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Well, I gotta tell you, I had the...
The best day yesterday.
The strangest thing about yesterday is, if there's anybody here who didn't hear, I was talking about my own cancer situation.
And that created a tsunami of love that I've never experienced before.
And the most...
Incredible time was Dr. Hypnosis and Owen Gregorian did a Spaces in which people were invited to talk about me.
Sorry.
And what impact that had on their lives.
Now, unbeknownst to most of you who were on that Spaces, I was listening.
So I didn't catch all of it.
It was over four hours.
But for about, I don't know, two and a half hours, I got to listen like I was at my own funeral, and people were saying one good thing about me after another.
But the part I didn't know was how much I had changed people's lives.
And so people just had one story after another of...
You know, how they'd gone from a bad situation to a good situation because of something I said or something I saw in my books or some other thing.
And I gotta tell you, if you could have one day in your life to experience that, it was indescribable.
It was beyond amazing.
I had no idea.
I think somebody said that I didn't know how much impact I had on the world.
I thought I had a lot, but apparently I had underestimated.
And so I'm humbled, and it just made everything seem worthwhile.
Everything was worthwhile.
So I'll hang on as long as I can to make sure you get some extra benefit.
And we don't need to talk about it every day.
Things will go the way things go.
But we'll just do the show today, if you don't mind.
Looks like we'll have some extra people here.
Well, that's good.
Well, apparently, according to ZME Science, There's the first mass-produced flying car is ready to go.
So for $1 million, you'll be able to get a flying car.
But how many people would want a flying car?
Because you'd have to have a pilot's license.
So the car part...
Of course, it would not be ideal, you know, because the wings are extra and they fold on the car.
So it probably gives terrible mileage.
It doesn't look like it would be the best car, but it is a flying car.
It's already built, and they're ready to go into mass production.
So in 2026, you can get your own flying car.
You know, that's always been the joke.
Where's my flying car?
Well, here it is.
Apparently there's going to be a flying car.
We'll see if they actually do mass produce.
They believe there's a gigantic market for flying cars.
I don't think so.
I think they're going to find out that the market for flying cars is not nearly as big as they think it is.
Well, the Wall Street Journal says that Home Depot posted higher than expected sales because they say that customers continue to spend on smaller projects.
How do they know that they're spending on smaller projects?
I guess each sale is smaller.
And so far there's no tariff impact, but Home Depot says that they're not going to raise prices because of tariffs.
Now, that would be opposite of what Walmart said.
Walmart's going to raise prices.
But Home Depot says they will not.
More than half of what the company sells at Home Depot comes from the U.S. And they just think that it looks like they're going to just eat the tariffs.
So they're not going to pass it along.
So that's kind of exciting.
So, according to Just the News, yesterday I talked about the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson.
He was at a church, and he was filmed talking about his diversity goals.
And this is what he said.
He said, there are some detractors that will try and push back on me and say, The only thing the mayor talks about is the hiring of black people, Johnson said.
No, what I'm saying is when you hire our people, we always look out for everybody else.
We are the most generous people on the planet.
So apparently the Justice Department is going to launch an investigation because what he just said is really illegal.
He was trying to make it a positive thing.
It's like, hey, look at me.
I'm hiring only black people because black people are more generous.
And that's why I recommend that you spend more time in all-black neighborhoods because of the generosity, according to Mayor Brandon Johnson.
You know, if you go to an all-black neighborhood, the first thing people are going to do is say, hey, Are you okay?
Do you need anything?
Is there anything I can get you?
Because they're the most generous people in the whole world.
Well, the America First Legal.
Now, do you know who that is, America First Legal?
I think Stephen Miller was behind this.
But I felt like the Republicans were...
Sort of unarmed with all the lawfare.
But now the America First Legal, which is a bunch of lawyers who go after things that Republicans want to go after, is just doing an amazing job.
And right now they're going after Letitia James.
And they filed a formal bar complaint with New York State Grievance Committee.
Now, how many of you knew that there's a New York State Grievance Committee?
Did you know that?
