Episode 2673 CWSA 11⧸28⧸24
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Happy Thanksgiving! Scott Adams is back with a special Thanksgiving edition of the pod, and today he's talking about why you shouldn't interact with Republicans during the holidays, and why you should go for a walk after dinner. Plus, a new breakthrough in battery technology, and a new kind of AI.
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podcasters who are taking the morning off. Nope, not me. I know you're going to be here,
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so damn it, I'm going to be here too. All right, good morning everybody and welcome
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to the highlight of human civilization, Thanksgiving style. This is going to be an
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amazing day, but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even
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understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass,
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a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite
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liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end
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of the day. The thing that gives you more oxytocin than you've ever felt in your whole life is called
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the simultaneous sip and it happens now. So good. Well, Paul, I appreciate you every day, but
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especially today. Owen, appreciate you like crazy. Marcella, Erica, appreciate you all like crazy.
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I'm not naming everybody, but I could. I could name every one of you. I would be quite happy that I
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get to spend some time with you every day. Well, President Trump has given us his Thanksgiving
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greeting, greeting, happy Thanksgiving to all, including the radical left lunatics who have
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worked so hard to destroy our country, but who have failed miserably. Now, the funny thing is that
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my robots read news yesterday. I anticipated this and my joke was about Trump mocking people while he
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was saying happy Thanksgiving. Nailed it. Joy Reid is telling people that they have no reason to
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spend time around Trump supporters and that they, when the holidays come, there's no reason that they
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should welcome them or be around them at all. So in other words, Joy Reid said that Democrats should
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stay the fuck away from Republicans. Does it feel like the entire universe is starting to tilt my way?
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Joy Reid telling people to stay the fuck away from Republicans. She didn't use the F word,
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but she could have, because that was what she said. She actually said you should stay away from them.
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Don't interact with them over Thanksgiving with your family. Your family you shouldn't interact with.
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Okay. Well, I think that's just good, solid advice from Joy Reid.
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Here's something I didn't see coming. So you know how for the last year or so, I've been telling you
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that America needs to create a habit of taking a walk after dinner. And you probably said to me,
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Scott, that's boring. Stop saying you have to take a walk after dinner. And now NPR has a big article
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about how important it is to take a walk after dinner. What I didn't know is that apparently it's
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very common in Europe. I guess it's a normal thing in Europe to take a walk after a big meal.
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And it's good for your health in a bunch of ways I don't need to tell you. But did you know that on
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TikTok, this is interesting, but there's a viral TikTok, there are viral TikTok videos extolling the
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virtues of walking after a meal. Although they call them fart walks because they say that's a good way to
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relieve yourself. So when I started saying you should take walks a year ago, did you think it would be
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an article in NPR and then viral on TikTok by now? I swear to God, I must be running this simulation
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because I've never tried to make a big deal out of taking a walk before. And now a normal source and
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the TikTok source are both saying take a walk after dinner. I've got a feeling that Kennedy is
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going to say something about that too. You will not be surprised that there's yet another big
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breakthrough in battery technology, carbon nanotube powders, according to NoRidge. You don't need to
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know too much about it except it's a South Korea company. And they made a big advance with new carbon
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nanotubes, battery technology. It's happening. Did you know that according to the University College
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of London, they can now use AI to predict the outcome of neuroscience studies before seeing the data
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or before doing the study? So all they do is they say, hey, AI, we're going to study to see if this is
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true or that is true. And this is mostly, I think, in the social domain, not in the physics kind of
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experiment, but more the social psychology kind of domain. And would you be surprised to know that your
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large language model AIs can guess the outcome about 81% of the time?
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They don't even need to do the experiment. The AI can tell them what it's going to do like all eight
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out of 10 times. Now, they kind of do need to do the experiment. But eight out of 10 times,
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the AI just tells them what the outcome is going to be. Now, do you remember how I always joke
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almost every day, actually, on the show, that the scientists could have just asked me? Because
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sometimes the answers are obvious. Well, that's what the scientists said, too. So the scientists said
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that the reason that the LLMs can deduce is because that knowledge is sort of already in the world.
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So all I'm doing is looking at the world as I know it and saying, well, the world I live in,
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I can tell you what's going to happen with that experiment. And then it does. But that's exactly
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what the AI is doing. The AI is just looking at the world and saying, well, based on everything we
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know about the world, I can tell you how that test is going to go. For example, there was a separate
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study that showed that if you exercise, at least this is true in rats, but they think it might be true
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in people. If you exercise, there's some kind of chemical that gets released in your muscles that's
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good for repairing your nerves. So nobody knew that exercise was good for your nerves. But suppose you'd
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come to come to me and you said, Scott, we're going to do a study to find out if regular exercise is good
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for your nerves. What would I have said? Well, let me see. Exercise is good for 100% of everything that's ever been
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tested for. Is it good for nerves? I'm going to say yes. And that was the answer. The answer was yes. Well, they haven't
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done the study, but they think it's going to be true based on rodent studies. But I'll tell you,
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they don't need to study. It is true. Well, Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, I guess he was on a podcast
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with, you've probably heard of him, Scott Galloway. Has anybody heard of Scott Galloway? Yeah. Stop it.
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I'm not the poor man, Scott Galloway. Well, okay, I am. I am the poor man, Scott Galloway. But
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he has a podcast. And they're talking about teen boys who are falling in love with AI girlfriends.
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And he says, you put 12 or 13 year olds in front of these things, meaning the AI girlfriends, and
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next thing you know, of course they're going to fall in love. But here's the thing. Aren't they
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thinking past the sale? Aren't they just assuming that falling in love with AI is bad?
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Now, you assume it too, right? Don't you assume that falling in love with AI is bad?
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But is it? I'm going to be contrarian about this.
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And the contrarian is, I'm not so sure it's completely bad. Let's compare. Let's say a 12
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year old, 13 year old, who is no longer hugged by his parents, because, you know, it's icky,
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they're 13, doesn't have a girlfriend. And his guy friends are kind of jerks and don't invite him
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places. But he could have this really good relationship with an AI. Are you telling me he's
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worse off? Because remember, he can't get a girlfriend. He's only 13 anyway. He's not real
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popular with the guy friends. He could work on that, but it's not going to make a big difference.
