Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2715 CWSA 01⧸09⧸25

00:00:00.000 Well, there you are.

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00:00:36.140 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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00:01:00.080 I like coffee.

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00:01:18.740 Well, of course, I'm going to be talking about the L.A. fires,

00:01:22.460 but I'll wait just a minute for people to stream in.

00:01:27.060 Before that, I would like to note,

00:01:30.420 do any of you remember,

00:01:32.200 I can't remember how long ago it was,

00:01:34.180 so we're going to test your long-term memory.

00:01:36.600 It was a long time ago,

00:01:38.520 but there were these two terror attacks,

00:01:41.980 one in New Orleans and one in Vegas.

00:01:44.200 Does any of that sound familiar?

00:01:46.820 It was so long ago.

00:01:51.080 Right?

00:01:54.520 Trump is doing it again.

00:01:56.440 He's doing that thing where time is completely distorted.

00:02:00.040 So, when the Vegas terrorism thing was the headline story,

00:02:05.660 I said to myself,

00:02:07.480 ooh, this is going to be in the news for a while,

00:02:09.880 so I'm going to do a Dilbert comic

00:02:11.840 in which Dilbert's boss's secretary

00:02:16.800 suggests that he takes a vacation in Vegas

00:02:21.000 because he didn't know where to go on his vacation.

00:02:23.180 So, she suggests that he buy a Cybertruck

00:02:29.040 and drive it to Vegas

00:02:31.380 and stay at the Trump Hotel.

00:02:34.600 Well, anyway, you'd have to see the comic.

00:02:36.340 It's pretty darn funny,

00:02:37.840 but it's running today only for the subscribers.

00:02:41.120 You'd have to be subscribing on X or Locals to see it.

00:02:45.060 But, you know, I was prepping it to publish it this morning,

00:02:48.760 and I thought, oh, my God, that feels so long ago.

00:02:55.200 So long ago.

00:02:57.400 So, Trump, time distortion, happening again.

00:03:01.920 All right, just one more thing,

00:03:02.920 then we'll talk about the fires.

00:03:04.440 I tried to use ChatGPT last night

00:03:07.600 to digest a big legal document that I was asked to review,

00:03:12.900 and I thought to myself,

00:03:14.340 oh, perfect application for AI.

00:03:17.220 I'm going to upload the document,

00:03:19.860 and then I will query it to say,

00:03:23.500 okay, is this handled?

00:03:24.960 You know, what about this?

00:03:25.800 What's it say about this?

00:03:27.220 And then it would summarize it for me,

00:03:29.000 and I'd save a bunch of time.

00:03:31.760 I was so happy to be in the age of AI,

00:03:34.740 so I took my PDF file, and I uploaded it,

00:03:38.100 and it said, no, we can't handle the PDF file.

00:03:41.200 And I said, in 2025,

00:03:44.900 the advanced intelligence

00:03:46.740 the most important technology in the world.

00:03:51.420 Can't read a PDF file?

00:03:53.960 But it said, you know, JPEG it could read.

00:03:56.660 So I thought, oh, all right.

00:03:58.000 All right, well.

00:03:58.940 So I just changed it to a JPEG file,

00:04:01.660 and I upload it,

00:04:03.360 and it fails.

00:04:04.820 And it says,

00:04:05.560 it can only take,

00:04:08.400 when it goes to JPEG,

00:04:09.700 it turns the document into each of its individual pages

00:04:12.500 as one file apiece.

00:04:13.700 But I thought, well, no problem.

00:04:15.660 I'll just drag all of the pages in.

00:04:18.120 It'll figure out the page numbers.

00:04:20.440 Good to go.

00:04:22.100 And then I try to drag all the pages in,

00:04:24.300 and it says,

00:04:25.460 you can only handle four pages.

00:04:28.120 And I think, okay, no problem.

00:04:30.040 No problem.

00:04:30.760 I'll just do four at a time,

00:04:32.880 because there are only, you know,

00:04:34.400 20-some pages.

00:04:35.420 It's not going to take all day.

00:04:36.960 So I drag four over.

00:04:38.560 Good.

00:04:39.460 So I drag another four over,

00:04:41.440 and then it clarifies that it's a total of four.

00:04:45.680 It's not four at a time.

00:04:47.640 It's a total of four.

00:04:49.480 So I spend something like 45 minutes of my day

00:04:53.880 finding out that AI can't do the simplest freaking thing.

00:04:59.420 So, I don't know.

00:05:02.940 They say it's going to replace everything and do everything.

00:05:06.880 But I don't know.

00:05:07.920 All right, let's talk about the L.A. fires.

00:05:12.860 It's all horrible.

00:05:15.580 You know, if you're new to my live stream,

00:05:18.360 I live in Northern California,

00:05:20.520 and you might say to yourself,

00:05:22.000 well, Northern California,

00:05:23.060 that's so far away from Southern California

00:05:25.040 that you're probably not much impacted.

00:05:27.960 Well, I'm not impacted directly by the fire.

00:05:30.160 That's not a risk where I am.

00:05:32.780 But if you live in California,

00:05:34.720 you end up having a lot of friends

00:05:36.200 in other parts of California.

00:05:38.480 So I'm very impacted.

00:05:40.940 And I had to cancel the man cave last night

00:05:44.000 because there was just too many people who needed help

00:05:47.140 and too many people I had to check on.

00:05:49.120 And, you know, it was both family and friends.

00:05:51.900 And it was a big wait.

00:05:57.960 So just not being in the direct fire

00:06:00.120 is better than being in the fire.

00:06:02.680 But let me tell you,

00:06:03.900 the other residents of California,

00:06:07.100 we're taking it in the gut.

00:06:10.580 This is like being punched all day long.

00:06:14.640 And five people dead, apparently,

00:06:17.440 which, you know, is a gigantic tragedy,

00:06:21.860 I suppose.

00:06:23.980 I suppose, you know,

00:06:25.940 you could say something like

00:06:27.100 could have been worse.

00:06:29.080 But five people is five people.

00:06:30.980 One of them reportedly had stayed behind

00:06:33.900 with his hose

00:06:35.080 and was trying to save his house.

00:06:37.280 And I always wondered how smart

00:06:39.360 or dumb that strategy was.

00:06:42.020 Because there are a number of people

00:06:43.680 who apparently did, in fact,

00:06:45.660 save their houses.

00:06:47.200 Because somebody stayed, you know,

00:06:48.780 neighbor or they stayed with a hose.

00:06:50.860 But one of them died.

00:06:53.560 So if you're going to stay with a hose,

00:06:55.400 just know,

00:06:56.740 I don't know what the odds are

00:06:57.900 of you dying in this sort of

00:06:59.440 massive fire situation,

00:07:01.080 but it might be like 20%, you know?

00:07:04.600 I mean, it's crazy high.

00:07:07.500 But people do what they have to do

00:07:09.100 if it's your entire life

00:07:10.840 and you're not insured,

00:07:12.200 which was the case in many cases.

00:07:14.580 I guess you do what you got to do.

00:07:17.800 Anyway,

00:07:18.960 so speaking of do what you want to do,

00:07:23.700 I heard Greg got filled

00:07:25.600 on the five yesterday,

00:07:28.020 requesting that people consider

00:07:30.820 opening up their homes

00:07:31.960 to other people.

00:07:33.500 This one's not like

00:07:34.740 a lot of different disasters.

00:07:38.220 The sheer number of people

00:07:39.580 who are displaced

00:07:40.540 in a fairly populated area

00:07:42.800 is kind of crazy.

00:07:45.020 And they're not going to go back soon.

00:07:47.240 So a lot of people

00:07:48.220 are opening houses,

00:07:50.180 donating money,

00:07:52.520 trying to help

00:07:53.040 in every possible way they can.

00:07:54.680 So it's pretty much,

00:07:55.940 it's an all hands on deck

00:07:57.100 situation here.

00:07:58.620 So if you don't see me

00:08:00.960 putting in as much work,

00:08:03.440 could you please understand

00:08:06.460 that this isn't the week

00:08:07.760 that my mind's on work?

00:08:09.840 All right,

00:08:10.060 we're trying to keep people alive

00:08:12.720 and help as we can.

00:08:17.500 So apparently there's,

00:08:19.040 I think there's still

00:08:19.860 zero containment,

00:08:21.500 but the Santa Ana winds

00:08:23.660 that made it so bad

00:08:24.800 should be dying down

00:08:26.160 by the end of today.

00:08:28.180 So I'm hoping

00:08:29.460 that we're going to see

00:08:31.880 something like

00:08:32.520 some containment.

00:08:33.980 Now,

00:08:34.280 I hate to say it,

00:08:36.000 but probably the only thing

00:08:37.340 that will bring this fire

00:08:38.700 under control

00:08:39.500 is burning everything

00:08:41.540 that's burnable

00:08:42.440 until there's just

00:08:43.960 no fuel left.

00:08:44.980 It's just the ocean.

00:08:46.620 So,

00:08:47.140 I don't know

00:08:48.160 what they're going to do,

00:08:50.580 but

00:08:50.840 Elon Musk

00:08:53.400 has announced

00:08:54.520 he's going to

00:08:55.440 donate free

00:08:56.200 Starlink terminals

00:08:57.240 to the affected area

00:08:58.580 in L.A.

00:08:59.900 I think that's

00:09:00.880 maybe today or tomorrow

00:09:02.260 he's going to do that.

00:09:05.340 Axe always makes me feel

00:09:06.620 like the world

00:09:07.180 is so small.

00:09:09.620 So,

00:09:10.240 you know,

00:09:10.560 the richest,

00:09:11.880 most interesting guy

00:09:13.280 in the world right now

00:09:14.220 is,

00:09:15.440 of course,

00:09:15.720 in every topic,

00:09:16.940 and he's in this topic

00:09:18.000 in a productive way.

00:09:19.380 And then you see

00:09:20.140 in the comments

00:09:20.840 when he says

00:09:21.580 he's going to donate them,

00:09:22.580 you see his brother,

00:09:23.500 Kimball,

00:09:24.840 saying,

00:09:25.300 you know,

00:09:25.500 thanks, brother.

00:09:26.640 So he must be in L.A.

00:09:28.580 and he must be affected.

00:09:30.140 So even Kimball,

00:09:31.120 Kimball Musk

00:09:32.060 is in the mix.

00:09:34.680 A lot of celebrities.

00:09:35.980 We'll talk about

00:09:36.440 some of those.

00:09:37.320 All right.

00:09:37.560 The biggest macro story

00:09:39.460 is the fog of war.

00:09:41.760 So,

00:09:42.520 I'm guilty

00:09:43.580 of probably,

00:09:45.680 I don't know

00:09:46.080 the specifics,

00:09:46.900 but I think

00:09:47.620 I probably

00:09:48.380 reposted

00:09:49.420 some fake news

00:09:50.220 yesterday

00:09:51.480 because there was

00:09:53.140 so much

00:09:53.960 speculation

00:09:55.240 and not quite

00:09:56.300 accurate.

00:09:57.200 So I want to talk

00:09:57.980 about the things

00:09:58.620 we think we know

00:09:59.660 and put them

00:10:00.820 in context.

00:10:01.920 If you haven't

00:10:02.880 done this yet,

00:10:04.120 I recommend it highly.

00:10:05.980 If you're not

00:10:06.880 watching one of the

00:10:07.980 fake news

00:10:09.220 networks

00:10:09.880 like CNN

00:10:11.040 talking about

00:10:12.680 the context

00:10:13.680 of how we got

00:10:14.680 to this situation

00:10:15.440 in California,

00:10:16.420 you're not really

00:10:17.300 hearing the other side.

00:10:19.140 And this is

00:10:19.680 one of those

00:10:20.260 things where

00:10:21.200 there's a fog of war,

00:10:22.500 but on top of it

00:10:23.380 two completely

00:10:24.840 different versions

00:10:25.700 of what happened

00:10:26.400 have already emerged.

00:10:27.840 No surprise.

00:10:28.780 No surprise.

00:10:30.000 But you really

00:10:31.500 need to hear

00:10:32.160 the alternative

00:10:34.520 explanations

00:10:35.760 of what happened.

00:10:37.680 It's going to

00:10:39.000 blow your mind

00:10:40.160 that any of it

00:10:41.800 could be

00:10:42.180 a little bit

00:10:42.820 explained.

00:10:44.200 Now,

00:10:44.360 when I say

00:10:44.680 a little bit

00:10:45.160 explained,

00:10:46.420 my macro theory

00:10:47.460 is that there's

00:10:48.120 massive incompetence.

00:10:50.580 There needs

00:10:50.940 to be

00:10:51.460 some kind

00:10:52.760 of

00:10:54.140 addressing

00:10:55.580 that.

00:10:56.400 I don't know

00:10:56.820 what that looks

00:10:57.340 like.

00:10:57.980 So there's

00:10:58.320 massive incompetence,

00:11:00.580 but some of

00:11:02.240 the accusations

00:11:02.980 clearly don't

00:11:03.820 fly.

00:11:04.640 And I'll tell

00:11:05.140 you which ones

00:11:05.620 they are,

00:11:05.900 because I feel

00:11:06.900 like we want

00:11:07.440 to be mad,

00:11:08.500 but it's such

00:11:09.680 wasted energy

00:11:10.460 to be mad

00:11:11.120 at the wrong

00:11:11.640 things.

00:11:12.260 There's plenty

00:11:12.780 of things to

00:11:13.280 really be mad

00:11:14.000 at.

00:11:14.800 Now,

00:11:15.120 I will remind

00:11:15.700 you,

00:11:17.240 well,

00:11:17.640 we'll get to

00:11:17.980 that.

00:11:19.020 So here are

00:11:19.720 some of the

00:11:20.020 things that

00:11:20.400 people accused,

00:11:21.900 the LA

00:11:23.060 government

00:11:24.920 and management

00:11:26.160 of doing.

00:11:27.440 So first

00:11:28.040 of all,

00:11:28.320 the reports

00:11:28.800 were that

00:11:29.440 the fire

00:11:30.400 hydrants

00:11:31.220 either didn't

00:11:32.180 have water

00:11:32.780 or had

00:11:33.680 no water

00:11:34.220 pressure.

00:11:35.920 Now,

00:11:36.680 there's two

00:11:37.640 versions of

00:11:38.220 that.

00:11:39.160 If the problem

00:11:39.780 is they didn't

00:11:40.320 have water,

00:11:41.700 because there

00:11:42.100 was no

00:11:42.480 stored water,

00:11:43.840 there is

00:11:44.460 some evidence

00:11:46.220 that there was

00:11:46.800 a water

00:11:47.200 reservoir that

00:11:48.000 was not

00:11:48.420 filled,

00:11:48.880 but I'd

00:11:50.340 like to

00:11:51.060 know more

00:11:51.440 about whether

00:11:52.040 it was

00:11:53.120 possible to

00:11:53.820 fill it,

00:11:54.940 because maybe

00:11:55.360 there was

00:11:55.640 no water

00:11:56.040 to put in,

00:11:57.080 and I don't

00:11:57.600 know whose

00:11:57.960 fault that

00:11:58.380 would be.

00:11:59.320 So all

00:12:00.180 of these

00:12:00.480 things that

00:12:00.960 look like

00:12:01.320 they're

00:12:01.480 simple,

00:12:02.640 they've

00:12:02.920 all got

00:12:03.260 some bigger

00:12:04.240 story behind

00:12:05.140 them,

00:12:05.620 which doesn't

00:12:06.600 make any of it

00:12:07.160 good or

00:12:07.820 right.

00:12:09.020 It's just

00:12:09.660 that you

00:12:10.000 should know

00:12:10.320 the context.

00:12:11.200 It's never

00:12:11.960 as simple

00:12:12.420 as the

00:12:13.900 posts on

00:12:14.420 X.

00:12:14.720 So it's

00:12:17.520 possible,

00:12:18.380 well there

00:12:18.920 definitely was

00:12:19.540 a low water

00:12:20.100 pressure in

00:12:20.580 some places,

00:12:21.800 and there

00:12:22.180 definitely were

00:12:22.820 fire hydrants

00:12:24.440 not producing

00:12:25.080 water.

00:12:26.160 Some were.

00:12:27.400 So we do

00:12:27.860 have reports

00:12:28.440 of some

00:12:28.960 working hydrants,

00:12:30.140 some not.

00:12:31.480 Possibly,

00:12:32.760 or even maybe

00:12:33.400 probably,

00:12:34.400 the reason the

00:12:35.020 water pressure

00:12:35.620 was insufficient

00:12:36.420 is that there

00:12:37.240 were so many

00:12:37.860 hydrants being

00:12:38.520 used at the

00:12:39.160 same time,

00:12:40.840 attempted,

00:12:41.940 and the

00:12:43.360 entire place

00:12:44.700 had been

00:12:45.040 destroyed,

00:12:45.840 so there

00:12:46.160 were a lot

00:12:46.500 of open

00:12:47.020 fountain-like

00:12:48.800 water being

00:12:50.900 wasted just

00:12:51.780 in homes.

00:12:52.860 So if the

00:12:54.520 area was

00:12:55.280 served by

00:12:55.720 the same

00:12:56.040 water source,

00:12:58.240 be it the

00:12:59.100 hydrant or

00:12:59.740 inside the

00:13:00.300 house,

00:13:01.140 if the

00:13:01.760 house has

00:13:03.000 broken pipes

00:13:03.780 and the

00:13:04.120 water is

00:13:04.560 spewing

00:13:04.840 everywhere,

00:13:05.780 and everybody

00:13:06.500 is trying to

00:13:06.940 use water at

00:13:07.480 the same time

00:13:08.040 to put out

00:13:08.480 the fire,

00:13:09.320 there's not

00:13:09.840 going to be

00:13:10.080 enough.

00:13:10.960 Water pressure,

00:13:12.640 or maybe

00:13:13.120 even water.

00:13:14.500 So water

00:13:15.300 and water

00:13:15.760 pressure were

00:13:16.400 both a

00:13:16.880 problem.

00:13:19.460 It's not

00:13:20.240 entirely clear

00:13:21.340 that either

00:13:22.500 of those were

00:13:23.280 some direct

00:13:24.520 mistake that

00:13:25.200 you could put

00:13:25.700 on some

00:13:26.620 particular person.

00:13:28.500 They're all

00:13:29.040 complicated.

00:13:30.060 There's a

00:13:30.640 question of

00:13:31.140 forest management.

00:13:33.120 You know,

00:13:33.540 Trump has

00:13:34.600 been on it

00:13:35.080 for years,

00:13:36.600 literally years.

00:13:37.400 He's been

00:13:37.660 saying that

00:13:38.180 California is

00:13:38.960 not managing

00:13:39.480 its forests,

00:13:40.720 like places

00:13:41.400 like Austria,

00:13:42.140 where they

00:13:42.620 don't have

00:13:42.960 this kind

00:13:43.360 of fire.

