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Well, let's see what's going on in science.
There's some kind of electron breakthrough.
So Mario Nuffel is summarizing this from SciTech Daily.
But Japanese and Korean researchers have cracked the code to manipulating electrons at the molecular level.
Wow.
I'll bet you were waiting for scientists to be able to manipulate electrons at the molecular level.
And if you're like me, you thought to yourself, hmm, I don't know what good that is.
But apparently it will create ultra-fast processing and it will revolutionize solar cells and LEDs.
Basically, the world of electronics might never be the same if they get this to be commercial and scale up.
But it looks like maybe they can.
In other news, Scientists at John Hopkins University have figured out how to use CRISPR, you know, the genetic editing thing, to create gigantic-sized tomatoes and eggplants.
Let's see.
Gene therapy to create gigantic eggplants.
I wonder if a professional humorist could do anything with that.
Let's see.
Whose genes would they use to increase the size of the eggplants?
I can't think of a single joke.
I don't know.
I was hoping there would be a joke there about the giant eggplants and whose genes they used to beef them up.
But I can't think of a thing, so we'll move on.
Here's a study.
According to study finds, men with excellent sperm quality live longer.
You could have just asked me.
Let me explain this to you.
Probably the single most useful measure of your health is your reproductive fitness.
If you're a man, it means can you produce great sperm and deliver it?
And so I think they could have saved a little time on this study by just going to me and saying, Scott, what do you think?
People who have excellent sperm compared to people who have degraded sperm.
Who do you think is going to live longer?
I think I could have gotten this one every time.
Save you a lot of money.
Just ask me next time.
Meanwhile, speaking of semen, a company called Siemens.
This is actually a coincidence.
I didn't realize I put these two stories together.
But Siemens, the company, not this firm, announced a $285 million investment in US manufacturing.
Now, some years ago, I bought a tiny little bit of stock in Siemens because I thought we were going to stop Huawei from selling this kind of equipment in the US. And I thought, hmm.
Who is the competition to Huawei?
So I thought, Siemens might be zooming.
But I eventually sold that tiny little investment and never made money on it.
The Siemens just sort of languished for a long time.
But if they're coming into the US, good news.
And Trump's also announced some kind of major shipping infrastructure investment, $20 billion.
Thomas Stevenson at the Post Millennial is writing about this.
And I guess there's a big shipping company called CMA CGM that's going to invest this.
So it's investing in infrastructure.
So I think that means ports, you know, beefing up the ports.
This could be related, I would assume, to the fact that Trump wants to beef up all of the shipbuilding capabilities in the United States, commercial and military.
That's a big, big deal.
The shipbuilding thing, I mean, if you just, Look at the size of the ocean.
And you look at the threats that are going to be coming at us from other shipbuilding countries.
And it just seems to me also that the technology to just live on the ocean is finally completely here.
Because if you had, like, if you built your own little, you know, seafaring island that had a motor that could get out of the storms and stuff.
And you had a tiny little nuclear reactor.
You could desalinate all day long.
You could probably, you know, fish like crazy.
I feel like all the technology is here now to make the ocean just the place that people live.
So I think that'll happen.
There's a jobs report.
There was a little below expectation, but not much.
So I guess we added 151,000 jobs in February.
But the unemployment rate rose to 4.1 from 4. And then the January jobs were revised down by 18,000.
So that's not ideal, but apparently people thought it could have been worse because of all the doge and tariff and all the other uncertainties in the world right now.
I think people were just happy to see that it doesn't seem like yet it's making a huge difference, at least a huge negative difference.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk's latest starship, I guess you'd call it a test.
Part of it blew up, but I think it's the...
I don't know anything about rockets.
Would it be the booster?
That was successfully caught by the chopsticks again.
And every time it happens, how many times does it happen?
Twice?
It's very impressive.
It's hard to get more impressive than those giant chopsticks.
So that was half successful.
Meanwhile, a Tesla dealership in Oregon was shot up.
Multiple cars were damaged.
No people were damaged.
But it seems to me that...
Oh, and then the authorities arrested a trans-extremist who was apparently the shooter.
So a trans-extremist.
Now, when I tell you it was a trans-extremist that shot up a car company, is your first thought, hmm, it's somebody who was born as a biological woman but then transitioned to a man?
Is that your first thought?
Or do you say to yourself, hmm, that sounds like somebody was born a biological male and transitioned to a woman, but still had at least one habit that men seem to have more than women, which is shooting stuff up.
Well, if you guessed the latter, you'd be right.
Warning.
Warning.
There's an incoming dad joke.
Incoming dad joke.
Get ready.
Get ready.
Ironically, it was the only transmission a Tesla dealership has ever seen.
Boom!
Now, if you need to explain that to anybody, Teslas don't have transmissions.
But there was one trans on a mission to shoot up the car dealer, so it's the only transmission ever in that dealership.
You're welcome.
So any moment, I'm expecting that truckload of Epstein files to be...
Okay, I'm just joking.