There's a New York State Grievance Committee.
Who needs a grievance committee?
Well, I guess New York.
Anyway, so the idea is they're trying to get her disbarred because of allegations of mortgage fraud.
Now, the mortgage fraud has not been demonstrated in court, so she doesn't have any kind of a legal finding of that.
But that's pending.
And so I wonder if that's enough.
But apparently there is some history that if you're a lawyer and you do some mortgage fraud, you do get disbarred.
So New York has historically disbarred attorneys who engage in mortgage fraud.
The odds of this turning into a disbarment are fairly good.
The only thing I don't know is if they're going to wait for the courts to actually rule on it.
It seems like they should wait for the court, but maybe they don't need to.
Maybe if you're at the bar, you can just say, well, we see the same thing that they were presented in court, and it looks bad to us.
I don't know.
We'll see.
Well, James Comey has given us a little more details about his version of 8647.
Now, before I tell you what James Comey said, let me say what all of you are thinking.
We can't trust what James Comey says about that 8647 thing.
That's where he found the seashells.
But here are the things that we think we know.
Number one, he did not arrange those shells himself.
Rather, he was walking on the beach with his wife, thinking about his new book, which was funny.
He was on one of the shows on TV, and he says he's selling a new book.
Yes, I've been in that situation.
Where you have to make sure you mention the book before you run out of time.
So he goes with, I was walking on the beach with my wife, thinking about my new book.
And then he says he or his wife noticed what they thought was an address.
And the wife was saying, why would you have an address arranged in shells?
Because they didn't know what the 86-47 meant.
Now remember, I'm only telling you what he said.
I'm not telling you what I believe.
Because, you know, not exactly the most credible source.
But he says that his wife worked in restaurants.
And based on her restaurant experience, 86 meant just get rid of.
And then he said he had heard it only in the concept of telling people to get out of the place.
You know, like leave a place.
You know, 86, this guy, get him out of here, out of this room.
And so that's his version.
So he wasn't thinking of any hip man or mafia kind of use.
He was just walking on the beach with his wife, who worked in a restaurant.
Now, I went to Grok, and I asked if there's any evidence she worked in a restaurant, and I said, not really.
But, of course, that wouldn't necessarily be on your resume or anything.
So, we don't know what's true, but we know that's his story, and he's going to stick to it.
Well, as I've said to you before, Trump is the best.
He's the best naughty talker of all presidents ever.
The things he gets away with, and I think at this point he's just having fun with it because he doesn't have to get elected again.
So Trump says stuff that no president should ever say.
So here's his latest one.
He was talking to some smallish group indoors.
I don't know who it was.
And he was talking about how in his first term, he arranged that the United States would get the World Cup and also the Olympics.
And then he realized that he wouldn't be president when that stuff happened.
And he thought, oh man, I'm not going to get the credit for getting the World Cup and the Olympics.
And then he said, and this is a direct quote, and then they rigged the election.
And then I said, you know what I'll do?
I'll run again, and I'll shove it up their ass.
And that's what I did.
I'll shove it up their ass.
Has any president ever said in a public situation, I'll shove it up somebody's ass?
That's why we love them.
All right.
Well, there's more drip, drip, drip from this new book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson.
Is that coming out today?
Is the book out today?
It's real soon.
But they're talking about how Biden was relying on teleprompters and no cards, even in cabinet meetings.
So, you know, we've seen Trump's cabinet meetings where...
Everything's open and he's just responding to anything, anytime.
But apparently the staff for Biden were so concerned about his answers that he had all the questions scripted and then the answers were on little note cards or teleprompters depending on what domain he was in.
and then somebody Can you imagine having a president who is so mentally incompetent that you have to give him the question and the answer?
It's not just the question.
It's the question and the answer on a little note card so he can read it.
And then we also heard that they would use more than one camera.
When he was asked to do any kind of little video recording for anybody.
So when a group asked Biden to record a five-minute address or keynote, they would tell him, well, can we give you two minutes?
Because five minutes is sort of a long time.
And then they would use two cameras so that when he glitched, which he did all the time, they would just cut to the other camera.
