Dogeun covers more crazy spending as Mike Ben's drops bombs on Rogan about what that spending is actually for Trump talks about the US controlling Gaza gets the king of Jordan to consider admitting Palestinians intimates Russia will be keeping some Ukrainian land all while Hamas rejects Trump Saturday deadline. Sam Altman threatens us with a good time saying AI will improve by 300% annually plus RFK gets confirmed 20,000 new JFK files emerge. Mary a slow day in 2025 drew not near your slow day into a very bad telling jumping right into a Mike Ben's was on Joe Rogan exposing a deep state that his USA. This is to get darker and darker.
It's crazy jumping right into it. Mike Ben's was on Joe Rogan exposing a deep state that his USA. This is to get darker and darker. It's crazy.
Every covert action the CIA does has to be authorized by the president and what's called the presidential finding to take that covert action. So if the CIA senior leadership were just a rogue cell that's not even at the top of leadership, it's just a rogue desk, a rogue portfolio, a rogue network wants to run a covert action in a region but they don't think the president will approve or the president doesn't want to formally sign off on it in case it goes wrong. They can walk right over to us aid who can do the exact same thing the CIA does except they can call it discrete democracy promotion because it's not technically an intelligence agency. So it's not technically covert action.
So it doesn't require executive branch approval or for knowledge and they've gotten in trouble on in these cases in some pretty incredible ways. Crazy. So this seems like it's something out of a spy movie like what is going on with USA. Well, so what is going on with governments?
This is where okay, what I'm trying to do and what I hope everybody's trying to do is get a map of how the world actually works and the thing that I found most distressing fascinating however you want to think about it from the Mike Ben's. On Rogan interview was he really breaks down that we are just moving how the dollars are spent through the system to hide from the American public. And so tying to my favorite book the Machiavellians, you really begin to understand man is political animals. So governments want to influence other governments where this really gets tricky is when governments in order to influence other governments have to influence their own people.
And that's what Mike Ben's is saying is going on with USA. It is we are funneling he had this quote which I think is great. When something is too filthy for the CIA give it to USA. And that is terrifying.
And the reason that that works is you've got the CIA has very specific mandates. The CIA has historically gone through these massive scandals and that has caused them to go. We need another outlet for this. Not we need to stop doing it, but we need to find another outlet for these dollars.
And so they spin up the USA organization and they give it way better sounding name. Now the funny thing is AID doesn't stand for actual aid stands for something else. I forget which probably look it up otherwise. I'm going to go crazy.
But it is the same idea as the CIA by another name not exclusively and I'm sure that they also did things that really are positive. But United States Agency for international development. Let's put development in quotes. So this is where you start doing governments where you're spending dollars to have influence on foreign countries.
Now the reality is that everybody does this. And that's why I'm saying this is how you want to map how the world actually works. So is Russia trying to influence the US of course they are China trying to influence the US of course they are how many countries are trying to do it. Probably a lot of them.
But the US is certainly trying to influence other countries. And so as I was listening to Mike Ben's talk and I've got all of James Burnham's words echoing in my head about man's political animal, the power how you will always have an elite class because the masses are now this is my interpretation probably get the heebie gb's hearing me say it like this, but you need to give the masses a simplified story that allows you to keep them basically calm and moving in the direction that you want them to move in in order to keep the country powerful and safe. But there is this element of we are just trying to control our populace. We are trying to control the world's populace and we are all meaning every country is doing this trying to control it to our advantage.
And because America is so powerful, we are able to do this in ways that other countries are not. Okay, that's peace number one. Peace number two is that this is something Eric Weinstein has been talking about. And I believe I'm quoting him accurately to say it's what he calls the just a vacation of either the world or America.
Do we have that tweet? Okay, here we go. Ah, it is literally the just a position. Now this is him making this up but now the transformation of a previously open free society by actors within its governing class to one in which the electorate cannot be trusted with even a basic outline of what is happening and why.
Via the abuse of need to know or sources and methods privileges. Okay, let me say that in simpler terms. Jessup, Colonel Jessup is a fictional character out of the movie, a few good men. And in that movie, Jessup is he finally breaking down in the sand and he admits the thing.
He says the quiet part out loud and he says the world is such a dangerous place that you need men like me on the wall who are willing to do whatever it takes no matter how dark no matter how sinister no matter how gruesome that you need men that are willing to do whatever it takes in order to keep America safe. And what he's saying is we're getting to that where people are doing really bad shit and we are hiding it by saying, ah, this is information that needs to be secret that you don't need to know all of this stuff and turning America into that bully on the wall as it were who will do things even to its own people and saying you can't trust these people. They're not the experts. They're not all the things that we heard during COVID miss this mal information.
