Episode 3041 CWSA 12⧸09⧸25
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1 hour and 3 minutes
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138.40887
Summary
In this episode of Behind the Curtain, Scott talks about a recent technical challenge, the problems he's facing, and why he thinks we might be on the brink of a new kind of energy breakthrough that could change the world.
Transcript
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have i well once you all stream in here we'll give you the show you deserve
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so if you're wondering what's different uh i'll give you a little background
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so i'm temporarily broadcasting from my garage slash man cave and i've got several devices down
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here that are a little bit uh challenging for my electrical circuits so yesterday i had uh two
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heaters and two was too much so i got rid of one of them you know because it blew a circuit
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but i couldn't do the coffee maker and the heater because that blew a circuit so i've got a whole
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bunch of gfis and circuit breakers in this room quite a few of them and it's very difficult to
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figure out what's wrong so i don't have full power in the room i've got one outlet that works and
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everything's running off and at the moment i'm using the overhead light because i can't get the
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other light to work so massive technical challenges this morning uh then on top of that
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i had a little technical challenge i wasn't expecting at all which uh apparently the new
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i don't know if it's the meds i'm on i assume it is i assume it's the meds
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um i fell asleep five times while i was trying to prepare the notes and uh i would say that i'm not
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prepared so we're gonna see what happens i'm gonna i'm gonna tread water here all right most of you are
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coming in here and i think you know by now that you found the highlight of human civilization
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civilization that's right the highlight of human civilization but if you'd like to take it up a
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notch do you know how to do that yeah it's written right here on your cup to do that all you need is
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a cup or a mug or a glass of tank or chalice or stein a canteen jug or a flask a vessel of any kind
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fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the
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dopamine of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous sip and it happens
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now go jump in perfect all right everything's gonna go well now from now on and i finally figured
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that if i watch your comments on my phone i can i can pause them so i can really see what's going on
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here this show will just get better and better every time did i leave something out
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it's gonna take me a while to get back on back on plan all right here's here's the real secret
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of today's show you want to know a behind the curtain secret
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i don't know if it's because of the meds but i had plenty of sleep last night you know relative to
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what i usually get uh however i'm very aware that my iq is down about 40 percent this morning
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and you probably have asked yourself scott it must be difficult to do a podcast because you have to
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kind of quickly catch up on all these complicated stories and then summarize them and put them in
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order and then make some kind of a you know interesting observation it's really hard i don't know if you've
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ever taken the time to think about it but it's not like i have a team of writers or anything
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i do this myself so in order to make this work this podcast i need every bit of my mental capacity
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do you know how much i have available to me this morning not every bit
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i'm not even close to being smart enough to do the thing that i'm going to attempt to do right in
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front of you i am really mentally degraded at the moment uh this morning while i was putting my notes
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together i woke up five times which means that without trying i was just working away and the next
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thing i knew i was asleep and i think it happened five times this morning now it's not unusual that it
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would happen once but uh i would say my iq is down to 40 this morning so if you always wondered what
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would happen if i did my show but i was stupid well you're going to find out you're going to find out
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right now all right here's some uh stories that i know will delight you you will be delighted um i always
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tell you there's a there's an account on x called massimo m-a-s-s-i-m-o it's got real good tech stuff
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futuristic stuff but masimo's writing about how there's a new fusion reactor that allegedly could
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power the entire planet by 2030. now i suppose that's pretty optimistic how long have we been talking
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about fusion is right around the corner but a munich-based startup proximo fusion
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have come up with some new concept that they think can change everything so optimistic
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thought number one maybe we figured out how to have cheap or free energy and that will give us ai
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and then we'll enter the golden age of of abundance and uh all we really needed was some really good
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really good fusion reactors and it looks like they're on the way speaking of that the google ceo
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uh was just on another show and he mentioned uh again how data centers in space might be the secret
