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Episode 2793 CWSA 03/29/25

Episode #2793 Mar 29, 2025 46:55 26,018 views

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. But if you'd like to take that up a level, all you need for that is a cup, a mug, or a glass, a tankard, a chalice, or stein, a canteen, a jug, or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of t…

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ordinary. So good. Well, after the show today, Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces on X. That's the audio-only service, and that'll be a few minutes after I'm done this morning. So if you want a little extra on a Saturday, and who doesn't want extra? You all want extra. That's where you'll get…

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Mail, scientists have discovered that intermittent fasting could boost bedroom performance, especially for older men. So intermittent fasting could boost bedroom performance. Now, coincidentally, I haven't had anything to eat in about 18 hours, so if I suddenly need to take a break, you'll know why.…

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rsity, it's funny that they even tested this. A robot dog can inspire emergent leadership in humans, meaning that if you have a robot dog and you tell the robot dog to act like one of the humans as the leader, the other humans will just go along with it. So you can literally have a robot dog choose…

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u can do most of it, that would be pretty impressive. So it's all drones. You can have your 3D-printed drone, which is great for terrorists. So if any of you are terrorists, a 3D-printed drone is coming. And there's also going to be all these drone killers now. They've got all these anti-drone syst…

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s like the military. The military always has a plan to attack anybody that looks like we might ever want to attack them. So yeah, of course they should definitely plan for what happens if Biden dropped dead during office. So I think there's no controversy there. That's just them doing a good job, I…

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nk you could drive the DEI out of Berkeley? That would be the ultimate test. I feel like the Berkeley-ites would die before they gave up on their entire woke agenda. So we'll see. And Pam Bondi, AG, says that the goal is clear: to end illegal discrimination and to restore merit. So good. And of cou…

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sses that way. So we'll see. Good luck, Mississippi. Here's one of the least surprising stories of the day. According to Roger Stone, who knows a lot about the JFK assassination because he wrote a book about it, so he's done a bunch of research, knows exactly what he's talking about. Joe Hoft is wr…

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5 billion less 12 billion in debt. So here's the fun part. The AI will now have access to train itself on the entire body of X content. Isn't that going to make Elon Musk's AI the best AI like right away? Because I don't know if the other AIs trained on it would be illegal if they did, I suppose, w…

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l, how about now you all just shut up. How about you just shut up? Because it turns out that worked out. So do you have anything else that Elon Musk can't do? Would you like to give me a list of the things he can't do? Oh, he'll never send a rocket up that you can reuse. He'll never build a car com…

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To which I say, you mean common sense? Apparently all it takes to lean right in today's world is common sense. Who exactly is against free market capitalism? Only the craziest leftists. I mean, otherwise Democrats and Republicans are pretty much in agreement that free market capitalism should be th…

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g it is possible, but it would reproduce it so inefficiently that you'd have to, you know, almost better if you started over from scratch, I think. But then I say, are you telling me that AI can't identify inefficient code and then replace it? Because I would think that it could do that easily if i…

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ce detention and removal. Now, I got to say that that makes sense to me because whatever it was that the Biden administration was up to with flying in half a million people, they never really explained that to us, did they? Did the Biden administration ever say, oh, these are the special people who…

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wanted. We've seen other countries, you know, I guess April 2nd will be the real test. That's when a whole bunch of tariffs go into effect. But I feel like Trump's totally out-of-the-box approach to the whole tariff situation, I feel like it's starting to come into focus. And that even if he's not,…

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yes, the people of Greenland are going to have self-determination. So that's good to say that first because it sounds like Trump wants to conquer them, but we don't want to conquer them. We want them to say they think it's a good idea to join with the US. He says we hope that they choose to partner…

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laims of DOGE because I feel like the DOGE claims, if there's like a really good anecdote that somebody can understand, there is a tendency for them to believe it. And probably a lot of these cases are not as clean as that. So remember the first time you heard that there was a billion dollars a year…

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time they've done a video to say, oh yeah, if you come for us, we got a lot of missiles that are going to come for you. And so they've done it before. But it would not surprise you that this was done right before Iran also had indicated to America that they're willing to talk but only indirectly. S…

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ong as sanctions are on. So they've got a condition to even talk, which is drop the sanctions. And I can see why they would have that point of view. But I'm not expecting anything good to come out of this. I just don't see any possibility that they're going to negotiate away anything. I think they'd…

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rap up. So I'm going to say a few words to the locals subscribers first. But the rest of you, thanks for joining. Have a wonderful Caturday, as we like to call it if you have cats, or dogger day if you have dogs, I guess. And I will see the rest of you tomorrow on X and Rumble and YouTube. Local su…

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, the best time you've ever had in your whole life. But if you'd like to take that up a level, all you need for that is a cup, a mug, or a glass, a tankard, a chalice, or stein, a canteen, a jug, or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now.

Ah, extraordinary. So good.

Well, after the show today, Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces on X. That's the audio-only service, and that'll be a few minutes after I'm done this morning. So if you want a little extra on a Saturday, and who doesn't want extra? You all want extra. That's where you'll get it.

Let's see what else is going on. According to the Daily Mail, scientists have discovered that intermittent fasting could boost bedroom performance, especially for older men. So intermittent fasting could boost bedroom performance. Now, coincidentally, I haven't had anything to eat in about 18 hours, so if I suddenly need to take a break, you'll know why. Because of science.

According to Reichman University, it's funny that they even tested this. A robot dog can inspire emergent leadership in humans, meaning that if you have a robot dog and you tell the robot dog to act like one of the humans as the leader, the other humans will just go along with it. So you can literally have a robot dog choose the human leader in a group, and everybody else will be like, well, seems reasonable to me. If the robot dog's okay with it, I'm okay with it.

But I think the larger risk is robot persuasion. Do you know how influential a robot's going to be if a robot dog can determine which human is in charge? And apparently they've tested it in a lab. What else can the robot dog do? I mean, next thing I know I'm going to be peeing on fire hydrants if the robot dog tells me to.

Speaking of robots, there's now a tiny little robot that they can put in your body, according to the University of Leeds. It's a tiny magnetic robot, and it can take 3D scans of things like tumors and stuff like that. So the one they have now is for colorectal cancer. So I'm going to say it was only a matter of time before somebody shoved a robot up your ass. It's here. The robot that goes up your ass. I'm sure it does good work up there, but I just knew it would come to this.

Hey Scott, do you think there will be so many robots that eventually one of them will be shoved up your ass? I would have said, you know, now that you make me think about it, I think yes. Well, it's here.

Well, the US Army, according to Next Gen Defense, has a high-speed 3D-printed kamikaze drone. So now you can use 3D printing to make a drone, but they don't say which parts. I can't imagine you can print the metallic parts. I mean, you can print metal, but I don't really think you can print the entire drone. Doesn't seem like it. But if you can do most of it, that would be pretty impressive.

So it's all drones. You can have your 3D-printed drone, which is great for terrorists. So if any of you are terrorists, a 3D-printed drone is coming. And there's also going to be all these drone killers now. They've got all these anti-drone systems with missiles and stuff, so you can have drones fighting drones before they even get to us.

Well, according to Variety, they had an idea for making movie theaters more inviting because I guess not enough people are going to movies. And their idea is to allow pot smoking and texting in the movie theater. John Nolte at Breitbart is writing about this, and I have the following question. How high would you have to be in order to enjoy watching Snow White or Wicked or any of the new movies?

I've experimented with it at home, and personally I can tell you that there's no level. It's impossible to get high enough to enjoy Snow White or Wicked. I've experimented with it so you don't have to. Now, there's this, you know, in theory there would be this tiny window where you'd start enjoying the movie but you wouldn't be so high that you would fall asleep. Snow White doesn't have a window. You can get as high as you want and you won't enjoy the movie until you fall asleep. That's it. There's no window in which that movie is good.

And I love the fact that the movie industry has given up on making better movies. So somehow they think the problem is not the quality of the movie. They think it's something about the movie theater experience. No, it's the movies. The movies are terrible. You can't get people in the theater for terrible stuff.

But I like the thinking of Variety, and I wonder how you can extend that because it seems to me that almost everything would be better if you could be really high while you're doing it. Like, do you know how high I would have to be to go visit the pyramids and have a good time? If I were not, you know how long is the airline flight from here to the pyramids? You know it's going to be like spend all day on an airplane and getting to the airplane and getting off the airplane and getting a cab and going to the pyramids. And then when I stand there, I'm pretty sure my entire impression would be, yeah, I thought it would be big. It's very big. It's made out of rocks, and very big ones. Very big rocks. And it's shaped like a pyramid. And I would immediately have the impression that I'd watched enough television shows about pyramids that I didn't really need to see it in person. So I don't know how high I'd have to be to see a pyramid, but I don't think it's possible.

The New York Post, coincidentally, was talking about the same thing, and apparently there's some movie theaters that they're experimenting with pickleball in the lobby. Can you think of a worse idea than having the sound of pickleball in the lobby of your movie theater? You know, I assume there's only like one court that they can fit in there, but pickleball is the most obnoxiously loud-sounding game. That's the last thing you want to hear when you're going into a movie.

Now they're putting a bar in there, and some of them they're experimenting with sing-alongs so that you can get over how bad the movie is because the sing-along would be the thing. And they're looking at live events like boxing matches and stuff like that. That's actually a really good idea. And allowing texting. Allowing texting. Have any of you ever been to a movie with a woman? Don't all women text during movies? You tell me in the comments if you've ever been to a movie with a woman, maybe below a certain age. Don't they all text during the movie? I've never seen an exception. No, just the ones I know. All right, well, I won't make that generalization. Maybe it's just the ones I know.

