Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2448 CWSA 04⧸18⧸24

00:00:00.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

00:00:15.800 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.

00:00:17.400 I'm pretty sure you've never seen a better thing in your entire life.

00:00:21.920 And if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody could even understand

00:00:26.120 with their tiny human brains,

00:00:28.060 All you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass of tank of Charles Stein,

00:00:30.920 a canteen jug of flask, a vessel of any kind,

00:00:32.900 fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:00:33.960 I like coffee.

00:00:35.160 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure,

00:00:38.360 the dopamine at the end of the day.

00:00:39.720 The thing makes everything better.

00:00:42.160 It's called the simultaneous sipping.

00:00:43.920 It's going to happen now.

00:00:44.800 Go.

00:00:48.960 Oh.

00:00:51.820 Well, everything's perfect now.

00:00:53.640 So, speaking of coffee, there's a new study that says it's good for your liver.

00:01:00.440 Well, you should have asked me, because I could have told you,

00:01:05.000 coffee is good for your whole body, every single part.

00:01:09.400 It's good for your teeth, your hair, your bile.

00:01:13.880 It's good for the things that are just passing through.

00:01:17.080 Coffee, is there anything it can do?

00:01:20.060 Good for your liver.

00:01:20.780 Well, there's a study also that says that mentally stimulating work can stave off dementia.

00:01:28.240 And that's why I'm here.

00:01:30.040 I'm here for the medical benefits.

00:01:32.760 Now, it would be financially possible for me to retire and sit around doing what?

00:01:41.060 Potting?

00:01:42.780 What would I do if I were retired?

00:01:45.560 This is my favorite thing I do.

00:01:47.720 I mean, your favorite thing intellectually, let's say.

00:01:51.620 And I definitely feel, so I'll give you this as sort of a beacon for you who are younger.

00:02:01.540 I actually feel that at my current age, I'm the sharpest I've ever been.

00:02:06.720 But not entirely.

00:02:08.620 Meaning that I know I learned things faster when I was younger.

00:02:12.400 And maybe, you know, maybe a little more creative or something.

00:02:16.540 I'm not sure, but maybe.

00:02:19.280 But I can tell that if you were to just compare my ability to understand and navigate the world today to any time earlier in my life, it's definitely better.

00:02:31.620 So, I can tell you at my current age, I don't feel like I'm losing.

00:02:36.740 I don't think I've lost a step.

00:02:38.960 The energy is definitely down.

00:02:41.420 Definitely not as much work all day.

00:02:44.580 Don't need to sleep energy.

00:02:46.520 But generally speaking, I'd say my mind is right where I'd want it to be at this age.

00:02:51.420 And that has everything to do with the fact that I push it.

00:02:55.560 So, every single day, I'm doing something intellectually that's a little bit harder than what I can do easily.

00:03:03.900 So, it probably works.

00:03:05.920 I recommend it.

00:03:07.460 Last night in the man cave, I broke some brains.

00:03:11.020 You may know, I'm not going to talk about free will or argue it here because everybody's bored with that.

00:03:16.600 But I'm going to tell you just something that happened when the topic came up in the man cave last night.

00:03:21.000 That's a private live stream for the subscribers of my scottadams.locals group.

00:03:28.120 And what I told them was they can't learn to author the simulation until they lose their illusion of free will.

00:03:38.620 And people said, what?

00:03:40.800 How does that even make sense?

00:03:42.840 What does free will have to do with, you know, managing the simulation?

00:03:47.440 If we are in a simulation, what's any of that even mean?

00:03:49.940 How's it connected?

00:03:51.380 Well, here's how it's connected.

00:03:54.220 If you believe you have free will, you're living in an illusion.

00:03:58.380 And if you're living in an illusion, you can't control your reality because you don't know what it is.

00:04:04.440 You have to understand your reality before you can author it.

00:04:08.360 And free will is one of our most persistent illusions.

00:04:12.020 Now, you might say to me, but Scott, that's not making sense.

00:04:16.080 Because if you're authoring your environment, that sounds a lot like having free will.

00:04:21.000 So you're saying, I have to say, I have to understand I don't have free will to actually author the environment, which would be like having free will.

00:04:32.220 Like, how does that even make sense?

00:04:33.500 Here's how it makes sense.

00:04:35.600 When you learn you don't have free will, that becomes a permanent part of the structure of your brain.

00:04:43.360 I think you all understand that everything you learn becomes a physical structure in your brain because if it weren't physical, you wouldn't have the memory.

00:04:52.940 Everything you know, everything you learn, everything you learn, everything you remember is physical.

00:04:58.120 It's physically in your brain.

00:04:59.660 If that part of your brain got damaged, that part would be gone.

00:05:02.940 So if I teach you, hypothetically, that free will is not real, that too becomes a permanent structure in your brain.

00:05:14.220 And it's that permanent structure, along with some others, that are necessary to author the simulation.

00:05:22.020 So another way to say it is, you'll understand it once you get there, if you do.

00:05:29.860 Once you understand that free will isn't real, then you enter a world in which it seems like you can control your simulation or your environment just by what you want and what you focus on.

00:05:41.660 Will that be free will?

00:05:45.300 It will feel like it.

00:05:48.240 It will feel like it, and you will have a better experience of life.

00:05:52.640 But it won't be free will, and you'll understand that.

00:05:56.600 All right.

00:05:57.280 There's allegedly a cyber attack that looks like a pretty big one in the United States.

00:06:02.700 Chuck Colesto is talking about this.

00:06:04.780 A number of states have a complete failure of their 9-11 system right now.

00:06:08.440 And there's some indication that it might be an attack, maybe a line cut or some other kind of cyber thing.

00:06:15.260 Does it seem to you that that might be Iran?

00:06:22.600 Is it possible that's an Iranian reaction, and they're just giving us a warning shot? 0.95

00:06:28.480 Maybe.

00:06:29.700 I don't know.

00:06:30.420 So we have to suspect the worst, because we've let in so many terrorists into the country.

00:06:36.020 Who knows what they're up to?

00:06:37.240 But if I were planning some major thing in the United States, cutting all of our 9-11 services would be a really good terrorist way to scare the hell out of us. 0.57

00:06:49.560 Because if you could imagine cutting the 9-1-1 service before a terrorist attack, that would be pretty messed up, but would also speak to state actors.

00:07:01.480 Because it's sort of too big of a play for an individual terrorist.

00:07:07.300 So if something happened that looked like an Iranian terrorist attack in the United States, and if it happened after this alleged rumors of 9-11 going down, that would look like a pretty sophisticated attack. 0.83

00:07:22.220 Which even if we couldn't identify who did it, we would probably suspect a state actor, because of the complexity.

00:07:31.500 Now, this is all speculation.

00:07:33.180 I'm not even entirely sure there's really a 9-11 problem.

00:07:36.680 So wait for confirmation for any of that.

00:07:39.440 That's not yet confirmed, I think.

00:07:41.520 Well, James O'Keefe of O'Keefe Media Group has another scoop.

00:07:48.080 And by the way, I just want to give you a little warning.

00:07:52.160 That in the Dilbert Reborn comic that you can see only if you're a subscriber on X platform.

00:07:57.760 See my profile for the link.

00:08:00.020 Or on scottadams.locals.com, you'd see the Dilbert Reborn comic.

00:08:03.760 And it will soon feature Wally dating James O'Keefe.

00:08:10.120 He doesn't know it, because James O'Keefe will be undercover.

00:08:14.960 But Wally is going to give up too much information to James O'Keefe.

00:08:18.740 That's coming.

00:08:19.720 I haven't drawn it yet, but it's coming.

00:08:22.160 Anyway, so O'Keefe has another scoop.

00:08:24.740 Talk to somebody inside the Biden administration who believes that maybe the real power in the administration is the chief of staff.

00:08:33.760 Jeff Zients, he's, accordingly, he's the second most powerful person in Washington.

00:08:40.020 I guess that would mean that Biden is the most powerful.

00:08:42.840 But that Biden is basically a puppet and says whatever Zients tells him to say.

00:08:49.360 And Zients used to be a Facebook board member.

00:08:53.680 So everything's connected.

00:08:55.840 And you can't get anything done unless you get the chief of staff sign off.

00:09:00.120 Is that really that different than every other presidency?

