Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2717 CWSA 01⧸11⧸25

00:00:00.000 All right, let me see if I can get some comments working here.

00:00:09.920 Oh, it works.

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00:00:18.280 This isn't going to work at all.

00:00:22.260 So this morning, that's a little trouble with the streaming technology, but it looks like

00:00:27.720 it's working at the moment.

00:00:28.680 However, it distracted me, so I started to pick up my notes for the show, and I realized

00:00:35.040 I haven't printed them.

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00:00:41.140 Let me print these notes.

00:00:49.800 And if this works, we're going to have a show.

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00:00:57.300 How's everybody's Saturday so far?

00:01:00.940 It's kind of early, but is it often?

00:01:04.040 I don't even have the lights right.

00:01:06.480 I'm a mess.

00:01:07.060 So the interface we're turning on my side lights is so poorly designed that I have to

00:01:20.360 wrap the cord around the object until the place that they put the activation button way down

00:01:26.320 and on the power cord is somewhere near the device I'm operating.

00:01:31.300 It's just the worst design.

00:01:32.680 See, this is the part of the show that the locals people see every day in the pre-show,

00:01:45.380 but I couldn't get that working this morning, but it looks like everything's good on locals

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00:02:43.940 Well, there's, according to the brighter side of news, Joseph Shavit is writing.

00:02:51.600 Is that his real name?

00:02:52.780 Shavit?

00:02:55.360 I feel like there are some kind of names that I just have to stop and say,

00:03:00.440 what if it were the 70s and he got married to somebody and then they decided on a hyphenated

00:03:07.220 name?

00:03:07.620 I used to work with a woman named Debbie Beavers. 1.00

00:03:14.400 Debbie Beavers.

00:03:16.360 Anyway, you can complete the joke on your own.

00:03:20.980 I think I've given you enough.

00:03:22.840 Complete the joke at home.

00:03:25.160 I'll wait.

00:03:25.660 By the way, Joseph Shavit tells us that there's a new drug that might be able to prolong life

00:03:33.940 30%.

00:03:35.120 How does it do that?

00:03:37.300 Well, it, according to the Mayo Clinic, it's something about a senolytic drug that gets rid

00:03:44.680 of the zombie stuff in your blood and then you live longer.

00:03:49.020 All right.

00:03:49.700 So we're going to live 30% longer, maybe.

00:03:52.840 Good news, huh?

00:03:54.700 But wouldn't we need 30% more food?

00:03:59.900 Are we, what would really happen if you had people living 30% longer?

00:04:05.480 Wouldn't it be kind of the end of civilization because it would be nothing but super old

00:04:12.880 people that weren't adding as much as they were subjecting?

00:04:17.340 I feel like it's good news and also the end of civilization.

00:04:23.300 But on the other news, we're going to need a lot of energy with all those people.

00:04:26.800 According to David Dalton in NUCnet, I guess it's NUCnet, there's some kind of steel that's

00:04:34.860 been made that is so good and so strong, they call it fusion grade.

00:04:41.060 So there's a working group working on some kind of steel that's so hard, it would bring

00:04:47.120 down the cost of building a nuclear reactor.

00:04:53.000 It would bring down the cost by an order of magnitude.

00:04:56.800 Now, what would happen if you brought down the cost by an order of magnitude and maybe,

00:05:02.700 maybe even made it more resistant?

00:05:05.140 Pretty good.

00:05:06.160 A whole bunch of things happening in the nuclear world.

00:05:10.260 You may have heard the story about the poor residents in the LA area got a fake emergency

00:05:16.540 alert.

00:05:17.560 So there were real alerts and there's a real fire.

00:05:20.100 But apparently the system on its own, no human pushed the button, they say.

00:05:26.800 The system, because of some kind of bug, sent out an alert and scared the bejesus out of

00:05:33.180 about a million people.

00:05:34.760 But then the authorities went on TV to make sure that you knew it wasn't their fault, because

00:05:41.400 that's the important part, whose fault it was.

00:05:44.320 And they say, not only did they not send it, but their technicians are looking into it and

00:05:49.480 they don't know what happened.

00:05:50.940 Just sort of a weird technical glitch.

00:05:54.160 But if you haven't seen the video of the spokesperson trying to explain it, I just have to give you

00:06:00.660 my impression of it.

00:06:02.840 Because he's got the interpreter.

00:06:05.460 So you've got the interpreter who's got this huge personality.

00:06:09.320 And I'll just, this is just so you get the visual.

00:06:11.940 This is not a racial thing.

00:06:13.220 It's just the visual.

00:06:14.320 Well, imagine, if you will, this super charismatic, semi-Afro black man who's the interpreter. 0.97

00:06:22.800 And he's killing it. 0.56

00:06:24.600 I mean, I assume it's really, he's really translating it correctly.

00:06:28.620 It looked like it.

00:06:29.360 But he's really, really impressive.

00:06:33.260 So he's, you know, doing big pictures and his faces.

00:06:37.140 And he's really, he's really nailing this impression.

00:06:40.160 And I can't take my eyes off him.

00:06:41.920 Like, he's really interesting.

00:06:43.400 And then you look over to the actual spokesperson.

00:06:47.160 So he's this little white guy.

00:06:50.020 Yeah, we didn't push the button.

00:06:54.240 We don't know who pushed the button.

00:06:56.040 And it could be some kind of technology thing.

00:07:00.540 But we didn't push the button.

00:07:02.580 And then the interpreter's, whoa! 0.82

00:07:05.720 It's the most hilarious contrast of charisma and non-charisma you're ever going to see in your life.

00:07:12.920 Wonderful.

00:07:14.600 Anyway, a miracle has happened.

00:07:18.780 According to James Woods, his home in the Burndown area survived.

00:07:24.080 The entire, all the houses across the street from him were burned.

00:07:28.520 And he was told, he was sure his is burned.

00:07:31.100 I think he'd even told that.

00:07:33.220 But it wasn't.

00:07:35.000 I'm not even sure it was damaged by fire at all.

00:07:39.260 You know, obviously there's going to be smoke and damage and utilities will be turned off.

00:07:43.000 So it's not like it's totally good luck.

00:07:45.820 But I don't know what this means.

00:07:50.300 Oh, Adam Carolla's condo.

00:07:52.000 I think he thought that was lost, but it wasn't.

00:07:56.120 I'm eight for eight on this tragedy.

00:07:59.680 Now, you know, I don't want, it's a bad form to say anybody's lucky or having a good time

00:08:07.220 because most of the people are suffering and going to be suffering for a long time.

00:08:11.900 I mean, the devastation is incredible.

00:08:15.300 But it is nonetheless true that there were eight homes I was worried about

00:08:19.900 because of personal connections and or just affection.

00:08:24.040 So I certainly wanted James Woods and Adam Carolla to come out well.

00:08:29.080 They're the only ones I'll name.

00:08:30.460 Others were personal contacts, family, that sort of thing.

00:08:33.920 But there were eight homes I was worried about.

00:08:36.180 And they were all in the either evacuate now or get ready to evacuate category.

00:08:43.300 So far, all eight have survived.

00:08:46.580 And all of them are against the odds.

00:08:48.760 It's like the one building standing, that kind of thing.

00:08:52.220 I don't know how that happened.

00:08:54.040 I'm eight for eight.

00:08:55.480 Now, is that a coincidence?

00:08:59.040 Or are we going to find out?

00:09:01.040 Will we find out that there are far more people who came through it than didn't?

00:09:06.940 Well, not than didn't.

00:09:08.300 Most of them have just pure tragedy.

00:09:11.480 But are there going to be more not-so-bad-as-you-thought stories?

00:09:15.560 Or did it just sort of concentrate in my little world?

00:09:18.720 But I'll tell you, I'm still dedicated to making sure that Californians do all right.

00:09:26.240 So I'm all in on making this better.

00:09:29.880 But just on a personal note, wow.

00:09:33.080 Here's something I didn't know about the Pacific Palisades that I'm just learning this week.

00:09:41.740 Apparently, it wasn't just a good place to live.

00:09:45.520 It might have been, according to what I hear from locals, maybe the best place that anybody ever lived.

00:09:51.880 But I was completely unaware that there was any place in Southern California that I would not be too hot to live.

00:10:00.760 Like, I don't like the too hot places.

00:10:03.580 But apparently, the weather was great because it was on the beach.

00:10:06.320 You could leave the windows open all year long.

00:10:09.980 You could walk everywhere.

00:10:11.520 Every store was clean and awesome.

00:10:13.820 The neighbors were wonderful.

00:10:15.100 There wasn't much traffic in that area.

00:10:19.280 There wasn't much traffic.

00:10:21.980 And, you know, just the amazingness of it.

00:10:25.660 Everything worked.

00:10:26.520 Everybody was happy.

00:10:27.380 It was like paradise, apparently.

00:10:32.340 It was, and this is, unfortunately, this is part of the story.

00:10:37.040 It would be great if it wasn't, but it is.

00:10:40.140 Pacific Palisades was 84% white.

00:10:42.340 But, how many places are 84% white?

00:10:48.680 I mean, I live in a relatively, you know, whitish area of California.

00:10:55.080 We're not 84% white at most.

00:10:58.060 I don't know.

00:10:59.960 60%?

00:11:01.020 Probably not that.

00:11:02.200 Maybe 50?

00:11:03.280 I'm not really sure.

00:11:05.420 It could be lower.

00:11:06.260 It could be, I don't think it's 40.

00:11:09.900 But it could be around half.

00:11:12.340 So, that would be the normal California situation, closer to half or less.

00:11:17.620 So, 84% white.

00:11:18.840 I didn't, honestly, I didn't even know there was a place in the United States that was 84% white.

00:11:23.860 Now, Michael Schellenberger writes in detail, I'll just pull down a piece of it, but his larger argument is fascinating.

00:11:32.120 You should follow him on X.

00:11:33.380 And what he points out is that the, this is his words, the so-called progressives finally achieved what they supposedly warned us of, but in truth wished for, the eviction of the affluent descendants of colonizers, the incineration of their homes,

00:11:50.400 and the destruction of a city that more than any other represents our bloody history of white supremacy and conquest.

00:11:57.580 Now, he doesn't claim, Schellenberger, because he's very smart and doesn't say crazy stuff.

00:12:05.080 He doesn't claim that it was some kind of big organized plot to do bad things to white people.