Apparently the Democrats during Biden's administration had a plan for what would happen if he died in office. There's a new book that says they planned for what would happen if he died. Now, to me that's not much of a story because wouldn't it be weird if they didn't have a plan? I mean, it's like the military. The military always has a plan to attack anybody that looks like we might ever want to attack them. So yeah, of course they should definitely plan for what happens if Biden dropped dead during office. So I think there's no controversy there. That's just them doing a good job, I think.

Meanwhile, Secretary Rollins was talking about how she's done a good job. She was on Fox Business saying what a good job she did bringing down egg prices. So egg prices are way down, and she said under Joe Biden egg prices increased 237 percent. But we almost immediately saw the market react to their five-point plan. What was the five-point plan? Part of it was getting eggs from other countries, so that seemed like a good idea.

But as somebody said in the comments when I saw this on X, didn't we all know the egg prices were going to come down just about now? Well, isn't that just if you just figure out when all the chickens were killed because of the fear of bird flu or whatever it was? All you have to do is say, all right, how long does it take a chicken to grow until it can have its own eggs? And then you could just look on the calendar and say, well, looks like this would be the time that the egg prices would come down, and it would be around now, right?

So one of the great things about being in power, whatever administration is in power, whoever was going to be in power for the next four years was definitely going to see the egg prices go down. That was just a free pass. You just had to be in power and your egg prices would come down. Now, I do think that they were more active than just waiting for them to come down, but I do give them credit for that. The getting the eggs from Turkey and South Korea and wherever else, that seemed to have worked. So good job on that, Trump administration.

So the Trump administration is cracking down more on the colleges and universities doing DEI. Now they're looking at Stanford and some of the UC schools like UC Berkeley and UCLA and UC Irvine. Apparently they still have alleged race-based admission practices. Do you think you could drive the DEI out of Berkeley? That would be the ultimate test. I feel like the Berkeley-ites would die before they gave up on their entire woke agenda. So we'll see.

And Pam Bondi, AG, says that the goal is clear: to end illegal discrimination and to restore merit. So good. And of course, you know, there was a lot of pressure on Columbia for I think it was not just DEI but making sure that they were not anti-Semitic in effect. And now the Columbia University interim president just stepped down. So the regular president stepped down, too much pressure, and now the interim president just stepped down. I'll tell you, being the president of Columbia doesn't seem like a good deal. Nobody wants the job there. A lot of stepping down.

All right. According to the state of Mississippi, they've got a plan to go to zero income tax in Mississippi. But you know what was left out of the story? How are they going to pay the bills if they get rid of the income tax? Now, it wasn't that high. It was like 4 percent compared to where I live, it's over 11 percent. But they're going to replace it, according to Grok.

So I don't know if you've had this experience yet, but I'm using Grok five times a day. It's always the same. It's always about context. So there are a lot of the news stories that lack context. So if I see a story that says Mississippi wants to get rid of its income tax, the first thing I look for is what are you going to replace it with? Because it's not like they're going to do without money. So according to Grok, they're going to replace it with a patchwork of higher gas taxes, sales taxes, lottery, something with more lotteries. But some of it they hope will be through growth because once they're a zero income tax state, they think they'll get a lot of businesses moving in. They might be right about that.

So if your income tax is 4 percent and you think you can phase it out, maybe it might be a really smart free market thing to do to just bring in businesses that way. So we'll see. Good luck, Mississippi.

Here's one of the least surprising stories of the day. According to Roger Stone, who knows a lot about the JFK assassination because he wrote a book about it, so he's done a bunch of research, knows exactly what he's talking about. Joe Hoft is writing about this. So Stone says that he knows that there are some documents that have not been released because there are documents he's seen. So he knows they're not released. I don't know how he saw them or maybe he just knows of them.

So he said, for example, where is the full FBI document of Carlos Marcello where he said that he knew of JFK's assassination before it occurred? He knew before it happened. That would certainly suggest something's up. So did you really expect that the JFK files would be complete? My prediction was if there was anything good in there, like really mind-blowing, that we'd never see it, but that we'd sort of move on because we'd think, okay, they sure released a lot of stuff, nothing new. And then we would just act like somehow we'd been satisfied with the truth. Of course there was no chance we would see all the documents. So I'm even surprised there are any documents that would be damning in any way. So maybe that's already destroyed.

Well, interestingly for you business nerds, Elon Musk announced that he merged his two companies. The AI company called xAI and that has acquired X, the platform. So it's an all-stock transaction. It's more of a merger, and the combination will value the AI part at 80 billion and the X part at 33 billion, which is 45 billion less 12 billion in debt.

So here's the fun part. The AI will now have access to train itself on the entire body of X content. Isn't that going to make Elon Musk's AI the best AI like right away? Because I don't know if the other AIs trained on it would be illegal if they did, I suppose, without permission. But if there's an AI that's learned everything that's on social media or could, that's going to be really, really killer. So we'll see. He's got 600 million users on X. And as you've learned, the regular news is lagging X. So if you had an AI that could just read everything on X, it's going to know a lot about a lot of people.

You know what else it could do? It would know if you wrote something. It could catch anonymous people because once they learned how you send a tweet and what your writing style is, it could probably identify you just by your writing. So that's coming.

But what's fun about this is the value of the combined entity would suggest that Elon Musk, when everybody laughed that he overpaid for it, not only did he not overpay because now it seems to be fully valued about what he paid for it, but he also changed the world. He changed free speech. He is directly responsible for Trump getting elected, and that allowed him to do DOGE, and DOGE is the only thing that could possibly save America from its own debt crisis.

So if you look at the level of importance of his decision to buy X, what turned out to be we thought it was an inflated price, but he's so good at this business stuff that he turned it into an asset, you know, like a growing, valuable business asset. Now, one of the things that the anti-DOGE people were fond of saying is like, well, why are you saying he's so smart when he bought Twitter and lost all those billions of dollars? Well, how about now you all just shut up. How about you just shut up? Because it turns out that worked out.

So do you have anything else that Elon Musk can't do? Would you like to give me a list of the things he can't do? Oh, he'll never send a rocket up that you can reuse. He'll never build a car company. He'll never make X pay for itself and be an asset. How many times does he have to do it? Maybe you'll just shut up now. See if he can make DOGE work.

All right. And also there's talk about, remember Vine? Vine was that little six-second video thing that Twitter had for a while and didn't really quite make it. But I saw a post that suggested that Elon was open to having that revived. Now, I don't think if he does get revived, I don't know if it would get revived as a six-second video or maybe longer. Longer might make sense to compete with TikTok. But that would be a huge money maker, seems to me.

In other AI news, ChatGPT is allegedly, according to a post, Vladimir Hedr writing about this. ChatGPT used to be sort of left-leaning in its opinions, if you can call it opinion, in its responses. Let's say sort of left-leaning, left to center. And now they say the newest version is starting to lean right, at least a little bit.

And I gave an example of what that means to lean right because as soon as I hear that the AI is leaning right, I say to myself you're going to need to give me an example. What exactly does it mean for an AI to lean right? But here's what it said. It prioritizes free market capitalism, property rights, and minimal government intervention in the economy. To which I say, you mean common sense?

Apparently all it takes to lean right in today's world is common sense. Who exactly is against free market capitalism? Only the craziest leftists. I mean, otherwise Democrats and Republicans are pretty much in agreement that free market capitalism should be the basis of the country. How about property rights? Again, you'd have to be completely insane to be against property rights, but you know some leftists are. And what about minimal government intervention in the economy? Again, common sense. You want the fewest number of rules and government blocking, I guess.

So I think it's hilarious that what is called conservative stuff is just the thing that basically everybody who's not crazy is already in favor of. Just pure common sense stuff.

According to Wired Magazine, M. Kelly is writing about this. DOGE has a plan to rebuild the whole Social Security Administration codebase, so all the programs that run the Social Security program. And of course the headline is "risking benefits on system collapse." Really? Is it risking benefits and system collapse, or is it possible that they would be testing the thing until they knew it worked? Because you're not going to get rid of the old one until you know the new one works, right?

Now there'll be lots of edge cases, a lot of special cases. So probably there'll be some people who thought they were going to get something and don't get it right away, but that's all fixable. That would be the normal thing that would happen if you did a massive codebase changeover. Nobody thinks that that works on the first try. But what's the alternative? To keep a COBOL-based archaic system forever?

So when they say stuff like "is risking benefits and system collapse," the real risk is not doing it. Not doing it is a much bigger risk, you know, because we've reached that point where it's just so decrepit and crawling along.

But I asked this question. I said, can't AI just look at COBOL code and rewrite it in a modern form in minutes? You know, I keep reading all these stories about people say, my God, I'm a programmer and I used AI and I didn't even have to do any coding and it made an app that runs on Apple and it totally worked. And given the AI knows how to write in every language, why wouldn't you be able to just tell AI to look at the COBOL code, all you know, gazillion lines of it, and take your time and then just say, can you write that more efficiently in a modern language? And you tell it which language, of course.

