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Scott Adams
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I hear that some people are trying to resist the simultaneous sip because you don't want to feel like you've been manipulated. Well, you also miss the thrill of being connected to thousands of people around the world at the same time. So, you know, I guess you can break your fate. All right, so allegedly, in science, according to wonderful engineering, scientists have created light from empty space by manipulating time and space. Or the other possibility is that is total, and nobody created any light whatsoever. I look at a story like that and I just think, really, really? Did they make light out of time and space? Did that really happen? I don't know. It might have. But I'm going to say you're going to need a little bit more evidence before I say yes to that. Meanwhile, in something way more fun, there's a company called Cuda Jet that makes an underwater jetpack. It looks like it's obviously electric, and you strap it to your back and you can just go like hell on, you know, underwater and at the surface. And I said to myself, this looks really fun. It looks really, really fun. So I could easily imagine myself seeing lots of people doing that. I was going to say me doing it, but, you know, it's not like I'm going to scuba either. So I don't think I'll be doing it, but it looks like fun. It can last 90 minutes, which is probably the hard part. Having the battery last long enough and it can recharge in 75 minutes. And you can feel like you're your Aquaman and Superman. At the same time, well, in important New York Post news, allegedly the average penis size has increased and Ozempic could be to blame. So anecdotally, but not scientifically yet anecdotally, people are reporting that their penises are larger when they're on Ozempic losing weight. Now, may I address the NPCs directly? NPCs, what you should say is the most obvious thing. What's the most obvious thing you would say? Oh, it's not any bigger, it's just that you can see it now. That's the most obvious thing you can say. So if you were. If you were already typing that, sorry, you're an npc, you're not programmed for creativity. You're programmed for the most obvious things. So sorry about that. When I see a story like this, I have to wonder, do you think the PR department at Ozempic could possibly be behind this story? Now, not that they made up the story out of nothing, it could be that there were reports, actual reports, but they were anecdotal, so it didn't really mean anything. But if you were the PR department and you had this potential story, do you think you would call up the New York Post and say, how would you like an exclusive story about how penises get bigger when you take Ozempic? Now, if the PR department at Ozempic did not do that, I think they all needed to be fired because I can't think of a way to sell more Ozempic than that. I mean, the weight loss is good, but doesn't really come close to the other thing. Meanwhile, Apple has got a big event today, and the general feeling is that we're all going to be disappointed in that. Whatever they say about AI, for example, is going to be underwhelming. My understanding is I didn't see it personally, but my understanding is that Apple has recently made some negative comments about AI in general, just AI in general, which would suggest that they don't think it's either good enough or ready enough to be in their products. Now, my guess is that they tried really, really hard to build AI into their products as prototypes just to see what they could do and that they couldn't get past the hallucinations. If you can't get past the hallucinations and you can't make it go get you information, there's not much you can do except it's really good at understanding. I'll tell you, my Apple phone, the fact that it understands me when I talk to it, which it did not a Year ago is a really big deal. I mean, because I do talk to it a lot, but just setting alarms and stuff. Anyway, so we'll see if Apple excites us or disappoints us. Here is the least surprising story of all time. Apparently, there's new information that came out that the CIA was behind starting the stories that Area 51 had some UFOs, because it turns out they were just trying to have a cover story for the fact that there were some advanced aircraft that they were working on and they didn't want people to think it was our stuff. Now, how many of you assumed that was true? Because I remember I was reading the story and I said to myself, doesn't everybody know that? But then I realized that I didn't know that. I just assumed, because I start with the assumption there are no UFOs. And then I had progressed to why would we think there are UFOs? And who would ever have a, you know, any kind of benefit by saying they're UFOs? And then I think, oh, well, there. There are other documents we've seen from the 80s maybe where the CIA did consciously say, let's start a UFO story to hide some things we're doing now that was unrelated to this. But if it's a known strategy, it makes you wonder about all those drones we were worrying about six months ago. How long ago were we worrying about all the activity? And then people started saying, It's UFOs, it's UFOs. You show me a claim of a UFO and I will automatically think that the CIA might be behind it, even if they're not. I mean, it's just automatically where I go. But here's a question I ask. First of all, is it really possible to know for sure that this is true because it's the CIA. So what if the UFOs are real, but the CIA is covering up for the real UFOs by claiming that they're American aircraft? So you can't be so sure. You don't know what's true. But I do wonder, is there anybody who has dedicated their adult life to learning about and pursuing the area 51 UFOs, who, when they read something like this and they see it was just all a big CIA plot, do they say to themselves, oh, wow, I wasted my adult life worrying about this thing that was totally made up? And the answer is probably no one, because if you believed it was true before, you're going to do what I did just a minute ago and you're going to find a reason why it's still true despite all evidence to the contrary, you'll say, nope, that's exactly how they cover these things up. That's what you'll say. Grandpa's here.
