Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2479 CWSA 05⧸19⧸24

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00:00:19.100 Oh, I can see the complaining has begun already.

00:00:31.440 Where's my video, you say?

00:00:34.720 Well, it appears that there is no video yet.

00:00:38.320 Let's see if I'll experiment, at least on locals, there's no video.

00:00:44.020 Let's see if I reboot on the locals and see if that changes it.

00:00:49.100 Yes, it does.

00:00:52.240 So if you're on locals and you don't have video, just close it and reopen it.

00:00:56.940 You'll be fine.

00:00:58.260 Everything's fine.

00:00:59.640 In fact, I'd like to give a little advice.

00:01:01.840 I don't know if you've ever heard of this technical advice before, but this might apply to other areas of your life.

00:01:08.800 If something's not working on your device, try restarting it.

00:01:15.180 You'll be amazed.

00:01:17.100 You'll be thanking me forever.

00:01:18.480 Hey, I've got an idea.

00:01:21.780 Why don't I restart that?

00:01:24.360 Yeah.

00:01:25.940 Works every time.

00:01:27.460 All right.

00:01:28.060 Well, let's talk about the things.

00:01:29.740 Did you see the video of the meteor that went over Portugal and Spain?

00:01:34.180 It looked like this big streaking thing.

00:01:38.260 I finally got to see a video of something I saw live once.

00:01:42.440 So I don't know if it was 10 or 12 years ago.

00:01:45.000 Yeah.

00:01:45.240 I've told you the story before, but I was walking out.

00:01:47.600 I was in Nevada for something.

00:01:49.420 And I walked out of a store at six in the morning or so.

00:01:52.880 And I looked up and I saw this thing that looked like a nuclear attack.

00:01:58.060 It was like green, blue goes across the sky.

00:02:03.920 Unfrickin' believable.

00:02:05.120 And I'd never, I couldn't explain what it looked like to people until this video came out of the one that's over Portugal and Spain.

00:02:14.860 Somebody had their phone, they were doing a selfie.

00:02:18.280 And you could see the meteor perfectly behind them.

00:02:20.800 The funny thing is that the person doing the selfie didn't get to see it in person.

00:02:26.380 They were facing the wrong way to see one of the most impressive things that humanity could ever see, a meteor piercing the atmosphere.

00:02:35.940 Well, you're looking the wrong way.

00:02:37.540 When I saw mine, I was ready to cross the street.

00:02:42.020 I just picked up some bagels at a bagel shop early in the morning.

00:02:46.200 And there was a group of, I think, five Cal students.

00:02:49.540 They had Cal shirts on.

00:02:51.500 And they were facing the wrong direction.

00:02:54.940 And I got to see one of the greatest things ever.

00:02:57.880 And they were right there at the same time, but they were facing the wrong way.

00:03:01.560 And I said, there was a great meteor.

00:03:03.360 Did you miss it?

00:03:04.580 And they said, what?

00:03:06.040 Meteor?

00:03:06.560 What?

00:03:07.900 So, anyway.

00:03:10.300 A political commentator for CNN and other places, I guess, Alice Stewart, died suddenly outdoors at age 58. 0.77

00:03:19.540 And because we're terrible people, instead of saying the things we should say, such as caring about the family and hoping they're doing well,

00:03:33.640 we're probably going to send around memes about being fully vaccinated, because I guess she was fully vaccinated and she was pro-vax.

00:03:43.440 Now, I saw some people saying, since when do people drop dead if they're not vaccinated?

00:03:49.400 To which I say, when has that not happened?

00:03:53.440 In my entire life, I've been hearing stories of people at every age just suddenly dropping dead.

00:04:00.820 What?

00:04:01.140 Is it new?

00:04:02.360 Did it just happen?

00:04:04.000 Now, I don't know if there's more of it.

00:04:05.380 If there's more of it, it's a problem.

00:04:06.720 But when I hear these onesies and twosies, I don't really have that feeling.

00:04:12.860 If she had been vaccinated, you know, a week ago, I might ask more questions.

00:04:19.680 But I would like to remind you that all of our data about everything is unreliable.

00:04:24.900 So, I don't know what's true.

00:04:25.860 There's a study showing that hypothermia, meaning getting really cold, can help you with depression because it has anti-inflammatory properties when you freeze yourself, I guess, put yourself in cold air or cold water.

00:04:43.520 Now, I don't think I'm the first person to come up with this.

00:04:48.760 I think I've read about it before.

00:04:50.560 But I'm more and more convinced that mental health is an inflammation problem.

00:04:56.680 Do you think that's possible?

00:04:59.220 Maybe not all of it, of course.

00:05:01.500 You know, I don't think it has to do with schizophrenia.

00:05:03.600 But do you think that depression and anxiety and those things could be an all-body inflammation that we're not aware of?

00:05:14.840 I feel like it might be.

00:05:16.920 Because if it's true that hypothermia is anti-inflammatory and that makes you less depressed,

00:05:23.600 and at the same time, it feels like our food supply is poisoned, maybe it's not entirely the phones that are making us mentally ill.

00:05:35.380 Maybe it's the inflammation from just general living and pollution and bad food and who knows what.

00:05:42.100 Anyway, I'll just put that out there as a possibility.

00:05:45.840 Well, the simulation theory is getting some more attention, the idea that we're all simulated creatures of software.

00:05:51.920 So one of the proponents was on Joe Rogan, so that will automatically get a lot of attention.

00:05:58.460 Rizwan Virk.

00:06:01.300 I guess he's got some credentials from Stanford and MIT or some other things.

00:06:08.380 Anyway, so he's a serious, serious scientific mind.

00:06:14.100 And he mentions that there are people running experiments now to see if they can prove we're in a simulated environment.

00:06:21.920 Hold that in your mind for a moment.

00:06:26.540 There are serious scientists trying to devise experiments that would prove we are a simulated environment.

00:06:34.920 Is that wild?

00:06:36.620 What if they do?

00:06:38.540 What if they prove it?

00:06:40.680 Now, I don't offer this as proof, but I say this often.

00:06:44.740 Everything about the reality that we think is our reality would have to be this way if we were a programmed artificial software species.

00:06:56.080 All of the limits that we would observe building a game, such as you can't have unlimited universe, you'd have to have a limited size, etc.

00:07:07.740 It's too coincidental that everything about a real reality only makes sense if we're software, but it wouldn't make sense if we were real.

00:07:17.900 Well, there are a lot of coincidences, so I'm pretty sure we're simulated, but we'll see.

00:07:25.280 Just the fact that it's on Joe Rogan puts it up to a different level.

00:07:31.120 All right.

00:07:31.360 I saw an interesting post by Michael Girdley on X, and he talks about his experience hiring a private chef to cook for his family.

00:07:41.920 Two days for a week, the private chef comes in and prepares a bunch of meals that they can eat for several days until the private chef comes back.

00:07:49.900 Now, you might say to yourself, Scott, Scott, Scott, why are you giving us rich people news?

00:07:57.580 We can't use this rich people news.

