Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2720 CWSA 01⧸14⧸25

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00:01:08.860 well i'm right again it was terrific i knew it

00:01:20.620 all right you ready for this there's a gonna be a p diddy documentary coming out telling us some of

00:01:30.300 the bad things he's done i don't know if you've heard but this guy named diddy has done allegedly

00:01:36.700 some bad stuff i won't give you any hints about it but i will warn you that the documentary effect

00:01:44.620 is an effect i warn you often often if you see a documentary on any topic it's going to be

00:01:52.780 non-stop you know at least an hour of things on one side and not the other side so i hate to say this

00:02:04.780 this is this is going to be hard for me i'm going to say a sentence that i almost can't get out of my

00:02:10.140 mouth you ready despite the many claims you're going to hear about p diddy

00:02:18.860 under our system he's innocent until proven guilty

00:02:27.500 i did it i stayed american i stayed american that's a tough standard you know anyway by the

00:02:34.940 time you're done with the documentary you're not going to think he's innocent until proven guilty

00:02:39.100 that much i know is that fair not at all it's not at all fair could you can you imagine being

00:02:46.700 arrested and have charges that might be leveled against you and next thing you know there's an

00:02:52.380 entire documentary about all your crimes that's not exactly fair is it interesting yes i'm going to

00:03:00.220 watch it for sure it do i think he's probably guilty of a lot of things well i do

00:03:05.820 but you're gonna have to prove it and if you ask me is it cool to have a documentary about somebody

00:03:14.140 who's in jail with charges i would say no no if there were some way without you know a direct attack

00:03:21.820 on free speech i can't think of a way but it seems like there's you know if a if a court can order let's

00:03:27.900 say a gag order a gag order is a routine thing right judges do that all the time and is that not

00:03:36.140 telling somebody that they can't use their free speech so so we have some precedent that the court

00:03:43.020 at least during the limited time of a trial can tell people to shut up but then they can do a documentary

00:03:50.620 you know i hate to be defending diddy but i think we need to all defend ourselves right because if

00:03:57.980 you or i are ever in jail and somebody does a documentary about how bad we are while we're

00:04:03.340 in jail waiting for waiting for trial that's not cool that's never cool it's free speech but it's

00:04:11.820 definitely not cool anyway uh here's a cool thing that might have an application to uh to the fire

00:04:22.300 recovery so fox news reports that uh kurt nuts and is reporting that there's a shape-shifting ai

00:04:28.940 transformer home so i'll let you imagine it so it's a imagine a mobile camper so it's that size but

00:04:38.700 there's no part where the driver sits you know there's no engine so it's not really a camper it

00:04:44.460 doesn't go anywhere it's stationary but it can be towed you know by an ordinary truck so an ordinary

00:04:50.460 truck tows this little mobile home looking thing but here's the cool part it's not as big as a mobile

00:04:58.540 home it's only that big when you're towing it as soon as it gets there you can push some buttons

00:05:04.380 and it expands um to a 400 square foot very well designed space now the well designed part is hard

00:05:13.580 to say without looking at the picture but trust me they they worked with not just a tech company

00:05:18.380 but they work with a design company what's the name of this company ac future um so they partnered and if

00:05:27.420 you know if you can trust my judgment on design it's really well designed like i looked at it and said oh

00:05:33.580 i would love spending some time in that thing if you can imagine that now imagine this

00:05:40.860 imagine you own some property in pacific palisades everything's burned down it might take years to

00:05:46.060 rebuild but suppose they got utilities working and they cleaned up the toxic stuff that could be sooner

00:05:56.140 so that might be six to nine months so by the way that's the current estimate i believe six to nine

00:06:01.820 months to get utilities and and the toxins removed now that's the government's estimate i don't know if

00:06:09.420 you believe that but let's say it's six to nine months and then we'll follow a lengthy building process

00:06:17.820 i think it's i think it's reasonable that the residents might put up with being displaced for six to nine

00:06:24.860 months but if you add on top of that the two years it takes to get a place approved and built even even

00:06:32.300 if they speed things up you're gonna have trouble getting labor and you know it's never it's never

00:06:36.540 gonna be fast could you imagine that some of the residents would say you know what let us get one or even

00:06:43.740 two of these things put them on our property put it in the backyard and we'll be there while the

00:06:49.660 construction happens now it'd be hard to work while the construction noise is going on but on the

00:06:54.940 other hand if you have house construction you really kind of need to be around if you've ever

00:06:59.740 experienced it if somebody is rebuilding your home you kind of need to be there all the time almost

00:07:05.820 you know every few days at least to make decisions and see if it's going in the right direction

00:07:10.700 so now you say to yourself but scott how god-awful expensive would it be to buy one of these cool

00:07:17.660 mobile things really expensive however if you play your cards right and here i'm just spitballing

00:07:24.700 here i don't know if this would work wouldn't it be true that they would have a resale value

00:07:30.140 when you're done so could you buy it for i don't know quarter of a million dollars i didn't see the

00:07:37.820 price maybe i have no idea what the price is and then when it's done you know maybe it's two years later

00:07:44.700 you sell it for something like a quarter of a million dollars because it might not even go down

00:07:50.940 in value that people might want them right so it's entirely possible um you know not probable but

00:08:00.220 maybe there's some temporary way where you could have a pretty cool life now let me give you a little

00:08:05.660 little uh best case scenario my understanding that and this is the only reliable estimate i've gotten

00:08:13.740 eyewitness uh of how bad the destruction is um it's something like maybe 20 25 of the homes in

00:08:22.620 pacific palisades survived you know but they have smoke damage and and all the rest so if you imagine

00:08:29.180 that maybe 20 of the residents have some capability of getting back into it faster than others what would

00:08:37.020 that be like and would you do it if the if you if your nearest neighbor was the only other burned house

00:08:43.980 you know a street over would you want to live there your your first impression would be no let me give

00:08:51.820 you your second impression if you moved in there and everything was just a few people

00:08:59.100 you you would be friends with james woods because he would be one of the few people

00:09:03.740 so suddenly all these people that maybe you didn't know but were kind of cool they're just cool

00:09:10.300 people it's not that they're rich not that they're famous they're just cool yeah you'd be able to hang

00:09:16.060 out with all of them because james woods would say hi to everybody he'd probably come over to your

00:09:22.380 come over to your place because there's nothing else to do so you would end up being friends with this

00:09:28.780 weird combination of people that were not your direct neighbors and probably you wouldn't have met

00:09:33.420 otherwise but they would gravitate toward each other because they were the survivors

00:09:38.060 i i contend that although that was described as heaven on earth just the best place in the world

00:09:44.460 to live they're not going to get back to that right away but they could get back to something that's

00:09:50.540 amazing like actually just amazing and it could happen in a year so if you want the good news

00:09:58.780 probably one year until 20 of the residents have something like an amazing just an amazing situation

00:10:07.180 because they're going to get the weather back they're going to get the climate back

00:10:10.540 and they're going to get a social structure back somewhat instantly that is beyond anything that you

00:10:16.940 and i have seen now i've had an experience with that and here's why i think it's possible

00:10:23.980 i used to stay a little extra long in college so there'd be that last day before the holiday

00:10:29.900 before thanksgiving or christmas and i'd stay the extra day when almost everybody else would go home

00:10:35.740 and what would happen would be there'd be maybe 25 students left on campus that last night what do you

