In this episode, Scott Adams talks about a new way to block traumatic memories in the brain, the dangers of a high carb diet, and the future of the energy grid. Plus, a new invention that could change the way we live forever.
00:04:41.040And somehow they can store energy and then release it through the decompression.
00:04:46.080Now, imagine if that becomes a real thing.
00:04:49.540And that we're using excess CO2 to store electricity from green energy.
00:04:58.460Now, I wouldn't bet very much that this will become a big thing.
00:05:01.800But how cool is it that what, at least some people think is our biggest problem, the CO2, could be our biggest solution?
00:05:10.300I have long wondered if we will have an industry where sucking CO2 out of the air and turning it into products, in this case a battery, is going to be a thing.
00:05:21.940So much so that people are sucking too much CO2 out of the atmosphere.
00:05:26.940I think there might be a point when humans are, just for their own economic reasons, they're sucking CO2 out of the air and turning it into stuff that they can sell.
00:05:55.920And the idea is they would use regular nuclear energy technology, not the Generation 4, you know, not the new stuff, but rather the stuff that you would be afraid of if it melted down.
00:06:08.080But what they would do is they would drill this ginormous 30-inch hole, 30 inches wide, a mile deep, and they would put some kind of mechanism, nuclear mechanism, a mile into your hole, so to speak.
00:06:26.780And somehow they would need no mechanical parts, just two pipes.
00:06:33.420They put some water into it, and the water heats up, the pressure of the water is enough to keep things pressurized, so you don't need mechanical pressure, just the weight of the water, because there's a mile of water.
00:06:47.300And then I guess the nuke cooks it up and then shoots it back up as, I don't know, hot water or steam or something.
00:06:53.500But the point is, you could actually have nuclear power in a hole, and then if the thing melted down, you just close the hole, because it would be below the water table.
00:07:08.220So it would never need to be, you know, continually cooled, because it would be below the water table.
00:07:13.560And if anything went wrong, you just leave it there.
00:07:15.600Apparently, you could just cover the hole and walk away.
00:07:24.440We'd just drill gigantic holes and put non-mechanical stuff in there, things that, you know, don't need to be revised too much, because it's not mechanical, and just have all kinds of power.
00:07:36.500Well, remember that CEO of Telegram, the messaging app, got picked up in France.
00:07:42.820There's talk of, you know, he's got looking at 20 years of charges that look suspicious to all of us.
00:07:49.980The French are going to extend how long they're going to hold them.
00:07:53.700Let me tell you everything about this story that you need to know.
00:07:58.280You will never know what this story is about.
00:08:01.280I don't think there's the slightest chance that you and I will ever know what this guy was up to, and who wanted him arrested, or any of that.
00:08:14.000Probably the real story is something you've never even heard, right?
00:08:22.040The Telegram CEO being picked up is more proof that any government, whether a democracy or not, can arrest you, make up a bunch of bullshit, and hold you forever.
00:08:36.820So if you think that, oh, it's a good thing I've got this justice system and all that, you really don't.
00:08:43.280We're at a point where the government can make up any story and hold you as long as they want.
00:08:47.300And, you know, this has the Tate brothers written all over it, meaning, you know, maybe the Tate brothers did something that the law doesn't like.
00:09:00.260But I'm not sure that's why they were arrested.
00:09:03.860I feel like whatever the reason was, we'll never know.
00:09:07.880You know, it's some other deep, dark reason.
00:09:12.220So to speculate on this story seems like a waste of time because we'd just be guessing.
00:09:19.020But the one thing that is the takeaway is that any government can arrest any person for any reason and just make up shit and keep them in jail forever.
00:09:27.980That's, I think that's guaranteed and evident and obvious at this point.
00:10:06.220Now, that doesn't mean that, you know, they would all vote.
00:10:10.000But the speculation that some people have is that the ineligible voters, maybe they get a ballot or maybe somebody pretends to be them.
00:10:18.560But that in some way somebody is voting those names without being them.
00:10:25.620That's not something you have to worry about, is it?
00:10:27.480I mean, we would obviously know with our tight election security, you would know if a million people were going to, you know, illegally vote or even any big number, 10,000.
00:12:49.780We got all these volunteers who are helping, making sure the voter rolls do not include dead people or people who moved away or people who can't vote for one reason or another.
00:13:00.020So she cleaned it up, and she'd clear a name.
00:13:47.140How could you take it off and then it would come back?
00:13:50.980And so it says at that juncture, she realized that a program within the Georgia voter registration database was methodically adding back fake names.
