December 11, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Obamacare subsidies & Jack works at the tree lot
- Football Follies!
- Disney goes Ai & power predictions
- News without the crap!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Jettie,
I know he Armstrong and Yetty. Guys.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The Christmas season is in full swing. Everybody's enjoying their
favorite Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Music, right.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's fun.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
But I noticed that this year they've updated a lot
of classic songs to make them feel a little more modern.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
For instance, instead of It's beginning to look a lot
like Christmas, there's it's low key giving Christmas.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Right now. Wow, there's another.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Insteadive, I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus. There's Mommy and Santaur.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
In a situation ship.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And finally, instead of the twelve Days of Christmas, there's
the six seven Days of Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Oh. I got a lot of mileage with six seven
jokes last night working at the Christmas Tree. Lot lots
of mileage. Oh. The whole thing sickens me. I got
a lot of laughs. I got groans and laughs because
he got the trees lined up, and he got four
to five foot trees, then he got six to seven
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foot trees. So I stood in a six to seven
lot pointing at the sign lot. Oh more on that
in just a second. So, the biggest Congress political story,
not like electoral but like legislation political story going on
right now is that, right Congress legislates I almost forgot.
(01:46):
Not really, they don't really, They go through some motions
down then, but it's the whole Obamacare subsidy story that
I'm so tired of hearing anything about. But anyway, here's
the latest on that, and we'll discuss briefly.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
As of right now, it does appear that this plan
backed by Democrats and the ones supported by Republicans. Both
of those plants appear unlikely to pass right now. The
Democrats supported plan would extend ACA subsidies for three more years,
but some Republicans say it does not do enough to
combat fraud and it costs too much. On the other
(02:16):
side of this, the Republican plan eliminates those subsidies and
redirects the savings into health savings accounts also known as
HSA's for people buying bronze or catastrophic plans.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So I find this story so annoying. I assume that
if you follow us in the news, you understand what's
going on here. So people who have their healthcare through
Obamacare got a break during COVID that the Biden administration
thought was a good idea, and then it was supposed
(02:52):
to end when COVID was over. So it's supposed to
end soon and supposed to go back to the price
it was before that Democrats the law Democrats came up with.
It's supposed to go back to their numbers. But it's
being portrayed as a raise in the cost of your
healthcare to a small portion of America. We're not even
talking about that many people, right, It's just a handful
(03:15):
of million people that this even the whole healthcare thing
always drives me crazy because the vast majority of us
still get a job that provides u healthcare, right sure, Yeah,
And we're always talking about these little portions of people anyway,
So the numbers are going to go back to what
Obama and Biden wanted them to be, right for the pandemic,
(03:38):
and now any attempt to fix that is seen as
is like pushing old people downstairs, or starving in sick babies,
or whatever the hell you're intentionally yanking the medicine away
from sick babies. Yeah. Indeed, finally, the GOP which is
so bad at messaging it's a joke. They are the
New York Jets of messaging lately. Part of it might
be it's difficult for them to get the word out
(03:59):
because the mainstream you won't report what they say. But
finally I heard Lindsey Graham say, and I'm gonna ask
for forty six here, Michael. Finally last night I heard
Lindsay Graham say, those are extra subsidies for COVID. COVID
is over. I mean that simple is great. And then
with a little more fleshing out Ron Johnson of Wisconsin here.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
The Obamacare subsidies will continue. What we are talking about
are the temporary COVID enhanced subsidies that Democrats voted for.
The Democrats scheduled to expire at the end of this year.
We're not talking about anything that's going to impact people
on employer sponsored healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid VA. We're talking about
the supposedly twenty four million people on the exchanges. The
(04:44):
vast majority of those will just revert to the original
Obamacare substace. If you don't like that, blame Obamacare, Blame Democrats.
If your premiums are going up, it's not because the
enhanced subsetas are going away. It's because the faulty design
of Obamacare driving them.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, Haryl Loujah, you'd think they could do a better
job on the talk shows or whenever they're asked about
this of pushing back from Marjorie Taylor. Green got so
much attention while back now about how my own kids
their healthcare is about to go up blank percent and
they can't afford it. Somebody should have sent to her,
(05:21):
President Trump should Is that to her?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Now?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It's going back to what it was before those were
the numbers Barack Obama and Joe Biden came up with
you are you mad with their numbers? You were happy
with them before you signed up for it before that
was their numbers. And I appreciated Ron Johnson throwing in
the fact that Obamacare is a miserable failure. It is
a horrific money pit that's done nothing but profit the
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giant insurance corporations who are in on writing it. And
Craig the healthcare guru, told us from the beginning would
be the result, but they just and look, I realized
this is not as beautifully stupidly simple a message as
they're gonna take away your healthcare, which is tough to
beat in our politics or modern politics, but you can
(06:02):
communicate that, and if you can't, we got to give
up on self governance and get a king. Well. It
often goes back to one of my favorite books, The
High Cost of Good Intentions, tracking this going all the
way back to the Revolutionary War. Anytime you offer anything
to people, it grows and grows and grows and is
always permanent. It starts as a temporary this, and it
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ends up a permanent that for many more people. It's
just the high cost of good intentions. It's just the
way bureaucracies work. It's the way apparently democratic politics works.
And you can quite literally give people a benefit of
some sort for a week, and if you remove the
benefit at the end of the week, people will weep
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and screech and tear their garments as if you're stealing
their children from them. It's just unbelievable. Everything that flows
two taxpayers is permanent always. So there's a Republican bill
and a Dimocratic bill, as you heard there. Neither one
are going to pass today, and so this conversation will
be around for a while. I wanted to mention this.
I work at the Christmas Tree lot with my son
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last night. He's in Boy Scouts and that's a Boy
Scout Christmas Tree lot. And so we did our got
a couple of shifts were working, and we did work
the two hour shift and it was absolutely fantastic. Lots
of people coming out to support the Boy Scouts. And
we're going to the actual name of his Scouting USA,
but there's no law that can make me say that.
So lots of people coming out supporting the Boy Scouts
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and that sort of stuff, and it's a very festive,
family nice I mean, it was just it was like
out of a movie. It was so fantastic. But anyway,
I was out of life twenty years ago. It's great.
I love that. Yeah, it was really really great. It's
so wholesome. But there was But it was like the
first time my son has ever done any sort of
like he actually said to me, he said, have you
ever worked retail? My thirteen year old says to me,
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I said, I did. Briefly. I worked at a giant
hardware store kind of like a home depot sort of
place in Kansas City for like six months. It's the
only retail I've ever worked in my life, although this
job is a bit like that, although we don't have
to do it face to face very much. But so
I'm running around and help bay. Can I help you
with that? Well, let me know if you make a decision.
(08:13):
We're right over here. If you need to help carrying it.
Blah blah blah, you want a fresh cut on that,
blah blah blah. Doing the whole thing. We're working my magic,
very nice. My son got to see an interaction between
and I wasn't exactly sure. It was a very old
guy and not quite as old woman, but also old,
and I wasn't quite sure if the relationship with husband
wife like seventy five and fifty five, or father daughter.