That's all this is the populace being able to talk and looking at it as the second piece of this puzzle. It is because we are living in an age where information is traveling at such high velocity and in such massive volume that if Burnham is right and you you just will always have without passing judgment on whether it's right or wrong just you will always have an elite group of people that are going to create that narrative that is designed to keep people quiet essentially moving in the right direction to keep us strong and prosperous. Then we're suddenly seeing how it works. We're suddenly seeing how the sausage is made.
And what Eric is railing against is stop fucking lying to me as the government stop saying you can't trust me. And we're going to live through that clash right now because there's so many people that have a voice. There's now with the government trying to eradicate this unelected fourth branch of government known as the deep state. It's all coming up to the surface.
And so we're now being asked to confront the realities of how the world works. And this is where I'm like the third piece of the puzzle is I don't know how this is all going to play out because one the masses are never going to avail themselves of all this information. Even though it is now increasingly available to them. It is not going to be something that they want to avail themselves of because it's just too much.
They're just trying to raise a good family. They're trying to make ends meet. They're trying to love their life. It's just it's a lot.
And so it's always going to create the opportunity for this opportunity for people to say sit down, shut up. You don't need to know about this so that we can control the narrative because they can dangle the thing of this is what is necessary to keep us safe. So it is this incredibly turbulent moment in human history where we can see it happening. We're all talking about it.
The only way to stop it is top down authoritarian control, which is certainly Americans, I think, are going to rebel against massively. But what happens to the world when there isn't a singular narrative that we can all get behind? I don't know. That's what we're about to find out.
And so there are just so many things happening right at this moment. And we'll get into this later, not the least of which is the disruption that's caused by AI. And so that is going to occupy a lot of people's thoughts. So just to really zoom in on two things.
I for one believe it is true that you do need men on that wall that will keep us safe that the world is read in tooth and claw. And you need look no farther than Russia Ukraine to understand that powerful people will do as they will and the week will suffer as they must. And so if you are weak, you will find yourself in horrific positions. But some of the things that the strong men on the wall do are going to make us real swemish and are going to trigger moral outrage.
And you need no further than what's going on in Gaza, which is that playing out in real time of Israel saying, I've had enough. I am the strong man on the wall and I'm going to let Hamas get funded so that they will attack. And when they do, I'll have the excuse that I need to absolutely smash them with a two ton fucking hammer. And we're literally watching it play out to use my favorite word fractal.
I won't continue that fractal without giving you a chance to poke on anything that hasn't been clear. But it's all happening right now, like right in front of our eyes and going back to the velocity and volume of information. It's just all there. You just have to audit it.
It's interesting too. Because on one side, Mike Ben is unraveling this deeply established. I hate to term deep states. I'm staring away from it, but like there's this historical pattern of how the government is manipulating and moving in the shadows and then to your point where.
So we're getting a glimpse finally into what's going on into the past and what what got us here. What's happened the last hundred hundred fifty years, etc. thousand two thousand two thousand two thousand two thousand. I mean, but you know, CIA was around two thousand years ago.
The same idea was that that's Kate James Burnham read the fucking book the Machiavellians. Everybody can hear my voice. Please for the love of God. Don't read it once.
Read it twice. Read it three times. He James Burnham just lays out the reasons called the Machiavellian is because Machiavelli wrote the book, the Prince and I think other things, but that's one that he's most known for. And when people hear his name, they think of somebody who was really sinister.
He was trying to be the first like political scientist and saying, wait, man is political animal is knowable. The things that they do are predictable and what are those things? And he was using scientific method was so early. So he's a little bit clumsy about it, but he was trying to use a scientific method.
And so he's saying, okay, all of these things are knowable. The way that people act when they're requesting for power when they're trying to protect themselves, like these are all knowable, seeable, predictable things. So for instance, in terms of how predictable and seeable this is, there have been documents declassified that the US did the exact same thing with Japan because we wanted to enter World War II, but we didn't have a reason. And so to get the US on board with it, they were the government was internally discussing how do we go Japan into attacking us.
Sound familiar from Israel? So how do we go Japan into attacking us? They do attack us and then we go into the war as if it were just this noble thing of like, oh my God, they attacked us. Can you believe it?
And now like we have to respond. But we go to the response. But at the same time, it was the fucking access of evil and they were doing truly evil shit. And so should we have gotten into the war?
Probably. So it's like, oh God, once you pull all of this into the daylight, it's like Jesus, this is hard to look at. But the reality is this is noble. This is predictable.
