Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2691 CWSA 12⧸16⧸24

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00:01:04.400 Oh, so good.

00:01:07.960 Well, I have to start by saying that last night in the man cave that I do just for the subscribers to locals,

00:01:14.980 we discovered that you can make pictures of public figures using Grok, their new image generator.

00:01:24.420 And you could have those public figures appear to be very interested in each other.

00:01:31.760 Now, it's not going to do porn, but if you'd like to see a public figure making out with another public figure,

00:01:38.000 apparently you can do that because people were sending me a lot of images of me making out with Michelle Obama and a few other people.

00:01:50.660 So after that was done, I said to myself,

00:01:53.100 huh, I wonder how well this works.

00:01:57.140 So I started putting in the images of myself and other beautiful, famous woman just to see.

00:02:08.540 Now, it doesn't do anything, you know, that's beyond PG.

00:02:13.240 It's all PG rated or maybe G.

00:02:15.860 But it is weirdly fascinating to see how just picture perfect I can do of myself with another person I've never met in person.

00:02:28.500 It is scary.

00:02:30.460 So let me tell you.

00:02:33.040 Yeah, let me tell you the future is going to be wild.

00:02:38.400 Meanwhile, the X app is the number one news app at the moment.

00:02:42.940 Imagine being the one that the news wants to kill and he becomes the number one news app.

00:02:50.300 I like that.

00:02:51.760 But the problem is, as others have pointed out,

00:02:56.120 isn't X only the number one news app because it's where people go to make fun of all the news?

00:03:03.380 If all the mainstream news went away tomorrow,

00:03:07.300 there wouldn't be anything to talk about on X.

00:03:10.080 X wouldn't have anything.

00:03:11.360 It would just be independent people who look at the mainstream news and decide how true it is.

00:03:17.660 But if we didn't have any, there wouldn't be much to talk about.

00:03:21.660 So according to the New England Journal of Medicine,

00:03:27.300 if you're using AI as your doctor,

00:03:30.400 it could have even worse cognitive biases than the human doctors.

00:03:34.780 So they did a test and they found that depending on how you prime the AI,

00:03:41.280 what question you ask,

00:03:43.280 you might get a response that's a little biased,

00:03:46.460 even more biased than a human doctor.

00:03:49.660 So while AI seems to be an amazing thing for knowing what question to ask your doctor,

00:03:56.080 it's really good for that, by the way.

00:03:58.200 I don't think the doctors love it.

00:04:01.060 But if you want to just know if you're asking the right questions and did you leave anything out,

00:04:06.720 talk to AI before you have your doctor appointment.

00:04:09.820 It really makes a difference.

00:04:11.360 It's great.

00:04:12.200 It doesn't have all the exact answers yet,

00:04:14.500 but it certainly is a good way to check that you've covered all your bases.

00:04:18.640 According to the new Atlas publication,

00:04:26.380 chronic pain can be lowered by better quality diet, regardless of body weight.

00:04:31.600 So if you improve your diet, so you're not eating junk food,

00:04:35.260 junk food, junk food,

00:04:37.980 apparently,

00:04:40.140 apparently it makes your pain go less.

00:04:46.980 Now I have to admit,

00:04:49.060 that's not one I would have known if you had just asked Scott,

00:04:53.280 but it makes sense because a good diet will give you less full body inflammation.

00:04:59.640 And you would think that pain would be quite related to inflammation.

00:05:04.200 Depends on the pain, but mostly.

00:05:07.080 So yeah,

00:05:07.980 apparently eating well makes you feel good.

00:05:12.120 Surprise.

00:05:12.640 There's a study in Yahoo finance.

00:05:17.200 So older workers are the happiest workers.

00:05:21.300 You know why that makes sense?

00:05:23.240 The older workers are the happiest workers.

00:05:25.660 Because after a certain age,

00:05:29.040 you're just delighted that you have a job at all.

00:05:32.260 If you're over 65 and you have any kind of a job,

00:05:36.640 you're probably delighted.

00:05:38.460 You know,

00:05:38.780 it turns out a lot of people at that age don't even need the job.

00:05:41.940 It's just the only way they can have a social connection.

00:05:44.500 So they,

00:05:45.180 they love just having their social connection.

00:05:47.120 And,

00:05:47.520 and Hey,

00:05:48.120 a little,

00:05:48.600 little extra money doesn't hurt.

00:05:50.460 So that doesn't surprise me.

00:05:52.300 But what's interesting about worker happiness is that workers are happiest when they're youngest.

00:05:59.280 And when they're oldest,

00:06:00.620 people are the least happy in the prime of their life.

00:06:06.080 So during those child raising years,

00:06:09.500 not so good at all.

00:06:12.340 Nope.

00:06:12.820 Not so good.

00:06:13.480 So before you have children,

00:06:15.200 pretty happy after your children have moved down to the house,

00:06:18.440 pretty happy.

00:06:19.860 But,

00:06:20.420 uh,

00:06:20.700 raising children turns out it's hard to be happy.

00:06:24.400 There's a different kind of happiness though,

00:06:26.400 the,

00:06:26.700 when kids are in your life,

00:06:27.820 which most of you have experienced.

00:06:32.200 You have this funny experience where if you just took any parent and you say,

00:06:39.640 Hey,

00:06:39.900 excuse me,

00:06:40.740 are you a parent?

00:06:42.100 Well,

00:06:42.420 yes,

00:06:42.700 I've got a 10 year old and a 12 year old.

00:06:45.960 Uh,

00:06:46.240 and you say,

00:06:46.860 well,

00:06:47.220 how was the quality of your day today?

00:06:49.900 They'd say,

00:06:50.500 well,

00:06:52.100 not,

00:06:52.380 not great.

00:06:53.540 I got to drive this kid all over and one of them sick.

00:06:56.560 So I think I got their cold and,

00:06:58.360 and,

00:06:59.000 you know,

00:06:59.300 way too many things to do and I've got to work late,

00:07:02.060 but I also have to go to my kid's game.

00:07:03.780 It's,

00:07:04.180 it's a nightmare.

00:07:05.880 But if we asked them,

00:07:07.140 are you happy?

00:07:08.600 They would say,

00:07:10.920 Oh yeah,

00:07:11.540 I'm really happy.

00:07:14.460 So during the middle of your life,

00:07:16.100 if you have kids in your life,

00:07:17.480 you would find that people will self identify as happy because really glad they have kids and they have meaning and they have something important in their lives.

00:07:25.020 But it's really hard.

00:07:28.180 So the reason I'm talking about this is that,

00:07:31.060 uh,

00:07:31.380 we have this decline in birth rate and the,

00:07:36.960 the biggest reason there's a decline in birth rate,

00:07:39.360 in my opinion,

00:07:39.960 is it's just too damn hard to be a parent,

00:07:43.000 a parent.

00:07:44.120 Now I've been a,

00:07:45.660 just a step parent,

00:07:46.940 which usually is easier,

00:07:48.500 but I can tell you if I did not,

00:07:52.560 if I hadn't entered that when I'd already made money so that I could afford things like,

00:07:57.740 you know,

00:07:58.040 if somebody has to watch somebody or,

00:08:00.380 you know,

00:08:00.640 basically money makes everything easier,

00:08:02.980 obviously.

00:08:04.960 But if I didn't have money and I tried to have kids or step kids, 0.76

00:08:10.440 it looks really hard.

00:08:12.580 It looks really hard.

00:08:13.940 So,

00:08:15.320 uh,

00:08:15.640 we need to make it easier to be a parent.

00:08:17.460 I guess that's my bottom line there.

00:08:20.680 According to Global Newswire,

00:08:22.660 nanonuclear energy and Digihost technology are going to get together to make a micro reactor

00:08:28.440 in upstate New York.

00:08:30.940 They'll have a 60 milliwatts of power.

00:08:33.820 Now,

00:08:34.140 this is only interesting because the trend for micro nuclear reactors,

00:08:40.660 which I and all the smart people think are going to be the future.

00:08:43.760 And at the same time,

00:08:48.480 just more to that point,

00:08:50.660 the Palantir CTO is saying that the,

00:08:54.440 uh,

00:08:54.740 our fleet of ships,

00:08:57.000 seagoing ships,

00:08:58.280 um,

00:08:59.060 should be powered by nukes and that it would lower inflation.

00:09:03.500 Now there's an idea.

00:09:06.140 Imagine if the only thing we did was,

00:09:08.220 uh,

00:09:09.860 authorize and approve and build a ship or shipping container.

00:09:13.920 What would you call it?

00:09:14.620 Uh,

00:09:14.800 the big ships that have containers on.

00:09:17.840 Um,

00:09:18.400 if you turn those into micro nuclear,

00:09:20.480 the way where the way our nuclear submarines already work,

00:09:24.040 if we already have the technology and it's been working forever on nuclear

00:09:28.500 submarines,

00:09:29.400 would it be that much harder to put it on a tanker?

00:09:32.560 I'd worry more about pirates then,

00:09:34.520 but I suppose that's not the biggest problem in the world.