00:14:17.160For new registrants, the culprit was principally driver services, creating new registrations.
00:14:24.240And in this case, the manufacturer was a person or persons.
00:14:30.280In other words, there was a person doing it, using a program.
00:14:35.460Within the government office, someone was stealing names and duplicating, even tripling that person's vote and then forging their signature.
00:14:45.180Sometimes it was someone who just died or a teacher who had no voting record.
00:14:51.000In the case of a nurse who died in 2022 with three registrations, he was registered to vote in two counties and all three of her voted in the 2022 election and the 2024 primary.
00:15:04.040Each signature was slightly different and even spelled different, even in the signature, they spelled their own name different, three different ways.
00:15:15.640Allegedly, and again, I'm not saying it's true.
00:15:25.500The operation works under AVR or automatic voter registration is being used to register migrants.
00:15:32.720They will not vote, but their names have been entered into the voter registration database when they apply for a driver's license and their vote will be voted for them.
00:15:49.320I imagine that this is repeating something everyone knows, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:15:55.200So the allocation is that's why the border is open to get more of these non-voters illegally on the voter rolls.
00:16:02.720How many states do you think use this system, this automatic voter registration system in which one database would be populating the other database and massively illegally if the claim is true?
00:16:21.720Well, the claim is that in the year 2020, there are 20 states who use this system that would allegedly, not just saying what is reported, I don't know what's true, allegedly take names from one system that were not eligible to vote, the driver's license databases, and put those names onto the other system.
00:16:46.800But in the case of people who are registered two or three times, there must have been something beyond just taking new people and putting them on the rolls.
00:17:30.780Now, the claim is that there are these registration fraud rings, as identified in the Arabella document, I don't know what that is, in the work of Omega for America.
00:17:44.600So there must have been somebody who looked into this.
00:17:47.180And the idea is that each of these states has a dozen or more NGOs, which do nothing but fill out ballots for fake registrants.
00:17:59.160And Peter Berneger, whoever that is, his team in Wisconsin, has video of NGO functionaries doing just that.
00:18:49.120The first context is that when the original 2020 suspicions were coming out, and there were lots of different claims,
00:18:59.320I said that whether or not any of these election rigging claims are true, the one thing you could know for sure is that at least 95% of the claims would be debunked.
00:20:52.300If it's true that there are NGOs who are dedicated to putting together these fake voter lists, that gets me to my next point.
00:21:04.260We have a world in which it would take one whistleblower, just one, to change the entire freaking world.
00:21:17.880Because America would be completely changed by one whistleblower who actually had the goods, you know, say a video or, you know, said, yes, I personally did this.
00:23:04.400So how would you like to be one of those cheaters, knowing that all of your coworkers, all of your people complicit, allegedly, allegedly, we don't know that that's true.
00:23:17.200Every one of them could get a million dollars for turning your ass in.
00:23:25.380Have I been telling you forever that this movie, this reality we're living in that's way too much like a movie, there is something required that hasn't happened.
00:23:38.700The movie cannot be completed until the Kraken is found.
00:23:46.380Every part of this movie requires the Kraken to be found after we're sure that it can't be found.
00:25:01.600If you had an election system that was super complicated, then it would be really hard to know if anybody was doing anything like what was suggested.
00:26:07.120If anybody involved in the election wanted to have a fair election, they would just say, hey, let's just do paper ballots and then everybody will stop bitching.
00:27:28.960It's just that the system design guarantees it.
00:27:33.040And now there's a tweak to the system design.
00:27:37.320Now the system design includes this new element that wasn't there before, which is knowing in advance that there will be a whistleblower reward and probably a big one.
00:27:48.600Because, remember, the whistleblower doesn't have to accept the offered award.
00:31:22.540Harris got community noted because she said that Biden and I believe that women should make decisions about their own health care and their bodies, not the government.
00:31:38.340And the community note in X said, you required health care workers and big companies in the military to get COVID vaccination or lose their job.
00:31:47.860That is the opposite of bodily freedom.
00:31:49.980So, now I'm fantasizing that the debate happens between Harris and Trump.
00:31:55.720Harris, of course, is going to bring up this, you bad Republicans, you want to take away the bodily autonomy.
00:32:01.760And then Trump says, well, you know, everything that I did was to take the decision away from me and the federal government and move it closer to the individuals in the state.
00:32:12.300And women are the majority voters in those states.
00:32:16.580So, if you can convince each other what to do with your bodily autonomy, I'm sure the rest of the world would go along with it.
