that the democrats are jabbering about
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seems like conceptual because they don't really have anything they don't have anything real
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anyway um antifa is apparently or did you know that antifa is a real organization not what the democrats
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say they say antifa is imaginary so they think that the real stuff is imaginary and the imaginary stuff is
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real uh but antifa the parts that are not imaginary uh are asking for antifa people to embed with the no
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kings thing to make it a little bit more let's say less safe because they want to they want to reinforce
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the fact that antifa is not a not a safe organization even if the no kings people are mostly about non-violence
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so we're going to have this weird situation where you're going to have fake protesters
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because they're paid protesters they're going to be um possibly
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this is pretty funny so the protesters themselves will be mostly fakes because a lot of them are just
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paid protesters but antifa is going to maybe penetrate the fake protesters with fake protesters
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so the fake protesters might be uh penetrated with other fake protesters and then on top of that
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some of you can imagine that the fbi is going to send some fake protesters too i don't think so but maybe
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so you have a fake issue that somebody's worried about a king completely artificial fake issue
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you've got your fake protesters and then on top of that there might be some fakes pretending to be the fakes
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yeah if you ever wanted a stronger indication that we've entered the golden age this is it
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can you imagine anything better than waking up and your biggest problem
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is that democrats think they're fighting an imaginary king and and that all the protesters are fake
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it's the best it's the best you can imagine because it means we don't have any real problems that we're not
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dealing with in some creative way i feel like trump with with the exception i'm gonna say health care
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health care stands out as something that's not dealt with by either side but if you take health care off
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the table maybe you shouldn't but everything else looks like it's sort of getting handled
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as best they can you know even the war in ukraine it's not over but obviously we're putting the
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the right kind of attention on it so it's like everything's being handled except health care that's
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it that's all they have so john bolton has been indicted as you know so now it's official apparently
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what he was doing is he was taking notes from meetings and then including them on his aol account
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would you like me to make a joke about aol and john bolton using aol are you ready for this
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instead of you've got mail you've got jail all right maybe not we'll see but um
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a lot of people are saying that the bolton situation is just like trump so why did trump
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get away with having those classified things when uh bolton might not get away with it and the answer is
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is don't be an analogy thinker it's not a good analogy bolton was not the president of the united
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states he had no authority ever to have classified stuff at his house or his office trump was the
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president of the united states and was the ultimate decider of what was classified and what was not
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trump now this is yeah i'm saying this is his defense i wasn't there but his defense is that if
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he says it's unclassified or even acts like it is it's unclassified because when he was president
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which i agree with actually so no these are not these are not equivalent one had the authority to
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declassify and one never had that authority so i was talking about uh i was actually a politico not
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not the wall street journal so deborah khan writing in politico that trump's victory taught democrats
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about climate change and that climate change is out as a topic and energy affordability is in
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in other words the democrats just found out that everything republicans have been saying forever