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Parents leave him alone. He's got no source of oxytocin. Basically, it's a man starving to death.
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Now, that doesn't happen to females at the same age, if you've ever noticed. Have you ever noticed
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that kids hug a lot these days? Have you noticed that with your teenagers? Like when their friends
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show up, they're all, they're all like hugging each other. Like, like they've, I mean, it's almost
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crazy. They're very physical. And I thought to myself, it seems like the girls are getting more
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hugs, of course. You know, the girls will hug each other when they get together. The guys won't hug
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each other, but the guys will hug girls if the girls are up for it, if they're good friends.
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So this 12 year old or 13 year old that they're worried about has absolutely no source of healthy
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human contact. And if you tell me that that kid is worse off for having something that simulates
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human contact and might feed their, their need for company or less loneliness or something,
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I'm just not so sure it's bad. Now, if you said these AI girlfriends are good for everybody,
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I'd say, well, that's not true. Obviously that's not true. But if you're telling me that they're bad
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for everybody, I'm not so sure. I think we might find out that they're medicinal, actually literally
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medicinal. All right. Prediction. Prediction coming. There will be such a thing as medicinal AI friends.
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I'll be the first one to tell you this, that there will be medicinal AI friends. Your therapist is
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going to say to you someday, have you, have you tried one of the AI friends? It's going to happen.
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It's going to be medicinal, just like weed. All right. Trump, according to the Daily Caller
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News Foundation, Trump will redirect billions in unspent funds from Biden's climate laws
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to quote real infrastructure. Well, that sounds positive.
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Then I saw another story that said that Trump could cancel $1.5, $1.4 trillion of Biden expenses
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on day one, just with executive orders. And my first thought was, whoa, it's going to be easier
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than I thought to get to that, you know, $2 trillion they have to cut out of the budget.
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And then you find out what the, what the money is for. And it's all stuff that people are going to
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want. And it's also over 10 years. So it's not really $1.4 trillion. It's $1.4 trillion over 10
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years. So it's going to be kind of hard to hit that, hit that cost reduction. We'll see what happens.
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Well, the prosecution of Daniel Penny is looking like a travesty, some kind of,
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it's just weird. As Cernovich pointed out this morning, the news is pointing out too,
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that the prosecutor is calling Daniel Penny the white man. And throughout the trial,
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he referred to him as the white man. Now, keep in mind, this is a trial in which 100% of the people
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involved know exactly who Daniel Penny is by name. Why would he refer to him continuously as the white
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man? Well, let me tell you this. We don't know how this is going to turn out yet, but I'm going to
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judge my opinion of America on this case. Now, I realize America is a lot more than just this one
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case, but I'm going to judge, I'm going to judge America on this. And because if he goes down,
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America is broken and we didn't fix it. He can't go to jail.
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Well, I can't live in, I can't live like this. We don't have to live like this. If he gets,
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if he gets prosecuted, we should surround the jail. I mean, we should put a million people on the,
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on the streets and say, stop, stop. This is purely racist. Now, because the prosecutor is obviously
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racist, it seems like they can immediately appeal it and maybe that would be enough. So it's possible
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that the normal legal process will get to the right place, even though it's a travesty so far.
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Well, honestly, I'm just going to judge America on this. If, if you can't get this right, America,
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So RF, Bobby Kennedy was on some, some video podcast. He was talking about what the CDC,
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what doesn't tell you about the flu shot. Now, remember my current opinion of medical data
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is that it's all wrong. All of it, just all wrong. Now, some of it might be coincidentally
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in the right direction. So maybe it's good for you to take those things. But honestly, I don't think
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that medical science has a way to know what works. That's my current opinion. There's some things that
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are so obvious that they could get that right. Right. If it's the difference between living and
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dying, they can tell if you died or not. So those, they probably get right. But I've got a feeling
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that something like 60% of all the meds that we routinely prescribe, the data is bullshit.
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That's my current, current opinion based on everything I know. And I'll tell you more about that.
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But here's what RFK Jr. says, quote, people who take the flu shot are protected against
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that strain of flu. Now, you already know that the flu becomes one thing and then it rapidly
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changes to other things. We're talking about the regular flu, not COVID, just a regular seasonal flu.
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So that by the time you get the shot, you're all aware that the shot no longer applies to that
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flu virus, right? Now that you already knew. But on top of that, according to RFK Jr., and remember,
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I don't believe any data, any medical data. So I don't believe his, but I also don't believe the
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opposite of his because there's nothing credible in this field. He says that if you got the flu shot,
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you're 4.4 times more likely to get a non-flu infection. It injures your immune system.
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So that you're more likely to get a non-flu viral upper respiratory infection.
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And apparently there are multiple studies that all have the same conclusion.
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But, you know, data, I'm not sure I trust the data, but I'm sure it exists.
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You know, it may be wrong, but I'm sure it exists. Do you believe there are multiple studies
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showing that the ordinary regular flu shot is not just bad for you, but way bad for you
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Now, I stopped getting the regular annual flu shot maybe 20 years ago. I don't remember exactly
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when. Or maybe I got one of them in between. Maybe I got one of them. I can't remember. But I stopped
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trusting them because when I found out that they make the flu shot to take care of a virus that
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it doesn't even apply by the time the season comes around. I thought, wait a minute. Am I reading this
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wrong? Am I really reading that I'm supposed to take a flu shot for a flu that doesn't exist and can
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ever exist again and everybody knows it? And the answer to that is yes. That's the actual answer.
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Now, you all know that, right? You're all aware that the flu shot doesn't even apply to the flus
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that are current when you take it. It applies to the flus that were current when they made it.
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And that could have been a year ago. You all knew that, right? Now, if I'm wrong,
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fact check me because I'm not your doctor. So ask your doctor. Don't trust me about anything medical.
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And also don't trust your doctor. No, I'm just kidding. Don't trust your doctor. No,
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just kidding. Just kidding. All right. Hey, Richard. Great to speak to you.
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So that's pretty scary. All right. Are you ready for this one?
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This is such a fun Thanksgiving because the news is all
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kind of confirming things that you suspected. So it's going to make you sound smart.
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Would you be surprised to hear? And I saw this on the George account on X. And again,
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you should follow George. He's just terrific in the independent reporting.
