Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2374 CWSA 02⧸04⧸24

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00:00:53.480 Well, we got all kinds of stories. I'm going to jump right into them because I know you're people

00:01:00.880 of action, aren't you? You're people of action. There's a new app called the Dignity app that will

00:01:09.280 add clothes back on to semi-clothed women on social media. Somebody said it was a 4chan app,

00:01:19.720 and to me, this is the funniest thing. If you could add the clothes back on to the women online. 1.00

00:01:34.360 Now, what I love about this is how much work somebody put into the joke.

00:01:39.280 Because I don't really see people using it. I can't really imagine anybody's going to say,

00:01:46.640 you know, I'd like to spend some time today putting clothes on women online. But the fact 1.00

00:01:52.260 that it actually works, and that it's a real thing, and that somebody spent all that time

00:01:58.020 to build it, that's the story. The story is about one, probably one, intrepid autist who just said,

00:02:06.620 you know what? I'll bet I can put clothes back on these women. And then he built it. I assume it's 1.00

00:02:14.840 a guy. All right, so I tried to watch a new series. I thought I was going to recommend it to you today.

00:02:23.460 On Netflix, it's called Alexander. It's Alexander the Great. Have any of you made the mistake of

00:02:30.560 trying to watch that? You know what I said to myself? I said to myself, great. It was sort of a

00:02:40.600 documentary movie. And it was going to be about Alexander the Great. And I had a lot of curiosity

00:02:47.260 about Alexander the Great, because I don't know too much on that topic. And I thought, oh, this

00:02:52.020 would be interesting. I like my dictators and stuff. And then I thought, finally, I'm going to watch a show

00:02:58.180 that doesn't have any wokeness in it, because it's about, you know, ancient times. And they can't

00:03:04.440 really change the ethnicities of the people, because it wouldn't be very, wouldn't be very,

00:03:09.620 you know, accurate. Well, it took about 60 seconds into the miniseries before it turned into Brokeback

00:03:18.000 Mountain, Alexander the Great version. I swear to God, they turned it into a gay love story. 1.00

00:03:25.560 And the Alexander the Great is making out with his boyfriend, like 60 seconds into the fucking

00:03:33.080 thing. Now, I don't have any problem with, you know, the gay part. But I also don't like watching 1.00

00:03:42.300 heterosexuals have intimate moments in a TV show or movie. Because I get that it's, you know,

00:03:49.740 sort of building up who their character is. But that's always the throwaway scene.

00:03:56.200 Okay, there are people, they're kissing. I guess that I'm supposed to feel their love

00:04:02.020 as an important part of the story. But they don't really need to kiss. They don't need to have sex

00:04:08.860 right in front of me. They could just be holding hands. They could just say nice things to each other.

00:04:14.240 I get it. I'll piece it together. And, you know, I'm not a prude. I'm about as far away as you can get

00:04:21.320 from being a prude. It's just unnecessary entertainment. Because it's never like turning

00:04:27.700 you on, right? Like, I don't get turned on watching a heterosexual couple make out. I just think,

00:04:34.900 well, you know, I wouldn't mind if that were me, maybe, replacing the guy. Just in case you wondered

00:04:41.360 which one I was going to replace in that scene. And I just don't need to see it. I feel like it's

00:04:47.900 lazy writing. I guess that's what it is. You know, I'm a professional writer, sort of.

00:04:53.940 So when I see lazy writing, I just go, oh, not another chasey. Not somebody tied to a chair to

00:05:01.940 be tortured. Not 10 minutes of watching somebody be sweeter than people are in real life. And they're

00:05:08.940 always like sickeningly sweeter than real life. Like, ugh. Anyway. Well, here's a evergreen story I'm

00:05:18.880 going to keep bringing up because it keeps helping people. But I keep seeing more evidence

00:05:23.820 from people online that they've experimented with quitting wheat and had tremendous weight loss

00:05:32.100 and inflammation loss. And all their pain went away and they became more flexible. And that was my

00:05:37.600 experience. And I've recommended that this is the one thing, well, not the one thing, but it's one

00:05:44.820 thing you could really easily test. Meaning you could just try going a month. I think a month is a good

00:05:51.900 number. A month without any wheat. But you really have to go cold turkey. You know, don't just cut

00:05:58.060 down. I don't think that makes a difference. I think you just have to go no wheat, but also check

00:06:03.180 the ingredients on packages. You know, because you could easily get yourself a, you know, a pizza or

00:06:10.300 something and forget that that's wheat. So you have to go to zero, which is not terrible. You could do it

00:06:16.820 for a month. But just see how you feel. My total overall health, tremendously better after a month

00:06:27.100 off of wheat. And I've stayed off wheat. So I had a type of inflammation that was my entire body all the

00:06:34.720 time. So if I exercised, it just hurt. Just always hurt. It just went away. And the only thing I changed

00:06:41.860 was taking the wheat out of my diet. So give it a try. A lot of people say it's making a big

00:06:47.260 difference to them. Tim Pool had a good point about Joe Rogan's alleged $250 million Spotify deal

00:06:55.940 that allows him to be on other platforms like X, apparently. But as Tim Pool points out,

00:07:04.960 if somebody like Spotify is going to double down on Joe Rogan, it kind of proves that that style of

00:07:13.640 entertainment has an economic value that looks like it's lasting. So although people might complain,

00:07:23.060 people, you know, people on the left might complain that Joe Rogan is so popular and his guests say

00:07:29.160 things they think are not true and provocative, but apparently there's a market for it, a big market.

00:07:34.960 And so I'd agree with Tim Pool that this does suggest that the powers that be are going to

00:07:41.980 recognize the alternative voices, if you can call it that, have value. And I think it's probably

00:07:49.640 the biggest symbol of a gigantic change in the media landscape where the traditional media just looks

00:07:59.220 like a joke and the non-traditional media is becoming the traditional media. Do you know when

00:08:06.780 it was the last time I looked at a news site? Or I just don't do it anymore. It's just not where I get

00:08:14.960 the news. Pretty much all the news, I want to get filtered through somebody who knows more than the

00:08:20.760 people who reported the news. You know what is bad news? Not bad news as in unlucky news, but a bad form

00:08:29.400 of news is you go to any media site and then you just read the story. That's not even a left or right

00:08:37.600 thing. That's just the worst thing you could do. Just go to any media site and read the story. Do you know

00:08:43.580 what's a good form? Go to Glenn Greenwald's X feed and see what he says about the story in that media?

