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00:01:14.500 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called

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00:02:01.300 going to have us now go. Well, let's see if there's any latest news about the health benefits of

00:02:14.540 coffee. Yes, there is. It turns out, according to the science alert people, that there's a study that

00:02:24.240 says that drinking coffee and maybe some tea, we don't want to leave the tea drinkers out,

00:02:29.480 could be lowering the risks of dementia, but only if they had high blood pressure.

00:02:36.100 So the correlation is if you have high blood pressure, it might help you with your lowering

00:02:43.360 your risk of dementia. So I have high blood pressure, and I drink coffee. So in 10 years,

00:02:51.480 I'm going to give you some feedback, and I'm going to tell you if the drinking of the coffee

00:02:56.540 reduced my chance of dementia. So 10 years from now, if you don't hear anything from me,

00:03:03.920 that means the dementia got me and the coffee didn't work. But if I do remember for 10 years,

00:03:11.000 and 10 years later, I say, whoa, it looks like it's September 20th. It's, yeah, it's 2034. I thought

00:03:17.480 I'd get back to you and let you know that the dementia did not get me. So that's one data point.

00:03:23.260 I have a question for you. I use or try to use chat GPT in voice mode on my phone. It seems to be

00:03:35.940 programmed. So it's only going to give me two interactions before it pretends to have a technical

00:03:41.860 problem. Now, the first 25 times I did this, I said to myself, well, this is some temporary bug that

00:03:50.580 they're going to need to work out. But now I'm fairly certain that it's intentional.

00:03:56.100 Does anybody have this experience where if you're typing into chat GPT, it works fine? But if you ask

00:04:03.260 it three to five questions, when you hit about the third question, it goes, bad cell phone connection.

00:04:11.860 We don't know what's wrong. We cannot answer. And it won't work for you again until you come back

00:04:16.900 hours later. But when you come back hours later, the first two questions, perfect. And then it will

00:04:23.540 pretend to have a technical problem. So do you have this? Oh, okay. I'm getting yeses. All right.

00:04:30.280 So that's intentional, right? Because I don't see any way that you could talk to it twice reliably

00:04:36.340 every time. But by the time you get to the third question, it's always broken on the third question.

00:04:42.400 All right. We cannot talk. I don't understand your question. And then it won't work for the rest of

00:04:48.820 the time. Okay. All right. So I'm getting lots of yeses. So it works fine if you use text, if you're

00:04:55.440 just typing in your question. It's just the voice mode. And that's intentional, right? It's just

00:05:01.740 pretending that it does work when it doesn't really ever work. And I'll tell you the trouble it gives me.

00:05:09.320 I'll ask you like health related questions. And it'll get to the most important part. And then

00:05:16.540 it will glitch out every time. So I'll just make this one up. But I'll be like, chat GPT. Is there any

00:05:23.420 correlation between people who are baldish and wear glasses and do podcast thing? Do they they ever have

00:05:32.140 any medical problems? Well, yes, there are reports of serious medical problems for people who are

00:05:39.380 bald with glasses who do podcasts. And I say, really? How bad is it? What kind of medical problems?

00:05:45.540 Well, it's just that. And then I'll ask the third question. I'll be like, was that based on

00:05:52.140 observational studies or, you know, gold standard studies? Because that's what you really need to know.

00:05:58.260 Is it like a good study? Or just some observational thing? And then you're like, you're really like,

00:06:04.060 am I going to die? Am I going to die? Chat GPT, tell me, am I going to die? And then chat GPT will be

00:06:10.340 like, oh, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold. And you're like, damn it, chat GPT. And you'll ask

00:06:17.620 again. And it will be like, oh, gold, gold, having gold troubles now. And then I go off thinking I'm

00:06:25.460 going to die. I swear to God, that's happened probably five times where I've gotten to a life

00:06:32.080 changing critical part of my investigation of whatever I'm asking the questions about. And then

00:06:37.920 it just dies on me. Anyway, I assume that it's intentionally programmed to act like it works when

00:06:47.300 it doesn't. We've got a situation of a man fighting a robot. I'm trying to figure out if

00:06:54.640 this is the first time. Have you ever seen a situation where a man fought a robot? And I

00:06:59.660 don't mean for sport. I mean, it was a fight with a robot. So it's a police robot that was sent

00:07:08.320 because there was a perpetrator that had a gun, you know, locked in a hotel room, I think.

00:07:12.900 And so the robot is like, you know, knocking his window out with its big robot arm and it's

00:07:19.460 trying to tear gas him. And then the man throws a blanket over it. So it tries to, you know,

00:07:25.020 thwart it. And then it actually got in a fight with a robot and the robot pinned him down until

00:07:31.800 the police came. So I believe he's the first human being to have a legitimate fight with a

00:07:38.700 robot. Not, not a joke, not an entertainment, an actual fight for your life with a robot and the

00:07:47.600 robot won. So, so far, if you're keeping score, it's robots, one humanity, zero.

00:07:56.460 So I'm, I'm looking forward to a rematch because I can't really imagine getting pinned down by a

00:08:05.840 robot on wheels. I mean, how good is this robot? Now, I believe the robot was being operated by a

00:08:15.200 human. So it was not an autonomous robot making its own decisions, but still a human lost the fight to

00:08:21.680 a robot. So that's a real thing. I wonder if robots are doing any other fighting anywhere. Well,

00:08:28.880 look at this story from the express. Ukraine has a gun wielding robot. So they put a machine gun on a

00:08:35.400 robot. That's basically just four wheels and a, and a mechanical thing looks it's about half the size

00:08:42.240 of a car and they just send it into Russian positions and have it machine gun everybody, because

00:08:48.400 when they shoot at it, it, you know, bullets bounce off. And apparently it took RPG hits and still kept

00:08:54.380 going. So that's pretty serious. It's called the fury. Now, if they've got one robot that reportedly,

00:09:03.660 you know, you can't really trust any story out of a war zone, but reportedly it just was wiping out the

00:09:10.040 Russians because, because it could go right to the front line and you know where they are. It's not like

00:09:16.060 everybody doesn't know where the other side is, you know, where they are. So you just send this

00:09:19.800 robot in and it just starts shooting everything. And yeah, it says it took RPG hits. It said it took

00:09:27.980 more than one and kept going. I don't know how that's possible. That doesn't sound real. Does it?

00:09:34.960 I'm going to say, I don't believe the art, the RPG part. I'm going to say no on that. That sounds

00:09:41.120 like bullshit. But maybe they have a robot that shoots a machine gun. That'd be pretty amazing.

00:09:48.080 In the most unexpected news, which is also the news that tells you everything you need to know

00:09:53.620 about the future. You want to hear a story that tells you everything about the future? Here it is.

00:10:00.760 Microsoft is trying to get Three Mile Island nuclear power plant reopened because they need so much power

00:10:08.940 to run their data centers, especially with the AI needs, that they're willing to reopen the undamaged

00:10:15.300 parts of Three Mile Island because some of it was undamaged. Now, here's the thing. Can you even imagine

00:10:24.380 any other time in our recent history where any company could have even said the words out loud?

00:10:31.520 We're thinking of reopening Three Mile Island and that people would say, you know, that makes sense.

00:10:37.700 Yeah, now that you mention it, that makes perfect sense.

00:10:43.760 So, do you ever wonder if the, let's say, the opinions about things like climate and the opinions

00:10:52.920 about nuclear power, do you think those are organic? Do you think that human beings just do their own

00:11:00.300 research and come up with some opinions about things like nuclear power? Not too much.

00:11:06.180 Because, correct me if I'm wrong, nuclear power just went from the worst thing you could ever have

00:11:14.320 in the world, it's going to kill us all, to let's reopen Three Mile Island. I don't see a problem with that.

