Kump - Ep. 254 China Can Have It

Episode Date: May 18, 2026

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every weekRay covers Trump’s trip to China, the closed Strait of Hormuz, rising inflation, AI chips, Taiwan, fake data centers, LinkedIn layoffs, IRL streamers, and the future of war.

The street of Hormuz remains closed, and the price tag for the war we never knew we wanted is sending inflation soaring. LinkedIn laid off close to a thousand workers, because I guess they're not bullish on the whole people having jobs thing. Americans need a win, and our leaders need to buy time while they figure out where to dump our bodies. And so, like a man crawling back to his wife, after his mistress as his car, on fire. President Trump

went to China this week. He brought the CEOs of Black Rock, Navidia, and many other vultures, hoping to make some deals, and to convince China to leverage their lack of fear of non-existent Iranian nukes to help end the war

on favorable terms. And the summit went so well that the Dow plummeted 500 points. All of this is enough to give you pause and wonder if we're going to be okay. But Americans are resilient. It takes a lot to keep us down.

The young people of today are making up for a lack of hope or opportunity with grit and determination and a bit of moxie. IRL streamers are roaming the streets with modems in their backpacks, chips on their shoulders, and guns in their hands. These angry young men are the spiritual successors of Pat Sejack and Ryan Seacrest, and the story. and the streets are their wheel of fortune. The price is not right, but we still have to pay. Get rich or overdose trying. Welcome to Kump. Here's President Trump.

He's showing up in China. President G is showing him his various soldiers and children with flowers. It's all very nice, all very pomp and ceremony. But, you know, there's a real deal that had to be hashed out here. And I'm not sure that, you know, we were, ready to make it. Because here's what we want China to bring weight down on Iran. You know, we have this whole Iran war situation.

We have a little buyer's remorse maybe, maybe not. You know, they'll stick to their guns. But they want to destroy if war moves open. Iran doesn't want to make a deal. There's probably a deal to be made if we backed off some of these demands, but we don't want to lose face. We want China to whip them into shape a little bit to say, hey, we buy all your oil.

We're your friend. We're your friend on the world stage. We got your back, but you got to scratch our back, right? Now, China's not going to just want to do that. China doesn't just want, you know, why is China going to give us that gift? Yeah, we're a big country. We buy shit, but a lot of people buy shit these days. That leverage is over.

What they really want is they want to get in the game with AI. We've been holding back in a lot of ways all these AI chips, all these GPUs from the video, right? these data center stuff. They have this, we put these embargoes on all these LLMs and shit. We're trying to hold back China from getting into the whole AI tech,

and they got their own thing going. Don't get me wrong. But we're trying to play this kind of game and what we're going to hold you down. Well, then we're not going to, you know, you got yourself into a mess with Iran. That's basically their position. So now you've got to, you know, give us some of the,

give us a chunk. of AI flesh. And we don't want to do it. They also want Taiwan assurances. They want basically, I mean, it's not like we're going around saying, you know, we're going to fund Taiwanese freedom fighters. But I think they would like for Trump to come out and say, you know, some kind of declaration. They, they, we have a certain backing of Taiwan. And they like to pivot. I mean, I don't think they expect a huge thing there. and I don't think they expect the movement on Taiwan

not a huge but the little increments right and they expect some movement on the AI on these chips and I have a plan I have a plan to fix all of this we just give them all the all of it

all the chips this just every what do you mean like you just give them access to all the different models they want the they want the Navidia ghost chips and the fairy pixel chips

or whatever they call these things, all these different models, or, you know, they want compute power. We're going to give them that. No, no, no, I don't mean. I mean give them everything. I, we should come at China and say, here,

here's the deal. You can have, you can have open AI. We'll nationalize it and give it you. We'll give you, we'll give you, the other one, Anthropic. We'll buy it up and we'll hand it to you. we'll give you all, you know, we'll give you these GP, we'll give you these data centers.

You can have it, we'll keep them on our soil. Because here's why. And look, you might call me crazy. These, this might be a little bit of a bubble we're in. Now, everyone's, no, no, no, no, no, no, I know AI's, I know AI's real, right? It can make all these images. You can say, hey, you know, people on X let me go, hey, Grock, take this picture of a Sydney Sweeney and make her, make her spider girl or whatever.

Or did she play Spider Girl in the movie? whatever it is, Maker Jack Sparrow. It's very good at that. They have the Will Smith Spaghetti. We've covered the Will Smith Spaghetti videos. And they use it to target people. But I mean, I feel like we've been pretty good at killing, you know, civilians whenever we feel like it without AI. Do we really need that much AI to keep doing war crimes?

I don't know. I feel like, you know, it's a bit, it might be, here's the thing. You know, even if it's not like a, even if it's real. which I'm saying is real. It's real. Is it going to be profitable as a point? No one's thinking about that. No one's thinking about are these companies that are just dumping billions and billions

and probably trillions coming up of dollars into these data centers and these GPUs? When's it going to be profitable? You know, they're going to have to start charging people tokens, right? They already do for some stuff, but like, hey, you want to, you know, you want to make your own personal groundhog day, but starring, you know, it's starring Pauly Shore or whatever. You know, some weird, whatever you want to do. Movies are just going to be an on-demand thing where you can just kind of pick stuff and it makes it.