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is the right approach that you want energy affordability and ultimately that will get you
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you know better climate and everything else so yes affordability so let me ask you this
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if the democrats thought that was their existential problem climate change and they've all seemingly
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decided to de-emphasized it does that mean it was ever real and did they ever believe it was real
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because how in the world do you go from this is the biggest problem civilization has ever faced
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climate change to why don't we stop talking about it let's let's de-emphasize this and work on energy
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prices doesn't that tell you they never believed it or does it tell you they did believe it but they
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don't anymore because the the data has not performed according to their models which is it
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but it does seem terribly important to understand the world that it went from the biggest problem in the
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world too uh maybe maybe we just you know shouldn't mention it let's let's just down downplay this a
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my goodness all right well mark benioff ceo of uh and founder of salesforce apparently he's apologized
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for agreeing with trump temporarily for just like a minute
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he had to apologize what he agreed on was uh in some conversation somebody asked him
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if he'd ever be in favor of the national guard helping san francisco with their crime and he made
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the mistake let's say a democrat mistake of uh acting like that might be a good idea under the right
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circumstance now under the right circumstance so of course it's not just yes it's you know there might
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be there might be a situation where that makes sense now that is the most reasonable thing
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that any leader could ever say totally reasonable yes if crime is out of control
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i can imagine a situation in which you would want to get it under control temporarily with but he got so
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much pushback he said quote having listened closely to my fellow san franciscans and our local officials
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officials he said i do not um i do not believe uh that i want that all right
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so he got beaten back to his his uh his side sam harris has emerged again and he's being provocative
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so sam thinks that uh the joe rogan style of conversation and podcasts and uh especially when he talks to
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elon musk and podcasts has done in social media uh has amplified misinformation and conspiracy
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thinking and then sam goes further he said and it's frankly getting people killed
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do you believe that things that joe rogan and elon musk have said on the podcast
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uh are in fact getting people killed not just risking not not just putting people at risk but are getting
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people killed do you think that's fair to say you know it might be slightly fair because they do talk
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about important you know health and lifestyle related things and probably there's somebody who made a bad
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decision because of something they heard ivermectin but don't you think that free speech is dangerous
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by its nature why would you pick out these two people as the only one whose free speech is going
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to hurt somebody don't you think that sam harris's free speech would kill people if you were to look at
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all the things that sam harris has promoted versus all the things that elon and joe rogan have promoted
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on podcasts which one do you think you could determine killed the most people i don't know if you can tell
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but if you're if your uh problem with other people's free speech is that it might be dangerous
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i don't know how you can how do you defend that wouldn't you say that things i've said would be
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dangerous right i mean if you're in the podcasting business you sooner or later you're going to say
00:33:54.460
something that is dangerous because somebody's going to take your advice even if you say don't take my
00:34:01.100
advice so i talk about a lot of things and then i say but don't take my advice you know financially or