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Joe
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Scott Adams
Well, apparently there's this news person, ABC news person called Terry Moran. Not moron, but Moran. And he got, I guess he got put on suspension because he got caught with some hate filled rant about Trump. No, not about Trump, about Stephen Miller. So here's what he said about Stephen Miller. This is an article in the post Millennial by Victor Davis Anthem. And Moran wrote on a post on X, oh, on Sunday, he said, quote, the thing about Stephen Miller, Miller is not that these brains behind Trumpism, yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement, which is a really good sentence, by the way, and translates them into policy. That's a really good sentence. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. So here comes the bad part. He says it's not brains, it's bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He's a world class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate. Now imagine being ABC News executives and one of your news people. Just imagine that you look within the soul of a, you know, one of the key people in the administration and they can look deep into his soul. Which is a capability we don't have, by the way, and that he can see all this bile and the hatreds that are. That are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate. Where does that even come from? Now, I do understand that if you've been watching Stephen Miller for a while, he's always the most hardcore on immigration. But that has a reason. It's not like he's doing it for fun. And it's also not exactly something that's going to nourish you if you're the one who takes the least popular opinion or at least the one you know is going to get you the most heat. I don't know. That seems like somebody who's stepping into the breach and doing the thing that you and I wish would get done, which is control the border. But we don't want to take the heat for being the lead person on that. But he takes the heat. I will say that he has one of these TV Personas that suggests, you know, if you were going to cast him in a movie, the same thing I said about Rahm Emanuel. If you were going to cast a movie with a, let's say, a. An evil super genius like Lex Luthor, you can kind of see Stephen Miller, right? Even if we like him, Even if you like what he's doing, which I do, you can kind of see it. Right. And unfortunately, we're such a visual creatures that if he looks one way but he talks another way, you're. You're mostly going to be influenced by how he looks. I have that same question about Cory Booker. When Cory Booker talks, his eyes get so big that they're comical. And he looks like. I don't want to say he looks like an idiot, but his eyes are too big. He just opens them too far. And it doesn't look like he's telling you the truth. Now, I don't know if he is. Sometimes he probably does, but he's a politician, so sometimes maybe not. But how in the world did he ever get elected with that face? Have you ever looked at anybody from, let's say, another state where you weren't directly involved, and you see the representative and you say, how did that representative get elected, really, with that look? There are just some looks that you think would be hard to win an election anyway. The San Francisco Police Department arrested 60 people yesterday amid a violent protest. This is according to just the news. And dozens of police officers responded. And this was also about the ICE and deportation stuff. So the big protests and the riots that are happening In LA and San Francisco and New York that I know of are about reducing the power of ice to deport people. Now, how many of you think that's organic? That people were sitting at home and they thought to themselves, you know what, of all the problems I have, the one I really need to spend some time on and the one that's the most dangerous because, you know, you end up in jail, get a criminal record, is this issue of border control. I want less border control. I don't think anybody had that thought. This thing is so obviously artificial that it's sort of funny. When was it that. Do you remember the first time I told you that this summer there would be protests? And I didn't know what the protests would be, but if it's summer, there will be protests. Anyway, San Francisco was the smaller part of it. The bigger part of it was in