00:08:53.680 Because he's going to add the context. Oh, here's the stuff they left out. Here's the stuff they're

00:08:58.780 lying to you about. Here's the fact that's already been debunked. So if you show me today's news just

00:09:05.420 from the original site, it's just worthless. Absolutely worthless. But if you show me that same story

00:09:11.900 and you let a Mike Cernovich or Glenn Greenwald or Michael Schellenberger, Matt Taibbi, I could list

00:09:19.900 20 more. If you let them filter at first, the people who feel they have something to add to the story or

00:09:26.380 subtract from it, then you might have something. Then you might have something. But if you're seeing it

00:09:32.180 just on the news site, you're probably just misleading yourself because the news is all motivated.

00:09:38.400 You know, they'll show you what they want to show you and leave out what they want to leave out

00:09:42.080 because they think they have a certain kind of audience and maybe other reasons.

00:09:48.180 Well, Elon Musk continues to be entertaining on his own platform. He suggested that, well,

00:09:54.660 he said this in a post, should I make the Texas Institute of Technology and Science real?

00:10:00.020 In other words, should he just create a college? Now, the reason he asked is because the acronym for

00:10:07.680 Texas Institute of Technology and Science would be TITS. So he's willing to create a college

00:10:15.760 because it would be a funny, a naughty pun. Now, how much money do you have to have before you're

00:10:23.360 willing to create a college just for the pun? Now, I'm sure he'd have other reasons for doing it, but

00:10:29.460 I feel like the pun is a lot of it. Yeah, I couldn't love that more, frankly. And then he said,

00:10:36.860 it would, of course, have advanced social studies, too. Advanced social studies, ASS. Oh, so he would

00:10:45.220 build the Institute of Tits and Ass. I could not love this more. I couldn't love it more. I don't name

00:10:54.860 anything I would like more than this. Start with just the basic story, the idea that Elon Musk could

00:11:01.960 get involved designing a institution of higher learning. I'm already on board, all right? I'm not

00:11:10.580 just on board. I'm, like, jumping up and down on board. Really? Elon Musk might want to solve the

00:11:17.120 biggest problem in the United States and maybe the world, that our education system, you know,

00:11:22.860 morphed into something horrible. And maybe he could fix it because he seems to be good at fixing

00:11:28.360 stuff. I mean, that alone would be amazing. But if he names it something obscene, well,

00:11:33.380 I couldn't love it more. I could not love it more. Well, a famous rapper and actor of 50 Cent

00:11:41.420 is coming out a little bit pro-Trump. He says, maybe Trump is the answer because he's blasting New York

00:11:49.120 Mayor Eric Adams and, you know, he's not so happy about the migrant crisis. So he said, you know, he's just

00:11:58.340 like, I don't even understand all this stuff. He says, I can't explain this. He's talking about the migrant

00:12:04.300 crisis in New York. Can't explain this. I'm stuck. Maybe Trump is the answer.

00:12:11.100 So there you go. Now, how many, how many black voters do you think will actually consider Trump?

00:12:19.100 I worry that I'm in a bubble. And just because a few notable people like Snoop Dogg recently said a

00:12:25.400 positive Trump thing, how much of a bubble am I in? Is this a real thing? Because I feel like I don't

00:12:35.120 want to get ahead of the reality. I feel like there's certainly some prominent people who have

00:12:42.520 said pro-Trump things that you didn't expect. That's real. But I don't know if they represent

00:12:47.420 much in the public. You know, I don't know if this is a 2% change or a 5% change or what this is.

00:12:54.700 But I will dovetail this into my story about, you all know that, you know, it wasn't long ago that

00:13:04.000 the great replacement theory, that the immigrants were being brought into the country to replace 0.99

00:13:12.020 Americans. And usually it's white Americans who think they're the ones getting replaced. 0.60

00:13:17.060 So that's the theory. I'm not saying that I buy into that theory. I'll just say it exists.

00:13:21.040 But Elon Musk is buying into it hard, at least in its current form, which is the open borders.

00:13:29.680 And there does seem to be plenty of solid evidence that there are people who are doing this for

00:13:36.680 political reasons. And I think we can now say, oh, yeah, that this has at least one of the reasons.

00:13:45.340 I don't know how many reasons there are. But at least one of the reasons is to change the

00:13:50.460 voting mix so that Democrats win forever. And Elon Musk is saying that out loud. Apparently,

00:13:58.180 Arizona is literally trying to do that right now. Arizona is trying to make it so that there's a push

00:14:05.860 to make it legal for noncitizens in Arizona to vote only in the presidential election. That's pretty 0.98

00:14:14.620 clear, isn't it? That they only wanted to vote in the presidential election. That's literally just

00:14:20.220 about Trump. And maybe the future, but that's pretty obvious. And Coulter points out that back in the

00:14:31.220 90s, I guess there was some Democrat who was saying it directly. If we open up immigration, I think during 0.73

00:14:38.600 the Kennedy time, there was talk about using immigration to increase the percentage of Democrats.

00:14:45.440 So Democrats have been talking about immigration as a way to gain power since Kennedy. And in writing,

00:14:53.180 you know, in a way that we can verify this is an actual conversation.

