Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2335 CWSA 12⧸27⧸23 Themes Today： Gears Of The Machine Becoming Obvious, Dad's Coming Home

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00:00:40.740 Good morning, Brunswick, Georgia.

00:00:47.780 We've been waiting for you.

00:00:49.440 Glad you're in the house.

00:00:52.260 Well, I have two themes for today.

00:00:54.720 Theme number one, the gears of the machine.

00:00:59.680 We're all able now to see what's really going on in the world way differently than we did last year.

00:01:08.500 So I've got some stories about that.

00:01:09.900 And also, dad's coming home.

00:01:13.920 Dad, not a specific person.

00:01:16.280 I'm not talking about Trump necessarily.

00:01:18.360 I'm talking about dad energy, and you're going to see that in the stories today as well.

00:01:23.700 Well, let's begin.

00:01:27.240 Remember I told you that there would be hit pieces on me in the coming year?

00:01:31.680 Because the more hit pieces on me, the less credibility I'll have going into the election year.

00:01:40.780 Well, Forbes is out on the hit piece.

00:01:43.860 I'm one of three people that they'd like you to know their careers have been destroyed.

00:01:48.520 In my case, Forbes says it's because of my racist rant.

00:01:52.620 But also, Forbes mentions without details, it's not the first time I've been racist.

00:01:59.380 That's right.

00:02:00.780 Without offering any link or detail, Forbes says it's not the first time I've been racist.

00:02:07.920 Maybe you can give me an example of that, because I don't think I was racist that time either.

00:02:15.600 Anyway, so it doesn't matter what Forbes says.

00:02:18.480 Forbes is sort of the poor man's the Atlantic.

00:02:21.660 That only makes sense if you really follow the media world.

00:02:28.560 Forbes is the poor man's the Atlantic.

00:02:32.020 And the Atlantic is the poor man's turd.

00:02:37.120 So it's like turd, the Atlantic, and Forbes.

00:02:42.980 Forbes used to be a great publication, but I think it got us old and turned into woke bullshit.

00:02:48.120 All right, Joe Biden says he wants to issue a pardon to all the current and past marijuana users.

00:02:58.120 Federal pardon.

00:02:59.660 There's only a federal pardon.

00:03:01.980 But at last, my long nightmare is over.

00:03:08.160 You know, I've been a fugitive from the federal police.

00:03:13.460 We're loathies most of my life.

00:03:16.160 But it's good to know I got a pardon from Joe Biden, so I'm definitely going to endorse him and vote for him now, because I got this weed pardon.

00:03:26.120 He's also giving out big raises to federal employees.

00:03:30.860 I wonder if an election year is coming up.

00:03:35.060 He's going to have to bribe so many people to get reelected.

00:03:39.640 But anyway, we got a weed pardon.

00:03:42.300 It's still illegal.

00:03:43.280 So rather than just making it legal, he does a weed pardon.

00:03:49.060 All right.

00:03:50.140 Whatever.

00:03:53.240 Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but there was a little, there was a flurry of Trump being called a dictator.

00:04:03.680 And they said he's Hitler, he's Mussolini, he's Pol Pot, he's Stalin, he's Putin.

00:04:12.440 And then I started making fun of it by saying it's more cowbell.

00:04:16.700 Every time they say another name of a new dictator, it's like, more cowbell, because it's just stupid, all the dictator stuff.

00:04:26.880 So I don't think the more cowbell thing had any effect on it.

00:04:30.200 But did it seem like the dictator thing already ran its course?

00:04:34.000 Like it wasn't working, so they pulled back?

00:04:37.660 Does anybody feel that?

00:04:38.960 Or is it just because it was Christmas, so they said it less?

00:04:42.920 I felt like we went big through this, like, wave of dictator, dictator, and it made no difference.

00:04:48.860 And did you see there was a post, it was probably on Truth, but it made it over to Axe, from Trump, in which he had one of these, you know, these graphics that shows your social media, what words are common to your social media experience.

00:05:06.560 And the words that he published about himself were, had, like, dictator as one of the big words.

00:05:13.840 So even Trump is just reading it like a joke.

00:05:16.440 And I think, I think that once the other side realized we were going to treat it like a joke, yeah, word cloud.

00:05:24.240 It was a word cloud that dictated it.

00:05:26.600 So the fact that Trump would actually post that himself, because it's so stupid, kind of tells you it's not working.

00:05:35.680 So that would be an example of dad's home, or dad's coming home.

00:05:43.080 Because it's not so much that it's about Trump.

00:05:45.040 I'm not necessarily saying he's dad.

00:05:47.100 It's just the energy.

00:05:49.260 It's very dad energy to say you're a dictator.

00:05:52.180 And then dad says, yeah, I'm a total dictator.

00:05:56.140 What's for dinner?

00:05:58.320 Isn't that dad energy?

00:06:00.440 Because mom doesn't say that.

00:06:03.180 Right?

00:06:03.980 It's just such a dad thing to say.

00:06:06.220 Oh, you're being such an unreasonable dictator.

00:06:08.640 Well, yeah, I guess I am.

00:06:09.800 Yeah, embrace and amplify.

00:06:15.260 Poor Cowbell. 1.00

00:06:18.020 Well, IBM is being sued by America First for race discrimination against white people and Asian Americans.

00:06:26.040 And it's based on James O'Keefe and his OMG business.

00:06:32.740 He had a undercover video of the CEO of IBM.

00:06:37.280 Now, if you didn't remember, America First is a group that Stephen Miller put together that creates basically lawfare on behalf of Republicans.

00:06:50.740 Because, as you know, Democrats have done a good job of using lawfare against Trump and various other people on the right.

00:07:00.460 And so it's sort of a response.

00:07:04.620 So now there's an entity, Stephen Miller's entity, that will initiate lawsuits wherever it makes sense, I guess.

00:07:12.660 So do you remember how Mike Benz and others told you that what the Democrats did is they would create all these non-government entities that would coordinate with each other to make it look like a small thing was a big thing or to make it look like somebody had support for their thing?

00:07:33.580 So in other words, on the Democrat side, all these fake fact checkers and fake watchdogs and fake think techs, right?

00:07:42.920 And it's just this whole constellation of NGOs and everything, not part of the government.

00:07:47.980 But if you were a journalist and you wanted some support for your bullshit story, you could say, well, this fact checker says this is not true.

00:07:59.760 But the fact checker is sort of artificial and astroturf.

00:08:05.060 So as part of the Democrat strategy, you'd have all these non-government entities that look semi-reasonable to the people who aren't paying attention.

00:08:14.680 So it looks like there's a big, you know, obvious movement in one direction or another.

00:08:21.440 Well, apparently the Republicans have caught on because now you've got this, you know, the OMG group is kind of a watchdog group.

00:08:29.760 with their undercover videos, but they wouldn't be nearly as effective if you didn't have separately Stephen Miller's group, which is going to sue those people.

00:08:40.940 Not all of them, but, you know, that might sue some of them.

00:08:45.620 Dad's home.

00:08:47.540 Right?

00:08:47.660 So no more are the Republicans going to let the, let's say, the opposing team do whatever they want.

00:08:56.420 Now there's going to be a, apparently there's a big pocketbook on that side.

00:09:01.260 I don't know who's funding it.

00:09:02.920 But they've got enough money to sue the people they want to sue.

00:09:07.620 So there you go.

00:09:08.700 So, my other theme about the gears of the machine, now that you understand the gears of the Democrat machine,

00:09:19.740 you can see that the Republicans are building up something like a response

00:09:23.340 using these non-government entities to add intensity and power to a message.

00:09:29.280 Well, here's my segment I'm going to call Backward Science.

00:09:36.780 Backwards Science.

00:09:38.280 Backwards Science.

00:09:39.960 And that's to quote, is it Michael Crichton?

00:09:44.300 When the news says that wet streets cause rain, because they don't know how cause and effect works?

00:09:54.180 Well, here's a provocative statement.

00:09:56.740 I don't know that this is true, by the way.

00:09:58.420 So I'll take a fact check on whether this is true.

00:10:01.880 But John Arnold on X says that vitamin D offers perhaps the most poignant example of the problems

00:10:07.660 of observational studies in all fields.

