pipe than containers.

But here's the only question that I ask, is this: Could you create a situation with a heat chimney on a hill—because it's easier to build it on a hill because you don't need to support it. You know, laying something down on the ground is easier than building a structure a mile high, right? You just lay it there. Now would you be able to get enough airflow to power a CO2 scrubber? Engineers? Engineers? Anybody? Anybody? Do we have—I know a huge percentage of you are engineers—and I'm waiting for you to weigh in. Come on, tell me why it won't work.

Because you—okay, this is—no, I know it's not practical to fix the container problem, but the CO2 capture is useless. Okay. Spotted owl problem. Yes, solar would be cheaper. Maybe homeless houses. You know, I also thought about that, but imagine if you put 500 containers turned sideways in the field and just let the homeless people camp out in it. It'd be better than being outdoors, but I think we can do better than that for the homeless. Elon Musk's Boring tool. There you go.

So let me do that. So imagine instead of using containers—that's probably a better idea, isn't it? If you use the Boring Company, B-O-R-I-N-G. So instead of laying down the pipe, you just bore a tunnel. Yeah, I know. Maybe. Maybe.

All right, let's see what else we're going to talk about. That was just for fun. But you see this pattern of citizens doing the work of the government, don't you? What's that about? I've never—I think we've never seen that before. It has something to do with social media makes it possible, right? Because it just wouldn't be possible without it.

All right. Here's my other favorite story. I have a new favorite athlete. Enes—I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right. E-N-E-S. Is it Inez or Enes? Enes Kanter. Apparently he made some comments about China. He made some comments about Tibet and China's treatment of Tibet, and China started pulling NBA broadcasts, which we think is in apparent retaliation.

So what does Enes Kanter do when he said something that has cost a lot of money to his employer the NBA and caused an international problem? Does Enes say, "Oops, sorry about that, and I guess I'll go away now"? Does Enes apologize to China and say, "Oh, I'm sorry about that. I guess I went a little too far"? He does not. He does not.

Here's what Enes does. He makes a new video. So instead of complaining about Tibet, he goes after the Uyghur situation. He makes a video hammering China about the Uyghur situation and lays out the whole brutality of it.

Here's what he says. Yeah, I'm calling you out—talking about Xi Jinping. He says, "I'm calling you out in front of the whole world. Close down the slave labor camps and free the Uyghur people. Stop the genocide now."

Well, there may be a lot of NBA players who are kneeling for the anthem, and I don't care about them at the moment. But Enes Kanter, I give you a standing ovation. Standing ovation.

And what is Enes Kanter doing? The government's job. He's doing the government's job. He's doing what Biden should be doing. Trump would be doing this, I think, wouldn't he?

So three examples in the news today of citizens doing the job of the government because the government wasn't doing it. There's something going on. Is it because people are noticing that we don't have a coherent government? Because it seemed like the citizen participation was also happening under Trump, but it looked like more of a collaborative thing than a desperation thing. At the moment it looks more like desperation. We don't have a government. We better do this ourselves. But under Trump it looked more like, "Oh, he actually listens to what people say." So if you have a good idea, maybe it'll get implemented. And sure enough, you know, I've told you the story of submitting a good idea and next thing you know it's an executive order.

Mr. Cab is asking if my hair is growing back. Interestingly it did grow back when I was on prednisone, not permanently, but even the bald spots started filling back in. That's scary, but it was temporary.

Do you know before federal attacks tariffs were imposed on ships? I don't know the relevance of that yet.

All right. So in a New York Times opinion piece, Paul Krugman says China has big problems coming. China has big problems coming. Big problems. That it feels like the wording of that sounds familiar, doesn't it? Have you heard that from anyone before? Is there anybody who's been saying in public that China has big problems coming?

So that's the headline: Big problems coming. Does it sound familiar? It should, because China has big problems coming. I think I've mentioned it before. I believe I mentioned it before. Yeah. And one of the big problems among the big problems are they apparently tried to hide their economic situation by building massive real estate projects that didn't get used. Nobody moved into them. Oh yes, I did say that. Yes, I did.

Have I told you how I track my influence? Now of course it's not scientific and not 100 percent reliable, but one of the ways I track it is by language. You know, if somebody uses the same term, you say, "I wonder if two people came up with that at the same time or one was influenced by the other." So you can never know. It could be that's just an obvious phrase, so you see it more than once. We'll see.

But Paul Krugman, who I know certainly people on the right political right don't think his predictions have been so good, but he says they got big trouble coming. And I think he's right. Have I told you the interplay between economics and psychology? That economics is—unless you have a physical constraint like the ports have a physical constraint—economics is mostly a psychology issue.

If you think things are going to be good next year, you invest. If you think the prices are going up because of inflation, maybe you buy something now. So basically your expectations and your psychology drive the entire economy. What happens to China's economy when everybody understands that it's not safe to do business there, that they got big problems? It's a problem. If this psychology breaks the economy, what would it take for China's psychology to break in a way that breaks the economy?

Well, it might take Paul Krugman, a Nobel winner for economics, to tell you that you're in deep, deep trouble. I mean he could be right or he could be wrong, but the more people with his credentials who tell China they're doomed, the more somebody's going to believe him, right? The more people talk about problems, somebody's saying I look like that character that was once on Babylon 5.

I assume you know that I was on Babylon 5, right? That's why you're saying that. There's an old sci-fi show called Babylon 5. I had a small part on that because I'd said some good things about the show, so they invited me on to be a character. I was not a good actor. Yes. And COVID is coming for China. So apparently China has an outbreak in several provinces. I don't see any way that China doesn't have a big problem coming because I just don't think you can keep it out, and I don't know that they can vaccinate fast enough. So I don't think COVID will be the thing that takes them down. I think it'll be something else.

Have you seen Raised by Wolves on HBO? No, but I just got interested in that yesterday. Remind me what that was about. I remember that the title of it, Raised by Wolves, was completely misleading. Has nothing to do with anything like that. What is it about?

Yeah, no, I was in Babylon 5 for one episode in which I played someone who—I played a guy who was looking for his dog. I want to say somebody actually posted it here. So the people on Locals can see it, but let me show you. See if you can see it here on YouTube. If you watched the show, that was me when I had hair in a scene with Mr. Garibaldi, who was playing security in the scene.

Now here's the funny part. You see the Minbari alien behind me over my shoulder? So that was my longtime girlfriend at the time, Pam. And Pam is Japanese-American, and so they made her as a Japanese-American Minbari. And she had like six hours of makeup or something to get that look. And her only role was to stand back there and carry my briefcase. And I had I think two lines or something that I blew, I believe.

Yeah, somebody said Garibaldi is a poor man's Bruce Willis. That's pretty funny. I think he passed away, if I'm not mistaken. I think that actor passed away. So I'll