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Ross: Los Angeles School Superintendent Abolished High School Math
“Milken Institute sent me an interview they had done with the head of the school system in Los Angeles, and the reason they did an interview with them is he had abolished, prohibited the teaching of mathematics in high school.”
Lonsdale: Majority of Young Adults Dislike Jews for Their Success
“And now in 19 to 25 year olds, majority of them don't like Jews because we're successful.”
Verdon: Centralized bioweapon defense research accidentally created a damaging virus
“There was centralized research on Bio, you know, bioweapon defense. Right. And we were worried about a potential virus that could do a lot of damage. And then it was actually accidentally created through that research.”
Lonsdale: Russia funded European green parties to halt fracking and eliminate competition
“They funded the green parties, they funded the protests, and they turned off fracking in Europe because it's so good for the environment. They tricked everyone because obviously they don't want competition.”
Sandler: Milken pleaded to offenses never criminally prosecuted before or since
“None of which, and this is why I go in great detail in the book so people understand how in many ways ridiculous it is, none of which had ever been the subject of a criminal prosecution before or since.”
Loeffler: Biden Administration Tried to Forgive $200B in Pandemic Loans
“The Biden administration tried to forgive those loans, sweep it under the rug to the tune of about two hundred billion dollars.”
Liemandt: Paying students directly is the most effective educational incentive
“Yeah. No, paying the kids is by far the most effective way to do it. And you can get, you know, big effect size on, on doing this. It really works.”
Lonsdale claims Biden's HUD forced facilities to allow drug use
“For a while, HUD, the national government was actually coming in under the Biden administration, and it was forcing people to allow people to use drugs in their treatment areas”
Hilton: I was the first TV host to link COVID to Fauci
“I was the first on TV to lay out all the evidence showing that it was Fauci's experiments that were the origin of the pandemic.”
Cotton: TikTok algorithms suppress content on Hong Kong, Tibet, and Tiananmen Square
“And of course, why you can't see anything on TikTok related to say Hong Kong or Tibet or to Tiananmen Square or the Falun Gong. This is a tool of Chinese communist propaganda.”
Bookman: 1% of Oracle public sector clients sue and over half dissatisfied
“Some of the stats, Oracle, apparently, one percent of its public sector customers end up in lawsuits. And more than half end up, quote, fully dissatisfied.”
Johnston: Cuba has better average health outcomes than the US
“Even Cuba has better health outcomes than we do.”
Levie: Scaling to $100M Revenue in Two Years Is Unprecedented in Software
“Obviously you have companies going from zero to a hundred million or five hundred million in revenue in, you know, one to two years. Like this has never happened before in software. Or kind of technology broadly.”
Kolicich: AI Capital Expenditures Currently Represent Only 3% to 4% of GDP
“Now in AI we're investing, like, three percent or four percent. It's like, it's not even yet on the scale of the industrial revolution.”
Stitt claims there is no evidence needle exchanges curb drug use
“We don't see any evidence that that's gonna curb drug use by, you know, giving them more, more needles.”
Lonsdale claims over 48 district attorneys funded the Wren Collective
“More than 48 DAs were caught specifically funding the Wren collective around this.”
Schmitt: 18 to 24 Year Olds Vote Republican More Than Past Generations
“And I also think you'd look at younger voters right now, especially, you know, 18 to 24 year olds who live through these dark, crazy times. They're, I mean, they're the most conservative, or they vote Republican more than any generation previous to them, becau…”
Lonsdale: Venezuela is manufacturing weapons for United States adversaries
“It's producing with manufacturing plants, weapons for our adversaries.”
Machado: DEA Estimates 24% of Global Cocaine Passes Through Venezuela
“Well, the DEA estimates that 24% of cocaine that it's a deal worldwide goes through Venezuela.”
Machado: Chavez Seized 22M Acres Totaling 30% of Venezuela's Productive Land
“He took over twenty two million acres of productive land, over 30% of the total amount of productive land in Venezuela, and he destroyed everything.”
Hilton: California government unions spend $1 billion annually on political contributions
“The government unions, by the way, it's a billion dollars a year. So one billion dollars a year. To politics. Just from the unions.”
Hilton: California Failed to Apply for Trump-Era Federal Mental Health Waiver
“The first Trump administration created a waiver from the IMD rule that states could apply for. Guess what? California hasn't applied for the rule.”
Hilton: Over 1 million approved California housing units are blocked by lawsuits
“You've got over a million housing units in California that have been approved by local government, gone through zoning, compliant with CEQA and all the other environmental rules, blocked by lawsuits.”
Hilton: 70% of CEQA Lawsuits Are Filed to Block Housing
“70% of lawsuits under CEQA are used to block housing.”
