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So it's not like you've done anything wrong, such as lying to the American people about the most important things in the history of the Republic. But none of that is disqualifying. I mean, come on, we're a big tent. The Democrats say we're a big, big tent. You can come in if you. If you're even one of the designated liars. You know, he's one of the. The handful of people I. I label the designated liars. They're different than normal political people. The designated liars will Tell the lie that the top of the party wants to tell. But most of the people in the party would be a little uncomfortable with it because it's just such an obvious lie. But if you've got some designated liars, they'll say anything. And Eric Swalwell has been one of those designated liars who will say absolutely anything. That role is currently being filled by Jasmine Crockett. Has anyone noticed that Jasmine Crockett just became the person who says the most ridiculous things today? There's some new ones. I think we'll get to that. Unbelievable. All right, so good job, Democrats. And in apparently somehow rewarding your designated liars. You know, I'm not sure that AI is ever going to be super useful the way we imagined it would be. It'll be super useful for sure, but not necessarily the way we imagined it. Like, you've got a little AI buddy and you just tell it to do stuff like, that's the world I wanted, where I just tell my AI, hey, AI, go make some dinner reservations or whatever, and then it opens up my apps and has access to my. My wallet. How many of you would ever allow AI to have access to your money? Now, maybe if you had some kind of smallish, limited credit card that was just for that, you know, so you could limit your damage if something happened. Maybe. But can you imagine a world where all the things that you do during the day, all the approvals, all the times you use your credit card, can you imagine having that connected to some AI? It was built by somebody else, managed out of some other office, possibly in another country, and you're going to connect that stuff to your money? All right, well, I have a potential insight. Potential insight coming up. You know how I always say that we've entered the cyborg era, where we're already part machine, part people? It's not really our future. We're already there. I mean, if you have a phone in your hand or you've got any kind of a, you know, headphone, earplug kind of thing, you've kind of already started to merge with the machines. If you've got any kind of meta glasses on, you're another step closer. So we're sort of already committed to the cyborg half human, half robot world. But what if. Here's the part I'm going to add. What if the only way you could prove the AI part of you is real and it's what you want to happen is if it comes from your cyborg self? What if you were not the human versus the, you know, the machine, but rather you were human and machine. If you're human and machine, but there's only one of you that is that combination of that machine and that human. It's still just you. So could it be that to unlock the benefits of AI where the AI will do all the things that you would have done as a human, you know, spend your money, that sort of thing. Could it be that you can only get there when you are unambiguously committed to being a cyborg? Because then the cyborg part of you is no more different from your hands or your feet. It's just part of you. So, you know, under those conditions, would you always have access to knowing that your cyborg part was trying to spend some money? Yeah, suppose. Suppose the organic part always had to approve any money expenses. That'd be pretty safe. Yeah. I don't know. So I don't know if we can ever get there. But I feel like you have to go through being cyborgs before you can unlock the real benefit of AI So that's my prediction. Must be a cyborg to get the full benefit of AI And I wouldn't want to be in a military battle just to further my point, with a bunch of soldiers who were cyborgs if you were not. You know what I mean? As soon as I say that, you totally understand, which is, oh, yeah, I definitely would not want to be in a. In a military battle with cyborgs. They're going to be good. And what happens when AI gets combined with the CRISPR technology, the gene editing stuff? Clearly that's already being done in some. In some small ways. But what happens when AI can use CRISPR to make anything it wants to make any kind of living creature or to solve any disease? Well, I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to create a monster island. So I'll create a monster island made entirely by AI and CRISPR technology. And I'll. I'll just give you some general rules, like, all right, make sure at least some of the monsters have are cyclopses. Why do you need them to be Cyclopses? That's cool. Make some of the. Some of the monsters have really big tails. Why do they need to have big tails? Again, how cool would it be if they did? It's all the reason I need. And then I put a bunch of robots in there with high definition cameras and have the robots film the final battle for Monster island to see who is left, which monster will survive. Is that the most unethical thing you ever heard in your life? No, I'm not really going to create Monster Island. You're a monster. You're a monster if you think that was even real. Who's the monster? Maybe you are. Yeah. Makes you think, doesn't it? Well, here's some good news from Fox News. Jasmine Baer is writing that apparently our Social Security people are bragging that they fix things up way more efficient than it used to be. How many of you are waiting here today to find out if the Social