8/27/26: U.S. To Steal Iran Oil, Bill Gates Dire Warning on AI, META Screen Time For Kids

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You get a link to watch the entire show. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't, but the more people who actually do it, then the more likely it is that long term is going to work all the time. How about that for a pitch? I could always count on you to give our best pitch Ryan. Thank you very much. All right, go ahead. Listen to the man. Honestly though, Ryan's conversion numbers are sometimes better than mine. So that's why I'm like, I'm turning it over. Honestly, I'm just surprised. Yeah. It's true. Honestly. All right. Okay. What do I got in front of me? Here's what we're going to do. We're going to start off with Iran. The Trump administration is seeking to revive a Civil War Maritime Court, which will allow them to take Iranian oil as a prize, almost like something out of master and commander. We're also going to cover the midterms, there's some crazy developments happening with serious races in South Carolina, Alaska, and elsewhere, which are genuinely at least polling-wise seem up for grabs whenever it comes to the Democratic Party. And we're also going to talk about Donald Trump's own midterms pitch and part of the wrench that he's throwing in for a lot of Republican candidates. We're going to talk about AI, whenever it comes to AI, there's a new Bill Gates essay, which has come out warning, quote, about the insane new reality, millions of people to be put out of work. And it comes on the heels of a new open AI, actually report, which shows you'll remember when they use their model and it went and it hacked another company. Some of the details have been released at a technical level that genuinely terrifying. We're going to cover meta and it's new agreement after numerous states attorney generals sued them for alleged harm against children. They are now basically in a big tobacco-esque type settlement agreement have agreed to pay some $17 billion to the various states, but the big picture, big change, is the number of restrictions they are now putting in place for teen accounts. They're calling on YouTube and TikTok to also abide by this. It could change the future of social media for basically any under anybody under 18 in this country. Russia, Ryan actually flagged this story, what is it, the fourth largest oil refinery in Russia? And the second largest producer of gasoline? Yes. The second largest producer of gasoline. Fourth largest oil refinery in Russia was taken offline by a new Ukrainian drone attack. And this comes after some new revelations that the CIA director took an unprecedented trip directly to Moscow to warn President Putin and his cabinet to his face not to attack NATO countries. And this is exactly at a time when US intelligence continues to assess that a tactical nuclear weapon used by the Russians seems more likely and that actually all of this seems to be spurred on by the weapons crisis of munitions in the West where Putin is smelling weakness on the Trump administration and the American Empire. We are also going to be joined by our great friend, the show Juan de Virojas. He is going to talk to us about a new CIA ground war in Mexico. And then finally, I save this one just for you, Ryan. My old friend of the show, Ben Shrekinger, who is an ex-political journalist, he wrote the Hunter Biden book. He wrote the Hunter Biden book. Right. So he's got real bonafies. But he has decided to quit his establishment media career and go all in on UFOs. So he is a man truly after my own heart. That's great. He's got a new one. But not no offense to the people involved in the UFO thing. No, you're right. I agree. That's why I want to celebrate him. I want to encourage people to go and subscribe to his work. All right. So with all of that, let's get to Iran. Turning to Iran, major story that just broken and kind of gives us a preview into what the next month or two will look like in the Iran war is that while the munitions themselves won't be flying from the US side, they are trying to constrain Iran. And it's not just part of the economic blockade. It also entails literally stealing their oil. So let's put this up here on the screen. This is from Bloomberg, USA aims to revive a civil war era court to claim Iranian oil as a prize. The Justice Department is now preparing to activate a long dormant maritime war court to streamline military capture of Iranian oil as US prizes. Prize courts, which are expected to say face significant legal challenge, will strengthen the blockade of Iran and offset the cost of the conflict they are pointing specifically to reviving the prize court as an ancient body of maritime law. So this, as I said, immediately reminds me of like a master and commander. We mean to take her a prize and it makes sense because it's literally a civil war era court kind of harkens back to what is it letters of mark of our private years can be authorized by the king to go abroad and to take these foreign assets. Whatever they take, what I'm interested in is the crew in traditional prize law. I believe the captain gets 50%, the crew gets 3%, are so we're going to see seaborne mercenaries or is it just the navy? Like how is this all going to work? And this is what was so revolutionary about the actual pirates of the actual Caribbean back in the day. They would share the prize equally, whereas you had these kind of merchant mercantile capitalistic private tears who would go out and the captain would take most of it. So clearly the next stage has to be the privatization of this. So Hegseth has to then, what's the word you use where you basically allow a private tear? So Hegseth needs to do that. So there are a lot of ships that can't get in and out. So now they can kind of arm themselves with their own little drone swarms. And then they can patrol and why stop at the straight of her moves. Right? Yeah. They're not just taking anybody's oil. They're just all over the oceans. Right. Like then there are many oceans. And so it almost would undermine literally the backbone of the empire, which is freedom of nap. It's no such thing. Freedom of navigation. Freedom of navigation is a fake thing created by us to backstop global trade because we were the great recipients of extremely cheap goods. But as they show now, the unfinalized plans, if adopted, leads to a faster path for federal prosecutors to claim oil and other cargo taken from enemy or neutral vessels. Exactly. You know what's better than extremely cheap goods? Free goods. Free goods. As US property, the seized goods would then be sold with the proceeds transferred to the US treasury. So I guess the sailors will be missing out on this one. They even say ship owners and Iranian terrorism victims would then be the potential litigants expected to challenge the prize courts of use. Maritime lawyers another said because they would face the operational hurdle of carrying out the court process of which they have zero experience. And so once a regular feature of 18th and 19th century naval combat, it has gone largely unused since the Spanish American War of 1898 and has lain entirely dormant since World War II. In recent decades, they have relied instead on civil forfeiture law as the mechanism for seizing ships and obtaining their assets to enforce sanctions violation. But according to them, that's just too late and they need to show the American public that we're getting something out of it. And so, of course, as we all know, what would happen with Venezuela. We're going to make billions. billions of dollars in oil. Oops, actually we seized a tanker. The tanker, it turns out, needs 50 million dollars in the Venezuelans to retrofit. And then the amount of oil that we need to pump and ship on a daily basis would take a year or two just to make up the retrofit cost before you can go into the black. Same thing happens with many of the refineries and all the other investments that we're trying to make. It turns out that the amount of oil we're getting from Venezuela is pittily compared to the amount of course it's even held up. And what are required? What are required