And an expert who says that he works in that domain, so he's spent enough time to call himself an expert, says nope, that wouldn't work. So once again the critics of AI who keep saying things like well it's good for a demo but it doesn't really do any of the things it's supposed to do, like have an agent, you know, little AI agent that can answer questions. Even that doesn't work, but that's the most basic thing you'd want your AI to do, answer questions. It just still hallucinates, so you can't even use it for that.

But I thought the one thing it could definitely do, just definitely, was write code like a mofo. I thought you could just show it any code and say, well, we'd like this to be a little more efficient, so look for inefficiencies and fix that for me. Apparently, according to the one gentleman who says he's an expert and he wasn't guessing, said no, that doesn't work. You would have massive inefficiencies. So it could reproduce it. Reproducing it is possible, but it would reproduce it so inefficiently that you'd have to, you know, almost better if you started over from scratch, I think.

But then I say, are you telling me that AI can't identify inefficient code and then replace it? Because I would think that it could do that easily if it knows how to write code. Does it really not know how to identify inefficient code and then know how to replace it with the efficient code even if you gave it the right prompts? So I think this will be a real good test. It probably borders on almost impossible to get this rewritten unless AI is helping a lot. I think it borders on impossible. But I'll bet you the DOGE people, being on the leading edge of a lot of AI and programming stuff, I'll bet they're going to make this work.

But remember, if you're thinking that the new code will work perfectly, not on the first try. And nothing works like that. Nothing works on the first try. So probably there'll be a little bit of a bump in the system. But maybe before the end of the year you'd see a whole new rewritten system, and what they learn from that could be something they can take to the rest of the government systems because they have just these unlimited number of IT systems that don't talk to each other. We'll see if that's fixable. I don't know.

Well, according to America First Legal, the Trump administration has revoked the legal status of 530,000 illegal aliens. These are the ones that Biden flew in. So they're not the ones who walked across the border. They were flown in intentionally by the Biden administration. Over half a million of them from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. And now they must self-deport or face detention and removal.

Now, I got to say that that makes sense to me because whatever it was that the Biden administration was up to with flying in half a million people, they never really explained that to us, did they? Did the Biden administration ever say, oh, these are the special people who need asylum? Not really. It just seemed like they were using every trick they could to bring in as many immigrants as they can. And I like the fact that Trump is going to say, how about we make this not our problem? How about we make this the problem of the migrants who came in? I like that. It should be their problem, not ours. So yeah, I'm in favor of that.

Well, here's what I call the least surprising story of the day. Here's the one that every one of you could have predicted. You ready? According to Zero Hedge, Vladimir Zelensky, when he got the first draft of the deal for minerals, remember that Scott Bessent said there would be this, I don't know, 100-page document that would explain the deal they had already agreed to that would be some kind of mineral deal with Ukraine and the United States. And Zelensky says that Kyiv received a draft of the new mineral deal and says it's entirely different. It's an entirely different document than previous framework. He says Ukraine can't accept any deal that threatens its EU integration.

So don't you think you could have predicted that Zelensky was going to reject the deal? Now, everything that we heard from Scott Bessent and even the indications that Trump was making is that, oh yeah, we're talking to Ukraine, we're working on a deal. Apparently we just slapped together a deal and tried to shove it down their craws. But Zelensky is like, nope, haven't even seen this kind of a deal. So that is the least surprising thing of the day. You absolutely could have predicted that that deal wasn't going to happen. And I'm going to predict it probably won't ever happen. I've got to say there will be no, well, as long as Zelensky is in charge. Zelensky very much doesn't want a solution that isn't military, and this would have given some argument that well, you don't need boots on the ground because you'll have this economic interest. But there's no way that Zelensky wants any of this to work. I don't know what he wants, but he doesn't want to give away land for peace. So there's nothing that can be done.

Putin has decided to call for the removal of Zelensky, which is weird because I think he's always wanted the removal of Zelensky. And he says that he can finish off the Ukrainian troops, according to The Defense Post. And Putin says he wants a transitional administration to be put in place in Ukraine and vowed that his army would finish off Ukrainian troops, blah blah blah.

Now that's fair because Zelensky has said that he thinks Putin will die soon and then the war will end. But I saw somebody on social media on X saying that if I remember the numbers, Putin's father lived to 88 and his grandfather lived to 86 or something. So I think Putin is 72. So is Zelensky really going to wait 15 years or something? That's his plan, to just keep fighting for 15 years until Putin dies? Or does he have some inside information that Putin's sick and he's going to die soon? I don't know. I wouldn't bet on him dying soon.

Well, the United Auto Workers president, who had previously had bad things to say about Trump, you know, all the usual bad things, according to the Wall Street Journal, now he loves what Trump is doing with the tariffs. The 25 percent tariffs on automobiles from other countries, because that would be awesome for US automakers. So suddenly Trump has switched the United Auto Workers. That's pretty good. You flipped them, at least the president, which is probably all you need to do.

So those tariffs, how do you feel about tariffs today compared to how you felt just a few months ago? Does it feel to you like Trump has, first of all, educated us about what you can do with tariffs, but also that it looks like it's working? I think it's way too early to say it is working, but it looks like it is because we've got big companies already deciding to move their operations to the United States. That's what we wanted. We've seen some countries get flexible faster than you'd expect. That's what we wanted. We've seen other countries, you know, I guess April 2nd will be the real test. That's when a whole bunch of tariffs go into effect.

But I feel like Trump's totally out-of-the-box approach to the whole tariff situation, I feel like it's starting to come into focus. And that even if he's not, let's say, technically right about everything that is true about tariffs, I feel like he's going to make it work because he's using it like a club and like a tool. And it looks like he's capable of doing exactly that, just use it as a tool to get what he wants. We'll see.

There's a report that Pete Hegseth brought his wife to some sensitive meetings. I don't know how sensitive they were, but who brings their wife to a defense meeting in another country? Is that real? Doesn't sound real, does it? Like I wonder if he did bring his wife but it wasn't for something terribly sensitive. You know, maybe she was just in the area and it was a sort of a just-meeting-people kind of meeting. But I'd hate to think that it was a highly secure, sensitive, classified information military meeting with other countries and he just brought his wife. So I'm going to say I have a little skepticism on that story. Doesn't sound perfectly right.

Meanwhile, JD Vance is in Greenland. He made his case. Here's what he said. I like how good he is at summarizing and wording stuff. So JD Vance said in Greenland, yes, the people of Greenland are going to have self-determination. So that's good to say that first because it sounds like Trump wants to conquer them, but we don't want to conquer them. We want them to say they think it's a good idea to join with the US. He says we hope that they choose to partner with the US. Now he's calling it partnering. That's good framing because we're the only nation on Earth that will respect their sovereignty and respect their security. Now that might be true. Well, Canada might, I suppose. But it's a good opening argument.

But I don't think you're going to convince the Greenlanders, the 56,000 locals, unless you say directly you're going to make money. You will be richer if you do this. How much richer? Maybe 20 or 30 percent. And then you could probably get them in. So Denmark does do economic support for Greenland, not totally, but they put a lot of money into it. All we'd have to do is say that we're going to do more than that or that we're going to do some kind of productive business with them, you know, like do some mining and split the difference with them. I think you could bribe them, and when I say bribe I don't mean in a bad way. I mean they get something, we get something. But I don't think anything is going to cause Greenland to want to partner with the US unless we can say directly and with some level of certainty that they're all going to make more money. So without that, I'm not expecting any self-determination to want to partner with us. They're going to want to make money in the real world.

Well, remember that story about DOGE found that billion-dollar annual expense that was only to make a dumb little survey that looked like a high school student made it? And it was used as one of the best examples of how easy it is to find fraud and how gigantic the fraud is and how ridiculous the expenses are. Everybody remember that story? It was from yesterday. Well, according to Jessica Tarlov, I saw on The Five, it's not true. It's just not true that there's any billion-dollar expense for nothing but a survey. There I think the organization exists and the funding is real, but that it's not just for that one thing, that it was for something larger.

I think going forward my take is that I'm not going to believe any of the claims of DOGE because I feel like the DOGE claims, if there's like a really good anecdote that somebody can understand, there is a tendency for them to believe it. And probably a lot of these cases are not as clean as that. So remember the first time you heard that there was a billion dollars a year for nothing but a little survey that looks like you could have done it in 10 minutes, what was your first impression? Oh my God, I can't believe it, right? Oh my God, I can't believe that that's happening. And what is usually true when you have that reaction to a story? What's usually true is that it's not true. Because the real world, as wacky as it is, probably isn't that wacky. That somebody was getting a billion dollars a year to do a survey that nobody wanted? Probably not.

So I'm going to say that without knowing the details, I think Jessica Tarlov, she might be right on this one. So I'm not going to use any more DOGE anecdotes. I do have great confidence that they're doing all the right stuff and that they're finding real fraud and waste and abuse and that everything's moving in the right direction. But I'm just not going to believe any more anecdotes. I'm out. You know, I've been fooled now. Is that the second or third time that I've said something in public about some anecdote and then it turned out, well, that's not exactly true? So no, I'm not going to fall for that again.

Well, the Iranians, the military posted, according to John Hayward of Breitbart, a video showing they have these vast underground missile cities. So gigantic underground facilities somewhere in a mountain or something that has just gazillion high-end missiles. And apparently it's like the third time they've done a video to say, oh yeah, if you come for us, we got a lot of missiles that are going to come for you. And so they've done it before. But it would not surprise you that this was done right before Iran also had indicated to America that they're willing to talk but only indirectly.