(08:40):
When I retold the story to someone else after they left,
he said had to be father daughter. No wife would
put up with that anyway. So they're looking at the
tree and they're kind of getting it, and I just
walk up to him, and the old guy says, would
you just listen to me for a second. How about
you listen to me for one second? Own that tone
of voice to the woman, And she looks at me
(09:00):
and kind of rolls her eyes we're shopping for a
Christmas tree. Is the context here, surrounded by children who
are boy scouts. Oh oh, you gotta pity that person.
But she looked at me and I got I didn't
make any facial expressions. She rolled her eyes just a
little bit. He was very, very agitated about something, and
(09:21):
I think I think dude, I was talking to his right.
It almost had to be father daughter. Couldn't have been
a husband wife. She would have left a long time
ago if that was his ricked routine. Wow, I guess
he didn't want a Douglas fir huh apparently not Yeah,
Douglas for my ass. He's saying, right, Oh, that's it's
(09:45):
we all run into this now and then. Sometimes i'm
that person, and usually it's other things you're agitated about
from yesterday, earlier, always, or whatever. But when you come
across somebody and they're that agitated about something and it's
incongruent with whatever the situation is, So he's so striking
ro whether it's the airport or a restaurant or whatever
(10:07):
the situation is, would you just listen for one time,
one second, listen to me. Oh, maybe she doesn't listen
to him, and did you consider that maybe maybe she
hasn't been listening to him for like fifty seven years,
and he's at it, and finally, and finally they're at
the Christmas tree lot, surrounded by the Scouts. He thought,
now is the time to take my stand. Well, you're
(10:30):
a daughter, Katie. Yeah, you got my guess, husband, wife
or father daughter. It's got to be father daughter and
now it's not. I don't think that's I think so, yeah,
you think I think she would have put up with
that all these years though maybe she's like twenty years younger.
Did he seem like maybe he's got a lot of money.
(10:52):
I don't have no idea about that, And maybe he
just turned mean. That happens too with a certain percentage
of guys as they get older, they turn mean. Yeah,
an interesting for it, but it's terrible. I had the
opposite situation. There was another old guy helped and he
was he was pretty old. I could tell he was
pretty old. And I carried the tree to his car
and I'm tying it down. He said, I used to
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sell Christmas trees. Of course it was. He had to
tie him to the fender. Back then. It was in
the forties. I said, how old were you? A few
if I might ask, he said, I'm ninety three, ninety three.
He was selling Christmas trees and tie into the fenders
of big cars back in the forties. Front and back. Yeah,
I can't picture it. And we had quite the long conversation,
(11:33):
and he was physically and mentally like a seventy year
old or sixty really mentally and still driving. Got in
his car and drove off with this Christmas tree in
the trunk. Ninety three years old man. And I said,
I said, I gotta ask you. I said, so, have
you just lived a pretty clean life, like no smoking,
nooid drink. He said, I'd drink occasionally, but I never smoked.
(11:54):
Both my parents died of cancer from smoking. And I
said I never smoked. And I said, oh, doctor, say
that the best two things you can do is don't
smoke and have good genetics. He said, I got good genetics.
My uncle or whatever live to be ninety eight or
something like that. When I to man, is something be
ninety He's got thirty three more years than I've got,
and he's still doing everything he wants to do. Apparently, well,
(12:15):
the fact that that guy might have sold a Christmas
tree to my child dad, who just turned eighty five.
I mean, that's just amazing. Yeah, man, the blessing of
good genetics, I guess. But anyway, he was, you know,
he was old, perfectly cheery, having a good time talking
to people. Thinking the boy scouts. You got the other
guy yelling at his daughter wife for some reason over
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to'll be right. Remember I took the test to be
a mandated reporter. Was I supposed to call the police
or intervene or something like that? In a relationship owner?
I don't think a hole is one of the things
you're mandated to report. I mean I should have stepped
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in there with the clipboard. Is he of using you?
Do you like to give some testimony? We've got more
on the waist to hear arm Strong. China has just
built the biggest power grid the world has ever seen,
by a lot, by a lot, in their effort to
dominate us in AI. More on that coming up. Hey Michael,
(14:01):
get this sports music Reddy? Would you also coming up?
I'm looking forward to it reminds me of the Internet meme,
how it's started and how it's going now or whatever
it is. Number one, the alliance between the left and Islamists,
the Red Green Alliance, is starting to fray, notably in
Britain in somewhat hilarious fashion. Also, Canada just announced, Yeah,
(14:24):
we've completely changed our mind about the climate change thing.
So interesting stuff, right, But first, because I like to
give ivy names to everything up, Michael's got is he
can't find it. Look on his face. Well, we use
the same filing system as the government of California. Doesn't work,
hasn't worked, never worked, Rob spend half a billion dollars
(14:46):
to replace it with something else that doesn't work. Do
you have it? Michael? It's football? What go ahead?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
It's football follies. You know that's pretty good, very serious
sounding Metred higher action. This Saturday number too far off?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I got number live out whatever the hell? All right, hey,
you stop, it's annoying. So, first of all, shocking story
from the world to college football University of Michigan, the Wolverines.
They hated Wolverine sorry, fired their football coach for an
inappropriate relationship with a staffer. Getting fired. I understood, he
got arrested. Why did he get arrested? Well, right, we
(15:33):
were getting gonna get there. Later that day he got
arrested for assault. So here's my entirely speculative timeline. He's
having a consensual adult relationship with a staffer. But that's
against the rules for some pretty good reasons in football,
I think. But anyway, to me, consenting adults can do
(15:54):
whatever they want, whether they work together or not. If
it affects the workplace, then you have an issue. If
they can pull it off without affecting the workplace, then
let's get it on. Anyway, I'll get it on. So
somebody's somebody outed him, reported the relationship, and there was
some aspect of that that this guy knew who it was.
(16:16):
So this person narked him out, ratted him out, cost
him his five and a half million dollars salary that
increases five hundred thousand dollars every year. And if you
don't know, sports, one of the most prestigious coaching jobs
in America. Oh yeah, absolutely in the tu's yeah, top ten.
And so the coach sought him ountain punched him in
(16:38):
the head. That is like an entirely speculative speculation. That
makes sense. He said, none, ya as he punched the
guy in the head. None of your business. Yeah, yeah,
but now he's he's sitting in a jail in ann
Arbor or something like that, or will be anyway that.
And then this story San Diego Chargers fans, I used
(17:00):
to say, say, Los Angeles Chargers, crazy story. Quinton Jammer
one of the great names in the history of sports,
the cornerback for years for the Chargers, he admitted to
playing hammered drunk for at least half the team's regular
season games in twenty eleven. That's amazing to me. I
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don't know how you can do that. Remember when the
story came out a couple of years ago that a
lot of NBA players were playing high. Yeah, and I
don't have much experience with marijuana, but like I can
believe that that's it, like gets you in the zone
and everything. I don't know how you can play football drunk.
I just can't even imagine how you can do that.
I've been drunk, I played football. I can't imagine combining
to two thousands. Yeah, of course, nothing will ever beat
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doc Ellis throwing what was it a one or two
hitter on LSD in the seventies for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
But yeah, he says he took the bottle as a
way to deal with his MESSI divorce. It was really traumatic.
He could only cope with alcohol. He played eight games
hammered drunk, he said, I played well and all but
one of them. But he's moved on from the booze.
I don't know how you physically could do that. I
(18:09):
could picture it. Wow, you'd have to be just drunk enough.