00:12:11.560 Right?

00:12:11.700 Nobody's saying that.

00:12:12.560 I'm not saying that.

00:12:13.560 He's not saying that.

00:12:14.960 Five minutes later, somebody's going to say, why do you think it was a plot against white people?

00:12:18.980 Not saying that.

00:12:20.280 Not saying that.

00:12:21.100 Don't believe it.

00:12:23.060 However, intention sometimes shows up in your priorities, meaning it doesn't have to be a plan.

00:12:32.440 It can just seep into your priorities and then you end up in the same place.

00:12:37.620 So let me read a little more.

00:12:42.320 Now, this is sort of getting to, getting toward, let's say, this is getting toward the conspiracy theory part of it.

00:12:50.320 Now, I want to be really clear.

00:12:53.000 I do not believe there's a conspiracy, a larger conspiracy involved.

00:12:57.840 I do not believe it at all.

00:12:59.780 I do believe that we're going to see the result of DEI hiring.

00:13:05.420 We don't know what percent and which people.

00:13:07.940 It would be unfair to say this one person is a DEI hire and they're the problem.

00:13:12.340 I don't see that.

00:13:13.920 I don't see the DEI and a specific person doing a specific thing.

00:13:19.220 I don't see that.

00:13:20.320 It could be because you wouldn't know.

00:13:22.700 You see, if you see people making mistakes, you don't know why, you know, from our perspective.

00:13:27.640 You just know their mistakes.

00:13:29.620 You could know their DEI hires and you know they make mistakes.

00:13:34.880 But Gavin Newsom isn't a DEI hire and we think he made some mistakes.

00:13:40.620 So just, you know, kind of chill your enthusiasm for the anti-DEI stuff because I'm pretty anti-DEI, as you all know.

00:13:49.800 But as soon as you tie it to an individual person and an individual act, you've lost the plot.

00:13:56.400 You should think of it as a system collapse problem, not a thing that one person did that time.

00:14:02.940 That just doesn't help anybody.

00:14:05.520 Because you can too easily just slide, without even intending it, you can just slide into pure racism when that's not really the complaint about DEI.

00:14:14.660 I mean, it ends up being racism against white people.

00:14:17.500 But the complaint is it's a destruction of the entire system over time.

00:14:22.580 Anyway, so Joel Pollack, who you should follow if you want to really know what's happening with the fire, because he's not only a local, but he is on the scene and he's getting some reports that I haven't seen anywhere else.

00:14:37.380 So, for example, Joel Pollack said that this is the, he's got a picture of it, he says, this is the Santa Inez Reservoir above the Pacific Palisades.

00:14:47.840 I noted on Sunday, two days before the fire, that it was largely empty.

00:14:53.020 Apparently, according to the LA Times, it was down for maintenance.

00:14:58.820 Really?

00:15:00.540 It was down for maintenance?

00:15:03.260 In the height of the fire season?

00:15:05.480 Well, I'm not sure if this is the height, but the winds made it a dangerous possibility.

00:15:12.340 And this is amazing.

00:15:15.680 Now, not only is Joel asking the question, and the rest of you are asking the question, why was that thing down for maintenance?

00:15:23.200 And, you know, was that a contributing factor?

00:15:26.000 Was that incompetence or necessary?

00:15:28.620 So, here's one of those cases where you're going to say to yourself, ah, whoever took that down for maintenance was a DEI hire.

00:15:37.920 Maybe they were.

00:15:39.480 Maybe they were.

00:15:40.240 Maybe there was also a necessary reason they took it down and there was nothing they could do.

00:15:47.260 So, I'm trying to do the best I can not to jump to conclusions that are not in evidence.

00:15:53.820 And it is not yet, not yet, in evidence that incompetence caused that to be, you know, empty just when they needed it.

00:16:04.420 Don't know.

00:16:05.240 Well, but you know who else doesn't know?

00:16:10.360 Governor Newsom.

00:16:11.980 So, he's opening an investigation into why the heck that thing was empty and why it was down for maintenance then.

00:16:18.560 And Colin Rugg is pointing out on X that the water chief makes three quarters of a million dollars per year and oversaw the emptying of that reserve.

00:16:33.520 Now, again, I want to be really clear because this is important because this is a real human being.

00:16:40.300 And it's not my job to dump on some real human being if they did the right thing, even if to me it looked like the wrong thing because we don't know the full context.

00:16:49.780 But apparently the head of the water chief had previously said on a podcast and maybe other places that her main concentration was equity.

00:17:01.440 So, she had a recent podcast with Janice Kanonis and who was hired by Karen Bass, Mayor Karen Bass.

00:17:14.180 Oh, so that's the water chief.

00:17:16.600 And you're going to say, well, is she a DEI hire?

00:17:21.560 And the answer is we don't know if that's the problem, but yes.

00:17:26.480 Yes, probably.

00:17:27.740 But we don't know that that's the problem.

00:17:29.400 All right.

00:17:30.020 But here's my take.

00:17:33.960 So, she says pretty clearly that her, you know, among her top priorities was equity.

00:17:40.700 And here's my observation.

00:17:44.520 There's no difference in how it would look in the end if the reason we're in this situation is a conspiracy or even terrorism or if it's just the result of people having the wrong priorities.

00:17:59.200 Because we can observe plainly that the priorities are misplaced.

00:18:03.960 So, that's obvious.

00:18:05.460 If what you can observe clearly would explain everything you see, you don't really need the conspiracy theory, which doesn't rule it out, by the way.

00:18:16.160 It's not ruled out.

00:18:17.520 But you don't need it.

00:18:19.020 Everything's explained by the most ordinary, obvious, observable, lack of right priorities.

00:18:25.600 If you have the wrong priorities, the odds of you getting a good result, pretty low.

00:18:31.460 Pretty low.

00:18:32.000 And I would go further and say what I've said before, that a total system collapse in the United States from DEI as your priority is predictable.

00:18:45.360 It's predictable.

00:18:46.280 Now, I've told you before that the human brain is not good at knowing reality.

00:18:55.620 And I talk about how you can all look at the same facts, but you can see two completely different movies on the same screen.

00:19:02.720 Same facts.

00:19:03.760 You're looking at the same time.

00:19:05.420 But you see one movie.

00:19:06.520 I see another movie.

00:19:07.340 That's ordinary.

00:19:08.780 Most ordinary thing.

00:19:09.800 So I say that you can't really tell what is reality, and you can never really know.

00:19:16.500 So the best thing you can do, in my opinion, is pick the reality that predicts the best.

00:19:23.400 So if you have a view of the world that accurately predicts what's going to happen, you're probably close to the truth or whatever truth a human brain can get to.

00:19:32.020 And you all saw me for the last several years predict that DEI, no matter how well-meaning it was, would cause total system collapse and that everything it touched would be destroyed in roughly the order in which it first started DEI and how much power, how much emphasis they put in it.

00:19:54.640 The sooner it started and the more emphasis, the more guaranteed and the sooner you'd see a system collapse.

00:20:03.300 We don't know yet if this is what caused all the, well, what looks like bad management in this area.

00:20:11.580 We don't know.

00:20:12.180 But it was predictable, and if it's not being, if this problem is not caused by it, you could predict pretty clearly that eventually there would be.

00:20:25.600 So whether we're seeing it already or it's ahead of us, maybe even worse, it's guaranteed.

00:20:32.960 It's a system design guarantee.

00:20:35.360 If you design a system that says, take your eye off of the ball because this unimportant ball is the important one, everybody can predict how that turns out.

00:20:47.400 A child, a child could look at that and say, what?

00:20:51.400 You're going to not look at the important thing as the most important thing?

00:20:56.340 How old would you have to be before you knew that was going to be the collapse of the system?

00:21:00.440 Ten?

00:21:01.080 Ten-year-olds?

00:21:02.440 Maybe a ten-year-old could figure that out?

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00:22:07.040 All right, so the New Yorker has a cover of Elon Musk being sworn in.

00:22:18.800 It's a comic, so it's a picture of him being sworn in, and Trump is sort of caught out of the picture.

00:22:25.880 And what they're trying to do is tell the world, oh, Elon Musk is really the one in power.

00:22:31.480 And they're, you know, trying to create this conflict between Musk and Trump.

00:22:36.700 Let me ask you this.

00:22:38.720 Why would Democrats, and this is just a Democrat propaganda publication nobody should take seriously, the New Yorker.

00:22:46.080 But why would the Democrat machine try to drive a wedge between the most effective operator in the world, Musk, and the best president in the world, Trump?

00:22:59.120 What would be the point of just putting a wedge between such capable and well-meaning people who are clearly in it for what's good for America?

00:23:08.980 Why would they do that?

00:23:11.480 Well, they must think that it would destroy the effectiveness of the president, and that somehow they'd get some political benefit from that.

00:23:21.360 This is so far away from being any kind of a positive thing with the country.

00:23:31.680 You know, I love competition.

00:23:33.780 I like when the parties are competing for ideas and people compete in capitalism, etc.

00:23:39.480 But what is this?

00:23:42.100 It's just a sabotage that, if it worked, would greatly degrade the effectiveness of the administration for your benefit.

00:23:54.240 They're trying to destroy the government, or really one of the strongest parts about it, which is this alliance.

00:24:01.300 And by the way, if they manage to take Musk out, don't you think they'd just move to whoever is the second best person on the team?

00:24:07.520 Right?

00:24:09.780 You know, you could argue that maybe somebody else is already the second best, or the first best.

00:24:16.660 But it doesn't even look like the Democrats are trying to do anything but destroy.

00:24:21.940 And all they have left is these weird high school taunts.

00:24:25.460 It's like name-calling.

00:24:26.680 And you know what?

00:24:27.840 Let me put into words what that New Yorker story is saying in different words.

00:24:32.740 meaner, meaner, meaner, meaner, Musk and Trump sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G.

00:24:42.200 Am I wrong? 0.78

00:24:43.760 It's literally a 12-year-old's attack. 1.00

00:24:46.080 It's empty, stupid, embarrassing, unproductive, incredible. 1.00

00:24:54.040 I mean, it's just so, so stupid and evil that I don't even know if I have enough words for it. 1.00

00:25:04.640 Speaking of that, Joe Biden was asked some questions about Havana syndrome. 1.00

00:25:10.940 This is according to Lucas Tomlinson on X.