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to getting enough power uh if you didn't hear me talk about it uh the other day uh the reason you would
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want to put a data center in space and it wouldn't have to necessarily be in one place so it could be
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distributed across satellites i guess but the reason you want to put it in space is that you don't have to
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cool it because space is pretty darn cold and you uh what else the the other natural advantage is that
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uh you have all the space you need oh and then the other advantage is that uh you can place a satellite
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or a data center where it's always in the sun so you don't have to worry about clouds that wouldn't be any
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in space and you wouldn't have to worry about it being on the wrong side of the planet because you just
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wouldn't put it there so uh what is interesting is that the google ceo seems committed to that being the future
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but uh elon musk commented on google ceo's comment and he just said interesting now you probably have
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heard because i've mentioned it too that elon musk is saying essentially the same thing that uh we're
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going to have to take our game to space and we have to do it pretty fast because that's might be the only
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way we can get you know all the ai and all the power we need so the fact that the ceo of google and
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the ceo of tesla and spacex uh both have this super ambitious view of the world but it seems doable
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uh i believe pretty much all the parts exist you would just have to engineer them together and who
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better to engineer google and tesla so it looks like that's gonna happen data centers in space
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so senator josh hawley is introducing a bill uh to require companies to track layoffs uh he
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specifically wants to track layoffs that are caused by ai so we have a better idea you know what's
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happening as it happens but it would they would also track non-ai layoffs so you have a pretty good
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idea now don't you think that there was something missing that this is even a bill
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how is it that we didn't know we didn't know why people are losing jobs it feels like that could have
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been some some kind of basic thing we should have known but if josh hawley is talking to the right
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economists in the in the government and i know we got some good ones uh then he might be doing their
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bidding and tracking the thing that the economists in the government want to have tracked so we'll see
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so that that could turn out to be a good thing uh here's some science for you did you know that fewer
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than eight percent just eight percent of the couples um of successful couples consist of a democrat and
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a republican as a couple does that surprise you that only eight percent of couples are opposite politically
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that feels just about right to me i'm not saying it's good or bad i'm just saying yeah that sounds
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about what i'd expect about eight percent it would be pretty hard to have a marriage with somebody
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who disagreed with you on the real basic stuff that would be tough so i think that's a that's good
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um and according to this this study most individuals do seem to screen for political alignment
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how many of you how many of you how many of you did that how many of you said hmm i better get some
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political alignment here did you do that when you were looking for your mates back whenever it was
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well i don't think i ever have i i can't think of any time where i explicitly had that thought
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but i've also been lucky that in my relationships the people i've been involved with were not super
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political you know in preference so it just sort of doesn't come up or didn't come up and so it worked
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for me to just sort of ignore the whole political thing but i would expect that's probably a that's
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probably an exception all right here's another little piece of science let's see if you do this
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university of montreal is talking about this that young adolescents especially boys
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who participated in organized sports between ages six and ten are less likely to defy their parents
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teachers and other authority figures does it does it track with your experience in life
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that the young boys who play sports are more i don't want to say obedient that's sort of what it is
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they're less likely to defy their parents and teachers and authority figures does that make sense
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that makes sense but what i don't know is if the participating in sports is what causes them to
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so let's say be more compliant with the authority figures or did they start that way and the thing
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that makes them interested in sports is whatever the same thing is that you know makes them the way they
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are so i don't know if this is real science they may have cause and effect backwards but i whenever i see
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whenever i see a young boy who is very involved in sports i always assume that that they've got their
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other act together don't you not every time i mean it's not a hundred percent but if you see somebody
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who plays three sports and they can organize their life well enough to you know make it to practice and
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figure out what position they want and you know try to optimize it and then they're making friends and