There's no truck of Epstein files.
You're never going to see anything new on Epstein.
There might be a truck full of things that are going to shred.
But you still waiting?
Everybody waiting to see a picture of the truck?
Have you seen any pictures of the truck?
No.
I don't even know if there is a truck.
I don't know if there are any Epstein files, but I'm not going to wait for the good stuff.
I don't think the good stuff is coming, ever.
Speaking of the good stuff, so Trump is teasing that he's going to release some information or talk about the two assassination attempts against him, and he's as perplexed as we are about why we don't know more about this.
And he was talking about the number of devices and apps.
He said, you had one of them, one of the attempted shooter people, you had one who had three apps, two of which were foreign, supposedly, and was the biggest white shoe law firm in Pennsylvania, even though they don't live in necessarily a white shoe area.
What's that all about?
Is law?
What?
And Trump seemed to agree.
That he thinks there's something bigger might be behind everything.
He doesn't know what.
He says other people think that, that there might be something bigger, conspiracy-wise.
So it makes me think it a little bit, too, he said.
Would you like to hear my prediction about all the stuff we're going to find out about the attempted assassins?
Nothing.
I'm pretty sure all the information about the two attempted assassins, it's on that Epstein truck.
And the Epstein truck, of course, is on a UFO that they keep in a big warehouse.
No, none of this is real.
You're not going to find out anything about these assassination attempts.
Not even a little bit.
Ever.
And if you do, it's probably going to be a lie.
And then what we'll think we know for years will be something like, Oh, it was the cartels, or oh, it was the mafia.
You won't know.
You might get a story, but you won't know.
Meanwhile, there's a story, the University of California researchers, they say there's a paralyzed man who's been using a robotic arm for months, and he can move the arm just by imagining what he wants it to do.
How cool is that?
So apparently he can...
You know, pour himself a glass of water just by imagining the arm pouring itself a glass of water.
Now, they seem to think that this is the beginning of something big and that, you know, maybe they'll be able to adapt this to lots of other people.
It is very impressive.
But I've got a question.
Does it work for every kind of personality?
Because if I had a robotic arm...
The things I would imagine would be more than the things I would want it to do.
For example, I might want it to pour me a glass of water, but it's not the only thing I would imagine it doing.
You know what I mean?
You know what I mean, right?
You know what I mean?
So what would happen if you have ADHD and you can't concentrate on the glass of water, but your mind drifts?
Two other things you can imagine that arm doing.
Again, can we agree that all the men got to the joke before I finished?
I didn't need to finish, right?
As soon as I said the arm does what you imagine it does, I think every man listening to this started giggling silently.
Sort of like Beavis and Butthead.
Let me try it again.
It's a mechanical arm that does whatever you imagine.
Perfect.
Anyway, Reuters has some fake news, according to Carolyn Levitt.
They said that 240,000 Ukrainians in the U.S. might be deported.
That is apparently fake news from Reuters.
But there is a kernel of truth in that Trump said that they're looking at some individuals.
So it might involve some special cases, but no.
They're not going to look at every Ukrainian in the U.S. and deport them.
That's not a thing.
In other medical news, Washington University of Medicine is trying to harness this chemical that makes cannabis.
A good pain reliever because they don't want to use opioids because they have lots of downside.
But they've developed a compound that mimics a natural molecule found in cannabis and it seems pretty good at pain relief without the side effects and also doesn't make you high.
So I'll just say this, which I've said before.
I can't even imagine my life Without cannabis as a pain reliever?
Oh, my God.
I'll admit something that most of you don't know, but the subscribers and locals do know.
It wasn't too long ago, maybe a few weeks ago, that I was just in crushing pain before the show, and it was stomach.
It was just some kind of stomach issue.
And I couldn't even stand up straight.
Couldn't concentrate.
I mean, it was really bad.
And I took the cure.
So prior to doing the show, I completely eliminated that pain.
And it took five minutes.
Just five minutes of legal medical use.
In California, it's all legal.
And in five minutes...
It was like it never happened.
So for stomach stuff, it's just incredible, if you ever have any.
And it works for all kinds of stuff.
And I've used it.
I've also used it when, you know, I got some kind of backache.
And, you know, you've done everything you're supposed to do.
You've used your inversion table and your Advil or whatever the hell you're using.
And it gets you almost there, but not.
Five minutes with the totally legal California medicinal treatment.
Five minutes, you're right back to action like nothing ever hurt in the first place.
It is quite an amazing painkiller.
It doesn't work for everything all the time or all the people.
And of course, there's side effects.
You don't want to be operating a vehicle or doing it around kids.
So there's a million reasons why you wouldn't do it.
But if those don't apply, It's a real good painkiller.
So Tulsi Gabbard says that the Biden administration knowingly let hundreds of illegal migrants come into the country who had known connections, known connections to ISIS. And now those people, hundreds of them, the ISIS-connected people are in the United States.
And she said that in the Laura Ingram show.
Now, how do you explain that?
Is it true?
