Scott Adams explains why the people who kiss their wives before they go to work live 5 years longer, and why it might be because they have more attractive wives. Plus, Starbucks hires a new CEO, Brian Nickel, and Elon Musk says he's on track to become the first trillionaire.
00:04:15.920But here again, here again, I don't want to get ahead of myself, but this might have been a place they could have saved a little money again.
00:04:24.640When they went to, oh, say, instead of spending years studying it, they could have said, Scott, do you think that the people who kiss their wives in the morning are going to live longer?
00:04:38.420And I would say, well, what do we know about the people who kiss their wives?
00:09:31.360I've spent a lot of time on AI, just using it as a consumer.
00:09:35.700I don't see anything in that that could ever power a robot.
00:09:42.220Has anybody had that same realization?
00:09:45.280So we're being told that there's this inevitability.
00:09:48.400We've got this AI that's getting better all the time.
00:09:51.400And we've got these robot batteries, I'm sorry, robot bodies plus robot batteries that are much better.
00:09:59.400So we're seeing these great, you know, physical demonstrations of robots.
00:10:05.120But if the AI they put in the robot is the same AI that's in my app on my phone, and I think it would be,
00:10:14.560it to me doesn't look like it could ever be a robot.
00:10:17.120Now, yes, it can talk to you, but it has so much hallucination and variability to it that I don't know that the current technology has a path to be a robot brain.
00:10:33.540We all assume that it'll just keep getting better.
00:10:35.840So whatever I'm looking at now is misleading.
00:13:16.140Especially if they're going to listen to all your conversations.
00:13:18.300You know, you're going to have a completely different feeling about your digital device recording your conversations, which it does, versus a humanoid-looking robot who can remember everything you've ever said and done and can report it back to law enforcement.
00:13:37.380You don't think law enforcement will be able to get a warrant to get your robot?
00:13:40.580I feel like we need some legislation that says that law enforcement can never access a robot that's a personal robot.
00:14:29.620Tech Explorer says there's a company that made a robot leg that's made of artificial muscles.
00:14:35.140So, developed by researchers at ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.
00:14:44.740So, they made this little model and they made some artificial muscle and they used it in the leg and it was stronger and better than the mechanical ones.
00:17:08.040And the hypothesis is that Apple is not bullish on AI, meaning that they don't think that the AI companies are going to get their money back for what they invest.
00:17:24.240But it seems to me, given Apple's resources and talent, that if they thought AI as a field was something that they just had to be deeply into, they would already be doing it.
00:17:38.300Now, maybe they're doing things we don't know about.
00:17:41.140But I feel like Apple is lukewarm on AI.
00:17:45.400They know they have to build it into their product because it would make their current product way better because right now it barely understands English.
00:17:53.460So if the only thing that changed was it understood what you were saying much better and it could interact with the other apps, that would be really big.
00:18:03.380You know, it would change completely my experience using my phone.
00:18:06.280But it would also make people talking to their phones too much.
00:18:10.600If you had AI on your phone, you kind of want to talk to it all the time.
00:18:21.600Why would you type when you can just talk to it?
00:18:23.920So you're going to have the most annoying world in the world where everybody who has a phone is talking to it, even if they're not on a phone call, because it's just easier to talk to it.
00:18:33.720I do worry about the world where everybody's talking.
00:18:39.940Well, according to the Wall Street Journal and lots of other people, the DEI programs are down.
00:18:45.460Now Coors and Molson are backing away from DEI on top of Harley Davidson and Ford and John Deere and a few others have backed away from DEI.
00:20:58.120So, is there one thing driving all these things?
00:21:05.560Makes you wonder if there's a testosterone.
00:21:10.140Do you think testosterone is part of it?
00:21:12.160If you have more testosterone, at least the boys, are more likely to take chances, right?
00:21:19.200And all these things are chances you probably shouldn't take when you're young, but people would.
00:21:23.940So, I also wonder if it's the pleasure unit theory that I talk about, in which if you have alternative sources of pleasure, you don't have to seek out dangerous ones necessarily.
00:21:37.580But if you don't have any source of pleasure, you're going to find it wherever you can, even if it's illegal.
00:21:43.820So, it could be that the, you know, the having, permanently having phones that can give you dopamine, maybe it's just pumping enough dopamine into teenagers that they don't need drugs.
00:21:57.700It just, yeah, it just makes me wonder, like, what's behind that?
00:23:52.480One of the biggest issues in the campaign was that J.D. Vance said there was a lot of single cat ladies.
00:24:00.000And then the other biggest theme, which there are probably two stories about it just today, headline stories, is that single women are very much going toward Harris and away from Trump.
00:24:24.700But single women do have a lot of cats.
00:24:26.940Is it a coincidence that when single women who own a lot of cats are the most problematic group for Trump to get, that how perfectly compatible it is that suddenly the people that Trump would like to deport are eating the cats of, oh, let's say the single woman.
00:24:53.440Oh, there's only one thing you love, single woman.
00:24:55.640The only thing in your life is your cat.
00:24:58.260And your preferred candidate is going to ship in the cat eaters.