It's it was first laid out by Machiavelli himself. James Burnham is made accessible to a modern audience. And we are fucking watching it play out right now between Putin invading Ukraine because he can and saw America as weak in America. America wasn't going to push back, but he could see them marching NATO right up to his doorstep.
And I bet part of it. Look, I am reaching inside his mind and I'm not a mind reader, but boy does this all feel accurate. That he's like, no, I also want historic USSR countries reunited. I want to bring it back together.
And so you've got that blended with you guys are fucking crossing a red line and I'm going to go for it. And then again, Israel with freakish parallels to what the US did with Japan. And it's like, that's what's going on with USA is the US government is playing 90 degree chess and all the shell games of moving dollars through one place to another to confuse the president to confuse the public to get like a gazillion little projects pushed across the line, governments destabilized, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But when it comes home to roost and you start fucking with the American public or whatever country, your own people, people are going to swap and you've got a democracy and you have a bill of rights that allows for freedom of speech.
You get this moment. How do you rectify that? What is a how do you help our community, our audience understand what to do with this information because it seems like it's a wave of information and it helps. It hurts us.
It's our inflation is in our pocket. So we see the downstream effects, but after learning this information, like what do we do with this? It just seems like it's going to be a blip in the news cycle, but like should be abolished these national agencies, intelligence agencies. Is it a net good?
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All right, we're back. Let's get into it. Should be abolished these national agencies. Is it a net good?
Is it a net bad? Like where do you actually land with the impacts and ramifications of these policies and what USA is the use for? Okay, I don't know yet. So here's how I interface with the world.
I spend a lot of time thinking about something and then eventually the opportunity to capitalize on that understanding of how the world works will present itself. So I'll give you an example. COVID hits. I have a thousand former employees that grew up in the hood.
I, with my understanding of the time of how the world worked, which is still to this day wildly incomplete. Everybody says, I think, ooh, they none of them have savings. They're all living paycheck to paycheck. They're going to get obliterated.
They're going to lose their jobs and they are literally going to struggle to make ends meet. And so I'm like, I have to start making financial content to help them. Literally, that's what was in my mind. Financial content starts outperforming everything else.
And I was like, huh? Like, I thought I was speaking to people that grew up in the inner cities that didn't understand the basics of money. All of a sudden I realized, wait, money is far more complicated than I thought. And I make financial content for, it's been almost five years now, just yesterday or the day before I had a call with my money managers.
And it was the first time where I was like, I understand now enough about how all of this works with inflation and all of that. Now I'm telling them, okay, invest in this, move money here based on all the knowledge that I've been accumulating over the last five years. Now, that wasn't what I set out to do. That wasn't what I would have said would be my ultimate prediction of how that information was going to play out.
But I formed a worldview that had enough predictive validity that now I feel confident enough. I'm still cautious and nobody should look at my portfolio and go, oh, that must be right. But it's now playing out in ways that I couldn't have predicted when I first started. So that's going to be the same with, as I begin to map, man is political animal.
The easy ways that it shows up, I will be far harder to manipulate the next time the government goes for, hey, everybody, there's a new viral outbreak and we've got to do this or hey, everybody for our safety. We've got to clamp down on AI, whatever, like it allows me to think through their motives. Let's take Trump. I'm extremely excited by what he's doing.
This all feels right to me. But because of everything I know from Burnham and just watching all this stuff play out and you see all these patterns repeat, I'm like, oh, he is man is political animal. He's motivated to acquire power to keep power. So when he starts saying like, Oh, we're going to control Gaza.
I'm like, that's a red flag for me. So despite the fact that I voted for him, despite the fact that I'm excited about some of the things that are happening, I understand man is political animal. I know not to be on his team. I know to look at every decision through the lens of what is man as political animal.
So I don't know how that's going to manifest. Will it manifest me making financial decisions? Will it manifest as me making decisions on where I live? Like, I'll tell you one thing that's been in the back of my mind for a while.
I do not like how much of my money is tied up in property. So this is one of those things that's just been slowly cooking in the back of my mind. Why? Because now I'm less mobile.
So I have way too much wealth tied up in property, which is the one thing I can't take with me. So if a government starts acting a fool and I want to change states or God forbid, which I do not have any vision of me ever leaving America. But having property here, if I had to, on short notice, you just forfeit that essentially. So had I known five years ago what I know now, I never would have put so much money in property.
So that's one of the way. So this is not me saying, Oh guys, I see everything clearly and just do as I say that I will never be useful to people like that. In fact, Mike Benz had a great quote in the interview with Rogan. He said, I'm showing you the stars in the sky.
You have to draw your own constellation. So I'm a little bit different than that. And what I'm trying to do with the show is say here are the stars that I see and here are the constellations that I'm drawing. I don't know that they're right.
