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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of this podcast episode?
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine today, the thing that makes everything better. It's called a simultaneous sip. It happens now. Go. The technology is not working today. It's the way I like it. Well, I wonder if there's any science that looks sketchy. Turns out there is.
So according to The Guardian, there's British hospitals have decided that if you give the patients way more medication than they used to, they could cut deaths by 62%. They say it's a game changer.
Chapter 2: What new study about medication is discussed?
it might be what is the first question you would ask if you saw a study that says oh it turns out if you just just gave people way more of the stuff you're already giving them that would be even better well i would suspect the companies that are making those drugs you're already giving them but somebody did some research when i posted on this and said no it's just a data a data entity.
So an entity that's just trying to figure out what works and what doesn't. But the data entity is part of a bigger pharma. Do you think that anyone in that larger pharma of which the data entity is a part, do you think any of them provide any drugs that you give to people for heart failure? I don't know. But my My pattern recognition says, did you see the study about, was it OxyContin?
And when people were getting bad results with OxyContin, they decided that the solution was to give them way more. Whenever you see science that says, you know what? You should take way more of this medication. I just automatically say, I don't know. I'm gonna need to know a lot more about who did that study. So that's the first thing you should ask. All right, here's another one.
Chapter 3: How does political overconfidence affect debates?
I wonder if they could have done this in a faster, more efficient way. But according to Eric Dolan on SciPost, political overconfidence worsens polarization in online debates. So apparently, if you believe you know a lot about politics, but you might be sort of exaggerating your own ability. You get extra mad when you talk to people who have different opinions.
Do you know what they could have done instead of this study? They could have just asked me. Just ask Scott. Yes, if you talk to somebody who is really sure that their view of the world and politics is correct and yours is not, they will get quite worked up if you give them an encounter to what they think they believe. Yep, it's the Dunning-Kruger for politics.
The overconfidence effect, they call it. Yeah, you don't want to talk to somebody who's overconfident about politics. Well, here's a high blood pressure mystery. I've always believed... that high blood pressure was not fully understood. And I don't know if this explains it, but since it agrees with me, I'm going to tell you about it.
So according to the University of Waterloo, generally speaking, if you had high blood pressure, they tell you to eat less salt. Has anybody had that experience? Eat less salt. And apparently that works, or they wouldn't recommend it. But apparently the University of Waterloo figured out that maybe what's more important than less salt is the ratio of salt to dietary potassium.
So if you eat bananas and broccoli, which have potassium in them, you might be better off than lowering your salt intake. Because what you need is a good balance of potassium to sodium. So I don't know if that's true. Half of all scientific studies are not reproducible. But I like this one because I like bananas and I like broccoli.
It's a perfect example of how people accept or don't accept science. If this is said, yeah, you've got to eat, I don't know, some kind of food I don't like. I couldn't even think of anything because I like pretty much all food. But... I really like bananas and broccoli. I eat a banana and a broccoli almost every day. So yeah, I believe the science because I like bananas and broccoli.
Well, this one surprises me. The UK Supreme Court just ruled that transgender women are not legally defined as women, according to the Telegraph. I don't know what they are defined as, but they're not going to be defined as women in the UK. Now, doesn't that surprise you? Because I thought the UK was so cooked that they would just go for every woke thing in the world, but apparently not.
So they said transgender women are not legally defined as women. Don't you wonder if there's any kind of Trump effect? Do you think that the things that are happening in the United States just sort of bleed over into the consciousness of other countries? I just wonder if they would have had the same ruling if things were different in the United States. All right, here's my favorite story.
I just love this story. Now, I don't want to do full schadenfreude, where you feel good about bad things that happen to other people. But if those other people are bad people, I feel like a little bit of schadenfreude wouldn't be terrible, would it? Would it? So here I'm going to feel good about something that's bad for somebody who is a bad person.
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Chapter 4: What recent ruling did the UK Supreme Court make?
What exactly are they going to break to give their friends lower tax rates? How does that even work? Is there something in the government I could break? Like if I figured out what it was that would give me lower taxes? It's just ridiculous. It's just ridiculous lying. And it's old man yelling at the son. Oh, my God. I'm so glad he's not president anymore.
Well, as you know, President Trump and his administration have a little battle with Harvard. So before giving Harvard the funding that the government normally gives it for research, and some say that research is super valuable and provides way more value to the economy than the annual funding. I don't know about that, but that's the claim. But what Trump wants...
is he wants them to get rid of their DEI and work harder against anti-Semitism and have hiring and standards that are based on merit as opposed to DEI. But Harvard has decided that it will fight this. And it got two really good lawyers. And so they're going to fight it. And their argument is, we're a private business. And you can't tell us what to do or say. It's up to us who we hire and why.