Because it sounds true.
But what was the thinking behind that?
You know, if you're not a Democrat, there's a whole bunch of stuff that Democrats do from hiring these...
District attorneys, the Soros district attorneys, to opening the borders, to this.
You know, knowingly letting ISIS-related people into the country, it doesn't look like they had any plan other than destroying the country.
I can't even think of what the alternative explanation would be.
Was it, well, they were connected to ISIS, but, you know, everybody in that region was maybe a little connected to ISIS. Was that it?
Was it such a do-gooder attitude that they're like, well, you know, they're not totally ISIS. They're just, you know, ISIS adjacent.
They just have a lot of friends who are in ISIS. Can't blame them for that.
I mean, what exactly were they thinking when they did this?
It's just baffling.
Meanwhile, Trump has ordered the revocation of security clearances.
For the law firm that was behind the Steele dossier.
So Jerry Dunleavy and Just News are reporting this.
So that was, you've heard of these guys, right?
Perkins Coy Law Firm.
So the ones that had a close relationship with Hillary Clinton and they seemed to be behind a lot of, you know, Democrat shenanigans.
So Trump just revoked their security clearance.
Why did they ever have any security clearance?
Why did that law firm ever have a security clearance?
Why does any law firm have a security clearance?
Shouldn't it always be temporary while they're working on a project?
Why would you keep a security clearance after you've done whatever job you're working on?
I mean, I can see why you need it sometimes, but why would you just sort of maintain it?
I would think that you would lose it the moment you were done with your lawyering for whatever the case was.
I don't know.
So it seems right to me that the law firm behind the Steele dossier cannot be trusted with American secrets.
That's for sure.
That's just cause and effect.
One plus one is due.
That's basic stuff.
Yeah, you can't trust them.
Meanwhile, you'll never believe this story.
Joel Pollack is writing in Breitbart that...
Billions of dollars were spent on services for homeless people in LA. And guess what?
Hold on to your seat.
You're going to be surprised by this.
Billions of dollars were spent on service for homeless in the LA. And unbelievably, there's no accounting for it.
I know.
Biggest surprise in the world, isn't it?
No, it's not.
You could just ask Scott.
Hey, Scott.
I heard a bunch of Democrats had billions of dollars floating around for a thing.
What's the thing?
Doesn't matter.
Okay.
Now, it's been a few years.
Do you think they can account for where all the billions went?
Scott, what do you think?
Let me research by just closing my eyes for a second.
Unaccounted for.
Unaccounted for.
But what about the Pentagon and their trillions of dollars?
It's been a few years.
Do you think we can go check where all that went?
Unaccounted for.
Unaccounted for.
But what about USAID and all its funding to the 55,000 NGOs?
It's been years they've been doing it.
Do you think we can account for that?
Close my eyes.
No.
Unaccounted for.
I feel like there might be some kind of pattern emerging here.
I don't know.
Can you see it?
Just ask Scott.
Meanwhile, the Wikipedia co-founder...
Somebody said this is not brand new news, but it's the first I heard it.
So one of the Wikipedia co-founders is calling on Doge to investigate whether government actors have infiltrated the online encyclopedia.
Okay.
Let's see if I can save them some time.
Doge?
Doge, you don't need to take this one.
I'll handle this one.
Close my eyes.
Yes.
Yes.
Foreign actors are trying to manipulate Wikipedia.
Yep.
Yep.
You're done.
Elon, I got this one.
You're doing a great job on Doge.
But, you know, you could offload some of this to me.
I got this.
Yeah.
Let's see.
What else is going on?
You'll never believe this, but Scott.
Do you think Hunter Biden's art is selling now as well as it did when his father was in office?
Close my eyes?
Use my deep research?
Oh, no.
I would guess that his art is nearly worthless now.
Let's check in.
Oh, according to the New York Post, Hunter's having trouble selling his art.
Huh.
I'm right again.
Here's what I'm wondering.
Does it seem to you that every Democrat organization is just some version of hunters selling art?
Meaning that it's not just sketchy.
It's obviously sketchy, and everybody knows it, and you can tell exactly what's going on.
Let me give you some examples.
How many of these seem like they're money laundering organizations?
The Clinton Foundation, the Biden crime family, USAID, and the 55,000 NGOs.
How about ActBlue, the organization that collects donations?
That's all they do?
Do you think that sounds legit?
How about Black Lives Matter with what we know about it now?
What about the fact that Joe Biden was doing autosign and may not have even been conscious of the things he was approving?
That feels a little sus.
What about those primaries where Hillary kneecapped Bernie Sanders once and then Biden got forced out and nothing happened that even looked slightly like a Democrat process?
What about everything that's ever happened in Ukraine?
Doesn't that look like just giant money laundering?
What about the L.A. homeless spending, as we just discussed?
Yes, looks like giant money laundering situation.
What about every single Local city government, the big ones.
All corrupt.
They're all money laundering things.
So they're either just corrupt, or they're corrupt as a money laundering thing.