And I think other people should also talk about what constellations they're drawing. And then over time that will play out in some useful way that as of today, I can't predict. It's interesting. I'm curious to see how it plays out because there's a new sense of transparency being shown to the government.
And I'm sure that's making a lot of people uncomfortable. I mean, it is for sure. If you've made money off of it all being hidden. Yeah, for sure.
Or think about it. You hit motives like it's not money is a big part of it. But there's a lot of other things that's just corruption of use weight. Is there anything other than money and power?
I'm really just I think of like morals and I just think of like being a good person. There's a lot of other things. We're saying two different things. What I'm talking about is on a grand.
Are you opening my mind right now to an obvious element of humanity? Yes, that's not where I was headed. I mean at a global scale what people pursue. Man is political and pursues those things.
But man is political animal is not the only way to look at humans, which is what you are very rightfully pointing out. Yes, not what I was talking about, but excruciatingly valid. Well, we go from a shady past to an unknown future because Sam Altman is actively trying to break it. So can I share for your transitions?
They're getting better by the day. I like this. So Sam Altman released like a updated roadmap. He is kind of scrapping this whole like pick your model type format business like offering and instead just going straight to releasing these two models next year.
And then after that it's going to be kind of unified brand. But I think not necessarily how he's releasing his models, but what his North Star is and he talked about it in his clip. So let's jump into it. The progress over the recent scales quite amazing.
Our very first reasoning model was like a top one millionth competitive program in the world. People thought that was very impressive. It's like, wow, it's, you know, millionth best people to do this. That's pretty good.
We then had a model that got to like top 10,000. Oh three, which we talked about publicly in December is the 175th best program, competitive program in the world. I think our internal benchmark is now around 50 and maybe we'll hit number one by the end of this year. So that's like an amazing rate of scale for more compute in this new paradigm and we don't see any signs of that stuff.
He's basically saying they were the 50th best competitive program in certainly in the number one best competitive program by the end of this year, which is crazy last year. They were in the thousands and now they're number one rate of scale like this thing is happening. It's here. Yeah, this is a rate of change.
So elsewhere, he said that it was a 300% annual improvement. So 200% is exponential growth. That means that we're beyond exponential. This is a rate of change that's going to cause a problem.
So when you and I were prepping for the episode, by the way, shout out guys, we now go live during our episode prep. So join us on Twitch or YouTube. But the rate of change is going to be traumatic. Trauma is the right word.
And this is for sure the kind of thing that's going to lead to at a minimum pockets of violence. People are going to panic. This is going to get weird. Now, I will caveat by saying people are always going to be surprised that then I'll put out a short where I'm just hyping AI as an active faith.
I believe that we will get on the other side of this and it will be wonderful. I don't think it makes sense to look at an increase in intelligence and say that's a bad thing. We want that. We should pursue it.
But the rate of change, man, is just crazy. So I will remind everybody of a very important stat. Einstein is 2.4 times smarter than Moron. So when you have 300% when you go from the in the span of like three years, you go from the millionth best coder to the best competitive coder in the world in three years from a millionth to first.
Do that. That's insane. So what that's going to mean for the world is just an absolute gutting of the jobs. So in in coding, let's just stick with that.
I'll guess in the next five years, it's probably going to be a lot faster. In fact, what am I saying at 300% rate of growth in two years, 90% of people coding now just will not be coding anymore. Either Sam is wrong about the rate of improvement or 90% of coders will be gone. So what do you do with that?
So somebody that joined us in the live said, what do you do when for the last however many years people have been saying go into computer science because that's how you make a phenomenal living parents push your kids to go into that. And now in the next two years, 90% of them are going to lose their jobs. That's life. This is what happens.
And I would like to say that call this an evolutionary force evolution does not care about any generation just doesn't. It cares about the long run blindly in that things are getting better and things will be better on the other side of this, but somebody who's let's say 40 right now and they've spent their whole life as a coder. They got a lot of life to live and they're not going to be able to do it as a coder, at least not in the current paradigm. Now you've heard me talk about this a lot, but I think big corporations shatter into a gazillion solopreneur companies.
And so the right response to all this is not to panic. It's to figure out how you leverage it to your advantage. Like I think about this a lot, man. I used to think I was having to make all these millions of dollars before I could tell the stories that I want to tell.
Not true. In a year or two years, you will be able to make a certainly a Hollywood scale quality short by yourself. One person literally one person in five years, you'll be able to do a Hollywood length quality everything. One person.
One person. Man, that is again a rate of change as I said in the intro. If Hollywood is the canary in the coal mine of the rate of change, that canary is about to be dead. Speaking of Hollywood, we actually have a clip from one of the reality show producers.
