Episode 3040 CWSA 12⧸08⧸25
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1 hour and 10 minutes
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142.71477
Summary
Saffron and erectile dysfunction? Can saffron pills be the key to a better sex life or is there a better way to improve your sex life if you don t have a good sex life?
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it's about time you got in here good to see you i'm coming to you from my man cave slash garage
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and uh while you're streaming in here because we're gonna have the best time you've ever had
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we'll uh get ready for a show we've done the pre-show already so this is the real thing at
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the top of the hour and uh how many of you want the simultaneous sip you do right you do
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and if you want that all you need is i'm reading my cup it's written on the cup
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uh all you need is a copper mug or glass a tanker chelsea stein a canteen jug or flask
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a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the
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unparalleled pleasure the dopamine of the day the thing that makes everything better
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it's called the simultaneous sip and it's happening now go
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ah tremendous now for the nerds among you and i know there are some nerds uh i'm using my laptop
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but i'm using the built-in microphone for the laptop apparently the using my iphone
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as a remote microphone which is an option uh didn't give me quite the quality i was hoping for
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that was the feedback i got and uh this is a little bit better it's not as good as the sure
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you know studio microphone but i don't have a convenient way to set that up i bought myself a
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uh a microphone stand that will allow me to put it on the floor and and then have the studio
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microphone in front of me but that's what's happening hey you want to talk about the news
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that's why you're here right have some fun hang out with each other by the way i am i am kind of happy
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about the fact that i seem to have accidentally pioneered a new form of entertainment the new
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form of entertainment is yeah we're going to talk about the news and yeah you might learn some things
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and maybe you get a reframe and but it's more about hanging out because it seems that the biggest
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problem people have um certainly at a certain age maybe at every age but certainly beyond a certain age
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people don't really have friends have you noticed that they have family members they have co-workers
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they have neighbors but people don't really for the most part have a lot of friends
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so what i do sort of accidentally is i created this this uh i don't know kind of a i don't even want to
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call it entertainment although i hope to make it entertaining but it just feels good to know
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that there'll be a time a day every day including weekends and holidays that i'll be here and
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that i do it for you and uh you do it for me and that just feels good so shall we begin sure
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so according to uh psypost psychology news vladimir hedron is writing about this that the spice saffron
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might help with erectile dysfunction so i'm reading this long article about how if you give people
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saffron pills that uh they will have much better sexual function and then i get i get to the end of
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the story and says however it should be noted that this was an open label study in other words the people
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who had the saffron were completely aware that they were studying their sexual function and they
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were studying saffron now do you think that sounds like a valid scientific study to you there's a reason
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that they have you know the the blind studies this is not blind and if there's one thing i could you know
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tell you as a hypnotist if you suggest that somebody's taking a pill to make them hornier they will tell
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you they got hornier because people like to be horny and they like to have good sexual function
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and that's half of hypnosis you know hypnosis works best when it's something that somebody wanted
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and they have no resistance to it nobody has any resistance to that everybody wants to have better
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sexual function so i would say that the credibility of the study would be approximately zero zero but yet
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if you knew somebody who needed some extra sexual function and you gave them the pill and you told
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them it would work it might it might actually work just psychologically and that would be good enough
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well that's not the only spice that's good for you according to the pennsylvania school of medicine
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uh the spice of rosemary might help with wound healing and reducing scars so uh
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so saffron is maybe good for you and and uh then the then the spice uh rosemary is good for you
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well i'll tell you what um this is just my suggestion but you might want to get some other advice on this
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um if you find that medical school sounds like it's too tough and you can't get in and you don't
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want to do all that homework you could just become a chef so what i do when i'm cooking
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is i'll put a little bit of spice on the food and then just in case i'll put a little bit on me
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now i'm not saying this is going to work every time but have you noticed that there's never a study
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that says if you added this spice to yourself something bad would happen
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right so if there's no downside and who knows might make your sexual performance better might
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make your might make you heal better so it goes like this some for the meal some for scott
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some for the meal some for scott now of course nobody wants to eat dinner with you if you're covered
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with spice but that's their problem all right can you tell us a slow news day is there anything about
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the content of this podcast that tells you it's a slow news day oh i think there is i think there is
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there's now according to the karolinska institute of and stockholm university there's a new drug
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that looks like it might boost your muscles and curb your appetite and it might be better than these
