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Chapter 1: Why did all my device chargers die at the same time?
well let's see what happens this morning I'm using my phone to stream because all of my charging devices died at the same time so I've got a little bit of power on my phone and I'm using the rumble studio on the phone which looks to me like it has stretched my image is that what's happening And also, I can't see your comments for some reason. Why would I not be able to see your comments?
How about this? How about this? Oh, there we go. Comments are working. I can't see myself, but is my image stretched? No sound, huh? Does anybody else have a sound? I only see one person saying no sound. Hello? I need an answer on do I have sound. Sound is good. All right. There are a couple of noisy devices running.
that I can't get turned off because my current nurse doesn't understand anything I say. So I'm having this misery kind of situation where for another half hour, the nurse on duty is a man who hears the opposite of everything I say. I don't know why, but if I say, could you bring me an apple? He will say,
Well, I would never ask for an apple, but if I did, he would say, okay, I won't bring you an apple. And then I would say, no, no, please bring me an apple. And then he would say, oh, okay, no apple. No, no, listen to me. Anyway, so that's how my last eight hours has been. I can't quite get him to understand what I'm saying. No, he speaks perfect English. It's not a language problem.
His English is perfect. He just hears the opposite of whatever I say. I don't know why. So all three of my devices stopped charging at the same time. So my laptop will not charge. Uh, and I've got two, two bricks, two batteries and both of them for whatever reason, just don't charge. So I've got a little bit of juice left in my phone. So I thought I'd do a short one this morning. He's a man.
Yeah. Well, if somebody else comes in, I'll ask him to turn off my devices, but that is apparently. not an option in my current situation so i don't know if owen gregorian is going to do his spaces after uh afterwards or at some point today but i think so so after the show go to owen gregorian's um you go to his uh feed on x and by then he will either have the uh
the indicator up or not, but I think he will do a spaces and then you can have some more fun this morning. In theory, I'll be going home today, but I don't know. All right. You got a little company. Hello. I'm live streaming.
Yeah.
Yeah, go ahead. I'll just be talking. Okay. My catheter is being emptied, but you don't have to see that because that's in the other direction. You know, I had some coughing last night. I think I had an allergy, but it's all good this morning, so I'm good to go. I believe I'm good to go. All right. Want to check in on some stories?
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Chapter 2: What are the latest revelations about the 2020 election?
No, all the power's on. The outlets actually have lights on them. The earthquake happened after the problem with the power. I don't know. So by coincidence, I have a good friend who is in the same hospital waiting for his wife to give birth. So he might bring me a charging brick after the show. Because it's a long day if you don't have a phone and you're sitting in a hospital bed. But if you do,
Perfectly entertained. All right. Let's see if I can find the simultaneous sip. Because I certainly do not remember it. Oh, here we go. Everybody, you ready? Waste your cup. All you need is a cup or mug or a glass of tank or chalice or a canteen jug or flask. A vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee, but I only have water.
Enjoy me now with the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine that makes everything better. It's called simultaneous sip. Gross. I have to admit, I love ice water. I didn't always, but at the moment I do. All right, let's check in on the stories of the day. There's a story about a company that makes an exoskeleton for people like me. Might have to check that out.
So apparently we made a, the United States made some major attack on Syria. Oh, that feels good. We're striking very strongly against ISIS struggles in Syria. Okay. Well, so I guess we're at war with something. ISIS. 50 strikes at ISIS targets in Syria. This is in the post-millennial. Let's see. So I was going to do a show today.
I was thinking today of all the, I guess, conspiracy theories that are now considered just a fact. I thought I'd catch you up on which ones I think are just a fact. I would say as of this week. Good morning, Owen. I would say that as of this week, there's no question that the 2020 election was rigged. Would you agree? Is there any question in your mind that the election was rigged?
Probably not, right, for this crowd. Now, what's interesting is that forevermore, half of the country will believe that that's not the case. So half of the country is going to think there's no evidence that the election was rigged or that there was just some technical problem that doesn't matter. And the other half, which I am now solidly in, would call that a fact.
I would say all doubt has been removed because of the Georgia discovery that there were so many votes that should not have been counted. Likewise, I would say it's a fact that the Obama people and Rob Reiner and the heads of the CIA did in fact run a plot to overthrow the country. I would say that's no longer any doubt. There's no way to spin it.