And I'm trying to think, is there anything like that on the Republican side?
Do I have some kind of a news bubble problem?
But it seems to me that Democrats...
And I don't say this with any hyperbole whatsoever.
If you look at the Democrats from the larger organization, not the voters.
There are plenty of decent Democrat voters.
So these are just citizens.
But when it becomes an organization of any kind and there's funding of any kind, isn't it always criminal?
As in 100% of the time?
It doesn't matter if you're a mayor of a city or you started a charity or...
You're helping some poor people in another country a little bit while you're keeping too much of it.
It just seems like 100% of everything Democrats do is intended from the start to be a money laundering operation.
And it's hard to ignore that it's almost entirely a criminal organization that's got this thin veneer of the theater kids acting out.
To make it look legitimate, but doing a really bad job of it.
Anyway, so speaking of Biden and his auto pen, so what we found out was that pretty much all of Biden's signatures during his term were done by a machine that automatically signs for presidents.
But if you've noticed, Trump signs a lot of executive orders, and he does it in person, and he does it publicly.
But there's some question.
All of Biden's signatures, until I think his resignation signature or something, if they were all done by a machine, given what we know about his mental capability at the time and how he was managed by the people around him, Attorney General Andrew Bailey is demanding that the Department of Justice investigate whether Biden...
Was actually aware of what he was signing, meaning what the machine was signing on his behalf.
Because if he wasn't aware, that means that somebody else was illegally running the government.
And that's a big problem.
And it would mean that, according to Attorney General Andrew Bailey, it would mean that the executive orders he gave, the pardons, and all the other actions are unconstitutional and legally void.
Now, that could be big, because if we determine that he literally didn't know what he was doing and other people were just creating laws, why would those laws, the executive orders and pardons, the things that came from the president, why would they be valid if they didn't come from the president?
And there's no evidence that he even knew about it.
Now, it's premature, so it could be that if you ask Biden, he'll say, oh yeah, I knew all about that.
And then we're fine.
So I don't mind that they use an automatic signature thing.
That's been normal for a long time.
But it seems like the right question to ask because I think there's some possibility that it was exactly what it looks like, a puppet government.
Well, meanwhile, I'm fascinated by Gavin Newsom trying to rehabilitate himself and maybe trying to be a national.
He doesn't have a chance, by the way.
He doesn't have a chance of winning.
Because I can't imagine Democrats picking a slick white guy to be their champion.
It just doesn't feel like that's where they're at.
But, you know, I give him credit for trying something and trying the podcast.
He had Charlie Kirk on his show.
And, you know, I know there's a...
There's a point of view that conservatives shouldn't have any contact and give them any oxygen whatsoever, but I don't think it's going to hurt because it really isn't organic, and I don't think it's going to catch on.
The thing that Democrats get wrong when they always use the Joe Rogan example, And they say, oh, Joe Rogan did this and Joe Rogan did that.
How long did it take Joe Rogan to become Joe Rogan?
Like, he went through a path in which he was acquiring a whole bunch of insanely useful skills that came together and then years of doing the show with not much attention at all.
And then he basically, through power of personality and just doing good work, created an industry that Largely, it was in his image.
Now, he wasn't the only one who made podcasting, but clearly he was the biggest footprint and the one that created the model for other people.
So, watching Democrats get everything wrong, so one of the things they get wrong is that, wait a minute, they have podcasts, so we need a podcast.
That is so...
Completely off base.
The reason that people have podcasts is that the podcaster is really good at it, and the entertainment is good so people watch it, and then it gets influenced.
You don't just start by trying to be Joe Rogan.
That's not your entry point.
No matter how famous or how much of a governor you are, it's not your starting point.
Being Joe Rogan took like 20 years.
Anyway, I saw an article about what killed traditional media, and it was a smart article, but I thought, isn't there an easier answer to what killed traditional media?
Now, on one hand, on one hand...
It looks like Trump might have been the one who killed traditional media, because he's the one that taught us it was fake news and turned it into really the way we think about news.
And I think it was an awakening for at least half the country to find out that the news was completely made up and always has been.
But I think it's even something bigger than that.
I think the news could have survived Trump and conservatives saying it's fake.
Because all they had to say is, no, it isn't.
And then all the people who were watching it would say, oh, no, it isn't.
Because it came on the news.
People would just believe in the news.
So they could just say, no, there's no problem.
We're not biased.
But here's what I think it is.
I think it was DEI. I think DEI killed the news.
And I think DEI killed the Democrat Party.
Completely.
And there's a real obvious mechanism to it.
So once you allow that DEI is valid, you've got to do it.
Once you've got people who came in through the DEI doorway, you're going to get people who, and you can see it in action, people who think identity needs to be in every story, and you're going to get a type of news that people don't want to watch.
And you're going to get this niche stuff, like lots of trans stories and lots of weird BLM stories.
So I think that DEI actually crushed the news business, the same as it crushed the Democrats.
The Democrats can't recover from DEI. It's a one-way trip.