00:08:00.780 Tell us things that would be applicable to real people, not your rich people with your servants and your private chefs.

00:08:08.240 Well, here's actually the point of the story.

00:08:10.540 He saved money.

00:08:12.560 It cost them less to have a private chef.

00:08:16.980 He actually did the math.

00:08:19.160 It cost them less.

00:08:20.580 Now, part of it has to do with, you know, families today seem to have different diets.

00:08:25.080 You can have one vegan in your family and one with, you know, allergies to five different things and one who only eats some weird diet.

00:08:35.660 So it's really, really hard to cook for your family, and we're not really good at cooking extra in advance, so you'll have, you know, stuff to take out of the freezer.

00:08:46.420 But apparently, if you get the chef, they save you a ton of time, but also money.

00:08:54.580 Now, I'm not going to go so far as to recommend that you do this.

00:08:58.560 I don't think it's quite practical for the average person yet.

00:09:02.100 You know, maybe you have a little, probably upper middle class would be the starting point for even thinking about it.

00:09:09.640 But I have a larger point, which is our food delivery and preparation is all wrong.

00:09:19.360 Do you know how much money we spend just getting the food into your mouth?

00:09:25.100 The actual growing of the food is reasonably efficient.

00:09:29.040 The part where it gets pulled out of the dirt and delivered to your mouth is so wrong.

00:09:35.460 I mean, every part of that system is just so poorly, and then you've got to go to the grocery store.

00:09:41.880 You have to drive to the store, like, several times a week and carry things home, and you put it in a bag, you put it in a cart, you put it in a bag, you take it out of the bag, you put it in the refrigerator, you take it out of the refrigerator.

00:09:54.500 It's just this insanely wrong process.

00:09:57.900 And I don't think a private chef is going to be answered, but here's what I think is.

00:10:01.540 I believe that people who live close to each other will start creating private virtual cafeterias.

00:10:11.640 In other words, one of the people in the community will say, all right, I'll just be the house mom and I'll cook for everybody.

00:10:18.980 And you'll say, oh, that's not a bad idea.

00:10:22.400 I might even meet some neighbors that way.

00:10:24.080 I think there's going to be some kind of coordinated food preparation process, maybe with AI, maybe a robot gets involved.

00:10:33.520 But my prediction is this, that the old model of a mom or a dad or together preparing meals for a family is definitely going to go away.

00:10:45.500 It will be maintained by some groups forever, of course.

00:10:49.420 But as a general theme, it's going to go away from fast food and away from snacking all day, which a lot of families do.

00:10:58.700 And it's going to go toward some kind of community, organized food prep thing that will save you money and time.

00:11:07.380 Mike Benton describes why we can't have a wall.

00:11:09.940 And the basic idea, he goes into great details, it's highly convincing.

00:11:16.140 I don't have any doubt that he's right.

00:11:18.280 But basically he's saying that ever since forever, the United States has been getting into illegal drug business so that we could have a way to move dark money to places that the CIA wants to move it.

00:11:34.540 So if you wanted to buy weapons for a secret war or, you know, a revolution that you're trying to foment, you don't want a lot of records of the money moving around.

00:11:45.480 So you get in bed with the criminal elements and you move, you know, tons of cocaine and whatever else, fentanyl.

00:11:53.700 And you can move your money around in the form of drugs.

00:11:58.300 It makes it very compact.

00:11:59.300 But the reason that we don't close the border and that we don't build a wall is that it's coming from inside the house.

00:12:09.200 So I'll tell you this as many times as it takes.

00:12:12.960 We need a wall around our own CIA if you want to stop the drugs.

00:12:17.340 Put the wall around, where is it?

00:12:19.980 Is it Quantico or Langley?

00:12:21.880 Where's the CIA?

00:12:22.580 I always confuse the FBI headquarters with the CIA.

00:12:26.760 But you need to put a wall around them because Mexico is apparently not the problem. 0.98

00:12:34.980 I mean, obviously, they're part of it.

00:12:36.960 But it seems like the problem is now stopping Mexico.

00:12:40.520 It's stopping something that's coming from inside our country. 0.98

00:12:43.840 Now, just to make it more complicated.

00:12:46.400 I've said this before, but every time there's a story that relates to it, I have to say it again.

00:12:54.720 We're not a republic.

00:12:57.060 And we haven't been for maybe ever, I don't know, but a long time.

00:13:01.680 We're basically run by people behind the curtain who do stuff like this.

00:13:06.880 And I'm not so sure it's not the best form of government.

00:13:12.640 I'm completely convinced at this point that the best form of government is a criminal enterprise.

00:13:20.880 You know, they always used to say, well, democracy has its problems.

00:13:24.700 They really talk about the democratic republic.

00:13:27.140 But when people say democracy has its problems, but nobody's come up with a better system, I say, yeah, they did.

00:13:35.960 The better system is pretending you have a democracy, but actually operating as a criminal entity that's well organized.

00:13:43.000 If it's a well organized criminal entity, everybody makes money.

00:13:48.840 Yeah, the cartels are doing great.

00:13:52.160 Do you think crime pays?

00:13:53.540 Well, apparently it does for a lot of people.

00:13:55.960 Pays really well.

00:13:57.140 So the United States, I think, is best seen as a criminal enterprise that was really good at it for a number of years.

00:14:06.880 And we're in a world where the other big entities are other criminal enterprises.

00:14:12.880 And that's it.

00:14:13.880 We're basically just arguing over turf.

00:14:16.760 But no, there's no moral or ethical superiority.

00:14:20.060 Nothing like that's happening. 0.99

00:14:21.240 That's all bullshit. 1.00

00:14:22.780 We are just a criminal enterprise. 1.00

00:14:24.420 Let's see.

00:14:29.960 Boris Johnson had a little video where he was test driving a Tesla with the full self-driving feature.

00:14:36.980 There's a little video of him sitting there and the car is driving himself in L.A.

00:14:40.580 And apparently he's totally sold.

00:14:44.160 He's saying that if you experience that, basically you see the future.

00:14:49.260 Now, I'm a Tesla stockholder.

00:14:53.640 Small.

00:14:54.380 I mean, you know, I have my little tiny piece.

00:14:57.380 But, and I tell you that because I'm going to say something that I don't understand about the stock.

00:15:05.640 It seems to me, and this is more salient because I'm looking for a car.

00:15:12.080 Not immediately, but I'm sort of in that mindset of looking for my next vehicle.

00:15:15.960 When I compare the Tesla option with full self-driving to any other vehicle, it looks like the past.

00:15:26.440 I don't know if I want to squeeze another few years out of driving a car that doesn't have self-driving capability.

00:15:36.720 My brain is having a really hard time committing, you know, some large-ish amount of money to something that, to me, looks like the past.

00:15:46.920 Is anybody having that same experience? 1.00

00:15:50.900 That the Tesla self-driving is going to very, very quickly make it look like any other car is stupid. 1.00

00:16:00.880 And I think it's just experiencing it. 0.99

00:16:03.760 So, so far the people who have experienced it are pretty sold.