And then they can easily edit out the glitch, you know, just have them do it again.
So that's called a jump cut.
Now, here's the funny part about this story.
The funniest part about this story is that if they had removed Biden and replaced him with Kamala Harris, wouldn't they still need to get the questions in advance?
And wouldn't they still need to give her a note card, or she might have been able to memorize it?
Wouldn't they still be able to give her the answers?
And wouldn't they use a jump cut just to get rid of her word salad?
If you think about how history will treat this, it would be one thing if you had a very solid vice president.
But then something happened with your president and, you know, you did the best you could to keep it away from the public.
But what are the odds that in the Democratic Party, the entire Democratic Party, like, is it like 70 million people, that the best two candidates they could come up with couldn't even talk?
You would be afraid to put them in front of any kind of group because Kamala would just be cackling and gaffing and looking drunk, whether she was or not.
She always looked drunk.
And Biden would just be blah, blah, blah.
Can you imagine that the top two people in the whole country, they didn't trust either one of them to talk to a group of ten people?
And somehow we got used to that.
Just think about the fact that we got used to it.
Because it's not like we didn't know that Biden couldn't talk to a group.
That was obvious.
And it wasn't like we didn't know that Kamala Harris would be a cackling word salad mess.
But we just sort of got used to it.
Like that was semi-normal.
You couldn't find...
You couldn't find two people who were unable to talk to a group of, you know, any group, unless you worked at it pretty hard.
But they did.
They found the only two people who couldn't talk to a group.
Well, one of the big questions about Biden's cancer diagnosis is people, all the smart doctors immediately went on TV and they said, there is no way.
That the White House doctor or the doctors didn't know about this.
There's no way they didn't know about this for a long time.
He may have had this for seven to ten years.
And, of course, I unfortunately know too much about this topic.
And I thought to myself, I don't think those doctors are right.
I feel like those doctors maybe are uninformed.
Dr. Nicole Safarico on Fox News.
And she said that beyond a certain age, which I believe now is 75, they don't check PSA.
And that's how you catch it early.
And the reason they don't check it is if you're 75 and that's the first time you get some PSA elevation.
First of all, there could be several different reasons for it that are not cancer.
But you don't want to ruin their life by a biopsy, and it's just better to let it grow slowly, basically, and they'll probably die of something else.
So in Biden's case, it was not ordinary for them to be testing every month or every year or anything.
So there's a very good chance.
That they were not aware of it until he had symptoms.
The symptoms were some kind of urinary symptoms, I guess.
So by the time he had urinary symptoms, he may have had it for a while.
And that means it might have metastasized.
So all that doctoring that you saw, where people were like, well, they check him all the time.
Of course they would have checked.
None of that was true.
It was more typical that they wouldn't check because of his age.
And that's what I thought when I was watching the original doctors come on and say, oh yeah, they would have known for years.
He would have had it for years.
And I thought, he might have had it for a long time, but they wouldn't necessarily know about it.
And I guess that's true.
So we don't know if we've been told the whole truth, but the fact that so many doctors went on TV and had the wrong information about the most common cancer is kind of disturbing, a little bit disturbing.
But anyway.
And then Akeem Jeffries was asked about You know, whether Biden was concealing his health problems.
And his response was, Republicans are literally trying to take health care away from millions of Americans and they want to fan the flames of conspiracy theories at this moment?
No thanks.
I feel as though the Democrats are so feeble at this point that they have a little box.
With little pieces of paper in it that have just little talking points.
And so they'll just pick out their talking points.
It's like, Hakeem Jeffries, what do you think was Biden hiding his situation?
And then he'd reach into the box and he'd take out a piece of paper and he'd say, the Republicans are trying to take away your health care.
And then he'd pick another one and say, It's a conspiracy theory.
It honestly just feels like he's randomly saying things.
I guess this came pretty close to being on target, but it doesn't even feel like he's thinking.
It's just like he's randomly picking statements out of a box or something.
Well, in other news, Alanis Morissette, a famous singer.
