Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2673 CWSA 11⧸28⧸24

00:00:00.260 podcasters who are taking the morning off. Nope, not me. I know you're going to be here,

00:00:09.520 so damn it, I'm going to be here too. All right, good morning everybody and welcome 0.96

00:00:26.720 to the highlight of human civilization, Thanksgiving style. This is going to be an

00:00:32.980 amazing day, but if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even

00:00:38.660 understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass,

00:00:44.240 a tank or chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite

00:00:49.540 liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end

00:00:53.420 of the day. The thing that gives you more oxytocin than you've ever felt in your whole life is called

00:00:58.800 the simultaneous sip and it happens now. So good. Well, Paul, I appreciate you every day, but

00:01:16.840 especially today. Owen, appreciate you like crazy. Marcella, Erica, appreciate you all like crazy.

00:01:26.400 I'm not naming everybody, but I could. I could name every one of you. I would be quite happy that I

00:01:33.720 get to spend some time with you every day. Well, President Trump has given us his Thanksgiving

00:01:41.940 greeting, greeting, happy Thanksgiving to all, including the radical left lunatics who have 0.94

00:01:47.520 worked so hard to destroy our country, but who have failed miserably. Now, the funny thing is that 0.88

00:01:53.520 my robots read news yesterday. I anticipated this and my joke was about Trump mocking people while he

00:02:02.480 was saying happy Thanksgiving. Nailed it. Joy Reid is telling people that they have no reason to

00:02:11.140 spend time around Trump supporters and that they, when the holidays come, there's no reason that they

00:02:17.460 should welcome them or be around them at all. So in other words, Joy Reid said that Democrats should

00:02:24.120 stay the fuck away from Republicans. Does it feel like the entire universe is starting to tilt my way? 0.98

00:02:35.360 Joy Reid telling people to stay the fuck away from Republicans. She didn't use the F word, 0.99

00:02:40.060 but she could have, because that was what she said. She actually said you should stay away from them.

00:02:44.540 Don't interact with them over Thanksgiving with your family. Your family you shouldn't interact with.

00:02:52.640 Okay. Well, I think that's just good, solid advice from Joy Reid.

00:02:58.680 Here's something I didn't see coming. So you know how for the last year or so, I've been telling you

00:03:04.660 that America needs to create a habit of taking a walk after dinner. And you probably said to me,

00:03:12.720 Scott, that's boring. Stop saying you have to take a walk after dinner. And now NPR has a big article

00:03:19.620 about how important it is to take a walk after dinner. What I didn't know is that apparently it's

00:03:24.920 very common in Europe. I guess it's a normal thing in Europe to take a walk after a big meal.

00:03:32.500 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

00:03:38.200 TikTok, this is interesting, but there's a viral TikTok, there are viral TikTok videos extolling the

00:03:45.260 virtues of walking after a meal. Although they call them fart walks because they say that's a good way to 1.00

00:03:53.760 relieve yourself. So when I started saying you should take walks a year ago, did you think it would be

00:04:04.960 an article in NPR and then viral on TikTok by now? I swear to God, I must be running this simulation

00:04:13.680 because I've never tried to make a big deal out of taking a walk before. And now a normal source and

00:04:22.580 the TikTok source are both saying take a walk after dinner. I've got a feeling that Kennedy is

00:04:29.240 going to say something about that too. You will not be surprised that there's yet another big

00:04:35.940 breakthrough in battery technology, carbon nanotube powders, according to NoRidge. You don't need to

00:04:44.220 know too much about it except it's a South Korea company. And they made a big advance with new carbon

00:04:52.080 nanotubes, battery technology. It's happening. Did you know that according to the University College

00:05:01.720 of London, they can now use AI to predict the outcome of neuroscience studies before seeing the data

00:05:10.220 or before doing the study? So all they do is they say, hey, AI, we're going to study to see if this is

00:05:18.400 true or that is true. And this is mostly, I think, in the social domain, not in the physics kind of

00:05:27.200 experiment, but more the social psychology kind of domain. And would you be surprised to know that your

00:05:34.500 large language model AIs can guess the outcome about 81% of the time?

00:05:43.720 They don't even need to do the experiment. The AI can tell them what it's going to do like all eight

00:05:50.600 out of 10 times. Now, they kind of do need to do the experiment. But eight out of 10 times,

00:05:56.200 the AI just tells them what the outcome is going to be. Now, do you remember how I always joke

00:06:04.140 almost every day, actually, on the show, that the scientists could have just asked me? Because

00:06:10.440 sometimes the answers are obvious. Well, that's what the scientists said, too. So the scientists said

00:06:16.660 that the reason that the LLMs can deduce is because that knowledge is sort of already in the world.