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There's really clear video, security video of a worker stealing security access keys
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from the Maricopa voting center. Like really clear. You can see his face clearly, his whole body.
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You can see him walk over to where the key fob is. You can see him pick it up. You can see him take it.
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I think he took more than one. Went to another desk, took another one. Now,
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it looked to me like he was handing them to somebody, another worker. So here's the question I would ask.
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Is he really stealing them? Because that's what the story said. Or did somebody say,
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make sure there are no, there are no fobs left out tonight because the janitor might steal them.
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Okay. So could it be that the temporary worker is unfairly, unfairly accused and whoever he was
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handing it to, who was also some kind of employee there that had asked him to go collect any that
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were laying out to improve security instead of steal security. So I'm going to put a question mark next
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to this one. Because if we learned anything from the Ruby and whatever it was case, you can't always tell
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what's happening on a video. Video is not, uh, and, and thank you. I'm being prompted in the comments.
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The employee, the employee in question is a black man. Do you think that had anything to do with
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how people are receiving it? Well, I think George is black himself. He's the one who's reporting on it.
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So there's no reason that race should be any part of it. But I wonder, I wonder if people are a little
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bit more likely to think something's up because it was a black man. You know, you know, I'm, I'm one who
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says we shouldn't have affirmative action in DEI, but that doesn't mean that systemic racism isn't real.
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And just a little extra, little extra distrust in some categories.
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So I'm going to put a question mark on that one. I don't think that I can guarantee that we saw
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theft, but we could guarantee that we saw somebody who worked there picking up fobs
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I think it's an employee. Um, here's something that I'm feeling a little bit alarmed about.
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So I've told you publicly now several times that, uh, if you're a Trump supporter, you have a
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responsibility to make sure that he doesn't lawfare the other side, because we can't just have a,
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we can't have a government where Trump gets lawfare practically to death,
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survives, and then just turns into the monster that he was trying to defeat.
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That's not cool. So as soon as you see even a whiff of anything that feels like potential lawfare,
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I think we, we have a responsibility to call it out and say, well, not my name. Don't do this in my name.
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Now here's where it gets, and I haven't seen Trump do that by the way, but here's where it gets in the gray
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area. Elon Musk is definitely doing that. Now he's not elected and he has free speech.
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So it's a little gray area, but he has said recently that, uh, on Wednesday, I guess he suggested that,
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uh, Lieutenant Vindman committed treason and quote will pay after the Trump, you know, Trump, uh,
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gets in power. Uh, he says Vindman's on the payroll of the Ukraine oligarchs and committed treason
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against the United States. All right. Here's my problem. Elon in his current role is no longer
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just a citizen talking about the news. If he were just a citizen talking about the news,
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I'd say that's okay. These are unproven allegations, but it's within the realm of free speech.
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When you're as powerful as Musk is now, and I don't know that he is fully understanding his
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position because, because it happens so fast. It takes a while to understand, you know, something's
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changed in your own situation. When I see somebody who some people think is the, you know, like shadow
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president, I don't think that by the way, Trump is firmly in charge for sure. Um, but other people
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see him as like almost a co-president at this point. And again, that's not my opinion. He's not a
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co-president, but, but he, but he has to know that he's seen that way. And when you're seen that way
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and you call out the person and the crime before any kind of, um, legal processes started, I say,
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this is too far. So here's my opinion. Uh, Elon Musk too far. I'm not comfortable with this.
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Now, is it legal? Yes. Is it free speech? Yes. It's completely within the rules.
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But I'm not comfortable with it. If you give me a name and a crime before the legal system is,
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has to determine the crime is there. No, not my name. I don't want to be associated with that.
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Now I'm a private citizen and I'm not associated with the government. So I do think Vindman has
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some explaining to do, but I'm not aware of a specific crime.
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I'm not aware of one. So that's why I'm so uncomfortable. If it were somehow some super
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obvious thing, then maybe, but on top of that, Elon Musk has also, uh, said about, um,
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Reed Hoffman that he's, he's concerned that Reed Hoffman has some explaining about Epstein Island.
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Again, if he were speaking as a private citizen and technically is that's okay. I mean, it's going
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pretty far. You better have good lawyers, but he does. So, but when he's this close to power
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and he calls out the name of an individual who's a political adversary and essentially accuses him of
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the worst possible crimes, I'm not comfortable with that. Not in my name. Right? So America is my brand.
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So, so, so Elon Musk is, is part of what makes my brand and, and how I feel about America.
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And, uh, I'm, you know, over the top positive about Elon Musk and his, um, and the work that he's
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offered to do at great personal expense and risk to, to help the government. So I couldn't possibly be
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more positive about Musk and everything he's doing for the country, but he deserves our,
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our useful guidance, meaning that the opinion of the, of the, uh, the opinion of the country matters.
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Right? Sometimes you need to ignore the opinion of the country to get something done,
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but this isn't one of those cases. This is one of those cases where listening to the public
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might give you a little advantage. So I just want to go first in case anybody else was having the
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same feeling. This is a little, it's a little too close to lawfare. It's all legal. It's all legal.
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But just understand that when you get this close to power, everything changes
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and you need, you need to adjust. You're, you're speaking to the change. This is something I learned
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the hard way when I first became famous. Um, you know, I had the experience of being, you know,
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ordinary citizen. And then suddenly the news was talking to me, talking about me a lot because of
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Dilbert. And so I became a public figure. And what I didn't realize at the time is that you can't talk
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the same way when you're a public figure. So all of the little opinions that I had when I was,
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you know, literally just one of the anonymous people in the public, they were all fine.
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So I could say, for example, that I was good at something and that I was bad at other things.
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And people would say, oh, you're good at that. You're bad at that. Got it.
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But once you become famous for doing something that's working out well, you can no longer say
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you're good at something. Because if you are, you're like some egomaniac.
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And I'd be thinking, wait a minute, it's just the same opinion I've always had.
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But now it sounds gross. Now it sounds like I'm just an asshole. Oh, oh, you made it. But
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apply. I also, I think I've told you this story. I had a friend who was part of a large company you've
00:29:50.940
heard of that went public at one point. And he made, I don't know, maybe half a billion dollars
00:30:00.460
one day. So he went from just somebody in the neighborhood who had a pretty good job
00:30:06.780
to half a billion. And by now it would be at least a billion. And actually asked me for advice
00:30:15.980
about how to navigate suddenly being in this situation. And I told him, here's what you got to do.