There is 100% chance that we lived through an actual coup. How many of you would agree? So I moved those things into the absolutely definitely fact. No doubt about it. How about the, I don't want to talk about this, but I just have to.
Would you agree that the COVID shot was probably the biggest crime against citizens that we've ever seen and that the people who were behind it had to know long before we knew that it wasn't just risky, it was a bad idea. So I'm moving that from, well, you know, maybe they didn't know Or maybe they got caught up in it. I would say they definitely knew. I'm not talking about regular doctors.
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Chapter 3: How does the COVID shot relate to public health concerns?
I heard on Joe Rogan, I heard somebody say, oh, I guess it was Brett Weinstein. Weinstein or Stein. God, I never get that right. But he was talking about how there was a natural experiment with ivermectin. So some people took it and some people didn't. And they were in separate places. And you can see that the people who took it had a high survival rate.
And the people who didn't take it had a low survival rate, even if they did the other stuff. Now, the way that was explained is that the odds of those two different outcomes being so stark is like a gazillion trillion to one. Yeah, Fauci pardon was for a reason. So it had to be true that the ivermectin worked because that natural experiment was so definitive.
However, I'm going to add this little bit of skepticism. It goes like this. It's not just that that was a non-controlled experiment because it was a natural experiment, not a controlled experiment. placebo type of experiment.
If it were true that the events happened as reported, then I would agree that the odds are a trillion trillion to one that it was an accident and that that would be quite definitive that ivermectin was a good solution. However, when it's not a controlled experiment, even if it is, because a lot of controlled experiments turn out to be fraudulent, it's possible that it was simply reported wrong.
Meaning that the people who said, oh, in my hospital, we got this result, could be lying. They think they made up the whole thing. Or if it were only known because the press looked into it, somebody could be lying. So you can't rule out the fact that if it were a natural experiment and you got all the data correct, that would be very definitive.
But if it was a natural experiment, and that's the very reason that you can't know for sure if somebody made up the data or lied to you or just came up with a story, you can never really know. And that actually is the reason that a lot of the scientific studies are debunked eventually, is because if the data were true, it would tell you something, but you can't be sure it's true.
So I would say the ivermectin story, highly likely that it made a difference in a positive way, but not 100%. Can't really get to 100% on that one, in my opinion. Because I don't trust whoever says it happens. Horse paste, yeah. But if I were Joe Rogan, I'd sure be mad at the way they treated me. Are the emissions fine?
Yep. Never saw a horse with COVID.
All right, how about UAPs and UFOs? I do not believe that there are any aliens. I wouldn't rule it out. I mean, maybe. But I would say at this point, we cannot convincingly say there are aliens. Yeah. Ivermectin has a good track record, but not
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the Epstein files release?
of some sex crime and she was allowed to be anonymous forever, but he was not allowed to be anonymous. Would that be fair? No. In our system, you get to know who is accusing you. And ultimately, if it goes to trial or something, you would know who the accuser is. Then somebody got mad at me online because they said, you animal
Are you saying that you should throw the victims under the bus a second time? To which I say, what is the alternative? Keep in mind that everyone who is a underage victim is now in their probably 30s. So none of them would be children. There'd be no children involved, even if they were children when the crime happened. So forget about children. This will be adults being outed or not.
Now, some of them might not care, some of them might, but apparently Massey knows the names of 20 or so accused famous people. I think as soon as he said, we'll out everybody accused, but we won't out the people who accuse them. We can redact that. There is no chance any of this would work out.
So I believe, unfortunately, as smart as Thomas Massey is, he created a system with Ro Khanna that guarantees that we will never see the stuff that you think is important. So, unfortunately, yesterday I predicted... that the bad people would resist, even at the risk of going to jail, even at the risk of jail, that we would not see the full stuff because it's just too easy to redact it.
But I saw somebody ask online, why doesn't Thomas Massey release, if he knows the names, why doesn't he tell us? Apparently, there are a number of people who know the names. However, you also don't know if there's some other reason they're not telling you stuff.
Because imagine if, what would happen if the CIA came in and said, all right, this is not protecting the guilty, but there's a whole bunch of stuff that you cannot know because it would be a national crime. national security problem.
Let's say, and I don't believe this is true, but let's say Epstein was at least partially a CIA asset and he had done some things that we don't want our adversaries to know or even the domestic audience to know.
Yeah.