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weight loss drugs so if you wanted something that would make you lose weight while preserving all your
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muscles they might have something um but probably not what what are the odds there's something in the
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news that says this might work it worked in the mouse do you know what are the odds it will work in
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the human if it works in the mouse not much yeah so it's fun to talk about but you wouldn't want to
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bet a lot that it's gonna work out here's one that i thought was interesting again we don't know if
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this is real you'd have to have a lot more science before you could convince me but there is uh there is
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some good evidence that the time of day that you give somebody a treatment a medical treatment might
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affect how effective it is so specifically um they found that if you give a i think it's a immune
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immunotherapy for cancer a certain care it's a cancer treatment that if you give it to people in the
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morning you get a much better response than if you give it to them at night now does that surprise you
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again remember the odds of this actually passing other scientific scrutiny and you know five years
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from now being true is not really that high you know there's probably a pretty good chance that this
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won't stand up but it feels like it would like i you know i think your body is different enough
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at different times of the day that i wouldn't be surprised if if when you take your medicine makes
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a difference i'll bet you this is the kind of thing that ai could discover don't you think
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once we get to the point that ai will monitor all the things you put in your body and then it can
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compare it anonymously to all the other people putting things in their body so some of it would be food
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some of it would be time of day so in other words it's just the ai is just measuring everything you
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put in your body and when don't you think that that's going to have an immense impact on your
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health if you knew oh this this medicine works but not if i eat a potato within an hour because there's a
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whole bunch of those things where where there is a difference so imagine when ai can actually get
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a wrap its little head around that how many of you have ever heard of a thing called
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synesthesia synesthesia i've talked about this but not in a long time it's the
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phenomenon that applies to some people but not many so it's you know maybe maybe fewer than 10 percent
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um they can they have some kind of a crossover effect in their senses so for example um some
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people if they're listening to music they can almost feel it whereas people like me i listen to music and
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i like it but i don't feel it the same way like a real musician would so that probably probably prevents me
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from being a great musician because i feel like you'd have to feel it in order to be really good at
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it you know probably the beatles were all they probably all could feel it um but what i would have
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to add to this is that there's a writer's version of this so not just musicians and i definitely have the
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synesthesia for writers meaning that i feel words i just feel them so it's probably not an accident
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that without any special training on how to be a writer i i managed to have a professional career as
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a writer i think that's that might be synesthesia because i just feel things when i write them
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now is that a humble brag or is that just telling you what works and what doesn't all right
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um how many times have you been told that it's good to get enough sleep well believe it or not
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there's another study that says it's good to get enough sleep but they go further and they say that
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if you get enough sleep you're far more likely to be as active as you want to be for good health but
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they say it doesn't work the other way so according to this study at flinders or flinders university
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that sleep first get enough sleep then you'll get enough activity and then you have the two things
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that are good for you activity and sleep but i don't believe that it doesn't work the other way
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let's let's see what you say in the comments i believe that i can never get a good sleep
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if i have not been active that day do you have the same same thing if i've not exercised that day
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now at the moment i'm on all kinds of you know drugs and stuff for my cancer so it's different now but
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in my normal healthy life if i don't get exercise i can't sleep don't you have that it can't just be me
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right all right so we're gonna i'm seeing the comments that a lot of you are agreeing with me
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so i would say that uh exercise helps you sleep and sleeping helps you exercise and it definitely
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works both ways so some schools are experimenting with drones uh to protect against school shootings
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i'm going to give you a little quiz how many school shootings do you think happen in one year
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let's see not one year since 2008 in just florida alone so only the state of florida and we're talking
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about shootings in the school since 2008 give me a number how many do you think there's been
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well while you're guessing how many there's been the answer is at least according to this one one
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uh article from the center square marilee gasser is writing that there have been uh 33 school shootings
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since 2008 so that just feels like a lot doesn't it remember it's since 2008 so it's not one year
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yeah your guesses are closer to a one-year guess well that's a lot but i assume that also includes just
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one person getting shot so it's not necessarily mass shootings um but what they want to do is they're
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testing non-lethal drones so if there's a shooter in the school the drone will uh come and distract them
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so the drone will not be deadly it won't have a gun but it might have uh it might have sirens or pepper