00:10:42.300 think we did it was 25 people that i didn't know we would all find each other and we would have just the

00:10:49.500 best time just the best time complete strangers because we were the ones who stayed behind so there

00:10:56.940 is some hope anyway um here's the weirdest news and i'm going to call this a simulation alert

00:11:07.260 that if we did not live in the simulation i don't believe this could ever happen

00:11:12.620 all right now i'm not going to have to make the connection to the simulation you'll see it yourself

00:11:17.500 i'll just tell you the story and then you connect it to the simulation

00:11:23.500 according to the daily mail there is now some science that shows that injecting a common household

00:11:30.620 disinfectant into your body could help cure cancer

00:11:38.460 injecting a household disinfectant now be careful i'm not suggesting that anybody inject any disinfectants

00:11:47.420 it's a very specific special case it's not every disinfectant it's just hydrogen peroxide and i

00:11:54.780 guess if you they found out if you give a little injection into a tumor or a cancer cell it weakens it

00:12:01.740 so your other treatments can work so don't do it yourself do not do not inject any anything into yourself

00:12:10.140 ever uh it's just a test but what are the odds that there would be a headline as trump is going into

00:12:17.340 office there's a headline about you know it'd be a good idea sometimes to inject some household disinfectant

00:12:24.140 into your body cure some cancer come on come on you think this is a real world when you see stuff like

00:12:35.500 this this this couldn't possibly be real no anyway uh senator fetterman and his wife went to visit trump

00:12:46.780 at mar-a-lago washington examiner uh selena zito is talking about it and what do you how do you think that

00:12:53.500 went you know if you haven't heard the news do you think trump said well you know he he took the knee or

00:13:01.740 you know do you think he insulted him how do you think that went well here's how it went here's what

00:13:08.140 trump said afterwards um he said quote it was a totally fascinating meeting he's a fascinating man

00:13:15.980 and his wife is lovely they were both up and i couldn't be more impressed trump said about fetterman

00:13:21.980 his wife he said they had an hour-long meeting and he's trump said he's a common-sense person

00:13:28.540 he's not liberal or conservative he's just a common-sense person which is beautiful trump said

00:13:38.060 i rest my case i rest my case you know i i've been saying good things about fetterman and getting

00:13:44.540 slapped around on social media because because the thinking is you can't say anything nice about the

00:13:50.620 other team because winning is the important thing now i understand that and i'm completely on board with

00:13:57.180 the concept of winning is the most important thing if the alternative is complete destruction of your

00:14:02.940 country i get it i get it winning is the most important thing if evil is the alternative but

00:14:09.820 sometimes you you've got to put a little nuance on this the the fact that trump can call out somebody on

00:14:18.220 the other team as being a paragon of common sense it improves trump's messaging because if trump had

00:14:27.420 said i love common sense and when the most famous common sense person on the other side came to talk

00:14:33.500 with him if he had somehow rejected him or dismissed him or insulted him or or even played it off as not

00:14:39.580 important that would have been a huge mistake because his most central message is the thing that brings us

00:14:45.740 together is common sense and so when he sees somebody coming together over common sense he's got to call

00:14:52.700 that out because because this it looks like trump complimenting fetterman and he is but it's really

00:14:59.980 trump complimenting the concept of common sense which amazingly has to be championed in a day where

00:15:06.620 there's so little of it you know it's just remarkable that you have to even mention it but yeah that's

00:15:12.300 that's the secret sauce is the common sense and it is the unifier and trump is playing it exactly right

00:15:21.180 speaking of trump so the inauguration is coming and security is very important but a couple of

00:15:27.260 things about that um i don't know if this is true but it it was reported that the major drone maker

00:15:36.300 that is a chinese-owned company dji is it so most of the drones everywhere are made by one company in

00:15:43.900 in china they're basically the you know the big drone company in the world and what they had been

00:15:49.580 doing china is making their drones geofenced which i thought was a requirement but maybe it isn't because

00:15:58.140 they dropped it so geofencing means that since the drone has a gps you know it knows where it is

00:16:06.140 it would be prevented even if you tried to fly it there it'd be prevented to go over a navy base or

00:16:12.140 military base or or you know some government facility so even if you wanted to fly your chinese drone over 0.99

00:16:19.900 the white house you couldn't do it until now allegedly china just dropped the at least the 0.53

00:16:28.140 company just dropped the geofencing barrier so correct me if i'm wrong i'll take a fact check

00:16:34.860 on this because there's there's part of my brain that says i'm not sure this is true

00:16:39.500 well all right i'm gonna go i'm gonna go harder at it i'm gonna say that if you're looking to spot

00:16:46.140 fake news you know i always say the two on the nose something's a little too perfect this one's

00:16:52.860 striking me as a little too perfect that just days before the inauguration where the biggest risk

00:16:59.660 at least in our minds the biggest risk would be an aerial drone-like attack especially if there's

00:17:06.380 more than one of them at the very time that we're thinking of it the one company that makes the most

00:17:13.020 you know i would say dangerous drones if you happen to be in america and you're sort of the

00:17:18.940 hobbyist level drone the most dangerous ones drop their defense and become weaponized at exactly the

00:17:27.500 time it would threaten trump does that feel a little too perfect that so let me say this i'm gonna say

00:17:35.020 i'm gonna say i don't believe it it could be true but it's so on the nose that i'm gonna say put a pin

00:17:45.900 in that one and give me a fact check in a few days okay get back to me on that and tell me if that's

00:17:51.180 true it doesn't it's not smelling right you know what i mean a little too perfect and then uh i hear

00:17:59.980 that netanyahu cancelled plans to go to the inauguration which some people are interpreting

00:18:06.780 as a sign that it needs more security because maybe netanyahu thought it wasn't safe enough

00:18:14.540 but that's speculation uh i don't know if you've noticed that netanyahu has a few things to do this

00:18:20.860 week as in they're negotiating the hostage release etc so so netanyahu has all the reason in the world not

00:18:28.940 to come you know there's nothing surprising about that but he got invited so you know that's that's

00:18:34.940 like a win-win for him i would say all right um there's some fake news about tick tock i think it's fake

00:18:45.580 that chinese officials are talking about um allowing elon musk and me and for some reason only him

00:18:52.540 to buy tick tock so tick tock will be not available in america unless something happened like just the

00:19:00.140 next few days that would allow an american to buy it now if china and the chinese owned company don't

00:19:08.300 want to sell it it doesn't matter if anybody wants to buy it but i'm not sure anybody put together an

00:19:14.220 offer that's would look like it's acceptable so i think i think china the government uh said this was

00:19:23.580 fake news and that china is not allowing there's nobody who's in power who says that elon musk should

00:19:30.300 buy tick tock so bloomberg said it was unnamed sources so how often have the anonymous sources of

00:19:39.580 any story been correct when was the last time they were correct i don't remember a time i can't think

00:19:46.540 of one time an anonymous source was right not once now whistleblowers yes but they're not anonymous

00:19:56.940 as soon as you say anonymous source and bloomberg i don't believe anything that comes after that

00:20:02.220 i mean those are two two red flags for not being real bloomberg red flag and then unnamed source

00:20:10.380 red flag so i'm gonna say that's fake news that's my judgment claudia was leaving for her pickleball 1.00

00:20:16.380 tournament i've been visualizing my match all week she was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see 0.67

00:20:21.980 the column behind her car on her backhand side good thing claudia's with intact the insurer with the 1.00