So Bongino knows the names, correct? Do you think that the Bongino quitting has anything to do with the non-release of the Epstein files? What do you think? It could be a coincidence because it's the end of the year. So people make big changes at the end of years. So I know that Bongino wanted to quit, but we don't know why. So at the moment, I would say that's a maybe.
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Chapter 5: How is AI impacting drug price negotiations?
And they had these cool laser weapons. It was a sci-fi show many years ago. And the laser weapons would make this cool sound like... and slice through the other spaceships while we're almost there with our laser defense weapons. All right.
So what do you think about the way Trump apparently used the threat of tariffs to get all the big pharma companies to drastically lower their prices so we had most favorable nation prices? Did you see that? Do you think any other president could have threatened? The others didn't even have the tool.
Trump created the tool, the tariffs, and then threatened the big pharma unless they brought $150 billion of manufacturing back to this country and lowered their prices as much as 80% or 90% that otherwise they would get tariffed. So they didn't have any choice. And now he's going to call in the insurance companies and tell them they need to make less money.
How would you do that except by threatening them? Maybe with also, I don't know, can you tariff an insurance company? I don't know what it is you tariff. You probably can't, but there's some way you can threaten them. So it looks like Trump is literally just going to bully and threaten the big pharma to lower the prices. So you can't tell me any other president could have pulled that off.
Now we'll see. We'll see if it's real or the pharma companies just find some other way to steal our money. But we'll see. You replace their whole industry if they don't play ball? I think Trump is serious about lowering those costs. And I would guess he's going to pull it off. So if he pulls it off, he would be successful in eggs, gasoline prices, except for California. But that's our fault.
And pharma. That would be pretty big. But he still would not be successful in groceries. Oh, he would also be successful in rent. Because by doing mass deportations, he has decreased the demand for rental places. So I don't think people are feeling it yet.
By the way, if you haven't seen the all-in pod, the most recent all-in pod, you have to watch it because it's just a brilliant explanation of what's happening with AI. And a good counterpoint about what's happening with costs. So Jason from the All In pod was arguing that the average consumer, average voter, is not seeing lower prices. And that would be true.
They see the lower prices maybe in gas, but as long as their other costs are up, mostly groceries, I think, groceries being the biggest problem, it's going to feel to them like nothing's happened. And it will feel to them that Trump did not do enough because groceries are up.
And I would agree with that, that they would feel like they had not gotten enough from Trump and what they feel will determine how they act in the midterms. Now, the other fascinating thing David Sachs was explaining, there are a lot of beliefs about AI that the public has completely wrong and that they're basically hoaxes.
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Chapter 6: What advancements are being made in nuclear power technology?
The boss will have to explain it to a human, threaten them with firing and tell them to use AI as a tool, but that ultimately the human will be responsible. So I Um, and so I commented about the all in pod. First of all, it was a great episode. One of the best, one of the best podcasts I've ever seen. Actually, it was just so, so interesting.
Those guys are so good at explaining complicated things. Um, my voice is stronger. Maybe. Yeah, so I wouldn't trust AI to do almost anything. I saw a lawyer, some lawyer said that he spent a week preparing a legal argument or something, and then he tried to duplicate it with AI, and AI did as good or better, but did it like a minute. But you still need the lawyer.
Because the AI isn't a lawyer, right? You're not going to have a court case where the lawyer says, I will send a robot to do the closing argument. Yeah, no cough this morning. I had a pretty bad allergic reaction. I think it was last night. It gave me about six hours of coughing, but when it stopped, it just stopped. Yep. AI information dilution. I don't know what that is.
You have to know how to prompt the AI. Exactly. If the skill of using AI Still resides in the person who's giving it the prompts. How are you going to replace the human? Anyway, we'll see what else is happening. Come in. Come in. Hi. I'm on a live stream right now, but that's okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
He's going home, so I'll be your nurse today.
Okay, great. Just pay no attention to me. I'll just be.
Anything that you have for me.
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Chapter 7: How are recent political tensions affecting conservative figures?
I'm pretty happy about it at the moment. I also bought a Tesla yesterday, but for a family member.
who was very happy about it.
So let's, I guess we should talk about this. How many of you are interested in the story of the quote, civil war on the conservative side between Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro and Erica Kirk? And Tim Pool's wading into it a little bit. Megyn Kelly, she's into it a little bit. How many of you find that interesting? Because it's weirdly not interesting to me.