00:09:40.340 According to unusual whales and a fortune magazine,

00:09:44.960 uh,

00:09:45.640 first reported 55% of hiring managers notice employees juggling side gigs during

00:09:52.160 work hours 55% of your employees are doing a second job while they're on

00:09:59.760 your clock 55%.

00:10:02.900 Now that was always true.

00:10:05.660 You always had people doing side gigs,

00:10:08.300 but 55% the,

00:10:11.240 uh,

00:10:11.660 the character Wally in the Dilbert comic,

00:10:14.140 uh,

00:10:16.600 was patterned on one of my coworkers who used to sit in the cubicle behind me

00:10:21.400 and he would run a second business from his cubicle.

00:10:26.000 His first business was,

00:10:27.700 you know,

00:10:28.600 whatever the job was,

00:10:29.560 but he had,

00:10:30.380 he'd made a mistake with some,

00:10:31.880 uh,

00:10:32.160 confidential,

00:10:33.300 um,

00:10:34.400 with some confidential information.

00:10:36.860 And they said,

00:10:37.700 well,

00:10:37.800 we're not going to fire you because you've been a good employee except for

00:10:40.520 this one mistake,

00:10:41.420 but we can never promote you.

00:10:44.940 So he had a job where he could never be promoted and he was a young man.

00:10:48.540 So instead of doing his job,

00:10:51.840 you know,

00:10:52.900 and trying as hard as he could,

00:10:54.520 he just decided,

00:10:55.520 he just started a second business and he just ran his second business from

00:10:59.300 his cubicle.

00:11:00.260 He was doing lighting and was it lighting and sound?

00:11:03.380 I think it was mostly sound for big outdoor events.

00:11:06.580 So I'd hear him answer the phone under the name of his other company.

00:11:11.820 That's the funny part,

00:11:13.060 answering the phone as the other company.

00:11:14.980 Anyway.

00:11:18.440 Um,

00:11:18.840 yeah,

00:11:19.140 that's a pretty big problem.

00:11:20.240 I don't know how you would manage an employee without assuming that they

00:11:23.700 have a second job.

00:11:25.800 Um,

00:11:26.540 Kyle Bass,

00:11:27.540 who knows a lot about investing and he follows China.

00:11:32.180 He says,

00:11:32.580 China's economy is experiencing,

00:11:34.200 uh,

00:11:35.220 its largest financial collapse since 2002.

00:11:39.540 So bond yields are down and banks are,

00:11:42.620 he calls it,

00:11:43.240 he says insolvent and leveraged that 350% of reported GDP.

00:11:48.940 Now I saw in the comments,

00:11:51.140 somebody saying that that might be a little bit alarmist and that China is a

00:11:56.140 centralized economy and they have lots of tools that they can make sure their

00:11:59.980 banks don't fail and stuff like that.

00:12:02.440 So they're probably not,

00:12:04.320 you know,

00:12:04.540 it's not like they're minutes from falling off the edge of the earth or

00:12:07.780 anything.

00:12:08.900 But,

00:12:09.180 uh,

00:12:09.640 one more indication that China is not thriving.

00:12:14.380 Um,

00:12:15.180 there's a,

00:12:17.320 uh,

00:12:17.540 alarming report at the,

00:12:20.220 uh,

00:12:20.440 New York young Republicans club,

00:12:22.020 I guess,

00:12:22.520 uh,

00:12:23.320 a young advisor to president Trump,

00:12:25.280 a 27 year old named Alex,

00:12:27.120 uh,

00:12:27.800 Bruce.

00:12:28.160 It's,

00:12:28.740 I'd never heard of,

00:12:30.080 but he has apparently a good reputation.

00:12:32.220 People said good things about him,

00:12:33.760 but he was speaking,

00:12:34.980 uh,

00:12:35.480 on stage and he just started slurring his words as if maybe a stroke.

00:12:41.800 And then he just collapsed and like,

00:12:44.080 you know,

00:12:44.940 dragged down the whole lectern.

00:12:46.760 And so he,

00:12:48.220 I guess he came around backstage and he was,

00:12:52.900 you know,

00:12:53.120 alert and seemed okay.

00:12:54.560 But then,

00:12:55.360 uh,

00:12:55.660 reportedly he passed out again,

00:12:57.220 uh,

00:12:58.100 in the hospital,

00:12:58.960 run the way to the hospital.

00:12:59.800 So we don't know what's wrong with young Alex Bruzowicz,

00:13:04.140 but,

00:13:04.480 uh,

00:13:05.760 a lot of Republicans seem to like him and we wish him the best.

00:13:09.260 So keep an eye on that.

00:13:12.020 Um,

00:13:13.480 yeah,

00:13:13.800 some are saying it was dehydration.

00:13:16.240 I don't know.

00:13:18.060 Does dehydration cause you to slur your words?

00:13:22.220 Maybe.

00:13:23.040 I don't know.

00:13:24.900 Uh,

00:13:25.340 well,

00:13:25.640 CNN's getting some heat.

00:13:28.320 You know,

00:13:28.920 I saw this story and I kind of passed by it the first time.

00:13:34.200 So I remember seeing the video of CNN,

00:13:37.040 apparently being there when one of the notorious,

00:13:40.700 uh,

00:13:42.000 Syrian prisons was being liberated after the rebels took over from the

00:13:47.280 government.

00:13:48.060 And it showed one particular Syrian prisoner who was being freed.

00:13:52.360 And I remember people saying that he didn't look like he was a real

00:13:56.300 prisoner because he didn't look like he was,

00:13:59.040 you know,

00:13:59.700 damaged enough by the time in prison.

00:14:01.640 And now we find out that the alleged prisoner was actually one of the,

00:14:07.800 one of the prisons,

00:14:09.500 notorious torturers.

00:14:11.520 So he worked for the government.

00:14:13.140 He wasn't a prisoner.

00:14:14.420 He was apparently pretending to be a prisoner for the benefit of CNN's

00:14:18.380 cameras.

00:14:18.680 And so he just acted like he was being discovered in the prison.

00:14:25.800 Did that really happen?

00:14:28.880 Um,

00:14:30.160 it makes me wonder if the,

00:14:32.020 if the story that is fake news is entirely fake.

00:14:36.460 Do we know he wasn't just recently put in that prison?

00:14:39.240 Um,

00:14:39.680 I don't know.

00:14:41.760 I don't know.

00:14:45.460 Um,

00:14:46.260 so we'll keep an eye on that.

00:14:51.140 Uh,

00:14:52.280 did you know,

00:14:53.080 according to the report in the wall street journal,

00:14:55.240 that people will change their spending habits based on whether their

00:15:01.320 party is in power and won the election.

00:15:04.020 So when Democrats win the national election,

00:15:07.180 they spend more because they feel more optimistic and same with Republicans.

00:15:12.580 So at the moment,

00:15:13.380 Republicans are looking at more big ticket stuff like cars and houses,

00:15:17.440 uh,

00:15:18.600 because they have optimism about Trump.

00:15:23.140 And I have,

00:15:24.260 uh,

00:15:24.880 two comments about the Democrats.

00:15:27.140 Number one,

00:15:28.740 uh,

00:15:29.120 it's going to be tough to be a Democrat for a few more years because they

00:15:32.620 hated it.

00:15:33.140 The first time Trump was president,

00:15:34.680 they're probably not going to like it that much better this time.

00:15:38.140 Uh,

00:15:38.540 but I wonder,

00:15:39.440 does this make Democrats undateable for four years?

00:15:44.540 I wasn't planning to date one,

00:15:46.240 but if you're so unhappy that you're changing your spending habits and they do

00:15:53.080 seem to have genuine,

00:15:54.080 you know,

00:15:54.580 mental distress over this,

00:15:55.900 imagine if you're in the dating pool.

00:15:59.780 It seems like dating anybody who was a Democrat would be a bad deal right now

00:16:03.520 because they're all going to be unhappy and bitching about stuff.

00:16:07.820 If you,

00:16:08.500 if you were to date a Republican,

00:16:10.240 Hey,

00:16:11.800 how's it going?

00:16:12.440 Republican.

00:16:13.420 Great.

00:16:13.920 Looks like the golden golden age has kicked off.

00:16:17.060 Got any problems?

00:16:18.420 Uh,

00:16:19.280 none really.

00:16:19.940 That's worth mentioning.

00:16:21.360 Everything seems to be going great.

00:16:23.240 Have you caught the vibe?

00:16:24.380 The vibe is all positive.

00:16:25.940 A lot of unity going on.

00:16:28.100 Hey,

00:16:28.300 Democrat.

00:16:29.520 How are you doing?

00:16:31.240 Well,

00:16:32.240 it's the end of democracy.

00:16:35.260 We,

00:16:35.420 it hasn't happened yet,

00:16:36.600 but any moment now,

00:16:38.520 the big old orange monster will be stealing our democracy and our bodily

00:16:43.400 autonomy.