00:10:12.120 So here's his claim.

00:10:13.460 So I need a fact check on whether this is true.

00:10:16.200 The claim is almost every retroactive observational study shows a strong link

00:10:21.460 between vitamin D levels and health outcomes.

00:10:24.500 Would you agree that whether it's COVID or anything else,

00:10:28.960 whenever you see a bad outcome and you check their vitamin D levels, they're low?

00:10:34.460 It seems like for all kinds of stuff.

00:10:37.080 So naturally, naturally, what would you do about that?

00:10:41.040 Well, you would recommend that people supplement their vitamin D so that they can avoid these problems.

00:10:49.100 How many of you remember that during COVID, I said there's going to be a vitamin D correlation,

00:10:56.780 but it might not be causation.

00:10:59.160 It might simply be a convenient way to know if you're susceptible.

00:11:05.740 In other words, low vitamin D might be a good way to know that anything could get you.

00:11:10.740 But it's not necessarily true that if you raised your vitamin D, it wouldn't get you.

00:11:16.040 So the statement here is that almost every randomized controlled trial of vitamin D supplementation

00:11:24.420 shows little to no benefits.

00:11:27.280 So in other words, it is true if your vitamin D is low, you're far more likely to have a bad health outcome.

00:11:34.120 But it is so far not proven that raising your vitamin D makes a difference.

00:11:39.800 Isn't that interesting?

00:11:43.140 Now, I did see a dissenter say that in the COVID studies, randomized controlled trials did show that it made a difference.

00:11:51.800 So there's some pushback on that.

00:11:54.740 But it might also be that it worked for COVID, but maybe it didn't work as much for other things.

00:12:01.380 Maybe.

00:12:01.920 I don't know.

00:12:02.260 So what we don't know is whether vitamin D is just telling you that there's a potential health problem or it's the cause of it.

00:12:13.080 So backward science.

00:12:15.720 I'm still, my take is I'm going to still supplement vitamin D because I don't know.

00:12:22.060 And my doctor told me to do it.

00:12:25.100 So I don't think it hurts you.

00:12:26.960 I haven't seen the evidence that it hurts you.

00:12:29.880 So I supplemented mine.

00:12:32.260 New York Times is suing Microsoft and OpenAI because it says that the AI trained itself on New York Times material, perhaps even more than other material.

00:12:46.600 So New York Times thinks that their material maybe was a little bit of an extra focus of the training and that that's unfair.

00:12:54.220 And it's a copyright violation, they're trying to say.

00:12:57.200 I don't think they're going to win.

00:13:01.860 I could be surprised.

00:13:03.700 I don't think they're going to win.

00:13:05.440 But what do you do in a world where you can write a book, as I have, and then you can go to AI and tell an SKAI to summarize it?

00:13:17.600 And then it will, because it read the whole book.

00:13:21.940 I did that with somebody else's book.

00:13:23.880 I'm not going to mention the book.

00:13:25.700 But there was a book I was interested in but never had the time to read.

00:13:30.060 So I just opened, I asked Chad GPT to summarize it for me.

00:13:33.500 And it wasn't the greatest job, but with some follow-up questions, I definitely got the gist of it.

00:13:41.920 And so 10 minutes driving my car and just talking to my phone.

00:13:47.100 I just put the phone on Chad GPT's listening mode where it's just always active.

00:13:52.540 And I just have a conversation with it about a book that I hadn't read.

00:13:56.920 Now, did the author get paid for that?

00:13:59.560 Nope.

00:14:00.800 Nope.

00:14:01.120 I managed to absorb the content of somebody's book without them getting a penny.

00:14:08.520 Is that good?

00:14:10.280 On one hand, it seems good, because then everybody can have access to information and isn't that cool.

00:14:17.820 On the other hand, couldn't I have done the same thing just with a Google search?

00:14:24.200 It was a best-selling book, right?

00:14:26.060 So if you do a Google search and a best-selling book, somebody's going to summarize it.

00:14:30.060 And if you go to Amazon, somebody's already written the CliffsNotes version, you know, the summary.

00:14:36.960 As soon as I write a book, somebody writes the fake version of the book, and it appears almost instantly.

00:14:42.720 Right?

00:14:43.000 Yeah.

00:14:43.240 My book has all kinds of fakes, fast books as well, all kinds.

00:14:47.620 The summary version.

00:14:48.720 Don't buy the summary.

00:14:51.120 Let me tell you why you shouldn't buy the summary for my books.

00:14:55.920 More to the point than other people's books.

00:14:59.380 Because when I create a book, I use persuasion.

00:15:03.180 Persuasion is a cumulative thing, meaning that repetition matters, and how you sort of build the persuasion matters.

00:15:13.140 So if I write a book that says, here's a bunch of good things you should be doing, it'll make you more successful and more happy.

00:15:20.580 There's no point in writing that book if you don't do those things.

00:15:23.440 So I have to make it persuasive, so that the process of reading the book is what makes you more likely to do the things.

00:15:32.020 If you read the summary of my book, you're going to see a summary of good ideas, and you'll have no inclination to do them.

00:15:40.320 Because it will have removed, actually, an equal important part of the book.

00:15:45.500 So part of it is what you should do, and part of it is getting you inspired to do it.

00:15:52.960 All summaries of books take out the inspiring part and leave you with a, oh, there's a study that says this is good.

00:16:00.280 And that's not going to help you that much.

00:16:04.400 All right, well, Kanye, who I call Ye, has issued an apology to the Jewish community. 1.00

00:16:10.220 He did it in Hebrew.

00:16:11.420 How many American Jews can speak Hebrew?

00:16:18.220 Like 10%?

00:16:21.060 5%?

00:16:22.940 Most?

00:16:24.980 You say most?

00:16:27.460 American-born?

00:16:33.280 25%?

00:16:34.920 I would think most can do a little bit.

00:16:38.540 They have to, they have to get through that to get, um, yeah, okay.

00:16:46.460 Well, I don't really answer that question, so maybe it could be a lot more than I thought it was.

00:16:50.900 Could be a higher percentage.

00:16:52.720 I don't know how many are fluent.

00:16:55.100 I know they have to memorize certain passages and stuff for their bar mitzvah and bat mitzvah.

00:16:59.980 But beyond that, beyond the bar mitzvah and the bat mitzvah, how many people are fluent who are Jewish and born in America?

00:17:09.900 I'm seeing very low numbers.

00:17:13.900 Anyway, whatever that is.

00:17:15.760 So Ye gave his apology.

00:17:17.800 I'll give you the English language version.

00:17:21.040 And let me see, we're just going to evaluate this on the technique of the apology.

00:17:27.460 So I'm less interested in who likes Ye because of it, or whether he's a bad person.

00:17:34.840 That's some separate conversations.

00:17:36.880 Let's just see if his apology is any good.

00:17:40.600 So there are two parts of it.

00:17:42.620 First of all, so the first thing you'd be looking for is how unambiguously you apologize.

00:17:49.820 Right?

00:17:50.140 You don't want an apology that says, I'm sorry people felt bad.

00:17:55.000 That's a terrible apology.

00:17:57.760 I'm sorry you felt bad.

00:17:59.160 It was a fake apology.

00:18:01.080 Because it says you're not really sorry for the thing you did.

00:18:04.180 You know, you just feel bad that people feel bad about it.

00:18:07.960 So here's what Ye says.

00:18:09.580 Quote, I sincerely apologize to the Jewish community for any unintended outbursts caused by my, for any unintended outbursts, doesn't, the sentence doesn't make sense.

00:18:22.140 I think there's a translation problem.

00:18:23.620 Caused by my words or actions.

00:18:25.780 It wasn't my intention to hurt or disrespect, and I deeply regret any pain that I might have caused.

00:18:31.640 And then he said, I am committed to starting with myself to learn from this experience in order to ensure greater sensitivity and understanding in the future, he added.

00:18:44.580 All right, let's break this down.

00:18:48.200 You think the first part of the apologize or apology was, and by the way, nobody's going to accept the apology.

00:18:55.440 I don't think it'll make any difference.

00:18:57.560 Let's just see how he did.