00:30:21.660
If you're walking outdoors and you step in some dog shit, that's your story. You go with that.
00:30:31.340
You're on the way to a party and you step in dog shit. So when somebody says, hey, how you doing?
00:30:37.980
You can't give your honest answer. Because the honest answer was, I flew in in the private plane
00:30:44.540
that I purchased. I just came in from my ski chalet in the richest part of the country.
00:30:52.140
And I think I'm going to have a massage later. Yeah, I made that part up.
00:30:59.260
Because you would just want to punch him. Because his whole family's life went from ordinary to,
00:31:05.180
oh, my God. So instead, I said, talk about the dog shit. If you walk in, they go, hey,
00:31:10.940
how you doing? Oh, my God, I just stepped in dog shit. Do I smell bad? It's going to be terrible.
00:31:17.660
Blah, blah, blah. And then a funny thing happened.
00:31:21.980
A mutual friend showed up. And as soon as the mutual friend walks in, he sees the newly rich mutual
00:31:31.100
friend. He goes, hey, how's it going? And the newly rich friend looks at him. And without cracking a
00:31:37.660
smile, he goes, I just stepped in a bunch of dog shit. And the other friend goes, oh, that's too bad.
00:31:44.300
And the funny thing is, he never told him it was a joke. And it worked perfectly. It worked perfectly.
00:31:53.980
Because it immediately took the rich guy down to everybody else. Everybody steps in dog shit.
00:32:00.220
So my advice to Elon Musk is, obviously, he's learned how to communicate as the richest person
00:32:08.140
in the world. Because he's had some practice. But he hasn't had a lot of practice being basically
00:32:18.060
If you're going to be a roommate in the Oval Office, you're part of my brand. And it's my request,
00:32:26.780
because I have great respect for what he's doing. But it's my request
00:32:31.020
that you'd be real careful about the lawfare. That's important to us.
00:32:44.380
Speaking of medical stuff, I can't give you the details on this. But I did a deep dive yesterday,
00:32:49.340
because somebody sent me a provocative document and said, hey, you should read this. And I thought,
00:32:54.940
well, maybe I will. And there's a reason I can't give you the detail. I hope you'll accept that.
00:33:02.140
But it was about a big medical field, something you've heard of, a well-known medical field,
00:33:08.780
and how they look at the data in that field. And it took me about a minute to realize the entire field
00:33:19.820
was fake. And I can't tell you what it is, because I'll go to jail, and people will stop talking to
00:33:26.620
their doctors. But if you think you've seen the tip of the iceberg, I don't think you have.
00:33:35.580
I think we have only scratched the surface. When we're talking about these annual flu shots that
00:33:41.340
RFK Jr. says he has data that says it's bad for you, I don't know if that data is right or wrong.
00:33:47.100
But I could tell you the stuff that I saw was clearly in the domain of misinterpreted statistics.
00:33:56.700
Like really misinterpreted. Like even you and I could tell, it wouldn't be hard to tell.
00:34:02.780
You just have to look what they did, look how they talk about it, and you would say, oh my god.
00:34:09.820
You know how concerned you are about the number of people who transitioned,
00:34:13.740
who maybe wish they wouldn't. And you say to yourself, this is extra bad because it was surgery
00:34:20.300
and permanent changes. It's that level. It's not that topic. It's a different topic. But it's that
00:34:26.940
level. There is something going on in the United States at a level of medical malpractice that if what
00:34:35.900
I'm seeing is true, I'm not going to be able to stay quiet about it.
00:34:44.300
I don't know if it's true. But man, there's some shit coming down the pike.
00:34:52.700
Anyway, let's talk about daylight savings time. Did you know, according to Andrew Huberman, PhD,
00:34:58.140
that the chief of the section on light and circadian rhythms,
00:35:06.940
can you believe that the United States employs somebody whose job is chief of the section on light
00:35:12.220
and circadian rhythms? Okay. I think that's a government job. Said that the taxpayer allowed
00:35:21.980
discoveries. Now that's Huberman's way to say that your government taxes paid for some studies.
00:35:30.220
They apparently all make it clear that changing the time is bad for people because it takes people
00:35:37.180
too long to adjust and the hit on their bodies isn't worth the squeeze. The juice isn't worth the
00:35:46.460
squeeze. Yeah, let's go with that. So does that sound right to you?
00:35:51.980
Yeah. Somebody's saying 100% of cancer patients die of treatment, not actual cancer. I don't think
00:35:59.180
that's true. Because if you look at just breast cancer alone, I mean, that's curable in many cases.
00:36:10.220
So somebody in the comments said that cancer is killing people with the treatment, not the
00:36:16.140
you know, not the cancer. I think there might be some of that. I don't know what percentage,
00:36:24.220
but clearly there's some cures. I feel confident there's some cures that work.
00:36:31.980
Anyway, what do you think? Daily savings time. I have mixed emotions because every time the time
00:36:38.300
changes, I feel like I'm happy about it. I don't realize that I'm also unhealthy,
00:36:46.140
but I have weird sleeping patterns. So it doesn't feel like it's killing me, but maybe it is.
00:36:52.940
Anyway, again, it's medical information. So I don't know how accurate it is, but I'd be open to not
00:37:00.620
changing it. It's something we could experiment with, right? Couldn't we do five years of...
00:37:07.180
Oh, you want to hear a high ground? Here's a high ground. Suppose you're in a government meeting
00:37:14.300
and somebody says, we should change our policy and not do daily savings time. And somebody else says,
00:37:22.780
yes, we should, and here's our reasons. And then you've got two people who both have reasons
00:37:27.980
and they both sound pretty good and you don't know which way to go. So do you make a change?
00:37:33.340
If you've got arguments on both sides, do you make the change or not?
00:37:37.740
Well, here's how I end that meeting. I wait till everybody's tired and they realize they can't reach
00:37:47.580
an agreement. And then I say at the end of the meeting, this is called the high ground maneuver.
00:37:53.100
There are lots of forms of it. So it's not always exactly like this. Here's the high ground. I wait
00:37:58.140
till everybody's tired, five minutes left in the meeting. And I go, you know what we should do?