00:06:26.200 So all I'm doing is looking at the world as I know it and saying, well, the world I live in,

00:06:31.940 I can tell you what's going to happen with that experiment. And then it does. But that's exactly

00:06:36.460 what the AI is doing. The AI is just looking at the world and saying, well, based on everything we

00:06:42.140 know about the world, I can tell you how that test is going to go. For example, there was a separate

00:06:50.840 study that showed that if you exercise, at least this is true in rats, but they think it might be true

00:06:57.720 in people. If you exercise, there's some kind of chemical that gets released in your muscles that's

00:07:04.040 good for repairing your nerves. So nobody knew that exercise was good for your nerves. But suppose you'd

00:07:11.360 come to come to me and you said, Scott, we're going to do a study to find out if regular exercise is good

00:07:18.240 for your nerves. What would I have said? Well, let me see. Exercise is good for 100% of everything that's ever been

00:07:27.780 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

00:07:38.140 done the study, but they think it's going to be true based on rodent studies. But I'll tell you,

00:07:44.680 they don't need to study. It is true. Well, Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, I guess he was on a podcast

00:07:55.440 with, you've probably heard of him, Scott Galloway. Has anybody heard of Scott Galloway? Yeah. Stop it.

00:08:05.180 I'm not the poor man, Scott Galloway. Well, okay, I am. I am the poor man, Scott Galloway. But

00:08:10.400 he has a podcast. And they're talking about teen boys who are falling in love with AI girlfriends.

00:08:21.700 And he says, you put 12 or 13 year olds in front of these things, meaning the AI girlfriends, and

00:08:27.000 next thing you know, of course they're going to fall in love. But here's the thing. Aren't they

00:08:35.840 thinking past the sale? Aren't they just assuming that falling in love with AI is bad?

00:08:44.620 Now, you assume it too, right? Don't you assume that falling in love with AI is bad?

00:08:53.280 But is it? I'm going to be contrarian about this.

00:09:01.060 And the contrarian is, I'm not so sure it's completely bad. Let's compare. Let's say a 12

00:09:09.340 year old, 13 year old, who is no longer hugged by his parents, because, you know, it's icky,

00:09:16.020 they're 13, doesn't have a girlfriend. And his guy friends are kind of jerks and don't invite him 0.99

00:09:23.780 places. But he could have this really good relationship with an AI. Are you telling me he's 0.99

00:09:32.120 worse off? Because remember, he can't get a girlfriend. He's only 13 anyway. He's not real 0.50

00:09:38.520 popular with the guy friends. He could work on that, but it's not going to make a big difference.

00:09:45.560 Parents leave him alone. He's got no source of oxytocin. Basically, it's a man starving to death.

00:09:55.300 Now, that doesn't happen to females at the same age, if you've ever noticed. Have you ever noticed 1.00

00:10:01.080 that kids hug a lot these days? Have you noticed that with your teenagers? Like when their friends

00:10:06.920 show up, they're all, they're all like hugging each other. Like, like they've, I mean, it's almost

00:10:12.300 crazy. They're very physical. And I thought to myself, it seems like the girls are getting more 1.00

00:10:19.220 hugs, of course. You know, the girls will hug each other when they get together. The guys won't hug

00:10:24.480 each other, but the guys will hug girls if the girls are up for it, if they're good friends.

00:10:31.080 So this 12 year old or 13 year old that they're worried about has absolutely no source of healthy

00:10:38.980 human contact. And if you tell me that that kid is worse off for having something that simulates

00:10:46.320 human contact and might feed their, their need for company or less loneliness or something,

00:10:52.100 I'm just not so sure it's bad. Now, if you said these AI girlfriends are good for everybody, 0.99

00:11:00.580 I'd say, well, that's not true. Obviously that's not true. But if you're telling me that they're bad

00:11:05.320 for everybody, I'm not so sure. I think we might find out that they're medicinal, actually literally

00:11:13.300 medicinal. All right. Prediction. Prediction coming. There will be such a thing as medicinal AI friends.

00:11:24.380 I'll be the first one to tell you this, that there will be medicinal AI friends. Your therapist is

00:11:32.340 going to say to you someday, have you, have you tried one of the AI friends? It's going to happen.