00:16:09.060 Have you heard of anybody going from a Tesla full self-driving car back to a gas engine?

00:16:14.680 I don't think it's going to happen.

00:16:17.380 I think it's a one-way trip.

00:16:19.280 And I don't think that the other self-driving cars are going to be able to compete.

00:16:24.040 I mean, not as well as a must.

00:16:27.760 So, so I want to give you these two data points and then shake my head about it.

00:16:33.220 Remember, I always tell you that your opinions are assigned to you.

00:16:37.520 So Tesla, and maybe give me a fact check on this. 0.93

00:16:40.660 I believe that Tesla is currently at such a dominant position that hasn't quite actualized because it's going to take a while for people to experience the full self-driving.

00:16:52.220 You have to experience it to be sold.

00:16:55.160 I had this experience when I tried an e-bike for the first time.

00:16:58.500 I told you that story.

00:16:59.920 If you hear about e-bikes, you say to yourself, well, that could be interesting.

00:17:03.880 I can see how people would like it.

00:17:05.320 If you try an e-bike, you pull out your wallet.

00:17:11.320 You will just reach for your wallet.

00:17:13.680 You spend 10 seconds on a freaking e-bike and you're like, okay, never going back. 0.88

00:17:19.780 I'm doing this.

00:17:21.280 And apparently that's a common experience.

00:17:23.280 I think the full self-driving is going to be that, which once you experience it, it will be almost unthinkable that you wouldn't have it.

00:17:34.400 Because we all have these use cases where it would be really nice.

00:17:38.980 Have you ever gone on vacation and not wanted to drive in the new place?

00:17:43.160 I have this rule that if I go on vacation and I personally have to drive a vehicle, I'm not on vacation.

00:17:51.540 I'm just a chauffeur.

00:17:53.560 Because I hate driving in unfamiliar places so much that to me that ruins the whole vacation.

00:18:00.520 There's no point in it at all.

00:18:02.060 But imagine if I could go to a place I'd never been where the rules of the road are all different and I just get in the car and tell it where to go.

00:18:09.260 Imagine just telling your car, you know, you're in Italy or something.

00:18:13.520 Imagine just telling the car to go, I don't know, to Rome.

00:18:18.720 It just drives to Rome.

00:18:21.320 And then it takes you all the places you want to see and takes you to refill itself.

00:18:25.920 You know, it knows where the superchargers are.

00:18:28.360 I don't think there's anything that you can even understand that would feel like that.

00:18:32.120 Now, add that potential to the fact that Tesla is going to have their Tesla robot coming out.

00:18:41.160 And Elon said that the robot business is going to be, I don't know, 10 to 100 times bigger than the car business.

00:18:47.720 How in the world is that stock not going through the roof?

00:18:53.000 Is it entirely a political drag?

00:18:56.460 Now, you're supposed to be pricing the stock based on the future.

00:18:59.780 I've never seen a company with a better future.

00:19:03.900 Have you?

00:19:05.500 Like, even when I look at AI and I say, oh, open AI is going to be this biggest company ever.

00:19:11.220 I don't really see that they have a moat.

00:19:14.340 I feel like there'll be even the open AIs will be competitive.

00:19:18.220 I mean, they're going to open AI is going to be competing with free.

00:19:22.840 Right.

00:19:24.020 Isn't that inevitable that open AI will be competing with free?

00:19:27.640 It will be about as good.

00:19:30.000 It seems to me.

00:19:31.660 But how is anybody going to compete with the Tesla robot or the Tesla self-driving car if Elon's the only one who has that much video visual data to train it?

00:19:46.740 I don't know.

00:19:47.580 So I don't want to sound like I'm just being a fanboy about this company because I do own the stock.

00:19:53.260 So keep that in mind.

00:19:54.420 This is not a financial recommendation, not an investment.

00:19:59.440 But why isn't this stock 10 times higher?

00:20:03.260 I don't know.

00:20:04.440 I'm a little confused about what people are seeing that I'm not seeing.

00:20:08.120 But again, I'm biased.

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00:21:01.880 Julian Assange, I guess the British courts are going to decide, maybe today, about whether he would be released to the United States.

00:21:18.180 I guess I want to make sure that there's no chance he would get the death penalty.

00:21:25.200 Do you think he would get the death penalty?

00:21:28.820 Is that even a possibility, you think?

00:21:31.880 It probably is.

00:21:33.340 It certainly, it would be on the table.

00:21:36.740 Do you think he'll be released?

00:21:39.760 What's your prediction?

00:21:41.840 My prediction about Assange is that the real story, we don't know and we never will.

00:21:47.520 That's what I think.

00:21:49.040 I think the real story is we don't know the real story and we'll never know the real story.

00:21:53.620 So, I've been hesitant to weigh in heavily on an opinion because I feel like there are a lot of people in the intelligence community who want them dead.

00:22:06.780 What's that all about?

00:22:08.940 You know?

00:22:09.240 No, I get that he put some of them at risk.

00:22:13.120 So, I get that.

00:22:14.280 But is there more to it?

00:22:16.860 I don't know.

00:22:18.500 I feel like, yeah, I feel like there's way more to it.

00:22:21.420 So, it's hard to have an opinion.

00:22:24.180 But it does make a difference whether he's going to come back under a Biden administration or a Trump.

00:22:29.340 Now, Trump did not do anything useful for Assange.

00:22:36.500 And so, it doesn't seem to be a Republican versus Democrat problem.

00:22:41.340 It appears it's, you know, coming from our intelligence agencies have a strong opinion.

00:22:47.500 Do you think that Assange has a secret file that would be released if something happens to him?

00:22:54.000 I feel like that's the only reason he's alive, is that he has a secret file that would be released.

00:23:03.140 So, it's quite a balancing act he's got here.

00:23:09.420 There's a rumor that Kate Milton over at the UK, so a former staffer claims that back in December, the end of December,

00:23:19.760 she slipped into a coma after taking sleeping pills, and she was taken away and nobody ever saw her again.

00:23:28.560 Or at least the staff never saw her again.

00:23:31.660 So, the rumor is that she died a while ago or that she's in a coma.

00:23:36.620 Now, that would kind of make sense with the AI version of her that we saw.

00:23:42.500 But I'm not quite ready to buy this, because it sounds to me like maybe an anonymous source.

00:23:51.600 Basically, this isn't...

00:23:57.260 In my opinion, this is not reliable.

00:24:04.660 But there's something going on.

00:24:06.460 There's something we don't know, but I wouldn't think this is necessarily reliable.

00:24:10.880 All right, I have a question for you.

00:24:12.240 I put this to the locals' people, but let's see what the rest of you think.

00:24:16.820 I have two nicknames for Biden.

00:24:20.400 One is President Small Candy.

00:24:23.560 President Small Candy.

00:24:25.300 And the other is Squinty McDemon Face.

00:24:29.760 Squinty McDemon Face.

00:24:31.720 Because, you know, I've got this...

00:24:36.240 You ever see the story about the mass killer?

00:24:39.140 There'll be a story about a serial killer, you know, Charles Manson kind of thing.