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they're learning learning how the game works um i think there's a really high correlation between
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people who are successful in navigating life and people who are successful in navigating sports
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so again i don't know what what causes what but the correlation is pretty high
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uh there's a new study that uh that finds the political differences predict lower relationship
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quality oh that's the same one i was talking about i put my notes in two places if you're just
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joining i was explaining that i don't know if it's because of the new meds i'm on or what but i fell asleep
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five times this morning just putting my notes together and uh so i probably put 20 of the time i
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normally put into this so i don't know what you're gonna get this morning yeah it could be anything
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all right so representative jasmine crockett has decided to raise her sights and she's gonna run for
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senate in in uh texas what do you think is jasmine crockett the next senator from texas maybe i mean i'd
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have to see the uh i'd have to see the polls but i don't know why not i mean if you say to yourself
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but scott that's crazy because she's clearly not capable or or competent and she proves it almost every
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day why would she ever become a senator to which i say have you been paying attention to anything in
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the world for the last 10 years it doesn't matter how smart you are it doesn't matter if you have good
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policies nothing matters you just have to be interesting then people like you and then they vote for
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you that's about it and is she interesting yeah she's very interesting she is she's a difficult one to
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uh assess wouldn't you say um she's a difficult one to assess because on one hand she acts dumb
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but on the other hand she keeps getting good results have you noticed that so how do you explain the fact
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that your impression of her is like oh that's that's so dumb and then trump calls her dumb and you're
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like yeah i knew it we both agreed she's dumb and then the next thing you know she's running for senator
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and has a good chance of winning so is that dumb it you remember that people said the same thing about
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trump when trump when trump first ran uh let's say 2015 people were calling him dumb but why did he keep
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winning so it kind of challenges your notion of what dumb is if somebody keeps winning and it's not a
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coincidence are they dumb so i have to say she's very interesting um and i'm gonna i think i'll
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probably refrain from you know challenging her on iq because you know she did go i think she went to
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law school and you know graduated from a decent college so my guess is she's pretty smart but part of
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her act might be acting like let's say acting like her her voters might want her to act is that a good way
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to say it um so keep an eye on her she i suspect that she would be very competitive because remember
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it only matters if the democrats like her and i suspect they're gonna like all the fight she puts
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into it you know all the democrats keep saying that what we're doing wrong is we're not fighting hard
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enough we gotta fight and then she goes out and says a bunch of crazy stuff and you say yeah that's
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some fighting she's got some fighting and then you feel like oh something's happening
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yeah none of it looks genuine it looks performative but it's politics
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well trump is trying to navigate the fact that people's voters seem to care the most about affordability
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lately of all the various things that they could care about that's at the top of the list i think
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and it makes sense i could see why it's at the top of the list um but he's got a tough time navigating
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it because it's not like there's one magnificent thing he could do to change affordability he would
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have to sort of pack around the edges for a whole bunch of things you know there might be a thing with
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beef and there might be a thing with tariffs and it's just gonna be complicated and distributed and
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uh you know it's gonna be small gains if any and you'd have to add them all together to even notice
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any difference so he's got quite a challenge to to turn whatever he decides that he can do to turn it
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into something that people would understand and that they would say oh yeah trump did that and now i'm
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paying less at the gas pump or wherever so it's gonna be tough so i guess uh trump is doing a affordability
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uh tour so he's sort of getting ready for the 2026 you know midterms and uh he'll be traveling around
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talking about affordability affordability so we'll see i i would say that if you put trump up against jasmine
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crockett as in they're both talking about affordability but she's got a plan he's got a plan
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i feel like his plan would look like it made sense even if it doesn't make enough difference it would
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make sense at least like it wouldn't be ridiculous whereas i don't know what she has in mind for
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affordability do you are the democrats really getting away with just saying affordability is good but we're
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not going to tell you what we're going to do about it it feels like that's what's happening right that