00:38:04.540
Since it doesn't look like we're going to be able to agree whether this works or not.
00:38:09.020
Why don't we try it for five years? And then really measure it. And then everybody shuts up.
00:38:17.340
And they all look at each other like, why wouldn't we just try it?
00:38:24.300
Does anybody have a reason we couldn't just try it for five years? Then we'd know for sure.
00:38:29.740
That's the high ground. You sound like the dumbest person in the room if you say for sure you shouldn't
00:38:35.740
do it or for sure you should. As soon as somebody says, well, why don't we just try it for five years
00:38:40.860
and do a good job of measuring the difference? Everybody else sounds dumb.
00:38:45.500
Because even if you're for it or against it, you probably are not that much against testing it.
00:38:58.540
All right. Three weeks after the election is over, Democrats are pulling ahead in California.
00:39:05.660
So I don't know. Is there one or two seats that went from, oh, Republicans are ahead,
00:39:14.860
but we're still counting. Oh, the gap is closing a little bit, but we're still counting. Oh,
00:39:21.500
that gap is closing a lot now. Still counting. Oh, it's about time now. It's about time. Well,
00:39:27.180
look what happened. Can you believe it? The Democrat got a few more votes and I guess we're done counting now.
00:39:32.460
Now, it's possible. It's possible that there was nothing untoward about this situation.
00:39:43.900
It's possible that there's just some inefficiency, some special cases, something came up that's not
00:39:51.500
normal and they're just doing the best they can to deal with a little delay and maybe some obstacles.
00:39:58.700
That's possible. Don't you think? It's possible. It's just an innocent mistake or an innocent
00:40:06.460
inefficiency that got the right answer, but just took a little while. Maybe.
00:40:13.660
But here's my take. If you, if my state, this is my state, California, if my state wants to send me
00:40:22.380
a signal this strong that they're cheating, I'm not going to fucking ignore it. Okay?
00:40:32.300
Now, I don't know what's true, but if you send me a signal this strong that you're cheating on the
00:40:37.660
election, I'm going to believe you're cheating on the election. And I'm not going to feel bad about it
00:40:42.060
if later I find out I'm wrong. Because there's two problems here. One is, are you cheating on the
00:40:47.340
election? Separate problem. Two, why the fuck are you making it look exactly like you're cheating on
00:40:53.260
the election? Why the fuck are you telling everybody you're cheating on the election,
00:40:57.660
even if you're not? I don't know if you are. But why are you making it look like you are?
00:41:02.860
You don't have to do this. There's no fucking reason you have to do this. Oh,
00:41:07.420
I told you I wouldn't swear because it's Thanksgiving. Send the children away.
00:41:11.900
Yeah. Now, so I'm going to make the assumption that California's race was
00:41:18.860
rigged. My reasoning is that they're sending the signal is rigged. They're sending the signal.
00:41:27.260
Don't tell me that I don't know what really happened because I don't. I agree. I don't know
00:41:32.220
what happened. I just know that California's government is sending me the strong signal that
00:41:37.020
they're cheating. So that's what I'm going to believe. I've lost all credibility in the
00:41:42.380
election system in California. So great job, guys. Meanwhile, in Australia, the parliament has banned
00:41:51.500
social media for children under 16. Huh? What do you think of that? First impression? Yes.
00:42:04.060
Second impression would be, well, they're going to use it anyway. They'll just get, I don't know,
00:42:07.740
VPNs or lie about their age or something. Use somebody else's account. I don't know.
00:42:14.300
Definitely worth trying. So high ground, let's try it. Now, we don't need to try it necessarily.
00:42:23.900
We can wait a year and see if it worked in Australia. And if there's something that we'd have to tweak to
00:42:30.220
make it work here, maybe. But I love the fact that it's being experimented with.
00:42:37.900
Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg reportedly visited Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump.
00:42:44.140
Of course, because we're all bad people, we say stuff like, is there to kiss the ring or kiss Trump's
00:42:51.660
ass and beg for forgiveness? I don't think that's what's happening. Now, clearly it's the right move.
00:43:01.580
If you're Zuckerberg and you run a company that's that important to the conversation in America,
00:43:09.340
yes, you should be on a first name basis with the president, all the presidents. You have that kind of
00:43:15.740
job where you should step up and say, let's have a meeting right away. So should Jamie Dimon,
00:43:22.700
so should everybody who runs the social media network. So it's no big surprise, but the extra
00:43:30.380
element is that Zuck seems to have maybe transitioned from a crazy lefty supporting guy to a, hey,
00:43:39.660
maybe a little common sense makes sense. And maybe a little common sense makes you look like you're a
00:43:45.580
Trump supporter in 2024. So he's never said he's a Trump supporter, and I don't think he will.
00:43:52.620
I think it'd be a mistake. He should just try to keep neutral no matter what he thinks privately.
00:43:59.340
But I like everything about this. And since I'm in optimist mode, I'm going to say that probably what
00:44:07.980
Zuckerberg is saying to Trump is just speculation. I can't read anybody's mind. So I don't have any
00:44:15.900
special insight. But here's just what I might take from both characters. Trump can work with anybody.
00:44:25.500
That seems to be true. So Trump is always ready to say bygones or bygones. What can you do for me now?
00:44:32.540
So I think Trump was transactional. Maybe he gave him a hard time for things that he did,
00:44:38.860
because that's Trump. But ultimately, how he decides to go forward would almost certainly be
00:44:44.540
transactional. In other words, he would want Facebook to be doing the right things and make
00:44:48.940
money for the country and just be good citizens, basically. And I think Zuckerberg
00:44:55.820
may be influenced by the pirate ship. He's watching people who are not typically Republicans,
00:45:05.180
traditionally, come over and add tremendous, tremendous value. Like the kind of value we've
00:45:14.780
never seen, really. I've never seen anything like it. If you look at what RFK Jr. wants to do,
00:45:20.140
what Elon wants to do, what Vivek wants to do, even what I assume Tulsi Gabbard will do in her new job,
00:45:27.820
these are contributions to America's well-being. They're just incredible. I mean, these are people
00:45:37.340
who are putting their bodies on the line. They're risking their actual lives, their reputation,
00:45:44.380
their lives, their happiness, what could be their retirement in at least one case.