00:11:21.060 And it's Microsoft. Apparently, the big companies can make you think anything you want whenever they want.

00:11:27.760 Yeah, no problem. Open up Three Mile Island. I don't see how that could be a problem. And by the way,

00:11:34.440 I don't think it will be a problem. I do think it's a good idea, just to be clear. It's just that how

00:11:40.860 quickly the country went from, oh, nuclear will kill us all, to, oh, we better do a lot of nuclear to save

00:11:47.940 us all. And I would like to note that for the past 20 years, I've been saying, you better do some

00:11:56.380 nuclear. You're going to really, really, really regret it if you don't. You better get going on

00:12:00.940 that. You better hurry up. And here we are. If you wait long enough, eventually, everybody agrees with

00:12:07.820 you. You just have to wait. Anyway, let's see what else is going on. This is one of my favorite

00:12:16.440 stories. I knew about this, but now this researcher got an award. So there's a researcher who got the

00:12:23.560 Ig Nobel Prize. He debunked the blue zones. Now, blue zones are places around the world where

00:12:31.520 allegedly there were pockets of people who were living well beyond 100. And, you know, the

00:12:39.300 researchers wanted to see why they live so long. So they would study them. They'd say, oh, you eat a

00:12:44.500 lot of fish, do you? And you lived over 100. Fish is good. And then they would look at all the things

00:12:50.160 they did and say, just do what they do. Don't use a cell phone. They're living forever. Well, this

00:12:56.440 researcher, Saul Justin Newman, decided to go around and see what was up with these so-called

00:13:02.360 blue zones. Found out they're all fake. There's no such thing as places where people routinely

00:13:10.560 lived over 100 because they have such good lifestyle choices. Nope. Never existed. What

00:13:16.500 they do have is places where people routinely lie about how old they are. Because being old

00:13:22.960 is valued in some cultures. So where there are people who don't have birth certificates and

00:13:30.040 nobody can prove otherwise, they just add 10 to 20 years to their actual age when they reach 80.

00:13:38.960 So all it was was liars. We thought we had discovered like the secret to eternal life. Well, you just

00:13:47.040 eat enough cucumbers and look what you can do. No, it turns out it's lying. It's lying. There's your

00:13:54.500 science for you. Well, the here's a here's in the nerdiest thing you're going to hear today.

00:14:02.680 Over 90. This is from Horty Daily for horticulture. Horty Daily. Over 90% of seed sector

00:14:11.680 insiders. So these are people who work with seeds. They say they expect the innovations that will breed

00:14:20.720 more resilient and productive varieties of crops within two decades. Well, I suppose that's just

00:14:26.020 more of what's already been happening. But here's like the one of the least important sounding fields

00:14:33.340 of science that might be the most important. So we're all sitting around saying, how can we lower our

00:14:39.940 food prices? Well, one way, which isn't going to be immediate, is if you had better seeds. So if you

00:14:48.620 had better seeds, you grow twice as much food in the same amount of space with the same amount of

00:14:53.900 everything. You get twice as much. So that should lower your costs. So seeds are a big deal. And it made

00:15:00.600 me wonder, I wonder how hard it would be to be a seed experimenter. Because I don't think they're putting

00:15:08.000 chemicals on the seeds, right? Aren't they just mixing one kind of plant with another plant and doing

00:15:14.400 selective breeding of some kind? Because I thought, isn't that the sort of thing you could do at home

00:15:19.340 on your own? You know, with like one tabletop? Because all you're doing is planting a bunch of seeds and

00:15:25.720 seeing what works. I don't know. Seems like it'd be a good job. I'm a seed guy. I just do 20 seeds at a time.

00:15:33.900 Well, I made a post yesterday that's more about a feeling. You know, the zeitgeist? Have you ever

00:15:42.820 heard that word? German word for how everybody's feeling at the same time for reasons that you can't

00:15:48.960 quite identify? Because it's not like there's a specific news in the story. It's not like there's

00:15:55.300 a specific story in the news. It's more like just people are feeling a certain way suddenly,

00:16:00.980 and you're not exactly sure what caused it, but you can certainly identify it. And here's what I

00:16:07.420 feel. I feel like men have decided who's going to win the presidency. Now, there could be shenanigans.

00:16:16.200 So I'm only talking about the vote or the attempted vote. And I think it's over. I think the decision

00:16:25.120 has already been made. And I think that Trump will win on votes. We don't know if he'll become

00:16:32.340 president because there's too many shenanigans. It couldn't be more than a coin flip, even if you

00:16:39.300 win the vote. It couldn't be more than a coin flip. So here's why. Here's what I sense.

00:16:47.620 Let me explain something about men and evolution and biology. And I'd love to see if you agree with

00:16:57.320 this. So these are, I'm going to make some general statements about men. Now, before you say to me,

00:17:03.920 but Scott, this is also true of women. Yes, it is. But Scott, why are you leaving the women out?

00:17:11.720 Scott, I'm not. Scott, why are you saying this is only about men? I'm not. Now, even though I've said

00:17:19.520 that, the very first comment is going to be, what about the women? What about the women? No, you're

00:17:24.740 included. It's just that this is more weighted toward men. But women, definitely included. And here's my

00:17:33.380 statement. When there is a vacuum of leadership, what do men do?

00:17:41.720 Do you know what we do? When there's a vacuum of leadership? Well, if there is a leader, what we

00:17:50.140 love to do is just go about our business, because we have a leader. If you give me a leader, I just

00:17:56.320 ignore leadership. I go, oh, we got one. Leader's doing okay. All right, good. You go lead. I'll go do

00:18:03.600 my thing, make my thing work. What happens if you can sense that there's no leadership?

00:18:08.640 Unfortunately, the way we men are wired, and this is my statement. I'd love to see if you

00:18:16.840 believe this or feel it or recognize it as true, that when men see a vacuum of leadership,

00:18:23.420 they act. And we don't even have a choice. It's not even a choice. Now, again, it's not every man

00:18:31.340 does this, and it's not that every woman doesn't, right? So we're allowing that all people are

00:18:37.240 individuals, so there could be all kinds of that. But in general, men cannot abide a vacuum

00:18:44.500 in leadership. We just can't handle it. And I think it's biological. I think we just evolved

00:18:49.740 so that we will have a leader. So if your pack of wolves doesn't have a leader, one of the wolves is

00:18:56.460 going to say, fuck. I guess I'm going to have to try out to be leader, because you're not going to go

00:19:03.240 leaderless. You won't go leaderless. You're going to do it. Now, we, men and plenty of women, too,

00:19:14.460 feel the vacuum of leadership. We don't know exactly what's going on, but we can feel that

00:19:22.100 Biden's not running things. And we can feel that Kamala, not because she's a woman, this doesn't

00:19:28.260 have anything to do with the gender, but her capability and how she got there suggests she

00:19:33.740 is not really the leader, even if she gets the job. So we feel more leaderless than we've ever

00:19:40.420 felt before. Now, that doesn't mean that every man has to run for president, because we do have a

00:19:48.060 solution. It's called Trump. And I believe that there's this unspoken, but men can feel it,

00:19:56.620 that we've already decided. We've decided we're going to have a leader. It's going to be Trump.

00:20:04.540 And we're just going to make it happen. And it almost doesn't matter who gets in the way at this

00:20:09.420 point, because it's not a preference. It's a decision. And I swear to God, I could feel the

00:20:15.640 decision being made this week. I don't know what it was. And obviously, this is just a subjective,

00:20:21.860 you know, mental thing that's happening with me. But I'm just wondering if anybody else feels it.

00:20:27.860 Do you feel it that men have just decided and that we're not going to do this anymore?