00:33:57.060I have one feeling if she's drunk giving a speech in her official capacity.
00:34:03.120If she was off duty and had a few drinks in the plane, I can't imagine that would be too different from presidents we've had before.
00:34:15.340My concern is if she can't control it enough that she, you know, she can do it on her off time versus, you know, work time.
00:34:22.540Now, I get that if you're president, you still need to be coherent if you get the 3 a.m. call.
00:34:28.460But realistically, we've had drinking presidents for a long time.
00:34:32.840I just want it not to be during the job.
00:34:36.400And if she was just flying around, I have a different feeling about that, even if she was drunk.
00:34:42.480Well, the author of White Fragility, one of those books that made wokeness a big thing, who is herself a white woman, has been accused of plagiarizing for minority scholars.
00:35:04.740Anyway, Meta CEO Zuckerberg put in a statement, and he basically admitted that the Biden administration pressured them to censor COVID stuff, and also the Hunter's laptop stuff, and maybe some other stuff.
00:35:24.040And he said it was wrong, and he wished he pushed back, and he's not going to be as political or spend his money the way he did before, you know, shoring up election integrity.
00:35:34.420He thought, but it probably worked the other way.
00:35:37.260So he's not going to do that kind of funding, and he's not going to endorse anybody, and he's not going to get political.
00:40:03.580So since it's a vibe election, if Trump wants to get the right vibe, he wants to, you know, visit the Vietnamese restaurant and show everybody loves him, which he did.
00:40:16.240Go to a black barbershop, see that everybody's fine with him.
00:40:22.500But being the nicest to Trump is really his best play.
00:40:27.120So, yeah, I think he would be wise to do what he was doing, which is say, well, you know, we'd already agreed there would be no microphones.
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00:43:55.020Well, because he's part of a party that has a massive mental health problem.
00:44:00.320And some of us have noticed that the real problem doesn't seem to be politics.
00:44:06.880There is a massive mental health problem.
00:44:09.740And the specific mental health problem appears to be related to this dark triad, you know, narcissism and some other things.
00:44:17.840And what they love to do if they have that particular mental situation is to project, which is blame other people for what they are or what they're doing.
00:44:27.980And to gaslight, which is different from lying.
00:44:45.580But if somebody is looking at something directly and you say it's not there, and it's just obviously it's there, that's gaslighting because it makes them feel like, am I crazy if you pull it off?
00:45:28.080Because we know for sure that she's not super strong about policing.
00:45:34.580And she's telling you it's the opposite.
00:45:35.820So when you know something's true, that she's not the one who's really for policing, and then she tells you it, but I'm the one who's really for policing, that's gaslighting.
00:46:34.560And then the Republicans will say, I don't know.
00:46:37.480That one person when they were in college once said something I don't like.
00:46:41.020So I'm leaning toward this because I do think that Kennedy could be important in finding people who are brave and not political and have the right priorities.
00:47:45.300I believe that even if you were asked to be the CIA director, the CIA people would contact their congresspeople they own and say, don't vote for this.
00:48:04.580Kennedy says that the reason the Democrats now hate free speech, or at least it looks like it because they're trying to suppress free speech in every possible way they can.
00:48:17.940He says it's because it's because the party does not believe in the people and that they're making Elon Musk a villain because he's providing free speech.
00:48:29.020And he says, quote, if you don't believe in free speech, it means because you don't trust the people.
00:51:19.920I'll have to contact him a little later.
00:51:21.400So, yeah, anyway, so it makes me, it makes me think that his wife, Cheryl, is maybe a more complicated person than the news had indicated and more supportive and maybe more wise.
00:51:40.260But clearly she's supportive and wise, if this, if this is right, and I think it is.
00:51:48.760Nicole Shanahan, you know, RFK Jr.'s VP running mate while he was running, put on a Venn diagram, which is funny, because, you know, Venn diagrams, but it showed a Venn diagram of Occupy Wall Street.
00:52:00.740That would be the, you know, the Democrats who didn't like large corporations and the Tea Party, which was the Republicans who didn't like big government.
00:52:09.200And she says that, that her movement, if you can call it that, is the intersection.
00:52:19.020So the intersection of people who don't like big government and the people who don't like big corporations is when the big government and the big corporations are colluding with each other.
00:52:28.980And I thought, wow, that just, that hits it perfectly.
00:52:32.740You know, you could call it fascism, but then nobody knows what that word means.
00:52:36.140But if you showed it in the Venn diagram, you're like, oh yeah, the big corporations have too much power, but some like that.
