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Chapter 1: Why are stocks up today?
Stocks. And stocks are up. All right. All right. Breezing into the weekend with stocks are up. At the moment, could change on a dime. All right. All it would take is one post from Elon. It would change the whole market. All right. Let's get our comments working. And then... Oh, that was delightful. Oh, that's right. It's Saturday. I just realized it's Saturday, so it's yesterday. Stocks are up.
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Well, today, given that it is, in fact, Saturday, Owen Gregorian will be hosting, right after the show, a Spaces. So you've got to be on X. I think you have to be on X to use Spaces. It's audio only. And you can find it by looking at my... X feed, or I've retweeted it, or Owen Gregorian. Just look for him and you'll find it. So that's right after the show.
So I saw a quote, the Wall Street Journal had some video, of the United Airlines CEO, somebody named Scott Kirby, an excellent first name. Somebody asked him for the best career advice. And his career advice was don't have a plan, meaning don't have a goal. And he said that in his career, everything good was unexpected and he was ready for it. But if you have goals, it puts blinders on you.
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Chapter 2: What career advice did the United Airlines CEO give?
So when he says he was ready for it, I looked at his resume and it looks like he had made sure he knew a lot about airplanes. So I think he'd been a mechanic, and then he'd taken some other more advanced college courses. So yeah, he was ready for it, but he wasn't ready for everything. He was probably ready for anything within that domain.
I'm seeing a meme that Putin has offered to negotiate a peace deal between Trump and Musk. Well, we don't need that. Anyway, so the only thing I would add to United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby's advice is that you make sure your talent stack is nice and solid. So otherwise you will not be ready. All right, let's see. Is there any science that they could have saved some money on just by asking Scott?
Oh, here's some. According to ZME Science, there's a study that showed that vegetarians are more rebellious and power hungry than you think. Now, how many of you would have known that? that vegetarians are more rebellious and power hungry than you think. I would have known that.
And the reason is that you're starting with a group of people who are willing to buck one of society's strongest cultural norms, which is eating meat. It is hard to be a vegetarian. I'm a pescatarian at the moment. But when I was a vegetarian...
Chapter 3: Are vegetarians more rebellious and power-hungry?
it meant that if you got invited to somebody's house you had to tell them you can't eat whatever it is they were planning on serving so if you just if you simply started with the people who are willing to buck one of the most inconvenient things you could ever buck because your friends want to go to this restaurant, but there's nothing you can eat there. You have to be a certain kind of person.
to be willing to take on the vegetarian lifestyle. So if you would ask me, are vegetarians more rebellious? I would have said, yeah, obviously. I mean, you're starting with a rebellious group. You'd be surprised. It's not like it's limited to that one thing. I'm not sure I would have known the power hungry part, but it applies to me. I'm definitely power hungry.
but i see power as a tool like money if you have power and you have money then you can do good things and you can do good things for other people so yeah i'm very power hungry according to newsmax mcdonald's has decided it's going to stick with dei but it's going to change the words So now it's only called inclusion. Actually, Bloomberg is reporting that.
And they say they're not going to change anything in the way they operate. It's also keeping its internal affinity groups where employees with similar backgrounds, I guess demographics, can share ideas. And I wonder, how is that legal? Because they're saying it right out loud. I mean, they're not hiding it. They're saying we're just changing the words, but we're going to operate exactly the same.
Well, I will add one thing that I know from personal experience, well, semi-personal, one level away from personal, is that if you were to apply for a job at McDonald's, you probably will get it. So I don't know how much work they have to put into being diverse, because where I work or where I live, if you were 16 or 20 and you wanted a job at McDonald's, if you applied, it might take
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Chapter 4: What changes is McDonald's making to DEI policies?
a few weeks, but there's such a high turnover in fast food that you'd probably get the job and it wouldn't matter what color you were. So this might be the one area where DEI is not such a big deal. It's not helping anybody a lot because everybody can get a job. And I think they're very merit-based.
So McDonald's might be one of those rare exceptions where all they have to do is keep doing what they're doing. It is one of the best places you could ever have your first experience as a job. Well, the Wall Street Journal has a big article about the redesign of self-driving cars. And the idea is that a self-driving vehicle in the very near future doesn't need a steering wheel or a dashboard.
So what if you just started from scratch and tried to make a self-driving environment that wasn't limited to what a car can do? And the first thing you'll notice is that all of the interesting ideas would not be practical because it wouldn't be safe.
So it shows a picture of this amazing little van-sized environment that you say to yourself, oh man, I wouldn't mind taking a trip if I could just hang around in that cool little well-lit room with good windows and seats, those seats look comfortable. And then you realize they're walking around and you say to yourself, oh, Well, they're still going to have to wear seatbelts.