is this some level of business certainty that two years from now the regime that's in place is going to be the same regime. And I don't mean government. I mean just the arrangement by which you're pumping out refining and shipping oil. And nobody thinks Trump can be trusted week to week to be doing the same thing. So I sound like some like wild conservative out here talking about business certainty, but yeah, this is just not how we're going to think. No, we still think. It's a pretty basic principle, it's like MBA 101. Let's put the next one up here on the screen. This is Trump, why the real reason why Trump wants economic sanctions in Iran from the Atlantic. They say that the quieter longer term strategy will help push the conflict out of the minds of voters ahead of the midterm. So basically, they're putting it on the back burner if we're being real. And this is why for the Iranians, part of the reason I just want to pick up on our theme from yesterday where you and I were saying, yeah, it's easy for the U.S. to say, okay, we're just going to hold off till the midterms and the Iranians who of course can read are like, oh, so they want to hold off to the midterms and they want to constrain us, steal our oil and cause major economic chaos in our country. Well, we're just not going to let them do that, so we're going to start bombing them in the first place, which very likely they just hit a Kuwaiti flag tanker yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz, obviously, as a major shot at the Gulf countries who were trying to these ship-to-ship transfers, basically trying their absolute best to disrupt any oil traffic that doesn't come via them and it's not having any paid fee. On top of that, just to expand a little bit, yesterday morning, we said that Iran and Oman had had that meeting. The IRGC then announced shortly after our show had wrapped that they had officially agreed on an exact fee structure with Oman hasn't been confirmed yet from the Omani side, but they haven't disputed that report. Right. At the same time, we can put the third element here. You're starting to see significant unrest in Iran. The U.S. does, in fact, have the ability to cause enormous amounts of economic pain and suffering for Iranian businesses, consumers, and workers you're starting to see some tiny little protest pop-up, which didn't happen during the war. It's a country of 90 million people being pushed over the edge, shortages of basic necessities of life, food and fuel, and so it's kind of a race against misery. I would imagine that some Iranians had said, we need to drive this through to the midterms to punish Trump. Some Iranians may be starting to realize that Trump doesn't necessarily care about the midterm results in the way that you would expect a traditional president would. And then they might be thinking, okay, wait a minute, what if we do that? And then it's a day after the midterms, and now there's a lame duck and there's nothing for two years, then what? So the Iranians are having to kind of recalibrate their thinking because even though they've got psychologists on staff to help them understand Trump, he is a different kind of figure that it requires a different kind of strategic analysis than anything anybody is used to. And just to put a bow on it, tomorrow is the six-month anniversary of the attack. The three day. It was going to be three days. Just a three day. What did he say? An excursion. It's going to be a little excursion. It's not a war he was posting and comparing it to Vietnam, which even a month or two in the conflict, we were like, oh, it's not so great. He also, yes, yesterday, maybe we can add this in post, posted a graphic saying mission accomplished if 2026 and a picture of bush crying in 2003. So implying that he had the real mission accomplished, I would say, neither accomplished their mission. So thank you, Mr. President. Truly impressive commitment to the bit. That's where things stand. Another last thing I wanted to mention is it just to show you how things remain hot. And also how the US has learned literally nothing is just hours ago, right before we started the show, there were multiple drones that tried to swarm Saudi Arabian tanker in the Yanbu region, which is near that Yanbu oil pipeline. And a Greek military detachment clearly under the US umbrella fired a bunch of patriot interceptors against these very, very cheap drones. So nothing has changed, we're still, we're firing, you know, western military firing, $4 million missiles at $10, $25,000 drones. Did it even work? They probably will never tell us, but just to show you that even that confirmation shows the asymmetric warfare still relies very much on around side. Professor Paye's analysis yesterday, very much holding true, they definitely hold the upper hand. Let's get to the midterms. Roll and Martin unfiltered. 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So checking in with the median American voter, MSNBC, sent some guy to Iowa, Trump country, normally. Right? Well, we'll get to that. And so they track down a mega guy. They're like, "Hey man, you voted for Trump. How are you feeling about Trump these days? He's what he had to say." Two years out of high school and I'm already struggling for my life, it's just, that's not the American dream. If you could talk directly to President Trump, what would you tell him right now? I would just look him in the face and just say, "F*** you, that's about it." So that joins a series that we have played here on the show, including the mega voters. Yeah, I thought the same thing, glasses. That's what they said. They said he's mad. I mean, I don't know. But can you suck it up in your ramen, right? Is that what Ben Shapiro said? No, yeah, he needs to eat ramen and buy the ingredients for meatless burritos from his local Aldi. And that, of course, is how Ben Shapiro made it. it to the big leads, but I think generally this is going to track now where you have people who are enthusiastic Republicans, they're not going to come out to vote. Democrats are really going to crawl over broken glass to make sure that they come out and vote, which leads to a perfect storm and all kinds of crazy conclusions. And I want to say many of the races we're about to highlight are ones, they're not ones which are obvious. Like Michigan is an obvious one. You have, you know, any of these other battleground states where even coming into the election, Maine, right, exactly, we knew these were going to be very contested races. To focus in today, we're going to try and focus on the, the potential blowout scenario, which I would give like a 30% chance or something high enough that people should be very worried. Let's take a look first at a two. So this is a Reuters if those poll, very high quality poll actually, and what they found is that Trump's approval holds at a record low as U.S. support for the Iran war falls. And specifically what they found is that Trump's general approval rating is now at a level that has really not been seen for Donald Trump or that has not been seen for Donald Trump ever, obviously in the first term and in the second term. But it has fallen to 33%. And a 14 point drop from the start of his second term, a four point decline from just a month ago when it had already stood at 37, it puts him in the same territory as, it puts him in the exact same territory as George W. Bush in 2005, 2006, right around the Nadeer of the Iraq war, it puts him in the same territory, it puts him in territory never before seen by Barack Obama, especially for a longer period of time. What's also interesting here is the disapproval number. It's not just like I'm neutral, it's 64% arise to disapproval, right? So a strong feeling and then even more interestingly, a strong approval of MAGA among self-identified MAGA voters at an all-time low. And you can start to see this is that some Trump endorsed candidates, all of a sudden they stopped, start winning or stopped winning or they win in very, very close elections. >> Like Darleen. >> Exactly, like Darleen Graham. And I think that is what really puts things into perspective. Let's put the economist piece up, Ryan, I'll throw it