Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2670 CWSA 11⧸25⧸24

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00:00:14.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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00:01:03.900 You know, I'm proud of all of you for sipping so competently.

00:01:11.320 All right, well, lots of stories today.

00:01:15.240 Let's start with the good news.

00:01:17.760 According to Andrew Humberman, you can turn yourself into a morning person in three days

00:01:24.040 of pain, so just three bad days and you can become a morning person.

00:01:28.580 Here's how.

00:01:29.540 Set your clock for 5 a.m.

00:01:31.020 every day, no matter how tired you were the night before, and get up at 5, drink coffee,

00:01:38.300 have some social interaction, a little bit of sunlight, a little bit of eating, and those

00:01:42.540 things will set your clock.

00:01:44.740 The next thing you know, you're a morning person.

00:01:47.720 Do you believe that?

00:01:48.620 How many of you believe that you could change yourself to a morning person if you're not

00:01:53.420 already one?

00:01:55.620 Well, I can only tell you my anecdotal experience, which is in college, I strategically decided

00:02:03.040 to become a morning person.

00:02:05.220 And I turned myself into one.

00:02:07.800 And I didn't know I could ever be one.

00:02:09.760 It didn't seem likely, because I like to stay up late, just like most people.

00:02:17.120 But very quickly, and with the help of coffee and sun and food, I guess, I turned myself

00:02:23.660 into a person who loves, just loves the morning.

00:02:28.320 I mean, the first four hours of every day of my life are kind of terrific every single

00:02:33.800 day.

00:02:34.840 Really just terrific.

00:02:36.000 And that's what you get by being a morning person.

00:02:39.880 Now, beyond that, I believe I've lived two full lifetimes, because most of your day is 0.98

00:02:45.180 garbage time. 0.61

00:02:46.900 You know what I mean?

00:02:48.400 You're like, it's time to take out the trash to the curb, and you're walking to your trash

00:02:54.780 cans.

00:02:56.080 And most of it's not really living.

00:02:58.400 But the morning time I really use for all the good stuff.

00:03:01.620 So it's almost like it doubled my life.

00:03:04.200 So that's cool.

00:03:05.140 However, I have a question whether all people can be turned into morning people.

00:03:10.540 My suspicion is, because science seems to think that there are morning people and non-morning

00:03:16.800 people, that this won't work for everyone.

00:03:20.160 However, I also have this following hypothesis, that night people are morning people.

00:03:27.920 That night people, like the time after midnight, that's the morning.

00:03:37.980 So if you like to be up after midnight, because it just feels great to be up after midnight,

00:03:43.380 that's probably how I feel at 4.30 in the morning when I'm up.

00:03:46.520 And often I'm up at 3, just because I feel like it.

00:03:49.500 So there you go.

00:03:52.600 Be a morning person.

00:03:53.860 Double your life.

00:03:54.740 According to Gilmore Health News, there's now this gene editing technology that might

00:04:01.460 remove your anxiety and alcohol dependency linked to adolescent binge drinking.

00:04:08.360 So if you were a binge drinker when you were young and it changed your brain, now they think

00:04:13.660 they can edit your genes to fix it.

00:04:15.360 I have just one comment about this.

00:04:22.400 I don't think I want to go first.

00:04:25.060 You know what I mean?

00:04:26.360 I don't want to be the first person who has gene editing to change their brain.

00:04:31.720 I mean, it could work out great.

00:04:33.980 It has great potential.

00:04:35.860 But I don't want to go first.

00:04:38.180 Let's see what happens to somebody else.

00:04:41.140 It turns them from a Republican into a Democrat.

00:04:43.680 You've got to watch that stuff.

00:04:47.140 Well, this is the most predictable thing you could ever imagine in the world of technology.

00:04:51.500 According to TechCrunch, guess what got invented?

00:04:55.540 Yes, it's exactly what you expected somebody to make.

00:04:59.120 And why did it take so long?

00:05:01.140 Somebody made a way that you could fake being on a Zoom call.

00:05:06.380 Now, you know you wanted that.

00:05:08.640 You know the Dilbert comic was waiting for it.

00:05:11.400 And apparently you can take a quick video of yourself, and then AI will remember what you look like.

00:05:19.020 And then you could be in your car and pretending that you're sitting there in front of your office.

00:05:26.840 So your actual audio in your conversation could be from your phone in your car.

00:05:30.520 But what people would see on Zoom is something that looks like you're talking.

00:05:36.020 Pretty cool.

00:05:38.160 And the odds of people taking Zoom calls on the toilet just went to, well, 100%.

00:05:45.200 Because not much else to do when you're watching the Zoom call.

00:05:51.900 So yes, there will be a lot of Zoom call toiletry.

00:05:54.720 Well, Chinese scientists have finally built something you've all been waiting for, a recoilless AK-47.

00:06:05.380 According to Stephan Chen in the South China Morning Post.

00:06:09.000 Now, you might say to yourself, do we really need the recoilless AK-47 rifle?

00:06:15.880 And the answer is yes, if you want to put it on a drone.

00:06:20.160 If you want your drone to go around and murder people, it would be nice to have a recoilless one so it doesn't knock the drone out of orbit.

00:06:28.780 So good news, people.

00:06:30.320 There's the perfect murdering device now.

00:06:32.500 So if you put some AI facial recognition on your drone, which is completely practical, and you give it GPS navigation so that there's no amount of jamming that will stop it from getting to its destination, which is now completely practical.

00:06:51.060 And then you put the recoilless rifle on it, which is now completely practical.

00:06:57.940 And then you track somebody's location by their phone, which, if you're the government, is completely practical.

00:07:07.100 And then you could just send your drone out to shoot them and then go bury itself in the ocean.

00:07:15.260 It sink itself in the ocean so they can't find the gun. 0.66

00:07:18.180 So that's a thing now.

00:07:24.520 Yeah, so the GPS jamming is not going to work if you've got the AI that can recognize the ground from the sky.

00:07:32.380 In other words, it will look at satellite images and it will know where it is just from the image.

00:07:39.060 So that's cool.

00:07:41.120 All right.

00:07:43.460 Here's what I call the reverse of a good job.

00:07:48.180 What would be the opposite of a good job in this case?

00:07:51.540 Now, the situation is coming up with a headline to make somebody click on something and read the story.

00:07:59.300 Now, as you know, there are a lot of stories that are clickbait.

00:08:02.200 Literally, the headline is better than the story.

00:08:04.660 You're like, really?

00:08:05.780 Really?

00:08:06.580 Trump ate a baby?

00:08:07.680 I got to see what that's about.

00:08:08.840 Click, click, click.

00:08:09.500 But there are some headlines that make you definitely not read the story.

00:08:16.520 And those are more interesting to me.

00:08:18.480 Here's a headline that made me definitely not click the story.

00:08:23.160 It was in The Hill.

00:08:24.880 And the headline, it's an opinion piece, but the headline is,

00:08:27.900 How well does Donald Trump understand Elon Musk?

00:08:30.520 Well, let me say, for the opinion writer, that would require that they had penetrated the mind of Elon Musk

00:08:49.840 and also Donald Trump.

00:08:54.100 So they can not only see what's in Musk's brain, you know, in order to write the article,

00:08:59.520 but they can also see what's in Trump's brain.

00:09:02.880 And also, they can see it so well that they can tell how much Trump's brain can understand Elon's brain.

00:09:08.900 I'm not going to click on that. 0.99

00:09:15.380 That might be the dumbest idea I've ever seen for an opinion.

00:09:20.080 No, I will not click on that. 0.98

00:09:22.520 Sorry.

00:09:25.080 Simon A. Tiba is talking about Morning Joe.