00:11:38.580 It's going to be medicinal, just like weed. All right. Trump, according to the Daily Caller

00:11:46.920 News Foundation, Trump will redirect billions in unspent funds from Biden's climate laws

00:11:53.700 to quote real infrastructure. Well, that sounds positive.

00:11:57.880 Then I saw another story that said that Trump could cancel $1.5, $1.4 trillion of Biden expenses

00:12:09.840 on day one, just with executive orders. And my first thought was, whoa, it's going to be easier

00:12:16.620 than I thought to get to that, you know, $2 trillion they have to cut out of the budget.

00:12:20.680 And then you find out what the, what the money is for. And it's all stuff that people are going to

00:12:27.120 want. And it's also over 10 years. So it's not really $1.4 trillion. It's $1.4 trillion over 10

00:12:34.040 years. So it's going to be kind of hard to hit that, hit that cost reduction. We'll see what happens.

00:12:43.120 Well, the prosecution of Daniel Penny is looking like a travesty, some kind of,

00:12:50.520 it's just weird. As Cernovich pointed out this morning, the news is pointing out too,

00:12:57.120 that the prosecutor is calling Daniel Penny the white man. And throughout the trial,

00:13:03.980 he referred to him as the white man. Now, keep in mind, this is a trial in which 100% of the people

00:13:10.760 involved know exactly who Daniel Penny is by name. Why would he refer to him continuously as the white

00:13:16.840 man? Well, let me tell you this. We don't know how this is going to turn out yet, but I'm going to

00:13:28.720 judge my opinion of America on this case. Now, I realize America is a lot more than just this one

00:13:35.620 case, but I'm going to judge, I'm going to judge America on this. And because if he goes down,

00:13:44.740 America is broken and we didn't fix it. He can't go to jail.

00:13:52.740 Well, I can't live in, I can't live like this. We don't have to live like this. If he gets,

00:13:58.500 if he gets prosecuted, we should surround the jail. I mean, we should put a million people on the,

00:14:04.300 on the streets and say, stop, stop. This is purely racist. Now, because the prosecutor is obviously

00:14:13.100 racist, it seems like they can immediately appeal it and maybe that would be enough. So it's possible

00:14:19.020 that the normal legal process will get to the right place, even though it's a travesty so far.

00:14:27.020 Well, honestly, I'm just going to judge America on this. If, if you can't get this right, America,

00:14:34.220 you got some work to do.

00:14:39.340 All right.

00:14:43.660 So RF, Bobby Kennedy was on some, some video podcast. He was talking about what the CDC,

00:14:53.180 what doesn't tell you about the flu shot. Now, remember my current opinion of medical data

00:14:59.820 is that it's all wrong. All of it, just all wrong. Now, some of it might be coincidentally

00:15:07.660 in the right direction. So maybe it's good for you to take those things. But honestly, I don't think

00:15:13.340 that medical science has a way to know what works. That's my current opinion. There's some things that

00:15:19.580 are so obvious that they could get that right. Right. If it's the difference between living and

00:15:24.380 dying, they can tell if you died or not. So those, they probably get right. But I've got a feeling

00:15:30.140 that something like 60% of all the meds that we routinely prescribe, the data is bullshit. 0.97

00:15:37.100 That's my current, current opinion based on everything I know. And I'll tell you more about that. 0.91

00:15:42.060 But here's what RFK Jr. says, quote, people who take the flu shot are protected against

00:15:50.140 that strain of flu. Now, you already know that the flu becomes one thing and then it rapidly

00:15:56.300 changes to other things. We're talking about the regular flu, not COVID, just a regular seasonal flu.

00:16:01.660 So that by the time you get the shot, you're all aware that the shot no longer applies to that

00:16:07.580 flu virus, right? Now that you already knew. But on top of that, according to RFK Jr., and remember,

00:16:16.620 I don't believe any data, any medical data. So I don't believe his, but I also don't believe the

00:16:23.820 opposite of his because there's nothing credible in this field. He says that if you got the flu shot,

00:16:30.540 you're 4.4 times more likely to get a non-flu infection. It injures your immune system.

00:16:37.740 So that you're more likely to get a non-flu viral upper respiratory infection.

00:16:43.420 And apparently there are multiple studies that all have the same conclusion.

00:16:49.260 Had you ever heard that?

00:16:52.620 Now, I don't think he's lying.

00:16:56.620 But, you know, data, I'm not sure I trust the data, but I'm sure it exists.

00:17:00.940 You know, it may be wrong, but I'm sure it exists. Do you believe there are multiple studies

00:17:07.900 showing that the ordinary regular flu shot is not just bad for you, but way bad for you

00:17:15.340 and doesn't do anything good for you?