00:16:44.540 And,

00:16:45.060 uh,

00:16:45.340 we're all doomed.

00:16:46.340 We're all doomed.

00:16:49.200 So I'm going to say,

00:16:50.440 uh,

00:16:51.520 maybe,

00:16:51.980 maybe a little less dating of Democrats for four years.

00:16:56.300 Um,

00:16:56.940 so Trump,

00:16:59.740 for the first time ever,

00:17:01.160 his favorability ratings are higher than his unfavorability ratings,

00:17:04.800 according to,

00:17:05.700 uh,

00:17:06.680 RCP average daily wires talking about this.

00:17:12.060 The first time.

00:17:13.820 So did you know that never before has he had more people favorable than

00:17:17.660 unfavorable?

00:17:19.560 And you might ask yourself,

00:17:22.020 why is that?

00:17:24.420 What is he doing?

00:17:25.580 Right.

00:17:26.860 And the answer is everything.

00:17:30.500 Yeah.

00:17:31.120 As I said before,

00:17:32.040 he ran the greatest campaign,

00:17:34.260 uh,

00:17:35.060 even the people on the losing end are saying consistently,

00:17:38.820 okay,

00:17:39.760 the Republicans were really smart.

00:17:41.660 Trump ran a great campaign.

00:17:43.340 Okay.

00:17:43.680 What he did was smart.

00:17:44.960 Yeah.

00:17:45.500 And it's just one after another,

00:17:47.340 uh,

00:17:48.340 the people on the losing end are saying,

00:17:50.180 yep,

00:17:50.980 they just did better.

00:17:52.320 He was smarter.

00:17:53.500 Van Jones is saying it.

00:17:54.940 I've seen that Jessica Tarloff saying that it was brilliant to ship the

00:17:59.500 migrants to the blue cities.

00:18:01.220 So even the Democrats are noticing that the,

00:18:05.640 the side that looks for merit instead of identity did way better.

00:18:11.380 Let me say it again.

00:18:16.340 The team that says merit should be the thing you look at outperformed the team that says

00:18:23.560 identity should be the thing you look at.

00:18:28.760 What did they think was going to happen?

00:18:30.960 As I've said before,

00:18:35.020 DEI destroys everything it touches and it destroys the fastest and hardest.

00:18:41.520 Whatever DEI touches soonest and most aggressively.

00:18:46.180 And that would be the Democrats.

00:18:48.040 The entire Democrat party was soon.

00:18:50.740 You know,

00:18:50.980 they,

00:18:51.180 they were fast on the DEI and most aggressive because people are watching and it,

00:18:56.720 it's completely destroyed just as the theory would suggest.

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00:20:00.460 But, I saw a podcast, it looked like a Democrat pollster who was doing some focus groups.

00:20:12.260 And what the focus groups were saying, and it was a focus group of people who had been

00:20:18.340 non-Trump supporters, usually Democrats, and had voted for him for the first time.

00:20:25.060 So, they didn't vote for him in the first two elections, but this time they did.

00:20:31.820 And so, the question is, why now?

00:20:34.360 Why would you change your mind now?

00:20:36.620 And, do you know why?

00:20:39.360 The reason is not surprising, but it was kind of encouraging.

00:20:45.920 Here's the reason that Democrats, at least, and it's a focus group, so it's not a scientific

00:20:51.160 poll, but several people said the same thing, which is meaningful to me, that they were

00:20:57.880 a little unsure about Trump still, but they liked that he picked RFK Jr.

00:21:03.680 So, RFK Jr.

00:21:06.380 Did move votes, because his credibility, and people liked his topic, especially the food

00:21:13.340 and the, you know, making sure our drugs are safer.

00:21:15.620 So, RFK Jr.'s message was so strong, and he was so credible, that when he said, you know

00:21:23.280 what, I can work with Trump, as long as I can get my stuff done, and then Trump helps him

00:21:28.500 get his stuff done.

00:21:31.040 People loved that.

00:21:33.600 And I love it, too.

00:21:36.140 Because one of my biggest issues was our food supply, and I didn't see anything that was

00:21:41.040 going to be done by just Republicans.

00:21:42.520 So, you throw RFK Jr. in there, and I'm like, whoa, you suddenly went from most of the things

00:21:49.640 I like, but not even my top issue.

00:21:52.820 Didn't even get my top issue.

00:21:54.860 My number one issue.

00:21:57.180 But now they got it.

00:21:58.720 Now they got my top issue, food.

00:22:02.380 And they got all the other issues, too.

00:22:04.780 So, you throw that in there, you throw in Elon Musk, and, you know, basically the argument

00:22:11.460 is that Trump assembled the Democrats of the 1990s, because even Trump was a Democrat in

00:22:18.040 the 90s.

00:22:19.560 So, yeah, between, you know, David Sachs and Tulsi Gabbard and Bill Ackman, he's not on the

00:22:27.540 team, but he's, you know, switch sides.

00:22:29.400 Joe Rogan, switch sides, not on the team.

00:22:32.380 But, yeah, it looks like this pirate ship idea of bringing people from more than one

00:22:39.640 group together is having a modeling effect on the public.

00:22:44.600 So, when the public sees that these public figures can work together, you know, being

00:22:49.160 as diametrically opposed as you could possibly be in general, but when they add something

00:22:54.860 they both agree on, they could work together, that is really unifying.

00:22:59.820 That's as unifying as you could possibly get.

00:23:02.760 I don't want everybody to agree with me.

00:23:05.540 I want people who do agree on the things that we do agree on to work on that, you know.

00:23:12.980 And if that's the only thing Trump gets unity on is that, yeah, for the things we agree

00:23:17.680 on, well, we could work with that, like the border, for example.

00:23:20.340 So, that'd be amazing.

00:23:22.300 It'd be better than anything we've ever seen in this country, really.

00:23:27.560 So, the pirate ship is working.

00:23:31.700 Meanwhile, Trump continues to do what I call the new CEO move, to make a good first impression

00:23:37.460 and hit the ground running, as they say, and to make it look like he's just succeeded before

00:23:42.460 he even starts.

00:23:44.200 Now, succeeding before you've started is just so strong persuasion.

00:23:49.520 It's just completely baller.

00:23:52.920 And so, now the SoftBank CEO, Masa Sun, is going to visit the U.S. today and he's going

00:24:02.720 to make an announcement with Trump.

00:24:06.600 So, I love my de facto president.

00:24:09.980 I love the fact that the world is treating Trump like the one they need to talk to.

00:24:14.320 They understand he's de facto president, not regular president, but still, everybody's

00:24:19.880 just using common sense.

00:24:22.040 And what is the Biden administration complaining about so far?

00:24:26.440 They're not.

00:24:28.280 I don't know why.

00:24:30.120 You do kind of expect them to complain a little bit that Trump's acting like a president.

00:24:35.640 But I feel like they get it, too.

00:24:39.340 You know, somebody needs to act like a president, and they don't have anybody who can do it.

00:24:45.200 So, apparently, SoftBank CEO is going to put a $100 billion investment in the U.S.

00:24:52.840 focused on building out AI.

00:24:55.760 Thinks he can create 100,000 jobs.

00:24:57.980 Somebody was saying that's no big deal, $100 billion, $100,000 jobs.

00:25:03.980 Somebody smarter said, no, that's just the first order.

00:25:08.540 $100,000 jobs creates $100,000 people to buy stuff.

00:25:12.920 So, $100,000 new consumers, you know, all the supply chain that would supply these businesses.

00:25:20.500 It's big.

00:25:21.900 $100 billion might be a multiplier to something like half a trillion.

00:25:27.980 When it's all done.

00:25:30.980 Well, let's talk about those drones.

00:25:32.900 You know you love them.

00:25:34.100 You love the drones.

00:25:36.860 So, Adam Kinzinger, who you know as being famous for not really being good at anything in politics.

00:25:46.200 He may have been good in the military.

00:25:48.500 I wouldn't know.

00:25:49.980 But he's really bad at politics.

00:25:52.240 So, he used to be a Republican, changed sides, became the worst, worst politician in the world.

00:26:00.400 So, he's a pilot.

00:26:02.700 And he says he's spent time looking at all the videos of the drones.

00:26:06.800 And he says they're all airplanes.

00:26:09.800 They're all airplanes.

00:26:12.540 So, what was he looking at?

00:26:15.360 Do you think he looked at all the videos?

00:26:19.280 Or do you think that somebody got to him and said, Adam, tell him it's all airplanes?

00:26:27.980 Because they're obviously not all airplanes.

00:26:30.840 They're really obviously not all airplanes.

00:26:36.120 According to hundreds, if not thousands, if not millions of observers.

00:26:42.860 So, he thinks it could be a mass hysteria.

00:26:45.720 And he points out that there's nothing illegal about flying over a military base and that anybody can do it.

00:26:54.800 Now, that's the first time I've heard that.

00:26:57.280 Do you believe that's true?

00:26:59.560 Do you believe that it's legal to fly over a military installation?