00:13:44.680 And managing

00:13:45.320 the forest

00:13:45.780 means partly

00:13:46.640 removing the

00:13:47.480 underbrush,

00:13:48.960 you know,

00:13:49.100 the really

00:13:49.520 flammable stuff,

00:13:51.380 because the

00:13:51.720 trees can do

00:13:52.400 a much better

00:13:52.900 job of

00:13:53.660 surviving.

00:13:55.320 If it's just

00:13:56.880 going tree to

00:13:57.560 tree,

00:13:58.080 it's not going

00:13:58.900 to go as

00:13:59.720 fast as if

00:14:00.440 there's this

00:14:01.040 underbrush that's

00:14:01.900 just ready to

00:14:02.800 go.

00:14:03.820 Because the

00:14:04.920 living trees are

00:14:05.720 a little bit

00:14:06.140 wet,

00:14:07.000 so they'll

00:14:07.700 slow things

00:14:08.340 down,

00:14:08.660 but the

00:14:09.100 dead

00:14:09.420 underbrush,

00:14:10.840 you know,

00:14:11.120 it's just,

00:14:11.580 it's going

00:14:12.100 to be

00:14:12.260 traveling like

00:14:12.800 crazy.

00:14:13.860 So the

00:14:14.780 forest management

00:14:15.420 thing is a

00:14:16.080 real thing,

00:14:16.640 it's really

00:14:17.200 important,

00:14:18.020 it's really

00:14:18.560 not done

00:14:19.080 well,

00:14:19.820 but I don't

00:14:21.060 know if that

00:14:21.600 had a causation

00:14:22.560 in this case,

00:14:24.040 because most

00:14:26.160 of what I saw

00:14:26.860 burning were

00:14:27.620 residential

00:14:28.480 homes,

00:14:29.880 and there's

00:14:31.160 at least one

00:14:31.740 report that I

00:14:32.700 don't think is

00:14:33.560 confirmed,

00:14:34.760 that somebody

00:14:35.280 said the fire

00:14:35.980 started in

00:14:36.600 somebody's

00:14:37.020 backyard and

00:14:38.560 then spread

00:14:39.020 up a hill.

00:14:40.000 If it started

00:14:40.820 in somebody's

00:14:41.460 backyard and

00:14:42.240 spread up a

00:14:42.800 hill,

00:14:43.020 which is not

00:14:43.500 confirmed,

00:14:44.720 not confirmed,

00:14:46.080 it's just

00:14:46.440 something I saw

00:14:47.020 a fireman on

00:14:48.120 the scene who

00:14:48.640 was working

00:14:49.060 it said.

00:14:50.600 If it was

00:14:51.340 set by

00:14:52.260 somebody,

00:14:53.600 we heard

00:14:53.920 reports that,

00:14:55.420 which are

00:14:55.940 fake,

00:14:56.440 these are fake

00:14:57.080 reports,

00:14:58.080 somebody,

00:14:59.020 and oh,

00:14:59.540 that's one of

00:15:00.240 the fake ones

00:15:00.800 that I think I

00:15:01.340 reposted,

00:15:02.400 so that's

00:15:03.540 bad on me,

00:15:04.260 that's just a

00:15:04.840 mistake,

00:15:05.500 I should not

00:15:06.260 have been

00:15:06.480 trusting that

00:15:07.140 kind of

00:15:07.460 information that

00:15:08.980 early in the

00:15:09.720 story.

00:15:11.200 So that's

00:15:11.960 just an

00:15:13.820 unforced error.

00:15:15.320 So on my

00:15:15.820 part,

00:15:17.000 believing that

00:15:18.000 story,

00:15:19.220 that some

00:15:19.900 homeless person

00:15:20.700 said it,

00:15:21.280 which did not

00:15:21.860 happen,

00:15:23.260 that's on me.

00:15:24.980 That's just an

00:15:25.640 error.

00:15:26.260 I should have

00:15:26.660 said somebody

00:15:27.240 reports it,

00:15:28.040 but we don't

00:15:28.440 know.

00:15:28.940 That would

00:15:29.260 have been the

00:15:29.580 right answer.

00:15:30.920 So we still

00:15:31.640 don't know,

00:15:32.540 but I can tell

00:15:33.400 you that I

00:15:33.960 don't see a

00:15:34.500 direct link

00:15:35.280 from forest

00:15:36.800 management to

00:15:37.840 this particular

00:15:38.600 fire.

00:15:39.380 I do see

00:15:40.340 a gigantic

00:15:41.500 risk if

00:15:43.300 our fires

00:15:43.860 are,

00:15:44.240 if our

00:15:44.560 forests are

00:15:45.000 not well

00:15:45.600 managed,

00:15:46.060 and that

00:15:46.320 appears to

00:15:46.840 be the

00:15:47.060 case.

00:15:50.240 So we

00:15:50.860 don't know

00:15:51.120 about the

00:15:51.480 water reservoir

00:15:52.120 thing.

00:15:53.560 There are a

00:15:54.140 whole bunch

00:15:54.480 of questions

00:15:56.280 about,

00:15:56.880 you know,

00:15:59.300 whether water

00:15:59.880 resources have

00:16:00.920 been managed

00:16:01.420 correctly for

00:16:02.200 years.

00:16:02.660 It doesn't

00:16:03.120 look like

00:16:03.620 it.

00:16:04.140 It looks

00:16:04.860 like there

00:16:05.240 are enough

00:16:05.600 allegations of

00:16:06.700 things that

00:16:07.360 could have

00:16:07.740 solved the

00:16:08.140 problem.

00:16:09.060 I guess years

00:16:10.160 ago there

00:16:10.720 was some

00:16:11.040 big plan to

00:16:12.000 capture the

00:16:13.340 water runoff

00:16:14.220 and make it

00:16:14.820 available for

00:16:15.400 fires, but

00:16:16.160 that didn't

00:16:16.540 get passed.

00:16:17.960 Some people

00:16:18.720 will say it's

00:16:19.360 because of the

00:16:19.760 Democrats.

00:16:21.180 Other people

00:16:21.960 will say,

00:16:22.460 well, we

00:16:23.500 tried to get

00:16:23.980 this bipartisan

00:16:24.720 bill to have

00:16:25.500 more water,

00:16:26.180 but the

00:16:26.900 Republicans said

00:16:27.720 no for some

00:16:28.540 reason.

00:16:29.460 So I don't

00:16:29.940 know.

00:16:30.580 But I would

00:16:31.320 say the one

00:16:31.760 thing that I'm

00:16:33.120 confident about

00:16:34.240 is I'm

00:16:35.540 confident that

00:16:37.060 California has

00:16:37.840 completely

00:16:38.420 mismanaged its

00:16:40.220 water resources.

00:16:42.840 Would that

00:16:43.620 have made a

00:16:44.160 difference in

00:16:44.840 this specific

00:16:45.520 case?

00:16:47.380 Maybe not.

00:16:48.880 There's a

00:16:49.560 video of Joe

00:16:50.820 Rogan in

00:16:51.440 2024 in the

00:16:52.840 summer, which

00:16:53.820 is, you know,

00:16:54.300 just six months

00:16:54.940 ago, in which

00:16:56.120 he was saying

00:16:56.560 he talked to

00:16:57.140 a fireman.

00:16:58.940 So six months

00:17:00.040 before this fire

00:17:00.940 in L.A., a

00:17:02.320 fireman said,

00:17:03.120 we've been

00:17:05.020 lucky so

00:17:05.620 far, if we

00:17:06.640 get the

00:17:07.020 wind at the

00:17:07.600 same time as

00:17:08.560 a fire, all

00:17:10.080 of L.A.

00:17:10.580 is going to

00:17:10.960 burn.

00:17:12.040 This is from a

00:17:13.040 professional

00:17:13.500 fireman who

00:17:14.320 said, there's

00:17:14.960 no way around

00:17:15.620 it.

00:17:16.340 You're not

00:17:16.740 going to be

00:17:17.000 able to

00:17:17.280 stop it.

00:17:18.900 If the

00:17:19.500 fire starts

00:17:20.160 at the same

00:17:20.600 time as the

00:17:21.120 high wind,

00:17:21.740 which is

00:17:22.060 exactly what

00:17:22.720 happened, there

00:17:23.920 is no

00:17:24.460 defense.

00:17:25.780 So if you

00:17:27.100 say to me,

00:17:27.640 if only we

00:17:28.360 had more

00:17:28.820 water, we

00:17:29.600 could defend

00:17:30.300 it, I

00:17:31.260 say to

00:17:31.660 you, maybe

00:17:33.060 a little, but

00:17:35.380 it probably

00:17:36.060 would have

00:17:36.400 still taken

00:17:36.900 out most of

00:17:37.560 the area.

00:17:38.360 Maybe you

00:17:38.820 could save

00:17:39.160 some houses,

00:17:40.140 but it would

00:17:40.420 have taken

00:17:40.700 out most of

00:17:41.200 the area.

00:17:42.000 So the

00:17:42.340 bigger problem

00:17:43.040 was it was a

00:17:43.900 known problem

00:17:44.600 that was not

00:17:45.240 directly addressed.

00:17:46.260 So is it a

00:17:48.740 problem that

00:17:49.220 forests are

00:17:49.800 not managed?

00:17:50.480 It's a big

00:17:50.960 one, maybe

00:17:51.720 not directly

00:17:52.500 factor in

00:17:54.220 this fire.

00:17:55.340 Is the

00:17:56.120 water management

00:17:57.000 a problem?

00:17:57.760 Yes, poorly

00:17:58.500 done.

00:17:59.460 Was it

00:17:59.940 directly a

00:18:02.060 problem in

00:18:02.680 this fire?

00:18:03.880 Yes.

00:18:04.900 If your

00:18:05.600 house burned

00:18:06.160 down because

00:18:06.860 the fire

00:18:07.360 hydrogen didn't

00:18:09.340 work, you're

00:18:11.080 probably going

00:18:11.480 to say, why

00:18:13.300 didn't you

00:18:13.680 count on a

00:18:14.800 fire that's

00:18:15.320 this big or

00:18:15.900 something like

00:18:16.280 that.

00:18:17.080 But maybe

00:18:19.580 it couldn't

00:18:19.940 have been

00:18:20.180 stopped.

00:18:21.760 Maybe the

00:18:22.220 firemen in

00:18:22.940 2024 was

00:18:23.940 exactly right

00:18:24.740 and there

00:18:25.280 just wasn't

00:18:26.260 anything you

00:18:27.860 could do.

00:18:30.380 The mayor,

00:18:32.760 Karen Bass,

00:18:33.880 is it?

00:18:34.460 She happened

00:18:34.980 to be in

00:18:35.440 Ghana for

00:18:36.320 some government

00:18:39.080 thing that she

00:18:39.960 thought was

00:18:40.400 interesting.

00:18:41.780 And I'm

00:18:43.980 not sure that

00:18:44.620 anything is

00:18:45.240 different.

00:18:45.900 because the

00:18:47.460 mayor was

00:18:49.560 in a

00:18:49.840 different

00:18:50.060 country.

00:18:51.740 You know,

00:18:52.180 mayors travel

00:18:53.280 and even

00:18:53.960 though there's

00:18:54.340 no reason

00:18:54.720 they should

00:18:55.000 have been

00:18:55.220 doing some

00:18:55.720 international

00:18:56.340 work, I

00:18:57.700 mean, she

00:18:58.020 could have

00:18:58.320 been on

00:18:58.580 vacation.

00:18:59.620 There are

00:19:00.120 lots of

00:19:00.400 reasons that

00:19:00.840 people are

00:19:01.160 out of town.

00:19:01.520 I doubt

00:19:03.220 I doubt that

00:19:03.880 her absence

00:19:04.720 had any

00:19:06.060 impact on

00:19:06.680 the emergency

00:19:07.300 response.

00:19:08.960 But in

00:19:10.140 emergencies, you

00:19:11.000 want your

00:19:11.340 leaders to

00:19:11.920 act capable

00:19:12.800 and have

00:19:13.980 empathy and

00:19:14.920 be on hand

00:19:16.080 and tell you

00:19:17.680 everything they

00:19:18.220 know, give you

00:19:19.740 some hope that

00:19:21.020 they could get

00:19:21.560 this under

00:19:22.180 control.

00:19:22.600 So I don't

00:19:23.740 think she

00:19:24.120 did a good

00:19:24.620 job on

00:19:25.240 anything, but

00:19:27.600 probably it

00:19:28.060 didn't have

00:19:28.380 any, make

00:19:29.400 any difference

00:19:30.000 to any house

00:19:31.300 that burned

00:19:31.720 or didn't

00:19:32.120 burn.

00:19:32.380 When I found

00:19:33.740 out my friend

00:19:34.400 got a great

00:19:35.060 deal on a

00:19:35.700 wool coat from

00:19:36.320 Winners, I

00:19:37.240 started wondering,

00:19:38.620 is every fabulous

00:19:39.940 item I see from

00:19:40.900 Winners?

00:19:41.740 Like that woman

00:19:42.520 over there with

00:19:43.200 the designer jeans.

00:19:44.440 Are those from

00:19:45.280 Winners?

00:19:45.980 Ooh, or those

00:19:46.940 beautiful gold

00:19:47.560 earrings?

00:19:48.420 Did she pay full

00:19:49.020 price?

00:19:49.780 Or that leather

00:19:50.240 tote?

00:19:50.800 Or that cashmere

00:19:51.400 sweater?

00:19:52.020 Or those knee-high

00:19:52.640 boots?

00:19:53.480 That dress?

00:19:54.260 That jacket?

00:19:54.940 Those shoes?

00:19:55.960 Is anyone paying

00:19:57.140 full price for

00:19:57.920 anything?

00:19:58.900 Stop wondering.

00:20:00.180 Start winning.

00:20:01.100 Winners.

00:20:01.680 Find fabulous.

00:20:02.380 For less.

00:20:04.120 Then, I've got to

00:20:06.500 spend a moment

00:20:07.560 on this.

00:20:09.000 There's a lot of

00:20:09.860 accusations that

00:20:10.920 this is caused

00:20:11.520 by DEI.

00:20:13.740 And, I'm going

00:20:18.520 to make some

00:20:18.960 suggestions about

00:20:19.980 this.

00:20:20.960 So, I'll talk

00:20:21.960 about DEI after

00:20:22.960 I give the list

00:20:23.700 of other things

00:20:24.340 that people are

00:20:24.800 saying.

00:20:25.320 I don't think

00:20:26.120 you can pin it

00:20:26.840 on one person

00:20:27.540 and say that's

00:20:28.520 a DEI hire or

00:20:29.760 even more than

00:20:30.340 one person, but

00:20:31.600 more on that

00:20:32.260 moment.

00:20:36.080 So, let's

00:20:36.900 see.

00:20:38.900 There's something

00:20:39.600 about the

00:20:40.180 smelt fish.

00:20:42.540 Smelt?

00:20:43.140 Is it a

00:20:43.660 smelt fish or

00:20:44.620 is it just a

00:20:45.200 smelt?

00:20:46.540 Apparently,

00:20:47.440 Trump calls it

00:20:48.680 an extinct

00:20:49.680 fish.

00:20:52.380 I don't think

00:20:53.200 it's extinct,

00:20:54.140 which is the

00:20:54.740 whole point of

00:20:55.500 trying to preserve

00:20:56.220 it.

00:20:56.600 If it were

00:20:57.140 extinct, we

00:20:57.820 wouldn't be

00:20:58.180 worrying about it.

00:20:58.780 But it's

00:20:59.100 funny that he

00:20:59.640 calls it

00:21:00.000 extinct, an

00:21:01.360 extinct fish.

00:21:04.020 But apparently

00:21:05.000 there was some

00:21:05.980 movement to

00:21:08.680 provide more

00:21:09.520 water for

00:21:10.320 LA, but it

00:21:12.220 didn't work

00:21:12.980 because it

00:21:13.660 would have

00:21:13.860 been bad for

00:21:14.560 these rare

00:21:16.200 smelt, the

00:21:17.720 delta smelt.

00:21:18.560 Well, let

00:21:20.300 me tell you

00:21:20.680 what else

00:21:21.100 smelt about

00:21:22.020 this situation.

00:21:23.880 Everything.

00:21:25.140 So, I don't

00:21:25.520 know.

00:21:25.980 I think that

00:21:26.700 smelt fish is

00:21:27.980 going to be one

00:21:28.520 of those two

00:21:29.560 movies on one

00:21:30.500 screen.

00:21:32.960 I think CNN

00:21:33.920 is going to

00:21:34.380 tell you, oh,

00:21:35.120 that was a

00:21:35.640 bipartisan thing,

00:21:36.880 or Republicans

00:21:37.560 should have

00:21:38.660 said yes, or

00:21:39.580 there's going to

00:21:40.500 be another story

00:21:41.380 to that.

00:21:41.840 I don't

00:21:42.540 think it's

00:21:42.900 as clean

00:21:43.660 as we

00:21:45.840 traded smelt

00:21:46.960 for human

00:21:47.720 beings, although

00:21:50.740 in some ways

00:21:51.800 it looks exactly

00:21:52.580 like that, but

00:21:53.880 probably there's a

00:21:54.500 little extra

00:21:54.860 context on that

00:21:55.800 one.

00:21:58.140 And then the

00:21:59.240 part that is

00:21:59.900 definitely true is

00:22:01.160 that the insurance

00:22:01.900 policy caps that

00:22:04.440 California tried to

00:22:05.380 put on fire

00:22:06.680 insurance policies

00:22:07.620 caused a shortage

00:22:09.920 of fire insurance

00:22:10.900 policies.

00:22:11.840 Because the fire

00:22:12.940 insurance people

00:22:13.720 said, no thanks,

00:22:15.780 if we can't make

00:22:16.580 money, we don't

00:22:17.900 want to be in

00:22:18.300 your state, so

00:22:19.020 they pulled

00:22:19.340 out.

00:22:20.440 So, what

00:22:21.960 makes this

00:22:22.600 particular

00:22:23.700 situation go

00:22:25.600 from tragic

00:22:26.660 to, how do

00:22:32.220 I say this

00:22:32.740 without being

00:22:33.260 canceled?

00:22:34.320 All right, I'm

00:22:34.920 going to speak

00:22:35.260 as indirectly as

00:22:36.400 I can, and you

00:22:37.020 can piece it

00:22:37.580 together.

00:22:39.440 If an ordinary

00:22:40.500 tragedy happens,

00:22:41.840 you get into

00:22:43.360 tragedy mode, you're

00:22:45.140 like trying to

00:22:45.600 help people, you're

00:22:46.420 feeling sad, you're

00:22:47.340 feeling impacted, you're

00:22:48.860 basically just feeling

00:22:50.000 terrible, but trying to

00:22:51.680 do what you can, if

00:22:53.180 it's just a tragedy.

00:22:55.660 If it's a tragedy, which

00:22:57.640 would have been halved by

00:22:59.760 your insurance kicking

00:23:01.080 in and at least paying

00:23:02.400 for what you lost, that

00:23:05.440 would be half as big.

