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Oh, it's been a while. Yeah, live from Trump. Okay, ready for this. Well Life from Trump's. Tesla like Board of peace. Where Trump has been designated chairman for life. 12% of the board is women? Yeah, that's right. Two two directors. Are women two out of like 17 and comes with its own Kimball musk re Jared. Kushner It's an all new Wacky, Wednesday edition of business. Pants joined by analysts whole map, mascardi. I'm excited for the SpaceX board. On today's Post, State of the Union, cinnamon flavored hangover called, February 25th, 2026, the good game. Oh, why do we Open up the good game with Trump's Board of Peace. What was that? Well, you know what? I was thinking when I was analyzing that board is a, it at least proves something anecdotally about the work we do here, which is beware of these bro, heavy boards that are heavily interconnected, you know so that he's doing it means it must be the right way. Yeah, right. So, if anyone disagrees today, anything we're doing just look to that board of peace and know that he is copying corporate boards which is why any investors with any bit of spying should start to Target directors. That's all. I mean, they did like he already did this the law on like day four, when he put made himself, the chair of the Kennedy Center, didn't he? Like yeah, he's done that too. Like he's the chair of all the things that he wants and so few people Care to go to the Kennedy Center anymore that they literally closed the Kennedys, shut it down, shut it down and pretend it was for like renovations. Yeah. And he created a board of Peace while he's threatening Iran with war. So well you know we got to do what you got. Our show today is Our show today is being sponsored by free, float analytics and free flow. Analytics.com only platform measuring board power connections performance for free. Now, I've teased this for a long time, but I know that the dead data update is getting closer and closer. Okay? So I've seen the database that guts of it. And on freeflow analytics.com, they have like four performance metrics for every director. They have carbon free. Yeah. For free Carbon, they have TSR, they have earnings and they have controversies like, the, you know, how many controversies to companies? He's directors, sit on have had. I've seen the back end. Now they added dividends BuyBacks, CEO pay. They're adding things like water. They're adding things like pay ratio that I'm seeing like carbon and five different ways like one scope one and two raw carb like they have so much data. That isn't even on the free platform. I'm just excited to like get access to that. Okay, that's it. That's all you got to say. Okay, about our sponsor, that's it. I'm waiting for the I want I want to see it. Sure I want. It's it's it's coming. I've seen it. I'm excited seeing it. No, I mean I'm I think it's great but I want to see it live in action. You ready for? I tried hard this, you know, I should start a system where I I record how long it takes me to construct a good game because that means it's an inverse relationship to how bad the world is, right? Because this was a bit of a struggle. Sometimes it's easy for me. I again like I tag roughly about 2,000 stories a month, sometimes it's just like I could pick them out, but this time I had to go one by one. I read the I haven't been a spreadsheet. I had to go one by one to make sure that I didn't miss anything good. It was tough. And I have the feeling a lot of these are not going to be like, oh really, I'm going to change my Approach today. oh, My natural inclination is to be pessimistic about everything. Are you on a new antidepressant? Know I went to my my primary care doc this morning just for a routine and routine change. She told you to cheer the F up routine checkup and and I found out that like my blood pressure slightly elevated, having nothing to do with like diet and exercise. Like I do all the right things, I believe you do all these shows with you really elevated because of my name, like, my negative attitude, that's what I'm convinced of. So today, is that what the doctor said? I mean. Like, that's what our, that's what potential clients say to free float. Yeah, today, I'm coming at it from. I'm gonna start from the place that everything is at. I can't go good. I'm gonna say everything's okay. All right, so let's let's start with that. Well, I wish I had better. Headlines for free. I shouldn't you know what I shouldn't, you know what I shouldn't call her either. Yeah, the bar where the bar is I'm just gonna we're doing our best because one thing this show was giving to our listeners is something that you really can't find in the media which isn't a tempt and an attempt to highlight things that might be a positive template for something, right? Because I because no media gives you that it doesn't exist. I'm going. Okay, any possible. Let's go. Let's do it. Come on. I'll start with the good and then I have a nice fun one at the end, I'm gonna end with the stupid. That'll be a little fun and there the stupid, but I'll start with the good headlines. This is, I got some old-fashioned stuff in here, too, because I really had to dig deep. Google to build data center in Minnesota with new solar wind power and battery storage. It says that the tech company will also bring 1900 megawatts of new renewable energy to the state. And I looked it up because I thought like is this, you know, do we care? They 1900 megawatts enough to provide electricity for a city, the size of Chicago. Wow. So I thought, okay, you know, did we give Google some credit here? I don't, we're gonna