Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2667 CWSA 11⧸22⧸24

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00:00:17.760 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called

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00:01:07.020 All systems coming online. Well, if you can't get enough of me, and I think that explains most of

00:01:15.360 you. You might enjoy a podcast I did with Paul Leslie. You can find that on my feed for yesterday,

00:01:25.620 I think. And what's interesting about it is he asked better questions than most people ask.

00:01:31.800 So when you ask better questions, you get better answers, and you might like it a lot. So it's Paul

00:01:38.760 Leslie, if you want to find it on his feed on X. He goes by at the Paul Leslie. So it's just all one

00:01:49.760 word, the Paul Leslie, L-E-S-L-I-E. Hey, there's a new study. Let's see if you can figure this out before

00:02:01.280 I tell you how it went. There was a new study, according to a science blog, in which they tested

00:02:08.560 to see if people's mental health worsened if they looked at negative feedback on their digital devices.

00:02:17.440 All right. What do you think, people? If people were forced to look at a diet of negative

00:02:23.860 information on their phones, for example, do you think it would help or hurt their mental health?

00:02:31.280 Well, you'll be surprised to learn that marinating in bad news can actually make you sad. Yes,

00:02:43.720 I know. It's true. The more exposure you have to negativity, the sadder you get.

00:02:52.100 But weirdly, the worse the news was, the more likely somebody was going to click it.

00:02:57.080 So we have this bad habit where we pursue things that make us feel bad, such as bad news.

00:03:04.140 Do you know how you could have saved a little money on that study? That's right. You could have

00:03:09.340 just asked Scott. Scott, does exposure to negative thoughts make you feel bad? Huh. Let me think about

00:03:18.400 this. Yes. Yes. Pretty sure it does. So I'm glad we handled that. I've actually taken this to the next

00:03:28.420 level, where do you have people in your life who will bring up the most darkest negative story of just

00:03:36.980 some horrible thing happened to somebody or something you like? And do you ever just say,

00:03:42.980 stop, stop, stop, and they can't stop? Like they want to tell you that, you know, somebody beloved

00:03:51.040 was, had a railroad spike stuck through their head. It's like your favorite person. And you're just

00:03:57.400 like, stop, stop. And they go, oh no, I was just going to tell you about that. No, stop, stop. I know

00:04:03.680 what you're going to do. And when you tell me that, it will only make me feel bad. And there will be

00:04:08.640 no positive outcome from this story. So stop, stop. Do not speak again. Well, but just the

00:04:16.540 railroad spike, but no, stop, stop, stop. Don't move your mouth. No, no more sounds. Stop. And then

00:04:24.680 the railroad spike went through the head. For some reason, when somebody wants to tell you bad news,

00:04:31.080 you can't stop them. I don't know if you've had that experience, but it doesn't matter who it is.

00:04:36.880 You just can't stop them. Anyway, there's a report that China has developed a surgical cure for

00:04:46.720 Alzheimer's. Now, I don't believe anything about this story. Now, it came from a source I'm not

00:04:57.600 familiar with. So it doesn't come with automatic credibility from any source. But let me tell you

00:05:05.340 what they say they've done. And you tell me if you think this is likely to be true. So apparently

00:05:11.920 they've done 42 clinical trials and everyone has been a success. And what they're doing is they're

00:05:18.140 doing some surgery on your neck lymphatics. Now, of course, I understand medical technology deeply.

00:05:27.320 So let me explain to you as it was written down in this report. It's a deep cervical lymphatic venous

00:05:35.420 anastomalmosis surgery. And the way they do that is what they do is they use super microsurgery

00:05:44.640 technology to sort of shunt the lymphatic circulation in the meninges. And then that will accelerate the

00:05:51.460 return of the intracerebral lymph through the jugular foramen of the skull base and take away

00:05:58.620 some of the metabolic products in the brain, thereby achieving the goal of possibly reversing

00:06:03.340 the brain degenerative lesions and slowing the progress of the disease. Now, I know that you were

00:06:09.660 thinking that's exactly what it did. So that was probably just review for a lot of you. But

00:06:15.360 do you really think that China reversed Alzheimer's in 42 different trials in a row? And it's the

00:06:27.560 first you're hearing about it? This doesn't even sound a little bit true, does it? I'd love to think

00:06:35.640 it's true. So for a recreational belief, I'm going to say, sure, sure, why not? Maybe. I don't think so.

00:06:45.360 All right. Here's the one thing you could guarantee about the age of robots is that people would

00:06:54.580 use robots for things that you don't need robots for. This is the dumbest one of all time. Somebody

00:07:00.520 invented a robot that can play the drums. Now, you're going to say to yourself, I know, but Scott, there

00:07:09.580 have been things called drum machines for a long time. You could just program them and then they make

00:07:14.480 sound. And to which I say, well, but, you know, this is better. They've added AI to it so it can

00:07:20.760 make up its own beats. Now, that's pretty good. Imagine if your AI drummer could come up with beats

00:07:28.580 that you wouldn't even think of. That'd be pretty good. But you know what they did? They put this

00:07:33.040 capability in a robot. So the robot has arms and they're trying to figure out how to make the wrists

00:07:38.700 to be as snappy as human wrists. To which I say, you're just producing sound, right?

00:07:47.240 That's the end product of the robot drummer. If it's just sound, can't you just directly produce

00:07:59.040 the sound? Do you really need a robot arm to hit a drum? There's no other way to produce

00:08:05.780 that sound, like such as recording a drum? I don't know. I do like having a robot to play

00:08:14.200 ping pong with me because at least I can get some exercise and play ping pong. So if you

00:08:19.220 know anybody who's making one of those ping pong playing robots, I'm in the market as soon

00:08:25.400 as I can get one. Well, there's another study from the University of Bristol about if you

00:08:32.060 synchronize the movements of your robots and your humans, it builds trust. So they call

00:08:39.200 it harmonizing. So trust between humans and robots is improved when the movements, let's

00:08:45.640 say if you're just walking down the hallway, if the robot kind of synchronizes with the way

00:08:51.100 you're walking or the way you're moving, then your trust will be improved in both directions.

00:08:57.600 Now, I don't know how a robot develops trust, but it works in at least one direction. Now,

00:09:04.340 on one hand, it looks like an innocent little unimportant story about how robots learn to move

00:09:11.700 the right way. However, here's the part they don't tell you, and that's why I'm here.

00:09:17.720 If a robot starts pacing and leading, meaning copying a human being, but then later it moves

00:09:26.180 on its own and you see if the human copies the movement somewhat automatically without knowing

00:09:30.900 it, that is one of the most powerful methods of persuasion the world has ever known.

00:09:39.880 At the moment, it's something only humans can do. So if you're in a meeting with your boss,

00:09:45.780 your boss does this with his hands, do that with your hands. If your boss does this and leans on

00:09:53.060 the table, do that. And after you've copied your boss for, say, 20 minutes while the boss is talking

00:10:00.120 and there's a meeting going on, then see if you can get the boss to follow you. So after you've copied

00:10:06.040 the boss's art motions, you do a new one. Put one hand up, let's say. See how long it takes you

00:10:12.180 for your boss to get into that same position. You're going to be amazed how easily it is to get

00:10:18.000 people to change their physical position without knowing that you did it to them. It's something we

00:10:24.520 practiced in hypnosis class, and I didn't believe it. I didn't believe that it would work until the

00:10:30.880 first time I did it. And I thought, holy cow, did I just make somebody change their entire body

00:10:37.680 without them knowing it? Yes. And you could reproduce it. It's very easy to reproduce.

00:10:44.520 But if you teach a robot how to manipulate humans by matching their movements, and then the next stage

00:10:52.140 would be matching their language style. So that's also a persuasion trick. So if somebody likes to talk

00:10:58.680 in military ways, do you know anybody who likes to use a lot of military terms, like, we're going to

00:11:04.220 take that hill, and, you know, I jumped on that hand grenade, and, well, we'll live to fight again,

00:11:10.520 you know, those just continuous war-like things. If you pace that, and you adopt the same style when

00:11:16.940 you're talking to them, they will begin to trust you, and you will begin to have a persuasive effect

00:11:22.760 on that person. It's pacing and leading. We probably don't want to teach the robots to do it.

00:11:29.960 It's probably too dangerous. Nobody's going to believe me about this, by the way.

00:11:36.220 If you were not, you know, steeped in persuasion as, you know, a hobby or a job, you wouldn't really

00:11:43.580 know how dangerous this is. But if these robots start copying the way we talk and the way we move,

00:11:51.020 they're going to have full control over our minds. Let me say that again. If a robot can learn to

00:11:59.880 talk like us, in other words, adopt the same mannerisms that we have individually, and also

00:12:06.200 move like us, literally copying the way we move, it will almost have full control over your brain.

00:12:13.500 Now, I know you don't believe that. But it's coming. And there's nothing that can stop it.

00:12:21.460 Because of course, the robots will learn this and be able to do it. Of course they will. And what

00:12:26.700 would stop it? Yeah, you would almost have to do to legislate against it. But since the field is still

00:12:34.760 young, you don't want to put a bunch of your regulations there that would stop everything.

00:12:39.500 So I think it's inevitable. Robot's going to be very persuasive. According to New Atlas, Raytheon

00:12:48.760 has this new technology, where instead of the military having fuel lines, they would hook up some

00:12:55.860 kind of big microwave power device. And they could shoot power to the soldiers and the units from a

00:13:04.700 distance without any physical interaction. So in other words, you've got this device somewhere at

00:13:12.920 the back of your battlefield. And all of your e-bikes and your robot dogs and your people who've got

00:13:20.800 any kind of GPS or any kind of electronics, they go into the battle. But of course, they'll run out of

00:13:28.800 energy at some point. You know, the vehicles need to be recharged. The devices need to be recharged.