00:23:07.120 But it wouldn't be just

00:23:08.400 a change of you being

00:23:09.500 half as mad.

00:23:12.160 It's the difference

00:23:13.180 between, and here's

00:23:14.040 where I have to be

00:23:14.520 careful, it's the

00:23:16.500 difference between

00:23:17.080 people feeling bad and

00:23:19.560 people feeling

00:23:20.280 homicidal.

00:23:22.760 Was that indirect

00:23:23.820 enough?

00:23:25.300 We're looking at the

00:23:26.360 government of

00:23:26.920 California, and I can

00:23:29.040 tell you from personal

00:23:30.120 experience, my emotions,

00:23:33.760 I'm trying to keep

00:23:35.300 under control.

00:23:37.000 And if you're seeing

00:23:37.740 a lot of Californians

00:23:38.800 talking in ways that

00:23:40.300 you think are unusually

00:23:41.640 calm, given the

00:23:43.300 situation, like James

00:23:45.780 Woods, you saw him

00:23:47.220 acting completely calm

00:23:49.080 that the house he

00:23:50.100 loved and just rebuilt

00:23:51.520 and remodeled was

00:23:53.200 lost, and he had no

00:23:54.040 insurance.

00:23:55.000 Now, he has better

00:23:55.760 resources maybe than

00:23:56.800 other people, but even

00:23:58.680 he broke down on an

00:24:00.400 interview.

00:24:00.640 So, don't mistake how

00:24:04.440 strong people are

00:24:05.880 acting with how they're

00:24:07.700 feeling on the inside.

00:24:09.260 This feels like we got

00:24:12.420 raped.

00:24:15.220 That's what it feels

00:24:16.240 like.

00:24:16.940 It doesn't feel like a

00:24:18.100 tragedy happened.

00:24:19.560 It feels like we got

00:24:20.660 raped.

00:24:23.480 All of us.

00:24:25.300 Even if you're not

00:24:27.580 directly affected, do

00:24:29.400 you know what this is

00:24:30.020 going to do to the

00:24:30.760 possibility of getting

00:24:31.800 insurance anywhere in

00:24:33.820 the state?

00:24:34.940 This just made the

00:24:36.100 entire state unlivable.

00:24:38.260 They're going to have

00:24:38.820 to tax the bejesus

00:24:40.180 out of us to pay for

00:24:41.180 whatever this caused.

00:24:43.100 The level of economic

00:24:44.440 destruction, I don't

00:24:46.120 even think you can

00:24:46.860 calculate it.

00:24:48.340 It's bigger than

00:24:49.320 anything that's ever

00:24:50.160 happened in the country.

00:24:53.360 And so, I feel a sense

00:24:55.000 of rage that makes me

00:24:59.360 in revenge-y, homicidal

00:25:01.860 head instead of

00:25:04.240 recovery from an

00:25:06.440 event head.

00:25:07.500 I want to be just in the

00:25:09.840 healthful recovery mode.

00:25:11.940 But man, when they give you

00:25:13.840 the double tap, you know,

00:25:15.680 one in the chest, one in

00:25:16.780 the head.

00:25:17.620 One in the chest was the

00:25:19.020 bad fire management.

00:25:20.880 The one in the head was you

00:25:21.980 don't have insurance

00:25:22.820 because we changed the

00:25:24.340 rules in an obvious way,

00:25:26.520 in a way that obviously

00:25:27.660 would make insurance go

00:25:28.820 away and not be

00:25:30.640 available.

00:25:31.840 You do that.

00:25:33.940 I don't think the

00:25:35.000 resident, let me say it

00:25:37.180 in the way that I heard

00:25:40.980 as stated, and I'm not

00:25:42.560 going to attribute this,

00:25:44.240 but without attribution,

00:25:46.000 I heard yesterday a

00:25:47.400 Californian who was

00:25:48.280 directly affected say,

00:25:49.500 of one of the leading

00:25:51.920 politicians who was

00:25:53.020 getting a lot of blame.

00:25:54.140 Again, I won't be

00:25:54.780 specific.

00:25:56.400 And the advice was,

00:25:58.300 I wouldn't show

00:25:59.240 yourself in public.

00:26:02.060 Now, that advice, I

00:26:03.320 think, was well

00:26:03.920 intended as a

00:26:05.960 security thing.

00:26:07.120 You need to know that

00:26:09.160 people feel homicidal.

00:26:11.460 They don't feel just

00:26:13.140 hurt.

00:26:14.220 This is not like other

00:26:15.720 things.

00:26:16.540 The level of

00:26:18.300 incompetence,

00:26:20.580 apparently, is so

00:26:23.060 extreme that it

00:26:24.840 doesn't feel like an

00:26:26.020 accident.

00:26:27.640 It feels intentional.

00:26:29.440 It wasn't intentional.

00:26:30.760 But it feels like it.

00:26:32.480 It feels like people

00:26:34.040 just raped us because

00:26:36.980 they didn't give a

00:26:38.160 shit.

00:26:39.580 So, if you think we're

00:26:40.880 going to get over this,

00:26:42.040 I doubt it.

00:26:43.320 I doubt it.

00:26:44.740 I don't think we're

00:26:45.620 going to get over this.

00:26:46.700 And you didn't have to

00:26:47.440 be in the fire zone to

00:26:48.520 not get over it.

00:26:49.600 I'm not getting over

00:26:50.320 this.

00:26:52.040 This is the wake-up

00:26:53.220 call.

00:26:53.740 It's the tap on the

00:26:54.560 shoulder that says,

00:26:56.180 you know, all that

00:26:56.640 complaining you did,

00:26:58.380 complaining is

00:26:59.880 nothing.

00:27:01.860 Complaining is

00:27:03.120 nothing.

00:27:04.680 At this point,

00:27:06.300 pretty serious action,

00:27:08.260 and I hope it's not

00:27:09.080 the homicidal kind,

00:27:11.000 is required.

00:27:11.780 And I do believe

00:27:13.300 that people of

00:27:16.060 character are going

00:27:17.540 to act really

00:27:18.420 differently.

00:27:19.540 And some of them

00:27:20.080 will be sacrificing

00:27:21.040 their personal

00:27:22.480 fortunes, some will

00:27:23.680 be sacrificing their

00:27:24.960 reputations, but the

00:27:26.980 risk-reward equation

00:27:28.900 just changed

00:27:29.520 completely.

00:27:30.880 Once you realize you

00:27:32.080 can't live in this

00:27:33.120 state the way it is,

00:27:35.260 then you're going to

00:27:36.460 take a bigger risk to

00:27:37.460 change it.

00:27:38.420 You know, if you're

00:27:38.840 just like, ah, I

00:27:39.560 don't like it, but

00:27:40.320 next year is going to

00:27:42.020 be a lot like this

00:27:42.760 year.

00:27:44.020 You know, you're just

00:27:44.880 going to get on with

00:27:45.580 your life.

00:27:46.560 But now it's an

00:27:47.540 existential risk just

00:27:49.020 to be managed by

00:27:50.000 incompetence.

00:27:51.800 It's an existential

00:27:52.820 risk of

00:27:54.180 incompetence.

00:27:56.780 Now, I will remind

00:27:58.780 you, as I was

00:28:00.080 reminded just moments

00:28:01.200 ago before the show

00:28:02.020 started, that it was

00:28:04.800 a while ago that I

00:28:05.900 warned that DEI

00:28:07.420 would cause massive

00:28:09.900 institutional and

00:28:11.780 corporate and

00:28:12.600 government incompetence

00:28:13.940 and it would be

00:28:15.180 really, really obvious

00:28:16.580 and it could destroy

00:28:18.100 everything we love.

00:28:20.540 Now, when people

00:28:22.160 mentioned that on

00:28:23.100 TV, such as the

00:28:25.000 amazing Scott

00:28:25.900 Jennings, he got

00:28:27.100 into that conversation

00:28:28.040 on CNN, it went

00:28:29.700 completely off the

00:28:30.780 rail.

00:28:32.060 And it was, I'm

00:28:33.140 going to call it a

00:28:34.240 rare communication

00:28:36.100 mistake by Scott

00:28:37.500 Jennings.

00:28:38.840 You know, when I

00:28:39.840 talk about him,

00:28:41.140 usually it's like,

00:28:42.080 oh my God, he just

00:28:42.980 explained things so

00:28:44.840 well among this

00:28:46.880 panel of Democrats

00:28:48.380 and, you know, he

00:28:49.620 won that day and,

00:28:50.980 you know, I'll be

00:28:51.380 forwarding around.

00:28:52.420 So in general, he's

00:28:54.680 the best we have.

00:28:56.540 If you're looking at

00:28:57.640 like who's the best

00:28:58.800 communicator who's not

00:29:00.060 Trump himself, it

00:29:02.040 might be Scott

00:29:02.700 Jennings.

00:29:03.100 He's really, really

00:29:04.420 impressive.

00:29:05.260 But on the DEI stuff,

00:29:06.880 total fail.

00:29:08.200 Now, I think it's

00:29:09.100 easy to correct and

00:29:10.560 I would expect he

00:29:11.260 will.

00:29:12.220 Here's the correction.

00:29:14.320 And I posted this.

00:29:16.220 I hope he sees it.

00:29:17.840 But accusing people,

00:29:19.380 specific people, if

00:29:21.700 what you're doing is

00:29:22.540 accusing specific

00:29:24.520 people of being DEI

00:29:26.680 hires, we don't have

00:29:28.280 that kind of

00:29:28.820 information.

00:29:30.240 You know, we can

00:29:30.640 tell that they're in a

00:29:31.600 certain demographic

00:29:32.340 group, but you

00:29:33.500 can't tell that that's

00:29:34.800 the problem.

00:29:36.160 You can't look at a

00:29:36.940 specific case and say,

00:29:38.700 oh, if Karen Bass

00:29:40.360 had been a white guy,

00:29:41.980 everything would be

00:29:42.720 fine.

00:29:43.800 Now, that might,

00:29:45.040 it might be that she

00:29:47.460 is a DEI hire and

00:29:48.640 then that's the whole

00:29:49.240 story and the police

00:29:50.940 chief is DEI hire and

00:29:52.520 you've got everything

00:29:53.820 you need.

00:29:54.540 It might be.

00:29:55.680 But we don't have that

00:29:56.620 kind of information.

00:29:58.140 So when Scott

00:29:58.840 Jennings brought up

00:30:00.540 the DEI element,

00:30:02.300 he had a couple of

00:30:03.080 black female panelists

00:30:04.520 who just ate him up.

00:30:06.260 And what they did is

00:30:07.400 they do the thing

00:30:08.180 where they say,

00:30:09.780 why are you saying

00:30:10.340 that black women

00:30:11.580 can't do a good job?

00:30:13.760 Nobody says that.

00:30:15.180 That has nothing,

00:30:16.020 that has absolutely

00:30:16.760 nothing to do with

00:30:17.500 the DEI conversation.

00:30:19.080 The DEI conversation

00:30:20.320 is not about the

00:30:22.440 capability of one,

00:30:24.180 any particular group.

00:30:25.660 it's not a capability.

00:30:28.300 It's a system

00:30:30.140 incentive design

00:30:31.900 problem that you

00:30:34.280 could replace,

00:30:35.260 you could replace

00:30:36.120 anybody in this

00:30:36.980 equation and you

00:30:38.420 get the same bad

00:30:39.100 outcome.

00:30:40.300 So nobody's saying

00:30:41.520 that there's

00:30:42.280 something special

00:30:42.960 about black women

00:30:44.100 not being able to

00:30:46.500 do stuff.

00:30:48.200 I'm not aware of

00:30:49.100 anybody who has

00:30:49.680 that opinion.

00:30:50.560 It's more about

00:30:51.620 the system.

00:30:53.700 And let me explain

00:30:54.440 that a little bit

00:30:54.940 better.

00:30:56.660 So the first

00:30:57.580 point is that as

00:30:58.580 soon as you apply

00:30:59.280 it to any

00:30:59.720 individual,

00:31:01.260 you're on thin

00:31:02.820 ice, you don't

00:31:03.640 have the proof of

00:31:04.420 that, unless you

00:31:05.540 worked with that

00:31:06.160 person every day,

00:31:07.280 you probably don't

00:31:08.520 know if they're

00:31:08.960 doing a good or

00:31:09.580 bad job.

00:31:10.500 You know,

00:31:10.680 sometimes there

00:31:11.680 are other variables

00:31:12.480 that makes stuff

00:31:13.560 impossible.

00:31:14.740 But here's what

00:31:15.400 you can say.

00:31:16.780 You can say,

00:31:17.600 number one,

00:31:18.060 that leaders focus

00:31:18.940 on what is easiest

00:31:19.900 to measure.

00:31:21.060 That probably is

00:31:22.180 the number one

00:31:22.820 most important thing

00:31:23.740 you need to know

00:31:24.380 about management.

00:31:25.660 that managers

00:31:27.380 manage to things

00:31:28.840 that can be

00:31:29.380 tracked.

00:31:30.580 Why do they do

00:31:31.300 that?

00:31:32.000 Because when they

00:31:32.520 get their bonuses

00:31:33.260 and their awards

00:31:34.840 and their raises,

00:31:36.440 it's going to be

00:31:37.900 based on what

00:31:38.800 can be measured.

00:31:39.720 what is easier to

00:31:41.820 measure than

00:31:43.360 diversity improvement?

00:31:45.480 It's easy.

00:31:46.700 What are you?

00:31:47.640 I'm a woman.

00:31:48.780 Got it.

00:31:50.300 What are you?

00:31:51.280 I identify as

00:31:52.220 black.

00:31:52.780 Got it.

00:31:54.440 Right?

00:31:54.980 Easy to count.

00:31:56.600 Easy to keep track.

00:31:58.300 Easy to see how it

00:31:59.320 changed from what it

00:32:00.220 was to where it is.

00:32:01.440 If you give any

00:32:02.680 manager that

00:32:03.660 situation where it's

00:32:05.400 easy to know what,

00:32:06.900 if you did it right,

00:32:09.120 or at least if you

00:32:09.900 hit the goal,

00:32:10.680 I won't say right,

00:32:11.680 but you hit the goal,

00:32:12.940 they're going to manage

00:32:13.840 that.

00:32:14.860 And they're going to

00:32:15.520 let other things

00:32:16.460 lapse because it

00:32:18.620 won't affect their

00:32:20.120 pay.

00:32:20.380 For example,

00:32:23.280 suppose several years

00:32:24.560 ago,

00:32:25.340 the people in charge

00:32:26.280 had decided to

00:32:27.760 do a big water

00:32:29.920 management

00:32:30.580 improvement.

00:32:32.340 How long would it

00:32:33.400 take to get that

00:32:34.520 approved,

00:32:35.460 to get it built,

00:32:36.560 to see if it

00:32:37.460 worked?

00:32:38.320 And then even when

00:32:39.040 you built it,

00:32:39.560 you wouldn't know if

00:32:40.120 it worked.

00:32:40.980 You would only know

00:32:41.900 that there weren't

00:32:42.660 any fires lately.

00:32:44.340 You wouldn't know

00:32:45.160 that it worked.

00:32:46.260 So if you've got

00:32:47.140 this big ambiguous,

00:32:48.260 but way more

00:32:49.820 important thing to

00:32:50.580 do,

00:32:51.260 the water management

00:32:52.020 is way more

00:32:52.880 important than

00:32:54.100 other things,

00:32:54.880 but it takes a

00:32:56.200 long time.

00:32:56.980 You can't tell

00:32:57.500 what any one

00:32:58.220 person did to

00:32:59.120 make it happen.

00:33:00.320 It's really hard

00:33:01.120 to be held

00:33:03.160 responsible for

00:33:04.060 that.

00:33:05.020 So if you're a

00:33:05.660 manager,

00:33:06.120 you go for what

00:33:06.800 can be measured

00:33:07.480 easily,

00:33:08.240 you focus on it,

00:33:09.320 that's where your

00:33:09.920 pay depends.

00:33:11.480 Then on top of

00:33:12.220 that,

00:33:12.740 the second thing

00:33:13.300 you need to know

00:33:13.820 is that every

00:33:14.400 major company is

00:33:15.700 trying to improve

00:33:16.500 their diversity

00:33:17.240 at the same

00:33:17.920 time.

00:33:19.100 And I would

00:33:19.500 argue even the

00:33:21.080 companies that

00:33:22.340 may have renounced

00:33:24.120 their DEI efforts,

00:33:26.160 the individual

00:33:26.900 managers are still

00:33:28.820 going to be hiring

00:33:29.480 with a DEI goal.

00:33:31.920 You don't need a

00:33:33.080 DEI program because

00:33:36.300 those same managers

00:33:37.380 are still going to

00:33:38.000 be bragging if they

00:33:39.060 get more diversity.

00:33:40.720 You could get away

00:33:41.900 with, give up the

00:33:43.260 entire incentive

00:33:43.980 system, but if one

00:33:45.940 of the people

00:33:46.360 says, well, I

00:33:47.320 diversified my

00:33:49.360 department, and

00:33:51.000 the other manager

00:33:51.960 that they're

00:33:52.440 competing against

00:33:53.260 for the top job

00:33:54.140 says, oh, I

00:33:55.400 did some long-term

00:33:57.280 things that are

00:33:58.820 really smart, but

00:34:00.300 how did it turn

00:34:01.520 out?

00:34:01.780 Well, we won't

00:34:02.700 know because lots

00:34:03.920 of people involved,

00:34:05.100 it could take years,

00:34:06.420 if it doesn't work,

00:34:07.460 it might not be my

00:34:08.320 fault, it could be

00:34:09.080 the legislation,

00:34:11.040 right?

00:34:11.300 So, anyway, so

00:34:15.820 if you have every

00:34:16.440 company trying to do

00:34:17.360 it at the same

00:34:17.900 time, even if it's

00:34:18.860 not part of an

00:34:19.600 organized program,

00:34:21.300 you're going to run

00:34:22.220 out of your target

00:34:23.360 demographics.

00:34:25.060 And here's the

00:34:25.900 important thing to

00:34:26.540 know, you could

00:34:27.860 switch out the

00:34:28.620 target demographics

00:34:29.640 and replace it with

00:34:31.040 any other group,

00:34:32.500 and it's the same.

00:34:33.920 That's why it's not

00:34:35.100 a racist observation.

00:34:36.680 For example, let's

00:34:39.020 say your DEI program

00:34:40.300 was you had to

00:34:41.760 hire more Irish

00:34:43.680 people or Irish

00:34:45.420 Americans, and

00:34:47.280 that's it.

00:34:49.060 How's that going to

00:34:49.860 work out?

00:34:50.800 You're going to

00:34:51.200 maximize Irish

00:34:52.500 American, now

00:34:54.440 there are a lot of

00:34:54.980 Irish Americans, but

00:34:56.480 if everybody suddenly

00:34:57.680 said, oh, God, I

00:34:58.780 got to get myself an

00:34:59.900 Irish guy, you would

00:35:02.720 run out of highly

00:35:03.920 qualified Irish

00:35:05.180 Americans who

00:35:06.680 on day two.