Because even if they said, all right, we reject DEI because the country seems to be not embracing it as much as we want.
They would just lose, I don't know, what, 20 or 30% of their base and have no chance of winning anything ever.
So they created a situation where there just isn't, there's not a road back.
Here's what Joe Rogan said, mocking the whole situation.
He said, quote, CNN said that there's this network of podcasts for the right.
That's this huge corporate finance network.
No, it's just a bunch of friends, you fucking idiots.
We do each other's podcasts.
Yeah, that's pretty much the whole story.
It's a bunch of friends, they do each other's podcasts.
Because they're trying to figure this out.
They're saying that they need that on the left.
Good luck.
You guys cancel each other if your Ukraine flag is too small.
You guys talk shit about each other for not having trans kids.
You guys are out of your minds.
You're not going to sync up together.
You're in a suicide cult.
So true.
So true.
But the Democrats have a really good plan for combating the fact that their party is in complete downward spiral.
They've lost pretty much power and everything.
And they don't have any leadership and they don't have any good policies that the country is in favor of.
But they do have cringe videos.
So the best evidence that women are in charge of the Democrat Party is cringe videos.
Have you ever been in a car ride with adult women when a good song came on the radio?
They immediately burst into song and sometimes they act on it.
And we're seeing the Democrats just trying to turn everything into a song.
So when Representative Green was getting, whatever it was, cast, what's the word?
He was getting censured by the Congress.
So the Democrats sang, We Will Overcome.
Okay.
Nice theater kid singing there.
And then, of course, there was the 22 senators.
We did exactly the same little douchebag video, and then the Republicans just used it as humor.
You know you're doing everything wrong when your best play is considered humor by the other side.
When we turn on CNN to watch Scott Jennings, it's because it's funny.
Now, you can't lose harder than that.
If the other side watches you for the jokes, that is such a game over situation.
I've never seen this situation where I literally, if I'm clicking through the news and I see Scott Jennings sitting there at a panel, oh, I stop.
I go, okay.
Well, I'll do five minutes of this.
And sure enough.
He'll just be mocking these idiots, and it's just hilarious that they can't put a glove on him, and he just eviscerates them, in my opinion, of course.
If you're a Democrat, you probably think the opposite's happening.
But then there were a number of Democrat women in Congress, I guess, who created this video game, dancing kind of attempt at a viral video.
Where they would all look like they had just appeared, like they had just cloned as video game players, and they would dance like they're ready to fight.
And it was so cringy.
So, so cringy.
And that's what they have.
And then I saw also on that same panel that Scott Jennings was on, one of the panelists was saying, oh, but...
You know, it worked, because we've got all these eyeballs, and we're talking about it on the news.
And even Abby Phillip, the host, who generally is pretty much in the tank for the Democrats, even she said, to what end?
To what end?
Like, what did you win?
And they were just like, attention.
You know, we've got followers and stuff.
And I'm thinking to myself, Was that the lesson they got from Trump?
Did they think that the only thing Trump brought was he knew how to get attention?
That's what they got?
We need podcasts and we need attention and then we'll be fine?
That is so far from a deep analysis of anything that happened that it's hilarious.
That's like a seventh grade opinion of what's going on.
And you can't get worse than that.
Making cringe videos with no policy and no leadership and saying, yeah, but we got a lot of attention for our cringe videos.
So how about a little pat on the back for all the attention we got for being so lame?
Bill O'Reilly says that Trump is bringing the entire Democratic Party to the verge of collapse.
He thinks it might take 20 years, an entire generation.
For Democrats to recover.
Same thing I'm saying.
But it's good to have somebody who's a long-time observer of politics say the same thing.
So I agree.
But here's a summary.
So on X, there's a user called Indian Bronson.
Now, this is back from February 5th, this comment.
But it's so perfect.
So listen to this.
What's happening in America is roughly equivalent to the yearbook committee and the theater kid types getting rocked by the football team and chess club alliance.
Now, you have to think about this for a minute.
The Republicans here are a combination of the chess club, that's Doge, and a football team.
Yes, they're absolutely a combination of a football team plus a chess club.
Now, I would say that maybe it was only a football team in the past.
But once you add, you know, your David Sachs and your, you know, your Scott Bessant and your, you know, Lutnick, what's his name?
And your, you know, I could go on.
But, you know, the whole Doge stuff, Elon Musk.
You've got the chess club now.
So you've got the football team plus the chess club.
And they're up against the yearbook committee, which is the people who weren't good at anything.
They weren't good at anything, so they got on the yearbook committee.
And the theater kids...
That's so perfect.
That captures it perfectly.
Meanwhile, New York Times is reporting that ActBlue, that is allegedly a group which collects small donations for Democrats, is in turmoil, they say.
So apparently, without explanation, seven top executives of ActBlue have left in the past three weeks, and several of them have been there for more than a decade, and none of them will say why they're leaving.
Huh.
That's interesting.
Several top executives leaving around the same time, and none of them want to say why?