00:19:00.440 You think the apology sounded sincere?

00:19:02.420 Sincere, yes or no?

00:19:09.960 I'll tell you where he lost it.

00:19:12.980 It's the last part that takes all the sincerity away.

00:19:15.940 You tell me, do you think this last sentence was written by Ye, or by a PR person who told him to say it?

00:19:25.160 Here's the sentence.

00:19:26.160 Who wrote this, Ye or a PR person?

00:19:28.580 Quote, I am committed to starting with myself to learn from this experience in order to ensure greater sensitivity and understanding in the future.

00:19:37.700 Not a fucking chance he wrote that himself.

00:19:40.900 Not a fucking chance.

00:19:43.200 That's not his wording.

00:19:44.700 No.

00:19:44.920 So as soon as you see this came from a PR person, all the benefits are gone.

00:19:51.620 At the same time, he's trying to sell an album.

00:19:56.360 So I'm guessing that selling an album involves working with the marketing department of some album publisher, right?

00:20:05.200 He's not self-publishing, is he?

00:20:07.800 He doesn't independently publish his music, or does he?

00:20:11.560 Does he?

00:20:12.360 Maybe he does.

00:20:14.920 I'm assuming he has to work with some other PR person who said, we can't work with you unless you do an apology.

00:20:21.040 And it looks like they wrote it for him.

00:20:26.560 It looks like they wrote it for him.

00:20:27.880 So, I mean, the fact that he approved it probably suggests that he does feel that a sincere apology was appropriate.

00:20:38.900 So, I feel like his head might be in the right place, that he didn't want to offend people and he feels bad about it and he's sorry about it, probably.

00:20:52.320 But I would say the technique of the apology is so PR professional that I think he lost that X-factor reality, credibility part.

00:21:06.680 So, we'll see if any more comes of that.

00:21:10.700 Well, Bjorn Lomborg tells us that the hurricanes have become, at least the one setting in the U.S., have become less frequent in the current years.

00:21:20.580 That would be the opposite of what climate change predicted.

00:21:24.680 That would be the opposite, right?

00:21:29.460 Now, here's to the machine.

00:21:32.260 Do you now all understand that there's no such thing as a complicated climate model that can predict things such as hurricane rates in the future?

00:21:43.500 You all get that now, right?

00:21:44.920 I think before there was a point where you thought, well, maybe, maybe it can predict that.

00:21:51.480 But no, it can't.

00:21:53.200 That was never even a possibility.

00:21:55.900 There is no such thing as a model with lots of variables that can predict the future.

00:22:02.220 It does not exist.

00:22:04.120 So, I think this is a big change heading into 2024.

00:22:09.260 I don't know if I'm in a bubble.

00:22:11.300 Well, I am in a bubble.

00:22:12.520 But I don't know if it's because I'm in a bubble that I think that the belief in climate model predictability has now gone to practically nothing.

00:22:24.180 Does it seem like belief in models has decreased?

00:22:30.040 Is that my imagination?

00:22:31.360 Do you feel that the persuasion coming from the climate people is far less, look at my model, and far less, oh, it's warm in this place.

00:22:46.720 And now it's sort of pulling back the persuasion a little bit because it's not working.

00:22:52.380 Like the persuasion is not matching the outcomes.

00:22:54.600 And it's just really, really obvious now.

00:22:58.780 Yeah.

00:22:59.300 So, I think this is another case where we see the gears of the machine.

00:23:03.880 And dad's coming home.

00:23:06.420 I guess Rebel News had an article, and I saw Ian, Miles, and John posting it.

00:23:14.940 So, there's a new analysis that's predicting that by 2030, 49% of adults in the United States will be obese.

00:23:22.420 And about a quarter of adults will be severely obese.

00:23:25.680 There is no word if the 24% will be severely obese.

00:23:32.000 I answer the polls exactly the same way.

00:23:34.220 I think it's a different 25%. 0.92

00:23:36.420 But, you know what my first take on this was when I saw that by 2030, 49%, well, basically half of all adults will be obese?

00:23:48.440 I thought we were already there.

00:23:49.940 If you were to subtract New York City and Los Angeles from the base, I think we'd already be there.

00:24:01.300 I don't know how much you travel.

00:24:04.440 But if you travel to the Midwest or upstate New York or Texas, it certainly looks like more than half of the people are obese.

00:24:14.960 But if you go to L.A. and you do a bunch of, let's say, a media tour, you can spend all day in Los Angeles without seeing an overweight person.

00:24:26.080 It's the damnedest thing.

00:24:28.020 You know, you'll see people with eating disorders all over the place.

00:24:32.480 But I remember one day I went to a breakfast meeting with some Hollywood types, producer types.

00:24:40.820 And I remember what they ordered for breakfast.

00:24:45.080 It was like, it was just like the size of, you know, two coins on a plate.

00:24:50.640 I mean, literally, the entire mass, if you had, like, scooped up all the mass of the entire size of the breakfast and just squeezed it a little bit, it would have been the size of an acorn.

00:25:00.660 That was the entire breakfast.

00:25:02.700 Basically, the mass of an acorn.

00:25:04.340 And when I looked at the people across the table, no body fat.

00:25:10.480 Perfect BMI.

00:25:12.380 How do you get a perfect BMI?

00:25:14.320 You hardly ever eat.

00:25:16.320 Because if you eat American, you know, poison food, you're going to get fat.

00:25:20.800 Now, how do you think the news will frame the fact that Americans are becoming obese?

00:25:28.660 Well, I think they'll say things like they're getting older.

00:25:34.160 You know, age has something to do with it.

00:25:36.020 They're going to say their smartphones are making them less active.

00:25:41.180 What is it they're not going to say?

00:25:44.340 Yeah, they're going to say Ozempic might be the part.

00:25:47.320 What are they not going to say?

00:25:50.100 They're not going to say our food sources are obviously poison.

00:25:55.160 I like to say compromised.

00:25:59.100 I like to use poison for alcohol.

00:26:01.160 I like to say compromised.

00:26:03.200 They won't say it.

00:26:04.500 You know why the news won't say it?

00:26:06.980 Same reason the news doesn't attack big pharma.

00:26:10.180 There's big food.

00:26:11.960 Pretty big advertising.

00:26:14.060 Pretty big advertising.

00:26:15.880 So can you see the gears of the machine?

00:26:19.200 Half of the people are so going to basically eat compromised food and have horrible health outcomes.

00:26:29.480 But our news business, because it depends on the food business for advertising, they'll never tell you that.

00:26:35.820 You might never see a story that suggests that our food is compromised.

00:26:43.000 I'll bet you'll never see it.

00:26:45.160 You're never going to see a story that says, perhaps, and I don't know this to be true,

00:26:49.860 there might be a lot of people who have problems with wheat.

00:26:53.380 I don't know the degree of it beyond celiac.

00:26:56.460 Apparently wheat has at least three different kinds of reactions you can have to it that are negative.

00:27:03.260 And celiac is just one of them.

00:27:05.820 So wheat could be part of this bigger story as well.

00:27:11.340 And now, did you see how carefully I had to say that?

00:27:14.060 I have to say I'm not aware of any science that would say there's anything wrong with wheat.

00:27:19.980 Because if I don't want to get Oprah'd.

00:27:22.560 Remember when Oprah got sued by the cattle people, something about hamburgers or something?

00:27:30.240 Yeah.

00:27:30.380 So if you make a claim, even if your claim could be backed up, you get lawfare down the business.

00:27:37.980 So I have to make sure that when I talk publicly, I say I'm not aware of any science that says wheat will be bad for you.

00:27:46.160 I'm not, actually.

00:27:47.500 That's true.

00:27:47.940 I do promote people removing things from their diet at least long enough to test it.

00:27:55.680 So I suggested, for example, to my audience that they should just try a couple of weeks without wheat.

00:28:03.640 Every time you say gluten, you're saying the wrong thing.

00:28:09.420 Let me be clear.

00:28:11.040 If you say, oh, wheat might have a gluten sensitivity, you're on the wrong page.

00:28:17.420 You're on the wrong page.

00:28:19.640 It's a thing.

