Senator Ted Cruz Joins The Show | Macrodosing - Sept 29, 2026

Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter

The episode features an in-depth interview with Senator Ted Cruz regarding the Senate's passage of the Protect College Sports Act, focusing

Key takeaways

• Senator Ted Cruz argues that federal intervention is necessary to stabilize college sports by setting rules for transfers and preventing a 'super league' of wealthy conferences.
• A theory suggests the renaming of AI to 'Superintelligence' (SI) via executive order may have been intended to inflate the value of .si domain names purchased prior to the announcement.

Main topics

• Protect College Sports Act
• Superintelligence (SI) rebranding

Notable quotes

Congress screwed it up in the first place.

Conclusion

The episode provides a dense mix of legislative analysis and sports-ce

Transcript preview

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Speaker 5 (1:39) So, Senator, I was saying earlier in the show, I just became a full-time Washington Wizard season ticket holder. even though I live in Chicago but grew up in D.C. and got some really nice tickets, like right behind the Wizards bench. Very excited to be using them. I'd like to invite you to a game with me. And also I'd like to invite – I said this earlier. I'll say it to you. If you can get in touch with Eric Schmidt, I would like him to go to a Hawks game with me when the Hawks are in town. Him and I, we can go. Well done. He can wear an Iowa jersey, but I think it'd be fun. So pass that along to him. Open invitation. Speaker 1 (2:15) Eric's a good buddy of mine. I may decline to pass on that invitation. Speaker 5 (2:32) Welcome back to Macro Dosing. It's Thursday. It's October 1st. Hey, Big T, wake up the guy from Green Day. Speaker 3 (2:40) Nice. You Speaker 5 (2:41) nailed that one. Speaker 3 (2:41) Good one. 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Order part of my cheesesteak on pardonmycheesesteak.com. Use code AWL. You get free delivery on part of my cheesesteak. All right, welcome back to Macrodosing. It is Thursday. It is October 1st. We've got a lot going on, and we also have an interview with Senator Ted Cruz, and I'm excited about that. Unfortunately, Arian is on a flight back from Argentina, even though Ted Cruz is his senator from Texas. Speaker 4 (3:55) Got delayed. They Speaker 5 (3:55) share a hometown. Arian's flight got delayed and now he won't be back in time for the interview. But that's fine. We press on. I will get some questions from Arian that I will ask Senator Cruz. But again, this is our longstanding policy of if you serve in Congress, we will have you on the show. Speaker 3 (4:14) I think we said Senate, it's 100%. Reps, it's not guaranteed, but very likely. Speaker 5 (4:20) Very likely. Yeah, very likely. So, yeah, Senator, we will say yes to every time. Or, I guess, the son of a president. Speaker 3 (4:26) Yeah. We've got 3 % of the Senate after this. Speaker 5 (4:30) That's pretty good. That's big. So, yeah, Cory Booker. Speaker 5 (4:35) Ted Cruz, Eric Schmidt. Speaker 3 (4:37) Wait, did we interview Cory Booker? No. Not Cory Booker. We interviewed Hakeem Jeffries. That was Speaker 5 (4:43) lightweight racist of me to confuse it. Who is in the Speaker 3 (4:46) House of Representatives. Speaker 5 (4:47) What about Speaker 6 (4:48) Pat Ryan? Speaker 5 (4:49) Pat Ryan. Speaker 6 (4:50) That's Congress Speaker 5 (4:50) person. Speaker 3 (4:51) Oh, okay. Murphy, Schmidt, and Ted Cruz. Yeah, lightweight, Speaker 5 (4:57) lightweight, a racial mix up on my part. Both Congress people from the Northeast. That's about where the similarities might end. Both Democrats. Speaking of Senator Eric Schmidt, macro dosing alumni in the news, in the news yesterday. We Speaker 3 (5:14) should send shirts out with that macro alumni. Speaker 5 (5:16) Macro alumni. I like that. I like that. In the news. Write that down, Big T. In the news. Best I can tell. I did a little Google News search for Eric Schmidt. Speaker 5 (5:28) Or I have Google Alerts set up for all our recurring guests. So I guess everyone's talking about him because there was that cool profile of him that was out yesterday about how he might be a sneaky vice president pick for J.D. Vance. Speaker 3 (5:41) Rough time to have a