00:20:28.220 largest network of auto service centers in the country everything was taken care of under one

00:20:32.700 roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time i made it to my tournament and lost in the 1.00

00:20:38.140 first round but you got there on time intact insurance your auto service ace certain conditions apply

00:20:45.660 uh there's also some fake news about julia roberts and the news actually is accurate

00:20:52.060 in this case i think i saw in the new york post so the new york post had it exactly accurate

00:20:56.620 but by the time social media read it and reinterpreted it they turned it into fake news so here's the

00:21:03.900 real news the real news is that julie roberts your actress julie roberts said on instagram f you to

00:21:13.180 looters as 10 million dollar homes continued to be robbed during the la fires now that got interpreted

00:21:20.860 on social media as the home owned by julie roberts that was worth 10 million dollars got looted that

00:21:28.940 did not happen she was not talking about her own home and indeed doesn't seem to live there anymore

00:21:35.100 but nobody knows where she lives but it might be in the bay area so she might be my neighbor literally

00:21:40.140 she might literally be my neighbor uh if she's in the northern california 1.00

00:21:45.180 so that's accidental fake news but the new york post got it exactly right interesting engineering

00:21:54.700 a publication and uh article by uh abhishek bardwaj is that there's something called a fire dome

00:22:04.620 that's been invented uh there's a company that it's an israeli based firm called fire dome

00:22:10.460 now my understanding is it's not physically a dome but what it is is a combination of ai and cameras and

00:22:18.540 drones i guess and defensive tactics so that uh you could spot or or a town or a house could spot

00:22:26.860 a fire before it gets to the house so you would somehow see the fire when it's small send out your

00:22:33.580 drones to stop the fire right away now that's not going to work if the wind is 100 miles an hour

00:22:39.500 but um and it would even work if it's off the grid so it monitors the property and then responds as

00:22:50.220 some kind of uh anti-fire suppression stuff too so does wildfire detection protection and suppression

00:22:59.180 now i think that's probably not something that you know la cities can implement tomorrow and isn't

00:23:06.540 going to work that well if uh you know if the wind is 100 miles an hour but it's nice to know it's out

00:23:13.180 there here's something cool that also relates to uh that so rice university has this new innovation

00:23:22.220 where they use the dialysis machine for treating wastewater and so dialysis what you would do to purify

00:23:29.820 blood they uh ran i don't know how much if it's modified or just exactly a dialysis but they ran some

00:23:36.940 you know dirty salt water through it and it did a good job of cleaning the salt down at much more effective

00:23:43.900 technology than current technology so not only could it maybe clean some of the waste but the the bigger

00:23:50.860 part is that it's desalinate does desalinization which is which would allow you to use the ocean as your

00:23:57.500 water source if you could do it inexpensively so it's not quite ready for use but that looks very

00:24:02.860 promising also um according to the financial times the the u.s natural gas industry is poised to expand

00:24:11.820 like crazy when trump lifts a number of biden era restrictions on it but how much could that change

00:24:19.900 the economy that could add that could ramp up our exports by 1.3 trillion dollars over the next five

00:24:28.460 years wow um i hate it when they give numbers over five years because your brain wants to make it one

00:24:37.820 year and it's sort of a trick if you're trying to make the number look big you say over five or ten years

00:24:44.940 if you wanted to make small you say well it'll be no more than a billion dollars in the first year

00:24:50.540 or whatever it is but 1.3 trillion over five years that's pretty important we'll take that thank you

00:24:58.940 very much trump well the fed and mike johnson are looking at some relief for california which would be

00:25:08.380 probably a big dollar thing but uh johnson is concerned as all of us are that anything the

00:25:16.140 federal government gives to california will be wasted on bullshit or just stolen so the state does not have 0.88

00:25:23.660 the credibility required to receive money let me say that again my state is so poorly run that is not 0.91

00:25:33.580 credible as a place to give federal aid that's a big problem okay how do you solve that well uh in the

00:25:43.820 past i think it was 9 11 maybe there are other examples there would be some kind of a czar to

00:25:49.580 oversee the government funding so it doesn't get stolen given to the wrong people and so i saw mike

00:25:57.020 saying we need some kind of a czar and i agree i'm 100 on board with

00:26:03.580 we need a czar now how in the world do you find somebody who would be credible and competent and

00:26:12.700 not already doing something else where do you find these credible competent people who are not already

00:26:21.260 completely busy doing some other credible competent thing well it's pretty rare pretty rare but an

00:26:28.220 interesting suggestion from cerno was uh naval ravikant and if you hear if he hears me talk about it you

00:26:37.900 might hate it because it's like it would be the worst job in the world

00:26:44.060 i can't imagine taking the job of doge i mean just all credit all credit to musk and the fake for taking 0.75

00:26:51.580 that on i mean would you take that on that would be you know i like challenges but i would look at

00:26:58.220 that one and go ah maybe not me now likewise the the job of you know making sure that the funding coming

00:27:05.980 into california is not a fun job you're just going to get destroyed so you need somebody who's

00:27:13.580 invulnerable invulnerable to um criticism that they've reached that point in their life they're

00:27:20.140 invulnerable somebody who's obviously capable like really obviously capable but here's the important

00:27:28.460 part you want somebody who is famously non-political how are you going to find that somebody who is

00:27:35.340 brilliant capable non-political and willing to work on something well naval is actually sad that he's he

00:27:44.620 you know given the right situation if it fit his talents he'd be willing to help out the government

00:27:51.660 in some hard places where maybe you just need a little help that was suitable to his talents so sorry

00:27:59.340 duvall you're perfect i apologize in advance but you're kind of perfect if this is the thing maybe this

00:28:10.060 is the thing maybe just consider it all right uh talk about timing so a month ago um i would have said

00:28:23.660 something like you know i don't think democrats could possibly look more incompetent or more

00:28:29.100 evil just sort of watching how the biden administration has come together in the

00:28:34.780 elections and the law fair and everything else i would have said there's no way they can top what

00:28:40.940 we've seen then the fires my god i don't think democrats could find any way to look more incompetent

00:28:47.580 or more evil uh here's an update on how wrong i was according to the daily wire uh as the fires are raging

00:28:55.980 which is not funny but um governor newsom and the democrats have agreed to set aside 50 million

00:29:03.020 dollars to fight the trump administration and defend illegal immigrants

00:29:10.620 now

00:29:10.860 i feel like the democrats don't have any kind of smart people because read the room the state's on fire

00:29:22.300 based almost entirely on the incompetence of the people who should be doing the fire suppression in the

00:29:28.780 first place if at the same time you're failing in a way that we've rarely ever seen the the depth of the

00:29:39.740 spectacular incompetence something that will last the ages we're talking about something that's not the

00:29:48.860 headline this week but it's going down in history as the worst managed state of all time

00:29:57.980 and during that context they thought it'd be a good idea to put 50 million dollars away

00:30:04.460 to defeat the will of the american people who voted by a majority to have the trump administration do what

00:30:12.620 it said it said it would do can you be any more incompetent than not being able to even get the

00:30:20.620 politics right okay okay fire suppression is pretty hard pretty hard they should have done it but it's not

00:30:30.220 hard to read the room when the state's on fire maybe we should back off on a little some of the 0.99

00:30:36.380 the bullshit maybe a little less bullshit when the fucking state's on fire well there goes my there 0.99

