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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of this episode?
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All right, so don't miss that. Well, the Trump administration says it's looking for some big deals for eggs from Turkey and South Korea and maybe at least one other place, according to The Hill. Now, you might say to me, Scott, how can you allow a story about turkey and eggs to Do not pretend that they're turkey eggs. Well, I can do it because I'm a professional.
The rest of you will have to make terrible jokes at home about turkey and eggs. But really, they're chicken eggs. They're completely chicken eggs. Now, I didn't know that eggs could last that long. I don't know how you preserve an egg long enough to get it across an ocean, but apparently that's a thing. So we're going to have that.
And also, apparently, according to the agricultural secretary, Brooke Rollins, the American fleet of chickens is ready to poop out some eggs very soon. So within just maybe a couple of months, we'll have our fleet of chickens up and running. Now, what you don't know is that they won't be real chickens. They'll just be drones. Yeah, we're replacing all of our real chickens
with drones made in Ukraine. No, that's not true. That's not true. They're real chickens, as far as you know. Might be run by AI. No, no, they're real chickens. So we should have a chicken solution pretty soon. It's kind of weird that That became such a big issue because it seems like that's the one thing that either party would have been able to solve.
You know, the long, the long-term cost of eggs, probably it was going to get solved in the next four years, no matter who was in charge. But I do think the Republicans put more horsepower into it, a little more, a little more work to make it happen. No way to know, but probably.
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Chapter 2: What are the latest trends in egg sourcing?
Well, according to Breitbart News, Simon Kent is writing that Trump is going to meet with the UAE, or he did meet with the UAE, and they've committed to a $1.4 trillion investment framework in the U.S. Now, as usual, it's a 10-year deal, so people like to give me the big number. Still, that's a gigantic deal. you know, even over 10 years. So that's good. Now, here's my question.
Was it always true that other countries were on a regular basis making big decisions about investing in the United States? Or is this really a Trump thing? Is Trump the reason that all these companies and all these other countries are saying, yes, yes, give me a deal or I'm going to invest large amounts of money in America? I don't know. It looks like it's Trump, doesn't it?
It doesn't look like it's baseline. And the more of these that you see, the more of these there will be. Because when people get the idea, oh, if I do a big investment in America... America is going to be a little bit friendlier to me, and that might be good for me. So, yeah, I think you're going to see a lot more of that. Here's a story that will kind of blow your mind.
Now, I don't know if this is true or not, but it seems true enough. According to ZME Science, it's a publication, it's possible that the population of the world or at least the rural population of the world, has been undercounted by over 50%.
So apparently it's really hard to count people in, let's say, lesser civilized living conditions because they don't have ID, they're not registered on any kind of government database, and you can't see them. So even if you tried to see them from space by a satellite, they'd be under the tree cover or whatever.
So this was first discovered by researchers from Aalto University in Finland who were only trying to look into how many people would get displaced by big dam projects. So if you're doing a big dam project, No, it's a big dam project, not a big dam project.
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Chapter 3: How is the rural population counted globally?
But apparently those usually displace a lot of the locals, and the researchers wanted to find out how bad the displacement was, and so they went to count the number of people who used to be there to compare it to the number that were there after the dam was done, and they found out There's no real way to know how many people are there. Just think about that.
And not only that, but our estimates apparently are just wildly just guesses off by a lot. They said on average, the data sets undercounted rural populations by 53%. In some cases, the estimates were off by as much as 84%. The population of an area was off by 84%. Now, do you know where I'm going to go with this? Can you guess the next thing I'm going to say? We'll see how well you know me.
This will be a test of my predictability. What's the next thing I'm going to say? Does anybody have it yet? So... How do you think we do when we're measuring the temperature of the world every place on the planet? You just found out that we can't even count the people and that was all made up. Even counting the people. One of the things that you would just kind of assume we had under control. No.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of undercounting populations?
No, it was just... We were just guessing. Do you remember when you were younger and you thought nutrition had been exhaustively studied and the government was telling you what was safe to eat? Do you remember that? It turns out it was just all bullshit. The food pyramid was upside down and it was just... It was just based on industry food people trying to sell you cereal or something. So, no.