According to Laura Loomer and her investigation, she got a scoop on this.
Apparently she was paid $95,000 by the Harris campaign.
But the weird thing is that it was listed as event services and catering in the FEC records.
So she endorsed Harris.
And then some entity that was Lannis Morissette's company was paid $95,000 for event services and catering.
Does that sound legitimate to you?
The more we hear about the Harris campaign, the funnier it is.
It makes you wonder if all the voters were also bribed.
It's like if Beyonce and Oprah and Alanna Alanis, Morissette are all getting paid for their endorsements.
What about the regular voters?
I mean, obviously you wouldn't pay them as much.
It'd be too expensive, but I'd want at least 45 cents.
You know, that'd be my price.
It's like, I'll vote for you because I'm going to be in that voting booth anyway.
I like to vote, but I'm not going to do it for free.
Can we work out a deal?
And then the Harris campaign would be like, all right.
Would you do it for 25 cents?
And I'd say, 25 cents?
You think I'm going to give up my vote for 25 cents?
No.
And I'm insulted.
45 cents.
That's my final offer.
All right.
So she could have won.
It was so close.
Well, you remember the Democrat elected officials who tried to get into an ICE facility in Newark, and I guess there was some pushing and physicality that got involved there.
And I guess Alina Haba, the U.S. attorney, is officially charging one of them, Representative LaMonica McIver, For assaulting a law enforcement officer at the ICE facility as they were trying to trespass and get in.
The funniest thing about that story, which I think is true, is if they had not been there to protest, all they had to do was ask if they could get in for a tour, and they could have just scheduled it.
The ICE facility would have said, sure.
What time do you want to come in?
And then they would just pick the time.
Because it wasn't like it's a secret facility or anything.
It was just that they had not made a reservation.
So it became criminal because they were pushing the law enforcement around.
But here's the part I don't understand.
This is from Alina Haba, the U.S. Attorney.
She said, I have persistently made efforts to address these issues.
Without bringing criminal charges.
And I've given Representative McIver every opportunity to come to a resolution.
But she has unfortunately declined.
And I thought to myself, what exactly would be the other things that would make this not a jailable offense?
Without bringing criminal charges.
What exactly was she going to do?
And by the way, it wasn't like...
A serious crime.
There may have been a little elbowing and a little bit of pushing, but nothing that was going to hurt an ICE officer, really, or a police officer.
What exactly did they offer her if she apologized?
So there's something weird about that story.
Anyway, according to a Harvard-Harris poll, For the first time since July 2021, a majority of Americans rate the economy as strong.
How many of you rate the economy as strong?
The American economy.
Why would you rate it as strong?
We have this crushing debt and no real way to pay it back.
We don't even have an economy.
We barely have a survivable temporary situation.
We don't have an economy.
An economy would suggest that it could keep on running the way it's going.
Our scant.
We might have a few years and then the runway is done and then we all have to become cavemen or something.
But with crushing debt, I think people just don't understand enough about the economy.
So whenever you poll people and ask them if the economy is strong, it's sort of like polling people and asking them, hey, is this the right way to design this microchip?
And then the citizens are like, well, you know, I don't know too much about designing microchips, but it does look right to me.
Now, what would be the point of asking the public something they couldn't possibly understand?
Well, I guess it would get their attitude.
Maybe they'd buy more stuff if they think it's wrong.
But speaking of the budget debacle, which is what I call it, I guess the Freedom Caucus chair says the votes are not there.
And so if the votes are not there, it means that they'll have to negotiate and they'll be negotiating until the end of June.
So they're hoping to get something signed before Memorial Day.
But at least one part of the Republican world says, nope, we don't have the votes.
So I guess they would be the anti-debt people, the Freedom Caucus.
And then allegedly Trump is going to personally lobby the House Republicans to...
Get this signed right away.
Because it would be a legacy-building accomplishment for a second term.
Do you think it should be signed if they haven't meaningfully reduced the debt?
I just don't think they should sign it.
It feels like there has to be some kind of guardrail or penalty or benefit or something.