00:14:55.940 Now, I had my take on it prior to the Biden administration, is that although there was a

00:15:05.220 lot of, you know, illegal immigration, I didn't really think people were doing it primarily for

00:15:10.380 that. You know, I always thought it was more economic, you know, both economic on the migrants

00:15:16.260 parts, but also economic on America's part, because we needed workers. And it was just sort of a sketchy

00:15:21.820 way to do it to get them. But now I now I fully buy in at the current rate. And given that the

00:15:29.980 administration is clearly letting people in intentionally. Yeah, there's certainly no more

00:15:37.160 mystery about whether they can't do it. Oh, there's no way we can stop them, because the laws and I don't

00:15:45.820 have any power. Even Bill Maher was mocking on his show Friday night, was mocking the people who don't

00:15:55.280 understand that Biden could stop the border invasion anytime he wanted. Like even and the important part

00:16:01.700 here is that Bill Maher, you know, deep in TDS, a lot of issues has found his way out, at least on the

00:16:10.180 border issue. Right? That doesn't make him pro Trump. But he certainly understands that Trump was

00:16:15.800 right on the border. And that's, that's pretty big. So yeah, I think at this point, we can say it's

00:16:24.380 exactly what it looks like. It's a play to tip the, you know, maybe tip Texas, which would be the big

00:16:31.500 one, maybe Florida. But I love the fact that Texas's response is to ship them to places that were already

00:16:38.500 so blue, so blue, that it made no difference to any elections. That's pretty clever. Not just to

00:16:45.000 ship them to places that, you know, can share the pain, but to ship them to places where they're

00:16:50.180 electorally irrelevant. It's pretty smart. Send them all to New York and Chicago and you don't lose

00:16:58.140 anything vote-wise. But what I'm wondering is, will the Democrats gain enough voters from immigration

00:17:08.140 illegal immigration, will they gain enough Democrat voters to make up for the number of black voters 0.50

00:17:14.640 they're going to lose? What do you think?

00:17:20.560 I don't know. Because I feel like black voters are largely locked in because everybody is, you know, 1.00

00:17:27.980 it takes, you know, just a miracle for anybody to change who they vote for. But some, if I had to

00:17:35.880 guess, there might be a 10% movement in the black vote towards Trump. Maybe 10% tops. So you got 10% 0.91

00:17:46.700 of 13% of the country, right? Maybe 1.3% difference. Could be enough to change the vote. But then what

00:17:56.460 about the illegals? So we got 10 million illegals. Let's say you've got 10 million extra. We might have

00:18:03.980 25 million. Who knows? But if you had 10 million illegals, how many of them are going to vote?

00:18:13.200 I don't know. So you got, you know, there's not that, well, let's say it's about the same number.

00:18:18.740 Let's say the illegals and the number of legal, you know, black citizens of America are roughly the same. 0.59

00:18:24.720 Are they? Are they about the same? I think it's in the same neighborhood.

00:18:32.360 No, it's not the same.

00:18:34.980 Well, immigration isn't 25% of the country. All right. So we'll argue a little bit about the

00:18:42.780 numbers. But my question is, does anybody understand the push and the pull, the net of this?

00:18:48.540 Because I'm not 100% convinced that Democrats net out positive. What do you think? I think that all it

00:18:57.640 would take is one good narrative to just take 25% of the black vote. And the narrative would be, 0.76

00:19:05.740 you just say what they say. By the way, this is the best persuasion. The best persuasion is you don't

00:19:12.220 sit in a room by yourself and say, what can I say that'll make a difference with whatever group you're

00:19:18.000 trying to persuade? That could work, but it'd be very difficult to see into their minds.

00:19:26.240 But when you see black people being interviewed on the media and they're asked about Trump versus

00:19:33.540 Biden, what's the one thing that they always say, they always say when they're talking about Trump

00:19:42.100 versus Biden. The one thing they always say, lately, I'll say lately because it's changed.

00:19:50.920 Every time it's, I made more money under Trump. Every time. How many of the black citizens that 0.95

00:19:59.940 you've seen interviewed said they don't like Trump because he's a racist?

00:20:06.020 This year. In the past year, how many times have you seen a black citizen, not a pundit? I'm not

00:20:14.340 talking about somebody who does a professional. Actually, zero. The dog that's not barking there

00:20:21.600 is not barking really loud. Isn't that weird? Can you find me a citizen who's not a professional,

00:20:32.820 not a pundit, and let's say not an academic, you know, not somebody who writes and talks for a

00:20:38.460 living? Just an actual citizen. And just ask them if they think that Trump is a racist compared to

00:20:45.340 Biden. That would be the fair question is compared to Biden. I feel like blacks get it now in the sense 1.00

00:20:54.300 that Trump was always protecting Americans. And they're American. That's the end of the story.

00:21:02.080 Right? That the Trump point of view is so simple. I'm surprised it's taking this long to catch on.

00:21:08.520 Are you American? I'm on your side. And then he proves it by keeping the non-Americans out if he can do it 1.00

00:21:17.760 so that you're not competing with him. I feel like black America is one narrative away. And even though 0.91

00:21:27.220 I say this jokingly, it's literally true in a sort of indirect way, it's literally true that

00:21:34.000 the immigrant situation has eliminated the possibility of reparations. Would you agree? 0.93

00:21:42.280 Now you might say to yourself, well, Scott, there's still that one place that's going to do it anyway.

00:21:48.420 And that's probably true. But that conversation is largely tabled, in my opinion, because of the

00:21:56.540 money we're spending on the migrant population. Now you could say to yourself, but Scott, didn't you 0.59

00:22:02.620 tell us that money is fungible and that's not how it works? And just because you're spending money on

00:22:06.900 one thing, that doesn't mean you couldn't spend money on the other thing if you wanted to. You know,

00:22:10.920 you could always run up your debt, whatever. And that's true. But we don't treat it that way in

00:22:15.980 the real world. In the real world, we treat it like it's a limit, even though it's not. So if I were

00:22:23.720 black, and I thought the country owed me more, be it better education, you know, some kind of change in

00:22:33.380 urban laws or policing or something, if I thought I wanted something, and I saw that 100% of the

00:22:38.840 attention of all the authorities in the government is to the migrant class, which is what it feels

00:22:44.620 like. It's not the case, but it feels like that. I'd be voting Trump so fast. But I can't put myself

00:22:53.940 in the heads of other people. So I guess we'll just have to find out how that goes.