00:34:07.740
medically but people will you know in the real world people are going to hear me say something
00:34:13.980
and then even right after i say don't take my advice they're going to go take that advice
00:34:19.820
because it feels right to them so will that mean that i kill some people maybe yeah yeah unfortunately
00:34:29.660
if you want to live in a world with free speech and a dynamic podcasting environment which we have
00:34:35.580
people are going to die absolutely now i think that he may he may be a little bit over worried about
00:34:45.420
the size of the risk but i wouldn't say that nobody will ever die because of things they heard on
00:34:52.940
podcasts of course they will it's a big world and there'll be lots of things said and lots of crazy
00:34:59.180
people who believe anything that's sad and yeah of course that there will be situations in which
00:35:05.980
um ordinary podcast conversations lead to people dying
00:35:11.980
but what would you do instead you know it's okay if um somebody like sam harris is raising the alarm
00:35:20.060
because i have also made the criticism that the podcast um model has a problem you've heard me say this
00:35:31.020
before right it's the it's the documentary effect if you put if you put somebody on a three-hour podcast
00:35:39.340
especially a high reputation one like joe rogan's people will believe whatever whatever they say when
00:35:46.300
they're done most people because they would get three hours of one point of view and no hours of
00:35:53.580
the opposing view of course it would be persuasive of course it would um so i've said that for the
00:36:00.460
important topics you know not just the fun ones but for the important topics you pretty much you just
00:36:07.020
gotta have a fact checker there at the same time somebody who would disagree but fact check you as you go
00:36:13.820
well so that at least the at least the viewer has you know a little bit of uh safety you know i
00:36:21.260
suppose ai could do it now you you could say hey ai uh look at this uh interview with joe rogan and
00:36:28.540
some guests and you say what's the pushback but what would the critics say about that podcast that would
00:36:35.820
actually be very useful so so maybe you just need ai maybe you don't need a fact checker as long as you're
00:36:41.900
willing to uh fact check it yourself with ai although half of that would be hallucinated
00:36:50.140
anyway imagine if sam harris had gotten his way and uh he had managed to persuade people to vote
00:36:56.780
against trump and trump had never come into office would more or fewer people die if trump had not been
00:37:05.900
president oh now we're getting into it right i believe that trump's ascendancy to the presidency the
00:37:15.660
second term especially probably will save an immense amount of lives gaza being the the obvious one maybe
00:37:24.940
ukraine if he can get that done so yeah free speech is uh definitely kills some people
00:37:32.140
according to wall street apes i saw this on on x allegedly gofundme uh created over a million ngo pages
00:37:45.340
and was accepting donations without the ngos knowing that they had a page
00:37:54.860
so an ngo is a non-government organization that usually exists to grift money off the government
00:38:02.860
or off of rich guys they made a million of them a million and then put them up there and collected money
00:38:11.820
on it without the without the organizations knowing that they had one where did the money go did they give
00:38:18.700
it to the ngos or do they just keep it i don't know what they did anyway
00:38:26.860
it created uh 1.4 million 501 c3 organizations using public irs data
00:38:35.420
so is it my imagination or is everything that's associated with democrats
00:38:41.580
a complete scam and everything's just money laundering operation it's hard for me to i don't know the the
00:38:52.060
news that i watch is just one democrat organization after another being determined to have stolen millions
00:38:59.980
and sometimes billions of dollars and are any of them republican am i in a bubble
00:39:07.500
am i in a bubble because i can't think of one example where a republican dominated organization
00:39:19.020
turned out to be a complete corrupt you know whatever this is but don't we have situation after
00:39:28.060
situation after situation where it's obvious that the democrat leaders are running just money laundering
00:39:36.700
operations i i actually don't know if that's my imagination so i'm looking for a real an actual fact
00:39:47.100
check it is there a list of republican bad behavior that matches what we've been seeing for the last
00:39:55.100
several years from the democrats or is it really all democrats i can't tell because social media is only
00:40:04.060
giving me one side of the story but at least i'm aware of it i'm at least aware that i've got this big gap
00:40:14.460
in my information i think unless there's nothing there yeah so anytime you find democrats and anything
00:40:23.020
that's funded you could pretty much guarantee it's corrupt and what i'm wondering is is there a way for ai
00:40:29.980
to be the ultimate government auditor seems to me that we're probably at a place where we need to say
00:40:39.740
nobody gets any money for anything if it comes from taxpayers nobody gets any money for anything unless
00:40:47.900
there's an ai automatic audit meaning that ai will monitor everything they spend
00:40:54.460
and then report it in a way that you can connect the expenses to whatever the outcomes are because
00:41:01.500
right now there's just there's just no control over the spending they just give it to some organization
00:41:08.620
and it goes into a black hole and they give it to their friends and spend 10 cents on the cause and
