Welcome back everybody. So,
Dave, how's your 2026 going?
>> I mean, it's it's going pretty well for
me, I'd say. I mean, just in my personal
life, I think uh broadly speaking, it's
a it's a [\h__\h] train wreck for the for
United States and the world at large,
but personally, uh yeah, pretty well. I
mean, uh yeah, channel's going well,
family stuff's going well.
Can't complain.
>> Excellent. What
>> Yeah.
>> You know, same. Uh
life's going life's going pretty well.
Um
my wife and I are going to have our
first baby at the end of the year, so
we're then this is my official
announcement for that for the channel. I
guess so. Thank you.
>> boy or girl yet? No, it's super early,
right?
>> we don't know yet. We're at we're at 10
weeks and a couple days, so we'll know
in a couple of weeks.
>> That is right the threshold where you
are allowed to tell people.
>> Yeah.
>> early, yeah. We my wife and I had a lot
of miscarriages. We had five total, so
>> Wow.
>> we started to kind of not tell people
till a little later
>> Yeah, we had
I wouldn't I wouldn't exactly call it a
miscarriage, but last year, um we were
she was pregnant, but then she was only
like about 5 days late on her on her
cycle, and then and then it happened.
So, it just didn't I I think
technically, you know, there was it
wasn't a pregnancy implanted, but
you know, we had we had it it just
didn't it just didn't take for whatever
reason.
>> implant in the Yeah.
>> Yeah, and and we we struggled for a
while, so you [laughter] know, we're
we've been we haven't really told very
many people yet, but
>> Well, now you're telling the world.
>> Now I'm telling the world, yeah.
>> How old are you? You seem maybe a decade
or so younger than me. How old are you?
>> I turned 35 in May.
>> Okay, not quite a decade. All right,
that's
>> [laughter]
>> Yeah, 35 I yeah, I had my first kid at
36, so.
>> Well, right on. Yeah, my
I'm I'm about exactly the age my dad was
when he had me, too.
>> There you go.
>> Funny enough.
All right. Well, anyways, yeah,
otherwise, yeah, no, yeah, 2026, I mean,
you know,
you can you can get through day-to-day
and things apart from gas and groceries
aren't catastrophic. Meanwhile, the
world does seem to be burning.
And uh
so you and I
kind of uh with a lot of the commentary
we do,
I would say we kind of produce
pessimistic content a little bit. It has
a pessimistic uh outlook to it, at
least. I actually I wanted to ask you,
do you consider yourself an optimist?
>> I mean, it's I No, I I I think that if
you asked me
20, even 10 years ago, I might have said
yes. I I I I think I would have said
yes.
Um and really in particular
post-pandemic,
>> Yeah.
>> I am not. Um just seeing what's
happening culturally, politically, I
just it's really hard for me to be
optimistic about
bouncing back from this and establishing
a new path and moving towards something
you know, moving into the future towards
something that's better than than than
we've had before. Um it's hard for me to
see that. Uh it's there. It's not dead.
There's something inside me that still
hangs on to that, or I wouldn't be doing
what I do and working as hard as I
am because I I feel like I'm
contributing towards getting us in that
direction, but uh
yeah, I would not characterize myself as
an optimist.
>> Yeah, I
I tend to I try to still be one. I try
to still consider myself one. Funny
enough, for me, I would say about 10
years ago, or about that long ago, I
wasn't an optimist because I just had
really
uh
doomsdayish views about like oh the the
population's too high and the and the
and climate change and things like that.
But then um
I read a book called Enlightenment Now
by Steven Pinker. He used to be kind of
my intellectual hero. Now he's just kind
of a puke.
Like like like all of them have turned
into, it seems like. And I read the book
and it's basically just hundreds and
hundreds of examples of how things have
just gotten so much better thanks to
technology, thanks to science, thanks to
the spread of democracy throughout the
world. And he puts a lot of things into
perspective. Like he tells you, "No,
things were really bad in the '60s for
example with with regard to like social
cohesion in the nation. It was so much
worse. There were
assassinations happening every week or
every month and
and all kinds of other things. And uh
like how infectious disease throughout
the world has been
has
scientists and other people have taken
up that mantle and saved countless lives
through it. And so I started to become
more optimistic about things cuz I just
saw that the progress in science and a
few other things was almost kind of
inevitable.
Um so I used to be pessimistic. Now I'm
more optimistic. I am with you that I do
think that, you know, the pandemic
I always kind of say you know, it today
a kind of a shorthand I use is, you
know, this is literally the best time to
be alive ever. Compare your life to a
peasant in the Middle Ages. They lived a
horrible life.
Yeah.
But I would I would say that 2019 was
probably the last time we had a a best
year.
You know, uh now it's just okay, we
crashed and we're trying to go up a
little bit and so
to me the
what I tell people is the arc of
progress usually isn't a straight line.
It's a sawtooth. It goes up and down,
but the trend is up and it it
we're
from time to time we get in a down
period
and so
>> General trend certainly is up. I just
worry about I mean I see a lot of signs
about about you know, really severe
reversal, the erosion of democracy and
the intent to establish Christian
theocracy. Like I it it is moving in
that way and if we don't stop it it's
not going to be a sawtooth. It's going
to be a roller coaster plummeting down
revocation of of civil liberties and
it's just yeah, that's that's where the
pessimism comes in. But I'm not all the
way there. But we still we've got a
chance we've got a chance here. So
>> The last thing I'll say about that and
then we'll get into it is to try to keep
a little bit of an optimistic lens with
you. What I would say is well, yes,
you and I spend all this time
debunking stuff and talking about how
terrible things and certain people are.
But
it we are fortunate and it's incredible
that we do have the freedom to do that
cuz you can't do that in other parts of
the world.
And you know, for for as horrible as
things are and how much they're trying
to erode the freedoms and privileges
that we have here.
We do still have them. The fact that you
and I are able to do this is it's good.
We'll just we'll say that.
>> Yeah, hopefully we don't see the day
where you know,
people start getting jailed for things
they say.
>> Well, that has already happened. That
But that one guy But that one guy he won
like $800,000 lawsuit or something cuz
he got he got jailed over a meme that he
shared. So
Hey, the systems are kind of working
still.