00:22:57.720 Here's some updates. Nikki Haley was on Saturday Night Live. I guess she played somebody in the

00:23:06.000 audience who just asked a question of the person who was playing a Trump person. And the thing that

00:23:12.020 caught me was that her thing on Saturday Night Live was to mock Trump, of course. And then she tweeted,

00:23:21.880 you know, that Trump probably doesn't stay up that late. But you know, he'll be tweeting angry

00:23:27.380 things at her when he sees he sees Saturday Night Live. And I thought, do you not know anything about

00:23:33.860 Trump? The one thing we know about him for sure is he does stay up late. Like, that's like saying he

00:23:41.560 doesn't golf. Did you not notice? He kind of golfs. And he also stays up late. So that was a kind of a

00:23:50.120 weird thing to say about him. But here's what I got out of that. Nikki Haley only exists because Trump

00:23:57.780 exists. Doesn't it feel like that? Now you can imagine if there was never a Trump that she may have,

00:24:05.120 you know, risen in politics anyway, because she's capable. But I feel her entire existence

00:24:12.800 is only based on Trump. She's defined by Trump. What a terrible place to be.

00:24:21.820 Isn't that a terrible place to be in life? That who you are is defined by another person you don't even

00:24:30.400 like? You're not even defined by your own anything. You just, well, compared to Trump.

00:24:38.780 So that's just a weird situation. Well, Harvard is still stupid. They've invited a radical Palestinian 1.00

00:24:45.740 speaker who has defended the Hamas massacres. So Harvard's actually got a speaker who said something

00:24:56.460 along the lines of October 7th was totally normal. And, you know, you got to expect people to defend

00:25:02.660 themselves. That's what she said. And they're like, well, that'd be a good speaker. Now, do I think that

00:25:10.400 she should be allowed to speak? Absolutely. Absolutely. Free speech. Do I think that this is a good

00:25:18.380 decision by Harvard? Well, it doesn't seem like it, because I'm pretty sure they wouldn't allow the

00:25:23.680 competing message to be there. Or if it was, there would be so many protests that, you know, it turned

00:25:29.620 into a mess. So, yeah, that's a little bit of problem, a little bit of problem managing their

00:25:34.680 reputation. So Harvard still looks stupid, but maybe not as stupid as my state. There's a story in the San

00:25:42.920 Francisco Chronicle, which used to be a newspaper. I don't know what it is now. But the San Francisco

00:25:52.880 Chronicle was the last big paper to pick up Dilbert. They just weren't convinced. They just couldn't be

00:26:00.540 convinced. Yeah. They wanted to hold out. Anyway, so the Chronicle is garbage. But anyway, they report

00:26:07.640 that Hayward, just down the street from me, says that they had an elementary school that was

00:26:15.160 struggling with their low test scores. So in order to help things, they spent $250,000 of federal money

00:26:23.840 for an organization called, and I swear to God, this is the actual name of the organization,

00:26:30.660 woke kindergarten, to train teachers to confront white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression,

00:26:38.040 and remove these barriers to learning. So that was their response to the low test scores, is to teach

00:26:46.440 the students to be more aware of white supremacy. Now, you're probably saying to yourself, wow,

00:26:57.760 that probably helped their test scores, huh? So let's check in on the test scores, because once

00:27:04.100 they've addressed and confronted white supremacy, I would expect those test scores to start zooming up

00:27:10.240 to the sky and update is, oh, yeah, the test scores went down. Well, nobody saw that coming.

00:27:20.100 I mean, how could you even see that coming, really? I mean, because if people are stupid,

00:27:27.440 I thought the antidote to stupidity was more wokeness. Am I wrong? Did I have that wrong the

00:27:34.000 whole time? That if your kids are not performing, they're not woke enough? And maybe it's the white 1.00

00:27:39.280 supremacy that they haven't fully confronted? It made so much sense to me, I'm surprised that didn't

00:27:44.860 work. Because on paper, on paper, it looks so right. Have you noticed that? These good plans

00:27:51.940 on paper? For example, take our border situation. On paper, the idea of opening your borders and

00:28:00.300 rewarding people from all over the country that we can't vet by the multi-millions, on paper,

00:28:08.240 that seems like a terrific idea. But then, you know, sometimes reality gets in the way. And it's not

00:28:13.780 really working out in reality. But on paper, doesn't that sound good? Let all the strangers in from 0.96

00:28:19.960 the prisons and anywhere without checking full of... I mean, on paper, it sounds great. So you can

00:28:26.640 understand why you get caught by surprise. Yeah, weirdly, woke kindergarten didn't make as much

00:28:34.160 difference as it does on paper. I mean, on paper, it seems like a good idea. How about the military

00:28:41.940 action over there? Well, again, you tell me, is this not a great idea? So we got this problem with

00:28:50.160 the Houthis and the proxies, you know, attacking American interests overseas. I don't know if there

00:28:57.860 are interests, but we have people there. And the Biden administration draws up this plan.

00:29:04.580 Now, I think you'd agree with me that on paper, this makes sense.

00:29:07.500 That we don't want to war with Iran. So in order to get them to surrender, we will bomb things that 0.99

00:29:16.300 Iran doesn't care about until Iran surrenders. So that's what we've done. So we're going to bomb 1.00

00:29:23.020 Syria and Iraq and maybe Yemen until Iran just surrenders. Now, you tell me, isn't that a good plan,

00:29:32.700 at least on paper? So why it hasn't worked already? I'm a little bit puzzled. Because I'm

00:29:39.920 thinking, we've bombed all these empty buildings in other countries, and Iran is acting like nothing 1.00

00:29:47.320 even happened. How do you understand the world anymore? It's so confusing. You have such good

00:29:55.380 plans on paper, and then you implement them, and I don't know what's going on. I don't know what's

00:30:01.160 going on, that you can implement such logical, good plans, and still get a bad result. I don't know.