00:09:06.000 Isn't it generally true that if you want to get the president to agree with you about anything, first you have to sell the chief of staff?

00:09:15.660 Isn't that business as usual?

00:09:17.400 I thought that's sort of the job of a chief of staff, is to make sure that everything goes through that person and gets filtered before the president even sees it.

00:09:27.240 Anyway, so maybe it's much worse under Biden.

00:09:31.260 It seems like it might be.

00:09:32.460 But then there's also indication from the same source that Hillary Clinton is still deeply involved advising.

00:09:40.540 And that, yeah, maybe she and Obama still have a much bigger influence because they have connections to the people who work in the administration. 0.99

00:09:50.100 I think that's true.

00:09:51.040 So I would say that this scoop fits almost exactly what I thought was true, which makes me worry about it a little bit because it's a little bit too on the nose.

00:10:05.100 You know, didn't you assume that there was probably one person and maybe the chief of staff who is running things?

00:10:10.580 And then maybe Obama and Hillary were, you know, advising from the outside.

00:10:18.440 So maybe it's exactly what it looks like.

00:10:21.560 Tucker Carlson had an ex-CIA guy on, Pedro Israel Orta.

00:10:29.520 He worked for the CIA during the Trump administration.

00:10:32.600 And they said that the CIA didn't even want to recognize him as president.

00:10:36.380 They didn't even want to put his picture up in their offices for a long time.

00:10:41.620 It became controversial to even have his picture in your office.

00:10:46.260 Now, do you think that the CIA is on the same side as the president?

00:10:51.900 Not in that case.

00:10:53.780 Nope.

00:10:55.520 Nope.

00:10:56.000 It doesn't look like it.

00:10:57.940 It looks like the CIA has its own agenda.

00:11:00.520 All right, here's a story that I'm going to laugh at this every time I see it because you're going to see this story in a hundred more forums in a hundred more places.

00:11:11.820 And every time I laugh at what's left out.

00:11:15.200 Here's a story from Politico.

00:11:19.580 That Trump is gaining with young people and especially young men.

00:11:24.160 So Trump has almost closed the gap with young men.

00:11:31.100 And basically it's a whole story about all the groups like people of color, et cetera, who are moving toward Trump.

00:11:40.480 But then it says that Biden still has a strong hold among, you know, other groups such as white women and black voters and some of the group.

00:11:54.920 Now, here's what's missing with the story.

00:11:57.860 The headline is always that they're about dead even in the national polling.

00:12:02.420 You know, they're within a few points no matter, depending on the poll.

00:12:05.360 And yet every sub story is about a major group that's moving toward Trump.

00:12:13.320 And there's never a story, I believe not one, in which anybody was moving toward Biden.

00:12:20.820 So look for this in the stories.

00:12:23.200 The story will be this group has massively shifted toward Trump.

00:12:28.640 But they'll never mention anybody who's moved toward Biden.

00:12:31.940 And yet the total number stays the same.

00:12:37.520 How is that possible?

00:12:41.120 You know, at a certain point it's possible because if Trump is catching up, it makes sense as part of the catching up story.

00:12:50.140 But they've been dead even for a long time, haven't they?

00:12:53.820 If they're dead even for a long time and one of them keeps gaining in subcategories that are really big ones, how can they stay even at the top line?

00:13:06.160 There's definitely something wrong here, right?

00:13:09.460 Am I the only one noticing that the top line doesn't change when all the bottom line changes?

00:13:15.400 How's that?

00:13:16.140 It's not possible.

00:13:17.720 Unless there's something unreported.

00:13:19.760 So unless there's some group that's moving toward Biden that we're not being told about.

00:13:26.960 And I don't think that's the case.

00:13:28.800 Do you?

00:13:30.140 Have you heard of any story of any demographic moving toward Biden?

00:13:35.140 I've only heard that he has a commanding lead in some group or another, but I've never heard that they're increasing the lead.

00:13:41.140 Yeah, there's something very wrong with everything we're being told about these numbers.

00:13:48.620 Something very wrong, very suspicious.

00:13:53.180 Well, here's the weirdest story.

00:13:54.840 I don't even know what to think about this, but Jim Brewer was on Roseanne's podcast.

00:14:01.120 And Jim Brewer had worked with Dave Chappelle at one point.

00:14:04.900 And here's what he says.

00:14:07.640 This is what Jim Brewer says.

00:14:09.120 So you all know the story about Dave Chappelle at his popular TV show.

00:14:13.520 And then he, instead of taking a big offer to renew it, he just disappeared and went to Africa for a while.

00:14:20.220 And everybody said, what's wrong with him? 0.92

00:14:22.120 Is he crazy? 0.76

00:14:22.960 What's going on?

00:14:23.780 And Jim Brewer says that Dave Chappelle told him in private that an elite group of people came to him and sat him down to, quote, correct him.

00:14:36.140 And that was a phrase used, to correct him.

00:14:40.440 And then he suddenly went to, he vanished and went to Africa. 0.71

00:14:46.720 And that when he came back, he was different.

00:14:48.700 Do you think that an elite group of people sat him down to talk to him and correct him?

00:14:57.860 And that that was so, such a dangerous situation that he had to leave the country?

00:15:04.260 How many of you believe that's true?

00:15:09.880 I don't believe that's true.

00:15:12.340 Yeah.

00:15:13.100 I'm going to say no on this one.

00:15:16.320 Yeah.

00:15:16.800 I won't, I won't say it's impossible, but until you hear from Chappelle, you should probably treat it like it's not true.

00:15:27.680 If Chappelle says it, I'm definitely going to pay attention.

00:15:32.360 Now, you should, now, obviously, if this is true, he wouldn't say it, right?

00:15:36.460 Because the whole story is he would never tell you because it's too dangerous, whatever it is, whoever this group is and whatever it is they wanted.

00:15:43.320 But does anybody even have a theory for why anybody would have wanted to stop Dave Chappelle?

00:15:50.400 What the hell was Dave Chappelle saying that was so dangerous?

00:15:54.640 Or what was he doing that was so dangerous?

00:15:57.080 Was he outing anybody?

00:15:59.020 Did he, was he outing a pedo ring or was there anything he did that was controversial that I'm not aware of it?

00:16:07.940 So, I'm going to say I don't believe that story.

00:16:14.100 That would be my take.

00:16:15.140 That's my current take.

00:16:15.980 I give it a 75-25.

00:16:18.640 75% chance.

00:16:20.460 No.

00:16:21.100 25% chance.

00:16:22.580 Maybe there's something there.

00:16:24.600 But I don't know who that elite group is, for sure.

00:16:28.020 All right.

00:16:28.400 On the X platform, Christopher Friant tells us that it looks like MidJourney, the AI program that does movie-like clips, may have scraped images from major TV, film, and streaming studios.

00:16:45.560 And then some examples were shown where it looks like AI is creating images that appear to be clearly cribbed from real movies and TV.

00:16:55.200 You know, maybe changed a little bit, but clearly came from that inspiration.

00:16:59.680 To which I say, what did we think was happening?

00:17:04.420 How else would it train?

00:17:06.320 If you're training a thing to know how to make a movie, you know, the way that people would expect a movie to look, what did you think they were training it on?

00:17:15.100 Do you think they were training it to make movies by showing it real people?

00:17:19.100 That wouldn't teach you how to make a movie.

00:17:21.060 You would have to look at movies.

00:17:22.540 Of course it looked at movies.

00:17:26.500 How in the world do you think it didn't?

00:17:29.140 But isn't that exactly how a human director works, a human writer?

00:17:34.000 A human movie maker can't do the job without looking at a whole bunch of movies first.

00:17:39.280 His movies are formulaic.

00:17:41.360 Even the scenes, even the visuals are formulaic.

00:17:44.980 Right?

00:17:45.120 There are only so many angles that you can shoot a scene.

00:17:48.700 And once you've seen them, that's all there is.

00:17:51.740 So there isn't any other way you could have trained AI to make a movie other than making it look at movies.

00:17:59.180 But the real question is, if it looks at a movie and then tweaks it enough, isn't that new art?

00:18:07.160 So let's say it looks at a movie scene where it was blocked down a certain way.

00:18:11.640 It's like, oh, there's a tracking scene and it shows the star walking through a crowd.

00:18:15.600 And then the tracking shot goes from above.