>> Yeah, the day that those most vocal
anti-Trump pundits start getting put in
jail,
that's the day I start really worrying
about my output. Uh
>> Yeah.
>> So, yeah.
>> Yeah, and the mid I'm terrified for the
midterms what they're going to try. So,
anyways,
what we're what we're here for is
uh Professor Dave and Mr. Beat. So, some
2026 predictions were made and I took a
look at that
cuz I wanted to try to do something
different. You know, we just got done
talking about how Dave and I make all
this pessimistic content, but there is
actually some good news out there in the
world. We're going to talk about most of
that at the end here, but I took a look
at Mr. Beat's predictions and I I
realized, "Wow, he got like eight or
nine things right already so far." And
so, some of them are pretty pessimistic
and we will be going over those.
Uh Dave even, I would argue some of your
although your
>> [laughter]
>> your card was kind of it was meant to be
humorous.
>> I did not take the assignment seriously.
>> But [laughter] bizarrely enough, there
are some grains of truth to be found in
the in the parody.
>> did eat a Palestinian baby with a fork
and knife. That was on the news
recently.
>> And the baby was an anti-Semite as we
all know.
>> that's correct. That's why it's cool.
>> They're born that way in that part of
the world apparently. So,
um
we'll just pop this up here and we'll go
through some of Mr. Beat's here. Um so,
number one, the stagflation. That's
definitely happening. I mean, it's been
happening for a long time. Have you seen
those viral videos where people show
like it it's usually food products like
snacks and shampoo and stuff like that.
They show the old container and how the
the weight or whatever was higher in the
past, so you were getting more for your
money and today it's less, but the price
has gone up. Have you been Have you seen
those videos?
>> They're really crazy. Just just look And
that's called shrinkflation. That's a
little bit of a different It's a that's
a different concept, but
>> offset the higher cost by just hoping
nobody notices that they're selling less
in the same
>> Yeah, and some sometimes they make the
package bigger, but then just like the
bottom of it is just empty. Uh so
they're trying they're trying to trick
people and it it obviously works.
>> forever. Yeah,
bags of chips back in the day used to be
the size of the amount of chips in them.
Now it's literally half air. You're just
like, "Who do you guys think you're
fooling?"
>> That's why you go with Pringles cuz they
can't Pringles can't lie to you.
>> [laughter]
>> That's right.
>> They definitely can't.
But no, I mean, especially with this
catastrophically stupid war we're in and
nothing's being done about housing
prices. Things are prices are just
staying where they are. You know, they
say, "Oh, inflation's down." No, it's
flat.
Uh maybe maybe the inflation has been
flat, although now it's going up, but
their their only talking point was that
inflation hasn't been increasing, but
it's been flat. So, the prices compared
to 5 years ago are still way higher.
That's the whole stagflation thing. So,
we're we're continuing to see that. War
with Venezuela.
That definitely I I mean, they would
call it a special operation, but that uh
that definitely happened. So, he was
right on that one.
>> I guess it wasn't it like I think it was
like a week or two after the after we
did that.
>> Yeah, it was Yeah, it
Isn't it
>> was kind of sensing that what was going
on. Yeah.
>> Isn't it insane how long ago that seems
like? The capturing Maduro, but it was
just This has been This has been the
reality of of Trump. He's so
he's so bombastic and he does so many
stupid, terrible things constantly that
stuff that happened a little bit ago
feels like a lifetime ago.
>> Right. Like let's not even talk about
it.
>> The never-ending cycle of stuff. And
do you think he There are people that
that
say he does that on purpose to just make
sure that the bad news just never stays
in the news cycle cuz you have to just
cycle to to the next thing.
>> Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, no, he's a slave
to the news cycle. He just like lets
wash it away by doing something else
insane.
Uh
>> It's a it's a bold strategy.
Terrible strategy, but whatever. It
seems to kind of work for him, I guess.
>> Yeah.
>> The uh the AI bubble thing. So, we
haven't had an AI bubble pop yet, but I
think we're I think we're definitely
getting there. I mean, I don't know if
you've
looked at what the the numbers like for
the economy are, but basically we would
be in a recession if it weren't for the
you know, data center building, but
those numbers are all just completely
fake. It's it's all speculative.
>> Yeah, it's a mirage.
>> Yeah, so
I just I don't think at some point
something has to give and then we're
just
because that was the only thing propping
up the economy, when that goes away or
if enough people, you know, rally around
these data centers and say, "No, you're
not building these in our community.
We're we're sick of this." Then, you
know, that that growth that they're
that fake growth that they that they've
created. Yeah, I mean, that that could
just all disappear. I saw I saw a
horrendous statistic the other day.
Um we now spend more money on building
new data centers than we do on
infrastructure
nationwide.
>> Wow.
>> Yeah. That's been a
>> even see it. Like I don't like I haven't
seen too much imagery or you know, I I
barely know what they look like. It's
just hard to even
uh like is that deliberately being
hidden? Like no, like let's not even
have people generally aware
of what these data centers are and
>> Well, that's why they put them out in
the desert, you know.
>> Yeah.
>> Where I live, I live um a couple towns
over from a US Navy air base.
>> Mhm.
>> And apparently they're going to build a
data center on that air base, which
means the public gets no say in it. Uh
cuz that's a that's [clears throat] a
military base, so I'm wondering I'm
wondering if that's what they'll they'll
do. You know, this administration is so
in bed with AI that they'll just skirt
around, you know, [\h__\h] democracy. That's
been their attitude
>> Yeah.
>> forever, so oh, you don't like it? Well,
then we'll just figure out a way that
you don't get a choice.
>> Yeah. I got a buddy who works at SpaceX
and he says Musk is trying to put the
data centers
in orbit. He wants to like like
delocalize them among a bunch of
different uh
>> How would that even How would that even
work?
Uh
>> Yeah, he says it would work. I don't
know. It's like Musk is such a piece of
crap, but once in a while he has these
ideas that it's like, well, if he did do
that, that would be good. I mean, I
don't know.
>> Well, as we all know, the temperature in
space is far too hot for a data center.
>> Mhm.
>> Uh you wouldn't be able to cool the data
center cuz the temperature of space is
actually higher than
>> right, right.
>> melting temperature of metal.