00:09:29.820 So Morning Joe is trying...

00:09:32.660 I swear to God, Morning Joe can't possibly be a non-competitive channel, right?

00:09:39.900 Is it trying to be a comedy channel?

00:09:42.740 Is it parody?

00:09:44.000 It's so close to parody, you just can't tell.

00:09:47.020 Because now they're insisting that Twitter is where you get all the disinformation.

00:09:52.560 And you should really trust real journalism, such as you'd find in the New York Times,

00:09:57.220 Wall Street Journal, and Axios.

00:10:00.860 Also known as the True Guardians of Truth.

00:10:04.000 You know, they left off Washington Post.

00:10:05.980 I don't know why.

00:10:07.920 Yep.

00:10:08.900 So the first story is about how Morning Joe on MSNBC says that truth is on their network

00:10:17.740 and these others, not on X, not on X.

00:10:21.300 My second story is about how Joy Reid, one of the hosts of MSNBC, and their guests are

00:10:30.740 talking about how Trump will deploy the military and choose citizens.

00:10:33.880 And that Trump wants to, quote, end multiculturalism in America.

00:10:44.200 How do you interpret that?

00:10:46.280 So Joy Reid is taking the story that Trump is thinking about using the military to transport some illegal migrants back to their home country.

00:11:01.440 Transport.

00:11:02.040 But she, of course, she's changed into fake news where they're going to be shooting people on the street.

00:11:08.600 There's not even, that's not even a conversation.

00:11:11.140 The military is not going to be shooting anybody in the street.

00:11:15.940 So it's complete fake news directly after their episode about how the real news is on their networks.

00:11:23.780 But then she, with her guests, she ties it into, I guess, the guy who, one of the authors of the Project 2025, had written that they want to end multiculturalism in America.

00:11:38.940 Now, if you're watching MSNBC, and you're talking about the military shooting citizens, what do you think it means when they say they want to end multiculturalism? 0.95

00:11:51.340 Well, if you put it in that context, it sounds like Trump wants to use the military to shoot brown people. 0.95

00:11:59.160 Isn't that the way that comes off? 0.98

00:12:03.040 Here's what it really means.

00:12:04.380 The military might be useful for some of the behind-the-scenes logistics, such as guarding and then transporting immigrants have been picked up by the regular authorities who do those jobs normally.

00:12:17.760 So that's the military part that they've completely, you know, misrepresented.

00:12:23.380 But the end multiculturalism, when I first read it, I thought, it couldn't possibly say that.

00:12:30.240 There can't possibly be a document that somebody wrote those words.

00:12:33.720 We want to end multiculturalism. 1.00

00:12:36.720 But then I realized what it means.

00:12:39.080 It takes a few seconds to understand what it means.

00:12:42.440 It means that America is a melting pot.

00:12:45.440 It's the same thing.

00:12:47.340 I grew up learning that America is a melting pot.

00:12:50.360 So that no matter what culture you came from, when you got here, your first or second generation would become Americans.

00:12:59.620 So that would be ending multiculturalism. 0.92

00:13:02.620 You're simply not being everything to everybody.

00:13:06.260 You're trying to encourage everybody to become an American.

00:13:10.180 When did that become a problem?

00:13:14.140 That's not a problem.

00:13:15.760 That's an ambition.

00:13:16.640 It's an ambition to get people on the same page.

00:13:22.460 Multiculturalism is completely unmanageable. 1.00

00:13:25.140 There's no way you could have a country where everybody can do their own thing.

00:13:28.940 You know, as much as you think that'd be a great, great idea, there's no practical way to do that.

00:13:33.360 But you have to get on the same page on the basic stuff, like, you know, is it Sharia law or is it not?

00:13:40.000 I mean, these are really basic stuff.

00:13:43.500 Anyway, can you stone somebody because they were allegedly, you know, unfaithful to their husband?

00:13:49.660 I mean, the multiculturalism isn't something you want to have more of. 1.00

00:13:56.820 That's not going to help you, no matter how awesome it is.

00:13:59.740 I'm not saying there's anything wrong with anybody's culture.

00:14:02.260 I'm just saying you can't put them all in the same bag and expect it to work out.

00:14:06.800 So MSNBC, just pure propaganda.

00:14:11.260 Glenn Greenwald, I love watching him dumping on MSNBC, talking about how their audience is so small.

00:14:17.060 It's smaller than a lot of YouTube shows.

00:14:19.940 It's probably smaller than the number of people who will watch this.

00:14:24.560 So my audience for this live stream is roughly the same as MSNBC's audience in primetime.

00:14:32.940 But Greenwald thinks that it's because the audience realized that MSNBC had been lying to them about everything.

00:14:43.020 It said, oh, you know, definitely Trump's going to jail.

00:14:46.780 Oh, well, he's not.

00:14:48.320 Well, he's definitely not going to get nominated.

00:14:50.800 Oh, he got nominated.

00:14:52.200 Well, there's no way he's going to win.

00:14:54.060 OK, he won.

00:14:55.680 But at least he's not going to win the popular vote.

00:14:58.200 OK, he won the popular vote. 0.94

00:14:59.600 But at the least, he's not going to get more black. 0.99

00:15:03.060 OK, he got more black votes. 0.84

00:15:04.980 But he's definitely not going to get the Hispanic. 0.99

00:15:07.400 OK, he got more Hispanic votes.

00:15:09.480 And he's not going to win the women.

00:15:11.440 OK, he won a lot of women. 0.99

00:15:13.800 But there's no way he's going to sweep all the seven.

00:15:16.700 OK, he swung.

00:15:17.700 He swept all the swing states.

00:15:19.940 So at some point, do you think the MSNBC audience realized that they've been lied to about everything?

00:15:30.060 I'm not so sure.

00:15:33.040 So, you know, Glenn Greenwald, I think, is one of the better observers of everything.

00:15:39.220 So, you know, I hate to disagree with him.

00:15:41.600 But I don't think people are that smart.

00:15:45.980 I don't think that they do know they were lied to.

00:15:48.140 It turns out that 9% of Democrats believe the election was stolen and that the reason Trump won was that he stole the election and there because it couldn't be any other reason.

00:16:02.040 Do you know why?

00:16:02.600 They watched MSNBC.

00:16:03.740 They realized there's no way that Trump could win legitimately, but then he wins.

00:16:10.200 So cognitive dissonance clicks in and your brain goes, click, must explain, anomaly, cannot explain how he cannot win.

00:16:17.700 But yet he won.

00:16:18.760 Oh, I get it.

00:16:20.080 Must have been, yeah, cognitive dissonance.

00:16:23.260 And I think the rest are simply avoiding it or trying not to think about it.

00:16:29.640 Because I think it went from a source of dopamine where they turned it on and agreed with everything that they were already thinking and it made them feel smart and superior.

00:16:39.140 But now when they turned it on, it's the same people, except instead of making them feel smart and superior for being watchers of MSNBC, the very people who are supposed to be smart, and therefore you're smart because you watch them, are saying, we seem to have gotten everything wrong for four years.

00:17:02.360 But we're trying to figure it out.

00:17:04.620 We have 500 hypotheses of why everything was wrong.

00:17:11.360 Why don't you talk?

00:17:12.080 You talk for a while.

00:17:13.960 And now it's just cringy.

00:17:16.420 So there's no source of dopamine.

00:17:19.080 So if you see, this is one of the most useful frames you'll ever have.

00:17:23.180 The most useful frame for understanding your reality is that people chase dopamine.

00:17:29.980 They chase the good feeling.

