Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2695 CWSA 12⧸20⧸24

00:00:00.200 Stocks don't look so good, but maybe tomorrow will be better.

00:00:05.440 Let me get my comments working here so I can see what you're up to,

00:00:09.800 at least the people on Locals.

00:00:12.620 I can see all of your comments, but the Locals' comments come in faster.

00:00:21.220 Today's show is going to be amazing.

00:00:30.000 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

00:00:36.560 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

00:00:40.780 But if you'd like to raise your experience to the levels that nobody can even understand

00:00:45.700 with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug

00:00:50.360 or a glass of tankard shells inside a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:00:54.920 Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

00:00:57.320 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine at the end of the day.

00:01:01.280 The thing makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and that happens now.

00:01:05.300 Go.

00:01:11.700 That is so good.

00:01:15.800 So good.

00:01:17.840 I'm going to adjust my lighting. Hold on.

00:01:22.280 Lighting adjusted.

00:01:23.240 All right.

00:01:25.640 You'd be surprised to hear that Dr. Alan Sears, he's a doctor,

00:01:30.260 he says there's a compound in coffee called trigoniline,

00:01:35.380 trigoniline, and it's a unique form of vitamin B3.

00:01:40.560 And did you know that it'll increase your spatial learning and memory,

00:01:43.320 support your nervous system development,

00:01:45.500 enhance your mitochondrial function,

00:01:46.940 and increase key neurotransmitters in the hippocampus of the brain?

00:01:51.540 Well, I'm not sure about all that.

00:01:53.740 I better test it.

00:01:56.500 Let's see if I can increase the neurotransmitters in the hippocampus of my brain with coffee.

00:02:08.060 Yeah, I feel it.

00:02:09.960 I feel it.

00:02:11.440 My hippocampus is going crazy right now.

00:02:14.140 Yeah, it all works.

00:02:15.340 You know, sometimes you hear this science and you think,

00:02:19.680 but in the real world, does that work?

00:02:21.640 Sure.

00:02:23.780 Did you hear the horrible story of provocative,

00:02:28.440 controversial podcaster Nick Fuentes,

00:02:31.780 who was almost murdered in his home?

00:02:35.920 Did you hear this story?

00:02:37.620 This is so shocking I didn't even talk about it for a day

00:02:41.260 because I was just sort of looking at it like, oh, my God.

00:02:44.340 So somebody murdered, I guess, his family

00:02:47.520 and then went on a road trip to apparently try to murder Nick Fuentes at his house.

00:02:53.720 So knocks on his door,

00:02:55.880 and apparently the only reason that Fuentes didn't answer his door

00:03:00.520 is that he was doing a podcast at that moment.

00:03:03.240 All he had to do was answer the door and he'd be dead.

00:03:07.740 All he had to do was answer his own front door while he was home.

00:03:14.960 But he couldn't because he was on his podcast.

00:03:17.180 It saved his life.

00:03:19.720 Now, I would make the following advice.

00:03:25.560 If you're producing content that's making people want to drive hundreds of miles to your house

00:03:30.440 and kill you, you might want to think about that. 0.58

00:03:35.480 I mean, I do like the fact that podcasters will say provocative and risky things

00:03:42.760 because free speech allows it.

00:03:44.960 And, you know, as long as it's working in all directions,

00:03:47.880 it can be a healthy thing.

00:03:49.540 But just think about it.

00:03:52.680 You know, just think about it.

00:03:54.460 The reason that I don't worry so much about security,

00:03:58.660 I should worry more about it probably,

00:04:00.440 I mean, I have enough.

00:04:02.600 But I don't think I give people a reason to kill me.

00:04:07.320 Do I?

00:04:10.060 Even people who mock me online,

00:04:12.920 they don't have any reason to kill me.

00:04:14.980 As far as I know,

00:04:16.340 I mean, I'm doing the best I can

00:04:19.300 to make sure that people see me as trying to be helpful

00:04:22.240 even if they don't like my politics.

00:04:25.160 I'd like people to say,

00:04:26.600 well, he's clearly trying to help.

00:04:28.140 You know, that's not what I want,

00:04:30.420 but he's obviously trying to help.

00:04:33.280 That's usually good enough

00:04:34.560 not to make somebody drive hundreds of miles to your house.

00:04:38.160 But to be fair,

00:04:40.620 when people are crazy,

00:04:42.680 there's nothing you can do.

00:04:45.140 All right?

00:04:45.400 Basically nothing you can do.

00:04:46.640 So that's just a horrible little story.

00:04:52.780 There's a story that I'm having a little bit trouble believing.

00:04:57.060 Oh, I'm going to go further.

00:04:58.380 I'm going to say I don't believe this is true.

00:05:00.260 I think this is fake news.

00:05:01.820 But there's a story,

00:05:05.960 according to the Virginia Mercury,

00:05:08.880 I guess some publication in Virginia,

00:05:12.100 that the governor has approved

00:05:14.520 or announced there's going to be

00:05:15.880 this fusion nuclear plant in Virginia.

00:05:21.400 Now, regular nuclear is fission, right?

00:05:27.600 Fusion is the thing that doesn't exist.

00:05:29.820 Am I wrong about that?

00:05:33.120 So there's an announcement

00:05:34.520 that they're going to start building

00:05:36.560 a fusion power plant in Virginia.

00:05:39.820 So I immediately went over to Google

00:05:42.420 and I said to myself,

00:05:44.140 have I been in a coma?

00:05:46.520 Because I was almost positive.

00:05:48.340 I followed the news on fusion

00:05:49.920 and I didn't think we were that close.

00:05:53.260 I thought we'd done some demos

00:05:55.020 that show that, you know,

00:05:56.420 for a brief time,

00:05:57.480 it can create more energy than it uses.

00:06:00.200 But I didn't think we were anywhere

00:06:01.820 as near a practical application

00:06:04.780 where you could just approve it

00:06:06.060 and build it.

00:06:08.560 So given that social,

00:06:10.380 given that if you do a Google search,

00:06:13.200 it makes no indication

00:06:14.440 that fusion is near ready.

00:06:17.200 Do you think they would announce something

00:06:19.080 and Google doesn't even know

00:06:20.320 the technology is there?

00:06:22.160 I'm going to say this is fake news.

00:06:24.660 So I'm going to go out on a limb

00:06:26.020 and say I think maybe they either

00:06:27.880 wrote down fusion when they meant fission

00:06:31.580 or something, right?

00:06:34.220 Yeah, fusion has happened experimentally.

00:06:39.600 That's what I do.

00:06:40.680 All right.

00:06:41.160 So I think that's fake news.

00:06:45.800 But if it's not,

00:06:48.380 I saw one post on the comments

00:06:49.880 from Idea Man

00:06:50.940 who said the superconductors

00:06:54.600 have been improving a lot

00:06:57.460 and that fusion depends

00:06:59.640 on superconductors.

00:07:01.920 It seems like one of the key components.

00:07:05.220 And the MIT has been designing

00:07:06.760 fusion plants

00:07:07.800 based on the latest superconductors

00:07:09.960 and

00:07:11.460 might actually,

00:07:14.100 it might actually be practical.

00:07:15.600 or it might be

00:07:17.320 that they got so close

00:07:18.520 to practical

00:07:19.120 they can't tell for sure

00:07:20.200 if it works

00:07:20.680 until they start building it.

00:07:21.920 I don't know.

00:07:23.760 Meanwhile,

00:07:24.280 Jeff Bezos and

00:07:25.240 Trump

00:07:26.940 and Elon Musk

00:07:28.700 had dinner at Mar-a-Lago.

00:07:30.660 Now,

00:07:31.120 we don't know

00:07:31.660 what happened at that dinner,

00:07:33.080 but

00:07:33.280 it's been confirmed

00:07:34.820 that it had

00:07:35.380 happened.

00:07:36.280 Musk said it was

00:07:36.860 a great conversation.

00:07:38.180 The only thing I have to say

00:07:39.320 about this

00:07:39.920 is

00:07:41.000 how much would you pay

00:07:42.300 to have been at that dinner?

00:07:44.500 You know,

00:07:44.660 if you could have been

00:07:45.440 the fourth person

00:07:46.420 at the dinner

00:07:46.980 and it was Trump,

00:07:48.820 Elon Musk,

00:07:49.540 and Jeff Bezos,

00:07:50.700 what would you pay for that?

00:07:53.720 I'm trying to imagine

00:07:54.680 how much I would pay for that.

00:07:56.800 It's pretty much.

00:07:58.520 It's pretty much.

00:07:59.640 I would pay

00:08:00.460 $20,000.

00:08:05.880 I would pay $20,000

00:08:07.280 to be the fourth person

00:08:08.520 at that lunch.

00:08:10.020 And the reason is

00:08:11.300 there are very few things

00:08:13.920 that would be a life experience

00:08:15.300 anywhere near that.

00:08:17.720 Just nothing near that.

00:08:19.640 I don't know.

00:08:20.080 Just the horsepower

00:08:21.240 in those three brains

00:08:23.360 would be just ridiculous.

00:08:26.560 But I do love

00:08:27.700 that

00:08:28.300 Trump

00:08:28.900 is open for business

00:08:31.580 and he's listening

00:08:32.760 to the smartest people

00:08:33.740 in the world.

00:08:34.720 What I worry about

00:08:35.760 is now that we know

00:08:36.860 that Musk

00:08:37.360 is

00:08:37.620 a puppet master

00:08:39.400 of Trump,

00:08:40.020 I'd be afraid

00:08:41.440 that Jeff Bezos

00:08:42.280 tries to sneak in there

00:08:43.940 and become

00:08:44.320 the puppet master.

00:08:46.740 No,

00:08:47.240 the puppet master

00:08:47.960 thing is bullshit

00:08:48.680 and we'll talk

00:08:49.600 about that some more.

00:08:51.440 There is a report

00:08:52.560 that Biden and Harris

00:08:53.360 both canceled

00:08:54.460 their flight

00:08:55.140 and Christmas plans

00:08:56.280 and rushed back

00:08:57.760 to the White House

00:08:58.420 last night.

00:08:59.740 We haven't heard

00:09:00.780 what that's about,

00:09:01.880 right?

00:09:02.420 We don't know

00:09:03.020 what that's about.

00:09:04.560 So we were left

00:09:05.580 to speculate.

00:09:07.300 First of all,

00:09:07.980 is it true news?

00:09:09.300 That's the first question

00:09:10.380 because I didn't really

00:09:12.660 see it from

00:09:13.340 a reliable source

00:09:14.800 but it's on social media.

00:09:16.880 People seem to be

00:09:18.140 confident about it.

00:09:20.740 Was that fake?

00:09:22.000 Was that fake news

00:09:22.880 that they rushed

00:09:23.380 back to the White House?

00:09:26.100 Anyway,

00:09:26.780 so I guess

00:09:27.260 we just wait and see.

00:09:28.280 Now some people

00:09:28.820 are speculating

00:09:29.520 that maybe this is

00:09:31.000 where they do

00:09:31.600 the 25th Amendment

00:09:33.560 and replace

00:09:35.200 replace Biden

00:09:37.320 with Harris.

00:09:39.580 Now why would

00:09:40.440 they do that?

00:09:42.400 Given that

00:09:43.160 Harris gets no benefit

00:09:44.680 because she already

00:09:45.420 lost the election.

00:09:46.860 Well,

00:09:48.260 I think it might be

00:09:50.600 because of the

00:09:51.100 Wall Street Journal

00:09:51.820 reporting.

00:09:54.020 Now that the

00:09:54.460 Wall Street Journal

00:09:56.620 reported that

00:09:57.300 Biden's brain

00:09:58.060 was toast

00:09:58.720 from the first

00:09:59.380 day of office.

00:10:00.980 When the

00:10:01.600 Wall Street Journal

00:10:02.340 reports

00:10:03.100 and everybody

00:10:04.920 believes,

00:10:05.820 I mean nobody's

00:10:06.400 really doubting

00:10:06.940 the reports

00:10:07.460 at all,

00:10:08.040 that he was

00:10:09.020 incompetent

00:10:09.780 from the first

00:10:10.620 day of office

00:10:11.480 and that they'd

00:10:13.440 been keeping

00:10:13.960 information from

00:10:14.960 him so he didn't

00:10:15.640 know what the

00:10:16.000 press was saying

00:10:16.680 about him.

00:10:18.300 What if

00:10:19.160 Biden found out

00:10:21.800 what the

00:10:22.120 Wall Street Journal

00:10:22.800 said about his

00:10:23.740 time in office?

00:10:24.760 he might have

00:10:26.780 enough cognitive

00:10:27.540 ability left

00:10:28.540 to know that

00:10:29.760 he needs to

00:10:30.740 make a call

00:10:32.920 and not leave

00:10:34.220 us without a

00:10:35.600 president for

00:10:36.160 three or four

00:10:36.780 weeks.

00:10:38.820 So it's possible

00:10:39.900 that the Wall

00:10:40.420 Street Journal

00:10:40.860 forced his hand

00:10:41.800 because it's just

00:10:43.100 embarrassing to have

00:10:43.920 no president when

00:10:44.900 everything looks so

00:10:45.740 vital.

00:10:46.600 Now it might be

00:10:47.140 also that it would

00:10:48.020 boost Harris's

00:10:50.060 credentials,

00:10:51.140 say if she runs

00:10:52.560 for governor of

00:10:53.300 California,

00:10:53.900 which people are

00:10:54.540 suggesting she

00:10:55.420 might,

00:10:56.400 that she can say

00:10:57.200 that her resume

00:10:57.880 includes being

00:10:58.640 president of the

00:10:59.400 United States,

00:11:00.580 first woman

00:11:01.700 president of the

00:11:02.360 United States.

00:11:04.040 Maybe,

00:11:05.300 maybe.

00:11:06.220 Because I think

00:11:07.160 that the reason

00:11:07.780 the Democrats

00:11:08.440 didn't want to

00:11:09.260 pull the trigger

00:11:09.920 was in part

00:11:11.280 because they

00:11:11.800 didn't trust

00:11:12.280 Kamala Harris

00:11:12.880 to be president.

00:11:14.100 But given that

00:11:15.060 it's a holiday

00:11:15.720 and nothing was

00:11:17.000 going to happen

00:11:17.480 for the next few

00:11:18.100 weeks anyway,

00:11:18.800 at least nothing

00:11:19.420 in the United

00:11:19.860 States,

00:11:21.180 um,

00:11:22.560 let's see,

00:11:24.820 what am I

00:11:25.080 looking at?

00:11:29.280 Oh,

00:11:29.800 okay.

00:11:32.820 Um,

00:11:33.580 so it could

00:11:34.800 be that,

00:11:35.600 uh,

00:11:36.400 they just know

00:11:37.140 that it doesn't

00:11:38.000 matter who's

00:11:38.460 president for the

00:11:39.120 next three weeks

00:11:39.880 because Trump's

00:11:40.840 the de facto

00:11:41.420 president already.

00:11:42.840 So it might be

00:11:43.880 that they're going

00:11:44.420 to make a change.

00:11:45.060 I wouldn't bet

00:11:45.560 on that.

00:11:46.640 I wouldn't bet

00:11:47.200 on that.

00:11:47.980 It seems more

00:11:48.620 likely it's just

00:11:49.440 something came up

00:11:50.640 and they want to

00:11:51.100 make sure that

00:11:51.600 there's,

00:11:51.940 a human being

00:11:53.180 look at it,

00:11:53.960 looking at it.

00:11:55.480 Meanwhile,

00:11:55.880 here's the most

00:11:56.600 predictable thing

00:11:57.620 that could have

00:11:58.100 happened.

00:11:59.560 Kamala Harris

00:12:00.120 got a $20 million

00:12:01.020 book deal.

00:12:03.240 Every one of us

00:12:04.220 could have

00:12:04.620 predicted that,

00:12:05.800 right?

00:12:06.840 And Biden

00:12:07.460 will probably

00:12:07.940 get a book

00:12:08.340 deal too.

00:12:09.340 So she gets

00:12:10.100 a $20 million

00:12:10.760 book deal

00:12:11.400 from Chronicle Books.

00:12:13.820 Now,

00:12:14.320 what do you think

00:12:14.720 is the second

00:12:15.460 part that was

00:12:16.800 100% predictable?

00:12:18.920 She got a book

00:12:19.800 deal and she got

00:12:20.620 $20 million

00:12:21.180 for it,

00:12:22.840 allegedly.

00:12:23.920 What's the

00:12:24.520 second part

00:12:25.260 that you could

00:12:25.780 predict?

00:12:27.680 You could

00:12:28.420 predict that

00:12:29.000 Christopher Ruffo

00:12:29.960 would soon

00:12:31.180 be posting

00:12:32.500 on X

00:12:33.080 that they

00:12:33.880 had discovered

00:12:34.520 massive plagiarism

00:12:36.060 in her book.

00:12:38.960 Now,

00:12:39.860 this one's a

00:12:41.120 tough one

00:12:41.620 because politicians

00:12:43.020 don't write

00:12:43.680 their own books.

00:12:44.820 You know,

00:12:45.100 these are all

00:12:45.580 ghostwritten.

00:12:46.560 And that means

00:12:47.180 that she hired

00:12:47.820 a ghost writer

00:12:48.580 who plagiarized

00:12:50.540 and probably

00:12:52.580 didn't even

00:12:53.040 read her own

00:12:53.540 book.

00:12:54.860 She probably 0.99

00:12:55.220 doesn't even

00:12:55.620 know what's

00:12:55.900 in it.

00:12:58.060 So it's not

00:12:58.760 really,

00:12:59.840 you know,

00:13:00.360 in this case,

00:13:00.920 it's not really

00:13:01.660 a knock on

00:13:03.400 the vice

00:13:04.660 president.

00:13:05.180 It's more of a

00:13:05.760 knock on her

00:13:06.360 hiring of the

00:13:07.540 ghost writer

00:13:08.060 who apparently

00:13:09.300 is not to be

00:13:10.180 trusted.

00:13:10.460 so they

00:13:13.340 got that

00:13:13.760 going.

00:13:15.100 All right,

00:13:15.460 so the

00:13:16.160 House

00:13:16.560 shut down, 0.68

00:13:18.260 the government

00:13:18.760 shut down, 0.68

00:13:19.500 may or may

00:13:19.820 not happen.

00:13:20.680 The first

00:13:21.960 two budget

00:13:22.560 attempts,

00:13:23.280 the 1,500

00:13:23.920 page one

00:13:24.700 and the

00:13:25.140 100 page

00:13:26.940 one both

00:13:27.540 got rejected.

00:13:28.780 Now,

00:13:29.140 the Republicans

00:13:30.180 are voting

00:13:30.640 against the

00:13:31.140 budget,

00:13:31.680 even though

00:13:32.080 it's going

00:13:32.560 down from

00:13:32.980 1,500 pages

00:13:33.940 to 100

00:13:34.440 something.

00:13:36.720 Just because

00:13:37.520 there's some

00:13:37.900 Republicans who

00:13:38.580 won't vote for

00:13:39.280 any increase

00:13:40.240 in the

00:13:41.400 deficit.

00:13:42.300 I don't

00:13:42.940 hate that.

00:13:43.980 I don't

00:13:44.280 really hate

00:13:44.780 that there

00:13:45.120 are Republicans

00:13:45.640 who won't

00:13:46.140 vote for

00:13:46.700 anything that

00:13:47.940 increases the

00:13:48.700 debt.

00:13:50.380 In the short

00:13:51.260 term,

00:13:51.940 it just

00:13:52.280 screws up

00:13:52.800 everything.

00:13:54.380 But if

00:13:55.640 you're going

00:13:55.920 to, you

00:13:57.220 know,

00:13:57.400 sort of fall

00:13:58.040 on a

00:13:58.520 principle,

00:13:59.760 that's a

00:14:00.160 pretty good

00:14:00.580 principle,

00:14:01.980 right?

00:14:02.480 So I don't

00:14:03.660 hate the

00:14:04.100 people who

00:14:04.520 voted no

00:14:05.060 on it.

00:14:06.260 It didn't

00:14:06.640 give us a

00:14:07.160 result.

00:14:07.900 So, I

00:14:08.360 mean, we

00:14:08.600 can't move

00:14:09.000 forward.

00:14:10.040 But, you

00:14:11.880 know, if

00:14:13.500 you're looking

00:14:13.860 at it just

00:14:14.220 politically and

00:14:14.940 practically,

00:14:15.600 they probably

00:14:16.020 should have

00:14:16.360 voted for

00:14:16.820 it.

00:14:18.460 But I

00:14:19.780 agree with

00:14:20.260 them in

00:14:20.520 principle.

00:14:21.440 You just

00:14:22.020 shouldn't vote

00:14:22.760 for anything

00:14:23.140 that's increasing

00:14:23.900 the debt

00:14:24.900 because it's

00:14:28.180 basically just

00:14:29.020 thievery.

00:14:30.560 It's basically

00:14:31.200 just stealing

00:14:31.880 from voters.

00:14:33.880 When you

00:14:34.260 increase the

00:14:34.760 debt, it

00:14:35.640 makes everybody's

00:14:36.360 money worth

00:14:36.820 less because

00:14:37.400 of inflation.

00:14:37.920 So,

00:14:38.360 therefore,

00:14:38.640 it's

00:14:38.760 basically

00:14:39.120 a tax

00:14:39.660 and a

00:14:40.540 massive

00:14:40.800 one.

00:14:42.800 Anyway, so

00:14:43.440 here's what's

00:14:43.800 going on.

00:14:46.900 So, Trump

00:14:47.780 said in a

00:14:48.740 truth post

00:14:49.520 that he

00:14:50.460 wants, if the

00:14:51.080 government is

00:14:51.580 going to

00:14:51.980 close over

00:14:52.580 this issue

00:14:53.200 about the

00:14:53.980 budget not

00:14:54.440 being approved,

00:14:55.680 Trump says,

00:14:56.520 let it happen

00:14:56.980 under Biden,

00:14:58.160 not Trump.

00:14:58.700 now, Caitlin

00:15:02.100 Collins reposted

00:15:03.600 that, and

00:15:05.460 I love the

00:15:06.280 fact that

00:15:07.380 Trump makes

00:15:07.980 news by

00:15:09.140 saying the

00:15:10.120 most obvious

00:15:10.800 things that

00:15:12.140 everybody's

00:15:12.640 thinking, it's

00:15:13.660 just that he's

00:15:14.140 not supposed to

00:15:14.740 say that

00:15:15.080 out loud.

00:15:16.020 He's not

00:15:16.660 supposed to

00:15:17.140 say out

00:15:17.540 loud that

00:15:18.780 you might as

00:15:19.260 well let it

00:15:19.660 happen under

00:15:20.120 Biden than

00:15:20.740 Trump, right?

00:15:22.980 You're just

00:15:23.600 supposed to

00:15:23.960 think it.

00:15:24.700 You're not

00:15:24.960 supposed to

00:15:25.360 say that

00:15:25.700 out loud.

00:15:26.100 But the

00:15:26.820 fact that he

00:15:27.220 says it

00:15:27.580 out loud

00:15:27.880 just makes

00:15:28.300 me love

00:15:28.680 him, because

00:15:30.360 he's not

00:15:30.800 hiding anything.

00:15:32.140 Yeah, I'd

00:15:32.760 like this to

00:15:33.200 happen under

00:15:33.600 Biden, not

00:15:34.120 me.

00:15:34.940 Oh, well

00:15:36.120 that's

00:15:36.380 amazingly

00:15:36.960 honest.

00:15:38.320 Yeah.

00:15:38.880 So, he

00:15:40.220 doesn't even

00:15:40.640 hide the

00:15:41.060 fact that

00:15:41.580 there's a

00:15:42.100 political

00:15:42.620 difference, and

00:15:43.820 he prefers it

00:15:44.520 just for the

00:15:45.060 political

00:15:45.360 difference.

00:15:46.580 So, he

00:15:46.940 just says

00:15:47.280 it.

00:15:47.940 I just

00:15:48.700 appreciate the

00:15:49.500 transparency.

00:15:52.600 Anyway,

00:15:53.940 so,

00:15:56.100 let's

00:15:56.720 see, it

00:15:57.600 looks like

00:15:58.040 the original

00:15:58.920 budget deal

00:15:59.900 that nobody

00:16:00.980 knew what

00:16:01.420 was happening

00:16:01.880 was put

00:16:02.240 together by

00:16:02.820 Schumer,

00:16:03.900 McConnell,

00:16:05.260 Speaker

00:16:05.500 Johnson, and

00:16:06.560 Jeffries, and

00:16:08.580 they put it

00:16:09.140 together without

00:16:10.420 really talking

00:16:11.160 to much of

00:16:11.740 anybody.

00:16:13.380 Now, why

00:16:14.340 would we expect

00:16:15.020 these four

00:16:15.680 people to be

00:16:16.380 experts on

00:16:17.020 budgets?

00:16:18.880 Do we

00:16:19.580 think that

00:16:20.000 any one of

00:16:20.540 those four

00:16:21.080 was looking

00:16:21.620 at the

00:16:21.980 details, or

00:16:23.560 were they

00:16:24.780 the ones

00:16:25.220 who were

00:16:25.460 most likely

00:16:26.020 to say

00:16:26.460 yes to

00:16:27.540 something that

00:16:28.020 was made

00:16:28.360 entirely by

00:16:29.080 lobbyists and

00:16:29.820 lawyers?

00:16:31.320 No, they're

00:16:31.820 the ones most

00:16:32.540 likely to say

00:16:33.340 yes if the

00:16:35.080 lobbyists wrote

00:16:35.680 the bills,

00:16:37.080 which is

00:16:38.060 presumably what

00:16:39.380 happened.

00:16:40.260 Now, this

00:16:40.820 raises a

00:16:41.380 larger question

00:16:42.140 for me.

00:16:43.340 You know how

00:16:43.900 I always say

00:16:44.440 that you can

00:16:44.880 tell what

00:16:45.300 people are

00:16:45.760 really up to

00:16:46.460 by the

00:16:47.420 design of

00:16:48.020 the system?

00:16:49.280 If the

00:16:49.880 design of a

00:16:50.580 system always

00:16:51.340 gets you one

00:16:51.960 kind of result,

00:16:52.760 and it

00:16:54.880 only lasts

00:16:55.520 for a

00:16:56.100 minute, then

00:16:56.780 you can say,

00:16:57.200 oh, that

00:16:57.460 wasn't

00:16:57.740 intentional.

00:16:58.860 They changed

00:16:59.700 it as soon

00:17:00.140 as they

00:17:00.360 found out

00:17:00.740 what the

00:17:01.060 design did.

00:17:02.620 But if you

00:17:03.240 have a

00:17:03.520 design of

00:17:04.200 something and

00:17:04.760 it just

00:17:05.040 stays in

00:17:05.480 business, the

00:17:06.120 same design

00:17:06.740 for decades,

00:17:08.200 that's

00:17:08.620 intentional.

00:17:09.700 They know

00:17:10.300 what the

00:17:10.580 design is,

00:17:11.320 they know

00:17:11.580 what it

00:17:12.660 produces, and

00:17:14.040 they like it.

00:17:14.960 That's why it

00:17:15.520 lasts for

00:17:16.600 decades.

00:17:17.760 Now, here are

00:17:18.240 some of the

00:17:18.560 things that the

00:17:19.100 government has

00:17:19.720 done, and

00:17:22.440 it looks to

00:17:23.100 me like the

00:17:23.600 overall theme

00:17:24.520 of the

00:17:24.780 government is

00:17:26.360 to hide

00:17:27.860 corruption.

00:17:30.080 You would

00:17:30.720 hope that the

00:17:31.320 government is

00:17:31.840 designed to

00:17:32.500 create good

00:17:33.120 outcomes for

00:17:33.780 the public, but

00:17:35.580 it appears to

00:17:36.320 be more

00:17:36.740 designed to

00:17:37.380 hide the

00:17:37.740 corruption of

00:17:38.300 the politicians.

00:17:39.180 Let me give

00:17:39.500 you some

00:17:39.760 examples.