00:24:43.720 And then you'll look at the picture of the alleged killer, and you'll say to yourself,

00:24:50.040 did nobody see the problem just looking at that person?

00:24:55.380 Can you really tell me that nobody looked at that person's face and said,

00:24:59.800 well, there's a potential killer right there?

00:25:02.940 When I look at Biden's face, I see a face of evil.

00:25:08.640 Not just dementia.

00:25:10.180 Sometimes dementia.

00:25:11.700 But other times, I just see evil.

00:25:14.740 Now, again, that might be the dementia that just makes him look that way.

00:25:18.040 But how do you not see it?

00:25:20.660 Is it just me?

00:25:22.200 I'm trying to figure out how much is he does look exactly like a demon,

00:25:26.560 and how much of it is I'm so biased that my perceptions have been changed so in real time he looks like a demon.

00:25:34.460 And I never really looked at the world that way, because I'm not a demon believer, and I don't believe in the afterlife.

00:25:43.520 So, I don't believe in demons, but why do I see one when I look at him?

00:25:49.880 When I look at Schiff or Raskin, Jamie Raskin, I actually see demons.

00:25:57.420 And I don't know, oh, dementia and demon have a similar word.

00:26:02.720 Hmm, never thought about that.

00:26:04.920 But do you all see it, or can you see it too?

00:26:07.880 I mean, you're all biased as I am.

00:26:09.680 But do you see it?

00:26:11.220 Do you see something that doesn't look like, it looks like he's possessed with a demon?

00:26:17.360 That face doesn't look like a normal face that anybody would make under any situation other than demon possession.

00:26:25.260 How do the Democrats not see that?

00:26:27.800 When squinty, big demon face gets into his yelling face, and his eyes almost totally close.

00:26:36.140 Have you seen his eyes go completely dark?

00:26:39.440 I think the reason he closes his eyelids is that the white part of his eyes has disappeared, and they've gone completely dark.

00:26:48.400 It just looks demon-like.

00:26:50.940 Anyway.

00:26:51.240 But I don't believe in demons.

00:26:53.860 It just looks like it.

00:26:54.780 Well, Trump's latest rally, he went full stand-up comedian.

00:27:02.160 He did like five minutes of impromptu just comedy, going from one topic to the other.

00:27:07.320 And he's just totally mocking the Biden candy, tiny candy inflation thing.

00:27:17.720 Totally mocking it.

00:27:19.340 And he's just making it a joke.

00:27:22.760 That is exactly right.

00:27:25.460 Right.

00:27:26.800 It is exactly right to make it a joke.

00:27:29.960 Because we've got to mock this stuff out of existence.

00:27:34.960 You can't take it seriously. 1.00

00:27:36.160 You have to mock it like the stupidity it is. 1.00

00:27:40.400 So I would keep doing that. 1.00

00:27:42.960 So Trump's doing great.

00:27:44.260 We've never seen anybody who could do what he did.

00:27:46.760 We've never seen anybody who could do five minutes of impromptu comedy without the teleprompter.

00:27:53.960 It was in politics.

00:27:59.740 I'm saying in the comments that it's just light sensitivity.

00:28:02.720 Maybe it's just light sensitivity.

00:28:06.840 But can you explain this to me?

00:28:09.640 In all cases where he's indoors and on camera, sometimes his eyes are wide open like he's the dopiest guy in the world.

00:28:20.040 Like dementia, wide open eyes.

00:28:23.720 And then sometimes he's all squinty. 0.85

00:28:26.840 It's the same freaking light. 0.85

00:28:30.360 It's the same light. 0.92

00:28:31.580 It's just indoors.

00:28:33.120 He's literally just indoors.

00:28:35.280 And he can't open his eyes.

00:28:39.360 There's something going on.

00:28:40.600 I don't know what it is.

00:28:41.220 Maybe it's meth.

00:28:44.560 All right.

00:28:44.900 But this is how Trump said it.

00:28:51.860 He said, but Americans are not struggling to make ends meet because they're buying too many Snickers bars. 0.95

00:28:57.080 They're struggling because they have the worst, most incompetent, most corrupt president in the history of our country. 0.92

00:29:03.660 That's the way to do it. 0.98

00:29:04.960 Bring it down to the Snickers bar level to mock him.

00:29:09.400 Good job.

00:29:10.120 All right.

00:29:12.040 Apparently, there's in the six key swing states, more people say they'll never vote for Biden than say they'll never vote for Trump.

00:29:21.540 So 51% say there's not really any chance they'd vote for Biden compared to only 46% who say that about Trump.

00:29:31.260 That's according to New York Times and Siena College Poll.

00:29:35.620 So there's that.

00:29:38.860 But here's something that I interpret in the worst possible way.

00:29:44.820 Let's see if you did.

00:29:45.900 So, you know, Trump's Trump lawyer, John Eastman.

00:29:48.960 And you know that he already had some legal jeopardy for the January 6th stuff.

00:29:54.160 Well, apparently, on top of that and brand new, Phoenix is going to charge him with some crimes related to 2020.

00:30:03.020 And the early indication is he had nothing to do with any of it.

00:30:07.200 He just wasn't involved.

00:30:08.860 In their state.

00:30:11.640 So here's how I take it.

00:30:14.180 So he was actually arrested in Phoenix on conspiracy fraud, forgery and other felony charges, even though he didn't have any communication with the Arizona electors.

00:30:23.660 Does it sound to you like this is suppressive fire and that the entire plan is to rig the election, but they're making sure you know that if you complain about it, you'll go to jail?

00:30:36.300 I don't I don't I don't I don't know how else to interpret it.

00:30:40.040 The only way I can interpret this is that the Democrats are making damn sure, you know, that if you complain about another rigged election, you're going to jail and he's hunted.

00:30:51.420 Yeah.

00:30:51.820 Yeah.

00:30:51.920 So let's see if there's any other indication of that.

00:30:56.700 Oh, morning Joe is telling us on.

00:31:01.860 And so Joe Scarborough, he says that he gets to talk to the top people in the Biden campaign, you know, not the low level people like the rest of you are talking to.

00:31:13.460 No, no, Joe.

00:31:15.100 Morning, Joe.

00:31:15.580 He gets to talk to.

00:31:16.540 The important people, the people who make the real decisions, the movers, the shakers. 1.00

00:31:22.200 And what he tells us is that the people on the inside act like they're holding four aces, he says, and they know something we don't know.

00:31:31.940 He speculates that what they know is they're seeing some polling.

00:31:35.620 They've got a lot of money raised.

00:31:37.420 They know that they can use that money to swing the vote.

00:31:40.360 So given all the money that they have and the fact that there's plenty of time left, they're sure that Biden will easily win this race in just the normal way.

00:31:52.020 You know, you campaign better than the other one, spend more money on ads, you know, that sort of thing.

00:31:57.940 Just normal, normal stuff.

00:31:59.660 Let me tell you, I can't think of anything that would be scarier than knowing that the Biden campaign on the inside are supremely confident because they know something we don't know.

00:32:16.520 Because you know what we do know?