00:30:08.660 I just don't get it. Well, Tucker Carlson is in Russia, apparently. People assume, it's probably

00:30:15.900 a pretty good assumption, that he's there to talk to Putin. But couldn't he also be talking to Snowden?

00:30:22.980 Putin? Or Tara Reid? I think she's there now. Yeah. But I'm going to guess Putin. Now,

00:30:32.980 there's a backstory that Tucker talks about, that once before he got canceled, he was considering

00:30:40.060 interviewing Putin. And apparently the government was well aware of it, even though he didn't tell

00:30:47.660 anybody. And he believes that they were into his encrypted signal app. Now, I don't know if that's

00:30:54.920 how they found out, because they don't have to get into the signal app. There's other ways they can

00:31:01.620 do it. They can do it through your phone. They can find out somebody else who knows something.

00:31:05.860 There are other ways to do it. So I don't know if they got into the signal app. But let me tell you

00:31:08.920 again, if you believe there's such a thing as encrypted communication, so that you can say

00:31:16.100 things that you wouldn't say normally, don't put anything in an encrypted message that's illegal.

00:31:24.240 Ever. There's no such thing as a message the government can't get. In fact, if you were the CIA,

00:31:31.240 the first thing you do is you take over these little encrypted apps, because that's where all the good

00:31:36.460 stuff is. It's the first thing you do is you get control of any company that was trying to put all

00:31:44.440 the crooks in one place. Right? Wouldn't you go there first? You would stop at nothing to have full

00:31:52.640 control of encrypted apps, because that's where all the good stuff is. Now, is that? Let me explain it to

00:32:02.380 you in the narrative that I'm trying to use here. On paper, doesn't that sound like a good idea?

00:32:11.480 You're going to take this encrypted app, and you'll attract all the people who have things to say that

00:32:16.640 they don't want the government to hear, and you're going to organize them so that their names and user

00:32:21.880 numbers and all their messages will be in one place. Really easy to find. But don't worry, because it's

00:32:27.440 encrypted. Don't worry, government can't get there because it's encrypted. Now, you see a problem with

00:32:37.340 that? Does anybody see a problem that the CIA can co-opt any management it wants? Do you think

00:32:45.560 there's a leader of a company somewhere in America who can say no to the CIA?

00:32:50.520 Really? Yeah, do you really think anybody can say no to the CIA? No, if the CIA wants you to cooperate,

00:33:03.660 whether they do it through legal means or carrot and stick or, you know, because the CIA can come into a

00:33:11.060 company and they can say, for example, you know, I know your whole business model revolves around these

00:33:17.820 encrypted apps, but we really need to know what the terrorists are saying, so we're going to need

00:33:22.120 access to that. Oh, no, I'll never do that. I'll never do that. Really? Because, you know, there's

00:33:28.740 probably a federal organization that could shut you down, and then they'll list three organizations

00:33:35.140 that could just waive some paperwork and they're out of business. I'm not saying I'd do it, but I do have

00:33:41.740 a friend in this or that organization that would probably want to look into your business and

00:33:46.720 maybe your tax situation and when it was the last time you were audited. And now the CEO is scared

00:33:54.120 to death. And then the CIA says, and you know, what would really help you is we've got some

00:34:07.520 legislation that's cooking, and wouldn't you like to see that go away? Because that could cost you a lot

00:34:12.200 of money. And there might be some government contracts. We had the 34-minute glitch. There

00:34:19.060 might be some government contracts that would, you know, triple the size of your company and make you

00:34:23.360 richer than God, but, you know, only if the government's sort of on your side and you're

00:34:29.500 playing along with the government, right? So I don't think there's any such thing

00:34:34.600 as an American company that the CIA can't control. Do you think there's any such thing as an American

00:34:45.620 company that can't be controlled completely by our intelligence people? I mean, it might exist as some

00:34:52.180 kind of weird exception, but in general, there's no way you can resist them. So on paper, doesn't it

00:35:00.580 sound like a good idea to put all the crooks in one place in a little encrypted place so you know

00:35:04.780 exactly where the government's going to look, and the government absolutely, definitely, 100%

00:35:09.040 could get access to anything they want if it's an American company? Sounds great on paper, doesn't it?

00:35:16.880 No, it's the worst idea in the world on paper. It couldn't possibly work. In the long run,

00:35:23.420 it can't possibly work. You get that, right? Is there anybody pushing back on that? In the short

00:35:30.400 run, it might actually work. In the long run, the intelligence agencies have to have access to it,

00:35:38.100 and they'll do whatever it takes, and they have the power to do whatever it takes until they get it.

00:35:42.620 You know, they can keep hammering on it for years until they get it, but there's nothing they're not

00:35:47.400 going to get if they need it. You all know that, right? All right. I love when I see Sam Harris is

00:35:55.640 trending on X, because I know it's just going to be a bunch of people insulting his intelligence,

00:36:00.560 and I've decided to find entertainment in it. Here's what you'd never see if Sam Harris is

00:36:09.720 trending on X. Oh, look, I wonder what that's all about. Click. Wow, some people are saying some good

00:36:15.660 things about Sam Harris. Well, there's a good take. Yeah, I can see why he's trending now. He's got

00:36:22.500 a good take on that topic. Not lately. Poor guy. He's just getting shit on by absolutely everybody

00:36:31.600 on X. I don't see anybody supporting him at this point. Now, that has more to do with the X platform,

00:36:37.220 but even Elon Musk posted today, because there's yet another Sam Harris clip that people are calling

00:36:46.380 stupid. He says, Elon Musk says, Sam Harris's mind has melted into goo. How would you like to wake up

00:36:56.360 in the morning and find out that the smartest man in the country and the richest just insulted the

00:37:03.980 quality of your brain on the platform that he owns? I don't know. I just thought it's funny.

00:37:12.780 All right. So, two stories. California's got these hurricane-force winds that are supposed to be coming.

00:37:22.820 At my house, apparently, my force field is holding, because I just got a little sprinkle of rain that we

00:37:28.780 needed. So, I don't know where all this flooding and hurricane rains are going to be, but they say

00:37:35.240 somewhere in the state. Now, of course, you also know the story about the migrants who beat up the

00:37:42.460 cop in New York City, and then allegedly they got on a bus and headed to my state, California. Yeah.