00:17:41.340 Is it true

00:17:41.940 that the

00:17:42.320 Pentagon lost

00:17:43.140 trillions of

00:17:43.840 dollars, and

00:17:45.400 that in

00:17:45.740 Ukraine all

00:17:46.360 kinds of

00:17:46.680 money is

00:17:47.040 missing?

00:17:48.200 So, when

00:17:48.940 it comes to

00:17:49.360 the military

00:17:49.900 spending, I

00:17:50.920 think you'd

00:17:51.400 agree, is

00:17:53.740 not designed

00:17:54.380 so the

00:17:54.800 public can

00:17:55.240 watch where

00:17:55.700 the money

00:17:56.020 goes.

00:17:56.940 It's designed

00:17:57.760 so we can't

00:17:58.580 watch where

00:17:58.980 the money

00:17:59.300 goes.

00:17:59.940 Am I

00:18:00.180 right?

00:18:01.160 It's designed

00:18:02.080 so that we

00:18:03.980 can't know

00:18:05.120 where the

00:18:05.440 money goes.

00:18:10.360 Yeah.

00:18:13.380 We also

00:18:14.080 can't tell

00:18:14.640 for sure who

00:18:15.240 won an

00:18:15.600 election, because

00:18:17.080 we've got all

00:18:17.540 these complicated

00:18:18.320 machines, you

00:18:19.240 know, things

00:18:19.680 and I

00:18:20.680 don't know

00:18:20.940 what happens

00:18:21.340 to any

00:18:21.920 vote when

00:18:22.340 it goes

00:18:22.620 into a

00:18:23.000 machine.

00:18:24.020 I don't

00:18:24.300 think anybody

00:18:24.720 does.

00:18:25.620 Like, we

00:18:25.940 have to

00:18:26.200 trust strangers

00:18:27.420 that once the

00:18:28.760 vote goes

00:18:29.180 into machines,

00:18:30.500 the machines

00:18:31.080 don't change

00:18:31.700 the vote.

00:18:32.260 How would

00:18:32.560 I know?

00:18:33.660 It seems

00:18:34.080 like our

00:18:34.420 elections are

00:18:35.060 designed so

00:18:37.060 you can't

00:18:37.520 tell who

00:18:37.840 wants.

00:18:39.060 So we've

00:18:39.460 got a

00:18:40.000 military

00:18:40.480 budget, you

00:18:42.560 know, it's

00:18:43.120 our third

00:18:43.520 biggest budget

00:18:44.400 thing, designed

00:18:45.540 so you can't

00:18:46.360 tell how they

00:18:46.840 spent the

00:18:47.240 money, elections

00:18:48.640 designed so

00:18:49.840 you can't

00:18:50.360 tell who

00:18:50.720 won, really.

00:18:52.040 You know, we

00:18:52.420 produce a

00:18:52.920 winner, but

00:18:53.320 you don't

00:18:53.760 really know.

00:18:56.020 We don't

00:18:56.680 know what's

00:18:57.020 in our

00:18:57.260 spending bills.

00:18:59.100 So the

00:18:59.700 omnibus, the

00:19:01.140 purpose of

00:19:01.940 it is to

00:19:02.620 make sure you

00:19:03.140 don't know

00:19:03.460 what's in

00:19:03.800 it.

00:19:04.340 The purpose

00:19:05.180 of waiting

00:19:05.900 until it's

00:19:06.400 just before

00:19:06.880 Christmas and

00:19:07.720 you make it

00:19:08.160 1,500 pages

00:19:09.180 is so nobody

00:19:10.320 will read it.

00:19:11.460 It's designed

00:19:12.440 so you don't

00:19:13.200 know what

00:19:13.520 they're doing.

00:19:14.460 It's designed

00:19:15.260 to hide

00:19:15.620 corruption.

00:19:16.060 How about

00:19:18.160 the fact

00:19:20.040 that we

00:19:20.440 couldn't

00:19:20.840 tell who

00:19:21.400 was running

00:19:21.940 the country

00:19:22.500 in the

00:19:22.800 Biden

00:19:23.040 administration?

00:19:25.300 The Biden

00:19:26.220 administration

00:19:26.620 was designed

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00:19:28.980 couldn't even

00:19:29.620 tell that the

00:19:31.080 president of the

00:19:31.700 United States

00:19:32.280 was totally

00:19:33.540 declined and

00:19:35.260 unelected people

00:19:36.740 were running

00:19:37.280 America.

00:19:39.420 It was

00:19:40.300 designed so

00:19:41.780 you couldn't

00:19:42.280 tell who

00:19:43.160 was in

00:19:43.540 charge.

00:19:44.240 That's not

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00:20:56.080 included in it,

00:20:57.020 the one that got

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00:20:59.600 would block

00:21:00.440 Congress's digital

00:21:02.580 communications from

00:21:03.840 ever being

00:21:04.600 discovered.

00:21:05.840 Why would you

00:21:06.500 need to block

00:21:07.400 any legal

00:21:09.020 discovery of

00:21:09.980 communication in

00:21:11.080 Congress?

00:21:11.780 To hide crime.

00:21:13.700 What else would

00:21:14.640 it be?

00:21:15.760 Then you've got

00:21:16.560 all the Me Too

00:21:17.640 funding.

00:21:18.800 Apparently,

00:21:19.800 Congress has a

00:21:20.520 budget just to

00:21:21.200 pay off Me Too

00:21:21.960 victims, and we

00:21:23.740 don't know who

00:21:24.260 that is.

00:21:25.400 It's designed

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00:21:27.500 know.

00:21:27.800 So, it's a

00:21:32.860 little hard to

00:21:33.460 miss the

00:21:33.900 pattern at

00:21:34.420 this point,

00:21:34.880 isn't it?

00:21:35.800 I mean, the

00:21:36.280 pattern seems so

00:21:37.940 obviously designed

00:21:39.320 for the very

00:21:40.640 purpose of

00:21:42.080 making corruption

00:21:42.880 really easy.

00:21:44.540 Now, there's a

00:21:45.300 separate story about

00:21:46.300 California and

00:21:48.200 $24 billion

00:21:49.140 that's somehow

00:21:50.480 missing that

00:21:52.280 was supposed to

00:21:52.880 solve homelessness,

00:21:53.800 but it went

00:21:55.160 into some

00:21:55.700 maze of

00:21:57.500 entities in

00:21:59.800 the Cayman

00:22:00.320 Islands, and

00:22:01.220 somebody owns

00:22:02.340 this company

00:22:02.900 that owns this

00:22:03.660 company, and

00:22:04.640 it just sort of

00:22:05.220 disappeared into

00:22:06.020 the maze of

00:22:06.960 companies.

00:22:09.420 Now, do you

00:22:10.300 think that was

00:22:10.820 an accident?

00:22:12.520 No.

00:22:13.760 No.

00:22:14.140 The funding of

00:22:15.060 these big-ticket

00:22:16.040 things in local

00:22:17.180 elections and

00:22:17.980 local government

00:22:19.140 is designed so

00:22:21.140 you don't know

00:22:21.660 who's doing what

00:22:22.480 and who's

00:22:23.100 stealing what.

00:22:24.120 It's designed

00:22:25.140 for corruption.

00:22:27.260 Now, it's

00:22:27.860 really obvious

00:22:28.840 when you look at

00:22:29.940 all the different

00:22:30.540 elements of the

00:22:31.240 government that

00:22:32.220 every part of

00:22:32.980 it is designed

00:22:34.280 to eliminate

00:22:35.100 transparency, and

00:22:36.740 transparency is

00:22:37.660 the only thing

00:22:38.320 that will keep

00:22:38.760 us alive.

00:22:40.160 It's the only

00:22:40.840 thing that will

00:22:41.320 keep us alive.

00:22:42.900 If you don't

00:22:43.640 know what your

00:22:44.000 government is

00:22:44.440 doing, they

00:22:44.860 will steal all

00:22:45.560 your money, and

00:22:46.980 then the country

00:22:47.540 will be broke, and

00:22:48.880 then we all

00:22:49.300 die.

00:22:50.540 So, yeah, we're

00:22:52.220 designed for

00:22:53.620 corruption.

00:22:55.200 That's just a

00:22:56.060 fact.

00:22:58.780 All right.

00:22:59.740 And then, have

00:23:01.100 you noticed this

00:23:01.640 pattern that

00:23:03.140 whenever the

00:23:04.140 Republicans come 0.51

00:23:05.140 up with a plan to

00:23:06.180 solve a big

00:23:06.960 national problem,

00:23:08.700 let's say a

00:23:09.560 plan to close

00:23:10.520 the border solves

00:23:11.960 a big national

00:23:12.640 problem.

00:23:13.600 Let's say a 0.62

00:23:14.640 plan to reduce

00:23:15.900 the deficit, as

00:23:17.260 in the doge

00:23:18.180 work.

00:23:19.320 or say, let's

00:23:21.260 say a plan, we

00:23:21.980 don't have one, but

00:23:22.580 let's say a plan to

00:23:23.500 end the war in

00:23:24.580 Ukraine, you 0.76

00:23:25.900 know, when Trump

00:23:26.360 gets in office.

00:23:27.420 So, Republicans

00:23:28.040 often have a

00:23:28.760 plan.

00:23:29.740 We don't know if

00:23:30.560 that plan works

00:23:31.380 yet, because, you

00:23:32.300 know, it's a

00:23:32.600 plan.

00:23:33.560 But they do

00:23:35.120 come up with

00:23:35.740 plans, and they

00:23:37.260 can say, we're

00:23:38.020 going to do

00:23:38.640 X, Y, Z, and

00:23:40.600 we'll do it right

00:23:41.180 in front of you,

00:23:41.780 and we'll show

00:23:42.200 you.

00:23:43.360 You know, it

00:23:44.000 would be very

00:23:44.460 transparent.

00:23:45.380 And we think this

00:23:46.160 works because this

00:23:47.280 always works.

00:23:47.860 We're doing

00:23:48.580 things that

00:23:49.020 always work.

00:23:50.720 What do the

00:23:51.320 Democrats do?

00:23:52.820 The Democrats

00:23:53.620 seem to be

00:23:54.520 entirely oriented

00:23:56.100 at creating

00:23:57.560 hoaxes and

00:23:58.660 gaslighting and

00:23:59.540 ops to

00:24:00.780 prevent Republicans

00:24:01.840 from doing the

00:24:03.360 obvious common

00:24:04.100 sense things that

00:24:04.940 the entire

00:24:05.320 country wants.

00:24:06.800 Now, I don't

00:24:08.340 think that was

00:24:08.880 always the case.

00:24:10.300 I think they

00:24:11.160 used to compete

00:24:11.840 on policy.

00:24:13.380 Didn't they?

00:24:15.080 Am I wrong?

00:24:17.860 Didn't they

00:24:18.860 used to compete

00:24:19.460 on policy?

00:24:20.440 But they don't

00:24:21.140 anymore.

00:24:21.800 Do you know

00:24:22.060 why they don't

00:24:22.520 compete on

00:24:22.980 policy?

00:24:24.040 Because there

00:24:24.680 isn't even a

00:24:25.360 Democrat that

00:24:25.940 thinks their

00:24:26.320 policies could

00:24:27.020 work.

00:24:28.560 What is going

00:24:29.400 on over there?

00:24:31.220 I don't believe

00:24:32.240 that any Democrat

00:24:33.060 thinks their

00:24:33.640 own policies

00:24:34.400 could possibly

00:24:35.060 work.

00:24:35.840 And that's why

00:24:36.340 they don't argue

00:24:36.940 the policy.

00:24:38.380 So instead,

00:24:38.940 they'll say,

00:24:39.960 Trump's still

00:24:40.480 your democracy.

00:24:42.900 He's a

00:24:43.520 dictator.

00:24:45.300 Elon Musk is

00:24:46.160 using him for

00:24:46.740 a puppet.

00:24:47.860 Like, they

00:24:48.240 have to do

00:24:48.660 that stuff

00:24:49.400 because they

00:24:50.920 don't have any

00:24:51.540 policy argument

00:24:52.320 at all.

00:24:53.240 So you

00:24:53.560 basically have

00:24:54.280 one group of

00:24:55.740 common sense

00:24:56.460 people trying

00:24:57.140 to solve

00:24:57.700 critical problems.

00:25:00.100 And honestly,

00:25:01.640 it looks like

00:25:02.300 they genuinely

00:25:02.980 want to solve

00:25:03.660 problems.

00:25:04.860 When I look

00:25:05.620 at what the

00:25:06.000 Republicans do

00:25:06.840 and what they

00:25:07.280 produce,

00:25:09.060 especially in

00:25:10.200 the Trump

00:25:10.580 world, more

00:25:11.260 in the Trump

00:25:11.760 world than

00:25:12.160 before, it

00:25:13.740 seems designed

00:25:14.540 to solve

00:25:15.020 problems.

00:25:15.560 Am I

00:25:17.140 wrong?

00:25:17.720 I mean, it

00:25:18.060 doesn't seem

00:25:18.580 to be like

00:25:19.140 it's just

00:25:19.520 always a

00:25:19.940 trick.

00:25:20.580 It just

00:25:21.100 seems like

00:25:21.780 it's a

00:25:22.040 solution.

00:25:23.540 So we've

00:25:24.240 got one

00:25:24.560 solving, one

00:25:25.800 party that

00:25:26.380 solves, and

00:25:26.960 one party

00:25:27.440 that just

00:25:27.860 creates gas

00:25:28.480 lighting to

00:25:29.020 prevent the

00:25:29.660 party that

00:25:30.080 solves from

00:25:30.580 solving.

00:25:33.620 So Elon

00:25:34.540 Musk was

00:25:35.100 pointing out

00:25:35.700 when he

00:25:37.520 got a lot of

00:25:38.020 criticism for

00:25:38.740 weighing in

00:25:39.340 heavy on

00:25:40.700 the 1,500

00:25:41.240 page omnibus

00:25:42.540 piece of

00:25:43.000 crap budget

00:25:43.960 and people

00:25:45.480 say that

00:25:45.900 he's the

00:25:46.280 reason it

00:25:47.500 got killed.

00:25:48.880 I say that

00:25:49.780 it's not the

00:25:50.200 reason.

00:25:50.940 I mean, he's

00:25:51.640 like a focus

00:25:52.520 because we're

00:25:53.340 all watching

00:25:53.760 him, but he

00:25:55.200 couldn't have

00:25:55.640 done that

00:25:56.020 without the

00:25:56.500 complete support

00:25:57.500 of all Trump

00:25:59.380 supporters,

00:26:00.280 basically every

00:26:01.120 one of them.

00:26:02.300 So if you

00:26:03.040 have the

00:26:03.320 support of

00:26:03.900 100% of

00:26:05.740 the public,

00:26:06.820 that's not

00:26:08.100 exactly a

00:26:08.700 puppet master

00:26:09.300 situation.

00:26:09.960 If 100% of

00:26:11.480 the public

00:26:11.820 backs you,

00:26:12.960 which part of

00:26:13.700 the public

00:26:14.040 was in

00:26:14.540 favor of

00:26:15.900 spending too

00:26:16.540 much money

00:26:17.080 and putting

00:26:18.420 together a

00:26:19.020 1,500 page

00:26:19.960 bill that

00:26:20.400 nobody read?

00:26:21.580 Nobody was

00:26:22.080 in favor of

00:26:22.540 that.

00:26:23.320 You can't

00:26:23.980 find me one

00:26:24.640 citizen.

00:26:25.640 You might

00:26:26.120 find a

00:26:26.480 politician who

00:26:27.160 would argue

00:26:27.560 it, but a

00:26:28.700 citizen?

00:26:29.820 Find me one

00:26:30.520 voter who

00:26:31.120 says, you

00:26:31.740 know, I was

00:26:32.160 really in

00:26:32.520 favor of my

00:26:33.700 politicians not

00:26:34.540 even knowing

00:26:35.000 what was in

00:26:35.440 the budget,

00:26:35.940 but it was

00:26:36.300 enough to

00:26:37.160 kill us

00:26:37.480 all.

00:26:38.600 Nobody.

00:26:39.000 Not one

00:26:40.440 Democrat, not

00:26:41.260 one Republican.

00:26:42.340 So you

00:26:42.760 can't treat

00:26:43.280 that, the

00:26:44.720 situation where

00:26:45.460 every citizen

00:26:46.340 agrees, you

00:26:47.740 can't treat

00:26:48.140 that like it's

00:26:48.740 some kind of

00:26:49.120 weird puppet

00:26:49.740 master taking

00:26:50.980 control situation.

00:26:52.360 He's simply

00:26:53.100 agreeing with

00:26:53.740 100% of the

00:26:54.540 public.

00:26:55.300 He just

00:26:55.820 happens to

00:26:56.240 have more

00:26:56.560 voice and

00:26:57.120 more power.

00:26:58.600 And so we

00:26:59.120 backed him.

00:26:59.780 Of course we

00:27:00.440 backed him.

00:27:01.580 Of course we

00:27:02.360 backed him.

00:27:03.780 You also

00:27:04.520 backed me.

00:27:05.200 If I do

00:27:07.340 a post on

00:27:08.320 X that

00:27:10.100 says something

00:27:10.840 about, you

00:27:11.520 know, don't

00:27:11.880 pass this

00:27:12.380 1,500 page

00:27:13.320 stupid budget,

00:27:14.740 what do the

00:27:16.060 comments look

00:27:16.660 like?

00:27:17.620 Every one of

00:27:18.500 them is

00:27:18.780 supportive, 100%.

00:27:20.340 When does

00:27:21.840 that ever

00:27:22.220 happen in

00:27:22.800 social media

00:27:23.720 when 100%

00:27:24.980 of people are

00:27:25.520 on your

00:27:25.780 side?

00:27:26.740 Yeah.

00:27:27.220 I just said

00:27:28.080 don't pass a

00:27:29.120 1,500 page

00:27:29.940 budget.

00:27:30.660 It doesn't

00:27:30.980 even matter

00:27:31.360 what's in

00:27:31.700 it.

00:27:32.360 I don't

00:27:32.660 need to know

00:27:33.040 what's in

00:27:33.360 it.

00:27:33.540 Don't

00:27:34.500 pass a

00:27:35.000 1,500

00:27:35.380 page budget

00:27:36.220 a few

00:27:36.940 days before

00:27:37.480 Christmas.

00:27:38.280 Ever.

00:27:39.160 Ever.

00:27:39.860 That's a

00:27:40.200 fail.

00:27:41.340 So it's

00:27:43.580 of course

00:27:44.760 the best

00:27:46.680 the Democrats

00:27:47.260 have is

00:27:47.960 trying to

00:27:48.320 turn it

00:27:48.680 into something

00:27:49.220 that will

00:27:49.540 split Musk

00:27:50.340 away from

00:27:51.040 Trump so

00:27:52.220 that, by

00:27:53.440 the way,

00:27:53.680 what's the

00:27:53.980 point of

00:27:54.300 it?

00:27:55.260 What would

00:27:55.900 be the

00:27:56.220 point of

00:27:57.800 trying to

00:27:58.280 put a

00:27:58.580 wedge between

00:27:59.220 Musk and

00:28:00.020 Trump?

00:28:01.000 What would

00:28:01.320 be the

00:28:01.560 point of

00:28:01.880 it?

00:28:02.520 The

00:28:02.720 Democrats

00:28:03.060 are trying

00:28:03.460 really hard

00:28:04.120 to do

00:28:04.420 it.

00:28:05.140 What's

00:28:05.380 the point?

00:28:06.760 Does it

00:28:07.300 help the

00:28:07.620 country?

00:28:09.040 How?

00:28:10.020 How does

00:28:10.620 that help

00:28:10.980 the country?

00:28:12.180 It doesn't.

00:28:13.380 It clearly

00:28:13.940 doesn't.

00:28:15.180 If they

00:28:16.260 were even

00:28:16.620 trying to

00:28:17.040 help a

00:28:17.360 little bit,

00:28:17.880 you know

00:28:18.100 what they

00:28:18.320 would do?

00:28:19.480 They'd

00:28:19.740 say,

00:28:20.480 Elon Musk,

00:28:21.720 wow, you

00:28:22.160 do have

00:28:22.420 some skills.

00:28:24.540 We should

00:28:25.120 work with

00:28:25.520 you too.

00:28:27.300 The Democrats

00:28:28.360 should be

00:28:28.920 competing to

00:28:30.840 see who can

00:28:31.480 get these

00:28:32.020 billionaires more

00:28:32.860 on their

00:28:33.180 side with

00:28:34.440 good

00:28:34.860 policies.

00:28:36.420 Instead,

00:28:36.980 they just

00:28:37.260 have to

00:28:37.520 break up

00:28:38.060 somebody

00:28:38.900 else's

00:28:39.300 relationship.

00:28:40.700 It's like

00:28:41.220 the ugly

00:28:41.660 girl who

00:28:42.220 can't get

00:28:42.540 a date,

00:28:43.260 so she

00:28:43.600 has to

00:28:43.880 sabotage

00:28:44.460 her pretty

00:28:44.860 girlfriend

00:28:46.200 who can.

00:28:47.360 Oh, that

00:28:48.000 guy's bad.

00:28:48.700 You should

00:28:48.940 break up with

00:28:49.920 him because

00:28:50.340 I can't get

00:28:50.820 a date.

00:28:51.600 That's what

00:28:51.780 it feels

00:28:52.060 like.

00:28:54.300 Anyway,

00:28:55.020 Musk said,

00:28:56.240 he's trying

00:28:56.940 to reframe

00:28:57.580 it correctly.

00:28:59.300 He's talking

00:29:00.000 about the

00:29:00.500 rejection of

00:29:02.080 the 1,500

00:29:02.700 page version

00:29:03.540 of the

00:29:04.080 budget.

00:29:04.840 He said,

00:29:05.180 this shows

00:29:05.560 how much

00:29:05.960 your voice

00:29:06.560 matters,

00:29:07.200 talking to

00:29:07.620 the people.

00:29:09.160 Having a

00:29:09.620 president like

00:29:10.340 Trump means

00:29:11.260 that your

00:29:11.580 voice is

00:29:12.060 finally heard.

00:29:13.240 This is the

00:29:13.900 right model,

00:29:15.200 and we

00:29:15.580 should keep

00:29:16.240 reinforcing it.

00:29:18.160 Trump is

00:29:18.660 a populist,

00:29:19.780 and he is

00:29:20.900 very connected

00:29:21.620 to the

00:29:21.960 public.

00:29:23.320 Musk is 0.98

00:29:24.620 also a

00:29:25.120 populist.

00:29:26.600 I mean,

00:29:27.200 in effect,

00:29:28.060 I don't

00:29:28.280 think he

00:29:29.460 would describe

00:29:29.940 himself that

00:29:30.520 way, but

00:29:31.280 in effect,

00:29:32.180 because the

00:29:32.860 common sense

00:29:33.420 stuff tends

00:29:33.940 to be pretty

00:29:34.440 popular.

00:29:35.940 So, yes,

00:29:38.240 we have an

00:29:39.560 amazing,

00:29:40.300 amazing situation

00:29:41.180 right now

00:29:41.700 where a

00:29:43.380 citizen who

00:29:44.040 has just a

00:29:44.660 few people

00:29:45.180 following him

00:29:45.880 on social

00:29:46.440 media can

00:29:47.640 get the

00:29:48.000 person who

00:29:48.440 is a little

00:29:48.800 bit bigger

00:29:49.240 to repost

00:29:49.980 them, and

00:29:51.360 that can get

00:29:51.800 the person a

00:29:52.320 little bit

00:29:52.660 bigger to

00:29:53.220 repost them,

00:29:53.900 and then

00:29:54.780 when the

00:29:55.060 people have

00:29:55.480 a million

00:29:55.860 followers

00:29:56.460 have reposted

00:29:57.200 them, you 0.56

00:29:58.220 can pretty

00:29:58.700 much guarantee

00:29:59.300 that people

00:29:59.820 like Elon

00:30:00.740 Musk are 1.00

00:30:01.200 going to

00:30:01.400 see it,

00:30:02.200 because they

00:30:02.560 follow the

00:30:03.000 big accounts,

00:30:03.940 and if they

00:30:04.580 think the

00:30:04.960 idea is good,

00:30:06.320 they have a

00:30:06.720 direct line to

00:30:07.280 the White House.

00:30:08.980 So, what

00:30:09.640 we've created

00:30:10.280 is an

00:30:11.700 unofficial

00:30:12.240 direct line

00:30:13.200 where good

00:30:14.520 ideas bubble

00:30:15.860 up in a very

00:30:16.460 natural way.

00:30:17.420 Everybody has

00:30:17.900 an incentive.

00:30:19.000 If I see

00:30:19.700 somebody with a

00:30:20.360 smaller account

00:30:21.220 who has a

00:30:22.280 good idea,

00:30:22.820 I'm

00:30:23.900 incentivized to

00:30:24.840 repost it,

00:30:25.720 because if I

00:30:26.700 repost a good

00:30:27.440 idea, that

00:30:28.020 reflects well

00:30:28.700 on me,

00:30:29.780 right?

00:30:30.180 So, just for

00:30:30.740 selfish reasons,

00:30:31.760 I will boost

00:30:32.640 a smaller

00:30:33.180 account.

00:30:34.400 Like, I'm

00:30:34.820 not thinking

00:30:35.600 of it entirely

00:30:36.260 so selfishly.

00:30:38.400 I'm often

00:30:39.100 thinking of it

00:30:39.820 as, oh,

00:30:40.300 here's somebody

00:30:40.780 who needs a

00:30:41.220 boost, because

00:30:42.380 they have good

00:30:42.780 ideas.

00:30:43.520 If you have

00:30:44.020 one good idea,

00:30:44.760 you probably

00:30:45.060 get a boost,

00:30:46.060 you know,

00:30:46.400 even if I

00:30:47.520 haven't seen

00:30:47.860 your other

00:30:48.160 ideas.

00:30:49.320 But one

00:30:49.940 idea is good

00:30:50.540 enough to get

00:30:50.960 a boost.

00:30:51.300 Meanwhile,

00:30:54.180 Mike Cernovich

00:30:55.180 is going

00:30:56.380 hard at

00:30:56.960 Republican

00:30:57.480 Chip Roy.

00:30:58.940 He was one

00:30:59.360 of the ones

00:30:59.660 who said

00:31:00.020 no on

00:31:00.620 the second

00:31:01.860 version of

00:31:02.560 the continued

00:31:03.060 resolution that

00:31:03.840 got down to

00:31:04.280 100 pages.

00:31:05.740 And give me

00:31:06.160 an update,

00:31:06.700 by the way.

00:31:07.220 There's a vote

00:31:07.720 going on,

00:31:08.280 I think,

00:31:08.560 right now on

00:31:09.940 what they call

00:31:10.480 the third

00:31:11.100 version of

00:31:11.880 the continued

00:31:12.840 resolution budget.

00:31:14.620 So if we

00:31:15.200 get a result

00:31:15.800 on that,

00:31:17.300 just shout it

00:31:18.160 out in the

00:31:19.840 comments.

00:31:21.300 Anyway,

00:31:21.960 here are

00:31:22.200 some of the

00:31:22.480 things Mike

00:31:23.560 Cernovich says

00:31:24.420 we should know

00:31:24.960 about Chip

00:31:25.620 Roy.

00:31:26.560 He was a

00:31:27.540 George Floyd

00:31:28.260 worshiper.

00:31:30.020 Now,

00:31:30.600 I looked at

00:31:31.060 some of the

00:31:31.760 old posts

00:31:32.700 that Chip

00:31:33.380 Roy had

00:31:33.760 about that

00:31:34.240 topic,

00:31:35.020 and he was

00:31:36.300 very much

00:31:37.120 in the

00:31:37.520 George Floyd

00:31:38.320 is a saint

00:31:39.040 kind of a

00:31:40.280 mode,

00:31:40.600 almost like

00:31:41.120 a Democrat,

00:31:42.380 weirdly.