It's not like you're going to be walking around in your car while it's driving. So I suspect everything except having a big screen where you can all watch the same show. But by the way, none of you want to watch the same show. So unless you're in it alone, the big screen isn't going to help you a bit.
But I do think that the idea of just walking into your vehicle with a suitcase and saying, all right, vehicle, I'd like to go visit the Grand Canyon. So make sure you stop for meals and book me some hotels. And the AI just does all that for you. That would be amazing. So that could be your future. Happens any day now. Meanwhile, the U.S. economy has added 139,000 jobs in May.
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Chapter 5: How are self-driving cars being redesigned?
They beat expectations, according to Steve Moran. And that sounds good. I guess I don't have anything in common about that, except it looks like good news. But do any of you have the reflex that I've developed, which is it doesn't matter how good the economic news is, it only matters how big our deficit is.
So when I hear jobs are good, blah, blah, blah, jobs are good, all I really hear is you're driving toward the abyss. You do not have a solution for debt. It doesn't matter how many jobs there are. They'll all be out of work soon. So, yeah, I'm not really moved by good economic news, but I suppose it's better than bad. Barely. It's barely better than bad.
So Adam Schiff decided to weigh in on this Elon Musk-Trump issue, and especially about the big, beautiful bill, the spending bill that's not a spending bill, according to Steve Miller. And Adam Schiff said on X, I can't believe I'm saying this, but Elon Musk is right. The big, beautiful bill is filled with all sorts of hidden and dangerous far-right pork. Is it?
Is the big, beautiful bill full of far-right pork? Or is it just things that the far-right likes, like protecting the border and building up the defense industry? I don't know. So he's the biggest liar in the world, so he can just put it out there and his Democrat followers will say, huh, that thing must be full of hidden and dangerous far-right pork. but we don't have any examples.
And Elon Musk saw that post from Adam Schiff and he said, he responded to it saying, hmm, a few things could convince me to reconsider my position more than Adam Schiff agreeing with me. And yeah, yeah, that was my first impression too. It's like, you don't want him on your side. So Elon unfollowed Cat Turd. Well, it's about time. I unfollowed Cat Turd a long time ago. Blocked him. All right.
So here's a news item that you didn't need to do any research on. It looks like AI came up with it. So the Financial Times... is reporting that allies of Trump and Musk are urging them to repair their relationship, seeking to limit the political and commercial damage. Now, what else are they going to do? Their allies? It's literally their friends.
Do they have any allies who are recommending the opposite? That maybe they fight a little harder? What kind of a headline is that? So that was on X. And I'm thinking, was there any ally of either Musk or Trump who pulled them aside and said something like, you know, I think this situation really calls for more accusations. I think, you know, things are going well.
but you should really ramp up the accusations. You know, the personal ones, the professional ones, the ones that can get somebody in jail. I don't think so. I've got a feeling that the allies are all Yeah, maybe you should take a day off and cool it a little bit on this. Well, Trump is playing it correctly, I think.
And so yesterday, Trump wished Elon well, and he noted that Trump has been so busy dealing with Russia, Iran, and China that he hadn't had any time to think about their spat. Now, I don't know how true that is, but it's a perfect, perfect precedent answer. Oh, I'm working on all these important things. Can't possibly get involved in that.
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Chapter 6: What are the latest updates on Trump and Musk's spat?
If the police picked you up, what are the odds that one of your co-conspirators would say that you were involved in the murder of a rival gang member's mother? And the answer is, low, low. Probably nobody would mention that at all. But apparently this gentleman, this Maryland dad, has a co-conspirator who is willing to accuse them of that. So that's not ideal.
So I think the Trump administration, although they've made mistakes for the process, I would agree with Democrats who say, you know, independent of how bad this guy is, there has to be some kind of process that makes sense for everybody. And it looks like he got deported incorrectly. There was the claim by the Trump administration that once he got to El Salvador, hey, what can we do?
You know, it's out of our hands. But apparently it didn't take much to get him back All it took was all these indictments So you might have the worst lawyer in the world I heard Alan Dershowitz saying that if he had been the lawyer He would have said let me loose in some country where there's no risk but coming back to the United States I
that almost guarantees he'll be in jail for the rest of his life. And now, if you ask yourself, what parts will people remember? Now, the Democrats will try to remember
that the republicans did not use the right process and it resulted in somebody temporarily temporarily being deported incorrectly and unlawfully and being in the wrong prison so that's what they'll remember republicans will remember that they got a alleged gang member, possible assistant in a murder, wife beater off the streets and will put him in jail for many years. So who won?
I mean, obviously the Maryland dad lost, but who won? The Trumpers won so hard. Because while I fully understand the argument on the other side, it just shrinks to nothing, doesn't it? Like, are you going to remember in 10 years that this guy had some kind of process problem that temporarily put him in the wrong prison? He's going to be in prison no matter how you slice it, it looks like.
