Episode 2723 CWSA 01⧸17⧸25
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1 hour and 1 minute
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151.3155
Summary
An Air Force veteran claims to have seen an egg-shaped UFO. The Washington Post has a new mission statement. And the New York Times has a mission statement that sounds like it could be based on fiction. Guests: Comedian John Rocha, writer, podcaster, and podcaster.
Transcript
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You know, everybody's like, oh, take a cold plunge.
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Well, I hope you see the video that's going around of an Air Force veteran who was assigned
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And he said most of the things he picked up were just, you know, secret government programs and stuff.
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But once, once he saw non-human egg-shaped aircraft while working on his secret UFO retrieval program, according to the New York Post.
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You'd have to see his eyes when he's describing it.
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Now, I always tell you that the lying eyes are the ones that get wide.
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If you watch the politicians, you can turn off the sound and you can still tell when they get to the lie because their forehead gets wrinkled because their eyes are so wide.
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Now, now that you know that that's what a lie looks like, you know, it's like, yeah, I'm going to take office on the 19th and I'll probably eliminate the deficit.
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On the day one, you know, when they get the lie.
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But this guy's eyes are these giant, they look like saucers themselves.
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It's not even slightly, slightly credible when you see his face.
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If all you did is read about it or hear about it, you'd say, hmm, military veteran, probably, probably credible.
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And then we'll look at his face and you go, oh.
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Every time the Washington Post does worse, I get a little charge of pleasure.
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You know, I shouldn't be reveling in the complete incompetence and destruction of a newspaper that canceled me worldwide.
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They're the ones who kicked it off, by the way.
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So the Washington Post came up with a new mission statement.
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All I pray for is that I can use my Dilbert filter to mock the Washington Post.
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And today you gave me, they have a new mission statement.
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This is actually, I swear to God, this is what their new mission statement is.
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No, their new mission statement is, quote, riveting storytelling for all America.
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I think they just created a mission statement that says their news isn't real.
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Because do you use that language when you're talking about the facts?
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How about, we're going to tell you what you need to know?
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Now, are they completely unaware of what that sounds like?
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When you hear storytelling, you don't think fact.
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They accidentally picked a mission statement that describes exactly what they are.
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Their own mission statement of a news organization left out the news.
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They said they're keeping their little tagline that they've had for a long time.
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Darkness, let me see, causes the darkness that would destroy democracy.
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Could storytelling, instead of telling real news, do you think that might cause the darkness
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They basically told you that they're going to destroy democracy by telling you stories instead
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I don't think you could be more clear about what you're doing.
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Meanwhile, I'd like to give you a SpaceX update.
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I was watching the news yesterday, and I was looking at clips about the SpaceX launch,
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And sometimes the clip would say that it was a success, and sometimes another clip would
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And so all yesterday, I had this Schrodinger's cat experience about the launch.
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It was like, wait, did it fail but also succeed?
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Wait, were there two rockets and one failed and one succeeded?
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Every clip I had was like one pixel out of the story.
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So I'm like, do I have to assemble this whole story in my head?
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But my best understanding, reading all these clips, but of course I didn't want to go to
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You know, if I went to the news, I don't know what I'm going to see.
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But I think what happened was it was one launch and one successful giant chopstick caught it.
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But it was only the booster that did well and the payload part, the upper stage, that
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So there was some kind of catastrophic failure.
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It either blew up on its own or they destroyed it.
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Anyway, so Elon considers it a success, as would I, as would I, that this is the sort
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of, I'm going to put it in quotes, failure that is exactly the kind you want, where you're
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unambiguously learning something that puts you ahead.
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You take this, you've learned from it, you take it to the next level.
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So it's hard for me to even call a test a failure if they found out what they needed to find
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You know, it would be cool if they found out, oh, everything worked.
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But either way, if you find out, you're moving forward.
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So I like the whole attitude about it, that it's a successful, successful test because they
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learned critical things from the test that will move them forward.
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Nick Cruz-Petain on X said this, and then Elon Musk said yes to it.
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So this sounds like it might be something SpaceX plans, which would be to be a general Earth
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Now, you probably know that if you're in a vehicle that goes into space and then comes
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down in another place on Earth, it can go there faster than some airplane that's trying
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to go through, you know, go through the air because of the resistance and whatnot.
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So that could take a trip from L.A. to New York.
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But anyway, if SpaceX does create a product where you can just take the rocket ship to
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another place on Earth, L.A. to New York, which would normally be five and a half hours, would
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Can you imagine getting from L.A. to New York in 25 minutes?
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I don't know if the numbers don't look right, but that would be pretty amazing.
