August 11, 2025 • 7 mins
President Trump and Vladimir Putin plan an Alaska meeting to “end” the Ukraine war—without inviting Ukraine. Plus, Trump’s new AI chatbot calls January 6 an “insurrection” and fact-checks its own boss, and D.C.’s homeless get told to move “FAR from the Capital.”
None of that distracts us from the Epstein Files. Release them.
None of that distracts us from the Epstein Files. Release them.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Kalaroga Shark Media from Alaska, where we're trying to distract
you from the Epstein files. This is that, Hey, Putin
has a copy, maybe he'll release them. Let's hit this, Hi.
I'm Patrick Gutfield, and Trump and Putin are meeting in
Alaska on Friday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
(00:24):
And apparently they picked Alaska because and I'm not making
this up, it used to belong to Russia. Trump announced
the summit after his own deadline passed. He'd given Putin
until August eighth to agree to a cease fire or
face more sanctions. When that deadline came and went, instead
of imposing sanctions, Trump said, you know what, let's have
a meeting instead. That's some serious art of the deal
(00:46):
energy right there. The whole thing started because Trump promised
as a candidate that he could end the Ukraine War
in twenty four hours. We're now seven months into his presidency,
three rounds of failed peace talks and one missed deadline later.
But hey, who's counting. Here's what makes this especially awkward.
Ukraine's not invited, at least not yet. Zelenski has made
(01:08):
it pretty clear that any deal made without Ukraine would
be what he calls dead decisions, which is diplomatics speak
for are you kidding me? Right now? Trump's apparently floating
the idea of swapping territories, which sounds very reasonable until
you remember that one of those territories is someone else's country.
The Russian presidential assistant said. Meeting in Alaska is quite
(01:29):
logical because both countries are neighbors across the Bearing Strait. Sure,
if you ignore the fact that there are two sovereign
nations and several thousand miles between them. But Putin's delegation
can just fly over to Alaska, which makes it sound
like they're dropping by for a barbecue. Sure, Alaska is
right next to Moscow, just eleven time zones away. It's
(01:51):
not like it's as far away from Moscow as possible.
That would be absurd. Trump took to truth social Sunday
with what can only be described as his most ambitious
urban planning proposal yet, telling homeless individuals in Washington, d C.
To pack up and move out immediately. And by immediately
he apparently means very fast, which in Trump time, could
(02:12):
mean anywhere from tomorrow to the heat death of the universe.
The President's post, complete with photos of roadside tents, declared
there will be no mister nice guy, a phrase that
suggests there was previously a mister nice guy version of
Trump that we all somehow missed. Was that the guy
who served McDonald's at the White House, because that might
have been peak nice guy Trump right there. Trump promised
(02:35):
to give homeless individuals places to stay, but clarified these
would be far from the Capitol, presumably somewhere between Mars
and his golf course in Bedminster. This comes as part
of Trump's DC Safe and Beautiful Executive Order, which created
a task force aimed at making the nation's capital more presentable.
It's the governmental equivalent of your mom frantically cleaning the
(02:58):
house before company arrives. Accept the company is foreign dignitaries,
and the mess is human suffering. The President has long
complained that DC is horribly run, which if you're asking
me if someone in DC is running things horribly, well,
I won't argue. So there's a gold mine in Idaho
that wants to power its operation with a nuclear reactor
(03:18):
you can ship in a container, And suddenly I'm thinking,
maybe we've taken the whole portable power thing a little
too far. The Golden chest mind, which sounds like something
from a pirate movie, or even worse, something Trump might
want to do on a date, wants to be the
first to use these microreactors that are small enough to
fit on a flatbed truck. We're talking about nuclear reactors
(03:42):
the size of shipping containers that can generate enough power
for a thousand homes, or, as one company put it,
enough to power a remote island owned by a billionaire,
which raises the question how many billionaire owned islands are
there that we need to plan nuclear infrastructure around them.
