Trump’s Challenges, Tech Revolutions, and Global Tensions

This pod­cast, dat­ed March 20, 2025, explores Don­ald Trump’s efforts to exert con­trol amidst resis­tance from the deep state, par­tic­u­lar­ly the CIA, ques­tion­ing his abil­i­ty to fol­low through on promis­es. It briefly shifts to col­lege bas­ket­ball com­men­tary before dis­cussing BYD’s elec­tric vehi­cle charg­ing sta­tions, which could recharge as fast as fill­ing a gas tank, poten­tial­ly rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing EV use for longer trips. The con­ver­sa­tion turns to AI’s unstop­pable rapid evo­lu­tion and fast food chains adopt­ing automa­tion to counter ris­ing min­i­mum wages, reduc­ing entry-lev­el jobs. It cov­ers Trump’s recent call with Putin, spec­u­lat­ing on Ukraine nego­ti­a­tions and efforts to nor­mal­ize U.S.-Russia rela­tions, con­trast­ed by France’s alarm­ing inva­sion guide amid war fears. Con­cerns arise over a poten­tial war with Iran, fueled by Houthi attacks on ship­ping lanes and U.S. arms exports, crit­i­cized as job cre­ation through con­flict. Rus­sia and Ukraine’s pris­on­er exchange is not­ed, along­side the Fed­er­al Reserve’s deci­sion to hold rates steady amid eco­nom­ic uncer­tain­ty, with calls to audit and dis­man­tle it. The pod­cast ends with the IRS whistle­blow­ers receiv­ing rais­es and join­ing the Treasury’s inves­ti­ga­tion divi­sion under Scott Bessent to probe alleged mis­con­duct.

• In areas that Trump has con­trol, he is doing every­thing that he can. The CIA is tough. It is unknown that Trump can do cer­tain things and fol­low through because of the deep state.
• Col­lege bas­ket­ball com­men­tary. 
• BYD EV charg­ing sta­tions in the same time it takes to fill up with gas. This could be a game chang­er. Long trips would not be done with an EV, but what if you are able to recharge in the time to full up with a tank of gas. 
• We start­ed talk­ing about AI and how things are chang­ing so rapid­ly that it won’t be able to be stopped. 
• How many times did you go to fast food dur­ing COVID and you were asked to be patient because of lack of work­ers. Remem­ber when you couldn’t go into din­ing rooms because of COVID. And they will not pay some­one $20 an hour to hand you fries. They have final­ly fig­ured out a way to solve the prob­lem. Fast food chains have fig­ured out how to dodge ris­ing min­i­mum wages and its bad news for work­ers. Mul­ti­ple fast food chains are set­ting the foun­da­tion to swap out entry lev­el employ­ees for com­put­ers. 
• When Trump talked to Putin two days ago. Did Putin ask Trump if he was the one that was nego­ti­at­ing the uncon­di­tion­al sur­ren­der of Ukraine. Zelen­sky is liv­ing on bor­rowed time. There are teams in the Trump admin­is­tra­tion that are work­ing to make nego­ti­a­tions for the US to go back into Rus­sia and have embassies open back up and nor­mal­ize rela­tion­ships. So why is France ter­ri­fy­ing its cit­i­zens? France issues its cit­i­zens with an inva­sion guide — includ­ing how to sur­vive a nuclear attack after Macron warned Europe must pre­pare for war. 
• There is a con­cern about war with Iran. The Houthis rebels are backed by Iran in Yemen. There are hun­dreds of attacks on car­go ships dis­rupt­ing the ship­ping lanes near Yeman between the red sea and Gulf of Aden. Israel inter­cepts a bal­lis­tic mis­sile fired by the Houthis. War is big busi­ness. The con­cern is the start of a war. The US dom­i­nates glob­al arms exports. We don’t need to be in a posi­tion to cre­ate jobs that result in killing peo­ple. The US largest indus­try is export­ing arms. 
• Rus­sia and Ukraine exchange 175 pris­on­ers of war on each side. 
• The Fed holds rates steady amid unusu­al­ly high uncer­tain­ty. We have our weath­er fore­cast­ers that have strug­gled to get the weath­er right and then we have the finan­cial fore­cast­ers that strug­gle to deter­mine what the econ­o­my will do. No one can make reces­sion pre­dic­tions. They are push­ing the fear of tar­iffs on infla­tion. The Fed­er­al Reserve is not fed­er­al, and we need to get an audit of the books and close it down and take back our mon­ey.  If Jerome Pow­ell indi­cat­ed a reces­sion, it would have been a five alarm fire on all the net­works and on the mar­kets. But it didn’t hap­pen. They propped up Biden’s pho­ny print­ed mon­ey econ­o­my and try­ing to take down the Trump econ­o­my. 
• The two IRS whistle­blow­ers got a raise and they will probe alleged wrong­do­ing in case. Scott Bessent brought the two whistle­blow­ers on board as senior advi­sors at the inves­ti­ga­tion divi­sion at the Depart­ment of Trea­sury.