00:13:35.060 And this thing can do it just by turning on and sending the signal out in all directions.

00:13:42.000 So it can actually recharge the military devices while they're being used from a distance.

00:13:49.800 Holy cow. That's pretty cool. Do you think that's actually going to work? I think it's in the early

00:13:57.460 stages of development, but they must have prototyped it already. So that's interesting. But I also

00:14:05.060 wonder if human soldiers are really going to be the future, because why would you ever send a human 1.00

00:14:11.240 soldier into a battlefield in 10 years? 10 years from now, why would you send a human at all into

00:14:19.620 the most dangerous thing? Because the drones are going to own the sky and the robot dogs are going 0.98

00:14:25.220 to own the ground. There isn't really a place for a human in war, unless they're on the losing side,

00:14:32.740 I guess. Anyway, you may remember that I did a podcast. Well, I'll call it just a conversation

00:14:44.620 with Naval Ravikant. And I did that on multiple platforms. I did it on X and YouTube and Rumble

00:14:52.700 and Locals. Now, Locals is a subscription site, so that's limited audience. But Owen Gregorian

00:15:00.060 was looking at the numbers and noticed that on X, it has 1.1 million views. I think closer to half

00:15:09.260 a million might have watched the whole video. But on YouTube, it has 62,000. So on X, it was somewhere

00:15:19.680 between half a million and a little over a million. At the same time, it was all live and it went to all

00:15:27.280 the platforms at the same time. And YouTube only had 62,000. Now, I know what you're going to say.

00:15:33.740 You're going to say, well, maybe less visibility or something. But even on Rumble, there was 76,000

00:15:42.340 views. So tiny little Rumble had way more views than all of YouTube for this content. And X goes to a

00:15:55.340 million of my followers right away. So a lot of it is just that I have a lot more followers on X than

00:16:00.360 I have anywhere else. So that's always going to be bigger. But does that look natural to you?

00:16:05.440 Does it seem natural to you that I could garner half a million to a million views? And if you look

00:16:12.500 at the comments, you know, people are very, very up on it. I mean, they just loved it.

00:16:19.200 Does it sound to you as if I'm being suppressed? I feel like it's super obvious and that it's always

00:16:29.660 been the case. So can't prove it because there is one explanation that would be normal, which is I

00:16:37.540 just have maybe I have a more active audience on X. Maybe it's just that. But I doubt it. If I had to

00:16:46.400 guess, it looks like it's it's some kind of suppression.

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00:17:51.960 Here's my favorite story of the day, but also the smallest story of the day. It involves nine words.

00:17:58.580 And here's what's cool about it. Do you know how we, you know, we've come to love our billionaires

00:18:06.140 and also hate them. So it's almost like the billionaire class has become like a wrestling

00:18:13.420 show where you got George Soros who plays the heel, you know, and sometimes, you know,

00:18:20.120 Reid Hoffman plays the heel, but then you've got your good guys, you know, your Elon Musks and

00:18:25.140 you got your, you know, anyway, I could go on, but, but you know what I mean? The, the billionaires

00:18:30.680 are the ones with personalities and they like to be public. Mark Cuban, for example. Um, they become

00:18:39.460 a whole entertainment field in themselves. Like to me, they replace celebrities. I have absolutely

00:18:46.520 no interest in what Beyonce has to say. I don't like her music, no interest at all. But if there's a

00:18:54.660 good billionaire fight, oh, I'm all in, I love to watch the billionaires do their thing

00:18:59.620 because for the most part, they didn't become billionaires by accident. You know, there was

00:19:06.100 something going on with these special people, but here's the story. So Elon Musk, uh, heard something

00:19:12.960 at Mar-a-Lago and he posted about it. Now, as you're going to hear in a moment, uh, what he heard

00:19:19.520 was not true, right? So what he heard was, and it's not true, uh, that he said he was at

00:19:25.780 Mar-a-Lago and that, uh, he heard from somebody there that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that,

00:19:32.940 uh, Trump was going to lose the election for sure. So they should sell all their Tesla and

00:19:39.100 SpaceX stock. So that's what somebody told Elon Musk at Mar-a-Lago. So Elon posted it. And I

00:19:51.840 appreciate the transparency so that my, my first thing was, oh, so this is the thing that's going

00:19:59.320 around. Uh, Elon heard it. We didn't hear it. And now he posted, so we've heard it too. So I liked

00:20:05.360 the fact that he posted it and then Bezos weighs in and this is his entire response. Nope. 100% not

00:20:14.500 true. One, two, three, four words, four words. Nope. 100% not true. Uh, Musk responds. Well, then I

00:20:26.920 stay uncorrected with a laugh, a laughing emoji, five words. Now here's what I love about this.

00:20:35.360 What are, uh, Musk and Bezos collectively most famous for besides being rich? There are most

00:20:44.360 efficient billionaires, right? Uh, Amazon works because Bezos is an expert on efficiency. I mean,

00:20:54.280 he figured out how to do everything the fastest, best, lowest cost, most effective way.

00:21:01.220 So here, and then Musk of course is the same. He's, he's like, you know, he's doge. He's the

00:21:08.240 guy who took 80% of the people out of Twitter and it got better. Right? So you have the two

00:21:14.160 most famously efficient people in the world and they had a problem. One of them had heard a story

00:21:21.480 that wasn't true and said it in public. So how long did it take the two most efficient billionaires

00:21:27.980 to fix this problem? Nine words, nine words, nine words and done. And they'll never talk about it

00:21:37.760 again. It's done. Nine words. Now here's why this is extra special. You can think of a lot of

00:21:48.080 billionaires who, if they deny this story, you wouldn't believe them, right? Like I don't have

00:21:56.260 to name names, but you can think of a lot of people right off the top of your head. Like if they deny

00:22:01.340 this story, you'd say to yourself, ah, yeah, but did they? Yeah, of course you're denying it, but maybe

00:22:11.540 you did. But here's what I love about this story so much that Jeff Bezos somewhat quietly, you know,

00:22:20.320 if you can call it that compared to other people, I guess he builds this, you know, massively successful

00:22:26.180 operation. And as far as I know, I don't think anybody's ever accused him of lying.

00:22:33.360 I've never heard it. So when I saw that he said, nope, 100% not true. I immediately went to, nope,

00:22:43.620 100% not true. It was not even a microsecond of, I wonder if he's lying. Wouldn't that be an amazing

00:22:52.300 superpower? Imagine having a superpower where you can, in four words, completely change a news story

00:23:01.280 because of your own credibility. That's pretty damn rare. And I think Musk recognized it too

00:23:09.680 and just said, well, well then I stand corrected. We're done here. I love this story. I love

00:23:18.340 when ordinary people make ordinary mistakes. So it was a mistake to believe a rumor that wasn't true.

00:23:25.840 And then just immediately correct it and move on. I don't know. I just love everything about that.

00:23:34.960 Credibility. Guess something. All right. There's more talk about this Oprah situation of her taking

00:23:42.580 the 2.5 million we hear. At first we heard it was 1 million, but 2.5 million the production company took

00:23:49.380 for getting Oprah to do her thing to promote Harris. And Harris said, I took no money.

00:23:58.680 But since we know the production company took 2.5 million and it's her production company,

00:24:04.840 people quite reasonably say, I think Stephen A. Smith said this, that it looks like Oprah might be lying.

00:24:12.800 And maybe she took money, but it went through the production company. So she was basically lying about it.

00:24:22.320 Now, connect this to the last thing I talked about. When Jeff Bezos says, nope, 100% not true. End of story.

00:24:34.220 End of story. Oprah says, 100% not true. I didn't take money.

00:24:40.860 It's the beginning of the story. Apparently, Oprah is not as credible as Jeff Bezos.

00:24:49.500 Because when Oprah said it, nobody believed it. Just nobody believed it.

00:24:56.440 Now, what's the difference? Has Oprah lied to us? Now, of course, when Oprah had her show,

00:25:03.700 she had people on who promoted things that maybe didn't work out. But we don't know

00:25:10.740 that Oprah knew that. So it's not like she lied. But then we saw her doing her political thing 1.00

00:25:19.280 and backing Harris. And we thought, huh, that doesn't look like just calling balls and strikes.

00:25:26.340 That looks like something a little crazy, a little, I don't know, doesn't fit.

00:25:32.280 So Jeff Bezos gets basically not involved in politics. And then when they ask him a question,

00:25:39.600 and he gives an answer, you go, oh, yeah, that's true. But Oprah gets involved in a way that was

00:25:45.640 awkward, frankly. And then when she talks, people go, I'm not so sure. I think you might be lying.

00:25:51.860 But I'm going to give you some recreational speculation on this story.

00:25:58.080 So I don't know anything about the details. So this is just speculation. And it's just based

00:26:03.880 on how the real world works. And it's based on the fact that in the real world, people can be kind

00:26:09.640 of shitty. I don't know if you've noticed. But people can be kind of shitty. So here's what I

00:26:16.280 think might have happened. And I think this strongly enough that if I had to bet on it,

00:26:23.040 I would actually place a bet on this. It's not 100% because it's just speculation, but I'd bet on it.

00:26:28.780 And here's the bet. That Oprah, of course, makes money that flows through her production company, 1.00

00:26:36.340 which is why people say, you did get paid. You just did it through your production company, you liar.

00:26:41.460 Sure. But I would further assume that the production company does more than just

00:26:48.620 handle Oprah's appearances. Because it's a production company. They probably do a wider

00:26:55.700 variety of things, which means that whoever is in charge of the production company probably have

00:27:02.420 their own financial incentives. In other words, they would be judged by how well they support Oprah,

00:27:09.160 but they would also be judged by their other lines of business within the production domain.