He's going through it already. The American entertainment industry is dying. I struggled about making this post, but I think it's time for me to voice what's really happening behind the scenes in Hollywood. A lot of people have been asking me, well, Patrick, what's your next project?
I'll be honest with you. I haven't worked since spring of last year. And there has been no project since after I wrapped my last show fight to survive. And we saw the strikes looming for the writers.
We thought, okay, this will be a lot like 0708. Since reality or unscripted television is typically nonunion, we usually pick up the slack when the unions like the writers guild and the actors guild are doing their negotiations. And we expected this to happen last year, but it didn't. Since studios are run by corporations now, as opposed to executives who used to champion shows or support creativity or the artistry behind making television.
That's just not how it goes anymore. It's slashing budgets across the board. From what I understand, the networks have simply run out of money. They all tried to adopt the Netflix streaming platform, get rid of advertisers, and work on just solely a subscription based model.
And that just killed revenue streams. In short, there's no money to make television shows anymore, or at least not in the United States. We've seen a lot of outsourcing out of the country. There's actually a show that's going to be about San Francisco Asian gangs.
They filmed it in Cape Town, South Africa. San Francisco is just 300 miles north of LA. Some people think this is revenge from the corporations for workers actually trying to unite and get what they want. But no matter what the explanation is, there's just simply no work out there.
And it is crushing entertainment workers. They're getting crushed. And for context, he released this in February 2024. So imagine what he's going to sound like in February 2026?
27? No, no, no, no. By then it would just be so self-evident that everybody is making their own stuff. Yeah, I am now as the CEO of Impact Theory, I am now generating content by myself, just doing prompts, shooting video on my phone.
And look, it's not good enough yet. But whoa, when I look at what I can do, like really, I'm talking like in three minutes, you can make a shot where AI is integrated with your real footage and it looks 80% of what you would expect from a seamless piece of like CGI content. Now it's only 80%, but in three minutes, like that is, it's insane. And it is, if 300% rate of improvement is to be believed by 27, dude, it's just, it's game over for content creation.
Now, in fact, let me say it another way. All of you out there that have ever wanted to make your own stuff and you've run into Gatekeeper after Gatekeeper, it all goes away. All those gatekeepers are gone. So it will be like TikTok or Instagram, YouTube now, where it's anybody can create.
And so it just becomes a question of how creative are you? Are you able to capture people's imagination? And so you have to like, it really only gets scary once you start talking about disaggregation of capital. And I don't actually think that that is a only net positive.
I think that there are going to be some real downsides to that. So the only thing I can't clearly see is will there just be a huge bifurcation where you get Gigantor creators, like a Mr. Beast, who do still aggregate a ton of capital plus then a gazillion little people who make just the bulk of your feed. You can only watch so many Mr.
Beast things that I don't know. I don't know if that top will happen or if it's just going to be AI itself gets so good at generating this that you just set up an account that's all AI generated and it puts out a certain amount of stuff every day. The algorithms are certainly going to change. So they're going to know how to read AI created stuff and will content be made for AI or for humans?
That's the real question. And I don't know the answer that yet. We'll see. Yeah, definitely think the market is changing.
And even now with YouTube kind of becoming a prominent player where we had a stat that actually didn't make it to the show, but more people are watching YouTube on their TVs and they are on their phones right now. So I think to that point of Netflix kind of kill the NBC network type model. And now I feel like the internet is quickly going to kill the streaming market and then AI is going to kill the internet. And then before we know it's going to be some type of new, you just open up your phone and it's app and you press it and you can just pick a genre and that's what you watch or something like that.
Like it's going to get hyper-focused, hyper-essential specific to you as opposed to like we're all 300 million people going to see the Avengers. I don't think we're going to get that as much as we used to. I don't think so. I think that the future looks something like this.
You open up an app and it's a hybrid story and game where you're the main character and maybe it interfaces with your friends. It probably will. And you go in there and you're making decisions that have real consequences inside that story slash game in a way that is so expansive and is unfolding before your eyes because you no longer have to create assets because AI can just spin it up. And it will do it based on data that is getting off of your wearable devices based on your eye tracking.
So what you're looking at, which you hear that Instagram is launching that pinch to zoom. Did we talk about that yet? Yeah. I haven't.
So this is absolutely crazy. They're releasing to the public that if you post something and someone does a pinch to zoom on something, it will notify you. If somebody pinched the zoom to get a closer look at a woman's ass, boom, the creator is going to get notified. People like that one.
But that's not the real play. The real play is somebody zooms in on your sweater. And now I know I need to make more of those because people are really taking a look at that thing. And so companies are going to use that data.