They're not even willing to say, well, you know, it's just I'm that age, or it's time to move on, or I got a better opportunity.
Just nothing.
And according to the New York Times, the last remaining lawyer at ActBlue's general counsel's office has been locked out of his email and put on leave after sending internal messages that we have whistleblower policies for a reason.
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
There's a whistleblower.
Oh, there's fun coming now.
Some fun coming.
So, more than $16 billion has passed through ActBlue in the last 20 years.
Scott, do you think that ActBlue can account for their spending?
Close my eyes?
Look deeply into my own mind?
No.
They cannot account for it.
Now, I don't know that's true.
I don't know if that's true.
But anybody want to bet against me?
Does anyone want to bet that they have...
Perfect records of their 16 billion expenses and we know where it all went?
Or do you think maybe, huh, we didn't really track it?
What do you think?
Yeah, it does seem like everything Democrats are involved in at an organizational level is doing a little bit of good stuff and maybe a lot more of something else.
At least it looks like it.
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
Well, there's a report that Harvard grads are having trouble getting jobs compared to the past.
And 25%, according to unusual whales on X, 25% of Harvard graduates from last spring are still job hunting.
So that's up from 20% a year earlier and 10% in 2022, per the Wall Street Journal.
And here's what I wonder.
What do you think's behind that?
Do you think that Harvard graduates are just not considered necessary?
You know, it used to be everybody who could get one would get one.
Could it be that all of the DEI stuff has made people look at college graduates and say, I'm not so sure I know why you got into Harvard.
What is missing from the story?
It does make me wonder if the DEI thing has now backfired, such that if you were any member of a so-called disadvantaged group, and you had a Harvard degree, and you walk into the office for a job, what does the person interview you think?
Do they think you did everything that everybody else did, and you earned your Harvard degree?
Or do they think, hmm, sounds like you went in through the DEI side door and maybe it's a little bit risky to bring you on?
How many of them show up looking like activists and looking like they're DEI activists and looking like maybe their social media gave away a little bit too much about their opinions?
How many of them do you think got turned down because of something they said on social media?
But it's not zero.
So, that's a sign of the times.
Meanwhile, according to the Western Journal, Ben Zizloft, Trump's agricultural secretary, Brooke Rollins, is suggesting that maybe Americans raise their own chickens to help deal with the soaring price of eggs.
I would like to weigh in on the other side of that recommendation.
I do think there are some situations, And maybe some states and some rural areas and some families that owning chickens would be awesome.
So I don't rule it out.
But do you know what would happen if you tried to raise chickens in California?
I have a friend who got some pet chickens because she was allergic to cats and dogs, so somebody gave her a little chicken.
And she loved that chicken.
You know, used it like a pet.
And then someday, one day, she got a little extra, what do you call it, little chick.
And it turned out to be a rooster.
Now, you say to yourself, no big deal.
They're just pets.
Chicken, rooster.
Do you know what happens if you have a rooster?
Your neighbors don't like that at all.
It was a suburban neighborhood.
And the freaking rooster would just wake up everybody.
The crack of dawn.
And it's illegal.
So you couldn't really have chickens in your backyard, at least where she lived.
And the rooster gave away the whole situation, even though they were just pets.
It wasn't like she had a chicken farm or anything.
But as soon as the rooster entered the mix, it was illegal to kill it.
There is no place in the world you can give it away to.
There's no farm that will take it.
Nobody wants a rooster.
They are simply non-egg-laying things that scream at you.
And so you can't kill it, can't give it away, and you can't keep it.
It ruins your life.
It was an absolute devastating situation because, in this case, they were pets, so she couldn't do the ultimate solution, if you know what I mean.
So be very careful what local laws are going on, and I definitely wouldn't have chickens if they're right on the other side of the fence from your neighbors.
If you've got a lot of land, maybe you already have a farm, chickens could be great.
Here's a small point that you wouldn't guess about me.
I've once...
I've once worked with chicken farming.
My uncle had a dairy farm, but for a time he also had chickens.
And I remember one of my jobs there would be to feed the chickens.
And I feel like I may have a false memory about this.
I'm going to ask my brother later.
But I think it was also my job to steal their eggs.
But I might have a false memory about that.
All I remember is that the chickens seemed very angry whenever I showed up.
If you've never seen chickens close in on you when you walk in, because maybe they think they're getting food or maybe they're angry, they are the scariest mofos.
You walk into a room that's just full of chickens, and they start walking at you with their little heads going like this.
And they make that noise.
And they start to surround you.
And you're like, what are you guys doing?
No, no, I come in peace.
And they just start getting closer.
Oh, it's scary.
Chickens are scary.
I lived.
Anyway, be careful about raising your own chickens.
In interesting news...
According to Leah Schaefer, who's writing Wash U, whatever that is, researchers in Chakrabarty Lab have created a bird flu sensor.
So it seems to work.
It's not quite fully commercialized, but it can detect in the air the bird flu, the avian influenza.