00:27:04.420 Obviously, it's going to depend on which one.

00:27:06.400 I don't think you can fly over all of them.

00:27:08.360 But are there some of them, say, in a metropolitan area where it's no big deal?

00:27:15.000 It's just one other thing that's on the ground?

00:27:18.140 So, I'm going to put a question mark next to that one.

00:27:21.480 I don't know that you can always fly over them.

00:27:23.860 But maybe if you're, let's say if you're a commercial airline, you've got a flight plan, you're a trusted entity, maybe?

00:27:32.600 I don't know.

00:27:34.080 So, I've got a question on that one.

00:27:37.580 All right.

00:27:38.360 So, he thinks that if anything, if drones are involved at all, it's probably just some tests.

00:27:45.660 But it's way more activity than just some tests.

00:27:50.280 So, I'm going to rule that one out.

00:27:52.260 I did a little research because I was trying to figure out what is the lowest height that these aircraft should be at, if they're regular aircraft.

00:28:03.040 So, a regular aircraft, if it's over a populated area, is not supposed to be below 1,000 feet of the highest thing that's nearby.

00:28:15.640 So, whatever is the highest building that's in the immediate neighborhood, they have to be at least 1,000 feet above the highest nearby building.

00:28:24.860 If they're in a sparsely populated place, they could go down as low as 500 feet.

00:28:32.820 And if they were over, let's say, an ocean, and, you know, it's a private plane or something over an ocean, they could go even lower than 500 feet because there's nobody there anyway.

00:28:44.660 Will I debate you on the thing I already agree with?

00:28:53.220 No.

00:28:54.460 But thanks for asking.

00:28:55.760 So, keep that in mind.

00:29:03.460 I mentioned that because yesterday, was it yesterday?

00:29:07.440 I drove home from walking the dog.

00:29:10.280 Yes, I drive to where I walk the dog because there's a good place to walk the dog, but it's hard to walk to it.

00:29:17.540 Anyway, I look up and there was a really large jet.

00:29:22.320 It looked like a private jet, but one of the biggest ones, you know, like a billionaire private jet.

00:29:29.400 And it was going directly over my house, and I'd never seen a jet that low.

00:29:37.000 To me, it looked like it was lower than 1,000 feet.

00:29:42.300 Has anybody had the experience of, let's say, a daytime jet that you thought was lower than you've seen in the past?

00:29:50.820 Or am I imagining it?

00:29:53.360 Do you think it's just my imagination because I'm sort of tuned to it, and so my reticular activators are just picking it up, and I wouldn't have even noticed before?

00:30:02.420 But it was a big jet, and it was low enough so I could see all the details of the components of the jet.

00:30:09.120 Now, that's too low, right, for a jet?

00:30:14.980 When was the last time you had a jet go over you, unless you were right next to an airport?

00:30:19.900 When was the last time you had one go over where you could see all the parts, like in detail?

00:30:24.900 Well, I think it was closer than 1,000 feet, but I don't know what 1,000 feet looks like, really.

00:30:32.620 So I don't know what's going on there, but Robert Malone, you remember Robert Malone from the pandemic?

00:30:40.660 He was one of the inventors of the mRNA platform, and he became anti—I won't say anti-vax, but a cautious person about that whole thing.

00:30:54.260 But his hypothesis is that it's a federal PSYOP, and that the point of the PSYOP is to get a law passed.

00:31:10.380 And apparently there's a law being considered that would put lots of regulations on personal drones.

00:31:20.180 Huh.

00:31:21.560 What do you think?

00:31:22.980 Do you think it's a PSYOP so that everybody in the country says, no, we can't have drones running around uncontrolled?

00:31:31.940 Just at the same time that the government is considering—I think it's extending something that's already there.

00:31:39.740 But the government is considering the question of how much to regulate drones that are owned by individuals.

00:31:47.380 So as they're considering how much to regulate drones, we have a drone crisis all over the country that's scaring the public.

00:31:57.360 Could it be that the entire thing is a psychological operation to make sure that the military has clamped down on any drones that they don't own so it's easier to protect the country?

00:32:10.500 Because you wouldn't want to say to the country, hey, we're going to take your drones away because they can be turned into weapons. 0.99

00:32:17.400 And then all the people who like guns are going to say, you're not going to take my guns and you're not going to take my drone that I can weaponize.

00:32:28.960 Why? In case I need to weaponize it.

00:32:32.140 That's why. In case I need to weaponize it, I want to be able to.

00:32:37.080 Because, you know, the government.

00:32:40.580 So what do you think?

00:32:42.160 Do you think that it's a major psyop?

00:32:49.840 Yeah, I see my YouTube is down, but it looks like it came back up.

00:32:55.780 Do you think it's a major psyop and that the military or the government is trying to make us afraid of drones?

00:33:03.340 So we'll favor our government banning drones or at least banning anything that would look dangerous as a drone.

00:33:09.560 And I'm going to say maybe.

00:33:14.280 But it doesn't really match, you know, my experience of life.

00:33:21.420 It doesn't match it.

00:33:23.100 It's not impossible.

00:33:25.020 It's not impossible.

00:33:26.820 But it doesn't really match what I think.

00:33:29.680 Here's what I think.

00:33:31.080 I think if it were a psyop, it wouldn't be so extensive.

00:33:35.820 And it also wouldn't be in every country.

00:33:37.940 Because we're getting reports from all over the world about too many drones.

00:33:44.560 So, I don't know.

00:33:47.760 I would say I'll put that third or fourth on the list of possibilities.

00:33:52.800 But I'll tell you my current drone theory, if you haven't heard it, I have updated it.

00:34:13.420 I have abandoned the idea that they're looking for radiation or chemical weapons.

00:34:21.400 Now, the radiation part I abandoned because I just happened to know somebody who worked in that field.

00:34:27.400 And the person who worked in the field, Tom Sauer, says, you know, trust me, I have experience in the field.

00:34:38.700 Because apparently he searched for WMDs when he was in the service.

00:34:42.480 And there are ways to look for radiation.

00:34:47.000 But without giving too much away about the way we do things, I'll just say it wouldn't be this way.

00:34:54.240 So, in other words, if you had complete access to the ground, you know, it's America.

00:35:00.760 So, they have access to the ground.

00:35:02.500 The last thing you would do is try to fly over it to get the radiation signal.

00:35:07.440 You might fly over it, but you'd mostly have stuff on the ground because you want to, you know, really get close to the source.

00:35:15.940 So, it's very unlikely that these drones have some kind of souped up radiation detectors at the height they are.

00:35:25.420 So, if you're going to be 1,000 feet in the air, your detecting isn't going to be that great.

00:35:30.220 So, probably not.

00:35:32.600 It's probably not about detecting anything.

00:35:37.240 So, here's my current theory.

00:35:39.940 I'll start with my assumptions, see which ones you agree with.

00:35:43.520 By the way, the thing I'm going to read to you, I posted.

00:35:46.600 And last I checked, I had 800,000 reposts.

00:35:52.120 And Marjorie Taylor Greene said it sounded like a good hypothesis.

00:35:57.540 And I've never seen more positive comments.

00:36:03.380 So, almost everybody who reposted it said, oh, this is very feasible.

00:36:08.600 This might be the answer.

00:36:10.220 And it might be.

00:36:11.580 So, this is based on my personal talent stack, which I improved by 5% by listening to somebody who knows about how you search for radiation.

00:36:22.400 So, I had zero knowledge about how to search for radiation yesterday.

00:36:27.920 And now I have a little bit.

00:36:30.000 Just a little bit.

00:36:31.300 Enough to deal with this question.

00:36:33.300 But, I'm also the Dilbert guy.

00:36:38.560 So, I'm really tuned in to just how any big organization gets anything done.

00:36:44.260 So, I'm going to use my filter as the guy who knows how any big organization does any big thing.

00:36:50.920 And it's going to explain everything.

00:36:53.220 Okay?

00:36:53.360 So, here's my assumptions.

00:36:56.960 Number one, the future of warfare is drones.

00:37:01.600 Everybody agrees, right?

00:37:03.020 The future of warfare is drones.

00:37:06.440 Also, it's going to happen really fast.

00:37:10.400 Well, it is happening.

00:37:11.560 It's happening right now.

00:37:12.480 And whoever can most quickly increase their drone assets is in the best shape.

00:37:20.020 The United States always is running fast to be the best military power in the world.

00:37:28.100 So, if you know that drone warfare is the future, and you know it's right now, like when I say the future, it's like now, now, now, now.

00:37:36.500 Really, really urgent.

00:37:38.040 You know you've got several hotspots.

00:37:39.860 You've got the Ukraine war.

00:37:43.220 You might want to have some leverage there.

00:37:45.420 You know, the Middle East is a mess. 1.00

00:37:46.900 Iran is a big question mark. 0.98

00:37:48.780 You really, really want to have lots of drones.

00:37:52.220 And you want to be the unambiguous leader in the good ones.