00:45:51.820
And I've got a feeling that the animal spirits of the country probably are affecting Zuckerberg in
00:46:01.660
exactly the way you'd want them to, meaning that I wouldn't be surprised if Zuckerberg is trying to
00:46:08.780
find out how he also can help the country. Like, what can we do to work together? You know, how do we
00:46:14.220
make this work without distorting free speech or anything else that we don't want to do? So my guess
00:46:20.540
is that Zuckerberg and Trump is a plus. That's my guess. I think Zuckerberg wants to be, he's very pro
00:46:29.020
America, and he's seeing that America is leaning in one direction hard, and he could be part of making
00:46:35.180
that great. He could be a really big part. So I think this is just all positive to me.
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Well, here's a confirmation of something that I can't remember if I said this out loud.
00:47:48.540
Maybe you can tell me if I predicted this out loud, those of you who've been watching. But Mark
00:47:53.780
Andreessen was on Joe Rogan's show. There are so many good clips that came out of that. If you see any
00:48:00.440
of the clips of Andreessen talking to Rogan, just watch all of them. Every one of them is a winner.
00:48:08.040
Every single clip that came out of that is like, what? Really? It's really good. But anyway,
00:48:17.720
Andreessen said he had the most alarming meetings he's ever been in recently, in which it became clear
00:48:24.600
that our government was telling the big investors, don't invest in small AI companies because we're
00:48:32.120
not going to allow them to succeed. There will only be a few big AI companies and they will be
00:48:37.880
completely controlled by the government. And that's how it's going to be.
00:48:42.120
Now that's actually something that apparently the government is telling the top Silicon Valley
00:48:50.600
investors. So there's no, there's no ambiguity about it. AI will be controlled by your government.
00:49:05.960
Did I not tell you a while ago that every government controls its news entities? Sometimes
00:49:16.840
you just don't know it. But whether you're a Democrat government or parliamentary or a dictator,
00:49:23.960
you really can't survive without completely controlling the news. So that's what we have in
00:49:30.040
America. It's what we have everywhere. It's controlled news. You have to keep your country sort of in the
00:49:35.560
same direction and sort of in the same opinion or the country falls apart. And the only way to do it
00:49:41.880
apparently is to have fake news all the time. But on top of that, I believe I speculated out loud,
00:49:49.320
but this is what I want to ask. Did I speculate out loud that AI would have to be, it would just have to
00:49:56.760
be completely controlled by the government? Did I ever say that out loud or did I just think it really hard
00:50:03.480
and thought about it? So you tell me in the comments. But to me, it's been obvious for a
00:50:08.440
long time that AI could not just be a free market product. It was too dangerous and it could tell you
00:50:15.240
the truth. AI has the ability to cut through the fake news. So if you accept that the government,
00:50:22.280
every government, and again, I'm not saying it's good or bad. I'm just saying it's a fact that there's
00:50:28.360
no government that could survive real news. Because the real news could overwhelm the,
00:50:35.320
you know, whatever they're trying to get done. So if you have to control the news
00:50:42.920
to be a successful country, it follows very easily that you have to control AI.
00:50:48.680
Because AI would look at the news and say, well, that's not true.
00:50:51.240
Right? The AI would, you could just feed it an hour of MSNBC and say, all right,
00:51:00.840
can you take out the fake news and tell me what's left? And it would like give you a,
00:51:05.240
give you like a five seconds of, oh, there's a hurricane. Everything else was fake.
00:51:11.880
So of course the government has to completely control AI. Every government will do the same.
00:51:19.560
If you think that China's not going to completely control it, you're wrong.
00:51:23.640
If you think there's some country in Europe where they're going to let their,
00:51:28.040
let their industry just run wild with AI, you're wrong. There will be no country that will allow AI
00:51:40.760
So Mark Andreessen confirming that that's actually already the case. The government's already said,
00:51:48.040
don't even think about startups. We're going to kill them all.
00:51:58.200
Anyway, so, you know, I keep talking about Scott Jennings doing a good job in CNN of supporting the
00:52:06.920
right-leaning world. And apparently he's become quite the viral sensation,
00:52:11.720
because all of his clips seem interesting. But according to Mario Noffal, he's reporting on X today,
00:52:18.760
that Scott Jennings' clips are getting more audience than CNN is natively.
00:52:26.680
Let me say that again. For any given hour of CNN,
00:52:34.840
the total number of people watching the news program for that hour, even in prime time,
00:52:40.120
are not as much as the number of people who watched the Scott Jennings clips,
00:52:47.240
mocking the other people at the table for being idiots.
00:52:49.800
That's the world I want to live in. Thank you. Thank you, Scott Jennings. And I say again,
00:52:57.640
the Scots are doing a good job. Scott Pressler, Scott Jennings, Scott Galloway. He's even doing
00:53:05.320
a good job. All the Scots. I don't know if you've watched, Coleman Hughes was on a couple of shows
00:53:17.640
yesterday because I think Walmart was getting rid of DEI. And Coleman is a young black American who does
00:53:26.600
not buy into all the left-leaning black American kind of standard stuff. He's more of the common
00:53:32.920
sense guy. So I don't even want to say that he's Republican or right-leaning because I don't see
00:53:39.720
a trace of it. All I see is somebody who's commonsensical. So I don't even know. I don't
00:53:45.960
know if he's registered one way or the other. But imagine watching somebody on CNN talking about
00:53:52.280
an important topic in the news. And when they're done, you can't tell who they voted for.
00:53:57.800
That's pretty good, right? So Coleman is one of those. And that is impressive. Anyway,
00:54:05.960
he had two hits. If you see his clips on X, you should watch them. He is so good
00:54:13.880
presenting his position. Now, remember, I told you
00:54:18.200
that people don't interrupt me in interviews. You see a lot of talking over. Somebody will say
00:54:23.480
something and get a lot of talking over. And I've always told you that if you don't say crazy
00:54:28.360
shit, that won't happen to you. It's only when you say something that invites the talk over that
00:54:34.280
you get the talk over. When you listen to Coleman Hughes, everybody stops and they listen to every
00:54:41.400
word. And the reason is, he doesn't say crazy shit. And the whole thing makes sense and holds
00:54:47.960
together. It's just common sense. And so watch, watch his interviews and watch how everybody just
00:54:55.800
listens. It's really kind of impressive. But what he said was, he was talking about Joe Rogan and Joe
00:55:05.160
Rogan, I guess the CNN and MSNBC or type people are saying that, that Joe Rogan somehow used to be
00:55:12.360
left-leaning, but then he became right-leaning. And Coleman, of course,
00:55:20.120
he challenged that view. And he mentioned a bunch of views that Joe Rogan has always had
00:55:26.520
and still has. And he challenged them to give any example where Joe Rogan had changed his mind
00:55:36.280
and nobody had an example. So he basically clowned the entire panel. Not a single person had one
00:55:45.000
example where Joe Rogan had ever changed his mind. Does Joe Rogan still think marijuana should be legal?