Security system had become more efficient? I was waiting for it. One of the most exciting things I've ever seen in my life. Yep. But apparently they've made a whole bunch of improvements since the pandemic. Actually, that's a pretty big deal. So congratulations Social Security people for what looks like a big improvement in small amount of time. They say their in office wait times are down almost 27%. That's not really impressive. Kind of depends where it started from, doesn't it? But they do say it's down to 22 minutes. Remember I always say that if they give you the percentage without the wrong number or vice versa, then that's just propaganda. They have to give you the raw number and the percentage or else they're just sort of lying to you. You know, in a clever way here they're giving you the percentage and the raw number 22 minutes. So that would be a indication of being forthright and honest. So good job on that administration. All right, let's not talk about Social Security anymore. Don't you think there's got to be a story in here that's better than that. Does anybody think I can top that? Hey, Social Security is 27%. No, no. I'm going to top that so hard. I'm going to give you something to think about today that you'll probably never stop thinking about. Yeah, it's coming. Well, Trump is teasing some kind of Ukraine peace plan and as you might imagine, it is light on final details. But it looks like what they're doing, if I just had to guess, is they might be the administration might be floating some trial balloons to see what people could handle in terms of a Ukraine deal. So some of the things that are being kind of whispered around, I guess Ukraine would get a 10 year security deal that would be modeled in some way on NATO's Article 5, meaning if they got attacked, the west would come to their aid, the US Specifically. Is that real? Well, it's sort of being discussed. So it's just something that's on the table, I guess. Ukraine reportedly got rid of what was a proposal to, for the. The US Warranted demand an audit of all wartime aid. And Ukraine said, oh, no, we can't. But we just want to audit. We just want to make sure that our billions of dollars are going to the right place and not being stolen. How about that? No, no, we. We can't stand for that. Okay. You have a whole war that's going on. Are you telling me that you would continue a war in your own country that's on your. That's in your homeland against a unbeatable foe, you know, in the long run, Russia. And you'd rather do that as long as you don't have to have an audit of where you spent the money that we gave you? Yeah, that's about right. So I don't think we should do any kind of a deal with Ukraine that does not include our ability to audit where the money goes. Are you with me? Indeed. Nobody should ever give away billions of dollars without an, you know, airtight audit system. It would be just absurd. It would be the height of stupidity to give away billions of dollars and have no mechanism for checking where it goes, which is pretty close to the current system, I guess. And then also, this is almost humorously ridiculous that Ukraine also is pushing for, quote, full amnesty for actions committed during the war. So Ukraine wants to make sure that not only is there no way to audit the wartime aid, but that if anybody already stole some, they have full amnesty. Come on. Come on. It's not even real. Is that actually what you think the US Is going to agree to? How about. I know, I'm just. Just going to test this out. I'll run it by you, run it up the flagpole. What if we let you steal all the money that we give for wartime aid and we don't check, and then on top of that, we give you full amnesty for stealing our money. How about that? I don't know. I'd like to get a little more than that. You want more than that? That's a lot. We should be lining you against the wall. No, Just kidding. All right. And here's my. Here's my real curiosity I have about the whole Ukraine mess. On one hand, it seems just observably, obviously, objectively true that Trump is better than maybe anybody at getting deals, at, you know, bullying people into deals. Would you say that that's generally true? That even his critics would agree, especially after Gaza? Even his critics would agree with. All right. You know, he is good at it. We might not like where he ends up, we might not like how he does it, but we gotta admit, he's pretty good at it. So when I see Ukraine and what's happening, that looks like the biggest waste of time ever. And it doesn't look like. It really doesn't look like they're heading even in the right direction, does it? Like, I don't have a sense of what the right direction would look like in this case, but does it really look like they're getting closer to a deal? I don't see anything that would suggest it's getting close to a deal, but that's the same thing I saw in Gaza right before they made a deal. And the thing that we, I think all of us were blind to, I certainly was, is that Trump could convince people there was going to be a deal before those same people had agreed on what their end of the deal would be. It was almost like he got everybody a little bit pregnant. And then. And then there was something that happened where they. They somehow went past some psychological line that maybe nobody even knew existed in the first place that made it impossible to go back, so that they sort of blundered into a peace deal that nobody had expressly. Nobody had expressly said, let's do this right. And. And even now, like, even today, correct me if I'm wrong, the Gaza leadership is still saying they haven't agreed to it. Right. But yet it's going forward. We have a peace deal. It's being implemented. We