give him a nine and we're gonna get him a nine for what for two reasons number. Yeah, number one, renewable you want to keep your blood pressure not nuclear, right? Like you're building a data center. This is all about the AI thing and guess what? Everyone's building like these data centers and they're sucking, every piece of energy from like Bob's house, you know like the yeah so your lights can't turn on because you know, chat GPT needs to tell you which diaper to buy it at Walmart. So no, this is great renewable energy and they're building it into it. That it's a they've got an agreement with the utility. This is great. Use of that kind of energy. Number two in Minnesota. Minnesota, could use a break. It's true. Yeah double good night to your point a nuclear Factory. Provides the equivalent of a roughly 1000 megawatts. This is too tight. This is two two player. So, I mean, yeah, I guess what, I build this putting solar panels and like a wind farm up. Takes you like 20 minutes not 10 years with nuclear material to secure. It's also jobs. The next headline, UK the UK finds Reddit for not checking user ages aggressively enough. I'll give you a little bit of background here. I don't, I don't always give you background, but I want to be on here. The fine is only 20 million dollars. But they did make this statement. I know you're laughing but they they found that Our investigation found that right up to apply any robust age Assurance mechanism and therefore, did not have a lawful basis for processing. The personal information of children under the age of 13. These failures meant Reddit was using Children's data unlawfully, potentially exposing them to inappropriate and harmful content. Now the reason why I include this is good is that eventually Everything we do like this eventually. Is it creating a precedent to finally come after these companies? Because I mean listen to that there on children under the age of 13. Reddit is exposing them to interoperate a harmful content. I mean, Every time we do a little thing, maybe it's building something bigger. I'm trying to be hopeful trying to be optimistic. So, what do you think? I love your hope. That's what I look. No, I'm gonna stay positive. Look, look, we've got to keep at it. What, I know from back in the day when we work to the Mothership, we we actually analyzed every fine handed out, we primarily. Okay? Start on finance, here we go. Alright. But the vast majority and by vast majority, I mean, 90% or 99% of the monetary value of finds four. Corporations globally came from the US Department of Justice or a US regular a different us regulatory agent that's over for now, it's totally over now temporarily but the fact is we would almost never see finds. From other Regulatory Agencies. It's not the way they regulate. There might be some lawsuits. There might be policies or legislation enacted, but it was rarely via fine that they regulated. The fact that the UK and France against Facebook and meta and Zuckerberg and X. Right isn't France investigating musket. And yes, Australia is, you know, start other countries are filling the void and saying, hey, If the US isn't going to regulate you, then we will and we will start applying finds. Even though that's not new at this matte. Is I'm gonna give this what I'm going to give it a six. You know what? You know what? Also I want to mention too is that maybe this is the start of deglobalising social media and big Tech, right? I mean, that here's the thing to your point, we have other jurisdictions across the world, a regulating this stuff finding maybe they will break off from these companies. Maybe, you know, maybe we don't have to have Instagram in every country we don't like they can create their own platforms so you know, they can have competitors. It doesn't have to be a monopoly on social media. So I'm just saying, I think the world would be better off if we started to localize, these kind of things. But all right, let's move forward. See what I did there. I made I made I turned what would have been easily a cynical 19 million dollar fine into a good Microsoft. Microsoft signs, 1.8 million ton, carbon removal deal to restore African rainforests one Point eight million. Tons is the equivalent of taking approximately 430,000 in gas, powered cars off the road for an entire year. This was harder to. Parse in part because 230 average, that's the annual energy use of about 235,000, average American home. That's the headline number, right? Like, that's the number they want you to Know, that's the that's what they're promising, right? But hasn't happened but the way that they get to that is actually often and I don't know the details of this because you're only reading the headline. I have no prior knowledge. I come to this show and I'm supposed to react to data. Right often. What they do is they will pay so that some rainforest does not get cut down. And they say, we that's our carbon. Oh, interesting offset, right. It's an awesome. Well, I guess that's not the worst, which is basically the bare minimum you should do is not cut down the rainforest. Yes. Absolutely. The thing you should be doing is growing new rainforest. Using different forms for energy protecting, you know, large swaths of biodiversity along the way like use degrees. But but to Microsoft's credit, this is a template for good behavior. Good? Corporate Behavior. No. I, I think a lot of imagination, the entire measured at the entire S&P, 500 did this. Well, a lot of them did seven years ago when it wasn't well, right? So yeah, so the devil in this one's in the details and I'm just gonna give it a five because I don't know what