00:28:20.860 The gluten thing is a thing.

00:28:22.120 But if you don't understand that gluten is just one of three potential problems a person could have with wheat, it's only one of them.

00:28:31.900 And if you don't understand that there's others, you're missing the bigger story.

00:28:36.000 Now, again, I'm not aware of any science that suggests that eating wheat is bad for you.

00:28:43.060 I'm no scientist.

00:28:44.240 I'm no doctor.

00:28:44.820 But I do suggest that because there's a lot of, let's say, uncertainty around it, that you can at least see what it does to you.

00:28:55.120 So when I took wheat out of my diet, which I did recently, all my joint inflammation, back pains and everything just went away.

00:29:04.480 And this is after years of having major inflammation.

00:29:08.920 Now, is it because of the wheat?

00:29:10.620 I don't know.

00:29:11.920 I don't know.

00:29:12.440 I know that after years of no progress getting my inflammation to go away, a few days after I stopped eating wheat, it was gone.

00:29:21.480 It never came back.

00:29:23.240 So that's all I know.

00:29:24.560 But that doesn't mean it's science, right?

00:29:26.500 So I don't want to be sued.

00:29:28.220 Not talking science, just an anecdotal thing.

00:29:31.540 So let me ask you.

00:29:33.980 I asked a number of you to give it a try.

00:29:36.920 And a number of people did.

00:29:38.220 So in the comments, how many of you quit wheat for a few weeks or a month and got some kind of benefit that's obvious?

00:29:47.400 I'll just read the comments.

00:29:49.280 Yes.

00:29:50.040 Now, there are a bunch of people who say no, but I'll just read the yeses.

00:29:53.420 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

00:29:57.600 All right, so I'm literally reading the number of yeses that go by.

00:30:01.440 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, lost 10 pounds, yes, less dandruff analogies, six years ago, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes.

00:30:15.820 Now, is that science?

00:30:18.100 No.

00:30:19.260 No.

00:30:19.820 Could it be a placebo effect?

00:30:21.620 Yes.

00:30:22.780 Yes, it could be.

00:30:23.740 What's the smartest thing to do if you don't know?

00:30:29.360 Should you go research and do your own research and study the science?

00:30:33.560 I would recommend against it because I wouldn't trust any of the science about food because I think the food industry has a little bit too much control over food science in the same way pharma has a lot of control over pharma science.

00:30:50.380 So I would just take it out of your diet and see if you feel different.

00:30:53.740 Here's my proposal.

00:30:58.800 If wheat is a problem for you specifically, you will really, really notice it in two weeks.

00:31:07.400 That's my proposition.

00:31:09.120 It won't be subtle.

00:31:10.900 You'll really, really notice it.

00:31:13.320 Now, you could test it by taking it out for two weeks, put it back for two weeks, see if it's different, and if it really is, then go back to getting rid of it.

00:31:23.740 So don't treat it like you know.

00:31:26.160 Treat it like you don't know.

00:31:27.740 But it's easy to test.

00:31:31.000 So in other news related, the news is reporting that alcohol consumption is way down.

00:31:38.340 So apparently the entire alcohol industry is just getting the shit kicked out of it.

00:31:46.320 Why is that?

00:31:48.220 Well, part of it is the Gen Z, I think, is drinking far less.

00:31:52.600 Part of it is people like me, and by far I'm not alone, but I'm one of a whole bunch of public figures who now say publicly and often that they don't drink even one drink.

00:32:10.380 I've never heard so many people say just casually, in casual conversation, I don't drink, as in I don't drink at all.

00:32:19.820 I've never heard so many people say it as I have in the past year.

00:32:22.760 And maybe, oh, you know what, maybe Trump is the reason.

00:32:27.200 Do you remember when men wore hats in the 60s, and then JFK came along and he didn't wear a hat, and then the whole hat business disappeared?

00:32:39.020 Could it be a coincidence that in the age of Trump, a very famous non-drinker, that drinking goes down?

00:32:49.600 Now, what I haven't seen is that there's a Republican versus Democrat difference.

00:32:54.220 If you saw Republicans drinking less, but not Democrats, then you might think it's Trump, but that hasn't been tested.

00:33:05.580 Here's what I think it is.

00:33:06.660 I think it's a little bit that the science has turned.

00:33:12.320 The science has turned.

00:33:13.840 So what they used to say, oh, a couple drinks a day or one drink a day might be even healthy for you.

00:33:19.840 Now they don't say that because that was never true.

00:33:22.160 Now we know that, you know, even one or two drinks are probably bad for you.

00:33:26.000 The other thing is the pandemic may have changed some behaviors.

00:33:34.000 I don't know.

00:33:34.540 Now, you'd imagine it made people drink more, but maybe not.

00:33:39.020 I don't know.

00:33:39.800 If you stopped socially drinking because you stopped being social, and I think that happened to a lot of people.

00:33:46.860 I think a lot of people drank socially and they just stopped being social.

00:33:50.640 And the drinking just stopped at the same time.

00:33:53.060 I think some of it is weed.

00:33:58.240 Weed being more prevalent, being legalized in a lot of places.

00:34:01.800 I think some number of people replaced alcohol with weed, but it's not really quite a replacement.

00:34:08.760 You know, weed is not really a social party drug, in my opinion.

00:34:12.960 You know, I only use it medicinally, and I don't recommend it to anybody who would only use it, you know, for fun.

00:34:24.220 Don't recommend it for that.

00:34:26.280 All right.

00:34:26.580 But a lot of people are saying alcohol is poison.

00:34:32.800 The phrase alcohol is poison is becoming quite prevalent, and if I'm any small part of that, I feel good about it.

00:34:41.040 Well, I think wokeness is going to look very different in 2024.

00:34:45.780 Believe it or not, this will, are you ready for this?

00:34:51.880 You won't believe this next story.

00:34:54.820 I'm not sure I believe it, but I've got to see it.

00:34:59.820 So Peter Boghossian is posting that MGM is releasing a film that suggests Hollywood is disting itself from wokeness.

00:35:10.520 Now, there's a movie about a black author.

00:35:15.780 Who writes a book, and I guess it didn't do well.

00:35:20.260 So as a practical joke, or just kind of, I haven't seen the movie, so I'm just intuiting what it's about from just some hints.

00:35:30.840 So it looks like the black author decided to use wokeness to get his book published, but he was doing it cynically.

00:35:39.500 So he cynically wrote the wokest book he could, and then all the white people went crazy for it.

00:35:45.780 And it made him really mad.

00:35:47.760 He's just like, damn it.

00:35:49.580 Like, I'm actually a good author.

00:35:51.600 See, I haven't seen the movie, so I think this is the essence of it.

00:35:55.560 So it's a black guy who's getting too much credit for being a black guy, and not enough credit for just being a good author.

00:36:05.580 So it's basically, it's a comedy, it looks like.

00:36:09.220 And it looks like it's a broad attack at wokeness.

00:36:12.340 And the people shown are white people who are just a little too happy about promoting the black woke book that was actually not even a real book.

00:36:25.700 So what's interesting about this is I can't imagine this content ever could have been a movie three years ago.

00:36:33.920 So it does suggest that there's a shift, because this got greenlit in Hollywood.

00:36:42.220 Now, it's only a partial win, because it's still a movie that primarily features black people looking good and white people looking like assholes. 0.90

00:36:51.660 So it's only a partial win, but the partial win is that the black hero of the movie is sort of condemning the wokeness and mocking it himself.

00:37:05.380 So that's pretty good.

00:37:06.760 But it is yet another movie in which the white people are idiots and the black people are awesome.

00:37:13.280 Now, I'm going to give you a recommendation for some content.

00:37:17.920 I think I told you I was watching a series on Netflix called The Diplomat with Keri Russell.

00:37:25.320 Wow, is it good.

00:37:27.220 Oh, my God.

00:37:28.380 It might be one of the best written, casted, directed, best scenery.

00:37:36.880 It is so good.

00:37:38.740 So good.

00:37:39.960 Now, if you give it a chance, let me tell you this.

00:37:43.600 I've only watched the first three episodes.

00:37:45.660 I've only watched the first three episodes.