00:27:17.140 And their salary probably would depend on how well they do outside of pure Oprah business.

00:27:27.200 So now, if that's true, and I don't know that that's true, but it seems like a normal thing you'd

00:27:32.380 expect that the production company has expanded to handle other operations. That's why that'd be one

00:27:38.980 good reason for having a production company. Now, if this production company was smart,

00:27:46.920 but kind of shitty, and they start negotiating with the Harris campaign, what's the first thing

00:27:53.240 the production company is going to figure out? They're going to figure out they're dealing with

00:27:58.120 amateurs. They're not dealing with really good negotiators, and they're not dealing with

00:28:04.780 business people. They're dealing with youngish, often campaign people who are just so excited 0.55

00:28:11.940 that Oprah might consider coming. So they say, well, what's it going to cost to get Oprah here?

00:28:19.040 And the production company said, well, you know, it's a big operation. We got to, you know,

00:28:25.360 when Oprah travels, it's really expensive. But we think we can do this for 2.5 million.

00:28:32.960 And then you can imagine the Harris campaign saying, all right, all right, that's worth it.

00:28:37.800 Because 2.5 million to get Oprah, that would be a market price. Because the other performers,

00:28:46.080 you know, were in that low million dollar range too. So you could imagine that, and I'm speaking as

00:28:52.880 the creator of the Dilbert cartoon, you can imagine that the production company knew that Oprah wasn't

00:28:59.520 going to take money for it. So they got to keep anything that they could negotiate. So they would

00:29:05.260 sort of leave the impression that the 2.5 million since it was going to Oprah's production company

00:29:12.600 was sort of Oprah's money, you know, minus the expenses. But if the production company didn't say

00:29:19.500 that directly, and they just said, this is what it's going to cost to get Oprah here,

00:29:24.200 we can put it in writing, Oprah will be here, we'll do the production, you'll pay us 2.5 million.

00:29:29.500 Well, it could be that the Harris campaign didn't really care who was getting the money.

00:29:35.440 They just knew it would cost 2.5 million to get Oprah. So here's what I think. I think there was a

00:29:42.660 weasel at the production company who knew that if they thought they were getting Oprah, who may have

00:29:49.680 said, I'll do it for free. They may have just sort of left that impression that they were paying for

00:29:56.900 Oprah when really the production company was just boosting their own bottom line, some of which would

00:30:02.500 go to Oprah. But maybe it was more about the production company itself and their own objectives.

00:30:10.340 So here's what to look for. See if Oprah fires the head of her production company. 1.00

00:30:18.520 It's probably somebody she's worked with forever, so you wouldn't fire them even if they did this.

00:30:23.300 But I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Oprah was not totally filled in on what the production

00:30:31.920 company asked for or what they paid them or what they said. Maybe because she just wouldn't be

00:30:37.540 interested. Her part was, do you want to show up? Do you want to support Harris? Yes. That's all she

00:30:44.400 needed to know. And the production company handled the rest. So if I'm wrong about all that, and by the

00:30:50.340 way, what I'm describing would be sort of a normal way the world works. It wouldn't be an abnormal way.

00:30:55.960 The most normal way it would work is the production company would say, oh, we've got a live one here.

00:31:01.320 I think we can take them for $2.5 million, and it'll only cost us a million to do the expenses.

00:31:10.040 Otherwise, Stephen A. Smith is right, and Oprah has some explaining to do. But I'm still going to give

00:31:17.380 her the benefit of the doubt that there's somebody else in this operation that maybe has some explaining

00:31:24.320 to do. Meanwhile, the New York Times says OpenAI, who they're suing for using the New York Times

00:31:32.020 content to train their AI, and the New York Times says, you can't do that. That's our intellectual

00:31:40.640 property. You can't train your AI on it, and then suddenly it has all the learnings of the New York

00:31:47.320 Times. So part of the lawsuit required some files to be turned over by OpenAI to the New York Times,

00:31:56.800 and you'll never guess what happened. So the case relies on some files, and OpenAI had the files.

00:32:07.940 They were asked for these files through a legal process. Can you take a wild guess what happened

00:32:15.020 to the files? Anybody? Have any of you been alive for the last five years? What do you think happened

00:32:22.360 to the files? There was a glitch. Oh, damn it. We sure meant to give you these files, but there's

00:32:32.240 some kind of glitch. They got corrupted or deleted or something. So I guess these files aren't going to

00:32:39.620 be useful, but darn, we sure wanted to give them to you. I mean, we tried so hard, but we wish we

00:32:46.260 could have. But the glitch, the glitch got us. Now, here's my question. How many times in the last five

00:32:56.120 years has somebody who is some public figure or important entity managed to skate through a legal

00:33:06.280 process by claiming that they lost or a file was damaged? It turns out that seems to work every

00:33:14.920 time. Why would anybody ever turn over a digital source if they thought they could just destroy it?

00:33:22.460 Yeah. Ding dong, the glitch is dead. That's funny. All right. Well, I don't believe anybody who has a

00:33:35.180 glitch and a file disappears, but maybe, you know, since it's within the range of things that could

00:33:42.100 happen in a real world, however unlikely, it looks like it works as a legal strategy. It makes me wonder

00:33:50.080 if there are lawyers who ever suggest the client does that. You know, like, well, as your lawyer, I must

00:33:59.140 inform you that you should not destroy any files. As your lawyer, do not. I'm going to put it in writing.

00:34:08.440 Do not destroy any files. But also as your lawyer, just as background context, everybody who does destroy

00:34:18.480 their files and claims it's an accident seems to get away with it. But as your lawyer, I advise you

00:34:25.700 not to do it. Don't do that thing that everybody gets away with. No, no, don't do it. So I suppose

00:34:35.480 that conversation's happening a little bit somewhere.

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00:34:54.860 Meanwhile, according to Slay News, the Daniel Penny trial took an interesting turn

00:34:59.540 with a forensic pathologist, Dr. Satish Shundru, who got in the window stand and said the chokehold

00:35:07.480 did not cause the death. He's a former Miami area medical examiner, so he knows what he's talking

00:35:15.400 about. And he said he did not believe the air choke. He calls it an air choke as opposed to some

00:35:23.460 people say there's a thing called a blood choke, which would be more severe. But he called it an

00:35:30.080 air choke. And he said that the cause of death probably has something to do with the effects of

00:35:36.600 sickle cell crisis. So I guess he had a bad case of sickle cell anemia. Schizophrenia, I don't know how

00:35:44.440 that kills you physically. The struggle and restraint and the synthetic marijuana. So he had something that

00:35:52.400 wasn't marijuana. There's some synthetic thing that's way worse. I'd never heard of it, actually.

00:35:59.080 And he said someone's schizophrenic high on K2. That's the synthetic marijuana thing, K2.

00:36:04.880 And involved in a struggle can die without a chokehold being involved at all.

00:36:10.020 And then he said, and I think this is sort of the kill shot. He said what's also important is

00:36:16.740 unconsciousness. Unconsciousness always precedes death in a chokehold.

00:36:23.840 So, in other words, when they showed up, he was conscious.

00:36:28.480 And then he died. He was no longer being choked. And he was conscious.

00:36:34.740 And then he died.

00:36:35.780 And if I interpret this right, I think the forensic pathologist is saying that

00:36:44.660 if the guy stopped choking him and he was conscious, then whatever killed him wasn't the choke.

00:36:51.900 Is that true? Well, I'm no forensic pathologist. But I'll tell you, if I were on the jury

00:36:57.060 and I heard one pathologist say, oh, I'm pretty sure he killed him with that choke. And then another

00:37:04.440 one who's equally qualified said, no, nobody dies from being conscious after the choke. That's not a

00:37:13.640 real thing. And he had real other reasons he would have died that would be somewhat ordinary. Now,

00:37:19.840 that is clearly enough doubt that there shouldn't be any way he could be convicted. Because you don't

00:37:30.280 need a lot of reasonable doubt. You just need some reasonable doubt. This is way more than reasonable

00:37:36.400 doubt. Right? If you're going to say, like, you know, what does a bucket of reasonable doubt look

00:37:43.420 like? It would look like this. One of my favorite court stories is about the lawyer who was trying

00:37:50.780 to defend his client with reasonable doubt. He didn't have a strong case, but he wanted to make

00:37:56.440 the jury think that reasonable doubt was a little stronger than maybe it is. And so here's what the

00:38:03.600 lawyer did. You know, he said in his closing statements, you know, not only is my client completely

00:38:10.100 innocent, but the real killer is walking through that door right now and said, he's going to walk

00:38:17.460 through the door right now. And he turns and he points toward the door. Everybody in the jury box

00:38:22.880 turns toward the door. All the witnesses turn toward the door. The judge looks toward the door

00:38:27.280 and then nothing happens. The door does not open. And there's this awkward silence.

00:38:35.620 And then the, then the defense attorney turns back to the jury who are still looking at the door.

00:38:43.220 And now they look back at the lawyer, little time has passed. And the lawyer says, that is reasonable

00:38:51.640 doubt. Because they, they had enough, they had enough belief that there was another explanation for

00:39:01.000 the crime that every one of them looked at the door and waited for the real criminal to walk in.

00:39:05.620 Now that's a little bit too clever. And I don't think that would actually win you a case. Was it

00:39:13.000 Jerry Spence? I was wondering that. I wonder if it was Jerry Spence or did he just tell the story?

00:39:20.840 He may have told the story, but I don't know if it was him. Could have been, could have been Jerry

00:39:24.300 Spence. But now that's, that's trying to sell reasonable doubt. You know, if there's just a

00:39:32.140 trace of it in the real world, you'd need a little bit more than somebody's walking through the door.