00:17:19.260 Now, I stopped getting the regular annual flu shot maybe 20 years ago. I don't remember exactly

00:17:27.100 when. Or maybe I got one of them in between. Maybe I got one of them. I can't remember. But I stopped

00:17:34.220 trusting them because when I found out that they make the flu shot to take care of a virus that

00:17:42.860 it doesn't even apply by the time the season comes around. I thought, wait a minute. Am I reading this

00:17:50.300 wrong? Am I really reading that I'm supposed to take a flu shot for a flu that doesn't exist and can

00:17:58.220 ever exist again and everybody knows it? And the answer to that is yes. That's the actual answer.

00:18:08.540 Now, you all know that, right? You're all aware that the flu shot doesn't even apply to the flus

00:18:14.060 that are current when you take it. It applies to the flus that were current when they made it.

00:18:18.940 And that could have been a year ago. You all knew that, right? Now, if I'm wrong,

00:18:24.380 fact check me because I'm not your doctor. So ask your doctor. Don't trust me about anything medical.

00:18:32.140 And also don't trust your doctor. No, I'm just kidding. Don't trust your doctor. No,

00:18:37.180 just kidding. Just kidding. All right. Hey, Richard. Great to speak to you.

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00:19:09.820 So that's pretty scary. All right. Are you ready for this one?

00:19:20.780 This is such a fun Thanksgiving because the news is all

00:19:25.340 kind of confirming things that you suspected. So it's going to make you sound smart.

00:19:30.140 Would you be surprised to hear? And I saw this on the George account on X. And again,

00:19:38.300 you should follow George. He's just terrific in the independent reporting.

00:19:45.340 There's really clear video, security video of a worker stealing security access keys

00:19:54.380 from the Maricopa voting center. Like really clear. You can see his face clearly, his whole body.

00:20:05.980 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.

00:20:11.980 I think he took more than one. Went to another desk, took another one. Now,

00:20:18.060 it looked to me like he was handing them to somebody, another worker. So here's the question I would ask.

00:20:27.340 Is he really stealing them? Because that's what the story said. Or did somebody say,

00:20:34.620 make sure there are no, there are no fobs left out tonight because the janitor might steal them.

00:20:40.540 Okay. So could it be that the temporary worker is unfairly, unfairly accused and whoever he was

00:20:49.260 handing it to, who was also some kind of employee there that had asked him to go collect any that

00:20:54.220 were laying out to improve security instead of steal security. So I'm going to put a question mark next

00:21:02.860 to this one. Because if we learned anything from the Ruby and whatever it was case, you can't always tell

00:21:11.180 what's happening on a video. Video is not, uh, and, and thank you. I'm being prompted in the comments.

00:21:22.540 The employee, the employee in question is a black man. Do you think that had anything to do with

00:21:30.140 how people are receiving it? Well, I think George is black himself. He's the one who's reporting on it.

00:21:36.060 So there's no reason that race should be any part of it. But I wonder, I wonder if people are a little 0.70

00:21:42.780 bit more likely to think something's up because it was a black man. You know, you know, I'm, I'm one who

00:21:49.580 says we shouldn't have affirmative action in DEI, but that doesn't mean that systemic racism isn't real.

00:21:56.620 And just a little extra, little extra distrust in some categories.

00:22:04.700 So I'm going to put a question mark on that one. I don't think that I can guarantee that we saw

00:22:09.740 theft, but we could guarantee that we saw somebody who worked there picking up fobs

00:22:14.700 and handed them to another employee.

00:22:16.380 I think it's an employee. Um, here's something that I'm feeling a little bit alarmed about.

00:22:26.380 So I've told you publicly now several times that, uh, if you're a Trump supporter, you have a

00:22:33.980 responsibility to make sure that he doesn't lawfare the other side, because we can't just have a,

00:22:42.780 we can't have a government where Trump gets lawfare practically to death,

00:22:48.460 survives, and then just turns into the monster that he was trying to defeat.

00:22:54.060 That's not cool. So as soon as you see even a whiff of anything that feels like potential lawfare,

00:23:04.060 I think we, we have a responsibility to call it out and say, well, not my name. Don't do this in my name.

00:23:12.300 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

00:23:17.260 area. Elon Musk is definitely doing that. Now he's not elected and he has free speech.