00:55:53.560
Yes. Yes. Did he suddenly find Jesus? No. No. He didn't change anything. Absolutely everything is the same.
00:56:13.800
Microsoft stock took a little hit. It wasn't too big of a hit. So I guess the FTC is going to do some
00:56:19.960
major antitrust investigations. Full disclosure, I own some Microsoft stock, which I bought during the
00:56:29.880
pandemic just because it was down. And I figured, ah, everybody needs Windows. So it's going to come back
00:56:34.760
up. So I didn't know that it was going to do AI at the time, but I got lucky because I bought it before
00:56:41.960
before the AI connection was announced. But investors are spooked and I guess they're taking
00:56:48.760
some money off the table. There are two stories about what happened with Trump calling the Mexican
00:56:55.480
president Claudia Scheinbaum about the border. Trump says that during the phone call that the
00:57:03.640
president of Mexico agreed to close the southern border after he threatened her with 25% tariffs.
00:57:10.440
Now, of course, that's a perfect Trump story. Like that's the one you want to be true.
00:57:16.040
And it would also be perfectly in the new CEO mold, which would be get something done before he even
00:57:25.240
starts his first day in the job. Nobody better. He's the best in the world of presenting the first
00:57:33.320
impression. I've never seen anything like this. So, but Scheinbaum pushed back on that
00:57:41.080
and said she rejected the claim that their conversation resulted in, quote,
00:57:45.960
an immediate border closure. She said in our conversation with Trump, I explained to him
00:57:52.200
the comprehensive strategy, blah, blah, blah, to address it, respecting human rights.
00:57:59.880
Now, what Trump said was clean and clear and specific.
00:58:04.680
What the president of Mexico said was ambiguous, indirect, and sort of global, philosophical.
00:58:18.760
I don't think so. Here's what I think happened. I think Trump said, you're not sending any more
00:58:24.840
caravans. And Mexico said, okay. And then he probably said, you know,
00:58:31.880
make sure you're not letting people cross illegally. And then she probably said something like, well,
00:58:36.920
we do that anyway. We're trying as hard as we can to make sure nobody's crossing illegally.
00:58:42.760
And then he probably said, we're going to have to do something about the asylum situation,
00:58:48.200
because at the moment, Mexico can send zillions of people through legally. They just have to claim
00:58:54.520
asylum. Now, later, if the asylum claim doesn't work, they would have to go back,
00:58:58.680
but that could be years from now. So it could be that the things that can be stopped immediately,
00:59:07.320
like the caravans, will be stopped immediately. It could be that he maybe gets a little extra action
00:59:14.680
in, you know, the purely illegal crossings, but that's a gray area. It could be
00:59:21.000
that they agreed they had to talk about the asylum rules and situations. And if we don't change that,
00:59:28.680
it's going to be a problem. So I think that she was talking, the Mexican president was talking to the
00:59:36.040
Mexican public to make it seem like she didn't get rolled over in negotiations by Trump. Trump,
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I think, was just telling you what happened. Because he's in the catbird's seat. So he could
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just tell you what happened. I think she had to spin it a little bit. So I don't believe that Trump
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successfully closed the Mexican border with one phone call. I don't believe that at all.
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I do believe he probably ended the big groups, you know, the caravans, probably did that. And that
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would be a big deal. But lots of work to do. But I'm only speculating what actually happened.
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I saw Tucker Carlson was some video talking to somebody. And he said he might be interested in
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a guest press room appearance. So he laughed at the idea that he would be the press secretary for
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the president and, you know, do the briefings, because that would make no sense. Doesn't make
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sense at his age or where his career is. So it doesn't make sense. But he did say he'd be open
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to being a guest press spokesperson. So now there are two stories going on about the press room. One,
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Don Jr. has confirmed that conversation has happened about adding maybe some independent
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news people, such as you would think of as podcasters. But some of them are legitimately
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independent investigative news people as well. And he's thinking of maybe get rid of some of the,
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some of the, it's crowded room, you can't just add people. So he might get rid of some of the
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standard ones and add some non-standard ones. You know what I think? Make the room a little bit bigger,
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please. Or have two of them or something. I feel like they're making all the decisions based on the
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size of a room. That's the wrong way to do it. It should be, what do you want to happen? And then
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you find a place you can do that thing. It could be that your best situation is to have some big screens
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so that by invitation, some independents can come in and just be on the wall and everybody can see
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them and hear them. And they just ask their question from the wall TV. Now, not all the independents are
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going to have a budget to send somebody to go sit down there just in case they have a press conference,
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right? But they could all call into a number. So I'd like them to start with what they want to
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accomplish and then figure out how to do it. I don't want them to start with our room is too small,
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so we're going to have to get rid of Time Magazine to add Joe Rogan. How does that make sense?
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Right? Remember, Trump is supposed to be the common sense president. Let's common sense this. Yes,
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I would like to see Tucker come in one day. Yes, I would like to see the independent podcasters be
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included. I don't need the people there to be excluded. I don't need them to get rid of CBS News.
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So let's just do the common sense thing. Maybe just a little addition is the better idea.
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you're richer than you think. Anyway, so most of you by now have seen the clip of Kamala Harris when
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she surfaced to say, don't let anybody steal your power after Trump had stolen all of her power.
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Because nobody can steal your power as she sat there powerless because her power had been stolen.
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But here's what's interesting about it. During the election, I would have said,
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she's drunk as a skunk. And other people would say, maybe, maybe not. But didn't really make a big
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deal about it. It was like, somehow, it didn't matter. But I feel that the at least the reaction
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on the right of every single person who saw that video is that we could tell she was inebriated.