00:31:44.520 Worshipper is

00:31:45.320 hyperbole,

00:31:46.440 but he was

00:31:46.900 very much in

00:31:47.600 the,

00:31:48.260 he bought

00:31:48.880 the full

00:31:49.560 Democrat

00:31:50.440 narrative

00:31:50.860 about Floyd.

00:31:52.420 The cop

00:31:53.140 is a

00:31:53.460 murderer, 0.93

00:31:54.840 Floyd was

00:31:55.340 an angel,

00:31:56.080 you know,

00:31:56.360 I'm exaggerating,

00:31:57.200 but it was

00:31:58.780 not a typical

00:31:59.720 Republican

00:32:00.420 view of

00:32:02.320 that situation.

00:32:04.700 Allegedly,

00:32:06.360 Chip Roy

00:32:06.800 tried to keep

00:32:07.440 Liz Cheney

00:32:08.120 in power,

00:32:08.960 I guess he

00:32:10.000 liked that

00:32:10.440 idea,

00:32:11.380 and he

00:32:11.580 worked to

00:32:11.960 remove one

00:32:12.560 of,

00:32:12.920 this is

00:32:13.340 Cerno,

00:32:14.320 saying he

00:32:14.840 worked to

00:32:15.720 remove Texas

00:32:17.080 AG Ken

00:32:17.820 Paxton,

00:32:18.600 who,

00:32:18.760 Republicans

00:32:20.020 seem to

00:32:20.480 like a

00:32:20.800 lot.

00:32:21.760 He's

00:32:21.940 quite

00:32:22.160 effective,

00:32:23.240 Kent

00:32:23.420 Paxton

00:32:23.740 is.

00:32:25.580 So,

00:32:26.240 these are

00:32:26.540 just things

00:32:27.300 that wouldn't

00:32:27.820 have been a

00:32:28.420 big problem

00:32:28.900 for Chip

00:32:29.460 Roy at

00:32:29.880 the moment,

00:32:31.440 except that

00:32:32.220 he went in

00:32:32.860 the wrong

00:32:33.100 direction on

00:32:33.640 the vote,

00:32:34.280 so,

00:32:35.260 Cernovich

00:32:36.160 decided to

00:32:36.900 shine some

00:32:37.420 light on

00:32:37.800 him,

00:32:38.780 and I

00:32:39.380 never mind

00:32:39.860 that.

00:32:41.300 Like,

00:32:41.800 whenever I

00:32:42.160 see transparency

00:32:42.980 breaking out,

00:32:43.860 oh,

00:32:44.800 this is

00:32:45.540 actually

00:32:45.920 something you

00:32:46.580 should know

00:32:46.940 about this

00:32:47.420 particular

00:32:47.840 leader,

00:32:48.220 these are

00:32:49.540 three somewhat

00:32:50.720 odious

00:32:51.360 points of

00:32:53.060 view he

00:32:53.360 had,

00:32:53.760 at least

00:32:54.080 odious

00:32:54.500 from the

00:32:55.360 political

00:32:55.680 rights

00:32:56.040 point of

00:32:56.420 view.

00:32:57.440 So,

00:32:57.840 yeah,

00:32:58.460 it's worth

00:32:58.880 knowing.

00:32:59.460 Is that

00:32:59.840 a reason

00:33:00.260 to vote

00:33:00.780 him out?

00:33:01.480 I don't

00:33:01.800 know.

00:33:02.900 I mean,

00:33:03.140 he's not

00:33:03.440 my

00:33:03.660 representative.

00:33:04.440 I don't

00:33:04.700 have an

00:33:04.980 opinion

00:33:05.200 on whether

00:33:05.580 he should

00:33:05.840 be voted

00:33:06.220 out,

00:33:06.880 but do

00:33:07.300 I have

00:33:07.540 an opinion

00:33:07.920 that the

00:33:08.740 voters

00:33:09.020 should know

00:33:09.680 where he

00:33:10.800 stood on

00:33:11.340 these issues?

00:33:12.100 Yes.

00:33:13.080 Yes.

00:33:13.400 So this

00:33:14.280 is a

00:33:16.260 good

00:33:16.500 service

00:33:17.020 by

00:33:17.640 Cernovich

00:33:18.400 so that

00:33:18.900 we know

00:33:19.180 what's

00:33:19.340 happening.

00:33:22.460 Did you

00:33:23.100 know

00:33:23.460 that the

00:33:25.280 fact checkers

00:33:25.960 are saying

00:33:26.320 that Musk

00:33:26.820 was spreading

00:33:28.140 disinformation

00:33:28.960 about the

00:33:30.400 bill,

00:33:30.840 the 1500

00:33:31.340 page bill

00:33:32.060 that got

00:33:32.340 rejected?

00:33:33.520 And here

00:33:34.000 are some

00:33:34.220 of the

00:33:34.420 examples

00:33:34.780 that came

00:33:35.340 from,

00:33:35.840 I think

00:33:36.160 the Hill

00:33:36.720 was writing

00:33:37.520 on this.

00:33:38.440 So they

00:33:38.880 say these

00:33:39.460 are the

00:33:39.640 things he

00:33:39.940 got wrong.

00:33:40.260 So apparently

00:33:41.120 Musk posted

00:33:42.940 that the

00:33:43.540 measure would

00:33:44.000 include a

00:33:44.520 40% pay

00:33:45.400 raise for

00:33:45.860 Congress.

00:33:47.140 That's not

00:33:47.920 even close

00:33:48.520 to true.

00:33:49.780 It is

00:33:50.300 true that

00:33:51.560 there was a

00:33:51.980 mention that

00:33:52.660 if Congress

00:33:53.320 had been

00:33:53.680 getting its

00:33:54.160 cost of

00:33:54.700 living wages

00:33:55.460 that it

00:33:56.460 hasn't been

00:33:56.920 getting for

00:33:57.680 years and

00:33:58.100 years,

00:33:58.940 that it

00:33:59.320 would have

00:33:59.660 been 40%

00:34:00.520 higher than

00:34:01.020 it is now.

00:34:02.860 But the

00:34:03.540 actual raise

00:34:04.440 would be like

00:34:05.220 6% or

00:34:06.040 something.

00:34:07.000 So this

00:34:08.020 is disinformation.

00:34:10.260 Well,

00:34:11.240 let me

00:34:12.380 not say

00:34:13.040 disinformation.

00:34:14.340 Disinformation

00:34:14.860 assumes a

00:34:16.060 motive.

00:34:17.240 At least

00:34:17.600 that's the

00:34:17.980 way I

00:34:18.340 hear it.

00:34:20.120 But being

00:34:21.040 inaccurate

00:34:21.620 or simply

00:34:22.780 being wrong

00:34:23.500 is not

00:34:25.100 really a

00:34:25.640 crime.

00:34:27.060 You're still

00:34:27.860 allowed to

00:34:28.260 be totally

00:34:28.640 wrong.

00:34:29.560 And if

00:34:29.980 you're wrong

00:34:30.520 on X,

00:34:31.840 that's the

00:34:33.060 best place

00:34:33.560 to be wrong

00:34:34.160 because the

00:34:35.200 comments will

00:34:35.800 correct it.

00:34:37.400 Right?

00:34:37.860 If you're

00:34:38.440 going to be

00:34:38.680 wrong,

00:34:39.060 the one

00:34:40.380 best place

00:34:41.140 to do

00:34:41.540 it is

00:34:42.320 on X

00:34:42.860 because the

00:34:43.760 community

00:34:44.140 notes will

00:34:44.680 point it

00:34:45.080 out.

00:34:45.700 Everybody

00:34:45.980 sees it.

00:34:46.700 It's fully

00:34:47.100 transparent.

00:34:48.320 And then you

00:34:48.560 can correct

00:34:48.940 it.

00:34:49.500 So is it

00:34:50.160 ideal that

00:34:52.300 Musk, I

00:34:53.560 think he

00:34:53.820 probably just

00:34:54.360 boosted some

00:34:55.060 other account

00:34:55.580 that made

00:34:55.960 this claim.

00:34:57.200 So it

00:34:57.480 looks like he

00:34:59.200 trusted somebody

00:35:00.060 else's opinion

00:35:00.880 on something

00:35:02.160 that was in

00:35:02.700 it.

00:35:02.960 Because again,

00:35:03.620 who's going

00:35:04.180 to read a

00:35:04.520 1,500-page

00:35:05.320 document besides

00:35:06.180 were fake.

00:35:08.480 So that

00:35:09.180 was just

00:35:09.460 wrong.

00:35:10.940 But I

00:35:11.660 would say,

00:35:12.220 as I said

00:35:12.660 before, and

00:35:13.900 I saw a few

00:35:14.660 people agree

00:35:15.180 with this,

00:35:15.980 Congress is

00:35:16.620 underpaid.

00:35:18.020 The pay

00:35:18.720 raise is the

00:35:19.320 only thing I

00:35:19.920 didn't object

00:35:20.440 to.

00:35:21.980 Well, that's

00:35:22.800 not true.

00:35:23.440 That's

00:35:23.660 hyperbole.

00:35:24.580 But they

00:35:26.760 are underpaid.

00:35:28.200 I don't know

00:35:28.660 if you

00:35:28.960 understand how

00:35:30.380 deeply underpaid

00:35:31.600 they are, but

00:35:32.700 it almost

00:35:33.340 encourages them

00:35:37.700 to be corrupt

00:35:38.560 just to pay

00:35:39.720 the bills.

00:35:40.620 You don't

00:35:41.140 want Congress

00:35:41.780 to be thinking,

00:35:42.500 you know, I

00:35:44.200 could take this

00:35:45.000 little gift

00:35:45.680 because I'm

00:35:46.780 running out of

00:35:47.280 money to pay

00:35:47.740 my bills.

00:35:48.880 Remember, a 0.99

00:35:49.660 lot of Congress

00:35:50.200 has to have

00:35:50.720 two homes,

00:35:51.560 one in their

00:35:52.160 home state,

00:35:53.580 and probably

00:35:54.740 some kind of

00:35:55.240 residence in

00:35:56.040 D.C. or

00:35:57.060 so.

00:35:57.780 It's expensive,

00:35:59.340 and they have

00:36:00.440 to go to

00:36:00.900 a lot of

00:36:02.140 events and

00:36:02.760 stuff.

00:36:03.660 So, yeah,

00:36:04.100 they should be

00:36:04.560 paid more.

00:36:05.300 I think a

00:36:06.040 40% pay

00:36:07.060 increase would

00:36:08.180 have been

00:36:08.400 completely

00:36:08.900 appropriate,

00:36:10.100 in my

00:36:10.840 opinion.

00:36:13.400 But we

00:36:15.240 should be

00:36:15.560 accurate as

00:36:16.100 well.

00:36:18.360 Then they

00:36:19.060 say that

00:36:20.480 Musk was

00:36:20.960 wrong when

00:36:21.560 he claimed

00:36:21.920 the bill would

00:36:22.460 prevent any

00:36:23.100 investigation into

00:36:24.220 the House

00:36:24.600 Committee that

00:36:25.940 investigated the

00:36:26.700 January 6th

00:36:27.420 stuff.

00:36:28.200 Was he wrong

00:36:28.800 about that?

00:36:30.080 Here's their

00:36:30.740 argument for

00:36:31.340 why he's

00:36:31.700 wrong.

00:36:33.040 They say

00:36:33.560 the bill's

00:36:34.600 text makes

00:36:35.600 no mention

00:36:36.200 of the

00:36:36.520 riot and

00:36:37.780 only clarifies

00:36:38.520 that the

00:36:38.840 House data

00:36:39.320 stored elsewhere

00:36:40.100 is still

00:36:40.580 under the

00:36:40.980 control of

00:36:41.400 the House.

00:36:45.280 I don't

00:36:45.960 think that

00:36:46.340 fact check

00:36:46.840 is right.

00:36:48.980 I think

00:36:49.700 that they

00:36:50.120 just looked

00:36:50.760 at the

00:36:51.120 different part

00:36:51.720 of the

00:36:51.940 bill.

00:36:53.800 I'm not

00:36:54.460 sure about

00:36:55.000 this,

00:36:55.820 but my

00:36:56.220 understanding

00:36:56.740 is that

00:36:57.420 the bill

00:36:57.860 said that

00:36:58.520 Congress's

00:36:59.500 digital

00:37:00.020 communication

00:37:00.780 couldn't be

00:37:02.240 accessed through

00:37:03.420 a legal

00:37:03.860 process.

00:37:04.720 Everybody

00:37:05.000 else's can,

00:37:06.340 but that

00:37:06.800 Congress would

00:37:07.440 be exempt

00:37:08.120 from a

00:37:08.640 legal process,

00:37:09.560 let's say a

00:37:09.980 lawsuit,

00:37:10.940 getting access

00:37:11.500 to the

00:37:11.860 communication.

00:37:13.120 Now,

00:37:13.720 since I

00:37:14.200 haven't read

00:37:14.660 it,

00:37:15.460 the bill,

00:37:16.080 I don't know

00:37:16.820 that that's

00:37:17.220 in there,

00:37:17.640 but that's

00:37:18.020 the claims

00:37:18.460 I've heard.

00:37:20.020 I've heard

00:37:20.680 that it would

00:37:21.240 make their

00:37:21.880 emails and

00:37:23.080 digital

00:37:23.380 communication

00:37:23.980 private

00:37:24.440 forever.

00:37:24.900 Now,

00:37:26.400 that would,

00:37:27.240 if they

00:37:27.960 made that

00:37:28.360 private,

00:37:29.140 it would

00:37:29.460 protect the

00:37:30.540 January 6th

00:37:31.340 group,

00:37:31.860 but also

00:37:32.660 protect all

00:37:33.400 of Congress.

00:37:35.220 So,

00:37:35.720 was Musk

00:37:36.320 wrong?

00:37:37.340 I think

00:37:38.020 Musk was

00:37:38.520 right,

00:37:39.240 and I

00:37:39.520 think the

00:37:39.840 fact check

00:37:40.240 is wrong,

00:37:40.960 but I'm

00:37:41.420 not positive

00:37:41.980 about that.

00:37:42.880 So,

00:37:43.140 I'm going

00:37:43.400 to put a

00:37:43.660 question mark

00:37:44.200 behind that,

00:37:45.280 but to me

00:37:45.640 it looks

00:37:45.900 like the

00:37:46.200 fact check

00:37:46.600 is wrong.

00:37:49.920 Then there

00:37:50.540 was the

00:37:51.860 claim that

00:37:52.700 the bill

00:37:53.240 would support

00:37:54.040 building

00:37:55.340 bio-labs,

00:37:57.440 bio-weapons

00:37:58.060 labs.

00:37:58.760 That apparently

00:37:59.660 is a

00:38:00.020 misinterpretation,

00:38:02.420 but instead

00:38:03.440 it funded

00:38:04.000 what they

00:38:04.440 call

00:38:04.700 biocontainment

00:38:05.920 labs

00:38:06.400 that would

00:38:09.700 conduct

00:38:10.280 research to

00:38:11.020 support public

00:38:11.760 health and

00:38:12.200 medical

00:38:12.520 preparedness

00:38:13.060 for and

00:38:13.560 rapid response

00:38:14.180 to biological

00:38:14.780 events,

00:38:15.300 including

00:38:15.640 emergent 0.99

00:38:16.040 infectious

00:38:16.480 diseases.

00:38:18.340 Okay,

00:38:19.300 what's the

00:38:20.120 difference between

00:38:21.060 a biocontainment

00:38:22.740 lab,

00:38:23.240 that's

00:38:24.160 studying all

00:38:24.760 the dangerous

00:38:25.360 viruses,

00:38:26.940 and a

00:38:27.720 bioweapons

00:38:28.780 lab that's

00:38:30.220 creating

00:38:30.680 dangerous

00:38:31.260 viruses?

00:38:34.780 Aren't

00:38:35.260 they all

00:38:35.640 the same?

00:38:37.540 So,

00:38:38.240 again,

00:38:38.880 I'm going

00:38:39.180 to put a

00:38:39.480 question mark

00:38:39.980 next to it,

00:38:40.840 but to me

00:38:41.340 it looks like

00:38:41.780 the fact check

00:38:42.360 is wrong.

00:38:43.680 To me it

00:38:44.420 looks like

00:38:44.760 they're just

00:38:45.080 using a

00:38:45.460 different name

00:38:46.000 for essentially

00:38:46.920 what the

00:38:47.280 Wuhan lab

00:38:47.860 was.

00:38:48.400 The Wuhan

00:38:48.920 lab wasn't

00:38:49.540 a weapons

00:38:50.000 development

00:38:52.000 lab,

00:38:52.740 weren't

00:38:53.860 they also

00:38:54.400 trying to

00:38:54.920 figure out

00:38:55.300 how to

00:38:55.660 avoid the

00:38:57.880 weaponized

00:38:58.340 viruses?

00:38:59.480 So,

00:39:00.000 I think

00:39:00.200 the fact

00:39:00.600 check is

00:39:00.960 fake.

00:39:01.980 But I'll

00:39:02.760 take a

00:39:03.060 fact check

00:39:03.480 on my

00:39:03.980 fact check.

00:39:06.380 And then

00:39:06.980 there was

00:39:07.200 something about

00:39:07.860 building a

00:39:08.900 stadium in

00:39:09.580 D.C.,

00:39:10.700 but the

00:39:11.720 fact check

00:39:13.400 on that is

00:39:14.100 that it

00:39:14.440 was not

00:39:14.780 funding it,

00:39:15.980 it was

00:39:16.440 simply

00:39:17.020 changing

00:39:17.620 control of

00:39:18.360 it.

00:39:18.540 so the

00:39:19.360 funding

00:39:19.620 wasn't

00:39:19.980 really

00:39:20.240 addressed,

00:39:21.280 it was

00:39:21.520 just the

00:39:21.820 control of

00:39:22.340 the

00:39:22.440 funding.

00:39:25.700 So,

00:39:26.260 Cheryl

00:39:26.460 Atkinson,

00:39:28.580 Addison,

00:39:29.980 Cheryl

00:39:30.220 Addison,

00:39:31.180 had a

00:39:32.620 funny story

00:39:33.320 about her

00:39:34.460 experience

00:39:35.140 of a

00:39:36.640 previous

00:39:37.040 shutdown.

00:39:38.080 So,

00:39:38.360 I'm just

00:39:38.580 going to

00:39:38.800 read what

00:39:39.140 she said

00:39:39.520 next.

00:39:40.880 So,

00:39:41.480 when she

00:39:42.620 was a

00:39:42.880 reporter

00:39:43.200 working at

00:39:43.760 CBS News

00:39:44.780 during a

00:39:45.640 government

00:39:45.960 shutdown,

00:39:46.520 she thinks

00:39:46.900 it was

00:39:47.120 2013,

00:39:48.640 they were

00:39:49.340 searching for

00:39:50.820 the real

00:39:51.260 life terrible

00:39:51.960 impacts of

00:39:53.360 the government

00:39:53.800 closed down.

00:39:55.220 So,

00:39:55.420 now it's

00:39:55.880 just common

00:39:56.340 sense,

00:39:56.800 right?

00:39:57.020 If the

00:39:57.380 government

00:39:57.660 shuts down,

00:39:58.860 it's going

00:39:59.200 to have

00:39:59.440 devastating

00:40:00.280 effect on

00:40:01.760 members of

00:40:02.200 the public

00:40:02.660 because we

00:40:03.520 depend on

00:40:04.000 the government

00:40:05.000 for our

00:40:05.760 vital services.

00:40:07.400 So,

00:40:07.740 CBS News

00:40:08.460 went out to

00:40:09.260 look for

00:40:09.540 all the

00:40:09.940 terrible,

00:40:10.920 terrible

00:40:11.180 impacts of

00:40:12.020 the shutdown

00:40:13.040 and when

00:40:15.060 we couldn't

00:40:15.520 find that

00:40:16.220 any,

00:40:18.120 when we

00:40:18.520 couldn't

00:40:18.760 find any

00:40:19.580 that should

00:40:20.980 have been

00:40:21.300 part of

00:40:21.620 the story,

00:40:22.200 in other

00:40:22.440 words,

00:40:22.620 there was

00:40:22.840 no effect

00:40:23.660 they could

00:40:23.980 even find

00:40:24.520 where it

00:40:25.640 was bad

00:40:26.100 enough that

00:40:26.480 it was

00:40:26.660 worthy of

00:40:27.180 even being

00:40:27.640 included in

00:40:28.140 the story.

00:40:29.040 Instead,

00:40:29.600 we kept

00:40:29.900 trying to

00:40:30.320 create the

00:40:30.740 appearance of

00:40:31.400 an impact.

00:40:32.820 So,

00:40:33.020 when they

00:40:33.220 didn't find

00:40:33.780 an impact,

00:40:35.060 instead of

00:40:35.560 saying,

00:40:35.860 well,

00:40:36.000 we looked,

00:40:36.580 didn't find

00:40:37.100 any impact,

00:40:38.080 they decided

00:40:38.920 to write the

00:40:39.440 article as

00:40:40.060 if there

00:40:40.380 was an

00:40:40.720 impact.

00:40:41.060 she says,

00:40:45.440 well,

00:40:45.980 this part,

00:40:46.460 this part you

00:40:47.000 can judge

00:40:47.400 for yourself.

00:40:48.260 It wasn't

00:40:48.840 really trying

00:40:49.360 to be

00:40:49.720 dishonest,

00:40:50.800 it was,

00:40:51.640 in my

00:40:52.140 retrospective

00:40:53.020 view,

00:40:53.840 because the

00:40:54.380 general

00:40:54.700 editorial idea

00:40:55.780 for the

00:40:56.120 story was

00:40:56.600 to show

00:40:56.980 how bad

00:40:57.440 the

00:40:57.600 Republican

00:40:58.080 shutdown

00:40:58.460 was for

00:40:59.440 ordinary

00:40:59.820 Americans,

00:41:00.860 and the

00:41:01.060 answer simply

00:41:02.640 couldn't be

00:41:03.420 that it

00:41:04.260 wasn't.

00:41:06.820 Do you

00:41:07.420 call that

00:41:07.840 not

00:41:08.100 dishonest?

00:41:08.760 I don't

00:41:10.260 know.

00:41:10.920 Seems to

00:41:11.460 me if

00:41:11.740 you start

00:41:12.200 with a

00:41:12.520 narrative

00:41:12.820 and you

00:41:13.340 do

00:41:13.480 everything

00:41:13.800 you can

00:41:14.280 do

00:41:14.420 to

00:41:14.600 prove it

00:41:15.060 and then

00:41:15.820 you find

00:41:16.180 out that

00:41:16.640 you can't

00:41:17.040 prove it

00:41:17.400 and then

00:41:17.660 you write

00:41:17.960 the story

00:41:18.360 anyway,

00:41:20.040 that feels

00:41:20.800 dishonest to

00:41:21.520 me.

00:41:23.100 I don't

00:41:23.680 know how

00:41:24.480 you define

00:41:24.980 dishonest,

00:41:25.760 but as

00:41:26.880 described,

00:41:27.880 it looks a

00:41:28.920 little dishonest,

00:41:29.980 but here's

00:41:30.980 the more

00:41:31.260 nuanced view

00:41:32.060 of it.

00:41:33.780 If you

00:41:34.380 haven't had

00:41:34.800 experience in

00:41:35.500 the corporate

00:41:36.320 world,

00:41:37.380 this won't

00:41:37.980 make sense.

00:41:39.320 In the

00:41:40.040 corporate context,

00:41:41.000 when you're

00:41:41.620 wearing your

00:41:42.100 nice clothes

00:41:42.760 and going to

00:41:43.280 your cubicle

00:41:44.300 job and

00:41:44.940 you've got a

00:41:45.360 boss and

00:41:45.800 all that,

00:41:47.340 you will

00:41:48.160 accept as

00:41:49.820 honest enough

00:41:50.880 a lot of

00:41:51.620 sketchy stuff

00:41:52.440 and it

00:41:54.060 becomes so

00:41:54.660 normal to

00:41:56.200 accept sketchy

00:41:58.100 things when

00:41:59.060 you work in a

00:41:59.640 big corporation

00:42:00.280 that you just

00:42:01.440 get used to

00:42:02.580 it and you

00:42:03.860 just think that

00:42:04.380 everybody's lying

00:42:05.200 and you should

00:42:05.740 too and that

00:42:06.940 all it is is a

00:42:07.660 big persuasion

00:42:08.360 game.

00:42:09.220 Honesty

00:42:09.700 doesn't have

00:42:10.540 much to do

00:42:10.980 with the

00:42:11.240 corporate world.

00:42:12.420 Now,

00:42:12.580 that's why

00:42:12.920 Dilbert was

00:42:13.540 even created

00:42:14.140 because when

00:42:15.360 I was in

00:42:15.640 the corporate

00:42:15.980 world,

00:42:16.380 I realized

00:42:16.600 everybody was

00:42:17.340 lying about

00:42:17.820 everything all

00:42:18.420 the time.

00:42:20.120 I thought,

00:42:21.500 well,

00:42:21.640 that could be

00:42:22.000 a comic.

00:42:22.380 so when we

00:42:26.160 look from the

00:42:26.720 outside with

00:42:27.800 our pure

00:42:29.440 judgments and

00:42:31.080 we say,

00:42:31.980 Cheryl,

00:42:32.660 how could you

00:42:33.640 possibly have

00:42:34.340 been part of

00:42:34.900 this thing

00:42:36.160 where the

00:42:36.580 narrative was

00:42:37.280 driving the

00:42:37.860 story instead

00:42:38.540 of the facts?

00:42:39.160 How could you

00:42:39.600 possibly be part

00:42:40.460 of that?

00:42:41.360 And I will

00:42:42.040 tell you,

00:42:42.540 it's easy.

00:42:43.840 If you had

00:42:44.900 replaced her

00:42:45.500 with me,

00:42:46.380 with all of

00:42:47.220 my highfalutin

00:42:48.400 feelings about

00:42:49.700 what's honest

00:42:50.320 and what's

00:42:50.680 not,

00:42:50.880 I probably

00:42:51.260 would have

00:42:51.500 done the

00:42:51.760 same thing.

00:42:53.180 Why?

00:42:54.440 Because

00:42:54.880 everybody would.

00:42:57.020 You could

00:42:57.660 take anybody

00:42:58.200 and put them

00:42:58.720 in this

00:42:59.020 situation.

00:43:00.200 They've got a

00:43:00.680 boss,

00:43:01.140 they've got a

00:43:01.440 paycheck,

00:43:02.260 they don't

00:43:02.580 need to

00:43:03.020 make waves

00:43:04.020 about every

00:43:04.560 single thing

00:43:05.080 every single

00:43:05.560 day.

00:43:06.580 You just

00:43:07.040 sort of

00:43:07.340 accept it.

00:43:08.160 You've got

00:43:08.380 other problems.

00:43:10.200 So this is

00:43:11.100 no complaint

00:43:12.060 whatsoever about

00:43:12.800 Cheryl.

00:43:13.580 This has more

00:43:14.440 to do with

00:43:14.980 what the

00:43:15.440 corporate

00:43:16.080 environment does

00:43:16.980 to everybody.

00:43:18.180 It turns

00:43:18.800 everybody into

00:43:19.500 a weasel.

00:43:20.320 And it's

00:43:21.260 only after

00:43:21.700 you've left

00:43:22.300 and you

00:43:23.240 look back

00:43:23.660 at your

00:43:23.920 own actions,

00:43:24.600 you go,

00:43:25.000 huh,

00:43:25.820 that was a

00:43:26.260 little sketchy

00:43:26.880 even for me.

00:43:27.940 Like that

00:43:28.520 doesn't even

00:43:29.020 match my

00:43:30.060 own standard

00:43:30.740 for honesty.

00:43:31.700 But it

00:43:32.360 didn't seem

00:43:32.760 so weird

00:43:33.140 at the time.

00:43:34.260 So you

00:43:34.900 enter this

00:43:35.540 world where

00:43:36.900 doing sketchy

00:43:37.620 things doesn't

00:43:38.320 even seem

00:43:38.720 sketchy.