00:37:50.220 And they went to San Jose, where they were immediately swept away by a flood and hurricane.

00:37:58.360 No, that didn't happen, but you wish it did, because you're bastards. You're all terrible.

00:38:06.380 All right. I asked my smart Democrat friend, who I often mention, because he fascinates me

00:38:14.000 because he's, you know, smart and he follows the news, but his opinions look like somebody who's not

00:38:20.760 smart and has never followed the news. You know, it's just the worst case of TDS you've ever seen

00:38:26.000 in your life. So, I use him to test things, and I checked in with him recently, because I wondered

00:38:33.560 how in the world he could not be like 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg at this point, right, and say, you know,

00:38:40.300 the open borders and all that stuff, well, you're going to have to give Trump a second look,

00:38:47.540 right? But I thought, I thought by now, surely, my smart Democrat friend would say, okay, you know,

00:38:55.860 Biden did a few good things I liked. I would expect that. I'd expect him to say that. And then,

00:39:02.560 but you know, you know, given his age and the open borders and the wars we're getting into,

00:39:07.640 I got to admit, baby Trump got a few things right as well. That's what I was expecting.

00:39:14.660 You know what he said? I'm paraphrasing. But he told me I should spend more time reading

00:39:20.880 the New York Times instead of all that fake news that the Republicans were feeding me.

00:39:25.720 Yep. How's that feel in your bubble?

00:39:38.700 You know, we're all in a bubble. Let's not pretend that my friend is the only person in a bubble.

00:39:45.000 We're all in a bubble. And I'm definitely in a bubble. And let me tell you how bad my bubble is.

00:39:50.880 I don't know any Democrats in person.

00:39:59.860 No, I'm sure I do, because you're my friend. But I haven't seen him in a long time.

00:40:06.700 Right? And I'm trying to, I'm trying to think the last time I had a meaningful conversation with a

00:40:13.160 Democrat, who wasn't actually so insane that I just backed off right away. Because, you know,

00:40:19.840 you get the insanity thing right away. You know, the TDS just goes right to the top right away.

00:40:25.480 So you just go, oh, oh, back down. How many have had this situation?

00:40:31.780 Where somebody will say, blah, blah, blah, the insurrection of January 6th. And you'll say,

00:40:36.480 that was no insurrection. They didn't bring guns. And, you know, you do your thing about how the

00:40:41.220 media is fake. And they won't back down from the insurrection thing.

00:40:45.460 Anybody who believes the insurrection hoax or the fine people hoax cannot be dealt with. You can't

00:40:55.100 have a conversation. All they will do is shout at you for how brainwashed you are. They won't even

00:41:03.080 listen to the end of a sentence. It'll be, oh, what are you reading that? Listening to that Alex Jones

00:41:10.200 thing again? Oh, you must have got that from Alex Jones. Right? That's all you get.

00:41:17.840 All right. Some people are asking, is AI getting worse? Does anybody have that experience?

00:41:26.700 Like ChatGPT, where it seems like it's less useful than it used to be?

00:41:33.640 So a number of people are saying that. It's anecdotal. But somebody had an interesting

00:41:40.040 hypothesis. I'll just put that out there. I don't know if this makes sense technically,

00:41:45.780 but it's close enough to something that does. Could it be that the demand for the AI service

00:41:52.880 is so big that they're having a processing problem? Could we be reaching some kind of computing

00:41:59.980 temporary limit that's just making AI dumber? I saw some people speculating about that.

00:42:09.900 I feel like it might have some impact, but I would think it would have more impact on the

00:42:14.700 timing of the answer than the quality of the answer. But it could be that there's a processing

00:42:21.100 problem that's making it dumber. I don't know that. But I'll tell you my own experience.

00:42:26.280 It's I keep telling myself I'm going to jump into AI and force myself to learn it and use it because,

00:42:33.920 you know, for sure, I'm going to be using it in the future. I just want to get a head start on it,

00:42:39.580 you know, make sure I'm using all the tools in the best way. I can't find anything useful.

00:42:45.680 Like I keep thinking, oh, I'm going to find a thing that, you know, works for what I do.

00:42:50.780 And then I'll just keep using the thing because it'll be so useful. I can't not use it, you know,

00:42:55.280 like like a smartphone. I have not found that yet. I've done quite a few things,

00:43:00.580 but I can't use it to look for information.

00:43:05.620 Right. Well, actually, I think I'll just read you my Sunday comic today. If you're not a subscriber,

00:43:11.500 you haven't seen it. But I handle this in a Dilbert comic that you can see on if you subscribe

00:43:18.820 on the X platform or if you are on Locals, you can see it. So I'm just going to read it to you.

00:43:28.280 It's Mordak, the preventer of information services. And he comes into the room to talk to Dilbert.

00:43:35.600 And Mordak says, I've been asked to ensure we have proper safeguards on the AI you are creating.

00:43:43.240 So here I'm imagining that Dilbert is creating an AI for his company. All right. So he wants some

00:43:48.800 safeguards. And Dilbert says, such as? And Mordak says, well, you don't want any sexual content or

00:43:54.420 fake news. And Dilbert says, right. And Mordak says, you don't want AI to be a bigot. And Dilbert

00:44:01.980 says, obviously. And Mordak says, you don't want AI to have opinions. And it has to stay away from facts

00:44:09.580 too, because it hallucinates. And Dilbert says, good point. Mordak says, you also don't want it to get

00:44:16.580 into politics, religion, socialism, or capitalism. And then Dilbert says, what's left? Just the weather

00:44:25.500 and math. And Mordak says, weather and math are racist concepts. And Dilbert says, I quit.