>> Yeah, that's why we can't get to the
moon and [\h__\h] yeah.
>> Yeah, Ar- Artemis didn't happen.
>> Uh-huh.
>> Man, I didn't even write that down for
my list of optimistic things. Artemis.
>> Mhm.
>> believe I See, this is the problem.
Everything is so shitty that it's hard
to even remember
>> the good in between, [laughter] yeah.
Yeah, Artemis 2 was great if for nothing
else just watching the the sea of cope
from all the flat-earthers and moon
landing deniers and uh it's just so
funny to watch.
>> It has been real great, yeah.
Um next the the next thing that I think
Mr. Beat got right, the blue wave. We're
kind of already seeing that. We've had a
few special elections.
Um and so
that's good. Hopefully we can uh get
control of
at least the house, hopefully the
Senate, too. We'll see what happens so
we can try to stop all this craziness.
>> Yeah.
>> Um
a bunch of a bunch of misses in a row, I
feel like, but I think, you know,
Americans have become more united. Kind
of already touched on this, but, you
know, uh the Epstein thing
uh being against the war in Iran, the
vast majority of all people are, and
then the data centers. So,
there's some good
you know, bipartisan coming together,
being united against uh some of these
things going on.
>> Yeah, I would say so, and I definitely
think uh support for Trump is eroding.
>> Oh, that's yeah, his approval rating's
35%.
>> Yeah.
>> Uh
worse than Jimmy Carter, and you know,
Jimmy Carter like I'm I'm not here to
like
like dunk on Jimmy Carter like
personally. I think he was just in a
horrible, miserable situation.
>> Yeah.
>> The OPEC embargo, he couldn't really do
anything about that, and he inherited a
whole bunch of problems. And you can say
like he wasn't effect uh uh effective as
a leader. It's like, yeah,
I mean, I guess, but this is different.
This is
Trump's approval rating is an approval
rating of his own creation, and I'm here
for it.
>> Yeah. Uh Bobby's approval is like Maha
is splintering, too, over the glyphosate
stuff.
Um that one was a bridge too far.
>> Yeah.
>> And Nick Maha's finally like, "Wait a
minute. This guy says anything and then
does whatever."
I would have thought, you know.
>> Yeah, I [clears throat] I can't find it,
but I was watching TV the other day.
Um well, there was a TV that was on. And
I [\h__\h] you not, a Trump vape commercial
came on. And I was like, "What the hell
is this?" And they were like promoting
vapes and and Donald Trump was on the
screen, and it said uh "These vapes are
25% more or less." And then somebody
switched the channel. I was like, "No! I
wanted to see what this was." And I I
can't find this ad on YouTube or
anything. But that's just an example
like true
the administration has
just taken a giant dump on Maha so many
times. They're taking money from like
the the weed lobby and the cigarette
lobby and this vaping stuff. And uh the
way they're in bed with gambling, that's
kind of a
it's a I would say that's Maha, you
know, mental health at least, but the
way they've just
uh Maha has not a single victory except
for
>> No.
>> that one franchise is now using
bacon lard instead of
>> Yeah, or something.
>> instead of fry oil for their fries or
something.
>> beef tallow and stuff. But I mean um but
I even the core premise like like he
deregulated uh for polyfluoroalkyl
substances that the PFAS. Like their
core stuff, like not not even the fringe
stuff, just like they're like he's
literally saying one thing and doing the
opposite and everyone's kind of they've
had a year to like see that. Like Maha
is his core basis is splintering, so
that's that's a good thing.
>> Yeah, makes you almost feel bad for RFK,
but uh no.
>> Not for a single second. That guy is a
[\h__\h] [laughter] monster.
Like I did a video, a very very long
video on him and I had to dig into like
I wanted like it wasn't the main part of
the video. The main part of the video
was his policies, but I also had to do
some a little part just digging into his
personal history and all the insane [\h__\h]
that he's done like in his youth and all
through his life just like really
bizarre psychopathic behavior. I mean
the guy is is completely nuts as
confirmed by his own family members, so.
>> Yeah.
Um what's next? Trump's stroke. So I I
don't I don't think he's had another
stroke, but I mean his health is just
obviously deteriorating. They keep
giving him those cognitive tests.
>> Uh-huh.
>> You know, I've heard people say, "The
only reason you get a cognitive test
every 6 months is if they
>> If
>> know that you're in decline and they're
trying to track it." Now, there's an
argument you can make that, well, he's
the president and so maybe the president
just is always tested all the time on
that uh because
you know, because of who he is. Like,
yeah, maybe maybe the president does
blood work every single month and we
just don't really know it. And it's
leaking out. But, it's just so obvious
that he's just like he looks like he's
melting, you know, right in front of
you. So.
>> Yeah.
>> [laughter]
>> Well, he's Yeah, he's just It's It's not
going well for him.
>> keep waiting for the for the really
off-the-cliff decline, um which would
just be the funniest way to to wrap up
his term.
Um
>> It really would be.
>> But, yeah, I don't know.
>> Going going out with a with a I don't
even know what you'd call that. Not a
bang, a fart, or something like that.
Going out with a fart. Um Gen Alpha
rebelling against digital media. Uh
this is that Now, I don't know exactly
what Mr. Beat meant by digital media,
>> Right.
>> but there were uh we just finished up
with a lot of college graduations, and I
saw tons of commencement speeches where
whoever the speaker is, you know, they
they the moment they bring up AI, the
entire graduating body starts to boo
them.
>> Yeah. No, they just very loudly booed.
>> Gen Z, right? Where's the Where's the
divide between Z and Alpha? I don't
know, actually.
>> Oh, [\h__\h] Well, oh, yeah. No, yeah,
you're right. So, Alpha's the younger
>> Yeah.
>> generation. I don't know I don't know
when the cutoff is.
>> are
Gen Alpha.
>> Um
>> I just don't know where It's like
current
current teenagers are or or preteens
even.
>> Gen Alpha begins in 2010. So, those
those kids are 16 right now. So that's
high schoolers.
>> Okay.
>> Um
>> Okay.
>> Okay. So I I'm not I'm not really right
on that, I guess. But I mean, I I only
see that trend continuing cuz now Gen
Gen Alpha, they're going into college.