the details. Let's move on. Supreme Court strikes, down Trump tariffs, rebuking president's signature economic ballsy. Yeah. Yeah. Costco pretty smart. Right? The spineless found one vertebra with which, to stop something that Trump is done. I'm actually, there's actually pretty surprised. I'm sure most of us were but I didn't think. I thought there were the reason why they were. I don't know why they didn't make this decision way back, but I thought there were slow rolling it. So that by the time, they got to it, like, what are we gonna do now? You, it's too complicated to say no. Now, But anyway, what do you think? Well, what I think is that Costco was right? Exactly Costco sued. The Trump Administration to recoup the cost that they were eating of tariffs Costco passed down some of the costs. I'm sure. But and they never tell you how much of the cost or terrorists because they didn't know what he wanted to piss off Trump. But the reality is Costco sued, the Trump Administration, they joined the lawsuit, To recoup tariffs and this rice announcement. Yeah, now they actually have the right to recoup, the tariffs, and Scott bessent that sycophantic moron was out on Fox News, nine minutes. After the tariffs are struck down saying that this was corporate welfare. He said that regardless of the fact that the corporations Get money back. They paid illegally but we sharing this He's turning it into like a class war moment. So yeah. Like but the reality is the customers pay its customer welfare. It's normal. People who paid for that shit. Yeah. And and Costco joined that lawsuit months ago knowing that this is legal and we watched one of the reasons why costs go sued because they were one of the few retailers that decided not to pass on the cost to their costs. I love one of the money back, I love that. Yeah, I'm good. Give this a 10. I know it's look, it's not like the end of tariffs. It's not the end of, you know, incredibly stupid Economic Policy. I'm not an economist but like, all I know is that when I wake up and I read seven, different headlines, and seven different days about things that were doing, that can't be good for anybody, but it's a start. To start. And let's go right to this headline today and and give it a five but I'm gonna give it a 10 because it made me happy. Yeah. And let's, let's stay with this one. For one more, because one of the first companies to jump out in the bandwagon. Jump on the bandwagon was FedEx. I'm surprised. It's FedEx FedEx sues for refund of trump, tariffs days after Supreme Court ruling, the FedEx has a Jack Smith, right? Yeah. Don't they have a long relationship of being like buddies with Trump? I was just surprised that FedEx was one of the first to jump out on this one. But I, what do you think about this? I think after the Supreme Court's ruling, every time they have covered, every company is going to do it there. I just surprised that FedEx, is one of the First Lady Think, Like, the Supreme Court ruling is just a message to every single, massive manufacturer or company. In this country to basically say I have my receipt, I'm returning it. I want my money back, right? Like, that's all it is. They just said, you can get your money back. And so every company, you know, if you if you're saying that the company's role is to return value to shareholders isn't the best way to return value to shareholders to get a, you know, several billion dollars back from the US government that you paid them. That was illegally forced on you. So I, yeah, I don't think that's anything. I'm gonna give that a five because I don't like FedEx Jackson Smith but I okay, but I know that. All right, let's move on from the tariffs giving it a five. Our scorekeeper is noting that. Oh, here we go. A CEO. Actually, you know, fighting Trump, I guess, speaking out against Trump, a co-ceo co-ceo Ted sarandos Pushes back. It would have been great if it was Greg Peters. Right. Because nobody cares. Nobody knows who's Craig young. He's right. No one knows her ears. Ted sarandos pushes back on Trump's call for Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice. So, Trump yet another right wing ESG analyst jumping into the corporate governance world trying to get rid of directors. Ted sarandos said, this is a business deal, not a political deal. He also said he likes to do a lot of things on social media. So to get a little snarky there and look, I know the old, Matt would have rolled your eyes. The new map I want. I want the new mat to consider that. No, CEO. I mean, do any CEOs have anything to say this strong anymore? I mean, no, I only say the stuff this strong when they smell blood in the water or weakness, right? Like that's true. But here's, here's my problem. Susan Rice is in the free flow analytics database. Absolutely. She is incredibly overboard highly interconnected. She's one of those directors that has been around a long time. So a politically as it investor, Susan Rice. Probably shouldn't be on chummy boards anymore, either, and not just Susan Wright, Trump. Susan Rice is one person in a sea of chummy boards, right? Like so, let's, let's not, let's not overstate like Susan Rice's problem, but politically to have, this is the same thing that keeps happening Trump. You know, they're conservatives attack, black rock is being too woke and what do we have to do? Defend BlackRock conservatives attack ISS and glass Lewis for, you know, having a political ideology, even though they vote 99% with management. What do we have to do? Defend ISS and glass Lewis. Now, Trump is attacking in individual board member A board member which the data suggests should have been voted