Who's doing the compute for all that? No one's figured out how that's going to scale economically. And I don't know if it will. And the point is we can dump it all in China's lap because they're just so, the Trump at the bit. They're chopping at the bit to get into this, this whole tech, you know, oligopoly and use AI to shoot their own people and to shoot other people and whatever the dream is. And it doesn't matter if it's going to work, right? We don't, we're probably running out of time. You know, this whole war is accelerated. The, you know, the bond prices are going on. I'm not an economist.

I go off the gut. go off, you know, feelings, and I feel like this kind of feels like the mortgage crisis. I remember, you know, people say, you know, people have made a lot of money on the mortgage crisis. And I lived through it and I could have. I could have made money. And I said, this doesn't seem right. This doesn't seem like it makes sense.

I didn't know why at the time, but it thought it seemed kind of fuzzy, the whole, the houses and the prices and equity and you can sell it. I tend to look at something and go, well, doesn't make sense. I should go, oh, how do I make money? How do I get in on the scam? I'm always like nitpicking the scam. So that's my own problem. But regardless, it does feel kind of like that.

It feels like we're just, you know, some of these data centers are like practically empty probably. The ones they say, oh, we're building this. We're building the chips. They got one rack of servers with these chips in them. They're saying there, you know, there is reports of this stuff that like a lot of these things. They're on paper. They're selling the theoretical compute. My point is, we can really stick it to them.

And you go, well, maybe they'll make it work. No, you're going to make a whole project out of this in my plan. It's a great American problem. We put Americans to work making like Potemkin villages of like data centers, bad AI chips. And like with the real, we give them the real stuff too. You know, that's the thing. It's not going to work if we give them a bunch of fake crap.

we get we have to give you have to give them the good you know you can't step on the raw uh you know immediately you got to wait for people to get addicted and then you step on that shit that's just the first rule of the streets so we give them all this shit and then you know in the pipeline whatever these you know next generations we yeah they just made a glass i don't know i mean i there's got be a way to take all the tarry cartridges and and repurpose them into into the GPUs that barely work but at the time they figure this out it's going to be a problem. But we just, here's the thing, we, because, well,

the China's going to control AI. Well, you know, they're going to have a stranglehold on us. Yeah, but whatever, it doesn't matter. We're going to go, like, Quaker. We're going to go, because this is, look, these phones are doing us no good. And that leads us, you know, you're going to call me crazy for this one, maybe. You're going to say, hey, what are you talking about, comp?

You can't just, uh, uh, you know, give him all this. And then, well, hold on. If you're mad about that. We also give them Taiwan. No one's going to like, no one likes that. But here's the, we're not going to go a little war over it, right? We're not going to go a war over Taiwan. So we just give it to them and we let them handle it.

And then we just don't get chips. That's the whole thing. Why do we care about Taiwan? Because of the chips. And only they can build the chip, little microchips. We stop having computers, is my point. imagine a world all of your problems

come from having a you know this doom scrolling phone in your hand you know you're constantly being surveilled you order you know food that's cold off Uber eats you get in the back of an Uber and the guy's talking to some you know with the 16 people around the world whispering I don't know what they're talking about

I'm just saying more power to him. Maybe they're doing a, you know, a business meeting. But none of this stuff is fun. You know, none of this is better than when you just had a cabby or you just, you know, went out and bought your own people. Or make your own pizza. You know, why don't you make a pizza on a rock with a fire? That's what we're getting back to. Getting back to basics. All this like, you know, nostalgia we talk about, like, make America great. Well, when was it great? We didn't have this crap. You stop, stop it with the prediction markets and, and, uh, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, And, you know, we just, we go back to, like, lumber.

We still have trees. Why are we getting involved? You know, we, can we make a car at this point that runs on, like, can't run on wood, I guess. But trains can run on wood. You can burn coal. That's what we need to do. Because we've kind of, no one does this.

No one pivots this hard. But imagine, like, an entire Luddite country. We keep the nukes. We have nukes. We had nukes 50 years ago. We're going to shoot on nukes down. We got a lot of them. I say we just give them everything.

And it'll tank, probably. I mean, we could buy it back on the cheap. I mean, China, they got a lot of money, so they might not ruin them. But whatever, we're fine. We're Quakers now. And Taiwan will be mad at us. And they'll say, oh, we had a deal. I don't know what the deal is.

We made you chips. The chips ruined us. the phone has ruined us that's for sure all this all this social media and i'm par i'm not above it i'm on i'm on x.com making quips and go oh they're gonna like this quip i should be cutting down a tree i should be living and you know i should be eating a fish they'd love to go fishing before we move on uh please if you if you if you're a band com but you like com but i appreciate you're watching uh you like to support com i would appreciate you know it's always great you know it's always to have some support.

And just like, you know, this China deal, you get something in return. You can get extra episodes every week at patreon.com slash rake hump. We rejoin our Patreon. And bonus episodes now have video. Isn't that great? I'm talking about, you know, getting rid of tech. I mean, not for long if this plan goes. But, you know, the good news is, you know, they're not going to listen to reason.