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00:31:50.940 uh do you remember that there was the client science scientist michael mann and he was in a lawsuit

00:32:00.380 with mark stein over claims of climate change so mark stein was criticizing uh this one scientist as

00:32:10.060 well as climate change and the scientist michael mann decided to sue him for the things he said

00:32:15.820 and uh he won the scientists won so he i guess stein owes him a million dollars or something for

00:32:23.100 something that the court decided the scientist was right and stein had gone too far but uh the national

00:32:31.660 review which is where i guess stein had made the offending comments had also made their own comments

00:32:38.060 about stein's comments more you know not not uh criticizing him just weighing in on it and

00:32:46.700 they were also included at one point in lawsuit but they've been removed because what they were doing

00:32:52.140 was more like free speech and not so much you know defaming somebody so they got dropped but now the

00:32:58.780 scientist who got a million dollars for mark stein is being ordered to pay half a million to

00:33:07.580 the national review to pay their lawyers and that's only a partial payment that could go

00:33:13.180 further so let me get this right stein allegedly defames the scientist scientist gets a million from

00:33:23.100 stein but the scientist may have gone too far in defaming the the national review so now the court is

00:33:32.540 saying that they have to give the national review half a million and then there's more coming

00:33:38.460 of the national review half a million and then there's more coming out of the national review

00:33:45.660 so basically it was just mark stein paying his own employers legal fees by the time it's all done

00:33:53.340 i just you when you see what the lawyers did to the situation it made it so much worse it's just it's

00:34:02.540 just no sense of anything that's right or wrong it's just a legal morass anyway

00:34:11.900 that's fun to watch uh but my my take on this whole story is uh why do we let the courts decide

00:34:20.860 what science is correct doesn't that seem like a mistake to let the court decide who got their science

00:34:27.900 right because i'm pretty sure that you know well i'm sure the case was more about what an individual

00:34:34.220 did or did not do not just the science but uh here's something that uh according to this report

00:34:41.100 that's in the uh daily caller news foundation uh according to them during the trial there was a

00:34:50.460 testimony from a tenured statistics professor and the chair of the undergraduate stats program in

00:34:56.300 the university of pennsylvania wharton school all right so keep in mind this is the statistic

00:35:02.620 statistics professor and i think at the same school that michael man is at or was that and the wharton

00:35:10.940 wharton school at least in pennsylvania university of pennsylvania and uh so i don't know if they were in

00:35:17.900 exactly the same place but both in pennsylvania let's just say both in pennsylvania at the time anyway

00:35:24.380 this expert in statistics testified that uh at the mark stein trial that man the scientist engaged in

00:35:31.580 quote improper manipulation of data such that his signature model was quote misleading now what do i

00:35:41.020 always say about scientists let me remind you if you're a really good scientist as say

00:35:47.820 biology are you also really good at statistics probably not probably not if you're a really good scientist

00:35:57.980 at anything are you also good at statistics you could be but probably not you know that might not be your

00:36:08.140 expert domain but this guy is a statistician and if he says you know i don't know anything about climate

00:36:15.820 change but i'm looking at your numbers and you didn't do the numbers right that would be quite

00:36:21.020 meaningful to me so here's somebody who's good at numbers and he's a tenured professor of statistics

00:36:28.940 and he says you did the numbers wrong and those numbers are driving your model so michael man in case

00:36:36.700 you're watching i don't know what's true and i'm not blaming you of anything since i don't want to get sued

00:36:43.340 but i think the whole situation is funny and i find it hard to take any of it as credible

00:36:51.980 um but speaking of climate change the the wall street journal had a pretty funny editorial

00:36:57.900 uh apparently there's a new term that the democrats are trotting out called hydro climate whiplash

00:37:05.820 and it's caused by climate change and it means that in california for example some year it will be

00:37:11.660 extra dry but the next year could be extra wet and then the year after that could be extra dry

00:37:18.620 now this is something that's happened in california since the beginning of recorded records

00:37:23.740 sometimes extra dry sometimes extra wet and sometimes extra dry and i don't know if i mentioned it

00:37:31.340 sometimes extra wet but the climate experts have decided

00:37:35.180 that they're going to call it a cool name hydro climate whiplash and try to sell you on the fact

00:37:42.220 it's caused by climate change have i mentioned that in the entire history of california sometimes it's

00:37:48.220 extra wet sometimes it's extra dry just like the last few years so if the last few years are exactly

00:37:55.180 like the history of california that's clearly caused by climate change what so it's the baseline

00:38:03.420 the way it's always been but it must be caused by climate change so when it's dry it's climate change

00:38:11.340 when it's wet it's climate change and when it changes from dry to wet or wet to dry it's climate change

00:38:16.780 climate change huh may i give you one of the best ways to spot a scam here's how to spot any scam not

00:38:27.500 climate change specifically but just any scam hey i've got an idea that if you take this pill

00:38:35.340 your hair will regrow test test test nobody's hair regrows did i say hair would regrow i said it

00:38:44.060 we really found out it makes you taller test test test doesn't make you taller doesn't make your hair

00:38:51.180 grow well while you were testing it i found out that it makes your breath smell better

00:38:58.620 okay do you see where this is going if if the claim stays the same even while all the assumptions and

00:39:05.820 the facts change the claim was never true if you're sticking to the claim no matter what

00:39:13.900 you see it's not data driven and climate change might be true but we don't believe it because it's

00:39:22.780 data driven we believe it because we've been told to believe it now could there be data yes

00:39:30.540 could could humans be influencing uh climate yes they could be do i know how much or how dangerous

00:39:37.900 that would be nobody does nobody does all right but it's not very high on my list of things to worry

00:39:45.580 about however uh what would be as the wall street journal editorial board goes on um what would be

00:39:53.100 some of the things that california is doing to battle the wildfires you're probably thinking oh they're

00:39:59.820 gonna do lots of fire mitigation remove all those burnable things maybe have better resources nearby

00:40:08.060 stuff like that right well maybe but uh they've got a climate bond which uh partly i'll be paying for

00:40:16.220 that has uh 36 million dollars for sequestering the carbon and reduced emissions from ranches and farms

00:40:22.860 that i don't think we need 47 million for expansion of green streets parks and schoolyards

00:40:30.060 okay that would be nice but i don't think we need it to stop the fires 80 million dollars for

00:40:36.220 climate action through nature-based solutions to improve equitable access to nature yeah i like

00:40:44.220 equitable access to nature but i feel like everybody can walk outdoors 80 million dollars

00:40:51.580 190 million dollars for parks in the state's most disadvantaged communities because when the state's on fire

00:40:59.260 i'm thinking if only we had more parks and the disadvantaged communities and 228 million to build

00:41:07.420 for port upgrades so we can support offshore wind generation which is the worst idea in the world

00:41:13.980 so in order to support the worst idea for energy we're going to spend 228 million dollars to just

00:41:21.100 get there so that's my state now let me ask you again do you think we need a some kind of a czar

00:41:31.180 to watch the spending coming in from the feds if the feds gave california spending for fire mitigation

00:41:37.740 they would spend it on climate change wouldn't they if the california democrats say climate change is

00:41:45.500 the problem and the federal government says here's a you know billions of dollars to go fix your fire

00:41:52.220 problem what the hell are they going to spend the money on the democrats will spend it on climate change

00:41:58.540 and equitable parks and ports for windmills right what would stop them nothing would stop them and