goof. Speaker 5 (5:43) And then I read what else is going on with him. There was a hearing on Capitol Hill yesterday where they brought in the independent prosecutor, special prosecutor Jack Smith, to talk about... The cases against President Trump for election interference, as well as some of the other stuff that he was investigating that he's not allowed to talk about the documents case classified documents case. So Eric Schmidt, he asked, he asked Jack or Jack Smith, can you tell us about any trips that you might have taken to Atlanta in the last few years? And he said, I don't recall going to Atlanta. And Senator Schmidt was like, well, what if I told you that we had texts from your camp? discussing plans in Atlanta the day after Fannie Wells admitted her affair with her subordinate. And Fannie Wells was also investigating President Trump in Atlanta for that case that she had going on down there. So Senator Schmidt was implying that there was some sort of collusion that Jack Smith was discussing with Fannie Wells in Georgia and saying, we have evidence of you making plans to go to the Atlanta Hawks game. Which, first of all, that... low-key arrestable offense, just attending a Hawks game. They were Speaker 3 (7:09) playing the Warriors. Speaker 5 (7:10) Okay, all right. I take it back. Makes sense. I Speaker 3 (7:12) believe. I think they said Warriors-Hawks. Speaker 5 (7:14) Makes sense. And Jack Smith was like, no, I don't know what you're talking about. And Eric Schmidt was like, well, look at this big billboard that I had my aides print up. And it had like Fannie Wells on there and then like some blue dots or whatever, like an iPhone iMessage thing. And he was looking at it, trying to figure out what the hell he was talking about. And then Amy Klobuchar weighs in and she was like, is it possible that this was a different game? And she's like, is this the Hawkeyes, maybe the Iowa Hawkeyes game? And Jack Smith was like, well, yeah, I went to go see Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes play against the University of Maryland on that day here in the D.C. area. And so then Eric Schmidt got very upset. I was like, what are you trying to rehabilitate this witness? Why are you interfering? Blah, blah, blah. So I guess he's still kind of in spin zone damage control. He tweeted out later, like who knew that he was a Caitlin Clark fan. So the spin zone that's coming out is like, well, there's so many things that he has done that are improper that it made sense that I saw Hawk's game and I thought there might be something improper going on. So really it's his fault. I'm interested to know how that mix-up happened between Hawks and Hawkeyes. Speaker 3 (8:33) There has to Speaker 5 (8:34) be other information. There has to be other text messages that we haven't seen behind the scenes where somebody refers to it as a Hawks game. Speaker 3 (8:43) Well, and that's where I was going, PFT, is now this should have never happened. You got to have your facts straighter than this. But Iowa does this, and the Chicago Blackhawks do this, and it annoys the hell out of me. They only say Hawks. Iowa's the Hawkeyes. They call them the Hawks. Chicago is the Blackhawks. They call them the Hawks. You're not the Hawks. There's a team that is the Hawks. It's not you. So Speaker 5 (9:06) where would I see Iowa listed as being the Hawks? I Speaker 3 (9:09) think their fans call them that all the time. Speaker 5 (9:11) So I'm going to look up. Let's just look up the college football scoreboard on ESPN. Speaker 3 (9:17) Well, they're not going to be listed as that on ESPN. Speaker 5 (9:20) Sometimes they list the team nickname. This is like the Speaker 3 (9:24) Vols. Yeah. Except there is no other team that's the Vols. It's clear who you're referring to. Speaker 5 (9:29) What should we call Iowa instead? The Kais? I would just say the Hawkeyes. It's really not hard to say. I agree. Speaker 3 (9:39) And I'm looking at the text that they have on that board because I was like, I would like to see where the confusion was. What they put on the board never says Hawks. It just says, hey, man, is 109 row one reserved for Jack? Damn, thank you for saving, but we are good. Ask Harbach. And then someone else said he's already down here. Thanks. Speaker 5 (10:02) So I'm