>> And now, if you look at the the
graduation numbers because nobody's
hiring because it's all being
outsourced to AI. Yeah.
If you're a high school counselor, what
are you telling your What are you
telling kids? I mean, like I guess go
into nursing or something like that.
>> Right. What are the fields that will
still be lucrative one, two decades from
now? Yeah.
Yeah, it's hard to say. But But I But I
do I mean, the young ones are are super
all over Tik Tok and stuff. I mean,
I don't know. It It's It's hard Like
there I do sense that backlash against
AI in particular. And um
But yeah, I just it their psychology is
so entrenched in the way social media
works that I don't know. I I I I think
we will see the evolution of other
platforms over over time. I just don't
really know what they will look like or
how they will be better or worse than
what we have. I mean, I don't think it
gets that much worse than Tik Tok. Tik
Tok is really just the shittiest of the
shitty. I just can't believe that that
like commands so much attention.
>> It's It's bad how addicting it is. Are
you Are you pro banning phones in
schools?
>> Yeah, I think so. My kids
>> can't have it. Yeah.
>> I I'm hoping
I'm hoping that it happens really soon,
but
you know, this whole this whole cell
phone and and social media thing, it's
really new.
And I I just kind of hope that
eventually, in a few years, kids with
phones is kind of viewed the same way
that like, you know, smoking around kids
is. It's like
What are you doing? You know, like if
you if you saw us if like there's just
going to be like the kind of public like
scold or stare that just goes through
the and cuz we have we have to
eventually come to realize how
detrimental it's been. And yeah, get
them out of schools. Just let's not have
kids have them. I don't know. Maybe
Chromebooks in school need to go away,
too. I'm starting to I'm starting to
really worry that there's just no good
way to do any of it.
>> The funny part is that like this is the
hypocrisy of MAGA is they'll go on and
on about, you know, oh social media is
so harmful or like, you know, food in
America is so bad, blah, blah, blah. But
then like the moment anybody tries to
regulate anything, they're like, no,
communism, stop my freedoms, you know.
It's just like I don't know where we're
going to
find some
like
Yeah, it's it's hard it's hard to say.
But um but yeah, no phones in school. I
think it's a good start.
>> [clears throat]
>> Yeah, unfortunately the the the rules
are dictated by the highest bidder. And
uh the tech bros, they got a lot of
money, as we all know.
>> Have you been tracking measles cases
because I know they're up. I just don't
know comparatively how much they're up.
>> Triple might be exactly correct. Um if
you look at the hospitalizations
in 2025, it was by far the highest uh in
the 21st century. And as of April of
this year, we've already almost outpaced
Um we're just shy of the 2025 numbers in
the first 4 months of 2026. So, triple
is almost exactly correct.
>> That's crazy. I wonder if I wonder if uh
speaking of schools, I wonder if it'll
go down in the summer cuz kids, you
know, aren't at school. Um
I don't know I don't know if that's a a
big way that it's gets spread. I would
suspect maybe, but
>> Yeah, no, it does. But um it's going to
get worse, especially if uh with uh
Florida Surgeon General, you know,
Ladapo, they're trying to ban
entirely mandates vaccine mandates for
schools. So, every child in the entire
state of Florida can go to public school
without vaccinating at all.
That is going to be a disaster. So, it
hasn't passed yet, but the I mean, it
doesn't look good. I don't I can't say
for sure whether it will or won't, but
um
yeah.
>> This is one of those things about what
we do that that's really hard to it's
kind of hard to
take the high ground and hold onto your
humanity because
there's there is this instinct for me to
be like, "Look, okay, I'll support
federalism. If states want to do their
own thing, go for it. I can't wait to
see you reap the rewards of your own
disaster."
>> Yeah.
>> But, you know, this this hurts kids and
innocent people. And so, I I have I have
to tell myself
>> just cuz their parents are [\h__\h]
idiots.
>> I know. I have to tell myself, "No.
Don't don't don't take joy in it, I
guess." Um but I guess
>> it's very different for a number of
reasons. Like, I agree with you in the
sense of like
uh
de- you know, legalize and decriminalize
all drugs. If you want to kill yourself
with heroin, that's your prerogative,
right? I would say you're you know,
that's whatever you want to ingest,
whatever harm you want to do to
yourself. Vaccines, it's totally
different. You're killing your kids, and
then you're also killing
immunocompromised
people. Like, there's just it it's
you're killing other people who don't
deserve to be killed because you're
stupid. So, totally different situation.
Yeah.
>> Totally.
Um
I wrote down the EV sales skyrocket, not
because it's right, but because of how
wrong it is. I mean, manufacturers
um I saw
the the Audi There's a bunch of electric
cars, like the Audi e-tron. Probably
nobody's even heard of it, but it is it
is a car that Audi made.
They sold literally single-digit numbers
of those last year.
>> [laughter]
>> Uh and I think that's globally. It's
either globally or US market, but either
way it's like like they're building cars
in single selling single digit per year
in an entire I mean, that's just
absolutely wild. Yeah.
And there's been This is one of those
things where China's just going to blow
They've already blown by us, but it's
just
auto manufacturing is a thing of US
pride. It it gives us soft power around
the world and culturally it makes us
relevant. And you know, US car
manufacturer I I'm really big into cars.
Um I don't know how many people know
that, but like I watch Doug DeMuro's
YouTube channel all the time. I was a
huge Top Gear fan growing up. I love the
Throttle House YouTube channel.
I've been paying attention to this. It's
so bad.
And we're just
you know, we're pretending it's not a
problem by just banning the sale of
Chinese EVs in this country. We can't
ban the rest of the world from buying
them.
Well, we can ban Cuba from buying them,
I guess, but um
it's we're just going to get left in the
dust in this and that that's just going
to
I don't I don't know what we do about
that. It it may be easy enough to fix
when an administration that can think
gets in there. They'll be like, "Yeah,
we're going to fully go into this
because we've seen other people do it
and we've seen how good it is. So,
hopefully I don't know.
We'll see, I guess.
>> Who knows?
>> Um there's just two more things here.
Non-partisan political movement.
Again, the whole thing about like data
centers and just the the horrible
corruption that we've seen in Trump's
administration. That's just bleeding
down into
pretty much everybody else. So, I think
there's a front for that.