00:18:19.200 You know, you could imagine that it would use the same, let's say, schemes and techniques, but change the characters and change the movie and change the lighting and everything.

00:18:29.760 It would be a new scene.

00:18:32.360 So, but this is part of a larger topic, which I like to bring up, which is, if anything can stop AI, it'll be lawyers.

00:18:39.440 Because lawyers are just going to be all over AI.

00:18:44.160 In fact, the only way that AI could survive, in my opinion, is that it was created by a company that became so big so quickly, it would have infinite assets to fight the legal battles.

00:18:55.880 If you were a startup in your garage, let's say Brian Ramelli comes up with his own AI model, it wouldn't be hard to stop Brian, just one person.

00:19:10.180 All you need to do, too, is lawfare him out of business and, you know, he would give up.

00:19:15.120 But you can't really lawfare out of business, a multi-billion dollar company.

00:19:18.860 So, if AI had not become somewhat instantly a multi-billion dollar asset, it would have been killed in his crib by lawyers.

00:19:27.900 But at this point, it's bigger than lawyers.

00:19:31.080 It's sort of the Uber method.

00:19:33.260 The Uber shouldn't have been able to work because it couldn't really compete with taxis because it was illegal.

00:19:41.080 It was just against the law.

00:19:42.420 But they became so big so fast that the lawyers didn't have time to, like, catch what was going on.

00:19:49.300 And then they had so much money that they could fight lawyers and beat them because they had more money and more lawyers.

00:19:57.040 So, look for that situation.

00:19:59.580 There are some businesses that you just can't do if you start small.

00:20:03.940 You almost have to start big.

00:20:05.480 That's what Uber and AI both did.

00:20:08.660 They started big.

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00:21:12.660 There's more science that says that hugging can ease your pain, anxiety, and depression.

00:21:16.860 Let's add this to the science that you could have skipped by asking Scott.

00:21:22.840 Scott, we were thinking of putting a whole bunch of money into studying hugging to see if it makes you feel better.

00:21:30.920 Well, you don't have to do that because I can tell you it definitely does.

00:21:35.140 Oh, thank you.

00:21:35.980 You just saved us a lot of money, Scott.

00:21:37.620 So really, if you were to compare the entire field of science to just asking me for my opinion, it'd be about a wash.

00:21:47.900 I don't get them all right, but neither does science.

00:21:51.820 Science is about a 50% proposition at best.

00:21:56.240 You know, papers that are peer-reviewed and accepted are only right about 50% of the time.

00:22:02.120 How often am I right?

00:22:03.500 Well, on most of the lifestyle stuff, I'm right almost every time, almost every time.

00:22:11.560 For example, will there be a study coming up that shows our food supply is not healthy for you?

00:22:19.120 Yes, there will.

00:22:20.260 Even today, there was another study showing that there's too many things in your food supply.

00:22:25.160 Do you think I could have told you that?

00:22:27.000 Yes, I could have.

00:22:28.360 100% right.

00:22:30.240 Do you think they'll find out that alcohol is bad for you in any amount?

00:22:34.740 Yes.

00:22:35.600 And I could have told you that because I did 20 years ago.

00:22:39.940 So, yeah, hugs are good for you.

00:22:41.780 Surprise!

00:22:44.200 All right.

00:22:44.720 And again, the funniest story, which I'm going to keep telling you about, even if you don't like it, is Bri.ai and his new Orifice AI device.

00:22:53.600 Now, it's a sex toy, and the funny part is what the public is responding to.

00:23:00.200 So, it's becoming sort of a public, at least on X, a public battle where people are so mad about trying to be living in a world where men would be using these devices.

00:23:12.920 Now, here's what's hilarious.

00:23:15.240 I forgot that the name of the product is Orifice.

00:23:19.500 He actually named the product Orifice.

00:23:23.400 And it's a partial replacement for women, like human women. 1.00

00:23:32.340 It's just called Orifice.

00:23:33.860 And here's the funny part.

00:23:36.680 It's so insulting. 0.91

00:23:39.320 It's so amazingly insulting that he's building a company to replace some portion of human women with a hole.

00:23:48.840 Now, I'm not saying that's a fair characterization.

00:23:58.640 All right.

00:23:58.940 So, I'm not giving you my opinion on women here.

00:24:02.360 That has nothing to do with this conversation.

00:24:04.660 I'm just saying, what could be funnier than launching a product to replace much of human women with a hole? 1.00

00:24:12.060 And then you name it.

00:24:16.620 You name the product after the hole.

00:24:20.400 Orifice. 1.00

00:24:22.920 You know, at least when women make a sex toy. 1.00

00:24:27.560 Yeah, the most popular sex toy for women is called the Womanizer. 1.00

00:24:31.560 The Womanizer. 1.00

00:24:33.300 Hmm.

00:24:34.020 Sounds like it was created possibly by a woman. 0.96

00:24:36.560 Or at least women were involved in the marketing and naming of it. 1.00

00:24:39.340 Because there it's like, woman. 0.99

00:24:42.400 Yeah. 0.98

00:24:43.200 Womanizer.

00:24:44.480 Yes.

00:24:45.280 Go, ladies. 1.00

00:24:46.060 You don't need men. 0.66

00:24:47.800 When they're replacing men, they're like, yeah, go, ladies. 1.00

00:24:51.640 Go, ladies. 1.00

00:24:52.600 You don't need men. 0.66

00:24:53.560 You can do it yourself with a womanizer. 1.00

00:24:56.520 Yeah. 0.70

00:24:56.880 You're more woman than you've ever been. 0.95

00:24:58.940 You're womanizing now. 1.00

00:25:01.600 But then when a man creates a sex toy, it's a hole. 1.00

00:25:06.520 Yeah. 1.00

00:25:09.340 I could be laughing all day about this.

00:25:12.700 Anyway.

00:25:14.020 So if you're wondering, can somebody replace human women, at least in terms of men's sexual appetites, 0.80

00:25:21.860 how many human women can be replaced by a hole? 1.00

00:25:24.500 And I'd say about 40% already in racing.

00:25:31.520 And here's the funniest one.

00:25:33.500 Some angry woman. 1.00

00:25:34.860 I saw this the other day.

00:25:36.060 There was an angry woman who was attacking Bride.ai for his product, the orifice. 1.00

00:25:42.060 And just gave him a whole bunch of trouble for it.

00:25:47.180 And he was saying he was basically going to replace women.

00:25:52.620 And Bride.ai's response was, and I quote, you should have been nicer to me in high school.

00:26:00.440 So he invented a replacement for women. 1.00

00:26:09.200 It's called the hole or orifice. 0.94

00:26:13.940 All right.

00:26:14.780 I'm just saying the whole thing is so funny because it's so offensive intentionally that people aren't catching on that it's intentionally offensive.

00:26:26.140 So they're reacting.

00:26:27.800 They're reacting as though they don't know that they're the marketing.

00:26:34.320 Anyway.

00:26:35.720 ESPN's Stephen.

00:26:38.640 Is it Stephan?

00:26:39.560 I never know.

00:26:40.160 Is it Stephan A. Smith?

00:26:41.660 Is he a Stephan or a Stephen?

00:26:45.200 That name always confuses me because it can go either way, right?

00:26:48.700 Stephan?

00:26:50.200 I don't know. 0.98

00:26:51.300 So Stephan or Stephen A. Smith says that the people going after Trump with lawfare are a bunch of cowards. 0.82

00:26:59.540 And that all you're doing is showing that you're scared you can't beat him on the issues. 0.95

00:27:04.460 Everything you do shows me you can't beat him.

00:27:07.260 And he says it's giving fodder to the argument that the election is rigged.

00:27:15.500 I'm being told it's Stephen.

00:27:17.600 So we'll say Stephen A. Smith.

00:27:21.640 So he's completely right.

00:27:27.020 He's completely right.

00:27:28.760 If your argument is that the elections were not rigged, then trying to rig it with lawfare right in front of the entire world while you're arguing that the election wasn't rigged, but you're rigging it right now?

00:27:43.520 I mean, legally, legally, because the lawfare stuff is not itself illegal.

00:27:48.440 It should be because it's being used illegally, but probably won't be, you know, actually prosecuted in any way.

00:27:54.400 But, yes, he's completely right.

00:27:57.540 If you're going to rig the election right in front of the entire public, everybody can see it.

00:28:03.660 We all know that the lawfare is about the election.