To get the Congress to do the thing that they should do, which is reduce the spending, as hard as that is.
But unfortunately, we don't have a system in which the Congress can do that.
Because if they even reduced the spending for something that only 10% of the public cared about, that would be enough to lose the next election.
So it looks like...
There's nothing that will ever be done.
And we will just cruise into this total deficit death spiral.
So, I don't know.
Something's got to give.
We'll see.
According to Breitbart News, there's a poll that says majority of...
American voters say that lowering the cost of living should be Trump's top priority.
Now, what they're thinking is they want the cost of eggs and gas and rent and stuff to go down, which should be hard for a president to do, except for maybe doing things that lower inflation a little bit.
But I still think we're going to have to do something that's more structurally radical.
It seems to me that if our demographics are collapsing and you've got a bunch of old people who are going to be in houses that are too big for them, and there might be one person left in the house, doesn't it make more sense to have situations where there's one old person who has a big house,
but they've got some roommates that are just younger people who We want to spend a lot less money on rent.
Now, I know that that's already a thing, but it feels like it could be a much bigger thing because there must be just zillions of old people who are living alone who would just love to have at least one roommate that's younger and brings a little noise and a little life into the house.
But if you get the wrong roommate, it's a living hell, so I can see why people don't do it.
Meanwhile, CBS News is offering Trump $20 million to settle his lawsuit over that Kamala interview on 60 Minutes.
But in protest, the CBS News president, Wendy McMahon, has threatened to resign.
And apparently they accepted a resignation, so it was more than a threat.
So they accepted a resignation.
But we don't know yet if Trump will accept the $20 million.
Of course, this gives us a good idea for reducing the national debt.
I think Trump should just keep suing the fake news and then use that money to pay down the debt.
So this would be the first 20 million?
Because you could sue the fake news all day long.
You're like, oh, there's one.
Oh, there's one.
20 million, 20 million.
Well, okay, that's not my best idea.
Well, you probably heard the news yesterday, I talked about it, that Kash Patel and Dan Bongino both say They've seen the Epstein files, and he did not kill himself.
I'm sorry, and he did kill himself.
He committed suicide.
He was not murdered.
Now, almost all of you are going to say, I don't believe that.
I believe he was totally murdered.
It doesn't add up.
And I saw a post by Chris Martinson.
Who said, my PhD is in pathology toxicology.
I performed autopsies.
I know enough about anatomy to know that a slump hanging, so that would be the way he was hanging himself, is not going to fracture the hyoid bone into three pieces.
Epstein did not kill himself.
He was strangled by a strong man.
This indicates we have a huge problem.
So what do you think?
Do you think that there was a national secret so great that Bongino and Patel, being patriots and being honest people in general, do you think they were warned that they just can't tell the truth about this?
And they were told, look, you're going to have to go out and lie because if the public found out what really went on with Epstein, it would be a big problem.
What do you think?
Because I have a natural inclination to believe what Dan Bongino says.
Because there's just nothing about him that suggests he would be a liar.
Just nothing.
And there's nothing about Patel that would suggest that he would just go on camera and tell a huge whopping lie.
But they both say stuff like, we saw the file.
If there were something that were a big state secret, it wouldn't be in the file, would it?
It seems like the only way this makes sense is if somebody dark from the dark part of the government tapped him on the shoulder and said, here's the deal.
You really can't tell the public about this Epstein situation.
We can't tell you who killed him.
You can't tell them what Epstein was up to.
The only thing you can do is comment on the files.
And the files say that it was a suicide.
And the files say that he was just having lots of parties at the house.
And he wasn't working for any intelligence operation.
Do you believe that?
That he also was not working for any kind of intelligence operation?
Because I think that's the official story, right?
We all assume that he was working for at least one intelligence agency, but maybe not.
Or at least that might be the official story.
So, I don't know.
The fact that Kash Patel and Dan Bongino were both patriots, Suggests that if somebody said, for the benefit of the country, you're just going to have to lie about this, that would be enough for them to lie.