00:35:08.860 On day one, all the

00:35:10.060 smart ones with a

00:35:11.820 good resume have

00:35:12.480 already been hired.

00:35:13.200 Ah, we got an

00:35:14.260 Irish guy.

00:35:15.200 Yes, it's going to

00:35:16.420 look good on my

00:35:17.020 resume.

00:35:19.180 So, when Scott

00:35:22.360 Jennings on CNN

00:35:23.480 allows his panelists

00:35:25.380 to argue that black

00:35:27.920 women can do any

00:35:28.860 job, nobody's

00:35:31.480 disagreeing with

00:35:32.200 that, that the

00:35:33.480 right qualified

00:35:34.160 person of any

00:35:35.180 demographic can do

00:35:36.620 pretty much any

00:35:37.360 job.

00:35:39.040 And the thing

00:35:40.140 that you have to

00:35:40.680 understand is you

00:35:41.460 can replace that

00:35:42.220 target demographic

00:35:43.280 with anybody.

00:35:45.140 You can take black

00:35:46.540 women out of the

00:35:47.220 conversation entirely.

00:35:49.260 But Irish men,

00:35:51.400 Irish men, same

00:35:53.000 problem.

00:35:54.240 If you're managing

00:35:55.260 to the number of

00:35:56.040 Irish men on your

00:35:56.960 staff, you're in

00:35:57.960 trouble.

00:35:58.880 You're going to have

00:35:59.820 massive incompetence if

00:36:01.200 you fast forward 20

00:36:02.160 years.

00:36:03.120 And here we are.

00:36:04.520 We are in a position

00:36:05.880 of massive, massive

00:36:08.520 incompetence.

00:36:09.760 Is it the cause of

00:36:11.160 any specific demographic

00:36:12.460 group?

00:36:14.620 Can't tell.

00:36:15.860 The only thing you can

00:36:16.640 know for sure is that

00:36:19.120 this was a guaranteed

00:36:20.060 outcome.

00:36:21.300 That the design of the

00:36:22.660 incentive system and the

00:36:24.840 natural limitation of any

00:36:26.960 demographic group to have,

00:36:28.400 you know, unlimited people

00:36:29.680 in it is all you needed

00:36:31.560 to know.

00:36:32.280 On paper, it couldn't

00:36:34.060 have worked.

00:36:35.160 And that's why it's so

00:36:36.120 important to reverse it

00:36:37.040 and reverse our thinking

00:36:38.680 about it.

00:36:40.680 So, Scott Jennings, I

00:36:43.440 hope you make that

00:36:44.120 correction.

00:36:44.660 The first thing you

00:36:45.260 should say is it's not

00:36:46.120 about any individual.

00:36:47.520 It's about a system

00:36:48.440 design.

00:36:49.500 If you have incentives

00:36:50.560 that make people do the

00:36:51.880 wrong thing, they'll do

00:36:52.780 the wrong thing.

00:36:53.980 And that's where we are.

00:36:56.420 Now, some of the worst

00:36:57.700 takes on this, Bernie

00:37:00.300 Sanders weighs in while

00:37:01.660 people are running for

00:37:02.640 their lives and posts

00:37:04.660 this.

00:37:05.860 80,000 people told to

00:37:07.380 evacuate.

00:37:08.000 I think it's twice that

00:37:08.880 now since he posted it.

00:37:10.600 80,000 people told to

00:37:11.800 evacuate.

00:37:13.080 He said blazes, 0%

00:37:14.600 contained.

00:37:16.040 And so far I'm thinking,

00:37:17.200 oh, this is Bernie being

00:37:18.460 helpful.

00:37:19.100 He's telling us how bad

00:37:20.900 it is and then he's going

00:37:21.720 to hit us with what we

00:37:23.700 should do about it.

00:37:24.780 He says eight months

00:37:25.700 since the area has seen

00:37:27.140 rain, okay, that did make

00:37:29.180 it worse.

00:37:30.220 The scale of the damage

00:37:31.160 and loss is unimaginable.

00:37:33.520 Thank you for, you know,

00:37:35.400 recognizing how bad this is.

00:37:37.200 And then he said climate

00:37:38.740 change is real, not a

00:37:40.600 hoax.

00:37:44.600 Donald Trump must treat

00:37:46.060 this like the existential

00:37:47.320 crisis it is, meaning

00:37:50.000 climate change.

00:37:53.180 Well, you can imagine

00:37:55.960 how I felt when I read

00:37:58.300 that.

00:37:58.580 Have I mentioned that we

00:38:01.000 Californians don't feel

00:38:02.320 like we went through a

00:38:03.240 tragedy?

00:38:04.200 We feel like we got

00:38:05.640 raped by you, by

00:38:10.340 politicians.

00:38:11.480 You know, so Bernie,

00:38:12.740 Bernie, you know,

00:38:13.700 indirectly.

00:38:15.340 And the fact that

00:38:17.240 California was focusing

00:38:18.460 on your little pet

00:38:19.580 project, the climate

00:38:21.320 change, which I believe

00:38:22.940 is mostly freaking fake

00:38:24.700 because it only applies

00:38:26.520 to people who think

00:38:27.220 the news is real and

00:38:28.740 science is not corrupt.

00:38:30.340 If you think the news

00:38:31.760 is real and science is

00:38:33.780 not completely corrupted

00:38:34.940 by money, you might

00:38:36.140 believe that this climate

00:38:37.100 change has been proven

00:38:38.240 by all the smart people

00:38:39.860 to be a danger.

00:38:41.380 Now, it might be a

00:38:42.400 danger.

00:38:43.140 I often say, I don't

00:38:44.640 know.

00:38:45.660 I don't know how much

00:38:46.660 people are contributing

00:38:47.480 to it.

00:38:48.660 I see both sides.

00:38:50.280 I don't think any of

00:38:51.400 them are believable from

00:38:52.420 my point of view because

00:38:53.320 I can't tell.

00:38:55.060 But I can tell you for

00:38:56.260 sure that if you think

00:38:57.240 the climate models are

00:38:58.600 predicting the future,

00:39:00.740 you have not looked into

00:39:02.520 it very much.

00:39:03.460 If you think we can

00:39:04.380 measure the temperature

00:39:05.300 of the earth over

00:39:06.860 decades, you haven't

00:39:09.400 looked into it.

00:39:10.700 And I find that I can't

00:39:12.000 even have a conversation

00:39:13.160 with somebody who thinks

00:39:14.900 all of that climate,

00:39:16.240 the alarm part, is true.

00:39:18.620 You can't even talk to

00:39:20.660 them because they've

00:39:21.680 been so hypnotized,

00:39:22.680 they think the news is

00:39:23.680 real.

00:39:24.400 The news is not real

00:39:25.920 about anything important.

00:39:28.080 The news could have a

00:39:29.080 correct fact now and

00:39:31.000 then, but the narrative

00:39:33.420 is never real.

00:39:35.480 Narratives are always

00:39:36.220 motivated.

00:39:37.100 They're not real.

00:39:38.960 If you believe the news

00:39:40.320 is even trying to be

00:39:41.700 real, you can't be

00:39:43.080 reached.

00:39:44.100 You have to first

00:39:45.440 understand that they're

00:39:46.660 not trying to tell you

00:39:47.760 the truth.

00:39:48.620 It's just not, it's not

00:39:50.060 their business model.

00:39:51.820 And if you think that

00:39:53.900 anybody, under any

00:39:56.080 circumstances, can take

00:39:57.800 all these weird hidden

00:39:59.040 variables and gigantic

00:40:00.600 variables and hard to

00:40:02.260 measure variables and put

00:40:03.380 them into a complicated

00:40:04.280 model and tell you the

00:40:05.980 temperature in 10 years,

00:40:07.920 how do I begin to tell

00:40:09.820 you how impossible that

00:40:11.180 is?

00:40:12.100 That's not something that

00:40:13.400 the smart people figured

00:40:14.500 out.

00:40:14.820 That is a pure hoax, the

00:40:18.060 models part.

00:40:19.400 Now, what I'm not calling

00:40:20.220 the hoax is, I don't know

00:40:21.360 if it's getting warmer.

00:40:22.620 I don't know if people are

00:40:23.900 involved.

00:40:24.720 I just know that nobody

00:40:26.060 else knows.

00:40:27.060 I know for sure that nobody

00:40:29.540 else knows.

00:40:31.880 So, but my problem with

00:40:33.560 Bernie is not that he

00:40:35.080 believes in climate change

00:40:36.320 and I'm pretty sure that he's

00:40:38.100 wrong, at least in terms of

00:40:40.040 the alarm part of it.

00:40:41.320 So, my part is, you need

00:40:44.160 to be able to read the

00:40:45.160 room a little bit better.

00:40:46.860 You don't talk to rape

00:40:48.220 victims about wearing a

00:40:49.700 condom.

00:40:50.340 You know what I mean?

00:40:51.840 You don't talk to rape

00:40:52.920 victims about wearing a

00:40:54.240 condom.

00:40:55.680 You know, maybe you should

00:40:57.180 have a condom with you.

00:40:58.900 Now, you are just making

00:41:00.980 it worse.

00:41:02.300 So, my first reaction was I

00:41:04.240 was just going to go

00:41:04.960 nuclear and I had every F

00:41:07.500 bomb and like I was ready

00:41:09.960 to go and my fingers hit

00:41:11.200 the keyboard and I said,

00:41:14.180 I'm not going to make it

00:41:16.920 worse because that was just

00:41:19.440 a pure emotional reaction.

00:41:22.080 So, instead, I reposted

00:41:24.640 this.

00:41:24.920 I said, Senator Sanders, as

00:41:26.780 a Californian, I respectfully

00:41:28.500 ask for you to delete this

00:41:29.980 post.

00:41:31.060 No Californian thinks climate

00:41:32.560 change dried up the fire

00:41:33.980 hydrants and canceled fire

00:41:35.620 insurance.

00:41:36.140 Now, whether my take is, you

00:41:39.620 know, factually correct that

00:41:41.280 the fire hydrants were a

00:41:43.060 problem that somehow was

00:41:44.640 undermanaged or that the

00:41:47.200 canceled, well, the canceled

00:41:48.440 fire insurance, that's

00:41:50.240 certainly a fact.

00:41:53.640 But, and then I told him to

00:41:57.580 read the room.

00:41:58.780 Two million people agreed with

00:42:01.320 me, which is very unusual for

00:42:03.800 a post on X, to get two

00:42:06.560 million views.

00:42:07.800 That means people really

00:42:09.220 agreed.

00:42:09.960 Not every person, but it

00:42:11.040 means a lot of people agreed

00:42:12.300 with my take that he was not

00:42:13.680 reading the room.

00:42:15.060 And I would like to add a few

00:42:16.300 things.

00:42:17.120 If the problem with the LA

00:42:18.620 fire were caused by climate

00:42:20.120 change, the whole world would

00:42:21.460 be on fire by now, right?

00:42:23.560 I'm pretty sure that the

00:42:24.560 climate change is not limited

00:42:25.920 to LA.

00:42:26.880 We would see basically everything

00:42:29.400 on fire if climate changes

00:42:31.540 cause fire.

00:42:32.640 If droughts caused fire,

00:42:35.100 everything that's having a

00:42:36.280 slightly under normal year,

00:42:39.120 which is what LA is, LA is in

00:42:41.600 what I think they call the

00:42:42.600 moderate drought, meaning it's

00:42:45.780 barely a drought and it's not

00:42:48.180 outside of the historical norm

00:42:50.000 whatsoever.

00:42:51.660 Not at all.

00:42:55.820 So, anyway.

00:42:59.400 Who else was bad?

00:43:01.340 Then Joe Biden, with his

00:43:02.700 defective brain, the

00:43:04.100 depressor, talked about the

00:43:05.960 fire, but nobody remembers

00:43:07.580 that.

00:43:08.260 All they remember is he had the

00:43:09.740 bad judgment to say, quote,

00:43:11.840 the good news is that I became

00:43:13.540 a grandpa.

00:43:16.140 Wow.

00:43:18.400 Wow.

00:43:19.760 Between Sanders and Biden, not

00:43:22.700 being able to read the room, do

00:43:25.020 they understand that California is

00:43:27.320 a blue state or was?

00:43:36.880 Let's see.

00:43:37.600 According to the New York

00:43:38.340 Post, I think Molly Hemingway

00:43:39.940 flagged this, that Governor

00:43:43.180 Newsom is launching his Trump

00:43:45.040 resistance plan this week.

00:43:48.080 So, Newsom wants to tell you how

00:43:51.000 much he was resisting Trump, which

00:43:53.800 looks like the problem, not the

00:43:55.680 solution, this week, doesn't it?

00:43:57.920 Because now we have, we have on

00:43:59.720 video, Trump saying all the right

00:44:02.220 things about fire prevention in

00:44:04.320 California.

00:44:05.260 You've blocked the water.

00:44:07.620 You block, you're not doing forest

00:44:09.740 management.

00:44:11.740 Turns out those were the right

00:44:13.140 answers.

00:44:14.320 Those were the right answers.

00:44:15.760 Of course, he's against DEI.

00:44:17.300 Again, we don't know that that

00:44:18.900 caused this problem, but it's the

00:44:20.800 right, you know, overarching

00:44:22.800 theme.

00:44:24.440 So, Trump was as right about this

00:44:27.300 situation and on time, because he

00:44:30.100 said it way before it happened.

00:44:31.820 He was right and he was on time.

00:44:35.400 And it looks like California

00:44:36.840 completely screwed the pooch in every

00:44:39.460 dimension.

00:44:40.640 At least it looks that way.

00:44:41.940 We don't know that that's true.

00:44:43.880 But let me talk about the future of

00:44:45.500 California politics, because

00:44:47.060 everything has a political element

00:44:48.980 to it.

00:44:52.460 Here's how Trump posted it.

00:44:54.480 He said, on one of his posts on

00:44:56.740 Truth, I think, he said that the

00:44:59.580 governor, new scum, as he calls him,

00:45:01.900 chose to save the extinct fish

00:45:03.860 instead of sending water to

00:45:05.280 Southern California to fight

00:45:06.640 apocalyptic wildfires.

00:45:09.320 Now, this is another example of how

00:45:11.620 good Trump is in messaging.

00:45:13.880 To take this big, complicated

00:45:17.860 situation and just turn it into new

00:45:21.080 scum, chosen extinct fish over

00:45:23.120 saving the lives of Californians,

00:45:25.660 it's an oversimplification.

00:45:28.280 And I don't even know if the fish

00:45:29.720 part is really a valid, I don't even

00:45:31.500 know if that's a valid claim.

00:45:33.040 Because if you turn on CNN, they're

00:45:34.920 going to say, well, but, you know,

00:45:36.660 it's Republicans' fault, too, and blah,

00:45:38.920 blah, blah.

00:45:39.320 I don't know what they say.

00:45:40.160 But there's more context to it.

00:45:42.740 However, as a political messaging

00:45:45.540 thing, the brilliance of the summary is

00:45:49.680 what Trump does better than anybody.

00:45:51.220 Nobody does that well.

00:45:52.680 He's the best ever at summarizing.

00:45:57.780 Nobody summarizes better than he does.

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00:47:01.420 Adam Carolla, who apparently is one of

00:47:04.000 the more famous people being displaced,

00:47:06.940 he looked like he was in a hotel room,

00:47:09.060 and he did a video and he was explaining

00:47:11.440 something that you might not fully

00:47:12.860 understand outside of California.

00:47:15.420 Do you know how hard it is to build

00:47:17.060 something in California?

00:47:18.920 All of these people who think, well, I'll

00:47:21.100 get my insurance check, or maybe I had

00:47:22.940 some extra money, and I'm going to

00:47:24.680 rebuild.

00:47:25.680 So they're going to go to the city and

00:47:27.340 say, here's my plan.

00:47:29.340 Oh my God, they're just entering hell.

00:47:32.420 I won't go into the details, but let me

00:47:34.500 just tell you this.

00:47:36.820 Getting a California entity, any city

00:47:40.620 really, to approve a building of anything

00:47:43.600 is pretty much a nightmare.

00:47:46.300 The house I'm in right now, I, you know,

00:47:49.740 had built, but I think it took 18 months

00:47:54.460 just to get approval, something like that.

00:47:58.340 Now, these are people who just think,

00:48:00.080 well, it should be easy, because I'm just

00:48:01.400 going to build back the house I had, you

00:48:03.180 know, with a slight variety.

00:48:05.540 It's not going to be easy.

00:48:07.460 You're going to spend a year not getting

00:48:09.120 the permit, and then good luck finding

00:48:12.500 a contractor, because everybody in your

00:48:15.400 whole city is trying to hire the contractor

00:48:18.300 who knows how to build stuff.

00:48:20.140 You're not going to have a contractor.

00:48:22.100 You're not going to be able to get

00:48:23.400 insurance.

00:48:24.380 You're not going to be able to pay for it

00:48:26.000 with the insurance you don't have.

00:48:27.780 You're not going to be able to get a

00:48:29.080 permit.

00:48:29.360 I don't believe the country, and maybe

00:48:36.340 even Californians, have absorbed how bad

00:48:39.160 this is.

00:48:40.480 You're seeing something closer to the

00:48:42.520 beginning of the problem than the end,

00:48:44.180 as bad as it was.

00:48:46.000 And we don't, I don't think we can fully

00:48:47.960 appreciate the economic disruption to the

00:48:50.480 state.

00:48:51.500 Who's going to pay for the recovery?

00:48:53.620 I don't think the federal government's

00:48:55.280 going to pay for it all.

00:48:56.480 Is this going to raise my California taxes

00:48:58.560 again, from the highest taxes to the

00:49:01.700 highest taxes on turbo?

00:49:04.880 How are we going to survive it?

00:49:06.460 How are we going to fix the things that

00:49:07.740 need to get fixed?

00:49:09.060 We're already paying the highest taxes, and

00:49:11.140 it feels like the lowest level of service

00:49:13.720 in return.

00:49:16.140 So no, if you think we're just going to

00:49:18.680 rebuild, you don't know California.

00:49:22.240 That might be just empty land for the

00:49:26.880 rest of my life.

00:49:28.560 Like, I don't know that it's, I just don't

00:49:31.600 see a path where that quickly gets fixed.

00:49:34.720 I don't know.

00:49:37.960 Here's what I think.

00:49:39.060 I think this has been such a black eye for

00:49:41.820 the management of the state that for the

00:49:44.540 first time recently, I can say, it's possible

00:49:49.300 to have a Republican governor.

00:49:50.580 Now, it would take a special character.

00:49:53.740 It would take a Reagan-type character who is a

00:49:56.700 Republican.

00:49:58.120 And I don't know anybody in the state who would

00:50:01.260 fit that, you know, Reagan-esque thing.

00:50:05.860 And would also have experience managing something.

00:50:09.420 Because you don't want somebody who's never managed

00:50:11.560 anything.