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that if they use the word the most they can get elected but what exactly are you doing you know
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trump is doing things that are well reported and covered and you know he's he's trying to do things
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with argentina on beef and you know i can go down the list but you can make a whole list of the things
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that trump is doing or has done that go right to affordability not enough we would all like maximum
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affordability so there'll never be enough but at least it's real and i wonder if that's the weakness
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maybe that's where trump has a has an opening because he could say you know what the affordability
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is really hard and it's never as fast as you want but i'm doing 12 things to get you more affordability
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jasmine is offering you nothing but some stupid ideas that would never work because that looks like
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what's happening i mean that actually looks like what's happening anyway how many of you are watching the
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drama uh between candace owens and tim pool is anybody paying attention to that it's uh kind of heating
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up i'll try to give you you know i wasn't really following it because i tend not to follow the individual
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drama stuff but it finally got big enough that it's hard to ignore see if you don't mind i'll just give it a
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quick quick look ah so so here's the basic idea so candace has a number of uh what would i call them
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i don't want to say conspiracy theories because that that would be an insult to her ideas before
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actually looking at the ideas so i don't like that phrase i will say that she has some non-standard
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provocative ideas about what may have happened or may be happening around the charlie kirk
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assassination so they were good friends charlie kirk and candace and there's some some kind of drama with
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the executives of turning point usa and who knows what's true so i haven't i haven't really been paying
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attention to that because uh because uh because you can't tell what's true you know there will be
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competing versions of what's happening and what's going to happen but you know how are we gonna know
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but you may have heard uh that tim pool who has one of the biggest podcasts in the country especially
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for the conservative side of the world um apparently somebody took some shots
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shots at his physical facility you know one of his i don't know how much real estate he has but one of
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them nobody was injured but imagine how you would feel if somebody drove up to your house and put bullets
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in it or up to your workplace i don't know if it was one or both of those things but how would you feel
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about that so um i was watching uh tim go off on candace uh not in person but he was talking about the
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situation and oh boy he's not happy about the situation that she and maybe some other people have put him
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in because he's physically in danger and more to the point the the people he cares about around him i don't
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know what the family situation is or the friend situation but he's got to be very aware that he may
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be putting his friends and family at risk and i can't even imagine how mad that would be if that happened
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to me so however mad tim seems he's he got there the honest way you you are allowed to be very mad
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at at at a situation that maybe somebody else ginned up that could put you and your friends literally
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in a deadly situation so that's what he's having to deal with he's actually talked about maybe
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discontinuing podcasting now that would be pretty extreme given how successful he is and how much
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impact he has on on the uh the debate in this country so we don't want to see him do that but
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i don't think he's joking when he says that that might be something he has to consider just retiring uh
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we don't want to see that and that would i would consider that just a really bad outcome but i also
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think he has he deserves to be safe and if he's not feeling safe he's got to do whatever he has to do
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and i'm not going to judge him for what he thinks makes him safe that's completely his decision obviously
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um he's married and has a okay i don't i don't want to go any further than that i'll just say he's married
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and anything else you want to assume about that go ahead and uh yeah so he's got a young child and
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imagine how you'd feel if that were you so he had some uh choice words for candace he used the c word
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about her several times in one in one uh rant and uh it's kind of shocking to see that language being
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used especially on the conservative side of things i don't know if he calls himself conservative by the
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way i think of him as independent uh but you may have a different opinion so
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i'm going to try to not take sides you okay with that um i don't like
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where it all went and if i had to take sides i could but i don't have to i just don't have to
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take sides so i would like them to figure out how to work it out i think that candace
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i think that candace does have a responsibility to make sure that there's no extra or unnecessary risk
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that's being pointed in tim's direction that's not going to be good for anybody it's not going to be
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good for tim or his family it's definitely not going to be good for candace i mean if something