Because if they knew it was for the benefit of the country and it was a really big deal, well, you'd lie to, if the right people ask you to do it.
So I think they're both honest, but in this specific situation, there might be some national interest or a safety situation that...
It caused them to be a little less than accurate, let's just say.
According to Newsmax, the Supreme Court has backed Trump on ending the temporary protected status for 350,000 Venezuelans.
So apparently there were a whole bunch of Venezuelans in the country under a TPS program.
TPS.
Sounds like something from that movie, Office Space.
But anyway, the TPS program was designed so that people from a country that's stricken by war or natural disasters or other catastrophes could come into the United States and work.
But that made it hard to deport them, so now the Trump administration got the vote from the Supreme Court.
So they can deport them.
A lot of them found work, so I'm not sure that they're the dangerous ones.
It's not like they're the gang members.
But have they found all the gang members?
I don't know.
I feel like maybe they're just getting ready in that one.
Did you know that in the recent dust-up between India and Pakistan, Apparently, India is accusing Pakistan of working with China for their targeting.
So, allegedly, China was providing for Pakistan real-time satellite data and radar tweaks and eyes on the troops and more than just weapon sales.
So that's bad.
So that would put India on a war footing with China if they took this seriously.
We'll see if they do.
But yeah, China's backing Pakistan.
U.S. is backing India probably, directly or indirectly.
So that's dangerous.
There's a story in the New York Post about one of the big AI That's his last name.
Anyway, he's one of the OpenAI co-founders, and he wanted to build a doomsday bunker to protect the company's scientists before an artificial general intelligence is released.
What do you think of that?
Is that telling you that AI is more dangerous than they're telling us?
If the person who knows the most about them wanted to build a doomsday bunker to get away from the AI that they were developing, and would a bunker be the way to escape from AI?
I don't know.
But here's what I can add for context.
Rich people, or people spending other people's money, they would be spending the company's money, are not like the rest of us.
And in this case, I would not be rich enough to build a doomsday bunker for myself.
So, if you were a multi-billionaire, or your company was willing to spend the money on your behalf, if you said, well, there's only a 1% chance that I'll need a bunker, well, you don't care.
If you're a billionaire, you can afford a bunker, and if it makes you feel better.
Doesn't matter if there's a 1% risk.
But the rest of us wouldn't take, you know, we wouldn't do something for a 1% risk.
So it doesn't really tell you that AI is that dangerous.
It's more a comment about rich people who have too much money and they can build a bunker and you can't.
So I don't get too worried about rich people building bunkers.
Because I think rich people have been building bunkers for 50 years, right?
And they haven't needed them yet.
So it's probably not so much about risk as it is about people who have a lot of money.
Well, Spain is having another problem.
You know that they had that big problem with losing power to a bunch of places in Spain.
Now, according to the Daily Mail, They're losing all their telecom at the same time.
So not even just one entity.
It's a whole bunch of telecom entities.
So they're losing their internet access and their cell phones all at the same time.
And the official explanation is that they were doing a network upgrade.
Do you think that a network upgrade?
Took out every company that provides cell service?
What part of the network upgrade were they doing?
Is there really a choke point for that?
I don't know if I believe that.
But it does seem to me that we're getting to a point where the world is too complicated and too connected so that things are going to break because it's so complicated we don't even know where to look and how to fix it.
And that could be part of it.
So it could be that Spain just has too much technology and not enough people who know how to fix it.
It could be.
Or it could be a conspiracy theory.
There's something worse going on.
Well, it seems to me that whenever I read a story about China, it's about some amazing thing that they're getting ready to do.
So here again, China is going to build a space-based supercomputer.
And they're already building it.
So they've already set up some satellites.
So I guess the satellites will operate as essentially nodes of a supercomputer that would be surrounding the Earth.
And it saves a bunch of money on energy, they say.
And I guess that's because it's very cold in space.
Is that why they're saving money on energy?
But they're already putting their first 12 satellites up.
There are going to be 2,800 satellites when they're done, and it will form an AI-powered satellite computing system with 744 trillion operations per second.