00:41:15.020
nobody even checks but in theory ai could be your automatic always on auditor right so somebody needs to
00:41:26.140
develop some kind of a product maybe a third party product that can automatically audit um any any funded
00:41:35.500
organization we we gotta have that because right now we're just drowning in corruption the corruption is
00:41:42.220
so out of control that there's looks like nothing works i think all of our systems are broken by corruption at this point
00:41:52.780
well george sentos republican who got sentenced to jail for wire fraud and identity theft
00:42:01.660
has been uh has sentenced commuted by president trump i did not hear an argument for why
00:42:08.220
uh so this is one of those ones that makes you scratch your head and say
00:42:14.700
hmm am i am i on the same side with this let's see i'm on the same side with the republicans
00:42:21.820
i'm on the same side with mega usually i'm on the same side with trump
00:42:29.420
but why would i support this am i am i supposed to say that republicans get out of jail for free
00:42:35.260
because why why why does he get out of jail for free now to be fair trump has also commuted sentences
00:42:45.500
for democrats who did real crimes but thought maybe thought the sentence was too much or something
00:42:53.980
so there's there's some there's some noise about maybe he was being mistreated in jail but nobody gets
00:42:59.820
treated well in jail so you know if the thinking here's what i wouldn't want i wouldn't want the
00:43:09.180
thinking behind this to be he's a republican so we're going to get him out of jail i hope that's not the
00:43:15.340
thinking right um i do like trump being protective of his base so i do like commuting all the january 6th
00:43:26.700
stuff including including including some of the people who went way too far i'm in favor of that
00:43:33.660
because that's just protecting his team and i think he has to but this is he protecting the team or is
00:43:41.660
this just a criminal who maybe should have paid his paid his dues he may have been over over
00:43:49.020
sentence compared to other people that could be part of it trump's also uh backing a primary challenger
00:43:57.900
to thomas massey uh i don't love that don't love that um you know i'll reiterate my thomas massey opinion
00:44:08.300
yes he's a gigantic pain in the ass to republicans but just the kind i like
00:44:13.740
you know not everything has to be smooth sometimes you need that alternative voice
00:44:22.300
and massey is insanely brave with his alternative voice and also insanely rational and uh he's almost
00:44:33.900
always on the right side of principle maybe always maybe always on the right side of principle but
00:44:41.660
principle doesn't get the job done right we live in the real world sometimes you just you could have
00:44:48.060
to vote with your team to get anything done you know because it's so close but i would rather keep a
00:44:54.060
massey even at the cost of losing one you know dependable republican vote because i think his voice is too
00:45:02.220
important and we cannot lose it so i will disagree with trump but i understand why he wants his people to vote
00:45:10.460
you know for him everybody understands you know we can understand both sides of this situation
00:45:20.220
well there's a meeting with trump and putin coming up in uh in what country bulgaria or someplace i don't
00:45:29.020
hungry one of those countries over there that i always get confused so that's we don't have a specific date i don't think
00:45:36.940
but uh trump thinks that maybe maybe we're at a point where talking to putin could get something done
00:45:45.740
now cleverly as you know zelensky with two y's um do you know why zelensky his name is spelled with two y's
00:45:55.740
at the end of his zelensky it's because that's what that's what everybody asks when they hear him
00:46:02.620
zelensky why why why okay um anyway so zelensky wants these tomahawk missiles that only the u.s can
00:46:16.860
supply and they would give him range to go way into russia and bomb their energy infrastructure and
00:46:24.540
whatever else so trump is not eager to uh make things worse but he did once again trump did his
00:46:35.180
trump thing where he created an asset and of nothing so the asset out of nothing is oh we might we might
00:46:42.540
give ukraine these tomahawks any minute yep we might any minute you want to talk oh oh you'd like to talk
00:46:51.820
so putin wants to talk now because trump has created this asset that didn't exist before which is maybe
00:47:00.540
maybe i'm going to give ukraine some tomahawk missiles and you're really going to be fucked up
00:47:06.700
so he creates that risk and asset to trade away and then he schedules the meeting
00:47:14.460
pure trump do you think that biden would have done that probably not
00:47:20.060
because he wasn't smart enough he just literally wasn't smart enough you create the asset and then
00:47:27.020
you talk and then you trade away the asset it's a real asset when i say he created the asset i don't
00:47:33.580
mean it's imaginary it's a real asset he really could and maybe even probably will give these tomahawks to
00:47:42.780
ukraine eventually i i feel like if if literally nothing comes out of this meeting i think ukraine's
00:47:51.100
going to get tomahawks what do you think i think they will because trump's not gonna what what is he
00:47:57.740
going to do just say well we tried i don't think so i think he's going to say if if we can't get it done
00:48:06.940
with this level of mutual threat i'm going to increase the mutual threat and then we'll try again
00:48:14.300
so who knows what he's thinking internally but if you're potent you would have to worry that the