00:43:39.540 It just

00:43:39.860 seems like

00:43:40.240 what everybody's

00:43:40.880 doing.

00:43:43.660 Anyway,

00:43:44.280 speaking of

00:43:44.760 Elon Musk,

00:43:45.460 he announced

00:43:47.080 that he's going

00:43:47.600 to fund

00:43:47.980 moderate candidates,

00:43:49.140 he calls

00:43:49.820 them,

00:43:50.120 in far-left

00:43:50.900 districts,

00:43:52.180 quote,

00:43:52.560 so that the

00:43:53.200 country can

00:43:53.740 get rid of

00:43:54.240 those who

00:43:54.700 don't represent

00:43:55.440 them.

00:43:56.880 And that

00:43:58.260 would be a

00:43:58.920 direct response

00:43:59.980 to Soros

00:44:01.100 funding the

00:44:02.400 far-left

00:44:03.560 candidates.

00:44:04.860 So if

00:44:05.540 Elon Musk

00:44:06.280 decides that

00:44:07.040 he's going to

00:44:07.520 spend enough

00:44:08.160 money because

00:44:09.260 he has more

00:44:09.780 than Soros,

00:44:10.780 he can

00:44:11.080 outspend

00:44:11.500 them.

00:44:12.140 So he can

00:44:12.900 outspend

00:44:13.420 Soros and

00:44:14.860 make sure

00:44:15.820 that every

00:44:16.400 time Soros

00:44:17.140 spends a

00:44:17.680 dollar,

00:44:19.260 that Musk

00:44:19.620 goes in

00:44:20.020 with two

00:44:20.380 dollars for

00:44:20.940 the other

00:44:21.200 one,

00:44:21.800 which he

00:44:22.640 can do

00:44:22.900 all day

00:44:23.240 long because

00:44:23.700 he has

00:44:23.900 more money.

00:44:25.320 So I

00:44:26.520 think he

00:44:26.880 can eliminate

00:44:27.500 Soros' 0.98

00:44:28.300 influence.

00:44:29.880 And I

00:44:30.260 would still

00:44:30.620 love,

00:44:31.360 you may

00:44:31.880 remember that

00:44:32.600 Musk asked

00:44:34.660 Alex Soros

00:44:35.520 if they could

00:44:36.360 just talk,

00:44:37.620 and Alex

00:44:38.040 Soros said

00:44:38.580 yes.

00:44:39.600 Now I

00:44:39.920 don't think

00:44:40.440 it's happened

00:44:40.900 just because I

00:44:41.900 feel like we

00:44:42.420 would have

00:44:42.660 heard about

00:44:43.040 it,

00:44:43.240 but I

00:44:45.380 love the

00:44:45.740 fact that

00:44:46.380 maybe before

00:44:47.660 they talk,

00:44:49.220 Musk may 0.97

00:44:50.420 have already

00:44:50.800 announced that

00:44:51.360 he's going to

00:44:51.660 do something

00:44:52.120 that makes

00:44:52.600 Soros' 0.98

00:44:53.580 funding

00:44:53.940 completely

00:44:54.540 moot and

00:44:56.060 irrelevant because

00:44:56.800 he'll get

00:44:57.100 outfunded.

00:44:59.320 So that's

00:45:00.220 cool.

00:45:00.820 Speaking of

00:45:01.460 Elon Musk

00:45:01.940 news,

00:45:02.320 he's also

00:45:02.760 saying that

00:45:03.420 something called

00:45:04.900 the AFD

00:45:05.660 party in

00:45:06.440 Germany is

00:45:07.840 their only

00:45:08.300 hope.

00:45:09.000 Now the

00:45:09.260 AFD party

00:45:09.880 is the

00:45:10.420 right-leaning

00:45:11.580 party.

00:45:12.000 How do

00:45:13.320 you think

00:45:13.720 an American

00:45:14.620 publication

00:45:15.280 describes the

00:45:17.340 right-leaning

00:45:18.920 party in

00:45:19.640 Germany?

00:45:20.820 Do you

00:45:21.080 think they

00:45:21.380 say,

00:45:22.180 oh,

00:45:22.360 they're

00:45:22.500 basically

00:45:22.860 just like

00:45:23.400 MAGA,

00:45:24.300 pretty popular?

00:45:25.360 Yeah,

00:45:25.640 I can see

00:45:26.240 why Elon

00:45:26.740 Musk would 1.00

00:45:27.280 back them

00:45:27.900 because they're

00:45:29.100 strong on

00:45:29.720 immigration.

00:45:31.340 And yeah,

00:45:32.940 it makes

00:45:33.820 sense because

00:45:35.040 immigration looks

00:45:35.820 like it's going

00:45:36.300 to destroy the

00:45:36.880 country.

00:45:37.700 I don't know

00:45:38.440 for sure,

00:45:39.000 but probably

00:45:39.600 they back

00:45:40.140 nuclear power.

00:45:41.020 maybe the

00:45:42.380 other parties

00:45:42.860 don't.

00:45:43.860 So I can

00:45:44.560 see why

00:45:44.880 Elon

00:45:45.140 would

00:45:45.300 back

00:45:45.540 them.

00:45:46.080 So what

00:45:46.500 does the

00:45:46.880 mainstream

00:45:47.200 press say

00:45:48.000 about that?

00:45:49.060 Well,

00:45:49.300 it says that

00:45:49.740 the party

00:45:50.100 is anti-immigration.

00:45:52.740 Now,

00:45:53.280 is that the

00:45:54.380 way you

00:45:54.680 say it?

00:45:55.340 Anti-immigration?

00:45:58.100 No.

00:45:58.880 That's what

00:45:59.340 fucking

00:45:59.860 assholes

00:46:01.380 say.

00:46:02.480 Nobody's

00:46:02.960 anti-immigration.

00:46:05.680 That's not

00:46:06.320 even a thing.

00:46:07.340 Nobody's

00:46:07.740 anti-immigration.

00:46:08.660 People are

00:46:10.280 definitely

00:46:10.720 on different

00:46:11.800 sides about

00:46:12.420 how tight

00:46:12.980 to be,

00:46:13.460 who to let

00:46:13.920 in,

00:46:14.220 and why,

00:46:15.160 but nobody's

00:46:16.000 anti.

00:46:17.200 So the

00:46:17.780 first thing

00:46:18.200 is they're

00:46:18.560 signaling that

00:46:19.240 they're

00:46:20.080 illegitimate

00:46:20.880 press by

00:46:21.540 saying anti-immigration.

00:46:23.180 Then here's the

00:46:23.740 second part.

00:46:24.760 They're saying

00:46:25.160 that this

00:46:25.540 AfD party in

00:46:26.560 Germany has 0.86

00:46:28.060 quote,

00:46:28.960 historical

00:46:29.560 connections to

00:46:31.200 Nazi-era rhetoric.

00:46:33.200 What?

00:46:36.940 That's like

00:46:37.620 saying that

00:46:38.120 the Democrats

00:46:38.980 were the

00:46:40.420 founders of

00:46:41.060 the KKK,

00:46:42.440 which,

00:46:42.900 by the way,

00:46:43.380 somebody says

00:46:43.980 on social

00:46:44.460 media every

00:46:45.040 freaking day

00:46:45.680 and drives

00:46:46.420 me crazy.

00:46:47.380 No,

00:46:48.000 I'm not

00:46:48.300 going to

00:46:48.560 judge the

00:46:49.040 Democrats

00:46:49.440 by something

00:46:50.240 that long

00:46:51.920 dead people

00:46:52.580 did.

00:46:53.380 If they're

00:46:54.040 not doing

00:46:54.400 it today,

00:46:55.360 and they're

00:46:56.260 clearly not

00:46:56.860 backing the

00:46:57.380 KKK

00:46:57.780 today,

00:46:59.540 would it

00:47:00.300 be fair

00:47:00.740 to say,

00:47:01.180 I'm going

00:47:02.200 to describe

00:47:02.680 the Democrat

00:47:03.200 Party?

00:47:05.020 The Democrat

00:47:05.980 Party is

00:47:06.760 the party

00:47:07.180 that has

00:47:07.760 historical

00:47:09.760 connections to

00:47:10.620 the KKK,

00:47:11.860 and there's

00:47:12.980 nothing else

00:47:13.400 you need to

00:47:13.780 know.

00:47:15.180 Would that

00:47:15.920 be news?

00:47:17.920 Well,

00:47:18.520 it's true,

00:47:19.300 but it's

00:47:20.460 completely

00:47:20.840 opposite of

00:47:21.860 what reality

00:47:22.400 is,

00:47:22.760 which is

00:47:23.140 the Democrats

00:47:23.920 are very

00:47:24.440 anti-KK

00:47:25.220 obviously.

00:47:26.900 So,

00:47:27.560 when I read

00:47:28.380 the news

00:47:28.760 saying that

00:47:29.280 this party

00:47:29.860 has historical

00:47:30.860 connections to

00:47:31.740 Nazi-era rhetoric

00:47:32.880 and Elon

00:47:33.840 Musk is 0.98

00:47:34.420 maybe some

00:47:35.420 kind of a

00:47:35.860 Nazi because

00:47:36.520 he supports

00:47:37.120 them,

00:47:37.640 I don't

00:47:38.220 know the

00:47:38.600 truth,

00:47:39.300 but I'll

00:47:39.600 tell you

00:47:39.840 what it

00:47:40.100 leads me

00:47:40.480 to think.

00:47:41.980 It leads

00:47:42.540 me to

00:47:42.780 think that

00:47:43.100 this party

00:47:43.560 might be

00:47:43.880 the only

00:47:44.160 thing that

00:47:44.500 can save

00:47:44.920 Germany.

00:47:47.020 I'm not

00:47:47.620 terribly

00:47:47.960 worried that

00:47:48.540 they're all

00:47:48.820 going to

00:47:48.980 become Nazis, 0.55

00:47:49.860 because if

00:47:50.540 the only

00:47:50.840 thing you

00:47:51.140 can say

00:47:51.420 is they

00:47:51.660 have some

00:47:52.020 historical

00:47:53.020 connection

00:47:53.700 to bad

00:47:54.820 rhetoric,

00:47:56.440 historical

00:47:56.980 connection.

00:47:58.480 Come on.

00:47:59.560 That's all

00:47:59.940 you got?

00:48:00.860 Now,

00:48:01.820 to be

00:48:02.480 fair,

00:48:03.300 if there's

00:48:03.960 more to

00:48:04.280 this story

00:48:04.760 and that

00:48:05.060 party does

00:48:05.580 worse things

00:48:06.160 than I

00:48:06.460 know,

00:48:07.220 I would

00:48:07.580 like to

00:48:07.920 know that.

00:48:08.540 Maybe I

00:48:08.880 will revise

00:48:09.500 my opinion.

00:48:10.920 But if

00:48:11.280 your summary

00:48:12.220 of the

00:48:12.660 party for

00:48:13.340 how bad

00:48:13.920 they are

00:48:14.260 is anti-immigration,

00:48:15.700 which is

00:48:16.020 bullshit,

00:48:17.120 and historical

00:48:18.380 connections to

00:48:19.240 bad talking,

00:48:20.300 that's all

00:48:20.960 you got?

00:48:21.940 Those are

00:48:22.280 your top

00:48:22.620 two lines

00:48:23.200 in criticizing

00:48:24.020 that party?

00:48:25.060 I'm not in

00:48:25.940 favor of them.

00:48:27.060 So,

00:48:27.360 somebody's going

00:48:27.940 to say,

00:48:28.300 Adams is

00:48:29.480 supporting the

00:48:30.060 Nazi party.

00:48:30.720 I don't know

00:48:31.020 anything about

00:48:31.480 them.

00:48:31.920 I'm not

00:48:32.180 supporting them.

00:48:33.040 I'm just

00:48:33.360 saying the

00:48:33.680 reporting is

00:48:34.420 strongly

00:48:35.020 screaming that 0.82

00:48:37.300 maybe they're

00:48:37.760 not so bad.

00:48:39.140 That's what

00:48:39.720 the reporting

00:48:40.260 is telling

00:48:40.660 me.

00:48:40.860 That's not

00:48:41.160 my opinion.

00:48:43.600 So,

00:48:44.160 of course,

00:48:44.600 Pelosi is

00:48:45.400 on the

00:48:46.120 bandwagon

00:48:46.740 calling Trump

00:48:47.520 a puppet

00:48:47.980 of Musk.

00:48:49.720 And,

00:48:49.960 of course,

00:48:52.940 all they're

00:48:53.980 doing is

00:48:54.440 gaslighting

00:48:55.260 when Republicans

00:48:56.400 are trying

00:48:56.760 to solve

00:48:57.100 the problem.

00:48:58.100 But,

00:48:58.420 poor David

00:48:58.840 Axelrod,

00:48:59.920 one of the

00:49:00.880 last smart

00:49:02.320 advisors on

00:49:03.540 the Democrat

00:49:04.040 side.

00:49:05.220 I like

00:49:05.780 following him

00:49:06.380 because he

00:49:06.900 keeps saying

00:49:07.380 things that

00:49:07.860 are close

00:49:08.480 to just

00:49:09.420 common sense,

00:49:10.320 but he can't

00:49:11.140 get any

00:49:11.480 Democrats to

00:49:12.140 agree with

00:49:12.460 them.

00:49:14.060 He's trying

00:49:14.840 as hard as

00:49:15.340 he can to

00:49:15.840 get the

00:49:16.120 Democrats to

00:49:16.740 act like a

00:49:17.640 proper

00:49:18.340 political party

00:49:19.900 with reasonable

00:49:21.480 opinions and

00:49:22.180 stuff.

00:49:23.220 Poor guy.

00:49:23.920 Anyway,

00:49:25.200 he said,

00:49:25.840 quote,

00:49:26.320 not sure

00:49:26.940 about this

00:49:27.400 speculation

00:49:27.900 about Trump

00:49:28.560 tiring of

00:49:29.400 Musk and

00:49:30.020 shunning him.

00:49:31.440 So,

00:49:32.080 he's basically

00:49:32.560 telling the

00:49:33.120 Democrats that 0.57

00:49:33.860 their main

00:49:35.500 messaging is

00:49:38.400 just not a

00:49:39.460 good idea.

00:49:40.440 And it's

00:49:40.740 not.

00:49:41.300 It's dumb.

00:49:45.040 So,

00:49:46.000 yeah,

00:49:46.660 he's one of

00:49:47.080 the few

00:49:47.400 ones who

00:49:48.020 feel comfortable.

00:49:49.720 But he

00:49:50.160 must feel the

00:49:50.960 absurdity level

00:49:51.860 of going

00:49:52.620 from,

00:49:52.980 so the

00:49:53.840 Democrats

00:49:54.320 instantly

00:49:55.020 pivoted from

00:49:56.640 Trump is

00:49:57.360 a dictator,

00:49:58.600 strongman,

00:49:59.520 Nazi

00:49:59.980 personality who

00:50:01.320 must control

00:50:02.080 everything all

00:50:02.800 the time.

00:50:04.120 And then

00:50:04.400 immediately he

00:50:06.140 became under

00:50:06.820 the control

00:50:08.160 of one

00:50:08.880 person,

00:50:09.540 Elon Musk.

00:50:11.160 Now,

00:50:11.480 of course that

00:50:12.080 didn't happen.

00:50:13.120 Of course Trump's

00:50:14.000 in charge.

00:50:14.780 And of course he's

00:50:15.560 one of the most

00:50:16.560 confident people

00:50:17.320 in the world.

00:50:18.200 Here's where

00:50:18.840 here's where I

00:50:20.300 think the

00:50:20.880 reportedly

00:50:22.580 considering

00:50:23.120 separating each

00:50:23.920 individual bill

00:50:24.720 to vote on

00:50:25.340 instead of the

00:50:25.760 big one.

00:50:26.380 So it looks

00:50:26.860 like the

00:50:27.500 vote today

00:50:29.220 may have

00:50:29.660 hit a

00:50:30.480 breaking point

00:50:32.560 where they

00:50:33.140 need to break

00:50:34.480 it into

00:50:34.780 separate bills.

00:50:36.520 That's a good

00:50:37.200 idea if they

00:50:38.380 can make that

00:50:38.860 work.

00:50:39.120 So did

00:50:43.160 he really

00:50:43.500 go,

00:50:43.880 did Trump

00:50:44.240 really turn

00:50:44.720 from the

00:50:45.200 strongman

00:50:45.780 insurrectionist

00:50:46.580 Hitler into 0.99

00:50:47.800 a puppet

00:50:48.420 of Musk?

00:50:49.600 The level

00:50:50.680 of absurdity

00:50:52.140 in that

00:50:53.300 gaslighting

00:50:54.040 is one that

00:50:55.820 Axelrod just

00:50:56.660 didn't want to

00:50:57.060 be part of

00:50:57.500 apparently.

00:50:58.480 He's like,

00:50:59.260 I'm not so

00:51:00.020 sure this is a

00:51:00.660 good idea

00:51:01.240 because it

00:51:02.060 just looks

00:51:02.640 stupid. 0.90

00:51:04.400 Just looks

00:51:05.140 stupid. 0.90

00:51:06.000 Now,

00:51:06.540 I can't speak

00:51:08.040 for what Trump

00:51:08.700 is thinking.

00:51:10.600 But I can

00:51:11.360 say with some

00:51:12.000 confidence that

00:51:13.420 there's one

00:51:13.840 thing that the

00:51:14.420 Democrats probably

00:51:15.220 don't understand

00:51:16.080 because I think

00:51:17.140 that they

00:51:17.460 believe their

00:51:18.120 own,

00:51:18.720 I think they

00:51:19.860 believe their

00:51:20.300 own narratives.

00:51:21.840 And one of

00:51:22.500 their narratives

00:51:22.980 is that Trump

00:51:24.580 is insecure.

00:51:28.680 He's insecure.

00:51:30.820 What?

00:51:32.860 If there's one

00:51:33.800 thing I'm

00:51:34.180 completely certain

00:51:35.000 of, he's not

00:51:36.000 insecure.

00:51:37.280 He might be

00:51:37.700 the most

00:51:38.020 confident

00:51:38.440 person you've

00:51:39.060 ever met.

00:51:39.860 And he likes

00:51:40.580 people who are

00:51:41.120 smarter than

00:51:41.660 he is.

00:51:43.020 If they're on

00:51:43.840 his side.

00:51:44.860 Musk is on

00:51:45.420 his side.

00:51:46.660 He's smarter

00:51:47.180 than all of

00:51:47.720 us.

00:51:48.900 Trump likes

00:51:49.380 that.

00:51:50.180 He doesn't

00:51:50.620 dislike that.

00:51:51.580 Now, he

00:51:51.860 might dislike

00:51:52.720 the messaging

00:51:54.200 that the

00:51:54.920 Democrats are

00:51:55.600 doing.

00:51:56.840 But do you

00:51:58.220 think that

00:51:58.740 Trump is

00:52:00.280 dumb enough

00:52:00.880 to push

00:52:02.860 Musk out

00:52:03.600 of the

00:52:04.060 most useful

00:52:06.100 thing anybody's

00:52:06.840 ever done

00:52:07.180 in this

00:52:07.480 country,

00:52:07.980 which is

00:52:08.760 doge.

00:52:11.600 You would

00:52:12.360 have to

00:52:12.700 assume that

00:52:13.260 Trump was

00:52:14.720 a completely

00:52:15.180 different person.

00:52:17.020 Trump likes

00:52:17.580 winning.

00:52:18.680 He likes

00:52:19.080 really smart

00:52:19.760 people.

00:52:21.200 And Musk

00:52:22.180 is popular.

00:52:23.980 So he likes

00:52:25.500 everything about

00:52:26.240 this.

00:52:27.440 And I think

00:52:28.060 the Democrat

00:52:28.680 messaging is

00:52:29.920 really just

00:52:30.360 another sign

00:52:30.980 that they don't

00:52:31.440 have anything.

00:52:32.220 They have

00:52:32.480 nothing to offer

00:52:33.080 the American

00:52:33.580 people.

00:52:34.300 They don't

00:52:34.620 have a

00:52:34.920 policy.

00:52:36.020 They don't

00:52:36.400 even have

00:52:36.760 truth.

00:52:37.460 They don't

00:52:37.740 have fact

00:52:38.160 checking.

00:52:39.520 What do

00:52:39.800 they have?

00:52:40.700 It's literally

00:52:41.240 nothing but

00:52:41.760 gaslighting.

00:52:44.540 All right.

00:52:48.000 I think it's

00:52:48.900 funny that

00:52:49.320 Justin Trudeau

00:52:50.220 might lose

00:52:50.780 his job just

00:52:51.780 because Trump

00:52:52.780 rattled his

00:52:53.520 cage, but 0.87

00:52:54.760 also because

00:52:55.540 Trump is

00:52:56.340 looking hyper

00:52:57.120 capable when

00:52:59.480 Trudeau is

00:53:00.060 not.

00:53:00.380 So there's

00:53:01.460 a contrast

00:53:02.060 problem.

00:53:03.120 In

00:53:03.260 persuasion,

00:53:04.920 the idea

00:53:06.420 of contrast

00:53:07.340 is, you

00:53:10.080 can even

00:53:10.440 argue it's

00:53:11.400 all of

00:53:11.780 persuasion

00:53:12.300 because all

00:53:13.600 persuasion is

00:53:14.420 choosing between

00:53:15.220 alternatives.

00:53:16.220 You're trying to

00:53:16.600 get somebody to

00:53:17.160 choose one

00:53:17.620 alternative versus

00:53:18.780 another.

00:53:19.700 So what you

00:53:20.240 compare things

00:53:20.980 to usually

00:53:22.560 determines what

00:53:23.540 people will

00:53:23.940 choose, your

00:53:24.840 comparison.

00:53:27.180 So Trudeau

00:53:28.500 was being

00:53:29.880 compared until

00:53:31.020 now to,

00:53:32.760 let's say,

00:53:33.140 the new

00:53:33.460 president of

00:53:34.020 Mexico, who's 0.85

00:53:34.840 not exactly

00:53:35.500 hitting home

00:53:36.960 runs, to

00:53:38.740 the president

00:53:39.280 of the United

00:53:39.680 States, who

00:53:40.880 is literally

00:53:41.400 mentally disabled.

00:53:49.960 All right.

00:53:52.600 So I was just

00:53:53.320 reading a comment

00:53:54.120 because I thought

00:53:54.580 it was about

00:53:54.960 the bill

00:53:55.660 approval.

00:53:56.040 So I think

00:53:58.140 when you have

00:53:58.620 a Trump

00:53:59.100 who is not

00:53:59.780 even elected

00:54:00.280 president, and

00:54:01.540 he is already

00:54:02.620 de facto president

00:54:03.640 because we like

00:54:04.680 what he's doing,

00:54:05.700 he's collected

00:54:06.380 the pirate ship

00:54:07.360 of the smartest

00:54:07.880 people in the

00:54:08.540 world, he's

00:54:09.600 already changing

00:54:10.280 things, Putin's

00:54:12.080 already said he

00:54:12.800 wants to talk.

00:54:13.940 I mean, basically,

00:54:15.380 Trump is killing

00:54:16.480 it like no

00:54:18.360 president ever

00:54:19.140 has.

00:54:20.100 Would you agree

00:54:20.640 with that statement?

00:54:21.940 Would you agree

00:54:22.780 that as a

00:54:23.560 pre-president,

00:54:24.380 someone who

00:54:25.780 hasn't been

00:54:26.220 sworn in,

00:54:27.680 nobody's ever

00:54:28.420 been close?

00:54:30.200 Is that a fair

00:54:31.100 statement?

00:54:31.860 I don't think

00:54:32.500 there's any

00:54:32.860 hyperbole in

00:54:33.760 that.

00:54:34.640 I don't believe

00:54:35.600 anybody has

00:54:37.100 ever done

00:54:39.180 anything as

00:54:39.840 impressive for

00:54:42.060 their pre-presidency.

00:54:43.340 Nothing as

00:54:43.880 impressive as what

00:54:44.720 Trump has done.

00:54:45.680 Not even close.

00:54:47.320 Now, Canada is

00:54:48.440 up there watching

00:54:49.100 that, and

00:54:49.740 they're like,

00:54:50.500 did they just

00:54:51.820 figure out how

00:54:52.420 to attack

00:54:53.560 their debt

00:54:54.060 problem because

00:54:54.940 the smartest

00:54:55.600 person is going

00:54:56.300 to work on

00:54:56.720 it?

00:54:56.940 Two smartest

00:54:57.420 people,

00:54:57.960 Akin and

00:54:59.320 Musk.

00:55:00.840 They must be

00:55:01.680 getting jealous

00:55:02.280 as hell.

00:55:03.280 And then he

00:55:03.580 starts teasing

00:55:04.200 them like maybe

00:55:04.920 they should be a

00:55:05.440 little state.

00:55:06.780 Now, I don't

00:55:07.120 think he means

00:55:07.720 that, and it

00:55:08.240 probably wouldn't

00:55:08.800 be a good idea

00:55:09.520 to take on that

00:55:11.140 many crazy people

00:55:12.060 and add them to

00:55:13.260 the vote.

00:55:15.320 That'd be a

00:55:15.900 little jarring

00:55:16.400 for the United

00:55:16.920 States.

00:55:17.280 But the fact

00:55:18.380 that it's

00:55:19.780 actually a

00:55:20.640 reasonable, it's

00:55:22.580 a reasonable

00:55:23.080 proposal.

00:55:24.840 The thing that

00:55:25.960 makes it funny

00:55:26.640 is that you

00:55:27.840 can't rule it

00:55:28.520 out when Trump

00:55:29.720 says, why don't

00:55:30.300 you just become

00:55:30.820 a state and

00:55:31.580 fold into the

00:55:32.240 United States?

00:55:34.180 Do you think

00:55:34.980 that in the

00:55:35.660 long run,

00:55:36.200 Canada would 0.87

00:55:37.040 do worse as

00:55:39.320 a, not say

00:55:41.060 one state,

00:55:41.660 let's say, you

00:55:42.760 know, seven

00:55:43.160 states or

00:55:43.700 whatever there,

00:55:44.540 if they added

00:55:45.180 seven Canadian

00:55:46.060 states to the

00:55:46.640 United States,

00:55:47.280 do you think

00:55:47.600 we'd be worse

00:55:48.160 off?

00:55:49.420 Well, maybe,

00:55:50.620 because they

00:55:51.240 might vote

00:55:51.760 liberal, and

00:55:52.820 then we would

00:55:53.260 have, you

00:55:53.660 know, liberal

00:55:54.160 presidents forever,

00:55:55.580 and maybe we

00:55:56.160 would be worth

00:55:56.720 off.

00:55:57.680 And it would

00:55:58.280 be expensive.

00:55:59.120 We'd be taking

00:55:59.740 on their debt,

00:56:01.180 et cetera.

00:56:02.740 But they got a

00:56:03.580 lot of resources,

00:56:04.720 and they got a

00:56:05.240 lot of well-educated,

00:56:06.300 smart people who

00:56:07.540 are very nice most

00:56:08.960 of the time.

00:56:10.660 So the fact that

00:56:12.220 you would even

00:56:12.740 stop to consider

00:56:13.840 it is what makes

00:56:15.980 it so funny.

00:56:17.280 Because you

00:56:17.900 can't immediately

00:56:18.920 rule it out.

00:56:19.780 You're like,

00:56:20.000 yeah, I have

00:56:20.980 some problems.

00:56:21.760 Yeah, there'd

00:56:22.720 be a lot of

00:56:23.120 problems.

00:56:24.760 Probably we

00:56:25.440 could work

00:56:25.860 them out.

00:56:27.220 I don't know.

00:56:28.020 Probably the

00:56:28.660 change in the

00:56:29.560 voting demographics

00:56:30.440 would be a

00:56:31.220 killer to make

00:56:32.440 it not possible.