00:25:03.880I'm going to make a stand on this one and say two on the nose.
00:25:40.880But I also say if you brought in a bunch of people who didn't have access to food, they're going to eat anything they can eat because that's just human.
00:28:27.080Well, according to James O'Keefe, Harris has flown 400,000 Venezuelans into the U.S., and that would represent, at least in New York City, 400 members of the Venezuelan gang, Truenda Arogua.
00:28:49.260Do you think that we have 400 gang members from the same violent gang that are in one city?
00:29:14.720There's another report about the Biden-Afghanistan withdrawal, and apparently he did not take advice from his many, many military advisors who told him not to do it the way he's doing it, to take longer, etc.
00:29:28.800Biden apparently was fixated, they say, and I think this might be a political spin on this, but they say he was fixated on his legacy and making sure he got it done before the 9-11 anniversary, and that he wasn't being driven by data and safety and all the things he should have been driven by.
00:29:54.960He was driven by the pure political level without any practicality or planning to get it done.
00:30:01.400I expect that this is the sort of story that I don't 100% trust the narrative.
00:30:24.960There's another story that says that apparently the U.S. created some kind of a special Iraqi bank system where they can move funds around.
00:30:35.720Because once Iraq got, you know, torn down by the war, they didn't have a banking system that worked, I guess.
00:30:43.200So, the U.S. sort of overlaid one, and a lot of money has been going through that banking system for years, and now we find out that it didn't have safeguards or money laundering controls, and that some immense amount of money may have been funneled to terrorists in Iran.
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00:32:31.140Thomas Massey is opposed to the new continuing resolution.
00:32:35.820That would be a short-term budget agreement that would allow them to keep running up the debt to ruinous levels.
00:32:43.860And not have to deal with any tax cutting.
00:32:46.640But, so apparently, so here I thought that Speaker Johnson did a smart thing, because he included in the funding bill that the Democrats would have to vote for the SAVE Act, S-A-V-E.
00:33:01.180And the SAVE Act was to make sure that you were a citizen before you voted.
00:33:07.540Now, that seems like an obvious thing everybody would agree with.
00:33:10.600But, it's fairly obvious now that the Democrats intend to cheat.
00:33:15.220Because there's no legitimate other reason that you would be against election integrity.
00:33:20.420It's not like there's a second reason.
00:33:42.200That if they approve the six-month deal, that would, of course, they'd have to eat the SAVE Act, and they probably won't approve it.
00:33:49.880But if they approved it, then that would go into action.
00:33:53.480And we'd keep the lights on, but we'd be running up our debt to ruinous levels.
00:33:58.460But, did you know this, according to Thomas Massey, if the Speaker, instead of making it a six-year continuing resolution, which, again, is just a short-term agreement not to agree on anything about the budget, basically, just to keep running up the debt.
00:34:15.220If you made that one year instead of six months, according to Massey, there's some kind of trigger that's already built into law that if we get to April with a continuing resolution,
00:34:28.460that would lead to a 1% automatic cut to spending on April 30th.
00:34:38.440It could be that the one only way we will ever cut the budget is if somebody sneaks in some kind of a trigger that says if you keep behaving badly and doing continuing resolutions, which are basically just not doing your job, right?
00:34:55.620Creating a budget that the country could survive would be called doing your job.
00:35:01.760A continuing resolution is an agreement by both sides to not do their job and to not create a budget which is survivable.
00:36:17.000And so, all Speaker Johnson has to do is turn the six-month thing into a one-year thing, and it will trigger this automatic 1% spending cut.
00:36:29.620I think the only way that our budget could ever be cut is to put a 1% per year reduction in it and let inflation do the rest.
00:36:38.880And then you still have to grow like a motherfucker.
00:37:05.000So, yes, I am now completely opposed to the continuing resolution now that I know that extending it to one year would give me that valuable 1% cut.
00:37:15.560Because you know what's valuable about cutting everything 1%?
00:37:19.420Every single department will complain that they can't operate.
00:39:04.980But I do think there are some special cases, and I might be one of them, where if I don't have to commute to work and, you know, I've got a medical benefit from it, which is tremendous, that, you know, it's a special case.
00:40:13.240But it turns out that we learned today that, according to Bloomberg, that the Biden administration has been working on a proposal to create a sovereign wealth fund.
00:40:21.780So, poor Mark Cuban, he's out there trying to do the best he can, defending some of the worst ideas in the world.
00:40:29.160And he decides to go hard at the sovereign wealth fund because it's Trump.
00:40:35.160And, at the same time, Biden's working on the same plan.
00:40:38.200Now, I do understand his argument that you don't create an investment fund if you have an emergency in your debt situation.
00:40:51.140But if the sovereign wealth fund wasn't going to make a dent whatsoever in the – if it wasn't enough to make any dent in the debt, but it might have some big strategic benefits, there's an argument for it.
00:41:05.580Maybe there's a better way to handle the debt.
00:41:08.200But, speaking of Mark Cuban, we learned today that he's not a donator to politics.
00:41:25.820But if you see him online, he appears to be trying to exhaust Trump supporters with endless biased questions, which he's fooling people into responding to.