00:17:31.540 And it used to be nothing but a dopamine hose. 1.00

00:17:35.940 Every moment, it would make you feel smarter than those stupid MAGA people. 1.00

00:17:42.340 And now you turn it on and you see some of your favorite people saying, you know what? 1.00

00:17:48.840 MAGA is pretty good, actually.

00:17:50.500 And then you find out that the smartest, most successful entrepreneur in the world is fully in for MAGA.

00:17:56.320 And you're like, ah, wait, what's going on?

00:17:59.960 Yeah, it's very, it's got to be very disconcerting.

00:18:05.040 Keith Olbermann is panicked.

00:18:07.280 He's panicked that Elon Musk might buy MSNBC.

00:18:11.360 Now, Elon did ask the question, how much does it go for?

00:18:14.720 And the hilarious thing about this is that the question of whether Elon Musk would or would not buy NBC is only the price.

00:18:25.320 It's only the price.

00:18:27.140 There is a price by which I guarantee he would buy it.

00:18:31.320 I don't know what that number is for him.

00:18:32.780 But let's say, let's say all they have left is assets, maybe contracts, some receivables and, you know, a building and cameras and camera trucks and stuff.

00:18:45.740 How much would all of that be worth if you put it all together?

00:18:51.160 50 million?

00:18:52.940 50 million?

00:18:53.840 Because I don't even know if they own the buildings.

00:18:55.440 They might be renting the buildings.

00:18:56.980 So that might be just a liability.

00:18:58.640 So if he could buy, if he could buy MSNBC for, let's say, 30 million net, do you think he wouldn't?

00:19:10.840 I think he'd do it just for fun, just to see what happened.

00:19:15.880 And then you combine it with X and start, you know, doing some shows on there.

00:19:21.220 It would be amazing.

00:19:22.940 So, no, it's not a question of whether he wants to or doesn't want to.

00:19:26.600 I'm almost positive it's just price.

00:19:30.260 So if they priced that at a billion dollars, I'd say, no, there's no way.

00:19:34.200 At half a billion, I'd say, no way.

00:19:37.280 At 100 million, it starts getting maybe.

00:19:42.920 At 50, it's probably more likely yes than no.

00:19:47.140 But I have no idea what it's priced at.

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00:20:50.540 Meanwhile, have you heard of NewsGuard?

00:20:54.000 This is kind of funny to me.

00:20:56.040 So there's an entity called NewsGuard.

00:20:57.940 I think you've heard of them.

00:20:59.240 So they're a for-profit.

00:21:00.860 And what they do is they charge various platforms on the Internet to help them guard against fake news.

00:21:10.340 So they'll identify the fake news so that the platforms don't have to get caught with fake news.

00:21:18.820 And so, but they also offer these what they call nutrition labels for each search result.

00:21:26.500 So you could do searches and as a consumer, it would tell you if the, if the, let's say, the reporter who wrote the story is credible or if the source of the story is credible.

00:21:39.320 So they would have like the New York Times would be, you know, like at the top of the credibility list.

00:21:45.120 Do you see the problem here?

00:21:47.500 The New York Times is at the top of their credibility list.

00:21:50.080 The New York Times is, okay, really?

00:21:56.180 But here's the best part of it.

00:21:58.480 So there's an entity NewsGuard that is charging people and doing really well.

00:22:03.540 Apparently their business model is working.

00:22:05.620 You know, it's very robust business.

00:22:07.820 And their proposition is they can tell which news is true and you can't.

00:22:15.780 That's the proposition.

00:22:16.860 That's what you're paying for.

00:22:17.680 They can tell what's true and you can't.

00:22:21.880 Now, I've got a question.

00:22:25.640 If there's an entity in the world that can tell what news is true and what isn't,

00:22:32.220 shouldn't they be the news?

00:22:36.720 Because does it make sense that there is no news entity that knows what's true?

00:22:42.040 The only people who know what's true is the people criticizing the news entity.

00:22:46.120 So wouldn't it make way more sense if NewsGuard said, you know what, people, since we know what's true and all the other news entities, you know, maybe yes, maybe no, we will be your news.

00:22:59.360 So the real news is through us.

00:23:02.040 We're the real news.

00:23:06.220 Nobody knows what news is true.

00:23:09.640 We wouldn't have massive, almost universal fake news if there was anybody who could tell the difference.

00:23:16.280 NewsGuard doesn't know what's true.

00:23:20.500 NewsGuard can, and probably often, catch things that are definitely not true.

00:23:26.840 But that's a long way from knowing what's true and what's not true.

00:23:32.220 It's just catching the easy stuff.

00:23:34.040 Do you know who else catches all the easy stuff?

00:23:36.940 Me.

00:23:37.380 I do it for free.

00:23:39.440 Show me the headline.

00:23:40.680 I'll tell you if it's true.

00:23:42.140 If you looked at my record of guessing what is true and what is not from just first glance, it's not bad.

00:23:51.660 It's not bad.

00:23:52.720 And I've taught most of you how to do it because I'm not guessing.

00:23:56.480 I'm using pretty well understood rules of, you know, how do you spot fake stuff?

00:24:01.620 For example, the one I talk about all the time is that in an election period, there's always a report of an anonymous insider inside the White House who heard the person running for office say a terrible thing that you're pretty sure nobody ever said in the real world.

00:24:21.120 And then I say, there is no credibility to one anonymous source in the White House saying that somebody said something that nobody else heard and is really terrible.

00:24:29.400 Never, never, ever believe that story.

00:24:32.420 It'll always be there, but never, ever believe it.

00:24:36.660 I'm pretty good at that.

00:24:38.360 Haven't been wrong yet.

00:24:40.640 All right.

00:24:41.240 So it's just funny to me that NewsGuard could even exist without just saying, why don't we be the news?

00:24:55.440 So let's see what else is going on here.

00:24:57.300 Tucker is worried that war is coming because the Trump administration is so anti-war that the people who think they might benefit from war or even worse, they might benefit from getting rid of Trump because they think Trump will open investigations and prosecute people who really need to be prosecuted.

00:25:19.560 But those people who might need to be prosecuted or may be powerful enough that they could start a war that would distract us and, you know, be bad for Trump and hurt his credibility and maybe keep them safe.

00:25:34.320 Now, that's pure speculation from Tucker.

00:25:39.180 I worry about it.

00:25:40.480 I worry that there might be that the worst people in the world might be getting ready to start wars.

00:25:46.180 But on the other hand, I also think it's too late.

00:25:51.640 I think it's too late.

00:25:53.180 I think that the Trump effect is already too strong.

00:25:59.260 Maybe if they'd done it sooner, it would have worked.

00:26:02.320 But I'll tell you about the Trump effect.

00:26:05.420 But before I tell you that, here's the coolest story in the news if you're me.

00:26:13.280 All right.

00:26:13.540 So if you don't mind, this will be a moment of just pure me talking about myself because it's funny.

00:26:22.760 All right.

00:26:24.260 As far as I know, this is a true story.

00:26:28.480 The country of Nigeria is they have a new national strategy in which they want to make sure that they're aggressively teaching technical and vocational skills to the youth.

00:26:43.540 Now, that's a good idea, right?

00:26:46.500 They want to make sure their youth has skills.

00:26:49.520 Kind of basic stuff.

00:26:51.160 But the way they described it is that they want to make sure they have more than one skill.

00:26:58.400 So in other words, they want to do something called talent stacking.

00:27:04.140 Have you ever heard of that?

00:27:05.160 So the Nigerian government is announcing that talent stacking, something that I popularized, is going to be their main way to success.

00:27:19.200 But here's the best part.

00:27:22.640 So this is from X, from their, let's see, I think it's from their minister of education.