00:25:14.480 He says that, so Havana syndrome is where there's a suspicion that a secret sonic weapon was injuring people in the embassies and causing some brain damage and other damage, I guess.

00:25:27.040 But Biden asked about Havana, he was asked about Havana syndrome, and he answered talking about ISIS and the rampage in New Orleans.

00:25:34.400 Okay, so he was asked about Havana syndrome, which was allegedly an attack on some government officials, but he answered about ISIS and the rampage in New Orleans.

00:25:48.440 Is it possible that the entire explanation of what happened to Biden's brain is he was attacked by a secret sonic microwave weapon?

00:26:00.540 Did the Russians cook his brain? 1.00

00:26:02.480 I don't think so.

00:26:04.880 I'm just saying it's funny that.

00:26:07.180 Anyway, you can connect the dots.

00:26:09.640 Maybe Russia got his brain.

00:26:11.300 We don't know. 1.00

00:26:12.300 Speaking of stupid Democrat publications, do you remember when Fortune magazine was like a respectable actual magazine? 1.00

00:26:21.540 And Dilbert used to be on the cover all the time. 1.00

00:26:23.940 I think once a year for a number of years, Dilbert was the main cover of Fortune.

00:26:29.120 It was usually their episode about best place to work.

00:26:31.760 And so this just happened.

00:26:35.960 So a prankster pretended to be a whistleblower and talked to Fortune magazine, and they ran the story, completely fake, saying that the X platform was going to remove all time stamps from your posts and start charging $8 for anybody who signed up.

00:26:54.640 That was completely made up, completely made up, completely made up, and it was a prankster who said he was an engineer recently fired from X.

00:27:04.120 Now, so Alex Finn is reporting on this on X, and his take on it was Elon Musk has killed Fortune magazine and all traditional media, which is a pretty good title.

00:27:17.600 But, yeah, that's basically what happened.

00:27:21.900 So when you watch anything that looks like traditional media, it's pretty much because it's funny.

00:27:28.480 Am I wrong about that?

00:27:29.940 When I talk about X, I talk about amazing content.

00:27:35.200 It's like, whoa, Tucker Carlson had a guest that is blowing my mind, and Elon's posts are great.

00:27:42.560 And it's just one amazing thing after another on X, great opinions, you know, Schellenberger, Pollock, you know, just really brilliant takes all day long.

00:27:53.460 And then you go to the media, and the New Yorker is doing neater, neater, neater, and Fortune magazines didn't fact check a hoax.

00:28:05.160 It gets worse.

00:28:07.720 It gets worse.

00:28:09.200 Next story.

00:28:11.440 Molly Hemingway has a piece in The Federalist about Jake Tepper and the Russia collusion hoax.

00:28:18.460 Now, I don't want to ruin it for you, because this is one you just have to go read, because if you don't read the whole piece, you're going to miss the magic of it.

00:28:29.880 But there's one little anecdote in it, or anecdote, or a little story in it, where I guess Molly Hemingway was appearing on CNN some time ago,

00:28:40.860 and the Russia collusion thing, I guess it was in the early days of that.

00:28:45.500 And the allegation is that, I think it was Jim Scudo on CNN, started to report the truth, started to report the truth.

00:28:57.660 And according to Molly, Jake Tepper grabbed him by the wrist and squeezed it to stop him from talking.

00:29:05.340 Now, if you want to find out what was the truth he was saying, and whether or not that was an accurate impression of what was happening, you've got to read the story.

00:29:18.780 So just follow Molly Hemingway.

00:29:21.320 Tremendous talent as a writer and observer of politics.

00:29:27.580 One of my favorites.

00:29:28.540 The ALX account on X tells us that four years ago today, Trump was banned on most platforms.

00:29:39.260 Four years ago today.

00:29:41.120 Now, I never knew how many platforms he was banned on.

00:29:45.220 You knew about the big ones, right?

00:29:47.280 But it's funny how many people thought that banning him was also their job.

00:29:52.500 Listen to this list.

00:29:53.380 So these are the ones that banned Trump four years ago.

00:29:57.380 Facebook, Twitter, Google.

00:29:59.620 Spotify.

00:30:00.700 Well, okay.

00:30:02.140 Spotify because they have podcasts on there.

00:30:04.820 Really?

00:30:05.600 Snapchat, Instagram, Shopify.

00:30:09.520 Shopify?

00:30:10.860 He wasn't allowed to shop?

00:30:14.340 Really?

00:30:15.760 Really?

00:30:17.260 You could take away somebody's right to shop?

00:30:19.360 Reddit, of course, Twitch, YouTube, of course, TikTok.

00:30:26.560 Huh.

00:30:28.100 Hmm.

00:30:28.920 TikTok.

00:30:30.460 Okay.

00:30:31.460 But the funniest one is Pinterest.

00:30:34.180 Pinterest.

00:30:35.940 He was preventing from making homemade crafts and selling them on Pinterest.

00:30:42.980 Do you think Pinterest was just trying to get on the action?

00:30:46.720 Hey.

00:30:47.560 Hey.

00:30:48.840 We're going to ban them from making ashtrays and trying to sell them on our site.

00:30:53.840 Okay.

00:30:54.420 Sure.

00:30:56.400 So this is the beginning of me describing to you the greatest comeback of all time.

00:31:04.540 So four years ago, January 6th, banned on all the major platforms.

00:31:09.900 And then also, of course, you know about the lawfare going after him.

00:31:15.240 And we've got a sort of a partial result on that.

00:31:18.820 You remember Judge Marchand sentenced.

00:31:23.040 So he did the sentencing yesterday.

00:31:24.860 And this was the Stormy Daniels case.

00:31:28.080 Now, if you don't know what law Trump broke in the Stormy Daniels case, there wasn't one.

00:31:36.600 They actually made up a law by combining things that were irrelevant and nobody had ever done before until they could kind of invent a law that he broke.

00:31:46.720 Essentially just invented one and managed to get their biased jury to get a conviction.

00:31:53.520 Then when Trump got elected, it became obvious that sentencing him wasn't going to work, like they couldn't get away with sentencing him.

00:32:03.760 But they still had to have the sentencing hearing because that's the process.

00:32:06.380 And by the way, it's not just me who's saying that there was no actual crime.

00:32:11.840 Jonathan Turley does a better job of it.

00:32:13.700 He knows what he's talking about.

00:32:16.480 So they do it and they basically sentence him to nothing.

00:32:22.320 So they have this whole trial.

00:32:24.560 They find him guilty.

00:32:26.680 And then when it comes to the sentencing, they're like, nothing.

00:32:31.040 No fine.

00:32:33.100 Nothing.

00:32:33.500 Now, of course, you know, it's politically pretty much required that they don't put him in jail.

00:32:40.860 But the amazingness of this is that, according to Turley again and again, he's a good resource on this.

00:32:50.800 You should follow him on X.

00:32:52.940 The conviction should be overturned on appeal.

00:32:56.620 Now, when he says it should be overturned, it's because the case was just the biggest legal embarrassment mess of all time.

00:33:05.720 The judge was a Democrat activist judge.

00:33:08.500 That was demonstrated to be true.

00:33:10.480 So it was biased.

00:33:12.100 The charges were made up.

00:33:13.980 I think there were things that maybe they should have been included that weren't.

00:33:17.260 It was basically lawfare and a completely illegitimate process.

00:33:23.280 But it allowed Trump to trash the judge in the process as part of his statement, which was wonderful.

00:33:31.820 And now Alvin Bragg, who sort of bet his career on getting this done and doing a solid for the Democrats, because that'd be good for him, ends up embarrassing the Democrats terribly, failing terribly.

00:33:46.920 But more importantly, it sort of ripped the roof off the Democrat corrupt machine.

00:33:56.120 These lawfare things, in my opinion, made it really obvious that the Democrats are not just the competing team, that there's a level of evil there that's just not related to.

00:34:09.360 Anyway, I'm sorry, I just saw an image on Locals, because they can put images in the notes.

00:34:21.040 Very distracting.

00:34:23.420 It was me on the beach with Stormy Daniels.

00:34:27.980 I don't know why we were on the beach, but we looked happy in that picture.

00:34:31.120 That was an AI picture.

00:34:32.060 Anyway, so here's what I think.

00:34:51.880 The entire reason that the Democrats are happy is that now they can say he's technically a felon.

00:34:58.100 So they wanted to give Trump the scarlet F, you know, the scarlet letter that, yeah, maybe you're doing some good things and maybe people have voted for you, but you're a felon.

00:35:10.740 And they're going to use that.

00:35:12.440 Now, I would say that's just as effective as neener, neener. 0.99

00:35:17.120 You're a felon. 0.59

00:35:18.600 Neener, neener. 0.97

00:35:21.180 That's all it is. 1.00

00:35:22.520 It's absurdly stupid. 1.00

00:35:23.980 But it's even dumber than that, because if it doesn't survive the appeal, and I don't think it possibly could, is he really a felon? 0.99

00:35:35.600 Have we ever seen a situation where every smart person looking at this, you know, somebody who's a lawyer, says to himself, well, he's temporarily a felon, but there's a 100% chance it's going to be reversed on appeal.

00:35:48.720 You know, maybe the Supreme Court, who knows how long it takes, but reversed.

00:35:51.540 So all they got was a reminder of the lawfare.

00:35:58.060 They didn't get the scarlet letter.

00:36:00.600 The scarlet letter is on Alvin Bragg and Judge Murchon and all the Democrats who apparently, allegedly, colluded for this lawfare.

00:36:10.960 When I see the whole felon thing, I don't even think anything bad about Trump.

00:36:16.700 I just think, oh, you're reminding me of the lawfare and how bad the Democrats were.

00:36:21.220 Got it.

00:36:22.160 So I don't think the Democrats could have failed any harder or that Trump could have won any harder.

00:36:28.920 Do you know what would have been less good of a victory?

00:36:32.780 Less good of a victory would be innocent of all charges.

00:36:36.520 Are you with me on that or no?

00:36:40.280 If you're just looking at winners and losers and we're in the context of Trump has already won the election with the majority of the votes, which changes everything, right?

00:36:49.800 He's already won the election and it was legitimate, just had more votes.

00:36:54.580 All that does is just make this look so corrupt that you can't see it any other way, but pure corruption.

00:37:07.760 Anyway, the scarlet letter turned out to be an FU on them.

00:37:13.740 Trump is having this interesting experience in his transition.