00:20:34.220 We're not going to leave the border open. We're not going to leave the women unprotected in the

00:20:39.440 cities. We're just going to handle it. But we don't need to talk about it. Well, I mean,

00:20:44.720 I do because I do this for a living. But men in general don't need to talk about it.

00:20:51.360 And I'd like to ask you to do the following. If there are young men in your life,

00:20:58.300 pretty much everybody at least knows somebody who's young and male.

00:21:03.060 Ask them if they feel it too. And then help them get registered because they might not know

00:21:09.940 what the process looks like. Help them get registered to vote. Now, here's what you don't

00:21:15.080 need to do. You don't need to tell them who to vote for. Do you know why? They can feel it.

00:21:23.780 The males can feel it. They can feel the difference in leadership. And they don't need to know the

00:21:29.920 policies. They need to know that Trump is willing to be a leader and capable. He's willing and he's

00:21:36.960 capable. And by the way, it doesn't really have anything to do with him being male.

00:21:41.840 If it had been, you know, let's just pick a name, Tulsi Gabbard, and she had reached this point and we

00:21:48.340 knew she could be a leader, then she would have all the support of the men as well. But we need

00:21:54.100 leadership. And we can feel it in Trump, even if you don't like everything he wants to do.

00:22:00.000 And I think it's decided. And I think that here's the part that's going to be weird for you.

00:22:10.920 If you talk to the young men in your life, I want you to tell them this.

00:22:16.480 Tell them that I, and you can, you know, they won't know who I am, so you have to describe who I am.

00:22:22.500 Tell them that I told them it's time.

00:22:24.120 Just tell them I told them it's time. And that it's time to register. And you don't need to tell

00:22:31.860 them who to vote for. They'll handle it. Just tell them it's time. Because every man is waiting

00:22:39.360 for their moment. Even young men. Sometimes there's a war and the young men sign up because

00:22:46.500 that's their moment. Sometimes they might need to protest. Civil rights, for example. But they'll feel

00:22:53.680 it. They'll know when it's their time. This is young men's time. If young men register in the next

00:23:03.360 month and decide that they would like actual leadership in the country for the first time

00:23:08.080 in a while, they can do it. It's your time. Tell them that I said it's their time. Now,

00:23:15.700 the thing you should be saying to me is, why would I tell them that? Because they don't even know who

00:23:21.900 you are, which is true. Here's why. Men need to be told what to do. And on one hand, we have a very

00:23:32.760 specific impulse to know what to do. We know that there's a leadership vacuum and we know we have to

00:23:38.400 fill it. But we also need to be a little more specific than that. Can you maybe, can we get on

00:23:44.840 the same page about what we're doing? Okay, it's a war. I got it. Okay, it's a war. I know what to do.

00:23:49.860 I sign up for the war. I go to war. But tell us what to do. So I'm telling them what to do.

00:23:56.140 Will they, will they listen to me? Weirdly, yes. Weirdly, yes. Even without knowing who I am.

00:24:04.480 Do you know why? Because I'm male and I'm telling them what to do.

00:24:09.020 And men respond to that. We like to be told what to do if it makes sense. If it doesn't make sense,

00:24:16.940 we don't like it at all. But if it makes sense, we like order. We like chaos to be solved. We like

00:24:24.400 to know what works. We like to know what's happening now and what will happen next. We want to know that

00:24:30.360 there's cause and effect. We want to know that we can fix things. The young men feel all of that.

00:24:38.520 They just need to know one more thing. It's their time. Civilization literally depends on young men

00:24:46.180 waking up in the next 30 days. Or it could. I mean, there's lots of variables. But if you fix that one

00:24:53.100 variable, young men, just tell them it's time. The waiting's over. It's time.

00:25:00.360 You need to get registered. And it's probably going to be by mail wherever you are. So it's

00:25:07.500 not like you have to go anywhere. You don't have to miss a day at work. You don't have to leave your

00:25:11.300 video games. You just got to go to a website, sign up to vote, and a thing comes in the mail in the

00:25:18.060 next few weeks. So tell them I said it's time. Because it's time.

00:25:25.340 Meanwhile, we've entered, I think the October surprises are coming early.

00:25:34.480 So there's a report. There's going to be a whole bunch of stories in the next month or so

00:25:39.520 that are the most bullshitty of the bullshit. So the following stories I'm going to tell you,

00:25:46.120 I don't believe any of them. So these are just claims that popped up in the last 24 hours.

00:25:52.920 So Tim Walsh has his former National Guard colleague who says that some nuclear manuals

00:25:58.780 went missing around the time that Walsh returned from a trip to China.

00:26:02.100 And he believes that Walsh stole some nuclear manuals. Now, the first question I'd ask is,

00:26:12.200 what the hell kind of nuclear manuals would somebody in the National Guard have access to?

00:26:18.960 I'd like to give my opinion, which is nothing. If there's anything that he knew in his job,

00:26:28.240 which had nothing to do with anything in the nuclear field, it would have to be something

00:26:33.080 basic like, if a nuclear war breaks out, be sure to do this or that. It's not like it's secrets on

00:26:41.280 how to build a bomb. I'm pretty sure that Tim Walsh did not have access to the secret manual of how

00:26:48.300 we're going to attack other countries with our nukes or how to build them. So the first thing you have

00:26:53.740 to ask yourself is, what is this classified nuclear manual? Probably something, if you and I read it,

00:27:00.900 we'd say, oh, that doesn't look too important. It's just some official government thing. So

00:27:06.420 while it would be wonderfully useful to Republicans if this were true, and he was some kind of a

00:27:15.580 Chinese spy stealing nuclear secrets for China, I'm going to say no on this one.

00:27:22.360 I'm going to say this is a little too on the nose. Sounds like just something that comes up

00:27:28.920 a month before a vote. None of this seems real to me. All right. Now, I'm going to be fair.

00:27:35.720 So I'm going to say Democrats got some fake news. Republicans got some fake news. So there's more

00:27:41.700 to come. There's a, who is Mark Robinson? Is he a, is he a governor? Mark Robinson? Black political

00:27:52.620 leader who is GOP? Or is he in the house? Anyway, there's a political Republican who's accused of

00:28:02.720 having been in some kind of porn related conversations online prior to running for

00:28:09.280 office. And allegedly, he called himself a black Nazi. Now, am I worried about any of that? Not really.

00:28:20.860 Do we think it happened? I don't know. Does it matter? Nope. Nope. Here's my take.

00:28:29.240 Suppose it's all true. There's no claim he did anything illegal. There's no claim he did anything

00:28:36.980 immoral, you know, given that the context that allegedly happened was people who would talk like

00:28:43.980 that. So he wouldn't be offending anybody necessarily. And certainly if you call yourself,

00:28:49.220 if you are black and you call yourself a black Nazi, nobody's going to take that seriously.

00:28:53.820 I mean, nobody's going to take that seriously. That just sounds like something you'd say online.

00:28:59.860 So I'm going to say, it doesn't matter if he said these things or not. If it was before he was in

00:29:04.120 office, it was in the context of people playing around down online and saying things anonymously.

00:29:10.660 I don't care. Does anybody care? If all of it had been true, because none of it's illegal.

00:29:17.120 It's just playing a character online to get a thrill. I don't care. Fine. Run for president.

00:29:27.640 I'm fine with that. No problem at all. How about, let's see. There's a story that RFK Jr.

00:29:36.860 had some kind of a too personal relationship with a reporter who had been working for the New York

00:29:44.420 magazine. So Olivia Nuzzi allegedly was having some messaging or something that got too personal

00:29:52.980 with RFK Jr. Some people are suggesting that they had an affair, but the evidence does not suggest

00:30:02.240 any kind of physical contact. So they both deny any physical contact. And apparently they met once

00:30:09.220 during the context of an interview. I doubt that led to sex immediately following the interview.