00:52:43.560The big government has too much power, but other people are happy with that.
00:52:47.280But when you look at the intersection, when the two of them are working together, that the big corporations are bribing the government and the government's doing stuff with the big corporations that you don't like.
00:52:57.840It is the, when they work together, that it's a problem.
00:53:00.380And that's where we can all come together.
00:53:19.640And I guess he had some fascination with skulls and he was going to do something to get a whale skull, which I kind of love because I mean, the whale was dead and a huge whale skull.
00:53:34.580Like if you could, you know, get a whale skull and clean it up and, you know, put it on a display in your house, how cool would that be?
00:53:45.920I mean, seriously, if you had a giant whale skull and you had some way to display it, it'd be kind of cool.
00:53:55.080So I don't know what he was up to, but it doesn't matter.
00:53:58.000It was just something he wanted to do.
00:53:59.340So Axios is reporting that there's now this environmental advocacy group that wants them investigated because it might be illegal to transport a dead mammal's skull.
00:54:15.320So there must be some law that says you can't transport a marine mammal's skull.
00:54:53.400Remember, this was a environmental advocacy group that was going after him.
00:54:58.460So is it ironic that an environmental advocacy group would turn themselves into garbage?
00:55:05.680I don't even think you could recycle that kind of garbage.
00:55:11.660No, these are garbage people because if they decided that they looked at the whole world and all of the environmental problems and they said, you know what?
00:55:21.920If we could solve this aquatic mammal skull transportation problem, well, then we'd have a better world to live to our children, wouldn't we?
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01:01:37.160So anyway, the pirate ship is about staffed.
01:01:40.580What I love about the pirate ship is that it forgives a lot of rough edges because there could be a lot of people on the same team who've got their own rough edges.
01:01:52.320And if you call them pirates and you say, well, we're at least on this pirate ship on the same mission together, it sounds a lot better than it's a whole bunch of people with flaws.
01:02:02.660So there's something about the pirate ship analogy that just totally works for me.
01:03:00.320Too easy to turn it into something negative.
01:03:02.920So I was never on board with MAGA since the beginning.
01:03:06.240Although I would acknowledge it became a gigantic, successful branding thing.
01:03:11.700So you could argue that Trump got it right because it was so successful.
01:03:15.780However, when you hear Make America Healthy Again, oh my God, is that a hit.
01:03:21.260Make America Healthy Again refers to not just our systems and our election process and how we select people and, you know, what we do in the world.
01:03:34.380I mean, we need way more health in our systems.
01:05:45.040RFK Jr. on climate change, because I know this is where a lot of Republicans are going to say, wait a minute.
01:05:50.640I disagree with you, RFK Jr., because you're pro-climate change.
01:05:55.640But I didn't know exactly what his nuanced thinking was.
01:05:59.380But here's something that would make you a little bit happier.
01:06:01.220He said Democrats have become subsumed in this carbon orthodox, meaning that the only issue is carbon, and it's the thing that they're going to measure for everything.
01:06:12.260So if you're measuring carbon, that's what you'll manage to.
01:06:17.480Have I told you a million times that you can only manage the things you measure?
01:06:22.820So if let's say there were three things you thought were good ideas, but one of them you could measure and you did measure, that's where all your attention would go, because you can measure it.
01:06:33.080As soon as you can measure a thing, it just sucks all the energy to it, because, okay, you can tell if I make a difference.
01:06:39.860So he's saying that the concentration on that may be diverting from some better things you could do, you know, to just make the environment cleaner.
01:07:37.220And probably hits people just what they want.
01:07:39.380I'll give you the less religious version of this, that we don't feel complete until we can go outside in a nice environment that's outdoors.
01:07:52.560And I completely agree with humans can't be humans until they can experience a clean environment.
01:07:59.100And I would argue that maybe, you know, a lot of inner city problems might have to do with not having access to nature.
01:09:32.260So I don't think you have to call on the divine.
01:09:35.180You could simply say that what makes a human a human and a complete human absolutely requires some kind of commune with nature on a regular basis and you can't get around it.
01:09:47.420So I'm completely with him, you know, with a tweak.
01:09:51.500Well, let me compliment President Trump.
01:09:56.900I've been wishing he would do something in a specific way for the longest time.
01:10:03.700I think I've said it a number of times.
01:11:37.560Who would stand in front of the country as the president in prepared remarks, at least, you know, mentally prepared remarks, and say that neo-Nazis are fine people?