00:50:12.580 Because a state is, you know, as much management as

00:50:16.140 politics.

00:50:17.060 So it's not exactly like other jobs.

00:50:19.840 You need to manage.

00:50:20.900 So we need a, you know, DeSantis type of governor.

00:50:25.560 So if somebody like a DeSantis became available to run

00:50:29.620 for governor, it's the best time.

00:50:33.860 Now, other people are going to say, Scott, Scott, Scott.

00:50:36.540 I think you don't realize that the blue team has California all

00:50:43.300 wrapped up and nobody but a Democrat could win.

00:50:46.700 And it's not just because of the voters.

00:50:48.980 It's because the Democrat machine controls too much.

00:50:51.940 And they can rig any vote to go the way they want.

00:50:54.100 Because they just control too much.

00:50:55.940 Now, that might be true.

00:50:57.320 However, I think that the opening is now, if it's ever going to happen.

00:51:03.400 I saw some people suggest that maybe a smart independent, like

00:51:07.560 Nicole Shanahan, would be a possibility.

00:51:10.480 Now, I like everything about Nicole Shanahan.

00:51:12.440 But I don't know that she has exactly the right background for managing.

00:51:18.020 Because whoever takes this job has to, like, dig into, you know,

00:51:21.780 the whole water thing, the forest thing.

00:51:24.860 You know, it's really a management thing.

00:51:27.660 So as high quality and as much as I would trust Nicole Shanahan,

00:51:33.700 I like everything about her, basically.

00:51:35.640 I don't know if she has the exact background that fits this slot.

00:51:39.660 But maybe somebody will merge.

00:51:44.500 And then, as people have noted, the legislature would probably still stay blue.

00:51:48.120 And so even the governor couldn't get anything done.

00:51:50.320 So I saw somewhat related to this.

00:51:58.040 I saw a Bill Maher video, and he was talking to Stephen A. Smith.

00:52:02.260 And Maher said this that really caught my attention.

00:52:05.400 He said, quote,

00:52:05.860 I've been out with every type of celebrity, you know, meaning just having fun.

00:52:10.580 And he says, they don't say the things they say to me to other celebrities.

00:52:16.700 There it is.

00:52:19.160 Now, you probably said to yourself, Scott, you can't get a Republican governor

00:52:23.000 because the state is filled with so many Democrat voters,

00:52:28.000 you're never going to get over the hump.

00:52:29.500 I don't think they're Democrats.

00:52:32.220 I think they're literally pretending to be Democrats.

00:52:36.000 I think that every one of these people who may have been seeming like political enemies

00:52:43.020 are now seeing that the thing we need to, you know, get together on is common sense stuff.

00:52:49.460 I don't believe there's a Democrat who wanted less forest management.

00:52:54.740 Well, there's some crazy ones who, you know, want to preserve everything natural.

00:52:57.920 But not really.

00:53:00.140 I don't think there's any Democrats who say, I'm sure glad we didn't have enough water.

00:53:06.160 Right?

00:53:07.520 I don't think there are any Democrats who said,

00:53:10.200 sure is a good thing there were not enough escape routes from a place that is an obvious fire risk.

00:53:16.880 These are all so clearly and cleanly common sense issues

00:53:21.520 that I don't think anybody's going to give a shit about the smelt going forward.

00:53:29.400 Try stopping us from fixing the state because of a smelt.

00:53:35.560 Yeah.

00:53:36.340 Because I don't think that works anymore.

00:53:39.640 So, of course, I'm speaking from my own little bubble

00:53:42.580 because, you know, I'm very influenced by how I personally feel about this,

00:53:46.600 which is some intense feelings in many directions.

00:53:52.560 I'm pretty sure that this is the wake-up call that tells everybody in the South,

00:53:59.440 you know, the Republicans don't hate you.

00:54:02.500 You get that, right?

00:54:04.540 We really, I'm going to say we because I caucus with the Republicans,

00:54:08.640 even though I'm a Democrat by registration.

00:54:13.520 I think maybe it will be a little better understood

00:54:19.520 that Trump was on California's side

00:54:22.380 and whatever the Democrats running things were doing

00:54:25.320 may have been for their own benefit

00:54:27.720 or may have been just pure incompetence.

00:54:30.700 We don't know what it was,

00:54:32.480 but we know that Trump had exactly the right solution

00:54:35.860 in exactly the right time early.

00:54:38.020 And we know that the Democrats failed just in performance.

00:54:43.100 The exact reasons, hard to know, but they certainly failed.

00:54:50.040 Hunter Biden's rental burned up.

00:54:53.720 And I think the thing that bothered me the most about that

00:54:57.020 was that it was a rental.

00:54:59.460 Like, it's bad enough if you're the landlord for Hunter Biden

00:55:04.340 because you remember we heard the story that he'd rented someplace

00:55:08.480 and didn't pay in the past, a different place,

00:55:10.840 but he'd been renting a place and didn't pay the rent.

00:55:13.900 And then he used the secret service to keep the landlord

00:55:16.480 from getting to him to ask for the rent.

00:55:19.100 That is like the most effed up thing you're going to hear.

00:55:22.720 He didn't pay the rent

00:55:24.200 and he used his secret service protection

00:55:27.420 to make sure that nobody would come bug him to get the rent.

00:55:33.300 That actually happened.

00:55:35.200 Was it Sean McGuire, I think, was the landlord there?

00:55:39.100 So I don't think he's in that house anymore,

00:55:41.360 but I just feel sorry, doubly sorry for whoever owned it

00:55:46.840 because they lost their house that was rental,

00:55:50.060 but also they had Hunter Biden as a resident.

00:55:54.080 I mean, I don't know if you could even clean it after that.

00:55:58.840 Christy Teigen and John Legend and their kids are in a hotel.

00:56:02.560 Henry Winkler said some angry, drunk-looking things.

00:56:06.000 He's affected.

00:56:09.560 I have mixed feelings talking about the celebrities involved.

00:56:14.380 On one hand, I don't think this is a story about celebrities,

00:56:17.860 and so it's just gross and icky

00:56:20.000 that they're even part of the story.

00:56:22.000 Like, why do we care about them more?

00:56:24.120 Does it matter more to you that Henry Winkler is safe

00:56:27.720 than Henry Winkler's not-famous neighbor?

00:56:31.420 I mean, so there's something creepy about it,

00:56:33.640 but at the same time,

00:56:35.400 the politics of it is that some of them are conservative,

00:56:40.960 but a number of other ones are outspoken Democrats,

00:56:44.240 and I would love to know how Chrissy Teigen and John Legend

00:56:48.700 feel about their team after losing their house to their team.

00:56:55.960 Does that change how you feel?

00:56:59.720 What else could?

00:57:00.960 I mean, if you're going to change somebody's mind,

00:57:04.200 having a debate with them,

00:57:05.760 maybe, usually not.

00:57:07.740 Having really good points,

00:57:10.060 yeah, might work, but probably not.

00:57:13.420 Really being good at persuasion,

00:57:15.820 that might help,

00:57:17.060 but probably not.

00:57:18.200 People are pretty set in their ways.

00:57:19.880 You burn down somebody's house,

00:57:22.020 you have their attention.

00:57:25.380 Everybody who lost a house

00:57:26.880 is now open to a better argument.

00:57:29.520 A lot of minds opened up.

00:57:30.840 So, I think California is in play.

00:57:39.240 Anyway, in related but other news,

00:57:42.140 because we can't spend all our time talking about this,

00:57:44.420 it's just too hard.

00:57:47.360 Trump is, as other people have noted,

00:57:49.320 flooding the zone.

00:57:51.020 So, he's completely controlling the news.

00:57:54.580 Even the fire, which you would think

00:57:56.460 is not directly a Trump topic,

00:57:59.320 he's still the top of the news

00:58:01.720 because he said the right things

00:58:03.220 and did the right things

00:58:04.060 and it stands in contrast to what happened.

00:58:06.800 So, not only that,

00:58:08.360 but apparently there's a report from Steph Knight,

00:58:13.160 I think she's at Axios,

00:58:15.460 saying that there's some knowledge

00:58:18.440 that Trump plans to flood the zone

00:58:20.140 with 100 executive orders,

00:58:23.980 like his first day or first week or something.

00:58:26.440 Now, so we've got Trump talking about,

00:58:30.260 you know, Greenland, Panama, Canada.

00:58:32.800 He's talking about the fire.

00:58:35.560 He might have 100 executive orders every day,

00:58:38.300 three new things.

00:58:41.080 This is the only way to defeat the fake news.

00:58:44.680 And, you know, he's always done this thing

00:58:47.040 where he keeps the Overton window, so to speak.

00:58:50.600 He keeps the action going

00:58:52.080 and it keeps the attention on him.

00:58:54.900 But I think I just realized

00:58:56.400 the other hidden benefit of this.

00:59:00.160 You know, as we've often said,

00:59:02.340 Republicans can be right

00:59:03.980 and they can be wrong.

00:59:05.780 They can have wrong facts

00:59:07.000 and often do.

00:59:09.480 They might believe in some conspiracy theories

00:59:11.680 that don't prove out.

00:59:13.940 But that's normal,

00:59:15.580 sort of normal human beings.

00:59:17.100 On the Democrat side,

00:59:19.440 there's an organized hoax creation,

00:59:22.800 you know, machine for the Democrats.

00:59:25.100 They'll create a hoax about the other side

00:59:27.120 and then they'll use their news,

00:59:29.360 their media and their talking heads

00:59:30.720 to say the same things over and over again.

00:59:34.500 Right?

00:59:35.080 How many times have you seen that?

00:59:36.960 Well, he's a convicted felon.

00:59:39.700 You know, that's just the talking point.

00:59:41.540 And if they say convicted felon

00:59:43.220 a million times,

00:59:45.380 it's going to stick in your head.

00:59:47.460 Because repetition

00:59:48.420 is the number one tool

00:59:51.880 of persuasion.

00:59:53.880 And even more importantly,

00:59:55.360 it's the number one tool

00:59:56.420 of brainwashing.

00:59:58.400 Brainwashing requires you

00:59:59.920 to hear the same exact message

01:00:01.920 over and over and over and over again

01:00:03.480 until your brain

01:00:04.820 just uncritically says,

01:00:06.180 well, it must be true.

01:00:07.280 I keep hearing it.

01:00:08.520 Which doesn't make sense.

01:00:10.680 But your brain will process it that way.

01:00:13.540 So, what Trump has done

01:00:15.580 is he's removed from the fake news

01:00:18.640 the ability to repeat

01:00:20.680 any of their messages

01:00:22.340 often enough for them to stick.

01:00:26.800 Because they start going on with,

01:00:28.980 he wants to send the military

01:00:30.240 into Greenland.

01:00:31.160 And then they repeat that,

01:00:33.920 we got him, we got him.

01:00:35.560 Because nobody's going to be in favor

01:00:36.960 of, you know,

01:00:38.380 sending the military in.

01:00:40.440 Although some are.

01:00:42.380 So they repeat that

01:00:43.400 and the next thing you know,

01:00:44.220 he's talking about Panama.

01:00:45.940 And then they're like,

01:00:46.560 all right, what are we saying

01:00:47.240 about Panama?

01:00:48.340 Panama,

01:00:48.700 wait,

01:00:50.620 he's talking about Canada now.

01:00:52.260 What are we saying about Canada?

01:00:54.440 Wait,

01:00:54.680 what did he say about the smelt?

01:00:56.620 Wait,

01:00:57.460 new scum.

01:00:58.460 He's calling him new scum.

01:01:00.400 A hundred executive orders.

01:01:03.760 They can't repeat often enough.

01:01:07.320 He took away from them

01:01:08.600 their number one persuasion trick,

01:01:12.280 repetition.

01:01:12.700 repetition.

01:01:15.360 Now,

01:01:16.240 is this intentional?

01:01:18.960 Do you think that he intentionally said,

01:01:21.760 if I just take away

01:01:22.820 all of their oxygen,

01:01:24.420 they'll never be able to repeat

01:01:26.000 anything enough to stick?

01:01:29.040 The answer is yes.

01:01:31.260 Yes,

01:01:31.860 this is absolutely intentional.

01:01:33.860 Now,

01:01:34.160 that doesn't mean it's only Trump

01:01:36.020 who knows this.

01:01:36.740 He's working with Stephen Miller

01:01:38.380 and a bunch of brilliant people.

01:01:41.060 Right?

01:01:41.520 The brilliant people

01:01:42.540 can see this

01:01:44.160 clear as day.

01:01:46.120 So yes,

01:01:47.100 it's not an accident

01:01:48.360 that he's going to have

01:01:49.180 a hundred executive orders

01:01:50.560 and he's talking about things

01:01:51.880 that make your hair

01:01:53.000 just catch on fire.

01:01:55.920 Like,

01:01:56.220 you can't,

01:01:57.220 and also,

01:01:58.120 everything that Trump says

01:01:59.460 is too interesting to ignore.

01:02:02.920 It doesn't matter what he says.

01:02:05.060 It's always too interesting to ignore.

01:02:08.000 He's,

01:02:08.340 what?

01:02:08.860 Greenland?

01:02:09.460 What?

01:02:09.740 So yes,

01:02:13.040 it's intentional.

01:02:14.500 Yes,

01:02:14.740 it's brilliant

01:02:15.480 in a way

01:02:16.300 that we don't even deserve.

01:02:18.300 Like,

01:02:18.800 we don't even deserve

01:02:19.740 that level of capability.

01:02:21.680 And when he shows you

01:02:23.260 the competence level

01:02:24.660 that he brings

01:02:25.300 just to messaging,

01:02:26.560 the competence level

01:02:27.900 that he brought

01:02:28.380 to his campaign,

01:02:29.820 the competence level

01:02:31.620 in which he's

01:02:32.340 taking things

01:02:33.360 that people said

01:02:34.040 are ridiculous things

01:02:35.020 to do,

01:02:35.500 such as,

01:02:36.120 you know,

01:02:36.860 using the old Twitter

01:02:38.840 or now posting things

01:02:40.500 that are like geopolitical,

01:02:43.260 you know,

01:02:43.540 hugely important things,

01:02:45.120 he makes that work.

01:02:47.460 When you watch somebody

01:02:48.780 who is just

01:02:49.640 an extreme example

01:02:51.420 of competence

01:02:52.080 with his team,

01:02:53.040 right,

01:02:53.260 he doesn't do everything alone,

01:02:54.880 but

01:02:55.180 I think people

01:02:58.040 are going to notice

01:02:58.740 competence

01:03:00.200 is hard to ignore

01:03:01.420 if you just keep at it,

01:03:02.760 and he is.

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01:03:08.380 when you switch

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01:03:09.900 banking package.

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01:03:17.100 Scotiabank,

01:03:17.760 you're richer

01:03:18.220 than you think.

01:03:20.220 Well,

01:03:20.800 in other news,

01:03:21.740 if there's any good news

01:03:22.940 at all,

01:03:23.580 the employment

01:03:24.180 for this coming year

01:03:25.420 looks like a little better

01:03:26.460 than people expected.

01:03:28.020 Now,

01:03:28.180 it hasn't happened yet,

01:03:29.580 but the thinking is

01:03:30.660 that

01:03:30.980 in surveys,

01:03:32.380 big companies

01:03:33.580 are showing

01:03:34.120 much more optimism

01:03:35.060 and more,

01:03:36.560 let's say,

01:03:39.280 prediction

01:03:39.700 that they'll do

01:03:40.540 serious hiring.

01:03:42.360 Apparently,

01:03:43.040 the reason

01:03:43.440 there was less hiring

01:03:44.580 than there might have been

01:03:46.220 is that big companies

01:03:47.420 said,

01:03:47.780 ooh,

01:03:47.980 we better wait

01:03:48.500 to see if AI

01:03:49.500 is going to

01:03:50.620 take all the jobs.

01:03:52.360 And now they've waited,

01:03:53.640 and like my example

01:03:54.700 where I started the show,

01:03:56.280 where I said

01:03:56.680 I tried to get AI

01:03:57.600 to do any simple thing,

01:03:59.060 just look at a document

01:04:00.100 and summarize it,

01:04:00.980 and just because

01:04:02.720 it was multiple pages,

01:04:03.860 it just couldn't do it.

01:04:05.500 So I think that

01:04:06.420 probably the companies

01:04:08.180 have now wised up

01:04:09.400 that what they thought

01:04:10.880 was going to be

01:04:11.380 this instant replacement

01:04:12.740 of employees

01:04:13.600 with machines,

01:04:15.380 it might still happen,

01:04:17.420 but not in 2025.

01:04:19.640 So in 2025,

01:04:20.680 they're like,

01:04:21.020 ah,

01:04:21.260 we're going to need

01:04:21.760 human bodies

01:04:22.540 because we can tell them

01:04:24.180 to look at the whole contract,

01:04:25.460 not just four pages

01:04:26.420 and quit.

01:04:26.860 So it could be,

01:04:29.880 at least in the short run,

01:04:32.240 a little bump

01:04:33.240 in improvement

01:04:33.780 in employment.

01:04:37.820 This is just an aside

01:04:39.640 because I'm amused by it,

01:04:41.620 but do you remember

01:04:42.400 Aaron Rupar?

01:04:44.760 He's the reason

01:04:45.640 that I came up

01:04:46.380 with the phrase

01:04:47.060 a Rupar

01:04:47.800 for a description

01:04:48.900 of a video

01:04:49.860 that's been edited

01:04:50.660 to change its meaning

01:04:52.180 because he did

01:04:53.980 a number of those

01:04:54.780 and it looked like

01:04:56.120 he knew he was doing it.

01:04:57.740 You couldn't tell

01:04:58.380 because you can't read his mind,

01:04:59.480 but it looked like,

01:05:00.440 I feel like he knows

01:05:01.620 he took that out of context.

01:05:04.060 And then I saw

01:05:05.520 he made some claim,

01:05:07.620 I think it was yesterday,

01:05:08.820 it doesn't matter

01:05:09.380 what the claim was,

01:05:10.520 but the community note to it

01:05:12.080 just noted that

01:05:13.560 he's a well-known liar.

01:05:17.620 So the actual community note

01:05:20.000 wasn't just that

01:05:21.560 he was saying something

01:05:22.380 that wasn't true.

01:05:23.800 It said he was a well-known,

01:05:26.200 famous liar

01:05:26.820 who does it for clicks.

01:05:29.060 Now I'm paraphrasing,

01:05:30.220 but it said basically that.

01:05:32.240 Now, as soon as I refreshed it,

01:05:34.880 the community note changed

01:05:36.260 to something less attacking

01:05:38.580 of his character.

01:05:40.300 But for a moment,

01:05:42.360 the community note

01:05:43.600 said settled on,

01:05:44.600 yeah, he's just a famous liar,

01:05:46.340 so you shouldn't pay attention to him.

01:05:50.000 If I contributed even 1%

01:05:52.600 by making people understand

01:05:55.300 that a RUPAR

01:05:56.160 is literally a fake post or edit,

01:06:00.300 if I contributed even 1% to that,

01:06:03.120 I'm proud.