la. According to Breitbart News, there will be some more specially trained Border Patrol agents deployed to Los Angeles. To which my curiosity says to me. Specially trained, you say? Specially trained to do what? To reduce tensions and riots or what? So Randy Clark and Bray Bar News is writing about that. So we don't know what that's all about, but Trump has ordered 2,000 National Guardmen to respond. And he said that the. I think Trump said that they'll be everywhere and they'll take care of it. According to a CBS News poll, 54% of those surveyed support President Trump's program for deportation. So not just the border security, but 54% approve of deportation is deportation program. 42% think the program has made America safer, while 30% said it's made the country less safe. How in the world is the country as a whole less safe? Because we deported 10,000 criminals. What is even the point of having surveys if the answers that come back are so obviously stupid or biased or political that they're just meaningless? There's nobody who thinks the country is in more danger because the criminals were deported. Now, I get that there's the risk during the ICE raid that someone might get hurt. I get that. But even if you include all of that, getting rid of 10,000, I'm just picking a number. But getting rid of 10,000 known repeat criminals, that's definitely going to make you safer. Getting rid of a known South American gang, yeah, that's. That's going to make you safer. Yeah. So everybody who had the wrong answer.
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Joe
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Scott Adams
All right, so what is the most important thing to know about the LA riots? Well, other people will cover things like how many people were injured and you know, what's the cost of it all and how many, how many law enforcement people have been surged and did they do a good, good job. But I'm going to cover the wordplay because somehow this is a sort of artificial event that's designed to create a lot of Democrat friendly wordplay. So the first part is, are they riots or protests? Well, if you're the mainstream media, you get to call them protests. If, if they were talking about somebody they didn't like, would they call it a protest or would they call it a riot? I don't know if they've. Has the mainstream yet turned it into riot or are they still sticking with protest? So that's the first wordplay thing to watch out for, to see if they treat it like it's a protest. Protests. The other thing that I don't know if anybody else picked up on this, but suppose you were somebody who planned, let's say you were Soros or something and you plan to fund big riots in san, in LA and San Francisco. So let's say your, your idea was that if you fund these riots, you'll get some kind of benefit, could be any kind of benefit, but you've decided to fund them. What would you know would be the natural outcome to Karen Bass, the mayor of la, and Governor Newsom? Is there any reasonable way that when this is done people are going to say, wow, you two did a great job, great job? Actually none, because it's, it's simply going to look like they're in charge when you can't get to where you want to get because the, you know, the roads are closed and you're going to see endless loops of whatever violence the cameras can pick up. I don't know how, what it is as a percentage of activity, but doesn't it seem to you that maybe, maybe whoever's in charge of funding this is trying to take Karen Bass and Newsom off the table at the same time in an unrelated story, or is it unrelated? Is this story related or unrelated? Separately, there's a story that Kamala Harris has remained unusually silent during the protests. Now, if you wanted Kamala Harris to either run for president or governor of California, and you didn't care too much about Karen Bass either, because she wasn't helping you, it would be kind of clever to fund a bunch of riots that make Newsom and Bass look like they're completely, you know, unable to run anything while having Kamala Harris just go quiet, don't say anything about anything, and then she'll be fresh and unspoiled whenever the. Whenever the dust settles. So that's just my speculation. There's no evidence that. So 2000 National Guard doesn't seem to you that this is another one of those 8020 questions where Trump is very solidly on the 80. When is the last time you met anybody in the real