00:28:06.540 It's not about anybody having broken any laws that anybody cares about.

00:28:10.220 Nobody cares about Stormy.

00:28:12.280 Nobody.

00:28:13.360 Nobody cares about his phone call.

00:28:16.820 Nobody cares about the loans he made to banks that were very happy to do business with him.

00:28:22.040 Nobody cares about any of it.

00:28:23.200 Nobody cares about his documents at Mar-a-Lago.

00:28:27.820 Not really.

00:28:28.700 I mean, not real people.

00:28:29.880 Nobody really cares.

00:28:31.180 So it's obvious that it's all political.

00:28:33.740 And, yeah, he's right.

00:28:34.980 But here's what I would have to say about Stephen A. Smith, and I apologize to him for getting his name inaccurate at first.

00:28:44.700 That's what a leader looks like.

00:28:47.940 I always say that black America doesn't have a leader.

00:28:51.280 Now, they do have, you know, people who are prominent, but they're really not good at it.

00:28:57.520 You know, they're not good at it like Obama's good at it.

00:29:00.120 And Obama's, you know, sort of in the sidelines.

00:29:02.920 The lover hate Obama.

00:29:05.300 He was real good at the leadership stuff.

00:29:07.800 Right?

00:29:08.200 You don't have to like where he led, but leader.

00:29:11.120 Definitely a leader.

00:29:12.620 And I would say that Stephen A. Smith has that leadership thing.

00:29:17.220 I'm not, and it feels like he's suffering from the Spider-Man curse.

00:29:22.980 You know, the Spider-Man curse, with great power comes great responsibility.

00:29:27.180 I can't read minds, but when I see somebody as capable as Stephen A. Smith, and when I hear him talking the way he's talking about the big issues, it feels like he just realized that he's the one who knows how to do it.

00:29:42.640 He actually knows how to show leadership.

00:29:44.300 So, he's modeling it.

00:29:47.400 It's actually very impressive.

00:29:49.380 So, if he someday runs for office, and don't fool yourself.

00:29:55.580 I don't think he's a Trump Republican, is he?

00:29:58.920 He's just showing you that he can see the whole court, which is really rare.

00:30:03.480 And then, having seen the whole court, he tells you what to do about it.

00:30:07.060 That makes sense.

00:30:08.880 Also, very rare.

00:30:10.520 Very rare.

00:30:11.600 So, yeah, he's got the real deal.

00:30:13.220 If he ever ran for office, I would definitely like his chances.

00:30:18.320 I would like his chances if he ran for office.

00:30:20.960 That doesn't mean I'm going to agree with him on policy, but, wow, he's capable.

00:30:25.360 Anyway, I like to see capable people do well.

00:30:29.400 Tim Poole tells us that his Timcast IRL show, three of his older shows from three years ago, just got strikes against them.

00:30:39.260 There were shows with Michael Malice, Joe Rogan, and Real Alex Jones.

00:30:43.220 Now, do you think that that's about something Timcast did, or they're just trying to suppress those three other people?

00:30:52.000 Now, we know that they've, you know, there's been some move to suppress, you know, pro-Trump voices.

00:30:57.440 But I'm wondering, is this move mostly against Timcast?

00:31:02.220 Because I'm trying to think, is Timcast the last serious independent voice that hasn't been taken down by the bad guys?

00:31:14.200 It seems to me like it would be obvious that Tim would get targeted by the bad guys to be taken down for some, you know, lawfare or social media reason or some hoax or get canceled or something.

00:31:32.900 I would imagine that there's, like, a whole team of people working on just putting Tim Poole on a business.

00:31:38.620 Do you think that's true?

00:31:40.160 Do you think there's an actual team, like professionals, being paid by somebody to look at ways to put him out of business?

00:31:49.100 I think yes.

00:31:51.240 Yeah, I think yes.

00:31:52.300 There are people who are paid from somebody.

00:31:56.400 It could be the CIA.

00:31:57.600 It could be just Democrats.

00:31:58.760 That's two-point amount of business.

00:32:01.580 That's what it looks like.

00:32:03.840 So here's another story.

00:32:05.760 There's, I guess, Dubai has been doing some cloud seeding and maybe they went overboard and caused a bunch of flooding.

00:32:12.980 Do you think they can actually geoengineer the atmosphere and make it rain where they want it to?

00:32:21.020 I don't know.

00:32:22.060 I have mixed feelings about it.

00:32:24.800 On one hand, I think it's inevitable.

00:32:26.500 We'll definitely be managing the atmosphere eventually.

00:32:31.620 On the other hand, I think maybe we're not ready.

00:32:34.320 So we might, you know, destroy the world trying to make it better.

00:32:39.140 So I think it's going to happen.

00:32:41.060 It has to happen.

00:32:41.960 It's inevitable.

00:32:44.960 But it's dangerous.

00:32:45.980 So we'll keep an eye on that.

00:32:49.660 Zuby is talking about the obesity rates on X.

00:32:54.680 And he gave us that little chart of what the obesity was.

00:32:57.260 Let me show you the rate.

00:32:59.460 So this is from 1975 to current and then projected.

00:33:04.060 So 1975, there was a 12% U.S. adult obesity rate.

00:33:10.000 12%.

00:33:10.400 You've seen all those old pictures of people in New York City in the 30s or whatever it is.

00:33:16.220 And it looks like 100% of them are thin.

00:33:21.680 But 12% by 1975, that sounds about right. 1.00

00:33:25.040 You know, I was there.

00:33:26.440 That feels about right.

00:33:28.080 12%.

00:33:28.600 1985, it was 15.

00:33:31.040 Not much difference.

00:33:31.960 So in 10 years, a little bit of creeped up, crept up.

00:33:35.380 By 1998, it was up to 25.

00:33:37.820 2020, 2014, it was up to 35.

00:33:41.220 And by this year, it's up to 42% adult obesity.

00:33:48.380 42%.

00:33:48.900 And it's projected that by 2031, it will reach 50%.

00:33:54.240 Now, I'm here to tell you it's much worse than that.

00:33:58.900 Because it's not evenly distributed.

00:34:04.240 There are states and regions where the obesity rate is really close to 100%.

00:34:10.380 I remember visiting the facility where my ailing father was, you know, in his last weeks of life.

00:34:21.180 And it was a medical facility, you know.

00:34:23.500 And I remember sending his room for hours because I went to visit.

00:34:27.400 It wasn't much to do because he was mostly just, you know, sleeping at that time.

00:34:32.240 And I would just watch the people walk by in the hallway.

00:34:36.280 And I started noticing, wow, there's some big people who work here.

00:34:40.960 And then I said to myself, what was the last time I saw somebody who wasn't gigantic?

00:34:46.240 And I just sat there and watched people walk by his room in the hallway.

00:34:49.800 And I just said, obese or not obese?

00:34:54.080 They were all obese.

00:34:55.800 All of them.

00:34:56.480 Upstate New York.

00:34:57.860 Every one of them was obese.

00:34:59.580 I think there were a few, you know, maybe 18-year-olds who weren't.

00:35:03.340 You know, some people had, you know, part-time jobs and stuff.

00:35:05.780 But every adult over 30 was a big old barrel-sized person.

00:35:12.120 So if you go to L.A., for example, if you're in the Hollywood area, you won't see the obesity.

00:35:20.820 If you go to New York City and walk down the street in Manhattan, not a ton of obesity.

00:35:28.280 If you fly in an airplane, you know, you always hear the complaints about the big person in the seat next to you.

00:35:35.460 But it's kind of rare.

00:35:37.940 Beyond a certain size, people just don't fly.

00:35:40.760 I mean, they do, so you hear the story, but it's rare.

00:35:45.200 So airports are more thin people than large.

00:35:49.320 There are some cities that are more thin people.

00:35:51.940 And if you take them out of the mix, out of the average, yeah, your obesity is probably 75% below a certain income level.

00:36:01.080 Now, it's also related to income.

00:36:02.440 I would bet that below $100,000 a year, I'll bet it's close to 75% obesity.

00:36:12.440 That's my guess.

00:36:15.180 Anyway.

00:36:15.860 So did you know that one of the most influential people in American politics is an 88-year-old Swiss guy?

00:36:27.040 Well, that's something I learned today.

00:36:28.920 You know, we all hear about George Soros putting so much money into things and influence them.