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Would you agree that it is a common sense, common knowledge among the politically active right
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that Kamala Harris has appeared inebriated on something a number of times in public, including
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this one for sure? Is that fair to say? Because that kind of went from, I think that went from
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basically just me saying it. Well, is that true? What was anybody else saying that she was appearing
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in public drunk before I did? I don't remember anybody saying it before I did. Did anybody?
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A public figure. I'm going to need a fact check on that. So one of you who has like a really good memory,
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and you've watched all my shows, and you've also paid attention to the news. Were other people
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Well, you can watch the comments yourself and see if anybody did.
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I know a lot of people were saying it at the same time, but did anybody say it before me?
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Because I feel like I might have made it safe. I might have made it a little safer to say,
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because, you know, hey, somebody else is saying it.
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There's a little disagreement. I don't think we can tell for sure.
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I'll tell you what. If you can find a post on X where somebody called it out before I did,
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but you'd also have to find my first post. You know, it's hard to actually search for your own
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posts. Have you found that? I don't think Grok does a good job of searching your own posts.
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Anyway, I'm curious about that. The reason I'm curious is that I like to track
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whenever I may have had some influence over a topic. And it's hard to know, because a lot of
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things would happen by coincidence, and they could happen for lots of reasons. So the only way I would
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know is if I beat like I got in first. That's the only way I would have some idea that maybe I made a
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difference. All right. So it doesn't matter, but it'd be nice to know.
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Apparently, Ray Epps' defamation lawsuit against Fox News has been dismissed,
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but without reasons that we've heard. I'm going to put this news item under the category of,
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hmm, and it won't be the first one. I might have three stories in a row in which the only comment I
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can make is, huh. Okay. So let me say it again. The federal judge just dismissed Ray Epps' defamation
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lawsuit against Fox. Let's say he was claiming that Fox News was claiming he was a Fed.
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So if he wasn't a Fed, which seems like something you could prove,
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why would they drop it? Huh? Hmm. Just makes you go, hmm. Now, I've never claimed he's a Fed,
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because I feel like that would be unfair because he's a citizen and innocent until proven guilty.
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But why did that get dropped right after Trump gets elected? Hmm. Here's another one.
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According to KABC, there was a fire in the Hollywood Hills, and they believe that a member of the
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Rothschild family, Will Rothschild, was killed in the house fire. Hmm. Hmm. Well, that would be very
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tragic, and I hope that nobody died in the fire, and I hope it was just wrong news. But Rothschild,
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does that name come up recently? Hmm. And then there's the story about Al Sharpton,
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who, as you know, was paid half a million dollars to his charity before he did a softball interview with
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Kamala Harris, which of course would be a giant ethical problem with his own network. But
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it seems like the most, as Megyn Kelly says, quote,
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this is a massive ethical breach by Sharpton and MSNBC. There is zero question that Sharpton should be
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fired for this, taking half a million dollar donation from a presidential campaign right
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before you interview the candidate, and you don't disclose it. Please. Hmm. Hmm. Interesting.
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There's no way to know, but let me put it in these terms.
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If Chris Hayes, who is also a host on MSNBC, if he had received a half a million dollars
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from a candidate before giving a softball interview,
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how fired would he be by now? Chris Hayes. He's a white guy. Very fired.
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Very fired. Does anybody doubt that? Is there anybody here who thinks Chris Hayes could have
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gotten away with that? And by the way, Chris Hayes, if you're listening, I got you back.
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No, Chris Hayes would have been fired in like five minutes. But if you're the DEI network,
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and you don't want to lose the few prominent black voices that you have, maybe you have some other
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considerations. So what do I say about this story? Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. And that, ladies and gentlemen,
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is all I have to do to say about the news and my prepared comments. I would like to take this
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day of Thanksgiving to thank all of you for collectively boosting my signal,
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allowing me to have this, what I consider a very social interaction.
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And you're the coolest thing about my life right now. So this is what I like doing.
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Um, I still like drawing my comics and stuff. So I'll keep doing that, of course. But this is what
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I love. This is what I really love. And if I can help any of you get healthier, stronger, fitter,
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better looking, calmer, have less ADHD, understand the news better, love your country a little bit
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more. And of course, get your Dilbert 2025 calendar that you can only get at the link at Dilbert.com.
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Um, then I'm down for it. So there'll be lots happening in the coming year. It's going to be
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quite eventful. I promise you. And, uh, we're going to slay some dragons. Uh, I hear dragons are real,
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according to Joe Rogan. By the way, I'm practically at the point of believing in dragons because some of
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the shit I've seen in the last week, my God, I actually was sitting there the other day thinking,
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maybe dragons are real. I mean, I mean, some of the things that I've seen have been incredible.
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So big thank you to all of you. Um, I am expecting they'll do some live streaming, uh,
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during the middle of the day. I don't have a time for that yet, but probably in and around the time
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most of your family is gathered at your houses or whatever. And, uh, when I do the Thanksgiving one,
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um, I will probably be demonstrating drawing a comic. So for the young people, uh, who might have some
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art interest, I will teach them how to use the equipment I use. I use a computer input and, uh,
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I will teach them how to write and I will teach them how to draw. This is something I do more
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regularly on my, uh, for my local subscribers. They've seen this a few times, but I did something
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that I don't know if that has ever happened before. The last time I did this, I actually, um,
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showed the audience the writing of it before the drawing of it. Now, I don't know that anybody's
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ever done that before because it's, it's doing comics is a lonely one person job.
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Like if there's anybody else there, it's hard to do. So doing it publicly with an audience and coming
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up with a joke and then executing it. And it was the Sunday that ran last Sunday. Uh, I think it came
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out pretty well. So if you haven't seen a comic written and drawn from scratch,
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it's kind of interesting, you know, if you have any interest in that domain. So if you've got any
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young people, uh, look for the show, it'll be on X and YouTube and rumble and locals at the same time.
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I'll be using the studio here. So we do it and it could be cool. So I hope everybody enjoys it.
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All right, everybody. That's all I got for now. Um, I'm going to go talk to the locals people
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privately for a minute and everybody else. I will see you later today. I hope.
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All right. Locals are coming at you privately in 30 seconds.