That's a big deal.
Because the current technology, it could take you 10 hours to find out if there's a chicken with bird flu.
I think you send it to a lab and you can get an answer the same day, but it's 10 hours later, which is too late.
Because if you allow 10 extra hours of bird flu flying around your bird operation, you're not going to have much left.
If you can get it in five minutes, the first five minutes, Then you can take immediate actions and maybe cut off the problems.
So this could be an immensely useful thing.
But also it suggests maybe a whole bunch of other airborne detection things.
Would it have worked with COVID? I don't know.
Would it have worked with some other deadly pathogens?
I don't know.
But it certainly seems like there's a possibility.
Also, researchers that, let's see, I guess researchers have found there's a naturally occurring molecule that does something similar to Ozembek, the weight loss drug, but without the side effects.
So Krista Conger in Stanford Medicine is writing about this.
And if that's true, that would be great.
Because if we could get more people on either Ozempic or the natural version of it that doesn't have the side effects, we would need fewer eggs.
Yeah.
If we get people slimming down and less hungry, we don't need as many eggs.
Anyway, Trump signed the executive order creating the strategic Bitcoin reserve.
We knew that was happening.
You know what I say about crypto?
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
So crypto, I only think of it as a diversification play.
So the government's diversifying.
And that makes perfect sense.
I do think there's a non-zero chance that the value of the U.S. dollar will just deflate to nothing over time.
And the crypto will just keep climbing.
So it could be.
We might look back at this as the thing that saved America.
At the moment, it seems technical.
It seems sort of a little niche thing.
And it's hard to appreciate the importance of it.
But it's that important.
We could look back in 15 years and say, if we had not created this stockpile of strategic coins, presumably we would add to it between now and some other time.
We wouldn't survive.
So this actually goes directly to survival as a country.
It could be a big, big deal.
Meanwhile, did you know that Starlink is not approved in South Africa?
And the reason is because Elon Musk is not black.
And apparently the law there says that they don't want to do business unless you have 30% black ownership.
So since that's not really practical for Starlink, They don't get to have good internet.
So, oh my goodness.
And according to, I guess, Dave Rubin had a guest, Robert Herzog, on, talking about South Africa.
And the guest said that there are now 140 race-based laws in South Africa that are all anti-white.
140 separate anti-white laws in South Africa.
Now, what do you think about that?
Obviously, I won't be visiting.
If you're wondering where my next vacation will be, probably not South Africa.
Probably not.
But why does the United States put up with that?
I think Trump has rattled the cage a little bit over there.
We'll see where that goes.
I'm not even sure we should have relationships with any country that does this sort of thing.
So in the short run, obviously, we'd be better off if we could get them to modify their behavior to be part of the international order of things.
But what if they don't?
How long do you put up with it?
I think we should be certainly threatening to withdraw completely.
Any kind of interaction whatsoever, as in just completely ignore them as a country.
I wouldn't trade with them.
I wouldn't do anything with them.
Because why would we support that?
So we're going to need some strong actions there.
And we're going to need it soon.
Well, the New York Times allegedly interviewed a bunch of Mexican drug lords.
Do you believe that?
Do you believe that the New York Times, just because they wanted to, could get a bunch of Mexican drug lords to sit down for an interview?
Are these the dumbest ones?
Did they only talk to the dumb ones?
Let me tell you what I would do if I were a cartel member who allegedly is all afraid of Trump now.
If I were afraid of being detected, I certainly would not agree to an interview with anybody in the press.
I would just assume that the authorities are watching this process and figuring out who you are based on maybe what you did with the media.
So, I'm not entirely sure I believe this story.
But, allegedly, these...
These drug lords are saying that they're all afraid and they're literally shaking in fear and they're afraid to go to sleep because they might blow up and they're shutting down their labs.
I don't know.
To me, that sounds like fake news.
It's a little too on the nose.
Oh yeah, now all these murderous people who have been in violent situations forever.
Suddenly, this is what scares them?
This?
They live in a permanently super dangerous, lethal environment all the time.
But this is what scares them, according to the New York Times.
I don't know.
It has that feeling like maybe we want to pretend that we're making a big difference.
But maybe we're not making that big of a difference.
Wouldn't it be useful for the cartels to suggest that they're quaking in fear and closing down their labs if, in fact, they were not?
Because the story the cartels wouldn't want to get out is, oh yeah, it's making no difference to our operation so far, and we're not especially afraid because, you know, we're basically brave.
We kill people for a living.
Doesn't it feel like...
It's a little too helpful to the cartels to put down a story that's, oh, we're running for the hills, we're closing down things.
Because if Trump can claim that it's already working the way it is, does he need to send in special forces?
Think about it.
If the United States was on the verge of sending actual military on the ground, or even just using the drones to take out more stuff, Wouldn't the best way to stop it be to say that what you're doing already is working fine?
You don't need to do more.
So I'm going to say fake news.
To me, this doesn't smell right.