00:36:33.720 Well, apparently there's like a George Soros Jr., whose name I never heard, Hans-Jorgo Wiss, 88.

00:36:43.240 And he's this billionaire who's been putting in hundreds of millions of dollars into American stuff, similar to the Soros kind of activities.

00:36:52.120 And to the point where he's one of the most important people in the country, he's not even in the country.

00:36:59.520 He's a Swiss guy.

00:37:00.740 So the GOP is trying to crack down on this loophole that lets foreign donors put all this, what they call the dark money, into U.S. elections.

00:37:10.560 Anybody who thought our elections are determined by the will of the people, do you feel silly that you ever believe that?

00:37:19.220 This is the stuff.

00:37:20.720 There are like 15 to 20 effects that determine completely who gets to become president and what the law is.

00:37:28.200 And none of them are the will of the people.

00:37:30.740 It's all just different stuff.

00:37:32.660 It's just money and lawfare and, you know, how they rig the system.

00:37:37.440 Rig meaning the laws about how to vote.

00:37:41.500 Yeah.

00:37:42.320 Yeah, we haven't lived in anything like a republic in a maybe ever.

00:37:45.880 I don't know.

00:37:46.220 Delta Airlines is eliminating college degree requirements for all positions, including pilots.

00:37:54.560 Well, you know, there's nothing that makes me want to fly an airplane more than knowing that they've lowered the standards for the pilots.

00:38:01.860 Now, on one hand, I do agree that you should just pick good people, whether they have a college degree or not.

00:38:09.920 But I do think it's rather useful to have that standard.

00:38:16.780 It does reduce the number of people who are, you know, not qualified from slipping through.

00:38:22.640 So I would say that's not a good sign for America.

00:38:28.480 Every time we lower a standard, it's always for some good reason, you know, increased diversity or something.

00:38:36.220 But I don't think we get enough benefit for what it costs, generally speaking.

00:38:40.080 So you heard the story about those 28 Google employees who occupied a seat, one of the executive offices.

00:38:50.320 And they were mad because Israel stood, that Google was still doing business with the Israeli government.

00:38:57.040 And what did Google do?

00:38:58.580 It fired all of them.

00:39:00.580 So it fired all of them.

00:39:02.340 Now, are you surprised?

00:39:04.560 Because you think, oh, Google is so liberal and blah, blah, blah.

00:39:08.040 Well, I wouldn't be surprised.

00:39:13.940 No.

00:39:14.440 I think Google just did what every company would do in that situation.

00:39:18.520 So they violated their internal standards, and that was good enough to fire them.

00:39:23.060 So good for Google.

00:39:24.820 I don't think that it fixed anything because Google apparently is completely rotted.

00:39:32.160 Their employees are rotted from the inside. 0.99

00:39:34.420 They're all woke, mentally ill people for the most part. 0.98

00:39:39.000 Speaking of that, the NPR CEO, Ms. Marr, we find out more about her. 0.98

00:39:49.220 Apparently, she was a member of the Atlantic Council and the WEF.

00:39:54.100 And she gave a speech at the Carnegie Endowment.

00:39:57.120 That's a group.

00:39:57.920 Now, if you've been following Mike Benz, you would know that at least the Atlantic Council and the Carnegie Endowment are just straight-up CIA entities, basically.

00:40:09.820 They're just intelligence entities.

00:40:11.720 So it would seem that Ms. Marr is very deeply embedded with the intelligence part of the world.

00:40:17.680 And she was in charge of Wikimedia.

00:40:21.760 So she was the head of all knowledge for Wikipedia and then the head of NPR.

00:40:29.680 And so the person who is in charge of telling us what's real is basically CIA adjacent.

00:40:39.600 So just like you think.

00:40:44.000 But she's getting some pushback from, well, what do these three people have in common?

00:40:51.360 Gad Saad, Elon Musk, and Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:40:55.720 So all three of them are criticizing NPR's CEO, Marr.

00:41:00.840 What do those three have in common?

00:41:02.320 The three of the smartest people in the world, at least in terms of politics and philosophy and stuff, right?

00:41:10.860 So if all three of them are, you know, piling on, you know, plus Christopher Ruffo, a lot of smart people, right?

00:41:19.320 So the smart people have taken the following stand because in a speech, I guess it was to the Carnegie Endowment,

00:41:27.040 and NPR's CEO said that she believes that truth is subjective or a distraction from the pursuit or from getting things done.

00:41:41.620 That the truth is subjective and a distraction.

00:41:48.400 And I'm paraphrasing a little bit, but this is pretty close.

00:41:51.260 And it can get in the way of the pursuit of truth.

00:41:55.740 I'm sorry, the pursuit of truth can get in the way of getting things done.

00:42:00.360 So Gad Saad said, quote, truth is subjective, unquote, is precisely the key tenet of postmodernism.

00:42:09.240 This is why I refer to it as the granddaddy of all parasitic idea pathogens.

00:42:14.420 Well, that's a lot of smart words in one sentence there, Gad.

00:42:17.140 I will have to hire somebody to explain to me in my sixth grade world what that means.

00:42:23.840 I think I understand.

00:42:25.720 All right.

00:42:25.920 Elon Musk said, now imagine if this is programmed explicitly or implicitly into super powerful AI.

00:42:34.080 It could end civilization.

00:42:37.960 And he says, now no need to imagine.

00:42:40.200 It is already programmed into Google, Gemini, and OpenAI, ChatGPT.

00:42:43.920 So that would be talking about the idea that truth is subjective and it can get in the way of getting things done.

00:42:53.160 Vivek, along the same lines, said that he quoted the CEO of NPR saying, quote, our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground and getting things done.

00:43:08.820 And Vivek says, this gets to the heart of the cultural divide in the modern West, whether you believe truth is a priority or a hindrance.

00:43:19.600 Do you agree with all three of these people?

00:43:22.560 Gad, Sad, Elon Musk, and Vivek?

00:43:25.640 I think that this downgrading of truth in favor of getting stuff done is the problem.

00:43:37.240 And that it's basically an existential problem if you throw AI in the mix.

00:43:43.560 Everybody agree with that?

00:43:45.320 All right.

00:43:45.620 I disagree with all three of them vigorously as hard as I can.

00:43:51.020 And she's completely right.

00:43:54.600 And you see it every day.

00:43:57.380 Yeah.

00:43:57.840 Let me give you an example.

00:44:00.100 Abortion.

00:44:02.600 Abortion.

00:44:03.520 Take the abortion thing.

00:44:05.880 We have different opinions which cannot be reconciled.

00:44:10.300 Do you know why they can't be reconciled?

00:44:12.700 Because we'll never agree on what's true.

00:44:14.720 Is it true that it's murder or is that not true or killing, killing a human, I guess, not murder?

00:44:24.220 And so the argument is over what's true.

00:44:28.080 Is it true that you're taking a human life?

00:44:33.520 Now, that can't be solved.

00:44:36.560 Would you agree that can't be solved realistically?

00:44:39.700 Realistically, one of those is right, you think, and one of them is wrong, you think.

00:44:47.100 But it can't be solved.

00:44:49.820 So what do you do when you have a problem that can't be solved?

00:44:53.480 You make do.

00:44:54.960 You do what you can do.

00:44:56.720 So what do we do as a nation when we can't decide what's true?

00:45:02.940 We compromise.

00:45:04.760 And we just work it out.

00:45:06.780 We just find some middle ground where the people who don't get what they want are not willing to stage a revolution.

00:45:15.020 That's a perfect example of what she's saying.

00:45:17.320 We're not going to agree what's true.

00:45:19.900 But if we stop there, we'd never get anything done.

00:45:22.980 Because we do have to kind of move past, let's say, abortion.

00:45:27.920 And I would say that's just an example.

00:45:30.640 I would say every one of our big issues have the same issue.

00:45:35.320 What's true, we don't agree on and never will.

00:45:40.220 So if you allowed yourself to never try to fix anything until you found out what's true, you would never fix anything.

00:45:48.320 She's completely right.

00:45:50.380 It is 100% true that if you think that you know the truth and the other people don't, you're probably part of the problem.

00:45:58.120 You might be right, but you could also be part of the problem.

00:46:03.020 If you insist that the other people agree with you before you can move forward.

00:46:07.740 In the real world, people don't agree what's true.