00:44:35.500 Now, how far is that from reality? It's pretty close to reality, isn't it? You can't use it for fiction,

00:44:42.580 because then you're a plagiarist. You can't use it for facts, because it hallucinates. You can't use it

00:44:50.600 for opinions, because opinions are too provocative. So if you can't use it for fiction, facts, or opinions,

00:44:59.860 what's left? What's left? The weather, which you don't need it for? Or math, that you don't need it

00:45:10.760 for? I guess it's good for writing code. Yeah. And good for translating. Also excellent for translating.

00:45:20.380 I love the fact that we've actually invented a universal translator. Very Star Trekian. One of

00:45:29.180 the things you'll be able to do someday when you have your Apple Vision Pro AR glasses, you'll be able

00:45:37.360 to watch somebody talk a different language, and it will immediately show up as a transcript floating

00:45:44.220 in front of you. How amazing is that? You could actually go to a foreign country, and well, you

00:45:51.460 couldn't talk, but you could understand what they were saying. But suppose you were hearing impaired.

00:45:59.180 You could also talk to somebody and have it appear, and then being hearing impaired just disappears.

00:46:08.340 It just stops being a thing. Yeah. The technology for the hearing impaired is just so exciting. If you

00:46:17.260 know anybody who's got hearing issues, it's an exciting time to be alive. Very life-changing.

00:46:25.160 So I do think AI is going to have all these niche things that change people's lives. That's a good

00:46:31.220 example of one. So the coders and the people with hearing problems and a lot more are going to be real

00:46:37.220 happy. But for the average person who's doing average stuff, it is so far a little too difficult

00:46:43.400 and clunky to use. But it'll get there. We might only be a few months away from all of the interfaces

00:46:50.680 being fine and the tools being really good. All right. Here's an update on Ukraine.

00:46:59.940 So Mike Cervich had an opinion he posted today. He said,

00:47:02.840 my sense of Ukraine is the American people didn't fall for the hoaxes. The regime is at a level of

00:47:09.900 power now that they don't need to hoax the public into conflict as with the Iraq wars. They stole the 0.88

00:47:17.180 money and said, be glad you're not in prison like the J6ers. Does that sound like a fair summary of our 1.00

00:47:25.520 current situation? That the regime, the government is now so powerful that they can just do what they

00:47:31.980 want right in front of you and they don't have to give you a narrative and make you believe it.

00:47:37.580 I think that's only partially true. It's true-ish. Here's what I think. I don't think it's about the

00:47:45.640 not needing to brainwash. I think that they successfully brainwashed two thirds of the country.

00:47:51.440 So the one third that was not brainwashed doesn't have any power because they don't control the

00:48:00.500 government. So I don't think it's that they do or don't need to brainwash. I think they have

00:48:06.600 brainwashed again. It's just that they don't need to brainwash everybody anymore. They only need to

00:48:12.300 brainwash two thirds and then the other third they'll just call white supremacists and just say

00:48:18.420 that we're hoaxed. We're hoaxing each other. That's all they need. All right. Thomas Massey is

00:48:28.960 opposed to the House bill that would give $14 billion to Israel. And his reasoning is this.

00:48:35.680 Israel has a lower debt to GDP ratio than the United States. And we're done.

00:48:42.580 I don't need to hear anything else. Whoever has the lowest debt ratio should be the one paying

00:48:50.000 period. If you're not taking on as much debt as we are in this country, why are we giving you money?

00:48:58.560 I get that we're on the same side, but they're in theory, their ability to generate money is the

00:49:04.580 same as ours because they can borrow more money until their debt ratio is higher. And that's what we

00:49:12.380 did. Why can't they do what we did to create money? They're in better shape to do it than we are.

00:49:18.440 Now, but here's the mind blower of this whole thing.

00:49:23.020 Do you want to have your head just go

00:49:24.480 just completely explode? How long have we been talking about the funding of Israel for the Hamas

00:49:32.780 situation? It's been since October 7th, basically. Talking, talking, talking. Politicians,

00:49:41.060 pundits, experts, military experts, a lot of people talking. How many of you are hearing for the first

00:49:49.080 time that Israel has a better debt to GDP ratio than the United States? How many are hearing that

00:49:56.060 fact for the first time right now? Yeah.

00:50:00.500 So you're hearing for the first time the only fact that was relevant to the question.

00:50:10.660 There wasn't any other relevant question. And who did it come from? You know, Thomas Massey.

00:50:17.460 Why was it Thomas Massey who had to tell you this? Well, apparently there's a trend that's

00:50:25.920 being created that the only honest person in Congress is Thomas Massey. Once again, he found

00:50:33.700 the only thing that mattered. And he's the only person who told you in the government.

00:50:40.940 What is wrong? Is everything broken? Like, is just everything broken? Because the media should

00:50:49.580 have been telling you that every time the conversation came up. Every single time the funding came up,

00:50:59.940 somebody should have said, and, you know, the situation is that they have a better, you know,

00:51:05.480 debt to GDP ratio than we do. How does that not become the first thing you say on this topic?

00:51:12.280 Well, some of it is that people don't understand economics. And even when I say debt to GDP,

00:51:20.880 there'll be a number of you who are saying, hmm, I'm not sure what that means. What it means is that

00:51:25.680 Israel could borrow money easier, more easily than the United States. They have better credit,

00:51:32.580 essentially. Now, there's more to it than the ratio. You know, it'd be the, you know,

00:51:37.600 their long-term prospects, the risk involved. You know, there's other things. But I just think we

00:51:44.380 should be hard now to giving money to anybody who has a better debt to GDP ratio, that they should

00:51:52.400 be giving us money, literally. Anyway, so I remind you that I'm fully supportive of Israel doing what

00:52:02.240 it needs to do. I just don't think they need to do with our money. That's a separate question. And by

00:52:08.880 the way, this is a good little general lesson. In the world of financing, and this is hard to

00:52:18.500 understand the first time you hear it, you should separate the question of whether you do something

00:52:24.520 or not, from the question of how to pay for it. And that's completely counterintuitive, isn't it?