00:23:24.780 So it's a little gray area, but he has said recently that, uh, on Wednesday, I guess he suggested that,

00:23:34.380 uh, Lieutenant Vindman committed treason and quote will pay after the Trump, you know, Trump, uh,

00:23:42.540 gets in power. Uh, he says Vindman's on the payroll of the Ukraine oligarchs and committed treason

00:23:49.740 against the United States. All right. Here's my problem. Elon in his current role is no longer

00:23:58.220 just a citizen talking about the news. If he were just a citizen talking about the news,

00:24:03.820 I'd say that's okay. These are unproven allegations, but it's within the realm of free speech.

00:24:12.940 When you're as powerful as Musk is now, and I don't know that he is fully understanding his

00:24:19.260 position because, because it happens so fast. It takes a while to understand, you know, something's

00:24:24.380 changed in your own situation. When I see somebody who some people think is the, you know, like shadow

00:24:32.300 president, I don't think that by the way, Trump is firmly in charge for sure. Um, but other people

00:24:38.620 see him as like almost a co-president at this point. And again, that's not my opinion. He's not a

00:24:43.660 co-president, but, but he, but he has to know that he's seen that way. And when you're seen that way

00:24:50.060 and you call out the person and the crime before any kind of, um, legal processes started, I say,

00:24:59.740 this is too far. So here's my opinion. Uh, Elon Musk too far. I'm not comfortable with this.

00:25:09.500 Now, is it legal? Yes. Is it free speech? Yes. It's completely within the rules.

00:25:19.580 But I'm not comfortable with it. If you give me a name and a crime before the legal system is,

00:25:26.860 has to determine the crime is there. No, not my name. I don't want to be associated with that.

00:25:34.860 Now I'm a private citizen and I'm not associated with the government. So I do think Vindman has

00:25:42.620 some explaining to do, but I'm not aware of a specific crime.

00:25:49.660 I'm not aware of one. So that's why I'm so uncomfortable. If it were somehow some super

00:25:55.180 obvious thing, then maybe, but on top of that, Elon Musk has also, uh, said about, um,

00:26:03.900 Reed Hoffman that he's, he's concerned that Reed Hoffman has some explaining about Epstein Island.

00:26:12.700 Again, if he were speaking as a private citizen and technically is that's okay. I mean, it's going

00:26:21.420 pretty far. You better have good lawyers, but he does. So, but when he's this close to power

00:26:30.300 and he calls out the name of an individual who's a political adversary and essentially accuses him of

00:26:37.820 the worst possible crimes, I'm not comfortable with that. Not in my name. Right? So America is my brand.

00:26:46.460 So, so, so Elon Musk is, is part of what makes my brand and, and how I feel about America.

00:26:55.820 And, uh, I'm, you know, over the top positive about Elon Musk and his, um, and the work that he's

00:27:03.100 offered to do at great personal expense and risk to, to help the government. So I couldn't possibly be

00:27:09.180 more positive about Musk and everything he's doing for the country, but he deserves our,

00:27:19.740 our useful guidance, meaning that the opinion of the, of the, uh, the opinion of the country matters.

00:27:29.260 Right? Sometimes you need to ignore the opinion of the country to get something done,

00:27:33.580 but this isn't one of those cases. This is one of those cases where listening to the public

00:27:39.340 might give you a little advantage. So I just want to go first in case anybody else was having the

00:27:46.140 same feeling. This is a little, it's a little too close to lawfare. It's all legal. It's all legal.

00:27:54.300 But just understand that when you get this close to power, everything changes

00:27:57.740 and you need, you need to adjust. You're, you're speaking to the change. This is something I learned

00:28:05.100 the hard way when I first became famous. Um, you know, I had the experience of being, you know,

00:28:11.100 ordinary citizen. And then suddenly the news was talking to me, talking about me a lot because of

00:28:16.860 Dilbert. And so I became a public figure. And what I didn't realize at the time is that you can't talk

00:28:24.540 the same way when you're a public figure. So all of the little opinions that I had when I was,

00:28:32.140 you know, literally just one of the anonymous people in the public, they were all fine.

00:28:38.140 So I could say, for example, that I was good at something and that I was bad at other things.

00:28:43.980 And people would say, oh, you're good at that. You're bad at that. Got it.

00:28:47.420 But once you become famous for doing something that's working out well, you can no longer say

00:28:53.020 you're good at something. Because if you are, you're like some egomaniac.