00:37:17.940 So instead of people resisting him like you'd expect, or even like a lot of people said they would,

00:37:22.040 according to real clear politics, he said in his recent appearance,

00:37:27.380 I haven't had anybody saying anything bad about me.

00:37:30.480 I'm not used to it.

00:37:32.080 So as you know, the various leaders and bankers and people are coming in and essentially just asking how they can help.

00:37:40.360 Now, I think that Trump has accidentally created the ultimate fake because.

00:37:47.940 Now, I talk about that all the time, the fake because.

00:37:50.580 It's a persuasion term that I like to use.

00:37:54.380 A fake because is giving somebody a reason that really isn't the real reason,

00:38:00.040 but it frees them to do the thing they wanted to do for their own reasons.

00:38:04.440 So the fake reason is, well, I guess the company is turning, or the country is turning in this direction.

00:38:11.740 We're a big corporation.

00:38:13.440 We serve the entire country.

00:38:14.800 So for that reason alone, that more people voted for Trump, we're going to be good with Trump and we're going to work with him and be productive and all that.

00:38:27.800 Now, do you think that some of these big companies didn't already want to work with the administration, didn't already want to get rid of their DEI program,

00:38:40.540 didn't already want to be a productive part of the civilization instead of just being a resistor?

00:38:46.320 I think most of them did.

00:38:48.980 I think most of them wanted to have a good relationship with the government.

00:38:52.260 It's essential.

00:38:53.360 And I think that they wanted to help the country because, you know, by the time you're a CEO, you're kind of thinking,

00:38:58.840 I better protect the whole country to keep my own stuff.

00:39:01.960 So it's the ultimate fake because.

00:39:03.820 So, yes, I think that the CEOs didn't feel they had cover for doing what they probably wanted to do, which is the smart way to run the company.

00:39:17.240 But now this gives them cover.

00:39:19.740 And here's the best part.

00:39:23.160 All right.

00:39:23.760 Now, I have to apologize in advance before telling you this next thing.

00:39:28.380 And my apology is I'm aware of the fact that sometimes it feels like I go too far in complimenting Trump's technique.

00:39:39.560 Because to me, it's it's just off the chart.

00:39:42.480 It's just next level.

00:39:44.340 And I'm running out of words.

00:39:47.320 So I'm just going to tell you what he just did.

00:39:51.000 And I hope you can agree with me that this isn't ordinary.

00:39:55.000 This is not just a politician who had a good day.

00:39:57.300 It's just part of a pattern of next level.

00:40:02.480 Thinking, operating, persuasion, whatever it is.

00:40:05.040 All right.

00:40:05.180 Here's the story.

00:40:07.640 Now, according to New York Post, the inauguration is coming up and Trump has invited some foreign leaders that he likes that, you know,

00:40:17.200 kind of tell the story that he wants to tell in his administration.

00:40:20.620 So, for example, that would include Italy's prime minister, Giorgia Milani.

00:40:24.920 Maybe she's going to try to make it. 0.87

00:40:28.400 He invited President Xi.

00:40:31.880 Now, keep in mind that it's not it's not traditional to invite any foreign leaders to the inauguration.

00:40:38.160 It's sort of not the business of the foreign leaders.

00:40:40.100 So Trump is, first of all, doing something that hasn't been done, inviting foreign leaders.

00:40:45.640 But it gets better.

00:40:46.820 It gets better.

00:40:47.960 So he invited President Xi, who won't be coming, but he's sending some high-level emissary, which I think was Xi's right play.

00:40:55.540 I think he found the exact middle there.

00:40:59.800 So, nicely done, President Xi.

00:41:04.380 He's invited Argentina's Javier Milay.

00:41:08.140 Plans to go.

00:41:09.240 All right.

00:41:09.540 That's a win for Trump.

00:41:10.900 He invited El Salvador's Bukele. 0.93

00:41:15.140 I don't know if he's going to come, but he's been invited.

00:41:17.360 And also, former Brazilian President Bolsonaro.

00:41:20.700 Now, here's the fun part.

00:41:26.140 Apparently, since Trump opened the possibility that a foreign leader could go to the inauguration, which would be the ideal place for said foreign leaders to get their little word in with the American president because it really matters.

00:41:41.800 And apparently, this has caused some kind of a mad rush of foreign leaders who are not on that list, because it's just his favorite ones, of people begging and trying to find some way to get invited to his exclusive club of favorite leaders.

00:42:01.620 They're all scrambling to become part of Trump's club of favorite foreign leaders.

00:42:07.520 Who can do that?

00:42:13.120 Who can do that?

00:42:15.240 Am I going too far?

00:42:17.440 Am I giving him too much credit?

00:42:20.260 Or the team?

00:42:21.700 Because it's not necessarily just Trump coming up with ideas.

00:42:26.000 Remember, he's got a really strong team at the moment.

00:42:28.620 Best I've ever seen.

00:42:29.940 And he takes their best advice, apparently.

00:42:33.100 This is just so good.

00:42:37.520 Who?

00:42:38.560 He's not even in office yet.

00:42:41.460 And he has foreign leaders begging to be in this exclusive club of favorite foreign leaders.

00:42:47.240 It doesn't get better than that.

00:42:48.920 You can't be more effective than that.

00:42:53.320 This is like things that people don't even think of when they think of being effective.

00:42:58.680 This is so next level.

00:43:00.480 It's crazy.

00:43:02.160 Golden age.

00:43:03.420 Here it comes.

00:43:05.140 Once the fire's out, maybe.

00:43:06.500 Maybe.

00:43:07.520 Now, one of the big problems I've been posting on and got quite a few million views on it is how tremendously difficult it's going to be for the LA area to dig its way out of this fire problem.

00:43:23.780 The homeowners are going to be looking at an insane amount of complication and approvals and steps and things to get anything done.

00:43:35.100 And I predict that given the current system, it would take five to ten years for any one person to rebuild.

00:43:44.280 Five to ten years.

00:43:45.220 So if you've got kids and living there was, you know, because a great place for kids, maybe that's out of your reach now.

00:43:54.700 Because if it were two years, then you say, well, yeah, well, let's do it.

00:43:58.720 If it's five to ten, which is what it looks like, what do you do?

00:44:03.940 So I'm going to read you a take by an ex-user called Dr. Insensitive Jerk, who you should follow on X.

00:44:16.480 Dr. with a D-R. 0.99

00:44:19.440 Insensitive Jerk.

00:44:21.100 Separated by a lowercase, lower underscore.

00:44:24.460 And here's what he says.

00:44:26.600 I'll just read his words.

00:44:27.920 He goes, this time it feels like those building rules might be loosened.

00:44:32.440 Yeah, which I agree.

00:44:33.640 I think even the most incompetent government might look to loosen some rules under this situation.

00:44:40.500 But why, he says.

00:44:42.300 Whether it's one homeowner or 2,000, the moral question is the same.

00:44:46.300 Should they have to wait years for government permission?

00:44:49.960 Right.

00:44:50.220 Whether it's one person or lots of them.

00:44:52.820 Should they wait years for a government position?

00:44:55.300 He says, this time it feels like maybe they won't.

00:44:58.180 And the reason is important.

00:45:00.120 Really?

00:45:00.680 There's a reason.

00:45:01.400 Okay.

00:45:01.940 The reason is not moral or even practical.

00:45:05.520 It isn't?

00:45:06.900 It is bargaining power.

00:45:09.160 Now the homeowners have it because of their sheer numbers.

00:45:13.160 Oh, yes.

00:45:15.340 Before, individually, they did not.

00:45:18.840 You're right.

00:45:20.220 An individual homeowner trying to get any of these rules changed.

00:45:23.700 No way.

00:45:24.940 But this many homeowners who are high-functioning homeowners.

00:45:30.360 These are not your normal homeowners.

00:45:32.460 These are people with money and resources and talent.

00:45:35.560 And there's a lot of them.

00:45:37.820 So, yes.

00:45:40.760 But here's the kill shot at the end from Dr. Incentive Jerk.

00:45:44.540 He says, if you feel that too, meaning that the sheer number of them will make a difference to the government,

00:45:50.300 it means in your heart you believe the government is not your ally.

00:45:54.500 The government is at best your rival and more likely your enemy.

00:45:59.400 If the government were on our side, our bargaining power would not matter.

00:46:06.360 Dropping my mic.

00:46:09.980 Dropping my mic.

00:46:14.000 And we're done.

00:46:16.140 That was my mic drop in case you're listening.

00:46:19.800 That's right.

00:46:20.720 If the government were on our side, we wouldn't need massive bargaining power to get ordinary things that people want.

00:46:30.240 Ordinary things.

00:46:33.220 That's it.

00:46:34.940 That's the frame you need to get into.

00:46:37.280 The frame is the government's your enemy.

00:46:39.740 As soon as you believe that they're your friend, you're not going to understand anything you see.

00:46:44.940 Nothing will make sense.

00:46:46.080 And I think the government in California, or at least Southern California, in my view, just looking from the outside,

00:46:53.700 appears to be in it for money and power, influence, and absolutely my enemy.

00:47:01.220 My enemy.

00:47:05.200 Let's ask anybody, wait three years and see what any of the victims of the fire tell you.

00:47:12.640 Do you think your government in California is your friend or your enemy?

00:47:16.460 What do you think they're going to say?

00:47:18.040 After the experience that they're about to go through, and I'd love to say that some of the rules will get relaxed.

00:47:24.020 I'm not even sure that will happen.

00:47:26.140 I'm not even sure this is enough bargaining power.

00:47:29.280 Because if the government is completely captured, which it looks to be, why would they change?

00:47:36.980 If they still have the power to do whatever they want, no matter how many people are complaining,

00:47:41.900 why would they change?

00:47:43.180 Just because a lot of people are complaining.

00:47:45.040 Wouldn't be enough.

00:47:46.080 Do you think there's enough to turn California red?

00:47:51.480 You know, get a Republican governor?

00:47:53.900 Well, here's the problem.

00:47:56.000 Name that prominent Republican who's already got a good name and some experience,

00:48:02.980 and if they ran, you'd say to yourself, whoa, okay, that's serious.

00:48:07.020 There's a Republican who really can make a difference.

00:48:09.820 There's a Reagan.

00:48:11.300 There's a Trump.

00:48:12.060 You know, there's a DeSantis.

00:48:14.620 Who is it?