thinking that there might be something else because all that does not imply. anything about what game it was. Speaker 3 (10:09) Right. There has to be, he didn't put the right text on the, on the board. Speaker 5 (10:12) Unless if that's all they had. And then he looked up, somebody in his camp looked up what basketball games took place on that day. And then the only one that they could find was the Atlanta Hawks. So Speaker 3 (10:25) I do believe I saw something that the only men's college or NBA game going on was the Atlanta Hawks. Speaker 5 (10:35) That night, yeah. Speaker 3 (10:35) Right. But there were women's games happening. Speaker 5 (10:38) Women's games. And I think the men's games might have been earlier in the day, that day. So it might have been the only men's night game, professional or otherwise. Speaker 3 (10:51) Yeah, I believe I read that. Speaker 5 (10:53) But then that would, I don't know, that would, it seems like too much of a coincidence that one team is called the Hawkeyes and the other is called the Hawks for that to be the only thing that they looked up is like what games were happening. So I'm thinking somebody, somewhere along the way, somebody had to refer to them as the Hawks or maybe the Hawkeyes and that was overlooked or what I think is actually a real possibility. I think somebody that was looking up. what game this might have been online might have used whether it's claude or jim and i some sort of ai engine that along the lines hallucinated and thought hawkeyes meant hawks and because that type of stuff does happen if Speaker 3 (11:38) i were to speculate wildly yeah i would imagine jack smith asked because this game was at maryland correct it was near dc in college park he asked a an Iowa Senator, Congressperson, something. Can you get me two tickets to the game when Caitlin Clark's coming? Someone texted him back, got you tickets to the Hawks game. You're good to go. He goes to the game. Someone sees that text. Speaker 4 (12:05) And Speaker 3 (12:05) that's where the, a native Iowan referred to them as the Hawks at some point in a text message. Yeah. And that is where the confusion came. Speaker 5 (12:14) That might, that might make sense. That is pure speculation. Speaker 3 (12:20) Senator, Speaker 5 (12:20) Senator Grassley. Isn't he the one that's running this entire hearing? He's from Iowa, the 90-year-old guy? I don't Speaker 3 (12:28) know. Well, I know who Chuck is. I don't know if... My Speaker 5 (12:30) money's on that guy. Yeah. Speaker 3 (12:32) I'm assuming it's an aide of someone. Because... Speaker 5 (12:35) In this Speaker 3 (12:37) made-up scenario. In Speaker 5 (12:38) this investigation, they've also uncovered a lot of phone records. So Jack Smith asked for the toll records for a bunch of members of Congress to determine who was on the phone with the president and... the White House on January 6th and he was coordinating. So he got like the call records and then from the National Archives, he got some of the other records, including, I think, some text messages from members of Congress. So there's a possibility that this information was taken from that hall that is public record that was taken from the National Archives and given to the independent prosecutor. So as a piece of evidence. That might be accessible to Schmidt's team. They saw that. And then they're like, oh, he was at the Hawks game. That's weird. That's right after the Fannie Wells thing happened. That might be what happened. But the lesson learned here, I think, from Senator Schmidt should be sometimes you just got to raise your hand and be like, hey, I fucked up. That's what you got to say at that point. Because as you try to explain, it makes you look worse. It's pretty obvious that you screwed that one up. Just say that you fucked up. Everybody fucks up. Like, okay, yeah, you got us. Sorry. Go Hawks. That would have Speaker 3 (14:00) been a funny tweet. Speaker 5 (14:01) Yeah, go Hawks. You know what? He should buy Hawks season tickets. Speaker 3 (14:07) Atlanta or Iowa? Speaker 5 (14:09) I think Atlanta. I think buy Hawks season tickets, maybe give them away, maybe get courtside seats. Speaker 3 (14:14) Here we go. Will you attend Wizards-Hawks with Senator Schmidt? Speaker 5 (14:20) I would like to invite Senator Schmidt to... Can