00:28:59.420 And I'd be thinking, wait a minute, it's just the same opinion I've always had. 0.99

00:29:03.100 But now it sounds gross. Now it sounds like I'm just an asshole. Oh, oh, you made it. But 1.00

00:29:09.420 isn't that nice? Yeah, you, you asshole. So 1.00

00:29:14.460 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

00:29:16.540 I've been visualizing my match all week. She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the

00:29:21.900 column behind her car on her backhand side. Good thing Claudia is with Intact, the insurer with the 1.00

00:29:28.060 largest network of auto service centers in the country. Everything was taken care of under one

00:29:32.540 roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time. I made it to my tournament and lost in the 0.99

00:29:37.980 first round. But you got there on time. Intact Insurance, your auto service ace. Certain conditions

00:29:43.900 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. 1.00

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? 1.00

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, 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 1.00

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. 1.00

00:32:00.220 So my advice to Elon Musk is, obviously, he's learned how to communicate as the richest person 1.00

00:32:08.140 in the world. Because he's had some practice. But he hasn't had a lot of practice being basically

00:32:16.460 a roommate in the Oval Office.

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.

00:32:37.340 All right.

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. 1.00

00:34:52.700 Anyway, let's talk about daylight savings time. Did you know, according to Andrew Huberman, PhD, 0.99

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 1.00

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 1.00

00:38:40.860 and do a good job of measuring the difference? Everybody else sounds dumb. 0.99

00:38:45.500 Because even if you're for it or against it, you probably are not that much against testing it. 0.99

00:38:55.020 That's the high ground.

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? 0.96

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, 1.00

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? 0.99

00:41:02.860 You don't have to do this. There's no fucking reason you have to do this. Oh, 0.96

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 1.00

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. 1.00

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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00:47:42.300 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.

00:48:59.000 That conversation's over.

00:49:03.240 So there you go. So here's the question.

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, 1.00

00:51:28.040 let their industry just run wild with AI, you're wrong. There will be no country that will allow AI

00:51:34.280 to be free because it's way too dangerous.

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. 1.00

00:51:54.120 I mean, incredible. 0.99

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, 1.00

00:52:47.240 mocking the other people at the table for being idiots. 1.00

00:52:49.800 That's the world I want to live in. Thank you. Thank you, Scott Jennings. And I say again, 1.00

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 1.00

00:53:26.600 not buy into all the left-leaning black American kind of standard stuff. He's more of the common 0.96

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 0.99

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 1.00

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.

00:56:05.000 Anyway, good job, Coleman.

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.

00:58:15.160 Did they really disagree?

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, 0.87

00:59:43.400 I think, was just telling you what happened. Because he's in the catbird's seat. So he could

00:59:51.000 just tell you what happened. I think she had to spin it a little bit. So I don't believe that Trump

00:59:57.640 successfully closed the Mexican border with one phone call. I don't believe that at all.

01:00:02.520 I do believe he probably ended the big groups, you know, the caravans, probably did that. And that

01:00:11.480 would be a big deal. But lots of work to do. But I'm only speculating what actually happened.

01:00:18.360 I saw Tucker Carlson was some video talking to somebody. And he said he might be interested in

01:00:29.880 a guest press room appearance. So he laughed at the idea that he would be the press secretary for

01:00:38.360 the president and, you know, do the briefings, because that would make no sense. Doesn't make

01:00:43.000 sense at his age or where his career is. So it doesn't make sense. But he did say he'd be open

01:00:51.080 to being a guest press spokesperson. So now there are two stories going on about the press room. One,

01:01:00.040 Don Jr. has confirmed that conversation has happened about adding maybe some independent

01:01:05.640 news people, such as you would think of as podcasters. But some of them are legitimately

01:01:12.920 independent investigative news people as well. And he's thinking of maybe get rid of some of the,

01:01:19.240 some of the, it's crowded room, you can't just add people. So he might get rid of some of the

01:01:24.440 standard ones and add some non-standard ones. You know what I think? Make the room a little bit bigger,

01:01:31.400 please. Or have two of them or something. I feel like they're making all the decisions based on the

01:01:38.680 size of a room. That's the wrong way to do it. It should be, what do you want to happen? And then

01:01:46.760 you find a place you can do that thing. It could be that your best situation is to have some big screens

01:01:54.200 so that by invitation, some independents can come in and just be on the wall and everybody can see

01:02:01.720 them and hear them. And they just ask their question from the wall TV. Now, not all the independents are

01:02:07.400 going to have a budget to send somebody to go sit down there just in case they have a press conference,

01:02:13.720 right? But they could all call into a number. So I'd like them to start with what they want to

01:02:20.920 accomplish and then figure out how to do it. I don't want them to start with our room is too small,

01:02:27.000 so we're going to have to get rid of Time Magazine to add Joe Rogan. How does that make sense?