So these video episodes will keep coming. And also, if you prefer to watch it on YouTube, YouTube. membership, members only, you can watch, you know, it's available on that too. So, you know, support comp, I support America. America supports China, I guess. I don't know how it works. It's a big cycle of things. Inflation soared to 3.8% in April, driven by gasoline prices. The figures reported by the Labor Department. Surprised the past the month's report increase of 3.3%. prices excluding food and energy category. So it might even been higher with the food.

They go, why are the eggs up? Because the eggs has something to do with, I don't know, the eggs got AIDS or something. Like, you know, the chickens got AIDS a few years ago. People forget that. You know, a couple years ago when the eggs were like $10, because a bunch of chickens, look, it's not, whatever it is. I think everything should be AIDS, by the way.

They do it sometime. They do it with like a, like, there's something called feline leukemia, but I don't think it's leukemia. And there's, you know, they do this. Everything should just be like, you know, chicken aids. and it's just the worst thing or you know I'm like Ebola's worse than AIDS but you know and that I saw I mean I got an alert on my phone you know we're dealing with the Honda virus I got an alert on my phone yesterday saying actually is an outbreak of Ebola in the middle of South Africa the Congo and other countries around there and it was a world health emergency but the World Health Organization and that's just I never had the hot device. It just seems like

it seems like things are kind of falling off the rails here a little bit or someone's pushing the train off the rails. A lot of people made a lot. I don't want to accuse anyone, but a lot of people made a lot of money off the whole pandemic thing and the COVID thing, right? Like, you know, a lot of kind of the whole, I don't know if I buy it in the whole,

there was a whole great reset idea, which, you know, they say that was just a, that was just a marketing plan for the, chamber of commerce or whatever but it's sounding kind of infamous it sounded like they had a plan to like get people to basically be kind of where they're at now like you know you houses aren't for you uh like you know the job's not really for you what you need a job for right what do you need a job for uh where is this uh linkedin speaking of linkedin is uh planning to lay off 5% of its staff uh which Who cares, right?

I mean, not if you work for LinkedIn, but it's like, it's like, is that big of a deal compared to all the other stuff? I'm bringing up for a very specific point, though. It's all, I mean, it's very, I feel very bad for anyone who works for LinkedIn. But, you know, oh, why are you going to bring up every, layoff thing?

I mean, there's a lot lately. But specifically there's something about link, because so LinkedIn plans to inform staff of layoffs on Wednesday, two people are familiar with the matter of old routers. Whatever, the details is not important. It's just not great. but the thing about LinkedIn is like LinkedIn is I mean I don't even go on there much it seems like it's become kind of a hellscape the whole marketplace for jobs and also

getting apartments everything is very they like you know you you will hear horror stories that are worse than you know the BTK killer and they go well that he didn't he kill women and torture maybe but this is I don't like having to like find documents I hate that. I hate having to like prove, like verify anything. I'm not an organized guy. I mean,

a lot of people who are good at jobs are not good. I mean, why does everyone have to be some guy who like keeps records and like go and has a degree? It's like you're just trying, if you try to get a job at like, you know,

you learn your trade. It's the price of, you know, it's like they need to have like, you know, you want people to learn. You should be able to rub people the wrong way and alienate people at your job, right? This is America. We should have place for the guy who alienates people

but does a good job, right? A, that job should value him. And less and less so, the old HR movement has really soured on the antisocial guy who just does his work and doesn't want to talk to you about your dumb kids or learn your name. You know, it used to be that a loner could still work around.

people and make a living. And now, you know, places like LinkedIn, you know, first it was like, hey, post your resume and like, you know, whatever, maybe you get a job opportunity. But now it seems like there's a whole, they want you, you have to be on there and have, you need to have a network of people going through your career now. You need to be able to like, you know, you can't just go your own way at work.

You have to like form posseys. And people, because these jobs are not like, you need to be recommended for them. You need to be kind of curtail. You need to have like, you know, there's 10,000 people applying for any given job.

They want to have, you know, PhDs to make $10 an hour. It's a goddamn bubble. And it makes you wonder, like, why are people in such low demand that they can pull this off?

I mean, we know the answer. But you're acting like it's not happening. And I'm just saying, you know if LinkedIn is not able to kind of monetize if you have people in their desperation looking for jobs isn't driving enough traffic to LinkedIn to keep it going right you would think of anything LinkedIn would be you know the place where you know uh I get you know are people just trying to network on on 4chan for jobs people going on fortune going yeah I'm uh I got laid off as a nuclear, you know,

a physicist or medical physicist. And you go, what do you mean? Like, you're like, you know, you do like Einstein, shit with doctor? No,

it's the thing with the, right, you inject the thing for the radiology. Isn't that thing, right? They inject you with a, it's funny. It's one of those jobs

where they call you a physicist and I guess you have to be one. But I think you're just injecting people with poison, right? If you, tell me if I'm wrong. You know, in the comments, if you're,

if you're, if you're, everyone's a medical physicist, tell me if I'm crazy. But I think it's a job. It's one of the things you inject people with like, I mean, not plutonium, right? Is it something else? Is it lead?