Armstrong and Getty. From the breaking news, I don't quite understand,
but it sounds like it could be a big deal
category breaking news. Disney is going to license its characters
to open AI's video platform. So they because there's there's
(18:32):
been all kinds of copyright issues around this artificial intelligence stuff,
and our our thinking all along has been you can't
stop it. I mean, good luck. Yeah, yeah, But so
Disney has actually legally licensed their characters to open AI,
which probably so could I create a video manifestation of
(18:55):
the infamous joke about Mickey and Minnie and Goofy. He's
blanking Goofy, She's blanking Goofy. Mickey. You can't leave many
because she's got mental illness problems. I didn't say she
is mentally ill. I said she was blanking goofy exactly,
which is a pillarius. Yes, and I could illustrate that
(19:15):
with the aid of chat GPT. I don't know if
I need to say, good good job, Disney, what a
wonderful time to be alive. But he sadly, Michael, it's
a inspire that's gonna be one of the first things
anybody does with the video generator on AI. Now that
that is I read got peace in the Wall Street
General today advocating the idea that AI is going to
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be a boon to creativity because it removes the drudgery
and it's just pure expressiveness now and I read it
and no, no, no, you're working too hard and speaking
of AI. So this is all unfolding so fast. Chat
GPT just landed in twenty two, twenty two and made
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everybody in the world has been following this go what
were there already? And it's just been a full speed
foot race and money race ever since by Elon and
Zuckerberg and China China. Not that long ago where Wall
Street Journal was reporting China had a whole of country
effort to try to catch up. Then like two months
(20:22):
later it was we can't catch up. We've given up
on that. What we're going to try to do is
we're going to take the AI the United States builds,
because we'll never catch up to them, but we're gonna
use it better. And that's what this story is all about.
China's AI power play. China now has the biggest power
grid the world has ever seen. Between twenty ten and
(20:43):
last year, it's power production increased by more than the
rest of the world combined. That is a stunning number,
which of course includes the United States and all your
first world countries in Europe and India and everybody else.
I'll say it again. Between twenty ten and two twenty
twenty four, China its power production increased more than the
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rest of the world combined. Last year, China generated more
than twice as much electricity as the United States, twice
as much They used to be behind us not that
many years ago. Right, some Chinese data centers are now
paying less than half of what Americans pay for electricity
in China. And in case you don't know this, AI
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sucks tremendous amounts of juice. And that's one of the
biggest things that's going to hold us back and one
of the biggest problems to overcome. It's one of the
reasons that Elon is building one of the biggest power
centers ever in the United States, I think in Texas
or someplace to try to power the AI that they're
building well. And as we discussed yesterday, the administration, the
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Secretary of Energy was talking about helping get going at
least ten significant nuclear reactors around the country as we
bring nukeback. We're behind currently, this is just the beginning.
Morgan Stanley forecast that China will spend some five hundred
and sixty billion, so that's over half a trillion on
grid projects in the next five years. That's up almost
fifty percent from the previous five years, when as you heard,
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they built more than the entire world combined. They're like, well,
they're doubling down on that, or fifty percent more down
on that. Goldman Sachs predicts that by twenty thirty, China
will have about four hundred gigawatts of spare capacity. That's
three times the world's expected data center power demand at
(22:35):
that time. I mean, these numbers are stunning. Can they
ship electricity via TAMU and undercut all of our markets
and ruin US with electricity too. How does that work?
I don't know. I think you need wires ultimately for
being a free human being on earth. Clearly, representative government
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democracies self governance is a better system and than autocerus.
But for the race for AI or a number of
other things, it helps to be an autocracy. Certainly for infrastructure,
I would argue that there's so much intellectual freedom needed
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for developing new technologies that they will always lag in that.
That's why they're all in the United States right now, right,
that's right. They come to the United States and steal
our technology with their thousands and thousands of Chinese spies
who are even now at your local university. But in
terms of like building infrastructure decisiveness, yeah, autocracies are really
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impressive at times. I wonder who gets credit for this?
Is it President g or one of his advisors a
pretty clever plan to just say, WHOA, Well, we're never
going to catch the United States in like the developing
the AI, but we could kick their ass in the
being able to use it, building robots and systems that
utilize AI. That's what if they're working on you and
having the electricity to be able to pull it off
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and bet there aren't a lot of I'm being sarcastic,
environmental studies that go into They talk about some portion
of China a word I can't pronounce. That's like Texas.
It's a big, vast, not very agriculturally, you know, valuable
chunk of land where nobody lives, and they're putting these
giant data centers there. I think they did a lot
(24:21):
of environmental studies about whether or not some bird or
mouse you've never heard of, this environment is going to
be disrupted if you put that plant there, right, then
you got weager labor building the thing for free. Right Yeah.
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(24:45):
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my friends. One more brief thing about China's the AI.
There's some thinking that President She and the Communist Party
is really worried about AI because of AI is what
people think it's to be. Once AGI or ASI takes off,
it might decide that Communist Party is not the best
way to go forward and do its own thing. Oh,
(26:10):
they can't control it, and you know, controlling everyone and
everything is kind of the whole communist deal. Well sare
you get your agi? It'll say communism, that's interesting. Let
me take a look at this, and in the tenth
of a millionth of a blink of an eye, it'll say,
whoa that? Many people? Whoa? It fails every time? Wait,
wait about that? What are we doing here? And it'll
(26:32):
it'll end it right then? Who knows? Who knows? Well?
Looking to our north and our beloved fifty first state Canada,
that kind of came and went, didn't it. Where's America's hat? Canada?
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Exactly? So they begin this piece describing this Northern Gateway
project was going to be a seven hundred and fifteen
mile pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia. The conservative government
of Stephen Harper way back in the day well in
twenty fourteen, got the project moving, but the company that
wanted to actually build a pipeline was told it could
only do so if it met two hundred and nine
(27:06):
different conditions set by the National Energy Board, a regulatory agency,
And then the lawsuits piled up, and finally Little Panty
wearing Justin Trudeau killed the project in twenty sixteen. His girlfriend,
Katie astronaut Katie Perry does not like that sort of language. Yeah,
that's fine, great, super he can borrow your panties anyway. Back,
(27:30):
just back then, thirty seven percent of Canadian supported Northern Gateway.
You know, the whole climate change, green energy cult thing
was had fooled so many people. But now sixty percent
say they favor building new pipelines. This is not a
subtle shift. This is a country that has changed its mind,
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writes this reporter for the Free Press. As a result,
Mark Carney has a lot more wiggle room to fast
track major energy and an infrastructure projects than any prime
minister in more than a decade. And they are stomping
on the gas pun intended. According to a poll in July,
only four percent of Canadians saw climate change as their
(28:12):
top concern. Wow. Four percent, down from twenty nine percent
six years ago. Yeah. And you know in the United
States is we pointed out many, many times, many election cycles,
even with all the talk about it, when you ever
when you actually ranked it, it never ranked very high
in the United States as a concern for most people.