00:30:14.420 So I'm going to say this doesn't sound real to me. It may be that they became friends and

00:30:20.660 chatted a little bit on text. And I'm not saying they did. I'm just saying, what if? Because other

00:30:28.100 people are characterizing it without showing us anything. If you're not going to show us the

00:30:34.160 conversation, don't you dare characterize it for me a month before an election. Can we agree on that?

00:30:43.720 If you're not going to show me a screenshot? And by the way, I don't want to see any. I don't want

00:30:48.760 to see any. But if you're going to refer to somebody else's conversation and not show it to me

00:30:54.200 and tell me that it's inappropriate, sorry. Nope. Nope. I'm not. I'm not going to take Tim Walsh and his

00:31:01.860 magical stealing of nuclear documents. Doesn't sound real to me. And no, I'm not going to say that

00:31:09.600 somebody he met once for one interview was an affair. Nope. Doesn't sound real to me. Did they

00:31:16.520 become friends in some kind of text messaging way? I don't care. He's allowed to have friends.

00:31:25.240 He can text people. He can text anybody he wants. So let's not make something out of nothing.

00:31:30.840 And then there's some dirt dug up on Christopher Ruffo that looks so unlikely to be true that I'm

00:31:42.120 not going to even repeat what the rumor is. So here's the larger point. It does seem to me

00:31:49.240 that there's probably a list of pro-Trump supporters and people leaning in that direction

00:31:55.700 who are being targeted and that the targeting is sort of concentrated in the month before the

00:32:02.860 election. Now, does it look like there's been a lot of targeting? Would you agree? It's not an

00:32:12.840 accident that just everybody's getting a scandal. And I keep waiting for mine. Like every time there's

00:32:18.280 one of these new scandal things like the scandal about Tim Poole and the others who may have been

00:32:24.740 connected without knowing it to some money source that was Russian. I'm just waiting for me to be

00:32:31.780 thrown on some list, you know, with no time to debunk it before the election. And I think the idea is

00:32:37.300 just to, you know, just screw everybody who would possibly disagree with the deep state at this point.

00:32:43.760 But so I, you should put a deep level of skepticism on every claim about anybody in the public for the

00:32:55.260 next six weeks. I mean, you should always be skeptical. Remember gel man amnesia, where the

00:33:02.620 only things you know are fake news are the ones you know about personally.

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00:33:39.440 All right, I see that. So Diddy is in jail pending trials, I guess. And some say he was reportedly

00:33:52.860 placed on suicide watch as he awaits trial. Now, that could be to get him out of the general population.

00:34:00.160 So he may have just acted like he was going to commit suicide, so they didn't have to be around

00:34:05.700 regular prisoners who might be paid to kill him to keep him quiet. You know, sort of Epstein style.

00:34:12.540 So it could be a strategy. But I would also think that given the things he's been charged with,

00:34:18.800 that he actually would be thinking of suicide. I don't know how you do it easily in jail.

00:34:22.900 But isn't this also the same thing that the deep state does before they murder somebody in jail?

00:34:31.180 Isn't the first thing you do is say, well, he is talking about killing himself so that later when we

00:34:40.360 find him strangled to death in his cell, they're going to say, well, I mean, we've been priming you for

00:34:48.100 months that this is the sort of guy who is threatening to kill himself. And sure enough,

00:34:52.240 he strangled himself in his cell. And that's not easy. But he was very motivated. So he strangled

00:34:57.420 himself to death. I feel like that's just obviously coming. And by the way, we are so primed and beaten

00:35:06.380 down by the illegitimacy of our government and the news and whoever's really running things,

00:35:11.520 that they could actually just kill him and say, yep, he beat himself to death with a stick.

00:35:18.960 And 100% of the people would say, that's not real. And then the news would say, oh, it's real.

00:35:24.480 And then we'd say, it's not real. And then we'd do that for a few months. And then we'd get tired.

00:35:29.580 And then we'd just move on to the next outrage. They can kill him right in front of you.

00:35:34.320 And honestly, I'd be surprised if they don't at this point, given that there's no way they get

00:35:43.440 caught. And we know it works. And it's probably life and death for a lot of people who would be

00:35:49.400 willing to pull the trigger, sort of paying somebody to do it in jail. So I feel we're at

00:35:56.100 that point where it's like Putin murdering his dissidents. Like Putin can apparently, if you believe

00:36:02.940 the news, Putin can just poison the dissident and we'll get really mad for a few months and then

00:36:10.380 we'll just move on. And then he can poison another one. And then we'll get really mad and then we'll

00:36:15.140 move on. So I think they could do the same thing to Diddy. We'll get mad and then we'll move on and

00:36:21.200 nobody will go to jail for it. But there are some bad coincidences happening. Apparently a bunch of

00:36:28.280 record or music industry people retired the day after Diddy got arrested. People are saying,

00:36:34.700 well, that's a weird coincidence. All these powerful people who probably went to a Diddy party

00:36:39.220 are retiring just at the exact time that some pressure might be coming on them. Then we hear

00:36:44.640 that the CEO of Nike is going to step down and the CEO of some other company is going to step down.

00:36:49.720 So people are trying to connect these dots like, wait a minute, wait a minute. Have you ever been to a

00:36:55.540 Diddy party? And the answer is probably no, probably no. But if you'd been planning for a long time

00:37:03.620 to retire at around this time, because it's a good time to retire. This is like the ultimate time to

00:37:09.680 retire because then you get Christmas off. Everybody knows that, right? Well, if you're going to retire,

00:37:16.300 you want to do it in April, so you get the summer off, or you do it in sort of October-ish,

00:37:24.660 you know, September-ish, so you get Christmas off. Sort of basic strategy for retiring. So these could

00:37:29.900 be coincidences. There's a funny story in China that there's a zoo that didn't have any pandas,

00:37:36.480 so they took these fuzzy dogs and they painted them to look like pandas. And apparently it fooled

00:37:41.680 people until the pandas started barking and panting. Okay. And they were actually selling

00:37:47.720 these as panda dogs, like your version of pandas. Yeah, they look like dogs, but they're pandas.

00:37:53.740 But it looks exactly like a dog that you painted. Yeah, yeah, that's how they look. That's a panda

00:37:59.600 dog. Really? Because it looks like just a dog that you painted. I know, that's what the panda

00:38:06.200 dogs look like. They look like painted dogs. They're called panda dogs, but they're not real.

00:38:14.380 Meanwhile, a Chechen warlord claims that Elon Musk gave him a cyber truck. He put a machine gun on it

00:38:22.240 and took it into battle. But that mean old Elon Musk remotely disabled his machine gun Tesla truck

00:38:32.340 and needed to be towed off the battlefield. He's really mad about it. Now, does that sound like a

00:38:38.460 real story to you? Do you think that Elon Musk gave a Chechen warlord his own Tesla truck and then

00:38:48.480 turned it off so he couldn't use it in battle? Well, what do you think Elon Musk said? This was his

00:38:56.180 response to that story. He said, and I quote, are you seriously so retarded that you think I donated

00:39:04.940 a cyber truck to a Russian general? I have no further questions. I have no further questions.

00:39:18.900 Now, remember, I keep telling you that the way that the way Trump should respond to some of his hoaxes

00:39:28.160 is with this exact form, this exact form. This is Elon Musk answering a hoax with the exact, exact right

00:39:41.380 method. This is so perfect that you could take a class on this, right? Here's what's perfect about

00:39:49.120 it. You do not say, I did not do that. Because people don't believe that. Because people want to

00:39:57.260 believe what they want to believe. You do not say, it's a hoax and try to just leave it there. Because

00:40:04.700 people say, well, that's what you say when it's true. Here's what you don't say if you're trying

00:40:11.180 to hide it. Quote, are you seriously so retarded that you think I donated a cyber truck to a Russian

00:40:17.720 general? Perfect. Perfect. What have I been telling you that Trump should say? Do you really think

00:40:29.900 that as an acting president, I stood in front of the United States and told them and said that

00:40:35.180 neo-Nazis were good people? Do you think that actually happened in the real world?