can see what, you know, where they're putting together the security, peace force and all that. But at the same time, it's not really happening because Hamas has not agreed to it. They've not agreed to give up their weapons, and that was from the very beginning. That was a key requirement. So is it possible, and I'm not going to assert this as a fact, it's more of a question. Is it possible that Trump alone, and because of his personality, because of force of will, because he can be a bully when he needs to, because he understands negotiations like nobody ever has? Is it possible that he's literally invented a way to get deals, peace deals that nobody's ever seen before, and it involves just confusing people and pushing them at the same time? Hey, Bob, how do you like that deal we just introduced? What? I didn't see the details. Push. All right, so looks like you're halfway on board with the deal. I haven't really seen the. The details of the deal. What. What deal are you talking about? Push. Push. Stand over There, Bob. Now just stand over there. So now you're standing with the other people who agree with us on this deal. Wait, hold on, hold on. I have not yet seen the deal. Can somebody explain to me what is being proposed? Absolutely, absolutely. Bob, can you stand over there with the other people who have agreed with everything? Great. Right there. Right. I know you have questions. We'll get to your questions. But it's. It's encouraging that we've all agreed to do this deal this way. Hold on. I have not agreed to do the deal this way. All right. It looks like everybody's on board. Is that what's happening? I mean, I'm doing it humorously, but doesn't it feel like that's actually what's happening? That Trump is convincing people that no progress is progress and that once they feel there's progress, there's nothing like success to get you more success? So it feels like he's literally just creating this structure, purely psychological, that only he could do, no one else could do it, and that once you buy into the structure, that there is something happening, that you are moving toward peace, that it is possible to have peace, that Trump is the one person who can make it happen, that there might be a phase where it looks like it's impossible, but that's not really predictive. What's more predictive is that Trump is part of it because he can. He predicts good outcomes, at least for peace deals. Maybe so, but you at least see where I'm going on this, right? That he's in such uncharted territory that I don't know if we just blundered into it and maybe something good could happen. Or does he intentionally create these narratives or structures or psychological, let's say, labyrinths, where once you're in it, you're in his world, and then he can decide which. Which hallway you go down? Because there's not infinite hallways. There's just the ones he's created. It's going to get better. Hold on. All right, so. So we don't know what the details would be of any Ukrainian plan, but keep an eye on that. Well, we'll see if he has, in fact, invented a new way to solve problems, or it's just confusing and it's hard, and that's all there is there. So I guess JD Vance might have some largest role in creating a Republican health care plan. This is what JD Said. He was teasing that the Republicans have a, quote, great health care plan that the Trump administration has in the works. How many of you believe that how many of you believe that Republicans already have this great health care plan, but for reasons that are entirely unclear, they've chosen not to tell you? We got this great health care plan. Oh, my goodness. Can we take a look at the details? The details? Yep, yep, the details will follow. But it's a great, great plan. Is it? Is it? How exactly are you going to be saving all the money? Well, you know how our current healthcare plan is too expensive. Yes, I do know that. Ours will not be expensive. Boom. Wait, what? So, yeah, the Republicans got a, they got a great health care plan going to roll that baby out any minute now. All right, but, but there are several things that Republicans are doing and can doing or and can do that would lower your health care costs. The problem is they don't combine very well into a package or a message. So, for example, Trump is considering lowering some tariffs on some food related items coming into the country. Would that lower your grocery bill? Well, could. Could make a big difference. Let's say that he lowered some tariffs and that that helps you a little bit on the margins. What if he negotiated some prices down? Let's say the, the meat packers. Let's say you just negotiated with them and got the price down. Well, that would be useful and that would go toward his, you know, his improving things, at least on food. But, and food would just be, you know, I suppose if you indirectly improve people's nutrition, they don't need as much health care. So in some indirect ways or things that the Republicans can do, they can negotiate the pharma prices down, which, which he did, there could be higher employment. If Trump, if Trump's economy results in more people being hired, then they buy their own health care in many cases. So there's a whole bunch of things they can do that would sort of be in that direction, but you wouldn't be able to claim credit for it so well, because it'd just be this grab bag of miscellaneous things. So I think JD Is smart enough because you need your smartest people working on healthcare, no doubt about it. But I would love somebody to explain to me where all the money is going. Have you ever wondered about that? Like, how did we get to the point where health care cost this amount and then suddenly it's three