Here's another, for instance, different wording. If you have a
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master's degree from certain universities, of course you think about
it all the time, but the rest of the country
was not thinking about it much. Well, the media was,
and our movie stars were, and the activist class were,
and their influence is way outsized anyway. A different survey
asked is the environment a top issue facing Canada? Eighteen
percent said yes this past September. It was forty two
(28:57):
percent six years ago when little Greta Tuneberg was lecturing
all of us. So that's how it started. Here's how
it's going. Similarly, and this one delights me more than
I can tell you. This brings me more cheer than
the tinkle of the Christmas bells and the twinkling of
the lights. The Leftist Islamist Alliance is having some issues,
(29:20):
especially in Great Britain. We might have a few more
months to get our affairs in order, writs the fabulous
Nellie Bowls. There's a new party in the UK called
Your Party. How jivy marketing issue? Is that your party? Oh?
They're my party. That's the party I'm gonna support because
(29:41):
their name is your party. Good Lord, those people should
not be allowed to vote anyways, it blends hard left
ideology and is lombist factions seriously, but they faced the
leadership class between founders Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana at
their inaugural conference last week. The event closed with the
(30:04):
song Imagine a traditional, empty headed, lame, traditional progressive anthem,
whose lyrics prompt one to imagine a number of things,
including no religion, too great melody, stupid lyrics, Oh yeah,
yeah yeah. Anyway, so no religion. Well that didn't go
(30:25):
over very well with the UK's Muslim leaders. They were offended.
I'm Corbin, and I'm going to quote in Ellie Bowles
here because she's brilliant. Corbin, who is basically showing up
to work in a Hesbola commander uniform these days, has
been confronted by left wing advocates and activists who accuse
him of not being anti Zionist enough, prompting his exasperated reply,
(30:46):
I'm fed up with being painted in the corner of
being some kind of prosionist and a trans member of
your party stood on stage and accused two MP's of transphobia.
When this party started, it included two MP's or openly transphobic.
We have to set clear criteria for who we will
and will not work with. Well, they're openly transphobic, because
(31:07):
the freaking Muslims. Yeah, a lot of your hardcore Muslims
are definitely transphobic. The leftists and Islamists agree that the
Jews are the root of all evil, sure, but they
don't agree on almost anything else. Will they be able
to make their unlikely love work based on that one
strong common bond or will this marriage fat fracture over
their lack of agreement on most other things. You may
(31:29):
say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
Tune in next week for an update. Oh my god.
You know, if it were not effective in toppling institutions
of Western civilization, the Red Green Alliances is called, would
be just hilarious. But it's the old and you see
(31:52):
this in revolutions all the time. Islamists say I want
to tear down Western civilization, and the woke is say,
wait a minute, I do too. Let's work together, each
side thinking after the wonderful revolution will take power and
we'll shove them to the side. But you never know
who's gonna win in those battles. Sometimes like in Iran,
it's these homists. You got the wocists versus the fundamentalists.
(32:14):
I like the side with guns and the willingness to
be very violent. Yeah. I like the side that thinks
killing in the name of their cause is righteous versus
the multi colored hair. Crowd words or violence crowd update, Oh,
this is violence answers the Islamists with violence. An update
(32:34):
at some point on the whole Australia trying to shut
down social media for kids and everything else. Stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
The woman gave birth in the back of one of
those self driving taxis. No driver in the car, the
company says. The woman was in labor and hailed a Weaimo,
a self driving taxi in San Francisco. The baby was
delivered in the backseat. Did it on her own? The
company said it's rider support team detected unusual activity inside
the vehicle, called the passenger and nine one one the
mother and newborn arriving safely at the hospital.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
So the Waimo was able to detect unusual activity like
a woman laying on the back seat with one leg
up on the foot rest and a baby coming out
her Yeah, that is unusual activity. The algorithm clicked. Yes, indeed,
uh huh. You know, I think if I'm in the
situation where I'm about to have a baby, based on
my experiences like cab drivers in San Francisco. Course it's
(33:28):
the uber era. I'll take my chances alone in the
back of an uber rather than the guy that picks
me up that's helping me. Judgmental. That's terrible, darn right
it is. Yeah, yeah, it bothers me. How the evening
news has become kind of here's the most interesting YouTube
(33:48):
clips that happened today, sure, and weather and weather. So
here's a plane that landed on the highway and somebody
happened to get it on their iPhone because they had
their iPhone out recording something else. So now we're going
to make it a news story. If somebody hadn't had
their iPhone out and gotten the video, we wouldn't have
put it in the news. We're only showing you this
because we have video of it, and there's like five
(34:08):
of those every night on your evening newscasts. And then
if it's really good footage like the plane landing on
the car, they concoct some sort of follow up the
next day so they can show it a couple of
more price. Yeah, here's one that will be on tonight.
Here's a guy in some country where he's playing pickleball.
And you know sometimes when you see an athlete make
that amazing play where you like jump over the railing
(34:30):
to make the catch or whatever. He did that playing pickleball.
He jumped over the railing to get the ball, except
he apparently had forgotten that he was playing pickle ball
on a court that was at the top of a building,
and he just jumped off the building and plunged to
his death. Wow. Now that's a clip and they have
it on video. I was thinking that I wonder if
(34:51):
some sort of news site source will emerge, maybe Barry
Weiss will do this where most of us could count
on them to try to bring us. Here's like, give
us fifteen minutes of your time. Here's everything you actually
need to know that happened today. No, staff of most
significance to your life, probably to most people's lives. Yeah,
(35:14):
it'd be some sort of a bell curve thing. This
is the most significance to most people's lives. With No,
we're not putting any we're not pushing it any direction.
Because I remember the great James Lindsay, who we follow
about Wolke stuff. He's a PhD in math, and he
did some sort of calculation. I have no idea how
he did this, where he claims he figured through math
that it takes you about ten minutes to take in
(35:34):
all the news you really need every single day. Everything
else's opinion and entertainment, which is fine. We're in the
opinion and entertainment business, and I take in lots of
opinion and entertainment too, But I also want to know
what's the important stuff that happened today. And if there
was one source I could go to that would more
or less guarantee everything big that I need to know here,
it is right here. I think that that outlet or
(35:56):
site would print money if you could develop a reputation
for being pretty good at it. Hmmm, how yeah, But
you'll merge like that, because I mean, that's what Walter
Cronkite was, you know, my entire childhood. More or less,
I think you might be a little too optimistic about
people's tastes. But on the other hand, if their marketing
(36:18):
was good enough and enough people heard about it, I
would agree it would be very successful. Maybe that's what
we ought to do ten minutes a day. That sounds
great to me, wouldn't you agree that that's what the
evening newscast was like in the seventies or probably sixties
and fifties. Also, more or less, that was the effort. Yeah,
that was the effort. It was imperfect, obviously, but they're
human beings in charge. Less per or less stupid celebrity
(36:38):
stories or the you know, video of the day we
caught here's a cow running through the street of a city.
And significantly, the news departments were under no pressure whatsoever
to make a profit, right, which they were seen as
just if you are a grown up network, you have
to do good, solid news. Otherwise it's shameful. But we
(37:02):
have no shame anymore. We've stamped it out and that's
why we're showing you now a cow running through a city.