world who thought it was a bad idea to send in the National Guard to have a little bit more force than it might make sense? Because if you threaten with enough force, then you get what you want without the force. How many of you, like, have you even talked to anybody who thinks that's a bad idea? It's got to be at least 80, 20, right. In favor of it. So, once again, the Democrats have figured out how to find the most unpopular thing you could imagine, which is, hey, suppose we make your traffic worse, we damage your downtowns so that you lose your retail business, and we try to open up the border and keep as many criminals in the country as we can. That doesn't even really sound like it could be happening in the real world. It's so ridiculously stupid. But it fits everything Democrats have been doing for the last five years, Right? Just unbelievably stupid. But somehow they think they can get some wordplay out of it. So here's some more wordplay. Chaotic. Remember I told you that the Democrats were going to say that the riots and or protests were sort of a natural free speech, but the chaos. The chaos would be coming from the people who were trying to stop the violence and the protests. I think they're trying to stop the violence, not the protests. And sure enough, sure enough, you wake up and everybody's like, it's chaotic. Trump is making everything chaotic. So chaotic. All right, wordplay. The other thing we have to agree on is I think we need to have a Constitutional Convention. That's the wrong thing, but just sounded funny to decide what the word most or mostly means. Do you know how important that is? Hey, Scott, how much violence is there at the protest? It's mostly. Mostly peaceful. So what did you just learn from that. Nothing. Most protests, no matter how violent they get, I would bet you that even in the worst situation, no more than 20% of the participants would be breaking things and setting them on fire and hurting people. In the worst situation, we're not anywhere near that. We're more in the 2%, 5% situation. But no, we should decide. Does mostly mean more than 50%. Does mostly mean less than 10% of the people are being violent. We can't even talk about these things without knowing what that word means. So Democrats, wordplay. That's all they got. All right, so we got some waymo cars that are on fire. And here's another word that is sort of Governor Newsom, wordplay. He said, this is a serious moment and it requires serious leadership. Where's your decency, Mr. President? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's immoral. Those are all words, aren't they? Do you think that Trump was unaware that this was a serious situation? Do you think that Governor Newsom was actually under the belief that Trump didn't understand that a major riot in LA and other cities was a major, serious thing? If Trump is not taking it seriously, what are those 2,000 National Guard people doing? Are they just having fun, playing beer pong and waiting for things to settle down? No, I think he's taking it pretty seriously. But again, the Democrats don't have arguments, they just have wordplay. So it's a chaotic situation and it's mostly peaceful and Trump isn't taking it seriously. Which part of that told you anything? None of it. There's no information in any of that. It's completely content, free communication. There's no argument, there's no data. There's nothing to agree with, there's nothing to disagree with. It's literally just wordplay anyway. Where's your decency, Mr. President? I'll say it again. It's immoral. All right, maybe you should say it more than once. It's immoral. What part of it is immoral? Is it immoral to try to protect the innocent people whose storefronts might be destroyed by a mob? Is that immoral? Is it immoral to deport people who at this point are criminal? Is it immoral to have a border? I think even the Pope is in favor of a little bit of law and order. Is he? That would be a good question from the Pope. Pope, is this immoral? Well, yeah. Six of one, half dozen of the other, so. And by the way, how many of you thought that Governor Newsom was your moral compass? Because when I want to know what's moral, I say to myself, well, what did Governor Newsom say? I mean, I have my own opinions, but until I hear what the most moral person in the world says about it, I know it's up in here anyway. So it looks like another Trump 8020 win. And we'll see how that unfolds.