times that amount and not much time has gone by. Where exactly do those extra dollars go? Has anybody ever shown you on a chart? It would have to be a highly simplified chart. You know, the dollar leaves your pocket and then where does it go? I have no idea. Is there. Is There any element of where your health care money goes that any reasonable person could say, aha, if we stop this going over there, we can just save all that money. Is there anything like that? See, the trouble with a health care plan is that unless it costs less money, it's a nothing. Would you agree? That's the whole game. The game is to, you know, make sure we have some pretty good healthcare, but separately, we need to vastly, you know, grossly reduce the price. Well, whose pocket is that going to come out of? And who has ever even told us whose pocket that's going to come out of? If you say generic stuff like, oh, the insurance companies are getting rich. Well, show that to me. Show me that the insurance companies collectively are making so much money that if you were to, let's say, cut their profit in half, that the price that people would pay for health care would go down by 50%. Would it? Or would it go down by 1%? We don't really even know where the money's going, do we? So I would say job one, if you were a J.D. vance or whatever Republican works on this, job one would be to figure out where the money's going and then you have to come up with a plan that address each of those buckets, such as, all right, you can see that all this money goes into this particular thing. This money goes into this particular thing. Discover the extraordinary fragrance Ariana Grande REM Cherry Eclipse Delight in Black Cherry Jubilee, Sugared honeysuckle, marshmallow meringue and glowing amber. Get the perfect fragrance, Ariana Grande's REM Cherry Eclipse, exclusively at Ulta Beauty. So yesterday I needed a little bit of health care. How many people do you think get involved? Like 12 to 20 people by the time I'm done for any little healthcare item. And it's just because the system is trying to be very careful and it's trying to make sure all the right people get pulled into decisions and make sure that nobody drops the ball or anything. But, but the end result of just taking care of everything really scrupulously is that it could cost a hundred thousand dollars to do something that looks like should cost a hundred dollars. It looks like it. Now, I'm not talking about the cost of a machine or the cost of the, the meds, but the, the human cost and the, the physical capital. Yeah, the, the healthcare system in this country really needs to be understood at a different level than we do. So job one, J.D. vance and somebody like him would be perfect. You're going to need something like a silicon Valley guy or gal, you need something like somebody who can look at a complicated business and say, aha, here's where all that money's going. So we'll concentrate on here to get some back. And that sort of does scream Silicon Valley venture capitalist, but people who were on your side. So that's what I'd be looking for. I wouldn't believe any health care plan from Republicans that did not go through. Somebody who really understands money and, and how to. How to manage it. Anyway, here's some fake news. How many times have you read an article or seen on social media that the company BlackRock owns all the meatpacking businesses in the United States and maybe all the pharma? How many of you have seen that on social media and said that looks true, that this one company, BlackRock, owns all of the meat packing companies. There are only four of them. Only four of them. But how many of you think that's true? That's not true. How could you think that was true? That the one company owns all the meat packing and that one company owns all the big pharma and that one company owns all the food companies? How in the world can you think that was true? I mean, seriously, that is so far from being true. Do you know it is true? The BlackRock probably owns, you know, a little piece of equity in just about every major US Company because they're so big they kind of have to have their, their beak in everything. The truth is they do own part of a whole bunch of big companies in the United States. Do they have. Do you think that BlackRock has controlling interest of the meatpacking? Nobody ever told me one way or the other because all I hear is this ridiculous thing that they own them. They don't own them. They can't tell the meatpacking company what to do. The meatpacking company has lots of stockholders and they all have an opinion. All right, now how many of you are slapping yourself on the forehead and saying, thank you, Scott? I've been listening to everybody say that one company owns all the other Fortune 500 companies. I've been listening to that for five years. I knew that couldn't possibly be true. Thank you for saying that in public because now, now maybe I'll feel braver to say it in public too. But really, did you really think that that one company owned all those other companies, like all the pharma, all the food companies, all the meatpacking companies? A lot of people believe that there are other things in that category, but I don't want to give them all to you at once. You know what I mean? All right. Job markets looking good. You heard that yesterday. Job report came good. I don't know if you can believe anything about jobs. How many of you believe anything about jobs? Oh, yeah. And all the real estate. Yeah. And then there's separately, there's another belief that's also false that all of the single single family homes got bought up by. Not by BlackRock. But what's the other company that starts with black but has something