00:40:41.460 Of course it didn't. Now, you don't want Trump to say, are you so retarded that you think that?

00:40:46.980 But adding the word we're not supposed to say, which, by the way, I don't like that word in public,

00:40:51.580 but I'm quoting. So I prefer not using it, although I love the word. It's just, for some reason,

00:40:59.660 it's the perfect word for a lot of things. But I understand the sensitivity to it, so I prefer not

00:41:07.660 using it. But in Musk's case, because it so perfectly capsulates the situation that I approve of it in

00:41:23.180 this context. I think it was exactly right. All right. OpenAI, allegedly, I don't know if this is

00:41:32.620 even true. So some users are saying they're getting emails from OpenAI, that would be the

00:41:38.060 chat GPT people, saying that they got to stop using little tricks to figure out how it thinks.

00:41:45.420 Basically, it's chain of thought. So if you can figure out its chain of thought, I guess that would

00:41:52.780 either give you some way to thwart it or copy it or something. So apparently, chat GPT is monitoring

00:42:00.140 the questions you're asking. And if you ask questions, it would get you to somehow understand

00:42:06.540 how it reasons that they can block you from ever using it again. Now, I'm not sure this story is true.

00:42:15.580 It's not quite passing my sniff test, but it could be. It could be, but I don't believe it.

00:42:22.780 So I'm going to go no on that one. But only 55-45 on that one. I'm going to go 55% not true,

00:42:33.580 meaning that there's something left out, you know, just some context left out. And 45%,

00:42:40.620 maybe it's just what it looks like. Maybe. I don't know for sure.

00:42:44.060 Well, another hoax of the day. Tim Walsh keeps saying that Trump wants to create a federal abortion

00:42:53.020 monitor. And apparently, he's been fact-checked by Breitbart, USA Today, Snopes. Doesn't make any

00:43:01.100 difference. Still says it. Because his base doesn't care. Sounds good enough. So I think,

00:43:09.980 and I might have to slightly, slightly give him a little bit of cover. I'm no Tim Walsh fan,

00:43:21.980 just to be clear. But if this were Trump who said that, I might have been tempted,

00:43:30.060 might have been, to say it's a little bit directionally correct. Now, it's not correct.

00:43:37.260 It's very much specifically false. But is he telling his people, hey, if you get a bunch of

00:43:45.340 Republicans in office, things could change quickly in terms of abortion laws? And the answer is yes.

00:43:54.220 Yes. If you put Republicans in charge, let's say they owned everything,

00:44:00.060 could things change quickly in the abortion world in ways that the left doesn't like? The answer is yes.

00:44:07.260 Yes, it could. Now, Trump is not promising to do anything beyond the things he says he was going

00:44:14.540 to do. I personally think that he's going to stick to that because it's consistent with his own beliefs

00:44:21.100 about abortion forever. Not forever, but for a while. And so that's believable because it's just

00:44:28.460 consistent with all the other things he said. But I can see why they'd be worried. And as a persuasion

00:44:35.900 trick, it works. So in very much the way, I don't think a lot of Haitians are eating

00:44:42.380 pets. But it's directionally accurate in terms of making you feel there's a threat to bringing in

00:44:48.860 too many people too quickly, blah, blah, blah. So it's not true. But I can see why he's using it

00:44:56.380 politically. It makes sense. So Jordan Peterson points out on a post on X, never trust anyone who

00:45:06.620 wields the term disinformation as a weapon. And what pit of hell did that benighted term emerge

00:45:13.660 from anyway? What propagandistic genius coined it? How did it spread so virally?

00:45:21.180 No one said disinformation 10 years ago. Well, that's true. And along those lines,

00:45:28.300 I've pointed out there are some other words that you only hear when people are trying to basically

00:45:35.100 manipulate you without facts. The other ones I mentioned before are unhinged chaos and ending

00:45:40.620 democracy. Because they're just so vague, but you have to make it sound like it's bad.

00:45:50.060 Thank you, First Gear.

00:45:54.780 So yes, I would agree. Whenever you hear these words, disinformation, unhinged chaos,

00:45:59.740 and ending democracy, and there are a few extra ones there, I would say those are signals that

00:46:06.140 somebody is using propaganda. And if you are echoing any of these words, if you've heard that

00:46:13.900 propaganda and then you go out and call Trump unhinged or his supporters or any of that, you're

00:46:20.780 just brainwashed. These are not words that give any meaning to anything. These are just words.

00:46:27.580 But Trump also uses some words that the left calls out as being, let's say, symbols of evil.

00:46:38.860 So he talks about other countries being infested countries, I think infested with bad behavior or

00:46:45.660 something. And he says some of the people coming in, the criminals specifically, are vermin.

00:46:50.860 But of course, the left tries to generalize those terms into, he's talking about all the people from

00:46:56.940 this country, therefore he's racist. Now, he's obviously not talking about the general citizens

00:47:04.140 of any country. He's talking about the worst members of those countries being selectively the

00:47:10.700 ones more likely to come here because they can get out of jail and stuff. I don't know if there's any

00:47:15.980 truth to the jail part. But is it directionally correct? Yeah, it is. Again, it's directionally

00:47:25.420 correct that unchecked asylum laws and immigration are a real danger to the country. But I would prefer

00:47:33.260 that Trump did not use words like vermin infested because it does echo back to some Hitlerian language

00:47:41.420 and there's no benefit to it. So if Trump gets no benefit from it and it activates people making

00:47:49.100 them think something that isn't true, that's not the best word to use. And I don't think it gets

00:47:54.780 many extra votes on the Republican side. There's no Republican who said, you know, until he called

00:48:02.220 them vermin, I wasn't convinced. It's not persuasive. If it had been persuasive, like they're eating the pets,

00:48:10.780 that's persuasive. Not true. But at least you could argue that it's directionally useful.

00:48:17.740 This has no use. There's no utility to using words like vermin and infested when you could use words

00:48:25.180 that tell the same story and would get you the same amount of votes. So that's my advice. Don't use those

00:48:30.460 anymore. Well, I think I saw five different stories of election irregularities before the actual election.

00:48:39.900 So I'll just mention two, but I think I said five of them this morning where there were various

00:48:46.860 either counties or states that had some kind of big issue with voter rolls or chain of custody or

00:48:54.940 some change they needed to do to improve it. They got not approved. It's all these different things.

00:49:02.220 But I'll just read two. So in Oklahoma, they removed 450,000 ineligible names from the voter rolls.

00:49:11.180 Let me say that again. This week, this week, the election's like right around the corner.

00:49:22.300 They removed 450,000 people from the list of people who would have been allowed to vote

00:49:32.620 if they hadn't removed them. 450,000 in Oklahoma. That's like a lot of the entire population of

00:49:42.700 Oklahoma. Do you think this could have changed the result?

00:49:45.740 Yes. Yes. It could have totally changed the result if there was also on top of this,

00:49:55.420 some bad behavior to use those names as fake votes. Now that part we don't know,

00:50:01.420 but we know there was an enormous opportunity for bad behavior.

00:50:07.500 100,000 of them were dead people, 15,000 of them were duplicates, and a lot of them were just the

00:50:13.900 wrong address. They don't live at the address that they are registered at. Now that's just one state.

00:50:25.340 So why did they have to get rid of 450,000 names? Why did they have to get it off the voter rolls?