It's something, right? Radium, they put it in your neck and then they pump you or something. They shake you and they're able to watch how it goes through your blood and they can find blood clots or something, which, you know, I guess it's not poisonous. I mean, it's radioactive, right? This is my point. This is my point. It's a, you know, I think you know,

that LinkedIn would be a good place to go to network, you know, about this. But I guess people are just doing it on X.com, you know, they go, hey, Grock, turn this, turn this fucking Lego person into, you know, I see a lot of this stuff where it's like, make this person wear this. And it's like, it's like, you know,

this raunchy outfit. It's like, make this Lego person. And it's like, I don't, it's like, I don't, it's just, and it, and, Then you'll see a person go like, hey, by the way, I'm also looking for some work as a medical physicist. That means that where we're going with this? I guess LinkedIn is going to be around.

It just seems like it should drive. It should be, you know, it's hard working. It's hard, like, it's hard having to, like, keep track of everything you do in this workplace going forward. You know, it used to be, like you said, like, you just kind of, like, get through life and, like, you know, you move to a different. city. You piss people off. And I'm not saying I pissed everyone off my life. I'm just saying,

but I'm not the most. I can be very diplomatic, but I know what it's like to get on the, or you get a manager. Like, you know, that's the thing. These managers sometimes think

they're like fucking hot shit. And then you don't want to take shit from them. So you kind of play that game where you kind of get in their, you get in their bad side a little bit, but you fucking, you know how to not get fired, whatever.

You have to be a teacher's pet now to do anything in life. That's the thing. We're really embracing a rat culture. And I guess because we're all on camera anyway. It just, you know, we're all just streaming on each other and like, you know, just trying to piss each other and roast each other and troll each other. So with the idea of ratting on someone, I guess,

there is no more covered the streets. You know, there's this, what's this guy's name? the influencer, the Chud the builder. This guy said, you know, this whole sad situation. He's detained in Tennessee. This is a guy who would go around on streams, shouting racial slurs at people. And from what I've seen, you know,

and they kind of go, hey, like, you know, you're going to do, basically like he's kind of holding his, oh, he's got a gun, and he'd be like, come at me or something. I mean, look, don't, the details are, I don't, I don't much a ton of it. but you know that's the idea of it and then uh well just read the detail i mean but you could see how that's interesting to people right like that's odd you know if you told me if you told me 10 years

ago like oh there's like a guy online he's like he's roaming around the streets with a camera like you know screaming sorts of people with a gun you go well you know i go oh ben afflick has a stream that's interesting you know but it's not it's just some guy you know it's a real opportunity in some ways an opportunity for people to come up because it's of course that's going to be something that me it repulsed a lot of people but fascinates other people we're just having a big experiment I guess in America

an influencer has been detained Tennessee follows an alleged involvement in the shooting according to local police on Wednesday afternoon Dalton eitherly knows Chud the builder I don't know if he's a if he's a builder guy if he's a contractor or some sort I've never seen

it would be interesting if he was like also So a guy who, like, built, like, you know, cabins or whatever. He built a lot of cabins, but also did this. That would, you know, it's possible. People have, people contain multitudes. That's what I've learned in life. But I have never seen him do that. But he's known as Chud the Builder, was involved in the confrontation with another man

outside of the Montgomery County Courthouse in Tennessee. Shots were fired. Both individuals sustained gunshot wounds during the incident. So basically, look, the facts are. the case, I mean, he's arraigned easily a built an online following through live streams in which he deliberately uses racial slurs or rage bait.

I mean, a lot of it's based on self-defense, but you know, there's all sorts of things, you know, it's actually kind of fascinating when you get into the details. Can you, you know, can you claim self-defense if you initiate, you know, if you provoke it, but then if you disengage from it, it's all,

this is why juries exist and judges exist because there's a lot of facts and a lot of things. spat off about like what's definitely it's definitely that and it's like I don't know what you think the justice system is it's not consistent and it's not fair like there's facts every case the jury you know the jury could be a crapshoot

the judge could be a crapshoot and like I don't know if anything works it's like regardless of what you want to be I'm not not I'm not not not take I don't think this guy's doing you know I don't approve what this guy's doing but it's regarding you know whatever I mean this is I don't prove a lot of things uh

I think people you know you know I would like to watch a stream where someone builds a lot cabin. That would be nice. I probably could. I talk a lot of shit. Like, oh, I'd love to watch.

Why don't you build lock cabins, Chud? And I'll watch that. But I wouldn't watch it. That's the thing. I might not watch. I'm not saying I watch him or pay, I'm not paying for anything.

But, you know, oh, why don't, you know, people love to talk. People love to tell you what, what you should be doing online as an influencer, as someone making, you know,

They love to go, why you should be doing it. And they're going to come. They don't come. You got to go with the money. And the money shouldn't be there, right? You would think. It's just not a nice thing. I don't understand the point of it.

But, you know, people are, they're not really seeing a horizon. I think young people are kind of intuitive about that. They kind of are realizing, you know, it's the doom scrolls. the doom poised, whatever I'm doing here. You know, the Nays saying may be a little, you know, hyperbolic sometimes. But it's just, you know, it's, you know, I don't mean to get anyone down.