00:48:19.980
tomahawks are definitely coming if you blow this meeting uh do you think do you think uh pudin's risk
00:48:29.420
management would allow him to take a chance on those tomahawks coming online i don't know that'd be
00:48:37.980
pretty that'd be a pretty big risk for pudin i don't think he likes that kind of risk that that would
00:48:44.380
be a little bit more than he might want to take on because the correct me if i'm wrong but the tomahawks
00:48:49.980
could just turn off the power in in russia right if you had if you had a thousand tomahawks all of
00:48:56.780
a sudden you don't think you could take out the entire energy infrastructure of russia right before
00:49:03.020
the winter i bought i'll bet you could logically you would imagine that russia could turn off ukraine's
00:49:10.460
power too but would they they probably would if if they got attacked that hard
00:49:20.860
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well malibu is looking to arrest homeless people over fire risks because i guess the homeless have
00:49:57.980
started lots of 30 fires um usually not intentionally i guess they're just starting fires to stay warm but
00:50:05.820
things get out of control some of them probably intentional but uh malibu now is uh not as blue as
00:50:12.700
it used to be now maybe it wants those those uh homeless people to not be so dangerous we'll see where that
00:50:20.380
goes um there's something strange happening with venezuela and the u.s so trump says that madura has
00:50:30.060
quote offered everything meaning that we're negotiating with venezuela through some channels i don't know
00:50:37.420
but that uh venezuela has reportedly offered to give the u.s a dominant stake in venezuela's oil and other
00:50:47.100
mineral wealth what what how is that even a real thing are you serious that venezuela is trying to
00:50:58.860
buy its way out of trouble by giving the u.s equity in its natural resources i didn't see that coming
00:51:07.420
is that even real well here's what i think won't work which is it looks like a here's how i interpret
00:51:17.980
it so this is just my interpretation my interpretation is maduro knows he has no chance of survival
00:51:24.860
because once he's been determined to be a cartel head as opposed to a legitimate head of state
00:51:31.900
they can just take him out and they know that trump is someone who won't hesitate to take out a terrorist
00:51:41.180
head or the head of the cartel so maduro is probably saying okay i got you know i got four weeks to stay
00:51:48.860
alive basically i'm gonna have to offer whatever it takes for them not to kill me specifically right
00:51:57.580
because i'm pretty sure that they would do a decapitation strike i don't think they would go
00:52:02.220
in and try to grind it out and beat the military that seems like a bad idea but they would definitely
00:52:08.300
know where maduro is and they would definitely be able to put a drone on his ass anytime they wanted
00:52:14.060
so maduro is probably thinking all right i gotta come up with something that can keep me alive for the
00:52:20.220
next month because it's not looking good so he may have promised venezuela's assets to keep him in power
00:52:30.540
which is a pretty smart offer because you know that trump would want to you know he'd want to claim
00:52:37.180
success he'd want an economic bump but it's not good enough because maduro would still be the head of a
00:52:47.100
cartel and a terrorist organization according to the united states so i don't think you can bribe your
00:52:53.260
way out of that situation can you but it's a hell of an offer uh and trump seems to have rejected it
00:53:00.780
and uh he said quote using the f-bomb which trump is so good at he says he doesn't want to with the us
00:53:07.900
us is that perfect remember i i keep telling you that the democrats they try to copy trump and they
00:53:18.620
they do it by trying to swear like they think he swears because it seems to work when he does it
00:53:25.900
they don't do it right they just throw the f-bombs in podcasts whereas when he throws one in
00:53:33.500
it's the perfect application imagine you're you're maduro or you're the venezuelan leadership and
00:53:42.540
you're watching the news and trump turns right at the camera looks at the camera and says he doesn't
00:53:49.020
want to fuck with us that's not just a good use of a swear term that that's a whole different level
00:53:59.420
that that is making sure that you know that he means that and if there's one thing you're going
00:54:05.340
to pay attention to it's that everybody there's lots of things going on today but here's what
00:54:12.460
you're going to pay attention to you're going to pay attention to my f-bomb they don't want to
00:54:17.500
fuck with us and that is such a clean clear strong message perfect use of a curse word perfect use of
00:54:28.060
a curse word then you watch somebody like newsom just sort of randomly throwing in a you know a blue
00:54:34.940
word it doesn't work at all it doesn't work at all but if you do it this well that's that's how to do it
00:54:42.940
so we'll see maybe something will happen with venezuela
00:54:50.700
abc news has an estimate for building gaza rebuilding gaza 70 billion dollars
00:54:57.900
i saw somebody else say 60 billion but yeah i want you to get into that range you're just guessing
00:55:03.820
um 70 billion dollars where's that going to come from apparently uh over 80 percent of gaza's city
00:55:15.340
buildings are damaged and 40 percent are completely wiped out only 40 percent you know when i see
00:55:22.700
pictures of gaza i don't see anything that looks like it's salvageable are there are there entire parts
00:55:29.420