we look up when the Wizards play the Hawks? I'm on it. I would like to invite him to that game as my guest. Courtside. Oh, Speaker 6 (14:31) yeah. Did you also see Katie Britt's reaction? Katie Speaker 5 (14:34) Britt just stood there with, I don't know if she was daydreaming. Speaker 6 (14:39) November 4th. Speaker 5 (14:40) November 4th. Hawks at Speaker 6 (14:42) Wizards. What day of the Speaker 5 (14:43) week is that? That's a Wednesday. Oh, yeah, it's going to be tough for me. And Speaker 6 (14:46) January 11th. Well, they Speaker 5 (14:47) should go Speaker 3 (14:47) back Speaker 5 (14:47) again, right? Of Speaker 6 (14:48) next year. January 11th. Speaker 5 (14:50) Okay. January 11th. What day? Speaker 6 (14:53) That would be a Monday. Speaker 5 (14:55) Monday. You know what? I think I'm going to the Monday game the following week where they play the Celtics. Speaker 3 (15:02) We can figure out November 4th. We can maybe try to figure out November Speaker 5 (15:05) 4th. That's going to be right after Election Day, right? Speaker 3 (15:08) Yeah, it should be the day after. We'll Speaker 5 (15:09) have a lot to talk about. Yeah. Speaker 6 (15:11) We do. Macro goes to D.C. live from... And you'd think because of midterms, no, we got Hawks at Wizards. Speaker 5 (15:18) Yeah, we'll have a ton to talk about with Speaker 3 (15:19) them. I don't know which way it's going to shake out. That could be a great video. Be with... With him on election night. Well, no. Just like Speaker 5 (15:28) pointing out, see that guy? That guy's on the Hawks. Speaker 3 (15:30) Right. Every Speaker 5 (15:32) time. I Speaker 3 (15:33) should Speaker 5 (15:33) wear an Iowa jersey. You should. To the games. A Caitlin Speaker 6 (15:35) Clark jersey. Speaker 5 (15:36) Yeah. And I'll just be very disappointed that it's the Hawks that are playing. Yeah. Sometimes you got to say you fucked up. You fucked up. And it also didn't help that he was so angry the entire time. You can't be wrong and angry. At the same time, you can be wrong and like laugh and say, well, I fucked that one up. You can be angry and right, but you can't be wrong and angry. Speaker 6 (16:02) And then John Kennedy in the back holding up the sign like he did something. Speaker 5 (16:07) John Kennedy, I mean, you talk about a quote machine. Speaker 6 (16:10) One of our best. Speaker 5 (16:11) Make me want to throw up in my mouth. Speaker 3 (16:14) I'm not saying you're the dumbest person alive, but you better hope the dumbest person alive doesn't die. I got Speaker 6 (16:18) rocks in my driveway that are smarter than that. He does Speaker 5 (16:21) a great job of playing up the, oh, shucks, folksy little old me. And I think it serves him well because people underestimate him all the time. And he's one of the smartest people in Congress. Is Speaker 3 (16:34) he? Speaker 5 (16:34) Yeah, I think he went to Oxford and either Harvard or Yale. Speaker 6 (16:39) But didn't like all... Speaker 3 (16:40) He went to Vandy, the University of Virginia, and Oxford. Speaker 5 (16:44) Yeah, so pretty smart guy. You can't accomplish all that by being dumb. So he definitely does a good job. It's a good technique to make people think, oh, this guy, everything he knows about government, he must run the Farmer's Almanac. But then he knows like law procedure like the back of his hand. Speaker 3 (17:05) He was a Democrat till 2007 and then switched. Speaker 5 (17:09) I was first I'm hearing this. Speaker 3 (17:10) Yeah, I was not Speaker 5 (17:11) I was not super familiar with his. I'm Speaker 3 (17:13) not familiar with with that lore. So Speaker 5 (17:15) wait, he was a Democrat until 2007. And then he switched into that. He was like, I don't I like the Iraq war. I feel like that's a time when if you were switching one, most people were going Republican to Democrat. Speaker 3 (17:32) Kennedy served as a cabinet member and special counsel to Democratic Louisiana Governor Buddy Romer, Secretary of Louisiana Department of Revenue, and was elected to the Louisiana State Treasurer as a Democrat in 2000. He also ran unsuccessfully as a liberal Democrat in the 2004 U.S. Senate primary, endorsing John Kerry for president. Encouraged by fig... encouraged by figures like gop senator david vitter and advisor carl rove and noting that louisiana