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Well, let's see what's in the news.
According to Axios, Gen Zers are more likely to be going to church, especially the men.
So at the same time that the young men are turning toward Trump, they're turning toward church.
It used to be that women were more likely to go to church than men, but that gap is closing as the Gen Z men are skipping off to church like crazy.
So if you're a young man, You're probably not watching this because you're in church.
Well, speaking of Gen Zers, not only are they more likely to go to church, but they're more likely to marry an AI, according to the New York Post.
So this is the number of Gen Zers who said they could form a, quote, deep emotional bond with an AI-generated partner.
What do you think the percentage is before I tell you?
What percentage of Gen Zs could possibly get in a deep emotional relationship with an AI?
83%.
Really?
Well, 80% said they would even consider marrying one if it were legal.
A staggering 75% of Gen Zers also said they think AI partners have the potential to fully replace human companionship.
Now, is that because they're gamers?
Is that why?
Or are they just ahead of their time?
Are we just old?
Is that the problem?
Is the problem with the young people?
Or is the problem with us?
Because you never really know, right?
When you reach a certain age, as I have, you don't know if the problem is that you're just too old to understand, and they've got it right, and they understand the future.
Or has the entire generation become non-mating material, and they're just going to give up and get an AI partner?
Well, this next news comes from a news entity called Slay News.
Now, that's part of the funny part.
That's a real news entity.
It's called Slay.
And they're reporting that a key Diddy, you know, in the Diddy trial that's starting off, one of the key Diddy witnesses is reported missing.
Now, that might be the least surprising news I've ever heard.
Now, didn't you imagine that when the Dini trial started that witnesses were going to start to disappear and maybe die in tragic accidents and possibly get murdered?
Is there anybody who was surprised that a key Dini witness...
It disappears right before the time she had to testify.
That is so non-surprising.
Anyway, you've probably heard that Kanye West has a new provocative song titled Heil Hitler.
And you won't be surprised to know that there's a big pushback to it.
But...
Kanye says it's against prejudice and hate.
So if you understood the song correctly, he says, you would know that it's opposed to all those things.
It's not promoting them.
Well, good luck, Kanye.
Good luck selling that.
If I can give you one bit of musical advice, my musical advice would be, If your idea for your song is to have a whole bunch of people saying Heil Hitler, don't try to sell it as being opposed to prejudice.
Because nobody's going to hear that part.
They're only going to hear the Heil Hitler part.
So, I guess that's what happened.
Well, according to the free press, they're reporting on a NIH study.
That finds an alarming rise in breast, colorectal, and uterine cancers among under-50s.
What do you think caused that?
Anybody?
In the comments, tell me, what do you think caused the alarming rise in cancers in the under-50s?
Any possibilities?
Has anything happened?
Well, the joke's on you, because this was actually a study between 2010 and 2019, and I'm pretty sure at least half of you said, well, that's the vaccinations.
Oh, that's the COVID shot.
Except the study was before the pandemic.
So, you didn't see that coming, did you?
No.
No, you totally fell for it.
You believed that it was...
It had to be because of the COVID shot.
I tricked you intentionally.
It turns out that some cancers actually went down during that period.
Lung cancer and prostate cancer actually decreased.
So the overall cancer stayed about the same, but 14 out of 33 cancer types increased in at least one younger age group.
Did you learn anything there?
Did you see how quickly you were positive it was the shot?
And yet the data was before the shot was given.
Let that be a lesson to you.
Not to be too quick to take the popular explanation.
It might be right.
Yeah, I mean, it might be right that it causes a problem.
But that's not what it does.
I saw a post by Fisher King on X. I was quoting John Adams who said, Democracy never lasts long.
It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.
There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
But I don't really understand that quote because wasn't the United States the first democratic republic kind of a thing?
Were there democracies before that?
Well, I would like to add to John Adams' thinking that there's exactly zero civilizations that ever lasted.
While it might be true that every democracy-oriented civilization eventually committed suicide, it's also true that 100% of societies That are ancient.
They all died.
Every one of them.
So, I mean, there's remnants left, but basically even the Roman Empire kind of went away, or some say it turned into the Vatican, if you want to go that way.
But there seems to be some kind of rule that civilizations don't last long.
And here's my hypothesis.