00:39:37.260 It might've, it might've won that trial, but you know, generally speaking, you need more than that.

00:39:41.660 But if you've got an expert who says, nope, I'm quite sure this person could have died of other

00:39:47.840 causes. That really needs to be the end of it. So here's what I'm worried about. What happens if

00:39:55.860 it goes the other way? Cause I feel like, I think the men in America are kind of done with this

00:40:05.360 and the white men in America are very done with it. I don't know what would happen. Like I'm not

00:40:12.500 predicting violence, but if Daniel Penny gets convicted after this expert says this,

00:40:22.400 we're going to have a lot of questions. And I don't think it's going to be business as usual.

00:40:29.820 Here's what I don't think. I don't think the process just, you know, processes and puts them

00:40:35.520 in jail. I assume there'd be some appeal process, but I feel like there's a point where the public

00:40:42.960 just has to take over. And I think the public has to make it clear that we're watching this thing.

00:40:52.740 And ultimately the public does have all the power because there are enough of us.

00:40:58.680 And if we're mad enough, whoever it is, we're mad at is going to have a really bad day one way or

00:41:05.920 another. You know, again, I'm not recommending violence. So I really think we need to keep an

00:41:12.240 eye on this one. We can't let this one get away. We, we men mostly, we got to protect them.

00:41:21.560 And I, and I feel like a personal responsibility to do that. It feels personal to me. Very personal

00:41:29.020 because Daniel Penny, I don't know him of course, but he's everybody. He is every guy. He's every guy.

00:41:40.540 So I don't really feel him as different from me. Like when I watched Daniel Penny, I'm not watching

00:41:48.620 some stranger, even though I don't know him. I've never heard him talk. I'm watching me.

00:41:56.080 So if you don't think I'm going to have a problem with him being convicted, if that's the way it goes,

00:42:02.100 well, you're wrong. And there will be consequences. I don't know what they'll be, but let me just say

00:42:10.380 this to any part of the world that is looking to put this guy away. You better be really careful

00:42:19.180 because this one's not free.

00:42:21.900 You know what I mean? This is not free and you don't know what the price is yet.

00:42:30.320 And we're not going to tell you. You could have to fucking find out, but this one's not free.

00:42:37.540 So let's hope for the best golden age is here. I think he's going to get free, but if he's not,

00:42:44.340 it's going to be expensive one way or another. It's going to get real expensive.

00:42:49.400 Well, the big story of the day, Matt Gaetz bowed out in his bid to be attorney general

00:42:57.420 and Trump cleverly already filled that news cycle by putting up Pam Bondi, who was attorney general

00:43:09.080 in Florida and is a close confidant and super loyal, highly qualified. Almost everybody says

00:43:17.780 she has a better choice than Matt Gaetz simply because she doesn't have the baggage, but she has

00:43:22.120 even more skill, more experience, more direct experience and that kind of job.

00:43:27.200 So I'm very happy with this, but here's the other thing. Did we just learn that Trump is not a dictator?

00:43:35.660 I think we did, right? Can we stop talking about that then? Here's what I saw. Now, my take on Trump

00:43:46.840 has always been he's the opposite of a dictator. He's actually more tuned into the opinions of the

00:43:54.380 public and other politicians than anybody I've ever seen. So here it didn't look like it was going to

00:44:03.320 work. He tried. He would have pushed it. If Matt Gaetz had wanted him to, he would have pushed it,

00:44:09.320 which I appreciate just from the loyalty perspective. He returned the loyalty. But

00:44:14.840 Matt Gaetz did a solid. At least that's my interpretation of it. And when he talked to all

00:44:20.780 the politicians who had to vote for him, he realized he couldn't get it. And he probably didn't want to do

00:44:26.580 the recess appointment thing and just cause a bunch of provocation. And so he decided to

00:44:32.920 back out. Now, so what we get is, so here's the outcome. Number one, Gaetz sucked all of the energy

00:44:47.020 in the news cycle toward him for several days so that the other nominees didn't get nearly as much

00:44:53.160 scrutiny. That was probably useful, but I don't think it was a plan. It would just,

00:44:58.000 it worked out that way. We found out that Trump can't do anything he wants and he will respond in

00:45:05.960 a reasonable way when he reaches a, you know, an obstacle that doesn't make sense to try to break

00:45:12.960 it down. So that's a huge win for Trump. It won't be in the news. The news will just ignore the fact

00:45:22.120 that we've now proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that Trump does not have dictator powers and it

00:45:30.060 doesn't look like he's trying to. It looks like he was trying to respond to the public because even

00:45:36.060 the Republicans were saying, you know, not your best play. You know, we see why you're doing it.

00:45:42.900 We do want to attack dog in that job, but, but maybe, maybe not your best play.

00:45:51.640 And Trump listens to the people, takes Matt Gaetz's recommendation, which was also listening

00:45:57.340 to the people and the politicians. And we get, what do we get? We get a better candidate.

00:46:02.900 We get, we get some, you know, diversity that I think was useful. You know, woman in the job,

00:46:12.760 that's useful. He gets the same amount of loyalty, higher level of experience, probably will sail

00:46:21.120 through the confirmation. And, and Matt Gaetz still has other opportunities. Now we don't know what he's

00:46:30.860 going to do. Some say he's going to run for a governor. I don't think so. Some say that he

00:46:36.800 might try to get appointed to Senator. I don't think so. Some say that he could just retake the

00:46:43.700 seat he resigned from because he technically resigned from his current seat, but he's been

00:46:49.300 elected for a future seat. And I heard this on social media. I think it's true that he could just

00:46:56.560 pretend like he didn't quit, you know, do a George Costanza and just go to work.

00:47:02.580 Now you might have to go to work after the second, you know, the next term. So it'd be,

00:47:07.700 you'd have a few weeks off for Christmas, but it would be hilarious if he just George Costanza's

00:47:12.660 this situation and he just goes to work after everybody thought he quit.

00:47:17.060 I don't know if that's legal, but if he got elected and he didn't resign from the upcoming

00:47:25.640 term, at least on social media, people are saying he could do it. I don't think he will

00:47:31.620 because it would put him right back in that place where the ethics report could come out.

00:47:38.000 So, I think he's not going to go back into government right away. He might later. But

00:47:47.640 here's what I think would be his perfect situation. The thing that Trump needs more than he needs,

00:47:56.280 you know, one more loyal soldier doing the thing is another big media entity that supports him.

00:48:04.060 Because you saw, you know, you know, all the media entities are under some kind of fire from the

00:48:11.940 left. So if Matt Gaetz decided to take his existing podcast and just beef it up and get more interesting

00:48:18.860 guests and go full Alex Jones and, you know, really make it like a sort of a foundational thing

00:48:25.800 that conservatives listen to, he has all of those skills.

00:48:30.840 I'm looking at a message going by. Yeah. So Gaetz has all of those podcasting skills with the,

00:48:44.860 you know, the behind the curtain knowledge with all the contacts, with the ability to invite

00:48:49.800 anybody on the show, name recognition. It's kind of perfect. So I've got a feeling he might go into

00:48:58.480 the media. That would be where he would have the most impact and make the most money, etc. But

00:49:04.380 there's one other possibility. I'll just put this out there. He's married to the sister of Palmer

00:49:13.800 Lucky, who's the creator of Anduril. Is that the name of it? It's a defense company. It's a new one.

00:49:24.140 And they do kind of newer, cooler, high-tech defense stuff like drones that can do things and 0.62

00:49:30.160 other things. Now, suppose that Palmer Lucky wanted an executive to put in the company to help it go

00:49:41.600 public. Well, that would be good for his sister because his sister would be married to somebody

00:49:49.240 who would get massive stock options and become a billionaire within three years.

00:49:56.140 Maybe. I mean, if, if, because the company looks like it's ragingly successful and I think it's

00:50:02.860 still private as far as I know. So they would presumably be looking at a way to go public and cash out.

00:50:09.820 And maybe he could be the, some, some officer in that company. So there, there's so many things

00:50:20.840 that he could do that it's hard to, you know, I don't think any of us are going to guess what's

00:50:25.760 happening. So I'm going to, I'm going to say this. I don't think we'll ever know what the real story

00:50:30.160 was. I don't think, I mean, it could be as simple as just exactly what he said. He wanted it. Trump

00:50:36.760 wanted it. There were about four or five senators who said, no, he knew he couldn't change the mind,

00:50:42.500 didn't want to do the recess appointment. He just pivoted. But the weird thing about this is that

00:50:49.140 everybody wins. Isn't that weird? When is the last, when is the last time you saw a story where

00:50:55.200 everybody wins? We get a better attorney general, one that's less controversy. Matt Gates will be

00:51:02.100 turned loose to do something. That's probably something he's better at. Trump still wins

00:51:08.540 because he gets what he wants. I don't know. Just seems like everything worked out there.

00:51:15.800 But MSNBC is saying that Bondi is worse because she's competent. 0.93

00:51:21.540 So MSNBC went from, he's the worst choice in the world to, okay, she's worse because she's good. 0.55

00:51:31.480 Okay.

00:51:35.040 The Republicans who allegedly were not going to support Gates were John Curtis, Utah,

00:51:42.100 Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski, Alaska, and Mitch McConnell, Kentucky. Mitch McConnell.

00:51:48.520 So anyway, when I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners,

00:51:55.440 I started wondering, is every fabulous item I see from Winners? Like that woman over there with 1.00

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00:52:07.780 price? Or that leather tote? Or that cashmere sweater? Or those knee-high boots? That dress?

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00:52:22.980 Bill Reilly had some interesting things to say on News Nation with Cuomo about MSNBC's fate.