00:42:08.700 then of course they steal a lot now would naval i'll just pick a name sorry naval i hate to do this to

00:42:16.620 him but do you think naval would have taken that money and said yeah let's put this into the ports for

00:42:22.620 the windmills no wind turbines you can call it wind turbines if you want to be non-trumpy and about it

00:42:31.500 no i don't think you would meanwhile um

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00:42:53.260 meanwhile uh jack smith special counsel as you know has resigned and he was the one bringing the

00:43:00.540 january 6 related charge against trump and uh in his report um he he said uh quote uh i can assure you

00:43:11.580 that not neither i well not in his report or he said about it anyway i can assure you that neither i

00:43:17.580 nor the prosecutors on my team nor the prosecutors on my team would have tolerated or taken part in

00:43:22.540 any action by our office for partisan political purposes come on okay can i read that again with the

00:43:32.540 proper attitude i can assure you that neither i nor the prosecutors on my team would have tolerated or 0.83

00:43:41.340 taken part in any action by our office for partisan political purposes come on that's ridiculous

00:43:52.780 and what was it that he was charging trump for

00:43:57.740 lying he was well in a sense he was charging trump because the most important part of his charges

00:44:06.620 are wait for it that trump knew knew not assumed but knew that the 2020 election was fair

00:44:16.940 uh how does anybody know that that's not knowable you could know that nobody approved it was unfair

00:44:27.420 that's fair but is that the same as proving it wasn't rigged how could anybody know if it wasn't rigged

00:44:36.140 it's designed so you can't know the the design of the system guarantees that the public and even the

00:44:42.860 president can't know who won there is no way to know who won by design now you can challenge me on that

00:44:51.740 but you're gonna lose the design makes it impossible to know who won we know who has declared the winner

00:44:58.140 and we know if any big problems were found and and concluded by the court to be big problems

00:45:04.220 but we don't ever know who won our system cannot tell us that it can only tell us what they want to tell

00:45:11.180 us that's all we know but jack smith um has used the standard that trump made some quote obviously false

00:45:22.620 claims about the 2020 election rigging obviously false what would be an example of something obviously

00:45:31.020 false well i can assure you that neither i nor the prosecutors on my team would have tolerated or even

00:45:39.660 taken part in any action by your office for partisan political purposes that's obviously false you know

00:45:48.940 what's not obviously false that the election was rigged maybe it was rigged maybe it wasn't it's not

00:45:58.620 obviously false now he said some parts of the claims were obviously false now there might have been some

00:46:07.500 that kind of stood out as well that doesn't look likely but if you tell me that half of the country

00:46:13.260 thought it was obviously rigged and half of the country agreed with trump if half of the country

00:46:19.740 thinks the same thing as trump it's calling that obviously wrong obviously what what is the definition of

00:46:27.740 obvious now in my definition if half of the country can't see what you think everybody can see it's not

00:46:33.580 obvious it's the opposite of obvious so the the fact that we could allow that reframe to to haunt us this

00:46:41.740 far the reframe that somehow you could know who won in our system amazing just amazing that it got this

00:46:49.260 far that is pure hoax pure hoax and and you don't even have to research to know that that's a hoax because you

00:46:56.540 can't know what you don't know unless you have a system that was designed to make sure that you could

00:47:02.940 know all things and it's not that it's certainly not designed that way anyway and then uh smith but

00:47:11.900 in his report by the way he released his 176 page report even though the trial is canceled so you can

00:47:18.860 see all the bad news about trump but it's in 176 page report most of which i guess we knew nobody's

00:47:25.420 going to read this 176 page report nope nobody's going to read it but smith said he blamed the

00:47:32.380 violence of that day squarely on trump who quote engaged in unprecedented criminal effort to overturn

00:47:39.500 the legitimate results the legitimate results wait a minute the sentence has another illogical part in

00:47:45.500 it the the legitimate results well they were legitimated by the system i guess that would be true but is it

00:47:55.020 legitimate legitimate because that that's sort of up to me isn't it it's up to you and it's up to

00:48:01.100 anybody looking at it do you think it's legitimate i wouldn't call it that it was legitimized by the

00:48:08.780 system but i don't trust the system so that's not legitimacy um in order to retain power do you think

00:48:17.500 that he did it in order to retain power because there is no evidence to support that so his main

00:48:25.020 claim that the reason he did it was that he knew it was he knew the election was good but he only did

00:48:31.180 it to retain power there's no evidence for that at all what what did they read his mind is there some

00:48:37.500 evidence that he told somebody directly yeah you know i think the election was fair but i just want to

00:48:42.780 retain power is there any evidence to that no the primary claim that he's summarizing has no evidence

00:48:50.540 whatsoever none was presented none was proffered there's none this is just his own weird assumption

00:48:57.820 how did he turn his own weird assumption into something that looks like proof when it's just based

00:49:02.780 on his own weird assumption do you know if uh uh by the way i'm going to be totally demonetized

00:49:12.460 i expect to be totally demonetized for even questioning that the that the integrity of

00:49:18.220 the election could be known or or not known that would be enough i think to i'll be completely demonetized

00:49:24.780 watch um just demonetized for the episode not for the whole channel um but here's what trump says

00:49:36.220 on true social he did a rant against smith and uh he called it fake findings at 1 a.m and uh well he

00:49:44.860 was released at 1 a.m i guess for some reason he called uh smith deranged and he said he was uh smith is

00:49:52.300 a lame brain prosecutor who was unable to get his case tried before the election now who's messaging

00:49:59.500 are we going to remember i have 176 page document in which i i claimed was not political but everybody 0.80

00:50:08.380 knows it was and there's nothing in it that you don't know versus trump uh a lame brain prosecutor 0.50

00:50:15.900 who was unable to get his case tried before the election now he was unable because trump's lawyers

00:50:20.220 did a really good job of you know dragging it out anyway that's happening michael schellenberger

00:50:27.500 is on uh tucker uh podcast and it's amazing it's amazing yeah you know i haven't watched it all

00:50:37.420 but watching michael schellenberger just uh explain things you're watching in the news but you haven't

00:50:43.980 heard the right context and you don't know exactly the the stuff that you should know but he does

00:50:48.380 is it was really good and i'm glad to know tucker introduced him by saying that in tucker's opinion he

00:50:55.420 was the best in the business schellenberger i think that too i i think we haven't seen

00:51:02.860 michael schellenberger that i can think of um i mean he's so good at explaining the complicated stuff

00:51:10.940 so the complicated stuff is what the the the lesser the lesser journalists i'm not even sure

00:51:18.460 if schellenberger calls himself a journalist i i don't know what he prefers to go by but uh he does

00:51:24.620 the job the journalist should be doing and he does it amazingly and it's so valuable to get the full

00:51:30.780 context anyway um he tells us that half of all fires put out by the la fire department are started by

00:51:37.660 homeless but and so tucker asked the obvious question why do homeless people start fires

00:51:44.460 now i thought the answer was going to be something like crazy people do stuff but schellenberger had

00:51:50.380 actually an insightful take on that he said it turns out that methods love to start fires

00:51:56.780 so i guess within the people who understand the you know the drug world which again is yet another

00:52:03.740 thing that schellenberger has done a deep dive on so when he does a deep dive on the fires

00:52:09.980 he already has done a deep dive in a different time on the drug homeless problem so he's one of the few