was trending more conservative kennedy officially changed his registration to the republican party in 07 okay Speaker 2 (18:03) so it was just like uh i Speaker 3 (18:07) can win as a republican and not as a democrat that's what it sounds like yeah i Speaker 5 (18:10) mean a lot of people people always talk about california only voting for Democrats, but there are a lot of Democrats in California that are Republicans, but they just, they, they put a D next to their name and call themselves a Democrat because it's impossible to get elected if you're a Republican. Speaker 3 (18:28) I think that happens a lot. I was unaware of this from him. Speaker 5 (18:33) What else we got in the news today? A lot in the news. We got a lot. America.gov, have you visited? I have not. I have not visited America.gov just yet. I Speaker 3 (18:42) think I have. What is it? It is an AI-powered... It's Speaker 5 (18:49) Gemini, Speaker 3 (18:50) right? It's Google's AI. I didn't know that, but it's a... Speaker 3 (18:57) putting, I think they said, 29,000 government websites into one place. And it's supposed to be a catch-all for any interaction you may need with the government. They said you're going to be able to do your passport 100 % online starting next year. Speaker 5 (19:12) Okay. Speaker 3 (19:12) That's great. That would be great. They said if you get married, you can do everything to change your name online, which, as I've learned recently, is a very... Speaker 3 (19:22) ridiculously and unnecessarily arduous process. How is that going to be Speaker 5 (19:26) possible? Speaker 3 (19:27) I don't know. That's just what they said. Speaker 5 (19:28) In theory, this Speaker 3 (19:29) would be great. It seems like it's really good. Speaker 3 (19:34) Starting next year, most Americans will apply for their passport entirely online. A revolution in how government works for the American people. The Trump administration is making government simpler, faster, and more accessible. That's Speaker 5 (19:43) what Speaker 3 (19:43) Marco Rupio tweeted. Speaker 5 (19:45) Okay. I mean, if all this stuff is true. I Speaker 3 (19:48) haven't used it a bunch, but I've seen, I saw on MSNBC somebody saying that they used it and it was good. So, I'll take their word for it for once. It Speaker 5 (19:56) looks like it is, yeah, it's powered by Gemini, by Google. Who built it for the US government? I just don't know how you're going to be able to get things like a passport, change your name, things that require paper documentation. Speaker 3 (20:15) I guess we'll find out. Speaker 5 (20:16) I guess we'll find out. I hope it works because, yeah, I mean, less line time, less visits to the DMV. I think that would be overall a good thing unless you work at the DMV, in which case that would be a bad thing. Speaker 3 (20:31) Yeah. How does one end up working at the DMV? Speaker 5 (20:34) Government job. Secure. Speaker 3 (20:37) I Speaker 5 (20:37) think those types of jobs are... They smell Speaker 3 (20:39) bad, though. Even if you wanted to work at the DMV, it's a time portal. It's like stepping back into the 1970s, at least here in Illinois. Yeah, I Speaker 5 (20:48) don't think that they worry that much about... Get your Speaker 3 (20:50) boy on that. My boy? Yeah, Alexei. Oh, Speaker 5 (20:53) Yiannopoulos or whatever? Yeah. I do need to get to work on that. They don't... You never update a carpet at the DMV. Whatever carpet you put in when you build that building, when the DMV moves in. You can bank that that thing's going to stay there for 70 years. Speaker 3 (21:10) Yeah, I mean, there's no incentive to spend money on it. No, it doesn't look nice. Speaker 5 (21:15) Yeah, the smell is kind of like a library. Have you been to City Hall in Chicago? I've not been there, no. Speaker 3 (21:22) Do you remember when we were at the University of Tennessee and before we walked into the Humanities and Social Sciences building, I said, when you walk in here, it's going to smell like an elementary school art room? Yeah. And you walked in and you were amazed at how correct I was? That's what Chicago City Hall smells like. Speaker 5 (21:35) What is that smell? I don't know. Whatever they, probably some sort of cleaner that they use to, is there's a lot of like granite or marble? But it's Speaker 3 (21:44) not a clean smell. It's a must almost, but not a, it's not remarkably unpleasant. They Speaker 5 (21:52) probably get the cleaning supplies on the cheap that don't have the added fragrance to them. It's like pine salt. I suppose that's possible. Pine salt minus the pine. Just salt. But Speaker 3 (22:05) that's what Chicago City Hall smells like. Speaker 5 (22:07) I've not been there yet. But you're right, the DMV does have an unmistakable... I think that you get into... Nobody has a passion for serving at the Department of Motor Vehicles. Like, as a child. Speaker 3 (22:20) I've never met someone who seemed happy to be working there. I Speaker 5 (22:23) don't think it's anyone's dream. Any public-facing job, I always like to give them the benefit of the doubt. whether it's at a restaurant or if it's at like the DMV, because you probably deal with more pissed off people in a day than most people deal with in an entire year. Like most people aren't happy to see you. No one's excited to go to the DMV. And so I think after kind of going through that a lot, you kind of take on the mentality of, I just got to get through the day because everyone's pissed at me. I Speaker 3 (22:53) had a waiter a week or two ago. At Porter Kitchen, I forget the guy's name, but if you hear this, this guy was unbelievable. He was so happy and great at his job. It's crazy how much this elevated the experience. Just to have a waiter who was happy and nice. Yeah, Speaker 5 (23:16) somebody Speaker 3 (23:16) who's... Speaker 5 (23:16) I was like, that Speaker 3 (23:17) guy rocks. Speaker 5 (23:17) That's a guy that probably enjoys his job, probably enjoys talking to people. I was talking about this the other day because I had a bad... Listen, they're not an advertiser, so I feel free to say it. I had a real bad Burger King experience the other week. When was the last time you ate at the King? Speaker 3 (23:35) I stopped at one when we were at camp in Wisconsin because there wasn't a ton in town. Yeah. There was a Culver's, a Burger King. There was an ice cream place that was great. So yeah, that was the last time I stopped by the King. Speaker 5 (23:55) Yeah, I... I didn't have any options. This was a couple weeks ago. It was a late night. I was hungry. Been out to a bar, so I wanted to have a late night snack before I went to bed. And I ordered Burger King for delivery. And it was really, I think, the only place that was open. So I got a double cheeseburger and then some sort of chicken sandwich. And the double cheeseburger was, when it arrived, it was like the shape of a baseball. We're talking... Speaker 3 (24:25) That's typically not what you want. Speaker 5 (24:27) That's softball. I'll be honest. It wasn't that small. Well, still, Speaker 3 (24:30) you don't want it that round. Speaker 5 (24:31) It was somewhere between a baseball and a softball in terms of their size. It was like a perfectly round. The bun was like pressed into the side of it. I picked it up. I felt like I could have pitched with it. It was like extremely spherical. And it didn't really look that good. I ate it. It wasn't great. I didn't really have any other choice. Then the chicken sandwich that I got was kind of deformed as well. Bad experience with Burger King. Very bad. Speaker 3 (24:58) Got to get the chicken fries. Speaker 5 (24:59) Chicken fries, good product. Speaker 3 (25:01) The Speaker 5 (25:01) thing about Burger King, them and Domino's, they do the best job of like once every 10 years they'll have a commercial. We used to Speaker 3 (25:08) suck. Speaker 5 (25:09) They'll have a commercial with their CEO and be like, listen, we fucked up. Speaker 6 (25:13) That's the current Burger King commercial. Speaker 3 (25:16) Oh, yeah, the nuggets. They said, Speaker 6 (25:18) these things suck and taste like rubber. And Speaker 3 (25:20) Domino's did one pretty recently. Speaker 5 (25:22) Domino's has done it like three times. Listen. Speaker 4 (25:26) We Speaker 5 (25:26) know that we suck. I'm sorry. We really screwed up. Well, remember they did that. But trust us. Speaker 3 (25:32) They did that huge rebrand. They're like, we're not Domino's pizza anymore. We're Domino's and we have sandwiches and salads and all this stuff. And then they did another one pretty recently. Speaker 5 (25:43) Yeah. listen, guys, we know we screwed up, but just trust us. We're going to earn your business back. So I don't know what part of that cycle we're in at Burger King right now. It was bad, and I was thinking about it. Why? If you work at Burger King, it's kind of the same thing. Nobody wants to stay working at Burger King. I don't think that's many people's long-term plans. They don't pay exceptionally well. So people that work there don't care. They're like, okay, I'm going for my paycheck. See you. Hopefully I'll be gone in like six months, get a better job. In-N-Out pays extremely well. Every time an In-N-Out opens up a new place, there's a line a mile long of people applying for it. They keep people happy that work there, take a little pride in their job. The product's good. Speaker 3 (26:27) Buc-ee's, same thing. Buc Speaker 5 (26:28) -ee's, same thing. You can Speaker 3 (26:28) make a ton of money working at Buc-ee's. I'm trying to find the hourly rates right now. Speaker 5 (26:35) Chick-fil-A, too. Speaker 3 (26:38) So at Bucky's, a team lead makes $20 to $23 an hour. Department manager, $25 to $33. Assistant food service manager, $33 to $42. And then if you're a full-time assistant general manager, $125K plus. Food service manager, $150 to $175. General manager, $175 to $225. Speaker 5 (27:00) Yeah. Speaker 3 (27:01) 6 % 401K match, three weeks paid time off. Speaker 5 (27:05) Listen, a lot of people say like... That we shouldn't pay fast food workers like $15 an hour. It's like because you don't want to encourage people to be like fast food where I disagree I think you pay somebody $15 an hour $20 an hour to work at a fast food restaurant You're gonna be getting the consumers gonna get a hell of a burger out of that Speaker 3 (27:26) Well, that's not necessarily true. I mean, in New York City, they're paid $15 an hour. Right. I don't think that is always the case. Speaker 5 (27:33) Cost of living in New York City is definitely different. $15 an hour, right? You can't get anything in New York City for that. But you know what I'm saying? If you have people that like their job, that feel like they're fairly compensated, they're going to stick around. It's competition. They know that if they don't do a good job, there's going to be a line of people willing to take their job for them. Speaker 3 (27:57) Yeah. Speaker 5 (27:57) I was just thinking about that when it came to my burger because it was that bad. Speaker 3 (28:02) What time did you order it? Speaker 5 (28:03) That's the thing. It was late night. How Speaker 3 (28:05) late? Speaker 5 (28:08) Midnight. Speaker 3 (28:08) Okay. I feel like after 1130, the quality deteriorates. And I accept that. If it was at 10 o'clock, I would still expect it to be fine. Speaker 5 (28:16) Yeah, I accept the fact that I was not looking for a perfect burger. Don't get me wrong. If I'm ordering Burger King at midnight, I know. Speaker 3 (28:24) So given the expectations couched in, what would you rate the experience? It was much Speaker 5 (28:28) worse than the expectations. It was like, I looked at it just like, what the fuck is this? Speaker 3 (28:33) Did you do express delivery or did you have the guy running all around town before he got to you? I Speaker 5 (28:39) believe I did express. I can check. That makes sense. I can double check, but I'm 90 % sure I did express because, you know, I was hungry. Yeah. And it was, you know, it was midnight. I've been drinking. Speaker 3 (28:52) There's stuff open at midnight in Chicago. I Speaker 5 (28:55) wasn't in Chicago. Speaker 3 (28:55) Oh, where were you? I was in Speaker 5 (28:56) Massachusetts. Got it. Yeah. Maybe they do differently in the Commonwealth. Speaker 5 (29:04) Big T. Speaker 3 (29:05) PFT. I Speaker 5 (29:07) ran across a conspiracy that's somewhat related to the America.gov website. Speaker 3 (29:14) Okay. Speaker 5 (29:14) This might be like too out there. Speaker 3 (29:18) I don't know that this has crossed my desk. So Speaker 5 (29:20) this is something that I expect maybe. What are the lib news sites like Midas Touch? That's one of them for Speaker 3 (29:26) sure. Yeah. I Speaker 5 (29:27) expect them in the Krasensteins to possibly cover this soon. Okay. Speaker 3 (29:31) So you're early on this. I think Speaker 5 (29:33) I'm early on it. So I