00:48:15.640 Who in California, because I've been trying to think, like, who would I even trust?

00:48:22.420 Who would have the stones to get it done?

00:48:26.540 Larry Elder.

00:48:27.160 I love everything about Larry Elder.

00:48:30.180 I don't know if he could get, I don't think he could get elected, because he's tried before.

00:48:35.820 James Woods.

00:48:36.620 I don't know.

00:48:40.100 I don't know.

00:48:41.200 He may be a little bit of a, you know, I think he's branded himself out of that, because he seems like, you know, more of a pundit.

00:48:51.360 But Cernovich would be my first choice, I see in the comments, Mike Cernovich, but, you know, he'd have to deal with a lot of, he'd be an easy target for critics.

00:49:04.720 So you don't want somebody who's too easy.

00:49:07.040 Mike Rowe.

00:49:07.920 I don't know if Mike Rowe is a Republican, but he has, that would be interesting.

00:49:12.820 Adam Carolla, I can't imagine he'd want to take that job.

00:49:16.060 There you go.

00:49:16.560 Michael Schellenberger.

00:49:18.260 Would Michael Schellenberger have the right tools to be a governor of California?

00:49:29.020 I'm going to give you an unambiguous answer.

00:49:31.680 Yes.

00:49:32.980 Yes.

00:49:33.760 Now, I don't know if his public profile is sufficient to, you know, to be that charismatic person.

00:49:41.520 But here's one thing he has.

00:49:43.540 He used to be a Democrat.

00:49:46.560 He used to be a Democrat, which also means he fully understands all of their arguments and techniques.

00:49:53.180 And he got, I don't want to say he got red-pilled, because that sort of puts my thoughts into another person, so I'm not going to say that.

00:50:00.320 But he is very clearly in the common sense camp.

00:50:04.760 If you look at any way he, you know, any way he dissects any issue, it's always brilliant.

00:50:11.300 It's always complete.

00:50:12.800 It always shows that he understands both sides.

00:50:15.620 I've never seen anything like it.

00:50:17.740 So if you wanted to move from complete politics and DEI and, you know, just nothing but the drama of politics and the corruption and all that,

00:50:27.640 if you want to get an operator who has a track record of really making a difference in this world,

00:50:35.420 I believe that nuclear energy is only having a resurgence because of one person.

00:50:41.800 I think it was Michael Schellenberger.

00:50:43.760 It's probably the most important thing that's going to happen in the country, because if we don't have energy, we're just in trouble.

00:50:49.680 So I see people say Rick Grinnell, but does he live here?

00:50:57.260 Devin Nunes, well, that's interesting.

00:51:01.080 Devin Nunes.

00:51:02.080 I don't think he has an interest.

00:51:05.540 So, all right, well, we'll put Devin Nunes in the short list, okay?

00:51:10.060 So I'd say Schellenberger, Devin Nunes.

00:51:13.960 You're saying Rick Grinnell.

00:51:15.280 I don't know that he lives in California, but if he does, if he does, he's on my short list.

00:51:21.820 All right.

00:51:22.720 So I think really California is, you know, doesn't have the Reagan-esque character.

00:51:28.800 I can't think of one, but we might have enough, enough to get it past the Democrat goalkeepers.

00:51:36.240 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

00:51:38.360 I've been visualizing my match all week.

00:51:41.120 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.

00:51:47.040 Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.

00:51:52.740 Everything was taken care of under one roof, and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.

00:51:57.180 I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.

00:52:00.640 But you got there on time.

00:52:02.520 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace.

00:52:05.140 Certain conditions apply.

00:52:06.000 All right.

00:52:08.680 Meanwhile, as you know, Metta is ending DEI.

00:52:12.580 Zuckerberg is, he's got quite a change of heart in a good way.

00:52:19.020 But here are the things they're doing at Metta.

00:52:20.980 They're taking the tampons out of the men's restroom.

00:52:27.260 Lucky Palmer says he has some story about that, about the origin of the tampons in the restaurant.

00:52:32.000 That's a funny story that he's going to tell us soon, I believe.

00:52:37.680 So Metta no longer will have DEI teams, and they're going to end their supplier diversity effort, you know, making sure their suppliers are diverse.

00:52:45.320 And they're going to end the practice of requiring that diverse candidates be considered for jobs.

00:52:54.000 And they'll focus on merit.

00:52:55.960 Sounds good.

00:52:56.660 And all DEI representation goals will be eliminated.

00:53:04.240 Now, Zuckerberg also was on Joe Rogan.

00:53:09.680 And in my mind, he answered the mystery of Zuckerberg.

00:53:14.160 Because all of you are saying, hey, is he just like a weasel who knows that the wind changed, so he's just going to change with the wind?

00:53:22.860 Is he just trying to make money because, you know, Trump's in charge, so he knows that Trump might come after him?

00:53:28.800 Well, all of those are true.

00:53:30.560 He wants to make money, doesn't want the government to be his enemy.

00:53:34.240 He'd rather befriend Trump than have him on the other team, obviously.

00:53:37.680 These are just obvious things that every CEO would want.

00:53:40.100 So, I take them off the table because they're in the category of, obviously, everybody wants that.

00:53:46.020 But, like you, it doesn't seem to explain it.

00:53:50.400 Of course, he wants what every CEO wants.

00:53:53.120 But you don't see every CEO doing such a radical change in what looks like personality.

00:53:59.240 I mean, it looks like a change in personality driving the change in business, doesn't it?

00:54:04.340 So, you say to yourself, is that fake?

00:54:06.520 Like, is it a fake change in personality just so we can get the CEO benefits of, you know, working with the government productively?

00:54:14.220 I don't know.

00:54:15.420 But then he explained this on Joe Rogan.

00:54:17.820 And in my mind, I'm done with the mystery.

00:54:21.640 This explains everything.

00:54:23.680 It was fascinating.

00:54:24.980 He said that, I think he said he had three sisters and then he had three daughters and a wife.

00:54:29.160 And so, he lived in a completely, what he called, neutered world where it wasn't male and female.

00:54:37.660 There was no male.

00:54:39.460 He just lived in a female bubble. 0.98

00:54:43.520 Then, apparently, the way he escaped his bubble, and this is his telling.

00:54:48.040 But it's his own telling that when he got involved in MMA, martial arts, and started hanging out with more, he didn't use the word, but manly men, he rediscovered the value of male aggression.

00:55:04.160 Because he was literally doing practice fighting, or real fighting in a recreational way.

00:55:13.640 And that it sort of activated some long, covered up or unexpressed part of him that was male.

00:55:22.280 So, his telling of his own transformation is that he didn't know how to be a man.

00:55:29.560 Now, those are my words, but, you know, listen to yourself and see if that doesn't sound like a good summary.

00:55:38.260 He didn't know how to be a man.

00:55:42.880 Again, that's my interpretation, but the way he says it, that's what it sounds like.

00:55:47.960 And then, he rediscovered that through interaction with other men.

00:55:52.080 Now, once he saw both sides, and he saw, you know, the male part, the female part, then he was in a position to choose which one made more sense, both for him and for the company.

00:56:06.040 And he chose common sense.

00:56:08.480 There's nothing about what he's changing to that is beyond just common sense.

00:56:14.300 So, he'd been in the female world, where there was sort of a feelings-based preference.

00:56:21.180 Once he was exposed to the male world, where what matters is if you win the fight, what matters is if you win the fight, and also, what matters is if you win the fight.

00:56:33.220 But there's a third thing that matters.

00:56:35.420 Did you win the fight?

00:56:38.520 The female world is not about winning the fight. 1.00

00:56:41.120 It's about feeling good, making sure other people feel good.

00:56:45.700 And you can't run a world that way.

00:56:48.660 You kind of need both.

00:56:50.500 You can't be heartless, but you also can't lose the fight.

00:56:56.780 And I think there was some part of him that said, I think I'm losing the fight to get the feelings right.

00:57:03.000 Again, this is my interpretation.

00:57:04.960 It's always sketchy when you're trying to interpret somebody else's thoughts.

00:57:09.160 But he explained it masterfully, so I would recommend you watching the Joe Rogan episode about that.

00:57:16.020 He also said, and maybe this is the bigger story, that the censorship that he was receiving, the censorship pressure from the Biden administration, was apparently outrageous.

00:57:28.440 Apparently, there were administration people, he said, who were calling and literally yelling at Facebook staff to censor something that he knew to be true.

00:57:43.260 Imagine that.

00:57:44.700 So this is coming directly from the most authoritative source at Meta. 0.99

00:57:48.780 And he's telling you, specifically, people yelled at their staff like they were the government's little bitches. 0.99

00:57:58.480 Hey, you little bitches, you better do what I say. 1.00

00:58:00.980 And they threatened them. 1.00

00:58:02.880 They threatened them.

00:58:04.280 The government told them to censor true information that was valuable, very valuable, in my opinion, about, I think it was about pandemic stuff.

00:58:17.200 And threatened them.

00:58:21.320 Now, imagine you're, I'm going to take this a little bit further.

00:58:26.920 Imagine that you grew up in a female environment, and then suddenly the government's like yelling at your people and threatening you and taking away freedom of speech, basically. 1.00

00:58:39.660 But you've awakened in this male world of MMA fighting.

00:58:44.960 And suddenly you say, you know what?

00:58:47.680 What matters is that I beat these people.

00:58:51.020 It doesn't matter that I make them happy and that we all feel good. 0.98

00:58:54.060 It matters that I beat them.

00:58:55.080 And when Trump won, he said, here's how I beat them.

00:59:01.580 I just go along with common sense.

00:59:04.960 You know, you don't want your government censoring your free speech.

00:59:08.240 You've got a leader of common sense and free speech now in office.

00:59:12.780 Of course you pair with it.

00:59:14.320 Why?

00:59:15.600 Because winning is really important.

00:59:19.580 Also, winning is really important.

00:59:21.820 And the third thing, winning is very important.

00:59:25.080 Very important.

00:59:28.080 There's a fake story.

00:59:29.440 I'm going to call it fake.

00:59:30.560 It's based on real facts.

00:59:32.580 The real facts are that Amazon has declared that it's going to get rid of its outdated DEI programs.

00:59:39.520 But they're going to sort of fold that function, if you will, into the ordinary operation of the company.

00:59:51.400 So there won't be a DEI department.