01:06:05.360 All right.

01:06:09.820 I love the fake news

01:06:12.020 talking about the use of force

01:06:15.020 to overtake Greenland.

01:06:17.080 So I guess the Pentagon

01:06:18.660 was asked

01:06:19.380 if there was any kind of plan

01:06:20.800 to invade Greenland.

01:06:22.760 But what's funny

01:06:23.380 is that whoever was talking,

01:06:25.240 some kind of Pentagon spokesperson,

01:06:27.420 said that they didn't know

01:06:29.160 of any plan.

01:06:31.580 It was short of a no.

01:06:34.700 So instead of saying no,

01:06:36.280 there's no plan

01:06:37.000 to use the military

01:06:38.180 or even a plan

01:06:40.300 to what it would look like

01:06:41.440 if you used the military.

01:06:43.380 Instead,

01:06:44.380 the spokesperson said,

01:06:45.380 I'm not aware of one.

01:06:46.180 Okay.

01:06:47.900 Would the spokesperson

01:06:48.960 be aware

01:06:49.720 of the secret attack plans?

01:06:52.400 I feel like you wouldn't

01:06:53.640 tell the spokesperson

01:06:54.700 because if you told them,

01:06:56.900 they could accidentally

01:06:57.840 tip somebody off.

01:06:59.560 So the spokesperson

01:07:01.080 never knows

01:07:01.900 the secret attack plans,

01:07:03.420 do they?

01:07:05.140 Because if they do,

01:07:05.860 that feels like a mistake to me.

01:07:07.580 But anyway,

01:07:08.960 the only thing

01:07:09.600 I want to add to this

01:07:10.500 is that

01:07:11.600 why would the Pentagon

01:07:12.980 need a plan?

01:07:13.780 The entire country

01:07:16.420 is 56,000 people,

01:07:18.200 mostly in one place.

01:07:21.460 And they seem

01:07:22.320 to be

01:07:22.800 fairly pro-MAGA,

01:07:25.480 pro-American.

01:07:26.740 And if it were up to them

01:07:28.120 and not Denmark,

01:07:28.900 who owns them,

01:07:30.220 if it were just up

01:07:31.000 to the people

01:07:32.100 in Greenland,

01:07:33.340 it's kind of looking like

01:07:34.720 they might be okay

01:07:35.480 with this idea.

01:07:36.180 But I think it's funny

01:07:37.760 that anybody would ask

01:07:39.100 the Pentagon

01:07:39.740 if they have a conquest

01:07:42.340 plan for Greenland

01:07:43.520 when all they really needed

01:07:45.460 was Don Jr.

01:07:46.400 and Charlie Kirk

01:07:47.140 to fly over there

01:07:47.980 and take some selfies.

01:07:49.580 Now, to be fair,

01:07:51.640 Don Jr.

01:07:52.320 and Charlie Kirk

01:07:53.460 taking selfies

01:07:54.200 with the locals

01:07:55.040 is not enough

01:07:56.620 to conquer a country.

01:07:58.880 It's not enough.

01:08:00.560 They might have to go back

01:08:01.980 two or three more times

01:08:04.040 and take more selfies.

01:08:05.300 That should be enough.

01:08:07.440 I think three to four trips

01:08:09.160 of Don Jr.

01:08:11.060 and Charlie Kirk

01:08:11.700 taking selfies,

01:08:13.440 the whole island surrenders.

01:08:16.320 Then we just have to,

01:08:17.360 you know,

01:08:17.580 work on a deal

01:08:18.220 with Denmark.

01:08:19.780 So, no,

01:08:20.380 no military needed.

01:08:21.480 Just Don and Charlie.

01:08:25.200 All right.

01:08:26.600 Senator Rick Scott

01:08:27.820 has introduced

01:08:28.500 some legislation

01:08:31.140 to stop the changing

01:08:32.900 of the clocks

01:08:33.500 twice a year.

01:08:34.220 I keep wanting

01:08:35.440 to have an opinion

01:08:36.100 on that.

01:08:37.220 But I don't.

01:08:38.760 And I'm going to admit why.

01:08:40.760 Because I don't know

01:08:41.820 what change

01:08:42.380 they're talking about.

01:08:45.040 It's too hard

01:08:45.860 for me to figure out

01:08:46.640 the whole

01:08:47.040 hour backwards,

01:08:50.040 hour forwards.

01:08:51.180 But if they

01:08:51.920 standardize it,

01:08:53.680 which one

01:08:54.240 are they standardizing on?

01:08:55.800 Because I never know

01:08:56.760 which one is

01:08:57.360 the base case.

01:08:58.860 I don't know.

01:09:02.240 And I also

01:09:03.280 don't know

01:09:03.660 if I'd like it

01:09:04.440 since I've never

01:09:05.700 experienced it.

01:09:06.820 You know,

01:09:07.060 the different

01:09:07.900 amount of light

01:09:09.320 at a different time

01:09:10.020 of day.

01:09:10.740 I've never

01:09:11.300 experienced it.

01:09:12.620 So,

01:09:13.120 how would I even

01:09:13.680 have an opinion

01:09:14.180 on that?

01:09:15.640 Maybe I'd like it

01:09:16.720 a little bit more

01:09:17.340 in the morning

01:09:17.820 but dislike it

01:09:18.820 more at night.

01:09:20.520 But what's the net?

01:09:22.240 I don't know.

01:09:23.540 So,

01:09:23.960 if it's expensive

01:09:25.180 and I know

01:09:25.840 it cuts down

01:09:26.480 on productivity

01:09:27.060 when the time

01:09:27.940 changes,

01:09:29.720 I don't see

01:09:30.900 a reason to

01:09:31.380 change the time.

01:09:32.480 So,

01:09:32.920 I'm in favor

01:09:33.520 of changing it

01:09:34.400 but I don't

01:09:35.840 have any idea

01:09:36.500 what that looks

01:09:37.040 like,

01:09:37.360 like in my

01:09:37.880 actual life.

01:09:39.380 So,

01:09:39.780 but just in terms

01:09:40.520 of economics,

01:09:41.360 it makes sense.

01:09:45.520 Britain is

01:09:46.300 threatened to

01:09:46.800 cut ties,

01:09:48.180 security ties

01:09:49.200 with the U.S.

01:09:50.320 unless Trump

01:09:51.740 stops working

01:09:52.720 with Elon Musk

01:09:53.780 according to

01:09:54.780 the National Pulse

01:09:55.680 William Upton

01:09:56.660 to which I say

01:09:58.460 Great Britain

01:10:00.680 is threatening

01:10:01.420 to cut ties

01:10:02.240 with us?

01:10:04.100 Okay.

01:10:08.740 Can you

01:10:09.540 remind me

01:10:10.440 what are

01:10:12.360 all the

01:10:12.720 military

01:10:13.320 advantages

01:10:13.860 we're getting

01:10:14.500 from protecting

01:10:15.780 them?

01:10:17.500 What

01:10:17.940 trade,

01:10:19.340 you know,

01:10:19.520 what products

01:10:20.120 are you getting

01:10:20.540 from England?

01:10:21.740 From their

01:10:22.300 manufacturing base?

01:10:24.720 How much

01:10:25.360 do we need

01:10:25.920 England?

01:10:28.100 Or the

01:10:28.660 UK?

01:10:29.280 Or Great Britain?

01:10:30.520 How much

01:10:31.060 do we need

01:10:31.480 them?

01:10:32.040 I don't know.

01:10:32.600 Sounds like a

01:10:33.120 pretty bad

01:10:33.520 threat to me.

01:10:35.720 And I don't

01:10:36.360 think there's

01:10:36.720 any chance

01:10:37.140 they're going

01:10:37.380 to cut ties.

01:10:39.900 Biden is

01:10:40.580 considering,

01:10:41.360 according to

01:10:41.720 the Post

01:10:42.020 Millennial,

01:10:42.800 Hayden Cunningham

01:10:43.600 is writing,

01:10:44.560 that Biden's

01:10:45.100 thinking about

01:10:45.620 preemptive

01:10:46.260 pardons for

01:10:46.880 Liz Cheney

01:10:47.400 and Anthony

01:10:48.220 Fauci.

01:10:48.660 Liz Cheney

01:10:50.780 for the

01:10:51.240 corrupt

01:10:52.220 insurrection,

01:10:54.320 so-called

01:10:54.960 insurrection

01:10:55.580 committee.

01:10:59.760 Do you

01:11:00.400 have a

01:11:00.640 problem

01:11:00.900 with that?

01:11:03.300 Yeah,

01:11:03.900 this one's

01:11:04.480 an interesting

01:11:05.000 one.

01:11:05.780 Because I

01:11:06.140 think,

01:11:06.600 I don't

01:11:06.960 know if

01:11:07.280 any charges

01:11:07.900 would ever

01:11:08.340 be brought

01:11:08.840 up,

01:11:09.520 because there's

01:11:10.860 a lot of

01:11:11.240 bad behavior

01:11:11.960 that I don't

01:11:12.940 know if it's

01:11:13.640 criminal.

01:11:14.320 It's just

01:11:14.700 really,

01:11:15.260 really bad

01:11:15.880 and unethical

01:11:16.600 behavior.

01:11:18.040 So,

01:11:18.560 if they get

01:11:20.080 a preemptive

01:11:20.700 pardon,

01:11:21.380 we don't

01:11:21.820 have to

01:11:22.140 watch the

01:11:22.600 trial and

01:11:23.260 talk about

01:11:23.820 it,

01:11:24.640 but also

01:11:25.580 it would

01:11:26.020 label them

01:11:26.560 forever as

01:11:27.200 felons.

01:11:28.840 Because who

01:11:29.380 gets a

01:11:29.740 preemptive

01:11:30.200 pardon?

01:11:31.420 I would

01:11:32.120 like to

01:11:32.420 ask the

01:11:32.760 following

01:11:33.020 question.

01:11:34.180 In the

01:11:34.560 history of

01:11:35.240 pardons,

01:11:36.460 how many

01:11:37.860 times has

01:11:38.740 a completely

01:11:39.360 innocent

01:11:39.800 person got

01:11:40.500 a preemptive

01:11:41.300 pardon?

01:11:41.600 Is there

01:11:45.040 even one

01:11:45.600 time that's

01:11:46.160 ever happened

01:11:46.720 where somebody

01:11:47.760 who was

01:11:48.180 legitimately

01:11:48.860 innocent got

01:11:50.620 a preemptive

01:11:51.360 pardon?

01:11:52.440 Can you

01:11:53.200 think of

01:11:53.740 any time

01:11:54.360 that's ever

01:11:54.880 happened?

01:11:55.620 No.

01:11:56.220 You give a

01:11:56.720 preemptive

01:11:57.220 pardon to

01:11:57.620 somebody you

01:11:58.040 know is

01:11:58.420 damn guilty.

01:12:00.840 So,

01:12:01.300 now,

01:12:01.560 to be fair,

01:12:03.000 they might

01:12:03.380 be more

01:12:03.820 worried about

01:12:04.420 some illegitimate

01:12:05.480 lawfare being

01:12:06.360 used against

01:12:06.920 them,

01:12:07.280 and if that's

01:12:08.400 the only thing

01:12:09.060 they're thinking,

01:12:10.320 well,

01:12:10.620 if you

01:12:12.720 think there

01:12:13.100 was no

01:12:13.360 real crime,

01:12:14.760 maybe.

01:12:16.480 But the

01:12:17.100 way we're

01:12:17.440 going to

01:12:17.640 read it

01:12:18.080 is that

01:12:18.800 they just

01:12:20.100 declared

01:12:21.400 themselves

01:12:21.880 guilty.

01:12:22.920 If they

01:12:23.580 accept a

01:12:24.160 preemptive

01:12:24.640 pardon for

01:12:25.240 something they

01:12:25.820 didn't do,

01:12:27.600 I'm not

01:12:28.180 going to

01:12:28.380 believe they

01:12:28.720 didn't do

01:12:29.160 it.

01:12:30.120 I'm just

01:12:30.540 going to

01:12:30.740 believe,

01:12:31.020 oh,

01:12:31.200 you know

01:12:31.680 you're

01:12:31.940 dirty.

01:12:33.220 You lucky

01:12:33.840 guy and

01:12:35.700 lucky woman.

01:12:36.240 all right.

01:12:41.960 The

01:12:42.200 Mexican

01:12:42.720 president,

01:12:44.520 what's

01:12:44.880 her name,

01:12:45.220 Claudia

01:12:45.620 Scheinbaum,

01:12:46.800 I will

01:12:47.380 never get

01:12:47.840 tired of

01:12:48.280 saying this,

01:12:49.760 the

01:12:49.940 Mexican

01:12:50.400 president,

01:12:51.700 Claudia

01:12:52.080 Scheinbaum.

01:12:53.980 I'm going

01:12:54.580 to say it

01:12:54.880 another time

01:12:55.460 because it's

01:12:55.860 funny.

01:12:56.740 So,

01:12:56.960 the Mexican

01:12:57.420 president,

01:12:58.860 Claudia

01:12:59.220 Scheinbaum,

01:13:00.460 the Jewish

01:13:01.160 woman,

01:13:01.460 I just

01:13:04.660 love that.

01:13:06.260 I have to

01:13:08.320 give Mexico

01:13:08.940 credit

01:13:09.420 because you

01:13:12.120 think of

01:13:12.500 Mexico as

01:13:13.160 they're going

01:13:13.680 to be kind

01:13:14.060 of a

01:13:14.340 patriarchy.

01:13:16.800 You presume

01:13:17.680 if most of

01:13:18.840 the residents

01:13:19.300 are Mexican

01:13:19.840 they're going

01:13:20.320 to vote for

01:13:20.720 somebody who's

01:13:21.960 as Mexican

01:13:22.620 as possible.

01:13:24.260 But they

01:13:24.900 elected

01:13:25.380 Claudia

01:13:27.480 Scheinbaum

01:13:28.060 and I give

01:13:28.640 them credit

01:13:29.040 for that.

01:13:29.440 If she

01:13:29.660 does a good

01:13:30.080 job,

01:13:30.420 good work.

01:13:34.020 Anyway,

01:13:34.700 so she's

01:13:35.160 responding to

01:13:35.840 Trump saying

01:13:36.460 that he

01:13:36.720 wants the

01:13:37.080 Gulf to

01:13:37.460 be called

01:13:37.800 the Gulf

01:13:38.780 of America

01:13:39.360 instead of

01:13:39.800 the Gulf

01:13:40.040 of Mexico

01:13:40.500 and she's

01:13:41.560 shooting back

01:13:42.280 and she

01:13:43.120 says the

01:13:43.540 U.S.

01:13:44.020 should be

01:13:45.660 called

01:13:45.980 America

01:13:46.820 Mexicana.

01:13:51.100 Let's see

01:13:51.720 how long

01:13:52.060 it takes

01:13:52.400 me to

01:13:52.780 forget

01:13:53.300 her

01:13:53.660 framing.

01:13:55.300 One,

01:13:56.320 two,

01:13:57.220 three.

01:13:58.900 Wait,

01:13:59.180 what did

01:13:59.420 she say?

01:14:00.420 What did

01:14:01.340 she call

01:14:01.660 it?

01:14:03.120 Do you

01:14:03.720 see how

01:14:04.260 special

01:14:05.400 Trump

01:14:05.760 is?

01:14:07.380 Trump

01:14:07.740 says

01:14:08.180 extinct

01:14:09.000 fish

01:14:09.780 once

01:14:11.100 and I'll

01:14:11.640 remember

01:14:11.980 it for

01:14:12.260 the rest

01:14:12.600 of my

01:14:12.860 life.

01:14:14.380 The

01:14:14.900 Mexican

01:14:15.420 president,

01:14:16.140 as capable

01:14:16.660 as she

01:14:17.060 probably

01:14:17.360 is,

01:14:17.720 I imagine

01:14:18.160 she's

01:14:18.460 very good

01:14:18.840 in general

01:14:19.300 to get

01:14:21.000 where she

01:14:21.300 got,

01:14:22.440 but she

01:14:22.960 tries to

01:14:23.460 match

01:14:23.800 him.

01:14:24.540 He's

01:14:24.700 like,

01:14:25.100 how about

01:14:26.980 I got

01:14:27.560 it?

01:14:28.400 I'm going

01:14:28.820 to zing

01:14:29.240 you.

01:14:30.580 How

01:14:30.900 about

01:14:31.060 we

01:14:31.200 call

01:14:31.400 it

01:14:31.600 America

01:14:32.380 Mexicana?

01:14:34.580 Why

01:14:35.220 isn't

01:14:35.420 everybody

01:14:35.740 clapping?

01:14:37.040 Clap

01:14:37.360 please.

01:14:40.640 The

01:14:41.280 difference

01:14:42.100 in

01:14:42.760 persuasion

01:14:44.160 and

01:14:44.520 communication

01:14:45.040 skill

01:14:45.640 is just

01:14:46.520 so

01:14:47.020 striking.

01:14:48.680 You

01:14:49.200 don't

01:14:49.440 realize

01:14:49.820 how good

01:14:50.580 Trump

01:14:50.920 is

01:14:51.360 at what

01:14:52.520 I'll

01:14:52.700 call

01:14:52.860 the

01:14:53.040 little

01:14:53.280 stuff,

01:14:54.220 just the

01:14:54.740 ordinary

01:14:55.080 communication.

01:14:55.780 you

01:14:56.560 don't

01:14:56.780 realize

01:14:57.180 how good

01:14:57.560 he is

01:14:57.880 until

01:14:58.100 you

01:14:58.240 see

01:14:58.380 somebody

01:14:58.680 else

01:14:58.880 try

01:14:59.140 it.

01:15:00.400 And

01:15:00.500 they

01:15:00.920 just

01:15:01.120 do

01:15:01.260 a

01:15:01.380 total

01:15:01.820 face

01:15:02.140 plant.

01:15:03.440 I

01:15:03.860 have

01:15:03.980 to

01:15:04.080 read

01:15:04.220 it

01:15:04.320 again.

01:15:05.100 America,

01:15:05.720 Mexicana.

01:15:07.420 No,

01:15:07.980 that's

01:15:08.180 not a

01:15:08.440 good

01:15:08.540 try.

01:15:11.480 Well,

01:15:12.000 Russia

01:15:12.280 is

01:15:12.600 introducing

01:15:13.440 these

01:15:14.080 land

01:15:15.000 robot

01:15:15.720 tank

01:15:16.280 things.

01:15:16.800 It

01:15:16.900 looks

01:15:17.060 like

01:15:17.220 a

01:15:17.320 little

01:15:17.520 miniature

01:15:18.340 tank

01:15:18.920 and

01:15:19.420 it

01:15:19.520 could

01:15:19.620 have

01:15:19.760 wheels

01:15:20.060 or

01:15:20.280 tracks.