00:46:10.320 But often we can find a way to work together.

00:46:14.100 Right?

00:46:14.280 So she's 100% right.

00:46:19.240 Reality is completely subjective.

00:46:21.820 How many of you believe that free will is real?

00:46:26.440 And how many of you believe it's not?

00:46:28.800 How are you ever going to solve that?

00:46:30.540 One of the most basic questions of your reality is free will real.

00:46:35.280 We're never going to agree with that.

00:46:37.560 But can we find a way to move on?

00:46:40.280 Yes, we can.

00:46:40.860 But I don't believe in free will, and some of you do.

00:46:46.460 So what would we do about the legal system?

00:46:49.500 If you took my point of view, there's no free will, how would you punish anybody?

00:46:55.660 How would you have a justice system if nobody's really responsible for anything?

00:47:00.400 Well, I'll tell you how.

00:47:02.980 Since I believe there's no free will, but I also need to move forward somehow.

00:47:08.460 I mean, I need to live in the real world.

00:47:10.060 I say, all right, I agree with you.

00:47:12.700 You can't really build a system unless you punish people.

00:47:16.340 So I accept a system where people who really couldn't help what they did are punished.

00:47:23.740 Right?

00:47:24.420 Because I can't think of a better way.

00:47:26.400 So there's a perfect example where we'll never agree what's true, free will or no free will,

00:47:31.000 but we can figure out a way to make the world work.

00:47:35.380 And I think I could come up with 100 different examples where she's completely right.

00:47:40.340 We'll never agree what's true, but we can figure out how to take a step forward.

00:47:45.600 So here's your real problem.

00:47:50.100 Your real problem is that you don't agree with her about what's true.

00:47:54.880 That's the real problem.

00:47:57.340 The real problem is not that she understands the truth is what we imagine it is.

00:48:02.220 She's 100% right about that.

00:48:04.920 The part that you don't like is that her truth is different from yours.

00:48:08.500 If she said everything you agreed with and then said truth is subjective,

00:48:15.200 we have to figure out a way forward, you wouldn't have a problem with it.

00:48:19.320 You wouldn't.

00:48:20.720 Suppose she said, well, you know, we know the truth is that these fetuses are real life humans

00:48:27.800 and that killing them is immoral.

00:48:29.440 That's our truth. 0.99

00:48:30.900 But we have to move forward somehow.

00:48:33.760 So we're going to compromise with the people who disagree with what's true.

00:48:38.500 And that framing would make you okay with it.

00:48:41.700 So what's really the problem is you don't like her opinions.

00:48:45.580 Not that she thinks opinions are subjective.

00:48:49.680 So do I think she's part of the problem?

00:48:53.080 Yes.

00:48:55.140 Yeah.

00:48:55.860 She's a big part of the problem.

00:48:58.100 She is not just specifically part of the problem,

00:49:01.280 but she represents, as a number of people were saying today on X,

00:49:06.040 she represents a whole infection of people who have a certain point of view,

00:49:11.020 which I find destructive.

00:49:13.560 Right.

00:49:14.180 But the fact that I find it destructive and I think that's true,

00:49:18.180 does that matter?

00:49:20.200 Nope.

00:49:21.020 What will matter is who wins the election and, you know,

00:49:23.440 who has power.

00:49:24.760 That will matter.

00:49:25.640 So I'm working on who wins the election and who has power because I can't change

00:49:31.020 what's true to somebody else.

00:49:35.280 All right.

00:49:37.900 This is why you watch my show, by the way.

00:49:40.340 I remind you that these uncomfortable things where I'm completely on the other

00:49:45.060 side from you,

00:49:45.840 that's why you watch because you're not going to see it anywhere else.

00:49:49.120 I mean, if you get a steady stream of Republicans are awesome,

00:49:54.100 you're not getting smarter.

00:49:56.620 You need somebody to tell you when your side is getting off the track a little

00:50:01.920 bit, right?

00:50:02.920 That's the useful thing.

00:50:04.220 The useful thing is finding out when your own team is wrong because you always

00:50:08.080 think the other team is wrong.

00:50:10.540 All right.

00:50:12.060 All right.

00:50:12.500 Let me, here's a story.

00:50:13.800 Um, I just read that, uh, Florida has banned a bunch of books.

00:50:18.540 It was in the news.

00:50:19.880 Is it true?

00:50:21.620 You tell me, is it a true story that Florida banned, um, I don't know,

00:50:25.840 a few thousand books?

00:50:27.620 True.

00:50:29.000 No, it's not true.

00:50:30.860 No, it's not true.

00:50:33.680 Nope.

00:50:34.240 It's in the news.

00:50:35.960 But what is true is that they, um, they removed them from,

00:50:39.980 from where children can see them.

00:50:41.400 There's no, there are no banned books for adults in Florida.

00:50:46.980 That's not a thing.

00:50:49.360 There are no banned books in Florida, but both of these are treated as the truth.

00:50:55.980 So NPR CEO is completely right.

00:51:01.100 You can disagree whether there's a book ban in Florida.

00:51:04.620 I say there's not.

00:51:06.560 Other people say there is, but can we,

00:51:09.760 despite having a different understanding of what's real,

00:51:13.120 figure out how to go forward?

00:51:15.280 Yeah.

00:51:16.140 Yeah.

00:51:16.540 DeSantis just, um, you know,

00:51:19.260 has laws that apparently can move those books to the non-children library places,

00:51:24.860 and then everybody's fine.

00:51:27.260 So yeah, you don't need to know what's true.

00:51:29.560 You just need to know how to handle it.

00:51:31.100 Speaking of what's true,

00:51:34.400 Joe Biden has a news story about his uncle being eaten by cannibals,

00:51:38.640 which apparently does not pass the fact checking,

00:51:44.560 according to Jonathan Turley.

00:51:46.480 But apparently, uh,

00:51:49.140 he was in Pittsburgh doing some campaign stuff.

00:51:52.100 He told the story of how, uh,

00:51:54.120 his uncle Bozy in World War II,

00:51:57.080 uh, was, uh, let's see,

00:51:59.940 he was a hell of an athlete that some,

00:52:01.780 for some reason you need to know he was a hell of an athlete.

00:52:04.000 Um, and then he,

00:52:06.520 he flew those single engine planes.

00:52:08.440 It turns out he didn't fly.

00:52:10.080 He wasn't a flyer.

00:52:11.240 He wasn't a pilot.

00:52:12.220 And the plane he was in was not a single engine.

00:52:15.000 Jonathan Turley, uh, looked into that.

00:52:18.360 And he was over a war zone.

00:52:20.020 And I guess it actually went down from mechanical problems.

00:52:23.300 It wasn't shot down as Biden says.

00:52:25.680 And they never found the body because there,

00:52:28.040 there used to be,

00:52:28.960 there were a lot of cannibals for real in that part of New Guinea.

00:52:32.240 So he's saying that they never found the body.

00:52:36.140 So that, you know, maybe the cannibals got it. 0.99

00:52:39.580 But there was a member of the crew who did survive.

00:52:42.680 And the member of the crew who did survive said he watched the other crew

00:52:46.300 members not being able to get out of the plane as it went into the water.

00:52:50.480 So no, the cannibals did not eat his uncle.

00:52:54.840 His uncle was a really good athlete who couldn't get out of an airplane that

00:52:58.040 crashed in the water.

00:52:58.680 So, so do we need to know the truth about his uncle who was or was not eaten by cannibals?

00:53:09.340 No, we don't.

00:53:10.860 The truth is completely irrelevant because, you know,

00:53:13.460 it's just campaign talk and it doesn't matter anyway.

00:53:16.720 So no, the truth doesn't matter.

00:53:18.660 It doesn't matter a bit from that story.

00:53:20.920 Well, the Kennedy family, apparently many members will appear in a big group

00:53:26.560 with Biden to endorse him, which basically is a slap in the face to their family member,

00:53:33.180 RFK Jr., who is running against Biden.

00:53:38.440 You know who wishes their relatives had been eaten by cannibals?

00:53:43.740 RFK Jr.

00:53:44.580 But not only that, if cannibals ate his relatives, they would be eating a better diet than the 1.00

00:53:52.440 American diet.

00:53:54.000 Am I right?

00:53:55.460 Better diet than the American diet.

00:53:57.760 At least it'd be good protein, no additives.