out of chummy boards for years and what do I have to do? I have to defend the chummy board member because of the reasons why we're focused on this are ludicrous. It's purely political it's just ludicrous. So I don't like having to do this so I'm going to give it a five that's the best I can do now, I will push back on your little bit because according to the data free flow. So she's Susan Rice is only been on the board for two years this board. Yeah. This board but she's not on any other public company boards as we speak. So she's history, is there. She's been on a number historically I believe she was on your either Boeing. You're allowed your phone Schwab was on board, right? But she's been on a few. Let's move on. I mean this seemed like my only home run of a story but you're, you know, you're optimism is proving me wrong this week. The headline is farmer. Turns down. 16 million dollar offer from dater data center Developers? Saying it breaks my heart, the rest of every square inch is going to get on. He's talking about everyone. All the farmers who are selling to the data, the Big Data companies, the data building these data centers. So this is a man, Mervin raudabaugh from Pennsylvania, he was offered 16 million dollars to sell his farm to a Data Center and instead he sold it to the Lancaster Farmland trust for just under two million dollars. Oh, come on. This is a stakeholder Victory. Come on, right. I mean I just I'm gonna give what a good man. I'm gonna give him a seven for having the name Mervin. Oh, Just a seven. I just said, I don't care about this look, no. I mean, what's lost in the story, of course, is all the other Farmers. Yeah, everybody else, right? Like so, but I had to get this guy credit. I mean, come on. I mean, you don't even you just don't see this for. I mean, this is I'm hunting. I like that. Where he is 86 though, so he probably doesn't he a lot of farming left, right? Like, give it a seven, it's a seven. That's the right number. Thought I was a 10. All right, let's move on. I kind of, I take umbrage this, I find this insulting but I'm still gonna do this from Business Insider. Revenge of the English Majors. The age of AI is driving new respect for Humanity skills. I mean, you know how dare they suggest that there wasn't respect for us, Humanity students. But this is I've been hearing this a lot like AI is such a bullshit stream of nonsense that you're actually are going to have to Value people who are able to be creative to it to to analyze, to be critical, right? Look, the thing that AI isn't is creative. Or analytical, I mean no AI can do an analysis but it can't create it can't come up with an angle that is never been thought of before. Something is doing analysis based well it's been done right. Like what it can do is synergize and synthesize, lots of different analyzes that humans can't understand the scope of AI is really good to the field, really good at at scope right like it can go really wide when a person can't really accurate though but yeah accuracy but it's really bad at. Yeah, creating like adding to the scope, right? Like it has what it has because humans have made it. It amazing that, you know, I'm thinking of like a random, no pun intended publisher, that put out books and they have things called copy editors proofreaders fact-checkers, right? And they actually don't even pay them very well. And yet AI can't manage to to like build in a robust fact, checking proofreading system that can do the very same thing. I don't understand why it's so difficult for them. I I know somebody. I know a few people who have written some books and they said they tried using AI as basically fact, check or even proof. Even just proof, please don't just, they tried it for just proofreading and what they found was. The AI would actually replace whole parts of their story. Like, they'd like somebody, I know who wrote like a fiction book, right? Like it's just like a narcissistic editor. It's like the worst kind of editor where literally was like, I think what you meant to say was and then Replaced whole blocks of story and they were like, no. Like I asked you just to edit proofread like grammar and proofreading and they would even when doing that, they would like switch a word so that it actually meant the opposite thing, right? Like it would decide things for you having no context or knowledge. Well, it's the worst to add one little other tidbit to this. You know, when you think of English Majors and think of humanities skills, roughly almost two-thirds of people with Humanities degrees at least the data from 2022 are, of course women. Right? So Secret World AI Humanities. Yeah, these AI engines are built by Bros and dudes, so it doesn't surprise me that instead of like taking the effort to fact, check properly and proofread properly, they're just replacing chunks of text. They're just doing whatever they want to do. It is the very boy Behavior. That's a middle school Behavior. And explains everything. Yeah, yes, man's planning. All right. So what do you think about that one? Well, I wish Alex karp could read that. He say like Humanity's Majors basically are going to be serfs or peasants or something like that, isn't it? Yeah. And they shouldn't be going to college. Anyway he said that as a Humanities major Uh, look. I don't I don't I don't know how I feel. I mean, this, this is first of all, I'm, I'm Pro, everyone creative. I don't care if I always had. I always had, I don't know who's writing a headline to Business Insider, but I always had, we respect for. Yeah, like so, but anyway, but in the age of AI that implication here is the age of AI. There