And do you remember when you thought that... Do you remember when you thought that vaccinations were tested in a gold standard... a randomized controlled trial, and that after the testing, even once it got approved, that they would do ongoing continuous testing to make sure it was still safe. Do you remember when you just assumed that was true? Nope. Nope, that was never true.
So I'm going to say it again because I think it's hilarious, at least hilarious to me. Wait till Democrats find out about climate models. Just wait till they find out that the most foundational thing to their entire movement, completely made up. you can't even count the number of people on Earth, much less measure the temperature everywhere on Earth for decades.
That is so not something that humans can do. It's so not even close. And the fact that they've sold it to the American, even the scientific community, even the scientific community has been convinced that we can measure the temperature of the Earth over time. Wow. Wow. Well, another fun news, U.S.
Commerce Secretary Ludnick, he was talking to the all-in pod guys, went to Washington, and said the U.S. has already sold 1,000 gold cards. So those are the cards that we sell to rich people to give them a sort of a fast start to being citizens, if they want to be U.S. citizens. And that would be $5 billion. 1,000 of those gold cards would be income to the United States of $5 billion.
But maybe even better, if you're bringing in all these rich people, they tend to hire people and they spend money and they start businesses. So this gold card thing might be way better than I thought. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. Hey, notes. Don't stick together. Meanwhile, Columbia University has folded to the Trump demands.
So the Trump administration was withholding $400 million of federal funding until Columbia made some specific changes to fight anti-Semitism, which, according to the Trump administration, they had not done enough of. And, you know, there were a lot of anti-Israel protests, which seemed very more anti-Jewish protests. And so the Trump administration was all over him.
And apparently the university has agreed to everything. I'm not sure I was expecting that. But $400 million, I guess that's a lot of pressure. And the things that were being asked for were don't let one class of people be discriminated against. to the point of physical danger. That wasn't a big ask, really. But still, I thought there'd be more pushback.
But Columbia University on Friday said, yep, every single thing you ask for, we're going to give you. So we'll see. Wall Street Journal was reporting on that, and Just the News was also. According to New York Times writer, Ezra Klein, and he's making a lot of news because he has a new book out. And as you know, the Democrats are in bad shape.
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Chapter 5: How do gender gaps affect political parties?
It's just batshit crazy stuff that apparently young women are saying some version of go girl yeah, I just love it when women are in charge. So I think women are just being drawn to women leaders because they think they're being heard. And men are saying, are you kidding? You look like you have mental illness. You don't even look like a leader. Why are you saying things that are crazy?
Why are you doing things that are clearly bad for me? Why are you overtly discriminating against white men? But it's not even the white men. So apparently, Trump won with men in every category, and I think even won with women, if you don't count women of color. So I think Democrats only won in one category, women of color.
So clearly, men are tired of being discriminated against, and women have no idea that they've been the brutal, part of the brutal discrimination regime for decades. And men are just done. We're just absolutely done. And at the moment, since men are not being recruited into the military, they don't have a bigger mission.
So if they're just standing around looking at the news and looking at their own life, they say, why can't I get a job there if I'm a man? And then they look at the leaders and they say, why are these ideas so crazy? Like opening the borders? That's not a difference of opinion. That's batshit crazy versus common sense. To imagine that these are some kind of political difference, that's a stretch.
Yeah, you're talking absolute mental illness and incompetence and gross discrimination against males. Of course you're going to get this. It was the most predictable thing that could have ever happened. So just ask me next time you get confused about this gender stuff. I'll clear it up. Meanwhile, Chuck Schumer is being accused of saying the quiet part out loud. I think we overused that phrase.
But Jim Hoff at the Gateway Fund is writing about this. So Schumer was on one of the TV shows, and he said that they've got 235, quote, progressive judges. And he said, yes, our democracy is at risk because Donald Trump shows that he wishes to violate the laws in many, many different ways. And then he says, the good news here is that we did put 235 judges, progressive judges,
Judges not under the control of Trump last year on the bench, and they're ruling against Trump time after time after time. Now, this kind of brings into question the definition of a judge, doesn't it? If Chuck Schumer knew when he picked these 235 judges that they would be spring-loaded to vote against Trump, and he doesn't think that conservatives would have done it, Really?