I mean, he's innocent until proven guilty, but... I've got a feeling they've got some goods. So to me, it's kind of hilarious that the people trying to help him may have ended up putting him in prison forever. And they're still going to say, yeah, but we were right about that process part. This is the part that the Democrats get wrong every time. They don't quite understand that.
that being technically right about something doesn't help them at all. It doesn't help at all. What matters to politics and to the country is what Trump understands perfectly, which is, how does it make you feel? If you feel better because this individual is captive, then Republicans win.
If you feel better because some process got followed with this one guy, and by the way, the mistake was only temporary because it's already been corrected, Well, not much of a feeling associated with that. So they always get the feeling part wrong. Meanwhile, in the UK, where freedom of speech is an illusion, it is now, I think it means it's illegal.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling on discrimination?
So now Rosie O'Donnell and Kathy Griffin have both come out saying the exact same thing that a lot of Republicans were saying about the 2020 election. And they get to say it without any consequence. Well, I recommend that they storm the Capitol immediately and try to push their way in. So I love the fact that it seems like everything is going the Republicans' way, except the big, beautiful bill.
That may be a little hiccup. But every time I see a Democrat doubting an election result, I think to myself, Well, if you believe that it's possible for Trump or his allies to have rigged an election without getting caught by any court, because no court has ruled anything of the type, then what would make you think that it was impossible for that to have happened the other way in 2020?
What would be the argument? that only Trump supporters could rig an election. It's either riggable or it's not. Now, I don't have any evidence that either of those elections were rigged, but if you think that one of them can rig and the other cannot, and the reason that you know that one cannot, because the court cases didn't support it, That's not much of an argument.
You've kind of lost that argument. So thank you, Kathy Griffin. Well, if you didn't notice or watch, Kash Patel, head of the FBI, was on Joe Rogan just recently and broke some news. I guess you'd call it that. One of the pieces of news he broke is that he'd been swatted So the head of the FBI got swatted. Now, I assume that means that they actually showed up at the door.
It seems to be far more likely they would have just said, oh, that's the FBI's director's house, so it's obviously not real. But maybe they have rules that say they can't pretend anything's not real unless they know.
not pretend but they can't uh they can't act as though something's not real until they get there and they find out for sure so that's why the swatting works but if you can't get rid of the swatting when you're the director of the fbi I don't think you and I are going to be able to stop it. So that's pretty awful.
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Chapter 8: What are the legal troubles surrounding Kilmar Abrego Garcia?
Well, as you know, both Dan Bongino and Kash Patel have maintained that they've seen the Epstein files, and it was definitely a suicide. Now, my question would be this. If the only thing you've seen are the files... What would make you think the files are complete and real? How would you know that? Well, they would know better than I would, whether a document's real.
I'm sure it's all been looked at. But don't you think if someone had the ability to kill Epstein and make it look like suicide, hypothetically, would they not also have the access to make sure the file didn't show that they killed him?
It feels like a little bit incomplete, meaning, yeah, I hear you, and I believe Bongino and Patel are telling the truth, meaning, in their opinion, based on everything they've seen, it's a slam dunk, definitely a suicide. But would they know? Do you think that just their experience plus looking at the files Would that be enough that you know they have the right answer? I don't know.
It's a little bit short for me. But anyway, so he made some more news. He said that anybody expecting video evidence from Epstein's private island might be disappointed as no such footage exists to his knowledge. Really? What exactly does he mean by that? There's no video footage of a celebrity? Or he's saying there's no video footage of anything?
Now, suppose he said, Epstein definitely killed himself, and also there are no videos, and then nobody has any. Now, I don't know if he's saying that. It's a little unclear. But if he did say that, wouldn't you just believe the entire package? Because if he tells me there's no videos and there never have been, and nobody's had any, I'm not going to believe anything he ever says again.
Now, my current opinion is that they're straight shooters and they're looking out for the American public. But I also believe... that we live in a world where sometimes the security apparatus, the fate of the country,
can depend on not telling the the public everything so if they had to choose and i'm not saying they are but if they had to choose between keeping a secret that was so dark it would destroy the country versus telling you the truth because they're truth tellers which would they do Which would a patriot do? Because I'll give them the benefit of a doubt.
I think they've earned that they're both patriots. So the thing I worry about is not that they're honest, because I think they are. It's just that if you live in a world where keeping secrets is part of the operational expectation of what you do, I don't know if you can ever trust anybody whose job it is to make sure we don't find out things we're not supposed to find out.
right if somebody is a journalist and they have access to all the files and maybe you let a few journalists run free if they all came back and said all right we've looked at everything somehow they would know that you know that would be a problem would they know and they come back and they say all right we've looked at everything and uh it looks like it was a suicide and there's no there's no videotapes
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