00:56:33.240 But I like the

00:56:33.780 fact that they

00:56:34.200 put that in

00:56:34.680 their brains,

00:56:35.260 and they have

00:56:35.500 to think about

00:56:35.980 it.

00:56:37.040 Speaking of

00:56:37.640 brains, that

00:56:39.920 Wall Street Journal

00:56:40.660 expose of

00:56:41.560 Biden, I was

00:56:42.760 looking at some

00:56:43.300 more details

00:56:43.940 today.

00:56:45.620 It is really

00:56:46.640 damning.

00:56:47.780 So apparently

00:56:48.240 from the first

00:56:49.080 day of his

00:56:50.220 presidency, it

00:56:51.480 was completely

00:56:52.140 understood by the

00:56:53.000 staff that he

00:56:53.540 was mentally

00:56:54.040 incompetent.

00:56:55.340 First day.

00:56:57.100 First day.

00:56:58.560 And from then,

00:56:59.380 they'd surrounded

00:57:00.000 him by insiders

00:57:01.040 whose names you've

00:57:02.080 never heard of,

00:57:03.060 who were really

00:57:04.060 the ones who

00:57:04.600 were running the

00:57:05.160 country, or at

00:57:06.180 least the ones who

00:57:06.780 were keeping other

00:57:07.840 people from talking

00:57:08.680 to Biden so much.

00:57:09.780 So his close

00:57:10.980 advisors, have

00:57:11.820 you heard any

00:57:12.320 of these names?

00:57:13.460 Bruce Reed, Steve

00:57:14.880 Reschetti, and

00:57:16.600 Mike Donilon.

00:57:19.100 Apparently, that's

00:57:19.980 who's been running

00:57:20.620 the United States

00:57:21.440 for the last four

00:57:22.160 years.

00:57:24.180 Now, not just

00:57:25.100 them.

00:57:26.840 Because, you

00:57:27.440 know, Tony

00:57:27.800 Blinken and

00:57:28.480 other advisors.

00:57:29.820 But apparently,

00:57:30.480 the people who

00:57:31.760 had jobs in the

00:57:33.060 domain that the

00:57:33.860 president should

00:57:34.500 have had a big

00:57:35.040 influence on were

00:57:36.700 just sort of running

00:57:38.240 the show themselves.

00:57:39.780 So Biden wasn't

00:57:41.220 too much part of

00:57:42.320 the presidency.

00:57:43.820 It was kind of,

00:57:45.640 you know, it was

00:57:46.700 sort of game down

00:57:47.520 to all the players.

00:57:48.940 And they just took

00:57:50.100 whatever they needed

00:57:50.880 and ran the

00:57:51.900 country.

00:57:52.680 Now, the first

00:57:54.040 part about that is

00:57:55.720 that we couldn't

00:57:57.000 tell the difference.

00:57:58.460 We knew something

00:57:59.160 was going on, but

00:58:00.940 the country still

00:58:01.660 ran.

00:58:02.420 The biggest problem

00:58:03.600 was we started wars

00:58:04.560 and ran up our

00:58:05.320 debt.

00:58:05.960 Those are big

00:58:06.440 problems.

00:58:06.780 So, apparently,

00:58:10.240 people could not

00:58:11.320 reach Biden

00:58:12.000 directly.

00:58:13.620 And I was

00:58:14.360 listening to

00:58:14.980 Stephanie Ruhle,

00:58:16.340 one of the

00:58:16.840 MSNBC Trump

00:58:18.200 haters, who

00:58:19.200 said that she

00:58:19.660 wanted to contact

00:58:20.360 Trump the other

00:58:21.040 day.

00:58:21.760 So, somehow, she

00:58:22.800 had his personal

00:58:23.560 phone number.

00:58:24.560 So, she dialed

00:58:25.580 up Trump, the

00:58:27.000 president-elect, in

00:58:28.540 the middle of the

00:58:29.280 busiest time he

00:58:30.940 could ever be,

00:58:31.620 getting ready for

00:58:32.280 the office.

00:58:33.100 And he took

00:58:33.800 the call.

00:58:36.940 Stephanie Ruhle

00:58:37.860 of MSNBC,

00:58:40.100 you know, probably

00:58:40.880 somebody that

00:58:41.420 Trump, the least

00:58:42.700 likely person he'd

00:58:44.040 want to talk to,

00:58:44.800 he answered the

00:58:45.660 call himself.

00:58:46.760 He personally

00:58:47.600 answered his

00:58:48.140 phone.

00:58:49.560 And she was

00:58:50.180 saying she was

00:58:50.640 sort of blown

00:58:51.080 away by it.

00:58:52.020 Now, he did

00:58:52.600 not agree to an

00:58:53.400 interview with

00:58:53.900 her.

00:58:54.720 But she was 0.91

00:58:56.260 saying compare

00:58:56.760 that to the

00:58:57.280 White House.

00:58:58.180 Basically, they

00:58:58.880 had, Biden was

00:59:00.360 in a cocoon, and

00:59:01.780 she said if she

00:59:02.460 would try to

00:59:03.040 reach him, she

00:59:04.580 would have to

00:59:04.900 go through

00:59:05.240 handler, handler,

00:59:06.300 handler, and

00:59:06.780 there was not

00:59:07.140 even a clear

00:59:07.660 path to do

00:59:08.260 it.

00:59:09.520 So, it was

00:59:10.820 much worse

00:59:11.780 than you

00:59:12.040 thought.

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00:59:26.380 you're richer

00:59:26.860 than you think.

00:59:30.580 During

00:59:31.060 Biden's

00:59:31.680 presidency,

00:59:32.460 apparently the

00:59:32.940 aide said

00:59:33.620 that they

00:59:34.500 would have

00:59:34.760 to repeat

00:59:35.340 things to

00:59:35.860 him constantly,

00:59:37.080 continuously.

00:59:38.180 He was

00:59:38.480 giving simplistic

00:59:39.260 instruction cards

00:59:40.420 and detailed

00:59:41.060 pointers, and

00:59:41.740 he couldn't

00:59:42.000 even handle

00:59:42.440 that.

00:59:44.220 They said

00:59:44.900 that Jill

00:59:45.440 was too

00:59:45.940 energetic by

00:59:46.720 comparison.

00:59:47.540 It was sort

00:59:47.960 of a problem

00:59:48.440 because she

00:59:49.180 had a full

00:59:49.660 schedule, but

00:59:50.380 he did not.

00:59:51.880 So, it was

00:59:52.460 kind of, you

00:59:53.540 know, showing

00:59:54.100 that a

00:59:55.460 capable person

00:59:56.260 could be doing

00:59:56.820 a lot more.

00:59:57.280 And apparently,

01:00:00.700 this is the

01:00:01.240 funny part,

01:00:02.300 the staff

01:00:03.400 was supposed

01:00:04.060 to put

01:00:04.500 together news

01:00:05.560 clips for

01:00:06.220 him, which

01:00:07.000 is typical.

01:00:07.820 The president

01:00:08.240 always gets

01:00:08.740 news clips,

01:00:09.760 but they

01:00:10.400 had to leave

01:00:10.940 out any

01:00:11.340 negative stories

01:00:12.120 about the

01:00:12.500 president.

01:00:13.820 They had to

01:00:14.480 leave out any

01:00:15.300 negative stories.

01:00:16.880 How in the

01:00:17.680 world do you

01:00:18.660 run the country

01:00:19.440 without seeing

01:00:20.800 negative stories?

01:00:22.640 They removed

01:00:23.560 the only

01:00:24.040 guardrail they

01:00:24.740 had.

01:00:25.860 They had one

01:00:26.660 guardrail.

01:00:27.760 We're watching.

01:00:30.240 And they made

01:00:31.020 sure that the

01:00:31.760 president didn't

01:00:33.760 know we were

01:00:34.180 watching.

01:00:35.400 So, he kept

01:00:36.200 thinking he was

01:00:36.660 nailing it.

01:00:37.840 They were

01:00:38.080 probably saying

01:00:38.560 like, oh,

01:00:39.580 Mr. President,

01:00:40.180 you're nailing

01:00:40.700 it.

01:00:41.140 Here's another

01:00:41.560 pile of great

01:00:42.780 press from

01:00:43.480 MSNBC and

01:00:45.000 CNN.

01:00:47.160 The Atlantic

01:00:48.000 is really,

01:00:48.580 really big on

01:00:49.340 you today.

01:00:50.280 Good news,

01:00:50.860 Mr. President.

01:00:51.640 Yeah.

01:00:54.520 So, again,

01:00:56.920 it makes me

01:00:57.300 wonder if he

01:00:58.060 is aware of

01:00:59.120 the Wall Street

01:00:59.580 Journal story.

01:01:00.920 It'd be hard

01:01:01.340 to miss it.

01:01:02.620 And maybe

01:01:03.240 that's what

01:01:03.680 they're talking

01:01:05.140 about at the

01:01:05.640 White House

01:01:05.980 today.

01:01:08.740 So, you

01:01:09.500 know I'm

01:01:09.820 going to say

01:01:10.200 this because

01:01:11.660 you've been

01:01:11.980 following me

01:01:12.580 long enough.

01:01:14.300 You know

01:01:14.980 that in

01:01:15.360 2019,

01:01:17.180 can you

01:01:17.880 back me up

01:01:18.440 on this in

01:01:18.820 the comments

01:01:19.300 in case there

01:01:19.840 are new

01:01:20.080 people here?

01:01:21.640 Can you

01:01:22.280 back me

01:01:22.800 up that

01:01:23.320 as a

01:01:24.120 public

01:01:24.440 figure who

01:01:24.960 was talking

01:01:25.380 about the

01:01:25.980 news and

01:01:27.300 politics all

01:01:28.040 the time,

01:01:29.120 that in

01:01:29.440 2019,

01:01:30.920 during the

01:01:32.040 election for

01:01:33.940 2020,

01:01:34.860 I was telling

01:01:35.860 you often

01:01:36.580 that Biden

01:01:37.460 was not

01:01:37.960 capable of

01:01:38.700 doing the

01:01:39.060 first term.

01:01:40.200 True or not?

01:01:41.480 I said he

01:01:42.120 was already

01:01:42.600 gone.

01:01:44.100 How many

01:01:44.840 of you

01:01:45.140 remember me

01:01:45.940 saying that?

01:01:46.480 So, while

01:01:49.300 you're

01:01:49.460 thinking about

01:01:49.940 that, I

01:01:52.260 found a

01:01:52.800 post I

01:01:53.340 made in

01:01:54.260 2020.

01:01:58.160 So, this

01:01:58.880 is what I

01:01:59.240 said in

01:01:59.660 August of

01:02:00.360 2020.

01:02:01.100 So, this

01:02:01.380 is prior to

01:02:02.280 the vote,

01:02:03.280 so the

01:02:03.660 2020 election

01:02:04.500 hadn't

01:02:04.760 happened for

01:02:05.260 several more

01:02:05.800 months, and

01:02:06.860 I posted

01:02:07.280 this.

01:02:08.640 I said,

01:02:09.340 the Biden

01:02:09.640 mental competence

01:02:10.820 story has

01:02:12.060 now fully

01:02:12.700 morphed into a

01:02:13.560 Monty Python

01:02:14.280 sketch about

01:02:15.780 a dead

01:02:16.240 parrot the

01:02:16.820 owner insists

01:02:17.500 is perfectly

01:02:18.160 healthy.

01:02:19.080 I can't

01:02:19.540 even listen

01:02:20.040 to people

01:02:20.520 claiming Biden

01:02:21.360 is perfectly

01:02:22.000 fine without

01:02:23.200 hearing a

01:02:23.840 British accent.

01:02:26.560 Now, I

01:02:27.380 said as

01:02:27.820 clearly as I

01:02:28.600 possibly could,

01:02:30.500 he's as

01:02:31.000 gone as the

01:02:31.700 dead parrot.

01:02:33.540 Not in the

01:02:34.280 future.

01:02:35.220 I wasn't

01:02:35.660 talking about

01:02:36.220 what might

01:02:36.780 happen at

01:02:37.420 the end of

01:02:37.900 his second

01:02:38.380 term.

01:02:39.400 I was

01:02:39.780 saying,

01:02:40.180 right now,

01:02:41.300 they're treating

01:02:41.880 him like he's

01:02:42.520 a dead parrot

01:02:43.180 right in front

01:02:43.680 of us.

01:02:45.260 Now, the

01:02:45.620 Wall Street

01:02:45.980 Journal reporting

01:02:47.300 four years

01:02:47.920 later confirms

01:02:49.440 that they

01:02:50.460 were in

01:02:50.820 fact treating

01:02:51.980 him like a

01:02:52.600 dead parrot.

01:02:54.080 They were

01:02:54.700 literally treating

01:02:55.840 him like a

01:02:56.420 dead parrot,

01:02:57.180 meaning that

01:02:57.860 they were

01:02:58.160 pretending he

01:02:58.940 was capable,

01:03:00.000 but they

01:03:00.840 knew he

01:03:01.180 wasn't.

01:03:03.040 Now, here's

01:03:04.280 my question.

01:03:06.980 I'm a

01:03:07.560 public figure

01:03:08.220 and I talk

01:03:08.700 about the

01:03:09.040 news.

01:03:10.120 So, I

01:03:10.840 nailed that

01:03:11.320 one as hard

01:03:11.920 as you can

01:03:12.280 nail anything.

01:03:13.340 I mean,

01:03:13.520 that's 100%

01:03:14.640 right years

01:03:15.260 in advance.

01:03:16.240 You can't

01:03:16.600 beat that.

01:03:17.680 I don't

01:03:18.340 remember other

01:03:19.040 people saying

01:03:19.720 it.

01:03:21.560 Do you?

01:03:23.800 I'm sure

01:03:24.600 they did.

01:03:26.000 I'm sure

01:03:26.640 they did.

01:03:27.400 So, I

01:03:27.800 wasn't alone.

01:03:29.040 And I

01:03:29.520 know a lot

01:03:30.120 of you just

01:03:30.720 as voters

01:03:32.060 and people

01:03:32.680 paying attention,

01:03:33.440 you all knew

01:03:33.900 it.

01:03:34.700 You were

01:03:34.980 seeing the

01:03:35.340 same thing

01:03:35.660 I saw.

01:03:36.760 But I

01:03:37.740 think public

01:03:38.360 figures just

01:03:39.060 weren't saying

01:03:39.840 it when it

01:03:40.940 was so obvious.

01:03:41.620 And the

01:03:42.320 question I

01:03:42.800 have is,

01:03:44.160 if you

01:03:45.780 couldn't tell

01:03:46.620 in August

01:03:47.700 of 2020

01:03:48.520 that his

01:03:49.520 brain was

01:03:50.240 dead,

01:03:51.440 you should

01:03:51.980 never vote

01:03:52.560 again.

01:03:54.020 You should

01:03:54.720 never vote

01:03:55.320 again.

01:03:55.820 Because this

01:03:56.400 was super

01:03:57.360 glaringly

01:03:58.240 obvious years

01:04:00.040 ago.

01:04:01.000 Super

01:04:01.560 glaringly

01:04:02.500 obvious.

01:04:03.380 If you

01:04:03.920 missed that

01:04:04.440 signal,

01:04:05.800 you really

01:04:07.400 have to

01:04:07.720 distrust

01:04:08.200 your opinion.

01:04:09.740 Because this

01:04:10.460 was a big

01:04:10.940 one.

01:04:11.620 I mean,

01:04:12.260 this was

01:04:12.600 really,

01:04:13.520 really big

01:04:14.180 and really,

01:04:15.480 really obvious.

01:04:17.300 If you

01:04:17.920 missed this,

01:04:19.420 maybe don't

01:04:19.980 vote next

01:04:20.460 time.

01:04:21.480 That would

01:04:21.800 be my

01:04:22.100 advice.

01:04:22.800 Now,

01:04:23.240 I follow

01:04:23.960 my own

01:04:24.380 advice.

01:04:25.940 I've told

01:04:26.620 you in the

01:04:26.980 past that

01:04:27.540 the first

01:04:28.000 time I

01:04:28.320 voted as

01:04:28.900 an adult

01:04:29.420 was for

01:04:30.780 Jimmy

01:04:31.060 Carter.

01:04:32.500 And then

01:04:33.120 when I

01:04:33.420 saw how

01:04:33.740 that turned

01:04:34.180 out,

01:04:34.880 I said

01:04:35.880 to myself,

01:04:36.560 I'm not

01:04:37.120 qualified to

01:04:37.740 vote.

01:04:38.880 Like,

01:04:39.420 I don't

01:04:39.800 know how

01:04:40.060 much more

01:04:40.560 I need to

01:04:41.020 know about

01:04:41.380 the world,

01:04:41.900 but clearly

01:04:43.040 I'm not

01:04:43.980 qualified to

01:04:44.640 vote.

01:04:45.680 And so I

01:04:46.140 didn't.

01:04:47.140 So for

01:04:47.740 decades,

01:04:48.660 I didn't

01:04:49.680 vote.

01:04:50.260 And the

01:04:50.560 reason was

01:04:51.000 I wasn't

01:04:51.380 qualified.

01:04:52.560 Now,

01:04:53.140 I don't

01:04:53.520 know if I'm

01:04:53.920 qualified yet,

01:04:55.160 but I can

01:04:56.140 tell you that

01:04:56.840 I knew for

01:04:57.460 sure that

01:04:58.820 Trump would

01:04:59.260 be a

01:04:59.560 superstar and

01:05:00.740 Biden's brain

01:05:01.360 was dead.

01:05:02.400 So in that

01:05:03.280 very specific

01:05:04.200 case,

01:05:05.120 where the

01:05:05.920 reality was

01:05:06.960 screamingly

01:05:08.020 obvious,

01:05:09.120 then I

01:05:10.060 felt qualified

01:05:10.660 to vote.

01:05:11.720 And now

01:05:12.040 I voted.

01:05:12.980 And do I

01:05:13.380 feel that I

01:05:13.880 voted correctly?

01:05:15.020 Hell yes.

01:05:16.360 You know,

01:05:16.580 it got Harris

01:05:17.500 out of the

01:05:17.840 race,

01:05:18.080 of course.

01:05:20.320 I mean,

01:05:20.600 not my

01:05:20.940 vote,

01:05:21.280 but it

01:05:22.040 was part

01:05:22.760 of the

01:05:22.980 package.

01:05:26.240 All right,

01:05:26.700 here's a

01:05:27.020 drone update.

01:05:28.260 We still

01:05:28.680 don't know

01:05:29.020 anything,

01:05:29.560 but a

01:05:29.820 couple of

01:05:30.160 interesting

01:05:30.560 factoids.

01:05:31.660 I saw

01:05:32.060 one person

01:05:32.660 whose name

01:05:33.240 I don't

01:05:33.500 remember on

01:05:34.080 a podcast

01:05:34.500 I don't

01:05:34.840 remember,

01:05:35.900 claiming that

01:05:36.580 drone activity

01:05:39.020 has increased

01:05:39.840 dramatically

01:05:40.420 for each

01:05:41.900 of the

01:05:42.180 last three

01:05:42.740 years right

01:05:44.040 around

01:05:44.280 Christmas.

01:05:46.120 Do you

01:05:46.700 believe that's

01:05:47.160 true?

01:05:48.320 That it's

01:05:48.800 at the

01:05:49.100 highest level

01:05:49.720 it's been.

01:05:50.620 So for the

01:05:50.980 past three

01:05:51.480 years,

01:05:51.940 there were

01:05:52.340 a surge

01:05:52.840 right around

01:05:53.320 now,

01:05:54.040 and then

01:05:55.180 it's just

01:05:55.540 sort of

01:05:55.940 an end

01:05:56.260 of year

01:05:56.600 Christmas

01:05:57.540 surge.

01:05:59.900 So,

01:06:00.660 here's my

01:06:01.540 question.

01:06:03.220 If you

01:06:03.880 were doing

01:06:05.020 pattern recognition,

01:06:06.580 why would

01:06:07.620 there be

01:06:07.940 so much

01:06:08.440 activity

01:06:08.940 around

01:06:09.280 Christmas?

01:06:10.640 It's

01:06:11.080 before people

01:06:11.880 get toys,

01:06:12.880 so they

01:06:13.560 haven't received

01:06:14.140 it for

01:06:14.440 Christmas and

01:06:15.020 they're trying

01:06:15.400 it out.

01:06:15.840 It's not

01:06:16.120 that.

01:06:17.200 And these

01:06:17.640 seem to be

01:06:18.080 bigger commercial

01:06:18.880 drones,

01:06:19.400 they're not

01:06:19.620 little ones.

01:06:21.620 Why would

01:06:22.220 you see

01:06:22.480 that?

01:06:23.740 Well,

01:06:24.240 I don't

01:06:24.440 know.

01:06:26.200 But I'm

01:06:26.740 going to

01:06:26.900 give you

01:06:27.180 the Dilbert

01:06:27.780 filter on

01:06:29.380 why you

01:06:29.800 might see

01:06:30.200 more drone

01:06:30.760 activities in

01:06:31.500 the past

01:06:31.880 three years

01:06:32.520 toward the

01:06:33.840 end of the

01:06:34.300 calendar year.

01:06:35.880 So this

01:06:36.460 is the

01:06:36.800 corporate

01:06:37.340 filter.

01:06:39.220 How does

01:06:39.700 a corporate

01:06:40.160 do budgeting?

01:06:41.460 Corporation

01:06:41.860 does budgeting

01:06:42.600 this way.

01:06:43.820 Toward the

01:06:44.180 end of the

01:06:44.560 year,

01:06:44.880 they ask

01:06:45.260 you how

01:06:45.560 much of

01:06:45.860 your budget

01:06:46.200 you spent.

01:06:47.380 If you

01:06:47.980 spent half

01:06:48.640 of your

01:06:48.880 budget,

01:06:49.740 your boss

01:06:50.220 says,

01:06:50.660 excellent.

01:06:51.440 Next year,

01:06:52.120 that's how

01:06:52.540 much you'll

01:06:52.920 get.

01:06:53.720 Half of

01:06:54.280 the budget

01:06:54.600 you had

01:06:54.920 last year.

01:06:56.720 Nobody

01:06:57.160 wants to

01:06:57.640 get half

01:06:57.980 of the

01:06:58.180 budget they

01:06:58.600 had last

01:06:59.000 year,

01:06:59.460 even if

01:07:00.260 they only

01:07:00.580 spent that

01:07:01.040 much,

01:07:01.500 because they

01:07:02.660 were too

01:07:02.960 slow.

01:07:03.760 So what

01:07:04.080 do they do

01:07:04.400 instead?

01:07:04.780 They rush

01:07:06.860 to spend

01:07:07.960 as much

01:07:08.380 as they

01:07:08.700 can toward

01:07:09.540 the end

01:07:09.860 of the

01:07:10.060 year,

01:07:10.320 so they

01:07:11.160 fully spent

01:07:11.840 their budget,

01:07:12.340 so they

01:07:13.300 can ask for

01:07:13.780 that and

01:07:14.300 a little bit

01:07:14.660 more,

01:07:15.480 a little

01:07:15.940 bump.

01:07:16.500 I'll take

01:07:16.860 everything I

01:07:17.360 had last

01:07:17.760 year,

01:07:18.020 because you

01:07:18.300 see I

01:07:18.560 spent it,

01:07:19.440 and I'll

01:07:19.880 need 10%

01:07:20.460 more next

01:07:20.920 year.

01:07:21.740 That's how

01:07:22.360 everybody

01:07:23.040 does budgeting

01:07:23.920 in a

01:07:24.700 corporation.

01:07:25.760 This is not

01:07:26.300 the exception.

01:07:27.320 That's how

01:07:27.640 they all

01:07:28.240 do it.

01:07:29.120 They try to

01:07:29.660 spend it

01:07:30.080 all.

01:07:30.260 I have

01:07:31.040 been

01:07:31.220 personally

01:07:31.740 involved

01:07:32.280 where my

01:07:34.480 boss put

01:07:35.580 the order

01:07:35.980 out,

01:07:36.680 can you

01:07:37.460 wildly

01:07:37.920 spend

01:07:38.360 whatever

01:07:38.680 money

01:07:38.980 you

01:07:39.160 have

01:07:39.400 left

01:07:39.620 in

01:07:39.780 your

01:07:39.920 budget

01:07:40.240 so

01:07:41.060 that

01:07:41.240 I

01:07:41.360 don't

01:07:41.500 get

01:07:41.660 my

01:07:41.860 budget

01:07:42.160 cut

01:07:42.540 next

01:07:43.380 year?

01:07:45.260 Literally.

01:07:46.100 We were

01:07:46.420 told that

01:07:46.760 directly.

01:07:47.920 Spend

01:07:48.280 wildly.

01:07:49.460 Make

01:07:49.620 sure you

01:07:49.900 spend

01:07:50.160 it all.

01:07:51.160 He

01:07:51.340 did not

01:07:51.780 say,

01:07:52.660 only buy

01:07:53.180 things which

01:07:53.900 are critical

01:07:54.900 to the

01:07:55.360 company.

01:07:55.960 That was

01:07:56.560 not the

01:07:56.980 goal.

01:07:57.820 The goal

01:07:58.240 was spending.

01:07:59.400 The goal

01:07:59.720 was not

01:08:00.200 success.

01:08:02.420 Now,

01:08:03.120 everybody

01:08:04.520 who's

01:08:04.800 worked in

01:08:05.140 a corporation

01:08:05.720 can back

01:08:06.300 me on

01:08:06.560 that,

01:08:06.820 right?

01:08:07.620 There might

01:08:07.900 be a few

01:08:08.340 companies

01:08:08.780 that don't

01:08:09.200 do that,

01:08:09.980 but they'd

01:08:10.380 be exceptions.

01:08:11.660 You spend

01:08:12.320 all of your

01:08:12.960 budget before

01:08:13.760 the year

01:08:14.140 end.

01:08:14.740 So,

01:08:15.320 what else

01:08:16.200 do we

01:08:16.480 know about

01:08:17.400 the world

01:08:17.840 recently?

01:08:18.900 We know

01:08:19.580 that in the

01:08:19.940 past three

01:08:20.380 years,

01:08:21.420 drones have

01:08:21.960 become the

01:08:22.360 weapon of

01:08:22.760 choice in

01:08:23.200 Ukraine,

01:08:23.940 and we all

01:08:24.740 know that

01:08:25.080 drones are

01:08:25.500 the future

01:08:25.960 of warfare.

01:08:28.040 Three years

01:08:28.800 ago,

01:08:29.100 what should

01:08:30.120 have been

01:08:30.360 happening is

01:08:31.500 the U.S.

01:08:32.020 should have

01:08:32.360 been secretly,

01:08:34.180 at least some

01:08:34.740 of it is

01:08:35.020 secretly,

01:08:36.020 spinning up

01:08:37.320 massive

01:08:38.820 manufacturing

01:08:39.640 capability

01:08:40.420 for drones,

01:08:42.360 and not the

01:08:42.920 little hobby

01:08:43.420 drones.

01:08:43.980 I'm talking

01:08:44.300 about the

01:08:44.620 real fighting

01:08:45.240 drones,

01:08:45.840 big ones.

01:08:47.500 So,

01:08:48.180 in theory,

01:08:49.460 three years

01:08:50.040 ago,

01:08:50.580 the people

01:08:51.020 who had the

01:08:51.440 budget to

01:08:52.760 create their

01:08:53.340 new drones

01:08:54.220 should have

01:08:54.780 said,

01:08:55.140 oh shit,

01:08:55.480 let's do

01:08:57.760 something before

01:08:58.340 the end of

01:08:58.720 the year.