00:50:30.940 Here's what confuses me. If this is a gigantic problem,

00:50:36.060 why was our election so definitely fair when we know this existed in the last election?

00:50:48.540 This didn't just happen. This is some kind of long ongoing problem.

00:50:54.940 So how do we know the election was fair? What would be the mechanism by which we could know that

00:51:00.860 if we know that this kind of problem existed? But luckily, it's only Oklahoma, right?

00:51:08.860 Oh, thank goodness. It's only Oklahoma. No, it's not. They all have some kind of problem. Here's another one.

00:51:17.980 Election officials in Luzerne County, that's in Pennsylvania, one of the most important state,

00:51:23.180 we think, for the election, have banned all mail-in ballot drop boxes from the county

00:51:28.620 over fears of voter fraud. Now, you know what I'm going to ask, right? Why would they need to ban

00:51:37.340 mail-in ballot drop boxes? Because we were told that when they were used, that was a deeply secure

00:51:47.260 election. Why would you need to change it if it was secure? Nothing they told us about the election is

00:51:55.340 real. It's all fake. Almost everything we've been told is fake. And there's almost nothing that makes

00:52:02.540 me more angry than when I see somebody on the regular news say with confidence and that fake, stupid-looking

00:52:12.460 confidence that the election was fair and that we all know it. The election was fair and we all know it.

00:52:20.060 How? How could you know that? It's the most unknowable thing in the country. In fact, I don't think

00:52:28.380 there's anything less knowable than who won the election. You couldn't know anything less, you know,

00:52:33.980 unless it was a landslide, I suppose. How about this? Tennessee, they have a new law requiring

00:52:43.180 to use voter verifiable paper audit trails to improve election integrity. Wait, why does that

00:52:50.940 make sense? Why would you need to change something in Tennessee to have an audit trail when we were told

00:52:57.580 that you can tell if the election was fair without any change at all? Because it was already perfect and

00:53:03.660 we know it was all fair. Why would you need to implement a new way to know it was fair if you

00:53:09.740 already know it's fair? Huh? Huh? It's like they've been fucking lying to us about every

00:53:15.420 fucking thing they've said about the election for years. And do they even know it? Do the people in

00:53:23.100 the news know that every state is making apparently big changes to the election because they had giant

00:53:31.820 holes and vulnerabilities? And at the same time, they say, but the elections have all been fine.

00:53:36.940 They've been fine. They've been fine. Yeah, there are 100 holes and we're trying to fix them and we

00:53:42.540 can't fix them. But before, fine. Yeah, we know it. How about the RNC says Pennsylvania County,

00:53:54.780 there's a Pennsylvania County Daily Wire is reporting this. They say that there's a county that ignored

00:54:01.660 state law before sending out mail-in ballots. The ballots without conducting accuracy tests.

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00:55:26.220 It's not me, right? Can you tell me this isn't me? They are telling us the system is great and it's

00:55:33.500 got a thousand holes in it? And they're reporting them at the same time? I'm not imagining that, am I?

00:55:40.380 But I'll tell you, if you were a Democrat, how many of these stories would you have seen?

00:55:46.780 So I just read you, what, five? And I saw several more. Just today. This is today.

00:55:53.260 This is not this week or this month. Today. Just today. These are the headline stories. How many Democrats

00:56:00.300 saw these stories? None? It's like it doesn't exist.

00:56:09.020 Anyway, there's a story about a New York City COVID advisor during the pandemic.

00:56:14.060 So he was advising people on what to do about COVID, you know, with the make sure you're six feet

00:56:19.340 apart and wear your mask and all that stuff. And apparently he was going to secret drug-fueled

00:56:23.820 sex parties and he had to be sneaky. Now, on one hand, I say to myself, well, that's a terrible

00:56:31.740 hypocrite leader doctor guy when he was telling people to be careful, but then he was going off

00:56:37.260 and not being careful himself. To which I say, I'll bet that was universal or close to it. My guess,

00:56:47.340 well, let me put a percentage on it. My guess is that something like 20 or 25% of the public

00:56:53.820 was genuinely scared and genuinely wore masks and genuinely stayed away from people and all that.

00:57:01.020 But that 80% or 75% were more like my house, where if I went out in public, sometimes I'd wear a mask

00:57:15.100 mask if I didn't want to cause trouble. But as soon as I came home, I'd take them off and I required no

00:57:21.340 masks in my house. And, you know, at kids, kids, you know, friends of kids and stuff running through

00:57:27.340 all the time. So, so it was basically like, you know, reams of people completely ignoring all,

00:57:35.740 all of that privately. I just publicly, I pretended to go long, you know, until I couldn't do that anymore.

00:57:42.460 And then, then I had to become a mask rebel for a while. So I think, I think that was closer to

00:57:51.980 universal. I don't even, I really don't even care that this guy was telling us to do one thing and

00:57:57.020 doing something else. Cause I think everybody was doing the same thing.

00:58:02.540 Um, so Kamala was on Oprah. You'd think this would be the friendliest interview in the world.

00:58:08.300 And it was, but, uh, here are some things that came out of it. Number one, it's very clear that

00:58:15.420 Kamala Harris is an idiot. Um, because all it did is produce clips that Republicans showed without

00:58:23.260 comment. If you do an interview and your opponents can show clips from it, multiple clips, it's not even

00:58:32.300 one thing. And you don't need to add a comment. You just say, uh, look at this, which is basically

00:58:41.180 what social media was doing. It's like, uh, look at this. And it shows her just how well the passage of

00:58:49.660 time. And, uh, I grew up in a small town and, uh, I own a gun and, and it just looked like an idiot.

00:58:57.900 And in my opinion, she looked inebriated. Does anybody else think she looked inebriated on

00:59:04.700 Oprah? I would say, obviously again, uh, I'm going to say, why are you pretending you don't see it?

00:59:12.700 Is that what's happening? Are you pretending you don't see it? Now, most of you do see it,

00:59:19.900 but I'm talking about the rest of the world. Is the entire democratic party pretending they don't

00:59:26.140 see this? Cause I think they are. I think they're actually pretending. Now there's a reason that the,

00:59:33.260 uh, let's say the legitimate corporate news is not talking about this at all.

00:59:37.820 Well, it's cause they can't prove it. And if you can't prove it, it would be a hell of a thing to

00:59:44.140 say if you're a legitimate news organization, but you and I are just citizens, right? I mean,

00:59:50.540 I do this on a podcast, but, um, I'm a citizen. You know, nobody, nobody gives me a paycheck from

00:59:57.100 a corporate entity. And when I look at her, it's to me, it's obvious she's inebriated. Now you could

01:00:04.380 argue about what the source of the inebriation is, but we've seen her clearly not inebriated.

01:00:11.820 If we'd seen her always acting like this, every time she went in public, I'd say, well,

01:00:16.780 maybe she just has sort of a, you know, goofy cackling personality and that's just who she is.

01:00:23.660 But we've seen her not inebriated quite a few times in the, in the, uh, the debate, for example,

01:00:31.420 definitely not inebriated. Definitely not. But on Oprah, you tell me that's not inebriated.

01:00:40.300 I want you to say, you know, I'd love somebody to say that to my face. I just want to look in

01:00:44.540 your eyes and say, really, really, that, that looks, that looks totally fine to you, right?