00:37:47.920 If you're tempted to bail out in any of the episodes, you have to see the last minute of every episode.

00:37:56.180 That's all I'm going to tell you.

00:37:58.080 If you don't see the last minute of every episode, you won't know what happened.

00:38:03.380 It's so freaking good.

00:38:04.960 However, however, it's about a white guy being the evil guy and the strong woman being the hero

00:38:17.760 and the white president being kind of needing to be managed by his black female chief of staff 0.79

00:38:27.820 and the other black guy who's helping the white woman.

00:38:32.560 So I'm going to say this about it.

00:38:37.420 The quality of the show is so good that the wokeness won't bother you too much.

00:38:43.900 And I haven't seen anybody do that before.

00:38:45.840 Like most of the woke movies are just garbage because you can't get past the woke part.

00:38:51.060 This is actually just so good.

00:38:53.500 You'll just like it.

00:38:54.960 Now, here's what I didn't mind about it.

00:38:57.820 I hate the action shows that show a 98-pound woman beating up a 250-pound man who's a hardened criminal.

00:39:08.900 I just go, really?

00:39:10.860 I get that even if it's a male hero, they're beating up more people than one person could beat up.

00:39:17.000 Like I get that everything's exaggerated.

00:39:19.600 But at least if you watch Reacher, you know the show Reacher.

00:39:24.580 It's also a series on Amazon.

00:39:31.560 Reacher is this gigantic guy with muscles who looks like he can absolutely beat up a room full of people.

00:39:38.640 So when he does it, you're like, oh, that looks about right.

00:39:41.220 But if he were a 98-pound woman, I'd be like, come on. 1.00

00:39:44.140 So, that said, amazing.

00:39:50.920 And let me tell you, it's about the ambassador.

00:39:54.800 It's about the ambassador part and the political part, which is really well written.

00:39:59.240 But what has sold me on it is the marriage relationship between the husband and the wife.

00:40:08.520 Oh, my God, that's so good.

00:40:11.280 The writing is spectacular.

00:40:13.940 It's just spectacular.

00:40:14.880 And the acting, the acting is just as good as the writing.

00:40:18.260 It's amazing.

00:40:19.640 You know, you can almost, the guy who plays the husband, he does such a good job of acting.

00:40:27.260 Better than I've ever seen him.

00:40:28.780 I've seen him before.

00:40:29.580 I don't know his name.

00:40:30.300 But he's somebody you've seen before.

00:40:32.420 His acting in that part is so good, you can almost hear him thinking while he's doing it.

00:40:39.080 Thank you, writers.

00:40:41.100 Because the writers gave him, like, gold.

00:40:44.600 They gave him such good lines that it's just crazy.

00:40:49.380 Anyway, nothing about that.

00:40:52.280 The Wall Street Journal board is saying that DEI is being rolled back.

00:40:58.040 So the Wall Street Journal doesn't have any problem having their board, you know, which represents sort of their brand in a way, come out and say the DEI is bullshit and it's being rolled back.

00:41:10.220 It's a pretty big deal.

00:41:12.280 They don't say it's bullshit, but you read between the lines.

00:41:14.780 It's pretty clear that they're not pro-DEI.

00:41:18.340 How about anything else?

00:41:19.760 Oh, Axios.

00:41:21.300 Same day.

00:41:22.060 Axios is reporting that the anti-DEI movement is expanding in politics, business, and academics.

00:41:31.180 So on one day, the Wall Street Journal and Axios both reporting that DEI is being pulled back and it's bullshit at the same time that Hollywood is doing an anti-wokeness movie.

00:41:44.320 How much are you liking 2024 so far?

00:41:46.780 Like, I know there's going to be some challenges.

00:41:51.960 There might be some black swans and some things you don't like, but there's a lot that's looking good in terms of trends, a lot.

00:42:03.840 Kyle Becker reports that the Air Force is fighting back against their, I guess, the new rules is they can't be racist anymore.

00:42:12.700 And they really, really want to be racist, but they're not allowed.

00:42:17.320 So here's a statement from the Air Force Academy.

00:42:22.140 It says, if we lose our limited window to reshape the racial diversity of each incoming class, it would affect our ability to meet the warfighting imperative of fielding a diverse, inclusive force.

00:42:36.160 What?

00:42:38.140 Wait, what?

00:42:39.060 What do any of those words mean?

00:42:42.700 Have I ever explained my phrase, word thinking?

00:42:48.380 This is a classic word thinking.

00:42:51.660 Word thinking is where you try to make some kind of point by putting words together where the grammar works, and you read the sentence, you go,

00:43:01.220 Okay, I know what all those words mean, and it looks like your grammar is okay, but I have no idea what you're saying, because there's no logic to it.

00:43:10.840 But listen, this is a phrase that was the best.

00:43:14.980 It would affect our ability to meet our warfighting imperative of fielding a diverse, inclusive force.

00:43:22.160 There's no such thing as a warfighting imperative of fielding a diverse, inclusive force.

00:43:27.960 What does that even mean?

00:43:29.200 What does that even mean?

00:43:31.920 Imperative for what?

00:43:33.920 Is the imperative to win?

00:43:36.480 Because it doesn't look like the imperative is to win.

00:43:39.080 Do you actually have a military academy that doesn't have a, as their main imperative, winning?

00:43:47.400 I would think winning would be right at the top.

00:43:50.940 No.

00:43:51.620 No, it's somewhere down the list after your warfighting imperative of fielding a diverse, inclusive force.

00:43:58.100 All right, the fact that the Air Force has to weakly and stupidly and incompetently defend their racism is a real good sign, because they couldn't do it.

00:44:12.380 They didn't have anything.

00:44:13.580 There was no pushback, just words.

00:44:15.860 Words in a sentence.

00:44:17.500 Well, I have a good reason why you guys shouldn't be racist.

00:44:20.300 Oh, yeah?

00:44:21.160 Oh, yeah?

00:44:21.880 Well, how about my counter, which is words in a sentence which have grammatical integrity?

00:44:28.100 How about that?

00:44:29.680 Where's your reason?

00:44:30.600 I don't need reasons.

00:44:31.400 I have words in a sentence.

00:44:34.140 All right.

00:44:37.340 How about this news?

00:44:39.500 I'll put this under, the news is fake and no one knows anything about anything.

00:44:45.020 So, John Lefebvre, Lefebvre, I don't know how to pronounce his French-looking last name, Lefebvre.

00:44:53.280 It might be Lefebvre, but it could also be Lefebvre.

00:44:56.700 It could also be Lefebvre.

00:45:00.900 I think I pronounced that correctly.

00:45:04.060 And he points out in the Post on X that the New York Times had a headline in March 2019.

00:45:09.180 So, during the Trump administration, it said that 76,000 illegals came over in a month and we're reaching the breaking point.

00:45:20.540 So, the crisis was reaching a breaking point under Trump when 76,000 illegals came out in one month.

00:45:26.300 Wow.

00:45:27.100 That's a lot.

00:45:28.080 That's a breaking point.

00:45:31.060 Let's see how many came over this month.

00:45:34.760 Well, since October 1st, 730,000.

00:45:40.300 So, under Trump, one-tenth as many people coming over was reaching the breaking point.

00:45:50.780 Under Biden, ten times that amount is not a real problem.

00:45:57.000 Who says it's a problem?

00:45:59.840 Don't you?

00:46:00.400 Aren't we an immigrant country?

00:46:01.940 Come on.

00:46:02.960 It's seasonal.

00:46:03.760 It's seasonal, people.

00:46:05.420 Don't you know it's seasonal?

00:46:06.820 And, by the way, we're handling it fine.

00:46:08.840 There's no problem here at all.

00:46:10.980 So, that's your New York Times.

00:46:14.960 Yeah, the New York Times says 76,000 is a crisis.

00:46:19.760 730,000 is a minor problem.

00:46:22.880 We're working it out.

00:46:23.620 I don't see why you'd complain about that, et cetera.

00:46:27.920 Now, I remind you of my earlier story about New York Times is suing AI.

00:46:34.620 AI, GPT and Microsoft, because they trained it too much on New York Times material.

00:46:42.160 Well, here's some of the material that AI learned from.