01:15:21.200 But

01:15:21.480 it's

01:15:21.700 got

01:15:21.880 loaded

01:15:22.240 with

01:15:22.480 all

01:15:22.660 kinds

01:15:22.960 of

01:15:23.120 weapons

01:15:23.440 and

01:15:23.780 they're

01:15:23.940 going

01:15:25.780 and

01:15:26.520 send

01:15:26.820 them

01:15:27.100 at

01:15:27.940 Ukraine.

01:15:29.660 Here's

01:15:30.160 my

01:15:30.340 question.

01:15:31.560 Can

01:15:32.060 Russia

01:15:32.420 manufacture?

01:15:34.360 Now,

01:15:34.660 I know

01:15:34.840 they have

01:15:35.260 manufacturing

01:15:35.860 and I

01:15:36.260 know

01:15:36.380 they make

01:15:36.700 weapons

01:15:37.160 and this

01:15:37.880 is a

01:15:38.120 weapon.

01:15:39.400 But

01:15:39.640 if

01:15:41.140 their

01:15:41.980 outcome

01:15:43.620 of the

01:15:43.940 war

01:15:44.180 depends

01:15:44.620 on

01:15:44.840 making

01:15:45.100 a lot

01:15:45.460 of

01:15:45.640 these

01:15:46.040 robots

01:15:46.540 that

01:15:46.980 they've

01:15:47.200 never

01:15:47.400 made

01:15:47.660 before,

01:15:48.580 how

01:15:49.000 good

01:15:49.360 are

01:15:49.500 they

01:15:49.660 going

01:15:49.780 to

01:15:49.840 be?

01:15:51.160 Now,

01:15:51.420 it

01:15:51.500 could

01:15:51.700 be

01:15:51.980 that

01:15:53.100 even

01:15:53.660 if

01:15:53.900 Russia

01:15:54.140 is

01:15:54.320 not

01:15:54.580 a

01:15:54.900 massively

01:15:55.300 good

01:15:55.800 manufacturing

01:15:57.200 company,

01:15:58.000 it could

01:15:58.260 be that

01:15:58.600 they put

01:15:58.940 their best

01:15:59.340 people in

01:15:59.820 the military

01:16:00.260 stuff,

01:16:00.780 which would

01:16:01.100 make sense.

01:16:02.340 And maybe

01:16:03.300 this is,

01:16:04.120 maybe it's

01:16:04.460 good work

01:16:04.940 and maybe

01:16:05.340 they can

01:16:06.300 crank them

01:16:06.740 out like

01:16:07.060 crazy.

01:16:08.060 But the

01:16:09.180 thing I'd

01:16:09.500 be looking

01:16:09.940 for is

01:16:11.580 whether they

01:16:12.060 can manufacture

01:16:13.000 well enough

01:16:15.000 to put

01:16:15.980 working models

01:16:16.860 in the field

01:16:17.400 that make

01:16:17.760 a difference.

01:16:18.760 Now,

01:16:19.000 the other

01:16:19.260 thing is

01:16:19.660 that even

01:16:20.160 the ground

01:16:21.080 robots

01:16:21.760 like these,

01:16:22.820 the ones

01:16:23.100 on wheels

01:16:23.640 or running

01:16:24.800 dogs or

01:16:25.340 whatever,

01:16:26.000 they will

01:16:26.380 soon be

01:16:27.040 programmed

01:16:27.620 to swarm

01:16:28.620 just like

01:16:29.580 the drones

01:16:30.420 in the air.

01:16:31.660 So if

01:16:31.940 you organize

01:16:32.920 the drones

01:16:33.540 so that

01:16:34.100 they operate

01:16:34.680 as one

01:16:35.180 and they

01:16:36.000 swarm,

01:16:37.180 there's

01:16:37.520 almost no

01:16:37.980 defense.

01:16:39.260 But likewise,

01:16:40.560 if you

01:16:40.960 were on the

01:16:42.820 front line

01:16:43.340 and you're

01:16:43.640 a human

01:16:43.980 being and

01:16:45.220 you get

01:16:45.540 swarmed

01:16:46.160 by these

01:16:46.820 robots,

01:16:47.640 you're going

01:16:48.260 to be in a

01:16:48.680 lot of

01:16:48.940 trouble,

01:16:49.900 the robots

01:16:50.320 on the

01:16:50.600 ground.

01:16:50.880 because it

01:16:53.280 probably takes

01:16:53.940 a little bit

01:16:54.640 of planning

01:16:55.200 and work

01:16:55.780 and strange

01:16:57.040 execution

01:16:57.700 to even

01:16:58.780 take out

01:16:59.160 one of

01:16:59.500 them.

01:17:00.580 If six

01:17:01.460 of them

01:17:01.740 are bearing

01:17:02.160 down on

01:17:02.680 you,

01:17:03.960 you got

01:17:04.860 to run

01:17:05.260 and it

01:17:06.140 will run

01:17:06.500 faster than

01:17:07.020 you.

01:17:07.980 So it's

01:17:09.300 going to get

01:17:09.640 real interesting

01:17:10.380 in Ukraine.

01:17:11.660 I would look

01:17:12.440 to see if

01:17:12.840 they can

01:17:13.100 manufacture

01:17:13.620 well and

01:17:14.340 quickly.

01:17:15.800 Claudia was

01:17:16.600 leaving for

01:17:17.020 her pickleball

01:17:17.600 tournament.

01:17:18.180 I've been

01:17:18.400 visualizing my

01:17:19.200 match all

01:17:19.860 week.

01:17:20.320 She was

01:17:21.040 so focused

01:17:21.560 on visualizing

01:17:22.360 that she

01:17:22.800 didn't see

01:17:23.240 the column

01:17:23.640 behind her

01:17:24.100 car on

01:17:24.700 her back

01:17:25.040 hand side.

01:17:27.000 Good thing

01:17:27.360 Claudia is

01:17:27.800 with Intact,

01:17:28.600 the insurer

01:17:29.160 with the

01:17:29.580 largest network

01:17:30.280 of auto

01:17:30.660 service centers

01:17:31.260 in the

01:17:31.720 country.

01:17:32.380 Everything

01:17:32.660 was taken

01:17:33.140 care of

01:17:33.560 under one

01:17:34.020 roof and

01:17:34.540 she was

01:17:34.820 on her

01:17:35.080 way in

01:17:35.320 a rental

01:17:35.640 car in

01:17:36.200 no time.

01:17:36.840 I made

01:17:37.320 it to my

01:17:37.760 tournament and

01:17:39.040 lost in

01:17:39.380 the first

01:17:39.680 round.

01:17:40.300 But you

01:17:40.880 got there

01:17:41.320 on time.

01:17:42.140 Intact

01:17:42.480 Insurance,

01:17:43.320 your auto

01:17:43.720 service ace.

01:17:44.760 Certain conditions

01:17:45.320 apply.

01:17:47.000 Well, I'm

01:17:47.880 going to do

01:17:48.140 something that

01:17:48.580 you don't like.

01:17:49.360 I'm going

01:17:50.680 to defend

01:17:51.340 Crenshaw.

01:17:55.560 So Dan

01:17:55.940 Crenshaw

01:17:56.380 is often

01:17:58.600 reported for

01:17:59.660 having very

01:18:00.880 high relative

01:18:02.480 to other

01:18:02.820 people,

01:18:03.640 really good

01:18:04.440 gains on

01:18:05.160 his stock

01:18:05.600 picks.

01:18:07.080 So there's

01:18:07.440 another story

01:18:07.980 today,

01:18:08.760 mentioning that

01:18:09.680 he's a top

01:18:10.240 five investor

01:18:11.080 among Congress.

01:18:12.300 top five.

01:18:14.880 Did he do

01:18:15.380 that because

01:18:15.860 of insider

01:18:16.580 information?

01:18:17.580 And the

01:18:18.080 implication is

01:18:19.020 that it's

01:18:20.540 because he

01:18:20.960 has insider

01:18:21.600 information.

01:18:22.700 So that he

01:18:23.820 and other

01:18:24.420 members who

01:18:24.980 trade are

01:18:25.800 just beating

01:18:26.240 people because

01:18:27.500 they're inside

01:18:28.080 information.

01:18:29.400 And it was

01:18:30.040 pointing out

01:18:30.580 that he had

01:18:31.260 a high

01:18:31.860 percentage

01:18:32.280 gain.

01:18:33.860 So if you

01:18:34.760 look at his

01:18:35.080 gain, I think

01:18:35.540 it was over

01:18:35.860 40% for the

01:18:36.780 year or something,

01:18:37.660 that that would

01:18:38.180 put him in the

01:18:38.620 top five.

01:18:40.060 Now, what

01:18:41.180 do I teach

01:18:41.760 you about

01:18:42.580 spotting fake

01:18:43.660 news?

01:18:44.640 If you know

01:18:45.440 the percentage

01:18:46.180 of gain he

01:18:47.080 made, but they

01:18:48.440 don't tell you

01:18:48.960 the dollar amount,

01:18:50.300 is it real news

01:18:51.160 or fake news?

01:18:52.180 The answer is,

01:18:53.380 it's fake news.

01:18:54.460 If they told you

01:18:55.380 both the

01:18:55.900 percentage and

01:18:56.760 the dollar amount,

01:18:57.820 it might be real.

01:18:59.100 If they told you

01:19:00.060 only the dollar

01:19:00.860 amount without

01:19:01.580 the percentage,

01:19:02.340 that would be

01:19:02.700 fake.

01:19:03.480 And if they

01:19:04.160 told you the

01:19:04.560 percentage without

01:19:05.260 the dollar amount,

01:19:06.040 which is what

01:19:06.480 they did,

01:19:07.460 that's fake.

01:19:08.100 So the

01:19:09.180 first thing you

01:19:09.660 need to know

01:19:10.100 is that you

01:19:10.460 got abused

01:19:10.960 when you

01:19:11.440 read the

01:19:11.740 story.

01:19:12.640 You got

01:19:12.960 abused.

01:19:13.880 Somebody's

01:19:14.220 trying to

01:19:14.480 put one

01:19:14.880 over on

01:19:15.280 you.

01:19:15.880 Turns out

01:19:16.420 his portfolio

01:19:17.220 is not

01:19:17.660 very big.

01:19:18.920 He's not

01:19:19.480 a rich guy,

01:19:20.700 and he

01:19:21.040 said directly

01:19:21.740 that one of

01:19:22.660 the few

01:19:22.960 ways that he

01:19:23.480 can get

01:19:23.800 ahead and

01:19:24.240 still afford

01:19:24.960 to be in

01:19:25.520 Congress,

01:19:26.460 because it

01:19:26.740 doesn't pay

01:19:27.140 that much

01:19:27.600 relative to

01:19:28.380 the cost of

01:19:29.100 being there,

01:19:30.120 that he

01:19:31.000 absolutely needs

01:19:32.220 to augment

01:19:33.800 his income,

01:19:34.600 and he does

01:19:34.960 it by

01:19:35.220 trading.

01:19:35.540 Now,

01:19:37.100 how did

01:19:37.740 you rule

01:19:38.980 out the

01:19:39.380 possibilities

01:19:39.900 good at

01:19:40.520 it?

01:19:41.700 He told

01:19:42.400 you he

01:19:42.700 needs it.

01:19:43.980 He told

01:19:44.640 you he

01:19:44.960 focuses on

01:19:45.740 it.

01:19:46.760 That's

01:19:47.180 different than

01:19:47.720 most of the

01:19:48.120 people in

01:19:48.500 Congress.

01:19:49.500 Most of the

01:19:50.080 people in

01:19:50.400 Congress don't

01:19:50.980 need it.

01:19:51.820 A lot of

01:19:52.220 them are

01:19:52.480 rich.

01:19:53.220 I don't

01:19:53.480 know what

01:19:53.720 percentage,

01:19:54.340 but a lot

01:19:54.660 of them are

01:19:54.900 rich.

01:19:55.800 And some

01:19:56.800 of them are

01:19:57.100 not concentrating

01:19:57.720 on it.

01:19:58.640 They're

01:19:58.900 concentrating

01:19:59.340 on other

01:19:59.780 things.

01:20:00.480 He's

01:20:00.800 concentrating

01:20:01.280 on it.

01:20:01.860 If you

01:20:02.980 knew his

01:20:03.480 educational

01:20:04.140 background,

01:20:04.900 it's really

01:20:05.760 good.

01:20:06.960 Do you

01:20:07.220 know how

01:20:07.440 much formal

01:20:08.440 education he's

01:20:09.240 had, plus

01:20:10.060 the military?

01:20:11.580 I don't

01:20:12.260 think people

01:20:12.640 understand how

01:20:13.560 academically

01:20:15.120 trained he

01:20:15.740 is.

01:20:16.460 So you

01:20:16.720 got somebody

01:20:17.140 who's got

01:20:18.580 higher academic

01:20:19.340 training than

01:20:20.000 most of

01:20:20.400 Congress.

01:20:21.560 Unlike

01:20:22.000 Congress, he's

01:20:22.720 really paying

01:20:23.160 attention, which

01:20:24.140 means he's

01:20:24.600 learning how

01:20:25.060 to do it

01:20:25.400 right.

01:20:26.720 And there's

01:20:28.500 very little

01:20:28.940 dollar amount.

01:20:30.560 So if he

01:20:31.420 had one

01:20:31.880 good pick, he

01:20:33.900 would have

01:20:34.400 that gain.

01:20:35.480 How do

01:20:35.820 you know

01:20:36.100 that the

01:20:36.440 reason he's

01:20:37.420 up is

01:20:38.840 some kind

01:20:39.300 of secret

01:20:39.780 insider

01:20:40.220 information?

01:20:41.640 What if,

01:20:42.460 and this

01:20:42.820 is not in

01:20:43.200 the story,

01:20:44.080 this should

01:20:44.460 be in the

01:20:44.800 story, what

01:20:45.580 if he

01:20:45.920 bought the

01:20:46.420 stock in

01:20:46.880 NVIDIA?

01:20:49.280 Do you

01:20:49.840 know who

01:20:50.100 bought the

01:20:50.460 stock in

01:20:50.900 NVIDIA?

01:20:52.280 I did.

01:20:54.320 And a lot

01:20:55.520 of my

01:20:55.780 followers did.

01:20:56.980 Because I

01:20:57.600 mentioned it

01:20:58.240 as sort of

01:20:59.140 once-

01:20:59.720 ever, you

01:21:00.380 know, kind

01:21:00.640 of a unique

01:21:01.080 situation.

01:21:02.720 So most

01:21:04.040 of my

01:21:04.660 followers

01:21:06.480 probably had

01:21:08.120 the same

01:21:08.440 return he

01:21:09.000 did.

01:21:09.800 Because if

01:21:10.420 the only

01:21:10.920 thing you

01:21:11.360 did was

01:21:12.740 buy the

01:21:13.120 one most

01:21:13.620 obvious

01:21:14.100 stock,

01:21:14.960 NVIDIA,

01:21:16.440 you would

01:21:16.860 beat all

01:21:17.500 the members

01:21:18.160 of Congress.

01:21:19.120 Is that

01:21:19.640 what happened?

01:21:20.320 If he

01:21:20.760 had just

01:21:21.200 bought

01:21:21.480 Tesla,

01:21:23.100 he would

01:21:23.440 have beat

01:21:23.820 most of

01:21:24.960 the members

01:21:25.320 of Congress.

01:21:25.800 if he

01:21:27.280 had just

01:21:27.740 invested

01:21:28.220 in, you

01:21:29.720 know, one

01:21:29.940 of the

01:21:30.320 atomic

01:21:31.420 stocks that

01:21:32.020 I mentioned

01:21:32.400 that I'm

01:21:32.680 not going

01:21:32.940 to mention

01:21:33.200 today, he

01:21:34.640 would have

01:21:34.880 beat everybody.

01:21:35.880 It only

01:21:36.420 took one,

01:21:37.620 just one

01:21:38.340 good stock

01:21:39.460 and his

01:21:39.720 whole portfolio

01:21:40.380 was up

01:21:40.700 40%.

01:21:41.260 So if

01:21:43.440 you see a

01:21:43.920 story that

01:21:44.980 says he

01:21:45.380 did better

01:21:45.940 than the

01:21:46.360 other people

01:21:46.920 in Congress

01:21:47.480 and therefore

01:21:48.540 the implication

01:21:50.060 is that he

01:21:51.560 broke some

01:21:52.060 law or did

01:21:52.640 something,

01:21:53.160 he wouldn't

01:21:53.700 break a law

01:21:54.180 because it's

01:21:54.560 legal for

01:21:55.000 them to

01:21:55.240 use to be

01:21:55.900 insider traders.

01:21:57.320 If you

01:21:57.920 believe that

01:21:58.360 it was like

01:21:58.780 some secret

01:21:59.520 unethical

01:22:00.220 thing he

01:22:00.640 did to

01:22:01.220 get those

01:22:01.640 gains,

01:22:02.140 there's no

01:22:02.760 evidence of

01:22:03.300 that in

01:22:04.720 the story.

01:22:05.600 There's no

01:22:06.240 evidence of

01:22:06.820 it in the

01:22:07.440 story.

01:22:08.440 Now, if

01:22:08.860 there is

01:22:09.260 evidence of

01:22:09.980 any bad

01:22:10.860 behavior or

01:22:11.740 it wouldn't

01:22:12.860 be illegal,

01:22:14.000 so I

01:22:14.600 guess it

01:22:14.900 wouldn't even

01:22:15.260 be necessarily

01:22:16.740 unethical,

01:22:17.780 but you

01:22:18.460 wouldn't like

01:22:18.960 it.

01:22:20.240 You're going

01:22:20.580 to have to

01:22:21.260 give me a

01:22:21.720 lot more

01:22:22.480 than he

01:22:23.400 did a good

01:22:23.920 job.

01:22:24.940 Because if

01:22:25.720 your complaint

01:22:26.320 about the

01:22:26.700 guy is

01:22:27.020 good at

01:22:27.620 investing,

01:22:29.260 that just

01:22:30.980 pisses me

01:22:31.460 off.

01:22:32.600 That just

01:22:33.240 pisses me

01:22:33.780 off.

01:22:34.640 Because that's

01:22:35.440 punishing

01:22:35.960 somebody for

01:22:36.960 competence.

01:22:38.720 And that

01:22:39.320 might be the

01:22:39.860 only thing

01:22:40.180 that's

01:22:40.360 happening.

01:22:40.860 Now, again,

01:22:41.720 let me be

01:22:42.160 very clear.

01:22:43.580 I don't

01:22:43.960 know if

01:22:44.260 there's any

01:22:44.780 valid

01:22:46.440 insider

01:22:46.980 trading that

01:22:47.780 helped his

01:22:48.560 returns.

01:22:49.320 I don't

01:22:49.580 know.

01:22:50.340 But what

01:22:50.760 I do

01:22:51.100 know is

01:22:51.740 you don't

01:22:52.140 know.

01:22:53.080 You don't

01:22:53.540 know.

