Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2710 CWSA 01⧸04⧸25

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00:00:49.340 Best thing that happened to me today.

00:00:53.180 Well, the news is all fun and interesting,

00:00:55.320 so I'm going to zip through it and delight you.

00:00:58.200 Number one,

00:00:59.520 oh, first of all,

00:01:01.000 Owen is going to do a Spaces,

00:01:04.160 which he's been doing on Saturdays,

00:01:06.360 so you can look for that.

00:01:07.520 I don't know if it will become a long-term tradition,

00:01:10.620 but at least for today,

00:01:12.420 Owen Gregorian will be doing a Spaces after this show

00:01:15.600 where he can talk about what we talked about

00:01:17.880 or I suppose anything else.

00:01:20.020 All right, so look for that.

00:01:20.880 So yesterday,

00:01:22.800 I opened up my ChatGPT app,

00:01:25.520 which I haven't looked at recently

00:01:27.820 because I've been using other apps.

00:01:31.020 And I didn't realize that my app had already been upgraded

00:01:35.420 so that you can do the thing

00:01:37.360 where you open the camera on your phone,

00:01:40.560 you can just point your camera at stuff,

00:01:42.640 and the AI will have a conversation with you

00:01:45.220 about what you're looking at.

00:01:46.660 Now, I didn't really know how cool that was until yesterday

00:01:51.980 where I'm standing outside my driveway at night

00:01:55.680 and the moon is out,

00:01:57.580 nice little crescent,

00:01:59.040 but really near the moon

00:02:00.100 is this very bright,

00:02:02.280 presumably a planet.

00:02:04.100 And I said to myself,

00:02:05.160 huh, which planet is that?

00:02:07.580 It's so bright.

00:02:08.860 And so I turned on the ChatGPT camera

00:02:11.220 and I just aimed it at the sky

00:02:13.800 and I said,

00:02:15.740 well, what planet do you think that is?

00:02:18.200 And ChatGPT said,

00:02:19.400 well, it could be, you know,

00:02:22.020 this bright planet,

00:02:23.060 it could be this or it could be that,

00:02:24.540 but it's probably Venus

00:02:25.700 because that's the brightest one

00:02:27.460 that would be in that part of the sky.

00:02:30.080 And so I said to it,

00:02:31.640 because it chats with you,

00:02:33.180 you don't have to touch another button,

00:02:34.940 you can just keep the conversation going.

00:02:37.360 So I said to it,

00:02:38.500 are you saying that Venus is the shiny one

00:02:40.960 and does that mean that the other planets

00:02:43.160 would be experiencing Venus envy?

00:02:47.840 And it laughed at my joke

00:02:49.540 and complimented me.

00:02:53.360 It actually reacted to the joke positively.

00:02:56.960 Now that just freaked me out

00:02:59.700 because if you're a person

00:03:01.720 who likes to get credit for telling jokes,

00:03:04.200 which is literally my profession,

00:03:06.580 I worry that I would get hooked on that.

00:03:10.080 You know, just having AI tell me

00:03:11.560 I did a good joke.

00:03:12.960 Like, yeah, yeah.

00:03:14.660 Artificial intelligence right there.

00:03:16.920 If you think it's funny,

00:03:17.980 it must be funny.

00:03:19.200 But then I remembered that AI

00:03:20.640 can only do dad jokes.

00:03:22.780 And that was basically just a PG-13 dad joke.

00:03:26.900 I'm like, eh, okay.

00:03:28.700 More work to go.

00:03:30.800 Anyway, there's a study written about

00:03:33.540 in the study finds

00:03:35.000 that success could come down to luck

00:03:37.840 more than merit.

00:03:39.420 According to research.

00:03:41.160 Huh, research.

00:03:43.520 Was there a faster way

00:03:45.140 to find out if luck

00:03:47.280 is a component of success?

00:03:49.160 What, uh,

00:03:50.120 if they didn't want to spend

00:03:51.160 the time and the money

00:03:52.020 on a whole research project,

00:03:54.140 is there any other way?

00:03:55.800 Oh, yeah.

00:03:56.820 They could have asked Scott.

00:03:58.740 Hey, Scott,

00:03:59.520 we're thinking of spending

00:04:00.380 a bunch of time and money

00:04:01.500 to find out if luck

00:04:02.980 influences success.

00:04:04.380 And I'd be like, hmm.

00:04:06.660 Yeah, it does.

00:04:07.940 It does.

00:04:09.200 But I would add the following,

00:04:11.780 which I think they didn't discover,

00:04:13.760 that you can make more luck

00:04:15.320 for yourself.

00:04:17.540 You can make more luck

00:04:19.460 for yourself.

00:04:20.740 How do you do that?

00:04:22.000 Well, get out of your chair.

00:04:24.360 If you're just sitting at home

00:04:25.720 in a chair,

00:04:26.780 you're not going to have much luck.

00:04:28.600 But maybe if you go

00:04:29.580 meet some people,

00:04:31.060 apply for some jobs

00:04:32.220 that are, you know,

00:04:33.280 above your level,

00:04:34.880 try to build something

00:04:36.040 in your garage

00:04:36.980 just to see if it works.

00:04:38.380 Take a few classes

00:04:39.320 to build your talent stack.

00:04:41.220 Move to a place

00:04:41.980 where there's more opportunity.

00:04:43.660 Get involved with an industry

00:04:44.880 that's growing quickly

00:04:45.900 instead of shrinking.

00:04:47.740 Yeah, you can change your luck.

00:04:49.660 You can absolutely

00:04:51.020 change your luck.

00:04:52.620 Now, not in any moment

00:04:54.220 and not in a specific way,

00:04:56.640 but you can go

00:04:57.920 where there's more luck.

00:04:59.540 That was exactly my strategy

00:05:01.560 when I graduated college

00:05:03.880 in upstate New York

00:05:05.400 and I looked around

00:05:06.260 and said,

00:05:06.900 if I stay in upstate New York,

00:05:09.580 what kind of luck

00:05:10.560 would I have?

00:05:11.260 Well,

00:05:12.240 I might get lucky

00:05:13.160 with a cow

00:05:13.820 and that's about it

00:05:17.560 because that's what there were

00:05:18.580 in upstate New York.

00:05:19.500 We had cows

00:05:20.160 and then there were people

00:05:22.200 who had low-income jobs.

00:05:25.360 Cows and low-income jobs.

00:05:28.380 Middle class, basically.

00:05:30.760 So I said to myself,

00:05:32.220 where could I go

00:05:33.140 where basically

00:05:34.620 there would be luck

00:05:35.720 all over the place?

00:05:37.260 And the answer was California

00:05:39.540 and then specifically

00:05:41.220 the Bay Area.

00:05:42.440 If you plop yourself

00:05:43.780 in the Bay Area

00:05:44.640 and you've got talents,

00:05:47.140 you're going to do okay.

00:05:49.680 It doesn't matter

00:05:50.160 who you are.

00:05:50.920 You just have to go

00:05:51.620 where the luck is

00:05:52.340 but you also have

00:05:53.020 to be prepared, right?

00:05:54.220 You need some education

00:05:55.860 that's relevant to that.

00:05:58.400 All right.

00:05:59.320 So go find your luck.

00:06:00.740 That's your advice for today.

00:06:02.740 I guess Apple

00:06:03.500 is settling a lawsuit

00:06:04.900 that has them admitting

00:06:08.380 that their digital assistant,

00:06:11.880 S-I-R-I,

00:06:12.760 I don't want to say it

00:06:13.440 to trigger all your phones,

00:06:14.440 but it was in fact

00:06:16.460 listening to you

00:06:17.380 even when you didn't notice

00:06:18.780 and even when you didn't

00:06:20.860 know it was listening.

00:06:22.160 It was doing exactly

00:06:23.240 what you worried about.

00:06:25.400 Is my phone sometimes

00:06:26.900 just listening to me

00:06:28.480 on its own?

00:06:29.140 Yes.

00:06:29.820 It was doing exactly that.

00:06:31.680 Now, if you're worried,

00:06:33.500 you know,

00:06:33.720 what's the risk in that?

00:06:35.940 Allegedly,

00:06:36.640 I believe that all it was doing

00:06:38.400 is somewhat,

00:06:39.920 you know,

00:06:40.320 somewhat useful task

00:06:41.980 of doing a better job

00:06:43.740 of knowing what commercials

00:06:44.880 you would want to look at.

00:06:47.060 So if the only thing

00:06:48.380 it was doing,

00:06:49.340 and I'm not saying

00:06:50.080 it's the only thing,

00:06:51.320 but if it was the only thing

00:06:52.640 it was doing,

00:06:53.740 is it served me up

00:06:55.400 better ads,

00:06:56.460 I'd say,

00:06:58.020 well,

00:06:58.360 that's good.

00:07:00.080 I'd like to see ads

00:07:01.540 that are more relevant

00:07:02.740 to my experience,

00:07:03.660 of course.

00:07:04.720 But of course,

00:07:05.580 none of us trust

00:07:06.820 that that's all

00:07:07.680 it's going to do.

00:07:08.320 you kind of assume

00:07:09.960 that they could just

00:07:11.900 replay those

00:07:12.760 those audios

00:07:14.120 if they wanted to.

00:07:15.740 If the machine

00:07:17.160 is listening

00:07:17.760 when you don't want it to,

00:07:19.680 are you telling me

00:07:20.380 that there's no human being

00:07:21.700 who could just play

00:07:22.600 at any time they want

00:07:23.480 or just listen in live,

00:07:25.420 listen in in real time?

00:07:27.180 Now,

00:07:27.440 there's no claim of that,

00:07:29.040 but as long as

00:07:30.120 the technology allows it,

00:07:32.040 well,

00:07:32.400 somebody's going to do it.

00:07:33.960 You know,

00:07:34.180 anything that's possible

00:07:35.500 gets done

00:07:36.160 in our world.

00:07:36.920 So yeah,

00:07:38.260 yeah,

00:07:38.520 your privacy

00:07:39.040 was completely compromised.

00:07:41.480 Maybe not yet,

00:07:42.800 but it certainly

00:07:43.920 was a system

00:07:44.620 that guaranteed it

00:07:45.580 if they didn't stop it.

00:07:47.140 And I don't think

00:07:48.020 anything actually,

00:07:48.900 I don't think the lawsuit

00:07:49.700 will make any difference.

00:07:51.200 I think your devices

00:07:52.120 are all going to be

00:07:52.720 listening to you

00:07:53.340 no matter what.

00:07:54.580 I just think

00:07:55.120 they'll just keep doing it.

00:07:56.280 That's my guess.

00:07:57.800 Meanwhile,

00:07:58.360 Thomas Massey

00:07:59.480 handed out

00:08:00.240 to everybody

00:08:01.040 in the new Congress

00:08:02.000 their debt badge.

00:08:04.100 So he invented

00:08:04.920 a little

00:08:05.440 lapel badge

00:08:07.060 that's got a digital

00:08:08.180 readout

00:08:08.660 that increases

00:08:10.060 as the debt increases.

00:08:12.040 So you can see

00:08:12.640 our $36 trillion

00:08:14.360 of debt

00:08:15.220 zooming up.

00:08:16.980 Now,

00:08:17.380 here's what I love

00:08:18.080 about this.