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But what would it cost to be on a rocket that uses that kind of fuel, even if it's re-landable?
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Meanwhile, according to interesting engineering, China is testing a microwave weapon with what
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they call nuclear bomb-like power to kill satellites.
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So Christopher McFadden and interesting engineering is writing it.
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But it has the potential to take out swarms of drones or satellites.
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We've got all this high-tech stuff, the satellite drones and the smart missiles and, you know,
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And then probably the superpowers will have these ginormous electronic devices to cancel
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So the race to have the better robot military equipment is going to meet with the race to
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find out a thing that can cancel all electronics in the area.
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At the lithium battery storage plant in California, of course.
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Now, when you hear that a lithium battery storage plant has a fire, you probably have to say
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to yourself, that's sort of lithium batteries, that's not the biggest surprise in the world.
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But when that fire has an impact on our whole power grid, presumably, and it comes right on
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the heels of several other fires in L.A., not all of them have known causes, here's what
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If we were already under attack, this is exactly what it would look like.
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If the homeland was under a serious attack, you would see fires started in different places,
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in places that are highly valuable and hard to start.
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You wouldn't see a fire in maybe the center of Detroit, because that could be kind of limited
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So it would look like, well, that's a big coincidence.
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What, at the same time as the lithium battery storage plant?
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I'm saying that if the real news looks exactly like an attack, you better pay attention, because
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one of these is going to be an attack, I feel like, someday, hope not soon.
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But apparently, did you know the United States buys transformers for our power grid?
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And we've got about, I don't know, close to 500 of them.
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And one of them was once taken apart to see if there's anything dangerous in these Chinese
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And they found that there was a way to turn it off remotely.
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Meaning that if you were a Chinese agent, you could just walk up to a transformer in our
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grid, probably take out your phone and go, boop.
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And if you had the right app, it would turn off the network.
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Pretty much, I don't know how many, 500 transformers.
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You'd only need one transformer to get turned off in your network and the whole network after
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That's a lot of power they have control over, theoretically, just by walking up to it.
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And maybe they don't even have to stand next to it.
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And we bought more of them instead of phasing them out, probably because we can't make stuff
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Anyway, Megyn Kelly reports that she had a woke friend who lost a home in the California
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fires and says, quote, this is what the friend said, the woke friend.
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You know, even my famous smartest Democrat friend that I often talk about is not really
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woke, just prefers the policies of the Democrats and thinks the Republicans are evil and stuff.
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But not, you know, he's not like hosting drag queen hours or anything.
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I think I've seen them, you know, in public, but I don't know one.
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So I cannot confirm or deny that the people who are in that category that I don't even
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know one have decided they've had enough and they're going to vote Republican.
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I believe that only the people who lost their houses or got displaced are even thinking
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Because whatever it is that makes the Democrats the way they are, it would have to be a personal
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So those who are unfortunately having the personal tragedy, I definitely would agree that
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But I'll bet you if you were one mile outside of the danger zone and you didn't have a good
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friend who was affected, you'd be like, well, Biden's still better than Trump and et cetera.
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And my local local mayor should be blue and all that stuff.
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Meanwhile, you know, I've reported this before, but I now have a hypothesis for it.
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So Gen Z, who are the people between 13 years old and 28 years old at the moment, they're
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barely using alcohol compared to all the prior generations.
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If you saw the bar graph, it'd be like, you know, there'd be a bar that's a foot tall and
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then it immediately goes down to like two inches tall for the current generation.
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You would think that the one universal throughout time has been if you have alcohol, you're going
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My hypothesis goes like this, that alcohol, people don't do it because it feels good.
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They do it because it helps them socialize when they're shy.
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And that among the young, it's not so much, yay, I like this feeling of being drunk.
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It's, wow, I can finally figure out a way to talk to strangers and I'm not as shy and
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So if the current generation uses the internet to make friends, and what I've observed is
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that young people will chat with somebody online that they've never met, but they will
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shared pictures, they've checked each other's social networks, and they've chatted for a
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Then, if everything's going well, they like the chat, they like the look, they like the
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The utility of alcohol is, how do I meet a new cool person that I want to spend time with?
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There wasn't really a great way to do it when I was a kid.
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So you would have a drink and go where there's other people drinking, and that was easier
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But if I can meet, you know, if I imagine myself back at this young age where the main
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thing is friends and girlfriends and boyfriends, that I would think, well, if I can get all
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the social interaction I want through the internet, I don't know, do I want to feel drunk?
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So I just put that out as a hypothesis that the internet way of meeting people just replaced
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I mean, if that happened, maybe it's more good than bad.
