The Art of Intelligence with Donald & Elon (E290)

Jakes laugh is everything 😂

this aged interestingly

Does anyone feel like some of these episodes have just gotten reactionary with very little substance? As mentioned above, the radiation discussion has legit merits. Trump's right to try program allows people like me (dying from an incurable terminal illness) an easier path to trying experimental treatments. I would have appreciated a little more honest discussion about it instead of "lol dying losers want to die faster" or whatever they thought their jokes were saying.

The Elon high speed transit discourse fired me up - finally writing some of my local reps to push for better transit funding 😤😤

The garage door opener joke is one of the best in QAA history. Julian is so wrong

I remember when The Hodge Twins just talked about sex and they’d always get up in the camera and act they were fucking something/someone. Do they still do this or is it all politics’ bullshit?

nah it's not a lisp, every twitter space sounds like shit because it's a glorified phone call hosted on a dogshit website

Before listening to this episode, I checked out the merch store link! Swooping in to say that while I don't wear baseball hats, I LOVE that embroidered version of the logo. The current logo is beautiful, but something about that "lineless" version makes me want one real bad. If y'all do another round of merch, a mug or something with that version of the logo would be awesome!

Ssufferin' Musskotassh!

Pro garage clicker analogy over here

Garage clicker analogy is surprisingly apt. This is actually that.

Jake go and see the ENT. It has made such a difference to my life. I no longer wake up with a sore thrroat and croaky voice. I had deviated septum and had it sorted along with endoscopic sinus surgery. Of course I do live in Australia and it was free but 100% would pay.

Where can I find the song from the autoQ?

Always impressed with how well crew breaks down current events, but the way Jake explained Trump's behavior in this episode was exceptional. The garage door clicker analogy really helped me conceptualize things. Thanks, Jake! You're brilliant.

Long time Patreon supporter here — may i suggest a song that i wrote called Elon Musk ? 🥰 My band is Style Shop. It’s out everywhere ✨ My fav line “spending a fortune to buy twitter only to flush it down the shitter” 🥹

I just saw Leon’s tunnels last month for the first time, they’re lame

That is 100% the new dentures lisp and/or the ill-fitting dentures lisp.

Now I am picturing a Sid & Marty Kroft style song about “Friends going to the ENT together”!

Team garage door analogy.

Deep cut from An American Tail

This is NOT AI, the garage door clicker analogy was perfect.

I don’t know why I listend to this. I got 2 more podcasts about the interview and I want to clean my ears with a rusty fork whenever I mean Drump or Musk.

I loved the Hodge twins bit. Sorry, Travis!

God can’t get enough of the garage door clicker joke. Rewound the ep twice

I thought Jake’s garage door clicker analogy was the highlight of this episode. It was the greatest analogy possible for this specific situation!

I hear more jowly than lispy

The effects of nuclear radiation are somewhat different in reality than in the popular imagination. For instance, Hiroshima and Nagasaki had very little lingering radiation because the bombs had relatively little “fallout”, or contamination by leftover fuel. By contrast, Chernobyl (like Fukushima) wasn’t a nuclear bomb, but rather an uncontrolled release of nuclear fuel. In both cases, most of the effects of the radiation happened within a very short window of time. Even the lingering radioactive contamination from Chernobyl (like Fukushima) is relatively diffuse: most of the exclusion zone is perfectly safe. The problem with the Chernobyl exclusion zone is the pockets of accumulated radioactive contamination, mostly within buildings, which is difficult or impossible to remove. And radioactive contamination other than within buildings is somewhat unpredictably distributed, hence why the entire zone is considered contaminated by default. With Fukushima, it’s also worth noting that the exclusion zone has been reduced in size over time: most of the evacuated areas were subsequently reopened once the immediate danger was gone. In a way, the issues with nuclear power are not dissimilar from the issues with, say, coal power. The biggest difference is that the damage from coal power is constant and gradual, without catastrophic short-term incidents like nuclear meltdowns. Coal power is worse, but coal power is less scary. As for Hiroshima and Nagasaki: as I recall other bombing raids during the war, such as the firebombing of Tokyo, actually killed more civilians on a per-incident basis. The problem with nuclear weapons isn’t that they necessarily kill more people. The problem with nuclear weapons is that they cheapen the slaughter, in that any single attack takes significantly less effort. So the taboo against nuclear weapons is just the taboo against killing civilians, at least the taboo against killing civilians in a way that appears particularly careless. So the issues with nuclear power and nuclear weapons are different in degree, not different in kind, from the issues with their conventional counterparts. The issue with nuclear power and nuclear weapons, then, is that we don’t trust idiots like Elon Musk and Donald Trump to manage them responsibly.