00:54:01.500 So no, I'm not recommending that cannibals eat the Kennedy family, but if they did, they'd 1.00

00:54:06.560 be healthier than the normal fast food diet.

00:54:09.020 I would like to give a shout out to my family, my remaining family members.

00:54:18.520 I won't name them, but I sure appreciate my family.

00:54:24.780 Do you know what my family would never do?

00:54:28.360 They would never do this.

00:54:30.760 If I ran for president, you know, I have a very small family group left, but my family

00:54:37.580 members never would have gathered together to endorse the other guy.

00:54:42.160 You know, they might have sat it out.

00:54:44.620 They might have said no comment if they thought the other guy was the good one to be president.

00:54:49.740 But no, they would not have traveled to Washington to stand with the competitor and endorse him. 0.99

00:55:00.020 I hate to tell you, RFK, but your family sucks. 1.00

00:55:03.700 Your family sucks. 1.00

00:55:04.680 Like, this is the minimum, the minimum requirement for your family not to suck is to endorse the 1.00

00:55:12.400 other guy in an election. 0.98

00:55:13.800 It's not like RFK Jr. is a criminal.

00:55:17.040 It's not like he has bad intentions for the country. 1.00

00:55:20.240 It's not like his policies are some crazy bullshit. 0.99

00:55:23.040 He's a genuine, legitimate, serious person with a serious resume running against a brain 1.00

00:55:31.920 dead piece of shit to try to save the country and try to save you, all you Kennedy children 1.00

00:55:38.600 from eating shit that's killing you and putting stuff in your body that you shouldn't be putting 1.00

00:55:44.280 in your body. 1.00

00:55:44.880 And that's why you want the other guy to win?

00:55:48.840 He's just trying to save children?

00:55:51.720 I mean, he could be wrong about some stuff.

00:55:54.040 There would be no real shame in that because everybody's wrong about stuff.

00:55:59.300 But really, your family is going to throw you under the bus in public in this situation.

00:56:07.240 I'll just say it straight out.

00:56:11.360 I really like RFK Jr.

00:56:13.200 I think he's great for the country.

00:56:15.700 You know, win or lose, I think he's great for the country. 1.00

00:56:19.260 But these family members suck. 1.00

00:56:21.760 I mean, they just suck. 1.00

00:56:23.060 There's just no way around it. 1.00

00:56:24.220 This is just terrible family behavior.

00:56:26.620 Speaking of RFK Jr., he's saying, again, unambiguously on another podcast, that the CIA is guilty

00:56:36.500 of murdering his uncle, JFK.

00:56:38.540 He says the evidence is so abundant and so definitive that if he took the case to a jury,

00:56:46.360 he would win in front of almost any jury.

00:56:49.700 And he says it's because JFK defied the military-industrial complex.

00:56:54.460 Yes, they wanted to, you know, attack Cuba and JFK didn't.

00:56:59.620 And they didn't like him ending the war in Vietnam, which he also tried to do.

00:57:04.600 So that all does make sense to me.

00:57:07.720 You know, the Kennedy assassination, the official story was always a little sketchy, right?

00:57:15.400 From the beginning, you're like, really?

00:57:17.620 I don't know.

00:57:19.180 Well, it seems a little sketchy.

00:57:20.500 That was some mighty good shooting from that guy from that upstairs.

00:57:23.680 There's, I don't know, did he really care?

00:57:27.020 That one guy, he cared so much that he did that?

00:57:29.640 I don't know.

00:57:30.580 Never really totally made sense.

00:57:33.120 But this does.

00:57:34.920 Every part of the CIA killed him makes sense to me.

00:57:39.660 Now, I don't know what's true and what isn't, but every part of the story makes sense.

00:57:43.420 It all fits together perfectly.

00:57:44.980 And it matches everything we know about everything.

00:57:47.420 All right.

00:57:52.040 So I don't see how those same people can allow RFK Jr. to become president.

00:57:56.580 So he is in mortal danger.

00:57:59.160 You know, there is a scenario in which RFK Jr. becomes president.

00:58:03.340 Let me just say it out loud.

00:58:04.800 If the CIA takes out Trump and then Biden collapses just from natural causes, RFK Jr. could be the next president.

00:58:16.720 In fact, I'd give him at least a one-third chance.

00:58:20.280 I think the odds are one-third, one-third, one-third at the moment.

00:58:24.480 It has nothing to do with polling.

00:58:26.340 It has everything to do with the outside sources.

00:58:28.740 I think the odds of Biden simply surviving and the election is rigged and he wins in a rigged election is about one out of three.

00:58:39.440 I think the odds of Trump surviving any assassination attempts and also getting a big enough victory that they can't cheat their way to throw it, one in three.

00:58:52.060 No matter what the polling says, one in three at best.

00:58:54.600 And the odds of RFK Jr. making it all the way to presidency is about one in three also, because I think the odds of Biden collapsing are pretty good.

00:59:05.760 And I think the odds of the CIA taking Trump out of it with lawfare or something worse is pretty good.

00:59:14.040 Good as in bad.

00:59:16.540 So my current estimate is they each have a one in three chance of being president.

00:59:21.460 And none of it has to do with the will of the people.

00:59:24.840 Let me say it again.

00:59:25.960 They each have a one in three chance and none of it has to do with voters, because we don't live in that system anymore, if we ever did.

00:59:34.180 It will be entirely determined by the capability of the people in the back rooms and the health of the current president.

00:59:43.180 And that's probably all that will matter.

00:59:45.460 If the people in the back rooms do a good job, well, they get everything they want.

00:59:49.820 It's probably Biden.

00:59:52.780 All right.

00:59:55.800 There are a whole bunch of new sanctions being put on Iran because of the attack on Israel.

01:00:01.740 Let me let me mention the sanctions because there are a whole bunch of them.

01:00:05.760 There's the the the vague one.

01:00:08.500 There's that's the one I don't know about.

01:00:10.720 There's a well, there's a complicated one.

01:00:13.160 There's a well, there's one that seems to not really affect anything, but maybe a couple of guys.

01:00:18.280 There's one that I don't know.

01:00:20.720 It looks like it could make some difference, but I don't really understand it.

01:00:23.400 There's one that, OK, they don't even tell you what they are.

01:00:28.200 Do you believe that we have an infinite number of sanctions that we can whip out anytime we want?

01:00:34.060 Is that the way it works?

01:00:35.920 It's not like there are three sanctions that can make a difference.

01:00:39.200 And then there are a million sanctions that you could do, but they're not really going to make a difference.

01:00:43.680 I feel like it's more of that, don't you?

01:00:47.080 Like there's a strong 80-20 situation that might be like a 99-1, where there might be a few sanctions that if you could get them to stick, would really move the needle.

01:00:58.360 And then there's probably a whole bunch of other ones where some rich guy goes, wait, you mean I can't dock my yacht in Washington, D.C.?

01:01:09.880 Well, I'll just dock it somewhere else.

01:01:13.220 Is that OK?

01:01:14.020 That's perfectly OK.

01:01:16.020 OK, I guess I got sanctioned. 0.99

01:01:18.680 You know, I feel like the sanctions are just bullshit. 0.98

01:01:20.840 Because if they were, they would tell us what they were, and they would tell us whether they could make any difference. 0.98

01:01:27.180 But no, the news just says, oh, lots of sanctions, more sanctions.

01:01:32.140 Oh, I'll put some more sanctions on. 0.97

01:01:34.240 How about we put some sanctions on?

01:01:36.980 You should reelect me because of all my sanctions.

01:01:40.660 I put on 50, 53 sanctions.

01:01:43.380 If 53 sanctions is not enough, I could put on 50 more that will be unspecified and vague, and you couldn't even tell if they make a difference.

01:01:53.880 But if 100 sanctions isn't enough, I could put 200 sanctions on.

01:01:59.320 I could put 300 sanctions on.

01:02:01.620 I'll put more sanctions on.

01:02:05.720 That's the state of your news.

01:02:10.160 Biden tells Israel not to attack Israel.

01:02:13.380 Sounds like I'm making that up.

01:02:18.240 But he said, quote, I made it clear to Israelis, don't move on Haifa.

01:02:25.760 Haifa would be a city in Israel.

01:02:29.220 Yeah, Haifa.

01:02:31.480 What do you mean, Rafa?

01:02:35.060 Actually, I don't think the misspeaking is as big a deal as others do.