01:02:33.480 Right? Remember, Trump is supposed to be the common sense president. Let's common sense this. Yes,

01:02:40.200 I would like to see Tucker come in one day. Yes, I would like to see the independent podcasters be

01:02:47.320 included. I don't need the people there to be excluded. I don't need them to get rid of CBS News.

01:02:55.560 So let's just do the common sense thing. Maybe just a little addition is the better idea.

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01:03:16.440 you're richer than you think. Anyway, so most of you by now have seen the clip of Kamala Harris when

01:03:23.960 she surfaced to say, don't let anybody steal your power after Trump had stolen all of her power.

01:03:32.280 Because nobody can steal your power as she sat there powerless because her power had been stolen.

01:03:40.120 But here's what's interesting about it. During the election, I would have said,

01:03:47.880 she's drunk as a skunk. And other people would say, maybe, maybe not. But didn't really make a big 1.00

01:03:53.960 deal about it. It was like, somehow, it didn't matter. But I feel that the at least the reaction

01:04:01.240 on the right of every single person who saw that video is that we could tell she was inebriated.

01:04:06.920 Would you agree that it is a common sense, common knowledge among the politically active right

01:04:18.280 that Kamala Harris has appeared inebriated on something a number of times in public, including

01:04:24.760 this one for sure? Is that fair to say? Because that kind of went from, I think that went from

01:04:30.680 basically just me saying it. Well, is that true? What was anybody else saying that she was appearing

01:04:42.120 in public drunk before I did? I don't remember anybody saying it before I did. Did anybody?

01:04:47.480 A public figure. I'm going to need a fact check on that. So one of you who has like a really good memory,

01:04:57.480 and you've watched all my shows, and you've also paid attention to the news. Were other people

01:05:04.520 saying she's obviously drunk before I did?

01:05:07.960 Well, you can watch the comments yourself and see if anybody did.

01:05:18.680 I know a lot of people were saying it at the same time, but did anybody say it before me?

01:05:24.280 Because I feel like I might have made it safe. I might have made it a little safer to say,

01:05:29.400 because, you know, hey, somebody else is saying it.

01:05:33.160 There's a little disagreement. I don't think we can tell for sure.

01:05:35.880 I'll tell you what. If you can find a post on X where somebody called it out before I did,

01:05:46.920 but you'd also have to find my first post. You know, it's hard to actually search for your own

01:05:51.640 posts. Have you found that? I don't think Grok does a good job of searching your own posts.

01:05:57.720 Anyway, I'm curious about that. The reason I'm curious is that I like to track

01:06:01.320 whenever I may have had some influence over a topic. And it's hard to know, because a lot of

01:06:09.960 things would happen by coincidence, and they could happen for lots of reasons. So the only way I would

01:06:16.120 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

01:06:24.040 difference. All right. So it doesn't matter, but it'd be nice to know.

01:06:30.680 Apparently, Ray Epps' defamation lawsuit against Fox News has been dismissed,

01:06:35.960 but without reasons that we've heard. I'm going to put this news item under the category of,

01:06:43.080 hmm, and it won't be the first one. I might have three stories in a row in which the only comment I

01:06:51.000 can make is, huh. Okay. So let me say it again. The federal judge just dismissed Ray Epps' defamation

01:06:58.520 lawsuit against Fox. Let's say he was claiming that Fox News was claiming he was a Fed.

01:07:06.520 So if he wasn't a Fed, which seems like something you could prove,

01:07:15.960 why would they drop it? Huh? Hmm. Just makes you go, hmm. Now, I've never claimed he's a Fed,

01:07:25.400 because I feel like that would be unfair because he's a citizen and innocent until proven guilty.

01:07:32.200 But why did that get dropped right after Trump gets elected? Hmm. Here's another one.

01:07:40.520 According to KABC, there was a fire in the Hollywood Hills, and they believe that a member of the

01:07:46.920 Rothschild family, Will Rothschild, was killed in the house fire. Hmm. Hmm. Well, that would be very

01:07:58.440 tragic, and I hope that nobody died in the fire, and I hope it was just wrong news. But Rothschild,

01:08:05.560 does that name come up recently? Hmm. And then there's the story about Al Sharpton,

01:08:13.480 who, as you know, was paid half a million dollars to his charity before he did a softball interview with

01:08:22.440 Kamala Harris, which of course would be a giant ethical problem with his own network. But

01:08:29.320 it seems like the most, as Megyn Kelly says, quote,

01:08:33.240 this is a massive ethical breach by Sharpton and MSNBC. There is zero question that Sharpton should be

01:08:40.600 fired for this, taking half a million dollar donation from a presidential campaign right

01:08:44.920 before you interview the candidate, and you don't disclose it. Please. Hmm. Hmm. Interesting.