is like there you shouldn't be in English major. You shouldn't read or enjoy writing or any of that that's dumb to me. I'm going to give this a four. This is an I don't like this. Another. Corporate entity fighting back against Trump. Trump team livid about Dario can never see his Emoji emojis. And this is it's in Thorp, right? Yeah. Principled stand to keep the defense department from using his AI tools for warlike purposes. It's also probably a shrewd business move because I've seen a lot of headlines suggesting that this is really good for their brand to fight back against anything that Trump does which, which always makes me wonder where the other CEOs realizing I'm looking at Target especially like they're actually it actually might be a pretty smart move to fight back against a fascist angry bully racist. Massage. I mean you can stop me anything. More free speechy than basically saying no thanks to the administration like isn't that what they're like? Um I think that their we should they're doing the correct thing in as much as I subscribe to Claude as a result Like, there you go. I, oh, I did. I not beg you for like, several weeks that to be help you, with your code and you did. And I've heard me unsubscribe from chat, GPT Gemini comes with, like other things that we buy from Google. So we just have that. But in that, we're in that manosphere, but I I like this, I'm gonna give this I mean, I might celebrating that Trump's team is livid. I don't like yeah, maybe I'm gonna, I'm gonna give this a seven. I like that they're fighting back more than I like the way this headline is written. New York, nurses. Union wins 12%. Raise AI safeguards in a tentative deal to end month, long story. So, yeah, I say start with a nurse. Okay, but this is a big thing in the medical special in the medical informatics world, right? It's called it infomatics. Medical words now. Their starting to in fact a full disclosure my doctor pulled out. I think he used his phone. He has he is subscribed to some AI service that that takes our conversation and helps him with his note-taking. But then we, we spent all because I was super interested in it. We spent a long time at the end, kind of analyzing how it did and unfortunately, it did pretty well. But I'm still against, it's not that it does well or not. It's that. Is that what we want? No, no, I certainly don't want it. But, you know, you know, I'm, you know, I don't know about your practice. You know? I'm part of a practice that I'm sure a lot of Americans are part of where I love my doctor. Honestly, I do, which, I can't believe I'm saying because I've had a lot of bad doctors, but this guy is so overworked, you know, it's just it's a factory of patients coming in and out that, you know, look, I'll take, I guess if any, if anything helps them be a little bit more productive and spend a little bit more time with me, I'll take it. I don't know. Well, the problem is what we expect of our doctors, not their tools and ability to do things. The doctors, and I know this because my wife is a doctor now, basically, like, when you go into, you know, wasn't it Michael fiddelke, one of his first targets, new CEO. One of his first things, he said to like the target what is staff was they? They had a, they had this thing where they were like if you're within six feet of somebody, you should smile when you're within three feet of somebody, you should say hello and smile, right? Six feet. Yeah. Okay. That basically doctors are are customer service reps. Now they're they are they manage complaints? They try to like their job is as much to make you feel better about the service that you're getting as it is to actually fix you. But that that tension is always been there. You have like nobody likes like a cold and different doctor who fixes you write. In fact, I think there's been studies that. I mean you're you're attitude the patient's added to an emotional state like a placebo effect. I think does can improve like Health outcomes know? Well, the reality is, it's tipped way over, where patients come in they're angry, they expect everything to work perfectly. I don't, they, I don't understand. Like I've never been that person. You show up in your appointment is at 115 and it doesn't start to 117. My wife staff gets screamed up. Like Why are we always like that kind of thing? This is the part of people, I don't understand. I mean I'm, I think everyone agree that I'm a jerk. I'm an a hole we both are. Yeah, I'm cynical and pessimistic. All right, I always treat these people with respect, no matter what happened. I mean, Certainly, you know, if they're really light late, I get flustered. Like, I can get a little impatient, but I would never take it out on that. I don't even know understand who these people are like times that it's the doctor or staff's fault that things are late. You know, what makes you you late? When a different patient earlier in the day, just didn't show up until an hour after their appointment and blows up the whole day and that happens on a daily basis. And the people when they show up in our late, just called Society, they have an expectation that I'm an hour late, but that means I should just get in and see you immediately. Right? Like, right. And because there is falling off like that. This is, this is our problem. And if we are expecting ai, ai ai is actually really good at just telling you things that make you feel good. But it's really bad at problems solving a lot of those things. Well, again, this wasn't problem solving. This was, this was helping with note-taking. But anyway, what do you think about? I told percent raise, I like this. I