I think I have the only useful opinion on Israel and all that stuff, which I'll reiterate in case you haven't heard it. If you say you're for or against Israel, you're in trouble. Would you agree? Doesn't matter if you're a conservative or pro-Trump or non-Trump.
If you were to come out publicly as a podcaster or a pundit and say that you were against Israel, even against some things they're doing, or even against AIPAC, if you're against anything, you're going to come up to this brick wall that will be bad for you and your career. But likewise, if you say you're pro-Israel, you will be accused of not being America first.
So you can't be for Israel and you can't be against them without dividing everything and ruining your career and making enemies. So a while back, I... I landed on the only defensible position in my opinion. And it goes like this. I'm American, so I care about America first. I have complete respect for Israel being Israel first. Why wouldn't I?
I think every country gets to try to maximize their national benefits. So if there are people who care more about Israel, and they want to maximize Israel's benefit, that's just their privilege. Most of it is kind of public and transparent. So if you wanted to dislike the people in AIPAC, Americans, you can find out who they are and you could dislike them.
If you wanted to not vote for somebody who took AIPAC money, you could not vote for them. I don't need to invest my reputation or my anything, my money or anything in Israel because Israel is its own country and they are pursuing what's best for Israel. Of course, of course they are. Now, do I need to dislike Ben Shapiro if I think he's too pro-Israel? I don't need to. I can simply observe.
He has a set of preferences. He's very public about it. And if, you know, if somebody wants to agree with him, that would just be a different opinion. So personally, I would look at what's good for America in every situation. And if Israel is, if I thought that Israel was, let's say, guiding us in the wrong direction, I would have a dual opinion. One, Are they doing a good job of it?
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Chapter 8: What does the future hold for AI and employment?
So there's no real way he could just go to a dating app and meet a girl and have a normal relationship and hope it works out. It basically, nearly 100% of the time, it would likely turn into a disaster. It would be financially disastrous and relationship disastrous. And that even if it seemed like a good idea at the time, they were guaranteed to be, to turn bad.
And I thought to myself, man, he's so right that in this particular situation, because he's, he's, he's so prominent and apparently he's rich. He says, um, that there's no way a relation, a standard relationship would work out in his life. And it was kind of sad, but I have to tell you, um,
I can relate to the fact that if you're rich, you have to worry about relationships that don't last forever. And in our current world, relationships don't last forever. So that he would, his odds of finding somebody he could trust forever are just not really good. It's just a bad cost-benefit situation.
Now, there might be things he's not telling us that would have an impact on that, but I do agree with the general concept that it would be completely impractical for him to get married or even have a serious girlfriend. Yeah. If you're not rich and you're not... If you're not... also a provocative kind of character, then I can see how an urge would work. But if you're, what's the word?
Not provocative. Yeah. Went straight to prostitutes. You know, I don't think he did. Yeah. But anyway, so I don't have to have an opinion about all of those people. Inflammatory. That's close to what I'm looking for. No, not provocative, not inflammatory. There's another word, controversial. Let's say controversial. That's good. Yeah. If you're controversial especially the things he says.
He's controversial times 10. The odds say he would eventually get sold out by an angry divorcee. Pretty high. Disgrace. We all need a relationship manager. He calls himself a revolutionary. Anyway, so my take on the, well, 40,000 people, my take on the whole conservative social, what do you call it, civil war, is that it just seems unnecessary. No, a prenup doesn't help you at all.
So the prenup would not help him Well, I could give you more details on that, of course. But if you think a prenup protects you, it does not. Now, I've not personally had any trouble in that regard. But if you start looking into what a prenup can and cannot do, it would not protect them in the way that you think it would. Because somebody could still throw them under a bus.
And the courts would not, the courts do not accept a prenup that is too one-sided. So if, for example, somebody signed a prenup and then was in a relationship for several years, and then you said, aha, I'm going to divorce you and give you nothing because that's what you signed in the prenup. The judge would just throw that out and say, no, it has to be fair.
And is it fair that you could be together for five years and that the spouse would get nothing or even a low amount? And the answer is, of course, would not allow you to give a low amount, even if you had a prenup. There are non-disclosure forms. Yeah, but you couldn't trust that. Anybody can talk to a reporter. And you wouldn't be able to claw it back even if they talked about you.
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