Kyle Clark interviews Victor Marx
Watch for yourself and answer honestly "Do I believe that Victor Marx is telling the truth?"
Just One Thing: Are we (Americans) getting religion?
There's a claim that's been bouncing around Fox News and other conservative media for maybe a couple of years now: that Americans are getting more religious. As far as I can tell, the data is inconclusive except that young men seem to be claiming they're going to church more. That doesn't seem to be true of any other group. Is it even true of young men? Maybe. After all, a LOT of them moved toward Donald Trump in recent years, and Trump, despite being a man who only pretends to care about religion or believe in God, is nevertheless part of the vanguard for a certain Hegseth-ian or Vance-ian part of the conservative right. It often feels more cultish than devout — but then maybe as a not-very-religious Jew I just misinterpret what's going on there.
Which is it?
Rise in Young Men's Religiosity Realigns Gender Gaps
This one is in the "completely obvious, but only after someone explains it" category — the political angle on America's longer-term secular drift:
Campaigns pay the price for America's secular shift
Today's Guests
Kelley Dennison, GOP candidate for Colorado's 2nd Congressional District, joins us in studio at 6:34. Kelley Dennison for Congress
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Dr. Greg Verdine joins the show at 7:04. He's the co-founder, president, and CEO of LifeMine Therapeutics, and the Erving Professor of Chemistry at Harvard in the Departments of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and Chemistry and Chemical Biology. He's founded multiple drug discovery companies that have gone public or been acquired. We're going to talk about a new pancreatic cancer drug that's stunning researchers in early trials — a disease that's deeply personal to me (my father-in-law died six weeks after diagnosis). I want to ask him why pancreatic cancer has been so impervious to treatment, what KRAS is and why the physical nature of the cell makes it such a difficult target, what's special about this new drug, whether we're talking about extending lives by months or actually curing the disease, and why fungi are such promising sources of new therapeutics.
New pancreatic cancer pill could reshape treatment as early trial results stun researchers
New pancreatic cancer drug in high demand. How daraxonrasib works
Why does he still have a job?
He is either bad at his job or a liar, and the fact that he still wrote the ticket and took it all the way up to the day before trial despite knowing that he was wrong/lying, AND that he wrote a ticket that, per the article below, didn't even specify a crime, would suggest that he's unfit in every way for the job. I do my best to support law enforcement. They take risks I won't take to keep us safe. But I'm also confident that so much of what they do is essentially a form of taxation, especially much of traffic enforcement, that I am also quite cynical about that aspect of the job. Did this guy need to meet a quota so badly that he was willing to be this stupid or mendacious? Really, he either requires massive new training and probation with real risk of being fired, or simply just to be kicked off the force (and not allowed into another one).
Charges dismissed for woman without right hand cited for holding phone while driving
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Other Stuff
If I continue to believe what I currently believe about Victor Marx (that he's a fabulist and a grifter), I may actually consider voting for a Dem for governor. That said, the most likely outcome — since both of the Dem candidates seem too far left for me to tolerate — will be to "undervote": vote in other races in the 2026 general election but not in the governor's race.
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The Midwest's long story of decline may finally be turning, and the WSJ has a great piece on the guy trying to repopulate one of America's emptiest downtowns:
The Midwestern Exodus Is Finally Ending - WSJ
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Sharing this with you now but will have Asher on the show in two weeks: Can This Guy Get People to Live in America's Emptiest Downtown? - WSJ
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Amazing that I hadn't heard about this until now, and that the public still seems not to care. For the record, I think it's great:
How one company plans to put a nuclear microreactor at Buckley - Axios Denver
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This is what AI-driven defamation is going to look like more and more, and the legal systems aren't ready. What's a suitable punishment?
Kim Soo-hyun: YouTuber arrested for allegedly using AI to defame Korean actor
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Another reason why I won't vote for JD Vance. He's not actually a conservative in the economic sense, which is the sense I care about most: The New Big Labor GOP - WSJ
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Tell me something I don't know: Harvard faculty votes to make it harder for undergrads to earn A's
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Data centers can use a lot of water, but maybe less than you think:
Tapped: Is water a problem for data centers in Colorado? - Colorado Politics
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Of course this happens in every administration and surely happened under Biden too. Regardless of party, this kind of corruption of the justice system is unacceptable, and there should be significant penalties (like disbarment) for government attorneys who cheat:
Feds Admit to Significant 'Errors' in 'Broadview Six' Case Against Chicago Activists - NOTUS
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I asked the folks at the Zoo if they wanted to join the show to talk about Rudy, but right now the feelings are just too raw. He really meant a lot to his care team, which I completely understand:
Denver Zoo says goodbye to beloved black rhino, Rudy
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It's NUTS that Algore got a Nobel Prize for utter nonsense, and then got rich by buying into the "green" energy nonsense and pushing government to spend billions in contracts and subsidies:
The inconvenient truth about Al Gore's climate alarmism
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A little more about AI: Slowing Things Down. - by John Ellis and Tom Smith
Fascinating take from a big player in AI…who was invited to speak at the presentation of the Encyclical:
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah's remarks on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas"
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One more pope thing: Pope apologizes for Vatican's role in legitimizing slavery | AP News
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Nerd out with me for a moment: Faith and folly - by Marvin Barth - Seriously, Marvin?! (Read the initial question about the red and black marbles…I wonder if your immediate answer will be different from mine.)
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