safeguards built into the contract, I mean, if anything, just another great publicity headline for for unions, right, to. Yeah, we've not talked about unions for a while. I remember, actually, I have another one later. Oh, I can't painting for for, for, for Kamala Harris, in Pennsylvania. And I talked to a lot of Union reps. When I was out there, campaigning don't tell me, they were Trump supporters. Know they, a lot of them were on the fence, a lot of them were well because and they, it's because Kamala is a woman, that's what they said. Like, their Union was afraid, they didn't like some of Biden's policies, and they were upset about this or that, and I actually said to them because I cut one of the single most Pro Union. President, I said to this because we because you pulled it in the shows, the the, you know, that there have been more Union victories and expansion of unions under Biden. And there have been in any prior president, like in the last 30 years and they were like, yeah, we know. But you know, People are still on the fence and then Trump gets elected and now she's like no more. You, there's no federal union anywhere they're trying to kill the Federal Union. He's like trying to kill all the unions. So yeah, you're right about an obedient angle. You know. What's funny to me too is that all this talk about pronouns and, you know, their all this like, you know, we talked about this in the shareholder, proposals the national legal policy Center idiots, Worried about transitioning and pronouns and all the stupid stuff is that they don't they don't like Comales pronouns. They don't like she her forget. They, they don't like, she hers too much. That, that is one her two, right? Yeah. Yes, exactly. Right? What? Give me a come on. I'm gonna give it one. Seven, seven, Meta and YouTube we talked about this case last week, meta, and YouTube are now facing a legal Reckoning that Harkens back to cases against big tobacco. Now, this is a theory, this is a correlation that we have been making for years is to treat all of this shit like drugs, Netflix, meta, YouTube, whatever drug. They're drugged, I mean, Starbucks. Yeah, I don't know how they're differentiated from drugs. I don't know why our society is allowed that to happen, but there are clearly drug companies. What I liked about it was the quotes from Zuckerberg during his testimony and Zuckerberg in the middle lawyer, Zuckerberg's lawyer who said something like, you know, like we don't think this is an addiction because it's not an addiction, right? Like it was like some I mean, it's a whole thing is horrible. There was a headline, I almost included the judge a woman, she yelled at some of the people that part of the meta team for Because she wanted them to take off their their glass, their AI glasses. Oh, you need to hold them, hold them in contempt. It's like they brought these yeah, the races that record. That record people record. They could have recorded the jury. I mean, they're just idiots. I mean, they're just idiots. Oh, that's horrible. Um, I'm gonna give this until something gets one. I'm gonna give it a six. It's nice that they're trying. Okay, here we go. A new, this is an interesting one. This reminds me of Norway, actually this because this is how Norway treats its its citizens. Well, New Mexico's, historic move to give Universal child care. This is the first date in the union to do this historic, moved to give Universal child care to parents in the state is paid for by an oil and gas windfall. Okay. So how am I supposed to feel about that? I like Universal child. I, you know, yeah, that's kind of the most important outcome here. But, you know, New Mexico has like a lot of sun. It could have been like a solar windfall, but it's an oiling that would have been better. Yeah, well, it's the same thing with Norway. It's like they they make a ton of money off of their oil and then they preach to the rest of the world, how to be like good, you know, left-wing socialists. But, you know, I mean, it's kind of awkward because they're getting all their money off a dirty oil. But anyway, I give it to, of course, this this was led by a woman Lujan Grisham know, Michelle Grisham. She's the governor of New Mexico. I like it, but I was Back to unions Trump. Not withstanding. America's Union's actually grew last year. Oh 16 year, high up to 16.5 million which is, of course, pretty low overall really low. A big where you saw, the biggest increase was unionized Labor in the federal sector. Because they're going to they do they do. And I will say another glimmer of hope here, is that workers under the age of 45, accounted for a staggering 92% of the growth. That actually is that which is the most important that could be good. No that's the most important part of that and that the reason why it's the most important is because that's the future leadership of the Union. So if you have a cluster of people who believe in collective bargaining and the rights of workers that's important, I'm just waiting for them to like antitrust Union somehow or bust them all or whatever kind of surprising hasn't happened. I'll say seven. one more in our actual good game and then we can kind of speed through the stupid part at the end which is well, Walmart Walmart, executive says, It's unfortunate that other companies are slashing workforces in the name of AI. And instead, it's offering training to all 1.6 million workers instead of firing them. So this is Donna Morris Walmart's Chief people officer. What do you think about this? Well, I made fun of Donna Morris and one of our other shows. Yeah, I know. Well, I can't remember what I made fun of