My hypothesis is that Most civilizations don't get that far, and that that's the normal arc for a civilization is starts small, stays small, doesn't really go anywhere.
But every now and then, you get some kind of Roman Empire or the Mongol hordes or something.
So every now and then, one will break out and just be a superstar.
But they don't last either.
And my hypothesis is that it's so rare for a civilization to break out and last that the normal path is that it just doesn't last very long, at least in terms of the entire arc of human civilization that doesn't last long.
So probably all different reasons.
Sometimes disease, sometimes attack, sometimes the Mongol hordes get you.
But I don't think there's any civilization that lasts.
And maybe there's no civilization that could, unless it became so dominant that it could cure every disease and resist every enemy and it wouldn't fight with itself and spend itself into oblivion.
But I feel like it's so rare, like everything has to go right for your civilization to thrive, that the odds of everything going right for thousands of years are pretty low.
Pretty low.
Well, according to the Daily Wire, there was an official that worked for USAID.
You've heard of them.
Now USAID has been closed down.
But apparently a contracting officer made himself a fake business so that he could give himself PPP loans.
And are you surprised by that?
That a contracting officer at USAID came up, created a fake company, and paid himself money?
I think we have no idea how much fraud there was in the government.
So much!
Now, closing USAID, or at least most of it, may have at least You know, making it impossible for this kind of thing to happen again.
So I've said it before, but if the only thing that Doge accomplishes, even if they don't cut costs directly, you know, like right away, if the only thing they accomplish is they make people, you know, say what they're spending on and use the right codes for the spending and maybe get a little bit more auditing.
Then I think that would be a big deal in the long run.
We'll see.
According to the Daily Mail, the vacation rental boom is collapsing.
So a lot of people bought a second house, a vacation house, which they would rent out when they weren't using it.
But apparently they're...
They're getting spooked.
A lot of the older people are getting spooked because of the stock market and the economy being weird.
So they're selling their second homes if they have them.
And so the price of them will be collapsing.
But that's good news, right?
For the people who are trying to buy a new home.
Imagine if you were a young person trying to buy a new home, but all the new homes were getting bought by the old people who already had a home.
How pissed off would you be that you couldn't buy a home at a good price because all the rich older people had two?
Well, if they go from two back to one, there should be a decline in housing prices that should help you out a little bit if you're a young person looking for a house.
So everybody's bad news is somebody's good news.
But why is it that owning a second house turned out to be a loser?
Well...
Mortgage rates are higher.
Maintenance costs are higher.
A lot of people had to return to the office, so they didn't have an option of hiding in their vacation house.
Insurance costs are through the roof.
Homeowner association costs are way up.
And boomers are spooked by the stock market.
Well, the Daily Beast has a story.
You may have seen this.
I wasn't even going to...
Talk about this because it's just so darn weird.
But you remember the story of Theranos, the company that turned out to be a fraud?
And it was run by Elizabeth Holmes.
She was the founder.
And she claimed that they had this new technology that could take a tiny drop of your blood and do all kinds of analyses of your blood.
Turns out that they did not have any machine that did that, and it was just all fake.
So Elizabeth Holmes is in jail.
But believe it or not, she still has a romantic partner who is not in jail.
And the romantic partner has created a startup that says it can test blood, saliva, or urine for disease biomarkers in a matter of seconds.
What does that sound like?
That sounds like Theranos.
And the guy, he's raising money for it.
He's actually raised millions, allegedly, raised millions of dollars for it.
Can you imagine, can you even imagine investing in the boyfriend of Elizabeth Holmes with the same, essentially the same kind of company?
Now, it could be...
He learned so much from his association with Elizabeth Holmes that he found a real company that could really make a prototype and really do it.
It's possible, but what are the odds?
It just seems like the odds are really low that this is a real thing.
But hey, stranger things have happened, so we'll see.
PXF is looking to...
Decrease the size of the military at the top.
Apparently, we've got too many generals and admirals.
He wants to get rid of about 20% of the generals and the admirals.
Now, you might say to yourself, my God, can we spare 20%?
Yeah, it turns out we've got way too many generals and admirals.
Just way too many.
So, yes, he can reduce those.
I'm assuming that he's going to go after the ones that were a little too woke.
If he can determine who they are.