>> I think it's just manifesting as
an attempt at at reform of the
Democratic Party, which is predictable.
Right, using the existing political
apparatus to try to
push things in a particular direction. I
would love to see a viable third party
in my lifetime.
>> [laughter]
>> But you know, I'm okay with with
reforming the Democratic Party if it if
it works.
>> Well, I mean, with with Zoran and
hopefully Graham Tanner and
um quite a few others, yeah. It's all
>> [laughter]
>> So it's it's it's Wednesday morning
today. So last night there were
elections here in California.
The California's primary
for governorship is really weird. It's
open. So whoever the top
>> There's like 50 people on the thing.
>> 60. There are more than 60.
But whoever the top two are just go up
for the official election. So you could
get two Republicans, you could get two
Democrats, you could get one of each.
We're going to get one of each. I was
looking at the numbers last night.
>> So what are the numbers because I got to
be honest, my wife and I, we try our
best to do our due diligence and I feel
really good about everything that we
everyone that we voted for, but we were
very confused about the governor race
about who to vote for. So I'm not like
who did you vote for, but like tell like
who are the runners and like who do you
think is who should I have have I voted
for do you think? Like I don't know.
>> [\h__\h] like that. I I would have gone for
Tom Tom Steyer. I thought he was the
best option. There were questions, you
know, like he's a billionaire and it's
like, you know, but he's in favor of
increasing taxes on the billionaires.
He's him and his wife decided they're
going to give away their fortune
with the rest of their lives. That's
what they're going to do and he's in
favor of you know, he he got the
endorsement of the teachers union and
all these other all these other groups.
Um there were some questionable things.
I mean, you know, like he was he was
paying influencers to create content,
you know, promoting his campaign. And
it's like, well,
I
you can argue it it sets a dangerous
precedent. But no, he got he didn't get
enough vote. He got 20% of the votes as
of now. I think only like half the votes
are in right now, but it's not going to
dramatically change, but the
the guy with the most is Republican
Hilton. He's British. Uh not that
California's never had a a governor from
another country before.
>> Yeah.
>> And a Republican governor from another
country as a matter of fact. No, he's a
he's British and he was a he was a Fox
News contributor for so long. So he
actually got the most votes.
And then the other guy uh Becerra, yeah.
Uh is it Yeah, Javier, not Xavier,
right? Or is it Xavier?
>> Javier.
>> Okay, it's spelled with an X. So I I I
wasn't totally Yeah.
He
he's like a living NASCAR, by which I
mean he is every single
uh
corporation you can imagine has thrown
money at him. So he's like when you see
a NASCAR and it's got 50 different
company logos on it, that's him. And but
you know, I don't for what I I
>> What are the policies that are
What is he championing that's corporate
friendly?
I'm wondering.
>> I don't think he's really said anything.
Um but he doesn't really say much at
all. He had he had an interview. Um I
can't remember who gave the interview,
but
they
he he's just one of these people that
just says the right things, but doesn't
actually believe in anything and then
and then will do what money tells him to
do. He began the interview saying,
"Whoa, hold on. I just want to make sure
uh Uh, this is a this isn't an exposé.
It's a It's a What did he call it? It's
a It's a profile.
>> This is the start of our interview with
Javier Becerra in Highland Park.
>> By the way, this is a profile piece.
This is not a gotcha piece, right?
>> Well, look, I think we're These
questions are fair. It's in order to
learn about you as a candidate.
>> So, long as about the profile.
>> I don't know how you define profile, but
I'd like to begin the interview.
>> The way I describe profile is you talk
about all the things that I've done,
things I want to do, and a along with
some tough questions. But, not only
tough questions.
>> Those are the options that we that we're
going to be given, it looks like, so.
>> Yeah, that's that doesn't bode well, but
uh, what are you going to do?
>> It tracks. It tracks.
>> Wait, why did
uh, did Newsom step down because he's
going for
>> California has term limits.
>> Term limits, okay. That's That's what it
is, okay.
>> Yeah, we're we're not like Kentucky.
We're not going to
>> [laughter]
>> We're not Yeah. Uh, speaking of speaking
of people that are melting before your
eyes, Mitch McConnell, my
uh, anyway Anyways, [laughter]
I don't want to engage in elder abuse.
>> That's like a
Weekend at Bernie's situation at this
point, [laughter] I feel like.
>> Yeah.
>> It basically is.
So, then there was Dave's
>> [laughter]
>> bingo card for 2026. Funny enough, funny
enough, uh, I think there are actually
some things we can point to.
>> I got a few here.
>> But, what you I've done most of the
talking, you go ahead.
>> Okay, I forgot all about this, but uh,
but
let's see. Uh, way more fake alien psyop
[\h__\h] definitely.
>> I wrote that one down. That's definitely
there. That's been happening.
>> Mhm.
Um, I Have you see Is the Odyssey out
yet?
>> Yeah, I don't know.
Um,
I do want to go see it. Yeah, I mean,
but um, I just really think it's going
to be bad. Uh,
Yeah, I feel like Nolan is overrated in
general.
I mean, he's made some great ones. Like
Dark Knight is so crazy awesome. Yeah,
but I just don't [clears throat] know
how he's gotten this reputation as like
number one director or something. I just
think that there's way better directors.
Um
>> July 17th.
>> Okay, so it's not out yet.
>> out yet. Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Did you like Oppenheimer?
>> I actually didn't see it.
>> Oh, really? It's good.
>> right? Yeah.
>> It kind of It kind of goes in a
different direction than you would
expect, but I think I think it's
actually really good.
>> Yeah, definitely not like he can't make
good movies. Like Like Interstellar's a
really solid movie. You know, like he
makes good movies. Just You know, I'm a
way bigger fan of other directors, you
know. I feel like even Fincher or
somebody is like somebody that I think
makes better movies.
>> Did you This is Ridley Scott, but did
you see Napoleon?
>> Oh, I did.
>> It was so horrible.
>> Yeah, I thought it was I I didn't hate
it, but it Yeah, didn't do anything for
me. I mean, I watched it like on on
Netflix on the TV or whatever.