01:00:49.420 To me, this is so, um, this so matches how they treated, uh, uh, Biden, like they didn't see a

01:00:59.380 problem. I don't see a problem. What are you talking about? Well, no, you see, he's obviously

01:01:03.780 got dementia and he displays it on a regular basis. Really? I'm not seeing it. I don't know. What

01:01:11.420 are you talking about? So we're just doing it again. The funniest part was looking at, uh,

01:01:18.380 Oprah's face. Now I can't read her mind, but other people had the same comment, you know,

01:01:25.120 without me bringing it up first. So when I watched that, I looked at Oprah and I thought,

01:01:29.760 is Oprah looking at her like, Oh my God, what have I done? It looked like Oprah who other,

01:01:39.300 other said has, you know, a 20 or 30 point IQ advantage on, on Kamala. Say what you will about

01:01:47.060 Oprah? She's really smart. And I, I saw her sitting there looking at her like, Oh my God,

01:01:55.800 are, is this really happening? That's, that's the face I saw. Now remember I'm biased. So I'm

01:02:04.700 probably, you know, mind reading isn't real. We don't know what she was really thinking,

01:02:08.620 but that's how I received it. Like it felt like, it felt like Oprah knew exactly what was happening.

01:02:16.560 And it was just what you and I think, which is, uh, she looks drunk and she's full of word salad and

01:02:22.220 she's not very smart. So you decide, well, there's this interesting question of whether

01:02:30.900 California made AI parodies illegal. Um, like most laws it's written. So you can't tell exactly

01:02:39.240 what it means, but I'm drilling down into this because I've, uh, I, I've put a stake in the ground

01:02:46.720 that is opposite to what the news is telling you. So at least the social media news, the social media

01:02:53.300 is saying that a maker of an AI, um, parody video of Kamala Harris is going to, uh, sue California

01:03:03.480 for their new law that says you can't do AI parodies. Now I say, well, they don't mean that

01:03:11.540 they mean you can't do AI that looks like a real thing. And then people who are also smart and know

01:03:18.500 more than I do say, no, Scott, they really actually made it illegal to do a parody. And then I say,

01:03:26.100 no, that couldn't have happened. That's impossible because you know, there'd be no point doing it.

01:03:31.480 It would be thrown out as unconstitutional. And then somebody showed me the phrase in it that says

01:03:37.000 that parody is not included. Here's what I think is happening. So this will be my working hypothesis.

01:03:44.640 I think the reason that we can't tell if California banned parody is this very little gray area that's

01:03:52.420 very tiny. And that would be an AI, um, election related piece that you legitimately couldn't tell

01:04:02.980 it was fake. That's definitely illegal. So if you make a parody that would look to somebody like a

01:04:10.580 real thing and you don't label it parody and it's about something important, like an election that

01:04:17.460 appears to be what is now illegal. I don't have a big problem with that. Uh, I generally like it when,

01:04:25.200 uh, the government says you can't lie to the public about important things. So for example,

01:04:32.420 there's truth and labeling, I like that. I like that there's a law that says you can't just lie

01:04:38.280 on your label, what you have in there. Um, I like that banks have to calculate their interest rates

01:04:44.100 in the same way. Um, it's called the API. So because there are multiple ways you could calculate

01:04:49.920 things to game it. So it looks like your interest rate is better or worse than your competition.

01:04:54.800 So I like the fact that the government says, no, you have to tell them what your actual comparable

01:05:00.080 interest rate is. Good. I also like it. If somebody made things, something that really looked real

01:05:07.160 and it really could change my vote. No, I want that labeled. I definitely want that labeled. That's not

01:05:13.640 free speech. I mean, it's not free speech the way I understand it would be damaging and created for

01:05:21.600 damage. So that's different, but the, the, uh, specific AI in question was so obviously a parody in

01:05:34.340 my opinion that it could not have been illegal and that parody that's obvious, even if it's about an

01:05:42.620 election, that's not going to be anything you're going to get arrested for. So there may be some

01:05:48.800 ambiguity in it and I'm not a lawyer, so don't take my legal interpretations, but I can't believe

01:05:55.240 I live in a world in which an obvious parody would be illegal. I think it's only the ones that are not

01:06:03.220 obviously a parody. So, and I don't have a problem with that. I think they should be labeled. I don't

01:06:09.500 think you should go to jail if you don't label it. You know, maybe you should get a, uh, you know,

01:06:15.440 maybe you blocked from social media or you're suspended for a week or something, but not jail.

01:06:22.680 I don't think jail is an option actually. Um, all right, here's the,

01:06:27.720 here's the most fun, provocative thought I'd like to give you today. How many of you are familiar now

01:06:37.140 with the work of Mike Benz? You'll see him mostly on X and he talks about how there's, uh, this huge,

01:06:45.340 like, um, let's say web or mesh of, uh, disinformation people around the world and how that's all

01:06:54.560 coordinated. And there's a military industrial complex and the state department is trying to

01:06:59.560 control every country through controlling their elections and every other thing. But mostly the,

01:07:05.760 uh, people in charge in the United States want to control everybody's information,

01:07:11.880 but the, the biggest theme of the people who are really in charge behind the curtain,

01:07:19.380 the military industrial complex, the state department, et cetera, seems to be an anti-Russia

01:07:26.260 thing. Now, not everything they do, but so many things are connected to this larger multi,

01:07:35.760 a decade plot to weaken Russia so that Russia doesn't have hydrocarbon, meaning gas and oil,

01:07:44.160 um, leverage over Europe. Cause if they got that much leverage, they could just turn off the gas

01:07:50.580 if Europe doesn't give Russia everything they want. And basically they could conquer Europe

01:07:54.980 without firing a bullet. So does the state department want that? No, it wants Americans to sell,

01:08:03.000 you know, liquefied gas instead, even though it's more expensive, just so Russia doesn't have control

01:08:08.740 of the Europe, but is it so much about control or is it even more about getting Americans to have

01:08:15.760 access to Russian resources in a colonial way, basically, or colonizing way, I should say. And

01:08:24.460 suppose you say that's true. How many of you would accept as a general proposition that a whole bunch

01:08:33.400 of things that happen in America that you don't understand are related to making sure Russia is

01:08:40.280 degraded? Do you all see that the anti-Russia thing has been from ever since Hillary Clinton was

01:08:47.380 secretary of state? It's been anti-Putin, anti, you know, the rumors are anti-Russia. Ukraine is about

01:08:55.800 an energy grab more than it's about anything else. So you all get that for decades, the people who

01:09:04.240 are really running things, the state department, CIA, those, those people, it's been anti-Russia primarily,

01:09:12.300 right? Now I'm going to blow your mind. Why was climate change invented? And I don't mean the

01:09:23.360 invention of the fact that the climate temperature is changing, because that's going to happen no

01:09:27.900 matter what. I mean, as a topic. Have you noticed that if Europe started using solar panels and

01:09:36.400 windmills, that that would degrade Russia? Is it possible that the reason you and I don't understand

01:09:43.820 anything about why we're doing this climate change business, because it doesn't look like good

01:09:48.720 economics, and it doesn't look like good science, is that the real reason has always been Russia.

01:09:58.280 Russia. Because we could build, because we do technology, we could build stuff where we make

01:10:05.660 money on solar and maybe wind, but Russia doesn't really manufacture too well. So if you're not buying

01:10:15.540 their hydrocarbons, they're basically out of business. So could it be that climate change was

01:10:22.580 never real? And that it was always a deep state plot to, it was just one other angle of attack

01:10:30.440 against Russia? Is it entirely an anti-Russia play? And none of it's ever been real? Meaning that the

01:10:38.660 models that they use are known not to be real? Is that possible? Now, I'm not stating this as my

01:10:48.620 belief. I'm saying it's consistent with observation. And what's not consistent with observation is that

01:10:58.080 everybody thinks the climate change stuff is a good idea, meaning 98% of the experts. I don't think

01:11:06.260 I, yeah. And, you know, was Al Gore operating on his own? Or was Al Gore part of the, you know,

01:11:18.440 deep state, state department, anti-Russia thing? I don't know.