00:59:55.880 They'll just have people doing hiring like they always did without that hanging over them.

01:00:01.080 And then they said this.

01:00:07.420 I'm just going to read it.

01:00:08.880 This is from Amazon.

01:00:10.980 This is from Amazon.

01:00:12.700 So they say they're getting rid of DEI.

01:00:14.960 And so your thought is, wow, finally, everybody will be treated the same.

01:00:21.040 Wouldn't that be great?

01:00:22.040 And then they said in their statement, and I quote,

01:00:27.200 We also believe that inequitable treatment of anyone, including black people, LGBTQ plus people, Asians, women, and others is unacceptable.

01:00:40.640 Is there anybody left out?

01:00:47.000 Is there anybody left out of that?

01:00:50.820 The reason that DEI is unpopular is that it's racist against white people, specifically white men.

01:00:58.920 Now, also, there are probably, you know, I'm sure there's an impact on, let's say, Asian men and Asian women, maybe.

01:01:06.180 I don't know.

01:01:06.540 But the main problem, the main problem is that it's racist against white men.

01:01:15.040 And when they get rid of it, they say, well, we're going to make sure we're good to everybody but white men, unless I'm in the category of other. 0.72

01:01:25.540 So Amazon gets no credit.

01:01:30.220 No credit.

01:01:31.900 This is a zero.

01:01:33.080 You don't get any credit for getting rid of your DEI.

01:01:36.780 That's the way to save money. 0.99

01:01:38.280 All they're doing is returning to the 1980s, where the hiring manager knows damn well that if they don't get enough diversity, it's going to bite them in the ass later. 0.99

01:01:47.580 Nothing changed. 0.99

01:01:49.500 Nothing.

01:01:50.960 And here's the good news.

01:01:52.900 The smart people on the conservative side, they didn't buy it.

01:01:59.680 They didn't buy it.

01:02:00.680 Because here's an updated list of the companies.

01:02:03.560 I think Robbie Starbuck has this.

01:02:06.600 Updated list of the companies that did get rid of DEI in a way that looks like it's serious.

01:02:12.560 The Amazon one is a nothing.

01:02:14.860 But here are the companies.

01:02:15.820 And they don't put Amazon on the list.

01:02:18.000 So it's an extensive list to show victory in flipping companies away from DEI.

01:02:23.140 It does not include Amazon.

01:02:25.460 That's correct.

01:02:27.120 Robbie Starbuck nailing every good point on this whole topic.

01:02:31.520 So these are the ones that seem to be serious about getting rid of DEI.

01:02:35.280 Meta McDonald's, Walmart, Boeing, Molson, Coors, Lowe's, Ford, Jack Daniels, Harley, Davidson, John Deere, Tractors, Supply, Toyota, Nissan, Caterpillar, Inc., Stanley, Black & Decker, DeWalt, Tools, Indian Motorcycle Craftsman, Polaris.

01:02:49.060 I recommend every one of those companies.

01:02:51.240 If you're thinking of buying a product and one of these companies makes it, give them your business.

01:02:57.720 Because I think they're taking seriously their shifter away from DEI.

01:03:01.800 Amazon, of course, you're going to have to give Amazon your business because you can't avoid it.

01:03:06.500 Yeah, I can't.

01:03:08.180 But no credit.

01:03:10.500 You get no credit for what you've done.

01:03:12.780 That's just the 1980s where all the managers discriminate just like they discriminated against me back in my banking days.

01:03:20.000 Yeah, all right.

01:03:20.420 Here's me causing a lot of trouble online.

01:03:24.780 But I'm going to tell you, not everybody will know this if they don't follow me on my live streams.

01:03:29.840 I'm causing trouble for a productive reason. 0.99

01:03:33.440 If you look at it from the outside, you're just going to see me being an asshole. 1.00

01:03:37.480 All right. 1.00

01:03:38.240 And some of you already think that on this topic.

01:03:41.120 It's the topic of Mel Gibson being on Joe Rogan and saying that he had three friends cured of cancer by ivermectin and fenbenazole.

01:03:49.660 Two over the, not over the counter, but two drugs that already exist and don't have major side effects.

01:03:59.540 Used properly, they don't.

01:04:02.440 And here's what I'm doing.

01:04:04.420 I'm debunking that, and I'm pushing hard, saying that there is no real example of this ever happening, that there's no confirmed, there's not one.

01:04:15.180 You will never see Mel Gibson's three friends sitting with their doctor saying, yes, the only thing we did is use these drugs, and it cured my cancer that was otherwise incurable.

01:04:26.380 So I'm saying that doesn't exist.

01:04:29.920 Now, somebody said, are you saying Mel Gibson is a liar?

01:04:32.320 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

01:04:34.960 I'm not saying Mel Gibson's a liar.

01:04:36.460 I believe his friends told him this, and I believe lots of people are saying it.

01:04:41.400 And people say to me, but Scott, Scott, it's so well demonstrated.

01:04:46.360 But here's what happens if you go down one level.

01:04:48.840 Now, here's what I'm trying to achieve.

01:04:52.320 I would love this to be real.

01:04:54.960 It might be.

01:04:56.080 It might be.

01:04:57.160 At least for maybe some sorts of cancers in some kinds of situations, maybe in combination with other treatments.

01:05:03.700 So there might be something here.

01:05:05.440 And if there is, I want to move this faster.

01:05:08.820 So I'm going to become the foil.

01:05:12.820 I've taken the role of the bad guy in the story for productive reasons.

01:05:16.980 I need them to fight me.

01:05:19.700 I want the people who claim this is real to absolutely destroy me. 0.96

01:05:24.920 I want them to dogpile on top of me until I can't breathe. 0.97

01:05:28.900 Then we'll find out if it's real.

01:05:32.280 For some reason, all of these claims, of which there are numerous, very many claims,

01:05:39.060 none of them seem to be able to come public with their doctor and say,

01:05:43.200 here are my lab tests before.

01:05:44.940 Or I didn't do anything else.

01:05:47.860 Or maybe I did it in conjunction with something we know doesn't work completely.

01:05:51.800 And now I have complete remission.

01:05:55.320 Just show me one.

01:05:57.140 Just one.

01:05:58.020 Because there are many, many assumed cases.

01:06:01.460 So how could it be?

01:06:02.880 I mean, how could it possibly be?

01:06:04.460 There's so many people would say, I personally, and they do.

01:06:07.880 They say, I personally got better on this.

01:06:10.140 My friend got better.

01:06:11.160 I know three people.

01:06:12.360 There are doctors who say, I know a dozen.

01:06:13.980 How is it possible?

01:06:17.160 Well, I'll tell you.

01:06:19.480 I'll give you, I'll give you.

01:06:20.940 So, so there's, if you study persuasion, it's really obvious how it's all possible.

01:06:27.120 If you don't, it looks like it couldn't possibly be fake if so many people have had the exact same experience.

01:06:33.840 Number one, this is one of those stories where a lot of people have heard about the same guy, but they've heard it from different people.

01:06:43.500 So if a different person tells you, I know somebody who got better, you think, well, that's 10 stories about, so it must be true.

01:06:49.820 What you'll find out is all 10 of them are talking about the one person who has never been tested to see if he's cancer-free.

01:06:56.220 So that's the first thing.

01:06:58.560 If you can tell me the name of the guy, and I won't name him because I don't want to do that, but if you say, here's the name of the guy who took these drugs, ivermectin, and orfenbendazole, and he got cleared.

01:07:10.940 If you know the name of the guy, you're all talking about the same guy.

01:07:15.420 There's basically one case that's unconfirmed that everybody thinks happened, and you hear somebody talking about somebody talking about somebody who knows somebody, and it sounds like a bunch of guys.

01:07:27.480 That's exactly what happened to me in a project I was working on in my corporate days.

01:07:32.380 I was told to build a laboratory for all the customers who wanted to test their things before they bought them.

01:07:37.660 And I said, how many people want to do that?

01:07:40.080 And everybody I talked to, all the managers, all the managers, said, it's just a lot.

01:07:44.600 I mean, all the time.

01:07:45.560 We're just getting pestered.

01:07:46.880 Everybody wants to test it, but we don't have a way to do it.

01:07:49.460 I put together a $10 million plan to build a lab, but I kept looking for the people who were asking for it because I wanted to confirm it.

01:07:58.760 Turned out it was one person once, one person once, talked to one manager once, and said, I wish I had a lab to test this.

01:08:06.520 It turns out you didn't really need the lab, found a way to make the right decision anyway.

01:08:12.140 So there was one person who didn't actually need it, and that person talked to another person.

01:08:17.280 Hey, what can we do about a lab for this person?

01:08:19.660 That person talked to another person.

01:08:21.440 Everybody's asking for a lab.

01:08:23.100 That person talked to the vice president.

01:08:25.820 My God, it's like I got to do something.

01:08:28.680 Everybody's asking for this laboratory.

01:08:30.600 It was one person who didn't need it.

01:08:33.740 And I investigated myself and confirmed that was true.

01:08:37.640 There was not one person who wanted that $10 million.

01:08:41.200 Now, that's actually ordinary.

01:08:44.900 It might be happening here.

01:08:47.120 Here's what else is wrong.

01:08:48.220 Why could it be that so many people have had a miracle cure of cancer, and yet they're not willing to come public?

01:08:58.600 Because if they came public and they could show their work, you know, show their lab tests, they would be the people who cured cancer.

01:09:06.660 Because even though they're not the drug, they would be the person who said, look, the medical community is, you know, trying to sell you these expensive treatments.

01:09:16.280 I want to show you that I got better with this.

01:09:19.120 And then maybe there'd be another one.

01:09:21.000 And maybe another one.

01:09:22.380 And maybe another one.

01:09:23.800 Do you know how many there are so far? 0.92

01:09:26.440 Apparently, there are a lot of people who have been fucking cured of cancer who don't want to tell you about it. 0.92

01:09:30.840 Does that sound real? 0.96

01:09:32.320 They don't want to tell you about it? 0.98

01:09:33.720 Do you know, if I took an over-the-counter or just some ordinary prescribed drug and it cured my fucking cancer, you would never hear the end of it. 0.98

01:09:43.380 Because I would not let millions of people die of cancer unnecessarily if I knew it worked. 0.98

01:09:51.560 Not one?

01:09:52.500 Not one person wants to come public?

01:09:55.300 Nobody.

01:09:56.800 It's working all over.