This cow got loose and blah blah blah, and a
plane landing in a car. And the next day the
nine to one one call has been released. Yeah, I'm
on the highway. There's a plane landing in a car. Yeah,
what'd you think they were gonna freaking say? That's no
reason to show the video again. You're pandering bastards. If
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
The Christmas season is in full swing. Everybody's enjoying their
favorite Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Music, right.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's fun.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
But I noticed that this year they've updated a lot
of classic songs to make them feel a little more modern.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
For instance, instead of It's beginning to look a lot
like Christmas, there's it's low key giving Christmas.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Right now. Wow, there's another.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Insteadive, I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus. There's Mommy and Santaur.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
In a situation ship.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And finally, instead of the twelve Days of Christmas, there's
the six seven Days of Christmas.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Oh. I got a lot of mileage with six seven
jokes last night working at the Christmas Tree. Lot lots
of mileage. Oh. The whole thing sickens me. I got
a lot of laughs. I got groans and laughs because
he got the trees lined up, and he got four
to five foot trees, then he got six to seven
(01:23):
foot trees. So I stood in a six to seven
lot pointing at the sign lot. Oh more on that
in just a second. So, the biggest Congress political story,
not like electoral but like legislation political story going on
right now is that, right Congress legislates I almost forgot.
(01:46):
Not really, they don't really, They go through some motions
down then, but it's the whole Obamacare subsidy story that
I'm so tired of hearing anything about. But anyway, here's
the latest on that, and we'll discuss briefly.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
As of right now, it does appear that this plan
backed by Democrats and the ones supported by Republicans. Both
of those plants appear unlikely to pass right now. The
Democrats supported plan would extend ACA subsidies for three more years,
but some Republicans say it does not do enough to
combat fraud and it costs too much. On the other
(02:16):
side of this, the Republican plan eliminates those subsidies and
redirects the savings into health savings accounts also known as
HSA's for people buying bronze or catastrophic plans.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So I find this story so annoying. I assume that
if you follow us in the news, you understand what's
going on here. So people who have their healthcare through
Obamacare got a break during COVID that the Biden administration
thought was a good idea, and then it was supposed
(02:52):
to end when COVID was over. So it's supposed to
end soon and supposed to go back to the price
it was before that Democrats the law Democrats came up with.
It's supposed to go back to their numbers. But it's
being portrayed as a raise in the cost of your
healthcare to a small portion of America. We're not even
talking about that many people, right, It's just a handful
(03:15):
of million people that this even the whole healthcare thing
always drives me crazy because the vast majority of us
still get a job that provides u healthcare, right sure, Yeah,
And we're always talking about these little portions of people anyway,
So the numbers are going to go back to what
Obama and Biden wanted them to be, right for the pandemic,
(03:38):
and now any attempt to fix that is seen as
is like pushing old people downstairs, or starving in sick babies,
or whatever the hell you're intentionally yanking the medicine away
from sick babies. Yeah. Indeed, finally, the GOP which is
so bad at messaging it's a joke. They are the
New York Jets of messaging lately. Part of it might
be it's difficult for them to get the word out
(03:59):
because the mainstream you won't report what they say. But
finally I heard Lindsey Graham say, and I'm gonna ask
for forty six here, Michael. Finally last night I heard
Lindsay Graham say, those are extra subsidies for COVID. COVID
is over. I mean that simple is great. And then
with a little more fleshing out Ron Johnson of Wisconsin here.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
The Obamacare subsidies will continue. What we are talking about
are the temporary COVID enhanced subsidies that Democrats voted for.
The Democrats scheduled to expire at the end of this year.
We're not talking about anything that's going to impact people
on employer sponsored healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid VA. We're talking about
the supposedly twenty four million people on the exchanges. The
(04:44):
vast majority of those will just revert to the original
Obamacare substace. If you don't like that, blame Obamacare, Blame Democrats.
If your premiums are going up, it's not because the
enhanced subsetas are going away. It's because the faulty design
of Obamacare driving them.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, Haryl Loujah, you'd think they could do a better
job on the talk shows or whenever they're asked about
this of pushing back from Marjorie Taylor. Green got so
much attention while back now about how my own kids
their healthcare is about to go up blank percent and
they can't afford it. Somebody should have sent to her,
(05:21):
President Trump should Is that to her?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Now?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It's going back to what it was before those were
the numbers Barack Obama and Joe Biden came up with
you are you mad with their numbers? You were happy
with them before you signed up for it before that
was their numbers. And I appreciated Ron Johnson throwing in
the fact that Obamacare is a miserable failure. It is
a horrific money pit that's done nothing but profit the
(05:42):
giant insurance corporations who are in on writing it. And
Craig the healthcare guru, told us from the beginning would
be the result, but they just and look, I realized
this is not as beautifully stupidly simple a message as
they're gonna take away your healthcare, which is tough to
beat in our politics or modern politics, but you can
(06:02):
communicate that, and if you can't, we got to give
up on self governance and get a king. Well. It
often goes back to one of my favorite books, The
High Cost of Good Intentions, tracking this going all the
way back to the Revolutionary War. Anytime you offer anything
to people, it grows and grows and grows and is
always permanent. It starts as a temporary this, and it
(06:26):
ends up a permanent that for many more people. It's
just the high cost of good intentions. It's just the
way bureaucracies work. It's the way apparently democratic politics works.
And you can quite literally give people a benefit of
some sort for a week, and if you remove the
benefit at the end of the week, people will weep
(06:47):
and screech and tear their garments as if you're stealing
their children from them. It's just unbelievable. Everything that flows
two taxpayers is permanent always. So there's a Republican bill
and a Dimocratic bill, as you heard there. Neither one
are going to pass today, and so this conversation will
be around for a while. I wanted to mention this.
I work at the Christmas Tree lot with my son
(07:08):
last night. He's in Boy Scouts and that's a Boy
Scout Christmas Tree lot. And so we did our got
a couple of shifts were working, and we did work
the two hour shift and it was absolutely fantastic. Lots
of people coming out to support the Boy Scouts. And
we're going to the actual name of his Scouting USA,
but there's no law that can make me say that.
So lots of people coming out supporting the Boy Scouts
(07:30):
and that sort of stuff, and it's a very festive,
family nice I mean, it was just it was like
out of a movie. It was so fantastic. But anyway,
I was out of life twenty years ago. It's great.
I love that. Yeah, it was really really great. It's
so wholesome. But there was But it was like the
first time my son has ever done any sort of
like he actually said to me, he said, have you
ever worked retail? My thirteen year old says to me,
(07:52):
I said, I did. Briefly. I worked at a giant
hardware store kind of like a home depot sort of
place in Kansas City for like six months. It's the
only retail I've ever worked in my life, although this
job is a bit like that, although we don't have
to do it face to face very much. But so
I'm running around and help bay. Can I help you
with that? Well, let me know if you make a decision.
(08:13):
We're right over here. If you need to help carrying it.
Blah blah blah, you want a fresh cut on that,
blah blah blah. Doing the whole thing. We're working my magic,
very nice. My son got to see an interaction between
and I wasn't exactly sure. It was a very old
guy and not quite as old woman, but also old,
and I wasn't quite sure if the relationship with husband
wife like seventy five and fifty five, or father daughter.
(08:40):
When I retold the story to someone else after they left,
he said had to be father daughter. No wife would
put up with that anyway. So they're looking at the
tree and they're kind of getting it, and I just
walk up to him, and the old guy says, would
you just listen to me for a second. How about
you listen to me for one second? Own that tone
of voice to the woman, And she looks at me
(09:00):
and kind of rolls her eyes we're shopping for a
Christmas tree. Is the context here, surrounded by children who
are boy scouts. Oh oh, you gotta pity that person.