I don't think that the New York Times could get any kind of a useful sample of cartel leaders to talk to them.
I just don't think that's real.
And it does seem a little too perfectly...
On the nose that, oh, the things you're doing so far are totally making a difference.
They might be.
I hope they are.
But, you know, the timing of it when we're just on the verge of sending an actual military in there to take care of business kind of feels like it's, hey, hey, it's working.
You don't need to do that.
Just a speculation.
Meanwhile, over in Denmark, the...
The Danish Prime Minister says that peace in Ukraine is more dangerous than the ongoing war.
Because if you make peace in Ukraine, that means that Putin won.
And then he will be emboldened and he'll just start attacking other countries because that's what he does.
But wouldn't that mean that the only thing that Denmark is in favor of is perpetual war?
Because where's the part where Ukraine wins?
Nobody even talks about that.
That's not an option.
So if Ukraine can't win, and you don't want peace because it's more dangerous than war, aren't you signing up for a forever war?
What the hell kind of leadership is that?
Try something different, because we know that's not working.
Anyway, Denmark, you barely deserve Greenland.
All right, that's what I got for you today.
And thanks for joining, everybody.
Always appreciate it.
I hope you're getting ready for an amazing, amazing weekend.
I'm just going to tell you one story that I told the local subscribers just before we got on.
Or did I tell you?
Sometimes I forget.
I use ChatGPT in its sort of video mode where you can show stuff in your environment.
And I was trying to hook up a subwoofer to my existing turntable and amp.
Now, I thought that'd be easy.
I thought, well, there's a hole that says subwoofer, and I got a cable that fits into it, and there's sort of only one obvious place you'd stick it on the subwoofer.
So how hard could it be?
But it turns out there were, I don't know, maybe seven exotic audio settings in the amp.
That you wouldn't even know how to find them.
Like you wouldn't know some are under speaker, some are under audio.
And most of them are words you've never heard in your life.
But I actually used ChatGPT and it told me the exact menu structure on my own remote.
I would just shout the remote and say, oh yeah, there's that button on the bottom right.
You push that, make sure that the pure button is not selected.
I'm like, wow.
And then it walked me through all of the menus so that one after another, even without understanding fully what any of those things did, although it would tell me, you know, I'd say, what is this?
And it'd say, well, that's used for this or that.
And then I'd say, do I want to use this?
And it would say, well, you could use that, but this other setting might be more ideal under these situations.
And I'd be like, really?
I'm learning all kinds of stuff.
So I managed to...
I managed to teach myself a whole bunch about audio technology.
At the same time, I was solving a problem, like a real-life problem.
And I thought to myself, man, you can't beat that.
You cannot beat working on a real-world problem that has salience to you and being able to ask questions as you go.
It was just a very satisfying experience and fully worked.
So in the end, it works and everything sounds great.
And I was thinking about that for speaking of Harvard.
Harvard was always famous, their business school, for having a sort of a case study approach where instead of giving you a lesson and you trying to hold it, they would give you a situation.
All right, there's a company and the company has this problem and these assets and this is what's going on.
Get together with your small group.
And figure out how you would attack this.
And then they sort of have to teach themselves each of the things that you would need to know to understand the situation and solve it.
And by the time you're done, boy, did you understand it.
In my tiny little college I went to in upstate New York, Hartwick College, they were also famous for letting you design your own course.
You had to be approved, of course, and you'd have to have a professor who was Who was sponsoring it.
So one day we had this on a campus store.
It was like a coffee shop where there was entertainment and stuff.
And so I was involved in that.
And it didn't have an accounting system.
So it must have been a bunch of Democrats running it before I got there.
There was no accounting for any of the money that went through it for years.
So for over 20 years, I think, money had been flowing from the college to subsidize this on-store campus, or on-store, this on-campus coffee shop, which also had beer.
And so I became a volunteer there, and I volunteered to be the finance guy.
And there was no finance anything.
There was no accounting.
There was no nothing.
So I went to my accounting professor, and I said, hey, I got an idea.
How about if I design an accounting system from scratch for this business on campus and you give me accounting credit for it?
And my accounting professor said, great idea.
And so for one semester, I designed and operated and filled out all the accounting so that for the first time, we knew where the money was going and what was happening with it.
And I got an A. And I got to tell you that accounting is the most boring thing you could ever do.
But when you're doing it to implement it to a real business and you have to learn it as you go, it's like, okay, what is this?
Like, what is articulation?
What does that mean?
And why is there a balance sheet and an income statement?
And then once you do it in the real world, it just becomes locked in.
Like, you understand accounting.
From that point on, and it never goes away.
So that's what AI can do for you.
Man, I wish I had AI back then.
If you just have this little advisor that says, all right, here's a domain in which you've never been in, and I'm going to walk you through it.
Here's what matters.
Here's the definition of those words.
Here's what you can ignore.
Here's what you have to focus on.
Oh, my God!
The things you could learn and how quickly you could learn them and how sticky it would be.
If it was a real-life experience with a real problem.