And it's up to us what we say or allow people to say and why. Because we're private. To which I say, you know what, I agree with that. I agree with that. So I think the funding should be entirely based on whether it's good for the public. So if they want to be terrible, I feel like they have a right to do that.
I do feel that this is a bit of an overreach for the government to tell this private entity how they should be operating. Now, I do think the private entity is operating in a terrible, destructive, but just horrible way. But they do have the right to be horrible. It's not illegal.
Now, the DEI part is illegal, but they argue that they should be able to have their own standards and blah, blah, blah. But here's the funny part. So Trump did this extended post on truth, and he's just so wonderfully insulting that I just want to read the whole thing, if you don't mind. So this is Trump on Harvard. Harvard lost its way, defunded. Trump says...
Everyone knows that Harvard has lost its way. They hired from New York Bill de Blasio and Chicago Lori Lightfoot at ridiculously high salaries and fees, two of the worst and most incompetent mayors in the history of our country to teach municipal management and government. Now, I'd never heard that before. Had you heard that Harvard...
had hired the two worst mayors in the history of the country to teach the rest of the students municipal management and government. That doesn't even seem like it could be true, does it? But if it is true, it's funny. And then Trump goes on. He says, these two radical left fools left behind two cities that will take years to recover from their incompetence and evil.
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Chapter 5: What allegations are made against Letitia James?
Harvard has been hiring almost all woke radical left idiots and bird brains who are only capable of teaching failure to students and so-called future leaders. Now, I agree with everything he's saying, but, you know, there are certain rights you got to you got to accept.
He goes, look, just to the recent past that their plagiarizing president, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States Congress. When it got so bad that they just couldn't take it anymore, they moved this grossly inept woman into another position, teaching rather than firing her on the spot. Since then, much else has been found out about her, but she remains in place.
Many others, like these leftist dopes, are teaching at Harvard, and because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning and should not be considered on any list of the world's great universities or colleges. Harvard is a joke, teaches hate and stupidity, and should no longer receive federal funds. Thank you for your attention to this matter."
Now, you might disagree with something that Trump wants to do, but he's the best writer we've ever had. You know, I used to think that probably Thomas Jefferson was the best writer. I mean, he wrote most of the... I'm sorry, what was it? The... What is the thing that's not the Constitution? Well, you know, the thing. The thing. I'm going to go full Joe Biden here. I'm on some pain meds.
They're slowing down my brain quite a bit. But I don't think it was Jefferson. I think it was Trump. He's the best writer. All right, let's check in on AI. Apparently, Grok... Declaration of Independence, yes. Thank you. So yeah, Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, most of it. And that was pretty good. Sometimes I like reading the Declaration of Independence. just for the writing.
And I'll read it like three or four times. And every time I'll be like, wow. Wow. How do you write that? Just amazingly written. Amazingly written. But when I read Trump, it's also magic. So it would be hard to compare them. Well, Grok has a new capability. Now you can take your documents that are in Google Drive And drop them in, and it will fully interact with your documents.
You can ask it questions, and you can have it help edit. It can summarize. It can refine the presentations. And if that works, I'm going to be using it. today because I've been waiting for this. The problem had always been, you know, chat GPT for a long time has been able to handle a file. I don't know if it could do Google Drive, but you could upload a file.
The trouble is that it would hallucinate what's in your file. So it made it kind of useless. So the thing I want to know is if Grok is going to hallucinate what's in the file. If it doesn't, this would be a gigantic move forward. I'm like, this would be a really big deal. So I'll test it out later. Did you know that Apple, of course...
They turned their S-I-R-I, I don't want to say it so it activates your devices, but they turned it into an AI version. And apparently it's just a joke within Apple. Even the Apple employees think that their own AI, which is barely AI, is ridiculously bad. And I would agree, it is ridiculously bad.
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Chapter 6: What concerns are raised about Melinda French Gates' statements?
He's with him and he's all smiling and he's like a free man. And then they land in the United States and ICE picks him up at the airport and just ships him back to El Salvador because apparently there's a standing deportation order. So if he comes back, he doesn't get to stay. He has a standing deportation order. So ICE is just going to ship him back the minute he lands. So I don't know.