But she looked at me and I got I didn't
make any facial expressions. She rolled her eyes just a
little bit. He was very, very agitated about something, and
(09:21):
I think I think dude, I was talking to his right.
It almost had to be father daughter. Couldn't have been
a husband wife. She would have left a long time
ago if that was his ricked routine. Wow, I guess
he didn't want a Douglas fir huh apparently not Yeah,
Douglas for my ass. He's saying, right, Oh, that's it's
(09:45):
we all run into this now and then. Sometimes i'm
that person, and usually it's other things you're agitated about
from yesterday, earlier, always, or whatever. But when you come
across somebody and they're that agitated about something and it's
incongruent with whatever the situation is, So he's so striking
ro whether it's the airport or a restaurant or whatever
(10:07):
the situation is, would you just listen for one time,
one second, listen to me. Oh, maybe she doesn't listen
to him, and did you consider that maybe maybe she
hasn't been listening to him for like fifty seven years,
and he's at it, and finally, and finally they're at
the Christmas tree lot, surrounded by the Scouts. He thought,
now is the time to take my stand. Well, you're
(10:30):
a daughter, Katie. Yeah, you got my guess, husband, wife
or father daughter. It's got to be father daughter and
now it's not. I don't think that's I think so, yeah,
you think I think she would have put up with
that all these years though maybe she's like twenty years younger.
Did he seem like maybe he's got a lot of money.
(10:52):
I don't have no idea about that, And maybe he
just turned mean. That happens too with a certain percentage
of guys as they get older, they turn mean. Yeah,
an interesting for it, but it's terrible. I had the
opposite situation. There was another old guy helped and he
was he was pretty old. I could tell he was
pretty old. And I carried the tree to his car
and I'm tying it down. He said, I used to
(11:13):
sell Christmas trees. Of course it was. He had to
tie him to the fender. Back then. It was in
the forties. I said, how old were you? A few
if I might ask, he said, I'm ninety three, ninety three.
He was selling Christmas trees and tie into the fenders
of big cars back in the forties. Front and back. Yeah,
I can't picture it. And we had quite the long conversation,
(11:33):
and he was physically and mentally like a seventy year
old or sixty really mentally and still driving. Got in
his car and drove off with this Christmas tree in
the trunk. Ninety three years old man. And I said,
I said, I gotta ask you. I said, so, have
you just lived a pretty clean life, like no smoking,
nooid drink. He said, I'd drink occasionally, but I never smoked.
(11:54):
Both my parents died of cancer from smoking. And I
said I never smoked. And I said, oh, doctor, say
that the best two things you can do is don't
smoke and have good genetics. He said, I got good genetics.
My uncle or whatever live to be ninety eight or
something like that. When I to man, is something be
ninety He's got thirty three more years than I've got,
and he's still doing everything he wants to do. Apparently, well,
(12:15):
the fact that that guy might have sold a Christmas
tree to my child dad, who just turned eighty five.
I mean, that's just amazing. Yeah, man, the blessing of
good genetics, I guess. But anyway, he was, you know,
he was old, perfectly cheery, having a good time talking
to people. Thinking the boy scouts. You got the other
guy yelling at his daughter wife for some reason over
(12:37):
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a mandated reporter. Was I supposed to call the police
or intervene or something like that? In a relationship owner?
I don't think a hole is one of the things
you're mandated to report. I mean I should have stepped
(13:39):
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on the waist to hear arm Strong. China has just
built the biggest power grid the world has ever seen,
by a lot, by a lot, in their effort to
dominate us in AI. More on that coming up. Hey Michael,
(14:01):
get this sports music Reddy? Would you also coming up?
I'm looking forward to it reminds me of the Internet meme,
how it's started and how it's going now or whatever
it is. Number one, the alliance between the left and Islamists,
the Red Green Alliance, is starting to fray, notably in
Britain in somewhat hilarious fashion. Also, Canada just announced, Yeah,
(14:24):
we've completely changed our mind about the climate change thing.
So interesting stuff, right, But first, because I like to
give ivy names to everything up, Michael's got is he
can't find it. Look on his face. Well, we use
the same filing system as the government of California. Doesn't work,
hasn't worked, never worked, Rob spend half a billion dollars
(14:46):
to replace it with something else that doesn't work. Do
you have it? Michael? It's football? What go ahead?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
It's football follies. You know that's pretty good, very serious
sounding Metred higher action. This Saturday number too far off?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
I got number live out whatever the hell? All right, hey,
you stop, it's annoying. So, first of all, shocking story
from the world to college football University of Michigan, the Wolverines.
They hated Wolverine sorry, fired their football coach for an
inappropriate relationship with a staffer. Getting fired. I understood, he
got arrested. Why did he get arrested? Well, right, we
(15:33):
were getting gonna get there. Later that day he got
arrested for assault. So here's my entirely speculative timeline. He's
having a consensual adult relationship with a staffer. But that's
against the rules for some pretty good reasons in football,
I think. But anyway, to me, consenting adults can do
(15:54):
whatever they want, whether they work together or not. If
it affects the workplace, then you have an issue. If
they can pull it off without affecting the workplace, then
let's get it on. Anyway, I'll get it on. So
somebody's somebody outed him, reported the relationship, and there was
some aspect of that that this guy knew who it was.
(16:16):
So this person narked him out, ratted him out, cost
him his five and a half million dollars salary that
increases five hundred thousand dollars every year. And if you
don't know, sports, one of the most prestigious coaching jobs
in America. Oh yeah, absolutely in the tu's yeah, top ten.
And so the coach sought him ountain punched him in
(16:38):
the head. That is like an entirely speculative speculation. That
makes sense. He said, none, ya as he punched the
guy in the head. None of your business. Yeah, yeah,
but now he's he's sitting in a jail in ann
Arbor or something like that, or will be anyway that.
And then this story San Diego Chargers fans, I used
(17:00):
to say, say, Los Angeles Chargers, crazy story. Quinton Jammer
one of the great names in the history of sports,
the cornerback for years for the Chargers, he admitted to
playing hammered drunk for at least half the team's regular
season games in twenty eleven. That's amazing to me. I
(17:23):
don't know how you can do that. Remember when the
story came out a couple of years ago that a
lot of NBA players were playing high. Yeah, and I
don't have much experience with marijuana, but like I can
believe that that's it, like gets you in the zone
and everything. I don't know how you can play football drunk.
I just can't even imagine how you can do that.
I've been drunk, I played football. I can't imagine combining
to two thousands. Yeah, of course, nothing will ever beat
(17:45):
doc Ellis throwing what was it a one or two
hitter on LSD in the seventies for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
But yeah, he says he took the bottle as a
way to deal with his MESSI divorce. It was really traumatic.
He could only cope with alcohol. He played eight games
hammered drunk, he said, I played well and all but
one of them. But he's moved on from the booze.
I don't know how you physically could do that. I
(18:09):
could picture it. Wow, you'd have to be just drunk enough.