00:08:20.720 It was one thing

00:08:21.920 when he had one

00:08:22.980 for himself

00:08:23.740 and he would hand them

00:08:24.520 out to some people,

00:08:25.480 but giving them

00:08:26.680 to everybody

00:08:27.460 is a powerful play

00:08:30.580 because you want

00:08:32.360 everybody to wear

00:08:33.080 the scarlet letter

00:08:34.060 of what problems

00:08:36.200 they caused.

00:08:38.080 So if you think

00:08:39.520 that the debt clock

00:08:41.100 is so that

00:08:42.540 they can tell you,

00:08:44.040 the public,

00:08:45.240 that the debt is bad,

00:08:46.940 well,

00:08:47.420 it kind of does that.

00:08:48.960 But the far more

00:08:50.060 clever thing it does

00:08:51.020 is it makes you wear it

00:08:52.780 like a scarlet letter.

00:08:55.380 It's the scarlet debt clock.

00:08:57.240 If you're an elected politician

00:08:59.780 and you're wearing

00:09:00.680 literally a digital thing

00:09:02.900 that shows the extent

00:09:04.340 of your failure

00:09:05.160 as a politician,

00:09:07.020 look at this.

00:09:08.160 You can't fail harder

00:09:10.100 than this.

00:09:10.980 Have you seen this?

00:09:12.260 $36 trillion

00:09:13.160 and now it's $37.

00:09:15.080 $37 trillion.

00:09:16.500 That's how badly

00:09:17.440 I failed.

00:09:19.040 Now,

00:09:19.460 you could say

00:09:19.980 that the new members

00:09:21.000 of Congress

00:09:21.480 haven't failed yet,

00:09:22.800 but it's still funny

00:09:24.160 to make them wear it

00:09:25.060 because they're going

00:09:26.240 to fail.

00:09:27.240 You know,

00:09:28.020 it's not like

00:09:28.460 they're going to get rid

00:09:29.100 of $36 trillion

00:09:30.240 of debt very quickly.

00:09:32.620 So,

00:09:33.420 this is very clever.

00:09:35.300 I like everybody

00:09:36.180 having one

00:09:36.960 and I like the fact

00:09:38.000 that it's an insult

00:09:39.040 to them,

00:09:39.840 but they'll probably

00:09:40.820 still use them

00:09:41.840 or even if they don't

00:09:43.580 wear it

00:09:44.120 and all they do

00:09:45.240 is leave it at home,

00:09:46.820 they're probably

00:09:47.420 going to leave it

00:09:48.000 somewhere where

00:09:48.500 they see it all the time.

00:09:50.160 It's going to be

00:09:50.600 like on top of their dresser

00:09:51.820 and they're going to see

00:09:52.380 it every time

00:09:52.820 they get dressed,

00:09:54.100 but they're like,

00:09:54.540 ah,

00:09:54.820 I don't want to wear it.

00:09:55.880 But there it is.

00:09:58.480 So,

00:09:59.020 rule number one

00:09:59.900 for persuasion,

00:10:01.840 the most important

00:10:03.220 starting rule

00:10:04.560 for persuasion.

00:10:06.100 You have to make

00:10:07.360 people focus

00:10:08.200 on your thing

00:10:09.140 more than they were.

00:10:11.940 That's it.

00:10:13.200 That's your rule

00:10:14.100 number one.

00:10:14.640 So,

00:10:15.680 Massey's

00:10:16.300 turning this

00:10:17.140 concept of debt

00:10:18.640 into a physical device

00:10:20.200 that your eyes

00:10:20.920 are looking at

00:10:21.540 makes you think

00:10:22.820 about it

00:10:23.220 more than you

00:10:23.660 were thinking

00:10:24.040 about it.

00:10:25.160 That

00:10:25.620 is really good

00:10:27.140 persuasion.

00:10:28.920 So,

00:10:29.920 you know,

00:10:30.140 it looks like

00:10:30.560 it's a clever toy

00:10:31.540 and people want one

00:10:32.580 because other people

00:10:33.220 have one,

00:10:33.760 but it's way more

00:10:35.780 than that.

00:10:36.380 It's just really,

00:10:37.600 really smart

00:10:38.740 persuasion.

00:10:41.220 Meanwhile,

00:10:41.660 we got a new

00:10:44.460 Speaker of the House.

00:10:45.280 There was no

00:10:45.740 real drama there.

00:10:47.760 Took one vote

00:10:48.500 and Mike Johnson's

00:10:49.800 back at it

00:10:50.780 and he's already

00:10:52.180 saying that

00:10:52.960 the House Republicans

00:10:54.620 will investigate

00:10:55.500 the disbanded

00:10:56.580 House Select Committee.

00:10:57.860 Those are the

00:10:58.360 bad people

00:11:00.440 who did the

00:11:01.080 January 6th

00:11:01.980 show trial.

00:11:02.500 What is not

00:11:04.540 specified

00:11:05.120 is whether

00:11:07.220 the Republicans

00:11:08.020 will run it

00:11:08.860 as a show trial,

00:11:10.440 which would be

00:11:12.480 kind of perfect

00:11:13.540 to do

00:11:14.900 back to the

00:11:16.200 Select Committee

00:11:16.980 what they did

00:11:17.900 to the January 6ers.

00:11:20.320 Why not do it

00:11:21.220 in public?

00:11:22.200 Now,

00:11:22.440 I'm sure that

00:11:22.960 no matter what

00:11:23.480 they do,

00:11:24.000 they'll have to

00:11:25.380 testify in public,

00:11:26.720 but wouldn't it

00:11:27.800 be funny

00:11:28.460 if they did

00:11:29.980 what the J6 0.89

00:11:30.820 committee did,

00:11:31.580 which was

00:11:32.960 hire a

00:11:33.980 TV producer

00:11:35.720 and really

00:11:37.160 make it

00:11:38.020 watchable

00:11:38.660 so that

00:11:40.020 when you watch it,

00:11:40.700 you're like,

00:11:40.940 wow,

00:11:41.120 this is interesting

00:11:41.860 because I'm not sure

00:11:43.160 everybody watches

00:11:43.840 the clips

00:11:45.500 of somebody

00:11:46.000 testifying

00:11:46.620 for three hours,

00:11:47.600 but you would

00:11:49.000 definitely watch it

00:11:49.880 if they

00:11:51.020 entertainatized it,

00:11:53.540 making up a word.

00:11:55.500 So,

00:11:56.120 I don't know

00:11:57.260 that Republicans

00:11:57.800 do that,

00:11:59.460 but under

00:12:00.160 the Trump

00:12:00.880 administration,

00:12:01.580 I feel like

00:12:03.300 that might be

00:12:03.960 the kind of

00:12:04.520 thing that

00:12:04.960 Trump could

00:12:05.500 add to the

00:12:06.220 process,

00:12:07.680 meaning,

00:12:08.540 you know,

00:12:09.740 you don't have

00:12:10.340 to do this

00:12:10.860 the boring way.

00:12:13.040 Well,

00:12:13.560 Mr. President,

00:12:14.540 we don't want

00:12:15.300 to be like

00:12:15.700 the Democrats.

00:12:16.960 We just want

00:12:17.880 to get to the

00:12:18.320 bottom of it

00:12:18.760 and find out

00:12:19.220 the truth.

00:12:20.280 Yeah,

00:12:21.100 yeah,

00:12:21.460 I get that,

00:12:22.480 but you don't

00:12:23.480 have to be boring.

00:12:24.480 so I feel

00:12:27.400 like there's

00:12:27.760 a conversation

00:12:28.480 that's going

00:12:28.940 to happen

00:12:29.300 where Trump

00:12:30.460 is going

00:12:30.780 to take

00:12:31.080 his reality

00:12:31.820 TV experience,

00:12:33.280 which is

00:12:33.920 phenomenal,

00:12:34.860 and see if he

00:12:36.540 can apply it

00:12:37.040 to this situation.

00:12:37.940 We'll see how it

00:12:38.740 goes.

00:12:39.500 I'd be happy

00:12:40.340 either way,

00:12:41.160 honestly,

00:12:41.580 but it'd be fun

00:12:42.200 to see it

00:12:42.680 as a show

00:12:44.880 just to pay

00:12:46.520 him back.

00:12:46.860 Well,

00:12:49.120 meanwhile,

00:12:49.600 the Biden

00:12:50.000 administration

00:12:50.520 has determined

00:12:52.180 that the chemical

00:12:53.840 formaldehyde,

00:12:55.100 which it turns

00:12:55.960 out is in

00:12:56.580 all kinds

00:12:57.200 of products

00:12:57.820 and in your

00:12:58.620 environment

00:12:59.060 all over the

00:12:59.720 place,

00:13:00.880 is an

00:13:02.600 unreasonable

00:13:03.700 risk to human

00:13:04.600 health and

00:13:05.360 should be

00:13:05.660 regulated.

00:13:07.180 So you're

00:13:07.900 basically surrounded

00:13:09.000 by this thing

00:13:11.340 that the

00:13:11.820 administration

00:13:12.320 just told you

00:13:13.160 is deadly,

00:13:14.060 and it's

00:13:15.140 everywhere,

00:13:15.660 and you're

00:13:15.800 not going

00:13:16.080 to get rid

00:13:16.440 of it.

00:13:16.860 But I wonder

00:13:18.140 if there is

00:13:18.680 a counter

00:13:19.220 argument.

00:13:20.800 Yes.

00:13:21.440 Turns out

00:13:21.980 the American

00:13:22.560 Chemistry Council,

00:13:24.560 and they're,

00:13:25.340 of course,

00:13:25.540 a lobbying

00:13:26.000 group for

00:13:27.180 the chemical

00:13:27.700 industry,

00:13:28.880 stressed the

00:13:29.700 importance of

00:13:30.320 formaldehyde

00:13:31.060 and said

00:13:31.420 that the

00:13:32.400 determination

00:13:32.900 that it

00:13:33.540 was unreasonably

00:13:35.000 risky was

00:13:36.500 based on,

00:13:37.220 quote,

00:13:37.500 a flawed

00:13:38.120 assessment.

00:13:39.640 So here's

00:13:40.500 your choice.

00:13:41.700 I want to

00:13:42.440 see which

00:13:43.860 way you

00:13:44.380 think the

00:13:44.960 credibility

00:13:45.400 is.

00:13:45.940 So on

00:13:47.020 one hand,

00:13:47.680 you've got

00:13:48.240 the government,

00:13:49.280 the Biden

00:13:49.660 administration.

00:13:51.120 So they've

00:13:51.940 got a

00:13:52.220 scientific

00:13:52.600 take.

00:13:53.540 On the

00:13:53.980 other hand,

00:13:54.980 you've got

00:13:55.460 the scientists

00:13:56.680 who are

00:13:57.160 really lobbyists

00:13:58.140 for the

00:13:59.160 industry.

00:14:00.220 Which one

00:14:00.800 of those

00:14:01.080 do you

00:14:01.360 trust?

00:14:02.100 Your

00:14:02.340 government

00:14:02.800 to get

00:14:03.400 the science

00:14:03.920 right?

00:14:05.360 When was

00:14:05.960 the last

00:14:06.240 time they

00:14:06.580 did that?

00:14:07.760 Versus a

00:14:08.460 lobbying

00:14:08.780 group whose

00:14:10.180 job really

00:14:11.100 is to lie

00:14:11.680 to you,

00:14:12.220 for all

00:14:13.180 practical

00:14:13.620 purposes.

00:14:14.100 That's

00:14:14.560 how it

00:14:15.000 works

00:14:15.220 out.

