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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of today's episode?
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All right, what time is it?
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It's called the simultaneous sip. And, yes, it's going to happen right now. Right now. If you were expecting to be watching this on YouTube or Rumble, that won't be happening this morning, but we'll probably post the finished show after it's live. Might take a little while.
Well, story number one, there's a study out of the University of Zurich that shows that hypnosis does alter brain activity and neurochemistry. Do you know who they could have asked? Huh, I wonder if hypnosis will alter brain activity and neurochemistry. Do you know who could have answered that question? Every hypnotist for the last hundred years. Every one of them.
It's the most basic thing you learn. If hypnosis didn't have any effect on your actual brain, it wouldn't be doing anything. There are a lot of people who think that hypnosis is just... What is it that Penn Jillette says? I think he said some while ago the hypnosis was two people lying to each other. The hypnotist pretending to be a hypnotist and the subject pretending to be hypnotized.
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Chapter 2: How does hypnosis affect brain activity?
But no, there is a change in the brain. And that's the longest known thing that every hypnotist has known. It's just obvious. Anyway, there's another tragic terrorist attack, it looks like. Over in Germany, an Afghan man drove a car into a big crowd. He's injured, I think, at least 28 people, some of them really badly. We don't know anything about the motives yet, but yeah.
I'll tell you, the car-related attacks, they seem to kill as many or more people than bombs. So maybe this is the beginning of a very long, terrible trend. I don't know. Let's talk about hostage releases because that's a better story. So I was listening to the U.S. envoy for hostages, and his name is not written down on my notes. So just imagine I said the name of the person.
Today's just a disaster. I feel like everything today is just not going to work. So that might be funny. That might be entertaining in its own way. Yeah, the most important thing I was going to write down was the name of the person. Who is the United States envoy for hostages? Yeah, that guy. OK. So he was saying that one of the reasons that Trump is successful getting hostages back
is that he's saying that quote, when you hold our citizens, we'll come after you at any cost. That's sort of the Trump message. If you hold our citizens, we'll come after you at any cost. Now that is exactly the right, now it's not Wyckoff, it's not Wyckoff or Grinnell. All right, nevermind. Stop guessing the White Claw for Grinnell.
That will still be wrong no matter how many times you write it down. All right. I shouldn't have even brought it up. But the right framing is that hostages are not really a negotiating tool, at least with the United States, because we're going to take everything you have if you take our hostages. We'll take everything you have. And What happened when Trump put the extra threat on?
Well, now Hamas is getting a little flexible. It says they're going to release some more hostages by Saturday, maybe, which was Trump's deadline. Now, that's not all the hostages. Trump has said if you don't release them all, there's going to be hell to pay. So if there's something they're holding back, in theory, there's still hell to pay. Now, what would be hell to pay?
Probably just unleashing Israel and saying, all right, we're out. We're out. Whatever Israel wants to do, it's fine. We'll even give them money to do it. Do you think Hamas wants to hear that? That Israel just has a free pass and the United States won't put any pressure on them to ease up? That would be the ultimate nightmare for Hamas. But I think that's where they're heading.
They're heading to their ultimate nightmare. There was a story in Politico by Eugene Ludwig titled, Voters Were Right About the Economy, The Data Was Wrong. Anybody who's watched this show, we always knew the data was wrong. It's not because you heard it from me. Didn't you all know the data was wrong? Because they kept saying, I don't know what you're talking about.
This data said you should be happy and have lots of money. But people would say, I can't afford eggs and gas. And then the Biden administration would say, yes, you can look at the data. And people would say, I'm pretty sure I know what's in my pocket. You don't know what's in my pocket. And I don't have enough money for eggs and gas. Oh, yes, you do.
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Chapter 3: What are Trump's strategies for hostage negotiations?
And then you're like, do we still have 18 chickens? No, no, we have 14 chickens, says the fox. And then you say, what, did he eat those four chickens? And the fox says, I don't know what you're talking about. There's no data that says we ate any chickens. There's just 14 chickens. All right, we'll check back tomorrow. There are eight chickens. What are you doing?
Are you eating those chickens again? I don't even know what you're talking about. There's no document that shows any chickens were eaten. It's just eight chickens. So you could take the fox and the chicken analogy to pretty much everything. Who told us that vaccinations were perfectly safe? The fox. We didn't get it from anywhere except the company that is making money from selling it, right?