I mean, I think we're all having fun with it and observing, you know, but also it is really, you know, odd. And I'm a human being involved in the chaos. Try to make sense of it. And, you know, we're doing it together. But these young people, but, you know, they don't need my help to be,

to be doom scrolls, my point. They don't mean anyone's help. The facts of, you know, they're the ones applying for jobs. They're the ones, you know, not getting, you know, not, they're seeing what's available to them. And a lot of them are choosing to, you know, look, it's nice if you can make a living at this, you know. Not, you know, again, not this per se, but, you know, if you can be like a Jake Paul. If you could be a, even a clavicular, right? This clavicular guy, I mean, people get very mad at him because he hammers his face open.

And he, you know, what else? apparently he does drugs on stream, they say. So I think, you know, I don't know. Is he overdose on a stream? You know, why are kids watching? He seems to have a young lot. You know, he yelled. I saw him yell at a, some woman tried to like plug her only fans.

And he called her a, he said, well, you're a pedophile because you're freaking like, you know, I have a young people who watch. But then, yeah, but you're like, oh, Dian. I mean, but that's the thing. There's such a disconnect of, uh, it's just, it's all an outrage and, uh, there's, There needs to be maybe like, like a religion, like the religions maybe need to do RRL. I mean,

I don't mean like the church per se, but like, you know, maybe like missionaries or just kind of, maybe there should be some kind of negative streams, but they don't make any money. Maybe we need to bring the boxing back. Everyone got mad by Jake Paul,

but you know, you box these things out. You put some gloves on. That's probably the best we're going to get. get. You know, otherwise we're literally, we don't need a, we're, that's like America. We don't need a coliseum, right? We don't need, uh, to cut people a little bit in a dirt pit. The whole countries are dirt pit, right? The whole country, we're just, you know, we're just what we're literally what, I mean, that is the thing. We're watching people shoot each other, uh, on camera,

closer up than you most you know you're in the cheap seats back in Rome like you know you get the idea it's like it's like going to see the Rolling Stones at like you know giant stadium like what do you really seeing and do you want in much the same way do you really want to get closer anyway and see Mc Jaggers I mean look he's still a look he mocks me sure but I mean he's very old you guys is so old I don't know how they live uh in the same way you know you wouldn't necessarily want to get that close to a guy getting you know, stabbed or eaten by a tiger. But now we get close.

Now we see it all. It's very, uh, everything, everything that's bad that happened. Oh, how is that? I mean, it's not sure what happened. Um,

maybe we should just fight animals, though. Like, why, if we're doing that anyway, why don't, why are we not allowed to have people, I don't mean, bull fighting. I mean,

people fighting tigers with, with a, with a sword. Is a sword okay? I hate people who like, fucking, Bull fighting just seems unfair. I guess there is no good way to, like, you know, make it fair.

Maybe you give a guy claws. If you give a guy actual claw hands, like Wolverine or something, but just, you know, gloves and he fights a tiger, that would feel fair at least. That would feel like it's just kind of, you know, how tech giants, speaking of Coliseums, how tech giants turned Ukraine into an AI war list. This is a whole big thing.

Apparently, this whole AI war footing, it kind of, I mean, I guess there's certain people who like keep up with, I didn't realize throughout this decade that was supposed to be like, you know, reading military journals to keep up on like, you know, which drone, the companies, you know, are these the same companies that made drones that you would buy a Best Buy like 15 years ago? You know, is DJI making like, you know, attack helicopters now? I wonder. I knew a guy, you know, I used to work for.

I used to have a photography for his company. He was a DJ and his son was really into drones. And he would have, you know, he was actually, like, people would pay him apparently to, like, be a drone pilot back then. This is like back in like 2010 or something or before that even. And I wonder if like that's, if that is, if he could be, you know, like, he's the new top gun maverick, right? If he's, you know, if he's like, if he is like, I wonder,

wonder if that guy's son has dropped bombs on people. I guess you could think that of anything. I mean, he's joined the Air Force. So it's not that crazy. Anyone, that's the thing about, you know, America or the world. Is that anyone you know, you know, oh, that's crazy. They can just join the army and, like, end up killing people. And it's just very odd to think about.

But we allow that because what else are you going to do? You need to have wars. You got to shake things up, I guess. early on the morning of June 1st, 2022, Alex Carp, the CEO of the Data Islander from Palantir, across the border between Poland and Ukraine on foot with five colleagues in tow. I don't know if it's, like, you know, flowery.

Ukrainians weren't sure what to think of the man making grandiose promises across the ornate wooden table, but they were familiar with the company's reputation. United States is the Lord of the Rings, named after the mystical searing stones in the Lord of the Rings, Palantir sells the same aura of omniscience, see them part by an investment from the CIA's venture capital arm. Basically the CIA is the point.