Armstrong and Getty. From the breaking news, I don't quite understand,
but it sounds like it could be a big deal
category breaking news. Disney is going to license its characters
to open AI's video platform. So they because there's there's
(18:32):
been all kinds of copyright issues around this artificial intelligence stuff,
and our our thinking all along has been you can't
stop it. I mean, good luck. Yeah, yeah, But so
Disney has actually legally licensed their characters to open AI,
which probably so could I create a video manifestation of
(18:55):
the infamous joke about Mickey and Minnie and Goofy. He's
blanking Goofy, She's blanking Goofy. Mickey. You can't leave many
because she's got mental illness problems. I didn't say she
is mentally ill. I said she was blanking goofy exactly,
which is a pillarius. Yes, and I could illustrate that
(19:15):
with the aid of chat GPT. I don't know if
I need to say, good good job, Disney, what a
wonderful time to be alive. But he sadly, Michael, it's
a inspire that's gonna be one of the first things
anybody does with the video generator on AI. Now that
that is I read got peace in the Wall Street
General today advocating the idea that AI is going to
(19:39):
be a boon to creativity because it removes the drudgery
and it's just pure expressiveness now and I read it
and no, no, no, you're working too hard and speaking
of AI. So this is all unfolding so fast. Chat
GPT just landed in twenty two, twenty two and made
(20:01):
everybody in the world has been following this go what
were there already? And it's just been a full speed
foot race and money race ever since by Elon and
Zuckerberg and China China. Not that long ago where Wall
Street Journal was reporting China had a whole of country
effort to try to catch up. Then like two months
(20:22):
later it was we can't catch up. We've given up
on that. What we're going to try to do is
we're going to take the AI the United States builds,
because we'll never catch up to them, but we're gonna
use it better. And that's what this story is all about.
China's AI power play. China now has the biggest power
grid the world has ever seen. Between twenty ten and
(20:43):
last year, it's power production increased by more than the
rest of the world combined. That is a stunning number,
which of course includes the United States and all your
first world countries in Europe and India and everybody else.
I'll say it again. Between twenty ten and two twenty
twenty four, China its power production increased more than the
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rest of the world combined. Last year, China generated more
than twice as much electricity as the United States, twice
as much They used to be behind us not that
many years ago. Right, some Chinese data centers are now
paying less than half of what Americans pay for electricity
in China. And in case you don't know this, AI
(21:28):
sucks tremendous amounts of juice. And that's one of the
biggest things that's going to hold us back and one
of the biggest problems to overcome. It's one of the
reasons that Elon is building one of the biggest power
centers ever in the United States, I think in Texas
or someplace to try to power the AI that they're
building well. And as we discussed yesterday, the administration, the
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Secretary of Energy was talking about helping get going at
least ten significant nuclear reactors around the country as we
bring nukeback. We're behind currently, this is just the beginning.
Morgan Stanley forecast that China will spend some five hundred
and sixty billion, so that's over half a trillion on
grid projects in the next five years. That's up almost
fifty percent from the previous five years, when as you heard,
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they built more than the entire world combined. They're like, well,
they're doubling down on that, or fifty percent more down
on that. Goldman Sachs predicts that by twenty thirty, China
will have about four hundred gigawatts of spare capacity. That's
three times the world's expected data center power demand at
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that time. I mean, these numbers are stunning. Can they
ship electricity via TAMU and undercut all of our markets
and ruin US with electricity too. How does that work?
I don't know. I think you need wires ultimately for
being a free human being on earth. Clearly, representative government
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democracies self governance is a better system and than autocerus.
But for the race for AI or a number of
other things, it helps to be an autocracy. Certainly for infrastructure,
I would argue that there's so much intellectual freedom needed
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for developing new technologies that they will always lag in that.
That's why they're all in the United States right now, right,
that's right. They come to the United States and steal
our technology with their thousands and thousands of Chinese spies
who are even now at your local university. But in
terms of like building infrastructure decisiveness, yeah, autocracies are really
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impressive at times. I wonder who gets credit for this?
Is it President g or one of his advisors a
pretty clever plan to just say, WHOA, Well, we're never
going to catch the United States in like the developing
the AI, but we could kick their ass in the
being able to use it, building robots and systems that
utilize AI. That's what if they're working on you and
having the electricity to be able to pull it off
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and bet there aren't a lot of I'm being sarcastic,
environmental studies that go into They talk about some portion
of China a word I can't pronounce. That's like Texas.
It's a big, vast, not very agriculturally, you know, valuable
chunk of land where nobody lives, and they're putting these
giant data centers there. I think they did a lot
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of environmental studies about whether or not some bird or
mouse you've never heard of, this environment is going to
be disrupted if you put that plant there, right, then
you got weager labor building the thing for free. Right Yeah.
Wow Wow. Speaking of which, Canada with an about face
on a major energy project, more or less abandoning the
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my friends. One more brief thing about China's the AI.
There's some thinking that President She and the Communist Party
is really worried about AI because of AI is what
people think it's to be. Once AGI or ASI takes off,
it might decide that Communist Party is not the best
way to go forward and do its own thing. Oh,
(26:10):
they can't control it, and you know, controlling everyone and
everything is kind of the whole communist deal. Well sare
you get your agi? It'll say communism, that's interesting. Let
me take a look at this, and in the tenth
of a millionth of a blink of an eye, it'll say,
whoa that? Many people? Whoa? It fails every time? Wait,
wait about that? What are we doing here? And it'll
(26:32):
it'll end it right then? Who knows? Who knows? Well?
Looking to our north and our beloved fifty first state Canada,
that kind of came and went, didn't it. Where's America's hat? Canada?
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Exactly? So they begin this piece describing this Northern Gateway
project was going to be a seven hundred and fifteen
mile pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia. The conservative government
of Stephen Harper way back in the day well in
twenty fourteen, got the project moving, but the company that
wanted to actually build a pipeline was told it could
only do so if it met two hundred and nine
(27:06):
different conditions set by the National Energy Board, a regulatory agency,
And then the lawsuits piled up, and finally Little Panty
wearing Justin Trudeau killed the project in twenty sixteen. His girlfriend,
Katie astronaut Katie Perry does not like that sort of language. Yeah,
that's fine, great, super he can borrow your panties anyway. Back,
(27:30):
just back then, thirty seven percent of Canadian supported Northern Gateway.
You know, the whole climate change, green energy cult thing
was had fooled so many people. But now sixty percent
say they favor building new pipelines. This is not a
subtle shift. This is a country that has changed its mind,
(27:51):
writes this reporter for the Free Press. As a result,
Mark Carney has a lot more wiggle room to fast
track major energy and an infrastructure projects than any prime
minister in more than a decade. And they are stomping
on the gas pun intended. According to a poll in July,
only four percent of Canadians saw climate change as their
(28:12):
top concern. Wow. Four percent, down from twenty nine percent
six years ago. Yeah. And you know in the United
States is we pointed out many, many times, many election cycles,
even with all the talk about it, when you ever
when you actually ranked it, it never ranked very high
in the United States as a concern for most people.