00:46:45.520 So, did AI learn that 76,000 people coming across under Trump is a crisis?

00:46:53.360 Did they learn that from the New York Times?

00:46:56.200 Well, if they read the New York Times, they did, because that's what it says.

00:46:59.020 But, not so much 730, that's just being kind to people, basically.

00:47:08.000 I don't see how AI can ever be smart.

00:47:11.500 I just don't see it.

00:47:14.140 Like, I get the basic idea that AI is still in its infancy compared to what it will be in mere weeks.

00:47:21.880 I get that.

00:47:22.460 But, I just don't see, it doesn't seem like incremental improvement could get you smarter.

00:47:31.220 How is it going to be smarter than people if it learns from people?

00:47:36.500 I feel like the more it learns, the dumber it will get.

00:47:39.620 Am I wrong?

00:47:45.580 If you took a human and said, human, I'm going to teach you about the world by sending you in front of the news. 0.62

00:47:53.340 And, you can learn about life from the New York Times and the Atlantic and Forbes.

00:48:00.140 So, here you go.

00:48:01.940 You got Forbes, the Atlantic, and the New York Times.

00:48:04.260 Learn about life.

00:48:05.720 It's all you need to know.

00:48:06.740 It's all right there.

00:48:07.680 That would make you stupider.

00:48:11.300 That wouldn't make you smarter.

00:48:13.500 So, how in the world can we have AI that's smart if it's learning on stupidity?

00:48:19.540 Well, speaking of stupid things, the EU has ramped up their attack on Elon Musk, essentially.

00:48:26.320 They're calling it going after X.

00:48:28.800 And, they're launching formal infringement proceedings.

00:48:33.220 Infringement doesn't even make sense.

00:48:35.820 Like, why are they even calling it infringement?

00:48:40.740 When you hear what they're complaining about, there's no infringement even in the story.

00:48:45.380 It's like, it's so ridiculously, obviously, just going after Musk.

00:48:49.280 And, they're blaming him for failing to counter illicit content and disinformation, a lack of transparency about advertising, and, quote, deceptive design practices.

00:49:03.400 And, they vowed to permanently shut it down if the platform doesn't immediately ban alternative media.

00:49:11.760 Alternative media.

00:49:14.460 Who are they talking about?

00:49:17.020 Me.

00:49:18.640 Me.

00:49:19.960 I am literally alternative media.

00:49:22.300 Now, they're probably thinking Alex Jones and Tucker more than me.

00:49:30.440 But, Tim Poole?

00:49:33.060 I guess Tim Poole can't be on X, huh?

00:49:36.900 Because he's, what, too scary?

00:49:39.440 Russell Brand?

00:49:40.520 Yeah.

00:49:40.760 So, let's get back to my theme, the gears of the machine.

00:49:47.220 Do you see the gears of the machine?

00:49:49.560 So, American media needs to get Trump out of the picture.

00:49:55.260 Musk is running a free speech platform, which, as a side effect, is not going to be suppressing Trump or his followers.

00:50:03.240 So, therefore, Musk must be removed.

00:50:06.820 How do Democrats do that? 0.76

00:50:09.420 Well, if they don't have a legal means to do it, and they don't, they create outside entities, and those outside entities can act in all their lawfare, outside entity ways to help them attack.

00:50:24.200 In this case, they're obviously weaponizing the EU.

00:50:27.380 Let me ask you this.

00:50:29.800 Do you think the EU would be making these actions against Musk if the United States government, specifically the Democrats, had not asked them to do it, or even threaten them to do it?

00:50:44.340 No.

00:50:44.960 I don't think the EU would even care.

00:50:47.340 Would they?

00:50:49.540 I doubt it.

00:50:50.460 No, this is clearly, obviously, the gears of the machine showing that it's an illegitimate attack by the EU-European Union, and it's purely political, and it's anti-free speech, and it's anti-ethical, moral, anti-everything that's good.

00:51:16.980 It's just purely bullshit.

00:51:18.660 Now, would you have known this five years ago?

00:51:26.860 Five years ago, if the EU was going after Musk, would you have realized it was all about Trump and America?

00:51:34.380 Probably not.

00:51:35.660 But now the gears of the machine are really obvious, aren't they?

00:51:39.000 You know, Europe might need a hand from the U.S.

00:51:42.600 Maybe this is what they're doing in return.

00:51:44.480 All right.

00:51:47.780 Here's an interesting thing.

00:51:49.720 So somebody, I guess some people are getting banned from X for breaking the law, which is supposedly the, I think, the only line that Elon Musk says you can't cross.

00:52:00.940 You can't break the law.

00:52:02.340 And the law says, I think, I didn't know this was a law, but you can't advocate murdering civilians.

00:52:08.500 Is that true?

00:52:12.800 I didn't even know that was a law.

00:52:15.920 Is there a law against advocating murdering civilians?

00:52:22.420 Yeah, I'm not aware of it.

00:52:24.040 I don't know what law that would be.

00:52:26.920 So I suppose it would be inciting violence, right?

00:52:29.460 But here's my problem.

00:52:34.780 So let's try to, let's try to, let's say, move the fog into this issue.

00:52:42.600 So let's say somebody says, suppose somebody said, which people did say, the response to Gaza from the IDF should be total annihilation of Gaza.

00:52:56.520 Is that a case of asking for civilians to be murdered?

00:53:02.920 What would you say?

00:53:06.680 Oh, solicitations committed a crime of violence.

00:53:10.700 Well, that's not solicitation.

00:53:13.840 I wouldn't call it solicitation.

00:53:16.480 But maybe somebody would.

00:53:19.540 So what do you think?

00:53:20.660 Is that calling for the murder of innocent people, if you say the response to Gaza should be to turn it into a parking lot? 0.77

00:53:29.400 I would say yes.

00:53:32.120 To me, that seems like calling for war crimes.

00:53:36.480 But that's only if you interpret it literally.

00:53:41.540 Suppose you interpret it the way normal people talk in the normal way.

00:53:45.400 Then it just means go hard at Gaza. 0.91

00:53:49.260 But don't kill any babies you don't need to kill, right?

00:53:52.640 Yeah.

00:53:53.200 If you see it as hyperbole, it just means go hard at whatever country you're mad at.

00:53:58.860 It doesn't mean pave it.

00:54:00.140 It doesn't mean nuke it.

00:54:01.200 It doesn't mean kill all the people.

00:54:03.320 But it can certainly be taken that way.

00:54:06.080 So there's a weird gray area there.

00:54:07.980 So when Elon says, you know, that you don't want to call for murdering people, I had to ask myself if I had done that.

00:54:18.000 So let me tell you what I've done.

00:54:20.420 And then you tell me if I've called for murdering of innocent people.

00:54:26.040 I said that I'm 100% supportive of Israel's reaction to October 7th, even if I might not do every single thing that they do specifically.

00:54:39.300 I'm very in favor of them doing what they need to do.

00:54:44.580 Now, how could they possibly reasonably do what they need to do without lots of casualties of non-combatants?

00:54:53.780 Nobody knows any way to do that.

00:54:56.900 And you could do what you can do.

00:54:59.160 But realistically, it's a war zone.

00:55:01.920 You know, non-combatants are going to be dying.

00:55:04.960 So if I say I'm in favor of military actions which guarantee innocent people get killed,

00:55:13.400 have I not called for the destruction of innocent people? 1.00

00:55:18.680 I would say I have.

00:55:20.100 Now, that's not the point of it.

00:55:24.580 I don't want anybody innocent to die.

00:55:27.180 I wouldn't want anybody to do it intentionally.

00:55:30.140 But I think we have to be a little bit realistic that if you're calling for major military action against Gaza,

00:55:38.320 you know what that includes.

00:55:40.620 I'm not going to say that doesn't include innocent people getting killed.

00:55:44.320 It does.

00:55:45.360 It absolutely includes massive hardship, wounding, death.

00:55:52.080 Absolutely.

00:55:52.780 But I'm in favor of it because the alternative is worse, in my opinion.