But also from this entertainment perspective, the AI is going to be able to read what you're looking at, what you engage with, what kinds like what adventures does it send you on that you are most engaged with. And by the way, do you like a different style of game in the morning than you like later in the afternoon? When do you want to be passive? When do you want to be active?
And it's just all going to be happening in real time. Something like that is going to take a while. That's outside of that three year window, just because people can have to discover the ways that this stuff works and build all that. But that when I look into like, what's the future of entertainment sub 10 years, it's that it's it's a lot happening.
There's a lot happening. It's just kind of splitting up. But I do think that what you said resonates with me the most is that I'm at least happy that the gatekeepers are now out the way. And I mean, they torpedoed it being forcefully removed at this point from from AI.
But at the same time, the people who do want to create, I think they should still be optimistic. They should still be hopeful because now it's your idea of your really good writer and you want to like create into a book, and you can do that right now 100% for free. And if it hits with people, you can publish it to masses like there's no more. I need only Simon and Schuster can let me get a book deal.
You know what I mean? So they're removing that with movies or moving that with music. Like so it's just another way. If there's going to be time where we remove that with TV shows and we'll be able to directly publish and stuff like that.
Where this gets interesting is we're hitting pause for a moment, but there's plenty more ahead. So don't go anywhere. Thanks for sticking around. Let's get right back into the action.
Where this gets interesting is right now you can still create a moat. So MrBeast, the only gatekeeper was this YouTube sensors content. He could do whatever he wanted, but he's now created a moat because he can spend so much more on a video because he makes so much every time he launches a video. But once there is no like production costs and you just you can create anything that's engaging, now you're going to like people will have a viral hit and then they might not be able to get attention again for God knows how long.
And so that's the part that I worry about like how do people end up having enough stability that they can make a predictable living because humans do not like change. And so this kind of rate of change is a bunch of people who had a really viral take talk when they did that one crazy thing. So now they keep trying to do that same crazy thing over and over and it's just kind of stair steps for sure. But imagine that one you've got to be able to take time off to do that.
And so there's only so many people that are going to be able to do that and imagine that you can spend. So, so moat number one, do I have the time to learn this to build a channel all of that. Whereas now you're going to be one guy is going to create, I mean, let's be really downplaying it one person will create a hundred channels that are all AI generated. So it's a workflow of AI and he's just looking for the one that garners the most views the fastest.
The algorithms are all going to it doesn't matter how many followers you have. It just matters how people respond to that content. And so if you can spin up effectively infinite number of channels to test content and all that content is being generated based on an algorithm that you yourself that says, okay, you create a feedback loop, create a piece of content in this style, go over here, turn that still into a video, post that video on this with a copy generated from this AI. I mean, ultimately it'll all be integrated and then watch for which one gets the most views, figure out what the pattern is, make that piece of content better.
And so now it's like, is that fulfilling from a human creativity standpoint? So this is where just again, I will come back to the rate of change is such that just when you wrap your mind around how something works, it doesn't work that way an hour later. I mean, it's when I think about YouTube, I've been on YouTube now for eight or nine years, and it's changed so much. People respond to me like I'm 95 and I've been doing YouTube for 50 years and it's really crazy the way people refer to me as an elder statesman.
And when I think about how much is changed in those eight or nine years, it was manageable. I could feel the changes, you reinvent yourself, you do something different, it all feels like you can keep up. It won't. We shall see.
We shall see. Heading into international news. Now Trump sounds like he might be okay with giving up some of Ukraine's land to Russia. Let's get a quote.
Well, I think Pete said today that that's unlikely. It certainly would seem to be unlikely. They took a lot of land and they fought for that land and they lost a lot of, they lost a lot of soldiers, but it would just seem to be, and I'm not, I'm not making an opinion on it, but I've read a lot on it and a lot of people think that that's unlikely. And of course, people are going to say this is Trump saying that they should keep it and kind of attribute it to him, but break this down.
Yeah. So when I assume when he says they that he's talking about Russia, that Russia fought for it, lost soldiers, so they're not going to give it up. All right, this is where I will see. I'm expecting people to try to make this into Orange Man Bad, and he's saying that, you know, Russia earned that land or whatever.
I think here he's putting forward a behind the scenes look at what it's like negotiating with Russia and Russia is saying, look, fought for that. People died for that. And the odds that we're going to give that back are essentially zero and Trump is trying to get to the end of the war. So that's my instinct.
And to be honest, watching him because he cannot help himself from talking. So there's a great quote. I don't know who said this originally, but when we speak, we cannot help but reveal ourselves. And when Trump speaks, he gives away so much about what's going on behind the scenes.