01:11:51.000That's how you should have known it was a hoax without needing to check that the video was in fact edited.
01:11:56.100Who would stand in front of the world and say, maybe you should drink bleach or inject bleach or inject a household disinfectant into your body?
01:13:15.000Once you see the pattern that three of the biggest hoaxes, I would argue the three most powerful hoaxes, were from Trump, were about things that nobody would say.
01:13:29.500So, yes, President Trump, you are powering up for this debate in a way that is making me very happy.
01:13:38.180I feel like, again, I'll say it, whoever is advising Trump right now, doing a good job.
01:13:47.320There's something good happening there.
01:13:50.980Here's a little story that is just interesting.
01:13:54.260Apparently, we used to think that old trees couldn't absorb any CO2, so old growth forests weren't going to help too much for fighting climate change.
01:14:03.200But now there's new information that says that the old forests actually grow new woody biomass and do absorb.
01:14:11.780So my question is this, when you're putting together those climate models and you get wrong the fact that existing old forests can, in fact, absorb CO2, how much did that change your model?
01:14:26.480Well, did they go and revise all their models?
01:14:31.300Well, probably not, because, you know, this is one, maybe one study.
01:14:35.940Maybe they need to see some more before they're convinced.
01:14:38.320But I remind you that when you have a model that has, you know, I don't know, hundreds of variables or whatever there are, that it doesn't take much change to even one of those variables to get a wildly wrong answer.
01:14:56.960And that's why people who have never done any kind of predicting or modeling don't really understand how bad the models are.
01:15:09.060And the way they do it is they throw the one, throw away the ones that don't work this year.
01:15:13.860They add another one and then they tell you models work.
01:15:17.320No, what works is if you throw away the ones that don't work and replace them with a new one, it will always look like the models are working.
01:15:36.160I mean, it's hard to be a scientist without being brilliant, but they are notoriously easy to fool.
01:15:43.020In some cases because they're a little bit too literal, I guess.
01:15:47.980There may be something to it, but scientists tend to be easy to fool with scams.
01:15:54.900So there's a report that the U.S. is helping Israel hunt down the head of Hamas, that Yahya Sinwar guy, the most simulation sounding name in the world, Sinwar war.
01:16:13.000And did you know that we have a technology that says deep penetrating radar or sonar, I forget what it is, that they can map out the tunnels.
01:16:27.720So apparently the U.S. has some kind of tech where they can actually just map the tunnels.
01:16:38.740I wish I knew about that a long time ago.
01:16:40.860So if they've got complete control of the territory, which they seem to, and they can map out the tunnels, it's only a matter of time before they get everybody they need to get.
01:16:54.220But apparently we're doing a lot, and the story is that the U.S. wants to find Sinwar and take him out because they think that would be the administration, American administration, Biden, believes that that would give Israel a reason to say the war is over.
01:17:15.300So the war doesn't have an over point.
01:17:18.040There's just sort of more of what you're doing.
01:17:20.740Like it would be hard to identify, well, what would be the end of the war?
01:17:39.500People want to have an end to the war, but they don't have a reason.
01:17:44.980They're going to need a reason to end the war.
01:17:47.240So from a persuasion perspective, the fake because, the reason that you used to do your thing because you wanted to do it anyway, but you needed something that sounded like a reason, would be that Sinwar gets captured or killed.
01:18:01.980Now, in my view, that makes no difference to anything because I just replace him with number two and go on.
01:18:09.500But in the fake because persuasion world, it might be a strong argument that the public thinks, well, you got the head guy.
01:18:18.620Okay, it's the time to wrap things up.
01:18:22.260So I'm not entirely sure that that's what the U.S. is thinking.
01:18:26.660It's just reported that that's what they're thinking.
01:18:29.180Maybe a lot of people thinking different things in the administration.
01:18:32.760But just know that we now have the tech to pretty much capture all of those tunnels, or most of them, or a lot of them.
01:18:41.420So, all right, that's what I got for you today.
01:18:45.300That is the end of my prepared remarks.
01:18:47.460I'm going to talk privately to the wonderful, sexy, good-looking people on Locals, subscribers.
01:18:57.160And for those of you on X and YouTube and Rumble, thanks for joining.
01:19:01.920And I got lots of fun coming up in the next few weeks.
01:19:05.160I'll let you know about lots of things happening.
01:19:07.800But until then, I'll see you tomorrow, the rest of you, but locals, hang in with me.
01:19:14.120I'm going to have an extra sip of coffee to wrap things up.