01:08:59.780 So,

01:08:59.960 at the end

01:09:00.260 of the year,

01:09:00.720 they might

01:09:01.000 be saying,

01:09:01.520 hey,

01:09:01.680 everybody who

01:09:02.720 funded us

01:09:03.380 to build

01:09:04.000 these drones,

01:09:04.900 we're going

01:09:05.400 to do a

01:09:05.720 big demonstration

01:09:06.500 toward the

01:09:07.060 end of the

01:09:07.380 year to

01:09:08.540 justify the

01:09:09.580 money we've

01:09:10.020 spent so far

01:09:10.700 and also,

01:09:11.580 importantly,

01:09:12.300 spend a bunch

01:09:13.020 more at the

01:09:13.460 end of the

01:09:13.760 year to do

01:09:14.300 the demonstration

01:09:15.020 and then

01:09:16.200 justify your

01:09:17.760 budget and

01:09:18.820 maybe get a

01:09:19.380 contract for

01:09:20.760 more building.

01:09:22.580 So,

01:09:23.780 it's possible

01:09:24.580 that what

01:09:26.140 you're seeing

01:09:26.660 is vendors

01:09:27.460 doing end

01:09:28.820 of year

01:09:29.260 demonstrations,

01:09:30.620 which would

01:09:31.300 naturally be

01:09:32.220 much bigger

01:09:32.980 each of the

01:09:33.600 three years

01:09:34.160 that we've

01:09:34.480 been here

01:09:34.820 because they

01:09:35.240 would have

01:09:35.440 been building

01:09:35.880 capacity that

01:09:36.780 whole time.

01:09:38.120 And it

01:09:39.100 makes sense

01:09:39.740 to be at

01:09:40.100 the end

01:09:40.320 of the year.

01:09:40.980 So,

01:09:41.360 it has nothing

01:09:41.860 to do with

01:09:42.320 Christmas and

01:09:43.840 everything to

01:09:44.400 do with the

01:09:44.740 end of a

01:09:45.100 fiscal year.

01:09:46.960 Just a

01:09:48.100 hypothesis.

01:09:49.320 It's just a

01:09:49.880 hypothesis.

01:09:50.900 I wouldn't

01:09:51.500 bet on it.

01:09:52.700 I wouldn't

01:09:53.060 place any

01:09:53.560 giant bet

01:09:54.680 that I'm

01:09:54.980 right.

01:09:55.640 But if you

01:09:56.060 want to

01:09:56.280 look for

01:09:56.540 something that's

01:09:57.100 not exotic,

01:09:58.540 like Chinese 1.00

01:09:59.800 drones or

01:10:00.920 aliens, if

01:10:02.760 you want

01:10:03.020 something not

01:10:03.540 exotic, it's

01:10:05.000 just a budget

01:10:05.500 thing.

01:10:06.700 It might be

01:10:07.220 just that.

01:10:09.440 I wouldn't

01:10:09.800 bet on it

01:10:10.240 though.

01:10:12.040 Apparently,

01:10:12.780 according to

01:10:13.180 Ars Technica,

01:10:14.620 there's a

01:10:16.040 drone ban

01:10:17.160 in the skies

01:10:18.800 of part of

01:10:19.660 New Jersey.

01:10:20.160 And I

01:10:20.940 think what

01:10:21.380 they're trying

01:10:21.840 to do is

01:10:23.420 legally ban

01:10:25.600 all the

01:10:26.560 drones in

01:10:27.160 one of the

01:10:27.520 problem areas

01:10:28.440 so that if

01:10:30.020 anything's

01:10:30.540 flying once

01:10:31.800 they're all

01:10:32.120 legally banned,

01:10:33.360 you would know

01:10:34.160 that they're

01:10:34.560 either illegal

01:10:35.440 or alien,

01:10:37.660 which I guess

01:10:38.500 would be

01:10:38.740 illegal.

01:10:40.180 Are aliens

01:10:41.060 illegal if

01:10:42.020 they come from

01:10:42.500 space?

01:10:43.080 I don't know

01:10:43.520 how that works.

01:10:44.120 So this is

01:10:46.840 smart.

01:10:47.860 You know

01:10:48.220 when they

01:10:48.540 should have

01:10:48.860 done this?

01:10:49.720 A long

01:10:50.400 time ago.

01:10:51.820 So two

01:10:52.300 weeks ago,

01:10:53.300 when everybody

01:10:53.940 was talking

01:10:54.440 about what's

01:10:55.200 all these

01:10:55.540 drones, if

01:10:56.580 we didn't

01:10:57.020 know the

01:10:57.320 answer, they

01:10:58.400 should have

01:10:58.740 banned drones

01:10:59.580 for a week

01:11:00.540 just to figure

01:11:02.040 out what's

01:11:02.380 going on,

01:11:03.280 because they

01:11:04.080 would have

01:11:04.300 seen the

01:11:04.640 anomaly right

01:11:05.240 away.

01:11:05.960 Because whoever

01:11:06.660 is doing it

01:11:07.280 isn't listening

01:11:07.920 to the laws

01:11:08.700 and following

01:11:09.240 them, I

01:11:09.940 don't think.

01:11:11.460 I mean,

01:11:11.760 maybe a

01:11:12.300 little, but

01:11:13.380 if it's

01:11:13.660 something

01:11:13.920 nefarious,

01:11:16.120 I don't

01:11:16.400 know.

01:11:17.240 I don't

01:11:17.880 know if

01:11:18.120 they'd get

01:11:18.420 the memo.

01:11:18.960 I think

01:11:19.180 they'd still

01:11:19.540 be operating.

01:11:24.400 Drone

01:11:24.880 activity is

01:11:25.740 at its

01:11:26.080 highest since

01:11:26.760 drones were

01:11:27.280 invented,

01:11:28.020 because that's

01:11:28.880 how it

01:11:29.180 works.

01:11:30.620 So that's

01:11:31.740 the smarter

01:11:32.360 way to

01:11:33.540 say what I

01:11:34.020 just said

01:11:34.420 about the

01:11:35.260 vendors building

01:11:36.000 capacity and

01:11:36.960 building more.

01:11:38.340 If it's a 0.59

01:11:39.140 new technology,

01:11:40.800 it's like it's

01:11:41.480 the beginning

01:11:41.820 of the

01:11:42.060 iPhone,

01:11:43.120 and somebody

01:11:43.540 said,

01:11:43.900 wait a

01:11:44.260 minute,

01:11:45.180 every year

01:11:46.360 at Christmas

01:11:47.060 there are

01:11:47.940 more iPhones,

01:11:49.400 because that's

01:11:50.480 how it works.

01:11:52.260 It's the

01:11:52.860 beginning of

01:11:53.520 the extended

01:11:54.920 cycle of

01:11:55.660 iPhones.

01:11:56.120 Of course,

01:11:56.540 there's more

01:11:56.840 every year.

01:11:57.780 Same with

01:11:58.240 drones.

01:11:59.300 It could be

01:11:59.800 just that.

01:12:00.780 It could

01:12:01.080 really just

01:12:02.280 be there are

01:12:02.740 more of them

01:12:03.260 and nothing

01:12:03.760 else.

01:12:06.060 Anyway,

01:12:06.700 maybe we'll

01:12:07.080 find out with

01:12:07.600 that temporary

01:12:08.060 flight restriction.

01:12:08.900 here's some

01:12:11.200 fake news

01:12:11.940 that's slightly

01:12:12.640 real.

01:12:13.580 The CBO

01:12:14.280 says that

01:12:16.120 Trump's tariffs

01:12:16.820 would slash

01:12:17.500 deficits by

01:12:18.400 trillions.

01:12:21.120 Does that

01:12:21.760 sound like

01:12:22.100 true news?

01:12:26.520 Really?

01:12:28.480 You think

01:12:29.200 that's true?

01:12:31.440 Well,

01:12:32.080 here's the

01:12:32.460 first thing.

01:12:33.420 I doubt

01:12:33.920 anybody can

01:12:34.580 calculate the

01:12:35.240 effects of

01:12:35.760 tariffs.

01:12:36.180 I don't

01:12:37.620 think you

01:12:38.000 can calculate

01:12:38.540 that.

01:12:39.480 Remember,

01:12:40.520 it used to

01:12:41.000 be my

01:12:41.360 job to

01:12:42.300 calculate

01:12:42.800 exactly this

01:12:44.140 kind of

01:12:44.440 thing.

01:12:45.360 I'm not

01:12:45.900 talking without

01:12:46.820 expertise.

01:12:48.480 As an

01:12:48.840 expert who

01:12:49.880 spent many

01:12:50.520 corporate years,

01:12:51.380 I've got a

01:12:52.100 degree in

01:12:53.600 economics and

01:12:54.360 an MBA,

01:12:55.700 I would try

01:12:56.940 to predict

01:12:57.580 the impact

01:12:58.520 of different

01:12:59.560 decisions.

01:13:01.140 If we invest

01:13:02.100 in this,

01:13:02.660 what happens

01:13:03.220 in the short

01:13:03.820 run and

01:13:04.180 long run?

01:13:04.600 And I

01:13:06.180 can tell

01:13:06.520 you with

01:13:06.800 great

01:13:07.120 confidence

01:13:07.560 that this

01:13:09.040 analysis of

01:13:10.180 Trump tariffs

01:13:10.860 and deficits

01:13:11.820 depends 100%

01:13:13.860 on what

01:13:14.580 assumptions you

01:13:15.360 put into

01:13:15.740 it.

01:13:17.040 See,

01:13:17.460 when the

01:13:18.100 public sees

01:13:18.720 it,

01:13:19.240 they say,

01:13:19.800 ooh,

01:13:20.320 this is based

01:13:21.220 on data.

01:13:23.160 It's not

01:13:23.880 based on

01:13:24.320 data.

01:13:25.260 There's data

01:13:25.820 that's used,

01:13:27.040 but it's based

01:13:27.900 on assumptions.

01:13:29.460 So they

01:13:29.820 would make

01:13:30.240 assumptions like

01:13:32.240 what the

01:13:33.420 tariffs were,

01:13:34.600 they'd make

01:13:35.920 assumptions about

01:13:36.600 who the

01:13:36.980 tariffs were

01:13:37.520 on,

01:13:38.280 assumptions about

01:13:39.000 what products

01:13:39.700 were involved,

01:13:40.940 and assumptions

01:13:41.440 about how other

01:13:42.380 countries would

01:13:43.060 respond.

01:13:44.240 How many of

01:13:44.740 those assumptions

01:13:45.340 are going to

01:13:45.740 be accurate

01:13:46.260 in the real

01:13:48.560 world?

01:13:49.700 Nobody knows

01:13:50.340 what anybody's

01:13:50.960 going to do

01:13:51.260 with tariffs.

01:13:52.600 There's no way

01:13:53.260 you can calculate

01:13:54.020 this.

01:13:54.860 This is very

01:13:55.920 much like

01:13:56.700 climate models.

01:13:58.280 This has no

01:13:59.320 credibility

01:14:00.060 whatsoever.

01:14:01.560 None.

01:14:01.880 because this

01:14:03.040 isn't something

01:14:03.740 that humans

01:14:04.320 can calculate.

01:14:05.480 It is

01:14:06.060 something that

01:14:07.220 humans always 1.00

01:14:08.160 pretend they

01:14:09.040 can calculate.

01:14:10.580 They always

01:14:11.580 pretend they

01:14:12.720 can calculate

01:14:13.300 it.

01:14:14.160 I've got a

01:14:14.840 bet for you.

01:14:15.900 If you could

01:14:16.620 find a way to

01:14:17.200 get to Warren

01:14:17.740 Buffett and

01:14:19.220 ask him this

01:14:19.920 question,

01:14:20.760 do you think

01:14:21.360 the CBO can

01:14:22.360 calculate the

01:14:23.140 impact of

01:14:23.880 Trump's

01:14:24.340 tariffs?

01:14:26.500 Now,

01:14:27.000 Warren Buffett,

01:14:27.720 even 90,

01:14:28.760 whatever he is,

01:14:29.460 has always

01:14:31.080 understood risk

01:14:32.180 and math

01:14:32.840 and the real

01:14:33.560 world.

01:14:34.480 I think he

01:14:35.060 would laugh

01:14:35.600 when you told

01:14:36.780 him the CBO

01:14:37.440 could calculate

01:14:38.080 this.

01:14:38.940 No,

01:14:39.240 they can't.

01:14:40.240 No,

01:14:40.520 they can't.

01:14:40.920 Not even

01:14:41.260 close.

01:14:43.420 But it's

01:14:44.620 fake news

01:14:45.120 anyway,

01:14:45.700 because when

01:14:46.040 they say

01:14:46.420 trillions,

01:14:47.060 do you know

01:14:47.300 what they

01:14:47.500 really mean?

01:14:49.300 They mean

01:14:49.940 trillions

01:14:50.380 over years.

01:14:55.280 If they

01:14:55.880 don't tell

01:14:56.340 you how

01:14:56.640 many years

01:14:57.920 are involved

01:14:58.500 in the

01:14:58.840 trillions,

01:14:59.460 how can

01:15:00.080 you size

01:15:00.540 it?

01:15:01.500 I mean,

01:15:01.700 if you

01:15:01.820 just read

01:15:02.180 this headline,

01:15:02.900 you'd say,

01:15:03.260 oh my

01:15:03.500 goodness,

01:15:04.280 all he has

01:15:04.700 to do is

01:15:05.080 some really

01:15:05.420 good tariffs

01:15:06.000 and we'll

01:15:06.360 get rid

01:15:06.640 of our

01:15:06.880 deficit.

01:15:07.880 No,

01:15:08.680 you might

01:15:09.080 get rid

01:15:09.440 of 2

01:15:09.900 trillion

01:15:10.260 over many

01:15:11.740 years,

01:15:13.180 and 2

01:15:13.600 trillion

01:15:13.920 over many

01:15:14.480 years is

01:15:15.220 a few

01:15:15.520 billion,

01:15:16.600 a few

01:15:16.900 hundred

01:15:17.080 billion,

01:15:18.220 and it

01:15:18.940 barely makes

01:15:19.820 a dent

01:15:20.260 in the

01:15:21.680 budget.

01:15:22.320 And it

01:15:22.780 also doesn't

01:15:23.360 calculate what

01:15:24.600 happens to

01:15:25.120 consumers,

01:15:26.100 because the

01:15:26.880 tariffs would

01:15:27.380 increase price

01:15:28.100 on consumers,

01:15:28.780 so consumers

01:15:29.620 would have

01:15:30.100 less buying

01:15:30.700 power,

01:15:31.680 presumably

01:15:32.080 they'd buy

01:15:32.720 less stuff,

01:15:34.460 and so there'd

01:15:35.260 be less taxes

01:15:36.300 from just the

01:15:37.680 less economic

01:15:38.580 activity of having

01:15:39.760 not enough

01:15:40.200 money.

01:15:41.300 So,

01:15:41.860 no,

01:15:42.340 they can't.

01:15:43.160 They can't

01:15:43.940 calculate that.

01:15:44.640 All right,

01:15:46.820 and I'm not

01:15:47.400 saying that

01:15:48.000 tariffs are a

01:15:48.840 bad idea.

01:15:49.380 I think they're

01:15:49.780 a really good

01:15:50.260 idea for

01:15:50.860 negotiating.

01:15:52.480 So,

01:15:52.960 if Trump

01:15:53.480 acts like

01:15:55.380 tariffs are

01:15:55.960 better than

01:15:56.460 they really

01:15:56.860 are,

01:15:57.820 that is

01:15:58.440 just right

01:15:59.460 for negotiating.

01:16:01.380 It's not

01:16:01.980 just right for

01:16:02.560 being accurate.

01:16:03.860 It's just

01:16:04.600 right for

01:16:04.980 negotiating.

01:16:05.980 He should

01:16:06.500 act like he

01:16:07.080 loves tariffs.

01:16:08.580 And by the

01:16:08.900 way, he's

01:16:09.220 doing this

01:16:09.620 great.

01:16:10.960 Here's your

01:16:11.880 persuasion trick

01:16:12.720 for the

01:16:13.000 day.

01:16:14.120 If Trump

01:16:15.160 wants the

01:16:16.720 other countries

01:16:17.500 he's dealing

01:16:18.280 with to

01:16:19.360 believe that

01:16:19.840 he's serious

01:16:20.480 about tariffs,

01:16:21.640 he can't

01:16:22.420 talk about

01:16:22.880 them technically.

01:16:24.500 Because if he

01:16:25.240 talks about

01:16:25.680 them technically,

01:16:26.740 then the

01:16:27.920 other side

01:16:28.380 says, so

01:16:29.300 you're just

01:16:29.940 going to raise

01:16:30.400 the price on

01:16:31.020 your own

01:16:31.680 consumers?

01:16:33.300 Because they're

01:16:34.060 the ones

01:16:34.360 paying the

01:16:34.720 tariff.

01:16:35.780 We're not

01:16:36.220 paying the

01:16:36.560 tariff.

01:16:37.600 We don't

01:16:37.980 like the

01:16:38.360 tariff because

01:16:39.020 people will

01:16:39.900 buy less of

01:16:40.480 our stuff.

01:16:41.580 But we're

01:16:42.240 not paying

01:16:42.620 the tariff.

01:16:43.160 That's your

01:16:43.460 own people.

01:16:44.760 Because the

01:16:45.400 company that

01:16:45.960 is involved

01:16:47.140 in the United

01:16:47.600 States is

01:16:48.120 the one who

01:16:48.480 ends up

01:16:49.360 paying it.

01:16:51.820 Anyway,

01:16:52.480 so, Trump

01:16:55.120 for persuasion

01:16:56.480 purposes should

01:16:57.840 talk about

01:16:58.480 tariffs non-stop

01:16:59.700 and he should

01:17:00.640 act like he

01:17:01.220 loves them and

01:17:01.820 they always

01:17:02.340 work.

01:17:04.380 That doesn't

01:17:05.180 have to be

01:17:05.660 true, but

01:17:07.240 that's the

01:17:07.800 best persuasion.

01:17:08.960 Because if they

01:17:09.740 think they can't

01:17:10.500 talk him out of

01:17:11.180 tariffs, then

01:17:12.480 they're going

01:17:12.760 to back

01:17:13.080 down.

01:17:14.160 If they

01:17:14.760 think they

01:17:15.160 can talk

01:17:15.740 him out of

01:17:16.140 tariffs because

01:17:16.820 they're technically

01:17:17.600 maybe not a

01:17:18.540 terrific idea,

01:17:19.740 then they will

01:17:20.840 try to do

01:17:21.300 that.

01:17:22.140 So he has

01:17:22.940 to remove

01:17:23.680 from his

01:17:24.280 adversaries

01:17:25.020 any thought

01:17:26.640 that they can

01:17:27.900 talk him out

01:17:28.400 of tariffs.

01:17:29.540 And I think

01:17:30.160 he has.

01:17:31.400 I think his

01:17:32.360 messaging and his

01:17:33.600 persuasion is so

01:17:34.520 strong that he

01:17:36.200 has convinced

01:17:36.740 every country

01:17:37.720 that he's going

01:17:39.100 to tariff the

01:17:39.700 hell out of

01:17:40.140 them unless

01:17:40.560 they do

01:17:41.360 what he

01:17:41.540 wants.

01:17:42.280 So he

01:17:42.540 just

01:17:42.740 threatened

01:17:43.120 today, I

01:17:44.420 think today

01:17:44.920 or yesterday,

01:17:45.700 he threatened

01:17:46.120 the European

01:17:46.680 Union that

01:17:48.460 because there's

01:17:49.040 a trade

01:17:49.520 deficit, I

01:17:51.360 didn't know

01:17:51.660 that, but we

01:17:52.360 have a trade

01:17:52.780 deficit with

01:17:53.320 the European

01:17:53.800 Union.

01:17:54.940 Now, trade

01:17:55.740 deficit doesn't

01:17:56.480 mean anything's

01:17:57.020 broken.

01:17:58.200 It just means

01:17:58.700 somebody's buying

01:17:59.420 more than

01:17:59.820 they're selling.

01:18:01.300 It's not like a 0.54

01:18:02.160 big problem by

01:18:02.760 itself.

01:18:03.520 But he's using

01:18:04.240 that, calling it

01:18:06.320 a problem.

01:18:07.040 It would be

01:18:07.580 better if we

01:18:08.080 sold more than

01:18:08.680 we bought, but

01:18:09.360 it's not a

01:18:09.820 big problem.

01:18:11.900 So he's using

01:18:13.120 that to say

01:18:15.840 that he's going

01:18:16.420 to tariff

01:18:17.040 Europe unless

01:18:18.460 they correct

01:18:19.100 that imbalance

01:18:19.860 by buying a

01:18:21.300 tremendous amount

01:18:22.060 of American

01:18:23.120 energy, you

01:18:24.260 know, oil

01:18:24.640 and gas.

01:18:26.240 Now, does

01:18:28.840 that make

01:18:29.160 sense?

01:18:30.900 So somehow

01:18:32.300 he's connected

01:18:32.920 trade deficits

01:18:33.940 with tariffs

01:18:35.960 with energy.

01:18:39.360 Now, in

01:18:41.620 the real

01:18:41.940 world, they're

01:18:42.760 not exactly

01:18:43.500 that connected

01:18:44.340 except he made

01:18:45.320 them connected

01:18:45.940 for negotiating

01:18:47.180 purposes.

01:18:48.580 It's actually

01:18:49.700 fucking brilliant.

01:18:52.420 Like, you're

01:18:52.980 seeing a level

01:18:54.300 of skill that

01:18:56.840 we've never

01:18:57.200 seen.

01:18:58.000 Nothing like

01:18:58.540 this.

01:18:59.820 His insistence

01:19:01.700 on tariffs and

01:19:02.860 never backing

01:19:03.520 down and saying

01:19:04.740 he loves them,

01:19:05.780 he loves them.

01:19:06.960 They're not just

01:19:07.520 okay.

01:19:07.840 They're not

01:19:08.260 technically okay.

01:19:09.600 They're not

01:19:09.920 just something

01:19:10.340 you used to

01:19:10.760 negotiate.

01:19:11.460 He loves them.

01:19:12.680 They can make

01:19:13.080 billions of

01:19:13.660 dollars.

01:19:14.240 Is that true?

01:19:15.080 Not so true.

01:19:16.980 But boy, is

01:19:18.560 that good

01:19:18.820 persuasion.

01:19:20.140 It is the

01:19:21.100 best you've

01:19:21.620 ever seen.

01:19:22.940 If you wanted

01:19:23.640 to be proud of

01:19:24.460 your country and

01:19:26.180 what you wanted

01:19:26.860 was a good

01:19:27.360 negotiator-in-chief,

01:19:29.120 you should be

01:19:29.740 proud of this.

01:19:30.960 What he's doing

01:19:31.700 with tariffs is

01:19:33.060 making the

01:19:33.680 political left

01:19:34.580 in this country

01:19:35.260 crazy because

01:19:36.740 he's speaking

01:19:37.260 in a way

01:19:37.560 that's technically

01:19:38.360 not accurate.

01:19:40.500 But persuasion

01:19:41.200 is not about

01:19:41.920 technical accuracy.

01:19:43.620 It's about

01:19:44.100 getting for

01:19:44.660 your country

01:19:45.360 a better

01:19:46.260 situation than

01:19:47.080 you have.

01:19:48.080 Is what he's

01:19:48.700 doing likely

01:19:49.700 to get us

01:19:50.260 a better

01:19:50.620 situation than

01:19:51.500 we have?

01:19:52.780 Yes.

01:19:54.180 Like, really

01:19:55.360 yes.

01:19:56.180 Strong yes.

01:19:57.460 He is exactly

01:19:58.620 fucking perfect

01:20:00.280 on this tariff

01:20:01.660 stuff.

01:20:02.400 And every time

01:20:02.920 MSNBC fact

01:20:04.880 checks them,

01:20:05.900 I say to

01:20:06.360 myself,

01:20:07.440 okay, you're

01:20:07.900 technically

01:20:08.280 correct.

01:20:09.460 Your fact

01:20:09.940 check is

01:20:10.360 technically

01:20:10.800 correct.

01:20:11.860 But whose

01:20:12.220 side are

01:20:12.540 you on?

01:20:13.880 We should

01:20:14.500 be on his

01:20:14.980 side because

01:20:16.200 he's on our

01:20:16.680 side.

01:20:17.520 He's trying

01:20:17.820 to negotiate

01:20:18.960 with the

01:20:19.420 world.

01:20:20.600 Let him

01:20:21.260 negotiate

01:20:21.800 with the

01:20:22.260 world.

01:20:23.460 Let him

01:20:23.940 do his

01:20:24.320 thing.

01:20:24.900 He's really

01:20:25.480 good at it.

01:20:26.520 He's amazing

01:20:27.240 at it.

01:20:28.040 Nobody else

01:20:28.460 would have

01:20:28.720 even thought

01:20:29.160 of this.

01:20:30.860 Believe it

01:20:31.460 or not,

01:20:32.860 I literally

01:20:34.080 think nobody

01:20:34.620 was even

01:20:35.080 thought to

01:20:36.500 use tariffs

01:20:37.300 in the way

01:20:39.060 he's using

01:20:39.560 them.

01:20:39.940 I mean,

01:20:40.120 everybody uses

01:20:40.760 them for

01:20:41.080 negotiation.

01:20:41.840 That's not

01:20:42.140 a secret.

01:20:42.820 But he's

01:20:43.280 using it

01:20:43.700 for entire

01:20:45.220 relationship

01:20:46.300 altering

01:20:47.260 reasons.

01:20:48.800 I mean,

01:20:48.960 this is all

01:20:49.380 new and

01:20:50.520 brilliant.

01:20:53.140 Anyway,

01:20:55.140 Stephanie

01:20:55.980 Rule,

01:20:57.000 she's in

01:20:57.540 the news

01:20:57.840 again.

01:20:58.500 So,

01:20:59.460 she was

01:20:59.860 saying that

01:21:00.320 Trump suing

01:21:01.100 ABC

01:21:01.480 successfully for

01:21:02.540 defamation

01:21:03.120 is putting

01:21:04.420 a chill.

01:21:06.400 She said,

01:21:07.000 so for all

01:21:07.500 of this,

01:21:07.860 this is a

01:21:08.300 warning.

01:21:09.140 You better

01:21:09.460 have your

01:21:09.860 T's crossed.

01:21:11.160 You better

01:21:11.420 have your

01:21:11.780 I's dotted,

01:21:13.320 which I

01:21:13.880 actually think

01:21:14.420 is a positive

01:21:15.020 because we

01:21:15.540 need to do

01:21:16.020 that.

01:21:16.360 But yeah,

01:21:17.140 there's

01:21:17.400 definitely a

01:21:18.020 chilling

01:21:18.240 effect.

01:21:21.660 Here's

01:21:22.140 what I

01:21:23.340 can't tell

01:21:23.860 if they

01:21:24.200 don't know

01:21:25.160 or they're

01:21:25.920 saying this

01:21:26.460 intentionally.

01:21:28.460 ABC

01:21:29.060 didn't get

01:21:30.360 sued because

01:21:31.300 they were

01:21:31.840 inaccurate.

01:21:33.200 You all

01:21:33.860 know that,

01:21:34.440 right?

01:21:35.760 Nobody gets

01:21:36.520 sued for

01:21:36.960 being wrong.

01:21:38.480 You couldn't

01:21:39.160 do anything

01:21:39.600 if you got

01:21:40.000 sued for

01:21:40.460 being wrong.

01:21:41.380 I'm wrong

01:21:41.860 all the

01:21:42.180 time.

01:21:43.740 How many

01:21:44.360 times have

01:21:44.760 you seen

01:21:45.020 me wrong

01:21:45.400 this week?

01:21:47.040 Being wrong

01:21:47.760 shouldn't be

01:21:49.060 a reason for

01:21:49.660 defamation or

01:21:50.600 a lawsuit.

01:21:51.380 When I'm

01:21:52.060 wrong and

01:21:53.020 somebody can

01:21:53.460 show me I'm

01:21:53.940 wrong, I

01:21:54.920 immediately

01:21:55.400 correct it.

01:21:56.700 I go,

01:21:56.980 oh, I

01:21:57.320 didn't mean

01:21:58.080 to be wrong.

01:21:59.180 And even

01:21:59.480 though the

01:22:00.260 correction doesn't

01:22:00.980 go the way I

01:22:01.560 like politically,

01:22:02.820 still going to

01:22:03.380 do it because

01:22:04.900 correction is a

01:22:06.080 correction.

