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oks like through my bad engineering I may have gotten rid of all the viewers who are not serious viewers of the show. The rest of you stayed here and said, "He's going to fix this," because you trusted me, and your trust has been paid off.

Did you know that China has got a $31 billion push for making nuclear power in that country? They've approved 11 reactors recently and 20 in the past two years. And that's not why I bring it up. Now, you know if you're following the news that whatever country falls behind in energy production is going to lose the future, because AI will be driving everything. And if you don't have way more power than we have in this country right now, you're not going to compete with China on AI. So whoever has the most electricity basically is going to win on AI, because they could just do more of it and faster.

So nuclear power has gone from something that would be really important for your economy and maybe good for the world's pollution and CO2 if you care about that. But I would argue that nuclear power is now more important than nuclear weapons. Are you with me on that? That nuclear power plants creating electricity is a more important weapon of war, because it's going to be driving AI, and AI will drive everything. So nuclear weapons of course would still be powerful, but probably the wars of the future are going to depend on electricity. And we don't have a way to dominate in electricity, and China is just kicking our asses on nuclear.

So unless we get somebody who can really push things in the United States, we're all in a lot of trouble. This would be right near the top of my number one existential risk problems. It's not number one, but it's right up there. And I would recommend that you follow the account on X called Zion Lights, which is actually the name of a person. Zion is the first name, just like it sounds: Z-I-O-N, and then Lights, last name. So if you follow that account, which is smish, but the most accurate and unbiased following of what's happening in nuclear energy. So highly recommended. Get on that account if you're not already there.

By the way, one of the things that I see as my Spider-Man responsibility—you know the Spider-Man curse, with great power comes great responsibility. Now I don't have great power, but I have over a million followers, and I feel like one of the most useful things I can do with my 1.1 million followers is tell you who else you should follow to make you smarter. That's really one of the best things I could ever do for the world: just make you smarter by telling you who to follow. So Zion Lights—add that one to your list.

Apparently Boeing's labor union, the biggest labor union, is going on strike because Boeing didn't need any more problems. But here it is. Or they did, I guess. I should have said that the other way. But you know what would really help their profits and their ability to pay their employees more? Would be building really good planes. So the machinists are on strike. I feel like Boeing is really getting every bad news it could possibly get.

How much of this do you think is DEI related? And the trouble is we don't know. You still saying you're muted or are you trolling me now,

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Paul? Are you still there? I'm getting trolled on the audio. Bunch of people saying I'm muted. Is that because they're—okay, yeah, everything's working. Trolls. Thank you, Paul. So I wonder if DEI is actually a factor. There's no way to know. But the theory is that DEI should destroy every company and then every country it comes in contact with, because by design it destroys organizations. It is…

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