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This week on the low-talking version of the podcast, we discuss the latest in the Trump administration, including a new kind of fake bacon, the new kind that looks disgusting and tastes even worse than real bacon, and a new invention that could be the next big thing.
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come on in we're going to be npr talking today again soft talking for your asmr pleasure
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let me make sure i can see all of your comments i can
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because you know what's happening you know it's coming up don't you yeah it's the best show in
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the world we're almost ready good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of
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human civilization this will be the low talking version
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anyway uh this is the highlight of human civilization if you'd like to
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try to take it up a notch to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human
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brains all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass a tank or chalice or stein a canteen jug
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or flask of a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for
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the unparalleled pleasure the dopamine hit of the day thing that makes everything better it's called
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delightful well yes i am wearing my jacket backwards in my man cave
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after the show don't forget to check out the spaces event look for owen gregorian and you'll see the link
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right at the top of his feed on x and i'll remind you at the end of the show too hey i wonder if coffee
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is good for you oh here's a study from food and function it says coffee is good for your liver and your
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kidneys not bad not bad one sip and your liver and your kidneys would be better
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um i wonder if there's anything else coffee can do for you oh yeah there's another study
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it says it can help control your blood pressure as long as you drink a lot of it
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you have to drink two to five cups a day to control your uh high blood pressure but it can also lower your
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risk of type 2 diabetes and uh reduce your chances of endometrial cancer parkinson's and even depression
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depression the depression part you knew about have you heard there's a new kind of fake bacon
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it's uh made without killing the pig so i guess they take a little fat fatty tissue from a live animal
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and then they stick that fatty tissue and some kind of plant-based sugars and proteins and vitamins
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and they let it ferment and then two weeks later they got something that looks disgusting and tastes even worse
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but it's technically a pig i don't know they say it tastes okay i don't know meanwhile something i
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talk about a lot is that uh in the netherlands they've got this lego style snap lock brick system
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so you can build a wall with bricks that snap together now why hasn't that been around forever
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is there any good reason that the bricks are not already snapped together because once you see it
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you say well it's kind of obvious of course they should snap together anyway um there's a new study
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this says american employees uh are hitting a new low in well-being johns hopkins university so do you
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believe that in 2024 american employees hit a new low in happiness and well-being um you know i'm thinking of
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launching a comic strip that takes advantage of the fact that everybody's unhappy with their job
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what do you think any potential maybe until i get cancelled anyway
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well rosie o'donnell uh is up in arms she was talking to jim acosta on a podcast and uh she was very unhappy
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that trump called the reporter a piggy a piggy i'm seeing this in that jason cohen post um and she said
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how she can't believe that trump got away with it you know i feel like there was less pushback on that
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pinky thing than there would have been in the first term and this goes back to what my my mother always
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says says you can get used to anything if you do it long enough so now we've got five years of trump
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saying things you're not supposed to say at some point you're just gonna get used to it
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and i think that's what happened this time you know rosie of course so he's looking for something to
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complain about but uh for the rest of us yeah he called a reporter a pig oh well then today or the
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other day he called one stupid i don't know which is worse would you rather be called piggy or stupid
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this is hilarious but not it's not funny people it's not funny yeah that's my final answer it's not
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funny but she has an autistic daughter apparently who she says my daughter is now saying quote damn him
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damn trump and smashing her hand on the table and i said wow honey what are you thinking and she said
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if you believe this really happened uh he made us move in order for our own safety and it's now he's
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destroying the country well i do have a question about how old that daughter is but did she really say
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that and uh then rosie says she lives here she hears what i'm saying i think to myself you don't want to
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give this tds you don't want to give this to her she doesn't call it tds but of course it is
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um who is worse let's uh let's do a little competition who's worse trump used a bad insult
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on reporter or rosie who is raising her child to uh think like she does about trump
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i don't know which one is worse behavior you decide
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well did you know that the white house launched a uh website that's dedicated to um comparing all the
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media on their fake news they call the leaderboard a leaderboard for fake news and uh apparently the
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washington post is uh is the worst according to the leaderboard and it's the offender hall of shame
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a record of the media's false and misleading stories flagged by the white house now remember how many
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times i've told you that the person who writes it down wins all it takes is just write it down you'll
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be the one who's you know leading the narrative so simply the fact that they created a website that they
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can put all the alleged fake news on very very smart because somebody's writing it down that that
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automatically increases the power of the message it just has to be written down and uh that's what
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they're doing right that they have not done right before um you know a lot of a lot of pundits
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did lists of fake news but if the white house does it well that's gonna be hard to ignore so always write it down