01:08:56.600 So, do you think they have a DEI problem?

01:09:03.560 There's no way to know, but let me put it in these terms.

01:09:07.880 If Chris Hayes, who is also a host on MSNBC, if he had received a half a million dollars

01:09:20.280 from a candidate before giving a softball interview,

01:09:25.880 how fired would he be by now? Chris Hayes. He's a white guy. Very fired.

01:09:32.600 Very fired. Does anybody doubt that? Is there anybody here who thinks Chris Hayes could have

01:09:38.840 gotten away with that? And by the way, Chris Hayes, if you're listening, I got you back.

01:09:46.760 No, Chris Hayes would have been fired in like five minutes. But if you're the DEI network,

01:09:55.000 and you don't want to lose the few prominent black voices that you have, maybe you have some other

01:10:06.360 considerations. So what do I say about this story? Hmm. Hmm. Hmm. And that, ladies and gentlemen,

01:10:17.080 is all I have to do to say about the news and my prepared comments. I would like to take this

01:10:23.720 day of Thanksgiving to thank all of you for collectively boosting my signal,

01:10:34.520 allowing me to have this, what I consider a very social interaction.

01:10:40.920 And you're the coolest thing about my life right now. So this is what I like doing.

01:10:47.720 Um, I still like drawing my comics and stuff. So I'll keep doing that, of course. But this is what

01:10:54.840 I love. This is what I really love. And if I can help any of you get healthier, stronger, fitter,

01:11:04.120 better looking, calmer, have less ADHD, understand the news better, love your country a little bit

01:11:11.480 more. And of course, get your Dilbert 2025 calendar that you can only get at the link at Dilbert.com.

01:11:18.840 Um, then I'm down for it. So there'll be lots happening in the coming year. It's going to be

01:11:25.480 quite eventful. I promise you. And, uh, we're going to slay some dragons. Uh, I hear dragons are real,

01:11:34.120 according to Joe Rogan. By the way, I'm practically at the point of believing in dragons because some of

01:11:40.280 the shit I've seen in the last week, my God, I actually was sitting there the other day thinking, 0.97

01:11:47.640 maybe dragons are real. I mean, I mean, some of the things that I've seen have been incredible. 0.99

01:11:55.800 So big thank you to all of you. Um, I am expecting they'll do some live streaming, uh,

01:12:00.520 during the middle of the day. I don't have a time for that yet, but probably in and around the time

01:12:06.600 most of your family is gathered at your houses or whatever. And, uh, when I do the Thanksgiving one,

01:12:14.200 um, I will probably be demonstrating drawing a comic. So for the young people, uh, who might have some

01:12:21.400 art interest, I will teach them how to use the equipment I use. I use a computer input and, uh,

01:12:30.360 I will teach them how to write and I will teach them how to draw. This is something I do more

01:12:36.200 regularly on my, uh, for my local subscribers. They've seen this a few times, but I did something

01:12:43.400 that I don't know if that has ever happened before. The last time I did this, I actually, um,

01:12:51.000 showed the audience the writing of it before the drawing of it. Now, I don't know that anybody's

01:12:56.920 ever done that before because it's, it's doing comics is a lonely one person job.

01:13:04.840 Like if there's anybody else there, it's hard to do. So doing it publicly with an audience and coming

01:13:10.520 up with a joke and then executing it. And it was the Sunday that ran last Sunday. Uh, I think it came

01:13:16.200 out pretty well. So if you haven't seen a comic written and drawn from scratch,

01:13:23.800 it's kind of interesting, you know, if you have any interest in that domain. So if you've got any

01:13:27.560 young people, uh, look for the show, it'll be on X and YouTube and rumble and locals at the same time.

01:13:34.760 I'll be using the studio here. So we do it and it could be cool. So I hope everybody enjoys it.

01:13:41.480 All right, everybody. That's all I got for now. Um, I'm going to go talk to the locals people

01:13:47.800 privately for a minute and everybody else. I will see you later today. I hope.

01:13:53.800 All right. Locals are coming at you privately in 30 seconds.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 28, 2024

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