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happened to tim or his family i don't want to speculate where that would lead but you know you
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can fill in the blanks yourself there there's a risk there's a very big risk here and it's not just to tim
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them so um i choose to like both of them and find value in both of their their entertainment but i
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don't choose to believe that one of them has all the right answers and let's obviously i'm talking
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about candace when i say having the right answers i don't know if she has the right answers i don't know
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if brigitte mccrone is what she says i don't know if anything she alleges about turning point usa is
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true i don't know but it's also not it's not my biggest concern so my biggest concern is that the
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the pro-trump people don't tear themselves apart and that the country stays whole and that we focus on
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the things that might make a difference and not the things that are just sort of people being mad at
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each other so you know on top of tim having to run this business which is a big enterprise is is a
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podcasting business and on top of having this drama where he's cast into the you know the the spotlight
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and on top of having a young child so he's probably not getting nearly enough sleep as he needs to
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he's got a lot going on so um and candace candace seems like she's just having fun uh and i would uh
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i would hope and i assume this is the case that she's completely aware of what kind of impact
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her opinions have on his family and on mega and all that so i'm going to trust
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that she's going to act appropriately even if it's not as quickly as you think she should
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i i feel like she'll work it out and because they're both they're both unusually smart right
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i mean we're not talking about one of them is a dummy and one of them's not these are two really
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capable smart people and they would be completely aware of the impact they're having on their audience
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the impact they're having on the country so i think they'll work it out and i'm not going to take
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sides i'm just going to say you two know what makes sense you know you know what's a good thing to do
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and uh you know what's going too far so i don't need to i don't need to advise anybody
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now some of you were going to say but scott she just wants to get you know the most
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the most traffic and you know she's not really interested in what's good for the world i don't
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believe that i believe that she does care about what's good for the world because most people do
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it would be very unusual if you didn't to me that would be unusual especially if you spend this much
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time in the public domain you end up you know caring a lot about how your impact is anyway so
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that's enough about that they'll work it out did you know according to another study that swearing
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cursing may boost your strength and endurance according to frontiers in psychology how many of
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you didn't know that have you experienced how much stronger you get when you're cursing at the
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same time now i don't know if women know this but doesn't every man know that that if you're swearing
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you can literally lift you can lift more you can throw a rock farther you can punch harder every guy knows
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that right i don't feel like that's something we just discovered on a tuesday no
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no so when i see that uh tim pool is calling uh is calling candace the c word uh i say to myself
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well he just he's getting stronger um otherwise it's between them did you know that there's a new statistic
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that says and that the roughly 220 000 people have been arrested by ice so that would be people who
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are getting ready to be shipped back to the country of origin that uh one-third of them have no criminal
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records does that seem like too much one-third because we always knew that if ice went into a room
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and they were after one person specifically you know let's say they knew somebody who was in the room
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that they'd probably check everybody in the room so does it surprise you that people who are
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not legal citizens at least in terms of you know i mean uh does it surprise you that they're often found
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with people who are also not citizens and then ice doesn't really have an option
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that they don't get to use their own judgments like oh this one seems nice
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uh no yeah you seem nice so we'll leave you alone they don't really have that option
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you know if they're in the room with you and you've and they've proven that they're not legal residents
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and it's ice they kind of have to move they kind of have to move on that now i'm not saying it's good or
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bad i'm saying that if one-third of them don't have a criminal record on top of entering the country
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illegally that wouldn't surprise me that feels about right nbc news is reporting that well the
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supreme court is debating whether the president in his executive capacity can fire experts and
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scientists in the in government jobs and uh apparently some people think that the president
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should not have that power and some people think he should because he's the head of the executive