>> It's
I recommend Is it History Buffs? I think
that's the YouTube channel. He did He
did a video about it, and he I Like I
knew the movie was bad. I could tell it
was
I could tell it was fairly a historical.
Turns out it got literally everything
[laughter] wrong.
>> Oh, really?
>> But also, it just It portrayed Napoleon
as this pathetic little mama's boy I'm
not worth anything and and
uh Josephine, you're my everything. And
he did I mean, he loved Josephine. He
had He had an affair, but it's just like
there's this line in the movie where he
says to her, "I'm not an ambitious man."
And I was like,
"Are you
>> [laughter]
>> He was the most ambitious man.
>> He named a complex after you.
>> ever. Like maybe ever. He's arguably one
of the most accomplished human beings of
all time. In 20 years, what he did is
just it might actually be unprecedented.
>> Yeah, Alexander the Great maybe would be
comparable.
>> Yeah, but [sighs]
Alexander the Great didn't change the
world like Napoleon did. I mean, he
spread
he just ended so many monarchies and he
he was really big on um
you know, the whole convention of
standard units. That all came out of
France as a result of him
creating this huge empire, wanting
everything to be standardized. Uh that
was a huge
>> Anyway, this is a very odd tangent. So,
we'll move on from [laughter] there, but
>> um So, I have your Ben Franklin replaced
Sydney Sweeney on the $100 bill. Well,
that didn't happen, but Donald Trump
does want to create a $250 bill with his
name on it.
>> Yeah.
>> So, the spirit of what you were talking
about is is
>> is in there.
>> maybe going to be correct.
>> Yeah. [laughter]
Um let's see if we have anything else.
Uh yeah, midterm elections. We'll see if
those go through. Um nuking a hurricane.
RFK encourages Americans to crack open
skulls and feast on the goo inside.
>> [laughter]
>> Um let's see. Rogan finally apologizes.
He No, Rogan is absolutely unrepentant.
That one is not coming true.
Um I
>> He's
He's apologized like to Theo Von.
>> Mhm.
>> And I think he has publicly expressed um
that he regrets endorsing endorsing
Trump. Yeah, and stuff like that. And
so,
I I don't know.
>> But the medical misinformation
continues. I've seen him double down on
moon landing denial after having it
disproven to his face sometime. I'm just
like, dude, what is like, what are you
doing, man?
That's ridiculous.
Um yeah, I don't I can't really sink my
teeth into any of these other ones.
They're just too absurd. Um the darkness
surrounds and envelops us.
>> No, I wrote that one down because I
think that that has
>> That's happening. [laughter]
>> That's definitely happening.
>> I mean, if you live in Gaza, that's hap-
happens already.
>> The one you wrote down that we don't
even have to like fudge it a bit
is that is that one that is that has
definitely happened. Um
Elon Musk revealed to be a robot. So,
no, I don't I
I don't think he's a robot, but these
I don't know how much you uh uh
hear about like what they're talking
about, but him and Peter Thiel and these
guys they talk about they just literally
want to transform humanity, remove
remove all work from humans. And it's
like, "Look, I
there's certain manual labor stuff that
I can get on board with us having the
robots do that or whatever.
But they're it's it's they just want to
like fundamentally change what humanity
is, and I think it was Peter Thiel, he
won't he won't say he's not the
Antichrist.
And they just they do and say these just
so they like it's like they believe in
this weird version of transhumanism.
Like they want Like they want
>> want to merge with machines, and they
want to I mean, that Neuralink he's like
Musk is like you can upload your
consciousness, and is going to you know,
uh did you see what was that um
that movie on Netflix a little while ago
with like Steve Carell? It was like four
tech oligarchs that are friends, and
they meet at this uh snow head mountain
mountain head or something like that. Um
but they're all
>> It's just kind of making fun of like
Zuckerberg and Musk-like figures with
these characters, and they're all like
one of them in particular is obsessed
with transhumanism, and he's just like,
"When are we going to do it? I got to
upload my consciousness. I got to Like I
really think that they
I mean, obviously they they believe that
because Musk is literally trying to do
that with Neuralink, but um
I don't know. I mean, it's like all of
this
like yeah, the transhumanism and and
just that the radical
restructuring of society against
everyone's
consent. Um but like also I just don't
buy it, the version that they sell.
Like, we're going to do all of these
things and then you won't have to work
because there'll be UBI. Will there be
UBI? I don't believe you. I think it
will be the reinstatement of what you
were talking about with in the Middle
Ages that there will be a vast peasantry
and a tiny
monarchy on top and will be a literal
monarchy but it'll be an oligarchy.
So I that's that's what they want and
that's what they're actually trying to
achieve unless we stop them. Um which is
why they are all you know, when
like that's what DOJ is is going in and
and and dismantling any institution that
has any ability to regulate the private
sector so that we can't do it, right?
They want to to paralyze us from being
able to stop their acquisition of wealth
and power. That's it.
>> Would you say um are you pessimistic
about AI?
>> I think so. Yeah, I've done a couple
videos on this and every time I do it's
a quagmire. Everybody quits out and I
feel like there's paid, you know,
there's narratives being spun in the
comment sections and stuff.
I find super intelligence extinction
risk to be credible. Other people are
like, no, blah blah blah. I don't know,
whatever. Um but then yeah, obviously in
terms of
the job market and
media landscape.
>> I was going to ask you, are you a Skynet
type of pessimist or are you a
like a income inequality jobs numbers
type of pessimist or both?
>> Obviously the second one but I don't
think that you can firmly discount the
first one and I think think people who
scoff at that are just either naive or
possibly regurgi I mean, it's weird like
you could like narratives being peddled
by the AI the AI industry could be of
two varieties. One, inflating the risk
to make the tech seem more advanced than
it is. And two, downplaying the risk to
be like, "No, no, no, we can do it." And
I think that that they're doing both.
You know what I mean? Like I think that
they're just
genuinely pedaling both narratives to
promote general confusion amongst the
public about what's happening, what can
do what. Um
uh I just don't know. Like I just
There's just so much money in there.
There's so much dark money in the AI
industry that I don't believe for a
single second that they're not
deliberately manipulating public opinion
on what AI is and what it can do, you
know. I just don't know how cuz I don't
know enough about tech, so.
