On today’s episode, we discuss an “ad hoc” Conspiracy Friday lineup that starts with Trump moving 6,000 U.S. troops toward Iran, which Mark reads as a calculated persuasion play signaling that “something’s going down” if Tehran does not change course in the next two weeks. The crew gives a Tesla update on James’s finicky Model Y and Glenn’s newly wrapped matte‑black Cybertruck “Beast,” walking through camera recalibrations, hard reboots, self‑drive behavior in traffic, and the way Tesla silently adjusts seats, mirrors, and connections based on which driver’s phone is in the charging dock. From there they dive into Elon Musk’s latest ideas, debating universal “high income” as a response to AI‑driven unemployment, whether Congress would just inflate away any productivity gains, and how far‑reaching a projected two‑trillion‑dollar SpaceX IPO might be for stocks and Bitcoin. James and Mark then spar over the proper role of government in markets, arguing about Ticketmaster “abuse,” bank collusion hypotheticals, biblical bans on usury, and whether antitrust actions protect consumers or illegitimately “pick winners and losers.” In the more classic conspiracy stretch, Glenn relays wild online claims that Jeffrey Epstein’s island housed demon‑summoning sex rituals and underground labs breeding alien‑human telepaths, which leads them into a broader UFO and alien discussion about wormholes, time‑tourism from the future, and whether supposed “visitors” might actually be hyper‑powerful elites like Soros or Musk. They close by returning to AI’s “Borg‑like” spread, predicting three to five turbulent years of white‑collar job displacement, union‑style resistance to automation, and eventual emergence of new kinds of work even as some small businesses—like a beloved local bakery that may never reopen—illustrate how fragile real‑world entrepreneurs remain in the face of big structural shifts. Don't miss it!