01:09:58.360 I mean, I mean, just Mel Gibson alone knows three people, but they don't want to come forward?

01:10:04.940 They don't want to talk to us?

01:10:06.580 The only one I've seen come forward seems to be getting paid by the doctor who's selling the treatment.

01:10:12.720 I don't know that.

01:10:14.700 But let's say the context suggests that the person's getting paid to support this story.

01:10:22.800 It suggests that the person's getting paid by the doctor who's selling the treatment.

01:10:27.140 How about, so here are the stories that I've heard personally.

01:10:30.580 So people say, no, I know a guy who had prostate cancer that had metastasized.

01:10:40.700 Now that's incurable.

01:10:42.540 It's incurable.

01:10:43.260 And he reports to his friend, who talks to me, and says, look, my friend has it.

01:10:48.960 It's incurable.

01:10:50.000 He took these drugs, and it's confirmed that his cancer spots in his bones shrunk.

01:10:58.000 Now that sounds pretty good, right?

01:11:01.420 If it's an incurable disease, the tumors shrunk after he took the drug, that seems pretty darn impressive, right?

01:11:12.660 And if it shrunk it, well, it probably could keep shrinking it, right?

01:11:16.660 And maybe completely go away.

01:11:19.380 Here's what almost certainly really happened.

01:11:23.200 People who have metastatic prostate cancer, typically, no matter what treatments they're doing or not doing,

01:11:30.380 there's going to be some point where they're in pain.

01:11:32.640 And it's because the tumors in their bones have reached a certain size.

01:11:35.700 The standard, ordinary, almost universal treatment is to use radiation on them because it can shrink the tumor.

01:11:45.200 It can't cure your cancer.

01:11:47.660 It can shrink the tumor.

01:11:50.200 Whoever it is who had tumors that were big in his bones, and then they were being measured, and then they later shrunk,

01:11:56.880 go back to that person and ask him if they also were doing radiation, which we already know 100% of the time reduces the size of the tumor,

01:12:06.340 but it doesn't cure you, so you eventually die from it.

01:12:10.400 So let me put it in a visual way, all right?

01:12:14.480 So if you can't see this on Spotify or audio, but I'm going to make a big circle with my hands.

01:12:23.400 This big old circle is what the oncologist understands about cancer because it's their specialty.

01:12:31.300 So what they know is this big ball.

01:12:33.420 If you get diagnosed with a cancer, you are going to become kind of an expert on your cancer,

01:12:39.800 and you're going to learn a lot, not nearly as much as the doctor knows.

01:12:46.340 Like you're, you know, let's say you're the size of a bowling ball compared to a beach ball.

01:12:51.740 Like that's how much you know, but it's a lot.

01:12:54.620 Then you talk to your friend.

01:12:57.140 So you've got a bowling ball now that is not as big as the beach ball that the doctor knows, but you know a lot.

01:13:03.680 You've got a bowling ball-sized knowledge.

01:13:06.240 Then you talk to your friend.

01:13:07.480 When you've talked to your friend, how much does the friend know?

01:13:12.180 The friend is Mel Gibson.

01:13:13.800 How much does he know?

01:13:15.660 Ping-pong ball.

01:13:17.000 The friend knows a ping-pong ball worth of knowledge about the topic and specifically about this specific patient.

01:13:23.440 So you're listening to the ping-pong ball guy.

01:13:25.520 If you think that these treatments are working, talk to an oncologist and ask him how many, him or her, ask them how many of their patients are on ivermectin and fenbendazole.

01:13:40.940 Do you know what the answer will be?

01:13:42.100 Probably a bunch, pretty much every one of them, because they've all heard these stories.

01:13:47.340 Every single person who's in this situation has heard that these things might work, doesn't have much of a downside.

01:13:53.220 Of course they're going to try them.

01:13:54.620 And they're going to tell their doctor, yeah, I'm on this, blah, blah, blah.

01:13:57.740 So if you talk to your oncologist, will your oncologist tell you that, yeah, you know, I've seen some miracle cures, I've got to say.

01:14:06.400 You know, you might as well try it.

01:14:07.980 I've seen good results.

01:14:09.700 No, you're not going to find any oncologist who says it.

01:14:12.620 Do you know why?

01:14:13.680 Because they've never seen it work.

01:14:16.580 There's no oncologist who's seeing patients, like currently seeing patients, who's ever seen it work.

01:14:23.900 They've never seen it cure an incurable cancer.

01:14:26.320 Never.

01:14:28.800 Or they tell you.

01:14:30.880 So if you know anybody who has cancer and they have an oncologist, of course they will.

01:14:36.740 Ask them to ask their oncologist if they've ever seen even an anecdotal case where it cured or even fixed anybody's cancer.

01:14:45.000 The answer will be no.

01:14:47.460 But Mel Gibson, if you talk to Mel Gibson, he's seen it all over the place.

01:14:51.460 Because he's not the beach ball and he's not the bowling ball.

01:14:54.600 He's the ping pong ball.

01:14:56.660 Do you think that Mel Gibson could have asked the question that I asked, which is, was he also on radiation therapy, which nearly 100% of people in his situation would be?

01:15:07.780 Do you think he knew to ask that question?

01:15:10.500 No.

01:15:10.760 Because when I dig down, usually they have some other therapy going, which could actually even cure the cancer.

01:15:16.940 This one is an incurable, but it might have been a curable one.

01:15:20.040 So, what else we got?

01:15:26.680 Oh, also I talked to one person who didn't want to be public.

01:15:30.880 Somebody cured their cancer, an incurable one, an incurable one.

01:15:35.560 Totally clear.

01:15:36.720 Didn't want to go public.

01:15:37.680 But was willing to chat with me, sort of, you know, as long as it wasn't public.

01:15:44.420 Do you believe that?

01:15:47.200 Again, do you believe there's somebody who cured cancer and knows the cure for cancer and it's just an inexpensive little pill that anybody could get and he's not going to tell you?

01:15:57.960 He's not willing to go on CNN and say, hey, I better bring my doctor and let everybody know?

01:16:04.960 Look for the pattern.

01:16:06.560 Now, you want to know the kill shot? 0.96

01:16:09.480 Here's the kill shot. 0.80

01:16:12.260 Let's just calculate the odds of this. 0.91

01:16:14.800 All right?

01:16:15.120 Here's the odds.

01:16:17.280 Ivermectin.

01:16:17.940 Oh, and here's the other thing. 1.00

01:16:19.480 People would send me link after link saying, Scott, you idiot. 1.00

01:16:22.680 You're not doing the homework. 1.00

01:16:23.840 Don't you know that there are multiple clinical trials showing the ivermectin specifically, and I think also FENBEN, that both of those do work against cancer?

01:16:34.560 And they send me the link.

01:16:37.100 What do I know about the link before I read it?

01:16:40.560 It does not prove that any of those have an effect on cancer.

01:16:44.400 So I open it up.

01:16:46.140 In the laboratory, in a petri dish, cancel.

01:16:50.180 Next one.

01:16:51.120 In a laboratory, in a petri dish, cancel.

01:16:54.200 In a laboratory.

01:16:55.560 Do you know what kills cancer in the laboratory? 0.89

01:16:58.880 Piss. 1.00

01:16:59.800 You could piss on the fucking cancer in the laboratory, and it's going to kill it. 1.00

01:17:03.100 I don't know if that's true, but it's funny. 1.00

01:17:04.860 Everything kills cancer in the laboratory.

01:17:07.380 It doesn't have any predictive value.

01:17:10.180 None.

01:17:11.340 None.

01:17:13.160 So people are hearing Mel Gibson's friends and all these hundreds, maybe dozens, maybe hundreds of people.

01:17:19.320 And plus, the clinical trials, because they don't know that clinical trials just means in the laboratory.

01:17:25.120 I fell for one.

01:17:28.760 Here's what I fell for when I started looking into it.

01:17:31.260 I was told that it worked in animals.

01:17:35.180 That they'd done it in the petri dish.

01:17:37.440 You know, again, that's not exactly what's happening.

01:17:39.820 But they did it in the lab.

01:17:41.600 But it also worked in animals.

01:17:43.720 On cancer.

01:17:44.460 So I said to myself, whoa, that's way better than a lab.

01:17:48.640 If it worked in animals, you're getting a little bit closer to something that has at least a 5% chance of working.

01:17:55.440 Because it's about a 5% chance that if it works in animals, it works in humans.

01:18:00.300 How many of you knew that?

01:18:01.440 It's only 5%.

01:18:02.280 But still, you know, if it's a cure for cancer, you're going to look into that 5% pretty hard.

01:18:06.860 So, it turns out that once I made that claim to somebody who had done a little more homework than I did, she said, what animal trials?

01:18:20.060 And I said, the ones I heard about, there are no animal trials that worked.

01:18:27.680 What?

01:18:28.900 There's no such thing as an animal trial that cured cancer with the animals.

01:18:33.200 And I said to myself, but why would people say it?

01:18:38.580 And certainly, I've never seen any evidence that it's ever worked in an animal trial.

01:18:43.060 I can't rule it out.

01:18:45.200 But I believed it. 0.82

01:18:46.740 You know why I believed it?

01:18:48.040 Heard it from multiple sources.

01:18:51.880 By the way, if you can find the link where it cured cancer in an animal, I would love to see it.

01:19:00.000 Because if I'm wrong, that'd be great.

01:19:03.200 But here's the ultimate tell.

01:19:07.360 What are the odds that it, let's just pick ivermectin, but the argument works for fenbenazole as well.

01:19:14.420 What are the odds that in the lab, or maybe even in animal tests, that you just give them this drug and nothing else, and it just kills the cancer?

01:19:25.180 But here's what happened.

01:19:26.520 The claim is that if you only do those things, it might not work.

01:19:32.000 In other words, if you don't do any other treatment, you just take the two drugs, that it's not enough.

01:19:39.140 But what really does work is if you're doing the treatments that we know work, at least a little bit, at the same time.

01:19:48.460 Wait a minute.

01:19:50.840 What are the odds that the reason they were interested in it is that it directly kills cancer, which is one set of mechanisms, but that when they tested it, by miraculous luck, even though it didn't work in humans as they hoped, here's how lucky that is.

01:20:09.300 It did work if you did the other things that work, but that hasn't been tested in a big clinical trial.

01:20:18.160 It's just people anecdotally saying, huh, I gave you chemo.