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Joe
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Scott Adams
Meanwhile, we've got a tough guy competition where Governor Newsom is saying that he's daring Tom Homan to arrest him. He says, come after me, arrest me. Let's just get it over with, tough guy. That's what. That's what Newsom said. And that's because Tom Holman has said that if anybody interferes with the work of ICE, that they might arrest him. And then Newsom is like, come after me, big boy. Yeah, come after me. I feel like nothing would make Newsom happier than getting arrested because it would take him off the field when there's nothing he can do on the field that's helping whatsoever. But it would be this great visual, you know, if you saw him, like, purple walked with the handcuffs on, and you say to yourself, my God, that Trump has overreached. He's gone to full authoritarianism. So I don't think Tom Oman needs any advice because he's been pretty awesome. But let me give you some advice, Tom Omen. Don't arrest that guy. Arrest anybody else you want, but don't arrest the guy who wants to be arrested. Yeah, you don't want that. He's a theater kid and he would enjoy it too much. Well, Jonathan Turley has a article today that is very similar to something I've said recently. So therefore, I like it extra. But he was writing. I forgot where he was writing it, but it's Jonathan Turley article, and he's saying that executives around the country are getting to do things they wanted to do, but they didn't want to be seen as being in favor of it, such as getting rid of dei. But apparently, at least anecdotally, there were a Bunch of executives who definitely wanted to get rid of dei, but they couldn't do it until they could blame Trump. So now it's, well, you know, Trump made me do it. I really didn't want to. I wanted extra dei, not, not less of it. But that damn Trump, he just made me get rid of it because otherwise our insurance would go up too much and, well, we just couldn't afford it as much as we wanted it. So I agree. I think Trump made me do it. Might be helping a lot of people that we don't know about. Well, the new head of the Social Security Administration says that they want to become a digital first department, meaning get everything digitized in a way that I think most of us assumed it had already been done. Didn't you kind of assume that the big government programs like Social Security were first rate technology? I never really thought about it too hard, but if you would stop me and say, how good do you think the technology is for Social Security? And I always said, well, obviously if it's out of date, they would have fixed that a long time ago. Because it's such an important system. My guess would be it's pretty advanced. Well, nothing like that's true. Turns out that the Social Security system is aging and needs a total overhaul to be digital first. So the new head of Social Security is going to use some of the DOGE staffers and the DOGE process, I think, to get that done. So that's actually kind of exciting because if they design the system right, you don't have to go looking for all the fraud. It would just prevent the fraud from happening in the first place. So that'd be good. All right. The funniest story of the day. I think it's the funniest story of the day, even funnier than the US EMP story is that as you know, the DNC has co chairs. So it's not one person who's the head of the dnc, it's two. One of them is David Hogg. What's the name of the other one? How many of you can name the co chair who is not David Hogg in the comments? Go. Well, while you're doing that, it'll take. Take a while for your comments to show up while you're doing that. The reporting is. If you want to believe the reporting. According to Politico, they got a copy of the recording that the co chair, his name is Ken Martin, he was addressing Hogg directly during a recent zoom meeting and he said, quote, I'll be very Honest with you for the first time in my hundred days on this job the other night I said to myself, for the first time, I don't know if I want to do this anymore. Martin said. And then he said, no one knew. No one knows who the hell I am. Right? No one knows who the hell I am. Can you imagine being Ken Martin? You're trying to do the business of the DNC and you call somebody up and you say, hey, this is Ken Martin. And whoever answers the phone has no idea who you are. But if David Hogg called, they'd be like, oh, David Hogg, co chair of the dnc. So in one way, you could look at this as a slight condemnation of Ken Martin because he hasn't done enough to distinguish himself. But on the other hand, it's sort of a compliment to David Hogg, who sucked all the energy out of the room. Now, you know when Trump does it, when Trump sucks all the energy out of a room, I compliment him. So I'm going to be consistent. You don't have to love what David Hogg is doing. You don't have to love his opinions or anything about him. But when he goes into a situation and sucks all the energy out of the room, so you don't even know who his co chair is, well, that does suggest a level of skill which is not an accident. So I would keep an eye on him. I think his flaws are almost entirely based on being young and that is self healing. So I hate to tell you, but as ineffective as David Hogg seems today, his raw skill level and his just personality and charisma really do make him a threat for the future. So if someday there's a present Hog that, don't be shocked. I don't think it'll happen for, you know, 30 years, but he's got plenty of time to mature and learn all the the smart ways to do stuff. So remember, he's not dumb. Some of the Democrats that you, you like to criticize are actually not very smart. But he's not one of those. He's actually very smart. He's just inexperienced. And that, as I say, is self healing. So watch out for him.