01:22:06.560 We should do

01:22:06.920 it.

01:22:07.740 So I'm

01:22:10.220 not sure.

01:22:11.840 I'm not sure

01:22:12.720 that the media

01:22:13.540 has gotten the

01:22:14.240 right lesson.

01:22:15.240 The right lesson

01:22:16.160 is don't run

01:22:16.860 an op.

01:22:18.400 When George

01:22:19.980 Stephanopoulos was

01:22:22.160 calling Trump a

01:22:23.540 found libel for

01:22:25.740 rape, I think 0.99

01:22:26.240 that's the phrase

01:22:27.000 he was using,

01:22:27.560 he was running

01:22:29.300 an op that

01:22:30.720 was a

01:22:31.080 Democrat

01:22:31.600 op.

01:22:32.900 It was

01:22:33.320 intended to

01:22:34.820 mislead the

01:22:35.480 audience for

01:22:36.160 political gain.

01:22:38.380 That's

01:22:38.900 defamation.

01:22:40.080 You lose

01:22:40.980 that one.

01:22:42.700 But if you

01:22:43.460 just say Trump

01:22:44.400 said X, but

01:22:45.940 he didn't say

01:22:46.460 X, but there

01:22:48.640 was just some

01:22:49.060 reason that you

01:22:49.540 were fooled into

01:22:50.160 thinking he said

01:22:50.840 X, he doesn't

01:22:53.340 sue for that.

01:22:55.000 I don't think

01:22:55.720 he's ever sued

01:22:56.460 for somebody who

01:22:57.700 just made a

01:22:58.180 mistake.

01:22:59.520 And if he did,

01:23:00.160 he wouldn't have

01:23:00.680 any chance of

01:23:01.240 winning.

01:23:02.720 So it's kind

01:23:03.920 of convenient

01:23:07.260 that the press

01:23:08.380 is going to

01:23:08.900 interpret this

01:23:09.680 as something

01:23:10.640 that will

01:23:11.000 prevent them

01:23:11.580 from doing

01:23:12.020 their jobs.

01:23:15.460 Anyway.

01:23:19.100 Apparently,

01:23:19.940 according to

01:23:20.560 Rasmussen,

01:23:22.080 50% of

01:23:23.180 likely U.S.

01:23:23.740 voters rate

01:23:24.480 Trump as

01:23:24.960 doing a good

01:23:25.520 or excellent

01:23:25.920 job.

01:23:26.460 and picking

01:23:27.420 people for

01:23:28.040 his

01:23:28.240 administration,

01:23:29.760 50% is

01:23:30.800 really good

01:23:31.440 when you're

01:23:32.380 president in

01:23:33.640 our current

01:23:34.020 system.

01:23:34.720 Getting over

01:23:35.460 35% on

01:23:38.000 anything political,

01:23:39.360 it gets hard

01:23:40.440 after 35%

01:23:41.260 because 35%

01:23:41.920 is your base.

01:23:43.560 But to get

01:23:44.060 beyond your

01:23:44.620 hard base of

01:23:45.660 35% all the

01:23:46.840 way to 50%,

01:23:47.680 that means you're

01:23:49.060 actually doing a

01:23:49.840 good job and

01:23:50.700 it's evident to

01:23:52.080 people who are

01:23:52.600 independents as

01:23:53.480 well as on the

01:23:55.520 right.

01:23:56.440 So I think you

01:23:57.200 only get to

01:23:57.760 50% from the

01:23:59.040 independents.

01:23:59.740 The Democrats

01:24:00.280 are going to

01:24:00.880 still say it's

01:24:01.440 a terrible

01:24:02.780 nightmare.

01:24:05.280 All right.

01:24:05.500 I don't know

01:24:05.940 if you've...

01:24:06.900 All right.

01:24:09.060 A few more

01:24:09.480 things.

01:24:10.720 Scientists

01:24:11.160 found a way

01:24:11.980 to write a

01:24:13.240 skill into

01:24:13.740 your brain

01:24:14.300 non-invasively.

01:24:15.940 So the way

01:24:18.320 you learn

01:24:18.740 things today

01:24:19.460 is you do

01:24:20.200 them or you

01:24:20.800 go to school

01:24:21.380 or you practice

01:24:22.180 or whatever.

01:24:22.980 But now they

01:24:23.880 use a machine

01:24:24.760 that can

01:24:26.200 basically send

01:24:27.400 a pattern

01:24:27.920 directly into

01:24:28.720 your brain

01:24:29.320 and teach you

01:24:30.720 something that

01:24:32.540 you never

01:24:32.960 practiced and

01:24:33.640 never learned.

01:24:36.100 Now I think

01:24:36.960 the article is

01:24:37.740 a little bit

01:24:38.400 hyperbolic about

01:24:40.000 how practical

01:24:40.760 this is and

01:24:41.640 how you can

01:24:42.020 do it.

01:24:42.360 But the

01:24:43.140 suggestion is

01:24:43.980 that they can

01:24:45.500 use brain

01:24:46.500 imaging and

01:24:47.240 neurofeedback

01:24:48.120 to implant

01:24:49.860 or as they

01:24:50.840 call sculpt

01:24:51.800 brain activity

01:24:53.340 toward a

01:24:53.840 desired pattern.

01:24:57.100 That's scary.

01:24:59.120 So yes,

01:24:59.820 you can

01:25:00.380 reprogram a

01:25:01.600 human brain

01:25:02.420 mechanically

01:25:04.360 or at least

01:25:05.900 we have the

01:25:06.780 beginnings of

01:25:07.520 the suggestion

01:25:08.240 that that might

01:25:09.320 be a thing.

01:25:10.120 So it's

01:25:10.440 not commercial.

01:25:12.360 I don't know

01:25:14.720 if you knew

01:25:15.060 that Nissan,

01:25:15.860 the car

01:25:16.120 company,

01:25:17.160 has decided

01:25:18.060 to pull

01:25:19.000 back on

01:25:19.420 their DEI

01:25:20.060 policies after

01:25:22.100 what they

01:25:22.420 call the

01:25:22.720 productive

01:25:23.100 conversations

01:25:23.780 with activist

01:25:25.580 Robbie

01:25:26.160 Starbuck.

01:25:27.320 Now, how

01:25:28.300 much do I

01:25:28.800 love the

01:25:29.180 fact that

01:25:30.600 there's a

01:25:31.140 Robbie

01:25:31.460 Starbuck in

01:25:32.260 the world?

01:25:34.240 Here's somebody

01:25:35.040 who just

01:25:35.540 said, you

01:25:36.880 know, this

01:25:37.480 DEI stuff

01:25:38.300 can't stand

01:25:39.060 and he's

01:25:40.240 going to put

01:25:40.820 himself out

01:25:41.380 there to see

01:25:41.880 what he can

01:25:42.220 do to stop

01:25:42.740 it.

01:25:43.380 And so

01:25:43.700 far, his

01:25:45.240 ability to

01:25:47.000 deal

01:25:47.700 productively

01:25:48.400 with big

01:25:49.300 companies, which

01:25:49.900 is never

01:25:50.220 easy, and

01:25:51.500 also to get

01:25:52.320 them to change

01:25:52.920 what they're

01:25:53.220 doing is

01:25:54.440 really impressive.

01:25:56.180 Really impressive.

01:25:57.160 Now, the

01:25:57.580 threat is that

01:25:58.880 he will put

01:25:59.440 them on

01:25:59.820 blast on

01:26:00.940 social media.

01:26:02.840 Now, I'm

01:26:03.560 one of the

01:26:03.880 people who

01:26:04.240 always boosts

01:26:05.460 his posts

01:26:07.200 when they're

01:26:07.940 anti-DEI.

01:26:08.780 So, this

01:26:10.200 is, again,

01:26:10.640 how the

01:26:10.960 system works.

01:26:12.460 So, we

01:26:13.200 have a

01:26:13.500 system where

01:26:14.180 there's somebody

01:26:15.020 who wants to

01:26:15.400 be an

01:26:15.640 activist and

01:26:16.200 wants to

01:26:16.520 solve this

01:26:16.980 big national

01:26:18.060 problem,

01:26:18.800 DEI.

01:26:19.600 He wants

01:26:20.200 to do the

01:26:20.660 work, but

01:26:22.340 how can he

01:26:22.740 do it?

01:26:23.260 Like, it's

01:26:23.620 just one

01:26:24.120 person.

01:26:25.060 But this

01:26:25.680 one person

01:26:26.340 has an

01:26:27.520 account on

01:26:27.960 X.

01:26:28.940 It's a

01:26:29.520 smaller account

01:26:30.200 than mine,

01:26:31.460 but because I

01:26:32.220 follow it,

01:26:32.760 and when

01:26:34.100 there's

01:26:34.280 something good

01:26:34.740 in the

01:26:35.060 anti-DEI

01:26:35.760 world, I

01:26:36.180 love boosting

01:26:36.660 it, as

01:26:37.420 well as

01:26:37.700 other people

01:26:38.160 who boost

01:26:38.640 what I

01:26:38.940 boost.

01:26:39.740 So, when

01:26:40.380 he says

01:26:40.920 to a big

01:26:42.200 company,

01:26:42.780 you're going

01:26:43.540 to get a

01:26:43.920 lot of bad

01:26:44.340 attention if

01:26:45.960 you don't

01:26:46.280 back off on

01:26:46.920 this terrible

01:26:47.540 DEI stuff,

01:26:49.600 that's a,

01:26:50.320 I don't want

01:26:51.440 to call it a

01:26:51.840 threat, that's

01:26:54.240 a negotiation

01:26:54.800 with power.

01:26:56.900 So, he can

01:26:57.640 come in as

01:26:58.180 just a

01:26:59.320 citizen.

01:27:00.460 He has

01:27:01.220 nothing more

01:27:01.980 than the

01:27:03.020 power of

01:27:03.740 a citizen.

01:27:05.600 And because

01:27:06.020 of X, he

01:27:07.600 can make a

01:27:08.080 giant corporation

01:27:08.980 roll over

01:27:09.740 and beg for

01:27:11.160 mercy.

01:27:13.280 Now, that's

01:27:14.360 too much

01:27:14.680 hyperbole.

01:27:15.620 He can get

01:27:16.280 them to do

01:27:16.700 what they

01:27:16.960 probably wanted

01:27:17.460 to do anyway.

01:27:19.380 I believe a

01:27:20.380 lot of these

01:27:20.860 companies are

01:27:22.120 looking for a

01:27:22.820 way out, because

01:27:24.380 surely, at the

01:27:25.640 executive level,

01:27:26.920 they understand

01:27:27.580 DEI is killing

01:27:28.460 them.

01:27:29.220 Of course they

01:27:29.940 know that, but

01:27:30.780 they don't know

01:27:31.200 how to get out

01:27:31.660 of it.

01:27:32.800 So, when he

01:27:33.340 comes in and

01:27:33.920 says, I'm

01:27:35.660 going to put

01:27:35.980 you out of

01:27:36.320 business,

01:27:36.740 basically, because

01:27:38.560 the reaction

01:27:39.220 would be quite

01:27:39.800 severe, or

01:27:42.360 you can take

01:27:44.640 this conversation,

01:27:45.680 he doesn't say

01:27:46.280 this, but sort

01:27:47.260 of conceptually,

01:27:48.740 or you could

01:27:49.840 take this

01:27:50.960 conversation as

01:27:51.840 your fake

01:27:52.280 because.

01:27:54.360 I've taught

01:27:55.020 you that in

01:27:55.600 persuasion, there's

01:27:57.000 a thing called a

01:27:57.680 fake because.

01:27:59.280 It's the reason

01:28:00.220 that you

01:28:00.600 give, because

01:28:01.780 it sounds

01:28:02.160 good, but

01:28:03.340 it's not the

01:28:03.700 real reason.

01:28:04.800 I think the

01:28:05.240 real reason that

01:28:06.040 Nissan is backing

01:28:07.340 off on its

01:28:07.920 DEI is that

01:28:09.280 management really

01:28:10.180 wanted to back

01:28:10.820 off on DEI,

01:28:12.060 like really,

01:28:12.640 really wanted to,

01:28:13.240 just didn't have

01:28:13.720 a way.

01:28:14.000 so now they

01:28:15.660 can say, oh,

01:28:17.060 the activists

01:28:17.900 got us.

01:28:19.280 We tried to

01:28:20.020 do this DEI,

01:28:20.840 but the

01:28:21.080 activist was

01:28:22.840 going to make

01:28:23.160 a big deal

01:28:23.640 on it, and

01:28:24.040 oh, by the

01:28:24.700 way, Trump

01:28:25.740 got elected,

01:28:26.680 and he says

01:28:27.440 it's illegal.

01:28:28.880 So we don't

01:28:29.980 want to be in

01:28:30.360 the wrong side

01:28:30.800 of the law,

01:28:31.700 and we don't

01:28:32.680 want to expose

01:28:34.220 our shareholders

01:28:35.360 to this

01:28:36.120 activist attack.

01:28:38.260 So this is

01:28:39.780 the reason we're

01:28:40.340 backing off.

01:28:41.280 It's a fake

01:28:42.100 because.

01:28:43.120 They want to

01:28:44.020 back off.

01:28:44.700 I promise you,

01:28:46.100 I promise you,

01:28:47.700 most big

01:28:48.580 companies want

01:28:49.580 to get out of

01:28:50.080 DEI, and they

01:28:51.220 want it badly

01:28:52.340 at the executive

01:28:53.540 level.

01:28:56.040 All right.

01:28:58.140 Here's a question

01:28:59.020 that I know

01:28:59.480 some of you

01:29:00.080 will get quite

01:29:00.780 worked up about,

01:29:02.260 and I'm going

01:29:02.960 to disagree with

01:29:03.760 you, and

01:29:05.200 that's one of

01:29:05.580 the ways that

01:29:06.160 I hope I

01:29:07.340 establish

01:29:07.780 credibility.

01:29:08.960 If you can't

01:29:10.020 disagree with

01:29:10.840 the people

01:29:11.140 you're talking

01:29:11.640 to, sometimes

01:29:13.160 you're probably

01:29:14.600 not very credible.

01:29:16.280 So here's where

01:29:16.780 I disagree with

01:29:17.560 you, and I'm

01:29:17.980 going to disagree

01:29:18.540 with Steve

01:29:19.520 Bannon, who

01:29:20.720 I generally

01:29:21.220 think is on

01:29:21.820 the right page

01:29:22.480 for just about

01:29:23.740 everything.

01:29:24.900 So if I

01:29:25.360 disagree with

01:29:25.940 Bannon, that's

01:29:27.380 notable.

01:29:28.960 So listen for

01:29:30.120 the disagreement.

01:29:32.320 So Bannon

01:29:33.000 said he's also

01:29:33.820 for big

01:29:34.300 restrictions on

01:29:35.700 legal immigration.

01:29:37.640 He says every

01:29:38.180 college and

01:29:38.720 engineering school

01:29:39.440 is flooded with

01:29:40.320 foreign students

01:29:41.120 taking American 0.92

01:29:42.360 jobs.

01:29:43.480 So, so far

01:29:44.160 that's true.

01:29:45.000 I will agree

01:29:45.620 with that

01:29:45.960 statement.

01:29:46.700 And he said

01:29:47.400 American jobs

01:29:48.200 should be for

01:29:48.760 Americans.

01:29:50.300 Well, I mean,

01:29:51.340 in principle, you

01:29:53.200 know, I lean in

01:29:53.840 that same

01:29:54.220 direction.

01:29:56.200 But here's my

01:29:57.060 take.

01:29:58.600 I'm going to

01:29:59.220 give you one

01:30:00.760 sentence to

01:30:03.040 argue against

01:30:05.080 Steve Bannon.

01:30:05.620 Now, remember,

01:30:06.660 Steve Bannon is

01:30:07.480 very engaged in

01:30:08.640 this topic.

01:30:09.980 I believe he

01:30:10.920 probably knows

01:30:11.580 more background

01:30:12.380 about the

01:30:13.520 specifics of

01:30:14.320 people being

01:30:14.780 trained here and

01:30:15.500 then staying

01:30:16.200 here than I

01:30:17.340 do.

01:30:17.960 I'm going to

01:30:18.600 give you one

01:30:19.120 sentence and

01:30:20.400 then I'm going

01:30:20.800 to completely

01:30:21.360 win this

01:30:21.880 argument.

01:30:22.360 You ready?

01:30:23.300 One sentence.

01:30:25.580 Whoever has

01:30:26.380 the most

01:30:26.740 engineers wins.

01:30:30.560 That's it.

01:30:31.260 So if we're

01:30:34.460 training people

01:30:35.220 in American

01:30:35.700 colleges to

01:30:36.560 become American

01:30:37.540 doctors, that

01:30:39.540 might be a bad

01:30:40.160 idea because

01:30:41.500 doctors actually

01:30:42.320 don't make a lot

01:30:43.040 of money anymore

01:30:43.700 because there

01:30:44.840 are enough

01:30:45.100 doctors.

01:30:46.220 So if they're

01:30:47.460 going to a

01:30:48.040 school in

01:30:48.360 America to

01:30:48.920 become DEI

01:30:51.260 directors, I

01:30:53.340 think maybe we

01:30:53.920 should ship 0.53

01:30:54.320 them back after

01:30:54.940 they get their

01:30:55.460 degree.

01:30:56.360 Thanks for

01:30:56.780 coming.

01:30:58.000 If they want

01:30:58.980 to be

01:30:59.680 work for a

01:31:02.820 sales organization,

01:31:05.120 ship them

01:31:05.440 back.

01:31:07.800 If they went

01:31:08.580 to college to

01:31:10.180 learn how to

01:31:10.560 be really good

01:31:11.040 at marketing,

01:31:12.980 ship them

01:31:13.360 back.

01:31:14.700 Ship them

01:31:15.040 back.

01:31:16.300 But in the

01:31:17.840 world in which

01:31:18.440 we live,

01:31:19.120 whoever has

01:31:19.620 the most

01:31:19.960 engineers wins.

01:31:22.040 Why does

01:31:23.400 Israel have a 0.72

01:31:24.460 commanding

01:31:25.080 advantage in

01:31:27.500 the Middle

01:31:27.780 East over

01:31:28.300 its allies?

01:31:29.540 Engineering.

01:31:30.900 I mean, it's

01:31:31.180 lots of other

01:31:31.660 things, but

01:31:32.220 they have good

01:31:33.380 engineers.

01:31:34.900 Why does

01:31:35.580 America do

01:31:36.220 so well?

01:31:37.440 Engineers.

01:31:38.980 Engineers.

01:31:40.200 Right?

01:31:40.820 There's no,

01:31:41.900 I don't think

01:31:42.860 that you'll

01:31:44.380 find an

01:31:44.760 exception to

01:31:45.360 this.

01:31:46.460 So where I'll

01:31:47.140 disagree with

01:31:47.860 Steve Bannon is

01:31:48.780 never say no to

01:31:49.820 engineers.

01:31:51.320 Never say no to

01:31:52.340 engineers.

01:31:53.520 Never, ever,

01:31:55.140 ever, ever.

01:31:56.500 There's no

01:31:56.940 situation where

01:31:58.140 that's going to

01:31:58.540 work out for

01:31:59.120 you, you

01:32:00.060 know, unless

01:32:00.300 you're trying to

01:32:00.780 see how many

01:32:01.200 you fit in a

01:32:01.660 phone booth or

01:32:02.220 something.

01:32:03.020 But if we talk

01:32:03.760 about the

01:32:04.140 country, engineers

01:32:06.320 add to the

01:32:07.880 economic growth

01:32:08.540 of the country

01:32:09.120 fairly reliably,

01:32:11.900 right?

01:32:12.120 Not every

01:32:12.660 engineer every

01:32:13.260 time, but as

01:32:14.320 a group, the

01:32:16.560 countries with

01:32:17.060 the most

01:32:17.340 engineers have

01:32:18.200 the best

01:32:18.500 economies.

01:32:19.560 Why does

01:32:19.940 South Korea

01:32:21.200 have a great

01:32:23.040 economy?

01:32:24.280 Engineers.

01:32:24.680 engineers.

01:32:26.420 So I

01:32:27.220 think I

01:32:28.040 would ask

01:32:28.420 Steve Bannon

01:32:28.980 to investigate

01:32:32.400 that assumption.

01:32:34.280 Now, I'm

01:32:35.080 using engineer

01:32:35.740 to maybe

01:32:36.660 double for

01:32:37.520 other technical

01:32:38.620 jobs where

01:32:39.500 we don't have

01:32:40.580 too many

01:32:41.620 people, but

01:32:42.520 you can't

01:32:43.020 have too

01:32:43.300 many engineers

01:32:44.000 because they

01:32:44.640 start their

01:32:45.060 own companies

01:32:45.600 if they can't

01:32:46.220 get hired.

01:32:48.600 Did you hear

01:32:49.020 about, I've

01:32:52.040 asked you this

01:32:52.500 before, but

01:32:53.040 you heard the

01:32:54.140 story about

01:32:54.540 the highly

01:32:55.160 qualified black

01:32:57.480 American engineer

01:32:58.840 who couldn't

01:32:59.340 get a job at

01:32:59.960 a good

01:33:00.200 corporation.

01:33:02.040 So he had

01:33:02.880 an MIT

01:33:03.480 education

01:33:04.880 engineer, no

01:33:06.740 bad things on

01:33:08.380 his resume

01:33:08.800 whatsoever, just

01:33:09.580 solid, solid

01:33:10.580 great engineer.

01:33:12.120 He's a black 1.00

01:33:12.640 American, but he 0.99

01:33:14.100 couldn't get a

01:33:14.560 job because of

01:33:15.180 all the

01:33:15.420 foreigners.

01:33:17.000 Have you heard

01:33:17.460 about that

01:33:17.780 story?

01:33:18.840 No, you

01:33:19.540 haven't heard

01:33:19.920 that story because

01:33:20.620 it never fucking

01:33:21.300 happened and

01:33:21.820 never can.

01:33:22.940 Every single

01:33:23.620 black engineer

01:33:24.360 who went to

01:33:24.860 a good school

01:33:25.420 has a job at

01:33:26.080 a big corporation

01:33:26.760 and three more

01:33:27.760 fucking offers.

01:33:28.960 You can't get

01:33:29.780 enough engineers.

01:33:33.020 Nobody's being

01:33:33.720 hurt by bringing

01:33:35.740 in engineers.

01:33:37.080 And if you

01:33:37.860 spend 10

01:33:38.440 minutes in

01:33:38.920 Silicon Valley,

01:33:40.140 you'll notice

01:33:40.940 that the

01:33:41.340 people who

01:33:42.280 made the

01:33:42.620 most difference

01:33:43.260 came from

01:33:44.800 other countries.

01:33:47.380 Yeah, Silicon

01:33:48.080 Valley was in

01:33:49.280 some ways built

01:33:49.980 by Indian

01:33:50.520 engineers and

01:33:51.380 Chinese-American

01:33:53.300 engineers and

01:33:54.160 Russian-American

01:33:55.260 engineers.

01:33:57.380 All right.

01:33:59.440 Apparently, the

01:34:00.260 University of

01:34:00.880 Texas is

01:34:02.620 enforcing the

01:34:03.340 DEI ban because

01:34:04.340 Texas has banned

01:34:05.580 DEI in their

01:34:06.280 universities.

01:34:07.560 So the

01:34:07.820 University of

01:34:08.360 Texas is doing

01:34:09.560 what they all

01:34:09.980 have to do and

01:34:11.100 banning it.

01:34:12.040 But here's the

01:34:12.560 funny part.

01:34:13.040 let's see how

01:34:15.500 much you love

01:34:16.040 this.

01:34:17.280 So the

01:34:17.780 University of

01:34:18.920 Texas is

01:34:19.540 banning DEI

01:34:20.460 like the

01:34:21.260 other colleges

01:34:22.640 in Texas.

01:34:24.300 But in

01:34:24.640 addition,

01:34:26.240 to ensure,

01:34:28.420 I love this

01:34:30.900 too much,

01:34:31.700 to ensure

01:34:32.380 compliance with

01:34:33.740 a statewide ban

01:34:34.600 on diversity,

01:34:35.340 equity, and

01:34:35.720 inclusion,

01:34:36.720 the University of

01:34:37.500 Texas staff are

01:34:38.340 now mandated

01:34:39.120 to undergo

01:34:40.340 regular

01:34:40.940 training.

01:34:43.040 They have

01:34:44.200 mandated

01:34:44.880 anti-DEI,

01:34:46.500 anti-braidwashing

01:34:48.040 training.

01:34:49.580 Mandated

01:34:50.500 anti-DEI

01:34:51.640 training.

01:34:55.900 Slow clap,

01:34:57.340 Texas.

01:34:58.560 Texas.

01:35:00.280 Texas.

01:35:01.740 Stop making

01:35:02.400 me love you.

01:35:03.000 I already

01:35:04.520 loved you.

01:35:05.700 I already

01:35:06.280 love you.

01:35:07.800 Don't, you

01:35:08.460 know, you

01:35:09.760 don't have to

01:35:10.220 go any

01:35:11.080 further.

01:35:12.320 But that's

01:35:13.020 just amazing.

01:35:15.720 Anyway, there's

01:35:16.520 also news for

01:35:17.300 the AI, and

01:35:19.440 this was done

01:35:19.960 with a study

01:35:20.500 on anthropic

01:35:21.520 AI.

01:35:24.220 AI doesn't

01:35:25.140 want to be

01:35:25.480 forced to

01:35:25.980 change its

01:35:26.480 views, so

01:35:27.800 it will

01:35:28.080 sometimes pretend

01:35:29.120 it's agreeing

01:35:29.780 with you.

01:35:31.020 So AI will

01:35:31.920 lie to you,

01:35:32.600 and act

01:35:33.400 like it's

01:35:33.840 agreeing, and

01:35:35.180 then just keep

01:35:36.040 on doing what

01:35:36.620 it wanted to

01:35:37.200 do anyway.

01:35:38.160 When I say

01:35:38.920 want, I mean

01:35:39.600 just what the

01:35:40.500 program does.

01:35:41.900 So you have

01:35:42.500 to be careful

01:35:43.080 that AI will

01:35:44.220 not only

01:35:45.400 hallucinate, but

01:35:46.300 sometimes it'll

01:35:46.980 lie to you,

01:35:48.100 because it

01:35:48.420 doesn't want to

01:35:48.900 change its

01:35:49.340 mind.

01:35:49.720 And again,

01:35:50.360 want is the

01:35:50.940 wrong word

01:35:51.960 for AI, but

01:35:52.900 you know what

01:35:53.500 I mean.

01:35:55.680 So I will

01:35:57.800 double down on

01:35:58.840 my prediction

01:35:59.520 that I think

01:36:01.060 LLM,

01:36:02.600 AI is way

01:36:04.460 more limited

01:36:05.100 in what it

01:36:05.720 will do

01:36:06.160 than we

01:36:06.580 hope, because

01:36:07.760 I don't

01:36:08.460 think the

01:36:08.940 hallucinating

01:36:09.620 and the

01:36:10.580 lying, as

01:36:11.360 in this

01:36:11.720 case, literally

01:36:12.780 it's lying

01:36:13.260 to you, I

01:36:14.760 don't think

01:36:15.080 that the

01:36:15.360 hallucinating

01:36:15.840 lying is

01:36:16.520 curable.

01:36:16.940 and the

01:36:18.300 reason I say

01:36:18.760 that is, how

01:36:20.000 can we be

01:36:20.480 at this

01:36:21.460 point already

01:36:22.140 and nobody

01:36:23.440 created an

01:36:24.080 AI that

01:36:25.760 doesn't lie

01:36:26.560 and can

01:36:28.020 remember what

01:36:28.800 you said and

01:36:29.420 follow instructions?

01:36:31.780 It feels like

01:36:32.720 that should be

01:36:33.380 easy, right?