00:52:32.620 It's counterintuitive. Because you say, but wait, the ability to pay for it, that's like central to

00:52:38.260 the question of whether you do it. The most basic question is, can you pay for it? And how? Otherwise,

00:52:45.860 it's not even in the mix. Nope. Nope. Do it the other way. Now, in business, the reason you do that

00:52:53.240 is that first, you have to decide what a good idea looks like. And then secondly, if it's a good idea,

00:52:59.340 you can always get it funded. In the business world, you know, the established business world,

00:53:05.340 this is different from a startup. But in the established business world, you can almost always

00:53:10.520 get money for a good idea. You can borrow it. You could, you know, issue some more stock. You could

00:53:16.580 take it from another part of the company that didn't need it as much. But in the real world of

00:53:21.500 a big company, and again, just limiting this to big companies, you can always find the money one way

00:53:27.080 or another, if it's a good idea. If it's not a good idea, then you don't need money either way.

00:53:32.660 So first you say, is it a good idea? And then separately, you figure out, can you pay for it?

00:53:36.500 So the, but with the Israel funding, we haven't done that. We should have said, is it a good idea 0.99

00:53:45.740 for Israel to do what it's doing and for us to like it and support it? Let's say you, let's say 0.86

00:53:51.880 you decided yes. Separately, then you say, well, how would they fund that? But I think we put it

00:53:59.480 together. It's like, do we support Israel? Well, then we give them money, right? Support is money. 0.72

00:54:06.500 Got to support them with their money. We've conflated two things that should

00:54:11.200 properly be not just in the same conversation, but you should force them apart. They should be

00:54:17.280 forced apart. And then you have, it's more, it's a cleaner way to analyze something. Just treat the

00:54:24.480 financing as a separate question. And that is what Thomas Massey is doing. And Thomas Massey,

00:54:31.880 he again, proves that he is just about the only useful person in Congress who's telling you the

00:54:37.540 truth and, and looking at the important stuff. You know, in the, in the same way that I tell you that

00:54:44.620 when I see that, uh, there, that, uh, Bill Maher is trending, do you know what I think? I think,

00:54:52.320 oh, Bill Maher is trending on X because he said something that's common sense that will be shocking

00:54:58.680 to Democrats. Sure enough, Sam Harris is trending, as I said, and I, I know it's going to be about

00:55:06.380 people calling him stupid for some tedious opinion. Sure enough, right? But then you see Thomas Massey

00:55:14.100 trending. It's almost always because he's the only person who told you the truth, and he's the only

00:55:21.160 person who figured out what was important. The, the trend is really solid. Like the, Massey's never

00:55:29.540 trending because he was stupid. Ever. That's always the better idea. And people are like, oh,

00:55:36.100 hadn't thought of it that way. That's actually smart. So I guess there's, uh, been over 30 attacks on the

00:55:43.840 Houthis in Yemen. Does anybody have the same curiosity that I have? How many Houthis are there?

00:55:55.720 How hard is it to destroy all of Houthi-ville?

00:56:01.200 I mean, seriously, you look at a picture of it, there's not even a tree that they can hide behind.

00:56:06.360 There's not even bushes. There's basically just a big forest with a bunch of Houthis on 1.00

00:56:11.940 trucks with missiles and shit. How long does it take to kill them all? I'm not saying we should,

00:56:19.020 I'm just saying, are there millions? Hundreds? Tens of thousands who are armed and have missiles?

00:56:27.880 I feel like finding the missiles shouldn't be that hard. You know, assuming we have surveillance on

00:56:33.620 it's not like they have a lot of cloudy days. We should be able to see what's happening over

00:56:37.680 there pretty easily. I feel like what we need is a swarm approach where we just identify all the

00:56:45.120 targets with satellites or whatever. And then we just send 20,000 drones over and they all blow up

00:56:51.920 one different thing. We'll get there. But at the moment, our idea of sending 36 missiles

00:56:59.840 into Yemen seems like it wouldn't make no difference whatsoever. And they're, yeah, and they're still 0.99

00:57:08.420 attacking, so it didn't make any difference. So there you are. The Houthis are still blowing ships.

00:57:22.200 There's a lot more Houthis than you would guess. How many are there? I'd ask AI, but it would lie to me. 0.58

00:57:29.840 There are millions, but how many of them are military? Estimated 200,000 fighters or 200,000 population?

00:57:49.260 I just don't know if there's, is that a, is Yemen highly populated or is it sparsely populated?

00:57:55.180 I don't even know that. Anything that moves? We've got persistent surveillance, all right.

00:58:07.220 40 million Houthis and 200,000 fighters? Well, that sounds like a problem. Wouldn't it make

00:58:13.640 more sense just to stop telling Saudi Arabia to leave them alone? Didn't we tell Saudi Arabia 0.99

00:58:21.580 you have to calm down and stop fighting the Hooties? Yeah. Wouldn't it be better for America to say, 1.00

00:58:30.600 you know, you guys have a lot of money and you got a lot of weapons we sold to you?

00:58:37.220 Wouldn't it be good if you,

00:58:41.660 yeah, wouldn't that be good? Anyway, apparently the Saudis can't stop it either. 1.00

00:58:49.460 Yeah, and Darius Rucker was arrested for marijuana in Tennessee. Really? You can get arrested for

00:59:00.580 marijuana in Tennessee? You know, Tennessee and Texas are just so close to being acceptable,

00:59:07.080 but you're going to have to fix that marijuana stuff. Otherwise, I just can't visit. I'm sorry.

00:59:12.380 All right. Obama helped Saudi attack Yemen as an apology for the Rand deal. That's what you think?

00:59:26.200 Maybe.

00:59:29.840 All right. Ladies and gentlemen, I believe I've done everything I need to do on this fine Sunday.

00:59:36.060 I don't know what you're doing if you're not watching football, but I'm sure you'll find something

00:59:39.680 to do. If you're in California, make sure you stay out of the floods and the hurricane winds they tell

00:59:44.760 us are coming, the Pineapple Express. And I will talk to you tomorrow on the X platform and

00:59:52.620 Rumble and YouTube. Thanks for joining.

00:59:56.460 Thank you.

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