00:32:18.600 We do know everything that Joe Scarborough told us, that they raised a lot of money and, you know, they'll try really hard and, you know, elections narrow and all that stuff.

00:32:29.660 We knew that part.

00:32:31.440 But if they're so confident at this point, based on all the polling going against them and still moving in that direction, losing the black vote, and there's, you know, they're still confident they won't lose the vote.

00:32:44.560 But that there's a huge swing toward Republican, well, toward Trump specifically.

00:32:50.500 To me, this looks like the media is getting you ready, telling you that there's a real reason that they could win, but more importantly, signaling that the people on the inside know something you don't know.

00:33:06.060 But we do know about their, all the stuff he mentioned.

00:33:12.380 That's pretty obvious.

00:33:13.820 To me, this looks like an obvious signal that Scarborough knows they're going to rig the election.

00:33:21.560 That's not an accusation.

00:33:23.000 So I'm not alleging that.

00:33:25.160 I'm saying, that's the signal.

00:33:27.140 What are you hearing?

00:33:28.740 You know, communication is about not just what the person says, but what you're thinking about the person's intentions.

00:33:37.840 That's what allows you to hear it a certain way, because you're assuming they have a certain intention when they say things.

00:33:42.980 To me, it's kind of signaling like they're planning to rig it, and they want to put John Eastman in jail and all the January Sixers, so that when they rig it with this weird confidence they have while running a person who's clearly mentally incompetent and behind in the polls and falling.

00:34:04.020 The only way all of these facts make sense is if they've already decided to rig it, and there's nothing you can do about it.

00:34:10.380 I don't know how to understand it any other way, this set of facts.

00:34:17.560 Jonathan Turley is having some fun with this story about Biden who wants to have executive privilege over those Her tapes.

00:34:26.640 Those are the tapes in which we have the transcript, and Her, the lawyer, said that he didn't want to prosecute Biden in part because he seemed like a sympathetic old man.

00:34:40.380 He was a little confused, who was a little confused, and then the Republicans say, really?

00:34:44.660 We have the transcript, but maybe we should hear him in his own words, which I'd love to hear.

00:34:53.380 And I'm going to call these the dementia tapes.

00:34:57.380 For some reason, nobody gave them a name.

00:35:00.360 These are the dementia tapes.

00:35:02.740 People, when you refer to the story, you should say he wants to put executive privilege over the dementia tapes.

00:35:12.560 It's important to brand these things.

00:35:14.380 You got your water gate, right?

00:35:17.660 You got your various gates.

00:35:19.720 So you need to name for it.

00:35:21.240 I'm going to call these the dementia tapes, and Biden wants to keep them under wraps.

00:35:27.180 But here's the funny thing.

00:35:29.500 What exactly is he protecting?

00:35:32.080 This is Turley's point.

00:35:34.180 We have the transcript.

00:35:35.440 So what he's not protecting is information.

00:35:40.420 If he's not protecting information, what's he protecting?

00:35:47.520 Here's how Turley says it.

00:35:49.800 He says the implication of privilege over the audio tapes is so transparently political and cynical that it would make Richard Nixon blush.

00:35:58.360 Biden is not claiming the actual conversation as privileged, only how he sounded and spoke the words.

00:36:07.480 The only thing he thinks is privileged, because that's all there is.

00:36:11.120 Since we know what he said, all that's left is the way he said it.

00:36:15.580 You know, the sort of the mannerism of his delivery.

00:36:20.540 Now, is that something that is presidential executive privilege?

00:36:26.440 I think so.

00:36:28.360 Yeah, I mean, from a legal perspective, I think I actually back Biden on this.

00:36:33.640 By the way, do you?

00:36:36.520 I'm very much in favor of the president having maximum presidential executive powers.

00:36:44.700 So if the sitting president says, I gave you the transcript, I'd rather you didn't hear the, you know, the actual mannerism.

00:36:52.400 I would love to hear the mannerism.

00:36:54.580 So as a citizen, I definitely want to hear it.

00:36:56.900 So let me be clear from a citizen standpoint, definitely want to hear it.

00:37:02.360 But that would apply to a lot of things that are presidential and confidential.

00:37:07.320 So I don't know how he could win this, but I'm just sort of philosophically, I'm in favor of even Biden having a lot of privacy in the job.

00:37:20.560 So you don't have to agree with that.

00:37:23.940 But I would love to see it.

00:37:26.220 And I think the country would be better served if we heard it.

00:37:30.060 But that's presidential, you know, presidential privilege is a pretty broad tool.

00:37:37.980 So it's not going to make you happy all the time.

00:37:39.980 It does kind of get you back to the GoPro presidency.

00:37:47.140 Do you remember maybe, I don't know, seven or eight years ago, I talked to you that Naval Ravikant had an article saying we should put a GoPro camera on our presidents.

00:37:58.080 Whenever they're doing anything that's the work of the people, we just watch it.

00:38:03.020 There should be, it's almost like a body cam for the president.

00:38:07.460 If you put a body cam on a cop because you're not sure what happens when you're not watching, what if you put a body cam on your president?

00:38:17.200 Now, the first thing you're going to say is, but Scott, there are so many like secret things they do that we shouldn't know about.

00:38:24.600 To which I say, maybe they shouldn't do those things.

00:38:27.800 Maybe if you can't say out loud what you're doing, you should rethink that thing.

00:38:35.140 Now, I realize that doesn't work at all in national security.

00:38:38.580 When it comes to national security, the other team is, you know, your opponents are not being nice.

00:38:44.200 So you want to use every tool you can if you're trying to protect your existence.

00:38:48.780 But you can imagine a world in which full transparency could work.

00:38:52.800 It's imaginable.

00:38:54.380 But I understand why we were afraid of it.

00:38:57.800 All right.

00:38:58.760 So the dementia tapes, we'll see if those are released.

00:39:03.980 I think I mentioned that Trump was being politically smart when he quickly accepted the two debates.

00:39:11.020 But then he offered two more.

00:39:14.520 Which puts Biden in the position of having to reject additional debates, which Trump probably was never serious about in the first place.

00:39:22.840 It's such a funny, fun play.

00:39:28.860 Like sometimes politics is just funny.

00:39:31.400 I think it's funny that Trump bluffed him by offering two more like serious offers because they were based on, you know, a real media platform being ready to do it.

00:39:43.580 But I don't think that Trump wants four debates.

00:39:48.040 I think he just wants Biden to turn down two of them.

00:39:50.960 So I keep telling you that Trump's campaign this time around is so flawless that you almost don't notice.

00:40:02.060 Like you don't notice how good it is because there aren't any mistakes.

00:40:06.200 So it's like they took the friction away or the contrast, I guess.

00:40:09.980 If there was more contrast, like if you were doing some bad things, then maybe you'd say, oh, well, at least these are good things.

00:40:17.820 But when all he does is the right thing, which is what he's doing.

00:40:21.240 He's got the longest unbroken streak of no mistakes that I've seen in a long time.

00:40:27.700 I mean, he is Trump is operating the chaos guy, you know, the reckless chaos guy.