00:52:29.960 So it looks like Comcast, who owns both NBC News and CNBC and MSNBC, it looks like they might be

00:52:39.720 looking to spin off MSNBC and CNBC. And that makes sense because MSNBC's audience took a big hit.

00:52:49.180 They'll probably come back after Trump gets in office because they'll have something to yell about.

00:52:53.160 But it doesn't look like it's a good business. So they're going to spin it off. And what Bill O'Reilly

00:53:00.040 said made a lot of sense to me, that MSNBC takes advantage of NBC's news business so that they can add

00:53:10.200 the credibility of the real news to their opinion pieces. But if you separate them, they are no longer

00:53:18.200 connected to any real news collecting entity. And it would be massively expensive to create one from

00:53:24.220 nothing. The MSNBC doesn't have anything to sell. Because all they have are these amazingly overpaid

00:53:33.400 pundits. But they wouldn't be a news organization. It would just be a bunch of opinions.

00:53:38.600 Because they'd lose the news. Now, I don't know if that's real. But it's the first take I've heard

00:53:44.920 on that that's interesting. And O'Reilly thinks that ABC will have to dump The View for the same

00:53:54.080 reason. Now, O'Reilly's take is that MSNBC's big problem is that it was nothing but hate. And that

00:54:01.680 The View has a similar problem, that they're spewing hate. Audiences don't like hate.

00:54:08.600 Apparently, hate doesn't sell as much as you want it to. And I think Bill O'Reilly's pretty close on

00:54:14.280 this. At least it's an interesting speculation that MSNBC doesn't have any value outside of NBC news.

00:54:23.920 Apparently, Rachel Maddow has renegotiated her outrageous $30 million a year pay for being on 0.98

00:54:33.300 the air only one night a week. So obviously, you can't go on forever getting $30 million a year if

00:54:40.380 you're only on one night a week. So she had to lower her pay to $25 million a year, one day a week.

00:54:49.900 Um, I've got a suggestion. I'm not a huge fan of Rachel Maddow, her politics. But I will note

00:55:01.700 that you can't take away from her that she's unusually smart. Right? She's, you know, just

00:55:08.280 if you hook her up to an IQ test, she's gonna beat me really smart. But now we learn she might be the 1.00

00:55:16.760 best negotiator you've ever heard of in your life. Who in the world can negotiate $25 million a year

00:55:22.680 for one show a week? That's really good. When your network is failing. How do you do that? So they're

00:55:31.440 trying to sell this network. And it's got this big expense that couldn't possibly make sense.

00:55:38.140 But she must be one good negotiator.

00:55:42.140 There's an MSNBC headline that will remind you why they're full of hate and they're losing.

00:55:49.900 It was an opinion piece, but the headline was, Lakin Riley's killer never stood a chance.

00:55:57.360 For all the political controversy surrounding Jose Ibarra, the outcome of this trial was never in

00:56:05.000 doubt. Does it sound a little bit like MSNBC was glad the migrant killed the American citizen?

00:56:15.260 Like, what is wrong with them? His killer never stood a chance? The MSNBC is worried about the

00:56:23.260 killer getting a fair trial. There was so much evidence of his guilt. It wasn't like a close call,

00:56:31.320 was it? Poor MSNBC. I saw NPR says most of the country shifted right in the 2024 election. Did we?

00:56:44.820 Did the country shift right? I'm not sure that's what happened. Here's what I think happened.

00:56:51.540 I think the right kind of stayed the same. You know, in other words, policies and stuff didn't

00:56:57.440 change much. And the left became batshit crazy. When batshit crazy clearly stopped working,

00:57:07.740 it worked in 2020. But when it stopped working, they started becoming more commonsensible.

00:57:15.880 Is that a word? Commonsensible? Commonsensical? Pick one. But I think all they did was stop being

00:57:24.860 crazy and start being a little bit more normal. And that looked like a move to the right.

00:57:32.340 I heard somebody else say on social media that nobody moved to the right. They just didn't have

00:57:38.580 a rigged election this time, so it looks like it. I don't buy that. Whether or not there was rigging,

00:57:47.180 I don't buy that explanation. I think that the left had enough people in it that understood that

00:57:57.000 the left had just gone crazy. It was just batshit bonkers stuff. And they just said,

00:58:02.560 we've had enough of this, we're going to give the other side a chance. Because the other side is at

00:58:07.560 least trying to sell common sense. You could disagree with it, but Republicans are trying to sell common

00:58:15.700 sense. Now, this connects me to a topic I've mentioned before. As you know, I've been at least

00:58:25.020 listed as a Democrat most of my life. And for my early years, you know, say my 20s or so,

00:58:30.440 I was pretty sure that the Democrats were the smart ones. And the Republicans were sort of had a

00:58:39.100 religious base that wasn't translating into policy so well. So that seemed like a little disconnect to

00:58:46.760 me. Because I wasn't religious. So I didn't see that religion should be playing so much of a part

00:58:52.140 in decisions. But the Republican Party has evolved into more of a common sense, you know,

00:59:00.440 we love our religion, but we'll keep that separate. You know, for our policy, we'll just do what makes

00:59:05.820 sense. Now, obviously, Republican policy is still well informed by religion, but it's not the leading

00:59:13.100 voice, right? It seems like when I was in my 20s, they'd start with the religious part and then tell

00:59:21.640 you why they had the policy. Right? And then that would turn me off. Because I'd say, hey, what if

00:59:29.120 people have a different religion? You know, don't start with that. Now look at how Trump handles

00:59:37.080 abortion. He doesn't start with religion. He starts with process. He says, well, having the states decide

00:59:47.180 is a better process. There you go. Now that's my common sense. Common sense says, put the decision

00:59:56.060 where it's best to make the decision. And then it's easier to defend no matter what happens. Because at

01:00:03.180 least it was made in the right way. So watching Trump turn the religious first people into a still 0.89

01:00:12.400 religious, doesn't change their belief. But he's found a way to put process ahead of it. And the

01:00:19.260 process does all the work. You don't need to appeal to the God or the Bible, because the process does

01:00:24.960 what it's supposed to do. So I think that made it safe for people like me, who are uncomfortable with

01:00:34.380 the religion first, but like religion. I'm very pro-religion for other people. If you have one, keep it.

01:00:40.280 I like it. I like you to have one. It just doesn't work for me. Which, by the way, is a fault.

01:00:48.000 If I could get the benefits of religion, and I had a way to believe, I would do it. Because it's

01:00:55.920 pretty obvious that the religious people have some advantages. Anyway, here's some new news.

01:01:03.520 We keep talking about Mike Rogers as being one of the possibilities for the head of the FBI.

01:01:11.520 And all the smart people were saying, my God, my God, no, that would be a huge mistake. No, no.

01:01:18.400 Mike Rogers, according to people who know more than I do, was part of the industrial censorship thing.

01:01:25.000 And he was pushing the Russia collusion hoax and did some other things that Republicans think

01:01:31.840 is not too compatible with the Trump movement. But it turns out it was all fake news.

01:01:41.360 So Trump just messaged that he's never even considered Mike Rogers, even thought about it once.

01:01:46.360 And he's definitely not going to be the head of the FBI.

01:01:51.960 Now, remember how I said when Jeff Bezos says four words, you just say, oh, that's true.

01:01:59.540 Like you never even, not for a second, you doubt his veracity.

01:02:04.020 But when Trump says it, you know, Trump has a little bit more of a history of

01:02:09.060 hyperbole and, you know, bending the, bending the fact check a little bit.

01:02:13.720 So when he says, I never once even considered Mike Rogers, you have to wonder, is that exactly true?

01:02:23.500 Or maybe his name came up at a dinner and Trump maybe, you know, didn't respond to it one way or

01:02:30.540 another. And then somebody left the dinner saying, oh, Mike Rogers name is on the table.

01:02:35.860 So you can easily imagine that the rumor would start without Trump starting it just by Trump,

01:02:43.460 not maybe not responding to that suggestion or something. But he's saying very clearly,

01:02:48.860 it's not going to happen. Now, why did Trump say it's not going to be Mike Rogers?

01:02:56.060 Because normally you only announce who it's going to be.

01:02:58.740 Isn't that uncommon? Sort of uncommon, right? To announce who it's not.

01:03:05.020 Did that happen before Trump? Do other politicians announce who it's not?

01:03:11.420 That was weird. But here's the other thing.

01:03:15.860 Do you know why Trump said it's not Mike Rogers? Because Trump tapped into his base,

01:03:22.520 listened to what they were saying, heard there was all this, you know, don't pick Mike Rogers

01:03:29.000 chatter going on and realized that he needed to tell us that that was off the table. Now,

01:03:36.440 whether it was always off the table or he just saw the chatter and said, oh, let me take this off

01:03:42.280 the table now. I don't really care, you know, because it gets us to the same place.

01:03:46.580 But once again, it's another example of Trump being absolutely tapped in and responding

01:03:53.380 to reasonable criticisms about the direction that people think he's going. I love that.

01:04:02.420 I mean, there are so many positive things happening in the government, in the country.

01:04:07.240 It's kind of incredible, like the optimism people are feeling, et cetera. But when I see even these

01:04:13.480 little corrections, you know, like the Bezos-Musk thing, to me, that's just a perfect moment in human

01:04:21.720 behavior. When I see Trump listen to the public and say, oh, you're having a problem with this Mike

01:04:27.000 Rogers thing, so let me fix that. That's perfect. I'm not asking for anybody to be right about

01:04:34.920 everything in the first draft, not even the second draft. But if you respond to the situation,

01:04:43.560 and you respond in a common sense way, and you show respect to your base, and you're listening

01:04:48.040 to what they're saying, and you hear what they're saying, that's kind of perfect. I'm not looking for

01:04:54.680 no mistakes. That's not my standard. Mistakes are ordinary. I'm looking for, do you have a system

01:05:02.440 that can quickly identify and correct a mistake? Yes, Trump has a system. He listens. He pays

01:05:09.880 attention. And here's the important part. He knows which part of his base are credible.