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Well, the Wall Street Journal is talking, again, you've heard this, that China's population
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Um, the births edged up, but, uh, for the first time, there are more deaths than births.
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Kyle Bass, investor Kyle Bass, who often, uh, talks about China, uh, much the way I do,
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but he's far more informed, um, he said today on X that China is experiencing a complete financial
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The, the, the 10 year government bonds are yielding only 1.65 and the, the overnight rate
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Um, and that maybe all of this economic, all this economic, uh, unfolding in China might
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cause them to move on Taiwan sooner because that would, that would unify the country maybe
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and be a distraction from their other problems.
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I, I agree that China has got some big economic challenges, no question.
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But, um, my take on China just as an observer, no expert, right?
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So I'm, so I will defer to the experts if they say, Scott, you've got this totally wrong.
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You know, there's a history of them doing this exactly.
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Um, my take on China is that they keep acting rationally, just rational, rational, rational.
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Now that's, that's the current leadership who have lots of engineers in office.
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Did you know a lot of the top, uh, the top officials in the, you know, the Chinese Communist
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Party, the top officials, many of them are engineers.
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So you have a really practical level headed, you know, what do we need to do to get from
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The, the Chinese government always seemed to me rational, right?
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There's some governments that maybe have a religious driving force and to others, they
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would not look rational, but China always looks rational.
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So my, my belief is that you could do a pretty good job of predicting what China will do, because
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it's what you would do if you were in the same situation.
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And if I were struggling with all these domestic problems and I were China, the last thing I'd
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want to do is make a move on Taiwan because while there's some chance it can make things
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It would be the end of the regime because China doesn't really know how the rest of the world
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And they certainly don't know what Trump would do.
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So my take on China is they're too risk averse to do something that aggressive when they're
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Now, I am perfectly willing to be embarrassed and shamed for my lack of understanding of
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If somebody says, Scott, you don't realize in the past, let's say just during the, the
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administration of President Xi, if somebody said, but you saw what they did here and you
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saw, and I might go, oh, I forgot about that, or I didn't know about that.
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But the brutal, I'm going to call it brutal, the brutal, rational way that China operates
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is brutal rationalization, brutal, rational thinking, meaning they're not all about wokeness
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So I don't think they're going to make a move on Taiwan because of their, because of their
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However, to be fair, Kyle Bass is a very good observer of things.
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And if he has a different opinion, I'd take that seriously.
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Um, but here's the thing, is America doing better than China?
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It doesn't look like it to me because, you know, we've got the immigration drag, we've
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got the corruption in every part of the, everything.
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And then if Doge doesn't work, we've got to get rid of $1.83 trillion deficit per year.
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We're adding a trillion dollars every hundred days.
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So we have a situation where, in which I'm not positive, but it looks like the three biggest
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powers in the world are circling the drain at the same time.
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Russia looks like it might be on the edge of economic collapse because of the war.
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And, you know, but maybe not China looks like it might be on the edge of economic collapse
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because of various real estate crashing and demographics and whatever, but maybe not.
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And the United States looks like it's circling the drain with no hope of recovery because
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Well, you could argue that Russia and Ukraine is a proxy war, but we are now in a total full
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out world war, at least the three major powers in which we're not trying to beat the other
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as much as we're trying to be the one that survives.
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So beating China might be simply as simple as, as simple, I say as simple as, as simple
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The war between the three superpowers may be down to, are you still here in 10 years?
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Because I think that if all three of them, you know, find a way through these extraordinary
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I mean, I don't, I don't really want to see China crumble because that feels like that would
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But it's kind of weird that we're already in a world war.
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What America has to figure out, Mark Andreessen did a good job of explaining this.
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China has not just good manufacturing, but they have a network of component manufacturing
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So if we tried to build a, let's say, an iPhone assembly manufacturing thing in the United
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States, we wouldn't just build one factory that makes iPhones.
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You would need the entire network of suppliers to that one factory, and we don't have any
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If we wanted to be good at making robots, we wouldn't build a robot factory.
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You'd have to build an entire, entire network of suppliers that make the parts that end up
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Now, Elon Musk would be the one exception, because he's the one person that we know of
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who's made manufacturing, at least some of the manufacturing in the United States work.
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But even, even Elon Musk depends entirely on China for parts, right?
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According to Andreessen, China is rolling out cars that are going to be high quality, meaning
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competitive with existing cars, that might cost a third or a quarter of the price of existing
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Do you know how big of a problem that is for us?