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sprays or other distraction devices because if you are a school shooter and a drone comes after you
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you're gonna have to pay attention to the drone because that's the thing you don't know exactly
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what it can do and it's it's going to be in your space really fast i like this idea it seems pretty
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good you know it could even be better if you got rid of the humans you know if you equip the school
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with listening devices and then it heard a gunshot don't you think it would be useful if the drone
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immediately went wherever the gunshot was now that doesn't mean it should intervene you probably want
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a human to decide whether it should intervene but it should definitely go there like it should just
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as soon as it hears the gunshot it should pull into that room or as close as it can get i think this
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is a definitely worth testing i wouldn't go so far as to say i know it'll work definitely worth testing
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well trump is apparently going to announce a 12 billion farm aid program washington examiner's
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reporting and it kind of made me wonder because i'm a farm nerd you know i uh i worked on a farm my
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uncle's farm he had a dairy farm so i've spent a lot of time on a on farms and and working on farms
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when i was a kid and a teenager i guess that's still a kid but uh here's what i wonder how do you make
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farms unprofitable like what is it about a farm that would take it from well we've been making money until
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now but now we're losing money well some of it's obvious some of it would be oversupply so there might
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be a year when when everybody grows too much of one thing and then the price goes down it might be
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drought or a flood so it could be bad weather in a variety of ways um it could be the rising cost of
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seeds and the rising cost of fuel and i said to myself are those all solvable problems and let me
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give you my prediction slash suggestion i guess i feel like we should have an ongoing um maybe government
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sponsored but it doesn't need to be i guess it could be private something like a an elon musk um farming
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what would you call it experiment i i know that uh elon's brother has been working on indoor farming
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so i think they understand the potential here but i'd love to see it go to the next level here's what i
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think it's going to look like if i were trying to solve all the problems of farming being too expensive
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so i could bring down the cost of food i would build it underground so first i'd have the boring
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company they can you know do underground tunnels really inexpensively so once you have a way to
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inexpensively um build a tunnel then you could also redirect the sunlight from above into it so you
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get all the free sunlight you could just do it by mirrors i'm pretty sure you get all the goodness
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of the sun even if you redirected through mirrors so you you'd have all the free sun but you wouldn't
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have any weather related problems in theory you could create your own seeds wouldn't you why is it
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so hard to create your own seeds i feel like that wouldn't be the hardest thing but i don't know about
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that domain so maybe seeds would be a different problem but if you could get uh oh and you'd also
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have essentially free land so if you're if you're doing your farming below ground it's basically free
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on top of owning the above ground so the other thing i would do is do the food processing directly
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above the underground farm so it doesn't have to go very far and then along the same lines and make
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sure that your underground farm is really close to the store that's going to sell the food or or
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close to the consumer so you want to get rid of almost all the transportation you want to get rid of all
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the risk of um weather and then correct me if i'm wrong but if you're underground and you have a
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controlled environment you're not going to need um fertilizer because you just keep the bugs out in
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the first place um and you're not going to need too much extra water because isn't it true that you can
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recycle your water it's basically hydroponic couldn't you just um yeah so i'm not 100 sure but it seems
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like if you iterated um underground farms you would eventually get to the point where they're cheaper
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than anything we do above ground what do you think fertilizer isn't just for bugs well that's true
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right it's not just for bugs it's for growing more efficiently but if you want to go organic
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you still might prefer a smaller vegetable without any fertilizer so that i'm not sure about that trade
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off anyway i don't want to obsess about that but i think we we don't know how to do it cheaper at the
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moment but there should be similar to how we're doing um uh nuclear power so the government finally
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figured out hey if we can figure out how to iterate nuclear power we can get to something that's that
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works faster so that's what the government's doing you should do the same thing with indoor farms and
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they should be underground by the way if you put it above ground then it can still get ripped up by
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weather so i think underground farms are the future and then of course you'd obviously have robots doing
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all the work so you wouldn't have labor you wouldn't have uh probably you could get rid of 80 of all the
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costs that's just my guess uh all this farming talk means people have to do something well
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you know nuclear plus hydroponics is a paradise farm all right let's move on
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canada can be a global leader in reducing the harm caused by smoking but it requires actionable steps now
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is the time to modernize canadian laws so that adult smokers have information and access to better
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alternatives by doing so we can create lasting change if you don't smoke don't start if you smoke
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quit if you don't quit change visit unsmoke.ca um you may have heard of this already but uh there's a