her for. I think she said that you should Smile More in order to get like a job. You said that was Mark, Michael, fiddelke. I don't remember which retailer did that. I think that was Target. Oh no. No, you're right, you're right, you're right, I believe. Donna basically said, like you have, you should have a positive attitude when you come to work. Otherwise, you know like what you? Well look what would be more positive than getting free AI training and to be fair, to give you the details. It's an eight hour course on the fundamentals of AI is part of its partnership with Google's, new AI, professional certificate, certification, is it wrong? That might initial Instinct. This is what I'm trying to suppress. My initial instinct is if you got 1.6 million, Walmart workers. Onto Ai and called it training. But what they were really doing was training, the model on. What 1.6 million workers do? This is for Google. Google's gonna really benefit up so Google's paying Walmart for this. You think? No, I think Walmart probably owns the rights to Whatever Gets said in the training. Interesting, what they'll learn this is the old man. This is the old map. What they can learn is exactly what, how large of a percentage of the 1.6 million people. Can be replaced by AI after training them to use it. You know, it's it. It's probably an accurate assertion but but I'll give you an alternative. Let me give you a quick alternative here to that theory, which is that. And it's something I've been shouting about for the last few months. Is that any CEO who is fired? Anyone in the name of AI? Who thinks that I'm gonna say he who thinks that he understands the state of AI or his Workforce a year. From now five years from now. Ten years from now is already firing people. The name of it should be ashamed because if anything you should at least steal Donna's, you know, sentiment here and and start training up, people and preparing them for for the future, right? I mean just to all automatically know like we can let people go and fire them is stupid. It's it's cruel, honestly. I'm gonna give it a five, did I sway? You know, if you All right, let's move on to, let's have a little fun at the end. I picked six headlines that are just, I mean they're good but they're just stupid. So just reading these on stupidity zero to attack. Yeah, I mean yeah. Let's start with Oh no, no particular order. Skin crawling. Awkward video shows Sam Altman and Dario omedi. Refusing to hold hands. Have you seen this story know? It sounds fake though. So, they were at a conference, they were at some meeting all the tech leaders. They raise their hands and they they held hands in some kind of like a broy moment of AI unification and they were standing next to each other and they refused to hold. You can see in the picture that they wouldn't touch each other. They wouldn't hold each other. I just thought that was so stupid. I mean, he can you imagine It's just so stupid. I'm gonna give this a six on the stupid. Okay? Okay. Six for stupid. Okay. She still won't make sure you're playing the game, right? How about this one from Sam Walton? Sam Altman gets defensive about ai's, massive electricity usage saying, it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. And his point was that his arbitrary thought about this was that it takes about 20 years to train a human. I guess they're I guess they're most people graduate from college at like the age of like 21 or 22. So I guess he's assuming your dropping out of college right but he thinks it takes a full 20 year cycle to train a human and he actually mentioned that you know, it takes a lot of food, it takes a lot of resources to train human. This guy is off his rocker on. I mean, he's completely out of it. Okay, how stupid is that one? So, um, I don't even know what to make of this. All right. first of all, he's implying that the AI is a human Well, look we're not far from saying, I mean, what I'm doing a person. Look, I mean if the Trump way of running America at the mega people take over, then it'll be easier for AI to become a citizen and like someone with brown skin, right? Yes. When you know the answer is yes, unfortunately. All I know is that this one, the calculator's that I can see. Suggest that it takes about 10 million calories for a person to grow for 10 years. It's like a million ish calories a year, depending okay. That a basic conversion of kilocalories to kilowatt hours. Would suggest to take roughly? You know, 120 or so killawatt hours. Per year. and, I, I don't know if this is correct but it basically takes Approximately every query that Chachi PT gets takes about point three. What hours? Which means point zero, two kilowatt hours which means they are spending more than 10 years of a human life on us asking them like about whether or not the new Spiderman movie. Is any good for 10 minutes? I pretty sure it actually takes much less energy to power a human. that's some back of the envelope math but I'm pretty sure that's one of those things that he just said out loud and it sounded really good and he hopes that no one actually checks that I'm gonna say I'm gonna give this a 98 stupid because he didn't offer anything except his assertions. Uber employees have an AI clone of CEO Dara. And use Dara AI. Before talking to the big boss himself, this is stupid. I just hate it. Yeah. But that's not the scale. I can't but you can hate something stupid. I mean, no I'm giving this a two. It's not it's terrible. Okay, terrifying is a stupid. Pope the pope implores priests who stopped writing sermons using chat. Yeah, Yeah, notice he didn't say gemini or that, I love that, I love