00:37:57.000 Now, we also know that we have a drone pilot shortage.

00:38:02.440 So, what happens if you know you need lots and lots and lots of drones, but you don't have enough pilots?

00:38:08.460 Obviously, you would do massive training of pilots, and you would do it as soon as possible.

00:38:15.420 Now, I'd like to make a comment for the NPCs.

00:38:18.760 We're going to be piling in to make a comment.

00:38:21.900 Go.

00:38:23.140 NPCs, this is where you shine.

00:38:25.760 Say the most obvious thing that you say in this situation.

00:38:30.120 I know it's going to appear.

00:38:31.800 Who's the first NPC?

00:38:32.840 NPCs, you're going to say it.

00:38:36.200 Wait for it.

00:38:38.720 They're trading pilots to run the drones.

00:38:41.700 Go.

00:38:42.680 Come on.

00:38:43.300 I'm disappointed.

00:38:44.640 There's got to be at least one NPC watching this.

00:38:47.900 All right.

00:38:48.360 I'll do it for you.

00:38:49.280 The NPC says, oh, but Scott, don't you know that the drones are autonomous, and they don't

00:38:57.480 need any pilots, and they're run by the AI and stuff?

00:39:01.720 That's what you're supposed to say.

00:39:04.380 It's the most obvious thing to say, to act like you're a little bit smarter than me. 1.00

00:39:08.840 You're so dumb. 1.00

00:39:09.900 You don't know they don't need pilots. 1.00

00:39:11.860 Nobody needs any pilots for their drones. 0.53

00:39:15.180 Okay.

00:39:15.680 Here's what's true. 0.98

00:39:16.440 There's not one kind of fucking drone. 0.98

00:39:20.460 There are lots and lots of different kinds of drones. 0.99

00:39:23.800 Some are only piloted by humans, such as if you're an infantry person, you had a little

00:39:30.560 handheld drone, and you just wanted to see the enemy on the other side of the hill.

00:39:35.120 That would not be an AI drone.

00:39:37.180 That would just be one you operate, and it would be completely piloted by a human, but

00:39:40.680 that's not what we're talking about.

00:39:41.860 Secondly, there would be, of course, some drones that are basically fire and forget, meaning

00:39:50.900 that you might put in the coordinates, but then once it goes, it's just going to do its

00:39:56.780 thing and maybe be a suicide drone. 0.99

00:39:58.360 But that still requires a pilot in the limited sense that somebody had to pick the target,

00:40:06.200 program the drone, know which drone they were dealing with, make sure it was safe to launch,

00:40:11.860 and then probably at some point make some human decisions when the drone reaches its target

00:40:17.560 of whether that's still really a good target or maybe they need to jog over and do some other

00:40:24.100 thing before they get there.

00:40:25.220 Who knows?

00:40:26.740 So my presumption is we're not anywhere near getting rid of pilots for drones.

00:40:33.840 How many of you will agree with me so far?

00:40:39.920 What does Musk say?

00:40:43.700 Big drone wars are coming.

00:40:47.560 Yeah, so Elon Musk was saying that we haven't seen how big the drone wars are going to be.

00:40:52.580 It's going to be epic.

00:40:53.200 So we know we need pilots.

00:40:56.460 We know we don't have enough.

00:40:58.640 We know we're going to need massive drone buildup, and we know there's no such thing

00:41:02.880 as having enough drones.

00:41:04.500 No such thing as having enough drones.

00:41:07.360 There's no such thing as having enough drones.

00:41:12.200 Because whoever has the most wins every drone battle, you know, if they have good ones.

00:41:16.820 So we should be absolutely in a panic mode in the military, manufacturing drones as fast

00:41:26.800 as we can manufacture drones.

00:41:29.480 So far, do you follow the assumptions?

00:41:33.240 Assumption drone wars are for sure.

00:41:35.700 We need them right away.

00:41:37.160 We must be manufacturing them like crazy.

00:41:39.460 And we need a lot of pilots, even if the pilot is just putting in the coordinates.

00:41:44.720 Somebody needs to do it.

00:41:45.780 So, put all that together.

00:41:51.880 Where would you train if you had new drones with new technology, and you had to quickly

00:41:57.760 train lots and lots of people?

00:42:00.140 Well, NPCs, go.

00:42:02.140 So, this is another NPC place.

00:42:07.040 So, if you're an NPC, and I say these might be training missions, you say, Scott, let me

00:42:15.900 tell you with my vast NPC knowledge that if you're going to have a training facility, it's

00:42:20.960 not going to be over the densest populated place in the country.

00:42:25.560 It's not going to be there.

00:42:27.120 It would be in a remote location.

00:42:28.960 And then you could test all day in your remote location.

00:42:34.240 Here's why that's not smart.

00:42:38.840 That would be if you needed to do a little bit of training for a few drones.

00:42:45.360 Yes, I agree with you.

00:42:46.500 If you were going to do a little bit of training for a few drones, and you weren't in any hurry,

00:42:52.920 you would find a nice remote location, and you would do all your training for your handful

00:42:58.340 of pilots in that one place.

00:43:02.080 However, if you decided that drones are the future of warfare, there's no such thing as

00:43:08.700 too many drones.

00:43:09.800 You're making them as fast as you can, and you don't have enough pilots for them.

00:43:13.940 What do you do then?

00:43:15.880 Do you wait until you've got a nice remote place and move all of the assets that you need

00:43:20.340 for testing, which would include a battleship, or not a battleship, but some aquatic military

00:43:29.160 asset that they can launch it from, because most of them are launched from ships.

00:43:35.100 So you need someplace that's close enough to the coast.

00:43:37.900 So that rules down a lot of your remote locations.

00:43:42.820 You need, ideally, all right, here's where my Dilbert experience comes in.

00:43:47.500 You've got brand new drones, a new, let's say, new class of drones, and they're being, and

00:43:53.900 people are being trained on them.

00:43:55.620 Who has to be there for the whole thing?

00:43:58.840 The manufacturer.

00:44:00.440 The manufacturer of the drones has to be wherever they're being tested, in a big way.

00:44:05.620 It's not like, just send a guy.

00:44:08.100 It's not like, well, we sent one of our engineers to your remote location.

00:44:12.560 You know, just ask Bob if you have a problem.

00:44:14.560 No, they would put massive staff anywhere there's being testing and training.

00:44:20.900 They would be doing the training, actually.

00:44:23.260 And they would do it not just in a remote location, but NPCs, here's where you get your

00:44:29.940 minor win.

00:44:31.320 Yes, they would test some drones in remote locations.

00:44:34.100 But what else would they do?

00:44:36.780 If they have massive need for training and massive need for drones, what else would they

00:44:41.780 do?

00:44:42.920 They would train right here, because it's the fastest, and everything's here.

00:44:49.320 If you train on the drones in New Jersey, what do you have?

00:44:53.140 You've got the fleet, so you can fly from ships and ocean, because the ships are here, and

00:44:59.360 it's their home base, I guess.

00:45:01.540 You have military bases that you can fly back and forth to, which is very much what you'd

00:45:07.040 be doing with a drone, sometimes transporting, but other times just finding a target.

00:45:12.120 And you would be going over lots of residential areas, and it would be easier, it would be

00:45:19.340 probably far more beneficial to train where there's a lot going on in the ground, so that

00:45:25.880 you could recognize things at night.

00:45:27.840 And you would also probably train at night, because most of the missions would be at night,

00:45:33.800 because if they turn their lights off, they're hard to see, and therefore hard to shoot down.

00:45:38.900 Now, if you're only 1,000 feet up, so give me a fact check on this.

00:45:44.180 If you're 1,000 feet in the air, and you're a drone, can you be hit by small arms fire?

00:45:52.840 Can somebody just put their machine gun in the air and just start shooting in your general

00:45:58.040 direction if you're a drone and you're only 1,000 feet in the air?

00:46:02.420 So it seems to me that they have the option of turning on lights if they're operating in

00:46:07.260 America, and they have the option of turning off the lights if they're in a danger zone.

00:46:13.860 So they would train at night, because that would be the best time to do missions, and

00:46:19.560 they would train in the United States, even in populated areas, because that's where all

00:46:24.200 their assets are for training.

00:46:25.940 That's where the manufacturer is, it's where the base is, it's where the Navy is just off

00:46:30.580 the coast. So what you should see is on both coasts of the United States, lots and lots of

00:46:38.740 drones in the air, because the coasts are where you have all the assets and you can kind of

00:46:44.780 test stuff fast if you're doing it massively.

00:46:48.360 And again, if you only had a few pilots and a few drones, and you weren't in any big hurry,

00:46:53.700 you would go to some remote desert location and train as long as you wanted. We're not in that

00:47:00.140 situation. We're in the, we need as many as we can get right away. Training is critical as fast as you

00:47:06.800 can. You would do that in the coast, because that's where all the assets are. More importantly,

00:47:12.980 if one of these drones goes down, you don't want it to be on a foreign country, because they're going 1.00

00:47:17.780 to get a hold of it first, and they're going to reverse engineer it, because you can't trust the

00:47:22.600 other country, even an allied country. You couldn't trust them totally. So everything makes 0.93

00:47:27.900 sense for training. And then you're going to say, but why would you do it over in an urban area?