Screaming over the toxic sludge song oh my god

Kill me please. The worst circle jerk ever aired. Elon as trumps sub provides some schadenfreude satisfaction but that's as deep a delve into that conversation I'm up for. Thanks guys.

The twins bit…so funny. Also anything Jake says is funny and entertaining and you can’t convince me otherwise

I propose Jake do a deep-dive on Elon Musk’s various projects and promises. He seemed to still be under the delusion that hyperloop is still a thing, which worries me. Now that Julian’s taken psychic damage in listening to that “interview” I think it’s time for Jake to take the baton. Jake’s always been quick to still have hope in and enthusiasm for grand sci-fi solutions exactly like what Musk peddles, so it’s time a literal reality check, I think. Can’t have a single host still capable of childlike wonder and hope. But seriously, he and Travis could do a great piece on the modern sci-fi snake oil salesman and how wealth, intelligence and moral righteousness is thought of as correlated in the US despite all evidence to the contrary.

woohoo! Jake Trump! we love to hear it, don't we folks?

I've never felt worse about the future Deep Dish please have mercy on my anxious soul this is bad

"Check out our website, where we have the 'i want to beep elon musk and donald trump' hat and hoodie!"

If Julian and Jake going to specialists together is not the next QAA miniseries, then what are we even doing?

What is that beautiful song in the auto Q?

I was Litterally crying at the twins, couldn't even pretend to be working.

Once again I am writing in to say that I LOVED the Jake garage door analogy. Greatest analogy folks, the rest are AI’d

🎶 Toxic Sluuuuuudge 🎶 Excellent episode boys

Listening to trump and Elon talk wrecks my vibe

Trump's lisp sounded like my mother in law when she doesn't have her dentures in. Mark it. Trump wears dentures. You heard it here first folks lol

The Chernobyl reactor is totally fine now. Kids play there all the time.

Elon is sounding a lot like William F Buckley.

It was a good analogy, Jake!

Guys I really liked the notebooks. Can you make a new little notebook wit the new cover? Thanks

Julian’s write ins are definitely AI, but I love how unhinged he’s getting.

harrit walg 2024

Holy shit, fam. I can't even listen to Trump and Elon talk in the context of making fun of them without my cringe defense mechanisms making me press pause!

I have to opine here that Trumph is rich enough to have his bad teeth entirely replaced with implants the biggest whitest and shiniest of implants … or maybe my psyche cannot deal with the thought of thith man thitting around without hith dentures in … I remember the day I realized I was seeing a fat elderly malevolent guy in a Spanx Full Body Suit for Men … thank god I was with a friend who supported me until I got home and climbed back into bed …

I actually did really enjoy the garage clicker analogy. Those are called “DIP” switches and imagining trump just clicking the wrong clicker at kamala really work.

People sh*t on Julian, but the man puts in the work and has a solid view of reality, which is rare these days. To listen to those two morons, must’ve been taxing. Much respect.

The Elon voice you do is great lol

Jake becoming a fact checker is truly the culmination of his journey through this podcast's lifespan. Cracking episodes chaps.

Laughed many times in this episodes. The hodge twins bit was gooood.

Garage clicker… best analogy of all time. The funniest, most clear most effective analogy

I just did the double-double of the latest Knowledge Fight followed by this episode. So much Trump/Musk. I'm bleeding out of my ears, which do have a lot of bu-lood.

