Chapter 1: What festive activities are discussed at the start of the episode?
Merry Christmas, everybody. Come on in. Come on in. We're going to hang out a little bit. Just in case your Christmas needed a little extra. Or in case you were hanging out by yourself. You don't have to. You can hang out with us. Let me make sure I can see your local comments. Do-do-do-do. Yes, I can. Excellent. Excellent. Come on in. We will do the special Christmas simultaneous sip.
Just as soon as... Oops. Quiet. Just as soon as enough of you get in here. Yep. It's going to be epic. How many of you assumed I would be wearing a Christmas hat? All but unpredictable. The wise men have come. Send them in my house, I need some wise men. Very wise. Aw. Good morning, good morning. All right, are you ready for the simultaneous sip?
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So what do you want to do this morning? Do you want to hear about some interesting stories? Do you want to open your packages and act like the relative that came late for Christmas? I'm just sort of sitting in the corner. Maybe I'll say some things that make it seem like I'm in the room. You ready for this? I'm going to do some fake acting. Well, I guess acting is fake.
I'm going to do some acting so it seems like I'm just in a room with you, okay? Oh, wow, is that yours? Did you just open that up? That's a really thoughtful gift. Who gave you that? No wonder. Yep, that's a good gift giver. And what did you give back? I'm sorry, I'll shut up. Hey, what time do we eat? Does anybody know what time we eat? Oh, God. Oh, no. I was hoping that relative wouldn't come.
Oh, who invited that one? Oh, my goodness. Oh, everything looked good until that one relative started coming up the driveway, but we'll just pretend that we don't know. Who drank all the eggnog? Yeah. Hey, people, where's all the eggnog? All right, how was that? Did that feel like I was in your living room, just bugging you when you're opening your packages? All right, well, let me give a...
Special shout out today to one of our members who makes clips of my show and does a really, really good job of it. So good that President Trump yesterday reposted it on Truth. So I'm talking about Jay Plemons. If you're now following him, you should on X because he does these most excellent clips.
He's really good at figuring out what is a good clip and also, you know, adding the text and the other features to make it a really good clip. So apparently he did so well that the President of the United States said, huh, I think I'll repost that. So congratulations, Jay Plemons. That must be an excellent Christmas gift, doesn't it? That must have made you so excited.
I hope you were telling all your family. But you earned it. Excellent work. Well, gosh. I'm not even sure I feel like talking about the news. I've got notes, but it might be like that boring uncle. who doesn't have any conversation skills. So they just talk about what's in the news. That would be me. But did you know, this is an old story, but I'm going to tie it into something.
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Chapter 2: How does the census affect political representation?
I hate using that term. But we do need to get serious about thinking, will robots be taxed? I tend to agree with him that if we taxed our robots a little bit, it wouldn't put us behind compared to say China. If we overtax them, then of course. So there's probably some number that doesn't hurt you at all in the same way that the tariffs didn't hurt us like we thought they would.
Economics is so unpredictable that it's really hard to know if and when a tax on robots makes sense. Your common sense might not be up to the task. I feel that's my case. I feel like my common sense, which usually works pretty well, not that there is common sense, but I don't know. Do not know. All right. In other news, I think we're ready for a sip.
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Ah. All right. I'm just going to rest and look at your comments for a minute. If you want less of something, tax it. Yeah. Yep. So I guess Trump wants the vaccine schedule for childhood to be totally changed from 72 doses when the kid's born, basically, all the way down to 11. So that would be similar to Denmark. What do you think of that? Is that a good idea? I don't know. I'm no doctor.
But people are definitely worried about loading up little babies with too much vaccinations in the beginning. So it seems like there's at least a good argument for a stretching amount. And if we can look to Denmark as our model of what works and what doesn't, well, maybe that's a little bit safer. So I don't have an opinion on this. I will default to people who are much smarter.
I'll just note that it's happening. Well, the company called Grok with a Q on the end instead of the K on the end, which I believe is one of Chamath's companies from the All In pod. I think he was a key investor in that. Apparently, they've got some kind of deal. I heard yesterday that they sold the company. but maybe it's just a working deal.
So they've got some kind of AI inference technology that OpenAI was interested in. So it looks like a big win for Chamath. Chamath, congratulations. That's a very big win. Somebody said something like $4 billion. I don't know what the real numbers are, but they're big numbers. So he's been busting his butt on this startup. And wow. Wow. That's very impressive. Good work, Chamath.
I saw a quote today from a writer from Blaze Media that I really liked. So JT Young, writing from Blaze Media, said, Democrats caused the affordability crisis with their progressive policies and now pretend to be shocked by it. But here's the fun part. Democrats are now left with a single strategy.
campaigning on the consequences of their own incompetence and hoping voters forget who caused them. That is such a good reframe. So the Democrats are only, the only thing they have is affordability and they're the ones who caused the problem. And it's unlikely they have a solution. That's pretty funny. Did you know that the DNC itself, that's the Democrat organization, is also in debt?