These are... You think these things are gonna be, you know, it can be hard to see from afar by old accounts the war in Ukraine settled into a stalemate with both sides hammering away with 20th century weapons like artillery and tanks. Some view the claims of high-tech battle breakthroughs with skepticism. I don't know, I thought it's had more stuff in it.

well whatever the point is these things are never you know articles are never good I we really should get you know just tell me which models to buy if I want to start my own separate army is my point if AI is gonna this is my point bringing it up I don't you know like oh I'm gonna read you a time art magazine I mean it's supposed to be but yeah I don't you put things in the everything everyone thinks they're reading their Hemingway

you're telling me about a fucking toy robot that shoots people in the head you're not Hemingway all right relax this is not this is not you know the the grapes of wrath you're talking about a beeper that blows up in someone's hand just enough with the pros Jesus but yeah so I mean it's just kind of you know at what point how much do you have to I guess that's the thing I'm talking about you know it's an extension of hustle culture if you know if you're one of these influencers if you become you know like a guy like Jake Paul at what point do you get to the

point where you can kind of start your own separate. And we have to be careful talking about this, I guess, because I don't want this to be, you know, deposition. But I guess the odds of me who doesn't really know anything. I love the idea of, like, me being, like, the only person who was holding the bag. But after some, like, you know,

some weird, you know, like, Falklands war situation happens. Within some influence or, like, I get roped in with, like, clavicular. And, like, as just, like, as a patsy. Somehow I'm in charge of his, like, separatist army. His Mag army, whatever you call it. I mean, he's backed by Peter Thiel.

Am I correct than that? That guy loves to get, you know, it's the thing. I was never good at networking. You have to be so good at networking to, like, live in this century. You know, whether you're on LinkedIn or whether you're on, you know, your bank rolling clavicular, you know, you have to kind of have your tentacles out there. And, like, you know, a lot of colds in the fire. I never wanted, I didn't even want to, like,

there was something called The Knott, like, you know, there was like a wedding, wedding website and like, you know, when I was getting, when I was doing wedding photography, you know, I studied the Gary Fong system. It was like, people, like, you should go on, you should put yourself on the knot.com and like, you're like, tie the knot, I guess, the knot.

And, you know, and then you go to wedding shows, like, I'm not going to do that. No, you're like, I mean, I didn't want to make money, I guess. I should have been showing up, very sweaty, to like wedding. I don't know what that looks like a wedding. It's in the middle of like a Javitt Center. Is it in the middle of a big conference center?

And like, you know, you have your boot. Imagine me like with a bunch of, with just some wedding albums. I'm all sweaty and my shirt's on top. And people just walking past my boot. I'm cheap. I'm inexpensive. You know,

just blurting things out. I'm not that pricey. Trying to get attention. You know, these guys, I've seen these guys. work wedding photographers they usually um they dress well and and they're a lot of us fat usually it's like you know they they like to i knew and they do the whole

the flowing thing i'm like oh and like the bride by her hand and go come with me and then the pose or you know it's all very um i was just much more kind of like you know kind of i mean it would be the work would be good but it was sweaty work and i mean it's just you're you're very stressed out the whole day. You're moving, and you're moving around a lot. And, you know,

I'd be on, I would just, you know, be running down on a beach trying to get, you know, and jump in the air, like saying,

like crazy things. And, uh, I never wanted to put my, you know, put myself out there like that. And that's what amongst other reasons why I can't be in charge of Palantir.

Cause I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, you know, but yeah, maybe you, that's,

that's, that's what these things are. We used to, I don't think that, like, You know, Nelson Rockefeller was a guy like that. I think he was just really good at getting oil. You know, and some was probably a better businessman, per se.

But he was just like, he was more like the guy, you know, the Dale and Day Lewis in the movie. And he's like, ah, I get the oil. And I'm doing better than you. I dig. And, you know, it's like, I pump it. Well, I, you know, do you think he, he has to like, you know, get influencers to, like, do streams where they cut,

I mean, what is the connection between? I guess it's those futurism stuff right they want they want you to live forever they want people to be comfortable with these augmentations I guess right that's the idea I'm not accusing I mean you know clavicular might you know come at me and go hey fat idiot and I wouldn't take shit from him I'm right and then they're gonna give me well I care and I end up like just a fucking stream of like clavicular are there a term for those people the the looks maxers they they start of indebted against me I mean you know That's my point.

You know, I was like he's a little nasty to me and I start going, what you mean? And I immediately be, it's a problem. I'm always getting into trouble with this, you know, with people like clavicular. But yeah, I mean, they want you to be the look, that's the thing. They're kind of drawing a new map. You know, I'm happily married. But you know, that's a, you know, whatever you're saying like about I'm out. on dating sites, haven't been for a long time.

I've used them in the past. You talk to people, it's like they sound like they're getting nightmares actually bad. You know, people call people in cells. I'm like, no, yeah, there are people. It's not, the discourse isn't always pretty. But there is a problem of loneliness of people like, we're getting crossed wires.

And I think some of that, you know, it's possible some of that's manipulated someone. Because they want people to feel desperate because, look, a lot of us will be cold, or will be put into like giant buildings, which we discussed before in other platforms. Building two or traffic at which one I'd be in. But the point is,

the people who will make it. You know, maybe it'll be a genetic lottery. You know, because clavicular, I guess he was supposed to not be great. I see the pictures of him. He wasn't great looking. And he looks better now. And people give him shit for it. But he seems to me, yeah,

it's probably a middle ground here. but they want to encourage people to kind of, you know, they want to pressure people, you know, light a fire under their ass. No, no, like get this new, also the rich people don't want to be guinea pigs, right? Rich people want to have, you know, some guy in Miami go, hey, why don't you put the battery in your ass

and see how that works? And then maybe then we'll try, you know, you, it'll be like a, like a, what those batteries that Musk has, the Tesla batteries they put in the wall. the home battery or whatever, the Tesla battery, they can power your whole house. Seems interesting.