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some company made an ai version of an actress uh called tilly norway norwood
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so it's an ai actress that's been created for they haven't quite fully commercialized it yet but
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but the idea is that it would be a hireable actress and uh they would try to turn it into a star
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so that your ai star would be you know not eating up all your profits
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uh and weirdly the smartest thing i've heard about this was a quote by george clooney who of course is
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a movie star and what he said about these ai actresses and actors he said quote ai is going to
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have the same problem that we have in hollywood which is making a star is not so easy and i thought
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holy cow that's the smartest thing i've heard about this topic if if you can't do it with real people
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and it's really hard and it's somewhat accidental because nobody knows exactly why one person becomes
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a movie star and one person doesn't i mean george clooney is a seriously you know sexy guy i'm told
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so you can say to yourself oh he's very sexy but aren't there millions of super sexy men uh aren't
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there lots of people who could probably act as well as he can but why did we decide that this one person
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is the extra sexy person well some of it is the media meaning that if people magazine puts you on the
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cover and says you're the sexiest person it just sort of becomes a thing would they be able to do that
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with an ai and i believe that there the problem with ai art will um will be the same problem here
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that on day one if you hear that it's a ai you might be interested it'd be you know you'd be curious
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how it works but eventually you just feel like it wasn't real and i don't know if you could ever
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get to the point where if you know it's not real you can have the same emotional connection that you
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would with a real person in a movie even though the real person in a movie would not really be real
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because they're acting but i do feel like george clooney has the right take on this
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that if it's super super hard to do with a human it's not going to be that much easier just because
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you have an ai so i would guess 99 out of 100 companies to try to make an ai movie star will
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fail so it's not not good odds all right uh according to axios president trump is betting his presidency
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uh and the future of the republican party on lightly regulated fast expansion of ai
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first of all do you buy that summary do you think that the trump presidency will depend
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on how well he regulates ai now regulating it well might mean not regulating it much
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and getting the states out of the way and giving the feds primacy over the regulation and then getting
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out of the way so i kind of agree that uh that that's true but i do wonder if the public will see it that
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way you know people like us that the fact that you're even watching me on this podcast probably
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means you're in the top you know at least five percent of people paying attention to the news
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wouldn't you say if you're watching this right now you're probably in the top five percent of just
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people who care about keeping up with things so i don't know if the general public will even notice
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us if trump did a good job or a bad job on ai um do you and and wouldn't we just argue about whether
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he did a good job or a bad job and it wouldn't be so much you know something you could just measure
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how in the world are you going to measure how well we do on ai like what happens if you know estonia
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comes up with the best ai because they just have some genius who was working on it does that mean
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we did a bad job or does it just mean that estonia had a genius so i don't know how you'd know if he
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did a good job or a bad job unless it was just screamingly obvious and i don't think it will be
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i do think that trump's doing pretty much everything right which i attribute to the fact that he's got
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you know sax and a bunch of smart people advising him i don't think you'll get too far away from
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something that elon musk would say you know makes sense and is sensible for the country so trump does
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have just the best advisors for ai just the best will that be enough well i don't think that trump is
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gonna overrule the smartest people in the world in a domain that they know a lot about and he doesn't
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i think that only the trump haters think he would do that do that anybody who's actually been paying
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attention knows that he loves advice from the smartest people
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all right whoever is just yelling at me in all caps maybe that person can disappear if you know what
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i mean all right so yeah is he betting his presidency on the future of ai sort of but i do think that the
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trump administration has an advantage over other countries because with ai we're not just competing
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companies against companies that we're also doing that but we're competing countries against countries
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and let me ask you this so we've watched europe is just falling apart under its own bureaucracy
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china is somewhat difficult for us to understand from the outside but it doesn't look like they're super
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flexible about everything sometimes they can be super fast you know if the if the government says go do
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this it'll happen pretty fast but is that the same as being super flexible because the united states is more
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likely to allow certain freedoms you know certain freedom of speech uh the us is more likely to allow
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ai to train on more sources whereas china might say oh you can't look at that
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so your ai cannot train on as many things because we want to control it so i'm feeling that uh there's
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something about the united states uh and maybe maybe this is just me being biased i don't know so you you
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tell me am i being biased i think there's something about our dna as a country that gives us a huge ai