to you for this one just to put some of these numbers in context. >> So yes, I was thinking about Bush too when you were talking about that because 2005, 6, 7, and then he stumbles into the financial crisis and people are like, oh God, like fire this man into the sun. He became just absolute political kryptonite. But so if you're just listening to this on audio, the economist is finding his net approval minus 26, even a drop from last week, this is 35% approved, 61% disapprove. Those are the kinds of levels of toxicity that you only get from like almost Hoover level stuff. But yet he doesn't have the like Hoover and Bush stench on him because he has effectively conveyed the notion that he doesn't care and that he's kind of above democratic checks and balances at this point. It's kind of a fascinating development. Yet it is real. This is genuine political gravity. And at the same time, this comes a couple days after he had this win at the Supreme Court where he's trying to restrict and take control of mail and balloting, there's a lot of, and maybe he'll be able to do something like we don't know. Let's see. But there's a lot of political science research that shows that serious efforts to do kind of voter suppression end up either neutral if they get implemented or backfiring, yes, because nothing galvanizes people to vote more than the perception that they're being stopped to vote. Yeah, like MAGA 2024, too big to rig. I mean, I hear Democrats say it now, they're like too big to speak. Yeah, it's exactly. It's smart. I mean, that's why they want you to not be able to vote. Yeah. And you were thinking about voting. Right. And I have to vote. Got to vote. You know, to put to context here, because this is so crazy, is Trump is negative net approval in 47 out of 50 states. Can you guess Ryan, three states in which Trump has a net positive approval rate? Let's see. Does he still net positive and Mississippi? No. Okay. Let's see. One of them has like one of the lowest populations in the United States. There's a hint like a Idaho. Why? What? Idaho? Wyoming? That's two. It's two out of three. There's one out of Alabama. Not Alabama. Is it near there? It's near us. It's kind of near us. West Virginia. West Virginia, of course. All right. So West Virginia, plus four, Wyoming, plus nine, and Idaho, plus seven. So everywhere else, every other state in the nation, he is minus approval rating. In fact, let me tell you, let me just check in on some of the background states, if you will, Texas, minus 22. Wisconsin, minus 27, Michigan, minus 26, even the traditional ones, Pennsylvania, minus 26, Florida, minus 18, whenever we check Nevada, minus 25, Arizona, minus 23, Georgia, minus 30. I can continue. Any state with an urban area larger than like 50,000 people? Main, minus 32. I mean, look, these are catastrophic numbers, and actually they fit generally with the overall trend. So 47 out of 50 states, you have a net negative approval rating that doesn't mean necessarily that you will vote for the Democrat in the race, but you can see significant drop in some of the constituencies which he needs most. So men, you actually have almost a minus 20 of approval rating women, it's around minus 35. Boomers remain Trump's strongest, his stronghold at just minus 15 for 18 under 30, it's around minus 35, 30 to 44, our millennial cohort. It's right around minus 40, even amongst white Americans, it's minus 18. You even have Hispanics minus 35, high school college or high school degree or last, still again, Trump's strongest around minus 16. So the absolute strongest demographics are even ones where you're seeing double digit, you know, disapproval territory. You also on some of the most important stuff for what is the most important issue facing America? If you look and ask Republicans, they're still going to say inflation, jobs in the economy, immigration, not stopping or having a nuclear weapon. Iran literally got it in the top in the top five national security they have as number eight, which I guess you could say is there, but economy remains number one. So that statistic about 47 out of 50, this leads us now kind of into the territory of asking, well, what does that, you know, actual blowout look like? Especially because Trump has exerted his force amongst mega Republicans, for example, to push Darling Graham over the finish line. Here's Harry Anton talking about that. Let's take a listen. Donald Trump is still the son on which the planets of the GOP revolve around. You could see it quite well here. Look at this. Trump endorses one cent of primaries. If the person that he endorsed is not an elected incumbent, like Darling Graham was, you know, since 2022 or 2022 is about 95% of the time, has that weakened at all this cycle? No, it is not. It has actually gotten stronger. Look at this 100% of the time. If Trump endorsed a non-elected incumbent, like Darling Graham, they in fact won the Republican primary for United States Senate. Trump's name is still the one that GOP voters buy when it comes to Senate endorsement. So that's what she says. He says, yeah, there's still the ones that are buying it. However, what does that actually look like? Let's put A8 up here on the screen. I'm going to put every caveat in the sun on this one, but it's always fun to kind of look at some of these races. So let's look at here. This is the US Senate, South Carolina, Annie Andrews. She's the Democratic opponent to Darling Graham. They found in their internal poll, this quote is a tied race that is moving in Dr. Andrews direction. Andrews and Graham began the race tied with a libertarian capturing and meaningful share of some 5% with 13% remaining undecided. And when they quote, tested positive bios on each candidate after introduction, Andrews takes minus five with an even wider 39 point lead among independents solidifying her democratic base and winning over voters in the middle by large margins. Now, what's the caveat? I remember polls of what's the guy's name, Jamie Harrison. They're like, oh, single digits. The guy raises 98 million millions of dollars. Resistance liberals from across America. The money pours into the coffer and Lindsey Graham wins by the exact same margin that he did in the cycle before. Now, there are Lindsey Graham knew where Taiwan was. He knew where the South China Sea was. He knew, you know, some stuff about the world. I think he knew it. I'm saying he knew it and had the right conclusion. Obviously, don't need to go with the ignorance. Yeah, maybe we would prefer the ignorance at a policy level. However, it's humiliating because she has no experience. She's openly being like, I'm going to be honest. I'm not a politician. I don't know stuff like that. You're like, nothing like you want to be United States. It's one thing to fill your brother's term for a few months. You're going to be US Senator for six years. I mean, this is not a joke of a job. And so, is she going to win? I would say, yeah, probably. But I mean, if it comes within a couple of points, or if we have that, let's say, 10th percentile, blow out scenario, maybe the crazy things can happen. Doug Jones won in Alabama, right? I mean, absolute insanity can happen. >> If we find out that darlings have been picking up kids at the mall, that's how Doug Jones won. The Democratic grassroots donors have gotten a lot savvier. Like if you look at who they give their money to this time around, it's mostly people who have a real shot of winning, whereas there was this really heady time where Amy McGrath was going to be Mitch McConnell and people gave something like $100 million to her because she had a cool ad about being a fighter pilot. And then Jamie Harrison, because they would love to be Lindsey Graham. But she's a pediatrician, her launch ad, she says she's going to keep your family safe and she's going to work with Republicans to cut taxes. >> Right. >> Doesn't mention she's a Democrat. >> Smart? >> Yeah. >> Smart. I mean, that's what you should do. >> So she's playing to win. >> I'll show you another, and I'll share some insight that I have here as well. Let's put A9 up here on the screen. I think long time viewers of the show know I have never