They'll have that inside your ass, and it'll power like a pump for your, you know, not because you have a heart attack, but, you know, maybe it'll be, it'll pump your blood better. You know, there'll be a little port. And I think these do, you know, you can have a colostomy bag, right?

You have a port sometimes that pushes your shit out because that's to bypass the intestines. And so you just have a point. And these might exist already, some version of this, a port that goes in. If you can put shit out, you can put shit in.

And so you put, you know, all sorts of nice things. Maybe you start taking kale, but you start putting it in, you know, in the middle of your body. I don't know what these people are doing.

You, it's like cyberpunk. You reinforce your spine with titanium. You get fingernails that also have a poison in them. whether you or you know maybe maybe they're uh maybe you can cook with your fingers i don't know again i don't have a big imagination for like augments in the body um hair plugs that'd be nice right uh a bit you you can change your beard color all of this shit that events you were going to have right

that eventually they're not going to you know some some billionaires not going to want to have his kids trying it you get these looks maxers um you have them kind of get into a into a creative your economy. And you let the kind of the ball go. I don't think they want to have a complete lockdown on it. I think they want to keep it more like a light hand, light touch, because you know, you have a lot of liability there. But the point is, you know, you could have a,

we're going in a place where like, you know, you're going to have to eventually you'll need that, right? you'll need to have to compete at all, you'll need to have enhancements. You'll need brain enhancements. You'll need spine enhancements. Even if your labor work, I mean, you know, maybe, you know, look,

I do think, even if I'm a Luddite, even if you say Raycom, you're an idiot, you didn't make money in a crypto, you didn't make money on AI. I go, it's true. It's true on both accounts. Help me. No, but, you know, but, you know,

it might be true. but I do think even if it all those take off the idea of just robots maybe like you know you might it might be good to have a person with a brain and then you give them all the spider body you give them the raccoon body whatever it is different animal types

you give them skateboard feet you give them airplane hands so you can fly around and eventually it'll first be a gimmick and then it'll be a thing it'll be a labor market based on that it'll be a commodity market based on that right am i right i think it is and so you'll need to like have these kind of guys

out there these desperadoes um i'm not sure how like you know i got like chud fits into this um but you know people look it's it's all it's part of the open marketplace of this case you know it people need to be put to work i mean the whole only fan yeah it is what it is right like i mean I mean, you can get moralizing about it. I don't care. Like, I mean, I'm not telling you you have to be Catholic about it. I'm just, but I'm saying it's like, you know,

they've kind of locked down a lot of opportunities there. And I'm sure people kind of, and then people who want maybe be a person and engage in whatever. I don't know if people are friendly. I'm sure it is happening, right? I'm sure people are getting very lucrative opportunities off those sites.

They're kind of moving us into these kind of like, you know, platforms. It's not me, per se. I mean, maybe, maybe I'll be approached at some point

by some company with some mercenary company to be like they're, the guy on the dispatch. You know, you'd be good of kind of riling people up, maybe.

As they go, you know, you have to kind of, you know, you need to tighten your shit. Be a little bit as chaotic, but, you know,

maybe a hype guy for, like, mercenaries. And it paid me a lot of money. Then when I take that money, You know, it doesn't seem like ethical, right? It seems like, oh, where are you going to, you know, who are you going to be attacking? And I'm like, well, whoever the fuck pays us, idiot.

Or our mercenaries. I'm like, right. I mean, if someone wants you to like, you know, invade some country and like, enslaved people, you wouldn't do that. No, of course, we were mercenaries. Now, no offense to murder. I mean, maybe that's not what they do. And, you know, maybe there are levels to this shit.

But, you know, I don't like to, you know, I'm sure the people hiring me not going to be like you know like the black water is probably not hiring i'm getting the guys who are like no no no the people who get like the government contracts you mean who wouldn't do war crimes as oh as much no they're not hiring you we're hiring you because you know we're cheaper and we do anything right you go oh well do i want to do that i mean you like everyone likes that ethics but what if uh well if i have kids and they're fucking drinking poison all day isn't it seems like a bad round it seems like a bad round it seems like a I've already kind of hooked this up.

Like, it's like, you know, so I'm like, I'm at trial. They're going to like, so you took the money to base to facilitate these, these, these, these horrible acts and these from these mercenaries. Yeah, but you got to understand that my kids, you know, they were drinking poison. Like, what do you mean they're drinking poison? The water's not great. And I've heard things about the water. The water's fine, Mr. Kump.

We're not, you know, what do you mean the war? You live in Flint, Michigan? No. It's like, yeah, I mean, it's just whatever. Point is, no, you're going to have a harder time not getting involved with some shady people, is my point. Because the whole thing is kind of good. That's the only thing that's existing going forward is going to be these weird pockets. And I guess some people will still like, you know, work at Target because people still want to go to target.