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advantage i mean just the fact that there could be a trump who i think is very flexible business-wise he
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would be the smartest i i think trump is the smartest president we've had business-wise he's here at a time
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when having the smartest president business-wise is super important you know bill clinton was pretty
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smart too you know got us through the dot-com era but uh yeah i i do suspect that the us is going to have a
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dna advantage we're just more flexible and more willing to take more chances i think that's exactly
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where we need to be to win so that's my optimism on ai all right let's talk about uh we're all following
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the story maybe you're not of uh california trying to rebuild after the palisades fire pacific palisades
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fire and uh i think that here's the good news according to wall street journal there is a house
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that's been built yay a house so we're coming up on a year and uh one house has been built but uh you can't
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live in it so one house has been built but you can't buy it and you can't live in it it's a developer's
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model and if you were to go inside the developer's model and walk up to the second floor and look out
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the window would you see the paradise that used to be pacific palisades or would you see a bunch of
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burned down wasteland as far as you can see it would be the second one so not only can you not buy it
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not only is there only one but if you stood in the second floor you wouldn't even want to live there
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you'd be like why would i want to be in this this town however it's not nothing so it's not nothing
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so there's a little bit of uh you know motion in the right direction i don't know how long this is going
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to take but you know i'm comparing the pacific palisades to china's big projects doesn't it seem
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to you like china is building things that are as big as entire states and and they can just pound
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it out it's like all right we got a year let's build something that's as big as the entire island
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of manhattan and then you check back in a year and they're done now we can't build a house
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we can't get a house built because oh there's bureaucracy we need approvals you know what's wrong
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with this story is that whenever i hear that there's a you know long delay the part i always want to know
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is why you know when i when i built my own house the one i'm in it took way too long to get the approvals
00:33:03.680
in my opinion now in my case i could tell you the actual person who was holding it up because we
00:33:12.320
had one person in charge of approvals now if that one person uh woke up every morning and thought hey
00:33:19.840
i gotta get help scott get his house built probably i could have got all the approvals in
00:33:27.760
two months but i think it took well over a year but there was a name to it there was one person
00:33:35.760
who if they did not have as many tasks as they have and it was mostly because they
00:33:40.720
they were overworked but that would be a very fixable problem i would say all right this guy bob
00:33:48.080
can't do this in two months which we should be able to do it it's going to take him a year
00:33:55.440
so can we get two bobs can we get six bobs how many bobs do we need can we borrow them from another
00:34:03.920
place just for a year is there a way to un-retire some people who you know for a little extra money can
00:34:11.920
we get let's say private can we get a private entity let's say a builder to pay the approvers
00:34:21.680
with some kind of oversight so it's not completely out of control why why is it we never hear the
00:34:27.360
people i want to know the name of the person who's not getting it done doesn't that feel like that's
00:34:33.200
missing it feels like it's missing to me so if i don't know the person who's not doing the job
00:34:42.880
and i'm not talking about politicians like we can we can yell at newsome all day long but
00:34:48.240
it's not like he's sitting in an office with a stamp and he refuses to stamp something but there is
00:34:54.480
somebody there's somebody sitting in an office with a stamp and they're not stamping something
00:34:59.120
why now if you ask them i i guarantee they have a good reason they're going to say something like
00:35:06.320
well it wouldn't be safe because there's this inspection that hasn't happened well who is that
00:35:11.600
guy or gal who's that person who is it who doesn't have enough time to inspect it why don't i have 10 more
00:35:20.000
of him what what would it cost me to bribe somebody who had the right skills to come in and work for a
00:35:27.120
year i just feel like there's a whole layer here that's missing and if we treat it like it's just a
00:35:34.400
regular process and we're just yelling at it for being slow we're not really trying you know if this
00:35:41.520
were elon musk's property do you think it would take a year to get anything approved i don't think so i
00:35:49.200
mean if he had full control of every part of it no no he would just move more resources where you need
00:35:56.320
them and get rid of people who weren't doing the job and next thing you know it would be a two-month
00:36:00.960
approval instead of a year that's what i think well the government trump administration is doing what
00:36:12.080
they call a whole of government approach to try to lower beef prices now beef appears to be something
00:36:20.080
that is so uh important to the american psyche that it's different from other food would you say
00:36:28.640
that's true that if your beef is too expensive it just feels like food is too expensive so it's not like oh our
00:36:39.040
broccoli costs too much because then you just eat some other vegetable but if you really like beef and that would
00:36:46.080
describe a lot of americans uh if you can't get that at a good price that just feels like food is
00:36:53.040
too expensive so i can see why that would be you know a big uh like a big priority um it's just hard
00:37:01.200
to go from well if beef is expensive i'll just get chicken and i'll be just as happy because you
00:37:06.560
wouldn't be we just wouldn't be just as happy you could substitute almost any vegetable for another
00:37:13.200
vegetable and people would say well you know i prefer broccoli but brussels sprouts are fine you know
00:37:22.320
what are you yelling at me let me see if i can look at that comment
00:37:28.000
uh very thing at the fda it's a bureaucracy right okay
00:37:36.800
imagine if we had a all of government approach to just get rid of bureaucracy
00:37:41.440
we kind of have that but but i'd love to see it even bigger all right anyway so the whole
00:37:49.040
of government approach to make beef less expensive now what would be the first question you would ask
00:37:55.760
in that domain the first question you would ask is why is it more expensive like what happened to it
00:38:01.760
well i didn't know how many of you know why beef got way more expensive is there even one of you in the
00:38:09.520
comments don't look it up don't look it up without looking it up do you know why it's more expensive
00:38:18.560
well some of it is the normal reasons you know energy is more expensive everything's a little more
00:38:23.280
expensive but apparently mexico which was one of our bigger sources of beef um they had some kind of
00:38:32.480
disease so we're working through that it might be might be a year or two before we we have some
00:38:39.680