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Joe
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Scott Adams
Get started, let's talk about Cash, Patel and Epstein as we have 100 times. So Kash Patel says that there are no videos of, let's say, famous people doing horrible things to victims on Epstein Island. But my question would be, how would we ever know if such things existed at one time and somebody just took them away? That wouldn't be knowable, would it? Wasn't there like a. A room that Kash Patel recently found that had a whole bunch of documents in it that nobody even knew was a storage room for sensitive documents? Well, what if they never found that room? We would just assume that all the stuff in that room was non existent because nobody could find it. I don't think it means anything when Kash Patel says there's no documents that exist that would show that Epstein was murdered or that any celebrities did any terrible crimes on the island. The only thing we know for sure. Well, we don't even know that for sure, but probably I would give him the benefit of a doubt. The one thing we know for sure, or mostly for sure, is that he doesn't have it. So I do believe him when he says I don't have any damning evidence of famous people. But even that could be something that's a state secret. Wouldn't it be a state secret if we had some other head of state doing bad things on the island? Do you think that Kash Patel would have the authority or even would think it's a good idea to out some other head of state or a family member of a head of state? That would be a terrible idea because we would create this whole, this whole animosity with some other countries that we didn't really need to. Now would justice be served? Nope. But when you're dealing with international relations, you end up doing all these terrible trade offs. People die if you do this, but people die if they do the other thing. So international relations is contact sport. So even though there might be a situation where justice would not be satisfied, you can imagine that that would be a state secret because it's a messy world. So if it sounds like I'm in favor of that, then check yourself because I didn't say that. I'm just saying that that might be the reality of it. Anyway, what else we got going on? Oh, Kash Patel also said they found the missing Fauci phone, I guess one of his older phones. They hadn't been able to find for years, but somehow, magically, they found it. Do you think there's going to be anything on Fauci's phone by now that would cause trouble? I don't know. I'm so jaded. Even though this has nothing to do with the Epstein files, the Fauci phone and the Epstein files, no connection. If you imagined anything about one that affected the other would be analogy thinking. So it wouldn't even be good thinking. But there's something about just what we've been observing for the last several years that makes me think that there will be nothing interesting on Fauci's phone. Because every time we think we've got something, it's like, ah, we got him. We found the secret documents. We've, you know, it just doesn't really work out that way, does it? So I'm going to say that there will be no major Fauci revelations unless they're just sort of embarrassing or interesting or funny, but nothing that's going to make him go to jail. All right. According to federal appeals court, Trump will be allowed to ban the AP, the Associated Press, from the Oval Office. A 2 to 1 ruling that blocked the lower courts block or something. So what do you think of that? Do you think it's fair that Trump can block one part of the major media? Well, here's a little persuasion lesson for you. If he blocked all of the major media that said things that were untrue and maybe they even knew they were untrue, then there would be no media left for his press events. If he blocked, nobody, just nobody got any pushback, then the bad media would feel free to make up more lies about them and not worry about it. But if you can take one of them, in this case the ap, and drive a stake through their heart and say, this could be you, if you do the same thing that they did, will drive a stake through your heart, too, because you don't have automatic access to the White House. And so persuasion wise, putting a stake through the heart of one major brand name media enterprise is the very smartest thing you could do, because it's going to make all the rest of them say, maybe we should look twice at the way we're wording this. And that's what he would want. So smart. Meanwhile, in news is a little bit alarming. The Trump administration has allegedly, according to the New York Post, diverted 20,000 anti drone missiles that were meant for Ukraine and they're being sent to US troops in the Middle East. Now, why would US troops in the Middle east suddenly need 20,000 anti drone missiles. Do we need them more than we needed them a month ago? Is it just a ordinary increase in capacity and a change in priorities where Trump says, okay, Ukraine is less important, US Is more important, so we're going to move them? All right, you're way ahead of me in the comments. You're way ahead of me. Yeah, it kind of suggests that we're preparing for war with Iran. Now, I always tell you this, preparing for war does not mean war. Preparing for war just means