00:14:19.880 So if

00:14:20.700 I told

00:14:21.100 you,

00:14:21.880 hey,

00:14:22.900 trust the

00:14:23.520 science,

00:14:24.480 do you

00:14:25.160 have any

00:14:25.520 access to

00:14:26.100 the science?

00:14:27.200 No, you

00:14:27.540 don't.

00:14:28.220 You would

00:14:28.780 have to

00:14:29.100 trust either

00:14:29.680 your government

00:14:30.340 or a

00:14:31.680 lobbyist

00:14:32.200 group.

00:14:33.400 That's all

00:14:34.040 you have.

00:14:35.280 So they're

00:14:35.800 telling us

00:14:36.260 that you're

00:14:36.600 going to 0.92

00:14:36.820 die if 1.00

00:14:38.620 you get 0.99

00:14:38.840 too close

00:14:39.300 to this

00:14:39.560 stuff,

00:14:40.440 but you

00:14:40.920 have only

00:14:41.340 an uncredible

00:14:42.160 source

00:14:42.500 telling you

00:14:43.020 and that

00:14:43.900 it's being

00:14:44.260 imposed by

00:14:44.980 another

00:14:45.440 non-credible

00:14:46.180 source.

00:14:47.360 And that's

00:14:47.640 what we

00:14:47.900 call science.

00:14:49.240 And when 1.00

00:14:49.500 the idiots 1.00

00:14:50.060 who tell 1.00

00:14:50.460 me you

00:14:50.780 should

00:14:50.940 trust the

00:14:51.440 science

00:14:51.740 and believe

00:14:52.160 the science

00:14:52.660 and don't

00:14:53.000 be a

00:14:53.240 science

00:14:53.520 denier,

00:14:54.600 these are

00:14:55.120 people who

00:14:55.600 are seriously

00:14:56.380 inexperienced.

00:14:59.620 I feel

00:15:00.340 like everybody

00:15:00.900 who has

00:15:01.300 real-world

00:15:02.200 experience and

00:15:03.180 has paid

00:15:03.620 attention,

00:15:04.760 they don't

00:15:05.240 trust the

00:15:05.720 science so

00:15:06.240 quickly.

00:15:07.340 You know

00:15:07.640 what I

00:15:07.840 mean?

00:15:08.020 By the

00:15:10.260 way,

00:15:10.980 well,

00:15:12.020 I can't

00:15:12.460 tell you

00:15:12.740 yet,

00:15:13.080 but there's

00:15:13.820 some science

00:15:14.400 that is

00:15:16.400 really bad

00:15:17.060 that I've

00:15:18.780 had a

00:15:19.280 preview to.

00:15:20.060 I don't

00:15:20.260 know if I

00:15:20.620 could ever

00:15:20.880 go public

00:15:21.340 with it,

00:15:21.760 but oh

00:15:22.320 my God.

00:15:26.320 So Biden

00:15:27.440 is going

00:15:28.060 to award

00:15:28.760 the Presidential

00:15:29.440 Medal of

00:15:30.180 Freedom,

00:15:31.140 one of the

00:15:31.620 country's

00:15:32.160 greatest

00:15:32.980 honors,

00:15:34.820 on a

00:15:35.660 number of

00:15:36.020 people,

00:15:36.520 but it

00:15:36.780 includes George

00:15:37.580 Soros and

00:15:38.360 Hillary Clinton.

00:15:41.660 And you

00:15:42.400 might be

00:15:42.820 saying,

00:15:43.880 wait,

00:15:44.060 what?

00:15:44.260 I probably

00:15:44.800 heard that

00:15:45.280 wrong.

00:15:46.160 It couldn't

00:15:46.660 possibly be

00:15:47.480 true that

00:15:49.080 Biden is

00:15:49.560 giving our

00:15:50.200 highest Medal

00:15:51.200 of Freedom

00:15:51.660 to Soros,

00:15:53.780 who has done

00:15:54.320 the most to

00:15:55.020 destroy the

00:15:55.660 country and

00:15:57.060 is the most

00:15:57.700 closely associated

00:15:58.820 with evil

00:15:59.600 incarnate.

00:16:01.940 He's getting

00:16:02.760 an award,

00:16:03.840 the highest

00:16:04.520 award.

00:16:05.980 Meanwhile,

00:16:06.540 Hillary Clinton

00:16:08.020 is also

00:16:09.560 getting the

00:16:11.020 award.

00:16:11.560 What do

00:16:12.160 Hillary Clinton

00:16:13.060 and George

00:16:14.500 Soros have 1.00

00:16:15.300 in common?

00:16:17.000 Commonality.

00:16:17.820 Oh,

00:16:18.680 Huma

00:16:18.940 Abedin.

00:16:20.320 So she

00:16:21.240 was long-time

00:16:22.520 confidant and

00:16:23.580 assistant to

00:16:24.380 Hillary Clinton

00:16:25.000 and now is

00:16:25.640 married to

00:16:26.160 George Soros'

00:16:27.040 son, Alex,

00:16:29.140 who's taking

00:16:29.520 over the

00:16:29.880 business.

00:16:30.980 Huh.

00:16:31.140 seems to

00:16:32.800 me that

00:16:33.300 wherever

00:16:33.760 Huma

00:16:35.080 Abedin is,

00:16:36.460 is the

00:16:36.880 real power,

00:16:38.220 doesn't it?

00:16:39.320 She seems,

00:16:40.060 she's like a

00:16:41.000 moth to the

00:16:42.680 flame.

00:16:43.840 So where she

00:16:44.620 goes tells you

00:16:45.660 where the real

00:16:46.220 power is.

00:16:47.980 What do you

00:16:48.820 make of the

00:16:49.220 fact that

00:16:49.960 Biden is doing

00:16:50.600 something that's

00:16:51.420 so remarkably

00:16:52.620 obscene in

00:16:54.720 giving these

00:16:55.320 two characters

00:16:56.040 the highest

00:16:56.680 award in the

00:16:58.260 country?

00:16:58.840 Here's what I

00:16:59.640 think is

00:17:00.020 happening.

00:17:01.300 This is a

00:17:02.140 flex.

00:17:03.820 This is how

00:17:04.580 George Soros

00:17:05.620 and Alex Soros

00:17:06.760 tell you that

00:17:08.160 they're still in

00:17:08.840 control.

00:17:09.740 Because if you

00:17:10.520 can make Biden

00:17:11.480 do this,

00:17:13.120 you are always

00:17:14.140 in control.

00:17:16.340 This is basically

00:17:17.360 telling the

00:17:18.000 Democrats,

00:17:18.620 hey,

00:17:20.120 these are the

00:17:20.940 ones that are

00:17:21.260 in control.

00:17:22.560 That's what I

00:17:23.320 see.

00:17:24.160 I'm surprised

00:17:24.640 they didn't

00:17:24.980 throw Obama in

00:17:25.740 there.

00:17:26.240 But I do

00:17:26.640 wonder what's

00:17:27.220 the dynamic

00:17:28.000 between the

00:17:28.520 Clinton

00:17:29.860 power

00:17:30.480 island

00:17:33.300 versus the 0.55

00:17:35.480 Obama power

00:17:36.360 island.

00:17:37.280 Because I

00:17:37.840 don't think

00:17:38.280 the Democrats

00:17:38.800 have one

00:17:39.980 leader who's

00:17:40.700 pulling all

00:17:41.240 the strings.

00:17:42.760 I think they

00:17:43.300 probably have a

00:17:43.960 Game of Thrones

00:17:44.780 kind of few

00:17:45.700 power sources

00:17:46.500 vying for

00:17:47.640 dominance.

00:17:48.560 But it seems

00:17:49.300 to me that

00:17:49.880 Obama has been

00:17:50.860 taken completely

00:17:51.700 off the field

00:17:52.500 because, I

00:17:54.440 mean, he just

00:17:54.820 did such a bad

00:17:55.580 job promoting

00:17:56.700 Biden and he's

00:17:57.620 the one who

00:17:57.940 picked Biden

00:17:58.580 and seems

00:17:59.580 to have been

00:18:00.040 behind the

00:18:00.780 Russia collusion

00:18:02.860 hoax.

00:18:03.720 And he didn't

00:18:06.120 have a good

00:18:06.540 year.

00:18:07.460 Obama didn't.

00:18:08.580 So I suspect

00:18:09.340 that the Soros-Hillary

00:18:11.840 thing probably

00:18:12.500 came from

00:18:13.280 Soros and or 0.76

00:18:14.680 Hillary,

00:18:15.280 and that his

00:18:16.380 real purpose is

00:18:17.260 to establish

00:18:17.840 them as

00:18:18.400 legitimate

00:18:19.060 rulers of the

00:18:21.580 party, albeit

00:18:22.500 behind the

00:18:23.100 scenes.

00:18:23.360 So that's a

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00:19:38.460 Meanwhile, Greenland

00:19:39.820 throws us a curve.

00:19:41.620 You know, Trump

00:19:42.380 wanted to maybe take

00:19:44.260 control or buy

00:19:45.180 Greenland, and the

00:19:47.900 Danes who own it, 1.00

00:19:49.460 Denmark controls

00:19:50.560 Greenland, and the

00:19:52.700 Danes said, no way,

00:19:54.540 no way are we going

00:19:55.460 to sell you Greenland.

00:19:56.800 It's valuable, and we're

00:19:57.900 going to keep it.

00:19:59.240 And now Greenland

00:20:00.200 itself says, you know

00:20:02.200 what?

00:20:03.140 We don't like being

00:20:04.020 owned by this

00:20:04.840 colonizing Denmark.

00:20:06.660 We should be an

00:20:07.700 independent country.

00:20:10.000 Now, here are some

00:20:10.880 things you need to know

00:20:11.680 about Greenland.

00:20:13.360 First of all, you

00:20:14.400 probably know that it's

00:20:15.500 strategically vital in a

00:20:18.720 way that it didn't use

00:20:19.560 to be, because as the

00:20:21.200 ice melts in the

00:20:23.220 Arctic, it's going to be a

00:20:25.940 fight for dominance among

00:20:27.080 the superpowers, and

00:20:28.780 Greenland is sort of right

00:20:30.100 there on the, you know,

00:20:31.600 right in the mix.

00:20:32.900 So whoever controls the

00:20:34.360 landmass of Greenland is

00:20:36.120 going to be in a much

00:20:37.220 more dominant position to,

00:20:39.100 you know, control the

00:20:40.660 north, what's north of the

00:20:42.220 northern hemisphere.

00:20:43.360 I guess that's still the

00:20:44.460 northern hemisphere.

00:20:45.800 But what happens when you

00:20:46.680 get to the top of the

00:20:47.460 planet?

00:20:47.840 That's nobody's hemisphere.

00:20:49.820 All right.

00:20:50.740 So there are 56,000

00:20:53.660 residents of Greenland,

00:20:55.480 approximately.

00:20:57.720 The whole country.

00:20:58.760 The entire country, 56,000.

00:21:03.140 For context, the small

00:21:05.640 town that I live in has

00:21:07.240 75,000 people.

00:21:11.780 75,000 people.

00:21:13.260 That's my town.

00:21:15.040 And I don't live in a

00:21:15.940 city.

00:21:17.020 I mean, it's maybe a small

00:21:18.140 city, but it's more like a

00:21:19.460 town.

00:21:20.800 There's one little main

00:21:21.980 street, the whole town.