non-diseased mexican cows i don't know the details but there was some kind of mexican disease and the
00:38:46.240
only thing they could do is just shut down the mexican supply until that's completely under control and
00:38:52.720
probably will be in a year or two but you just have to wait because it just takes a while to grow
00:39:00.080
a cow so you're saying it's a screw worm is that what it is screw those worms in the comments people
00:39:09.360
are yelling screw worm so maybe that's the name of the name of the bug all right but uh we also could
00:39:17.200
increase the amount of beef we get from argentina i don't know if it says good but that's another
00:39:23.280
source um the government's also doing an anti-competitive probe to find out if foreign suppliers of
00:39:34.400
food in general i think but beef specifically they're trying to see if there's any anti-competitive
00:39:40.240
thing going on because if there is that would be an easy way to lower prices uh water enough would be
00:39:45.280
easy but it'd be possible i guess um and uh so it looks like so so work with me here if we knew
00:39:58.960
or we thought there was a high likelihood that beef would just drift down to a lower cost simply because
00:40:06.560
two years from now we'd have a lot more cows a lot more non-diseased cows does that not
00:40:13.520
not so this is a real nerd question nerds step to the step to the front of the class
00:40:20.880
this question is for nerds only who i love by the way you know i love my nerds i am one
00:40:28.320
um would it be possible to use some kind of futures market to lower the cost of beef today
00:40:37.360
if you felt confident that the price would be lower in the future did that make sense
00:40:44.320
so right now you can't you can't take the average cost of beef today and then take the average of
00:40:51.520
it tomorrow which would be lower but if you could it seems like you could lower the price today
00:40:59.600
with not a hundred percent chance that it would be lower in the future but you feel kind of confident
00:41:04.960
that it would be don't you think you could get enough people to invest in that kind of a futures
00:41:11.920
beef market that we could take advantage of the fact that with a high likelihood of being right
00:41:18.800
beef will probably be i don't know 40 percent cheaper in three years and so what you do is you start
00:41:29.200
charging people less today with some kind of insurance or protection
00:41:34.720
that the beef farmers would never lose because they're they're going to get you know some some
00:41:40.800
minimum payment all right nerds is there some reason that would or would not work
00:41:49.760
somebody's saying a 10-month gestation so it's about two years to grow yourself a proper cow
00:41:56.480
for eating you think it already exists you know i was wondering about that but if it already exists
00:42:02.720
wouldn't the prices be lower so the the comment i would look into first is does it exist we obviously
00:42:13.680
have futures markets for all kinds of commodities but i don't know if we have them for beef and i don't
00:42:20.240
know if you could find some way to average the future and the current to lower the price i don't know i'll
00:42:29.760
just put that out there um according to israel there are still 100 to 200 hamas fighters in tunnels
00:42:39.040
in gaza and they're not coming out but they also don't have any hostages to trade and they're running
00:42:46.800
out of food and water what do you think israel is going to do if you were in one of those tunnels would
00:42:55.200
you come out or do you know that the minute you come out you're either going to be in jail for the
00:43:00.320
rest of your life or immediately murdered not murdered because let's let's take the uh let's take
00:43:06.960
the opinion out of it you'd be killed whether you want to call that murder that would be a whole different
00:43:11.840
story but you'd be killed or jailed forever you're not going to walk away so
00:43:19.280
um what's going to happen i think that they'll have to probably just wait it out and then a year
00:43:30.800
from now there won't be anything left we'll see uh so pxf secretary of war uh he's announced that
00:43:41.520
there's going to be this federal investigation into mark kelly you know maybe they'll reinstitute him as in
00:43:47.920
the the they'll uh bring him back into the military so that they can court martial him because he's one
00:43:54.400
of the seditious six and i've got mixed feelings about that so i'm just going to give you my human
00:44:03.040
opinion and my citizen opinion we don't treat people in the military like regular citizens and most of us
00:44:13.760
are okay with that right we we acknowledge that uh people in the military have or will have greater
00:44:21.360
risk you know they've got more in the game and we we sort of allow them you know an extra let's say
00:44:30.560
privilege in society and i'm okay with that because if they take an extra risk and i'm the beneficiary of
00:44:37.760
that i think we you know we owe them no i guess that's the wrong word it would feel appropriate to me
00:44:47.040
that they get more privilege in society than i get because they're doing more that that fits for me
00:44:54.880
so then when i watch the uh the mark kelly and the seditious sex i don't like it i don't like it
00:45:02.000
but i also don't like punishing them is anybody having that same feeling that there has to be some
00:45:12.160
way we can deal with this that doesn't take a member or multiple members of the military past or
00:45:19.040
present and punish them for what i consider really somewhat outrageously bad behavior but because i think
00:45:29.040
it's outrageously bad behavior and i live in a world with you know at least allegedly free speech
00:45:37.840
i don't have to say that they did the right thing i don't have to say i approve of it but sometimes
00:45:44.640
you just can't leave somebody on the you know a wounded person on the battlefield so to speak
00:45:50.480
so what i'd like to see is something that's short of punishment but is long on education i do like the
00:46:03.200
fact that the entire public has been now accidentally educated on what is too far and what is appropriate
00:46:12.640
behavior for the military and what is a crime in that context and what isn't i feel like
00:46:20.000
educating us should be enough is anybody having the same feeling because as soon as you get me in
00:46:27.280
the business of punishing members of the military for what they said you know unless what they said is
00:46:34.160
giving away you know like secrets or something but um as bad as i think their behavior is
00:46:43.120
i'm just not cool punishing members of the military for that kind of behavior there's got to be
00:46:50.400
something in between anyway that's just a feeling um i guess uh leslie stall 60 minutes was talking to
00:47:01.680
marjorie taylor green and here's an interesting reframe if you want to call it that so marjorie taylor
00:47:09.280
green says she's not mega she is america first what do you think of that some of you are saying no mercy
00:47:19.520
no mercy really i don't think mercy is the right um i think that's the wrong frame you know we should be
00:47:29.440
looking out for our own good as well as members of the military and you know maybe it's good for us
00:47:35.840
that we're not punishing members of the military too too aggressively you know there always has to be
00:47:43.440
some kind of guardrails but anyway back to marjorie taylor green um that's a pretty good reframe now
00:47:52.480
independent of what you think of her her opinions it's a pretty good reframe because back as she says
00:47:58.560
that's more like trump's political opinions and america first is more of a philosophical position i
00:48:07.440
guess which would have impact on policies so um you may have noticed that i've never embraced for myself
00:48:17.920
the maga label has anybody noticed that that i talk about maga all the time but i don't call myself
00:48:25.680
that i don't have a mega hat i won't be getting one and i've never really embraced it because i'm not a
00:48:32.560
joiner in that way i'm just not a joiner um what are you saying about
00:48:43.520
anyway so you don't have to take sides um i'm not talking about taking sides i'm just saying that
00:48:50.400
as a reframe america first versus mega it's kind of an interesting frame
00:48:58.320
yeah i like to think of myself as an independent all right tucker carlson continues to be interesting
00:49:05.680
so you might know that people have been accusing tucker of taking money from qatar