01:02:40.760 I don't think that's really the big sign that he's losing it because I think maybe he always did that.

01:02:47.200 And Trump misspeaks and I misspeak.

01:02:49.340 And, you know, I misspeak twice a day.

01:02:52.720 I don't think that's the biggest thing.

01:02:55.280 But they're funny stories.

01:02:57.700 Babylon Bee reports that the Biden campaign has a new slogan.

01:03:00.920 You know, they tried a number of things, build back better, no malarkey.

01:03:05.300 None of those really, none of them really felt like they captured the spirit of what's going on.

01:03:12.360 But as the Babylon Bee reports, the new slogan seems to really capture it perfectly.

01:03:16.540 The new slogan is death to America.

01:03:18.720 If you're not familiar, the Babylon Bee is a satirical news outfit.

01:03:26.900 And what I mean by satirical and what I mean by parody is it looks exactly like the real news.

01:03:33.300 No real difference.

01:03:34.200 All right.

01:03:38.100 There's a story that a prosecutor in California, the California DA, dropped this so-called bombshell election data case because it might help Trump.

01:03:52.300 So there's some whistleblower.

01:03:53.880 So apparently there was some case about somebody involved with the electronic part of the elections had sent some data over to China, some American election data, sent it to servers in China.

01:04:08.880 Now, I don't know all the details of that story, but the reporting is that the only reason they didn't prosecute is because it would have made a story for Trump to talk about politically.

01:04:21.100 Maybe.

01:04:21.580 I'm willing to believe that CBS News is reporting that some members of Congress who led the investigation, the January 6th committee people, that they've already told their family, they've talked to their families about their safety and the risk of their arrest if Trump wins a second term.

01:04:42.200 Do you think the January 6th committee is at risk of imprisonment if Trump wins a second term?

01:04:49.540 Do you think they're at risk of imprisonment for investigating him the way they did?

01:04:57.300 Yes.

01:04:58.420 Every one of them belongs in prison and it's really obvious.

01:05:02.840 Really obvious.

01:05:04.060 Do you want some evidence?

01:05:05.900 Well, it turns out it came to the right place.

01:05:09.880 Here's some evidence that the January 6th people belong in jail.

01:05:15.140 There's a National Guard captain who's testifying to Congress and he says, quote,

01:05:21.740 I can say unequivocally that the inspector general's review, and that's the review of January 6th and all that stuff, is riddled with inaccuracies, misstatements, and perhaps false flags and narratives regarding how critical Pentagon senior officials responded when our republic was under great stress.

01:05:42.040 So his claim is that the president of the United States had pre-authorized the deployment of 10,000 National Guard troops just in case things got in hand.

01:05:54.360 Now, do you remember any part of the January 6th proceedings in which the public was informed that the person they said was trying to conquer the country had been certainly verifiably documented, no question about it, had tried to get 10,000 National Guard people there to prevent any kind of violence?

01:06:20.040 Now, that's true beyond any doubt, I think.

01:06:26.460 And that would make the entire January 6th narrative that Trump was trying to conquer the country look ridiculous because he'd authorized 10,000 people to prevent something from happening at the Capitol.

01:06:40.780 Do you know why those 10,000 were not sent in the end?

01:06:45.160 Well, according to the whistleblower, it's because the Pentagon delayed dispatching them over the concerns for the optics.

01:06:57.140 The optics.

01:06:58.620 What do you think would be the concern for the optics?

01:07:04.440 Now, it doesn't matter what they were thinking, does it?

01:07:08.620 It doesn't matter if they were thinking something that was good for the country or bad for the country.

01:07:12.520 What matters is the military is the one who left the government unprotected.

01:07:18.360 Let me say it again.

01:07:20.460 The U.S. military, intentionally and fully understanding the danger, decided at the management level to leave the members of Congress unprotected.

01:07:32.680 Now, smart people say the only reason you would do that is to make a case against Trump. 0.98

01:07:45.320 Now, I'm not sure that's the only reason because, you know, regular incompetence and miscommunication and stupidity and, you know, it's a complicated world. 0.98

01:07:53.740 But it certainly tracks, like it fits the facts. 0.97

01:07:59.500 I don't know if it's true, but it fits the facts that the military was part of a larger operation to make sure that Trump was squashed forever and couldn't come back.

01:08:11.580 But whether or not the military was thinking of a way to protect the Republic or to just get Trump, that is irrelevant to the fact that we have conclusive, multiple witnesses and documentation that President Trump was trying to protect the Capitol and he was prevented from doing that by his own military.

01:08:35.780 Which is called what?

01:08:41.620 An insurrection?

01:08:43.960 What's it called when the military refuses an order from the commander-in-chief because doing the order would be good for the country and the commander-in-chief?

01:08:54.940 I don't know.

01:08:55.720 To me, it looks like a coup.

01:08:57.340 It looks like treason.

01:08:58.340 So, to me, it looks like the January 6th committee was covering up their own coup and that they're guilty of insurrection and that it would be easy to prove because all you have to do is prove that the people who knew they could be protected chose the other path and then they sold that other path as Trump's fault when it was 100% their own doing.

01:09:21.320 If there's no crime in that, then you might as well just open the jails.

01:09:28.140 It's the most criminal act that I've seen since that video of the dead guy at the bank.

01:09:35.020 Have you all seen that?

01:09:36.400 I think it was in Brazil or somewhere.

01:09:38.560 Somebody wheeled a dead guy into a bank and pretended he was just sleepy to try to get him to sign a loan.

01:09:45.140 Put the pen in his hand and holding up the hat.

01:09:49.000 The guy's just dead.

01:09:51.880 He's literally just dead.

01:09:54.160 And he's sitting in front of the banker.

01:09:56.120 And it makes you wonder what the banker is thinking.

01:09:59.360 Should I check if he's alive because he looks dead?

01:10:04.720 And he must have been fresh because he didn't have rigor mortis.

01:10:08.180 Like, he must have died within like an hour before he got to the bank because he was still, his head still was flopping around.

01:10:15.800 So, that was pretty terrible.

01:10:16.880 Anyway, not as terrible as the January 6th stuff.

01:10:20.820 So, yes, I believe that if Trump gets in office, there's probably a whole bunch of people who need to go to jail over Ukraine and the pandemic on January 6th.

01:10:31.880 Not to mention whatever we might find out about elections themselves.

01:10:39.880 So, and I think it has to happen.

01:10:43.540 You know, you could imagine a time when I would have said, you know, I don't think that the president should throw in jail the other team because it's bad luck.

01:10:53.680 Not if, not if they do this.

01:10:56.160 If the reason you're throwing them in jail is that they tried to throw you in jail on made-up charges, then yes, if you win, you can put them all in jail.

01:11:06.420 I think that has to be the rule.

01:11:09.360 In fact, we should encourage that, not discourage it.

01:11:12.320 If the thing you're putting your opponent in jail for is that they tried to put you in jail for nothing and got caught, absolutely, they all belong in jail.

01:11:25.280 Every one of them.

01:11:26.060 So, I'm down for that.

01:11:29.700 And if that destroys the country and creates massive riots, I'm down for that.

01:11:36.640 I'm down for that.

01:11:38.040 If all of, like, business shut down for months because there was wild, let's say, protests in the street and violence, and let's say even hundreds of people got killed, I'm down for that.

01:11:52.840 Yeah, I don't want anybody to get killed, and I'm against violence of all kinds.

01:11:58.960 But if you ask me, would that be the right play to put them all in jail, even at the risk of massive disruption to the economy, massive disruption to life as we know it?

01:12:12.160 Yes, that's totally worth it because the alternative is much worse, much worse.

01:12:20.040 All right.

01:12:20.720 All right.

01:12:22.840 Curly accuses senior officers blatantly lying to Congress about, yeah.

01:12:33.900 Yep.

01:12:34.420 I think Mark Milley.

01:12:39.240 I think Mark Milley has got a lot of explaining to do.

01:12:43.440 All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I've got for you today.

01:12:45.780 I'm going to say bye to the other platforms, and then I give some extra time to the local subscribers.

01:12:52.200 So goodbye to X for now.

01:12:54.760 See you tomorrow.

01:12:56.100 YouTube and Rumble, and hello to locals only.

01:13:01.960 Okay.

01:13:02.060 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 18, 2024

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