you have a military. If your military has not prepared for every likely or even potential war, they're not really doing their job. So would it make sense, even if we had no intention of starting a war, would it make sense for us to move a bunch of weapons into the US Control away from Ukraine? And the answer is probably. Probably makes sense to move those weapons, but it also makes a good warning for Iran. So if Iran thinks we're preparing for war, do you think they'll be a little more flexible? They should. You know, they're not super flexible right now, but it's got to feel different if you're, if the only thing happening is the boats are setting off the coast, I mean, that's scary enough, but if the boats are, you know, the ships, if they're sitting off the coast of your country and they're warships and you just heard that 20,000 anti drone missiles just got delivered, then you're going to be a little bit more worried. So I always wonder if the sort of story is planted and that the real customer for it is Iran so that they can look at it and say, whoa, looks like they're changing their focus to us. So, but it could be unrelated. Russia is apparently increasing their offensive into Ukraine and they're going into the Dnipro Petrov region. Now, if you're wondering how to pronounce that correctly, that's why you come to me. It's called Dnipro Petrov region, and that's very important. And apparently the, it's just above Crimea, somebody said. So if you're walking, you know, toward the center of Ukraine, you start in Crimea and then you would have to pass through pro Petrov region. And Russia really wants that, apparently. So it's making a major push to try to get it. So that sort of suggests that Putin is not planning for peace anytime soon. I always tell you about all the, well, one more thing about the Russian incursion. Do you think the Ukrainians are saying to themselves, you know what, we'd really we could use right now 20,000 anti drone missiles that would really help us right now. Anyway, I always tell you these stories about electric batteries that are new technology. I don't tell you all of them because there's probably more than one of them every day. And when I do tell you about them, I remind you it's not that this particular one is going to become the standard in the future, but once you get a sense of how many battery related breakthroughs there are, like just major breakthroughs, then you just add to that. All you need is some big car company to want to use that technology and operationalize it. But interesting engineering is talking about a new battery breakthrough, a Serbian company. So they've, they've got this battery that you can get an 80% charge in 12 minutes and it will last 310,000 miles. I mean, that's the lifespan of the battery and it can charge that 80% in just 12 minutes. 12 minutes. That's pretty impressive. Anyway, so the battery stuff is what those breakthroughs are what make your E bikes work and your electric cars and your, your underwater jet packs and very soon your aircraft. So I'm pretty sure aircraft will alter an electric at some point. Seems impossible because, you know, aircraft require a. Well, not jets. I don't think you'd be able to replace jets, but you'd probably be be able to replace a lot of local, you know, short haul aircraft stuff. Well, there's a story that says China and the US are meeting on Monday in London to talk about a rare earth deal. Now how does that fit with the news we were already told, which is that Trump said that he made a deal with Xi for rare earth minerals. What was that about? Because, you know, at the time I thought to myself, well, not really, there's not really any chance that the two of them hashed down a mineral deal or was there some particular sticking point that Trump removed that allowed them to have serious negotiations? But what we don't have is any kind of a mineral deal with China. And I don't really understand why there would be unless they also felt like they could make deals on all the other stuff. Because the mineral deal, you know, the rare earth stuff, that feels like where they really got us by the gonads, if you know what I mean. Like more so than anything else that they do. So why would they give that up first? In what world would you negotiate by giving up your main leverage before you even talked about your other stuff? So there's something going on here with this story that I don't understand. Doesn't make sense. With what I know about negotiations or people or Trump or President Xi or China, it doesn't make sense. So if somebody can figure out what is it I don't understand about this story which might be just everything. I don't know. Let me know because I'm very curious because we. Under no circumstances does it make sense that China and the US Would be negotiating the highest leverage part of the trade deal unless China just went crazy and decided that they don't want their best leverage. I don't know. It doesn't make sense. So, ladies and gentlemen, that is what I want to tell you today and hope you enjoyed the show. I'm going to say hi to the local subscribers privately and the rest of you, have a wonderful Monday. I think it's a perfect summer day and you'll enjoy it. So locals here I come in 30 seconds. Everybody else, I'll see you tomorrow. Same time, same place. Sam.