But then I guess you could say, does he get life in prison just because he's here illegally? Well, that seems kind of too much. So I don't have an opinion about this whole Kilmer-Abrigo-Garcia case because all the things that would determine what my opinion was can't really be known by me. So I'll just keep watching.
But I think it's hilarious that Cory Booker, he's not getting enough attention, so he's going to go all in on the MS-13 person. Now, is it my imagination, and I can't tell if this is accidentally happening or the Democrats are just doing it to themselves,
or the Republicans have found a clever way to do it to them, which is every time you see that the Democrats are advocating for something, it's for something that you don't like. It's like, are you advocating for an MS-13 guy? Well, but it's about due process. Okay, but it's really you advocating for an MS-13 guy, right? Well, we don't think he's MS-13. We don't know if he got due process.
And next thing you know, they'll be shipping Americans down to that prison. To which I say, really? An American citizen who didn't commit any crimes? I don't know. We'll talk about that. Trump has some ideas about that. Washington state.
the college an instructor was arrested for assaulting a student wearing a MAGA hat the post-millennials writing about this so apparently he's this guy Mahoney has strong ties to the democratic socialists of America so some would say a communist but I don't know if that's fair But apparently he saw some guy wearing a MAGA hat and he and another guy just brutally attacked him.
Now, I can't even imagine any conservative brutally attacking any Democrat for their political opinion. Have you ever even heard of it? but it seems rather routine for the left to attack and brutalize the right for wearing a hat. So that's crazy. All right, let's check in on how tariffs are going.
According to Newsmax Money, Honda has decided to make 90% of its cars in the United States, the ones they're selling in the United States, and they're going to relocate their Mexico and Canada plants to the U.S., Now, that sounds like exactly what Trump wanted. And I guess he'll be able to do this probably before the end of Trump's term.
So you're going to see at least one big company who probably can just move the machines and put them in a new facility. So maybe Gant is just really good at the process. So that's good. That's exactly what Trump wanted. And it's happening. Apparently Hong Kong is mad at Trump because he wanted to put tariffs on mail. And then Hong Kong said, forget it, we just won't send you any mail.
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Chapter 7: What is the controversy regarding Harvard funding?
So maybe there should be exemptions for certain businesses like pharma and airplanes where it's not going to be very fast for them to move to the United States. But I ask the following question. Are the pharmaceutical companies operating in China, are they American-owned or European-owned and they're just operating in China?
Or are they Chinese companies that are making the drugs and shipping them to the US? Which is it? Now, I've heard that China leads on pharmaceutical equipment, so they can make equipment that makes pharmaceuticals better than we can.
But if we own the companies, can't we just say, all right, just everything that's on the floor here that we use to make stuff, pack it all up and move it to the United States? Because they would own the equipment and they would own all the assets, right? So I don't know how easy it would be for any pharma company to move to the United States, but that would be a big question.
If there's some that can just sort of move their equipment here and then wherever the equipment is, you can make the pharmaceuticals. But I think there's also a question of the precursors and the materials that go into making it. And that might still be from China. So I think China's got us on pharmaceuticals for a long time. Well, apparently here's an accused leaker, Dan Caldwell.
Yeah, he was one of the top advisors for P. Hegseth. And he was escorted down to the Pentagon, I think it was yesterday or today, after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense. Now, I thought everybody leaked. Haven't you heard of that before? There's no such thing as nobody who leaks.
Like every person in Congress, they've all got somebody they leak to so that they can get good press. So they're basically buttering up people in the press by leaking. So I guess he got caught, allegedly. Allegedly. Laura Loomer has that scoop. And she points out that Dan Caldwell was listed as a point of contact for the Department of Defense in the Mike Waltz's Signalgate chat.
I don't know if that means he did anything wrong, but he was a point of contact for that. All right, here's a big question that I've been asking myself lately. Has Trump turned fascist or turned dictator? So the arguments would be he's going after Harvard and the colleges, essentially trying to change their free speech by getting them to be less anti-Semitic. And that would be Trump's take on it.
So if you're going after free speech in our institutions, are you kind of a dictator fascist? You decide. Then there's the talk about the third term. Now, I don't think that, I think Bannon, Steve Bannon's the one who's been saying that, that he could serve a third term under some conditions. Now, I don't think that's true. I don't think he can serve a third term.
And I think it would be a huge, a huge problem if he did. You know, it's already unsafe to be a Trump supporter, especially if you wear a hat. But imagine how unsafe it would be if he somehow stayed in power for a third term. That would be really, really dangerous. Because at that point, people would say, all right, there's the proof. You know, he violated the Constitution.
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