So if you're woke and you're a four-star general, you might be looking for another job pretty soon.
I think I may have mentioned this, or it's a different situation that reminds me of it, I can't tell.
But apparently Oklahoma is going to teach students that the 2020 election might have been stolen.
Isn't that wild?
That one of the states will be teaching their kids a different history?
Completely different history.
Now, the way they're doing it is not so heavy-handed that they're saying that the election was stolen.
So they're not saying that.
They don't say the election was stolen.
What they do instead is it's a social studies curriculum that's for the coming year.
And it's going to require high school students to, quote, identify discrepancies in the 2020 election results.
And the factors that they will examine will be, for example, the sudden halting of ballot counting in select cities and key battleground states.
Now, again, Oklahoma is not saying that that's proof that the election was stolen.
They're just saying, all right, students, does this look sketchy to you?
That there was a sudden halting of ballot counting in select cities.
Not everywhere, but just select cities, you know, where it mattered the most.
And they're going to learn about the security risks of mail-in balloting and sudden batch dumps, you know, where you get just a whole bunch of mail-in ballots that you think to yourself, huh, I wasn't expecting a whole bunch of ballots right at the end there.
Now, again, those are not proof of anything, you know, any security problem.
But if you were going to learn what to look for, there would be things to look for.
And then the unforeseen record number of voters.
So you're probably all aware that Biden got more votes than Obama, more votes than Trump.
And then when Trump ran against Kamala Harris, She didn't get anywhere near that number of votes.
And there must have been just as many people who hated Trump by then.
So even if you say to yourself, well, Biden got so many votes because people really wanted to stop Trump, you don't think they wanted to stop him even more the next time he ran?
And yet there were nowhere near that number of votes?
Well, that would be something students should look at.
Why is there an unforeseen record number of votes in 2020?
And then my favorite is the unprecedented contradiction of bellwether county trends.
So the bellwether counties are the ones which will tell you who's going to win very reliably.
So in other words, if a candidate wins these bellwether counties, They're pretty much guaranteed to be the winner of everything else.
Because I guess the bellwethers are kind of a close match.
So if he wins all the close matches in the bellwethers, it probably means you're going to sweep the whole country.
And yet, Trump won the bellwethers rather handily.
And suspiciously, for the first time ever, he still lost the election.
Huh.
Kind of suspicious.
Now, you might say to me, Scott, but none of this is proof that 2020 was a rigged election.
That is correct.
But I was watching a news person talking to the state superintendent, Ryan Walters, and the news still says that it's sort of proven that 2020 was a fair election.
Like, that's a fact.
That couldn't be a fact.
How could you possibly know if it were stolen in a way that you didn't know it was stolen?
And they insist that because there were audits and there were court cases, that that means that you've proven that there was no problem.
You can't prove there was no problem.
Let me ask you this.
Found a way to hack the machines used in other countries.
So we're talking about other countries now, not America.
If our CIA hacked the machines in other countries, would the other country know about it?
Would they?
Well, if we did a good enough job of hacking, I would think they wouldn't know about it.
Now, hacking could include...
You know, bribing the insiders.
You know, it doesn't mean that you're just sitting at a computer doing some stuff.
It could be that you have some insiders that you've co-opted.
You might be the insider.
But would we really know, and would the other country know, if we had rigged their election from afar?
I don't think so.
I doubt it.
I mean, they might know in some cases if something went wrong.
But generally speaking, the whole point of rigging an election is you try to figure out a way that can't get caught.
So the theory that we know for sure it was good is just stupid.
The only thing you know for sure is that you don't know for sure.
You could say, for sure we have not found evidence of widespread fraud that would change the result.
That's true.
But you don't know that it's not there.
You only know that you didn't find it.
And the news people, they all act like they don't understand that.
They all act like it's a fact when they couldn't possibly know.
It's not logically...
It doesn't make any sense at all.
The only thing you know is that you didn't find it.
Period.
Anyway.
Anyway, so Trump is going to sign some new executive orders that would turbocharge, as they say, the nuclear energy programs in the United States.
But I didn't realize that one part of it is that, well, we don't know that this will happen, but there's one draft that he hasn't signed yet.
You might not sign.
There would be a complete overhaul of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
So they're the ones that do the approvals.