01:11:29.320 Scott, you doubt California infringed on your rights? No. Did I say that? No. Ask a better

01:11:37.020 question. Here's what I doubt. I doubt that they would infringe on my right in such an ineffective

01:11:43.440 way that would be unconstitutional and it would be thrown out anyway. It'd be a waste of time.

01:11:48.440 But if they could infringe on my rights in a way they could get away with, yeah, they'd do it all

01:11:55.360 day long. So it's not about whether they would or would not infringe on my rights. I think they

01:12:01.280 wouldn't do it in a way that couldn't possibly work and they would know that. That's what I'm

01:12:06.440 saying. You don't do something that you would know couldn't possibly work.

01:12:14.600 Yeah. Anyway, here's some more Mike Benz if you want to understand how the U.S. State Department

01:12:22.920 all works. And it's like a few paragraphs. And I want to read it because if you haven't been exposed

01:12:29.480 to the Mike Benz, you know, Benz pilling for how the real world works, this will be just an

01:12:36.240 introduction. Now, he talks more generally about larger topics. This is just about Brazil, but you'll

01:12:43.660 get the sense of it just from this one story. All right. So this is from Mike Benz on X. He says,

01:12:48.840 details how the U.S. State Department is actively working to subvert X in Brazil. So as you know,

01:12:56.680 Brazil is canceling X and is mad at Musk. And he says that the State Department is working with Brazil

01:13:07.760 against X. Now, that's the opposite of what the State Department should be doing.

01:13:13.720 They should be working to make it easier for American companies to operate overseas. Not

01:13:20.960 working with a country that's stopping it, why would they do that? Well, it's because X is the

01:13:26.500 source of free speech. And the people who control things behind the curtain cannot have free speech

01:13:32.360 because we've never really had it. This is maybe the first time. And it's dangerous because they can't

01:13:38.160 control the narrative. So the State Department is allegedly working with the Brazilian government

01:13:45.260 and installed their current leader. And so here's how Ben says it. He says, the State Department job

01:13:54.040 is to protect the welfare of U.S. citizens' interest in the U.S. corporate interests and U.S. national

01:14:00.800 interest in the region. Instead, they just let Brazil seize Starlink's assets. So Brazil, because it was

01:14:06.960 mad at X, seized assets from an entirely different company, Starlink, because Musk is running both.

01:14:18.560 Now, why in the world would the United States be okay with that? Like, that's just mind-blowing

01:14:25.020 that we'd be okay with that as a country. He says that X is caught in a proxy war between the State

01:14:32.220 Department and Bolsonaro, the leader who was deposed there. You can bet if Bolsonaro had banned Twitter

01:14:41.500 one, that was when Twitter was more managed by the people behind the curtain, the whole litany

01:14:47.260 of our Department of Dirty Tricks toolkit would have been crammed down Bolsonaro's throat so fast.

01:14:52.860 The U.S. wanted Lula to win. That's the one who did win. It's as simple as that. What's happening

01:14:58.060 in Brazil has much less to do with free speech as has to do with the State Department and the Blob's

01:15:05.420 designs for who needs to win that election. After the State Department overthrows a country who runs

01:15:12.540 tens of millions of dollars to do a political opposition and they barely win an election, we have

01:15:17.980 the new policy of transitional justice where we arrest all the opposition leaders. Bolsonaro right now is

01:15:24.780 under countless indictments just as Trump is here. So if the bad guys in America overthrow a country,

01:15:34.140 whether it's the U.S. or another country, the first thing they need to do is jail the people

01:15:39.500 who barely lost so they can't come back. And we're seeing it. Then they can prevent the mobilization

01:15:46.700 and coordination of the defeated party's resurgence, of course. And the U.S. is doing with foreign

01:15:52.380 countries in order to contort the economics of the U.S. X platform to force them to put the

01:15:58.780 the old censorship mechanisms back in place. So the idea is that the State Department wants X to no

01:16:06.300 longer be a free speech platform and they can't do it directly. So they work with Brazil, which we've

01:16:13.420 overthrown their government to get our own person in there, allegedly. And working with them, which is

01:16:18.700 basically us because we took over their government, apparently. Or at least we're having a friendly

01:16:24.540 working there. And that the two of them, the State Department and Brazil, would cut X out,

01:16:30.460 and maybe they'd try the same thing in Europe. And then X becomes no longer financially viable

01:16:37.180 because too many countries stop using it. At that point, free speech is done.

01:16:43.580 So that's what your State Department is doing, removing free speech, according to this narrative.

01:16:52.540 Anyway, the thing that protects the bad people in our government is that it's all too complicated.

01:16:59.740 And your average citizen just can't get engaged. It's like, well, Mike, how many different

01:17:04.540 organizations did you just mention? 25. And if you don't understand how all 25 operate,

01:17:11.420 you know, in a semi-coordinated way, you don't know anything. You would have no understanding of

01:17:19.100 how the world is working. So it's too complicated. All right. So there are reports that Israel killed

01:17:25.980 the deputy secretary general of Hezbollah. I do not know how high ranking a deputy secretary general is.

01:17:32.700 Is that below or above the assistant deputy secretary general? Is it below a secretary general? But is

01:17:41.420 there more than something between deputy? I don't know. But somewhere in the higher up, allegedly killed

01:17:48.300 in an airstrike in Beirut. And apparently there's quite a battle going on. Hezbollah is firing lots of

01:17:56.940 rockets into Israel as we speak. And Israel is getting pretty fierce in their attack. Now,

01:18:04.860 Israel, having blown up all those pagers and walkie talkies are probably bombing people who can't

01:18:13.420 coordinate their attack with each other. And I don't know how much difference that makes.

01:18:18.700 You know, maybe all they did is send a runner out and say, okay, everybody start shooting.

01:18:23.660 And maybe that's all Hezbollah needed. But we shall see. We shall see.

01:18:32.780 All right, ladies and gentlemen, October is going to have a lot of surprises.

01:18:41.260 I know of one of them. And I'm not going to tell you, I'm just teasing you.

01:18:46.700 But I do know one of them. And you're going to love it.

01:18:52.220 So there's a surprise coming that's just going to be so sweet that you're going to laugh out loud.

01:18:59.740 But when you see a surprise, don't assume that's the one I'm talking about.

01:19:05.580 Because there's going to be a bunch of them, and they're going to go both directions.

01:19:08.380 We're seeing it already. They're starting early. So there's going to be, I wouldn't be surprised if

01:19:14.060 there's a story about me in the news that's completely made up. Because I don't know that

01:19:19.020 there are any real things I would care about. So you should expect to see more hit pieces

01:19:24.700 on more people with not enough time to, you know, to debunk them.

01:19:29.180 You're going to see just incredible claims of working with other countries and affairs and

01:19:38.220 just all kinds of stuff. So it's going to get crazy. But I will tell you that there's just one

01:19:43.900 I know about that you're going to laugh at. You're just going to think it's funny.

01:19:50.700 All right. And it will basically give you everything you want. Let's just say that will be the day

01:19:59.500 that you're going to say to yourself, oh, oh, looks like things might work out.

01:20:05.660 So there is some cause for optimism. A lot of it, actually. There's a lot of cause for optimism.

01:20:13.500 And that doesn't mean it's going to happen automatically. Still going to have to fight like hell.

01:20:21.340 Which is a phrase that normal people use that has nothing to do with physical violence.

01:20:27.980 It's just a phrase that people use when they mean you should try very hard. Fight like hell.

01:20:36.220 All right. That's all I got for now. I'm going to talk to the locals people privately because

01:20:41.820 they're so awesome. And the rest of you I'll see tomorrow. Same time, same place. Thank you,

01:20:48.300 X and Rumble and YouTube.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 20, 2024

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