Frerichs: Bud Light Backlash Erased $40 Billion in Market Cap
“The company lost millions of customers, billions of dollars of shareholder value, and forty billion dollars have been erased since this happened. Thousands of people have lost their jobs. They work with tons of independent distributors, family owned distributo…”
Ross: Trump Taj Mahal's $800M Mortgage Bond Never Paid a Single Coupon
“Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns underwrote an eight hundred million dollar mortgage bond for a company that was a startup. Trump had a couple million dollars in it, and that was about it. Well, it never paid one coupon. As you know, the coupons were every six m…”
Ross: University Survey Found Plurality of Youth Believed US Invented Slavery
“There's a university, I think it's University of Wisconsin, surveys people, 18 to 25 each year, with a bunch of macro questions. And the two most interesting ones on the last survey I saw, the first one was, where was slavery invented? You know what the most p…”
Perry: Most Surprise Medical Bills Stem From Provider Submission Errors
“In most of those cases, the provider submitted the claim wrong.”
Gee: Pharma hired three lobbyists per legislator during her Louisiana tenure
“In Louisiana, when I, my first year as secretary, when I started to take on this issue, There were three lobbyists hired for every legislator in my state. Pharma.”
Attia: Centenarians on average exercise less, smoke more, and eat worse
“If you look at, you know, Tom Pearls and Nir Barzilai, who probably run the two largest cohorts of studying centenarians and their offspring. I mean, on average, centenarians exercise less, smoke more, eat worse.”
Israel's Unit 8200 encourages departing soldiers to commercialize non-classified military tech
“If you're at 8200, of course, which is the most famous of the Israeli military units in tech and in cyber, although there are many when you leave the military, believe it or not, you're actually encouraged to take that technology with you. Now, I don't mean if…”
Lonsdale: Over 40% of Coke is bought through welfare benefits
“Right now our government actually gives like money for people to buy like soda, soda drinks, like over 40% of Coke is bought apparently through welfare benefits and stuff.”
Jaswa: 95% of California private schools opened while public schools remained closed
“From August on something like 95% of private schools were open, while in California, basically no public schools were open.”
Gopalan: Software engineers now do more code review than code generation
“More software engineers are doing code review than they're doing the generation of code.”
Nolan: Uranium enrichment is the only nuclear step the US lacks domestically
“The reason we're doing enrichment is because that's the one step the US doesn't do at any scale.”
Isaacman: 100% of space travelers feel sick or 'different' in orbit
“A hundred percent of people feel different in space. You're either on the spectrum of like, well, five days was not great. It was like one of the worst hangovers of my life, or you're throwing up and it's not great for a while.”
Lonsdale: Top 100 AI Startups Grow 3.6x Faster Than Legacy SaaS
“If you take the top hundred SaaS companies, And the top hundred of these new AI companies, and you look at the median, ah, the median rate of growth, I guess, I saw the Stripe report was like, 3.6 times faster as of a few months ago.”
Lonsdale: US spends $40B annually on incompetent training programs
“We have forty billion dollars a year of training programs, and they're just completely incompetent.”
Ridley: Global Forest Cover Is Increasing Every Year
“We're reforesting the globe. There is more forest cover every year now.”
Lonsdale: New York State Bans Classroom AI Tools
“For example, New York State right now currently bans any use of AI and these things, so your apps actually are not allowed there as far as I understand.”
Stitt claims 45% of Tulsa's homeless population originated out of state
“The other thing, Joe, that I think is interesting, from our surveys, around 45% of the homeless in Tulsa were from out of state.”
Levi: The Average Age Boys Discover Pornography Is Eight
“The average age of young boys finding, discovering, and using pornography is eight years old.”
Lonsdale: Roland Fryer's research showed paying students for good grades worked best
“So one of his studies he did a long time ago was, he comes from the inner city himself as a black man, and he went to these Kids who were underperforming, and he tried to test what interventions would work, and it turned out, after trying lots of things, actua…”
Lonsdale: US debt is $150 trillion higher factoring in healthcare promises
“We, I think people are talking about our 36 trillion dollar debt. It's actually a 150 trillion more if you include our healthcare promises, much bigger problem.”
Thiel: NRC Has Not Approved a New Reactor Design in 50+ Years
“The Nuclear Regulatory Commission basically hasn't approved a new reactor design in, in 50 plus years.”
Lonsdale: Trump's second term saw more injunctions than entire Biden presidency
“I think we've just seen more injunctions In the first few months of Trump's second term than the entire Biden presidency.”
Lonsdale: European regulators are banning OpenAI
“Such as the Europeans who are banning OpenAI, by the way, which is very funny for the latest launch.”
Blank: Stanford was the only Cold War university encouraging commercial spinouts
“Because all research universities in the United States during the Cold War worked on military weapons systems, but it was only Stanford where back by then the term was the provost Who pointed the university outwards. All other universities were focused inwards…”