of gaza that weren't damaged that much but we only see the pictures of the ones that are totally
00:55:35.420
flattened i don't know i'm doubting that 40 percent number it seems like it's more like 80 percent
00:55:43.020
but uh 70 billion i don't know how anybody's going to get 70 billion dollars to invest in a place that's
00:55:51.340
still going to be festering with terrorists at 70 billion yeah well over in great britain there's
00:56:03.260
apparently a breakthrough in fusion energy um if you follow my podcast you know that i always talk about
00:56:10.780
the many breakthroughs in fusion but we've been having breakthroughs in fusion for my entire life and
00:56:16.860
we don't have any fusion yet so i don't get too excited but apparently uh over at oxfordshire
00:56:26.540
um they've made some kind of major breakthrough technical breakthrough they've they figured out
00:56:33.180
how to stabilize the turbulent edge of a fusion plasma wow wow they can stabilize the turbulent edge of a
00:56:40.380
fusion plasma which actually is a gigantic deal if they if they could really do that apparently that's
00:56:46.700
gigantic gets you a lot closer to fusion the u.s has also published a road map to get us to fusion
00:56:56.620
so the energy department appears to be doing a good job both in priorities and communicating
00:57:08.060
i always talk about what's happening with living situations and especially senior citizens
00:57:14.220
and here's a trend which i was expecting to see and uh apparently uh there's some studies that show this
00:57:21.500
is true the older people are far more likely to take on a roommate now so if there are seniors who own a
00:57:29.980
house and they don't want to leave their house but it becomes too expensive to you know run the house by
00:57:35.900
yourself apparently it's a very big trend now close to a million adults are living with unrelated housemates
00:57:43.420
older adults you know it's not surprising if it's 20 somethings have roommates but when the 70
00:57:50.380
somethings you start getting roommates of other 70 somethings then you've got something going on here
00:57:57.340
so the number of people who are cohabitating with non-relatives is uh up quite a bit since 2021
00:58:06.380
so um yeah i was telling you before that china seems to have adapted to the uh that one child
00:58:17.260
thing better than we expected so the one child would just stay home and would just be a an asset to the
00:58:25.260
the parents in a way that maybe if they had several kids the kids would have left and gotten jobs and
00:58:31.020
whatever so it is a it's useful to watch how society can adjust when it just has to and this limit the
00:58:42.860
the cost of living is so high that the seniors just have to adjust they just won't be able to afford
00:58:49.580
you know the the old kind of lifestyle where you could just live in a big house i guess um so yeah
00:58:55.900
you're gonna see a lot of people cohabitating i think they'll be happier i think they'll be happier
00:59:01.180
having a another life in the house all right um as i told you as soon as we're done here owen gregorian
00:59:10.860
will have his uh spaces after party so just go to x and look for owen gregorian and you'll see that
00:59:17.580
uh i think i'll give you one more reframe before we go anybody up for another reframe
00:59:26.700
all right we got time for one reframe and then it's time for breakfast
00:59:32.780
all right this is from my book reframe your brain now the context here if you're new to this is that
00:59:38.700
most of the reframes might not be you know one that you need specifically but they're all things
00:59:45.340
that you know somebody who needs so you'll be smarter and more capable of helping other people
00:59:51.660
even if it's not directly for you all right um here's a reframe one of my favorites uh the usual
01:00:03.340
frame is i want to do something whatever whatever the thing is i want to do the thing
01:00:08.460
i want to you know get this uh degree i want to get this job i want to accomplish this thing but a
01:00:18.380
better reframe is i've decided to do it um this is one of my favorites you've heard this one before but
01:00:25.260
for those of you who haven't heard it deciding to do something is an entirely different situation
01:00:31.340
than wanting to do something so once you understand that distinction that there are things you want
01:00:39.100
that you're probably not going to work that hard on it's just something you want but if you decide
01:00:44.860
then you're going to do whatever it takes i told you earlier about my situation with the pet scan and how
01:00:52.700
monstrously painful that was did i want to do that or did i decide to do it i decided because if i had
01:01:01.980
simply wanted to do it there's no way i would have taken that much pain it was 20 minutes of the worst
01:01:07.100
pain i've ever felt in my life just because i had to be in a certain position that was painful but because
01:01:13.580
i had decided there was nothing that was going to stop me and so i managed to hold on to literally the
01:01:20.940
hardest thing i've ever done i've never experienced that much pain and and not be able to move because
01:01:28.140
you can't move you're in the scanner so that's your uh reframe for the day always know the difference
01:01:35.260
between what you want and what you've decided because the things you've decided you're probably going to
01:01:43.420
get because you won't stop at anything to get them all right ladies and gentlemen that's all i got for
01:01:48.940
you i'll say a few words privately to the locals beloved people because they're so beloved and the
01:01:56.860
rest of you hope to see you tomorrow maybe i'll see you on the spaces with owen all right locals coming