I feel like conservatives can be a little bit unpredictable because they're trying to interpret the original meaning of the Constitution. And you can imagine some would have a slightly different view of what the original interpretation was. So conservatives tend to be at least a little bit unpredictable. They can cross lines when they say, okay, this is just too far for me.
I think the Constitution would have gone this way. But on the left, that doesn't seem to be what's going on. It seems to be that they're just purely anti-Trump. And it wouldn't matter what he did or what the argument was. They're going to just oppose him. Now, isn't that the opposite of a judge? Shouldn't a judge be a little bit unpredictable?
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Chapter 6: What does Chuck Schumer say about progressive judges?
Well, that wouldn't work either way. And that's where we are. So unless Trump has some plan for, let's say, trading out Zelensky or blackmailing him or bribing him or threatening him, I don't see how this could ever work. Now, Putin is quoted, we don't know if it's a real quote, but quoted as saying that the negotiations would be long and very difficult.
So Putin's not seeing anything happening quickly. It could be that we're just dealing with Trump's usually optimism. He's just trying to will it into existence, which he can do. He has that ability to will something into existence that you thought was impossible.
So I hate to be in a situation where I would bet against Trump being able to make a deal because it feels like later you would just feel dumb. It's like, what was I thinking? Why did I think he couldn't make a deal? But I'm going to say that unless something big changes, a very big variable, I don't know which one,
But unless some big variable changes, there's nothing there that looks like it could be a deal as long as Ukraine is involved or Ukraine is not involved. The two situations that can't work. Anyway, that's my take. So you've heard this before, but I guess it's confirmed that Bill Maher is going to go to a meeting with President Trump at the White House. Kid Rock, who knows both of them, set it up.
Now, I saw a bunch of people saying it's a big mistake because you're just giving Bill Maher attention and nothing good can come of it. And I disagree. I disagree. There was definitely a time when it would have been a bad idea. But if you watch Bill Maher's show, even the most recent one on Friday, he's very much trying to find a common sense high ground.
And it looks like a real, to me it looks like a real attempt to find a common sense high ground. So he mentions, if you ask him, and he said it even on Friday, Maher did, he can list several things that Democrats did that are just stupid and couldn't possibly ever help them win a race. So that's progress.
It seems to me that Bill Maher's primary disagreement with Trump are based on something personal from their past. And then there's always the he's going to steal your democracy, the weird stuff, the things that he hasn't done, but you imagine he might do in the future. Now, some of it's based on things you imagine he did in the past.
So if you imagine that January 6th was an insurrection, well, I don't know if you can be helped. Because if you start from that point of view, you're starting with fake news. Do you know what the fake news never did? Have you ever seen all the interviews with the protesters to ask them why they were there? No, you haven't.
never just just think about the dog not barking so there were thousands of people involved thousands of people charged with a crime and every bit of that except for the violent stuff that nobody supports um every bit of that was based on what they were thinking when they did it if the january 6 people were thinking oh i want to overthrow the country and even though trump lost
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Chapter 7: What are the challenges in negotiating peace in Ukraine?
because there are plenty of cases where the smartest people in the world will tell you, you know, it's better to go fast and make some mistakes and then fix them. So even their most basic thing they say is not based on any argument whatsoever. It's just hoping that their base doesn't know the difference.
And then Ezra says that Trump's weak on the economy because he's going to do poorly on the economy. What exactly would be Ezra Klein's qualifications for judging Trump on economics? Well, I looked at his educational background and it's political science. So how does he know that Trump's doing poorly on economics? And what area would that be?
Would it be tariffs that they pretend they don't understand as a negotiating position? If your opinion is that Trump will be bad on economics because you personally don't understand that the tariff thing is a negotiating stick, that's just you being bad at understanding things. That has nothing to do with Trump being bad at economics because we don't know how that's going to turn out.