else in the end? Yeah, that's another one where they just own. They own some percentage of things. All right, so, Zoran, Mom, Donnie, Speaking of jobs, he says he's going to the White House. That might be today. I think I may have seen a post on it yesterday that referred to today. So either, either today or tomorrow, Mandani is going to the White House and he wants to tell Trump that deportations will no longer be permitted in New York City after he takes power. No longer be permitted. So that should work out great. All right. And, and blindly supports Trump. Blindly. Do you think that saying that I blindly support Trump is an insightful comment? I literally talk about every element of Trump, top to bottom, every day for 10 years. You don't think I've looked into it? You don't think I did a little analysis that, you know, maybe I can answer some questions on this topic? You don't think maybe I know more than you do? Some of the critics are, are so funny. They're so bad at even being critics anyway. Well, my guess is that Trump is going to have fun with Mom Donnie by being somewhat professional but somewhat insulting. And I cannot wait for the insulting part. Are you waiting for that, too? There's good, there's going to be maybe a. There might be a picture opportunity. I definitely want to see the handshake. If there's a handshake. I definitely want to see that. And then I want to see what. I want to see what Trump says about Mamdani while the press is listening to him. And mom, Donnie is standing right next to him. I mean, I just can't wait for that because he's not going to be. He's not going to hold back. He's going to do something you've never seen before. He's just going to dump all over him. And mom, Donnie will just have to stand there because it's the White House and he can't really walk out. Well, Scott Besant, Secretary of the treasury, he, he held up. I think it was on Fox News. And he held up the first USA made rare earth magnet in 25 years. So apparently the United States already now has a rare earth magnet manufacturer. The question I have is, was that already being built or did we go from we have no idea how to make a rare earth magnet to here's a magnet. Did. Did American ingenuity, which we worry is on the wane, did we just figure this out? I'm very curious. Is this really the success story it looks like, and is this something that's repeatable? Because I'll tell you, I've had a curiosity about the whole rare earth domain and the curiosity is this. If, if the government said, we're really going to support you if you make any kind of rare earth stuff because we need it desperately, we're going to get rid of all the government red tape, we're going to give you loans, we're going to make sure you can find markets. There'll be plenty of markets. Don't worry about markets. If you created that situation, how long would it take before the normal free market just flooded the zone with products? Because it's what we do best historically. What I don't know is if we still have that. I don't know, that gene, that intuition that, that just sort of magical ability that's transported us to this point in history so far. I don't know. But there's some possibility that it's going to look more like World War II when the US entered the war. If you ever. I'm sure most of you have watched the History Channel and history shows about the US was sort of, you know, we were good at manufacturing things, but when World War II hit and the winner would be who could make the most stuff? I mean, I'm simplifying, but. But if we could make more stuff, as in tanks and artillery shells, we probably would win. So we just went crazy making more stuff and made an unbelievable amount of stuff. Airplanes and tanks and shells. So how many of the experts in World War II would have known? Blackstone? Yeah, Blackstone's that other company with black in the beginning of the name. How many of the experts would have known that the free market could have create, plus the government being supportive could have created that much production? Do you think that was known at the time? Or is it like today where there's just something about the situation where you can't wrap your brain around how effectively we could tackle it? Because I do wonder if we can just jump in there and just shock everybody with how well we do and how quickly we develop an industry, I don't know. I'm going to say that maybe we can. Maybe we can. Jasmine Crockett. I told you I was going to talk about her. So now she's looks like she's auditioning to become one of the designated liars for the, for the Democrats. And she says she was just on some interview saying that Trump and Bolton's hate is why there are random black bodies being strung up in the south. So Jasmine Crockett believes that there are random black bodies being strung up and like today, modern day, I hope not. I'm not aware of any so. And her point was that Trump is creating a dangerous situation. So dangerous that that's why black bodies are being strung up in the south. Well, first of all, there, as far as I know, there are no black bodies being strung up in the south presently. We hope that will be the, the future as well. But don't you think that she's creating some danger here by suggesting that we have this Hitler like character in charge of the country and half the country is supporting him? Don't you think that creates a little danger? So, yeah, she's a. She's a funny one. All right, here we go. I promised you something that would reframe your brain. And here it comes. You're gonna like this. Unless I've totally oversold it. All right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna sort of lean into it and then we'll get, we'll get on it. Okay.