01:05:17.320 So if you've got a Glenn Greenwald, and you've got a, you know, Mike Benz, and half a dozen other

01:05:25.000 people, I think Mike Cernovich, if you've got those kind of people on the same side, and they're making

01:05:31.800 a big deal about it, it's not a small point, it's a big point. And then the boss says, okay, I hear you.

01:05:38.520 That's exactly what I want. Like, that's the country I want to live in. I want to know that ordinary

01:05:45.880 people can influence the influencers. It happens to me all the time. Or, you know, just people who are not

01:05:53.160 famous make a good point. And I say, oh, that's a good point. And then I say it out loud, and some

01:05:59.560 other influencer hears it and repeats it. All right. Here's the favorite, my favorite thing about the

01:06:06.760 doge thing, where Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are going to try to cut the fat out of the government

01:06:16.520 and reduce our costs. We're going to watch two of the smartest, most effective operators that we've

01:06:26.200 ever seen, Vivek and Elon. And we're going to watch them attack an impossible problem.

01:06:35.240 Because I literally can't think of any way you could do this. I can't think of any way they could

01:06:40.200 succeed. Because the big things to cut are the sacred cows. So when we watch their strategy,

01:06:49.320 as they approach this, you're going to see the smartest people in the world do the smartest things

01:06:55.480 against the most impossible task. How fun is that? Like, I wouldn't even know how to bet on this thing.

01:07:02.360 Because on one hand, it's definitely an impossible task. On the other hand, it's Vivek and Elon.

01:07:12.200 How do you bet on that? I mean, seriously, how could you place a bet on that? They could actually

01:07:18.520 get this done. I don't know how, but that's the fun part. The fun part is, I don't know how this is

01:07:25.160 possible. But they might. Now, I don't think they have it solved. I think they're still, you know,

01:07:32.840 walking around the car and kicking the tires and finding out what works. They're putting up some

01:07:39.320 test balloons, you know, some statements, a little bit of a, you know, article in the,

01:07:44.360 I don't know, Wall Street Journal someplace. And then people react to it.

01:07:47.640 So one of the things they're doing is they're going to do a blog where they're fully transparent.

01:07:55.720 Now, what would make you comfortable with two unelected people and not even nominated?

01:08:03.160 They're not elected and they're not nominated, but having this massive control over the country,

01:08:09.960 the world, and you. How would you feel comfortable with that? Only one way.

01:08:18.440 Full transparency. So that's what they're giving us. They're telling you how they're doing it.

01:08:24.440 They're modeling it in advance. They're telling you what they're thinking. They're telling you their

01:08:29.080 early thinking, which might change. And one of their early thinkings is that if they simply make

01:08:37.080 the government go into the office instead of work from home, there would be a huge number of people

01:08:42.840 who just resign because they don't want to commute to which they would say, good, that's part of the job

01:08:49.640 done. Then their next play. And again, this is stuff that smart people come up with that. I don't

01:08:57.400 know if I would have. They say that there are a lot of the red tape and let's say rules and regulations

01:09:05.400 that the government has that were not passed by Congress. They're not an executive order. It's

01:09:11.400 just these entities are coming up with their own rules. And if you simply get rid of all the rules

01:09:17.560 you don't need that are more problem than they are solution, then all the people who work on those

01:09:23.320 rules don't need to be employed. Because there must be a massive number of people who make sure that the

01:09:28.760 rules are being followed. So instead you just say, we don't need all these rules. Get rid of them.

01:09:35.320 And then you can get rid of the staff that enforced the rules and made the rules.

01:09:41.400 But if you add all those things together, that might be one percent of what they want to get done.

01:09:47.800 But they're leading with that. Why would they lead with that?

01:09:55.000 Because it's common sense. Because they're thinking about it. They're being transparent.

01:10:01.000 And it is something that looks like it would work. The most important thing they have to do is make

01:10:06.280 something work early. It could be small, but it has to work. So if the first thing they did was say,

01:10:12.840 all right, here's a batch of rules that we think we can just get rid of them. And here's the team of

01:10:19.320 people that's going to leave as soon as those rules leave. Boom. Look at us. Two weeks in,

01:10:26.040 and we just got rid of 300 administrators who weren't useful. So what you see early, you should

01:10:35.800 interpret it as the new CEO move, meaning that by far the most important thing. I'm seeing something

01:10:46.280 about Mike Rogers here. It's Dan Scavino who said that Trump was not considering Mike Rogers. So it

01:10:57.000 didn't come from Trump directly. It went through Dan Scavino, but you can trust Scavino on that.

01:11:03.160 If you didn't know, Dan Scavino is one of the longest, closest Trump supporters. So if Scavino says

01:11:16.040 that Trump said something or didn't say something, you can take that to the bank. You don't have to

01:11:21.400 ask any more questions. Yeah. He's 100%. So anyway, the hard part, as you all know, is that you can't

01:11:31.080 touch the Medicare and Social Security and it's going to be tough to touch the military. Although,

01:11:37.480 interestingly, Cenk Uyghur offered to Elon to help him cut the defense budget because he said,

01:11:46.280 hey, Democrats have wanted to cut the defense budget forever. Why can't I help? And then immediately,

01:11:51.960 Cenk was piled on by Democrats saying, what the hell are you doing helping these Republicans? And Cenk,

01:12:00.360 quite reasonably said, why can't we do the thing we all agree on?

01:12:07.080 What exactly is the reason I should not be putting my time and energy and reputation

01:12:11.880 into the thing I've most wanted to do for years, which is get rid of unnecessary defense spending?

01:12:17.320 And Elon's reaction was he's open to suggestions. Now, I don't think that Cenk was offering to join the

01:12:27.160 committee exactly or join DOGE, but he might have some ideas. And Musk says, sure.

01:12:34.280 Sure. We like ideas. So we'll see if that goes anywhere.

01:12:41.960 So here's what I'm most interested in. I do think that Vivek and Musk, they have to have some idea

01:12:50.120 of what to do about the big, untouchable parts of the budget. Otherwise, they wouldn't even try.

01:12:58.040 Because if they thought the best they could do is take $200 billion out of the small part of the budget,

01:13:04.760 that doesn't get you anywhere close. I mean, you've got to take $2 trillion out of your $6 trillion

01:13:12.200 to get down to a balanced budget. And $2 trillion is not even close to what you can get from people

01:13:19.000 quitting on their own because they don't want to commute. Plus, we got rid of some regulations,

01:13:23.400 so we don't need this department, not even close. And a lot of things that would be eliminated

01:13:29.640 doesn't mean that the funding is eliminated. For example, if they take the Department of Education

01:13:35.960 and they say, let's blow this up and give it to the states, 0.98

01:13:39.400 the states would probably get most of that money except for the administrative part.

01:13:45.480 So I don't really see a path how any of this can work.

01:13:48.440 And I would still bet that they can get it done. Because they're, you know, both of them operate at a

01:13:56.360 level I can't quite get to. And both of them seem to have optimism that they can make something happen.

01:14:04.600 So what would they do with health care? And well, let's just pick one.

01:14:10.120 No, was it welfare or was it social security? So social security and health care. Do you think,

01:14:21.960 now, and keep in mind that Vivek, you know, knows the medical world better than most people.

01:14:29.080 So do you think that they could come up with something that would radically change what those

01:14:33.320 things are so that the cost of them comes down and yet the public is still served?

01:14:41.080 I think so. I don't know what it would be, but I can sort of smell it before I see it.

01:14:48.280 I feel like there's a way to do it. For example, let's say, let's say they promoted,

01:14:56.520 I'm just going to brainstorm for a minute. So don't take any of this too seriously.

01:15:00.440 Suppose they said, um, AI is so close to being your doctor that if you want low cost healthcare,

01:15:08.200 we'll make sure that that healthcare AI sector gets really turbocharged so that there's basically

01:15:15.160 a government doctor and everybody has instant access. So if you've got a smartphone, you got a

01:15:20.200 doctor, it's free. Then what about medicines? Do you think they could figure out a way to

01:15:26.600 bring down the cost of meds? Well, here's the interesting thing. That's what Mark Cuban's

01:15:33.080 business is trying to do. So Mark Cuban's had some success with specific drugs, but it looks like

01:15:39.080 that could increase and he has lowered the cost of some meds. Now I think that Vivek and Musk, along with

01:15:47.800 Trump, could negotiate with the big pharma to spread some of that cost to other countries.

01:15:57.000 Because right now the US pays a premium for the drugs, other poor countries get them for low cost

01:16:04.520 because America's paying for all the overhead and development effectively worth subsidizing.

01:16:10.200 So what if they figured out a way to stop subsidizing or just make it illegal, make it illegal to sell it

01:16:16.440 for more in the United States than other places? And that would move this subsidy to the other places. 0.84

01:16:22.120 How much would that save? A few hundred billion? It could be a pretty big deal.

01:16:30.360 So, so then what would be missing, let's say if your drug costs come down through better negotiating

01:16:36.280 and your cost of talking to an expert, whether it's a doctor or a specialist, drops to zero,

01:16:44.040 because that's possible. The cost of talking to a doctor could be completely replaced by AI.

01:16:51.560 Then what you have is the physical manipulation part, where if somebody has to put something on you,

01:16:57.560 you know, like put a bandage on you or set your bone or something, you still need to do that.