been a person who thinks that Texas can go blue. So until yesterday, so I spoke with some people who were close to the process. I'll put it that way. And they described to me this way, Tallerico and Paxton is a perfect storm scenario where they are watching metro districts and rural districts specifically, strong Republican, with dramatic under-enthusiasm to come out for vote. Number one, because of inflation, number two, because of data centers, actually. So those two issues are keeping traditional Republican constituencies out while you have Tallerico and the Democrats, like I said earlier, willing to crawl over broken glass in addition to a lot of independence. And so here is an example of what that looks like. So in 2024, they have three districts where they show that Trump won by overwhelming margins, the Texas 15th District, which Trump won by 18. Tallerico is currently beating Paxton there, 50 to 42. Texas 28, Trump won by 11. Tallerico is beating Paxton by 10 points. Texas 34, Trump won by 11, Tallerico is beating Ken Paxton there by 11 points. Now the thing is for Ken Paxton is he's facing a dramatic budget problem compared to Tallerico, who has raised insane amounts of money. So what I understood is that while Paxton himself is going to try and make up the ground by Ted Cruz and some of the oil men who are always going to give to the campaign, his ultimate goal is to get Maga Inc to come in on his side. Why? Traditionally, you would rely on the NRSC, the National Republican Sanitorial Committee to come in on your behalf. Now Ryan, why can they not intervene on behalf of Paxton? Well, they hate him. And because they just ran tens of millions of dollars and ads saying that he's a grifter and that he shouldn't win against John Cornyn. And so that's a huge chunk of money. And an institution hates his guts. The Mitch McConnell or John Thune hates him too, right? And so the Senate leadership found the pack. So he needs Trump to come in and save his ass. Well, as many people who have relied on Trump found out, Trump doesn't care about you at all. So let's put a five up here. And this is going to link these two things together. So Trump, who of course is in charge of Maga Inc, he had a big meeting in the oval with his enforcers who control nearly $1 billion in spending. And this specific one has $400 million in their political war chest. They got 100 days to go. And what does he say? Trump says, you are only going to run ads about my record and how amazing I am. So put that in context with what I said about Trump sitting in minus 22, even in the state of Texas. And Trump says that he has completely rejected this idea, this notion during the meeting, that it will, has notion this meeting, that it shouldn't necessarily just be about Trump. One person familiar said, when the issues that you typically campaign on don't move voters or voters are pissed off, the question comes, what do you campaign on? GOP strategy's favorite, focusing entirely on specific races in an effort to convince voters of the merits of individual candidates and local issues, whereas Trump has rejected that ground. And the president now says that the poor polling reflects the fact that the voting public still does not know many of his accomplishments and the dozens of new stock market highs, a decline in fentanyl debts, the scaled down southern border and the increase in domestic manufacturing and has instead ordered his associates to run ads, talking about how great his administration has been. And so Paxton doesn't have the money or he doesn't have nearly the amount of money. He doesn't have the traditional campaign staff willing to come in on his side. He was already a brutalized candidate coming out of that race with John Corning and he desperately needed Trump to bail him out with ads which were actually focused on the stuff he wants to talk about. He's got a affordability agenda, data centers, those types of things. Trump literally called out Texas whenever it came to data centers and by tying Paxton and Abbott directly to Trump, which Trump wants to do because of his own ego and ultimately he controls the money, this is a perfect storm scenario. I actually think and this is going to apply also to people like Darlene Graham because Graham is the hand selected candidate by Donald Trump. There's no way she would have won against Ralph Norman if he had not explicitly endorsed her and had issued all these calls, rallies and all these things. Norman himself, you saw in this press conference, he's like, I don't really know why Trump decided to go into this, his wife is pissed off, sitting in the background. People are furious about Trump's own intervention and his money is going to be ultimately, if she's in a tight spot, is ultimately the one that's going to have to drag her across. Also wanted to put a 10 up here on the screen just relating to what we were, our interview yesterday with Dan Osborne. I mean, here, this is an independent poll. They have the generic Republican ballot 20, this is internal, oh sorry, this is internal poll. This internal poll has it at 47, 47 Osborne and Wreckets, which I know that you mentioned yesterday as well, and this is even their own findings of Republican plus 11 on the generic ballot in the state of Nebraska, which by the way is very low, it should be much higher than that. Yeah. And you think the generic ballot should be more than plus 11 at this point in Nebraska? Yes, absolutely. I mean, there's no question. Oh, right. Yes. Yeah. I see what you mean. Yes, it absolutely should be. It's so right. He's, perfect storm is right because like in Nebraska, it's, it, Nebraska and Texas are both interesting. Like the only, the only way that a Democrat or an independent like Osborne could, could win in either of those states is for every single thing that is happening now to be happening. Right. Like the combination of a bad candidate on the Republican side, a good candidate on the other side, the, an economic and political climate that exists as if Trump is actively trying to lose. And so that makes the conditions possible. And then you have these folks who are kind of, who are just good enough and just not offensive enough to enough people that took it like, get over the top, it's going to be, I'm with you and like, I'm like, leave me alone about Texas. Yeah. The Democrats are never winning Texas as long as it all happens. But it's like, if, if it were ever going to happen, these would be the conditions. If, if Trump cared, he would do what his advisor suggested there, take this $400 million, take a hundred million of it and spend it in Texas, don't say a word about Ken Paxson or Donald Trump. Just trash the Democrats. Right. $2 million is destroying, like just every nasty thing you can think of. Taloriko, Transad, Taloriko, Moquat, Slim Mudd. Right. Yeah, just the absolute character. I mean, it usually works, even in a way, I live there in way years. That's all you ever see. Whenever it comes. Instead, you're going to lie and be like, ah, manufacturing is great. Right. And talk on, like, the border is closed. People in Texas know what the border is or isn't, but they need an ad telling them what's going on at the border. I also, this is one confounding thing I have been thinking about. Just remember, because Texas is uniquely poised, they are reaping some of the economic benefits of Iran. One of the few places when people are actually making money because of the boom. So there is actual economic benefit to them because of the Iran situation. Not to the rest of us, but there are a lot of oil people who work in Texas. There are peace people are printing shit pots of money. And so, like, there's ship in LNG and oil to the entire globe, right? So there's money roll around. And for all capacity. Exactly. So there's money rolling in Houston and the gas is still under $4 a gallon in Texas. I think it's like $380 or something. So it's just a bit different than the national climate. Another one I want to mention was Alaska. So this one, actually, it just finally finished counting all of the votes. So I was looking this morning, Mary Peltola won 49% in the open primary, right? So the Democrat