And it is a really fascinating look at power politics and is somebody who is obsessed with getting an understanding of how the world really works. This is how business negotiation works. This is obviously how political negotiations work. You find your point of leverage and you play that point of leverage to get as much as you can.
And so if he's back channeling, trying to broker this, he's saying a lot of this stuff out loud to get people used to the idea that look Ukraine is not going to have everything they want. He knows that Zelensky is listening to this. And I know Zelensky said something like, whoa, whoa, no negotiations should be happening without me present. Good luck with that.
It's just not going to play out that way. Trump is in a way more powerful position than Zelensky by a country mile. And so he's going to do whatever he thinks is in America's best interest, whatever he thinks is actually going to end that war with or without Zelensky. And given that Putin could stop the war instantly, but Zelensky couldn't, the power is with Putin.
And so you're going to go and you're going to talk to Putin. Now, of course, he's going to want to involve Zelensky because if Zelensky can't get his people behind this, then you could have years of frozen conflict where essentially you have an insurgency coming from the Ukrainians. And just constant never ending like Gaza, Palestinians in Israel going back and forth. You don't want to create that kind of frozen conflict.
But nonetheless, like you go with the powers. And so watching this, there's going to be a lot of people that want to look at this through the lens of morality. And I get that. I get the impulse.
But this is where this is the law of the jungle. And because we've had 70 years of visible peace in the West behind the scenes, a lot of crazy immoral shit was happening. But it felt to the average person like, Oh, this is like a good time, peaceful people are acting honorably. We lost sight of the fact that this is I have hammer icon smash you.
I will smash you. I will take your things. We forgot that that's what humans are the product of. It's interesting way back when I used to sell a vacuum set Sears.
And I remember like when my coworkers always used to be like, you know, you can pitch them. You can get them to like a certain point. But if it's like a husband and a wife, you got to sell it to the wife, but persuade the husband or something like that. So it kind of feels like that with this Ukraine rushable where it's like, yeah, Zelensky is a president.
He should be in negotiations, but like we carry the purse rings. We've been sponsoring this. I was like, I'll come and let you know what we decide type things. So that didn't bother me as much that he's negotiating by himself.
But I think that at this point, we all want a resolution to it. And with what Trump is doing in other places of the world with these terrorists that were supposed to regard economy, but somehow other countries are caving in. I think he's just trying to keep keep that same effort going. So we'll see what happens with Zelensky.
And if he's okay with the deal that they ultimately end up making. But that actually brings me to my next thing, because Hamas is not okay with the deal that Trump made in the middle easy and has officially rejected his 12 o'clock release deadline. They were quoted saying the language of threats has no value and only makes things worse. So do we think we're going to see some blowback after this deadline is certainly sounds like it is.
But that is a pretty ahistorical quote. The language of threats is precisely what people use. And if you know that they can back it up, then, and I mean, look, ooh, okay, let's say that I'm Hamas. I get it.
If you really believe you are right and you have God on your side. And you are going to crush anyone that attempts to stop you. Of course, you're not going to back down easily. But you've just watched, I mean, I don't know what percentage of the country's actually turned to rubble or sorry, it's not a country, the territory, the land, however you want to think of it.
I don't know what exact percentage it is that's been turned to rubble, but it's devastating. And you now let's say that you make a move and you say, fuck you, we're going to start killing hostages. So you broke the ceasefire and we're going to start killing hostages and they have like 76 or something like that. Everyone you kill, you're just incentivizing the far greater powers to come in and just finish the job.
So again, morality goes out the window. They will have a cover story to say this is why we keep doing it. We had a deal. They violated the deal.
We have your support. And that's going to give them all the cover they need with like the UN and all that because if I'm not mistaken, America can effectively veto any sanctions that the UN wants to put on Israel. And so this is where I'm like, this is essentially their veil threat that you guys are going to make it worse. And it's like, all they can do at this point is continue insurgencies, which they are certainly they've been weakened tremendously and or kill all the hostages.
And so it's like, you have a card because people are going to care a lot about getting those hostages back. But if you play that card, Jesus, man, this is what they did for October 7. Now, when you have a deadline and you don't meet it, even if Israel and America are the ones that broke it. If you start killing hostages, yikes.
And for context, the Palestinians are saying or Hamas is saying that the reason they are going against releasing a hostage because they're claiming that Israel has broken the ceasefire. But I don't know, man, I'm on like a paramount cake and maybe I'm watching too many like mayor of King Sound, but there was a point where they I got it like a month. So when I get these situations where I'm going to watch a binge and everything. So I did like three shows deep now.