00:27:29.700 I swear I'm not making this up.

00:27:31.780 This is from the Nigerian government, their minister of education.

00:27:35.780 Quote, Scott Adams once said, quote, every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.

00:27:42.360 This is real, by the way.

00:27:46.800 This is real.

00:27:49.260 He said, this is part of President Bola Ahmed Tenubu's renewed hope agenda and our federal ministry of education strategy.

00:27:57.720 He says, that's why we are aggressively reviving our technical and vocational educational and training system.

00:28:03.580 Do you know where that comes from?

00:28:07.260 Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.

00:28:11.340 Do you know where that comes from?

00:28:14.760 It comes from that book that I'm pointing to over my shoulder.

00:28:19.260 So my book, Atta Failed Almost Everything and Still Went Big, has that quote.

00:28:22.860 So Nigeria, their federal ministry of education, at least, read my book, which was designed to take somebody who doesn't have mentoring and doesn't have good, you know, career advice from any other source.

00:28:42.300 I put it in one book.

00:28:43.760 It was designed for teenagers.

00:28:45.620 Now, it's written for adults, but it's designed so that a teenager could breeze through it pretty easily.

00:28:51.260 It's written so that it's not, it's written to be really friendly to read.

00:28:57.300 So Nigeria may have decided that if they follow the blueprint in that book, they can transform their country into an economic powerhouse.

00:29:08.820 It's called How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.

00:29:12.940 And by the way, if you don't know, that book has been hugely influential in the United States.

00:29:17.740 But it's, a lot of its influences by influencing other books in the same domain.

00:29:23.900 So you'll find other very popular books you may have read that borrow from that book.

00:29:29.080 So it's the most, I think it's the most foundationally persuasive book in career success at the moment.

00:29:36.420 Now, here's the fun part.

00:29:41.720 What if they're really serious about just using that book as a sort of a framework for how to fix the future?

00:29:50.200 It would actually work.

00:29:52.540 It would totally work.

00:29:54.500 Because everybody who's used it so far says it works.

00:29:57.440 Why wouldn't it work there?

00:29:58.360 And wouldn't it be funny if my legacy was fixing Africa? 0.51

00:30:04.240 Because if Nigeria overtly uses my book and credits me for some of the ideas they're using, and let's say it works. 0.86

00:30:14.560 Let's say their GDP shows a boost in a few years and they say it's because we're doing this.

00:30:19.500 Other African countries might say, hey, what are you doing over there?

00:30:22.940 Why is that working so well?

00:30:24.040 And then they'll say, well, if it works in Nigeria, it seems pretty straightforward stuff like, you know, build skills.

00:30:31.280 Why don't we do that too?

00:30:33.860 So the irony of the simulation is that of all people in the world, it seems that I might be the solution to fixing Africa. 0.96

00:30:49.380 Now, I'm not saying it's likely.

00:30:55.020 I'm not saying it's likely.

00:30:56.620 I'm just saying it's perfect.

00:30:59.460 If we don't live in a simulation, how do you explain this?

00:31:04.320 How do you explain that the guy who got canceled, if you know what I mean, is now the savior of Africa?

00:31:12.540 Those are my own words.

00:31:16.060 Okay, but how much do you love that story?

00:31:20.200 I don't think I could possibly be happier.

00:31:23.340 I feel like in some ways my entire life just made sense.

00:31:27.260 Like everything I've done for my entire life, just in this one moment, I looked at it and I said, if this is real, everything I've done for my entire life makes sense.

00:31:39.900 I wouldn't change a thing.

00:31:42.160 I mean, I can't even imagine what would be a bigger boost to the well-being of more people than having them understand the strategy for success that pretty much is going to work for everybody.

00:31:54.060 So, that really happened.

00:31:57.960 Anyway, Scott Jennings on CNN continues to be one of the better Scots.

00:32:06.020 He's at least in the top three.

00:32:08.560 I don't know if you noticed, there are just tons of Scots doing things.

00:32:12.140 They're getting nominated.

00:32:13.600 They're senators.

00:32:14.560 They're all kinds of things.

00:32:16.540 But Scott Jennings, one of the better Scots, is reframing Trump's cabinet picks as ideologically diverse, which is good work.

00:32:29.300 Because the bad guys, the Democrats, are going to say, hey, where's our racial diversity?

00:32:36.320 And then Scott Jennings can say, this is the most ideologically diverse group of people you've ever seen.

00:32:44.600 Because Trump literally has a whole bunch of ex-Democrats and current Democrats, maybe.

00:32:50.900 You know, RFK Jr. and Elon.

00:32:53.560 And, you know, I could go through the list.

00:32:54.960 And the all-in-pod guys are on board.

00:32:57.060 I don't know if they were ever Democrats.

00:32:58.980 But, or which one of them were ever Democrats.

00:33:03.200 But, yeah, this is a way to do it, Scott Jennings.

00:33:05.940 You should say that it's the most ideologically diverse big tent.

00:33:12.200 And it is.

00:33:14.740 And the ideological diversity is the part you want.

00:33:19.820 That's the part you want.

00:33:21.840 So I love that there's no pandering.

00:33:24.680 Or at least not too much pandering.

00:33:27.000 There's a little bit of pandering in the nominations.

00:33:31.460 I don't have to point out the pandering.

00:33:32.840 But there's a little bit.

00:33:35.060 A little bit.

00:33:36.340 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

00:33:38.460 I've been visualizing my match all week.

00:33:41.000 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.

00:33:47.040 Good thing Claudia's with Intact.

00:33:48.940 The insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.

00:33:52.720 Everything was taken care of under one roof.

00:33:54.760 And she was on her way in a rental car in no time.

00:33:57.140 I made it to my tournament.

00:33:59.180 And lost in the first round.

00:34:00.340 But you got there on time.

00:34:02.460 Intact Insurance.

00:34:03.660 Your auto service ace.

00:34:05.120 Certain conditions apply.

00:34:06.040 Did you know there was a recent survey by CBS News that found that 59% of voters approve of Trump's handling of his transition so far?

00:34:18.320 That's a pretty solid majority.

00:34:20.700 59% approve of his transition.

00:34:24.180 I've told you before about the new CEO play.

00:34:29.220 When you're a new CEO or, you know, new leader of any organization like a new president, it's really important.

00:34:36.360 And Trump totally nailed this on the first time he ran and won.

00:34:40.400 When he started work before he was sworn in and he and Pence were traveling around trying to get businesses to stay in America and stuff.

00:34:49.080 And that is so powerful.

00:34:51.280 This first impression stuff.

00:34:54.240 So by doing a very capable and early and aggressive staffing, and much better than the first time he did it, most people would say, it gives a real good impression.

00:35:07.800 So even people who might not have voted for him said, you know, it looks like he's getting some work done.

00:35:14.680 And that is so, so good.

00:35:17.920 Persuasion-wise, getting the first two months right is like getting the first year right.

00:35:25.900 But if you were a standard politician, you'd probably, you know, be quiet for a few months.

00:35:30.140 And then once you're sworn in, you might say, okay, now we're sworn in.

00:35:33.380 We'll get this year right.

00:35:35.100 You know, have a good first year.

00:35:36.480 Trump is going to get his first year right before he's sworn in.

00:35:42.620 Now, that is so much smarter than what you'll see anybody else do.

00:35:46.820 It's just, it's a whole different level.

00:35:51.180 Anyway, Trump's popularity, according to modernity, is surging among young Americans.

00:35:57.000 So it rose from 19% to 57% in just over a week?

00:36:04.180 What?

00:36:05.140 So according to this one source, Trump's popularity surged among young Americans in that 18 to 29 in the space of just over a week.