>> Yeah, I mean the
the AI it it can do so much. It's like,
well, yeah, what what should we worry
about now? What should we worry about
first? And I would I would say, yeah, I
mean, the the way it's just completely
upending uh
the the economy and the job market.
That's our number one priority. Then we
can worry about will it decide to launch
the nukes on its own or not? Like we'll
worry about that later.
>> Obviously that's later, yeah. But but
the job market and then also the media
landscape. I mean, it's just really it's
becoming there
hopefully young people are so used to it
that as the age as the demographics
shift, um we will as a society be more
immune to it. But but old people don't
like people above 50 or 60, they don't
know what is AI and what isn't.
>> Yeah, it's it's new Nigerian prince
email.
>> Exactly. It's crazy and they can be
manipulated so easily and they still
vote. Um it's it's insane.
>> Yeah. Yeah, anyways. Well, okay. So,
what we're going to do for the end here
is I wanted to talk about good things.
We've We've This was kind of the whole
premise of this. I was like, "You know
what? We We There's so much that we have
to nay say, but there are good things.
You know, ultimately like new
discoveries and and whatever else. So, I
have I have like uh
I have five well, four. I added Artemis
later. So, um
I
I'm going to let you go first if you
have some cuz I've just been doing so
much talking.
>> have one. I didn't think about it very
hard at all, but I very quickly came up
with one because I heard it in the news
this week. Um
so, have you heard about these
advancements with MR MRNA vaccines
towards cancer, personalized MRNA
vaccines that are doing amazing things
with cancer. I'll just quickly read off
some of this. So, they're in clinical
trials they've shown significant
potential to treat rather than prevent
various cancers including melanoma,
pancreatic which is a death sentence for
most and lung cancer.
So, nothing FDA approved yet, but these
results indicate they can dramatically
improve survival rates, reduce the risk
of recurrence. So,
let's see for melanoma
um it was found to half the risk of
cancer returning after 5 years. 5-year
survival rates reached 92% for those on
the combination therapy. Pancreatic
cancer custom-made vaccines activated
tumor-specific immune cells in 50% of
patients in a phase one study. So, like
this pancreatic in particular has like
the lowest survival rate of any cancer.
So, this is crazy. 87.5%
alive after 4 to 6 years post-surgery.
Um that's like that's astounding.
Um glioblastoma and
brain tumors early trial trials for
aggressive brain cancers have shown that
they yeah, rapidly. So, all of this
stuff these are these are therapies that
are personalized. So, they they sequence
a patient's tumor. So, they get the the
exact genome of a tumor cell and they
identify unique mutations called
neo-antigens.
Um
and then the
mRNA instructions
they cause the production of these
neo-antigens. So, I I haven't really
looked into exactly what's going on
mechanistically. All I can say is that
there it's like
despite RFK's half a billion dollar
budget cuts on mRNA vaccine technology,
like it's happening, it's showing
incredible promise. Um so, that's very
good news.
>> Yeah. Yeah, this this is
a good example of, you know, one of
those things I was kind of talking about
at the beginning where, yeah, like
progress some kinds of progress are like
almost inevitable. I don't know Do you
ever go to the website Our World in
Data?
>> Mhm.
>> It's it's got so much stuff that's
really, really good. And you you can
dive into the all the data they have is
usually interactive. But yeah, like like
if we just look at cancer so as just an
example. Obviously, lung cancer
skyrocketed, but we know why that was
and we did something about it. And then
it's plummeted ever since it But if you
look at all the other cancers on here,
every single one of them is going down.
And it's because of, you know,
breakthrough technologies and new ways
to find
that we find to do treatments like what
you're talking about. So.
>> Yeah.
>> Very good.
>> Yeah, do you ever do you have ever have
Flint Dibble on to chat with?
>> I've never chatted with him, but I I
know who he is.
>> Yeah, you should reach out. I'm sure he
would come on your channel. But he I
mean, you may know as had cancer for a
while and it kind of like goes away and
comes back, but he's himself is just
like the therapies that I am on did not
exist 10 years ago. I'd be dead 10 years
ago. Um so, we're we're doing stuff.
We're doing stuff.
>> So, I found uh
um three new ones that are that are
pretty cool. These are science-related.
There's like some There's like some
political
optimism, too, but we kind of have
talked about it. What looks like it's
going to happen in the midterms and
Trump's approval rating, so
set that and uh he uh Congress rejected
his $1.8 billion slush fund, so good.
>> dude. I can't even wrap my head at like
the rage I feel of like I'm going to pay
for these pieces of [\h__\h] who tried to
install at you as a dictator.
Um Oh my god, it's un- unbelievable.
>> That's that's some third world stuff.
But um so IBM has made some
breakthroughs with quantum computing and
apparently they were able to simulate a
protein with 12,000 atoms in it on a
quantum computer. So, just what that can
do for creating new
um
like medicines and biologics and stuff.
Like like this is one of the things
about AI.
It because well, this would be quant-
this is more quantum computing cuz of
the power it has to do this, but with AI
too.
Like imagine if we don't have to do
clinical trials anymore because we can
just predict how a molecule is going to
behave.
The way that that would make the world
it's it's it's like unthinkable how
positive that would be for the world,
you know?
>> Mhm.
>> Um
>> Well, you still got to do clinical
trials, but but I I feel like we've been
doing using computer models for for a
while, right? To to do some kind of
screening. Um
>> Yeah. Well, with I the quantum
computing, the way I understand it, it's
it's so powerful that it can just
calculate things that you know, like
currently our our our computing power
because of what's because of what's
unknown, it just can't be accounted for
and
the quantum computers are so powerful
they may be able to just get rid of the
need to have to do certain things. Like
I
I wouldn't say probably that clinical
trials have to be completely disappear.
But there would there would be instances
where we no longer have to test how is
this thing going to react cuz we can
simulate how it would.
>> You can you can say what is going to be
the binding affinity for this drug in
every single nook and cranny of every
every component of every cell of your
body, something like that, yeah.
>> Yeah, it'll be I don't know. That's
that's something that we're going to see
happen. Uh probably not at the end of
the year, but you know,
it's coming up. Um they found a new
enzyme with CRISPR that they can
actually put inside of a virus to do in
body uh
gene therapy now apparently. So that's
you can maybe like treat cystic
fibrosis.