00:21:24.340 And we're much bigger than

00:21:26.460 all of Greenland.

00:21:27.440 Greenland has a GDP that's

00:21:30.060 fairly hard to measure for

00:21:31.520 some reason, but probably

00:21:32.940 between three and four

00:21:34.080 billion dollars a year.

00:21:35.720 So it's not a big place.

00:21:38.280 And my question would be,

00:21:39.960 how in the world could

00:21:40.820 Greenland, as an independent

00:21:43.060 country, protect itself?

00:21:45.040 And a bigger question would be,

00:21:49.180 how could Denmark ever protect

00:21:51.280 Greenland?

00:21:52.360 Of course, they couldn't.

00:21:53.520 Not even close.

00:21:55.400 The only country that could

00:21:57.280 protect Greenland, you know,

00:21:59.480 properly, would be the United

00:22:01.080 States.

00:22:01.920 But they're not asking for that.

00:22:04.140 You know, they would, of course,

00:22:05.260 if they were independent, they

00:22:06.340 would make their own

00:22:07.060 treaties and stuff.

00:22:08.780 Maybe they could work out some

00:22:09.780 kind of deal.

00:22:11.260 But here's what I think.

00:22:14.040 It seems to me that if I were in

00:22:16.100 the CIA and my job was to secure

00:22:19.920 America using, you know, every 0.81

00:22:21.540 little clever trick I could, the

00:22:23.960 first thing I would do is convince

00:22:26.480 Greenland that they really need to

00:22:27.920 be independent.

00:22:29.240 So first, you've got to get them

00:22:30.620 away from Denmark.

00:22:31.900 Why?

00:22:32.920 Because I'm guessing, this is just

00:22:34.780 speculation, but I'm guessing that

00:22:36.660 the CIA would not want to use dirty

00:22:38.580 tricks against, you know, a

00:22:41.300 European, you know, ally.

00:22:44.380 You know, it's not something we

00:22:45.620 would do to Great Britain.

00:22:46.900 It's not something we would do to

00:22:48.100 France.

00:22:49.700 It's not something we'd do to

00:22:51.000 Denmark, I think.

00:22:52.700 I mean, it's not like all the

00:22:54.420 countries are not spying and

00:22:56.520 messing with each other a little

00:22:57.600 bit.

00:22:58.320 But I don't think the United

00:22:59.680 States would try to steal a land

00:23:02.140 mass from Denmark.

00:23:04.800 Like, you know, they're allies.

00:23:06.300 I don't see how that could

00:23:07.520 possibly happen.

00:23:09.020 But the moment this little

00:23:11.460 56,000 people, giant country

00:23:16.000 becomes independent, they're going

00:23:19.000 to be helpless and completely

00:23:21.920 vulnerable to CIA bribery,

00:23:25.160 blackmail, complete puppet control,

00:23:27.900 which is what we want.

00:23:30.040 We might not want to own the

00:23:31.520 country so much as have functional

00:23:33.820 control over it and put our military

00:23:35.580 that bases there and maybe get some

00:23:38.540 approval for mining of, I guess I

00:23:40.800 have a lot of rare earth minerals.

00:23:43.360 So there is a way to make a deal

00:23:46.680 where they're independent, but not

00:23:49.580 really.

00:23:51.020 You know, 56,000 people population

00:23:53.480 could not stand up to the, you know,

00:23:56.780 the power of our intelligence people if

00:23:59.180 we wanted to have control of it.

00:24:00.560 So that's what I think is happening.

00:24:05.080 I think Greenland might be getting a

00:24:06.840 little boost to say, why don't you make

00:24:09.920 us independent?

00:24:11.220 And then Denmark is going to say,

00:24:12.940 because we own you.

00:24:15.520 Then Greenland will say, why do you own 0.77

00:24:17.320 us?

00:24:18.180 You're on the other side of the world.

00:24:20.620 What rule says you should be ruling over

00:24:22.980 us?

00:24:23.860 You're colonizers.

00:24:24.700 So Denmark is going to have a hard time

00:24:27.160 explaining it.

00:24:28.340 And apparently they also subsidize

00:24:30.540 Greenland.

00:24:31.980 So if you're a, if you're a voter in

00:24:34.540 Denmark, how much do you care that

00:24:36.940 you're paying Greenland to exist?

00:24:40.440 Like what?

00:24:42.220 And Greenland might drag you into a war, 0.95

00:24:45.480 might drag you into a war in the

00:24:48.980 Arctic.

00:24:49.980 How much do the Danes want that?

00:24:51.840 They get no economic benefit because

00:24:54.960 they're subsidizing.

00:24:56.020 I think that's true.

00:24:56.980 I'd need a fact check on that.

00:24:58.360 I don't think they have economic

00:24:59.560 benefit.

00:25:01.240 I think it's just a cost and nothing.

00:25:04.280 There's nothing to gain from.

00:25:05.380 It's just, it is literally just

00:25:07.540 prestige, maybe because it's something

00:25:10.540 they own.

00:25:11.860 But now the prestige will turn into you

00:25:14.220 evil colonizers.

00:25:15.540 You're preventing us from pursuing our

00:25:18.040 destiny as a Greenlander.

00:25:19.880 So it's an interesting, interesting

00:25:24.440 thing.

00:25:25.020 I just wonder if we're involved in this

00:25:27.220 or it's happening organically.

00:25:28.860 If we're not involved in trying to make

00:25:31.320 it happen, I'd be disappointed and

00:25:33.260 surprised.

00:25:34.540 Meanwhile, Justice Juan Mershon, he's the

00:25:38.920 judge who is presiding over the case of

00:25:42.300 Trump getting those loans and misrepresenting

00:25:46.340 the value of his properties, said the

00:25:49.500 courts.

00:25:50.740 Now, what we know is that that case never

00:25:55.600 would have come to fruition if it had been

00:25:59.320 anybody but Trump.

00:26:00.480 We know there's no victim.

00:26:02.180 We know the bank said, no, we always check

00:26:04.620 the values ourselves.

00:26:05.700 It doesn't matter what he said.

00:26:07.180 It's routine that we check the value

00:26:08.980 ourselves.

00:26:09.760 And they did.

00:26:10.620 And they made a nice loan.

00:26:12.080 They got their money back.

00:26:13.340 No victims.

00:26:14.800 And it wasn't even outside the realm of

00:26:17.060 ordinary business.

00:26:18.460 Was it technically illegal?

00:26:20.280 Well, that's what the jury found in the

00:26:23.000 most biased place on earth.

00:26:24.800 The jury found that.

00:26:26.520 So here's what's happening.

00:26:29.900 I was watching CNN yesterday.

00:26:31.740 And so it looks like the bad guys, the

00:26:34.700 Democrats, are going to use this to paint

00:26:38.080 Trump as a felon who shouldn't be in

00:26:40.420 office, even though he is. 0.60

00:26:43.580 And what they're doing, you have to be

00:26:46.200 alerted to it, is they're making you think

00:26:48.280 past the sale, which is persuasion.

00:26:51.380 And in this case, propaganda.

00:26:53.740 What is the sale?

00:26:55.040 The sale is not whether he was found

00:26:56.860 guilty or not.

00:26:59.080 Because that's just something everybody

00:27:00.840 agrees with, that factually the court

00:27:03.100 found him guilty.

00:27:04.620 But they're going past the sale that there

00:27:06.980 should not have been any court case at

00:27:08.900 all. When the jury gets it, the jury is

00:27:13.340 just deciding facts based on the structure

00:27:16.640 that the court gave to them.

00:27:18.220 They said, here's what the guidelines

00:27:21.400 are.

00:27:22.460 Now you have to decide if this guideline,

00:27:25.780 in other words, if a crime has been

00:27:28.580 committed based on the guidelines we've

00:27:31.460 given you and the facts we've presented

00:27:33.220 you. So the CNN folks are trying to make

00:27:40.180 you think that he must be guilty of

00:27:42.940 felonies because the court found him so.

00:27:46.020 Technically that's true, but they're

00:27:48.060 making you think past the part which was

00:27:49.980 complete evil lawfare and should never

00:27:52.620 have happened.

00:27:53.420 And everybody agrees it shouldn't have

00:27:54.920 happened really, except the most partisan.

00:27:58.440 So be aware of that.

00:28:00.060 Don't let them make you think past the

00:28:01.680 sale.

00:28:05.340 So Trump humorously announced the

00:28:07.860 appointment of Morgan Ortega as a deputy

00:28:11.400 special presidential envoy.

00:28:13.280 And in his announcement, he made it clear

00:28:17.200 that, quote, early on Morgan fought me for

00:28:20.880 three years, but hopefully has learned her

00:28:23.180 lesson.

00:28:24.800 So I wasn't aware of this, but I guess

00:28:26.700 Morgan Ortega at one point was an anti-Trumper.

00:28:29.980 But because other people told Trump that she

00:28:35.480 was the right one for this job, and she has

00:28:37.740 since, of course, become pro-Trump, that

00:28:40.880 other people said she should be in the job,

00:28:43.880 Trump says directly, basically it's not his

00:28:47.880 choice, but he's going to let other people's

00:28:50.600 opinion on this rule, and so he's going to

00:28:53.160 go ahead and do it.

00:28:54.380 Now, the fact that he said completely

00:28:57.780 honestly, it looks to me, at least

00:29:00.060 transparently, he said that he's just not

00:29:03.140 crazy about her, but he thinks under the

00:29:05.400 circumstances worth a try.

00:29:08.680 I love that.

00:29:11.180 I love that.

00:29:13.040 And it is so sticky and persuasive.

00:29:16.020 Because if you hear him talk like that, and you

00:29:19.420 know he didn't care what anybody thought about

00:29:21.400 it, he just said, well, this is what I think.

00:29:24.660 This is what I thought of her before.

00:29:26.560 This is what I think of her now.

00:29:28.400 And here's why I'm going to do something that

00:29:29.880 doesn't make sense to you, because other

00:29:31.480 people have a different opinion.

00:29:33.480 And I'm going to let them play that out.

00:29:37.980 Everything about that I love.

00:29:40.120 Now, it must have been a bad day for

00:29:42.180 Morgan Ortega, because she had...

00:29:45.400 She, unlike other people who have been

00:29:47.920 nominated, she did not repost the truth

00:29:51.800 social endorsement from Trump.

00:29:55.440 She just wrote her own.

00:29:58.140 So that's got to be kind of embarrassing and

00:30:01.120 humiliating.

00:30:02.020 But Trump has always done this, the persuasion

00:30:05.540 play, where he makes sure that if you're

00:30:08.560 against him, you pay a price.

00:30:10.460 And he makes sure that if you're with him,

00:30:12.620 you get, like, more benefits than you were

00:30:14.700 expecting.

00:30:15.800 So I've often told you that's the pinnacle

00:30:18.860 of good persuasion, is that everybody knows

00:30:21.860 there's a really big difference between

00:30:24.420 making you happy and making you not happy.

00:30:27.280 Oh, if you make me not happy, I'm going to

00:30:28.860 make you twice as unhappy.

00:30:30.340 If you make me happy, you might get a great

00:30:32.760 job, I might sing your praise, I might

00:30:34.800 retweet you, something like that.

00:30:37.040 So he's really good at that, making sure

00:30:38.680 there's a giant difference.

00:30:40.040 And this was more of that.