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that's my advice well devin nunes you know him former republican congressman he believes that the
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raid on mar-a-lago back in 2022 was at least partially maybe not completely
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um to look for the intelligence assessment that he wrote about russi gate
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and uh the thinking was that they could get a hold of that and i don't keep it out of the news
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but uh i think devin is only presuming i don't think he has proof that that's what they're looking
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for he just believes that that might be what they were looking for uh maybe i don't even know if it
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was in there meanwhile um trump's been uh causing some trouble i'm going to take some pauses here
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uh anyway so trump's mad at south africa um for what he says is they're uh not wanting to do something
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about killing white people so he says there's a horrific human rights abuses and that africaners
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and other descendants of dutch french and german settlers according to trump to put it more bluntly
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this is his actual words to put it more bluntly they're killing white people
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and randomly allowing their firms to be taken now how big of a deal is that now obviously it's
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big bad deal if it happens even one person but if you were to guess and the united states is not going
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to attend the g20 in south africa in response in response to the fact that south africa
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is not responding to the accusations that they're allowing this killing of white people and stealing the
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that the farmer's spike was uh six farmers were murdered in the first quarter of 2025
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um and there were 12 in all of 2024 so i think south africa is saying
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yeah no big deal there were only what uh only 12 and only six of them in the first quarter
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i mean that's not a lot of farms is it and of all the farms apparently there were 65
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murders in the farming communities but uh but only 12 of them were because were involved a white farmer
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all right and by the way the you may have seen the memorial of 3000 crosses
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the 3000 crosses represented murdered white farmers mostly um but grok tells us
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so does that sound like a lot would you think that 3000 murdered white farmers
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over 30 years does that sound like you know a reasonable number it doesn't to me
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george floyd was literally one person and you know it was upheaval in the whole country because it was
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the racial in nature or it was interpreted that way um 12 if 12 farmers got murdered even in the united
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states in one year and then their farms were stolen that would be a big deal so grok is kind of weirdly
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underplaying this is that weird yeah am i wrong doesn't it seem to you like
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12 farmers being murdered for being white farmers alone i guess feels like a lot to me anyway
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um what else is trump up to he's uh apparently he's going to cancel
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uh or void all auto pen documents that were associated with biden and according to peter
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docey who went through all the signatures he could only find one that looked like it was a legitimate signature
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that we don't really know if biden even knew he was
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approving all these things all these auto pen signatures so and then uh allegedly
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biden would face perjury charges if he contradicts himself and he says that he was involved in the
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auto pen process now i don't quite understand that the perjury risk so there must be something he said
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under oath or might say under oath i don't know i feel like biden's not in any trouble he's too close to
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anyway um so i think the argument that trump is making is that uh there's no evidence that biden
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biden was aware of the auto pen actions now is that a good argument
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do you think uh that that would be enough to avoid them if there was no record of biden knowing he even
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did it i feel like that might be a pretty good argument um probably there'll be some supreme court
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judgment on that but some of the things that would get overturned uh i asked crock and uh something
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about ai regulations um some of the some of the ai guardrails might be taken back
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something about the gig industry pausing border walls
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and some kind of i don't know energy mandates and stuff so it's not entirely clear
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what would change if those but well one thing that will change is maybe the pardons oh yeah that could
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change it could be that the uh pardons for fauci and who else got a pardon
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fauci and somebody else got a pardon those might be possibly um reversed so fauci might be in trouble
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but i think the supreme court will get involved in other news um trump is issuing a pardon for the ex
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president of honduras who i did not know was in a an american jail for the rest of his life
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how many of you knew that did you know that the ex honduran president was in jail basically for the
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rest of his life uh so trump's gonna pardon him why don't know don't know so this one's a little mysterious
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uh because i don't think there's any question that he did the crimes um
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so apparently he was deeply involved in the drug trade and uh got caught and convicted and now he's
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in some amer i think it's an american prison but uh he'll be let out
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so this is one of those stories where i don't know if we'll ever know like what's up with that
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like why why would trump care um and what are we getting in return
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makes you wonder is he giving up some secrets um
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um what exactly would we be getting out of this so i don't think we'll ever know what's what's at the
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anyway uh so i guess the number two most important person in ukraine is now in a lot of trouble um
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um andre yermak so resigned after a corruption raid
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they think he might be behind be behind stealing
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now it turns out that this guy was like one of the most important people in uh in ukraine
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and he's uh been a buddy of zelensky since the acting days
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so he's a lawyer but uh he's had a lot of power in ukraine and it makes me wonder
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is the real game here to put pressure on zelensky because they're they're basically getting this
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you know top aide i wouldn't call him an aide but it is uh i don't know most probably one of his