00:47:35.380 To which I say, have you noticed that when people say they're hovering, it's never over their house

00:47:42.180 in an urban area? But if they're passing by, it is often over an urban area. So my guess would be

00:47:50.200 that the drones are as, let's say, as good a quality as all the other aircraft that can fly over

00:47:59.320 your city. So if a regular aircraft can fly over your city, and a drone has the same, let's say,

00:48:07.280 reliability, and it's not in war, and it's not doing any, it's not doing any maneuvers, it's just flying

00:48:12.420 over, that that would be allowed. As far as I know, that's completely legal to fly over a city with a

00:48:19.280 drone that's obeying all the rules. It's high enough and low enough. It's got the lights on,

00:48:26.680 and maybe it registered its flight path or whatever it has to do. So when you hear they're doing things

00:48:34.020 like hovering, which might be misidentified, by the way, sometimes it might look like it's hovering.

00:48:39.540 It's only because it's coming in your direction from a distance, from a great distance. It would look

00:48:44.280 like it's stationary. So some of it might be misinterpretation. But my guess is, if what

00:48:50.320 they're doing is training, they might be doing the dangerous stuff over the ocean, just like you would

00:48:56.000 want them to do, you know, see if you could do figure eights and whatever. But if you need to just

00:49:01.520 go back to base, let's say to get charged up or deliver something, you're just going a straight line

00:49:08.500 at the height you should. And maybe that's what people see in the cities. So no real danger,

00:49:14.160 as far as I can tell, because they're not sending up experimental drones over the city. They would be

00:49:21.260 sending up things that are really, really, really well flight tested and not in any specific danger.

00:49:26.700 There's nobody shooting at them. All right.

00:49:30.360 So we're ruling out sniffing for radiation because it's just not the way you would do it. It wouldn't

00:49:38.300 be optimal for that. And the other thing is, we've heard that the flights seem to stop around 11 p.m.

00:49:45.600 every night, but they've been going for months. What possible thing would you do that you would do

00:49:53.160 massively as soon as it's dark, but you'd be done by 11 p.m.? That really suggests training.

00:50:00.360 Because if they were sniffing for, if they were looking for terrorists or looking for something,

00:50:06.820 they would do it after 12. If it were some, if it were such a national emergency that they would

00:50:12.880 put this much energy into it, they would work after midnight because it would be something existential

00:50:19.420 to at least New Jersey. If they're taking you off at 11 saying, all right, looks like it's quitting time.

00:50:25.460 I'll see everybody, uh, not in the morning, not in the morning, but rather when it gets dark again,

00:50:31.920 that sounds like business as usual to me. So, and, and even if you look at the theory that it's a

00:50:42.120 PSYOP, even a PSYOP, you could save a lot of money compared to what they're doing.

00:50:47.480 If what you wanted to do was a PSYOP where you've got lots of, you know, lots of drones in the air,

00:50:53.660 did you need 50? Did you need 50? No, not really. You could do a PSYOP with three drones

00:51:02.340 and you just have those three drones buzz one city that's near, near enough to DC that somebody hears

00:51:10.140 about it. Um, I see your question, ex boss man, but I'm not going to repeat it. It is funny.

00:51:22.880 All right. I'm going to repeat it because it's funny. Yeah. In the comments, somebody used the, uh,

00:51:29.760 the impolite word for people who are shorter than average, um, but said that the, that there seems to

00:51:39.060 be a shortage of little people. Are we sure we're, are we sure that the little people that we saw more

00:51:45.560 often in public have not just become drew and drone pilots, which is actually, it's like funny,

00:51:56.040 but the more you think about it, the more you think, well, why not? I mean, if jockeys,

00:52:03.340 if you pick jockeys because of their weight and their height, wouldn't you also pick drone pilots,

00:52:11.280 if you had a tiny little drone, wouldn't you also pick them by their height and weight?

00:52:17.080 And if the little person was, you know, fully functional in every way except height,

00:52:23.840 and you've got a 10 foot long, uh, drone, maybe, I don't think that's the thing, but

00:52:31.960 all right. So if it's true, they're really stopping at about 11 o'clock every night. I would

00:52:38.340 think that that's pretty good evidence that it's a training, a training mission. So the only thing

00:52:43.960 that seems unusual is the quantity of it. And I disagree with, um, Kinzinger. Um, I, I had the

00:52:52.860 same experience as Kinzinger and I want you to hear this clearly, right? Because later if you,

00:52:58.460 if, if, if I get something wrong and later you attack me, I want to, I want to make sure you hear

00:53:02.820 this part. I have personally seen no video that looked like anything, but an airplane.

00:53:12.300 Some video I've seen that clearly were not airplanes, but were far more likely a artifact of how it was

00:53:19.360 filmed. Or sometimes they came from years ago. Um, sometimes you can't tell what the source is,

00:53:26.100 but everything that had a source I can identify, they look like normal aircraft to me. Now what

00:53:35.940 people say is, no, Scott, what you're noticing, what you're not seeing is how many of them are,

00:53:41.480 there are acting strange and how low they are and they, and they're loud, et cetera, but I'm not there

00:53:47.400 in person. So my, my belief that these are not regular airplanes is based on credible people,

00:53:56.780 you know, people in the, in one case, somebody I know personally, um, who say, no, I stood there.

00:54:04.140 Trust me, they're definitely not airplanes. So I don't believe any of the videos because I personally

00:54:11.220 have never seen any credible video of anything that looked anything, but the commercial airplane

00:54:17.200 with a person running it. Now there might've been some hobby drones that look like hobby drones,

00:54:23.240 but that's not what the problem is. So as clearly as I can, let me say, I haven't seen anything that

00:54:30.540 looks like the drone. I've only seen things that look like airplanes to me, but I do trust.

00:54:38.840 I do trust the reports because you saw the reporter for news. I think it was news nation reporter

00:54:45.620 said, Oh, I was poo-pooing it myself until I saw it myself. Like, Oh, I'm completely convinced

00:54:50.860 there's something going on here. So those are the people that I'm choosing to believe at the moment.

00:54:59.660 Could all of those trustworthy people be in some kind of, uh, you know, um, mass hysteria?

00:55:07.680 Yes. Yes, I could. I think it's unlikely though. I'm usually the one who's the first one to say

00:55:16.380 mass hysteria. If you've been following me for a while, you know that I jumped to mass hysteria right

00:55:21.900 away for stuff like this, but I'm not there on this one. I wouldn't say I wouldn't never be there.

00:55:28.780 However, it wouldn't take a lot to push me into mass hysteria, but I'm not there yet. I think it's

00:55:37.980 just training, but it does suggest that there would be a big battle that we're expecting. And I expect

00:55:43.780 that that might have something to do with Iran. So we'll see. Uh, meanwhile, Mitt Romney had some good

00:55:51.400 things to say about, uh, Trump's success. Um, Mitt Romney was on some, he was talking to Grace today

00:55:58.940 on CNN. And he said, uh, that the Republican party is basically the, the MAGA party. He said that Trump

00:56:09.400 succeeded in making the Republicans the party of the middle class. And that's the kill shot right there.

00:56:15.860 If you're a Republican and you can acknowledge, which I would agree is true, that Trump has

00:56:22.620 successfully moved, um, what is middle class over to the, at least enough of it over to the Republican

00:56:30.200 side. You can't take that away from him and you can't be Republican and say that sucked. You just have 0.92

00:56:37.320 to say, we always wanted to do this. Nobody did it except Trump. Trump gets the win. And I like that

00:56:45.620 Mittney, who has plenty of reasons to be anti-Trump because they haven't gotten along. He has plenty

00:56:52.060 of reasons. He decided that under the current situation that he's going to be pro success.

00:56:59.460 So he didn't say he's pro Trump. He said that Trump has succeeded in ways that are important

00:57:05.140 and that, uh, probably J.D. Vance will be the 2028 nominee because he's well, well-spoken and he's

00:57:12.100 worked with him. Apparently, um, Romney had had some really bad words about J.D. Vance in the past.

00:57:18.760 And I loved what, I loved what, uh, Romney said about that. So when it was brought up that he had

00:57:28.220 said some really pretty bad stuff about J.D. Vance, he said that was long ago. He said it was long ago.

00:57:35.420 And since then, I've worked with him. Good. That's a good answer. I like the answer. It was

00:57:41.880 long ago. Because that shows me somebody who can get over something. If you tell me that, yeah, I,

00:57:50.280 I was not happy with this, but that was long ago. I just think, oh, you have a, you have a workable

00:57:56.000 brain that when new information comes in, you can change your mind. I like that. Yeah. Long ago,

00:58:02.140 I used to think this. Now I think that no more questions. I have no further questions. If it

00:58:07.300 was long ago, you changed your mind. Okay. Um, and so he says Trump deserves legitimate credit for

00:58:16.240 expanding the party. Uh, he says that the party and Republicans are maggot now, no question.