And they'll communicate with the other satellites at some huge speed.
And it'll operate at a thousand pops.
That's peta operations per second.
So that seems like a lot.
Now, do you feel comfortable knowing that the Earth will be surrounded by a Chinese supercomputer?
It makes me a little uncomfortable.
Speaking of satellites, I saw a story that said that South Africa might allow Elon Musk to provide Starlink because Trump is going to visit or something.
But my understanding is that the law said that Elon Musk couldn't provide Starlink because he's not black.
So would they change the law just for Elon Musk?
I don't know.
There's going to be more to that story coming.
But not to be outdone, a U.S. team of developers has developed the world's fastest quantum switch to supercharge AI by a million times, according to interesting engineers.
So they built the world's fastest transistor.
Using laser pulses and graphene.
But the thing about this is that apparently this is fairly practical.
So whenever you hear a story like this, there's usually...
And it will take us 30 years to figure out how to produce this in a mass way.
But apparently because this operates at room temperature...
There's a pretty good chance that it'll come soon.
So the world's fastest quantum switch.
So your AI would be a million times faster.
Take that, China, in your face.
And that the path to commercialization is already underway because the transistor works in normal room conditions.
So it won't be that hard to make it, apparently.
Well, and then China, not to be outdone, has a new battery technology where you can charge it in five minutes to go 450 or more kilometers, according to interesting engineering.
So, you know, I read you a story every day about battery technology working, but this one's already done.
So this is not future and it's not in the lab.
They're actually demonstrating this now.
So they can make a battery that will have 450 kilometers in just five minutes of charging.
That's pretty good.
According to Breitbart News, the Russian economy is plummeting after Trump took office.
So they just got their GDP and it was only 1.4%.
Which is way down from 4.5% in the last quarter of 2024.
So some of it is because of oil prices going down.
Some of it's because of some other things.
But if you want to put that in context, they're still doing better than a lot of Western countries.
Because it turns out everybody's having a bad time at the moment, at least GDP-wise.
So if you say to yourself, my God, Russia will never survive having this 1.4% GDP, well, it might be better than some of the European countries.
So yeah, they can survive.
So they're not in that much trouble.
The Ukrainian armed forces are going to deploy something called a Krampus.
K-R-A-M-P-U-S.
I don't know what it stands for.
Something in Ukraine, I guess.
But it's a flamethrower robot that was fed in the back of a truck.
Now, remember I've told you that the Ukrainian, at least the front line, is going to turn into an all-robot war.
It's getting really close because it's drones and robot dogs.
Other stuff.
But this is one more thing to add to it.
Aren't we getting really close to the point where the entire front line between Ukraine and Russia is robots?
Because they're clearly going to be a better deal than humans.
Remember when we were talking every day about the Ukrainians were running out of soldiers?
So they were doing these forced conscriptions and stuff like that.
When was the last time you heard that the Ukrainians are running out of soldiers?
I feel like that news just stopped.
So if they're not running out of soldiers, is it because there's not as much fighting?
Or is it because it's all robots now?
You know, there's still soldiers operating the robots, but I don't know.
To me, it looks like they must be pretty close to an all-robot front line.
Trump says he's going to leave it to Ukraine and Russia to work on a deal, which to me sounds exactly like he doesn't think they'll ever work on a deal, which is what I think.
So I guess he just doesn't want to waste his time because neither of them seem that ready to work on a deal.
They're just pretending that they are.
So I think that's smart.
Just stay out of it.
If they want to fight, let them fight.
Over in Iran, the Supreme Leader said that negotiations with the U.S. about their nuclear program are unlikely to result in a deal and called the Trump administration's latest demands on Iran outrageous.
Now, that's, of course, what I said, which is...
No matter how much optimism you're hearing from Trump about an Iranian deal, there's nothing really that looks like they're going to get a deal.
So I don't think there will be a Ukraine-Russia deal.
I don't think there will be an Iran-peace deal.
I don't know what will happen.
Maybe Trump will just squeeze them economically until they change their mind.
Maybe.