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most important connections they call him a confidant and friend of zelensky
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so it looks to me like and this is some ukrainian entity went after him the national anti-corruption
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bureau and the specialized anti-corruption prosecutor's office
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wouldn't you be able to arrest basically anybody in ukraine who had power right now
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aren't they pretty much all stealing our money so anyway
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yeah i wonder how different that is you know that there is this allegedly super corrupt ukrainian guy
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do you think that looks any different when other countries look at the clintons and the biden
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administration do you ever think about that like do other countries think
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the clintons were all above board and they didn't have anything going on to be like money making if
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you know what i mean and uh what about the biden family
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i i wonder if we look like ukraine you know to the ukrainians do they look at us and go we're no
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different our leaders steal your leaders deal i don't know um meanwhile
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what else is happening um still looking for some kind of a peace deal i guess wikov
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is going to go to russia to try to get some deal um but there's there's some thought about some kind of a
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big trade and energy cooperation and trying to make everybody happy money-wise looks like that's the plan
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um anyway so yeah there's something there's some attempt to uh make a peace deal but we'll see
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i think we're a year away from that um hmm so belgium is uh blocking an eu deal for ukraine that might be a
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big deal so belgium is uh blocking this idea of uh a reparation loan backed by frozen russian assets
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uh russian assets would be used to i don't know let's see what's it called um
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they were going to use the frozen russian assets to fund the war
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war and apparently belgium is saying no we don't do that
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what is this called uh yeah so the uh the idea was to fund the war using russia's own assets
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but it looks like that might fall apart so might not be any any funding for the war
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has released some extended footage uh showing how biden aides were admitting to covering up
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so there's a pretty big story on that is is anybody surprised at this point
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there's not much to that story because we all expect that right
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everybody knew there was something going on there
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but apparently there was a bigger effort than we thought
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but i don't think that's a surprise at this point is it
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and how many times i pointed out that he was obviously not mentally competent
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it was like the news didn't want to say he was obviously mentally incompetent
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but now they do so what changed just the fact he's out of office
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i mean i feel like it was pretty obvious during his
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term that he was mentally incompetent but now there's no doubt about it
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trump says he might uh almost completely scrap income tax
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and replace it with tariff revenues do you think that would work
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will pull in about four trillion dollars a year
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while tariffs might are currently pulling in maybe
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unless people are not going to check the numbers
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i think he was on the joe rogan show i saw a clip
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was telling him telling musk about how she gave the navy 12 billion for more submarines not not
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she personally but congress and they got no submarines
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and then according to elon they held them a hearing to say where did the 12 billion dollars go
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and that was the end of it that was the end of it 12 billion dollars for submarines just disappeared
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i don't know where do you think it went well probably stolen
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uh the treasury department uh scott besant according to just news
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um wants to end the federal tax benefits for illegal migrants
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the earned income tax credit additional child tax credit american a few tax related credits
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but they're gonna take that away um does anybody mind anybody have a problem with that
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nope i did not know we were giving them that money so trump is claiming that a migrant earning
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thirty thousand dollars with a green card will get roughly fifty thousand yearly benefits for their family
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that sounds like a lot i don't know if that's i don't know if that number is reliable
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and so that the question you'd ask is how much of your tax payments are going to non-citizens i don't know
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and uh says that the uh the net costs for all those things would be about two cents per dollar
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in the top tax bracket so in other words if you're in the top tax bracket about two cents of all your
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dollars two percent would go toward illegal aliens benefits i guess which feels like too much
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and uh did you know that china's uh birth rate in the 60s was a six to seven kids a piece
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per family six to seven kids and it's now down to one now one is half as much as you need to reproduce
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to keep your population consistent so what exactly is china's plan for survival
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so by the time the uh the population decline becomes serious we should have so many robots
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that will be able to do everything that humans can do
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maybe it's just robots so maybe your best situation is fewer people and more robots
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maybe it's not entirely clear what happens when we're only reproducing half as much as we need to
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at the same time robots are becoming fully functional it's robots i feel like you could have families
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that would be part human and part robot like literally legitimately that actually will be
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considered family members that's my prediction robot family members
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because you know if a robot learned enough about your family you'd want to keep it around right
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because it would feel like a family member if you could have a conversation with it
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uh it went with you on family outings that that's what's happening your robot would just be a family member
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so we'll be all worried that you know the robots are going to take over nope they'll just be our children
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um allegedly according to the european conservative that's a that's a publication