A complete overhaul.
So my guess is that the people who have been there a long time are just used to turning everything down.
It's like they've never approved anything in their entire career.
Reject, reject.
So I don't know that you could just tell them to accept more things.
You might have to just get rid of them all and replace them with people who are maybe more up-to-date on the real risk and reward of nuclear.
But he's looking to go from 100 to 400 gigawatts by 2050, which would be fairly gigantic.
So I would say that the biggest war in the world is the war to get the most energy.
So we'll see.
Trump is telling us again, I love Trump the salesman, but you have to understand him as a salesman.
If you don't understand that he's always selling, then it just looks like he's lying.
But if you understand him as the biggest cheerleader for the country, and he's sort of using hyperbole and selling, Then it all makes sense.
But here's one of the things Trump says about trade deals that are upcoming.
Quote, we had a wonderful deal yesterday.
I guess that's talking about the UK.
We have four or five other deals coming immediately.
We have many deals coming down the line.
And ultimately, we're just signing the rest of them in.
I don't even know what that means.
But when he talks about the deals, He just says, oh man, hundreds of deals, we're going to make billions of dollars.
Everybody's lining up.
And it's probably actually close to true, but I love his sales take on all this stuff.
Well, Columbia University, as you might know, had another one of those pro-Palestinian protests where people went in and they took over the main library.
But now 65 students have been identified as being part of that protest.
And from now on, they're banned from exams.
And they're going to get booted off of campus, except I guess they can go to their dorm.
But they can't hang out in the rest of the campus.
So essentially, their college careers are over.
And you could argue that they're unemployable.
So, that's pretty bad.
Now, I'm assuming that most of them are female students, but I don't know that for sure.
Imagine if your parents worked with you to get you into a good college.
You finally got into Columbia, and then you attended a pro-Palestinian protest, and your entire life just got flushed out in the toilet.
That's pretty bad.
That's pretty bad.
So I feel bad for the 65 students because their brains are not fully developed, and they're a little bit hypnotized and propagandized, etc.
Now, it's not like they don't have a point that there's a lot of violence going on that they wish was not going on, but I don't think they've thought through the entire situation with too much...
With too much understanding.
Well, according to the post-millennial, Doge has deactivated over half a million federal credit cards that were unnecessary or, you know, I don't know if they're extra or what.
But 500,000 seems like a lot, but there are 4.6 million government credit cards.
If they got the half a million that were maybe the fraud and abuse ones, that could be some good work.
We'll see.
Well, Alberta up there in Canada is actually kind of serious about breaking away from Canada, which is different from wanting to join the United States.
So they're not expressing a will to become part of the United States.
But they are expressing a, let's say, a frustration with the rest of the Canadian government because in Alberta, they've got a lot of energy kind of industries.
And so the Albertans want to make money and drill for oil and, you know, exploit their energy because they have it.
And the rest of Canada, I think, wants to solve climate change.
So they really don't fit together.
So there's one area that just wants to go nuts with their energy, and there's the rest of Canada that's like, hey, you know, slow down.
Because they don't personally gain financially from that stuff in Alberta.
So don't think that this is part of any Canada becoming part of the United States.
That's not really part of it.
They just are mad at the rest of Canada.
Well, let's look into the fake negotiations.
So it would be the second day of talking to China.
And Trump said about this, it was a very good meeting today with China.
So I guess he said that yesterday.
And he said, many things discussed, much agreed to, a total reset negotiated in a friendly but constructive manner.
We want to see for the good of both China and the U.S. And opening up of China to American business, great progress made.
Do you believe that?
Again, this is Trump in salesman mode.
But here's what I like about it.
So he starts out being very insulting to China and dismissive of them and acting like he can punish them with tariffs.
And of course, China wouldn't even talk to us when we were just being jerks.
Meaning Trump was being a jerk.
But they waited until they could find some way to get a respectful meeting.
And that's what's happening in Switzerland.
It's a respectful meeting.
But I like the fact that Trump was nagging them.
He was using the trick that the men who try to seduce women use.
First you...
You tear them down verbally, and then they just want to get your approval.
Now, it shouldn't work.
It shouldn't work with dating, but it does.
And it definitely shouldn't work with international affairs, but I think it does.
From a persuasion perspective...