01:17:02.440 But I'll bet there's a way to make that more competitive as well. So, so I think it's going

01:17:09.800 to have to be an entire re-engineering and restructuring of what healthcare looks like,

01:17:15.320 maybe with AI. And then if you're looking at social security, I'll bet, I'll bet there's a way to

01:17:24.600 make sure that people are doing something useful for their money without being on social security.

01:17:32.920 Suppose you said you could trade away your social security, but there's this other thing you can

01:17:40.840 get. How many people would say, oh, I don't need my social security. I did well in life,

01:17:47.400 but I like this other thing that you're offering. So I'll, I'll take this other thing. Suppose he said

01:17:53.800 that if you voluntarily give up your social security forever because you're rich, uh, that you'll be

01:18:02.120 first in line for a trip to Mars. That's the bad idea. So that's, that's an example of the bad

01:18:09.000 suggestion that might make you think of a better one. Like what, what could you trade for people to

01:18:15.640 give up their social security? It's possible. Well, speaking of doge, China apparently has an 0.82

01:18:25.080 even bigger problem with red tape because a ton of the Chinese workers are involved in creating and 1.00

01:18:31.960 maintaining red tape and reporting things. So I guess if you're in China business, uh, a whole bunch

01:18:39.960 of your life is just doing reports on what's happening in your, your job. So even president

01:18:46.440 Xi wants the country to learn how to not be that way because they also have, you know, huge overhead.

01:18:55.640 So, um, here's what they say that they spend too much energy pretending they're implementing policy.

01:19:02.760 This is according to one expert named Lee, uh, centralization is good for political decisions.

01:19:09.160 However, for economics, you do need a certain kind of chaos. So they're, they're, uh,

01:19:16.440 commercial stuff in China is so over regulated, I guess you'd say that it's like a big wet blanket on

01:19:24.440 it. So as I've said before, the doge thing is not just about fixing our debt. If we can figure out

01:19:33.880 how to have a more efficient, smarter government system, one that makes sense. And in the current

01:19:40.360 times that is a gigantic, gigantic military and economic benefit. So watching Musk, who of course

01:19:51.080 would be an expert in the entrepreneurial arts realize that the biggest obstacle is the government.

01:19:57.800 And then he's the one who's right in the middle of trying to fix it. And so it works for, um,

01:20:03.000 commerce. Do you think China can match that? Let's say they pull it off. Let's say Vivek and Elon pull

01:20:10.120 it off and they really modernize our government in a way that's still compatible with the constitution.

01:20:16.840 In fact, maybe more compatible with it. Um, and, and still gets everything done,

01:20:23.560 but we can do things quickly such as approve a nuclear power plant. Just to pick one example.

01:20:31.400 How much would the United States be different if we had an efficient way to say yes to a nuclear 0.93

01:20:37.720 power project? Well, we're getting closer to that. The government is working in that direction.

01:20:43.000 But if, if we could really just kill that, you know, just slay that opportunity, so to speak,

01:20:50.120 that'd be huge. So I think, I think the fate of the United States really depends on doge. And I don't

01:20:56.520 think there's another country that can match us because there is one thing we have that other countries

01:21:03.560 don't have. We've got a dictator. Yeah. The dictator Trump has basically decided to voluntarily share

01:21:17.640 power with an unelected person who simply got the best ideas. Now, two of them, you know, Vivek as well.

01:21:26.440 So remember, I always told you that the person with the best idea is always in charge.

01:21:29.880 And you probably thought that's a small idea. And then, oh, maybe that works in that one meeting

01:21:36.520 you were in, Scott, but that's like not generally true. Oh, it's true. The person with the best idea

01:21:42.600 is always in charge. So Elon comes in with the best idea, which is how about you take the smartest,

01:21:49.320 most badass entrepreneur working with other smartest, smartest, badass entrepreneurs,

01:21:55.480 and we try to fix our most critical problem in the, in the government. What's Trump going to say to

01:22:01.560 that? No, that's a bad idea. No, it's a great idea. It's like the greatest idea I've seen,

01:22:08.760 like maybe ever. It's such a great idea. It's almost, you can't even hold it in your mind.

01:22:13.640 It's such a great idea. And so Trump says, yes, if he were a dictator, he would not be sharing power.

01:22:21.240 That's just not how that works. Now he's of course, confident enough. Trump is that he's still,

01:22:28.040 he's still the president. So he gets what he wants. But if Musk and Ramaswamy come up with an idea,

01:22:35.800 that's just so good that the public says, oh yeah, that's just a good idea. Trump's going to say yes,

01:22:42.680 because the best idea always wins and they're going to be coming. They're going to be coming

01:22:49.640 with ideas. All right. A couple of things, how to fix the Democrats. The Democrats are trying to figure

01:22:56.360 out how to recover. I have the following comments about that. Number one, identity politics is a

01:23:03.320 permanent death. I don't think there's a path to recovery where I think the Democrats are thinking,

01:23:09.960 okay, you know, it's sort of business as usual. We just have to do a little better,

01:23:15.000 you know, better messaging, you know, maybe organize our campaign a little differently.

01:23:20.760 It's not that. It's the identity stuff. The identity stuff is what made everything crazy.

01:23:27.800 It's what, it's what, you know, made Democrats walk away.

01:23:33.240 If they don't get rid of the identity politics, they don't have any way to recover.

01:23:37.880 But here's the trick. If they do get rid of the identity politics,

01:23:42.680 then they're just Republicans and they don't have any reason to exist. So you can't keep the identity

01:23:49.720 politics, but you also can't get rid of it because it would just destroy them for years. 0.55

01:23:56.680 The Republicans never entered the identity politics, so they have no burden to get rid of it or change

01:24:02.760 anything in that regard. They're completely unburdened by it. But there's no way to fix it.

01:24:09.800 So the Democrats painted themselves in a corner that literally doesn't have a way out. I don't

01:24:15.880 think there is. Now, let me suggest one Hail Mary way that they could get out of it.

01:24:25.480 I think that the media runs the Democrats more than the other way around. And if the media decided

01:24:34.760 only to tell stories that were true and useful and common sense, that it would force Democrats

01:24:42.200 to be useful and common sense. Because the media would say, here's a great idea and here's a terrible

01:24:48.440 idea. What are the Democrats going to say if it's their own media? Right? If CNN says, oh,

01:24:55.640 this new idea is just a terrible idea. And then you're a Democrat and you turn on the TV like, oh,

01:25:01.080 shoot, CNN thinks this is a terrible idea. What does MSNBC say? Oh God, they hate it too.

01:25:08.520 The media runs the politics. So if the media somehow, and I don't see a way this could happen,

01:25:15.160 but if the media started to become a legitimate contributor to the country instead of whatever

01:25:22.840 they are, they could actually change the whole Democrat machine. And in fact, the media could

01:25:31.080 get them out of their identity politics whole just by the way they frame things and just de-emphasize

01:25:37.800 it, et cetera. Don't do continuous trans stories all day long. That's the media, right? It wasn't

01:25:44.360 the Democrat politicians who kept saying, can we talk about trans some more? It wasn't them,

01:25:52.520 it was the media. So if the media fixes itself, the media that supports the Democrats,

01:25:59.000 then that could cause the Democrats to make the adjustments, which might make them more mainstream,

01:26:03.400 which would make them competitive. But how is the media going to change?

01:26:06.440 I don't see how that's going to happen. Unless MSNBC just goes away and the others say we'd better

01:26:15.160 better shape up. But the other possibility is that they get a new charismatic Democratic leader

01:26:22.840 and people are voting for the person, not the policies, totally policy. So if you got another

01:26:27.640 once in a generation kind of leader, maybe another Obama type, maybe. But if they don't get an Obama

01:26:41.800 type and they don't get their media to fix the media's own problems, there's no way to come back.

01:26:48.920 They seem to be in a permanent exile. So Democrats are coming up with some new fake fears because this

01:26:58.120 is some more evidence of how the media can't fix itself. So the media on the left, they don't have

01:27:06.280 enough to complain about from Trump. So they're making up some new fake ones. Of course, that's what

01:27:11.400 they do. So one of them is that they're saying that Pete Hegseth, who's nominated for Secretary of

01:27:18.040 Defense, they claim that he says women are not qualified for military service. That, of course,

01:27:24.920 is not true. He did not claim that. In fact, like the fine people hoax, he worried that you might think

01:27:32.120 it, so he made sure that you knew he wasn't saying that. I mean, I watched him do that. He very clearly

01:27:38.120 says, yes, I have worked with women in the military who were great at their jobs. He's talking about

01:27:45.400 combat. Now, I don't have an opinion about that because I think the people who've been in combat

01:27:52.120 are the ones I would listen to. So if you've been in combat or you know a lot of people who've been in

01:27:57.480 combat and those people say, I got to tell you, I love women. I love them in support roles. I've 0.96

01:28:03.960 worked with a lot. I've done great. But when the bullets start flying, and I heard a special forces

01:28:10.600 guy say this. I forget who it was. It was on some podcast recently. And this is super sexist. So I'm

01:28:17.720 just reporting what somebody else said. This is not my own observation. He said that when the bullets

01:28:23.480 start flying, that the women freeze up. And that he's seen them multiple times. And that the men, 0.93

01:28:30.360 either through training or selection or whatever it is, are more likely to go on offense, which might

01:28:37.400 be exactly what you need for the best defense. But they kind of had to push the women in the direction 1.00

01:28:43.640 they needed to go. Now, that's anecdotal. And I don't support that interpretation. It's just

01:28:49.720 one that got some attention. But if the people who have been in that situation

01:28:55.000 collectively say, yeah, there's something to it, I would listen to that. And by the way,

01:29:03.240 I have no interest in women being in combat. Like, I don't like it. It offends me 1.00

01:29:11.480 on a DNA level. Like, it's not even politics. It's just my DNA can't handle it.