00:40:34.340 He's showing you a communication discipline.

00:40:38.940 It's sort of unparalleled.

00:40:40.760 I don't think we've seen it before.

00:40:44.140 Anyway, if you added to his you have to put it in the context of his freewheeling, extemporaneous style that he still is flawless.

00:40:54.700 It'd be one thing if you're only doing scripted stuff.

00:40:58.080 It's easy to read a teleprompter.

00:41:00.920 But Trump is making all this work impromptu.

00:41:05.180 He just sort of knows what he should do and goes and does it.

00:41:08.420 All right.

00:41:09.780 So I think that was funny.

00:41:11.720 That was a good play.

00:41:14.360 End Wokeness, an account on X that you should be following, tells us that in Erie County, Pennsylvania,

00:41:20.560 the government just gave $300,000 of public grants to non-white businesses.

00:41:26.780 So if you were a white business, you couldn't get any of this, even though you might have been a taxpayer for it. 0.72

00:41:32.600 So white-owned businesses may not apply. 0.67

00:41:36.500 Now, here's a question I ask.

00:41:38.820 Is there a DEI sanctuary state?

00:41:43.300 Because I'm going to give you some career advice.

00:41:46.220 It goes like this.

00:41:47.460 The biggest thing you can do for your career is to go wherever your career is best suited.

00:41:56.180 So, for example, when I graduated college, my undergraduate degree, I was in upstate New York.

00:42:04.460 Not a ton of opportunity in upstate New York.

00:42:08.580 But first thing I did was I sold my car for a one-way ticket to San Francisco.

00:42:15.480 Because I knew in San Francisco, you know, the Bay Area, it would be like the greatest opportunity is maybe everywhere.

00:42:23.000 Maybe best place in the world.

00:42:24.620 I don't know.

00:42:25.340 Could have been.

00:42:26.460 And so I went there.

00:42:27.600 And sure enough, things worked out.

00:42:28.980 And I had plenty of opportunities.

00:42:30.300 When I needed to change jobs, it was easy.

00:42:33.860 Changing jobs was easy because there was always an offer.

00:42:36.760 Plenty of opportunities.

00:42:37.760 So the number one advice is go where your odds are best.

00:42:44.120 Now, if I were advising a young black man or woman how to manage their career, I would say you should go toward a blue state and you should go toward big companies. 0.73

00:42:57.280 Because big companies are just dying for more diversity.

00:43:00.220 And they will discriminate in your favor.

00:43:03.620 And they'll tell you.

00:43:05.100 They'll tell you straight up.

00:43:06.920 We're trying to get more diversity.

00:43:09.400 We'll do what we can, you know, to make that happen.

00:43:12.120 So if you're a black man or woman in America, you should run toward wherever there are DEI programs, wherever they emphasize ESG, et cetera.

00:43:22.300 That's probably true for any group that's not a white male.

00:43:26.820 Probably DEI is, you know, if you're a woman, et cetera. 1.00

00:43:30.940 However, my best advice is if you're a white man and these programs are specifically designed to benefit everybody but you, really, everybody but you, you should go where the DEI is the least.

00:43:48.140 Wherever that is.

00:43:50.660 Now, I would love to have some state, probably some red state, just actually declare itself a DEI sanctuary and say, if you come here and anybody does any DEI stuff, they're going right to jail.

00:44:04.460 So you can live here.

00:44:06.340 And if you're a white male, you can have the same economic opportunities that you would if there were no DEI.

00:44:14.040 So, will I get canceled for saying that?

00:44:22.180 Why not?

00:44:22.920 That's exactly what I said that got me canceled.

00:44:26.820 Except I said it in a way that you couldn't turn it away.

00:44:30.200 I said it in a way that would make your hair catch on fire, intentionally.

00:44:34.600 I said it in a way that would make people really, really mad, intentionally.

00:44:40.660 Do you know why?

00:44:42.060 So you'll pay attention.

00:44:44.040 It's a huge deal.

00:44:46.520 It was completely, completely worth getting canceled just to make a point.

00:44:52.140 Have I ever mentioned how stubborn I am sometimes? 0.99

00:44:56.080 Well, once I sink my teeth into something, I'm like a fucking pit bull. 0.99

00:45:00.720 It's like, you can shoot me, but I'm not going to let go. 1.00

00:45:05.000 And I'm not going to let go of this. 0.96

00:45:07.640 Let me say it again.

00:45:08.720 Again, if you're not a white man in America, you should definitely go where the DEI programs are strong because they're there for your benefit.

00:45:18.200 And that would be a good career move to be in a maximum DEI situation. 0.99

00:45:22.600 If you're a white man, get the fuck away from all of that, if you can. 1.00

00:45:29.940 If you have any way to get the fuck away from it, get the fuck away from it. 1.00

00:45:34.440 Same message. 0.98

00:45:39.900 It's just math and strategy. 0.95

00:45:41.840 Now, if you heard me say, hey, why do you say you don't like black people? 0.78

00:45:48.280 I would say, who said that?

00:45:50.100 I love black people.

00:45:52.400 Where did you get that?

00:45:55.340 Like, that's not that's not part of the conversation.

00:45:57.980 Were we talking about my preferences of who I like to hang out with?

00:46:01.640 I love black people.

00:46:03.400 Let me tell you something about black people. 0.94

00:46:06.480 Black men. 0.70

00:46:07.100 And I know more, I probably spend more time with black men.

00:46:10.600 Black men have a good sense of humor.

00:46:13.100 I know that's racist, right?

00:46:15.260 To make a generalization.

00:46:17.580 But I definitely noticed it.

00:46:20.040 Have you not noticed that?

00:46:21.520 That black men have an unusually good sense of humor?

00:46:25.160 Is that a bigoted statement?

00:46:27.500 I'm not saying other people don't.

00:46:29.500 I'm saying that it just seems like one of those weird things I've noticed.

00:46:34.820 Now, I'm not sure if that's true of black women. 1.00

00:46:37.100 Because I've spent less time with black women. 1.00

00:46:39.740 But black men. 0.99

00:46:41.660 If you meet a black guy. 0.99

00:46:44.520 You're going to be able to have a laugh. 0.88

00:46:46.520 Pretty much every time.

00:46:48.420 Like, that's been my experience.

00:46:50.360 So, I always get along with black men, for sure.

00:46:54.720 Anyway. 0.85

00:46:56.180 It's the same advice with empty hair on fire.

00:47:01.480 Elon Musk has been completely right about the risk of the birth decline.

00:47:06.420 There's new evidence even making it worse.

00:47:11.820 I guess there's a global alarm now.

00:47:13.700 Countries like Japan, South Korea, and Italy.

00:47:16.460 This is the Wall Street Journal is reporting on this.

00:47:18.340 The birth rates have fallen to as low as 1.3.

00:47:23.240 I think you need 2.1 to replace each other.

00:47:27.420 Because it takes two people to have a little more than two kids.

00:47:30.580 And a few of them die.