00:55:58.240 Or at least the alternative for Israel is worse, which is the subject country. 0.99

00:56:02.800 So I agree with Elon that having a standard of not violating the law is a pretty good standard

00:56:12.240 and maybe the best you can do.

00:56:13.760 So I don't know that I have a better way to do this.

00:56:16.140 But it is a little bit dangerous.

00:56:19.660 I feel that I'm, you know, I'm towing the line, but I'm just only barely on the right side of the line.

00:56:26.440 I feel like it's just, you know, I can very easily accidentally slide over the line.

00:56:33.360 Yeah.

00:56:36.240 And then Musk was sort of challenging and said,

00:56:39.500 which of the accounts on X have called for the murder of civilians?

00:56:43.980 And he was given many examples.

00:56:47.500 But the many examples would be in the category of, say, Laura Loomer saying they should, you know,

00:56:55.800 basically pay of Gaza.

00:56:58.880 Now, do you think when she says that she really means kill all the men, women, and children

00:57:03.080 who are noncombatants?

00:57:05.700 I mean, you have to put a little bit of judgment and reading comprehension into it.

00:57:12.360 I'd say no.

00:57:12.900 But it's just normal hawk talk when there's a military action.

00:57:18.580 It's sort of the ordinary stuff.

00:57:21.460 All right.

00:57:22.120 But I agree it's a bad idea to say it.

00:57:23.920 I just don't think you should be thrown in jail for it.

00:57:28.360 There's a scientific breakthrough where they, I guess some scientists in Sweden,

00:57:34.040 found a way to add electricity to soil.

00:57:37.100 Although I think they're talking about hydroponics, so I don't know if they need my soil.

00:57:40.880 But if they add a little electricity to the growing medium, it boosts the productivity by 50%.

00:57:49.620 So if you have an indoor farm, they've got a technology that can boost your production 50%.

00:57:57.680 Now, I feel like 50%, now obviously, it's not immediately being implemented.

00:58:04.600 There might be some problems, et cetera.

00:58:05.980 But I feel like there'll be more of this.

00:58:09.500 There'll be more of these breakthroughs and getting more food out of an indoor farm. 0.73

00:58:16.760 And I remind you that Elon Musk's brother, Kimball Musk, has a company that makes indoor farming.

00:58:25.600 He had some layoffs, so they're not doing well.

00:58:27.340 But in the long run, you're going to need to grow food on Mars.

00:58:32.900 So whatever Kimball is doing would create probably at least the base for what something like farms on Mars,

00:58:40.100 indoor farms on Mars would look like.

00:58:43.320 So anyway, I'm just going to point you to the fact that there might be huge improvements in indoor farming.

00:58:49.680 That would change everything.

00:58:50.560 Scientists have figured out a way to use near-infrared light to cause vibrations in cancer cells via something they inject into your body

00:59:04.420 that is likely to vibrate because of the light that destroys 99% of cancer cells in the lab, not in a person.

00:59:11.940 And so you probably ask yourself, how did they get that infrared light inside the body?

00:59:22.380 Well, they don't give any details, but I think it's obvious.

00:59:26.260 They put the infrared light into a liquid Clorox, and then you drink the bleach.

00:59:34.960 You drink the bleach.

00:59:36.600 No, don't drink bleach.

00:59:38.460 That'll kill you. 0.82

00:59:39.200 Don't do that.

00:59:40.120 No.

00:59:40.440 No, but apparently you can, I'm told by people in the comments, that this near-infrared light,

00:59:48.880 if you shine it on a human, it has the quality that it can penetrate the surface.

00:59:55.420 So it turns out you can inject light into a body.

01:00:02.840 Yeah, the drinking bleach hoax was, once again, Trump was right. 1.00

01:00:15.680 Bill Barr says that he warns about an abuse of government if Trump gets elected.

01:00:22.800 Do you think that there will be an abuse of government if Trump gets elected?

01:00:26.320 I think there will be an abuse of government no matter who gets elected.

01:00:33.540 Because every president tries to abuse the office until they get stopped.

01:00:41.680 Correct me if I'm wrong.

01:00:43.060 Every president lately tries to do executive orders and tries to start wars that aren't quite Congress-approved.

01:00:53.420 So abusing the law is sort of built into being the president these days.

01:01:03.340 Now, it doesn't mean there won't be counter forces.

01:01:05.360 So the issue is not whether a president would try to abuse government power.

01:01:12.700 Because they will definitely try to do that.

01:01:15.380 The question is whether the checks and balances are good enough.

01:01:20.080 And the answer is, almost.

01:01:23.460 They didn't quite stop Biden.

01:01:26.580 But I do think they stopped Trump.

01:01:29.820 I don't know which abuses of power he did in the first four years.

01:01:33.220 Yes.

01:01:35.360 Well, speaking of bad things, the Michigan Supreme Court has rejected the attempt to take Trump off their ballot.

01:01:44.800 So, which state was it?

01:01:47.400 Was it Wisconsin?

01:01:48.920 No.

01:01:49.480 Minnesota.

01:01:52.460 Said he's off the ballot.

01:01:54.760 But Michigan said he's on the ballot.

01:01:57.280 Colorado.

01:01:57.900 Sorry.

01:01:58.320 Colorado.

01:01:58.620 So, Colorado ruled the lower court did.

01:02:02.300 Well, one of the courts, not the Supreme Court.

01:02:07.320 Okay.

01:02:07.940 I have to admit.

01:02:08.720 I get so bored when I talk about all this court and stuff that I leave out all the clarifying details.

01:02:15.220 Like, what's the state?

01:02:16.420 What's federal?

01:02:17.720 Which state is involved?

01:02:20.040 You know, which court is involved?

01:02:21.660 But just suffice to say that Colorado is trying to keep Trump off the ballot, and Michigan Supreme Court wasn't having any of it, so he'll be on the ballot in Michigan.

01:02:35.680 Now, I'm going to put this in my Gears of the Machine case.

01:02:43.660 Do you think, if it were obvious that Trump were an insurrectionist, and it's obvious that that's reason to keep him off the ballot, don't you think Michigan would have kept him off, too?

01:02:54.500 I mean, the fact that there's one state who says, oh, no, this is bullshit, and then there's another state that's trying to keep him off the ballot.

01:03:03.260 If the only thing you knew is that one state said it was okay, and another one said, we don't think it's okay, what would you do?

01:03:12.780 You would try to keep him on the ballot.

01:03:14.880 But if there's even one state who looked at it carefully and said, yeah, I think he needs to be on the ballot, I think that destroys the argument for another state that says the opposite.

01:03:26.140 Because we always want to err on the side of letting the voters decide, right?

01:03:33.760 So if there's one state that says, let the voters decide, and there's another that says, we don't want the voters to decide, the Supreme Court, and indeed the citizens themselves, should, as one, say, in that situation, where there's that disagreement, you have to let the voters decide.

01:03:56.320 You just can't let the court decide in that situation.

01:03:59.840 But I think we're heading in that direction.

01:04:01.100 Well, Vivek Ramaswamy says he's going to make some news January 15th, that must be when the Iowa caucuses, you call the Iowa caucuses, right?

01:04:14.640 Not a primary, per se.

01:04:17.020 Do I have the right words for that, for a caucus?

01:04:20.780 So Vivek is predicting a win, a win in Iowa.

01:04:25.740 Is that possible?

01:04:26.660 Do you think Vivek could pull it out?

01:04:32.880 It's not impossible.

01:04:35.440 Yeah.

01:04:36.140 It's not impossible.

01:04:38.040 He's talking like he has a better idea of what's going to happen than we do.

01:04:42.380 It would surprise me if he's telling you this and doesn't think there's at least a chance it'll happen.

01:04:49.720 I think he thinks there's at least a good chance it'll happen.

01:04:53.940 We'll see.

01:04:55.100 The caucuses are funny.

01:04:56.600 He must be getting a good, he's probably getting a really good reception there, and so he's got a feeling in his stomach.

01:05:01.680 But at the same time, he's stopped doing TV ads for his campaign because he thinks they're kind of stupid and unproductive.

01:05:12.140 But when you stop doing TV ads, even though the reason he's doing it is that they're stupid and unproductive and he can put the money in better places,

01:05:20.060 what rumors did that spark?