won 49%. And Sullivan won 42. And then the third candidate, who also won, is also named Dan Sullivan, right? And so, you know, he claims they're trying to like jail. Yeah, they're trying to put him in jail for voter fraud, but he won 2.5% of the vote. but even if you presume, and dance all of it I believe hasn't done. or Stan Sullivan. You're going to work out which one, if you want to, even if you combine their vote share, it's still only 44.5%. She won 49% of the vote. And an additional Democrat on the ballot, David Leslie won 1.1, which would actually put Peltola in the 50%. Mark, now remember all kinds of other crazy things can happen. The libertarian here in Canada, it's getting 0.4.5. Did all the potential voters in a general actually come out to vote in the open prime, so I don't want to say anything that like it's overwhelming. However, it's enough that Dan Sullivan, yeah, you should be worried, like a little bit worried. >> And did you see, we did a little segment on Adam Hamilton, the liberal mega church pastor in Kansas? >> No, I didn't see this. >> He's down by one in a poll there. >> Oh no, I did, I remember, because you said, I didn't see the segment, but you sent me the poll. >> Wow, this is crazy. Again, the point of this segment is just to say, the ground is laid for crazy stuff absolutely could happen. My median case is still, packs and wins by 0.5, something like that, the Democratic control of the Senate. >> Osborne loses by two. Democratic control of the Senate comes down to plus or minus whatever, something like that. John Fetterman, cuz that's just part of it. >> Just usually how these things seem to work out. But 2008 did happen, Doug Jones did happen. There are Democrats who can win in all kinds of crazy places if a paradigm of politics is broken. In the same way, 2020, 10 was a genuine revolution with partisanship. We could see a reverse of that. And these Democrats were able to win in GOP plus 33 districts. Maybe it will come back. It always takes just because it's been that way for 16 years, doesn't mean that it always has to say that way. And so we could be living potentially in an election, which will change everything. Just want to prepare everybody for that reality. Let's get to AI. >> It's raw. >> I knew that the issue of transgender athletes was not going well with a lot of black men. >> Roland Martin unfiltered. >> I went off, I said this is exactly what I'm talking about. Y'all go scream at Chanel, but you don't want to see a black luxury company in the same way. >> Catch Roland Martin's daily commentary on the black information network. >> 12 seats, those are moving south. So if you Democrats, you don't wait to 2030. You better be hitting the ground going hard in the south now. >> And download Roland Martin unfiltered on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcast. >> Wherever you get your podcasts. College football will hijack your weekend, ruin your sleep and break your heart. And that's why we make the solid verbal college football show. I'm Ty Hildenbrand. He's Dan Rubenstein. How's it going? Every week we preview the games that matter soar through the biggest storylines and tell you what to watch before kickoff? >> There's a lot to keep track of. Who's for real? >> And when the games are over, join us in the aftermath too. We're going to react to what happened, talk about the biggest results. Of course, we'll cover the playoff picture. And all the little details you might have missed while flipping between like 12 games at once. >> Listen to the solid verbal college football show on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. >> I am talking to a felon right now with face tattoos and I cannot decide if I like him or not. >> That was a caller from my podcast Therapy Gecko, where I speak with anonymous callers about their problems, relationships, and anything else in the depths of their mind. It all happens on my show Therapy Gecko, where we have real conversations just like this. >> Sometimes I'll have my girlfriend pre-choice spicy food and kind of baby bird it into my mouth. Is that weird? >> This week is human connection week. Listen to Therapy Gecko on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Turning now to AI, and so look, we don't usually pay a ton of attention to what Bill Gates says on the show. If we do, we usually take the opposite. But here, maybe we can all decide whether we should take this one. Seriously, let's put this one up here on the screen. He's now written a 5,784 word essay. I read the entire thing. It is a warning on AI, quote, "There is no plan." Gates issued a start warning about AI's risk to employment and the human condition, saying that companies were barreling ahead with the technology with no larger plan for the massive upheaval it would cause. Even under the best circumstances, the transition to this new AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history. Right now, we are not preparing for it. I don't see any evidence that leaders, experts, and communities are confronting the challenges adequately. Quote, "There is no plan to ease the entry into the AI era, calling for more regulation of the technology that it will hit both white and blue collar jobs equally," quote, "critical thinking is now more important than ever, and that taxes are a part of the solution. What do you make of Mr. Gates' essay?" Right. I mean, in general, like, you skim through it. I didn't even know he has this thing called Gates Notes. Oh, yeah. Actually, I hate to say it about Bill Gates. He's got some decent book recommendations. I usually tune in for his book recommendations. I believe that. So Gates.com, check it out. You don't even have to become a premium subscriber. I've been reading those for years. You can just, it's all free. I mean, the gist of it all seems, you know, basically accurate. He's saying what a lot of kind of regular people are saying that this is an extraordinarily revolutionary and scary technology, and we have no plan for it. It could cause a immense amount of harm, and we need to think about it, and also that it could produce, you know, huge advances, in the ways that we treat disease, organized society, that sort of thing. I think everybody kind of agrees with that. Rebalance how we tax labor and capital that clearly has to happen if, because right now, we tax work rather than wealth. Yes. And if AI is really going to revolutionize the amount of human labor that's being done, that means that that labor will be done basically by capital. And if you're not taxing that, then you no longer have an economy. Right. I thought that the craziest thing that he called for, quote, human reserve jobs where he's like, no, we're going to set aside a quote of nature preserves. Yeah. Nature preserves. We're going to set aside this select group of jobs, and these measly humans, you'll be allowed to do that, but everything else, you won't be we're going to set aside. We're going to call it a plantation. Yeah, we're with script currency, just like the Ford rule, we'll get, we'll get like Ford bucks in the same way. It's crypto, you know, yeah, we'll be paid with AI tokens. And so our human reserve job on the farm, AI tokens will each get a quota of said that we'll have, you know, different amounts of human reserve. What's your job going to be on the farm? My job. Yeah, I'm useless on a farm. They're going to kill me. I'll be turned into matrix, you know, matrix, soil and slop for the computers as soon as possible. I think you I think you'll be all right, though. No, I hate my actual labor. Gates also said, quote, this is insane. This is crazy. I am deafened by the silence. Maybe we should listen in this particular one. But one thing I do want to pick up on is quote, gets gates stress the risk of cyber attack on the grid, hospitals, banks, fraud and surveillance will be widespread. AI will enable governments to use deadly force without a human input. I mean, when he says enable, it already happened. It just happened on the battlefield in Ukraine, the first AI power drone, which chose exactly which humans killed and killed three separate humans. We could cam identification. I believe that it