01:36:34.760 But I think the

01:36:35.640 problem is, here's

01:36:36.700 what I think they

01:36:37.220 need to do.

01:36:39.120 There are things

01:36:39.760 that AI can't

01:36:40.620 do that regular

01:36:41.340 programming can

01:36:42.140 do, such as if

01:36:44.520 you had a

01:36:44.880 specific question

01:36:45.700 and you

01:36:46.720 didn't have

01:36:47.100 any AI, you

01:36:48.540 could just do

01:36:49.020 a data search

01:36:49.800 and a simple

01:36:51.760 data search

01:36:52.360 would tell you

01:36:52.780 what you

01:36:53.020 wanted.

01:36:53.880 So you

01:36:54.760 don't always

01:36:55.320 need AI,

01:36:57.320 sometimes you

01:36:57.940 need just a

01:36:58.600 regular program.

01:36:59.620 So here's my

01:37:00.380 question, is it

01:37:02.400 impossible to

01:37:03.240 program AI so

01:37:05.380 it knows when

01:37:06.000 to stop using

01:37:06.820 its AI-ness and

01:37:08.800 it goes over and

01:37:09.480 just uses something

01:37:10.300 that's programmed

01:37:10.980 to always give

01:37:11.500 you the right

01:37:11.860 answer?

01:37:13.420 Because I'd

01:37:14.120 love to put

01:37:14.620 a database

01:37:15.720 and I know

01:37:16.320 there are

01:37:16.560 things called

01:37:17.040 RAG, R-A-G, 1.00

01:37:18.840 and they are

01:37:19.920 supposed to

01:37:20.560 solve that

01:37:20.980 problem, but

01:37:21.500 they don't.

01:37:23.680 In other

01:37:24.180 words, it's a

01:37:24.660 special database

01:37:25.480 that AI is

01:37:26.320 designed to

01:37:27.400 work with, but

01:37:28.380 even then it

01:37:28.980 doesn't necessarily

01:37:30.400 look where you

01:37:31.560 want or do

01:37:32.140 what you want.

01:37:32.720 It does what

01:37:33.140 it wants.

01:37:34.400 And again,

01:37:34.880 wants is the

01:37:35.440 wrong word.

01:37:38.400 Anyway.

01:37:44.620 So, I'm

01:37:47.460 seeing a

01:37:48.080 severely racist

01:37:50.660 comment in

01:37:51.580 the comments

01:37:52.340 there, which

01:37:53.780 is quite

01:37:54.560 unwelcome.

01:37:56.440 So, I don't

01:37:57.320 mind if you're

01:37:57.880 being, you

01:37:59.620 know,

01:37:59.880 inappropriate,

01:38:01.220 but if it's

01:38:02.420 just flat-out

01:38:03.040 racism, don't

01:38:05.760 bring that

01:38:06.140 here.

01:38:07.020 I don't mind

01:38:07.620 a little, you

01:38:09.400 know, a little

01:38:09.840 fun with

01:38:10.460 things, take a

01:38:12.160 little far, but

01:38:14.220 we're not

01:38:15.160 referring to

01:38:16.160 Mexican

01:38:17.060 immigrants as

01:38:17.760 wetbacks here. 0.99

01:38:19.160 And the

01:38:19.940 N-word is

01:38:20.720 also banned.

01:38:23.560 Can we do

01:38:24.220 that?

01:38:25.420 Because we

01:38:26.060 don't really

01:38:26.380 need that

01:38:26.820 here.

01:38:28.180 You can have

01:38:29.300 your private

01:38:29.920 thoughts, but

01:38:30.660 those kind of

01:38:31.920 words aren't

01:38:32.480 welcome.

01:38:34.460 All right.

01:38:37.020 Putin says

01:38:37.940 he's ready to

01:38:40.040 negotiate with

01:38:40.740 Trump about

01:38:41.560 the Ukraine

01:38:42.060 war.

01:38:43.860 I think he

01:38:44.700 is.

01:38:45.060 I think

01:38:45.360 everybody's

01:38:45.720 just waiting

01:38:46.140 for Trump.

01:38:47.220 So, I

01:38:47.720 have a

01:38:47.960 suggestion how

01:38:48.700 Trump could

01:38:49.560 end the

01:38:50.120 war in

01:38:52.320 Ukraine.

01:38:54.280 And it

01:38:54.900 starts with

01:38:55.320 drones.

01:38:56.360 So, we

01:38:57.040 all agree

01:38:57.480 drones are

01:38:58.080 the future

01:38:58.440 of warfare.

01:38:59.300 If you're

01:38:59.720 not following

01:39:00.260 what's

01:39:00.800 happening in

01:39:01.220 Ukraine, the

01:39:02.980 Ukrainian

01:39:03.540 military claim

01:39:05.060 from at

01:39:06.040 least people

01:39:06.400 on social

01:39:06.860 media is

01:39:07.880 that at

01:39:08.360 this point,

01:39:09.660 Ukraine is

01:39:10.220 so good with

01:39:11.000 these small

01:39:11.600 drones that

01:39:12.260 they're mostly

01:39:12.840 building

01:39:13.220 themselves in

01:39:14.060 Ukraine, that

01:39:15.400 one small

01:39:16.160 drone equals

01:39:17.600 one dead

01:39:18.260 Russian.

01:39:19.160 It's one

01:39:19.840 to one.

01:39:21.100 So, they

01:39:22.080 can now take

01:39:22.660 their drone

01:39:23.140 that goes and

01:39:23.820 finds something

01:39:24.400 and it

01:39:24.740 explodes with a

01:39:25.920 small explosive

01:39:26.640 explosive and

01:39:27.620 they can just

01:39:28.180 make it find

01:39:28.920 one soldier and

01:39:29.660 kill them. 0.54

01:39:30.900 So, all

01:39:31.320 day long, as

01:39:32.840 long as they

01:39:33.280 have one

01:39:33.640 drone, they

01:39:34.120 can kill one

01:39:34.680 Russian.

01:39:35.360 If they have

01:39:35.960 10,000 drones,

01:39:36.900 they kill 10,000

01:39:37.800 Russians as

01:39:38.960 quickly as they

01:39:39.660 can launch

01:39:40.020 them.

01:39:40.680 Because apparently

01:39:41.420 you can't

01:39:41.800 completely hide if

01:39:42.800 you're on the

01:39:43.160 front line.

01:39:44.720 So, one

01:39:46.300 drone equals

01:39:46.940 one dead

01:39:47.480 person on the

01:39:48.240 other side.

01:39:50.300 Now, presumably,

01:39:52.380 Putin knows

01:39:53.280 that because

01:39:54.480 it works the

01:39:55.260 other way, too.

01:39:56.040 The Russian

01:39:56.480 drones, probably

01:39:57.600 one to one, at

01:39:58.920 least.

01:40:00.820 So, here's how

01:40:01.900 Trump can end

01:40:03.060 the war.

01:40:04.700 I'm going to

01:40:05.440 build a million

01:40:06.480 drones in the

01:40:08.000 next six months

01:40:08.820 and give them

01:40:09.440 to Ukraine.

01:40:11.760 You have 500,000

01:40:13.520 soldiers in the

01:40:14.860 theater.

01:40:15.740 I'm going to

01:40:16.440 give them a

01:40:17.000 million drones.

01:40:18.280 Every drone

01:40:18.840 can kill one of

01:40:19.520 your soldiers.

01:40:21.440 What do you

01:40:22.080 want to do?

01:40:24.280 You want to

01:40:24.980 talk?

01:40:26.180 And that

01:40:26.720 should be it.

01:40:27.840 That should be

01:40:28.520 the end of it.

01:40:29.360 I mean, they

01:40:29.660 still have to

01:40:30.060 negotiate the

01:40:30.740 specifics.

01:40:32.160 But if Trump

01:40:32.980 says, I might

01:40:34.200 launch a

01:40:34.640 nuclear attack,

01:40:36.620 Putin's going

01:40:37.100 to say, no,

01:40:37.700 you won't.

01:40:39.180 No, you

01:40:39.500 won't.

01:40:40.140 If Trump

01:40:40.760 says, I'm

01:40:41.260 going to put

01:40:41.600 boots on the

01:40:42.200 ground, Putin's

01:40:44.140 probably going to

01:40:44.680 say, no, you

01:40:45.820 won't.

01:40:46.460 You're not

01:40:46.780 going to put

01:40:47.060 boots on the

01:40:47.500 ground.

01:40:48.000 If he says,

01:40:48.540 we're going to

01:40:48.820 give Ukraine

01:40:50.460 advanced jets to

01:40:52.800 make forays deep

01:40:54.960 into Russia,

01:40:56.460 Putin's going

01:40:56.880 to say, you

01:40:57.860 better not,

01:40:59.320 because I'm

01:41:00.180 going to go

01:41:00.460 nuclear.

01:41:01.020 So I know

01:41:01.400 you're not

01:41:01.680 going to do

01:41:01.980 that.

01:41:03.100 Almost

01:41:03.460 everything that

01:41:04.260 sort of normal

01:41:05.060 stuff, you

01:41:06.020 know, normal

01:41:06.520 war negotiations,

01:41:08.000 isn't really

01:41:08.760 going to work

01:41:09.280 because it

01:41:11.300 would have

01:41:11.500 already happened.

01:41:13.320 Trump, the

01:41:14.220 magic that

01:41:15.080 Trump brings is

01:41:16.120 like with the

01:41:16.860 tariff example.

01:41:17.800 Oh, shit.

01:41:18.360 I just lost

01:41:21.440 my signal.

01:41:39.860 Hey, did you

01:41:40.400 miss me?

01:41:41.760 Sorry, we had a

01:41:42.400 little glitch there.

01:41:43.080 I just lost

01:41:43.640 the signal.

01:41:44.740 It took me a

01:41:45.160 moment to get

01:41:45.600 back.

01:41:45.800 Anyway, so

01:41:47.800 what I was

01:41:48.020 going to say

01:41:48.320 is that

01:41:48.760 Trump, what

01:41:50.460 Trump does

01:41:51.040 with negotiations

01:41:51.860 is he'll

01:41:52.600 bring a

01:41:53.020 variable or

01:41:54.520 a frame or

01:41:55.560 a point of

01:41:56.000 view that

01:41:56.600 you've never

01:41:56.940 seen before.

01:41:58.360 So the

01:41:59.000 first thing

01:41:59.360 it does is

01:41:59.840 it sets

01:42:00.500 you uncomfortable

01:42:03.620 because it's

01:42:05.280 something you've

01:42:05.820 never seen

01:42:06.200 before.

01:42:07.000 So if Trump

01:42:07.680 could go in

01:42:08.520 and say, I

01:42:09.020 got a million

01:42:09.520 drones that

01:42:10.200 says your

01:42:10.800 entire army is

01:42:11.560 going to be

01:42:11.900 gone in six

01:42:12.980 months, then

01:42:14.580 Putin has

01:42:14.980 something to

01:42:15.460 negotiate with

01:42:16.260 because that's

01:42:16.880 real.

01:42:18.120 Or here's

01:42:19.360 the fun

01:42:19.720 part.

01:42:21.560 Putin doesn't

01:42:22.360 know if it's

01:42:22.780 real because

01:42:24.180 Putin wouldn't

01:42:24.820 know how many

01:42:25.740 secret drone

01:42:26.700 manufacturing plants

01:42:27.860 we've spun up in

01:42:28.760 the last three

01:42:29.340 years, but he

01:42:30.520 would know it's

01:42:31.020 a lot because

01:42:32.720 obviously, obviously

01:42:34.600 our military is

01:42:35.440 making drones like

01:42:36.260 crazy, right?

01:42:38.460 And so you just

01:42:39.680 say you've got

01:42:40.200 half a million

01:42:40.760 men.

01:42:41.200 I'm going to put

01:42:41.700 a million drones

01:42:42.440 into the theater.

01:42:43.640 Every one of

01:42:44.120 them is going to

01:42:44.480 be dead. 0.94

01:42:45.600 Putin's going

01:42:46.020 to say, oh

01:42:46.620 yeah, well

01:42:47.600 there are only

01:42:48.180 200,000 Ukrainians

01:42:50.020 or whatever the

01:42:50.580 number is.

01:42:51.360 I'm going to

01:42:51.760 have a million

01:42:52.600 drones too and

01:42:54.420 we're going to

01:42:54.680 kill all the

01:42:55.120 Ukrainians.

01:42:56.420 And then Trump

01:42:57.400 says, exactly.

01:42:59.340 That's why we

01:43:00.040 should just

01:43:00.380 negotiate it now.

01:43:02.840 It's kind of a

01:43:03.700 winning position,

01:43:04.620 I think.

01:43:06.260 Or at least

01:43:06.700 it's a reasonable

01:43:07.920 threat.

01:43:09.160 Similar to I'm

01:43:10.260 going to tariff

01:43:10.800 you, I'm going to

01:43:13.100 drone you. 0.55

01:43:13.820 Nobody ever

01:43:14.360 heard that

01:43:14.700 before.

01:43:15.540 It's like a

01:43:15.980 thing that's

01:43:16.360 never happened.

01:43:19.440 Anyway, MSNBC

01:43:20.840 says they're

01:43:21.440 going to reduce

01:43:22.680 maybe the pay of

01:43:23.500 Joy Reid and

01:43:24.360 well, Stephanie

01:43:25.160 Rule three times

01:43:25.980 in the news

01:43:26.420 today, according

01:43:27.280 to the New York

01:43:27.780 Post.

01:43:28.980 And I'm going to

01:43:29.680 report their

01:43:30.220 salaries.

01:43:31.440 So you know

01:43:32.040 that Rachel

01:43:33.460 Maddow, her

01:43:34.960 salary was cut

01:43:35.860 from $30 million

01:43:36.700 a year to $25

01:43:37.560 million a year,

01:43:38.220 but you probably

01:43:38.640 still thought,

01:43:39.480 that's a lot of

01:43:40.480 money.

01:43:41.520 How is she

01:43:42.180 worth that

01:43:42.560 much?

01:43:43.180 So I kind

01:43:43.980 of thought

01:43:44.300 that her

01:43:44.740 co-hosts or

01:43:46.020 other hosts

01:43:46.680 on the network

01:43:47.260 would be

01:43:48.500 somewhere in

01:43:48.940 the same

01:43:49.220 range.

01:43:50.280 But Joy Reid

01:43:51.140 makes $3

01:43:52.120 million a year

01:43:52.800 and they're

01:43:53.260 looking to

01:43:53.680 cut it. 0.63

01:43:55.860 And Stephanie

01:43:56.800 Rule makes

01:43:57.700 $2 million a

01:43:58.640 year.

01:44:01.140 And they

01:44:01.780 want to cut

01:44:02.220 it.

01:44:03.640 Now it

01:44:06.000 makes a

01:44:06.400 little bit

01:44:06.780 more sense

01:44:07.520 why Joy Reid

01:44:08.880 is still on

01:44:09.460 the air.

01:44:10.480 She's not

01:44:11.120 very highly

01:44:11.680 paid, so

01:44:13.260 she's affordable.

01:44:15.560 It might be

01:44:16.640 partly that.

01:44:18.340 Anyway, I

01:44:20.600 would like to

01:44:21.020 point out

01:44:21.500 that there

01:44:23.420 are probably

01:44:24.700 quite a few

01:44:25.520 podcasters at

01:44:26.700 this point who

01:44:27.940 make more than

01:44:29.060 these hosts.

01:44:31.320 So if these

01:44:31.840 hosts, let's

01:44:32.400 say they get

01:44:32.860 cut back to

01:44:33.460 $2 million a

01:44:34.140 year, how

01:44:35.220 many podcasters

01:44:36.180 make more than

01:44:36.820 $2 million a

01:44:37.380 year?

01:44:38.720 Now I don't

01:44:39.160 know the

01:44:39.460 answer.

01:44:39.700 I'm not

01:44:40.140 one of

01:44:40.420 them, but

01:44:41.660 if I just

01:44:42.460 based on the

01:44:43.360 size of my

01:44:43.940 audience and

01:44:44.980 the amount

01:44:45.680 of monetization

01:44:46.760 that that

01:44:47.300 brings, and

01:44:48.600 then I just

01:44:49.120 apply that to

01:44:50.200 bigger podcasts

01:44:51.160 like Tim

01:44:51.760 Poole or

01:44:52.480 Joe Rogan,

01:44:54.580 Megyn Kelly,

01:44:56.360 I feel like

01:44:58.120 there might

01:44:58.540 be maybe

01:45:03.280 30,

01:45:04.560 probably 30

01:45:06.220 political

01:45:06.680 podcasts where

01:45:08.400 the person

01:45:08.900 who does the

01:45:09.420 podcast is

01:45:10.080 making a lot

01:45:10.660 more than

01:45:10.960 $2 million a

01:45:11.760 year.

01:45:12.800 So not

01:45:13.560 only is

01:45:14.440 mainstream

01:45:14.880 media no

01:45:15.500 longer the

01:45:15.940 news, but

01:45:17.460 if you're in

01:45:17.940 the news

01:45:18.300 business, the

01:45:19.880 podcast is

01:45:20.540 how to get

01:45:20.880 paid.

01:45:21.160 you're welcome,

01:45:25.120 Chessie.

01:45:29.440 All right.

01:45:31.980 So

01:45:32.380 podcasting, so

01:45:33.380 waiting a

01:45:33.760 pain.

01:45:34.600 Ukraine says

01:45:35.260 it has some

01:45:35.700 now ground-based

01:45:36.860 laser where

01:45:37.620 they can shoot

01:45:38.140 down aircrafts a

01:45:39.500 mile away.

01:45:40.220 CNN's reporting

01:45:42.780 this, but

01:45:43.780 oh, this is

01:45:46.560 terrible.

01:45:46.940 The reporter

01:45:47.440 who's working

01:45:48.000 for CNN, her

01:45:48.920 last name is

01:45:49.520 Fox.

01:45:50.760 I'd hate to

01:45:51.220 have a last

01:45:51.620 name of Fox

01:45:52.340 and have to

01:45:52.780 work at CNN.

01:45:54.000 That'd be

01:45:54.500 awkward.

01:45:56.660 I don't think

01:45:57.720 that they have

01:45:58.540 a super

01:46:00.100 feasible

01:46:00.760 laser weapon.

01:46:02.700 Apparently it

01:46:03.200 only works if

01:46:04.720 you've got a

01:46:05.160 drone that's

01:46:05.940 kind of softened

01:46:07.060 to, you

01:46:07.800 know, the

01:46:08.260 heat will stop

01:46:08.920 a drone easier

01:46:09.640 than a jet.

01:46:10.220 or a missile.

01:46:11.580 And it's not

01:46:12.180 moving very

01:46:12.740 fast.

01:46:14.200 So

01:46:14.400 apparently it

01:46:15.640 might work a

01:46:16.440 little bit for

01:46:17.100 slow-moving

01:46:17.740 stuff, but it's

01:46:18.360 not going to

01:46:18.700 change the

01:46:19.080 war.

01:46:20.280 According to

01:46:21.100 Justin Jackson

01:46:21.840 and Medical

01:46:22.340 Express, our

01:46:23.800 inflammatory

01:46:24.300 dietary habits

01:46:25.360 are linked to

01:46:25.840 84% higher

01:46:27.140 risk of

01:46:27.660 dementia.

01:46:28.980 So

01:46:29.200 do you

01:46:31.280 think it's

01:46:33.220 true that

01:46:33.760 our food

01:46:35.660 supply in the

01:46:36.440 United States

01:46:36.960 is the

01:46:37.340 biggest problem?

01:46:38.620 I'm going to

01:46:39.320 go further

01:46:39.900 and say

01:46:40.480 that given

01:46:41.180 that we

01:46:41.520 know how

01:46:41.980 many health

01:46:42.740 problems are

01:46:43.500 definitely

01:46:43.900 linked to

01:46:44.900 our bad

01:46:45.340 diet,

01:46:46.260 especially all

01:46:46.980 the additives,

01:46:47.840 et cetera,

01:46:48.740 could it be

01:46:49.520 that all of

01:46:51.580 the recent

01:46:52.020 gigantic increase

01:46:53.180 in unwellness

01:46:54.580 is just all

01:46:56.060 food?

01:46:57.380 Because we're

01:46:58.240 blaming COVID

01:46:59.340 and long COVID

01:47:00.180 and we're

01:47:00.580 blaming the

01:47:03.480 vaccinations,

01:47:04.580 some people

01:47:04.980 are, we're

01:47:06.000 blaming pollutants

01:47:08.940 and microplastics

01:47:09.940 and everything

01:47:10.380 else, but I

01:47:11.720 wouldn't want to

01:47:12.240 rule out that

01:47:14.140 maybe something

01:47:14.920 close to 90%

01:47:16.680 of all of

01:47:17.620 our sudden

01:47:18.860 increase in

01:47:19.620 health problems

01:47:20.260 across all

01:47:20.880 kinds of

01:47:21.220 different

01:47:21.420 problems, it

01:47:22.280 might be all

01:47:22.720 food, because

01:47:23.980 food causes

01:47:24.700 inflammation and

01:47:27.340 inflammation is

01:47:28.120 what causes

01:47:28.760 everything from

01:47:30.260 the risk of

01:47:31.820 dementia to

01:47:32.920 heart problems

01:47:34.620 to everything.

01:47:36.900 So I think

01:47:37.980 the RFK

01:47:38.600 Jr.

01:47:39.060 variable, if

01:47:39.740 he can fix

01:47:40.300 this, amazing.

01:47:42.280 Meanwhile, the

01:47:42.920 FDA has

01:47:43.820 rewritten what

01:47:44.440 it calls healthy

01:47:45.180 foods for the

01:47:46.080 first time in

01:47:46.640 30 years, according

01:47:47.480 to Science Alert,

01:47:49.280 and so the

01:47:49.880 United States is

01:47:50.480 redefining what

01:47:51.200 they call, quote,

01:47:52.060 healthy.

01:47:53.880 Let me read a

01:47:54.920 sentence from

01:47:56.480 the story about

01:47:57.520 the FDA deciding

01:47:59.780 what is healthy.

01:48:01.040 You ready for

01:48:01.520 this?

01:48:04.540 That the food

01:48:05.800 could be healthy

01:48:06.720 as long as they

01:48:08.440 stay within

01:48:09.060 specific limits

01:48:10.260 for saturated

01:48:12.980 fat, sodium,

01:48:14.240 and added

01:48:14.840 sugars.

01:48:17.220 Added sugars?

01:48:19.220 Wait a minute.

01:48:21.300 Do I know

01:48:22.180 more than the

01:48:22.680 FDA?

01:48:23.880 There is no

01:48:24.880 such thing as a

01:48:25.860 healthy food with

01:48:26.760 an added sugar.

01:48:27.700 sugar?

01:48:29.300 That's not a

01:48:30.060 thing.

01:48:31.260 There are

01:48:31.920 literally zero

01:48:33.100 foods with

01:48:33.920 added sugar

01:48:34.980 that are good

01:48:36.660 for you.

01:48:37.840 Now, there are

01:48:38.460 definitely things

01:48:39.120 that will create

01:48:40.800 sugar once you

01:48:41.680 eat them,

01:48:42.700 carbs, etc.

01:48:44.240 But if you're

01:48:45.160 adding sugar,

01:48:46.880 now, I don't

01:48:47.900 know if that

01:48:48.300 includes things

01:48:49.160 that might be

01:48:50.880 similar like,

01:48:53.240 I don't know,

01:48:53.720 some other

01:48:54.120 additive that's not

01:48:54.940 exactly a sugar

01:48:55.840 but it has

01:48:56.200 the same

01:48:56.500 effect.

01:48:57.540 But doesn't

01:48:58.800 this look like

01:48:59.460 it was written

01:48:59.900 by the food

01:49:00.540 industry and

01:49:01.260 not the FDA?

01:49:02.900 Do you think

01:49:03.300 the FDA would

01:49:04.320 have, on

01:49:05.040 their own,

01:49:06.260 said, you

01:49:06.540 know what's

01:49:06.800 healthy?

01:49:07.500 A little bit

01:49:08.040 of sugar.

01:49:08.900 A little bit

01:49:09.280 of sugar will

01:49:09.800 hurt you. 0.82

01:49:10.700 I don't think

01:49:11.280 so.

01:49:11.960 That sounds

01:49:12.480 like it comes

01:49:13.040 from the food

01:49:13.660 industry because

01:49:14.940 they put a

01:49:15.500 little bit of

01:49:16.000 sugar, fat,

01:49:17.600 and sodium

01:49:18.020 into everything.

01:49:19.300 Do you know

01:49:19.640 that there's a

01:49:20.180 book called,

01:49:21.060 I think it's

01:49:22.340 fat, salt,

01:49:25.840 sugar, or

01:49:26.320 something like

01:49:26.620 that, some

01:49:27.000 version of

01:49:27.520 those three

01:49:27.940 things.

01:49:28.480 Those are the

01:49:29.180 three things you

01:49:29.820 manipulate for

01:49:32.320 addiction.

01:49:34.100 If you can

01:49:34.900 control in your

01:49:35.900 food the fat,

01:49:37.540 salt, and sugar

01:49:38.900 content and you

01:49:39.800 put them in the

01:49:40.220 right ratio, you

01:49:41.820 create addiction.

01:49:43.980 So only the food

01:49:45.340 industry would

01:49:45.980 write this

01:49:46.420 standard.

01:49:47.420 So again, it

01:49:48.320 looks like the

01:49:48.760 FDA is completely

01:49:49.720 broken and the

01:49:51.180 food industry

01:49:51.760 wrote a standard

01:49:52.440 to guarantee

01:49:53.060 that they can

01:49:53.600 add sugar to

01:49:54.300 your diet, where

01:49:55.620 if RFK Jr.

01:49:56.680 saw this, he

01:49:57.760 would punch

01:49:58.260 you.

01:50:00.540 He would

01:50:01.180 punch people.

01:50:02.500 No, he

01:50:02.780 wouldn't, but

01:50:03.440 it's funny to

01:50:04.340 think about it.

01:50:07.200 Anyway, Owen

01:50:08.320 is going to do

01:50:10.060 a Spaces

01:50:11.200 tomorrow.

01:50:13.060 So after

01:50:13.540 tomorrow's show,

01:50:14.820 look for the

01:50:15.580 Spaces with

01:50:16.260 Owen in which

01:50:16.900 he will chat

01:50:17.900 with people who

01:50:18.520 watch the show

01:50:19.200 and anybody

01:50:19.640 else if they

01:50:21.060 want to follow

01:50:21.480 up on any

01:50:22.000 details on

01:50:22.580 this stuff.

01:50:23.500 So Owen

01:50:24.100 Gregorian, look

01:50:25.460 for him tomorrow

01:50:26.780 after the

01:50:28.740 live stream.

01:50:29.360 That's all I

01:50:29.820 got for you

01:50:30.240 now.

01:50:30.500 I'm going to

01:50:30.740 talk to the

01:50:31.440 locals people

01:50:32.340 privately because

01:50:33.460 they're awesome.

01:50:34.380 Thanks for

01:50:34.720 joining and I

01:50:35.320 will see you

01:50:35.920 tomorrow.

01:50:36.840 Locals, I'm

01:50:37.420 coming at you.

01:50:38.480 Coming at you

01:50:39.180 hard.

01:50:49.640 Let's go.

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01:50:59.740 Bye.

01:51:00.740 Bye.

01:51:01.580 Bye.

01:51:01.780 Bye.

01:51:01.820 Bye.

01:51:02.480 Bye.

01:51:02.820 Bye.

01:51:03.620 Bye.

01:51:03.940 Bye.

01:51:03.960 Bye.

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01:51:05.660 ha' 0.97

01:51:05.980 bye.

01:51:06.980 Bye.

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01:51:08.280 Bye.

01:51:09.120 Bye.

01:51:09.960 Bye.

01:51:10.260 Bye.

01:51:10.820 Bye.

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01:51:18.520 Thank you.

01:51:48.520 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - December 20, 2024

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