But the money's not great, right? None of these things are great. So it's like, you know, but they're going to get rid of like the good jobs, the pay good. You can, you can even, if you want to have morals, you can work at Target and you can work at,

you know, or any kind of job like that. Um, and they're going to pay you in it. And they keep inflating the currency and not raising the fucking wage. They want to fucking funnel you into these higher paying things, but there's, you got to get blood in the,

in the game. Right? It's, it's a little, uh, what's the word? It's troubling. It could be a little troubling.

I mean, what would I enhance myself with, first of all? Comment, by, you know, talk about what you, you know, would you get the, would you get the spring feet? I think I'd like to jump high. Not for basketball. But, you know, just to be able, like,

you know, kind of, if you were in New York, you want to jump over, like, not a whole, like, skyscraper. But, like, a smaller, you know, if you want to jump up to, like, you know, it'd be kind of cool if you could jump up to, uh, like the second floor or if you're in a combat situation i guess you could jump up and shoot down

that'd be kind of cool too like you know that's the thing of war like these drones we're using that's what yeah i mean certain countries are just that that's the whole point of ukraine thing is like it's just you know it's just dave decided that ukraine um is going to be you know it didn't make a ton of sense you know like you know the whole ukraine war thing like yeah russia shouldn't invade sure we were fucking around but what's the point of all this is my lot all people died seems kind of like you know everyone's kind of pushed this oh they wanted to cook it they wanted to they everything you need to have these fucking you know places these hotbeds to try to shit out that's what they're they just try everyone's trying we're living in the age of

trying shit out um it's a it's a it's a rent it's a rental your life is a rental your life is a rental and you know you're basically you're on borrowed time not like you're gonna die I'm saying but yeah but you just kind of you this might transition into a really interesting maybe we will have a cool

Star Trek future but we need to kind of you know no one's gonna here's the problem best case scenario still no one would approve like well you know I'm pro union and I'm pro you know whatever high wages for people

and all this shit and you know you want people have what they need. But realistically, if they're going to rebuild America, for instance, there's some tech utopia, it's just going to be a nightmare with the regulations and all this shit. They need to kind of make chaos. They can buy it on the cheap. It's like a robocop. You know, OCP need to buy Detroit on the cheap. They didn't go into like New York City. It was too expensive. Even in the 80s one was like, you know, very violent. It was still way too expensive. They needed to have, you know, uh, so is that's just what we're dealing with here. It's just, it's a lot, it's a kind of a limbo.

We're living in a limbo. And I think it's a positive thing. Because I, after the tone I've been kind of feeling lately, it's like, this is all leading to like, the end of the world. I know I'm a rational man. But, you know, I feel like now, you know, maybe we're just kind of an in-between time where, you know, it's just like, and you have to kind of get out there, you put yourself out there into these pockets of people.

You support your, you know, and maybe I, maybe I'm understanding myself. Maybe I am a leader of men. and maybe you guys can be part of my crew and I don't know what we do we can decide that right you go maybe I'm like a digital mayor maybe that's the thing maybe maybe it's where influencers are eventually

they're digital it's digital fiefdoms and then you know and eventually people support you but then you have to like you know it's like the same way you support you your labor support the local lord be here to protect you and make sure you have food kind of and it wasn't the best deal but you know it's kind of a so you know

It's a symbiote. A symbiote. Yeah, I'm not Jake Paul. But yeah, maybe I'm a local, like, I'm mayor of a digital small town. And we're gonna, you know, some company will come to me and go, I want you to convince your people to have these,

we're doing this thing where we put, like a, you know, this trackball on the mouse. We're putting that in the arch of the foot. I'm like, this seems dumb. This seems really dumb. Yeah, but, yeah, look. It's a big space. When you're a fucking tech company, I imagine, like, there's a, this hierarchy of, like,

and they go, you wish you had a better idea. But, you know, you're also, like, you know that you can get some investment and investors. Like, there's a bunch of people with money. And, like, sometimes you're a situation where there's, like, the good stuff's already invested in. And you go, what do you got? I got mouse feet, you know, so you click. People can, you know, so you can get the track balls in your foot. and like, it's not great, but I mean, I can see that maybe you're selling a little bit.

And, you know, and, you know, they'll come to a person like me. Because, you know, because they don't have a ton of money. And I don't, and I mean, that's the thing. The money funnels down to different pockets. And I get paid off by the stupid, stupid mouse foot company. The problem is, you know, what's going to happen is, like, someone like me gets left holding the bag. Because my reputation's on the line.

And I've sold the people. I, you know, your reputation, I've sold the people. I'm not just saying when people promote, you know, different companies. I promoted the mouse foot thing. And it gave people, you know, I mean, of all the things that's happening right now, the mouse foot gives you cancer. Yeah, like, you know, we use cheap plastic, microplastics in the ball.

And the ball would break and there's going to your blood. I'm always holding the bag at the point. That's just the way it's going to be. But, you know, we're all getting by. Thanks so much for tuning in. And thank you for being part of this. this local town, this digital fiefdom, you know, population you. And don't forget, if you want more comp,

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