Kennedy says roughly 90% of his personal philosophy comes down to three rules he gave his son: don't hurt people unless you have to defend yourself, don't take other people's things, and leave me alone. The third one, he says, is the most important — government should not run people's lives.
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The conversation takes a warm detour into Louisiana pride. Census data cited in the episode shows 77% of Louisiana residents are born there and never leave — the highest rate in the nation — and Kennedy attributes this to authentic culture: God-fearing, hardworking, fun-loving people who found a place worth staying. Kennedy teases Ted Cruz regularly with the line 'Texas is 5.5 times bigger, but Louisiana is 10.5 times more interesting.' The two swap zoo jokes (Louisiana zoos have recipes under the animal names) and debate the new LSU head football coach Lane Kiffin — a brilliant strategist and recruiter, Kennedy concedes, but someone who loves himself a little too much and is now on the clock after a boatload of guaranteed money. Kennedy defends Nick Saban's departure to Alabama, noting he was offered something like $5 million at a time Louisiana couldn't match. Theo reveals he's attended hot yoga with Kiffin, producing a photo. [1] — Theo Von "Louisiana born-never-left: 77%: According to U.S. Census Bureau data, approximately 77% of Louisiana residents were born in the state and s…" 1:13:27
Over 77% of Louisiana residents are born there and never leave. Kennedy and Theo connect this to the state's authentic culture: God-fearing, hardworking, fun-loving people who found a place worth staying in. As Kennedy puts it, Texas is 5.5 times bigger, but Louisiana is 10.5 times more interesting.
According to U.S. Census Bureau data, approximately 77% of Louisiana residents were born in the state and spend their entire lives there, making it the stickiest state in America.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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