don't know how true this conspiracy is, but I'm very interested in it. Speaker 5 (29:44) You remember a few weeks ago, for some reason, Trump started saying we're no longer going to refer to it as AI, artificial intelligence. Speaker 3 (29:53) I vaguely recall something like that. Yeah. It Speaker 5 (29:56) kind of came out of nowhere. He's like, I've created a poll of what we should refer to it as and we will be taking votes. And it was like elite intelligence. That was my suggestion. Extreme intelligence. Yeah. Was one of the options. OK. Super intelligence was. SI and I think super intelligence ended up being the choice. All Speaker 3 (30:18) right. Couple things. Number one, I just got to the point recently where when I hear AI, I think artificial intelligence and not Allen Iverson. So we can't change it now. SI is sports illustrated. If you want to do EI, that's fine. We don't have an EI right now. Oh, Speaker 5 (30:32) that's Nelly. EI, EI, uh-oh. Okay. Act like you don't know Nelly. Speaker 3 (30:40) I'm familiar with Nelly. I haven't heard. What song is that? I heard what you said. What's the title of the song? I forget the name of that song. Put it in EI. It might Speaker 5 (30:51) just be EI. Let me see. Nelly song EI. It's called EI. Speaker 3 (30:57) Is it really? That's Speaker 5 (30:58) Nelly. Yeah, so when I think EI, I think Nelly. Speaker 3 (31:00) Okay. Speaker 5 (31:02) But Speaker 3 (31:02) anyway, yeah, Speaker 5 (31:04) we're fret not big T because I did not win. S.I. won President Trump's legally binding poll. He then signed a executive order. Speaker 5 (31:17) uh, mandating the change to super intelligence. SI. He loves Speaker 3 (31:21) renaming stuff. He Speaker 5 (31:22) does. It's, it's like his favorite thing. Um, so I just thought this is, I don't know, like one of the guys that works at Meta told him something about like, you know, AI is actually not really that great of a term for it. We should be calling it something else. And he's like, as president, I will, I will do that for you. Uh, but I saw this theory online. from Adam Cochran. Don't know anything about him. He might be super lib, although his screen name is Adam S. Cochran and then like an Ethereum address. So he's a crypto guy. So what we've seen since Donald Trump signed that order and since he started doing the poll of what the name should be changed to is we've seen a lot of .si domain names be purchased and sold. Speaker 5 (32:13) Prior to this, .si is the domain extension for Slovenia. So every country has . whatever their country's initial is at the end of it for their websites. So .si is from Slovenia. That's apparently where Melania is from. And Barron Trump is, I guess, does he have partial citizenship? I don't know how that works. I Speaker 3 (32:37) have no idea. Speaker 5 (32:40) Trump on September 19th started doing this poll, and it turns out that going back to June of 2026, a whole bunch of people started registering domain names at .si. So there were about 55 per day that were being registered between 2023 and 2025, but in 2026, the numbers picked up to more than 400 per day. So that would be one, two, three, four, five, eight times, right? Eight times as many registrations started to happen. Speaker 5 (33:22) In the summer of this year before Trump put out that poll and then that spiked to more than 7000 new domains registered in one day in July. And then they started buying and selling the names on the aftermarket. So you buy, for example, like, I don't know, health dot SI. And imagine if back in 1995 you bought health dot com. Speaker 3 (33:50) You could Speaker 5 (33:51) probably sell that for a significant amount, right? So if you bought health.si right now for maybe a couple thousand dollars, or back in July, a couple thousand dollars, if we officially adopted .si for everything that was artificial intelligence related, you would think that health.si would be worth a ton of money in the near future. So build.si is now available for $14 million. Speaker 3 (34:18) I'm looking at macro.si right now. Speaker 5 (34:21) Yeah, what does it Speaker 3 (34:22) say? They want 5 mil for it. But I'm looking at the bottom. You see there's a ticker. They want 5 mil for everything. But you can put an offer. What should we offer for macro.si? $20. Speaker 5