So Iran is not willing to meet with an American and talk about anything, but they're willing to have indirect talks. And that's the way they say it. They say would be willing to negotiate indirectly. And I guess they're unwilling to talk directly as long as sanctions are on. So they've got a condition to even talk, which is drop the sanctions. And I can see why they would have that point of view. But I'm not expecting anything good to come out of this. I just don't see any possibility that they're going to negotiate away anything. I think they'd rather take a chance of getting bombed. So if they didn't build all those missile cities, you know, underground facilities because they want to give it away, I think they're in for the long term. So now I don't expect anything to happen with Iran at all.

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Gen defense has a high-speed 3D printed kamakazi drone so now you can use 3D printing to make a drone but it they don't say which parts I can't imagine you can print the metallic parts I mean you you can print metal but I don't really think you can print the entire drone doesn't seem like it but if you can do most of it that would be pretty impressive so it's all drones you can have you can have a your 3D printed drone which is great for terrorists so if any of you are terrorists a 3D printed drone it's coming and uh there there's also going to be all these uh drone Killers now they've got all these anti-d drones with missiles and stuff so you can have drones fighting drones before they even get to us well according to variety um they had an idea for making movie theater more inviting because I guess not enough people are going to movies uh and their idea is to allow pot smoking and texting in the movie John Noti at breit Parts writing about this and uh I have the following question how high would you have to be in order to enjoy watching Snow White or Wicked or any of the new movies um I've experimented with with it at home and personally I can tell you that there's no level of it's impossible to get high enough to enjoy Snow White or Wicked I've experimented with it so you don't have to no there's this you know in theory there would be this tiny window where you'd start enjoying the movie but you wouldn't be so high that you would fall asleep Snow White doesn't have a window you can get as high as you want and you won't enjoy the movie until you fall asleep that's it there's no window where in which that movie is good and I love the fact that the movie industry has given up on making better movies so so somehow they think the problem is not the quality of the movie they think it's something about the movie theater experience no it's the movies the movies are terrible you can't get people in the theater for terrible stuff um but I I like I like the thinking of variety and I wonder how you can extend that because it seems to me that almost everything would be better if you could be really high while you're doing it like do you know how high I would have to be to go visit the pyramids and have a good time if I were not I'd be you know how long is the airline flight from here to the pyramids you know it's going to be like spend all day on an airplane and get to the airplane and getting off the airplane and getting a cab and going to the pyramids and then when I stand there I'm pretty sure my entire impression would be yeah I thought I thought it would be big it's uh very big it's made out of rocks and very big ones very big rocks and it's shaped like a pyramid h and I would immediately have the impression that I'd watched enough television shows about pyramids that I didn't really need to see it in person so I don't know how I i' have to be to see a pyramid but I don't think it's possible the New York Post coincidentally was talking about the same thing and apparently there's some movie theaters that they're experimenting with pickle ball in the lobby uh can you think of a worse idea than having the the sound of pickle ball in the lobby of your movie theater you know I assume there's only like one qut that they can fit in there but pickle ball is the most obnoxiously loud sounding game that's the last thing you want to see when you're go into a movie now they're putting a bar in there and some of them uh they're experimenting with singalongs so so that you you can can get over how bad the movie is but because the sing along would be the thing and they're looking at Live Events like boxing matches and stuff like that that's actually really good idea uh and allowing texting allowing texting have any of you ever been to a movie with a woman don't all women text during movies you tell me in the comments uh if you ever been to a movie with a woman maybe below a certain age uh don't they all text during the movie i' I've never seen an exception no just the ones I know all right well I I won't make that generalization maybe it's just the ones I know um apparently the Democrats during Biden's administration had a plan for what would happen if he died in office there's a new book that says they they plan for what would happen if he died now to me that's not much of a story because wouldn't it be weird if they didn't have a plan I mean it's like the military the military always has a plan to attack you know anybody that looks like we might ever want to attack him so yeah of course they should definitely plan for what happens if uh Biden dropped dead during office so I think that's there's no uh no controversy there that's just them doing a good job I think meanwhile um secretary Rollins was talking about how she's done a good job she was on Fox Business uh saying what a good job she did bringing down egg prices so egg prices are way down and she said the under Joe Biden egg prices increased 237 per but we almost immediately um saw the market react to their fivepoint plan what was the fivepoint plan um part of it was getting eggs from other countries so that seemed like a good idea but as somebody said in the comments when I saw this on X didn't we all know the egg prices were going to come down just about now well isn't that just if you just figure out when all the chck were were killed because of the fear of bird flu or whatever it was all you have to do is say all right how long does it take a chicken to grow until it can have its own eggs and then you could just look on the calendar and say well looks like this would be the time that the egg prices would come down and it would be around now right so one of the great things about being in power you whatever Administration is in power whoever was going to be in power for the next four years was definitely going to see the egg prices go down that was just a free free pass you just had to be in power and your egg prices would come down now I do think that they they were more active than just waiting for them to come down but uh I do give them credit for that the the getting the eggs from turkey and South Korea and wherever else that seemed to have worked so good job on that Trump Administration so so Trump Administration is cracking down more on the colleges and universities doing Dei now they're looking at Stanford um and some of the UC schools like UC Berkeley and UCLA and UC Irvine apparently they have uh still have alleged race-based admission practices do you think you could drive the Dei and of Berkeley that would be the ultimate test I I feel like the the berele cites would die before they gave up on their you know entire woke agenda so we'll see um and uh Pam Bondi AG says that the goal is clear to end illegal discrimination and to restore Merit so good uh and of course you know there was a lot of pressure on Colombia um for I think it was not just eii but making sure that they were were not anti-semitic in effect and now the Columbia University interim president just stepped down so the regular president stepped down too much pressure and now the interim president just stepped down I'll tell you being the president of Columbia doesn't seem like a good deal nobody wants the job there a lot of stepping down all right according to the state of Mississippi they've got a plan to go to zero income tax in Mississippi um but you know what was left out of the story how are they going to pay the bills if they get rid of the income tax now it wasn't that high it was like 4% compared to you know where I live it's over 11% um but they're going to replace it according to grock so uh I don't know if you've had this experience yet but I'm using grock five times a day it's always the same it's always about context so there a lot of the news stories lack context so if I see a story that says Mississippi wants to get rid of its income tax the first thing I look for is what are you going to replace it with because it's not like they're going to do without money so according to grock they're going to replace it with a patchwork of higher gas taxes um sales taxes Lottery something with more lotteries uh but some of it they hope will be through growth because once they're a zero income tax state they think they'll get a lot of businesses moving in they might be right about that so if you're if you're income tax is 4% and you think you can phase it out maybe might might be a really smart you know free market thing to do to just bring in businesses that way so we'll see good luck Mississippi uh here's one of the least surprising stories of the day uh according to Roger Stone who knows a lot about the JFK assassination because he wrote a book about it so he's done a bunch of research knows exactly what he's talking about Joe hoften is writing about this so Stone says that he knows that there are some documents that have not been released because there documents he's seen so so he knows they're not released I don't know how he saw them or maybe he just knows of them um so he said for example where is the full FBI document of Carlos Marcelo where he said that he knew of JFK's assassination before it occurred uh he knew before it happened that would certainly suggest something's up so did you really expect that the JFK files would be complete my prediction was if there was anything good in there like really mind-blowing that we'd never see it but that we'd sort of move on because we'd think okay they sure released a lot of stuff nothing new and then we would just act like like somehow we'd been satisfied with the truth of course there was no chance we would see all the documents so I'm I'm even surprised there are any documents that would be damning in any anyway so maybe that's already destroyed well interestingly for you business nerds uh Elon Musk announced that he merged his two companies the AI company called X aai and that is acquired X the platform so it's an all stock transaction it's more of a merger and the combination will value the AI part at 80 billion and the X part at 33 billion which is 45 billion less 12 billion in debt so here's the fun part um the AI will now have access to train itself on the entire body of X um content isn't that going to make Elon musk's AI the best AI like right away because I don't know if the other AI trained on it would be illegal if they did I suppose without permission but if there's an AI That's learned everything that's on social media or could that's going to be really really killer so so we'll see he's got 600 million users on X um and as you've learned the regular news is lagging X so if you had a I that could just you know read everything on X it's going to know a lot about a lot of people you know what else it could do it would know if you wrote something it it could catch Anonymous people because once they learned how you send a tweet and what your writing style is it could probably identify you just by your writing so that's coming um but what's fun about this is the value of the combined entity would suggest that Elon Musk when everybody laughed that he overpaid for a not only did he not overpay because now it seems to be fully valued about what he paid for it but and which is the most unusual outcome um he he also changed the world he changed free speech he is directly directly uh responsible for Trump getting elected and uh that allowed him to do Doge which and doge is the only thing that could possibly sa of America from its own you know debt crisis so if you look at the the level of importance of his decision to buy X that what turned out to be we thought it was an inflated price but he's so good at this business stuff that he turned it into he turned into an asset you know like like a growing valuable business asset now one of the things that the anti- Doge people were fond of saying is like well why are you saying he's so smart when he bought Twitter and lost all those billions of dollars well how about now you all just shut up how about you just shut up because it turns out that worked out so do you have anything else that Elan mus can't do with would you like to give me a list of the things he can't do oh he'll never send a rocket up that you can reuse he'll never build a car company he'll never make X pay for itself and be an asset how many times does he have to do it maybe you'll just shut up now see if he can see if he can make Doge work all right um and also there's talk about the remember Vines Vines was that little 6sec video thing that Twitter had for a while and didn't really quite make it but uh I saw a post that suggested that Elon was open to having that revived now I don't think if he does get revived I don't know if it would get revived as a six-second video or maybe longer uh longer might make sense to compete with Tik Tock but uh that would be a huge Money Maker seems to me in other AI news chat gbt is allegedly according to S post Vladimir hedr writing about this um chat GPT used to be sort of left leaning in its opinions if you can call it opinion in its responses let's say sort of left leaning left left to Center and now they say the newest version is starting to lean right at least a little bit and I gave an example of what that means to lean right because as soon as I hear that the the AI is leaning right I say to myself you're going to need to give me an example what it it put up a flag you know what is it what exactly does it mean for an AI to lean right but here's what it said uh it it um prioritizes free market capital capitalism property rights and minimal government intervention in the economy to which I say you mean Common Sense apparently all it takes to lean right in today's world is common sense who exactly is against free market capitalism only the craziest leftists I mean you otherwise Democrats and Republicans are pretty much in agreement that free market capitalism should be the basis of country how about property rights again you'd have to be completely insane to be against property rights but you know some leftists are and what about minimal government intervention in the economy again common sense you want the fewest number of uh fewest number of your know rules and government uh uh blocking I guess so I I think it's hilarious that um what is called conservative stuff is just the thing that basically everybody who's not crazy is already in favor of just pure Common Sense stuff according to Wired Magazine uh m m Kelly's writing about this Doge has a plan to rebuild the whole Social Security