Millions have written in and jake is vindicated! Wveryone thinks about trump as a garage remote! People have been saying!

I spent a lot of time just scrolling Facebook recently, weird AI garbage like crab Jesus and such. Dispersed among the absurd and obvious AI imagery was some that may have been real posts by real people. I began to doubt everything after a while. I remember a post about a pink lake in Australia which I immediately flagged as BS (color is due to algae and is real lake). I’m glad Travis pointed this out. The danger that seems to be emerging is that real images/content will be viewed as fake or with suspicion. AI is going to flood the internet with so much garbage we will can’t trust anything anymore.

Omg Elon bragging about the Las Vegas loop makes me want to redacted. It's the shittiest people mover in the world. A fleet of golf carts would be better.

The song at the end is just.. amazing.

I attended the Harris Walz rally in Philly. The place was packed. Definitely not AI. I suspect robots.

I love it. Must and Trump obviously have no clue what the fuck they're talking about. Musk tries to minimize nuclear war using the logic Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked and now they're fine. Each of those two cities were hit by one fission weapon of between 15 and 21 kilotons. In the aftermath the cities were rebuilt by both the Japanese people and the power of the preeminent, undamaged economy of the US. In a modern nuclear war cities would be hit with multiple nukes, of ten to hundreds of times more power than their WWII ancestors. Example= according to a simulation by Princeton University each major population/economic center in the US would be hit with between 5-10 thermonuclear warheads in the event of war. During the peak of the Cold War London, England would have been hit with up to 30. All military bases would be hit, including the 450 ICBM silos in 5 states. Each of those would be hit with ground bursts, thus producing thousands of tons of fallout which would rain down on people to the east. This level of destruction would also include destruction of military and infrastructure targets (dams, factories, powerplants, civilian airports, harbors, etc), thus obliterating a nation's ability to rebuild, even if that nation's allies in a position to help were undamaged, which is doubtful. Nation's such as Japan, South Korea, the UK, and NATO would be targeted because of US bases and treaty obligations. Musk and Trump's comments on nuclear war are meant for their chickpea brained followers. IMO electing competent people, who understand modern warfare, to public office is job one. Electing morons who fuck up the economy, install partisan judges, or devastate safety nets are recoverable mistakes. You can fix those problems. But there is no comming back from nuclear war. It's game over, good night nurse, so long and thanks for all the fish.

Guys, a CPAP will change your life. Highly recommended. Also the song at the end slaps.

Julian, We salute 🫡 you for saying what we all wanted to scream.🤣🤣 Fuck these people into the sun

Being anti-nuclear is so fucking dumb guys, just because it is Elon doesn't mean he is wrong about radiation poisoning not being a major issue with modern nuclear power. Also, Fukushima is barely worse than background now, and it is widely regarded as a mistake to have an entire city uproot their lives, which lowered life expectancy of residents more than the increased background would have.

I literally lol'd when I heard the garage opener joke. So good work!

Saying something then demanding it be beeped out is coward shit. Say it with your chest boy

Maybe trump didn’t do rallies or leave Florida for a while because he had a tumor removed from his tongue. And the surgery has caused him to lisp. Bake this please boys

Fwiw I hate the guy but Elon is fully correct about Fukushima. Even under the pretty conservative LNT model the exposure results in completely undetectable increases in cancer rates.

Theory is he didn't have his teeth in because it was audio only.

Trump's a dysfunctional garage clicker, 100%

Jake! I got the garage clicker joke 🤙

Donny should do a rally in Fortnite he could probably get a billion attendees

It just shows how QAnon has infected the culture, that a random technical hitch is instantly spun as a malicious deep state action. Occam’s razor is thrown away and everything is blown out of proportion.

ur always so real julian

To me, this older Trump clip sounds like a lesser impersonator vs how I’m used to him sounding now (‘Silence of the Lamb’)

Don't elect him again.

I'm sorry boy

Garage clicker is the superior analogy.

Gleeb