that. I mean, how stupid? I mean, come, what are we doing? What do we need price? For the really AI can be religion. Just, you know, I think of all people of all people priests would be against Ai. No, it's not. I mean, there's supposed to be the conduit between some, a higher power and humans, right? And if you effectively say that, AI can replace that conduit. What are we doing? What's the point? What's the point of being religious at all? Well, that's a whole you know I could anyway, talk about that, I love that, I love that. It's a 10. McDonald's hate stuff like this McDonald's. CEO, who we know is, is it still? It's still Chris Kempton. Yeah. Is a super subscriber of AI tools. I already hate the term. Super subscriber. What is that quote? That means he's rich and he can get every single dollars. Oh, he's got sit in America, plus, whatever he got. BBC, 25 million dollars a year. So he he's a super subscriber. May, I tools and even used it to photoshop. All his kids into a Christmas card. Why not take pictures of your kids? Were you too busy? Probably I mean, you know, this is a 10 this is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard as a story and as a use of of being a super subscriber to anything, I don't like it. So what your score 10? It's a 10, it's the stupidest thing I've ever heard inch, ah, I should have ended with that one. All right, then let's end with this one. Tech CEOs, confused by why everybody hates AI so much I mean, what a great headline that is That too. That's a, that's a great headline. Good one, they're confused. Do you actually? But do you believe they're actually compiled? I just like the idea of that headline, like they're going home at night. They're sitting at the dinner and they're like, why is everyone so angry that I'm manufacturing, the destruction of humanity and all jobs on the planet. Why is everyone so angry? These, the same people that are having like, major complexes about it like say, you know, Sam Altman's, always like, he's kind of like, oh, this is like male victimhood, like maxed out. Its every bro, who's in Tech is constantly feels like everyone hates them and the reason is you guys, because you do things that people hate and you don't care. Stop doing things that we hate. You have so much ability and so much money. Imagine if you just said, you know what, I want to do with all that ability, and all this money that like you could. Stop climate change. If all of you focused on that like I one year we probably don't look that it's a very simple but very important Point honestly, right? I mean the amount and this is why I've been like harping on the VCS recently but my which might be ultimately when you look back in history, the you know, the composers of our death because they are funneling, so much money towards things that we hate. We hate that, we become that become like drugs, that we just in the name of like scaling things, quickly and getting a massive return on their investment. That's it. You want to know what the biggest return on investment is? Fentanyl. It's like it is literally like the return on investment just like broccoli reason, why cartels exist. And yeah, is because you can make a shit ton of money. On cartels. Now, if cartels could be publicly traded entities, the stock of the cartel would be worth more than all of the Google's that you could come up with, right? Like, that's where they get so much money. So, when you look at it, you say like, oh well, that's you know, but the markup on the prices for drug, they make so much money on drugs. That's what you guys are doing. You guys are literally investing in the manufacturing of like human destroying fentanyl. That's what you're doing. That's all it is. It's all the shit is everything you give us YouTube, Instagram, chat GPT, everything you've given us. Netflix is a distraction is a drug. Or worse or Worse an actual addiction but no they're all addictions. They're addictions know I think I think the AI tools now is seeing with early returns is that it's degrading. The value of your brain, it right? It's it's diminishing the function of your brain because you're no longer doing things that you know, learn your Chachi GPD. Yeah, you're just you're not learning anything. So so I mean first it was GPS. So like you okay. Yeah. Yes you no longer know how to read a map a road map but Chachi PT is like bigger thing. It's like analyzing data for you. It's doing everything. Anyway. I like that were ending the show on fentanyl. We don't talk about fentanyl enough. I know it doesn't come up a lot, so you should call your doctor and Report the good news because this is actually your highest score since April of 2025 and and really tied for your highest score. Maybe. Ever. Well, maybe maybe since before the Trump Administration, you got seven. That's see. I could be positive remarkable. I could probably high. That was a good game, right? Like we found it. We did it. That's all we got for today. We've got shows what Friday, we're doing a dog's countdowns coming proxy. Show coming, we got a Friday show coming and we're gonna be back on track. There's gonna be no, more, blizzards no more. Like, you know, that's not, I think we actually have a blizzard coming next week, they said, but right. Yeah, they're watching something like for next Monday or something. Your kids schools already, it's nuts. That's all we got though. Come back later. Oh, there's also Cheryl the Primacy today. It was. Oh, that's better. That's we just launched it today. Advisors lawsuits and write regulations and all that stuff. It's good. If you're into that, come back later this week until then good.