00:49:13.200
for i guess they would assume that he's taking their point of view or maybe he's being anti-israel
00:49:21.840
and uh he his claim is that he has never taken a dime from qatar but uh he's now decided to buy a
00:49:29.680
home in qatar and and uh apparently he's doing it as just an f you to all the people who are accusing
00:49:38.800
him of taking money and his point would be uh you can't affect my freedom so if you're going to be mad
00:49:48.000
at me for being friendly with qatar i'm going to be even friendlier with qatar i'm going to buy a house
00:49:54.080
there now none of us know what he's thinking so we we'd be on you know sort of sketchy ground if we
00:50:04.080
assume we know what he's thinking we're not mind readers but i'll tell you what i think might be
00:50:11.200
going on here part of it might be that spite thing where it is just to make a point if you tell me i
00:50:19.120
can't do it i'm going to do it but here's another reason have you noticed that the people who can afford
00:50:25.440
it are all buying an escape country you know or state so you've got a bunch of billionaires
00:50:34.000
who have property in hawaii which has the advantage of being far away from the mainland in case the
00:50:41.040
mainland turns into some kind of disaster or gets into a war and if i were going to pick a an escape
00:50:52.000
country and i had you know unlimited money seems like qatar would be or cutter whatever you want to
00:50:59.040
call it seems like that would be a good escape country doesn't it so every time i see somebody
00:51:05.360
who can afford it get their escape country i get a little bit more worried about what they know that
00:51:12.480
i don't know it could it be they're just it's just risk management and and they're completely aware
00:51:20.160
that you know every country has a risk even if you're a strong country i don't know i if i had to guess
00:51:28.560
and i cannot know what he's thinking my guess is that it's as much about finding a safe place for
00:51:35.680
his family and him because remember it's getting very dangerous to be a conservative in the united
00:51:41.840
states tim pool uh says that somebody shot into his facility uh the other day like a bullet and you
00:51:51.040
know i don't have to go through the other examples from charlie kirk to trump getting his ear shot to
00:51:55.920
you know all the all the uh what do you call it the swatting so if i were tucker and just imagine the
00:52:05.360
number of death threats he gets just imagine it i'm guessing it's almost every day and some of them
00:52:13.520
are serious so if i got that many threats and i had especially if i had a family or a spouse i'm
00:52:22.480
protecting i feel like i would be doing my job as you know head of the household if i had an escape plan
00:52:31.440
you know if it gets too bad we're going to walk directly over to this private jet
00:52:36.160
and we're going to go directly to qatar and we're just going to stay there until it's safe
00:52:43.520
now that's what i'd want to see from my head of household if they could afford it and looks like
00:52:48.880
he can afford it so that's what i think is going on but some of it might be the spite thing but i think
00:52:57.920
if you looked at the spite versus the personal safety probably the personal safety is the bigger
00:53:05.200
variable but i don't think you'd want to necessarily say that out loud necessarily
00:53:12.240
all right uh i guess the new york times has an article i haven't read it but the article is about
00:53:21.920
uh ukraine corruption and how all the cronies of zelensky contributed to the you know the corruption
00:53:29.520
allegations and uh now they're asking the question where'd all the money go where'd all the money go
00:53:37.120
now here's a uh just a mental test what do you call it a mind there's a word for that a mind
00:53:49.600
experiment a mental experiment that's not the right name for it but you know what i mean so
00:53:57.280
what we know is that when the the war broke out that the united states funded
00:54:03.280
ukraine to help them attack russia would we have been better off bombing ukraine
00:54:14.080
now i'm not suggesting we do that i'm just putting it out there as a mental experiment if we had bombed
00:54:21.040
ukraine the whole thing would have been over in a week because they wouldn't have anybody on their side
00:54:26.880
and we would have killed very few ukrainians but we could have taken out all their corrupt leadership
00:54:37.600
now russia would of course you know be the beneficiary
00:54:42.080
but aren't they going to be the beneficiary anyway
00:54:47.840
so let me be very clear i am not suggesting that would have been a good idea
00:54:52.640
i'm only i'm only doing a mental thing where you can imagine it and it's actually a little bit
00:55:01.600
hard to explain why we would have been better off getting to the place we are now
00:55:07.600
because won't russia still have its way in the long run did we not spend tremendous amount of money
00:55:14.640
and did did not that tremendous amount of money go into corrupt ukrainian hands
00:55:20.240
i mean i think we should probably oh can i say this i might not be able to say this in public
00:55:29.440
um i'll say it in the least um dangerous way we should we meaning the united states should be putting
00:55:39.680
a lot of effort into tracking down and bringing a legal process to the people that we think stole all
00:55:47.520
our money the ukrainians and if we're not doing that somebody needs to tell me why because
00:55:56.640
you know we might we're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars are we not
00:56:05.600
i don't know where any of that's going but um trump trump says that uh that russia likes the current
00:56:13.840
version of the proposed peace deal and uh zelensky hasn't read it and trump's a little bit miffed
00:56:22.320
that it's only 28 points or maybe fewer at this point we don't really know and zelensky is acting like
00:56:29.040
he's not even interested enough to stop what he's doing and read it what exactly was zelensky doing
00:56:36.320
that was more important than catching up with the current version of the peace proposal what what
00:56:46.000
anyway um according to wall street journal um russia has a big problem with ai
00:56:55.120
now uh what i mean is that russia like all the major countries when ai became a thing wanted to have ai
00:57:06.240
supremacy how is russia doing in their ai supremacy i don't know if you saw their humanoid robot that
00:57:15.920
they unleashed and just fell on its face and they don't have a better one than that than the one that
00:57:21.520
fell on its face in the public demonstration um so you've got first of all the the top russian
00:57:28.240
scientists if they can get out of the country you're going to do it as soon as possible because
00:57:33.040
if you're a top russian ai scientist the worst place you could be would be russia or maybe china
00:57:40.320
but if you can get out of there and go to some other freer country you you know you'll be the richest
00:57:45.840
smartest you know most valuable person in that country so they're going to lose their best brains
00:57:53.920
and uh apparently they don't have much else going for them let's say russian ai companies this is the
00:57:59.280
wall street journal the russian ai companies attracted about 30 million dollars in venture funding last
00:58:05.520
year 30 million dollars how much do you think open ai alone just one american company how much how much
00:58:14.400
funding do you think open ai got last year the answer is six billion dollars
00:58:22.480
so the entire russia russian ai enterprise raised 30 million dollars one company
00:58:32.320
in the u.s raised six billion and do you think our ai scientists are better than theirs
00:58:38.400
if they're not they will be there's no doubt about it so if it's true here's where it gets interesting
00:58:49.520
try to try to connect these two thoughts and ask yourself why they're not already connected
00:58:55.840
don't you think that uh all the smart people are saying that ai dominance is the future so if you're not
00:59:04.800
dominant in ai you're basically toast but the wall street journal is reporting that if you look at the
00:59:12.480
funding you look at what they've done so far that russia doesn't have any chance of being ai dominant
00:59:19.600
they might make good drones but they're not going to be ai dominant now maybe the u.s
00:59:26.400
will be the dominant one maybe it's china but it won't be russia so if you believe that your entire