Since both China and the United States know we're going to have some kind of important relationship going forward no matter what that looks like.
So we know we're going to be in something.
And I do think that if you insult China enough in that Trumpian way, that first they get mad, but they also want to solve it.
Because they don't want to live in a world where America can just say out loud, you guys are...
You guys are a bunch of thieves.
So I do think that Trump creates a situation where China wants to have a good deal and they want to take care of China first, of course.
But at the same time, I think he put in the Chinese leadership a deep desire to have the United States say good things about them.
And here it is.
I think this actually worked.
Now, I'm not predicting that they get a good agreement or that it happens fast.
What I am predicting is that Trump's insulting of them, which almost every smart person said is the worst thing he could have ever done, I think maybe was clever.
I think maybe he knew what he was doing.
Because he does it with everybody.
It's not like this is the one time he tried that trick.
He does this with everybody.
First, he insults you if you're not doing what he wants you to do.
And then if you start moving his direction, you're just the greatest person in the world.
There's a total reset.
We love you.
And I think it's working.
And it's weird.
It shouldn't work away, but I think it is.
Because people are people, and they want...
They want their important relationships to think well of them, and we're part of their important relationships.
So we'll see.
Tom Cotton, Senator Cotton, has introduced the bill to have location tracking in our AI chips so that we would know if any of our AI chips made it to where they shouldn't make it, such as China.
So it's called the Chip Security Act.
It's not signed.
It's just a bill that's been introduced.
And I don't know how it works technically.
I guess the chip would somehow know where it is.
Seems like it would be expensive to add GPS to each chip.
But there must be something about it that allows you to know for sure where this chip is.
I don't know how that works.
That works technically.
But if there is a way to do it technically, it feels like a good idea.
Because it couldn't be that much more expensive.
If it turns out it's super expensive to add that to it, that's another conversation.
Well, do you remember yesterday I was sort of complimenting Trump for being able to create a ceasefire between India and Pakistan?
Well, that didn't last.
So the ceasefire was broken immediately, basically.
So the India-Pakistan is raging on.
They just keep firing at each other.
So none of that worked.
But there is some new information I saw in Mario Naufel's post.
You should follow on X, Mario Naufel.
Anyway, he reports that the Indians...
Are hacking the Pakistani entities like crazy, but it may not be the government.
So the reporting is, and I'm not sure how much we can rely on this, but the reporting is that there are a bunch of Indian vigilante hackers who are sort of taking it on themselves to hack Pakistan in retaliation.
And they've taken over, allegedly, they've taken down over 700 Pakistani websites.
Hacked a thousand more or more of their CCTV cameras and breached everything from military databases to power plants and banking systems.
Wow.
But those are private individuals, so they don't have the best tools, I'm guessing.
They wouldn't have the same tools that a military would have.
But they're whacking Pakistan pretty hard.
I don't know if that's safe.
I think the Pakistanis are trying to respond, but maybe they're not as capable hacking-wise.
And then there is the fake Iran deal.
So the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Iran and the U.S., they remain divided on one issue.
So the reporting is that great progress has been made and the talks are on.
It seems like something's going to happen.
But they're divided on one key question, which is that Iran wants to maintain the ability to enrich its own uranium, which means enrich it to the point where they can build a nuclear weapon in 10 minutes.
And America wants them not to do that.
So if you don't solve that part, and it looks unsolvable to me, Because Iran is kind of saying pretty clearly we want to build a nuclear weapon or have the ability to do it quickly.
And that's the exact thing that we don't want.
So how in the world are we close or making progress?
I mean, you could talk all day about the other stuff, you know, sanctions and everything else.
But this is the only thing that matters.
Whether or not they're going to keep enriching uranium to the point where they can weaponize it in 10 minutes.
So I don't think there's any chance of an Iran nuclear deal.
What would we threaten them with that we haven't already threatened?
Or even offer as an alternative?
If they need this, they're basically betting their entire country on...
Keeping the ability to enrich their own uranium to any level that they want.
And to me, that doesn't look like a deal that's going to happen.
But at the same time, we're hearing reports that Trump is mad at Bibi Netanyahu of Israel and that the U.S. is doing its own negotiating and its own deal over in the Middle East without Israel's...
Consent and or participation.