01:22:54.520 So if

01:22:54.880 you're going

01:22:55.120 to go from

01:22:55.680 he's a good

01:22:56.240 investor to

01:22:56.980 he did

01:22:57.340 something

01:22:57.680 sketchy

01:22:58.180 that you

01:22:58.520 hate,

01:22:59.260 that's a

01:23:00.180 leap I

01:23:00.520 can't

01:23:00.760 support.

01:23:01.660 And it

01:23:01.940 pisses me

01:23:02.540 off when

01:23:03.680 somebody does

01:23:04.260 a good

01:23:04.600 job and

01:23:05.220 there's no

01:23:05.740 evidence that

01:23:06.680 he did it

01:23:07.180 unethically,

01:23:08.200 that we

01:23:09.260 criticize him

01:23:10.580 for competence

01:23:11.680 and for

01:23:13.400 making it

01:23:13.940 affordable to

01:23:15.380 do the job

01:23:15.980 of the

01:23:16.200 people.

01:23:17.900 Now,

01:23:18.680 before you

01:23:19.700 give me a

01:23:20.060 hard time,

01:23:20.680 because I

01:23:20.940 know you

01:23:21.240 want to,

01:23:21.980 you're going

01:23:22.260 to say,

01:23:22.720 but, but,

01:23:23.320 Scott, what

01:23:24.360 about those

01:23:24.880 other unrelated

01:23:25.700 things that we

01:23:26.460 don't like about

01:23:27.160 his policies?

01:23:28.960 Fine.

01:23:29.780 I'm not arguing

01:23:30.420 that.

01:23:31.960 If you don't

01:23:32.780 think he's doing

01:23:33.340 the job you

01:23:33.940 want, I'm not

01:23:36.240 even in that

01:23:36.840 conversation.

01:23:38.160 I don't

01:23:38.620 know enough,

01:23:39.260 frankly, about

01:23:39.800 him.

01:23:40.920 But,

01:23:42.040 I'll also

01:23:45.080 tell you, just

01:23:45.580 for full

01:23:45.980 disclosure, that

01:23:47.540 I have had

01:23:48.820 conversations with

01:23:49.640 him, because I

01:23:50.080 did his podcast

01:23:51.260 a while ago.

01:23:52.340 So I've

01:23:52.900 interacted with

01:23:53.620 him, at least

01:23:54.120 on a Zoom

01:23:55.260 kind of a way.

01:23:56.420 And he's a

01:23:57.460 really nice

01:23:57.860 guy.

01:23:59.740 I don't know

01:24:00.360 if you know

01:24:00.660 that, but he's

01:24:01.980 a really nice

01:24:02.480 guy.

01:24:03.440 And so I'm

01:24:04.080 influenced by

01:24:04.800 that, and

01:24:06.420 then I see

01:24:06.880 him being

01:24:07.260 attacked for

01:24:07.880 something that,

01:24:09.720 if there's any

01:24:10.380 basis to this,

01:24:11.420 nobody's revealing

01:24:13.000 it.

01:24:14.160 So let's

01:24:15.900 calm down on

01:24:19.860 that.

01:24:21.120 It certainly

01:24:22.040 makes sense to

01:24:22.860 go after him

01:24:24.060 for the other

01:24:24.480 stuff.

01:24:24.880 But let me

01:24:25.460 sum that up

01:24:26.520 with a little

01:24:26.960 bit of a

01:24:27.540 context.

01:24:29.360 Sometimes you

01:24:30.140 wonder, what's

01:24:30.980 it like to be a

01:24:31.680 public figure,

01:24:32.960 such as Dan

01:24:33.840 Crenshaw, and

01:24:35.380 such as me.

01:24:36.540 What's it like to

01:24:37.140 be a public

01:24:37.560 figure?

01:24:39.180 Well, like Dan

01:24:40.300 Crenshaw, one

01:24:41.880 thing I have in

01:24:42.560 common with him

01:24:43.220 is that I've

01:24:43.880 had several

01:24:44.560 scandals in

01:24:46.580 my career.

01:24:48.100 Some of them

01:24:48.720 you haven't

01:24:49.020 heard of, or

01:24:49.980 you forgot about

01:24:50.720 because they're

01:24:51.080 so long.

01:24:51.960 One of the

01:24:52.380 things that all

01:24:52.960 of my scandals

01:24:54.040 have in common

01:24:54.740 is that none

01:24:56.080 of them have

01:24:56.480 actually happened.

01:24:59.780 None of them

01:25:00.360 happened.

01:25:01.400 For example,

01:25:03.060 let's see,

01:25:03.840 I'm being

01:25:04.760 criticized for

01:25:05.920 being an

01:25:06.360 H-1B

01:25:07.020 supporter.

01:25:08.880 So that's

01:25:09.340 lately.

01:25:10.400 That didn't

01:25:10.800 happen.

01:25:12.000 Not once.

01:25:13.860 No.

01:25:14.480 I have said

01:25:15.460 we need to

01:25:16.520 bring in

01:25:17.020 only the

01:25:17.980 best people

01:25:18.480 that make

01:25:18.760 sense.

01:25:19.660 But the

01:25:20.280 H-1B

01:25:20.840 process

01:25:21.480 apparently

01:25:22.180 doesn't do

01:25:22.760 that.

01:25:23.520 So I've

01:25:23.860 never said

01:25:24.300 it does

01:25:24.620 that.

01:25:25.300 I've never

01:25:25.720 said I was

01:25:26.120 in favor

01:25:26.460 of it.

01:25:27.180 And it's

01:25:27.600 the biggest

01:25:27.960 thing I'm

01:25:28.360 being

01:25:28.620 criticized

01:25:29.060 for.

01:25:30.540 Let's

01:25:30.980 see.

01:25:31.620 I'm also

01:25:32.060 being criticized

01:25:32.720 for recommending

01:25:34.160 that people

01:25:34.780 get vaccinated

01:25:35.520 during the

01:25:36.040 pandemic,

01:25:36.920 which never

01:25:38.280 happened.

01:25:39.300 And I

01:25:39.760 forcefully

01:25:40.960 always said

01:25:41.560 the opposite.

01:25:42.820 Very

01:25:43.320 frequently

01:25:44.300 probably said

01:25:45.860 it over and

01:25:46.720 over again.

01:25:47.280 I'm not

01:25:47.640 your doctor.

01:25:48.840 I'm not

01:25:49.480 telling you

01:25:49.840 to get it.

01:25:50.420 I'm not

01:25:50.720 telling you

01:25:51.040 not to

01:25:51.420 get it.

01:25:51.940 It's a

01:25:52.240 personal

01:25:52.540 decision.

01:25:53.460 Opposite.

01:25:54.360 Literally

01:25:54.740 the opposite

01:25:55.320 of what I'm

01:25:55.920 blamed for.

01:25:56.960 Do you

01:25:57.440 remember,

01:25:58.140 some of you

01:25:58.980 might remember,

01:25:59.720 the thing that

01:26:00.180 first derailed

01:26:01.100 my career,

01:26:01.860 this was

01:26:02.140 years ago,

01:26:03.280 where I

01:26:04.100 had an

01:26:04.400 argument where

01:26:05.180 I predicted

01:26:06.560 that evolution,

01:26:08.560 the theory of

01:26:09.080 evolution,

01:26:09.600 would be

01:26:10.060 debunked in

01:26:11.200 my lifetime.

01:26:12.740 And that it

01:26:13.060 would be

01:26:13.820 debunked,

01:26:14.660 not necessarily

01:26:16.600 in,

01:26:18.660 let's say,

01:26:20.220 in classic

01:26:20.780 ways,

01:26:21.580 but it would

01:26:22.140 be debunked

01:26:22.840 because we

01:26:23.380 would understand

01:26:24.220 the nature

01:26:24.900 of reality

01:26:25.860 so differently

01:26:27.300 that evolution

01:26:28.680 would stop

01:26:29.160 making sense.

01:26:29.860 and that

01:26:30.920 happened.

01:26:31.800 That's called

01:26:32.240 the simulation.

01:26:33.420 Now,

01:26:33.660 you could argue

01:26:34.140 that the

01:26:34.540 simulation is

01:26:35.260 not real,

01:26:36.340 but the

01:26:37.140 argument is

01:26:37.720 it's a

01:26:38.260 trillion to

01:26:38.720 one likely

01:26:39.200 that it

01:26:39.580 is.

01:26:40.100 And if

01:26:40.460 we're a

01:26:40.720 simulation,

01:26:41.500 then the

01:26:42.280 past is

01:26:42.960 actually

01:26:43.260 created on

01:26:44.000 demand.

01:26:45.840 Now,

01:26:46.520 I could be

01:26:47.280 right about

01:26:47.760 that,

01:26:48.760 right?

01:26:49.120 I could be

01:26:49.560 right about

01:26:49.960 that,

01:26:50.300 or I could

01:26:51.200 be wrong

01:26:51.540 about that,

01:26:52.300 and I

01:26:52.840 don't know.

01:26:54.120 But what I

01:26:54.880 will tell you

01:26:55.440 is that 100%

01:26:56.500 of the pushback

01:26:57.620 to my opinion

01:26:58.660 was based

01:27:00.460 on stuff

01:27:00.860 I didn't

01:27:01.220 say.

01:27:02.640 So again,

01:27:04.100 this major

01:27:05.040 thing,

01:27:05.520 I probably

01:27:05.800 lost,

01:27:06.860 I'll bet I

01:27:07.240 lost 30%

01:27:08.440 of the

01:27:09.140 Dilbert fans

01:27:09.820 over this.

01:27:11.720 Something I

01:27:12.400 was right

01:27:12.860 about,

01:27:13.520 at least in

01:27:14.060 terms of

01:27:14.680 knowing that

01:27:15.520 some rethinking

01:27:17.240 of reality

01:27:18.000 would cause

01:27:18.500 us to

01:27:18.880 rethink

01:27:19.220 evolution,

01:27:20.000 that was

01:27:20.660 one hell

01:27:21.240 of a good

01:27:21.680 prediction.

01:27:22.900 I mean,

01:27:23.100 that was a

01:27:23.520 crazy good

01:27:24.220 prediction,

01:27:25.400 like beyond,

01:27:26.340 if it's

01:27:27.720 right,

01:27:28.320 and I

01:27:28.600 think it

01:27:28.860 is.

01:27:31.220 Then,

01:27:31.720 does anybody

01:27:32.240 remember,

01:27:32.940 this will be

01:27:33.300 a good

01:27:33.480 test,

01:27:34.120 how many

01:27:34.480 of you

01:27:34.720 remember

01:27:35.120 the sock

01:27:36.880 puppet

01:27:37.420 scandal

01:27:40.640 about me?

01:27:41.920 The accusation

01:27:43.020 was that I

01:27:44.020 sock puppeted,

01:27:45.980 which is a

01:27:46.700 very specific

01:27:47.360 act.

01:27:48.200 Anybody

01:27:48.600 remember that?

01:27:50.040 Which never

01:27:50.840 happened.

01:27:52.360 It never

01:27:52.740 happened.

01:27:53.080 Now,

01:27:54.140 did I

01:27:54.720 go online

01:27:55.520 with a

01:27:56.560 fake identity

01:27:58.040 and have

01:27:59.220 what I

01:27:59.960 thought was

01:28:00.320 a hilarious

01:28:00.860 conversation

01:28:01.660 with somebody

01:28:02.800 who wanted

01:28:03.180 to argue

01:28:03.600 about the

01:28:04.120 intelligence

01:28:04.600 of Scott

01:28:05.360 Adams?

01:28:06.400 Yes,

01:28:06.740 I did.

01:28:08.320 Why did

01:28:08.980 I do it?

01:28:09.840 I was just

01:28:10.640 debunking some

01:28:11.440 hoaxes that

01:28:12.420 were told about

01:28:13.000 me.

01:28:13.620 One of the

01:28:14.000 hoaxes was

01:28:14.640 that I was

01:28:15.120 a Holocaust

01:28:15.620 denier.

01:28:16.820 Do you see

01:28:17.500 the pattern

01:28:17.880 yet?

01:28:18.460 I'm not a

01:28:18.940 Holocaust

01:28:19.280 denier.

01:28:21.620 But the

01:28:22.260 public had

01:28:22.780 decided I

01:28:23.380 was.

01:28:24.360 You see

01:28:24.720 the pattern,

01:28:25.240 right?

01:28:25.800 100% of

01:28:27.220 all of my

01:28:27.680 scandals never

01:28:28.360 happened.

01:28:29.440 None of

01:28:29.860 them.

01:28:30.520 Not a

01:28:30.940 single one.

01:28:32.620 So when I

01:28:33.020 look, let

01:28:34.120 me give you

01:28:34.420 some others.

01:28:35.200 I'm also

01:28:35.620 called a

01:28:36.260 climate

01:28:37.980 denier,

01:28:39.080 like I

01:28:39.480 deny science.

01:28:41.320 That's not

01:28:41.860 happening.

01:28:43.440 That's not

01:28:44.000 real.

01:28:45.880 And then

01:28:46.440 what about

01:28:46.840 my cancellation?

01:28:48.920 My cancellation

01:28:49.880 happened almost

01:28:51.380 entirely for

01:28:52.100 political reasons

01:28:53.100 because there's

01:28:54.440 not a single

01:28:55.020 Republican who's

01:28:55.900 canceled me.

01:28:58.020 And 100% of

01:28:59.980 the people who

01:29:00.480 have heard me

01:29:01.160 explain the

01:29:02.360 situation in

01:29:03.220 detail, because

01:29:04.340 the drama never

01:29:05.260 gets into the

01:29:05.800 detail, 100%

01:29:07.400 have not

01:29:08.560 disagreed with

01:29:09.340 my point.

01:29:10.800 Nobody.

01:29:12.040 There are people

01:29:12.620 who didn't

01:29:13.020 understand the

01:29:13.780 point, and

01:29:15.060 there are people

01:29:15.420 who said it

01:29:16.180 made me mad,

01:29:17.680 which I

01:29:18.180 acknowledge, and

01:29:19.580 there are people

01:29:19.920 who said you

01:29:20.360 shouldn't have

01:29:20.720 said it.

01:29:22.100 That's their

01:29:22.760 opinion.

01:29:23.900 But what they

01:29:24.960 think I did

01:29:25.680 and said didn't

01:29:26.440 happen.

01:29:27.360 I was

01:29:28.080 complaining against

01:29:29.320 racism, and I

01:29:31.960 was accused of

01:29:32.580 being a racist.

01:29:33.720 No, I'm

01:29:34.340 complaining about

01:29:34.980 racists.

01:29:36.320 I'm anti-racist.

01:29:37.820 The entire rant

01:29:38.900 was against

01:29:40.120 racism, and I

01:29:42.280 got accused of

01:29:42.860 being racist.

01:29:44.020 Now, so here's

01:29:45.880 the context.

01:29:46.440 So you look at

01:29:47.260 Dan Crenshaw, and

01:29:48.420 you see this

01:29:48.900 bullshit about

01:29:50.460 his investing.

01:29:52.140 Do you think

01:29:52.680 that's real?

01:29:54.200 You just heard

01:29:55.100 my resume.

01:29:56.600 All of the

01:29:57.520 claims against

01:29:59.780 me are fake.

01:30:00.520 We're out of

01:30:01.060 context to the

01:30:01.840 point that they're

01:30:02.360 reversed.

01:30:04.520 So I don't

01:30:05.240 know the truth

01:30:05.900 about the Dan

01:30:07.580 Crenshaw investment

01:30:08.420 stuff, but with

01:30:10.300 what I know, if I

01:30:12.140 had to place a

01:30:12.940 bet, especially

01:30:14.520 knowing that people

01:30:15.460 have been watching

01:30:16.080 his investments

01:30:16.880 really closely,

01:30:18.820 because this is

01:30:19.780 sort of an

01:30:20.880 evergreen thing

01:30:21.660 that they say

01:30:22.380 about him.

01:30:23.400 You don't have

01:30:24.320 one example.

01:30:25.620 You can't give

01:30:26.520 us one example

01:30:27.300 of a company

01:30:28.040 that he had

01:30:29.680 special knowledge

01:30:30.520 about, and that's

01:30:31.440 the reason he

01:30:31.960 made money, because

01:30:33.240 if you've got even

01:30:34.200 one example, you

01:30:36.060 better lead with

01:30:36.860 that.

01:30:38.260 How about he

01:30:39.800 made this

01:30:40.300 investment with

01:30:41.040 insider information

01:30:41.860 on this company,

01:30:42.680 and here's the

01:30:43.040 name of the

01:30:43.360 company, and that

01:30:44.480 caused him to

01:30:44.960 have a 40

01:30:45.360 percent gain.

01:30:46.220 You tell me

01:30:46.980 that, and you

01:30:47.500 have my

01:30:47.800 attention, then

01:30:49.180 I'm going to

01:30:49.440 say, oh, still

01:30:51.180 legal, completely

01:30:52.540 legal, but I'd

01:30:54.320 say, maybe we

01:30:55.940 should look at

01:30:56.340 changing that

01:30:56.840 law.

01:30:58.800 So just put it

01:31:00.240 in context.

01:31:01.500 Most stories, like

01:31:03.760 this one, the

01:31:05.820 investment one,

01:31:06.900 they don't play

01:31:08.140 out.

01:31:08.500 They're fake.

01:31:10.440 So again, I'm

01:31:11.300 not defending

01:31:11.960 Dan Crenshaw for

01:31:13.840 any other

01:31:14.540 opinions.

01:31:15.600 They might be

01:31:16.100 excellent, they

01:31:16.740 might not be, but

01:31:18.160 that's not my

01:31:20.480 topic today.

01:31:21.560 Thank you for

01:31:22.180 watching, ladies

01:31:23.400 and gentlemen.

01:31:24.840 You continue to

01:31:25.960 be the thing that

01:31:26.600 keeps me alive,

01:31:27.600 because I love

01:31:28.740 connecting with

01:31:30.260 all of you in

01:31:31.420 real time.

01:31:32.640 All right, I'm

01:31:33.340 going to say hi

01:31:33.920 to the locals

01:31:34.780 people, and

01:31:35.700 everybody else.

01:31:36.880 Have a terrific

01:31:37.920 day as best you

01:31:39.100 can, unless you're

01:31:39.840 in Southern

01:31:40.220 California, and

01:31:41.020 then we'll see

01:31:41.860 what we can do

01:31:42.440 for you.

01:31:43.640 And locals, I'm

01:31:44.900 coming at you

01:31:45.540 privately in 30

01:31:47.300 seconds.

01:32:11.020 you

01:32:41.020 Thank you.

01:33:11.020 Thank you.

01:33:41.020 Thank you.

01:34:11.020 Thank you.

01:34:41.020 Thank you.

01:35:11.020 Thank you.

01:35:41.020 Thank you.

01:36:11.020 Thank you.

01:36:41.020 Thank you.

01:37:11.020 Thank you.

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01:38:11.020 Thank you.

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01:42:11.020 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 09, 2025

Episode 2715 CWSA 01⧸09⧸25

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