Was there some independent analysis that I'm not aware of? No, no. So in every case, the only people who are close enough to know what the real numbers are are the foxes. They're the ones in charge of the numbers. And the foxes are the ones that are stealing and lying and shaving things to make it biased in one direction or the other. So there's a systemic reason.
It's not a coincidence that all data, all data that's important is fake. It has to be because it's coming from the fox. As soon as you realize that all the data comes from the fox and not from the chickens, then everything makes sense. And if you find an exception where the chickens are in charge of counting themselves, let me know about that because I've never heard of it. Never heard of it.
It's always the fox counting the chickens. And that's where we're at. That's why you need Doge. Because Doge lets the... Let's the rooster in. Let's the rooster count the chickens. I'm torturing that analogy. All right. Well, you probably know that Trump was suing the Pulitzer Committee for giving Pulitzer Prizes to the Russia collusion liars in the press.
But worse than that, I guess they said something else. Let's see. There was something they said after the war that Trump didn't like. And apparently, This is going to go forward. So there were some challenges to it that have been overcome. But the appeals court, the Florida appeals court, says the burden of proof that there was actual malice seems to be made.
In other words, it wouldn't go forward if there was no evidence of malice, meaning that they did it intentionally. But apparently there's evidence they did it intentionally, that it was just basically to defame Trump. Now this is interesting. This is really interesting because I don't know what kind of evidence they have that would demonstrate malice.
We know what they did, but how do you get in their heads? There might be some kind of document or maybe a witness or something who said, oh yeah, we did this just to get Trump. So I haven't heard that. I'm just speculating, but maybe, maybe that's what's happening. We'll see. Meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi, she's filing some charges against the bad people in New York.
The bad people in New York. And now this is over the question of prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens. So the idea would be that they're not cooperating with the federal government. to protect American citizens and that's their job and they need to do that. Now, I guess this is a criminal action. It's not a civil, right?
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Chapter 4: What are the latest issues in the Biden administration's economy?
And as you can imagine, they've been big critics of Trump. Guess what they said yesterday? Trump is doing what we should have done. Quote, Trump is moving so fast, they hit the ground running in a serious way. It's like genuinely impressive. Remember, this is the most Democrat anti-Trump people you've ever heard. It's genuinely impressive. Impressive, and then they throw in this.
Impressive in a dark and sinister way, but nonetheless impressive. So even when they're fully understanding that he's doing some good stuff, They have to throw in the little propaganda phrase. Oh, well, dark and sinister. Did I mention it's dark and sinister? Yeah, he's doing everything right, but maybe there's a dark and sinister undertone to it. All the Democrats have
are vague statements that can't be supported by anything. So they go on, quote, we all know that government is slow. We all know that government can be inefficient. We all know that the bureaucracy can be bloated. We all worked in the effing White House. We tried to reorganize the government. We tried to find efficiency. It's hard to do. And then one of them said,
Some of this is pretty annoying because it's some of the stuff we should have done. Now, I do appreciate the honesty of this. So I'm going to call out that this is a very honest take, except for the dark and sinister part. Yeah. Yep. They should have done it. They couldn't do it. And then they're watching it being done right in front of them. So I thought I'd start a list.
of all the empty attacks, the things that Democrats say about Trump that don't have any meat to them whatsoever. It's just stuff to scare you. So now we've got dark and sinister, that whatever he's doing, oh, whatever he's doing on the surface, it looks perfect. Nothing wrong with it on the surface, but underneath, underneath, we believe it's dark and sinister. And then they've got,
Sure, he might be, Trump might be saving the Republic and ending wars, but really it's just a preparation for stealing your democracy and setting up a kleptocracy. Stealing your democracy, setting up a kleptocracy, the kleptocracy is exactly what they're dismantling. And then there's Dan Goldman. There's no accountability or oversight. with the Doge project.
There's no accountability or oversight. Well, here's the problem of having politicians talk about things that make sense, they can't do it. I'm pretty sure that in the history of audits of big companies, there's not one time that the CEO went along with the audit.
know with the auditors so when when a big company does its own audit they'll often audit themselves do you think the ceo follows them around and say what do you got there bob did you find a document what's to say what's to say oh it says that all right now what do you got what's that can you read that to me
There's no world in which the CEO is informed about the audit while it's going on, except for the big stuff. So the auditor might say, we found this, we found that, we found that. But is the CEO saying, give me the document to prove it? Or is the CEO saying, all right, when you're done with the audit, write it up and then tell me everything you found.