Administration codebase so all the the programs that run the Social Security program um and of course the the headline is risking benefits on system collapse really is it risking benefits and system collapse or is it possible that they would be testing the thing until they knew it worked because you're not going to get rid of the old one until you know the new one works right now there'll be lots of edge cases you a lot of special cases so probably there'll be some people who you know thought they were going to get something and don't get it right away but that's all fixable you know that that would be the normal thing that would happen if you did a massive code based change over nobody thinks that that works on the first try but what's the alternative to keep a cobal based like archaic system forever so when they say stuff like is risking benefits and system collapse the real risk is not not doing it not doing it is a much bigger risk you know because we've reached that point where it's just so decrepid and you know crawling along but uh I asked this question I said uh can't AI just look at cobal code and rewrite it in a modern form in minutes you know I keep reading all these stories about people say my God I'm a programmer and I used Ai and uh I didn't even have to do any coding and it made an it made an app that runs on Apple and it totally worked and given the AI knows how to write in every language why wouldn't you be able to just tell AI to look at the cobal code all you know gazillion lines of it and you know take your time and then just say um can you write that more efficiently in a modern language and you tell it which language of course and uh an expert who says that he works in that domain so he's spent enough time to call himself an expert says Nope that wouldn't work so once again once again the critics of AI who keep saying things like well it's good for a demo but it doesn't really do any of the things it's supposed to do like have an agent you know little AI agent that can answer questions even that doesn't work but that's the most basic thing you'd want your AI to do answer questions it just still hallucinates so you can't even use it for that but I thought I thought the one thing it could definitely do uh just definitely was write code like a mofo I thought you could just show it any code and say Well we'd like this to be a little more efficient so look for inefficiencies and fix that for me apparently according to the one gentleman who says he's an expert and he wasn't guessing said no that doesn't work you you would have massive inefficiencies so it could reproduce it so reproducing it is possible but it would reproduce it so inefficiently that you'd have to you know almost better if you started over from scratch I think but then I say are you telling me that AI can't identify inefficient code and then replace it because I would think that it could do that easily if it knows how to write code does it really not know how to identify inefficient code and then know how to replace it with the efficient code even if you gave it the right prompts so I think this will be a real good test um it probably borders on almost impossible to get this ridden unless AI is helping a lot I think it borders un impossible but I'll bet you the Doge people being you know on the Leading Edge of a lot of AI and programming stuff I'll bet they're going to make this work um but remember if you're thinking that the new code will work perfectly not on the first try and nothing works like that nothing works on the first try so probably there'll be a little bit of a bump in the system um but uh maybe before before the end of the year you'd see a whole new Rewritten system and what they learn from that could be something they can take to the rest of the government systems because they have just these unlimited number of you know it systems that don't talk to each other we'll see if that's fixable I don't know well according to American first legal the Trump Administration has uh revoked the legal status of 530,000 illegal aliens these are the ones that Biden flew in so they're not the ones who walked across the border they were flown in intentionally by the Biden Administration over half a million of them from Cuba Haiti Nicaragua and Venezuela and now they must self de self-deport or face detention and removal now I got to say that that makes sense to me cuz whatever it was you know whatever it was that uh um that the Biden Administration was up to with flying in half a million people they never really explained that to us did they did the Biden Administration ever say oh these are the special people who need Asylum not really it just seemed like they were using every trick they could to bring in as many immigrants as they can and I like the fact that Trump is going to say how about we make this not our problem how about we make this the problem of the the migrants who came in I like that it should be their problem not ours so yeah um I'm in favor of that well here's the here's what I call the least surprising story of the day here's the one that every one of you could have predicted you ready according to zero Edge uh Vladimir zalinski when he got the first draft of the deal for minerals remember that Scott bassent said there would be this I know 100 page document that would explain that the deal they had already agreed to that would be some kind of mineral deal with uh Ukraine and the United States and zinsky says that keev received a draft of the new mineral deal and says it's entirely different it's an entirely different document than previous framework he says Ukraine can't accept any deal that threatens its EU integration so do don't you think you could have you could have predicted that zinsky was going to reject the deal now everything that we heard from Scott bent and even you know the indications that Trump was making is that oh yeah you know we're we're talking to Ukraine we're you know we're working on a deal apparently we just slapped together a deal and tried to shove it down their their craws but zinsky is like nope haven't even seen this kind of a deal so that is the least surprising thing of the day you absolutely could have predicted that that deal wasn't going to happen and I'm going to predict it probably won't ever happen i' I've got to that there there will be no well as long as zinski is in charge zilinski very much doesn't want a solution that isn't military and this would have given you know some argument that well you don't need boots on the ground because you'll have this economic you know interest but there's no way that zalinsky wants any of this to work I don't know what he wants but he doesn't want you know to give away land for peace so there's there's nothing that can be done um Putin has decided to to call for the removal of zalinski which is weird because I think he's always wanted the removal of zalinsky and he says that he's he can finish off the Ukrainian troops according to the defense post um and and he says Putin says he wants a transitional Administration to be put in place in Ukraine and vowed that his army would finish off Ukrainian troops blah blah blah now that's fair because zinsky has said that uh he thinks Putin will die soon and then the war will end but uh I saw somebody on social media on X saying that uh if I remember the numbers um Putin's father lived at 88 and his grandfather lived to 86 or something so I think I think Putin 72 so is Linsky really going to wait you know 15 years or something that that's his plan to just keep fighting for 15 years until Putin dies or does he have some inside information that Putin's sick and he's going to die soon I don't know I wouldn't bet on him dying soon well the United aut workers president who had previously had bad things to say about Trump you know all the usual bad things according to the Wall Street Journal now he loves he loves what Trump is doing with the tariffs the 25% tariffs on uh automobiles from other countries because that would be awesome for us um automakers so suddenly Trump switched the United Auto Workers that's pretty good you flipped them at least the president which is probably all you need to do so those tariffs how how do you feel about tariffs today compared to how you felt just a few months ago does it feel to you like Trump has first of all educated us about what you can do with tariffs but also that it looks like it's working I think it's way too early to say it is working but it looks like it is because because you know we've got big companies are already deciding to move their operations to the United States that's what we wanted we've seen uh some countries get flexible faster than you'd expect that's what we wanted we've seen other countries you know I guess April 2nd will be the real test that's when a whole bunch of uh tariffs go into effect but I feel like Trump's um totally out of the box approach to the whole tariff situation I feel like it's starting to come into focus and that even if he's not let's say technically right about everything that is true about tariffs I feel like he's going to make it work because he's using it like a club and like a tool and it looks like he's capable of doing exactly that just use it as a use it as a tool to get what he wants we'll see there's a report that Pete Heath brought his wife to some sensitive U sensitive meetings um I don't know how sensitive they were but who brings their wife to to a defense meeting in another country is that real doesn't sound real does it like I I wonder if the I wonder if he did bring his wife but it wasn't for something terribly sensitive you know maybe she was just in the area and it was a sort of a just meeting people kind of meeting but I'd hate to think that it was a highly secure sensitive classified information military meeting with other countries and he just brought his wife so I'm going to say I have a little skepticism on that story doesn't sound perfectly right meanwhile JD Vance is of in Greenland uh he made his case that uh the people of here here's what he said I like I just like how he how good he is at summarizing and wording stuff so JD Vance said in Greenland yes the people of Greenland are going to have self-determination so that's good to say that first because it sounds like Trump wants to conquer them but we don't want to conquer them we want them to say they think it's a good idea uh to join with the US he says we hope that they choose to partner with the US now he's calling it partnering that's good good framing because we're the only the only nation on Earth that will respect their sovereignty and respect their security Now that might be true well Canada might I suppose but uh it's a good it's a good uh opening opening argument but I don't think you're going to convince the greenlander greenlandic ERS the greenlanders the green landas what are they called I don't think you you're going to convince the 56,000 locals unless you say directly you're going to make money you will be richer if you do this how much richer uh maybe 20 or 30% and then you could probably get him in so the Denmark does do economic um sort of economic support for Greenland not totally but they they put a lot of money into it all we'd have to do is say that we're going to do more than that or that we're going to do some kind of productive business with them you know like do some Mining and split the difference with them um I think you could bribe them and when I say bribe I don't mean in a bad way I mean they get something we get something but I don't think anything is going to cause Greenland to want to partner with the US unless we can say directly and with um some level of certainty that they're all going to make more money so without that I'm not expecting any self-determination to want to partner with us they're going to want to make money in the real world well remember that story about Doge found that uh billion dooll annual expense that was only to make a dumb little survey that looked like a high school student made it and it was used as one of the best examples of how easy it is to find fraud and how gigantic the fraud is and how ridiculous the expenses are everybody remember that story is from yesterday well according to Jessica tarlo I saw on the five it's not true it's just not true that there's any billion dooll expense for nothing but a survey there I think the organization exists and the funding is real but that it's not just for that one thing that it was for something larger I think going forward my take is that I'm not going to believe any of the claims of Doge because I feel like the Doge claims if there's like a really good anecdote that somebody can understand they there is a tenden see for them to believe it and probably a lot of these cases are not as clean as that so remember the first time you heard that there was a billion dollars a year for nothing but a little survey that looks like you could have done it in 10 minutes what was your first impression oh my God I can't believe it right oh my God I can't believe that that's happening and what is usually true when you have that reaction to a story what's usually true is that it's not true the because the real world as wacky as it is probably isn't that wacky that somebody was getting a billion dollars a year to do a survey that nobody wanted probably not so I'm going to say that uh without knowing the details I think Jessica tarov she might be right on this one so I'm not going to use any more Doge anecdotes I do have great confidence that they're doing all the right stuff and that they're finding real fraud and waste and abuse and that everything's moving in the right direction but I'm just not going to believe any more anecdotes I I'm I'm out you know I I've been fooled now is that the second or third time that I've said something in public about some anecdote and then turned down well that's not exactly true so no I'm not going to fall for that again well the Iranians the military posted a uh according to John Hayward of Breitbart a uh video showing they have these vast underground missile cities so gigantic uh underground facilities somewhere in a mountain or something that has just gazillion high-end missiles and apparently it's like the third time they've done a video to say oh yeah if you come for us we got a lot of missiles that are going to come for you and so they've done it before but it would not surprise you that this was done right before Iran also had indicated to uh to America that they're willing to talk but only indirectly so so Iran is not willing to meet with an American and talk about anything but they're willing to have oh indirect talks and that's the way they say it they say would be willing to negotiate indirectly and I guess they're they're unwilling to talk directly as long as sanctions are on so they've got a condition to even talk which is drop the sanctions and I can see why they would have that point of view but uh I'm not expecting anything good to come out of this um I I just don't see any possibility that they're going to negotiate away anything I I think they'd rather take a chance of getting bombed so if they didn't build build all those missile City you know underground facilities 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according to the Daily Mail um