These mini reactors are nothing like the massive nuclear plants
(04:04):
we're used to. No cooling towers, no concrete structures the
size of sports stadiums. These use helium gas or molten
salt for cooling and run on something called trisofuel uranium
pellets the size of poppy seeds that the Energy Department
claims are meltdown proof. They're essentially nuclear power for people
who want to order it on Amazon Prime. But not
(04:27):
everyone is thrilled about trucking nuclear reactors around the country.
Ed Lyman from the Union of Concerned Scientists called the
idea madness saying we'd be putting them in nooks and
crannies in populated areas next to data centers and factories
without any off site emergency planning, which does sound like
the setup for a disaster movie coming this summer. Micro
(04:48):
meltdown when small reactors cause big problems. My favorite detail.
A billionaire apparently contacted one company asking if they could
use a microreactor to power a completely self suff island
with its own vertical farm and desalination plant. The company said,
certainly possible, Great news for doctor No. So truth Social
(05:12):
just launched their own AI chatbots, and apparently nobody told
it the company talking points. This thing is supposed to
be Trump's answer to biased big tech AI, but instead
it's out there fact checking its own boss. The AI
called truth Search AI, which is already a pretty bold
name choice, keeps telling users that actually, the twenty twenty
(05:34):
election wasn't stolen, tariffs are just a tax on Americans,
and Barack Obama polls better than Trump. When asked about
January sixth, it called it an insurrection linked to Trump's
baseless claims. Now, I don't know what's funnier That they
built an AI that disagrees with everything Trump says, or
(05:55):
that they're apparently surprised by this. Trump spent years complaining
about woke AI, signed an executive order demanding truth seeking
artificial intelligence, and then his own company creates a chatbot
that immediately starts seeking some very inconvenient truths. The AI
is powered by perplexity, and when reporters ask them about it,
(06:16):
they basically said, hey, we just make the technology. What
truth social does with it is their business, which is
the tech equivalent of selling someone a shovel and then
acting shocked when they dig a hole. But here's my
favorite part. When Trump posted that crime in Washington is
totally out of control, his own AI responded by saying, actually,
(06:39):
the FBI reports substantial declines in violent crime. It even
italicized the word declines, which feels a little passive aggressive
for artificial intelligence. So now Trump has to decide keep
the AI that contradicts him, or admit that maybe reality
has a liberal bias after all, or reassign it to
write lame jokes for a podcast. That's what I would do.
(07:00):
Release the Epstein files, you coward,
Kalaroga Shark Media from Alaska, where we're trying to distract
you from the Epstein files. This is that, Hey, Putin
has a copy, maybe he'll release them. Let's hit this, Hi.
I'm Patrick Gutfield, and Trump and Putin are meeting in
Alaska on Friday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
(00:24):
And apparently they picked Alaska because and I'm not making
this up, it used to belong to Russia. Trump announced
the summit after his own deadline passed. He'd given Putin
until August eighth to agree to a cease fire or
face more sanctions. When that deadline came and went, instead
of imposing sanctions, Trump said, you know what, let's have
a meeting instead. That's some serious art of the deal
(00:46):
energy right there. The whole thing started because Trump promised
as a candidate that he could end the Ukraine War
in twenty four hours. We're now seven months into his presidency,
three rounds of failed peace talks and one missed deadline later.
But hey, who's counting. Here's what makes this especially awkward.
Ukraine's not invited, at least not yet. Zelenski has made
(01:08):
it pretty clear that any deal made without Ukraine would
be what he calls dead decisions, which is diplomatics speak
for are you kidding me? Right now? Trump's apparently floating
the idea of swapping territories, which sounds very reasonable until
you remember that one of those territories is someone else's country.
The Russian presidential assistant said. Meeting in Alaska is quite
(01:29):
logical because both countries are neighbors across the Bearing Strait. Sure,
if you ignore the fact that there are two sovereign
nations and several thousand miles between them. But Putin's delegation
can just fly over to Alaska, which makes it sound
like they're dropping by for a barbecue. Sure, Alaska is
right next to Moscow, just eleven time zones away. It's
(01:51):
not like it's as far away from Moscow as possible.
That would be absurd. Trump took to truth social Sunday
with what can only be described as his most ambitious
urban planning proposal yet, telling homeless individuals in Washington, d C.