00:36:13.860 So conducted from November 17th to 19th, the survey revealed that 57% of Americans 18 to 29 now hold a favorable view of Trump.

00:36:26.540 What?

00:36:27.140 Marking a net favorability increase of 19 points in that demographic in a week.

00:36:35.560 Is that possible?

00:36:38.600 Apparently, TikTok has gone strongly Trump.

00:36:42.960 Or at least, you know, there's big movement in that direction.

00:36:45.480 You know, I guess my first impression would be this might be like that Iowa poll that said Kamala Harris was way ahead.

00:36:57.580 And you said to yourself, that's a fake poll.

00:37:00.460 And then later you find out, okay, that wasn't real.

00:37:02.980 Well, I don't know that, I don't think that in one week Trump's popularity went from 19 to 57.

00:37:10.860 Do you believe that?

00:37:12.780 That seems far more likely something wrong with the way they asked the question or something.

00:37:18.540 I do believe that his popularity is sharply up.

00:37:23.260 That feels right.

00:37:24.780 I don't think it's up this much.

00:37:26.840 But could be wrong.

00:37:28.880 Anyway.

00:37:30.920 Here's something I didn't know.

00:37:33.180 Did you know that China is no longer the main source of U.S. imports?

00:37:37.620 And a lot of that is because of Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods.

00:37:43.300 So Trump, in the first term, tariffed Chinese goods to try to get more things made in other countries and made in America.

00:37:51.560 And the made in America part, I don't know about, but Mexico surged.

00:37:57.180 So Mexico is the number one place that we buy stuff from, the United States.

00:38:02.620 Now, that doesn't mean that the raw materials are from Mexico.

00:38:06.300 So a lot of the components of what they make in Mexico might be made or produced in China.

00:38:11.260 So there's still that.

00:38:12.420 But Vietnam and South Korea and Mexico and at least one other place have gone way up.

00:38:19.900 And China has gone way down in terms of stuff we buy.

00:38:25.140 So the tariffs worked.

00:38:27.500 To me, it looks like they worked.

00:38:29.060 So if you're looking for when do tariffs work and when they don't, apparently we got something like what we wanted from the Chinese dominance of our purchasing situations.

00:38:43.240 But last year, products coming from China made up 14% of all imported goods, the lowest share in nearly two decades.

00:38:54.220 But like I said, a lot of this stuff is really Chinese, but it's coming through, manufactured by other places.

00:39:00.160 Well, Trump and crypto apparently has a backer.

00:39:08.780 There's this banker, Arkansas representative French Hill.

00:39:13.340 That's a funny name.

00:39:14.640 French Hill.

00:39:16.300 He used to be a community banker.

00:39:18.080 Apparently, he's really big on crypto and he seems to have the confidence of the administration.

00:39:23.100 So if you're wondering why is Trump getting pro-crypto advice, which it appears he is, this is one of the sources.

00:39:33.280 I assumed it was J.D. Vance and Vivek and maybe Elon.

00:39:38.820 I assumed that they were the ones who were whispering crypto in his ear.

00:39:42.600 But maybe having it from an Arkansas representative makes it, you know, that much more palatable because, you know, you got a solid representative who was elected.

00:39:53.800 It's not just the swirling around people who were not elected.

00:39:59.240 So that's good news for crypto.

00:40:04.140 Meanwhile, Christopher Ruffo has apparently met with Trump a few times.

00:40:08.360 Now, if you're not following the career and work of Christopher Ruffo, you should.

00:40:14.340 So he's a, let's call him an anti-DEI activist who's been very successful.

00:40:20.720 He's met with Trump and he's trying to get Trump, I think, to threaten colleges and universities with losing their federal funding if they keep doing DEI stuff.

00:40:31.720 He wants to get rid of all the affirmative action stuff from the, any institution with federal government, federal funds.

00:40:39.400 I think Trump's going to do that.

00:40:41.680 And I do think that Christopher Ruffo is, I think he's won a place, assuming that this happens.

00:40:49.340 I think there's a good chance.

00:40:50.360 I think Ruffo has won a place in history.

00:40:55.060 Like, he's not a footnote.

00:40:58.760 If he pulls this off, he's one of the, one of the important people in American history.

00:41:03.700 This is a big deal, a really big deal.

00:41:06.200 And he's certainly the biggest name in this push.

00:41:12.700 All right, I'm going to call this the Trump effect.

00:41:15.220 You ready?

00:41:15.580 So, apparently over 2 million people have signed a petition in the UK calling for a general election because they're not happy with their government.

00:41:25.840 And a poll says their prime minister, Keir Starmer, his approval rating has plummeted by 43 points since he took office just four months ago.

00:41:38.220 Have you ever heard of anybody's popularity in American politics plummeting by 43 points?

00:41:43.280 I've never heard of anything like that.

00:41:48.220 I've never heard of anything even close to that.

00:41:51.160 What's the most any American politician ever plunged in popularity in a short period?

00:41:58.460 Nowhere near 43%.

00:42:00.140 I mean, I think even Nixon did better than that after Watergate.

00:42:03.400 I'm not sure, but probably.

00:42:05.900 Anyway, so the lawmakers are going to debate the petition.

00:42:08.640 And I feel like that's a Trump effect.

00:42:16.740 You know why?

00:42:18.580 Because I think the UK has this feeling.

00:42:23.660 You don't need to live this way.

00:42:27.920 There's something very powerful about that statement, isn't there?

00:42:31.400 You don't have to live this way.

00:42:33.020 Trump has used it.

00:42:36.180 And I feel like they feel it.

00:42:39.520 Because the United States just proved to the UK that you don't have to live this way.

00:42:47.120 And if they're watching the United States and they're watching what happened with Trump and then they're looking at their own country and they're looking at their own government, the election of Trump could make your popularity if your current leader dropped 43 points in four months.

00:43:07.200 I mean, probably more recently is my guess.

00:43:09.560 So, do you think this is a Trump effect?

00:43:18.780 I strongly believe it is.

00:43:21.260 Now, tangentially, because, you know, obviously UK has their own problems.

00:43:26.360 So just having lots of problems would be enough to not want to keep your leadership.

00:43:31.280 But to this degree, I mean, this is a crazy degree of loss of confidence.

00:43:37.040 I feel that the reality of Trump getting reelected probably fundamentally changed how the UK voters saw their own country, like they have a chance.

00:43:50.460 Because the US looks like it went to the precipice.

00:43:53.900 Maybe we're still at the precipice, but found a way to go back.

00:43:58.220 And it's obvious that we found a way back.

00:44:00.580 And everybody can see it.

00:44:02.300 America did it.

00:44:03.180 By the way, for all you countries who are watching and wondering if we could pull this off, I think we can.

00:44:13.240 I think America has certain advantages that apparently we've had for a long time.

00:44:20.160 And one of them, remember what I always told you was our big advantage? 0.98

00:44:23.900 The big advantage in America that I don't think anybody can match is we will shit can anything that needs to get a shit can. 0.99

00:44:34.180 And we will do it brutally. 0.99

00:44:37.400 We'll do it quickly.

00:44:39.080 And we'll never look back. 0.99

00:44:41.120 If it needs to get a shit can, ask an American. 1.00

00:44:46.000 We don't save things because they're old and special. 0.99

00:44:49.200 We don't do it because that's the way we do it.

00:44:51.160 We don't do it because that's tradition.

00:44:53.920 We don't do it because it's classical.

00:44:55.580 We don't do it because that's how grandma did it. 1.00

00:44:57.720 We will break anything if it needs to be broken.

00:45:02.000 Our government needed to be broken.

00:45:05.640 It needed to be broken hard.