00:52:15.580 people who could say well let's let's put these together and see what we see so when he puts it together

00:52:20.940 with the homeless suddenly the you know any of the conspiracy stuff disappears because he can tell you

00:52:27.020 there's something about people on meth they like the fire their choices are different but there's a

00:52:33.580 very there's a very consistency that meth equals starting fires so i didn't know that that that

00:52:42.780 certainly uh is interesting and then there was a more interesting point i'm not going to say i agree with

00:52:48.860 this uh but i'm going to say it's really interesting that uh the theory and i do i'm going to do a bad

00:52:56.220 job of explaining it so watch watch michael schellenberger explain it you'll do the the good version

00:53:02.220 but when people don't have a religion uh as many californians would fit into that category that uh

00:53:10.940 people don't just get rid of a religion they replace it now that's the part which i'm willing to believe

00:53:19.660 but i need a little more convincing kind of makes sense so i'm not i'm not debunking it whatsoever

00:53:25.660 i'm just saying i love how interesting this is so and the thought is that since religion has built

00:53:33.100 into it there's an invisible person watching you and you better not do these things that

00:53:38.300 that gets replaced with some kind of internalized guilt that even though there's not an invisible

00:53:45.100 god watching you you're you're bad and you need to you need to improve so it becomes kind of

00:53:51.820 self-destructive and you can end up doing things that are not in your best interest even if your

00:53:57.740 plan is not to do things that are not in your best interest it's just that you're led in that direction

00:54:02.780 by some kind of you know a guilt and so that that would cause something like the la fires according to

00:54:10.220 michael are an emergent property of abandoning religion and inventing your own source of guilt now

00:54:16.460 those are my words but essentially he calls it an emergent property so nobody planned it it's just

00:54:23.260 that once you've abandoned religion you replace it with guilt you start working on your guilt and that

00:54:30.060 might not be where you should be fixing problems if the problem you're trying to fix is your own guilt

00:54:36.380 you do dei if the problem you're trying to fix is that it might burn up your state if you don't do fire

00:54:43.020 stuff you do fire prevention stuff so it could be that the lack of having a religion to take care of

00:54:50.300 the the conscience caused people to change their focus to look for a way to get that same religious

00:54:58.140 feeling without the religion do i buy that not entirely but it's fascinating and it could be

00:55:06.940 completely true so i'm willing to say that's a great hypothesis let's keep it open let's keep that

00:55:13.820 hypothesis open i'm not sold not sold but it's sellable it's very sellable meanwhile on cnn uh jim acosta

00:55:25.420 was talking to the potato looking guy i can't remember his name uh or somebody i can't remember but uh he was

00:55:31.740 saying that uh talking about uh zuckerberg and the biden administration censoring jim acosta says

00:55:39.180 all they were doing is asking for a covet disinformation to be removed you know that's

00:55:43.180 what they should be doing really all they were doing is asking for covet disinformation to be removed

00:55:51.260 uh does jim acosta not know how the whole free speech thing works you're allowed to say things that

00:55:58.780 aren't right you can say it all day long according to our constitution does the government have some

00:56:06.060 uh some responsibility and or right to tell you you can't be wrong according to that no of course not

00:56:14.620 it's a total ridiculousness uh so the redefining free speech is agreeing with the government

00:56:21.100 the opposite of free speech so if you watch cnn just just hold this in your mind if you watch cnn

00:56:28.300 you wouldn't know what free speech was isn't that wild so if you didn't learn it and learn it well

00:56:35.740 you know in some kind of educational process it's the first time you came into discussion of what what

00:56:41.180 does free speech mean because it's a little bit complicated it's not as obvious as it looks right who

00:56:47.580 can say what can you yell fire in the crowded theater can you defame somebody can you say things

00:56:54.620 that are wrong about an important medical issue it's a little bit complicated but it gets simplified

00:57:03.340 when you say you know as long as you're not doing it with the intention of harming somebody or it's not

00:57:08.380 ridiculous uh you can do it even the ridiculous part is too far um anyway

00:57:19.020 here's what i wouldn't mind the government doing i wouldn't mind if the government or even the social 0.96

00:57:25.500 media said we're going to pair any any statement that looks uh non-factual to the government with what

00:57:33.100 the government says now even if the government's wrong and the person's saying the criticism is

00:57:38.860 right i don't mind seeing both sides do you so i wouldn't want it to be a law that you always have

00:57:45.900 to see the government side but if some social network said you know the government just so you know

00:57:51.660 the government has an opposite opinion i would like to know that because i think we're smart enough now

00:57:58.220 to know that the government isn't always the one that's right quite often i mean we've seen it on

00:58:02.860 both sides it's not a political thing we see that the government's sometimes right sometimes wrong

00:58:07.900 everybody would agree with that statement sometimes right sometimes wrong so if i see both sides

00:58:14.060 i'm not going to complain about that but i wouldn't want the government to mandate it so if

00:58:19.340 facebook decided you know we're going to make sure you see both sides that's okay

00:58:23.500 no problem but here's what here's what's funny about cnn cnn has what i call clowns and then they

00:58:32.540 have people who are maybe just biased and the clowns with people like john avalon jim acosta jasmine

00:58:40.380 crockett they don't seem like serious people they seem like people who just went on there to say

00:58:45.980 whatever's bad with trump and that's it but when i but that's not true of all the cnn

00:58:53.580 hosts you know when i when i watch anderson cooper or jake tapper i might not like the way they're

00:59:00.220 approaching uh something but sometimes they'll say something bad about democrats like biden's brain you

00:59:06.860 know why didn't you tell a shooter now you could say well it was safe to say it after it was too late

00:59:11.500 because it didn't make any difference but you know the criticism you would do for say a tapper or an

00:59:18.140 anderson cooper would be about bias but it wouldn't be their clowns but some of their some of their

00:59:25.740 people on air just strike me as clowns but here's the funny thing they also uh either intentionally or 0.54

00:59:33.500 unintentionally hired the best clown killer of all time scott jennings so if you're not watching scott 0.59

00:59:39.580 jennings being the often the lone voice sometimes he has somebody else on there that's conservative but

00:59:45.420 he's often the lone voice on the panel for the republican side of things and uh so here so

00:59:53.660 here's what i love so cnn's producers seemingly intentionally because how could you not know 0.98

01:00:00.300 this they they paired their best uh republican clown killer with the democrats worst clown so they put 0.98

01:00:08.380 scott jennings sitting literally right next to john avalon i mean he's probably the head clown of the 0.97

01:00:14.380 entire network and uh so so avalon says some clownish thing uh and then he then jennings says let me

01:00:25.340 answer your criticism by asking you a question do you think it was uniting so uh what jen what avalon said

01:00:32.300 was um that people online are fueling division over wildfires instead of unity so john avalon is

01:00:41.580 worried about the you know the the democrat criticism so he thinks the criticism is overdone

01:00:48.460 and what we should really be shooting for is unity to you know get things done and after this unity call

01:00:54.060 from the clown jennings says let me answer your criticisms by asking you a question do you think

01:00:58.620 it was uniting or dividing while in the midst of these fires for the democrats to go to sacramento

01:01:05.420 and in an emergency session vote to appropriate 50 million dollars to quote trump-proof california

01:01:13.100 to sue the trump administration which hasn't even taken office yet do you think that was good priority

01:01:19.740 and a good time to do that or or no uh was that dividing was that divisive or was that uniting 0.89