But to me, it doesn't look like there's going to be any kind of a deal with either of those situations.
According to The Conversation, there's some research that shows that reading books can help combat loneliness and boost the brain.
You know what they could have done instead of spending time doing research?
They could have just asked me.
Or anybody who's ever read a book, wouldn't you have been able to answer this question?
Don't you find that if you read fiction and there are characters that are well-developed and they're there all the way through the book, don't you feel like you're spending time with the characters?
That's why books work.
The entire reason that a book works is that you're drawn into the situation as if it's real.
You know it's not real, but you still get some of the feelings of reality.
So this one's kind of obvious.
Yeah, reading would of course be good for your brain, but yeah, of course it would make you feel less lonely if you liked reading.
Makes sense to me.
Meanwhile, Foxconn.
The company is testing a nursing robot, a neurobot.
And the only thing that the neurobot will be able to do will be the easy stuff.
So it's not going to be putting thermometers in your butt or anything like that.
It'll only be doing things like ferrying medication and samples around the hospital.
But Foxconn is...
The feeling that they can really lower costs by these robots.
I don't know.
If the only thing the robot can do is carry medicine around?
I'm not really sure these are useful robots.
Remember I keep telling you that we don't seem to be close to the point where a humanoid robot can figure out anything new?
Like it'll only be able to do the...
You know, narrowest little functions, whatever you teach it to do.
And it's never going to be able to do something different.
Like, you know, if you train the robot to ferry medicine around, even though it would be driven by AI, you're not going to be able to say, oh, you know, there's a spill by bed number 13. Can you go clean up that spill?
If it's never been trained on that, it won't know how to do that.
That's what it seems like to me.
So I don't know how close we are on any of that.
According to Neuroscience News, inflammation in the brain can trigger repetitive behavior.
So basically, OCD might be.
So they've only tested this on mice.
But they can get the mice to act like they have OCD.
By giving them some brain inflammation.
But then they give them a drug that's already FDA approved for humans, I guess.
And it takes away the inflammation.
And then the behavior of the mouse changes.
So remember when you believed in free will?
And then you found out if somebody gives your brain a little inflammation?
That you turn into a completely different person and suddenly you have OCD.
At least the mice do.
So, no.
I don't think we have free will.
I think they're just cause and effect.
Maybe.
So, the drugs that decrease the inflammation in your brain already exist for other purposes.
So, wouldn't that be cool to find out that A lot of your behaviors and your other mental problems were because of, I think they said that autism might be because of this brain inflammation too.
Imagine if you could cure all of those things just by reducing the inflammation in your brain.
You know how RFK Jr. was talking about all these chronic problems that kids have that were not problems when I was a kid?
I wonder if it's because the environment and the plastics and the poor food is causing kids' brains to be inflamed and that suddenly they have more OCD and they have more ADHD and they have more autism and it's just brain inflammation.
Could be.
You never know.
All right, people.
Thanks for joining.
What I heard yesterday when I was listening to the very long spaces is that a lot of you are listening to my show not for the content at all, but rather you like the feeling of essentially having a friend.
And I didn't realize it, but apparently I'm filling a bunch of holes.
For some people, I'm like a father, which I enjoy.
And for other people, I'm like their friend that they get to talk to once a day, which is one of the reasons I'm here every day.
So you always have at least one friend.
And some of you say you're just hooked on the simultaneous sip, but I think you're more hooked on the friend part.
And I heard a number of people comment, That when you listen to my show, it's more like one person talking to you.
And I do that intentionally.
It's the reason I do it live.
Others have suggested, why don't you record the show and then just play it when it's time?
And I thought to myself, that would feel so dead.
Because right now I'm sort of continuously monitoring your comments.
So to me, it's like a conversation.
So even on my end, it's like you're talking to me and then, you know, obviously you're talking to each other too.
But to me, it's like a real conversation.
So if that's what you get out of it, that's what I'll try to make sure you get out of it.
All right.
I'm going to talk to the beloved people on Locals privately.
The rest of you, thanks for joining.
And I will see you same time, same place tomorrow.