00:45:07.840 And I don't think anybody thought from other countries.

00:45:10.680 I think other countries said, oh, man, you're in trouble.

00:45:13.860 You know, you've got you're too locked in.

00:45:16.500 You're never going to be able to break this.

00:45:18.100 But it turns out that only the Democrats had to be broken and Trump broke them.

00:45:24.760 And then everything else is possible.

00:45:26.780 That's where we are.

00:45:28.340 So if you're in the UK and you see that the US found a way to break its way out of a almost impossible situation, that's got to be inspiring.

00:45:37.400 And it's got to make you want to switch out your own leader as soon as possible.

00:45:43.000 So I think it's a Trump effect.

00:45:45.080 You know, obviously, they have real serious problems.

00:45:49.600 So, I mean, the Trump effect wouldn't have any effect if they didn't have real problems.

00:45:53.060 And that's my message to the UK.

00:45:59.360 Hey, UK.

00:46:01.240 I don't consider the UK an American ally anymore.

00:46:04.820 Now, it's not up to me.

00:46:06.680 But, you know, Nigeria is listening to me. 0.98

00:46:09.560 So maybe you should, too.

00:46:10.660 That's what I'm saying.

00:46:11.220 So maybe the people in the UK would rather be allies with the United States.

00:46:17.900 And the reason I say they're not our ally is they seem to be working actively against Trump when they were helping Kamala Harris.

00:46:25.720 That's not cool.

00:46:27.060 You're not allowed to go do politics on our property.

00:46:31.160 Not cool.

00:46:32.420 You can't be our ally.

00:46:33.500 If you're sending in people to work for the election of one candidate, nope, not an ally.

00:46:41.060 And if you're working toward the censorship of American platforms such as X, definitely not an ally.

00:46:49.000 Now, that doesn't mean you're an enemy.

00:46:52.000 But you can't be an ally if you're interfering at that level.

00:46:58.500 All right.

00:46:58.980 Is that clear?

00:46:59.820 If anybody from the UK is listening, you're not my ally.

00:47:04.780 Now, our government may say differently, but I don't think we should treat you like an ally.

00:47:10.000 We should treat you like somebody who's off and on our side.

00:47:13.980 But no, you're not an ally.

00:47:15.880 And any special relationship, I'm not in favor of it.

00:47:21.000 I think we have to treat you more like an adversary that sometimes agrees with what we want as well.

00:47:28.940 So, yes, you need to change out your government for your own benefit.

00:47:35.740 You know, it doesn't make a difference to me.

00:47:37.480 But for your own benefit, you need to change out your government.

00:47:40.800 And then we'll talk about this special relationship, which I'd love to get back.

00:47:46.760 The more special relationships we have, the better.

00:47:49.940 So, no, you don't get to be our ally just because you used to be.

00:47:54.220 Remember what I said?

00:47:55.220 But Americans can break anything that needs to be broken. 0.95

00:47:59.320 You know that special relationship thing we had?

00:48:02.180 We broke it.

00:48:03.500 It's broken. 1.00

00:48:04.880 Fuck you. 1.00

00:48:05.960 It's broken. 1.00

00:48:07.160 If you want to fix it, we're all good with that.

00:48:10.140 I think everybody here will be happy with that.

00:48:12.520 But consider it broken. 1.00

00:48:14.460 So, fix that shit. 1.00

00:48:16.760 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering. 1.00

00:48:23.080 Is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

00:48:26.100 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

00:48:28.840 Are those from Winners?

00:48:30.360 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings?

00:48:32.840 Did she pay full price?

00:48:34.160 Or that leather tote?

00:48:35.200 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:48:36.420 Or those knee-high boots?

00:48:37.860 That dress?

00:48:38.640 That jacket?

00:48:39.320 Those shoes?

00:48:40.340 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

00:48:42.840 Stop wondering.

00:48:44.600 Start winning.

00:48:45.500 Winners.

00:48:46.100 Find fabulous for less.

00:48:49.080 How about Mexico?

00:48:52.600 Let's talk about the Trump effect in Mexico.

00:48:55.260 So, apparently Trump had a phone call with the new Mexican president, Claudia Scheinbaum.

00:49:01.400 I just love saying that.

00:49:03.580 The new Mexican president, Claudia Scheinbaum.

00:49:07.860 If you had told me, do you think the president of Mexico soon will be a Jewish woman?

00:49:12.340 I would have said, hmm, probably not.

00:49:17.120 Probably not.

00:49:18.700 But here we are.

00:49:23.100 And she is signaling, according to Gateway Pundit, she's signaling significant policy changes

00:49:29.820 that almost certainly have to do with Trump incoming.

00:49:35.660 And the policy changes might be something about, you know, closing the border and taking people

00:49:45.260 back and, you know, working to stop the flow of fentanyl, etc.

00:49:49.860 Now, why would she be so flexible? 1.00

00:49:54.060 Trump's not even in office.

00:49:56.040 Why would she be so flexible? 0.93

00:49:59.000 Well, I've got a few suggestions.

00:50:02.420 I didn't know about this until today, but did you know that on the campaign trail, Trump

00:50:07.240 had threatened to reveal the Mexican government's connections to the cartel if they don't do what

00:50:13.340 we want?

00:50:15.880 How many of you knew that he did that?

00:50:18.540 I never heard of that for some reason.

00:50:20.180 Or did I forget it?

00:50:23.080 Now, is that perfect?

00:50:27.700 Let me describe that.

00:50:29.080 That's perfect.

00:50:30.960 Yes.

00:50:32.520 He's actually going to blackmail them.

00:50:34.780 Remember, I kept saying that it feels like the cartels in Mexico are blackmailing American

00:50:40.900 politicians, like they must be blackmailing them because nothing makes sense.

00:50:46.060 So Trump says, once I'm in power and I know exactly what our CIA knows about everything, 0.98

00:50:53.100 if you don't want me to make this public, you better do every fucking thing we want. 0.96

00:50:59.680 So he just took over the Mexican government by threatening them. 0.99

00:51:04.780 And it worked.

00:51:08.380 So I saw something that said that the fentanyl problem is suddenly, it's decreased already.

00:51:17.500 It turns out that the Sinaloa cartel is kidnapping and killing fentanyl makers, including the ones

00:51:25.200 in their own cartel, because they don't want the pressure from Trump.

00:51:31.860 Let me say that again.

00:51:36.760 The Sinaloa cartel is kidnapping and killing their own fentanyl makers, because they told

00:51:44.500 them not to do fentanyl anymore, but some are still doing it. 0.96

00:51:47.600 So they're killing them. 0.99

00:51:48.580 Because they don't need the risk. 0.99

00:51:52.700 Because what did Trump say?

00:51:55.760 Same thing I said.

00:51:58.040 Send the special forces in and wipe out the cartels.

00:52:01.720 Or, or negotiate.

00:52:04.900 But you don't negotiate until you've told them how you're going to destroy them completely

00:52:10.720 in a way that's completely credible.

00:52:13.660 And it's completely credible.

00:52:16.480 So it looks like...

00:52:20.460 Oh, and then also Trump had threatened massive tariffs.

00:52:24.900 So Trump had threatened massive tariffs on their car manufacturing, which would cripple the economy

00:52:34.000 of Mexico.

00:52:35.160 Would he actually do it?

00:52:37.120 Would he make good on the threat of massive tariffs on the Mexican automobile industry?

00:52:43.120 Yes.

00:52:44.020 Yes.

00:52:44.500 That is a threat that's not just talk.

00:52:48.980 He absolutely had the power to do it, or will have the power to do it.

00:52:52.500 And he means it.