00:59:35.760
country is toast if you're not ai dominant does it matter if if russia conquers ukraine or even gets
00:59:46.320
another big chunk of it because all the ai people will tell you well they're basically russia is going
00:59:53.200
going to go into business anyway it's just a matter of time is that true maybe it's never been true
01:00:01.200
that if you're not ai dominant you're going to be toast i mean it wasn't you weren't toast when the
01:00:09.600
united states became uh dot com dominant right other countries still exist russia still has an army so maybe
01:00:18.640
maybe maybe we've made too much of this ai dominance thing what do you think it could be that the whole ai
01:00:27.600
thing is just so overrated that uh there's nothing there you know maybe your drones will be a little
01:00:34.880
better but that's about it i don't know so try to connect the two thoughts one is that russia is
01:00:42.880
definitely going to get everything they want from ukraine but also how does that fit with russia will
01:00:49.440
be completely toast in a very short time because they're they'll never be dominant in ai and they'll
01:00:55.760
never even be good probably they'll probably not even be average good can both of those things be true
01:01:02.640
i don't know well there's a company called uh i'll see in a moment uh called biological oh there's a
01:01:16.000
platform called the biological interface systems to cortex or bisque so there's uh developed by teams at
01:01:23.680
columbia university and it's a new form of chip for your brain now as you know elon musk has a company
01:01:31.520
neuro neuro neuro neuro link that makes a you know brain interface that's been super uh impressive so
01:01:40.720
far but allegedly and there's a big big allegedly on this allegedly this other startup slash entity
01:01:51.520
has a super impressive chip that does not need a bunch of connections to your brain
01:01:58.480
um and somehow can control more of your brain for much less cost it uses much less real estate so
01:02:06.480
basically it's a whole other higher level of brain interface now like everything in technology it's
01:02:15.840
probably overrated but it does tell you where things are going and if it's true that that neural link has a
01:02:26.480
real legitimate competitor um that should make things go a little bit faster right even even if what
01:02:34.160
happens is neural link buys the other entity and just you know takes their technology we're probably at the
01:02:40.960
point where the where the potential for these chips becomes mainstream because today if you ask me scott
01:02:51.760
do you want a hole in your skull we're going to put a chip there and a bunch of good things are going
01:02:56.240
to happen i would say no thank you why don't you go first but suppose this new technology was so good
01:03:04.800
that i knew two or three people who had the chip and they were just delighted by it and it gave them a
01:03:09.760
superpower well then i'm going to be a cyborg as fast as i can and it does look like i have to admit
01:03:19.520
i wasn't sure this whole neural link thing had you know that much of a future you know even if you
01:03:27.360
assume oh technology always improves and you know never assume it will stop approving because it always
01:03:33.600
improves even with that i wasn't really sure that we could put a chip on your brain and make it talk to
01:03:41.520
it but at the moment i do at the moment i think that this is something where the potential is hard
01:03:50.080
to imagine and imagine if you will that you had all the powers of ai automatically and it was just
01:03:59.600
in your brain you wouldn't need a phone right you wouldn't need a phone you wouldn't need a computer
01:04:07.040
maybe you could just see the things you know floating in front of you even though they're not
01:04:12.000
there so that's exciting it's exciting that there's a potentially a big competitor neural link
01:04:19.520
well here's a story you have to be careful with there's a uh there's uh let's say this is the
01:04:26.960
okiyama university some researchers found that at least in mice there's a green light so a certain
01:04:35.440
kind of light that apparently will kill cancer so if i told you that there's a type of light
01:04:43.200
that would kill cancer what would be your first reaction well if you were cnn your first reaction
01:04:51.840
would be wait a minute why does drinking bleach sound like a good idea that's a terrible idea don't
01:04:59.680
drink bleach that's what they said when trump suggested using a different kind of light to battle
01:05:07.120
cancer in your lungs now somebody else said scott scott you fool somebody that this morning in the
01:05:14.960
comments said you fool scott how are you going to get the light inside your body to which i said
01:05:25.600
same way trump was uh they were talking about a essentially a what would you call it a stent or uh
01:05:34.240
uh there's a word for it but you could put a light device down somebody's lungs and let's say somebody
01:05:41.520
had a lung cancer and let's say if you could look at their lungs from the inside maybe you could see
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those cancer things yeah so is it possible that you could introduce a light with an endoscope somebody
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saying could you introduce a light to the lungs and the answer is i think so here's another one
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um have you ever heard of uh i think this is an existing process uh where somebody can
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uh this is probably a non-medical bad analogy but i'm going to make it anyway so you know if you were
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doing uh let's say getting your kidneys what's the word for that when you run your blood through
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an external device because your kidneys are not working what's that called anyway so we know that we
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can take people's blood run it through some kind of process some kind of medical process and then
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reintroduce them to their body could you dial dialysis yes so dialysis if i understand it correctly is
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taking your active blood out of your body uh cleaning it and then reintroducing it to your body is that is
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that accurate what would stop you from taking the blood out of the body running it through a light
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and then reintroducing it to the body because it would come it would come back to the body without
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cancer now i'm not suggesting that would work i'm just saying it's not crazy that you could in fact
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introduce light to at least some specific kinds of cancers um blood cancer and maybe something else
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uh anyway uh i'm i'm mostly bringing this up to moxie and adam for being such a bad
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such a bad reporting uh element or entity that they that they turned that into drinking bleach
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at least when trump said that they turned it into drinking bleach
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all right ladies and gentlemen that's all i got for you today you may have noticed that it's a slow
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news week oh my god it's a slow news week but we had fun anyway didn't we
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all right uh i'm gonna talk privately to my beloved uh members of the locals platform so locals i'll be
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coming at you in 30 seconds privately the rest of you thanks for joining
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and i will see you tomorrow same time same place for more of this
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our use of the cast here to find that which we're going to be a lot more bless N
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in terms of opportunity and everybody you doiggs we'll be brand off and be happy that we are
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doing this and we'll see you more and we've got aität of expertise and so even again