00:58:22.340 And then he went further and he said that the Democrats, he said, he said the Democrats are in

00:58:27.960 trouble. I don't know how they recover. Now that mirrors what I said. So I've been saying it's not

00:58:36.240 just that the Democrats are down, but normally when a party is down, it's obvious how they would

00:58:42.080 recover. Oh, well, just, you know, tweak your policies, get a better candidate. You'll be fine

00:58:47.380 next time. It doesn't look like it this time, does it? It looks like they've destroyed the very

00:58:53.080 structure of everything. And so Mindy says, yeah, uh, they lost their base union members leaving.

00:59:00.520 And now people see Democrats as college professors and quote woke scolds. I love those two words

00:59:08.580 together. Woke scolds. It's okay to be woke. And sometimes it's okay to be a scold, but if you're

00:59:19.220 scolding me about wokeness, we're not, we're not going to be friends. I can take a scolding and get

00:59:26.820 over it. And you know, some wokeness I can even accept, but nope, don't be a woke scold. That's as bad

00:59:35.960 as you can get. Meanwhile, Governor Whitmer, Democrat, um, says she's, uh, willing to work with

00:59:44.460 President Trump. She said, quote, I know Donald Trump cares about Michigan. Fox News is reporting.

00:59:51.220 Now, people are talking about this in ways I've never heard people talk about it, meaning working

00:59:58.900 with the other side. Who says it this way? Who says I know Trump cares about Michigan?

01:00:07.220 Isn't that a sort of extreme for politics? I mean, extremely friendly. Normally you would say

01:00:14.420 something like, well, uh, I don't like anything Trump's doing, but you know, it's my job to work

01:00:20.000 with him. So we'll, we'll do as well as we can. Isn't that usually all you say? Normally you just

01:00:26.680 say, I'll do the best I can. You know, it's my job, but she went so far as to say that Trump cares

01:00:32.700 about Michigan. That is not a gift you'd want to give to your enemy. Now it could be that because he

01:00:41.380 can't run for office again, but she's clearly setting him up for success. Since when did the

01:00:47.920 Democrat governors set up Trump for success? At least in the wording. Anyway, so to me, that was

01:00:57.800 remarkable. And then, uh, you probably know the story, but there's a Democrat mega donor, um,

01:01:04.600 named, uh, Lindy, Lindy Lee, who's kind of turned on the Democrats for wasting a billion dollars and

01:01:10.540 not getting elected. And she's getting a lot of, uh, attention lately. Gateway Pundit is reporting on

01:01:17.740 this. And, but she says the Democrats now have quote, a stench of loser hanging over the party 0.99

01:01:23.680 and that people are pissed at Obama. Now that's funny. The stench of losing is so heavy 0.97

01:01:31.080 that people are mad at like a guy, two presidents ago. They're so mad that they're mad at a guy

01:01:39.260 two presidents ago and they're pissed and they want their billion dollars back, I think. Um,

01:01:47.380 so that's, that's worth noting, but, uh, I heard some, some, uh, idea that, uh, maybe Lindy Lee would run 0.64

01:01:57.780 for governor of California. And if she did, she might be running at least in the primary against

01:02:05.340 Kamala Harris. Now others have said that now Kamala Harris has not shown direct interest in running for

01:02:12.480 governor, but everybody thinks it's sort of a, the most natural best thing she could do. Um,

01:02:18.480 I heard somebody say that if she entered the race, it would clear the field, meaning people would just

01:02:23.920 say, Oh, she's going to win. There's no point in running. That might be right. She, she might clear 0.52

01:02:30.620 the field and the, the Democrats might say, you know, we just need to prop her up. And that's all you 0.75

01:02:37.680 would need in California. You would just need the Democrats to say yes. Anyway. So if you got Mitt Romney

01:02:45.800 say, I'll give him a chance. You've got a Whitmer saying, I'll give him a chance. You've got a DNC

01:02:50.860 mega donor saying, wow, the Democrats ruined everything. She's not quite saying I'll give

01:02:55.900 Trump a chance, but she gets it. She understands why you won. Meanwhile, Daniel Baldwin, uh, brother

01:03:03.320 of the other Baldwins was on the PVD podcast. And he claims that, uh, I guess it's common knowledge

01:03:12.180 in Hollywood that the celebrity inner circles are saying that LeBron James does have a ditty tape

01:03:20.200 and that it was already purchased on the black market. So that somebody already owns LeBron

01:03:26.840 James because they own the blackmail tape that LeBron James would really like to own. How much

01:03:32.640 do you think LeBron James would pay for a ditty party tape that showed him doing, we imagine

01:03:41.220 something he wouldn't want them to see? How much do you think he'd pay? Well, it would depend,

01:03:48.620 of course, on what was on the video, because it could range. It could range from, oh, we don't

01:03:55.580 like that you do that to, um, why are you in jail? So we don't know what it is. So I won't, I guess I

01:04:03.760 shouldn't speculate. Um, but this would be, this would be massive story. Can you imagine? Can you

01:04:14.940 imagine if these were really for sale? Imagine if you were Elon Musk and you're sitting there and you

01:04:22.080 read the news and you see that the LeBron tape is for sale. And you say to yourself, if I just make a

01:04:30.540 post on X saying, I'm willing to buy it, uh, I wonder what would happen because he wouldn't care

01:04:39.020 about the cost, right? You could just pay whatever he wants, but he could own the, he could own LeBron.

01:04:43.920 If you see LeBron start to back, uh, MAGA, it means that Musk is the one who bought his, his blackmail

01:04:55.860 tape. Now that would be funny. Now here's the way to do it. If you end up buying LeBron's blackmail

01:05:05.520 tape, and let's say what you want him to do is, you know, back Republicans, let's say, um,

01:05:11.640 you don't want to be illegal and say, uh, LeBron, I will blackmail you if you don't do what I want.

01:05:19.340 That's illegal. You go to jail for that. So you go the opposite way. You say, LeBron, good news.

01:05:26.620 I bought, I bought the tape. So it's off the market. And LeBron might say, oh, good. So you'll

01:05:31.940 destroy it, right? And then you say, well, I didn't want to destroy it, but I've taken it off the

01:05:38.000 market. You don't have to worry about it, but you could just change your mind and show it to somebody

01:05:44.880 anytime you wanted, right? I could, but, but I wouldn't do that because I like you, LeBron.

01:05:50.680 You and I are good friends, by the way. Uh, I'd like to chat some more, but I'm going off to a Trump

01:05:56.720 rally. Uh, my good friends, uh, we're all in MAGA. Uh, they say hi. And you'd be very close to LeBron

01:06:05.920 becoming a Republican just to make sure that the video didn't get out. Now to be clear, I don't want

01:06:13.240 to malign LeBron. I personally have no knowledge that he did anything wrong or that even any tape

01:06:20.240 exists. So I'm not confirming that there's anything he did wrong or any tape exists. And I'm hoping that

01:06:27.620 there is none. I hope they use a perfect law abiding citizen and it will always be that way.

01:06:34.940 But I'm just telling you how to blackmail somebody. You don't say the words. You just own the tape and

01:06:41.500 say, you know, I own your tape. I sure like Trump. So don't take my advice for it. If you become a

01:06:48.500 blackmailer, it's probably illegal no matter how you do it. Um, Mike Davis, who's a Republican

01:06:56.300 attorney type we see in social media a lot. He says, uh, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and his team

01:07:01.580 illegally conspired to violate the constitutional rights of Americans. He said, so did Jack Smith,

01:07:06.780 Fonnie Willis, Tish James, Chris Mays, Matthew Graves, their offices. He says they must face a

01:07:13.380 federal criminal probe under some law. And then they said, I like that Republicans are ironically or

01:07:22.180 jokingly, sarcastically saying no one's above the law, you know, cause I say it a lot too. Cause I

01:07:27.880 think it's funny now. But, um, as much as I don't like lawfare and I would not want to be associated

01:07:36.600 with anybody who pursued it. I think the names that he named have done enough in public that looks

01:07:44.920 sketchy enough to me that if these particular ones get, I don't want to say law fared,

01:07:51.420 but investigated, that would be appropriate. And my, my sense of, you know, what is right and ethical

01:07:58.620 and moral and gives enough freedom to the country, but not too much. Yeah, they should be investigated.

01:08:06.260 It does feel like there were crimes there and big ones. Like we're not talking about jaywalking.

01:08:11.320 If it were jaywalking, I'd say, eh, who cares? Um, we're talking about something that was going

01:08:17.020 to change the very nature of the country forever and maybe destroy it. It wasn't, they, they were an 0.61

01:08:23.100 existential threat to the entire country, in my opinion, because a few more years of Democrats,

01:08:28.440 I think would have been, been the end of us just in terms of national debt, if nothing else.