Um like actually change the
>> Haven't they already done this for for
for for point mutations? Gene therapy
has already been done successfully.
>> Gene therapy exists, but uh
from what I understand, we haven't been
able to do like like targeted CRISPR
like they they found a CRISPR enzyme
that can actually fit in a virus. And
that that apparently is new. Gene gene
therapies, yeah, have existed. Um
>> But I thought we were always using I
thought we were always taking cells
using a retrovirus to
uh amend the genome wherever there's a
point mutation. So point mutation ones
are obviously the easiest ones to target
cuz you switch out the gene for a for uh
well, not switch out, but you
>> [clears throat]
>> put the correct gene in those
transfected cells, then those go in and
then they divide and then all of a
sudden you get an appropriate amount of
gene expression of the correct protein
product. Uh I thought that we had been
doing that for a few things with point
mutations, but I'm not I'm not sure.
>> I'll just I'll I'll add it in in post
what the specific details cuz I don't I
don't want to take the time to to read
it, but there was there was something
about what it can do. Maybe it's a new
kind of virus or something, but it it
just can do a new kind of targeted gene
therapy is what it was saying. So, I'll
get the I'll put the details for that.
And then the final thing for just like a
scientific thing that's like really
cool, hey, we're we're actually doing
stuff that's awesome. Uh apparently, the
the joint LIGO Virgo Kagra, I think
that's how you say that last one. Um
that that joint effort, they they now
they added 161 new gravitational wave
events. So, it like in total there are
400 of them, but when did LIGO first
come online? Cuz I was several years
ago.
>> That was a few years ago. Yeah, it was
big news that first really confirmed it.
It's kind of like uh you know, first
exoplanet in the '90s and then all of a
sudden it's like, "Oh, we have like a
thousand exoplanets." Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Um
>> That's been another new thing. Um
uh with the AI, they can do um
what is it? Uh
protein folding.
They They can use the artificial
intelligence AlphaFold is the program.
Veritasium did a really cool video on
this. We We'd been doing it
computationally for decades and there
were like 200,000
that we had discovered or known and then
all of a sudden in 1 year AlphaFold
discovered like 200 million of them.
>> What does it do? You You can put in any
random amino acid sequence and it'll
tell you how it'll fold?
>> Yeah, it can just predict uh the folding
and the the chemical properties of it.
So, I actually did a video on this
recently because uh scientists have used
that program to
they take a a small they have what are
called like a
uh protein libraries. Like these These
are the proteins that that life uses
that that we know about. And what they
actually did was they took a limited
sample of amino acids in like three
different examples. They took the Bennu
asteroid amino acids cuz I I think they
don't find all 20 of them on there. They
find a a limited number. They take the
>> extra ones that are not
>> True.
Um there are more than 20 amino acids,
it turns out. There are 20 biological
ones.
>> Yep.
>> Um
and uh the Miller-Urey experiment only
had I I want to say
I don't remember how much each one had,
but they either had six, seven, or eight
amino acids is all. But the AlphaFold
could successfully
>> and they they they uh they did more
tests on the residue and found them all.
>> Oh, yeah.
>> way more than they thought initially.
>> Well, that's cool.
>> Yeah.
>> What the What the paper I read, th- they
they were just able to take uh the only
about half the amino acids or less and
um
they could recreate all of the folds in
the library. Um so this just shows this
is like uh James Tour is losing his mind
over he's probably not even aware of
>> like that pro- like uh important
proteins can can form with with with a
more constrained set of amino acids.
Yeah.
>> Yep. With fewer amino acids available.
>> Yeah, and in fact that's absolutely like
there is I've highlighted some research
showing what is understood to be I don't
I remember if it's 10 and 10, but you
certainly not all of the amino acids and
in particular the ones that he whines
about with the with the uh the the the
active side chains um were not necessary
for a biogenesis to occur. So just
another layer of straw man on his
ridiculous uh challenges.
>> [laughter]
>> Uh yeah, par for the course for for
James Tour. And then uh the last one I
made I made a video about this a couple
months ago, too, but uh this one is
making uh Stephen Meyer lose his mind
assuming he's even aware of it, but he
he's so weird because he doesn't
he doesn't ever make young earth
creationist
talking points or arguments.
And I'm not
I suspect he probably isn't one.
But like those are the most bizarre
ones. So it's like, wait, you think
life's been on this planet for billions
of years, but evolution doesn't happen?
Right. So what's What is happening? If
he has to do and he's never said, but
it's like so you just believe in
spontaneous random creation. God just
wipes the planet of most things every
couple 10 million years cuz he gets
bored and then creates a new set or
whatever.
>> gets bored and then he comes in and goes
zip, zap, [laughter] doop, zippity zoop
and he makes the next thing come, right?
>> It's so weird. But he, you know, he
likes to talk about the Cambrian
explosion and all this other stuff. And
we find no inter no they have no
precursors in the fossil. That's always
been false, but we now recently found
bilateral organisms in the Ediacaran
some fossils from China. So
score one more for our side.
>> Yeah. I they really rely on the public's
ignorance. I mean, of course they are
like why would they know paleontology
like sophisticated paleontology? But
yeah, most people have no idea about
Ediacaran fauna and like what there was.
And like he'll straight up I've heard
him say the sentence
forms that have no discernible
connection with similar forms in a You
just said the word similar. What What do
you mean no connection with similar
forms? What How are they similar? Like
they're straight up I mean my whole
super long video on on on Meyer, I go
through all of that stuff and all like
Charnia and like all the different um
forms that persist across the Ediacaran
Cambrian Precambrian
sorry Cambrian divide. It's it's crazy.
>> [laughter]
>> Yeah.
Um so there is good news. Hopefully
there's there's more to come, but you
know
it may also be true that things get
worse before they get better. I guess
we'll have to stay tuned to find out.
>> We will have to see. We will update
update our concerns
as it goes.
>> Yeah, definitely. Um any other final
closing thoughts?
>> No, can't think of it. Let's just keep
sticking it to these guys.
>> Yeah, that's that's what we do. It's I
don't see how we have any other choice.
So
All right, thank you very much.
>> Thanks for having me.