01:20:22.860 I gave you radiation.

01:20:24.320 I gave you hormone therapy, all things that work in some contexts, but not every context.

01:20:29.960 And I also gave you these pills, and one of you got better.

01:20:35.360 That's nothing.

01:20:37.200 That's nothing.

01:20:38.340 Because those other treatments have highly variable outcomes.

01:20:42.240 Sometimes they work well, sometimes not so well.

01:20:45.360 You can't tell what was the effect of the pill on top of it.

01:20:49.840 So, again, I remind you, I'm not here to tell you that these don't work, because I don't know.

01:20:57.360 I do not know if they work or they don't. 0.99

01:20:59.960 I can tell you that if they work, the motherfuckers who are not going public are almost criminal. 0.99

01:21:08.760 Because if I ever find anything that cures cancer, you're going to hear about it. 0.99

01:21:14.780 And you're going to hear about it.

01:21:16.680 So let's ask Mel Gibson if he would try to cure cancer in the world by asking his friends to talk to me and bring their doctor.

01:21:24.640 And I want their friends with their medical tests and their doctors to tell me that they think this worked.

01:21:31.160 If they can do that, this would be amazing.

01:21:33.960 I want it to work.

01:21:36.060 Just to be clear, I'm anti-cancer.

01:21:38.460 I'm pro-cure.

01:21:42.880 And if either ivermectin or fenbenazole are part of the cure, I'm all for it.

01:21:48.100 I'm so for it.

01:21:49.780 So, again, I remind you, I'm playing the bad guy.

01:21:55.020 Because if I don't do this, you're never going to find out.

01:21:57.660 So I'm going to push this to destruction, right?

01:22:01.440 I'm going to push it to destruction. 0.99

01:22:03.460 I'm probably going to get killed. 0.99

01:22:05.760 And already you can see online.

01:22:07.400 Do you know what the most common response to me online is?

01:22:11.560 Somebody that believes the hoaxes about me and the vaccine.

01:22:16.280 And so they say, well, let's tell everybody in the world that you've got everything wrong about the pandemic.

01:22:21.600 When, in fact, my actual opinion's got everything right.

01:22:25.440 So they're going after me.

01:22:26.740 They're trashing my reputation online for trying to fix this.

01:22:31.360 And I know that.

01:22:32.360 But I'm not going to stop.

01:22:33.680 Because getting trashed online is just my normal day.

01:22:37.580 You get used to it after a while.

01:22:39.620 So, no, I'm going to push this.

01:22:41.440 And we're going to find out if it works.

01:22:43.360 Or if there's even any evidence that it works.

01:22:45.780 Or even any evidence that would be sufficient to say, you know, we should fund a clinical trial.

01:22:51.460 Because we're seeing, you know, can't prove it.

01:22:53.240 But we do have some cases that can't be explained any other way.

01:22:57.460 Just one.

01:22:58.580 Give me just one person with their doctor and maybe some tests that shows it's real.

01:23:05.080 Just one.

01:23:06.780 Mel Gibson, that's for you.

01:23:08.380 Anyway, there's a CNN editor.

01:23:14.000 I guess he's throwing Jake Tapper under the bus in this lawsuit.

01:23:18.740 There's a billion-dollar defamation suit.

01:23:22.000 The Washington Free Beacon is writing about this.

01:23:24.000 Jessica Kostescu.

01:23:28.380 And so, apparently, the problem is that Jake Tapper accused a Navy veteran of being some kind of black market, I don't know, that he was an illegal profiteer in some kind of black market thing.

01:23:45.480 Now, the editor who wrote the text for the story, or edited it, he didn't write it.

01:23:55.620 He edited the written portion of the report.

01:23:57.980 He testified that it wasn't his intention to describe the person as a black market.

01:24:03.280 And he says, quote,

01:24:04.160 The text I approved did not include the phrase black market.

01:24:10.320 The banner, you know, the thing that runs at the bottom of the show, and Jake Tapper's lead-in did that.

01:24:16.400 In other words, the editor did not do anything that would have been, you know, something that he could get sued for.

01:24:25.460 It apparently was Jake Tapper.

01:24:28.160 At least that would be the telling of the, we don't know.

01:24:30.900 I mean, you have to listen to all the sides.

01:24:32.200 It wouldn't be fair to judge this before all the evidence is out.

01:24:35.360 So, I'm going to pull back a little on that.

01:24:38.000 Because Jake Tapper may have a perfectly good defense.

01:24:40.720 If you haven't heard it, it wouldn't be fair to assume that this one guy has all the truth and Tapper has none.

01:24:47.520 But, I will tell you that, what happens if there's a billion-dollar judgment?

01:24:57.180 Can CNN even stay in business?

01:25:01.200 Anyway.

01:25:02.820 Meanwhile, BlackRock has created some kind of climate group they were part of.

01:25:06.560 Well, and this is reported by Ross Kerber and Reuters.

01:25:12.980 And the reason they're pulling out of this environmental climate group is, quote, this is from BlackRock, quote,

01:25:22.360 So, basically, they're saying that they're getting out of these climate initiatives because there's too much pressure from the world and the governments.

01:25:43.060 That's good.

01:25:44.060 That might be just the right amount of productive pressure.

01:25:48.020 So, that, again, looks like the Trump effect.

01:25:52.080 Meanwhile, speaking of treatments for cancer, according to New Atlas, Michael Irving, there's a steam blast treatment for prostate cancer.

01:26:02.920 Now, this would be non-metastatic kind, the more ordinary kind.

01:26:06.860 It's the kind that is curable.

01:26:08.700 But regular prostate cancer is curable with some combination of chemo and hormone therapy and radiation.

01:26:16.160 And those are really big side effects.

01:26:18.360 They're really big.

01:26:19.440 So, this is, they send a little micro needle into your prostate and they blast steam, just steam.

01:26:29.960 Apparently, the steam does a good job of killing the cancer cells while leaving the other cells intact, which is really everything you want.

01:26:38.060 That's everything you want.

01:26:39.240 You want to leave the other cells intact.

01:26:40.600 And they're doing a trial, which suggests that they've tested enough, probably on animals, that they know it works.

01:26:50.440 That would be amazing.

01:26:53.060 It's like one of the biggest problems for older men.

01:26:56.340 If that worked, the steam thing, that would be such a game changer for so many lives.

01:27:03.640 It doesn't help for the people who have metastatic version.

01:27:06.580 That would be different.

01:27:08.480 All right, ladies and gentlemen.

01:27:10.600 I really, really didn't want to swear today, but I'm doing it in the service of attracting attention.

01:27:17.100 Not for my hits.

01:27:18.720 I don't know.

01:27:19.500 Do you really think I do things for clicks?

01:27:22.220 Does anybody think I do that?

01:27:24.860 I mean, if you're in the game of monetizing your content, I guess you're always doing things for clicks.

01:27:30.120 But I'm certainly not thinking of it that way when I hit a topic hard.

01:27:35.320 I'm thinking this is useful.

01:27:37.940 All right.

01:27:38.140 Are you guys, give me some feedback.

01:27:43.720 Are you okay with me pushing harder on this ivermectin thing?

01:27:47.480 Because the goal is to find out what's true, especially if it works.

01:27:52.120 I'd really like to know that.

01:27:55.980 All right.

01:27:56.460 So I'll keep pushing on that because I think it's useful.

01:28:00.780 There's going to be a lot of heat.

01:28:02.460 I'm going to get a lot of heat.

01:28:03.760 Thank you, Paul.

01:28:04.380 I always like it when I see the people whose opinions I appreciate the most are agreeing.

01:28:12.120 All right.

01:28:12.460 Good.

01:28:13.280 I guess I explained it well enough that I made the sale.

01:28:17.680 I see one no, no, no, no.

01:28:20.820 So the worry would be, the concern would be that some people would not use it and maybe it would work.

01:28:27.300 That would be the concern, right?

01:28:29.160 I have the same concern, but here's the math you should do. 0.99

01:28:32.680 So the few people, and this is a real risk, the few people who hear me poo-poo it, maybe it's within the realm of possibility that I'll kill them. 0.99

01:28:47.820 Let me say it again. 0.95

01:28:48.580 If there's a treatment and somebody hears from me they shouldn't try it or that it's not proven, I'm not saying they should.

01:28:55.920 Actually, I'm saying they should try it.

01:28:58.060 Let me be clear.

01:28:59.360 Somebody asked me, you know, if you were in stage four and you didn't have any alternative, would you try it?

01:29:07.260 Yes.

01:29:07.860 Yes, I would.

01:29:09.020 So I want to be clear.

01:29:10.360 If you've got a friend, I should have said that, actually.

01:29:13.360 If you've got a friend that you think might get talked out of it, I would try it.

01:29:19.060 Well, the downside is a little bit.

01:29:22.140 I mean, you could have some side effects, a little bit.

01:29:25.680 But, yeah, I would try it because the downside is low.

01:29:30.260 The reason I'm pushing is that if it works, maybe I talked a few people out of it that could have helped, but we're going to be much, much faster in getting to does it help, yes, or no.

01:29:43.360 Much, much faster.

01:29:44.380 So I'm going to take the hit.

01:29:47.820 And I'm going to borrow a page from Elon Musk.

01:29:51.080 One of the most impressive things I think that Elon Musk does is he says stuff like, well, if I build this car, probably some number of people are going to die in the car because, you know, it happens with every car.

01:30:04.140 If I build this rocket ship, well, probably some people are going to die going to space, but we kind of need to do it.

01:30:12.320 So he, instead of just doing what, you know, isn't really good for the world, which is saying, well, if one spider could die, I won't do it.

01:30:22.360 He just says somebody's got to make the hard choices.

01:30:25.680 This is a hard choice.

01:30:26.880 I am fully aware that if this works and if I talk somebody out of it, they could die.

01:30:34.060 I'm doing this will knowingly, completely knowingly.

01:30:38.400 Because this is how you get to more, more people saved or more people not distracted by the wrong solution, I suppose.

01:30:47.400 All right.

01:30:48.060 So that's the purpose.

01:30:48.900 Anyway, I'm going to talk to the good folks on Locals Privately in 30 seconds.

01:30:56.680 Everybody else, I'll see you tomorrow.

01:30:58.760 Thanks for joining.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 11, 2025

Episode 2717 CWSA 01⧸11⧸25

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