01:01:26.460 okay and we're done cnn's producers put the clown killer next to the clown thank you that's good 0.86

01:01:38.860 stuff i'll watch that all day long cnn you got me you got me if you keep putting the clown killer next 0.89

01:01:46.780 to the clowns i'm going to watch you all day long uh your your ratings are going to turn around give me 0.98

01:01:52.700 that give me more of that clown killer and clown can't beat it when i found out my friend got a 0.99

01:01:58.860 great deal on a wool coat from winners i started wondering is every fabulous item i see from winners

01:02:05.820 like that woman over there with the designer jeans are those from winners ooh are those beautiful gold 1.00

01:02:11.740 earrings did she pay full price or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those knee-high boots that 0.82

01:02:17.740 dress that jacket those shoes is anyone paying full price for anything stop wondering start winning

01:02:24.940 winners find fabulous for less meanwhile also on cnn and this part you might have missed if you saw the

01:02:34.700 clip live you might have missed a really a really important little thing that was just sort of hidden

01:02:41.020 in it so let's see if i can explain it so harry enton on cnn is the most data-driven objective

01:02:49.660 person on the network which is good because he's the data guy so he does the polling and you know how

01:02:55.740 our opinions change and stuff and when he talks about it it's not let's talk about how trump is bad

01:03:03.020 and all democrats are good he just says what the data says and and he's really good at so all credit to

01:03:09.260 harry enton on cnn does a great job but he's being interviewed by uh is it john berman

01:03:17.340 who in this context would be the propagandist all right so enton is the voice of reason

01:03:25.500 berman would be historically in my opinion more of a propagandist right um

01:03:31.500 um so harry enton shows the the data that the way he interpreted the data is that the public is not

01:03:39.420 making any connection between the wildfires and climate change so the main messaging of the democrats

01:03:44.940 is whoa it's climate change is climate change but the public's not buying it in fact the public has

01:03:51.100 moved backwards in its belief about whether climate change is causing wildfires in general

01:03:57.900 so now we're down to uh since 2023 we're down to in 2023 we're down to 39 we're worried about climate

01:04:07.420 change and in 2019 49 of the those polled said humans contribute to climate change so basically half of the

01:04:19.420 the public said humans contribute to climate change today years later after years and years of climate

01:04:25.980 change propaganda only 45 say that humans contribute to climate change so now it's less than half

01:04:34.860 so less than half of the country is buying the main democrat messaging on climate change

01:04:41.500 all right so now again credit to harry enton because he's just following the numbers and that's just

01:04:48.140 what the numbers say so here's the fun part so then uh the john berman says trying to wrap it up and he

01:04:54.300 says uh um he goes even even as scientists say climate change is causing more extreme weather events

01:05:01.260 is that true are scientists saying that climate change is causing more extreme weather events or is it the opposite

01:05:17.900 because when i read the news about this it's always oh well actually the hurricanes are not getting more

01:05:25.740 more frequent or worse oh actually the wildfires have historically always been this bad

01:05:33.100 right so um it's just not true that scientists say climate change is causing more extreme weather events

01:05:42.220 is it it might be true that some are but i don't even think that's the consensus anymore is it

01:05:48.540 so what does harry enton do when the propagandist says something that i'm pretty sure harry enton knows

01:05:55.820 is not true but they're on tv it's live and the guy who tries to be honest is faced with a summary

01:06:04.060 from his co-worker that either i just i don't think he believes it's true so instead of agreeing with

01:06:12.860 even though scientists say climate change is causing more extreme weather harry enton very cleverly

01:06:19.340 says this even as extreme weather goes up humans are the the basically the public's less worried

01:06:28.780 so you see how he reframed it so enton this is i'm reading some minds here so i can't be positive that

01:06:35.900 either of them are thinking the way i'm i'm explaining it but what it looked like

01:06:39.900 was that burman was trying to throw the propaganda for climate change into the story

01:06:45.740 and entrance the data guy and he wasn't having it but he couldn't go against him on the air

01:06:51.260 so he reframed it away from the scientists and just said the public's not buying it

01:06:58.460 good job harry enton staying staying on on uh on fact uh trump was railing last night about seth

01:07:06.220 myers nbc late night host um he's calling him he said i got stuck watching marble mouth myers the 0.99

01:07:14.060 other night every time i watch this moron i feel an obligation to say how dumb and untalented he is 0.99

01:07:20.060 merely a slot filler for the scum that that runs comcast comcast owns nbc um and he says comcast should be 1.00

01:07:29.980 paying and uh paying for in-kind contributions to the radical left democratic party and comcast should 0.86

01:07:37.660 pay a big price for this well i like part of this i i don't like the part where comcast should be a big

01:07:44.780 price for this because it feels a little bit more like free speech should not be you know impinged or

01:07:51.980 or penalized i mean it is true that it's a propaganda show it is true that you know it's one-sided

01:08:02.300 etc but i don't know in our system free speech if you kind of know it's one-sided and you know if

01:08:09.980 you turn on gotfeld and you watch a higher quality show you're going to see the other side of things

01:08:14.700 so i wouldn't be terribly eager to see the new administration go after comcast because uh

01:08:24.140 seth meyers says stuff that trump doesn't like that feels a little too far and by the way i feel

01:08:30.860 that there's a obligation on trump's supporters to set some kind of a line of what's too far because

01:08:40.140 part of the thing we like about him is he'll he'll he'll do everything that other people do and then

01:08:44.380 he'll he'll push the envelope a little bit so pushing the envelope is what i like i like that

01:08:49.740 he pushes the envelope everywhere in every domain he pushes the envelope but i think that that makes a

01:08:55.020 obligation on the supporters such as myself that we need to be vocal if there's something that's just

01:09:03.180 a hint of too far to me that's too far to say that comcast should pay a big price for this coming from

01:09:10.540 the president in a threatening way uh i love the fact that he calls you know that he does a critical

01:09:17.420 review of the quality of the show that i love i love that he came up with an insulting nickname for

01:09:22.300 somebody who's on the other team love it love it but threatening comcast for what seems to me free

01:09:30.220 speech be careful with that one so so i'm gonna do my citizen duty to say where i think the line needs

01:09:38.380 to be drawn you can disagree that's part of your citizen duty starbucks reversed his policy that would

01:09:46.940 allow anybody to sit at its cafe even if they weren't buying anything which of course is going to be an

01:09:52.540 invitation to homeless uh that didn't work out so they're changing it you can only be a customer if

01:09:59.500 you're going to be hanging out in the cafe is that the trump effect where everybody is now sort of

01:10:07.500 allowed to be a little more commonsensical you know you have permission to do common sense

01:10:14.140 is that the trump effect or is it simply that they tried it and it was a disaster

01:10:19.660 maybe both you know maybe the disaster wasn't enough to change it but the trump effect gives you cover

01:10:26.860 because everything else going on is a bigger deal so maybe the trump effect maybe but not entirely

01:10:34.780 um here's something i love melania uh did an interview and she said this and i quote i don't

01:10:43.900 want to hire too many people on my team spending too much taxpayer money i want to make sure that

01:10:49.900 every position they are talented they have merit they know what they're doing

01:10:55.980 is it too soon to call it i'm going to call it

01:11:08.380 best first lady ever

01:11:13.820 any any disagreement

01:11:16.780 i want my first lady to say something that's 100 compatible with what the what the country voted for 0.98