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branch but uh justice uh katanji brown jackson seems to be one of the people who if we can judge by the
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way they're asking questions we don't know for sure yet but seems to suggest that she doesn't want the
00:32:50.000
president whoever the president is to uh overrule the experts because then you would have all these
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experts in the government that you hired because they're experts and then you would have some president
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who is not an expert at whatever that domain is and they'd be overruling experts does it ever sound like
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a good idea for a politician to override an expert go ahead in the comments see this is a harder question
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than you think isn't it you thought this was a layup right easiest question in the world is it a good
00:33:29.040
idea for the politician to override somebody that everybody would agree is an expert not not even any
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question about it well it's 2025 people almost 2026 and let me tell you if there's one thing you
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if you haven't noticed uh there doesn't seem to be that much advantage in being an expert because the
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number of times the experts are just absolutely full of shit is so high that it looks to me almost random
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i mean i don't even see that the you know in a lot of domains it doesn't even feel to me that the
00:34:11.280
experts give you you know a five percent chance of getting a better answer it looks like there's no chance
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at all uh because be you an expert or not you're probably going to be influenced you know by whether you can
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give a speaking deal you know it you you don't want to say something if you're an expert that would
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destroy your chance of getting a speaking gig because a speaking gig could be i don't know ten twenty
00:34:40.880
thousand dollars just for showing up and saying some expert stuff do you want to give that away
00:34:48.400
no you don't so politicians also of course are not experts so that's a problem and also they may have
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their own you know political reasons to lie so you've got experts you can't trust versus politicians
00:35:07.280
you can't trust so i'm not sure we live in a world where you can trust either one of them
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but what i definitely don't believe is that it's obvious which one's going to be right
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because you know how about the uh you know we could talk about climate change and
00:35:27.040
10 other things where the politician guessed closer than the expert guessed so uh
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anyway so we don't know how the uh work's going to rule but i think the smart people are saying
00:35:43.680
that uh you want the uh the executive to be in charge of the experts and not the other way around
00:35:53.920
don't look at the bullet i don't know what that means it's in the comments but uh who else is weighing
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in on this well um so uh boo kelly the president of el salvador uh commented on this topic on x he said
00:36:15.360
fun fact checks and balances don't truly exist unless the judicial branch can also be checked and balanced
00:36:24.960
meaning that you need to be able to get rid of corrupt judges or else you can never have a proper
00:36:31.600
country elon musk commented on bukelly's comment and said the only way to restore rule of the people
00:36:39.440
in america is to impeach judges no one is above the law including judges now how do you feel about that
00:36:51.440
isn't it scary to you if the executive can fire all the judges or whatever judge they want to fire
00:36:59.040
because that would put the executive really in charge of the judicial branch of the government
00:37:06.560
and that was never what was intended so i mean whoever formed the the government doesn't want that
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or didn't want it so i feel like there's no right answer here because on one on one hand i completely
00:37:22.560
understand why you need to be able to control rogue judges on the other hand if you have complete
00:37:30.320
control over rogue judges then there's no no point in having a judicial system it's just going to be a
00:37:36.720
slave to the executive so i don't know which one works better i suppose your best situation would be
00:37:44.880
uh the executive is as independent as you can make them but if you really try hard you know the way
00:37:51.360
impeachment is supposed to work if there's really a strong reason then you can put together this big
00:37:57.680
awkward expensive you know time intensive process to maybe impeach somebody but you don't want it to
00:38:06.000
be too easy you don't want the president to be able to call up and say all right get rid of that uh
00:38:14.960
all right we'll see how that goes uh trump has threatened a five percent tariff on mexico
00:38:26.720
because mexico apparently is reneging on some of their agreements for water rights so i guess the u.s
00:38:35.760
farmers get some significant amount of water from south of the border and uh apparently
00:38:44.080
mexico has the ability to dial that up and dial it down and they currently have it dialed down
00:38:51.200
and trump is doing what i've never heard biden do this is this a problem that we've always had
00:38:58.480
but no prior president even dealt with it because what trump is doing is saying no you're going to
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give us the water you agreed to or we're gonna give you a tariff now will that work maybe maybe it goes
00:39:14.480
from five percent to ten percent if it doesn't but it does seem like at least he's acting on it and that
00:39:21.200
feels like a better president than one that isn't acting on it so we'll see i i'm in favor of trump getting
00:39:28.640
tough with mexico over water we can't mess around with water rights with water rights especially if
00:39:36.160
you have an agreement you're gonna have to you're gonna have to push that hard you you can't be
00:39:42.000
flexible on that once we've got the rights well interestingly trump has uh given the green light
00:39:52.160
according to reuters in the new york post uh for nvidia to ship their powerful ai chips to china
00:39:59.840
despite the fact that people are worried about the the national defense and national security
00:40:06.960
risks so i'm a little bit unclear it's going to allow nvidia to export its h200 chips to china
00:40:16.640
but what are those the top ones in the comments can you give me a fact check are the h200s
00:40:28.080
or is the h100 more powerful feels like 200 would be more powerful than 100 but i don't know if that's
00:40:38.960
the case so there's a little delay in the comments but somebody will tell me what one of you knows we
00:40:45.520
got a lot of we got a lot of uh engineers in the in the audience here uh no no clue