01:08:33.720 Here's the funniest story of the day. Um, back when Biden took over, when he first got elected,

01:08:43.860 he fired some of 4,000, uh, Trump appointees. One of them was, uh, Spicer. Um,

01:08:56.520 so what's his first name? Why am I forgetting Spicer's first name? Um, who worked for Trump and he was one

01:09:06.540 of those people has, uh, tell me Spicer's first name. Uh, Sean Spicer. Yeah. Thank you. So Sean Spicer.

01:09:21.480 Um, so he was one of the people who got fired by Biden. So he took it to court to try to get it

01:09:29.520 reversed. Or did he? So he took it to court that he got fired by Biden. And he argued that because

01:09:40.340 the, the appointment had some kind of a term to it, that he couldn't be fired until the term was over.

01:09:46.220 But the, the court, the judge specifically, he ruled that the, the president could fire him.

01:09:54.900 So Sean Spicer challenged Biden, uh, but Biden won. So it turns out that Biden could fire him,

01:10:03.460 even though Trump had put him in a position at a term. Now this is important because there might be

01:10:10.300 people that Trump wants to fire that also were appointed by Biden and also have terms.

01:10:17.180 Here's the funny part. The reason that Sean Spicer challenged it was not because he wanted his job

01:10:25.880 back in the Biden administration. He challenged it so he could lose the case because in so losing,

01:10:34.740 he would know that the next Republican who came in could fire all the Democrats in those jobs.

01:10:39.600 And so they will. So the claim, uh, and I'll put it in a quote from, uh, Sean, uh, what no one ever

01:10:51.000 understood was that this was not about actually getting back, uh, on the board, meaning the job he

01:10:56.200 had, because my term had been, uh, had been expired for months. No, uh, it was forcing them to argue in the

01:11:03.440 affirmative that they had the ultimate authority to fire anybody at any time, which they did.

01:11:08.420 And the court accepted it. So basically Trump has that power now 40, 40 chess right there.

01:11:19.260 That's some 40 chess. By the way, there is probably still time to get your Dilbert calendar. If you go

01:11:26.960 to Dilbert.com and follow the link to the sales page, it's the only place you can get it. Can't get

01:11:32.440 it from Amazon. Can't get it from a store only from that one online source. So we have, uh, what,

01:11:39.060 uh, uh, uh, nine days till Christmas. The odds of getting it in nine days are not a hundred percent,

01:11:46.100 not a hundred percent, but you'd almost certainly get it before January 1st.

01:11:51.360 So if there's somebody, you know, who just can't live without a Dilbert calendar,

01:11:54.800 uh, and you don't absolutely have to have it wrapped under the tree, you got plenty of time.

01:12:02.440 All right.

01:12:05.800 Um, and, uh, I've also got a number of books. The one that will change people's lives that

01:12:11.200 they haven't seen is reframe your brain. This one is on Amazon with my other books, like

01:12:16.000 when Biggley is re updated. That's one that tells you how Trump uses his persuasion.

01:12:21.720 And then how to fail at almost everything and still win big. The second edition,

01:12:25.980 the one with the blue cover, um, people love it. I guarantee that. And also God's debris,

01:12:33.340 the complete works. If you look at all my books, you'll find something for everybody.

01:12:37.380 So something for everybody this Christmas. And I guarantee if they're readers, they'll like them.

01:12:43.840 Um, Democrats or not. And I guarantee if they're ever liked to Dilbert, they'll like the calendar.

01:12:49.800 Um, you can't lose. Um, you can't lose. And I would like to give you two Christmas

01:12:55.840 recommendations that I have no, I have no connection to. Okay. So that I have no financial

01:13:04.800 connection to them. These are just things that I like a lot. Number one, you may have noticed I often

01:13:11.800 wear this back warmer in the morning. I love this back warmer. I, if you've never experienced wearing

01:13:19.600 a back warmer, it's really feels really good. So I started wearing it cause I had some, you know,

01:13:27.000 just a back strain a few weeks ago. It's all good. Now my back is great, but I keep wearing it cause I

01:13:32.560 like it. I just love how it feels. It makes my back feel better. The other thing for the same

01:13:38.860 purpose was I got a, uh, uh, one of these incline tables where it holds you upside down by your

01:13:47.040 ankles. Now you probably say to yourself, I don't think I want to try that. That sounds dangerous.

01:13:51.520 And what if I can't get back up? Well, the one I got as an option to go back 60%. So you're never

01:13:58.560 really, you don't feel like you're out of control and it doesn't stretch your body too much, but it

01:14:02.880 feels great. It feels great. So I think it's helping with my back cause my back has never felt better.

01:14:11.800 Literally it's never felt better in my entire adult life. And it's called a teeter. So that's the model.

01:14:20.300 Now I only, I only know I bought one and I'm really happy with it, but it's spelled T E E T E R.

01:14:27.820 They have several models. You can see them on Amazon. So I recommend them if anybody has a,

01:14:33.240 any kind of a back problem for which that would be indicated, but I'm no doctor. So don't use it

01:14:39.180 unless you're sure that it would be safe for you. Then my last advice is, this is a weird one. If you

01:14:46.600 do any, any kind of, uh, um, video like zoom or you do podcasting, there's something you need really

01:14:55.880 badly. And you see one, you see behind me in my back shoulder, there's a, it's a printer stand.

01:15:03.100 So if you went to Amazon and you said, search for printer stands, it would be something that sits

01:15:08.460 above your keyboard, I guess, or something. You put something under it. You can put paper under it,

01:15:13.400 but it turns out it works perfectly for raising your computer to eye level. So right now, if you're

01:15:20.860 looking at me on, on video, you can see that I'm the perfect level. If I took this away,

01:15:26.420 which people make the mistake of doing, I got to talk to Alan Dershowitz. He needs one of these badly.

01:15:33.440 So this is without it. So you're looking up. The looking up is not so good. And the looking down

01:15:42.020 is even worse. So there are different heights. So depending on the height of your table and the

01:15:47.780 height of your chair. Um, so I got two of them. One, one is a little taller than this one. So I use

01:15:56.240 one in the man cave and one here. So watch how much better it is when I raise it back up.

01:16:00.860 There you go. Perfect. Now here's a, here's another one. Um, I got a, I don't know what they're

01:16:18.360 called. Like a desk pad or something. Desk pad, but I'll show it to you. So it's sort of a, a soft

01:16:33.620 long thing. It just sits, it sits where you're working. I don't know if you have this problem,

01:16:44.360 but do you have a cold elbow problem? Anybody have that? Like you want to work on your kitchen

01:16:51.440 table or something? You want to work on the kitchen table and you put your laptop there

01:16:56.160 and then you put your, your arms on the surface and it's too cold. Well, this will keep your arms

01:17:03.900 warm, but also it's soft. So if you're doing a podcast, it removes this, uh, this whole area of,

01:17:11.660 uh, whole area of echo because my microphone is just above it. And so it removes the echo

01:17:18.820 and it looks kind of good and it just feels good leaning on it and using it. So I have two of them

01:17:25.040 and they're, they're awesome. Uh, the other one, if, if you know somebody who's into drawing,

01:17:31.680 uh, but they can't afford a big, big Wacom 27 inch thing, which would be, I don't know, $3,000,

01:17:39.940 something like that. Uh, if they want something that's under a thousand,

01:17:43.560 but they're serious about drawing, so it's not a, it's not a kid's toy. Um, get the move ink.

01:17:51.900 That's the little, uh, drawing tablet that I use now. And it's also sold by Wacom,

01:17:57.620 but it's M O V I N K. So if you go to the Wacom site, W A C O M and search for the move ink

01:18:08.220 device, it's really cool because it's really light and it works really well.

01:18:13.420 Um, if you need, yeah, if you need a Scott Adams merchandise, uh, and you don't know the link,

01:18:24.000 just search for coffee with Scott Adams merchandise and it will pop up with the, uh, the mugs and the,

01:18:34.600 uh, hoodies and the shirts and the hats. Uh, I don't recommend that gift for anybody except,

01:18:41.940 uh, consumers of this content. All right. So you got enough ideas. So you got the Dilbert books.

01:18:50.160 I guarantee the Dilbert, one of those Dilbert books will be, make somebody really happy.

01:18:56.460 You just have to pick which one makes more sense for that person. Um, the Dilbert calendar,

01:19:01.760 the inversion table, the desk pad, and then what's called a printer stand, but it's better for your

01:19:10.140 zooming, getting your computer to the right height for zooming. Those are the things that might make

01:19:16.540 people happy. Some of my favorite, favorite possessions. They work really well. All right.

01:19:23.800 I'm going to talk to the, uh, locals people privately for a minute. Uh, thanks for joining everybody on the

01:19:30.840 other platforms, Rumble and X and YouTube, even though YouTube had some problems today, I hear.

01:19:37.620 All right. Locals. I'm coming at you privately in 30 seconds. 0.66

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 16, 2024

Episode 2691 CWSA 12⧸16⧸24

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