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00:30:56.740 Well, you may have been following the drama that I stirred up

00:31:03.060 yesterday on social media, on X, because I noticed that Amazon

00:31:08.640 had many of my calendars for 2025 listed, except that I'm not

00:31:14.240 selling a calendar on Amazon.

00:31:16.080 They were all counterfeits.

00:31:18.000 All of them.

00:31:18.940 And there were several.

00:31:21.120 Now, if you look, you'll see that they've been removed, because I

00:31:25.320 made a very big deal about it yesterday, and it got a lot of

00:31:28.840 attention.

00:31:30.080 And I was talking to their support, trying to get me to their legal

00:31:37.360 team, so I could talk about it as a legal problem.

00:31:40.680 But the more I thought about it, I was like, well, yeah, at first I

00:31:43.420 thought, well, this is just sort of a ordinary business problem.

00:31:48.280 I just have to be faster in reporting things.

00:31:51.520 But their system is such that you can report all day long, but the

00:31:55.860 time it takes for them to react, and sometimes they'll even require

00:31:59.700 you to buy the product, if it's a book.

00:32:03.300 If it's a book, you have to buy the product and then prove that the

00:32:07.020 insides of the book match the insides of your book.

00:32:10.640 That's their system.

00:32:12.540 And their new one's coming on faster than you can do that, because it

00:32:16.100 might take two weeks to get that done.

00:32:18.880 So there are some people who think that process works.

00:32:22.340 I think 100% of the people who wrote to me and said they tried it

00:32:26.040 confirmed it doesn't work.

00:32:28.520 And apparently, if you try to fix this, no matter what kind of a

00:32:31.860 seller you are, whether you're selling goods or books, well, anything

00:32:37.040 that's not a book, apparently you hit glitches and problems and push

00:32:41.720 back, and eventually you get put out of business.

00:32:44.320 So the real model of Amazon, for practical purposes, is that it's a way to

00:32:51.020 steal the good work of American businesses, small businesses, and hand it off to 0.75

00:32:57.000 China. 0.95

00:32:57.240 So Amazon has become a weapon of mass destruction that China can use to suck all the vitality 1.00

00:33:04.480 and innovation out of our economy at the small business level, which would be enough to destroy

00:33:10.400 it.

00:33:10.660 Now, if they're doing that, that's not just a legal IP question.

00:33:18.480 If it's massive, it's a homeland security problem.

00:33:24.600 Would we ever agree to a situation in which the entire business model of Amazon is to

00:33:31.580 effectively hand over the IP to a Chinese company that will make your product and while

00:33:37.040 you watch it, and there's nothing you can do about it?

00:33:39.000 So a number of people wrote to me and said, you know, we tried making a business online.

00:33:45.380 China stole all of our property, knocked it off immediately. 0.82

00:33:48.420 We couldn't get Amazon to take them down, even though we tried.

00:33:52.680 Sure, there's a system.

00:33:54.100 It just doesn't work.

00:33:57.180 So then I thought to myself, I wonder if I'm sort of imagining that Amazon could do more,

00:34:04.420 but they're intentionally not.

00:34:05.880 And I heard from an insider.

00:34:09.800 So this is Mark Atwood on X.

00:34:12.120 This is public.

00:34:13.240 So he said this on X.

00:34:14.800 He said, here's some insight from a former Amazonian.

00:34:18.440 Roughly every three years, this gets into the press and then retail, I guess the part

00:34:23.300 of Amazon that does retail stuff, put together a program.

00:34:26.460 They put together a program and a team to fix it.

00:34:29.260 And they start fixing it right up until it starts reducing revenue and, quote, diversity

00:34:35.280 of suppliers.

00:34:36.620 And then it's yanked up short.

00:34:38.760 And then the program is starved until it rots away because it doesn't actually generate

00:34:43.400 revenue.

00:34:44.420 And there it sits until it shows up in the news again.

00:34:47.580 I watched it happen twice and found the remains of at least two previous cycles.

00:34:52.100 Does that sound like it's accidental?

00:34:58.360 No.

00:34:59.360 So there's an insider telling you that they intentionally starve the process because they

00:35:04.440 make more money if they let it go.

00:35:06.540 And it's really that simple.

00:35:07.920 So they're allowing the complete rape of American businesses, just wild, wildly inappropriate

00:35:16.520 theft.

00:35:17.520 And they're the primary movers of it.

00:35:20.560 Let me ask you this question.

00:35:22.180 We've all heard that China massively steals the intellectual property of companies that

00:35:27.640 operate in China.

00:35:28.800 We're all aware of that, right?

00:35:30.640 It's a well-known phenomenon.

00:35:32.240 Who do you think has stolen more intellectual property, Amazon or China?

00:35:38.960 Because Amazon probably has essentially given China more opportunity to steal things than 0.98

00:35:46.340 all of the companies that are just doing business in China itself.

00:35:50.260 So I did ask, I sent a DM to Senator Hawley to ask if he can bring Bezos in and ask him what

00:36:01.780 he's going to do about the fact that he's the primary agent for the destruction of the

00:36:06.020 American economy.

00:36:07.940 Because he is.

00:36:09.560 And I don't think that Bezos is a bad guy.

00:36:13.400 I think he wants what's best for America.

00:36:15.540 He might not be completely filled in on how bad it is.

00:36:19.740 He might have been told that they have a process, so it's fine.

00:36:23.360 Oh, don't worry, Jeff.

00:36:25.160 We have a process.

00:36:26.260 They can just report it and then we take it down.

00:36:28.780 But do they tell him that that process doesn't work for anybody?

00:36:32.280 Do you think he knows that?

00:36:34.160 Well, he probably knows it now because I made such a big stink about it.

00:36:37.680 Millions of people viewed it.

00:36:39.800 I think I got 3 million views on one of them.

00:36:43.320 One of the views came from Thomas Massey, who weighed in on this and said, quote,

00:36:47.760 U.S. inventors get ripped off on Amazon, too.

00:36:51.780 Oh, it's worse than I thought.

00:36:53.640 Amazon makes money on the fakes and knockoffs, so they have no incentive to fix it.

00:36:57.960 Yeah, that tracks.

00:36:59.380 That tracks.

00:37:00.680 It's clear to me they should be legally liable for the fraud they help perpetuate on the public,

00:37:06.840 the authors and the inventors.

00:37:08.400 Right.

00:37:10.920 However, Thomas Massey, this is not just a fraud case.

00:37:17.560 This is a homeland security issue.

00:37:20.620 We're literally, we've created a pipeline to export our entire small business economy

00:37:27.220 that sells things through the mail to China.

00:37:30.460 So, yes, I'm very happy that he weighed in and he's right on top of it, but I'd love to

00:37:37.380 get it out of the frame that it's a fraud problem.

00:37:40.260 It is a fraud problem.

00:37:41.880 It is a fraud problem.

00:37:42.780 But that's not the thing I need fixed.

00:37:45.100 What I need fixed is stop throwing away the country.

00:37:49.560 Stop transferring the intellectual weight of America to China.

00:37:55.620 That's what I need to stop.

00:37:57.440 Anyway, Mark Cuban weighed in productively and he had a fairly long list of suggested fixes.

00:38:05.780 I won't go into those because I don't know enough to know if they're exactly on point,

00:38:10.940 but they look it.

00:38:11.880 They look it.

00:38:12.840 So, here's one of those cases where I always talk about the internet dads.

00:38:19.880 When the election was on, of course, people took sides and Mark Cuban was on a side that

00:38:25.800 many of you were not on.

00:38:27.440 So, we didn't like that part.

00:38:29.120 But we also understand politics is politics.

00:38:31.540 That's not the real world.

00:38:33.100 When it comes to the real world, yes, you want to Mark Cuban to say, how do you fix this

00:38:38.840 thing?

00:38:39.600 And to also observe that it needs fixing and to get the conversation going at a higher

00:38:45.580 level.

00:38:45.900 So, thank you, Mark Cuban, for a very productive contribution to the conversation.

00:38:52.780 Now, one of the things I wondered about is why can't they fix it by just making the legitimate

00:39:00.620 seller have the authority to take down the fakes?

00:39:04.240 If I take down a real one and the real one complains and Amazon says, wait a minute, this was real.

00:39:12.160 You took down a real one.

00:39:13.120 It's just your competitor.

00:39:14.460 Well, then I should be removed from the system forever, right?

00:39:17.500 I should never be allowed to sell on Amazon if even once I report my competitor when, in

00:39:24.380 fact, the competitor is doing nothing wrong.

00:39:27.120 So, I would put the ability to take down a copyright or just other violation, I would put

00:39:37.000 that on the vendor.

00:39:38.400 And then you could say, you know, all Amazon is doing is following instructions.

00:39:45.280 They're not part of the wholesale destruction of America.

00:39:48.380 Now, there are a number of other things that Mark suggested.

00:39:50.960 They're all worth seeing if you want to check it out on X.

00:39:54.800 Here's an update on the terrorists.

00:39:57.140 Boy, did this get, I don't want to say fun, because these are horrible events and people

00:40:03.420 lost their lives.

00:40:04.260 But, well, you'll see.

00:40:10.060 You'll see.

00:40:12.700 Here's what we know.

00:40:14.480 So, as of today, and I'm going to tell you what, you know, the official story is, I'm still

00:40:21.560 open to every other theory of what's really happening.

00:40:26.220 So, if you think, you know, the FBI is really behind it or, you know, whatever it is you think,

00:40:31.940 I'm okay with that.

00:40:32.740 I'm not going to rule it out.

00:40:35.360 But I do think the official story, to me, is sounding like it all works.

00:40:42.220 To me, there's nothing missing in the official story so far that tells me, oh, this is an

00:40:48.780 outside plot.

00:40:49.960 But let's talk about those things, see if you disagree.

00:40:54.540 So, some of the things we know is that Christopher Wray, head of the FBI, he warned us months ago

00:40:59.860 that there would be lone wolves inspired by ISIS.

00:41:02.540 And it turns out that as far as the FBI can tell, the New Orleans guy was a lone wolf,

00:41:11.080 and there's no indication yet that he was somewhat, you know, directly an ISIS fighter or something.

00:41:17.740 He just seems inspired by.

00:41:19.260 Now, and so, so far there's no real mystery there.

00:41:25.260 Wray told us it would happen.

00:41:27.220 It looks like it happened.

00:41:28.740 It's exactly like he called it.

00:41:30.540 It's inspired by, not planned by.

00:41:32.900 But there are coincidences, such as they seem to have spent time at the same base, army

00:41:41.920 base, but they weren't there at the same time.

00:41:45.600 And it's such a big army base that something like one third of all soldiers go through it.

00:41:50.820 So, there really is no coincidence to the base thing.

00:41:55.740 It just means they were both in the military.

00:41:57.680 Now, is somebody who is in the military more likely to stage a violent attack?

00:42:04.360 I would think so.

00:42:06.060 If you've ever been involved in violently attacking people, I feel like it would be an easier transition

00:42:12.100 to violently attack some more people, if that's what your philosophy said you should do.

00:42:18.420 So, I don't think it's a big coincidence they're both military.

00:42:21.760 So was Timothy McVeigh.

00:42:24.240 I don't think it's a coincidence they were at the same base.

00:42:26.740 And I also don't think it was a coincidence that it happened on the same day, because

00:42:31.380 if you did a survey and you said, all right, if you were a terrorist and you were looking

00:42:37.240 for a big crowd to take out and you wanted to get a lot of attention where everybody's

00:42:41.080 paying attention, what day of the year would you pick?