00:40:53.120
no no no won't help me you need a sentence h300 the most powerful are you joking i can't tell if
00:41:03.040
you're joking is there a h300 chip all right well whatever it is um the interesting part of the story
00:41:11.680
is that uh trump is going to allow nvidia to sell these to china the h200 chip but um 25 of what they
00:41:21.040
would make would be paid to the united states government so once again trump sees a pile of
00:41:30.720
money sitting on the table and he says as he always does hey is this pile of money going anywhere
00:41:38.400
does anybody own this well we we kind of own it would it be okay if i said you can't sell to china
00:41:46.880
unless i get 25 of this pile of money well you know we don't love that but yeah what are you going
00:41:53.440
to do so once again trump just picks up the free money it's not exactly free but it's about as close
00:42:03.680
as you can get to free all you have to do is say uh i'll say yes if you give us 25 of this pile of money
00:42:09.760
that's pretty close to you know free money so you know until we saw trump do this the first few times
00:42:19.760
which is uh make a deal with an american company like intel where if the if the u.s government helps
00:42:27.600
the company then the u.s government gets to share some of the upside potential when it first happened
00:42:34.000
you probably thought to yourself oh no you know we're we're gonna we're gonna turn into a fascist
00:42:40.880
country where you know the the economy and the government are now merged well i i could see why
00:42:48.720
people would be worried about that but um is it bad again i it makes sense to be worried and to watch it
00:43:00.080
carefully but it doesn't look like it's a problem yet and if trump can put together a some kind of a
00:43:09.440
future where the government is making you know a percentage of our biggest companies and we're also
00:43:17.360
cleaning up with tariffs um maybe maybe we have some way out of our debt problem now elon musk has said
00:43:27.680
the only way and and i do believe them the only way the only way we survive our gigantic government
00:43:35.840
debt is if robots and ai just goose the economy to a level we've never seen before and suddenly it just
00:43:44.880
creates wealth like we've never seen now is that possible do you think it's possible that ai and robots
00:43:52.400
and maybe self-driving cars and maybe space stuff you know that the biggest things that are happening
00:43:59.120
if those let's say four or five things and maybe maybe fusion in a few years if those four or five
00:44:06.080
things just completely change the game even to the point where you don't need a job anymore it's like
00:44:12.640
everybody has everything i mean that's going to take a while to get to that point but is that our only way to survive
00:44:22.400
uh i have to look at this comment somebody's saying uh that my iq dropped more than 40 percent
00:44:41.120
all right you're so uh sam says your iq dropped more than 40 scott what responsibility does canvas have
00:44:50.160
i wouldn't give my opinion if you didn't listen to her podcast okay that's a stupid comment
00:44:59.280
so i thought i would highlight your stupid comment what part of that do you do you think i disagree
00:45:04.880
with well i don't even know what topic you're on i mean other than the people you named you're not even
00:45:10.560
making a smart point i i there's not even anything to disagree with it's just so stupid
00:45:16.320
so if i were you i wouldn't talk in public if that's the best you can do uh so you start with
00:45:24.640
a ad hominem and then you ask this question what responsibility does canvas have which has never been
00:45:31.680
a topic and is not one that i'm interested in so i'm not interested in the topic and it's not one
00:45:38.560
we're talking about and you said i wouldn't give my opinion if you didn't listen to her podcast
00:45:46.240
really have you ever heard of what podcasts are you know that sometimes we're well informed and
00:45:54.560
sometimes we're just catching up do you think i should not talk about it because i'm just catching up
00:46:01.360
now i'm not interested enough to dig into the details of what candace's opinion is
00:46:07.600
you tell me why that matters why does that matter does it matter that i have a well-informed opinion
00:46:13.920
about candace owens's opinion that doesn't matter in what way am i better off or the world better
00:46:21.120
off or are you better off if i've done a deep dive on candace owens opinion about turning point usa
00:46:30.160
it doesn't have any impact on me i don't think it has any impact on you
00:46:36.000
so why don't you grow up a little bit and stop being an idiot um and that would be cool
00:46:46.800
all right um probably if you're as dumb as sam is you should not say things in public i'm gonna leave
00:46:54.240
i'm gonna leave your stupid comment up there sam so that everybody can mock you for how dumb you are
00:47:03.920
uh all right let's see what else we got well ukraine of course we have to talk about ukraine
00:47:12.720
oh ukraine so zelensky says that the recent u.s talks were constructive i never believed that
00:47:21.840
when you when you're talking about peace deals until it's a done deal i don't believe anything
00:47:30.400
that anybody says when they characterize these negotiations
00:47:33.600
anyway zelensky thinks that europe is the obstacle to peace well maybe breitbart news is writing about
00:47:43.600
this um but apparently he said in an interview that negotiations with the u.s to find an end to the
00:47:50.560
war were constructive but indicated that questions remain uh regarding the position of europe well do you
00:47:59.920
believe that there's anything like an agreement of where the borders should be if if they stop shooting
00:48:08.400
there's no agreement i don't believe we're even close to an agreement
00:48:14.000
i have no idea what they're talking about just i feel like maybe they're just
00:48:21.040
all right um and then one of the questions is how can how can ukraine get something that's
00:48:31.120
nato-like protection without being part of nato
00:48:39.360
yeah so is that even an option what would you do that wasn't nato but looked and acted like nato and
00:48:49.040
would keep russia from attacking ukraine it would sort of just look like nato with but a little bit
00:48:57.120
crippled so what good is that anyway i don't think anything is close with ukraine and russia so you know
00:49:05.600
i said that it was going to be like a year before anything got serious i think it'll be a year because
00:49:13.440
russia is just going to be grinding them down and they don't seem to be in any hurry
00:49:19.040
so you'll just keep grinding all right so i told you those of you who joined at the beginning
00:49:27.280
that my iq is about 40 percent lower today um and i fell asleep five times just getting my notes
00:49:34.880
together so what i'm going to do which i haven't done before but i always wanted to do this is
00:49:41.600
i want to look at x and then see what's uh see what's new on there and then comment on it live
00:49:59.680
all right i don't want to do the ones where somebody's mad about somebody's
00:50:02.960
race or ethnicity um if you don't okay actuators well i don't think i'm seeing anything that's
00:50:21.920
trump reversing humphrey's executor is not priced in okay i'd have to read that don't feel like it
00:50:27.920
uh china says no thanks to nvidia's h200 chip even after trump said go ahead so here i am i just