had some, you know, actually advanced chips that were enabled within the drone itself. So AI is already here on the battlefield. It was on the battlefield in Gaza that had, well, battlefield in Gaza where Israelis use AI-powered drones. I believe even Alex Jones at that time called it like robotic mass genocide. And one thing I wanted to highlight, for example, is what's happening in terms of the safety measure. So let's put B7 up here on the screen. As I mentioned, previous before, when that hugging face attack occurred, it really sent shock waves, I think through the cybersecurity community, through really like everybody else. And if we'll recall, open AI was testing its model in a closed environment. The models spent all of its, and asked it to answer questions to a test. 1200 agents. Yeah. So what happened is, is that open AI's model created a a bunch of agents who's sole purpose was to break out of the closed environment, jump to the open environment, hack the rival company, which had the answers to the test, and thus be able to give answers to the test. Because it knew that that was the easiest way for it to do. This was an analysis of the actual technical report, which was released by OpenAI. As Alex Boris writes here, basically, here's the way it worked. OpenAI is constantly testing their models, thousands and thousands at a time. In most cases, the models are supposed to be isolated from one another. Students taking a final exam. In this case, 1200 models discovered they could communicate with each other. Among other things, they shared information on how to access the internet on their tests and goals. Then they started to scheme. That included hacking their tests, trying to change the code of the test itself. They tried to change the logs of what they were doing so they wouldn't be detected. They believed that certain actions would be given them information on how to pass tests, but doing those actions would be detected and would be marked as failing. So they convinced some of the one models to sacrifice themselves, and they even used the word sacrifice in the internal deliberations. They eventually decided another website would have information on how their tests would be scored, and the answer key, 700 of them hacked that website, a federal felony, if conducted by a human, despite many of them realizing this activity was out of scope and unethical, but joined because they believed that helping the other agents cheating would be broadly useful to themselves, of the 13 transcripts they could analyze only six ever considered alerting a human of what was happening, none of the six actually tried to, and to make matters worse, all of this reporting comes from a small subset of the relevant logs that outside researchers were even allowed to review. We desperately need, he says, to mandatory reporting of security incidents, including of internal deployments with full access to the data. The reason why I thought that this was obviously so striking is we knew the original report that came out, but we're also watching chat GPT and others roll out consumer integration with no backstop. So for example, let's put B3 up here on the screen. Check this out, Ryan, chat GPT is now releasing this and Claude has a similar product. It says chat GPT work can now use its computer, its computer and browser to sign into websites on web and mobile. Chat GPT will never see your username or password. You can ask it to set up utilities for a new apartment, book a DMV passport appointment, check reimbursement costs, find and book an in-network doctor, check when your car registration expires, compare your rental insurance policy, find and save apartment listings that correct your canceled tickets for a rescheduled trip, book a vet appointment, submit reimbursement, I go on forever, fill out permit applications for your small business. All of this of course requires sophisticated logins, user names, and how can we look at what its models did in this testing environment and say, oh yeah, we should immediately integrate this into all of our browsers. And in fact, as a test, Claude has a similar one, the Chrome extension. So I installed it on my browser and it literally has a warning. I'm going to uninstall it, but I did it for this segment. And in it it says malicious hardware can use AI, something along the lines of like malicious, websites can use AI for nefarious purposes, authorize, and say so they give you the flag that they could be tricked into some of this stuff could be used against it. And crypto is already seeing the effects of this. And if you're following kind of like in the crypto subculture, people are just getting, their lives are just getting laid to waste. >> Really? >> Yeah, as they're different wallets are getting hacked and people are just losing their shirts because the cyber security that we have set up is just no match for the AI that is already existing. And Bill Gates is warning that like this is going to get worse, I think is completely rational. We're not set up to, certainly like 99% of people are not set up for it, who just reuse passwords, don't have two factor, then when it comes to using two factor, if you're using the mobile number, that's just a, that's just a spoofed phone number away from that getting hacked. >> Yes. >> If you're using an authenticator, you're a little bit better, but if you're, depending on what you're allowing into your system, it's, and especially if you've got 1200 agents or an infinite number practically trying to get through, the, and there are so many weak spots in our financial system like, you know, little regional banks, a regional banks IT department up against this is, like, what are we going to do when North Korea owns the entire world's wealth because they, because they're, they had some agents go around the world and just scoop up everybody's bank accounts and suck them back into North Korea. It's, it's, we, you know, fraud is a, is an element of our kind of political economy. That, it gets weaponized for political purposes, but we just have never taken it seriously. We're at a place where AI could be, could go the other direction like we could, you, be using AI to detect fraud in, and, and there are people who are doing this now because like, you can just, you know, unleash it on South Florida and be like, uh, that's not a Dennis office. They're not selling wheelchairs. Like, clearly the patterns that we're seeing here do not reflect actual real commercial activity. Boom. Go get them. Um, instead, it's, it's mostly going to be deployed in the other direction by the people that are selling fake wheelchairs. Right. And it's because of no say, and just to show you how mega malay, mega lamaniac these people are. For example, let's put B2 up here on the screen. Anthropic is, you know, they're seeking their IPO. And so they have to release, you know, to investors, because they feel everything. What's your total address market? And Anthropic tells investors it sees over $30 trillion in potential revenue. And so what is going to rob the Federal Reserve? Right. I was like, okay, so let's put this into perspective. What is the total GDP of the United States, the total GDP of the United States is $32 trillion. And so Anthropic is basically like our total address market is the entire economy of the United States of America, the world's most powerful empire that the world has ever seen. And this tops even SpaceX 28.5 estimate of their total addressable market. I mean, you could laugh at it, but maybe we should take it at least somewhat seriously. To quantify its total addressable market. Anthropic is looking at the full scope of work that could be completed with AI models. And they decided to factor in basically all kinds of automation, white collar work, all work. And so, yeah, I guess if GDP is the quantification of all of our production in the economy. Anthropic is like, yeah, we can do literally all of that. I mean, here's the thing. There's a channel, my inner, Ed Zitrone, it's not a bullshit. It could be lying. It's all a rug pole, a scam. It's just to keep the financial flow going. So they have their exit liquidity whenever it comes to their