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Chapter 5: How are Democrats responding to Trump?
It looks like they're screwing Musk by giving him a no-win situation. Not cool. Not cool. Anyway, I would love... to know that my rant was completely embarrassing and shameful and that I'm just getting the numbers wrong. But I don't think I am. So we need some answers. According to Brett Adcock, I can't believe there's a guy who owns the figure robot company. These are humanoid looking robots.
that don't have genitalia, but the founder of the company is named Adcock. I mean, come on. Humanoid robots with no genitalia made by somebody called Adcock. Somebody's going to add a cock. Maybe it's aftermarket, but anyway, so what Adcock says, he says, quote, in our lifetime, you will see more humanoid robots than humans when you're out and about. Trying to resist. Trying to resist.
I wake up every morning trying to resist making any reference to Skynet. No, only NPCs say Skynet when you say the robots will outnumber the humans. Don't do it, Scott. Don't do it. Try to resist. Don't say Skynet or else you're an NPC. Skynet. Skynet. Skynet. I couldn't resist. I'm sorry I'm weak. I'm weak. I don't have much else to say about that story except stop making me think of Skynet.
Because as soon as I read this, that there'll be more robots out and about than humans, my first question is, is that because we made more robots? That'd be the best case scenario. Or are there just fewer humans? There are a couple of different ways you can get there. Well, how can there be fewer humans? Well, here's one way, even without Skynet.
It turns out, according to the conversation, Anne Mae Duane is writing, that teenagers are using AI companions and they're saying it's easier than seeing humans. AI companions. So teenagers are falling in love with chatbots. Well, who was it who told you 20 years ago that when the AI got good enough, that people would prefer the AI. I did. Yeah, I told you that people would prefer it.
But I'll be more specific. Here's my calculation. I believe the top 10% of attractive people will have options of being with the other attractive people. But then the bottom 90% of attractive people, which I'm certainly in the bottom 90%. But the bottom 90% are going to just prefer AI because the AI will not disappoint them. We really do, no joke, have a situation that we're not quite ready for.
I don't even know if it's bad. I mean, if the bottom 90% are happier, well, okay. Maybe that is a good solution. But no, I think we're already at a point where only the top 10% are likely to reproduce. And everybody else is just going to be roboting up. That's what I think. So speaking of AI, Thomson Reuters won their first major AI copyright case, according to Wired.
So I guess they found that there was some specific AI company. What is it? Not one of the big ones. Doesn't matter. A smaller AI company you never heard of. Apparently, There's evidence that they may have trained their model using some proprietary stuff from Thomson Reuters.
And it looks like the judge ruled in Thomson Reuters' favor, said the AI company's copyright, or no, their copyright was indeed infringed. Oh, it's by Ross Intelligence. Ross Intelligence, that's the name of the AI company. So it was specifically for legal stuff. I guess that's what the AI was. Now, remember I warned you
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Chapter 6: What is the debate around reparations?
That's just like make room on Mount Rushmore. Like nobody could do that. Like no president would even try to do that. Nobody would even think that it was worth doing. Nobody would even put like one minute of energy into trying it. but I think he could get it done. So that's why we voted for him. All right. So those are all the comments I have, my prepared remarks.
If you're joining late, a little bit of technical difficulty, probably on my end. So we're only streaming today on X and on Locals. And I believe we'll be able to put the recorded version on YouTube and Rumble later. All right. I'm seeing something going by in the comments.
Zuby said in a post, we've collectively suffered through TDS for 10 years, and now we must also suffer through EDS, which would be, I guess, Elon Musk instead of Trump derangement syndrome. And Elon Musk says, what if I get EDS too? That's funny. RFK vote is 32 yay to 24 nay. You shoveled two driveways while listening. Good for you. Hey, we're going to let the X people stay for a minute.
So this is the after show. Normally, I would just do this for the subscribers of mine on Locals. But since you were so nice on X to stay with us this long, we'll keep you live for another minute or so. All right, usually I just look through the comments to see if there's anything to comment on that I missed. Yeah, you are correct. If it gets to a bigger audience, I'm happy with it. All right.
I don't have much else to talk about, I guess. So I'm going to say goodbye to the folks on X. Thanks for joining. I hope your sound was good. The microphone's not actually connected to my phone, but it's connected for the locals people. All right, everybody. Bye for now.
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