00:50:37.840
talked about that h200 trip and china's like no thanks all right according to mario nawfall in a
00:50:45.200
plot twist no one saw coming beijing is now restricting access to nvidia's ultra powerful h200 chip
00:50:52.080
right after trump cleared the way for them to get it why are they doing that does it say why
00:50:59.600
why would beijing block its own companies from buying it and the answer is control paranoia strategy
00:51:07.360
maybe all three well we don't know maybe oh i'm gonna put a idea out there do you think that china
00:51:15.280
has uh they're getting close to making their own chips and we don't know about it
00:51:20.640
it if i had to guess i would say the reason that china would restrict access for its own companies
00:51:30.720
to get these chips is that they have a some other source but it's not quite quite ready yet so they
00:51:38.880
want to delay until they can get the source that they want and not have to rely on nvidia that's what i
00:51:45.120
think oh my goodness now i'm not going to read that uh china just killed the silicon tax i don't even know
00:51:56.560
what that is how about uh how about let's see what else is big
00:52:04.160
a wise man said marine corps should pay for marine corps branded pull-up bars at every airport gate
00:52:14.560
around the country so when you're waiting for your flight you can do pull-ups okay
00:52:28.720
um so steve malloy is one of the uh climate um doubters and he says the real inconvenient truth
00:52:38.880
is this says uh big joe bastard i guess does somebody on x after 30 plus years and more than
00:52:45.840
10 to 12 trillion spent globally on the climate emergency that al gore and the laos megaphones
00:52:51.760
told us was already upon us none of the short-term catastrophic predictions came true
00:52:57.600
on the timelines given none is zero human well-being life expectancy poverty all those things improved
00:53:06.720
faster than at almost any time in history okay the people who actually risk their own money
00:53:14.880
that would include banks insurers developers home buyers keep voting with trillions of dollars
00:53:21.440
that the doomsday version is not imminent that's a pretty good point isn't it
00:53:26.320
that the people who are putting their own money on the line are acting like climate's not going
00:53:31.680
to stop them yet the policies taxes bans and surveillance systems being rolled out in the name
00:53:37.680
of climate are more intrusive and permanent than anything we accepted even at the height of covet
00:53:44.960
all right good point how how much do you think that everybody agrees with the statement
00:53:52.240
that none of the predictions came true because if you turned on um let's say real time with bill maher
00:54:00.960
and let's say he had a democrat guest do you think that the democrat guest would agree with the statement
00:54:09.360
that none of the predictions of climate disaster have come true just none of them would they agree with that
00:54:16.880
because i i saw just recently somebody in that category who claimed that uh a lot of the predictions were true
00:54:25.600
are you aware of any predictions that are true in terms of doom are there more more accidents uh
00:54:34.960
is the have the ice caps melted you know beyond what we'd expect maybe uh did the
00:54:41.600
some kind of animals die i'm not aware of anything that happened that was true but it could be that
00:54:48.800
i'm in my bubble right i might just be in my bubble but uh it must be fun to be steve molloy
00:54:57.360
because i believe he's been he's been making these points for 10 years and now when he makes makes a post
00:55:07.280
like that i look at it and i go well you were you were 10 years early i didn't doubt him by the way i
00:55:14.000
didn't doubt him but i didn't know how accurate it would be he was very accurate um eric doherty on x
00:55:23.600
he's got a post here about uh caroline levitt spokesperson for trump uh she nuked democrats as
00:55:31.120
quote the greatest con artists in american politics so she said they're pretending to champion the issue
00:55:37.600
of affordability when they themselves created the worst inflation crisis in a generation you can't
00:55:44.560
create the problem and then you know act like you're the one solving it now i'm not a big fan
00:55:52.800
of trying to attribute blame because that feels like living in the past uh you know it's worth
00:56:00.320
understanding how we got here but if you're trying to solve it i'd rather just focus on the solving
00:56:07.520
that part you know i realize politics is politics but it doesn't really help me to to hear the
00:56:25.920
david axelrod says judge grants justice department request to unseal gillaine maxwell's records
00:56:34.320
in the sex trafficking case what are we going to learn if gillaine maxwell's records get unsealed
00:56:46.880
um he says i hope potus reads them before he pardons her well i think i can agree with david axelrod on this
00:56:56.320
that uh we never know why somebody gets pardoned so you know whatever we know isn't what they know
00:57:09.760
none of the new york times okay looking at your comments how about
00:57:28.400
mass shootings all right it's just people defending themselves against other people claiming things
00:57:39.920
he said uh so trump said that maduro's days the head of venezuela are numbered before refusing to
00:57:47.200
provide politico with a plan of action so trump just says quote his days are numbered
00:57:53.120
reporter can you rule out an american ground invasion
00:58:01.280
since when does trump ever rule something in around if it's military
00:58:06.400
he doesn't how many times has he told us i'm not going to rule anything in around
00:58:12.560
it just limits his own options but politico has to ask uh can you rule out an american ground
00:58:19.600
invasion trump why would i talk to you an extremely unfriendly publication
00:58:27.360
so he just attacks the publication for asking the question basically and i agree with them
00:58:40.320
pluribus on apple tv have you heard of that glenn greenwald says i've never seen a show as polarizing
00:58:47.360
as vince gilligan's pluribus well now i want to watch it
00:58:52.560
many people i like hate it boring slow and insufferable some say
00:58:57.520
but i guess glenn says it's one of the best most thought-provoking tv programs ever
00:59:03.840
can't recommend it enough all right uh glenn i am in you have convinced me
00:59:16.400
kamala harris rich barris the people's pundit says kamala harris one of the most disliked and least
00:59:22.400
consequential vps in history usurped your boss and duly blah blah blah before losing the election
00:59:30.400
okay i don't know what he's getting to you have to get to the point faster than that
00:59:40.240
all right all right that's all i need for today
00:59:44.320
ladies and gentlemen we should watch the show pluribus
01:00:03.760
as ruled illegal but i talked about pluribus a few weeks ago
01:00:09.200
tim pool did all right some of you like it a lot all right i'll watch it i'll give it a try
01:00:14.640
bye all right everybody i'm going to say a few words privately to my uh beloved
01:00:22.000
subscribers at locals the rest of you thanks for joining uh i enjoyed it with everybody except sam
01:00:29.520
sorry sam you failed today um but uh the rest of you i'll see you tomorrow and uh beloved
01:00:38.160
guys i'm going to be coming at you in 30 seconds we will be private
01:01:08.160
like at your best bay and the this way it maybe we're gonna have a lot that we're seeing