01:05:25.660 Well, of course, it sparks the rumors that he's winding down his campaign and he's really running for vice president,

01:05:31.040 which he says he doesn't run for number two.

01:05:35.220 I mean, he uses his own words for that.

01:05:38.400 But he says that he's not running for the second spot.

01:05:42.020 Now, I think he's telling the truth that he's running for president.

01:05:49.540 I'm sure he's telling the truth that he's running for president.

01:05:53.080 But does he have a plan B?

01:05:57.560 Well, Vivek says he's not a plan B kind of guy.

01:06:00.860 He's running for president.

01:06:02.500 And that's exactly the right answer.

01:06:04.900 It's the right answer if you are only running for president,

01:06:08.160 and it's the right answer if you're not.

01:06:10.120 It's the right answer either way.

01:06:13.340 Because you shouldn't say you're running for vice president, even if you are.

01:06:17.260 Now, I think he's legitimately trying to win the presidency.

01:06:21.380 And like the rest of us, he probably thinks that Trump is only inevitable if the other side lets him run.

01:06:30.140 And there's some question about that.

01:06:32.320 So, well, there's lots of questions about Trump.

01:06:34.800 So, Vivek, you know, positioning himself as the...

01:06:40.120 strongest replacement should something happen to Trump is a real good strategy.

01:06:45.840 Good strategy.

01:06:47.760 So, we'll see what happens.

01:06:50.420 I would not rule out that he's surprised this in Iowa.

01:06:53.920 That could actually happen.

01:06:55.540 The caucus situation is weird, so it could happen.

01:06:58.500 The Amuse account on X, one of my favorites, Amuse, talks about the movie Hidden Figures.

01:07:10.220 Remember the movie Hidden Figures?

01:07:12.100 It was about some black women who worked for NASA. 0.98

01:07:15.660 We were trying to go to the moon, and they were instrumental in a very important way that history ignored.

01:07:21.840 And they didn't get their due.

01:07:26.680 Well, it turns out a lot of that was just made up.

01:07:30.360 Made up.

01:07:31.680 So, in the movie, they have to use separate restrooms. 1.00

01:07:37.120 In reality, NASA was never segregated.

01:07:40.380 Well, during those days, it wasn't.

01:07:41.800 They actually were just full employees who were fully recognized and did a real good job.

01:07:49.400 So, that's the truth.

01:07:51.020 The truth is that NASA treated them like everybody else, and they did a real good job.

01:07:55.440 But the sort of DEI version of it, where the ladies are the oppressed heroes that somehow persevere against all this discrimination, sort of a fake version.

01:08:10.800 But did you know that the Department of Education paid to have it distributed to all the classrooms so they could learn history?

01:08:19.780 That's right.

01:08:21.120 It was presented to children as fact.

01:08:23.020 Well, it was presented to the entire public as fact.

01:08:27.840 So, do you think our children learn real history?

01:08:31.240 Or is it the history that the people in charge want them to learn?

01:08:36.940 No, children do not learn real history.

01:08:40.540 And they probably shouldn't.

01:08:42.460 I'm not sure this is a good idea.

01:08:44.680 But you don't want to teach children real history.

01:08:47.580 They can't really handle that.

01:08:48.980 You need to give them the brainwashed version.

01:08:51.700 All right.

01:08:54.020 Speaking of which, so Netanyahu is talking about de-radicalizing Gaza.

01:08:59.480 But he does point out that both Germany and Japan were effectively deprogrammed.

01:09:07.660 So, as long as they had control over the school system, you just wait 20 years and you've reprogrammed the generation. 0.87

01:09:16.400 So, I will once again back Netanyahu's instinct that you very much can reprogram kids.

01:09:27.300 And I will once again say, does it work with adults?

01:09:31.100 Under 25, you just tell them that the older people are screwing them. 0.99

01:09:35.580 They're just stealing your money and they were always lying to you.

01:09:40.200 And young people are just primed to believe that.

01:09:43.580 They'll believe the last person they hear saying that the one before was lying to them.

01:09:47.900 It just doesn't work with adults.

01:09:50.020 Adults are too locked into their opinion.

01:09:51.740 Yeah, so Netanyahu is right. 0.96

01:09:57.120 They absolutely could introduce, let's say, moderate Islamic clerics and imams or whatever they are, to actually teach in the schools.

01:10:09.120 Now, I think they would have to bring in somebody with religious credibility.

01:10:12.460 So, the leaders of Hamas, you know, of course, make an appeal to religion, but they're not religious people themselves.

01:10:21.880 Like, they're not professionally religious people.

01:10:24.460 You would need professional, you know, religious people to deprogram the kids. 1.00

01:10:31.340 Because it needs to come from God, right?

01:10:34.840 Basically, you need to say, look, these Hamas leaders, they misinterpreted God.

01:10:42.460 You know, they tried, but they misinterpreted it.

01:10:45.600 So, we're the experts.

01:10:47.300 So, we're telling you that they got the God thing wrong and that what you need to be doing is, you know, be nice to your neighbors and that's what God wants.

01:10:57.040 So, you could definitely reprogram youth.

01:11:00.400 That's a very practical thing.

01:11:02.180 What you can't do is rebuild Gaza and let it run the way it was. 1.00

01:11:07.580 You can't do that.

01:11:08.460 So, Israel will have to have complete control over the security situation in the West Bank in Gaza.

01:11:16.880 That's where they're headed.

01:11:18.360 And they're going to have to have complete control over the school system.

01:11:23.100 And without that, they don't have a chance.

01:11:25.340 But I think that's where it's heading.

01:11:28.180 All right.

01:11:28.540 Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the best live stream you've ever seen.

01:11:38.400 And would you agree with my themes that we can see the gears of the machine more clearly than ever before?

01:11:46.100 For example, we can see that the Biden crime family was doing exactly what we thought it was.

01:11:52.340 We know that the 50 people who signed the laptop letter were part of an intelligence op on the public.

01:12:00.860 We certainly can see that clearly now.

01:12:03.480 We know that all the woke stuff was bullshit from the start and really just a power grab and a grifter kind of a thing.

01:12:13.240 We know that ESG was how some rich white people tried to make themselves look like heroes, but was never good for the country, any part of the country.

01:12:24.660 And we've seen that even the election integrity is coming under some, let's say, pretty rigorous questions at the moment.

01:12:40.620 So although there is no proof that the election was rigged, here's something that nobody's ever argued with me about.

01:12:49.840 This is the ultimate kill shot.

01:12:51.400 But what I say, well, we do know that every single institution in America is corrupt.

01:12:59.280 And we've learned that if you didn't already know it, we learned it recently.

01:13:03.860 Except for all of those elections.

01:13:06.840 Huh?

01:13:07.680 All 50 states all run clean.

01:13:10.340 Good for us.

01:13:11.900 Because everything else was corrupt and we know it.

01:13:14.240 But not all of those elections.

01:13:16.720 50 separate, highly political, highly valuable, most important thing we do in this country.

01:13:23.760 I was so lucky that all of that went perfectly.

01:13:26.980 And we know it.

01:13:28.200 And we know it.

01:13:28.900 See, that's the good part.

01:13:30.260 Not only did it work perfectly, the elections, but we know it.

01:13:34.860 We know it.

01:13:35.500 Because, you know, you might say to yourself, common sense requires that you couldn't possibly know if somebody cheated and got away with it.

01:13:43.620 All you would know is that you didn't catch it.

01:13:46.000 So you might say to yourself, no, we only don't know if anybody did.

01:13:51.860 But no.

01:13:54.120 We're being told that we do know that it didn't happen because we didn't look for it and didn't find it.

01:14:01.600 And for a while, people were buying that.

01:14:05.500 People were buying that it didn't exist because we didn't look for it, you know, very hard.

01:14:11.940 So I think that fairy tale is leaving people's minds.

01:14:18.140 So, YouTube, thanks for joining.

01:14:25.120 And I will talk to you tomorrow.

01:14:28.720 Bye for now.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 27, 2023

Episode 2335 CWSA 12⧸27⧸23 Themes Today： Gears Of The Machine Becoming Obvious, Dad's Coming Home

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