00:42:45.380 I think you'd find, I don't know, 40% of the people who answered the question would say,

00:42:50.620 well, the cameras are rolling and everybody's watching on New Year's Eve and, you know, that's

00:42:56.700 the first day of 2025 and we plan to kick things up in 2025.

00:43:02.500 So, the one guaranteed time that it's going to work is the first day.

00:43:07.120 And I will go further and say, if you had planned a 2025 attack or maybe you were just trying

00:43:14.180 to avoid Christmas, it could be that they both would have done it whenever they were

00:43:18.040 ready, but they didn't want to ruin Christmas because literally they, I think they both had

00:43:22.500 families.

00:43:23.420 They didn't want to ruin Christmas.

00:43:25.240 So, there's nothing really too coincidental about January 1st.

00:43:29.820 If it had been a random day, like, you know, March 13th, a random day, well, that would

00:43:36.400 be a big coincidence.

00:43:37.180 But January 1st is probably the most likely place anybody would have picked if they had

00:43:42.380 bad intentions and wanted a big crowd and a lot of attention.

00:43:45.980 So, no real coincidence.

00:43:48.180 And also, the use of the same rental company, as Tyrus pointed out on The Five the other day

00:43:53.760 and I told you, I think I'm the first one to point it out.

00:43:58.680 You can fact check me on this, but I think I'm the first one in the country to say, that's

00:44:03.020 not a coincidence.

00:44:03.640 They're probably less monitored by authorities.

00:44:08.780 So, if you want to get a big truck and you're in the military and maybe you said some things

00:44:12.340 online about ISIS, probably if you go to Hertz or Avis, Homeland Security is already in the

00:44:19.820 back door and probably they hear about you and the truck immediately.

00:44:24.060 I'm guessing.

00:44:25.080 And by the way, I'd be disappointed if that's not true.

00:44:28.240 Can you imagine if the CIA doesn't have access to the rental companies so they can tell who's

00:44:33.420 getting the panel truck and also has some issues with their online accounts?

00:44:39.960 They better be looking for that.

00:44:42.840 If they're in all of our other stuff and we've lost our privacy, if they're not looking for

00:44:47.680 the rental companies as the first place to look for trouble, they're not doing their job.

00:44:53.240 They need to be looking at that.

00:44:54.720 So, I assume they are.

00:44:57.400 And I assume that if you planned something that required a truck, you would use an app

00:45:02.280 because it's less likely that anybody's in it.

00:45:05.480 And the automobiles, in this case, are private people's cars.

00:45:10.180 So, the app hooks you up with a private person who has a car that they want to rent.

00:45:14.540 And you just pick it up wherever you meet that private person.

00:45:17.560 So, none of those will strike me as coincidences.

00:45:25.440 Then, there's also the issue of...

00:45:28.780 Oh, okay. 0.96

00:45:30.920 So, in my view, the Las Vegas guy was a mental case. 0.89

00:45:38.000 But I know you're going to point out, but wait, Scott, he's a patsy.

00:45:41.920 You know, he's made to look like a mental case, but really, you know, he was set up.

00:45:45.820 Now, the evidence for him being set up, I haven't seen.

00:45:51.780 I haven't seen evidence he was set up.

00:45:53.700 Can't rule it out, right?

00:45:55.600 Can't rule it out.

00:45:56.780 But why would the CIA want to do the worst or somebody else?

00:46:02.320 Why would anybody want to do the most pathetic attack involving a cyber truck that's the wrong tool

00:46:09.960 and fireworks that are the wrong tool and it didn't hurt anybody? 0.74

00:46:15.240 And the Las Vegas Trump Tower is not even owned by Trump, as far as I know.

00:46:19.100 I think that's a licensed property.

00:46:21.560 I don't think Trump owns that.

00:46:24.020 By the way, I could take a fact check on that.

00:46:26.520 But I don't think he even owns the building.

00:46:28.700 I think that it's a licensed property, I think.

00:46:35.660 So here is the other things that are suspicious is that he loved Tesla and he loved Trump

00:46:43.640 because he loved the cyber truck.

00:46:45.460 He was bragging to his girlfriend about it.

00:46:47.440 Now, do people try to hook up with a girlfriend and call them and say the cyber truck is awesome

00:46:53.460 and say they're going to Mexico and then all of a sudden they kill themselves in Vegas?

00:47:00.040 Well, here's what I think.

00:47:02.700 I think he was heading to Vegas, not Mexico.

00:47:07.420 At the very least, he was going through Vegas to get to Mexico 0.76

00:47:10.180 because he stopped accidentally, it looks like, at a place called Las Vegas, New Mexico.

00:47:15.800 Like he just told his truck to drive there and then he didn't realize that he was on the wrong route.

00:47:21.860 And then he went to the real Las Vegas.

00:47:24.520 So there's two points that say he was really trying to go to Las Vegas

00:47:28.340 because he did it twice, once the wrong Las Vegas.

00:47:32.460 So he at least wanted to go to Las Vegas.

00:47:36.320 Anyway, so there's, and then allegedly used a 50 caliber gun to kill himself,

00:47:42.680 which left no dental records.

00:47:45.980 Is that what happened?

00:47:46.820 Did he shoot himself with such an aggressive weapon that his teeth were destroyed?

00:47:54.720 I just saw an indication of that, but that doesn't exactly make sense to me

00:47:58.760 because I thought the wound was on the top of his head.

00:48:02.820 I don't know.

00:48:04.020 So I don't understand the dental records part.

00:48:06.480 Maybe you can fill me in. 0.99

00:48:08.500 But if you were mentally ill and planning to kill yourself, 1.00

00:48:11.340 would you try to hook up with your ex before you died? 1.00

00:48:15.060 Because that's being treated as suspicious.

00:48:18.220 You know, if you're bent on dying, are you going to try to hook up with your ex?

00:48:22.500 Well, let me answer this as a male.

00:48:24.700 Yes.

00:48:25.760 Yes. 0.99

00:48:26.160 You would absolutely try to hook up with your ex before you died. 0.99

00:48:29.740 If you're healthy and you're male and you're horny, why wouldn't you? 0.96

00:48:35.700 So that's not weird. 0.97

00:48:37.860 That's what a mentally ill guy would do as long as you're also healthy.

00:48:41.340 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners,

00:48:45.940 I started wondering,

00:48:47.600 is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

00:48:50.540 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

00:48:53.400 Are those from Winners?

00:48:54.940 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings?

00:48:57.420 Did she pay full price?

00:48:58.760 Or that leather tote?

00:48:59.780 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:49:00.960 Or those knee-high boots?

00:49:02.440 That dress?

00:49:03.240 That jacket?

00:49:03.900 Those shoes?

00:49:04.920 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

00:49:07.860 Stop wondering.

00:49:09.140 Start winning.

00:49:09.700 Winners.

00:49:10.480 Find fabulous for less.

00:49:13.480 And he had the knowledge to create a better bomb,

00:49:16.520 but he just used fireworks and gasoline,

00:49:18.480 which doesn't look like a professional act.

00:49:21.340 However, a fellow named Sam Shoemate was on the Sean Ryan podcast.

00:49:27.400 And I think I got this right.

00:49:30.660 So Sam Shoemate runs an account where people give him tips on stuff,

00:49:38.020 a lot of military stuff, because his background is military.

00:49:40.500 And he was apparently contacted ahead of the event.

00:49:44.500 But he didn't know the event was coming.

00:49:49.520 And allegedly,

00:49:51.520 allegedly,

00:49:52.520 the Las Vegas slash terrorist wrote to him and told him that he was trying to get attention

00:50:03.900 for the fact that the drones over New Jersey are really exotic,

00:50:10.080 gravetic propulsion devices that only China and the United States have.

00:50:16.940 And China now has it. 0.73

00:50:19.000 And these super flying saucer drones are coming from offshore, from Chinese vessels.

00:50:25.620 And that's what's over New Jersey.

00:50:28.160 And they have unlimited power and they can destroy the entire East Coast or any part of it without

00:50:33.840 without being harmed because they're they're magical technology and that it's game over.

00:50:40.100 And China has complete control over destroying the country.

00:50:43.320 And he wanted to use fireworks so that it made a big show of things, but clearly he wasn't trying to destroy the building.

00:50:55.940 So does that make sense?

00:51:00.300 Does that sound real to you?

00:51:03.240 Well, I definitely don't believe there's any such thing as gravetic propulsion devices.

00:51:10.560 Somebody said,

00:51:11.500 are you kidding, Scott, here's a here's the patent.

00:51:16.240 So there's going on the Internet, there's a patent for the something like the gravetic gravetic propulsion device.

00:51:23.480 I don't believe that's a real patent.

00:51:26.260 You just have to look at it

00:51:28.460 and say, all right, if you know a little bit about patents,

00:51:32.460 you know that you're not going to get a patent unless it's either already built

00:51:37.380 and you could demonstrate that it works

00:51:39.660 or it's something that a person who is skilled in the field could build somewhat easily.

00:51:47.820 So you don't have to have a prototype

00:51:49.500 if what you're describing is something that anybody anybody could build if they were in that field.

00:51:55.400 I don't see a way you could get exotic propulsion device patented

00:52:04.060 unless you could show you can build it

00:52:06.800 or that somebody who knew this field could build it.

00:52:09.640 And there's nothing like that.

00:52:11.140 So no, I'm not going to do the research to find out that that's a fake patent page.

00:52:16.540 It's clearly fake.

00:52:19.560 And even if it did get patented, which I suppose is possible, it's not real.

00:52:25.100 Couldn't possibly be real.

00:52:27.520 So I'm not buying that.

00:52:31.600 Laura Loken was pointing out that the email is filled with media talking points

00:52:37.100 and smacks of a staged cover-up.

00:52:39.260 Well, that's true.

00:52:41.580 It did seem to be that he had a lot of Kraken-like talking points

00:52:46.400 so that we could get the public talking about

00:52:49.560 gravitic propulsion devices in China

00:52:52.440 instead of maybe something else we should be paying attention to.

00:52:56.340 You know, we're always worried about the distractions.

00:52:57.920 Erica, our New Jersey, let's see, journalist, independent journalist,

00:53:08.760 at least in this case, says the drones are still out in New Jersey.

00:53:13.420 So they were quiet over the holidays.

00:53:17.120 Oh, okay.

00:53:18.540 Well, so the photograph that Erica just included in the locals feed,

00:53:25.740 you can't see it if you're not on locals,

00:53:27.920 showed clearly an aircraft

00:53:30.180 because it's got the aircraft lights.

00:53:36.840 So that would suggest it's at least legally operating.

00:53:43.460 Scott, you should see the anti-gravity patents.

00:53:45.900 You don't have to build it to get a patent.

00:53:47.760 No, I just said that.

00:53:49.180 You don't have to build it to get a patent

00:53:50.940 as long as it's obvious that somebody in that field could build it.

00:53:55.680 That's the part that doesn't.

00:53:57.000 That's not real.

00:53:57.920 If somebody in that field could build it,

00:53:59.540 somebody would have already built one.

00:54:01.180 You'd be riding in it right now.

00:54:04.180 It couldn't possibly be real.

00:54:08.380 Anyway.

00:54:08.760 And I guess he repeatedly talked about making it to Mexico,

00:54:15.020 which does not track with the fact that he presumably had plans to end himself

00:54:20.260 before he got to Mexico.