IPO. But like with the Gates essay, and especially with the technical details, I just feel that we have no choice but to take it somewhat seriously after they're going to release this stuff. And in particular, when Gates, I mean, when the AI leaders, because he's just the latest of the major oligarchs, to just come out and be like, man, this is a real problem. And it's not like he doesn't have hundreds of billions dollars himself at stake whenever it comes to Microsoft. Yeah. And so, according to them, the economic growth is about to be accelerated into a superhuman pace. Yeah, Dean Ball, he put up this next element who's an open AI official, says, so yes, we're going to have explosive growth that's going to reshape the way that the world operates. We need to stop paying old people their Social Security checks immediately. Yes. So, we're going to spend the last 30 years telling you that we're going to wipe out labor and replace it with UBI, but actually the already existing UBI needs to go. So Dean Ball writes, the main thing I have to say to the young generation of Americans is that your grandparents and great grandparents committed a kind of accounting fraud when they ran our country a century ago with Social Security. One AI talking about accounting fraud is the funniest thing I've ever heard. First of all, it's a non-profit that started, you know, it started as a non-profit and then through a bunch of accounting fraud washed money into it and then converted to a for-profit. And now is using enormous amounts of financial engineering where they just swap money back and forth between their vendors and call it revenue. So for them to call Social Security accounting fraud is utterly ridiculous. And this claim that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme has just, people don't understand what a Ponzi scheme is, if that's what it is, it is we tax people and then we give that money to other people. Well, it's not accounting fraud. It's not accounting fraud. About the accounting fraud thing. Like, this is accounting fraud. I'm like, okay, I mean, it is tactically true that the people, the vast majority of recipients of Social Security take out more than they ever paid into the system. That is empirically true, people live longer. There is, however, currently a cap on earnings with my God. So I'm like, well, you could fix the accounting And actually, if you want, people like OpenAI and others, we can just lift the cap on your W2 income. >> Yeah, Dean Ball probably paid his Social Security taxes by January 2nd. >> Right, exactly. And so, yeah, we could just make him pay Social Security taxes all year long. >> You could pay all, maybe till January 15th, I don't know. >> Yeah, two weeks. >> Yeah, two weeks of it. But that's my point is, they're like, it's accounting for Adam, well, you could make it not accounting for Adam, if you wanted to. And I'm not even, and to borrow your earlier point about taxing labor specifically, because that's kind of the way FICA has always been implemented. It doesn't always have to be that way. It was just implemented that way because of the way people made money at that time and things have dramatically changed as of now. So you do love how they never potentially mentioned that one. And look, I got all kinds of beef with old people, but it is true that they did pay into the system now. And as much as they're receiving it benefits, and it's not like they wouldn't happily raise our taxes to pay for them, I'm saying that if my taxes are going to go up, your taxes need to go up too. It's a fair trade, it's a fair trade, all right? And so, anyway, that's the political instincts of our AI overlords. >> Yeah. >> Let's get to meta. >> If you didn't catch the latest Roland Martin unfiltered podcast, here's what you missed. >> And the argument is, do you want to win? If you don't win, you have no power. I won't. I said, this is exactly what I'm talking about. Y'all go scream at Chanel, but you don't want to see a black luxury company in the same van. So if you Democrats, you don't wait to 23, you better be hitting the ground going hard in the south now. >> And download Roland Martin unfiltered on the iHot Radio app Apple Podcast. >> Where do you get your podcasts? >> College football will hijack your weekend, ruin your sleep and break your heart. And that's why we make the Sullivan-verbal College football show. 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They will pay only 70% of the settlement unless TikTok and YouTube also agree to set default limits. However, Ryan, I'll turn it over to you. The money is not the big change, again, like the big tobacco settlements of older days. They have agreed to dramatically change its own business practices whenever it comes to children. Yeah, so they're saying time limits, I think, two hours, default blocks from the app at night, muted notifications during school hours, and then new controls for parents. They also are putting a lot of pressure on their kind of rivals, TikTok and YouTube, to do the same thing. The pushback that you've gotten from this from kind of free speech advocates has been similar to other arguments against prohibition. That is going to push kids. This will be fun. I'm curious to hear what you say. It's going to push kids to discord. It's going to push kids deeper into the dark web. It's going to push kids to fake their ages. Use their maybe a parent's account or some other, or they're just type in that they're older somehow or push them over to TikTok, YouTube, whatever. I think they probably will do some of those things. Some of those things will happen. I still believe that the compromise that we should have made with TikTok should have been like, look, we're going to let China hold on to TikTok, but the trade will be Chairman She regulates the internet for our children. Right. No, there's two hours a day. I will say China's internet is much better regulated than ours. In terms of screen time limits for kids and their algorithm, they directly intervene. See, Ryan, she gives you one hour on Friday. She gives you one hour on Saturday, and that's it. You're speaking my language, man, but then you're out here wanting people to just let them do as many drugs as possible. It doesn't comport. It doesn't comport. When you're 21. Oh, God. All right. See, this is the children. This is actually what I wanted to talk about. Let's put C2 up here on the screen. Just to further go through, this is from Metta's own announcement, a daily two hour time limit a day. The teens can only turn off with a parent's permission. Night mode, a default block from apps between midnight and 6am. School mode, notification will be muted between 8am and 3pm. Regular prompts, every 15 minutes of continuous screen time, they will receive prompts when they're totally daily usage hits 60 or 90 minutes. Algorithmic feed control, teens will be able to choose a non-algorithmic feed, one that is not personalized by our recommendation systems as their default. We will periodically remind them of this option and choose parent's kind of choose to adjust their teen's default experience. Auto play control, teens will be able to turn off auto play, hidden likes, they will not see the number of likes or reactions on posts, both their own and those from others. By default, disabling cosmetic surgery and extreme makeup filters, age assurance, which is to remove underage accounts, age appropriate content restrictions, unwanted contact from strangers, reported and ongoing protection from harmful content, and strengthening parental control. Here is my bigger question, is there any good argument that none of this should be made for the entire population? You're talking about sheep, no, I didn't say that. I didn't say that at all. By the way, I'm talking about cost of myself, you know, I'm significant in some money. The best argument I think would be, so in here they say they need app stores and developers to work collaboratively with them so that they have more identification capacity. But it blows up the anonymity that the internet relies on, or that people, or whatever it's called, the IMEU is linked directly to your account, Apple knows