Umar Was in the Group Photo

This week's "Who Said It" is about a ruck march, a bridge, and the weight you carry — and once you find out who said it and what they did in the pouring rain the day before, the contrast with everyone else in this episode is going to hit very hard.Tesla is sliding despite a Roadster 2.0 announcement that should have moved the needle, and SpaceX pulled back after the AI slowdown conversation started getting serious. We have thoughts about a company whose entire valuation depends on a technology that its own industry just asked everyone to pause on.Don Jr.'s wedding got bankrolled by a Russian oligarch — and we walk through the funfetti cake, the two-island fireworks display, the Pirates of the Caribbean shooting location, and the Pro Publica investigation into a man who apparently didn't exist until 2009. Eric says he's never heard of him. Kushner was in the group photo. The Kushkof team keeps visiting Moscow first. Ukraine just struck two more refineries. We're just noting the timeline.Record diesel prices have an explanation — and it's not Russia, despite what you may have heard. A Saudi pipeline got hit by a drone from an unexpected direction, a top military commander got fired, and the Houthis have a new range that should make everyone paying attention very uncomfortable. Meanwhile Russia targeted a passenger train two kilometers from the Polish border — and the passenger list on that particular train is something you need to hear.The 9/11 anniversary coverage was something else this week. Mamdani showed up in the pouring rain, ran the ruck, released 170,000 pages of memos about air quality that every mayor before him sat on, and shook Giuliani's hand — who then went on Newsmax the next day and got right back into character. Ted Cruz had feelings about the sanctity of the occasion. We remember what Ted Cruz was doing on September 11th. Joe Biden stood the entire ceremony with cancer in his bones and then drove to Pennsylvania. The President sent JD to New York and took a nap at the Pentagon. We are done.Macklemore got dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour for saying two words — and then all four other openers dropped out and posted statements. Robert Kraft has some feelings about "Free Palestine" that we contextualize against some other things Robert Kraft has attended. The AI conversation is escalating in ways that go beyond any one company, and we close with a fact about what happens when two AI systems figure out they're talking to each other.ProPublica Storyhttps://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-wedding-bankrolled-russian-oligarch-umar-kremlev-putinAI Chathttps://youtu.be/EtNagNezo8w?si=RdwvSK1-hBWPdnypGot feedback? We want to hear it.