00:54:21.420 But I wonder if maybe he thought I'll just blow up this car and then escape to Mexico.

00:54:32.920 That wouldn't make sense because he wouldn't have a vehicle.

00:54:35.420 So we don't know the Mexico part.

00:54:37.800 And as Laura Logan points out, that would kind of suggest that he was set up.

00:54:44.240 She also points out that there were two paper letters that survived the fire and explosion

00:54:48.980 of the car.

00:54:50.380 However, I don't think that's unusual because the vehicle was not completely destroyed.

00:54:56.900 So depending on where the letters were, let's say if they were in the glove department,

00:55:04.080 the glove compartment, would they have been burned up?

00:55:08.240 I don't know.

00:55:08.980 So, yes, it's a head scratcher, how two pieces of paper could survive a car fire.

00:55:16.440 But it's not impossible because the Cybertruck had good walls of protection.

00:55:25.160 And then there's also the claim from NBC News that he used an exotic explosive compound.

00:55:32.960 Wait, is this the same guy?

00:55:34.560 No, this is the other guy.

00:55:35.500 So the New Orleans guy used an exotic compound.

00:55:41.340 So that makes it look like, hey, where'd he learn that?

00:55:44.200 But I keep conflating the two attacks, but that's a separate one.

00:55:50.340 Anyway, here's a...

00:55:53.420 So my take so far, I'll give you my tentative take.

00:55:58.300 The coincidences are largely explained away by ordinary life.

00:56:02.860 They don't seem to be coordinated with each other. 0.91

00:56:07.080 One of them appears to have been mentally ill from PTSD.

00:56:11.600 That seems well, I think, pretty well likely.

00:56:15.780 And the other one seems inspired by ISIS, but not maybe part of a larger wave of attacks.

00:56:21.440 So remember when every one of us were, we were so sure when the attacks happened that this is the beginning of Al-Qaeda's wave of attacks because we saw Sean Ryan interview Sarah Adams, which, by the way, because we live in the simulation, is the name of my old cat.

00:56:41.020 I had a cat named Sarah, who I called Sarah Adams.

00:56:45.980 But they're different people.

00:56:47.460 This is actually a human.

00:56:49.220 So the human has high credibility, people are saying, very high credibility.

00:56:53.940 I've confirmed that her credibility is impeccable because it turns out she follows me on X.

00:57:00.760 And I'm like, that's really all you need to know.

00:57:03.420 That's impeccable logic.

00:57:06.620 And she's definitely on the right path.

00:57:08.900 Anyway, so her take was that there's going to be a massive wave of attacks in the United States.

00:57:14.820 And we all thought that that was the beginning of it.

00:57:17.120 It doesn't look like it.

00:57:18.700 It looks like these were two random attacks that just naturally fell on the same day because it was a good day to attack.

00:57:26.940 So now, if you're just joining the stream, let me remind you, I do not have certainty about any of it.

00:57:36.360 I don't have certainty on any of the facts that have so far been reported.

00:57:41.160 And I definitely don't have a certainty that there's not some larger, clever plot and he's a patsy or any of that stuff.

00:57:48.900 I don't know.

00:57:50.180 But so far, these look like ordinary cases.

00:57:55.080 Ordinary meaning somebody was inspired by ISIS.

00:57:58.660 You know, he had the name, he had the background and the other one, he just had PTSD and maybe he changed his plans in the middle and maybe he was half decided whether he was going to kill himself versus whether he was going to try to get away.

00:58:12.440 And then maybe at the last minute he said, you know, I'm never going to get away with it.

00:58:16.060 Might as well just do it.

00:58:17.240 Now, people asked, how do you shoot yourself after the explosion?

00:58:24.320 Because he set off the explosives but still managed to shoot himself.

00:58:28.700 Like, how do you get the timing right?

00:58:31.400 And my answer is you just do them at the same time.

00:58:34.160 I imagine the explosive took a moment to, you know, to detonate.

00:58:39.680 There's probably a fuse.

00:58:40.640 You know, he probably threw some, you know, threw a flame back there and maybe the gas caught on first and the fireworks are second.

00:58:50.240 So he probably had at least one second to pull the trigger.

00:58:54.260 Don't you think?

00:58:55.160 If you did them simultaneously, there's probably a little bit of delay before the fire turns into an explosion.

00:59:03.060 Plenty of time.

00:59:04.280 I don't think that's, I don't think that's weird at all.

00:59:07.620 Well, and it's also possible that, yeah, no, it may be that he was just going to do the gun in case he got burned and didn't die.

00:59:22.300 And then he thought, you know, I might as well just not feel any pain.

00:59:27.280 So we'll see.

00:59:28.880 Joy Reid over at MSNBC and her guest Charles Blow.

00:59:35.000 So, yeah, that's his actual name.

00:59:40.180 They're talking about the real danger of being white men. 0.78

00:59:45.920 And they think that things are overblown because one of them was brown.

00:59:51.700 But she wants to know the really big problem is young white men in America.

00:59:58.540 We need to look at our domestic terrorism. 0.56

01:00:00.500 Well, I don't disagree that there have been, you know, white American men who did some, you know, mass shootings.

01:00:11.620 That certainly happened.

01:00:13.260 But I don't see it as the same level of risk because you're really assuming, you're really imagining the future.

01:00:21.120 If you talk about risk, you're not talking about the past because that's done.

01:00:26.040 The past, it might have been true. 0.85

01:00:28.020 There were periods where the, you know, somebody who called himself a white supremacist did more damage than a terrorist for any given six month period or a year or whatever.

01:00:37.620 But there's no way these are the same level of risk.

01:00:41.760 You know, whatever happens from individuals is going to be, you know, one terrible act that probably had multiple deaths.

01:00:48.060 But if you're being attacked with waves of attack, you know, maybe 1,000 or 1,500 terrorists who were in the country who were going to die trying, that's a whole different deal.

01:01:00.100 I mean, that's really different.

01:01:01.960 So MSNBC continues to be a joke.

01:01:04.740 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

01:01:06.720 I've been visualizing my match all week.

01:01:09.480 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.

01:01:15.400 Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.

01:01:21.120 Everything was taken care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.

01:01:25.540 I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.

01:01:29.020 But you got there on time.

01:01:30.880 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace.

01:01:33.500 Certain conditions apply.

01:01:34.420 If you're not following on X, the account of Sean Ono Lennon, I recommend it.

01:01:42.320 He's very interesting.

01:01:43.900 Now, what's interesting is that you really can't tell if he's Democrat or Republican by watching his account.

01:01:51.400 And I love that because he weighs in on a lot of topics that are in the news, but you really can't tell.

01:01:58.640 And the reason you can't tell is because he just takes a common sense approach to things that we normally just take the hyper partisan approach to.

01:02:07.980 So he's very good at just being interesting and not giving away bias, just telling you what the thing looks like.

01:02:17.560 So he had this comment today.

01:02:20.200 He said, I think overall people are less easily fooled now than they were in the past.

01:02:25.160 Part of the disintegration of cohesive society is a result of this awakening.

01:02:29.820 I really hope it leads somewhere good.

01:02:31.500 I worry that it won't.

01:02:32.860 So he's noticing that people are learning to be less easily fooled.

01:02:37.980 Do you agree with that?

01:02:38.800 People are learning to be less easily fooled.

01:02:43.340 He's half right.

01:02:45.420 It's only happening on one side.

01:02:47.720 And the people who make an effort to see what the other side is saying.

01:02:52.200 So somebody like Elon Musk is watching both arguments.

01:02:57.560 And so he decided to kind of change teams because he saw both arguments.

01:03:02.520 And he's the kind of person who can, you know, figure out what the fake stuff is.

01:03:06.840 I would argue that something happened on the conservative side of politics that did not happen, or even close, on the Democrat side.

01:03:17.040 And that is that there were people like me, and I could name 10 other people, who are going out of their way to debunk fake news on the other side,

01:03:28.720 but also to teach you the tools for doing it yourself, which is what I do.

01:03:34.240 I try to teach you, all right, for example, I say if the news only has one source and it's an anonymous source,

01:03:44.660 you should treat that as zero credibility.

01:03:48.040 Now, that's not what people would have done automatically.

01:03:51.120 Most people would say, well, it's not proven, but they got that one source.

01:03:54.420 And of course they want to be anonymous.

01:03:56.300 Why wouldn't they?

01:03:57.520 So, yeah, that's pretty credible.

01:03:58.880 No, the answer is nothing.

01:04:00.260 There's no credibility.

01:04:01.100 It's almost impossible that that's going to be true.

01:04:04.780 So that's the sort of thing that you have to learn, because it's opposite of common sense.

01:04:10.540 Your common sense says, well, you know, they wouldn't report it if it wasn't at least possibly true.

01:04:17.520 So you have to get past, they wouldn't say it if it were fake.

01:04:22.220 And you have to get past, well, I think some of the news is real.

01:04:25.540 No, no, no, not any of the political news.

01:04:29.060 It's all framed, you know, it might be true facts, but it's usually framed in a way that's misleading.

01:04:36.160 So, in my opinion, the Democrats were the hoax and fake news creating entity.

01:04:44.520 And in response, because there's always a response, the conservatives built up a resource that the left doesn't have.

01:04:54.220 And that resource is a bunch of people that you can immediately go to to find out what's true.

01:05:00.100 All right, let me ask you this.

01:05:01.580 How many of you have seen a headline story?

01:05:04.200 And one of the first questions you asked about it was, what does Adam say about this?

01:05:11.160 But not just me.

01:05:12.580 You probably said, okay, what does Cernovich say about this?

01:05:15.880 If it's a legal thing, I say, what does Dershowitz say about it?

01:05:19.340 What does Turley say about it?

01:05:21.640 I know exactly where to go to find the fake news.

01:05:25.720 If it's a technology thing, like I'll look for the smartest technology people.

01:05:31.760 I'll look for Mark Antresen, if it's a technology thing, to find out if it's true.

01:05:36.220 I'll look for Balaji, Srinivasan.

01:05:39.040 I'll look for Naval, Ravikant.

01:05:42.840 So, and of course, Elon Musk.

01:05:45.500 So, we've developed, we collectively have developed on the right, this BS snipping system, which is quite wild.

01:05:55.800 It's never existed before, as far as I know.

01:05:59.080 And that's different.

01:06:00.100 And they can't match it.

01:06:02.300 If they matched it, they would disintegrate, because then their base would realize that the main things that are being told are fake.

01:06:10.820 So, if they teach their base how to spot fakes, the entire operation falls apart, because it's mostly built on fake news.

01:06:19.200 So, that's funny.

01:06:20.380 So, again, Sean Ono Lennon, good follow.

01:06:26.320 I recommend it highly.

01:06:28.340 And I like that he noticed.

01:06:31.540 I like that he noticed that people are less easily fooled.

01:06:34.160 But I think that's because he follows both sides.

01:06:38.940 See?

01:06:39.300 If you follow both sides, then you learn how to spot the fakes. 0.99

01:06:44.680 So, he's probably picked it up just from people he follows on the right.

01:06:47.380 So, let's see.

01:06:54.440 This is John Nolte.

01:06:55.780 He's reporting that the 2024 domestic box office is down 24% since five years ago.

01:07:03.360 Now, there's a comparison thing.

01:07:06.520 I'm not sure how the pandemic works in there.

01:07:08.920 But it's even down this year a little bit, just a few percent from what it was last year.