To pack up and move out immediately. And by immediately
he apparently means very fast, which in Trump time, could
(02:12):
mean anywhere from tomorrow to the heat death of the universe.
The President's post, complete with photos of roadside tents, declared
there will be no mister nice guy, a phrase that
suggests there was previously a mister nice guy version of
Trump that we all somehow missed. Was that the guy
who served McDonald's at the White House, because that might
have been peak nice guy Trump right there. Trump promised
(02:35):
to give homeless individuals places to stay, but clarified these
would be far from the Capitol, presumably somewhere between Mars
and his golf course in Bedminster. This comes as part
of Trump's DC Safe and Beautiful Executive Order, which created
a task force aimed at making the nation's capital more presentable.
It's the governmental equivalent of your mom frantically cleaning the
(02:58):
house before company arrives. Accept the company is foreign dignitaries,
and the mess is human suffering. The President has long
complained that DC is horribly run, which if you're asking
me if someone in DC is running things horribly, well,
I won't argue. So there's a gold mine in Idaho
that wants to power its operation with a nuclear reactor
(03:18):
you can ship in a container, And suddenly I'm thinking,
maybe we've taken the whole portable power thing a little
too far. The Golden chest mind, which sounds like something
from a pirate movie, or even worse, something Trump might
want to do on a date, wants to be the
first to use these microreactors that are small enough to
fit on a flatbed truck. We're talking about nuclear reactors
(03:42):
the size of shipping containers that can generate enough power
for a thousand homes, or, as one company put it,
enough to power a remote island owned by a billionaire,
which raises the question how many billionaire owned islands are
there that we need to plan nuclear infrastructure around them.
These mini reactors are nothing like the massive nuclear plants
(04:04):
we're used to. No cooling towers, no concrete structures the
size of sports stadiums. These use helium gas or molten
salt for cooling and run on something called trisofuel uranium
pellets the size of poppy seeds that the Energy Department
claims are meltdown proof. They're essentially nuclear power for people
who want to order it on Amazon Prime. But not
(04:27):
everyone is thrilled about trucking nuclear reactors around the country.
Ed Lyman from the Union of Concerned Scientists called the
idea madness saying we'd be putting them in nooks and
crannies in populated areas next to data centers and factories
without any off site emergency planning, which does sound like
the setup for a disaster movie coming this summer. Micro
(04:48):
meltdown when small reactors cause big problems. My favorite detail.
A billionaire apparently contacted one company asking if they could
use a microreactor to power a completely self suff island
with its own vertical farm and desalination plant. The company said,
certainly possible, Great news for doctor No. So truth Social
(05:12):
just launched their own AI chatbots, and apparently nobody told
it the company talking points. This thing is supposed to
be Trump's answer to biased big tech AI, but instead
it's out there fact checking its own boss. The AI
called truth Search AI, which is already a pretty bold
name choice, keeps telling users that actually, the twenty twenty
(05:34):
election wasn't stolen, tariffs are just a tax on Americans,
and Barack Obama polls better than Trump. When asked about
January sixth, it called it an insurrection linked to Trump's
baseless claims. Now, I don't know what's funnier That they
built an AI that disagrees with everything Trump says, or
(05:55):
that they're apparently surprised by this. Trump spent years complaining
about woke AI, signed an executive order demanding truth seeking
artificial intelligence, and then his own company creates a chatbot
that immediately starts seeking some very inconvenient truths. The AI
is powered by perplexity, and when reporters ask them about it,
(06:16):
they basically said, hey, we just make the technology. What
truth social does with it is their business, which is
the tech equivalent of selling someone a shovel and then
acting shocked when they dig a hole. But here's my
favorite part. When Trump posted that crime in Washington is
totally out of control, his own AI responded by saying, actually,
(06:39):
the FBI reports substantial declines in violent crime. It even
italicized the word declines, which feels a little passive aggressive
for artificial intelligence. So now Trump has to decide keep
the AI that contradicts him, or admit that maybe reality
has a liberal bias after all, or reassign it to
write lame jokes for a podcast. That's what I would do.
(07:00):
Release the Epstein files, you coward,
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