00:52:54.320 So he threatens their entire economy, credibly.

00:52:58.540 Credibly.

00:52:59.140 This is the important part.

00:53:00.360 If anybody else has said this, you'd say, well, you know, Biden's not really going to put

00:53:05.060 tariffs on their entire car economy.

00:53:08.820 Trump will.

00:53:10.320 And they know he will.

00:53:12.480 Trump said he'd bring in the special forces and wipe out the cartels.

00:53:16.240 And the cartels are like, oh, well, we're not in the fentanyl business anymore.

00:53:20.120 Oh, we barely even do cocaine.

00:53:22.920 We're not in the fentanyl business.

00:53:26.300 Why?

00:53:27.260 Because when Trump said, we'll send in special forces, they believed it.

00:53:35.780 Because he would.

00:53:37.860 Or he could.

00:53:40.000 And when Trump said, we will reveal your connection to the cartel, did they believe that he might

00:53:46.680 do that?

00:53:47.180 Yes, they do.

00:53:50.940 You don't have to be a mind reader to know, yes, they believe he might do that.

00:53:56.280 So which of these three things were unavailable to other politicians?

00:54:03.360 Well, arguably, they all could have done it.

00:54:06.600 But there's only one person who could do it and make sure it worked.

00:54:11.260 Trump.

00:54:11.740 Why?

00:54:13.880 Because he's Trump.

00:54:16.780 Trump's greatest asset is that he's Trump.

00:54:20.120 And everybody knows what a Trump is.

00:54:23.060 He's going to fight to the last dying breath.

00:54:26.540 Trump. 1.00

00:54:27.500 He's not going to take any shit from countries he doesn't need to take shit from. 1.00

00:54:32.300 Trump. 0.99

00:54:33.120 He's going to do what's good for America first.

00:54:36.380 Trump.

00:54:37.560 He's going to negotiate hard.

00:54:39.240 Trump.

00:54:40.120 Trump.

00:54:41.080 And if he needs to, you know, bend a rule, if he needs to push somebody too hard, if he

00:54:46.640 needs to threaten, if he needs to violate a few norms, Trump.

00:54:54.100 It's so powerful.

00:54:55.260 The persuasive brand that he's created just made Mexico crumple up into a ball and surrender.

00:55:06.660 I mean, that's what it looks like.

00:55:08.840 It looks like the most amazing.

00:55:11.180 This is probably the most amazing bit of what would you call it?

00:55:16.500 What's it called when you're dealing with international countries?

00:55:19.980 There's some fancy word for that.

00:55:23.240 But this is the most incredible thing you'll ever see in your life.

00:55:27.980 He may have completely solved Mexico weeks before he's in office.

00:55:35.420 This is real.

00:55:37.260 This is real.

00:55:37.700 Now do Canada.

00:55:39.120 Yeah.

00:55:39.240 Rand Paul is talking about the Denver mayor who's saying he might refuse to cooperate with

00:55:46.760 authorities who tried to deport any people in Denver.

00:55:50.880 I heard maybe he'd soften on that.

00:55:53.200 But if he doesn't soften on it or any other mayor tries to prevent the federal government

00:55:59.200 from doing his job, Senator Paul points out that that could be taken to the Supreme Court

00:56:05.340 and you could actually have the mayor removed from office for violating what the federal

00:56:12.420 government wants to do or needs to do to protect the country.

00:56:17.820 So that's Article 4 of Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution.

00:56:22.620 They could be removed from the office under the 14th Amendment.

00:56:26.760 How about that?

00:56:28.500 That's pretty cool.

00:56:29.880 I wouldn't mind seeing a mayor or two get removed by that.

00:56:32.920 You know, just to basically oil the weapon.

00:56:38.160 You know, if it's something that you're going to use more than once, let's remove a mayor.

00:56:44.080 One mayor.

00:56:45.120 It's not going to hurt anything.

00:56:46.460 Just get rid of one mayor and then the other mayors are going to say, oh, I'm stealing

00:56:51.280 a lot of money in my job.

00:56:52.340 I'd like to keep it.

00:56:56.040 Here's something that I'm going to tie into the current headlines, even though it's the

00:57:00.480 oldest story in the world.

00:57:02.920 Have you heard of an ancient site called Gobekli Tepe?

00:57:09.680 And if you have, if you're a nerd like me and you like watching these ancient pyramid stories

00:57:15.900 and stuff like that, there is a set of ruins that don't make sense with our understanding

00:57:24.600 of history, meaning that we have a, we think we have this good understanding of when humans

00:57:30.160 developed certain capabilities.

00:57:33.620 And one of those capabilities is, can you build a impressive structure with giant stones that

00:57:39.160 you've carved and transported and fit together, you know, pyramid style.

00:57:42.800 But it turns out that Gobekli Tepe is way older than what we believe is a time when humans

00:57:51.900 could do this sort of thing.

00:57:53.080 Which would mean we have some fundamental misunderstanding about something from way, way back.

00:58:01.800 We don't know what it is yet.

00:58:03.700 But of course, some people speculate.

00:58:05.980 And there are three of these, actually.

00:58:07.760 There's another one, Ganong Padang.

00:58:09.520 And there's also the hidden chamber within the Great Pyramid.

00:58:14.960 And I don't know how that fits in.

00:58:17.180 But there was some expert on Joe Rogan's podcast recently talking about what a mystery these are.

00:58:24.620 Now, let's tie that into something else.

00:58:28.280 You know the story about the UAPs, which we used to call UFOs, because we used to think

00:58:33.280 they were coming from outer space.

00:58:34.880 And then the narrative started to turn a little bit, and the narrative started to be, maybe

00:58:41.960 they've always been here.

00:58:44.900 Maybe not always, but maybe they were here before the Ice Age, and maybe they died out,

00:58:52.520 or maybe there's a few left.

00:58:54.240 Maybe they spread their technology to all these various places on Earth while they were alive.

00:59:00.100 But then, you know, but then they were forgotten, and they left, or they died, or something.

00:59:07.220 Could it be that the UAPs we're seeing, that our government is suggesting, might not be coming

00:59:14.320 from a off-Earth, are the aliens who built, or taught us how to build, these earliest structures?

00:59:25.040 Hmm.

00:59:26.380 Hmm.

00:59:26.900 Now, this is what I call recreational belief.

00:59:30.440 I do not feel that I have enough data or certainty to say that there are, in fact, ancient humans

00:59:38.240 who have been walking the Earth forever.

00:59:40.880 Could it be possible that the UAPs are automated and self-repairing, and have been working for

00:59:51.640 11,000 years, because they're self-repairing, and that the people who built them have been

00:59:58.160 going on for generations, and there's just the technology left.

01:00:02.760 And all it's doing is it's sensors.

01:00:04.980 It's just checking out things that need to be checked out, just like it did when the aliens

01:00:09.460 were here.

01:00:10.520 Not aliens, but whoever they were.

01:00:12.060 And that maybe it's just going to go on forever, and they've got these little orbs, and the

01:00:20.400 orbs are some kind of sensors or devices to go look for stuff.

01:00:27.680 Anyway, so all I'm going to suggest is that we might, at some point, see a connection between

01:00:33.480 the Gobekli Tepe and the UAPs.

01:00:36.500 Because somebody's going to tie those stories together, like I just did.

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01:00:58.100 According to the post-millennium, there was some kind of mega blacklist that got created

01:01:02.740 by a Facebook group.

01:01:04.620 So they were trying to figure out all the businesses that may have supported Trump, so

01:01:09.340 they could make a list, so they could tell people not to support these businesses. 1.00

01:01:14.600 I tell you, the people on the left are dumb as fuck sometimes. 1.00

01:01:19.300 Do they realize that you can't have a successful country if you do this? 1.00

01:01:27.460 This is the very definition of not understanding how anything works.