scientists have discovered that

intermittent fasting could boost bedroom

performance especially for older

men so so inent fasting could boost

bedroom performance H now coincidentally

I haven't had anything to eat in about

18 hours so if I suddenly need to take a

break you'll know

why because of

science according to uh reichman

University uh it's funny that they even

tested this a robot dog can Inspire

emergent leadership in cu

meaning that if you have a robot dog and

you tell the robot dog to uh act like

one of the humans as the leader the

other humans will just go along with it

so so you can literally have a robot dog

choose the human leader in a group and

everybody else will be like well seems

reasonable to me if the robot dog's okay

with it I'm okay with

it so but I think the larger

risk larger risk is robot

persuasion do you know how how

influential A robot's going to be if if

a robot dog can determine which human is

in charge and apparently they've tested

it in a

can what else can the robot dog do I

mean next thing I know I'm going to be

PE on fire hydrons if the robot dog

tells me

to speaking of robots there's now a tiny

little robot that they can put in your

body according to the University of

leads it's a tiny magnetic robot and it

can take 3D scans of things like uh

tumors and stuff like that so the one

they have now is for a colal cancer

so um I'm going to say it was only a

matter of time before somebody shoved a

robot up your ass it's here the robot

that goes up your ass uh

I'm sure it does good work up there

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but I I just knew it would come to this