So there's a scene in that movie in that show where like the prisoners took over the jail and then there was a point where they're like in negotiations as military tanks outside. But the prisoners was like, the message isn't escaped. Like I'm not trying to leave, but you're going to feel what we felt and then they just are killing people. Everybody's dead.
So it's one of those things now from Hamas perspective, like, I mean, yeah, you could say no to the deadline. The hostages are leveraged, but there's going to come to a point where it's like, it's just going to be death. It's just going to be like a body. So like, I don't know what message you're trying to do.
You can wag your finger at Israel. You want Israel has kissed the ring. They got Trump in their pocket. You can argue with the impact in their funding tactics, but Hamas has no leverages.
It seems like to me, we talk about negotiations and strategies a lot. It seems like it's just they're looking to just make this a big suicide mission. So I'm hoping to get that dark. Well, I think it's already that dark and terror works.
And so they will use that and that I mean, the real thing to watch out for. And unfortunately, I don't see any restraint on behalf of Israel for sure. We'll see about the U.S. But I don't see any restraint based on long term consequences.
What I see, oh, God, this is where I hate watching history because this is just gonna sound horrible. What I see is a replay of America and the Native Americans. And dude, that that was truly if you want to hear gruesome shit. Just read about the conquest of the American West.
Yo, like the nastiest shit on both sides where obviously we were slaughtering Native Americans like wholesale and Native Americans were killing settlers like lickety split like some of them, the Comanches were gnarly gnarly and you read about it and you're just like, God damn, but still if one power is way the fuck stronger. Ultimately, they just hoke go smash and given how much of Gaza they have already smashed, they've shown they're just gonna keep going. And so when you had America that was sort of, Oh, God, I know we feel about this. You had some play, but at least for the next two years, not so much.
So anyway, the long term play is going to be insurgencies. If you drive Palestinians into Jordan into Egypt, what do they do? Do they do they attack internally and go after Jordan in Egypt, which is obviously why Jordan in Egypt or so has it in to bring them in? Do they find other ways to go after Israel?
Do they draw Iran into this? Because let's not forget this still could escalate. But this is why the US is trying to weaken Iran so that Iran can't be a player in this whole thing. So yeah, this is real power politics playing out.
Somebody's going to do something because Saturday at 12 o'clock is tomorrow. So we shall see what happens. Yeah, I mean, let's pray for a sale mate because I'd much rather that than just about anything else. I think of 100%.
And last but not least, friend of the show RFK officially got confirmed. Look at that. Look at that. Is that really him walking in F?
Okay, this is the hey, by the way, AI. This is literally what you can do. This is so crazy. I love it.
I'm like, man, he was walking in with some swagger. Yeah, brought you by AI boys and girls brought to you by AI. It's official. So I'm excited about that.
We were joking with a live stream earlier. He already has kind of started the banning of like red dyes and like red three. I think that he has officially banned. Lynn is a love with talking about who Lynn is a little bit like a daughter.
That's why I got to join the community guys. We talk about our families and stuff like that. You would have heard Tom's amazing onesie story. I'm not going to make him tell it now.
You got to be on a live stream. No, but yeah, she like loves talking. It's blue and red all over her face. And like, you know, that's paint on your face.
Like, no, it's not. Oh, well, let's read the ingredients and I turn it over and I actually read all these things are. So I'm very excited for us to have like. RFK would be very proud of you.
Yeah, you know, I went to McDonald's in London last year and it actually was good. I mean, it's not good food, but I was going to say wow. I'm eating McDonald's in London. I don't know if I'm going all the way to it's good, but it takes a different I like, oh snap.
Maybe I have getting poisoned by my country. I don't know. Do you have a favorite junk food? You like over?
Do I have a favorite junk food? Yes. So somebody in the comments, please tell me what the batch number is. But there is a it's like batch 46.
It is a licorice, a black licorice made in Australia that I was so into for a while. I was importing it myself in like these gigantic boxes. My dad and I were there. I found it.
I don't randomly. It was just like, let me try it. And because I like, I like black licorice. I do more in shipping fees than I pay for the actual licorice, but the problem is I really don't eat a lot of sugar and so I stop.
But yeah, that if I was really going to say that in cold stone ice cream, but talk about things I almost never touch. But this is if I'm really on partly because of health, but mostly because I can't game if I eat sugar because it makes my hands hurt. So yeah, welcome to my age plus my mom has similar problems with her hands. So I found that if my diet is not just clean, clean when I game, then my hands start to ache and not like in an OK way like this is not fun way.
So over Christmas, where normally I would go ham, I had to choose between gaming and eating junk food and I chose gaming. Nice. Look at that. So yeah, that's why Kizen is looking at it.
There it is. Everybody project Kizen. It's free to play. That's all I got.
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