01:01:31.720 If we don't have a free market, we got nothing.

01:01:38.380 There's nothing left.

01:01:40.420 If you start saying, I'll only shop at your store if I agree with all of your politics,

01:01:45.700 we have nothing.

01:01:47.700 That would destroy everything we've ever built, and fairly quickly. 1.00

01:01:54.160 So stop being so dumb. 0.98

01:01:56.260 Apparently, there's a lot of pushback about it, so I don't know that that's going anywhere, 0.99

01:02:01.160 but don't do that.

01:02:03.160 And by the way, it shouldn't be done on the right to punish the left.

01:02:08.220 I would hate to see any MAGA person create a list of, you know, here are some lefty businesses

01:02:14.100 you should not shop at.

01:02:15.440 Now, I know that they've done it for some Fortune 500 companies, which is a whole different deal.

01:02:21.860 You know, if Target is doing some things that you've got a problem with, and you're sort

01:02:26.340 of publicly boycotting them, that feels, it's not ideal, but it feels at least fair.

01:02:34.120 It's a fair fight.

01:02:36.320 You know, Target can take care of himself.

01:02:38.680 Target does need to conform to, as best it can, its customers' preferences.

01:02:43.220 So, you know, the big ones, I don't mind so much, but if you're going to take out a

01:02:48.840 neighborhood store, if you're going to take out the donut store on the corner because it

01:02:52.900 voted the other way, you're not smart. 0.98

01:02:56.700 You're not smart. 0.76

01:02:58.260 Don't do that, right?

01:03:00.480 I mean, it's bad enough that you could take out a Fortune 500 company.

01:03:05.120 Don't do that either.

01:03:07.220 You know, maybe you put pressure on them so they change some minor things they're doing,

01:03:11.000 but you don't want to destroy the economy of the United States because you're mad at

01:03:16.340 Americans.

01:03:17.740 Don't do that.

01:03:20.400 All right.

01:03:23.400 Apparently, there's reporting that Trump is planning to sign some kind of order to remove

01:03:31.300 trans from the military, like on day one. 0.98

01:03:34.700 And my question was, well, first of all, do you think that's true?

01:03:37.600 Do you think it's true that Trump is planning to remove trans from the military?

01:03:42.680 The argument would be that there's extra expense.

01:03:48.100 I don't know if that's the reason, though.

01:03:50.440 Extra, maybe extra accommodations that are more than they want to do.

01:03:57.080 Now, I remind you, in case you forget, that the military is the one place that socially we

01:04:03.720 allow massive discrimination.

01:04:06.960 You get that, right?

01:04:08.620 In the military, very overt discrimination is acceptable and required.

01:04:15.800 For example, if you weigh 400 pounds and you try to join the military, nobody's going to say,

01:04:21.920 oh, stop being, you know, fat phobic and let the 400 pounder in. 0.68

01:04:26.720 Nobody says that.

01:04:27.520 If somebody has a disability and it's a disability that would, you know, be important if you were in

01:04:34.400 a military action, nobody says, hey, what about that?

01:04:37.820 The Disabilities Act, you're discriminating.

01:04:41.340 Nope, nobody says that.

01:04:43.160 Now, where discrimination is not allowed is where it doesn't make sense.

01:04:49.400 So, allowing people of all races in the military, does that make your country more or less safe? 1.00

01:04:57.620 More, more safe.

01:04:59.440 Because if every part of the public can also be part of the military, that does a lot to make you feel

01:05:07.960 like your credibility of, you know, the whole system, we're all on the same page, we're fighting

01:05:12.440 for the same thing.

01:05:13.780 I mean, that's really good.

01:05:14.860 So, that kind of discrimination, race or religion, in most cases, wouldn't make any sense.

01:05:22.540 There's no upside.

01:05:24.200 There's a big upside to doing it, but there's no upside to stopping it.

01:05:28.720 But with trans, there are statistically at least big differences in availability, I'm told.

01:05:37.420 I don't know that for sure.

01:05:38.560 So, if you want to fact check me, I welcome it.

01:05:40.860 And it costs more medically to keep your situation going, and you can imagine it might cause some

01:05:48.300 dissension in the ranks or something.

01:05:50.320 I'm not too worried about the dissension, because that was true when the military integrated,

01:05:57.260 and we just had to get over it.

01:05:59.880 So, it's not the complaining I would worry about.

01:06:03.460 Does it really make your military less capable?

01:06:06.400 That's the only thing that should matter.

01:06:08.800 So, we'll see.

01:06:09.700 Okay.

01:06:10.860 But I didn't know how many trans were in the military, and could be up to 15,000, but not

01:06:19.740 necessarily people who have ever had any surgery, but might be in that category of trans.

01:06:27.260 According to the AP.

01:06:28.920 I don't know if that's true or not.

01:06:30.960 Well, ladies and gentlemen, this would be the time to order your Dilbert calendar.

01:06:34.960 Do it fast, because they're making them as they're ordered, and you don't want to order it a week

01:06:40.640 before Christmas, and then they have to make it and then send it to you.

01:06:43.560 So, I would get your Dilbert calendar before December 1st.

01:06:48.920 You probably still have a good chance of getting it in the first week or two of December.

01:06:53.880 If you order it, then you have a good chance of getting it by Christmas.

01:06:57.540 But I wouldn't take a chance.

01:06:59.160 I'd order it now.

01:07:00.540 The only places you can do it are at the link at Dilbert.com, which takes you to the page

01:07:07.520 where you can order it.

01:07:08.860 If you're wondering about the delivery time of your calendar, a lot of people have asked

01:07:16.760 me, hey, I ordered this in October.

01:07:19.160 When's it coming?

01:07:19.820 Because we did pre-sales.

01:07:21.100 So, people were paying long before the product was made.

01:07:26.220 If you're wondering whether your order went through, if you didn't see a confirmation,

01:07:30.840 the email you want to try for that is the one that's on the sales page, not the one that goes to me.

01:07:38.160 If you're on Dilbert.com and you send a message, where's my calendar?

01:07:42.180 It goes to the worst person in the world, me.

01:07:46.360 I don't know where your calendar is.

01:07:47.960 But I'm working with people who definitely know where your calendar is.

01:07:53.100 So, if you go to the sales page, the one you bought it from, there'll be a support email

01:07:58.560 there and they'll be happy to get back to you.

01:08:01.120 But for most of you, just wait.

01:08:02.960 Everything will be fine.

01:08:04.040 You probably don't need to check on it.

01:08:05.920 Everything's working fine.

01:08:07.040 There's no delay in the system.

01:08:08.640 They're being printed.

01:08:09.780 They're being manufactured.

01:08:11.100 So, I can speak with confidence that if you know your credit card cleared, you know, if

01:08:20.140 there's a charge on your credit card, you probably don't need to check.

01:08:25.740 It's probably fine.

01:08:27.180 But if you want to, you can.

01:08:30.740 All right.

01:08:31.400 That's all I've got for now.

01:08:36.300 Where's my calendar?

01:08:40.960 Geraldo wants to fight Bongino.

01:08:44.620 That would be a bad idea for Geraldo.

01:08:47.100 Anyway.

01:08:49.140 I'm going to talk to the people on Locals privately.

01:08:52.460 But if you're on X or YouTube or Rumble, thanks for joining, as usual.

01:08:57.680 You're all wonderful.

01:08:59.180 And I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place.

01:09:02.700 Locals, I'm coming at you privately in three seconds. 1.00

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