hey Scott do you think there will be so

many robots that eventually one of them

will be shoved up your ass I would have

said H you know now that you make me

think about it I think yes well it's

here well the US uh Army according to

NextGen defense has a high-speed 3D

printed kamakazi

drone so now you can use 3D printing to

make a drone but it they don't say which

parts I can't imagine you can print the

metallic

parts I mean you you can print metal but

I don't really think you can print the

entire drone doesn't seem like it but if

you can do most of it that would be

pretty

impressive so it's all drones you can

have you can have a your 3D printed

drone which is great for terrorists so

if any of you are

terrorists a 3D printed drone it's

coming and uh there there's also going

to be all these uh drone Killers now

they've got all these anti-d drones with

missiles and stuff so you can have

drones fighting

drones before they even get to

us well according to

variety um they had an idea for making

movie theater

more inviting because I guess not enough

people are going to

movies uh and their idea is to allow pot

smoking and texting in the

movie John Noti at breit Parts writing

about this and uh I have the following

question how high would you have to be

in order to enjoy watching Snow White or

Wicked or any of the new

movies um I've experimented with with it

at home

and personally I can tell you that

there's no level

of it's impossible to get high enough to

enjoy Snow

White or Wicked I've experimented with

it so you don't have to no there's this

you know in theory there would be this

tiny

window where you'd start enjoying the

movie but you wouldn't be so high that

you would fall

asleep Snow White doesn't have a window

you can get as high as you want and you

won't enjoy the movie until you fall

asleep that's it there's no window where

in which that movie is good and I love

the

fact that the movie industry has given

up on making better movies so so somehow

they think the problem is not the

quality of the movie they think it's

something about the movie theater

experience no it's the movies the movies

are terrible you can't get people in the

theater for terrible

stuff um but I I like I like the

thinking of variety and I wonder how you

can extend that because it seems to me

that almost everything would be better

if you could be really high while you're

doing it like do you know how high I

would have to be to go visit the

pyramids and have a good

time if I were

not I'd be you know how long is the

airline flight from here to the pyramids

you know it's going to be like spend all

day on an airplane and get to the

airplane and getting off the airplane

and getting a cab and going to the

pyramids and then when I stand there I'm

pretty sure my entire impression would

be yeah I thought I thought it would be

big it's uh very big it's made out of

rocks and very big ones very big rocks

and it's shaped like a pyramid h

and I would immediately have the

impression that I'd watched enough

television shows about pyramids that I

didn't really need to see it in

person so I don't know how I i' have to

be to see a pyramid but I don't think

it's

possible the New York Post

coincidentally was talking about the

same thing and apparently there's some

movie theaters that they're

experimenting with pickle ball in the

lobby uh can you think of a worse idea

than having the the sound of pickle ball

in the lobby of your movie theater you

know I assume there's only like one qut

that they can fit in there but pickle

ball is the most obnoxiously loud

sounding

game that's the last thing you want to

see when you're go into a movie now

they're putting a bar in there and some

of them uh they're experimenting with

singalongs so so that you you can can

get over how bad the movie is but

because the sing along would be the

thing and they're looking at Live Events

like boxing matches and stuff like that

that's actually really good idea uh and

allowing

texting allowing

texting have any of you ever been to a

movie with a

woman don't all women text during

movies you tell me in the

comments uh if you ever been to a movie

with a woman

maybe below a certain

age uh don't they all text during the

movie i' I've never seen an exception

no just the ones I

know all right well I I won't make that

generalization maybe it's just the ones

I

know um apparently the Democrats during

Biden's administration had a plan for

what would happen if he died in

office there's a new book that says they

they plan for what would happen if he

died now to me that's not much of a

story because wouldn't it be weird if

they didn't have a plan I

mean it's like the military the military

always has a plan to attack you know

anybody that looks like we might ever

want to attack him so yeah of course

they should definitely plan for what

happens if uh Biden dropped dead during

office so I think that's there's no uh

no controversy there that's just them

doing a good job I

think

meanwhile um secretary Rollins was

talking about how she's done a good job

she was on Fox Business uh saying what a

good job she did bringing down egg

prices so egg prices are way down and

she said the under Joe Biden egg prices

increased 237 per but we almost

immediately um saw the market react to

their fivepoint

plan what was the fivepoint

plan

um part of it was getting eggs from

other countries so that seemed like a

good idea but as somebody said in the

comments when I saw this on

X didn't we all know the egg prices were

going to come down just about

now well isn't that just if you just

figure out when all the chck were were

killed because of the fear of bird flu

or whatever it was all you have to do is

say all right how long does it take a

chicken to grow until it can have its

own eggs and then you could just look on

the calendar and say well looks like

this would be the time that the egg

prices would come down and it would be

around now right so one of the great

things about being in power you whatever

Administration is in power whoever was

going to be in power for the next four

years was definitely going to see the

egg prices go

down that was just a free free pass you

just had to be in power and your egg

prices would come down now I do think

that they they were more active than

just waiting for them to come down but

uh I do give them credit for that the

the getting the eggs from turkey and

South Korea and wherever else that

seemed to have worked so good job on

that Trump

Administration so so Trump

Administration is cracking down more on

the colleges and universities doing Dei

now they're looking at Stanford um and

some of the UC schools like UC Berkeley

and UCLA and UC Irvine apparently they

have uh still have alleged race-based

admission

practices do you think you could drive

the Dei and of

Berkeley that would be the ultimate test

I I feel like the the berele cites would

die before they gave up on their you

know entire woke agenda so we'll see

um and uh Pam Bondi AG says that the

goal is clear to end illegal

discrimination and to restore

Merit so good uh and of course you know

there was a lot of pressure on

Colombia um

for I think it was not just eii but

making sure that they were were not

anti-semitic in effect and now the

Columbia University interim president

just stepped down so the regular

president stepped down too much pressure

and now the interim president just

stepped down I'll tell you being the

president of Columbia doesn't seem like

a good deal nobody wants the

job there a lot of stepping

down all

right according to the state of

Mississippi they've got a plan to go to

zero income tax in

Mississippi

um but you know what was left out of the

story how are they going to pay the

bills if they get rid of the income tax

now it wasn't that high it was like 4%

compared to you know where I live it's

over

11% um but they're going to replace it

according to grock so uh I don't know if

you've had this experience yet but I'm

using grock

five times a day it's always the same

it's always about context so there a lot

of the news stories lack context so if I

see a story that says Mississippi wants

to get rid of its income

tax the first thing I look for is what

are you going to replace it with because

it's not like they're going to do

without money so according to grock

they're going to replace it with a

patchwork of higher gas

taxes um sales taxes Lottery something

with more lotteries uh but some of it

they hope will be through growth because

once they're a zero income tax state

they think they'll get a lot of

businesses moving in they might be right

about that so if you're if you're income

tax is

4% and you think you can phase it out

maybe might might be a really smart you

know free market thing to do to just

bring in businesses that way so we'll

see good luck

Mississippi uh here's one of the least

surprising stories of the day uh

according to Roger Stone who knows a lot

about the JFK

assassination because he wrote a book

about it so he's done a bunch of

research knows exactly what he's talking

about Joe hoften is writing about this

so Stone says that he knows that there

are some documents that have not been

released because there documents he's

seen so so he knows they're not released

I don't know how he saw them or maybe he

just knows of them um so he said for

example where is the full FBI document

of Carlos

Marcelo where he said that he knew of

JFK's assassination before it

occurred uh he knew before it

happened that would certainly suggest

something's

up so did you really expect that the JFK

files would be complete

my prediction was if there was anything

good in there like really mind-blowing

that we'd never see it but that we'd

sort of move on because we'd think okay

they sure released a lot of stuff

nothing new and then we would just act

like like somehow we'd been satisfied

with the

truth of course there was no chance we

would see all the documents so I'm I'm

even surprised there are any documents

that would be damning in any anyway so

maybe that's already

destroyed well interestingly for you

business nerds uh Elon Musk announced

that he merged his two companies the AI

company called X aai and that is

acquired X the platform so it's an all

stock transaction it's more of a merger

and the combination will value the AI

part at 80 billion and the X part at 33

billion which is 45 billion less 12

billion in

debt so here's the fun

part um the AI will now have access to

train itself on the entire body of

X um

content isn't that going to make Elon

musk's AI the best AI like right

away because I don't know if the other

AI trained on it would be illegal if

they did I suppose without permission

but if there's an AI That's learned

everything that's on social media or

could that's going to be really really

killer so so we'll

see he's got 600 million users on

X

um and as you've learned the regular

news is lagging

X so if you had a I that could just you

know read everything on X it's going to

know a lot about a lot of

people you know what else it could do it

would know if you wrote

something it it could catch Anonymous

people because once they learned how you

send a tweet and what your writing style

is it could probably identify you just

by your writing so that's

coming um but what's fun about this is

the value of the combined entity would

suggest that Elon Musk when everybody

laughed that he overpaid for

a not only did he not overpay because

now it seems to be fully valued about

what he paid for it

but and which is the most unusual

outcome

um he he also changed the

world he changed free speech he is

directly directly uh responsible for

Trump getting

elected and uh that allowed him to do

Doge which and doge is the only thing

that could possibly sa of America from

its own you know debt

crisis so if you look at the the level

of importance of his decision to buy X

that what turned out to be we thought it

was an inflated price but he's so good

at this business stuff that he turned it

into he turned into an asset you know

like like a growing valuable business

asset now one of the things that the

anti- Doge people were fond of saying is

like well why are you saying he's so

smart when he bought Twitter and lost

all those billions of

dollars well how about now you all just

shut up how about you just shut up

because it turns out that worked out so

do you have anything else that Elan mus

can't do with would you like to give me

a list of the things he can't do oh

he'll never send a rocket up that you

can reuse he'll never build a car

company he'll never make X pay for

itself and be an asset how many times

does he have to do

it maybe you'll just shut up now see if

he can see if he can make Doge

work all

right um and also there's talk about the

remember Vines

Vines was that little 6sec video thing

that Twitter had for a while and didn't

really quite make it but uh I saw a post

that suggested that Elon was open to

having that

revived now I don't think if he does get

revived I don't know if it would get

revived as a six-second video or maybe

longer uh longer might make sense to

compete with Tik Tock but uh

that would be a huge Money Maker seems

to me in other AI news chat gbt is

allegedly according to S post Vladimir

hedr writing about this um chat GPT used

to be sort of left leaning in its

opinions if you can call it opinion in

its responses let's say sort of left

leaning left left to

Center and now they say the newest

version is starting to lean

right at least a little bit and I gave

an example of what that means to lean

right because as soon as I hear that the

the AI is leaning right I say to myself

you're going to need to give me an

example what it it put up a

flag you know what is it what exactly

does it mean for an AI to lean right but

here's what it said uh it it um

prioritizes free market capital

capitalism property rights and minimal

government intervention in the economy

to which I say you mean Common

Sense apparently all it takes to lean

right in today's world is common sense

who exactly is against free market

capitalism only the craziest leftists I

mean you otherwise Democrats and

Republicans are pretty much in agreement

that free market capitalism should be

the basis of country how about property

rights again you'd have to be completely

insane to be against property rights but

you know some leftists are and what

about minimal government intervention in

the

economy again common sense you want the

fewest number of uh fewest number of

your know rules and government uh uh

blocking I

guess so I I think it's hilarious

that um what is called conservative

stuff is just the thing that basically

everybody who's not crazy is already in

favor of just pure Common Sense

stuff according to Wired Magazine uh m m

Kelly's writing about this Doge has a

plan to rebuild the whole Social

Security Administration codebase so all

the the programs that run the Social

Security program

um and of course the the headline is

risking benefits on system

collapse really is it risking benefits

and system collapse or is it possible

that they would be testing the thing

until they knew it worked because you're

not going to get rid of the old one

until you know the new one works right

now there'll be lots of edge cases you a

lot of special cases so probably

there'll be some people who you know

thought they were going to get something