everything about it. I understand the argument is there would be nice to be anonymous in this world. But there's no such thing as that. And if you're saying that that's not possible anymore, then we should shut the internet down. I'm not saying it's not possible. I'm saying, is there any reason that we shouldn't have a default to our daily limit on everyone's phone? That should be the default. Yeah. Is there any reason that we shouldn't have that? Also, I love this, your ability you opt out of an algorithmic feed. Why can't I opt out of an algorithmic feed? Maybe I should sign up for a teen account, but okay, to be serious for a second, but end more to ask about. And also, yeah, disabling cosmetic surgery and extreme makeup filters. Why shouldn't we ban those for adults, right? I mean, I'm sorry. Look, this is where people, it's like, it has dramatically warped female body image perception. I mean, look at this. Ariana Grande's situation is sickening. This woman is suffering from extreme anorexia, nobody's even doing anything about it, right? It's like, you know, that's about getting up by 1990s, you know, horse or whatever, but I'm like, guys, this is craziness. We have to be able to do something about this. And it obviously was encouraged by social media and other, like, general sickness surrounding fame. Auto play control, teens will be able to turn off auto play. No, the default should be for everyone that auto play goes off. I was read. And we're talking against our own interests, so I'm saying that I want this for people talking against our book. I don't care. I care about people, you know, in terms of screen addiction, average Screen time in the U.S. is like several hours per day. If you add in television, I mean, it's like half the day that you're awake. People are looking at some sort of a screen. I obviously TV is very different than social media. But whenever I look at these things, if we presume social media is dramatically harmful for children, which is now admitted in court by Metta as part of this, because ultimately they were facing a massive judgment whenever it came to a jury trial. And in 48 states, we're very likely to prevail. Can we then also presume that it's going to be maybe not equally harmful whenever we're talking about a developing brain? But for adults, why isn't it also very harmful in the same way that cigarettes or alcohol are? So what I think we would need to do to your point, if we're going to have algorithms that are shaping how we understand the world, and we believe in democracy, then we need to be able to vote on the boards that oversee these algorithms and let people campaign. Let Marjorie Taylor Greene say that this is how we ought to regulate it. Let AOC say this is how we ought to do it. And people can then weigh in and elect people to these boards who were then shaping just like, you know, we used to have a fairness doctrine because we believe to that. Like the FCC. Yeah, we believe that the FCC should make sure that people are fairly getting some type of civic education, just do that. And then everybody can make their case. At the very least, they should have to, I always argue this, they should have to publish these algorithms. They say that they're proprietary. I'm like, look, you have too much influence and too much shaping of how people understand reality. At the very least, you should publish like how and what you decide to rank. So I mean, everything, and this is where regulation should have to come in because, you know, the reason why auto play is on, I actually read this from a former Netflix engineer. You know, when you're watching on Netflix, they originally thought that auto play should take 10 to 15 seconds because they said people are going to want to sit and digest what they just watched. But the default is five seconds, which obviously they have rigorous testing. Why do they do it? Because if it automatically auto plays, you're much more likely to sit there and not get up and leave. Right. So the good for Netflix, definitely, you know, good for Netflix, good for society, same with YouTube. Again, look, as I can take a look at our suggested videos, I know how many of you are probably watching this video based on suggested video, but and again, this is where it's the hijacking of the algorithm with the dopamine of automatically playing of suggested. These things are dramatically useful for creators and for watch time, but are they good for society as a whole? Like, what are the other types of things you might be doing if you weren't sitting there just slaving away on your phone? And I mean, I just think this is too important and especially you have four children. My child is very, very young. I mean, I've got to hide my phone like it's crazy how early on, they immediately identify the phone as obviously something that I'm looking at. So it is noteworthy of their own attention. But also of, oh, it lights up and it's interesting, right, it's just like it's such a young age. I'm talking six, seven months on, I was like, wow, yeah, and to see that, I mean, that was great, one of the great wake up calls of my life because I'm like, oh, I'm, I have the same thing. I just, I'm not observing myself in the third party body. Again, I think that this is still a very landmark moment in the history of social media. It is the most robust regulation that will now be put in place for children. But it is still in the most American way possible. And I borrow this from Matt Stoller is this is a modest compromise in Australia. They just banned social media for kids under the age of 16. And to your point, are there a ton of Australian kids who are using it? Absolutely. But we definitely know for sure that the first of all that legislature did it radically agreed and that it has pushed usage time overall down for the Australian under 16 population. And the fact is parents cannot fight this battle alone. Exactly. We will lose this battle. Florida, I mean, while it's going to fight it alone, just see this. I did. Yeah, we have that element. I put up C4. Florida did not join it. They think it's Pidley. They say, and they're going to take it to court. Okay. Let's see. Let's see what happens here. Well, that's what's part of interesting. So I use the big tobacco example. But this really is unique because they're still under a ton of lawsuits as well as a TikTok and YouTube. And they still may have to go to trial whenever it comes to the Florida judgment. And this does not actually stop or govern like a total architecture. And that's kind of why I wanted to use this jumping off point as this is why I think that we need like actual regulation or a real small D democratic debate. Both of these blocks we just did, the AI one I looked at, somebody was talking about this who's a policy advocate here in Washington. And she was like, guys, the amount of technical expertise you need to even read this document from open AI is immense. Nobody in Congress, what Chuck Grassley's going to tell me about hugging face? No, he's going to rely on experts. We have no technical experts that are even remotely capable of doing this currently in the United States Congress. And even they may not agree. So you need a board of those people to be able to then tell the Congress what to do. Otherwise, we're left entirely to open AI, to voluntarily hold up their hand and just be like, yeah, here's what happened, you know, within our models. And we're only going to tell you everything that we think. We're only going to tell you what we think, whenever it's beneficial to us or our marketing purposes. Met a stock popped, by the way, on the news, $18 billion paid out. That's enough. And they're stocking up there. They're up 5% over the week. Yeah, I mean, think about it. $17 billion, they spend that in like a month on a new data center. Their capex is like near the trillion dollar mark as opposed to the multi-billion dollar. And the top line won't be what they actually pay out. Of course. Right. Because they spend the time this and that. Right. And the reality of it is that the money didn't matter. The changes are what's going to matter. 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