So, is there any way that the U.S. could get a deal with Iran that Israel wouldn't like, but somehow the U.S. would like it?
Not if we insist that they don't have the ability to enrich uranium.
I just don't see any deal that's possible here.
Well, President Putin...
He said he wants to meet and have direct conversations with Ukrainians.
He wants to meet in Turkey.
And at the same time, Zelensky has said he wants a 30-day ceasefire.
Putin has rejected the 30-day ceasefire, but he's offered instead direct talks.
And do you remember I said I didn't understand why Zelensky would be so tough?
And not want to immediately talk peace.
And I speculated there were several possible reasons.
One is that he couldn't survive a peace.
But the other one I speculated is that they had way better weapons than we knew about.
Well, here's a shocking, shocking fact.
According to Forbes, the...
The Ukrainians have developed a whole underground, mostly, I guess, well, I don't know if they're underground, but a whole bunch of workshops where they can make drones.
So all over Ukraine, there are smallish buildings where they're making drones like crazy.
Guess how many drones Ukraine is able to make?
Just take a guess.
Let's say per month.
In one month, how many small drones that are capable of carrying a bomb, like a hand grenade or something, how many do you think they could make per month with all their little workshops?
I'll bet none of you will be close.
I'm looking at 40,000, 50,000.
10,000.
Okay, those are the numbers I would have guessed.
Yeah, I would have guessed, you know, maybe 100,000 at the top.
The answer is 2 million.
They can make 2 million drones that can each kill a soldier or take out a vehicle.
2 million.
And that's not future.
That's current production.
But apparently the Russians also have the ability to produce millions, millions of drones per month.
So there's no question that it's turned into a drone war.
And the speculation is that's why Russia hasn't made much progress yet.
So there's about a 16-mile zone beyond the front lines, on the Russian side of the front lines.
Where if you get on a road and you're driving anywhere for any reason, and you're anywhere near the front line, but you're in Russian-held territory, a Ukrainian drone will pretty much take you out.
So it's like a 100% death drive if you try to use any of those roads on the Russian-held territory.
So I guess that gives Zelensky a little bit of bargaining power.
And obviously the Russians have some technology for jamming, but the Ukrainians also have some jamming of Russian ones.
The current reporting says that the Ukrainians are better at jamming.
Do you believe that?
I'm not sure we know for sure.
But that the Russians have something coming that will be like a really good jammer.
So it's a continuous war of...
Who's got an unjammable drone and who's got better jamming to jam the unjammable drones?
But it's a drone war now.
According to SciTech Daily, there's a project going on in France that appears to be internationally involved, so they're not doing it by themselves.
But over there in France, they've got a...
A facility that's going to try to make fusion, nuclear fusion.
And they've got a giant U.S.-built magnet that's taller than a six-story building.
And it's going to work with these other smaller magnets, which are also gigantic, from China, Europe, Russia, Japan, and Korea.
So those are just some of the countries involved.
And if it works, and keep in mind this is not on paper, They already have the big magnets.
They're putting them together in France.
But if it works, it will make 10 times more energy than it uses.
10 times more.
Now, you've seen a lot of experiments where somebody says, oh, we've made this big breakthrough in fusion and we're making, you know, 5% more energy than we're using.
Which doesn't help you that much, and it doesn't last that long.
But they seem to be pretty confident here, because this would be a really expensive kind of thing.
And if the U.S. built a magnet that's a six-story building high, and all these other serious countries are contributing their ring-shaped magnets, it sounds like they have some confidence that they can make this thing work.
Now, I don't know who owns it, you know, if it works.
And I don't know if it would be like just another test or turn into an actual fusion entity.
But probably it's a limited test.
But if they pull it off, it could be a big, big deal.
Well, of course, it's a slow news day, so that's all I've got for you today.
And I'm going to say hi to the people on Locals, but the rest of you need to go take care of your moms, or if you are a mom, you need to get taken care of.
So it's all about the moms today.
I hope some of you moms have two cats under your lap, because that's the best way to listen to this show.
A cup of hot coffee, two cats under your lap.
That's the way to do it.
All right.
Locals, I'm coming at you.
The rest of you, I will see you on Monday.
I think there's going to be lots more fun coming on Monday.
I feel like Monday is going to be big.
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