00:47:31.420 So, now experts believe that by 2050, many nations will face shrinking populations and workforce shortages.

00:47:39.820 And the decline is all incomes, education.

00:47:43.360 It's just everywhere.

00:47:45.180 The decline is everywhere.

00:47:46.220 Now, who is the person who warned you about this the earliest of people who are, you know, notable?

00:47:55.980 Musk.

00:47:57.140 Elon Musk is the one who told you, your big problem is not overpopulation.

00:48:01.220 Your big problem is underpopulation.

00:48:02.220 Now, the reason I mention this is that he was right.

00:48:10.480 He was also right when he built an electric car company in that people said it would never work, but he made it work.

00:48:18.660 He was right when he built a rocket company that people said, well, I'll never work, but it worked.

00:48:24.520 And now he can send up multiple rockets and land them.

00:48:30.080 And he was right about this.

00:48:32.000 And this is really big.

00:48:34.060 And he was right about it.

00:48:37.820 So, if he was right about all of these things, are you going to bet against him on the next prediction?

00:48:45.940 What has he gotten wrong?

00:48:49.660 And here's why.

00:48:51.180 He's got another contrarian prediction.

00:48:54.520 Here's the contrarian prediction.

00:48:57.620 There's some people that think that we're going to need universal basic income in the AI and robot age because so many jobs will be removed.

00:49:07.120 They need to give somebody just a basic income to stay alive.

00:49:12.680 And Musk says that it'll be a universal high income, not basic.

00:49:19.700 Now, that is really contrarian.

00:49:22.020 Because we're all thinking, how are we even going to survive?

00:49:26.760 And then we say, well, you know, at least maybe we'll get the basics so we can eat and maybe see a doctor.

00:49:34.540 Maybe get some shelter.

00:49:36.580 But Musk is saying he's going completely the opposite direction.

00:49:39.860 Universal high income.

00:49:41.200 How is that possible?

00:49:45.760 Well, I think it is.

00:49:48.280 In theory, your robots would be so productive that you could have a high income and that everybody could have everything they want.

00:49:58.900 It's just that there will be a period where there will be massive dislocation, where people will really just be unemployed.

00:50:05.640 And at that point, they probably need UBI.

00:50:07.240 But if the robots are so efficient and AI is so efficient, it should make our economic situation a hundred times better.

00:50:20.620 If our economic situation on Earth is a hundred times better, you can actually afford a universal high income for everybody.

00:50:30.420 It's actually possible.

00:50:31.840 But you have to get to something like a hundred times more productive.

00:50:37.020 Could we get there with AI and robots?

00:50:40.000 A hundred times more productive?

00:50:41.640 I'm making up the number a hundred, but just to give you an idea of the argument.

00:50:45.980 Do you think that's reasonable?

00:50:47.980 Could we be a hundred times more productive so that everybody could have lots of money?

00:50:54.400 Yes.

00:50:56.120 Yes.

00:50:56.600 In fact, I'm going to, he convinced me, Musk convinced me.

00:51:05.100 Now, partly the reason he convinced me is he was right about all the other stuff.

00:51:09.220 If he'd been wrong about the other stuff, then I might say something like, you know, maybe I'll go the other way.

00:51:16.300 But I can feel this, that there will be a one-time universal change toward robots and AI.

00:51:25.100 So human civilization will only do this once, where we're building a superior intellect that we hope will work with us and not destroy us.

00:51:32.840 So to imagine there could be a hundred times gain in efficiency, which would make basically free money raining down on us forever.

00:51:42.740 If you add fusion to robots and AI, you know, yeah, fusion energy, which I think we'll get to, and, or even if you assume that the robots will be efficient at building new solar plants and, and gigafactories to store the energy for night.

00:52:03.040 Even if you just assume that all that's going to be efficient, even if you just assume that all that's going to happen is the robots will build us more energy, you really could get to universal high income.

00:52:12.660 I'm going to back him on this prediction.

00:52:15.000 I think he's right about it.

00:52:17.520 And if you think he's wrong about us being a simulation, again, look at his track record.

00:52:26.040 He might be wrong.

00:52:28.020 Probably not.

00:52:28.820 All right.

00:52:29.800 There's a report that a, an Iranian helicopter that allegedly carried the president of Iran and his, uh, leaders, uh, was lost in the fog, lost in the fog.

00:52:42.800 Oh, wait, there's an update.

00:52:44.920 Uh, now it was, uh, it had a, some kind of a hard landing, a hard landing.

00:52:54.540 The cat is on the roof.

00:52:56.560 Now, is there, there should be an update even since I started talking that, um, but the comments are lagging here.

00:53:07.360 I'm going to reboot, uh, these comments because they seem to have stopped.

00:53:17.560 Let's see if this makes difference.

00:53:20.460 There we go.

00:53:21.980 Yeah.

00:53:22.180 The helicopter is on the roof.

00:53:24.440 All right.

00:53:24.940 I got the comments back.

00:53:26.560 All right.

00:53:29.120 Is there any update on that Iranian president's story?

00:53:36.540 Universal high inflation, maybe.

00:53:42.800 Hmm.

00:53:44.060 All right.

00:53:44.360 We'll wait on that one.

00:53:45.560 But it does seem to me like Iran is trying to maybe soften the blow.

00:53:51.640 Is it possible they already know he's gone?

00:53:55.260 No.

00:53:56.160 We'll find out.

00:53:57.560 I think he's with Kate Middleton.

00:54:00.920 All right.

00:54:02.220 Um, there is an internal disagreement in Israel.

00:54:04.920 Well, I guess the, uh, defense minister whose name is Gallant, which is just the greatest name for a defense minister.

00:54:14.480 Um, he wants, let's see if I got this right.

00:54:18.580 He wants, uh, Netanyahu to have a day after plan.

00:54:21.420 In other words, after the fighting is done, what do you do with the Gaza?

00:54:25.740 And Netanyahu, um, also wants a plan.

00:54:29.720 But I think they have a different idea of what it looks like.

00:54:34.080 And it's not done.

00:54:36.500 So let's see if I have this right.

00:54:39.060 Give me some fact checks here if I get it wrong.

00:54:41.160 I think the Israeli defense minister wants to put control of Gaza in the hands of the Palestinian Authority.

00:54:50.480 Because Israel has managed to coexist with the Palestinian Authority. 0.74

00:54:56.020 And so maybe it just turns two problems into one problem.

00:54:59.280 And maybe that's the best you can do, like, in a practical sense.

00:55:04.120 I don't know.

00:55:05.180 But I could see why somebody would say, well, you know, somehow we've been coexisting, you know, with everybody else.

00:55:12.440 You know, it's not easy, but maybe we can make that work.

00:55:15.120 And then I think Netanyahu has some idea that's closer to getting a coalition of other Arab countries,

00:55:22.960 such as Saudi Arabia and maybe Jordan or somebody, to help out administering Gaza.

00:55:31.260 So I don't know that that would work.

00:55:34.200 Because then the Gazans would not feel like they had something close to self-rule.