01:29:19.240 Like, it's just no. How about just no? Because part of being a man is that you feel like you're

01:29:29.480 protecting women and children. I don't know. Is that built into us? Or am I socialized that way?

01:29:36.680 Or is it just natural? So when you tell me, oh, the woman you're trying to protect is standing next

01:29:42.840 to you in the hail of gunfire. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. You're making my contribution worth less.

01:29:51.400 I'm protecting her. That's my job. So anyway, I'm no expert on military whatsoever. But if the

01:30:00.200 people who are experts say that women in combat, remember, it's just combat we're talking about. 1.00

01:30:07.880 If they say there's a difference and that it matters and it affects our readiness,

01:30:12.200 I say the military is the one place you can discriminate all you want. 0.97

01:30:18.200 Because the military is about staying alive. It's not about being woke. So if there's any

01:30:24.200 good evidence that something needs to be a certain way to get a better result,

01:30:29.960 we have to chase the better result. That's all that matters. It's the military. Got to get the

01:30:35.560 better result, whatever that takes. And then they're also worried that since Pete Hegseth was

01:30:43.640 accused of something that there were no charges of and didn't sound credible to the local police,

01:30:49.640 that the women in the military would be afraid that the military would start raping all the women 0.88

01:30:55.560 even more than already, which is actually a gigantic problem,

01:30:58.920 because Hegseth wouldn't do enough about it. And that's just totally made up.

01:31:06.760 There's nothing about the Hegseth allegations, even if they were true, which it doesn't look like they

01:31:12.600 were. But even if they were true, it would have been, well, it's true that an encounter happened.

01:31:22.600 But I don't think that's going to have any effect on how he does his business.

01:31:29.720 Anyway, that's more fake news coming. Meanwhile, Russia used a hypersonic missile for the first time

01:31:37.480 in Ukraine. And I guess I missed, the first time I saw that news, I missed the point of it.

01:31:41.800 And I just thought, huh, a new missile. So? But apparently the reason for using the supersonic missile

01:31:50.200 is to show that it can't be stopped by any of the anti-missile defenses. And indeed, it was not stopped

01:31:57.000 by any of the anti-missile defenses. And then they point out, you know, we could put a nuke on this.

01:32:02.120 Oh. Oh, shit. So what Putin was doing was showing his nuclear capability without the nuclear.

01:32:12.600 He said, here's my rocket. Try to stop it. Oh, he couldn't stop it. It just blew up your facility

01:32:19.400 in the middle of Ukraine. Well, you know, I could have put a nuke on that. And you wouldn't have 1.00

01:32:24.280 stopped that either. So maybe you think twice about bombing things inside of Russia.

01:32:31.080 Yeah. So I think that's a pretty smart play from Putin. But I'm going to double down and triple down

01:32:42.200 on we've never been safer. And there's never been a less chance of nuclear war. Because Putin and 0.65

01:32:49.240 everybody else in the world knows that Trump the big dog is coming. It's going to be a few weeks.

01:32:54.920 He's going to negotiate a peace. It's going to be, you know, some land they keep. It's going to look

01:33:00.600 sort of like it looks now. Why would you start a nuclear war if you know that it's going to wind

01:33:07.000 down in a fairly acceptable way? Almost for sure. Probably it will look like we will commit not to

01:33:15.560 bring NATO into Ukraine. Probably it means that Russia keeps most of what they already have. 0.78

01:33:22.920 Something like that. So, no. You don't start a nuclear war when all of your problems are going

01:33:30.920 to be solved the way you want them to be solved or very close to it in a few weeks. There has never been

01:33:38.040 a safer time in the world's history. Never. We're the safest we've ever been. It just doesn't feel like it

01:33:45.400 sometimes. All right. I wanted to give you my... I've gone way too long. So, if you want to leave,

01:33:55.720 I wouldn't feel bad about it. But I wanted to give you my ADHD hacks. So, these are the tricks I use

01:34:02.680 to conquer my own ADHD. Sorry. Now, do I have ADHD? Well, I've never been diagnosed with it.

01:34:13.800 But I do know that there are huge portions of the day when I can't possibly concentrate and focus and

01:34:19.880 work. So, I've developed a number of tools and habits and techniques that I will share with you

01:34:27.800 now. So, if there are those of you who are maybe in the category I am, which is, I don't know if I'm

01:34:34.360 technically ADHD, but I exhibit those characteristics. However, I can tame them through habits and tricks.

01:34:45.560 And here they are. Trick number one. I wake up at 4.30 in the morning, no matter what. If you tell

01:34:53.640 yourself that sometimes you can sleep in, that won't work for you. You have to do it every day.

01:35:00.280 And you have to learn to love it. I learned to love it by training myself with coffee and a protein

01:35:06.520 bar, which when you put them together, they're like a really good taste together. So, I would get all

01:35:11.560 this like immediate physical gratification within minutes of waking up. So, 4.30 in the morning,

01:35:20.440 I keep all of my lights off and I've got my blackout curtains down so that the only light is in my

01:35:28.440 immediate four foot, maybe a four foot diameter. I can't even see or hear anything outside of my

01:35:35.560 four feet. Under those conditions, when nobody else is awake, you know, that would be here in person,

01:35:42.200 I have complete focus. And I don't think too much about anything on my calendar that day.

01:35:51.320 And I enjoy the heck out of the comments coming in from the DMs from people I love online.

01:35:58.120 And I love the news. So, I'm immediately in this, you know, dopamine positive situation. Now,

01:36:08.440 how do people who do boring things make it work? Well, it's a lot harder if it's boring,

01:36:15.240 you know, because I do things that I personally like a lot. So, I'm excited for several hours because

01:36:21.400 I'm just doing only the things I want to do, but I'm lucky that way. I do, like every other job,

01:36:27.000 I have a whole bunch of boring things I have to do. Paperwork and spreadsheets and insurance and

01:36:32.920 taxes. It just never ends. I can't do those things at two o'clock in the afternoon. My body just won't

01:36:42.280 do it. I can't even force myself to sit in the chair. I've got a million things swirling around.

01:36:47.720 By the time my dog wakes up, my productivity goes down 25%. Does anybody have that experience?

01:36:54.680 If you work at home, the minute your dog wakes up, 25% of your productivity gone. If there are

01:37:01.400 kids in the house or people who you work with who start calling you early in the morning,

01:37:06.200 another 50% gone. You'll lose 75% of your concentration just because other people are awake.

01:37:14.040 So, get up before they do. That's my hack. But there are more. I also found out that since my body and

01:37:21.560 my brain are really the same device, that if I want to control my brain, as in making a focus better,

01:37:28.760 I do that by controlling my body. So, in the first example, I was putting coffee and a protein bar that

01:37:36.120 I really, really liked into my body. And that was making my brain happy. If it's the afternoon,

01:37:42.200 and I've already done that stuff, I will exercise. So, I'll either go for a nice walk in the sun or do

01:37:50.360 some weights or something. But the exercise makes me not want to move my body around. And when I

01:37:59.880 don't want to get out of my chair, because I just exercised and I'm relaxing, I can focus.

01:38:06.440 So, I can control my brain by making my body run or walk or play a game or lift heavy objects

01:38:13.800 for 90 minutes. And then I just want to sit in a chair. But I'm going to be bored if I'm just sitting

01:38:19.240 in a chair. So, I might as well look at that spreadsheet, get my taxes done, that sort of thing.

01:38:27.080 Anyway, so those are some tricks. Use your exercise to put yourself back in that condition.

01:38:32.600 My other trick is I go to Starbucks when my, by around 11am, you know, after I've gotten ready

01:38:40.040 for the day and stuff, walk the dog. I need to dip back into work, but my brain's already spinning.

01:38:48.120 A hundred things happening in the real world. I can't focus now. So, I go to Starbucks. Now,

01:38:55.080 this is also a hack because Starbucks is noisy and busy, but for reasons that I don't fully understand,

01:39:04.120 there's a lot of science to it, that a cafe environment allows you to focus really well.

01:39:10.840 I'll tell you what I think it is. For some reason, when there are people all around me and literally

01:39:17.880 standing next to my table, I often take a table that's right next to the line where people are waiting

01:39:23.320 for their stuff. And so, often, I'll be working and there'll be somebody's butt, like right here.

01:39:33.560 And they're having a conversation, like right above me. And you would say to yourself,

01:39:37.640 well, that's the most distracting thing. There's no way you can concentrate on that. I can concentrate

01:39:43.080 so well in that situation because somehow my brain says, oh, you need to turn all this stuff off.

01:39:50.760 And I just turn it off. And I go, zoop. And apparently, it's a reproducible thing because

01:39:58.120 cafe sounds. I can't do it with just the sounds. It doesn't work. I have to actually be in the

01:40:03.800 environment. So, I can get another 90 minutes of work just by changing the environment.

01:40:10.760 I call this matching my energy to the task. So, you got to change your energy

01:40:15.480 to match the task. So, at 4.30 in the morning, the only way I can work is I have no distractions.

01:40:26.280 But by 11 in the morning, the only way I can work is if I'm in a full, busy cafe. Now, if you have not

01:40:35.560 experimented to discover those two things about yourself, or you might have two different things

01:40:40.920 that work for you, you got to look for it. You got to do a little work. You got to go look for it.

01:40:48.040 Anyway, experiment on that. And that's all I got for you. I'm going to talk to the locals people

01:40:51.880 for a minute. I went too long. There's lawnmowers outside. All right. YouTube and X and Rumble,

01:40:59.720 thanks for joining. I'll see you again tomorrow, same time. Locals, I'm coming at you. 0.99

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 22, 2024

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