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um it's looking like washington might want to recognize russian control over occupied ukrainian territories
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so in other words ukraine might say we own these territories like crimea and donbass
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but the u.s might be willing to say yeah we're done we're done protecting those areas they're gone
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um so there might be there might be in the works a deal in which
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we just tell russia maybe maybe the ukraine never says it because they're not allowed to give away their
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territory but we could create this uh sort of a taiwan situation which is kind of clever
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i might have to end a little bit early not feeling 100 percent
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but you could do a taiwan situation this is my interpretation
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but anyway um we might be able to solve that taiwan i'm sorry the ukraine situation
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what what happened so ukraine could say we still own these territories that russia totally controls
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but the united states could say no you don't and we would just not have to agree
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we would just allow that they think they still own it and we say they don't
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it would just be like taiwan it would just be this continuously disputed territory
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but it wouldn't be a war over it that would be good
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with kennedy uh anyway she's the ex-wife of google co-founder sergey brin
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so she thinks the wives of the big rich tech people
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she thinks that um their money went to ngos and they don't know exactly where it went and that they
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just do something they didn't fully understand basically that the the wives
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and they were giving it trying to be philanthropic and trying to make the world a better place
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so nicole shanahan is obviously she'd have a good window on that
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to track things that trump says while they're sleeping
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that that too many trump things happen while they're asleep
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so the so they've got to track what he does while they're asleep
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that chat gpt and some of the ais will make you dumber
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so if you use the uh allegedly if you look up something with ai
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even if it's accurate even if the answer is right
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that you wouldn't learn it or retain it as well as if you just googled it
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now i don't think that's the case because i've been using grok
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to tell me the background and context of things
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so for me i would say the ai has greatly improved my understanding of all the complicated stories
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because it will give them more complete answers and context
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gave an order to kill everybody in the first venezuelan drug boat
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uh two men survived and they so they did a second strike and killed them now that's the story
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because you've got these six democrats who say you know that the military should disobey illegal orders
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and then suddenly the washington post the the publication most associated with the cia
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coincidentally comes up with a story um with the you know allegedly two sources
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now does that look like a coincidence to you that first the first the democrats say oh you should
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disobey illegal orders and then suddenly there are these two sources
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who allegedly say that something you know maybe not so illegal happened
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but they may have blown up well could have been
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could have been something sketchy that went on there but we don't know
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um he said that uh the airspace above and surrounding venezuela
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is going to be closed in its entirety meaning the u.s
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the u.s will shoot you down if you're flying over venezuela
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what exactly does that mean how do we close the airspace over another country
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and and do you just literally shoot down anything that's in the air
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we will see how that goes all right people i gave you a full 38 minutes
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um not my best work today some of the stories are a little complicated
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but um i'm gonna i'm gonna sign off here remember uh if you are interested owen gregorian will have a
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space space is immediately after i'm done well immediately ish so just go to x
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and ask for owen gregorian um i expect to be listening i don't know if you'll be able to see me
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no probably but i think um i'm gonna listen to your comments
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because i am taxing myself a little bit uh but i feel like i'll get stronger every day
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all right you know um one thing i didn't expect doing podcasting is i did not expect how much love i
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would get i don't know if that happens to other podcasters is there something i do
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that causes that response i mean literally the comments are just full of comments about love
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people are loving and i love you right back is it because you can sense that i do this for you
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is that what it is do you know that i i don't really need to be working
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so does it does it feel like that i'm giving you as much as you're giving me because you're giving
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me a lot i mean a lot it it's quite a blessing to be you know my age and this stage of my career
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and to have people literally hundreds of people telling me they love me every day i'm kind of hooked on it
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so as long as it's uh feasible i will keep doing the podcast i expect to get stronger in the coming
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days so i'll last a full hour but for now you've got uh the spaces by owen gregorian i assume he'll be
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firing that up fairly soon as soon as i'm done and uh i will join you there because then i can relax a
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little bit and listen to you talk i won't have to do all the work if you have anything to add
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to any of the stories that i think i did a bad job on today if i'm being honest
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if this is the first time you ever heard me you wouldn't be impressed
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us today was not my best work uh but it'll probably get better all right everybody um i'll
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meet you over in the spaces i hope and uh for now uh i don't think i'll say something privately to my
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subscribers on locals uh but i did get to spend half an hour with you before the show
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so got that going for us all right everybody i'll see you out in the spaces