and don't get it right away but that's

all

fixable you know that that would be the

normal thing that would happen if you

did a massive code based change over

nobody thinks that that works on the

first try but what's the alternative to

keep a cobal based like archaic system

forever so when they say stuff like is

risking benefits and system collapse the

real risk is not not doing it not doing

it is a much bigger risk you know

because we've reached that point where

it's just so decrepid and you know

crawling

along but uh I asked this question I

said uh can't AI just look at cobal code

and rewrite it in a modern form in

minutes you know I keep reading all

these stories about people say my God

I'm a programmer and I used Ai and uh I

didn't even have to do any coding and it

made an it made an app that runs on

Apple and it totally worked and given

the AI knows how to write in every

language why wouldn't you be able to

just tell AI to look at the cobal code

all you know gazillion lines of it and

you know take your time and then just

say um can you write that more

efficiently in a modern language and you

tell it which language of course and uh

an expert who says that he works in that

domain so he's spent enough time to call

himself an expert says Nope that

wouldn't

work so once

again once again the critics of AI who

keep saying things like well it's good

for a

demo but it doesn't really do any of the

things it's supposed to do like have an

agent you know little AI agent that can

answer questions even that doesn't work

but that's the most basic thing you'd

want your AI to do answer questions it

just still hallucinates so you can't

even use it for that but I thought I

thought the one thing it could

definitely do uh just definitely was

write code like a

mofo I thought you could just show it

any code and say Well we'd like this to

be a little more efficient so look for

inefficiencies and fix that for me

apparently according to the one

gentleman who says he's an expert and he

wasn't guessing said no that doesn't

work you you would have massive

inefficiencies so it could reproduce it

so reproducing it is possible but it

would reproduce it so

inefficiently that you'd have to you

know almost better if you started over

from scratch I

think but then I say are you telling me

that AI can't identify inefficient code

and then replace it

because I would think that it could do

that easily if it knows how to write

code does it really not know how to

identify inefficient code and then know

how to replace it with the efficient

code even if you gave it the right

prompts so I think this will be a real

good test um it probably borders on

almost

impossible to get this ridden unless AI

is helping a lot I think it borders un

impossible but I'll bet you the Doge

people being you know on the Leading

Edge of a lot of AI and programming

stuff I'll bet they're going to make

this

work um but

remember if you're thinking that the new

code will work perfectly not on the

first

try and nothing works like that nothing

works on the first try so probably

there'll be a little bit of a bump in

the system um but uh maybe before before

the end of the year you'd see a whole

new Rewritten system and what they learn

from that could be something they can

take to the rest of the government

systems because they have just these

unlimited number of you know it systems

that don't talk to each other we'll see

if that's fixable I don't know well

according to American first legal the

Trump Administration has uh revoked the

legal status of 530,000 illegal aliens

these are the ones that Biden flew in so

they're not the ones who walked across

the border they were flown in

intentionally by the Biden

Administration over half a million of

them from Cuba Haiti Nicaragua and

Venezuela and now they must self de

self-deport or face detention and

removal

now I got to say that that makes sense

to me cuz whatever it was

you know whatever it was that uh um that

the Biden Administration was up to with

flying in half a million

people they never really explained that

to us did they did the Biden

Administration ever say oh these are the

special people who need Asylum not

really it just seemed like they were

using every trick they could to bring in

as many immigrants as they can and I

like the fact that Trump is going to say

how about we make this not our

problem how about we make this the

problem of the the migrants who came in

I like that it should be their problem

not ours so yeah um I'm in favor of

that well here's the here's what I call

the least surprising story of the day

here's the one that every one of you

could have predicted you ready according

to zero Edge uh Vladimir zalinski when

he got the first draft of the deal for

minerals remember that Scott bassent

said there would be this I know 100 page

document that would explain that the

deal they had already agreed to that

would be some kind of mineral deal with

uh Ukraine and the United States and

zinsky says that keev received a draft

of the new mineral deal and says it's

entirely different

it's an entirely different document than

previous framework he says Ukraine can't

accept any deal that threatens its EU

integration so do don't you think you

could have you could have predicted that

zinsky was going to reject the

deal now everything that we heard from

Scott bent and even you know the

indications that Trump was making is

that oh yeah you know we're we're

talking to Ukraine we're you know we're

working on a deal apparently we just

slapped together a deal and tried to

shove it down their their

craws but zinsky is like nope haven't

even seen this kind of a deal so that is

the least surprising thing of the day

you absolutely could have predicted that

that deal wasn't going to happen and I'm

going to

predict it probably won't ever

happen i' I've got to that there there

will be no well as long as zinski is in

charge zilinski very much doesn't want a

solution that isn't

military and this would have given you

know some argument that well you don't

need boots on the ground because you'll

have this economic you know interest but

there's no way that zalinsky wants any

of this to work I don't know what he

wants but he doesn't want you know to

give away land for peace so there's

there's nothing that can be

done um Putin has decided to to call for

the removal of zalinski which is weird

because I think he's always wanted the

removal of zalinsky and he says that

he's he can finish off the Ukrainian

troops according to the defense

post um and and he says Putin says he

wants a transitional Administration to

be put in place in Ukraine and vowed

that his army would finish off Ukrainian

troops blah blah blah now that's fair

because zinsky has said that uh he

thinks Putin will die soon and then the

war will

end but uh I saw somebody on social

media on

X saying that uh if I remember the

numbers um Putin's father lived at 88

and his grandfather lived to 86 or

something so I think I think Putin

72 so is Linsky really going to wait you

know 15 years or something that that's

his plan to just keep fighting for 15

years until Putin dies or does he have

some inside information that Putin's

sick and he's going to die soon I don't

know I wouldn't bet on him dying

soon well the United aut workers

president who had previously had bad

things to say about Trump

you know all the usual bad things

according to the Wall Street Journal now

he loves he loves what Trump is doing

with the tariffs the 25% tariffs on uh

automobiles from other countries because

that would be awesome for us um

automakers so suddenly Trump switched

the United Auto Workers that's pretty

good you flipped them at least the

president which is probably all you need

to do

so those

tariffs how how do you feel about

tariffs today compared to how you felt

just a few months ago does it feel to

you like Trump has first of all educated

us about what you can do with

tariffs but also that it looks like it's

working I think it's way too early to

say it is working but it looks like it

is because because you know we've got

big companies are already deciding to

move their operations to the United

States that's what we wanted we've seen

uh some countries get flexible faster

than you'd expect that's what we wanted

we've seen other

countries you know I guess April 2nd

will be the real test that's when a

whole bunch of uh tariffs go into effect

but I feel like Trump's um totally out

of the box approach to the whole tariff

situation I feel like it's starting to

come into

focus and that even if he's not let's

say technically right about everything

that is true about tariffs I feel like

he's going to make it work because he's

using it like a club and like a

tool and it looks like he's capable of

doing exactly that just use it as a use

it as a tool to get what he wants we'll

see there's a report that Pete Heath

brought his wife to some sensitive U

sensitive

meetings um I don't know how sensitive

they were but who brings their wife to

to a defense meeting in another

country is that real doesn't sound real

does it like I I wonder if the I wonder

if he did bring his wife but it wasn't

for something terribly sensitive you

know maybe she was just in the area and

it was a sort of a just meeting people

kind of

meeting but I'd hate to think that it

was a highly secure sensitive classified

information military meeting with other

countries and he just brought his

wife so I'm going to say I have a little

skepticism on that story doesn't sound

perfectly right meanwhile JD Vance is of

in Greenland uh he made his case that uh

the people of here here's what he said I

like I just like how he how good he is

at summarizing and wording stuff so JD

Vance said in Greenland yes the people

of Greenland are going to have

self-determination so that's good to say

that first because it sounds like Trump

wants to conquer them but we don't want

to conquer them we want them to say they

think it's a good idea

uh to join with the US he says we hope

that they choose to partner with the US

now he's calling it partnering that's

good good framing because we're the only

the only nation on Earth that will

respect their sovereignty and respect

their security Now that might be true

well Canada might I suppose but uh it's

a good it's a good uh

opening opening argument but I don't

think you're going to convince the

greenlander greenlandic ERS the

greenlanders the green

landas what are they called I don't

think you you're going to convince the

56,000 locals unless you say directly

you're going to make money you will be

richer if you do this how much richer uh

maybe 20 or

30% and then you could probably get him

in so the Denmark does do economic um

sort of economic support for Greenland

not totally but they they put a lot of

money into

it all we'd have to do is say that we're

going to do more than that or that we're

going to do some kind of productive

business with them you know like do some

Mining and split the difference with

them um I think you could bribe them and

when I say bribe I don't mean in a bad

way I mean they get something we get

something but I don't think anything is

going to cause Greenland to want to

partner with the

US unless we can say directly and with

um some level of certainty that they're

all going to make more money so without

that I'm not expecting any

self-determination to want to partner

with us they're going to want to make

money in the real

world well remember that story about

Doge found that uh billion dooll annual

expense that was only to make a dumb

little survey that looked like a high

school student made it and it was used

as one of the best examples of how easy

it is to find fraud and how gigantic the

fraud is and how ridiculous the expenses

are everybody remember that story is

from

yesterday well according to Jessica

tarlo I saw on the five it's not

true it's just not true that there's any

billion dooll expense for nothing but a

survey there I think the organization

exists and the funding is real but that

it's not just for that one thing that it

was for something

larger I think going forward my take is

that I'm not going to believe any of the

claims of Doge because I feel like the

Doge claims if there's like a really

good anecdote that somebody can

understand they there is a tenden see

for them to believe

it and probably a lot of these cases are

not as clean as that so remember the

first time you heard that there was a

billion dollars a year for nothing but a

little survey that looks like you could

have done it in 10 minutes what was your

first impression oh my God I can't

believe it right oh my God I can't

believe that that's

happening and what is usually true when

you have that reaction to a story what's

usually true is that it's not

true the because the real world as wacky

as it is probably isn't that wacky that

somebody was getting a billion dollars a

year to do a survey that nobody wanted

probably not so I'm going to say that uh

without knowing the details I think

Jessica tarov she might be right on this

one so I'm not going to use any more

Doge anecdotes I do have great

confidence that they're doing all the

right stuff and that they're finding

real fraud and waste and abuse and that

everything's moving in the right

direction but I'm just not going to

believe any more anecdotes I I'm I'm out

you know I I've been fooled now is that

the second or third time that I've said

something in public about some anecdote

and then turned down well that's not

exactly true so no I'm not going to fall

for that again

well the Iranians the military posted a

uh according to John Hayward of

Breitbart a uh video showing they have

these vast underground missile cities so

gigantic uh underground facilities

somewhere in a mountain or something

that has just gazillion high-end

missiles and apparently it's like the

third time they've done a video to say

oh yeah if you come for us we got a lot

of missiles that are going to come for

you and so they've done it before but it

would not surprise you that this was

done right before Iran also had

indicated to uh to America that they're

willing to talk but only

indirectly so so Iran is not willing to

meet with an American and talk about

anything but they're willing to have oh

indirect talks and that's the way they

say it they say would be willing to

negotiate indirectly

and I guess they're they're unwilling to

talk directly as long as sanctions are

on so they've got a condition to even

talk which is drop the sanctions and I

can see why they would have that point

of view but uh I'm not expecting

anything good to come out of this um I I

just don't see any possibility that

they're going to negotiate away anything

I I think they'd rather take a chance of

getting bombed so if they didn't build

build all those missile City you know

underground facilities because they want

to give it

away I think they're in for the long

term so now I don't expect anything to

happen with

Iran um at

all all right uh I remind you because

this is the end of my prepared notes

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finish and I'm getting ready to wrap up

so I'm going to say a few words to the

locals subscribers first but the rest of

you thanks for joining have a wonderful

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have cats or dogger day if you have dogs

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