01:11:24.620 and i don't want to hear another story about that damn first lady who spent way much way more than 1.00

01:11:31.980 she should have you know in prior administrations uh way more than she should have to get good china 1.00

01:11:38.380 and to upgrade something that we didn't think needed to be upgraded

01:11:43.420 now i don't think that melania came up with this genius messaging on her own i think she has good

01:11:50.060 advisors so first of all shout out once again to whoever is advising the trump team including melania

01:11:57.980 this is just genius this is this is this is not just okay this is genius she could not have nailed

01:12:06.540 this harder this harder the wording is perfect it's concise it's on message she she has merit in there

01:12:13.340 doesn't want to spend too much money that's compatible with doge this is everything this is this is exactly

01:12:21.900 what i want out of the first lady or the first husband whoever it is best ever message perfection

01:12:30.940 um now let's compare it to if you want to see the difference in quality of messaging

01:12:38.060 let's compare it to what harris is saying about the wildfires in california

01:12:43.660 um first of all uh you have to worry about the climate change

01:12:49.900 so got to worry about that climate change okay second is she reminds us that the citizens 1.00

01:12:57.020 uh really need to be more patient in waiting for help so it wasn't so much a totally democrat

01:13:07.580 mismanagement tragedy that burnt up the entire state it wasn't that no it was a climate change problem

01:13:16.780 uh and now we're we're into more of a citizens being impatient problem and

01:13:21.020 you know it makes you wonder should there be some kind of punishment for the citizens who are impatient

01:13:28.460 about the government yeah we've got to worry about the impatience of those people

01:13:33.420 you know yes their their homes are just ashes on the ground and they've lost everything but

01:13:39.740 you know the real problem i think we need to focus more on their impatience really

01:13:44.460 we keep talking about giving them clean water and turning the power on and you know will they ever be

01:13:49.900 able to return home in their toxic environment no no no no no don't think small stop thinking small

01:13:58.140 you want to elevate this let's talk about their impatience now come on that's somebody who almost

01:14:06.860 became the president of the united states i'll take melania over whatever that is any day of the week 1.00

01:14:14.540 for any job let me say that again for any job i would take melania over kamala harris for any job any job 0.95

01:14:24.540 house cleaning to president of the united states i'm going to take melania it's not even close 1.00

01:14:33.180 well just for fun you should know that michael cohen was on msnbc basically begging for a pardon

01:14:39.900 from the biden administration and i don't know if he's going to get it because you know he's he's so

01:14:47.260 originally associated with trump and probably completely hated by the democrats so if the

01:14:55.660 if the democrats give michael cohen a and biden if they give him a pardon i guess it would be a

01:15:02.300 preemptive pardon i guess um that would be surprising but he's trying hard to get it he

01:15:08.540 says he should get it because even though hunter was biden's son and everybody understands that

01:15:15.900 biden would give a pardon to his son you don't have to explain that too much it's just common common

01:15:21.900 biology but uh michael cohen's making the argument that he also is somebody's son so therefore he should

01:15:29.180 get a pardon because he's somebody's son i don't know if i ever hired a lawyer i wouldn't want him

01:15:37.900 to be this dumb or ridiculous but anyway uh meanwhile hamas has accepted the draft agreement which means 0.66

01:15:47.020 they haven't finalized it but for the gaza ceasefire and release of 31 33 33 33 hostages now here's what 0.95

01:15:57.180 i believe is true about it the the 33 is out of 98 hostages so you know one third but that seems to

01:16:05.900 be the all the civilians now i can't guarantee that but if it's all the civilians and it might include the

01:16:14.060 female military i think uh there might be five of them um that would leave the male military 1.00

01:16:22.380 people who were still being held now i could see why they do it you know i i understand why they

01:16:31.180 would do it in that order you understand right everybody understands why you do it in that order

01:16:36.060 yeah because uh uh men are useless so so they're gonna lay you know and then the citizens out because 1.00

01:16:46.300 the males who are in the military are worth less how do you decide who gets to live and die do you 0.98

01:16:52.540 do it by identity that's what they did now i get that if you're in the military you're taking on a bigger

01:16:58.700 risk but keep in mind it's universal universal uh draft or whatever it is so everybody in in israel

01:17:06.700 ends up in the military right so you can't say that the people were being held or chose to be in the

01:17:13.580 military so they took on a bigger risk they didn't choose it it was required so every person who was being

01:17:19.980 held didn't choose anything about it there was no choice so so why did the why did the adult men go last

01:17:32.540 now i get it biologically biologically i understand that women are more valuable than men 0.94

01:17:38.060 because they can do the baby making it doesn't take many men to do that 1.00

01:17:41.580 but you know i i'm just gonna put it out there that somebody just made a decision that adult men

01:17:50.700 are worth less than the women and the you know the uh the civilians don't love it don't love that 0.99

01:18:03.100 but i can see why they do it now of course uh part of this is that they they would agree to a

01:18:09.820 secondary phase which might include the rest of the people but that would not be negotiated to

01:18:16.220 completion while they're doing their first phase you know they might be continuing to negotiate

01:18:21.580 and the first phase release would be over several weeks so none of it's going to happen none of it

01:18:27.340 will happen before trump's in office do you think trump is going to accept will release one third of

01:18:33.740 them over six weeks why would he why would he it should be exactly the same penalty whether you release

01:18:42.380 them or not right i mean i'm sorry whether you release part of them or not trump's response should be the

01:18:51.820 same that you don't treat this as a negotiation see this is what israel i think is getting wrong

01:18:58.620 i'm not there so you know they're obviously very smart and so when i say it's wrong it's from my

01:19:03.900 perspective not having all the information but from my perspective you don't treat this part as a

01:19:08.780 negotiation you do what trump is doing this is your ticket to the negotiation because what the hamas and

01:19:16.620 gazans want is to figure out what happens to their entire future the entire future is in the

01:19:22.460 negotiation the the ticket to even be in the conversation is you let everybody go now that's

01:19:30.700 the ticket that's not the negotiation that's the ticket to the negotiation trump gets that 100 right

01:19:38.300 i don't know why israel has other other variables or other considerations that you know maybe it's the

01:19:44.540 the local public opinion that could be it which would be less less on trump than it would be on

01:19:50.060 netanyahu so i don't know i'd like to see trump see fix this if he can

01:19:59.500 and i think that's all i had to say about this and ladies and gentlemen

01:20:07.260 i'm going to talk to the locals people privately for a little bit

01:20:11.820 um let's see if we can fix some fire stuff get this country going again um the golden age is uh

01:20:22.460 off to a slow start with the fire but i do believe that the goal that the fires have

01:20:30.140 one hideous advantage it's hideous because the way you get there but the advantage is i think it's the

01:20:37.740 complete destruction of the democrat way of governing maybe not the complete destruction of the democrat

01:20:44.780 party because they're they're probably resilient but their way of approaching things with identity

01:20:51.420 and climate first and feelings first i feel like it's so discredited that if it could ever come back

01:20:59.820 it would take a long time so i worry what happens when trump retires from the process you know will

01:21:08.460 there be enough republican strength to keep common sense in our you know in our sights or is it going

01:21:16.140 to turn into a ridiculousness like equity and who's being impatient and what's your climate doing and all

01:21:23.020 that stuff so all right locals coming at you for some private time the rest of you thanks for joining

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 14, 2025

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