Here's another, for instance, different wording. If you have a
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master's degree from certain universities, of course you think about
it all the time, but the rest of the country
was not thinking about it much. Well, the media was,
and our movie stars were, and the activist class were,
and their influence is way outsized anyway. A different survey
asked is the environment a top issue facing Canada? Eighteen
percent said yes this past September. It was forty two
(28:57):
percent six years ago when little Greta Tuneberg was lecturing
all of us. So that's how it started. Here's how
it's going. Similarly, and this one delights me more than
I can tell you. This brings me more cheer than
the tinkle of the Christmas bells and the twinkling of
the lights. The Leftist Islamist Alliance is having some issues,
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especially in Great Britain. We might have a few more
months to get our affairs in order, writs the fabulous
Nellie Bowls. There's a new party in the UK called
Your Party. How jivy marketing issue? Is that your party? Oh?
They're my party. That's the party I'm gonna support because
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their name is your party. Good Lord, those people should
not be allowed to vote anyways, it blends hard left
ideology and is lombist factions seriously, but they faced the
leadership class between founders Jeremy Corbyn and Zara Sultana at
their inaugural conference last week. The event closed with the
(30:04):
song Imagine a traditional, empty headed, lame, traditional progressive anthem,
whose lyrics prompt one to imagine a number of things,
including no religion, too great melody, stupid lyrics, Oh yeah,
yeah yeah. Anyway, so no religion. Well that didn't go
(30:25):
over very well with the UK's Muslim leaders. They were offended.
I'm Corbin, and I'm going to quote in Ellie Bowles
here because she's brilliant. Corbin, who is basically showing up
to work in a Hesbola commander uniform these days, has
been confronted by left wing advocates and activists who accuse
him of not being anti Zionist enough, prompting his exasperated reply,
(30:46):
I'm fed up with being painted in the corner of
being some kind of prosionist and a trans member of
your party stood on stage and accused two MP's of transphobia.
When this party started, it included two MP's or openly transphobic.
We have to set clear criteria for who we will
and will not work with. Well, they're openly transphobic, because
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the freaking Muslims. Yeah, a lot of your hardcore Muslims
are definitely transphobic. The leftists and Islamists agree that the
Jews are the root of all evil, sure, but they
don't agree on almost anything else. Will they be able
to make their unlikely love work based on that one
strong common bond or will this marriage fat fracture over
their lack of agreement on most other things. You may
(31:29):
say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
Tune in next week for an update. Oh my god.
You know, if it were not effective in toppling institutions
of Western civilization, the Red Green Alliances is called, would
be just hilarious. But it's the old and you see
(31:52):
this in revolutions all the time. Islamists say I want
to tear down Western civilization, and the woke is say,
wait a minute, I do too. Let's work together, each
side thinking after the wonderful revolution will take power and
we'll shove them to the side. But you never know
who's gonna win in those battles. Sometimes like in Iran,
it's these homists. You got the wocists versus the fundamentalists.
(32:14):
I like the side with guns and the willingness to
be very violent. Yeah. I like the side that thinks
killing in the name of their cause is righteous versus
the multi colored hair. Crowd words or violence crowd update, Oh,
this is violence answers the Islamists with violence. An update
(32:34):
at some point on the whole Australia trying to shut
down social media for kids and everything else. Stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (32:43):
The woman gave birth in the back of one of
those self driving taxis. No driver in the car, the
company says. The woman was in labor and hailed a Weaimo,
a self driving taxi in San Francisco. The baby was
delivered in the backseat. Did it on her own? The
company said it's rider support team detected unusual activity inside
the vehicle, called the passenger and nine one one the
mother and newborn arriving safely at the hospital.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
So the Waimo was able to detect unusual activity like
a woman laying on the back seat with one leg
up on the foot rest and a baby coming out
her Yeah, that is unusual activity. The algorithm clicked. Yes, indeed,
uh huh. You know, I think if I'm in the
situation where I'm about to have a baby, based on
my experiences like cab drivers in San Francisco. Course it's
(33:28):
the uber era. I'll take my chances alone in the
back of an uber rather than the guy that picks
me up that's helping me. Judgmental. That's terrible, darn right
it is. Yeah, yeah, it bothers me. How the evening
news has become kind of here's the most interesting YouTube
(33:48):
clips that happened today, sure, and weather and weather. So
here's a plane that landed on the highway and somebody
happened to get it on their iPhone because they had
their iPhone out recording something else. So now we're going
to make it a news story. If somebody hadn't had
their iPhone out and gotten the video, we wouldn't have
put it in the news. We're only showing you this
because we have video of it, and there's like five
(34:08):
of those every night on your evening newscasts. And then
if it's really good footage like the plane landing on
the car, they concoct some sort of follow up the
next day so they can show it a couple of
more price. Yeah, here's one that will be on tonight.
Here's a guy in some country where he's playing pickleball.
And you know sometimes when you see an athlete make
that amazing play where you like jump over the railing
(34:30):
to make the catch or whatever. He did that playing pickleball.
He jumped over the railing to get the ball, except
he apparently had forgotten that he was playing pickle ball
on a court that was at the top of a building,
and he just jumped off the building and plunged to
his death. Wow. Now that's a clip and they have
it on video. I was thinking that I wonder if
(34:51):
some sort of news site source will emerge, maybe Barry
Weiss will do this where most of us could count
on them to try to bring us. Here's like, give
us fifteen minutes of your time. Here's everything you actually
need to know that happened today. No, staff of most
significance to your life, probably to most people's lives. Yeah,
(35:14):
it'd be some sort of a bell curve thing. This
is the most significance to most people's lives. With No,
we're not putting any we're not pushing it any direction.
Because I remember the great James Lindsay, who we follow
about Wolke stuff. He's a PhD in math, and he
did some sort of calculation. I have no idea how
he did this, where he claims he figured through math
that it takes you about ten minutes to take in
(35:34):
all the news you really need every single day. Everything
else's opinion and entertainment, which is fine. We're in the
opinion and entertainment business, and I take in lots of
opinion and entertainment too, But I also want to know
what's the important stuff that happened today. And if there
was one source I could go to that would more
or less guarantee everything big that I need to know here,
it is right here. I think that that outlet or
(35:56):
site would print money if you could develop a reputation
for being pretty good at it. Hmmm, how yeah, But
you'll merge like that, because I mean, that's what Walter
Cronkite was, you know, my entire childhood. More or less,
I think you might be a little too optimistic about
people's tastes. But on the other hand, if their marketing
(36:18):
was good enough and enough people heard about it, I
would agree it would be very successful. Maybe that's what
we ought to do ten minutes a day. That sounds
great to me, wouldn't you agree that that's what the
evening newscast was like in the seventies or probably sixties
and fifties. Also, more or less, that was the effort. Yeah,
that was the effort. It was imperfect, obviously, but they're
human beings in charge. Less per or less stupid celebrity
(36:38):
stories or the you know, video of the day we
caught here's a cow running through the street of a city.
And significantly, the news departments were under no pressure whatsoever
to make a profit, right, which they were seen as
just if you are a grown up network, you have
to do good, solid news. Otherwise it's shameful. But we
(37:02):
have no shame anymore. We've stamped it out and that's
why we're showing you now a cow running through a city.
This cow got loose and blah blah blah, and a
plane landing in a car. And the next day the
nine to one one call has been released. Yeah, I'm
on the highway. There's a plane landing in a car. Yeah,
what'd you think they were gonna freaking say? That's no
reason to show the video again. You're pandering bastards. If
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