But like I said yesterday, if you were to fast forward two years, do you think our trade deals will be worse than they were before the tariffs? Does anybody think that? Do you think they'll be the same? Almost certainly.
You know, nothing's 100%, but almost certainly all of this tariff stuff is going to result in getting stuff we want, either more help on fentanyl at the border or better trade deals. And we're already seeing movement in that direction. So is Ezra Klein the tariff expert? What about inflation? What about all this cost cutting and deregulation?
I don't know any business person who's against any of that. So what exactly are the places that Ezra Klein is looking at to suggest that Donald Trump is bad economics? I don't see it. To me, it looks like every movie he's made has been on point.
from the gold card to tariffs to eggs from Turkey and South Korea to opening up our energy markets to bringing all these big investments in from other countries and possibly unwinding our financial involvement in Ukraine. So where's the bad economy part? What is he even looking at? These are such weak leadership claims. They're absolutely empty.
They've got nothing to them, and there's nobody even smart talking about it. Anyway, and then Klein says that Trump only wins with voters who don't like to think about politics and are not watching the news. Do you want to know another way to say that? that Trump is popular with people who have not been brainwashed by one area of the news. They're really brainwashers more than anything else.
Now, as I've often said, I'm pretty sure that Trump voters have at least a passing understanding of what the people on the left believe, but also what they believe. The people on the left seem to only understand what they believe. So, The people who are opposed to Trump are only taking a steady diet of pure propaganda from the pure propaganda news sites.
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Chapter 8: What insights does Ezra Klein offer on deregulation?
is they got a few billionaires on their side because a few billionaires said, uh-oh, it looks like you're destroying the country entirely, and if we don't save it, we're all dead. So I don't think this anti-oligarch thing is even a little bit smart. As Fetterman said, and I said before he said it, I don't think anybody knows what an oligarch is or why it matters.
They might be able to define it, but who are the oligarchs? Why does it matter? Why is that not good for you if they do well? A lot of questions. Well, the governor of Maine, you might remember, spoke up at a White House meeting one time about the banning of
biological men and women's sports, and the governor of Maine said they're not going to buckle to the Trump administration's requirements to give federal funding that they stop doing that. But the state universities, who were the target of that messaging, said they would comply, meaning that they would ban biological men and women's sports.
but now Trump wants the governor to do a full-throated apology. Now, is he saying full-throated apology because it's kind of funny to say it that way? Am I the only one who thinks something's sexual when I hear that? I want an apology, but a full-throated one, to which I say, what exactly is in the full throat? That's a weird choice of words. So I don't know. I like it because it's provocative.
But yeah, Trump wants a full-throated apology from the governor of Maine. Well, let's talk about Stephen A. Smith. You know Stephen A. Smith's been making a lot of noise. because although his main job is an ESPN commentator, he's been talking about politics a lot, and he's also tried to find that common sense, common ground, sort of the Bill Maher common ground.
But James O'Keefe and his OMG, O'Keefe Media Group, they got an undercover recording of of an ESPN producer who calls Stephen A. Smith, quote, an angry black man and thinks he's crazy and has no idea about politics. So that's from a producer at ESPN. And said about discussions about the Middle East, ESPN producer questioned his, you know, what does he know about Gaza?
If he's talking about the Lakers in one minute, what are the odds he has something to add about Gaza? Now, I'm going to defend Stephen A. Smith because I kind of like him. So it's hard to criticize somebody that you kind of like. I like the fact that he's so good at what he does.
So if his job is to make you interested and to make you not turn the channel and to make you say, I can listen to a little more of what he has to say, he's really good at that. Like really, really good. His communication skills are just off the chart. And his performance skills, and I'm going to call it performance, really good.
So when I hear him talk about any of these political topics, I'm actually interested. because he's someone who seems to be trying to find some common sense area. He seems to be smarter than the average person by a lot, and he communicates so well. So you put all that together, and I do want to hear what he says about Gaza. Do I think that he's an expert on Gaza? No. I don't think anybody is.
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