00:55:38.660 It would just feel like instead of the Israelis, it's some other country ruling them. 0.99

00:55:43.260 So I don't know if that would work.

00:55:45.260 But it's not a terrible idea.

00:55:48.380 And then I saw Joel Pollack for Breitbart.

00:55:56.980 I don't know if he wrote this in Breitbart or just posted it.

00:56:00.000 But his suggestion would be that, and maybe this is other people's suggestion as well,

00:56:07.640 if you relocate half or more of Gaza's population to a new city on empty land in the West Bank,

00:56:15.760 run by the Palestinian Authority, so that would agree with the defense minister,

00:56:20.480 and let Israel annex all of Gaza and admit its remaining residents as citizens, 0.73

00:56:25.920 and end the conflict.

00:56:27.520 Now that's interesting.

00:56:32.000 If you did half or more of Gaza's population move them to the West Bank,

00:56:37.280 so maybe that part would not be too controversial,

00:56:42.220 because it would be hard to move everybody back to Gaza anytime soon.

00:56:46.800 It seems like it would be easier to build something on empty land

00:56:50.460 than it would be to reconstitute Gaza,

00:56:54.020 because it's just so destroyed at the moment.

00:56:56.720 So for practical reasons, it might make sense to put them somewhere nice in the West Bank

00:57:01.640 where things could get better for them faster.

00:57:04.840 I guess that would be the key.

00:57:07.340 You want to put them where things could improve for them the fastest,

00:57:11.140 the non-militant people.

00:57:14.940 But do you think if Israel annexed all or part of Gaza,

00:57:24.040 do you think that would stand?

00:57:27.100 I don't know.

00:57:27.680 That would be a tough one.

00:57:29.720 So they're all hard choices.

00:57:31.120 I guess that's the bottom line.

00:57:34.880 They're all hard choices.

00:57:38.760 The helicopter has not been found.

00:57:41.080 Hold on.

00:57:44.360 Let me look at one thing.

00:57:48.040 Got a little update here.

00:57:53.700 Iran president, the helicopter did crash.

00:57:56.420 So, and not been found.

00:57:59.900 So I guess, I think we moved from,

00:58:03.900 it had a hard landing to it crashed.

00:58:07.580 It has not been found.

00:58:10.560 Drone searching for it.

00:58:12.980 All right.

00:58:13.420 I see an article here I'm going to click on.

00:58:15.880 This is from Mario Nuffel.

00:58:19.580 The drone efforts halted due to fog.

00:58:23.880 Two hours since the helicopter carrying Iran's president

00:58:26.720 reportedly made a, quote, hard landing due to fog.

00:58:30.440 And no sign of the helicopter reported.

00:58:35.040 Huh.

00:58:35.380 So my question would be,

00:58:39.920 since we assume that the people on the helicopter had cell phones,

00:58:44.620 does that mean that there's nobody who could use their cell phone

00:58:47.700 or it could have crashed where there's no cell phone signal?

00:58:51.260 There must be lots of places where there's no cell phone signal.

00:58:56.360 So, but then there would also be no radio.

00:58:58.720 So there would have to be no radio and no cell phone signals

00:59:03.920 if they're alive.

00:59:07.080 So the only possibility would be then,

00:59:10.600 I've got a helicopter question to ask after this.

00:59:14.560 So if the helicopter's radio doesn't work,

00:59:17.900 that means there's a physical problem, right?

00:59:22.640 Does anybody know enough about military stuff?

00:59:25.720 Oh, here I've got another thing coming in.

00:59:29.740 Let me see this.

00:59:35.320 Some of the president's companions

00:59:37.480 were able to communicate with authorities,

00:59:40.420 raising the hope of survivors.

00:59:42.380 Oh, that's not good.

00:59:44.960 So if some of them were communicating,

00:59:48.120 that seems to suggest that there's,

00:59:51.040 some of them couldn't, right?

00:59:54.200 Because there's no scenario

00:59:56.000 in which some of them would communicate

00:59:57.880 unless you'd heard from all of them.

01:00:00.380 I mean, even if the ones who could communicate

01:00:02.520 simply handed the phone to the people

01:00:05.160 whose phones weren't working.

01:00:08.960 They're really telling us the cat's on the roof here.

01:00:12.800 How long is it going to take

01:00:14.140 before Israel gets blamed for this?

01:00:22.080 Yeah.

01:00:22.520 Yeah.

01:00:24.200 I think they just,

01:00:25.720 I think they just waited for fog, didn't they?

01:00:28.900 They probably,

01:00:31.200 I mean, people are going to speculate about the cause,

01:00:34.720 but if it was actually intentional,

01:00:38.000 somebody was smart enough to rig it,

01:00:43.660 X reports he reportedly survived,

01:00:47.160 and then he died.

01:00:47.840 So we're getting mixed reports on social media.

01:00:52.860 Helicopters don't need to crash for people to die.

01:00:55.920 Well, that's true.

01:01:01.060 Yeah.

01:01:01.540 I would think that a helicopter,

01:01:09.940 well,

01:01:11.360 yeah, we'll know in 50 years.

01:01:16.840 Same people who killed Kennedy.

01:01:19.420 It does feel like maybe it was the fog.

01:01:23.400 If you have a situation where,

01:01:25.260 I believe the story was that some of the helicopters

01:01:27.980 were self-grounded because the fog was too bad.

01:01:31.200 So it's sounding like a Kobe Bryant situation

01:01:35.920 where maybe the pilot of one of them

01:01:38.280 got ordered to do it anyway.

01:01:39.940 Missile strikes don't leave cell phones working. 0.83

01:01:50.680 That is correct.

01:01:53.960 Yeah.

01:01:54.920 That is correct.

01:01:56.240 It does seem to me that if anybody is alive,

01:01:59.720 it was a hard landing.

01:02:01.820 That makes sense.

01:02:03.980 Why fly in fog?

01:02:05.300 The same reason that Kobe did.

01:02:06.960 There was somebody important who said,

01:02:08.520 take a chance.

01:02:09.200 I'm willing to take a chance.

01:02:11.600 And then the pilot wasn't able to say no.

01:02:14.980 Could be that.

01:02:19.480 All right.

01:02:21.240 Tunnels between Egypt.

01:02:23.700 Yeah, there are many tunnels between Egypt and Gaza.

01:02:27.320 Well, Egypt tries to close them.

01:02:29.740 I don't know how good they are at it.

01:02:34.960 All right.

01:02:36.080 That's all I got for today,

01:02:37.540 ladies and gentlemen.

01:02:38.320 I'm going to talk to the locals people privately.

01:02:41.440 Thanks for all joining.

01:02:43.740 And I'll see you tomorrow.

01:02:45.600 Same place.

01:02:46.320 But locals hanging with me.

01:02:48.500 It's just going to be us here in a few seconds.

01:02:50.560 I'll see you there in a few seconds.

01:02:51.400 Bye.

01:02:51.940 Now, we're going to have a few seconds.

01:02:53.940 Well, absolutely.

01:02:56.900 Let's move on.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 19, 2024

Episode 2479 CWSA 05⧸19⧸24

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