You want me to rewrite this in the voice of George Carlin. Let me give you a tight, punchy Carlin-flavored version that keeps the gist but skirts into his satirical, anti-system, wordy edge. Here goes: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the show where we pretend we’re into “founders” and “innovations” while the clock ticks like a jail cell door. Saronic founders join the show—because nothing says freedom like a bunch of people who can patent a fridge that Tweets at you. At 4:56, the Navy runs its first autonomous rescue in the Strait of Hormuz, and we find out China supposedly outbuilds America 230-to-1. Outbuilds? They’re counting bricks while we’re counting prayers. It’s a garage sale of national pride: “We’ve got a shiny new gadget,” and somewhere a budget committee is crying into its coffee, rubbing its hands like a cartoon villain. Auto-rescue, auto-ego—same thing: someone’s too important to risk a real human when you can risk a few billion dollars instead. 13:04 brings us $3 bi...