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Chapter 3: What insights are shared about Joe Rogan's discussion on aliens?
And Ben says that Pottinger appeared in, quote, Every CIA scandal of the 60s and 70s said that if anything needed to be covered up, you would always find Pottinger. But what does Pottinger have to do with anybody? Well, Pottinger was Epstein's roommate during the early 80s. Pottinger was his roommate.
So the three most famous CIA cover-up guys had a confirmed and definite close relationship with Epstein. Epstein was so deeply embedded with the CIA that he's the guy who signed off on moving the CIA's airline, which they used for moving, I think they used it for Iran-Contra and some other stuff. So CIA had its own plane that they used for sketchy stuff.
And somehow, Epstein got to sign off on moving that to be the private plane of the Limited. which is, remember that, I believe that was the company for Victoria's Secrets. Remember, his billionaire friend owned Victoria's Secrets. So how in the world, Benz asks, would Epstein be able to move a CIA plane from one ownership to the other
unless unless he was deeply embedded with the cia or they wanted him to do it all right so did that summary work once you realize that his closest associations yeah wexler was the head of the limit once you realize that his closest associations were cia cover-up guys Are you surprised that we're not seeing all the files? You should not be surprised.
There's really no way we're going to see all the files. Now, I would imagine that the good stuff has already been deleted from the files a long time ago. I assume. But even if it hadn't been, you're never going to see it. You will never see it. So for how many of you did that answer your questions?
This is a little bit confusing, but once you know the players, and that's what Mike Benz does so well, he figures out who the players are and how they're connected. Every bit of this, by the way, is from public records. So I don't think there's anything I said that's not publicly documented beyond any question. Yeah, Mike Burt, it's old news for you.
I think it's old news for a number of people, but it's still hard to hold it all in your head, isn't it? That's the problem I was having. It's like, okay, Pottinger, Barr, Senior, Junior, BCCI, what's the name of that bank? Bear Stearns. But once you realize, I guess there's maybe half a dozen names. Once you realize how those half a dozen names fit together,
Right, and then you look at his friend there, Ghislaine Maxwell. Wasn't her father intel? So, here's the question. Barr was Clinton's cover-up guy. For the drug running, yeah. So also, Bill Barr was hired as Attorney General under George Bush Senior, who had been the head of the CIA. So that's yet another confirmed CIA connection.
And, yeah, he had a connection to Khashoggi, who was this big arms dealer for, at least until he got bonesawed. So, anyway, that answered all my questions about Epstein. Well, the McDonald's, there's a McDonald's in... in Minneapolis that you can't get in unless somebody unlocks the door for you. There's too much mischief and crime.
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Chapter 4: What is Elon Musk's vision for the Encyclopedia Galactica?
Has everybody opened their presents yet? Are you opening your presents? Yeah, we have a Caroline Levitt, and they had that weird one. Again, not even close. We have Nicki Minaj, I guess. I wouldn't count that one. All right. Who else is having a delicious meal soon? I'm just hanging out with you now. Yeah, we have Roseanne. And they have, I don't know what. They have Adam Schiff. Adam Schiff.
And we have Adam Carolla. And they have Adam Schiff. Again, not even close. I'll take Adam Carolla every time. So we have Dr. Drew and they have everybody who lied to us about the pandemic. I wouldn't say we have Dr. Drew because I also think he would be considered an independent. But you don't have me. You do have me. You totally have me. They used to have RFK Jr. Now we have RFK Jr.
again rfk jr is not a creature of the right he just happens to be smart enough to to know how to work productively with the right which is a superpower yep we have got felt they don't absolutely Speaking of Greg, Merry Christmas, Greg, if you're listening. All right. I'm tempted to sign off, but on the other hand, I'm tempted to just hang out. So I'll tell you what I'll do.
I'll hang out for another five minutes, okay? So that it doesn't seem abrupt. Another five minutes and then get back to what you were doing. Oh yeah, we have Tulsi. They don't. Do, do, do. All right, people. I think we're winding down a little bit. You got family stuff to do? You won't miss anything if you leave now. We did all the good stuff already. We have Scott Besant. Good one.
And they have... We don't know. They have that too late guy. Yep, we have Scott Bessons. All right, people. I'm going to take my leave. I feel sad. I feel sad to be signing off because I already miss you. That's actually literally true. As soon as I sign off, I'm going to feel like I miss you. Yeah, we have Scott Besson and they have Paul Krugman. Perfect. Perfect way to end.
All right, everybody. Stay dry. Stay cool. See you tomorrow. Oh, no. It is not ending. Looks like I'm going to have to close it and reopen it just to end it.
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