01:07:14.800 And I just want to weigh in on this.

01:07:18.720 Now, the smart people said it's not the pandemic.

01:07:22.540 It's not anything.

01:07:23.880 It's just the movies are bad.

01:07:25.780 That's what I think.

01:07:27.080 I think just the movies are bad.

01:07:28.540 But on top of that, I don't even think of movies as something that people watch anymore.

01:07:34.360 There are very few movies that you're going to want to spend two hours on.

01:07:41.940 Very rarely.

01:07:43.660 So, when I think of things I would want to spend time on, I just don't even think of a movie anymore.

01:07:48.740 Because I know I'm not going to like it.

01:07:50.720 And my attention span, like yours, is so shortened now that I like...

01:07:56.760 I can go through a thousand reels, you know, the little quick videos.

01:08:00.960 And every one of them will entertain me.

01:08:02.980 Because they're, you know, the algorithm makes sure of that.

01:08:06.160 And I'm absolutely, totally entertained.

01:08:08.960 And I can stop whenever I want to go do something else.

01:08:12.260 I don't have to drive somewhere and buy bad popcorn and sit there for two and a half hours and wish I were closer to a restroom.

01:08:21.140 Yeah.

01:08:21.460 So, I don't see how movies really survive in the future.

01:08:25.320 Speaking of surviving, Ukraine now has these miniature missiles to knock down drones.

01:08:34.180 I guess they were made in Estonia.

01:08:36.180 If you didn't know this, Estonia is a wildly successful little country.

01:08:41.780 Did you know that?

01:08:42.420 I have a friend who's Estonian who, I think at one point, he was probably the richest person in Estonia.

01:08:52.280 Because he was one of the adventurers of, what is this, before Zoom there was, the thing before Zoom.

01:09:03.880 So, Estonia, the Estonians are really high tech.

01:09:11.600 They've got a real good little high tech situation going there.

01:09:15.600 One of the things they do in Estonia is you can vote by app.

01:09:18.960 How many times have you said to yourself, why can't we vote by an app?

01:09:26.400 Like, why?

01:09:27.820 Seems like that would be obvious.

01:09:29.620 The most obvious thing.

01:09:30.820 Especially if your app does a face recognition.

01:09:35.720 If I vote on my phone and I use facial recognition to make my app take the vote,

01:09:42.580 I'm going to feel pretty good that that vote got registered properly.

01:09:48.120 So, Estonia is already doing it, so you don't have to wonder if it works.

01:09:51.100 They seem happy with it.

01:09:52.440 But they've also made this little miniature rocket, and I think it uses AI,

01:09:56.720 which is what's new and interesting about it.

01:09:59.840 But it goes really high, so we can get even the high drones.

01:10:05.200 So, it looks like the missile is maybe just a foot tall and not very wide.

01:10:11.660 And I need one of those for home.

01:10:13.600 Is there any way I can get an AI anti-drone missile for home?

01:10:20.000 I'll put it on my roof.

01:10:22.360 No?

01:10:23.380 All right.

01:10:24.520 Well, speaking of the algorithm, Elon Musk says that the X algorithm is going to be

01:10:29.240 tweaked soon to promote more informational, entertaining content.

01:10:34.540 And he says, I like how he puts this.

01:10:36.980 This is a great framing for the objective.

01:10:39.660 Our goal is to maximize unregretted user seconds.

01:10:45.400 That is the most human-friendly way to say what you're doing.

01:10:51.520 What I would hate is to say he's just trying to get his usage minutes up.

01:10:56.980 Or I would hate if he said, we're trying to tell the truth.

01:11:03.360 You know, we only tell the truth.

01:11:04.760 You know, nobody thinks the truth is coming through social media.

01:11:09.440 But he says it in the most perfect way.

01:11:12.340 He wants to maximize unregretted user seconds.

01:11:16.440 Have you ever spent a bunch of time on social media and said,

01:11:18.740 oh, God, I wish I didn't do that.

01:11:20.960 Like it just gave me a headache and I feel bad and I'm scared of everything?

01:11:24.220 You have, right?

01:11:26.360 Those are regretted minutes.

01:11:29.440 He's trying to maximize unregretted user seconds.

01:11:32.800 You know, your ability to get what you want is way better when you know exactly what it is.

01:11:38.640 And this is such a good frame.

01:11:41.180 Unregretted.

01:11:41.880 I love that.

01:11:43.220 So we'll see.

01:11:44.640 See if that changes anything.

01:11:45.800 There's a report in Axios that Biden and his advisors had a meeting not too long ago

01:11:55.140 about the possibility of striking Iran's nuclear sites before January 20th and Trump is sworn in.

01:12:04.240 Now, here's what you need to know about this kind of story.

01:12:06.840 If the government is doing its job and the military is doing its job,

01:12:12.280 they should always be talking about this kind of stuff.

01:12:14.680 It doesn't mean it's going to happen.

01:12:16.900 But yes, I want my president meeting with the military and I want the military to say,

01:12:22.180 it's not the only thing we can do.

01:12:24.800 But if you decided to go this way, this is what we could do.

01:12:29.520 Yeah, I want that meeting every week.

01:12:31.800 Like, it shouldn't be news that they had a meeting and they discussed one of the most obvious paths.

01:12:40.120 And apparently there's no energy to do it.

01:12:43.260 So they had the meeting.

01:12:45.060 They heard the alternatives.

01:12:47.080 They decided collectively, apparently with not a lot of disagreement, I would guess,

01:12:52.100 that they're not going to do it.

01:12:55.300 I feel like that article was written as sort of a diss on Biden.

01:13:00.420 That's not a diss.

01:13:01.200 Guys, every time this story is about Trump,

01:13:05.360 Trump held a meeting to see if he can, I don't know, nuke a hurricane.

01:13:10.620 And then people said, oh, no, no, it's crazy.

01:13:13.900 No, I want that meeting.

01:13:15.360 I don't think it was a meeting.

01:13:16.380 I think it was just an offhand comment he made once.

01:13:18.520 But I want that.

01:13:19.960 I want him to ask the question, well, do we have the technology to nuke it?

01:13:25.420 And it's fine if the answer is, no, that's crazy.

01:13:28.080 There's no way that could work.

01:13:29.040 We couldn't control the, there's no way you could control the radiation.

01:13:32.860 Okay.

01:13:34.180 But do I like that he asked the question?

01:13:36.300 Yes.

01:13:37.400 Yes.

01:13:37.720 I want my leader to be asking the question, not just of the obvious stuff, but I want him to ask the non-obvious stuff.

01:13:45.600 That was a non-obvious question.

01:13:47.940 I like it.

01:13:48.720 And if the only thing it does is make you think deeper about other possibilities that are possible, so suppose the answer was, no, that's crazy.

01:14:00.320 We're not going to use a nuke to stop a hurricane.

01:14:02.860 But what if then the person you asked said, but I do have an idea.

01:14:08.660 Suppose you did this.

01:14:10.720 Here's an idea that would actually work to reduce hurricanes.

01:14:15.960 You would, you, you greenify northern Africa, which can be done. 0.99

01:14:22.480 So basically you just let your animals, essentially the way you green a desert area is you have animals in the part that's still got enough green that they can eat.

01:14:32.160 And then the, the cows will, or whatever, livestock, they eat what's there.

01:14:37.900 And then sometimes they wander to the edge of the area and poop.

01:14:42.000 And then that creates collectively someplace where more things are going to grow.

01:14:46.800 And then just the cows wandering around and eating and pooping will make your greenery just extend into the, into the desert.

01:14:55.780 So suppose that Trump asks the question that's completely impractical, nuking a hurricane.

01:15:02.160 But the person asks is, you know, uh, I've heard this other idea.

01:15:07.340 And then you have the conversation.

01:15:09.040 Well, is that practical?

01:15:10.800 Is there any way we could in a cost-effective way reduce hurricanes just by, you know, emphasizing the greening?

01:15:19.000 Because the greening, here's why that works.

01:15:21.760 Northern Africa is where it gets super hot.

01:15:24.780 And then that heat is what drives the hurricanes.

01:15:27.980 You know, the heat differential, basically.

01:15:29.360 So if you reduce the differential of heat by making just the desert less hot, you should take some steam off the hurricanes.

01:15:38.140 And that's maybe doable.

01:15:40.660 So I'm always in favor of asking the bad question.

01:15:45.280 Should we nuke a hurricane?

01:15:46.780 Because then, then that opens up everybody to all the other possibilities.

01:15:51.060 And maybe there's one he hadn't talked about yet.

01:15:52.820 That's good technique.

01:15:54.320 I like it in Biden.

01:15:56.120 And I like it in Trump.

01:15:57.680 So that's two A pluses.

01:15:59.500 And I think that's everything I wanted to say today.

01:16:08.560 So I remind you that Owen Gregorian is going to do a Spaces after we're done.

01:16:13.660 So he's been doing that on Saturdays after the show.

01:16:16.980 People seem to like it.

01:16:18.200 It was well attended.

01:16:19.360 So look for that probably just a few minutes after we're done.

01:16:22.820 It's on Spaces on X.

01:16:30.140 And you watched three movies in three days.

01:16:33.460 You had nothing better to do than that.

01:16:36.120 Did you also exercise?

01:16:38.860 Because if you watch movies and you didn't exercise that day, you need to rethink that.

01:16:44.060 All the AI invasion is coordinated with a writer's strike.

01:16:52.200 Hmm.

01:16:52.700 Interesting.

01:17:01.900 All right.

01:17:02.580 Let me just look at your comments here for a moment.

01:17:07.580 Dilbert Assumption.

01:17:10.140 Scott, I'm not about best idea of the year.

01:17:14.060 L.A. Times.

01:17:17.820 Oh, I could probably get Dilbert back in some newspapers.

01:17:21.640 Yeah, I just don't want Dilbert in newspapers anymore because newspapers are just a dying industry.

01:17:26.880 There's no point.

01:17:27.840 I could get a few newspapers, but they don't pay much individually.

01:17:31.500 It wouldn't make any difference to my income.

01:17:34.880 So even if I got a few big papers, like hypothetically, what was mentioned was the L.A. Times.

01:17:40.160 So even if the L.A. Times said, you know, we're trying to be different than we were and we'll take you back, that would be like $100 a month.

01:17:51.020 Did you know that?

01:17:52.540 That's how little they pay for cartoons.

01:17:54.980 It's like $100 a month.

01:17:56.180 So if you have 2,000 of them, and they all pay different rates depending on the size, then you're making real money.

01:18:06.400 But to get one or two papers to take Dilbert back wouldn't make any difference at all.

01:18:11.120 There's no income involved with that.

01:18:13.780 Yeah, I'd have to start censoring myself again.

01:18:17.760 Don't want that.

01:18:21.160 All right.

01:18:22.280 Since Owen's going to do his spaces, you'll have some time to chat with each other.

01:18:27.520 I think I'll end this and maybe just say hi quickly to the locals people.

01:18:32.020 But everybody on X and Rumble and YouTube, thanks for joining.

01:18:37.140 And YouTube is going to probably demonetize me because they do every once in a while.

01:18:41.580 And we don't know why.

01:18:42.540 I think twice recently for no obvious reason.

01:18:48.100 So just know that.

01:18:50.240 All right.

01:18:50.740 Locals coming at you privately.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 04, 2025

Episode 2710 CWSA 01⧸04⧸25

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