00:41:38.200He's creating this infinite amount of wasted energy by pushing people to support Trump's various policies.
00:41:48.400So, the questions will be, you know, kind of good but academic trolling kind of questions, where to answer the question, you'd have to put in a lot of work.
00:42:01.180But if you don't answer the question, it looks like you can't answer the question, so it's a bad policy.
00:42:17.340So, he's getting a lot of prominent people to spend a lot of time responding to his questions, which, honestly, are dumbfuck questions.
00:42:24.820They're just troll questions, in my opinion.
00:42:26.760And what I mean by that is that they're brilliant, because if you looked at the paper, or if you looked at his questions about Trump, on the surface, you'd say, huh, that's actually a good question.
00:42:41.620I'd sort of like to know the answer to that myself.
00:42:43.560But, if you see how many of them he's asking, you can tell it's more of a strategy than any curiosity.
00:42:52.900So, don't let him suck up all your energy.
00:42:57.400So, my only caution is, he's not moving the needle.
00:43:02.020You know, it's not like the Democrats are looking at him and saying, hmm, Mark Cuban's got some good ideas.
00:43:37.240Well, Morning Joe is trying to turn Trump's statement that he would go hard against election cheaters, should he get elected, as more evidence of his dictatorship.
00:43:51.500He is totally a dictator because he wants to jail his opponents, they call it.
00:43:58.600Now, Trump says if you cheat in the election, as in break the law, that the law will be, you know, used to its maximum impact to put you in jail.
00:44:11.940Now, was there a part of that where Trump said, even if you don't break any laws, we're going to put you in jail because we don't like you because you're my critic?
00:44:38.220So they had a guest on there that creates a dangerous situation for Trump to say he's going to deport a bunch of illegals and that could cause some violence and that he would be election, he would be arresting these alleged election cheaters, if any of them exist.
00:44:55.360And that those are too dangerous and that those are too dangerous and totalitarian.
00:45:00.080Do you know how hard you have to work to make it a bad idea to deport Venezuelan gangs?
00:45:09.960Because obviously he's going to do the violent ones first, don't you think?
00:45:29.080If he could snap his fingers and they would just all disappear back to their home country, you know, safely and well fed and everything, I think he would do it.
00:45:39.000If he could just snap his fingers and they all leave and, you know, they're still alive and they're happy and they're fed and everything.
00:45:44.320They're just back in their original country.
00:49:02.800Meanwhile, there's something called the BB Files.
00:49:05.220And then there's a, I guess it's a documentary coming out that's going to allegedly show that Netanyahu of Israel had a bunch of bribery, corruption-related allegations.
00:49:21.080Here's what I need to tell you about that.
00:49:40.080I'm just saying that if something looks really, really true because you saw it on a documentary, you're going to have to learn to force your brain to reduce the credibility of that to zero.
00:49:52.160A really, really convincing documentary that proves to your brain beyond a shadow of a doubt, these allegations must be true because I can't even imagine how all these accounts could be fake.
00:50:05.980But I will tell you, if it's a documentary, you would be convinced, that convinced, whether the allegations were true or false.
00:50:17.140So being completely convinced by a documentary that's full of credible-looking people, your brain should adjust that to zero.
00:50:29.320And if you don't believe me, I always recommend this little test.
00:50:34.680Watch the documentaries that accuse Michael Jackson of horrendous crimes, and then watch immediately after, watch the documentary that says all the crimes were made up and it's fake.
00:50:46.100They are equally persuasive, and they're opposites.
00:50:51.900If you would only watch one, you would absolutely come away with the belief that that one was, there's no way this is wrong.
00:50:58.880I mean, it's just so well-documented and proof, and you've got witnesses, and you see all the parts, everything's transparent.
00:52:09.960I'm aggressively saying documentaries are shit if you want to know the truth.
00:52:14.280Anyway, there's a story about a California state senator, a woman, who allegedly was forcing her former male staffer to perform oral sex on her whenever they went on business trips.
00:52:33.580He was not a big fan of this, but he went along with it.
00:52:37.340But eventually, he was performing such act, allegedly, in a car, and he had an injury.
00:52:54.420On their final encounter, Condit alleges, so this is the senior staffer who was performing the oral sex on his boss.
00:53:03.340He said, Condit alleges he suffered a debilitating back injury while performing oral sex on the senator in a car, leaving him with three herniated discs and a collapsed hip.
00:53:53.200So, I've watched it, and I've watched videos in which there were men performing this very act.
00:54:00.440And correct me if I'm wrong, I felt like some parts of their mouth and tongue might have been moving, some business with the hands perhaps.
00:54:13.420But I've never really gotten my back too involved in such a thing.
00:54:18.720And when I watch the pornography, I'm not sure how to pronounce that.
00:54:24.620But I never see them get their back involved.
00:54:29.880Is there a way to do it that I'm not aware of?
00:54:34.800In other words, should you be undulating?
00:54:37.040Is there anything sort of like a, you know how a porpoise swims?
00:54:41.600You know, they're just sort of moving their back like, is it sort of like that?
00:54:45.020Where, you know, no matter what you're doing with your facial part, are you also lunging?