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If they can make a car for 25% of what our cars now cost, and they're just great, that's
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If they can do, if they can make phones and drones and robots and cars because they have
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a complex ecosystem for manufacturing, we don't have any of that.
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Do you know that Andreessen said he was trying to, you know, I guess he invested in a company
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that makes drones or tries to in the United States, and they can't get parts because they
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And if they try to create manufacturing, I don't know the details, but he said that the
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Biden administration was basically just had a foot on them the whole time.
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So presumably, the Trump administration can open up, you know, a little more freedom for
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But so what we have as an advantage in the US is software and entrepreneurs, and we're
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probably better at AI, and we might be better eventually at humanoid robots and stuff.
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It seems to me that China can get better at software and AI in the long term.
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They can get better at those things than we are.
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Because software, I just feel like you can steal it, learn it, catch up.
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But by having an entire complex manufacturing ecosystem that's lower cost than we could
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So the odds of them closing their gap and learning software and being better at AI, that's not
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as big a stretch as what we'd have to do to catch up with them.
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So it does seem that the US and China are going to depend on each other to a degree that war
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Meanwhile, at Iowa State University, talking about how their glacier experts have found
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a critical flaw in the sea level predictions, sea level rising because of climate change.
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What they found was that the way cold ice acts is different than warm ice.
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So I learned today that there can be warm ice and cold ice.
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Warm ice would be ice that's already slightly melting.
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And then cold ice would be something that's so cold that it's a solid.
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And what they found was that if you were to predict ice like it's all the same, you would
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They studied for 10 years because of various hiccups.
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And they got to the point where, whoa, this should change your sea level predictions.
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Now, have you ever noticed that no matter how many times I tell you stories about some major
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assumption or variable being updated or changed or added to the climate models, that they still
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You can change all the inputs almost every day.
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If you watch my show, you know that almost every day, seven days a week, I tell you about a
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new thing in climate change that would change the variables you put in the model.
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So if no matter what the situation is, the models still say the same thing, or at least
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they're still within that narrow band, what are those models really doing?
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But here's what I've learned by experience with persuading people to have a more reasonable
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Now, a reasonable understanding would be things might be getting warmer and that should be paid
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I don't know what percentage, but we should pay attention to it just to make sure we're
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But the climate models, the projection models, those are clearly bullshit.
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And if you try to explain it to people, you run into the same roadblocks.
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If I were to try to explain to somebody who was not exposed whatsoever to these arguments,
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it would be a long conversation and it wouldn't be one that you could possibly do over, you
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know, a thread on X, which is where everybody debates.
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So you can't really break through if you're on a, you know, a quick messaging thing where
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You'd have to really sit down with somebody for like two hours to get them to the point
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If you think that's what I'm saying, I'm saying more than that.
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I'm saying they couldn't be accurate except by pure luck.
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So here's what you'd want to explain if you had time.
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You'd explain why the complicated models are driven by assumptions, not data.
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Now, this is something a normie would not understand.
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It's what assumption you made about what data to put in it.
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I know that because I used to make complicated prediction models for financial decisions at
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So I've made complicated financial predictions for years and years of my professional life.
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And I can tell you with certainty what everyone who has ever made a complicated financial prediction
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You can make it turn out to whatever your boss wants it to be.
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And I know that for sure because I did that work.
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So how hard would it be to explain to a normie that something as basic as, you know, it's just
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This is not based on following the data, right?
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It's the assumptions about the data we're following, not the data.
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So that's a hard thing for a normie to understand if you haven't been, like, immersed in the
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field, or at least in any field that had a lot of variables.
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Then in order to understand why all these climate models seem to fit this narrow band, you would
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And one specific one, which I've explained too many times, about how if a model, if somebody
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made a model that was outside the zone of what the experts are expecting, you would just
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Now, if you saw everybody's model all the time, that might be people trying to be honest
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But if you know for sure that nobody could survive in their career publishing a model that was
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way above or way below the little zone, this sort of the approved zone, you couldn't publish
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So if you have a situation where the only models that can be published without losing your whole
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career or your funding have to be in a narrow zone, that's not science.
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That's people doing what they have to do to make money.
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If you simply follow human incentive, it couldn't possibly be true that all these models fit this
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How long would it take you to explain to a normie, let's say a Democrat, that the number
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of scientists to agree, no matter how violently they agree, no matter how adamant they are,
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Just think about how long it would take you to explain that.
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Well, I thought they did things because they're good people.
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It's the most predictable thing in your entire life is that people do things for money.
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So if you could get paid for saying climate change is a crisis and you could lose your
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job and your reputation and your family would starve if you go against the grain, what does
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it mean that 99% or whatever are on the same side?
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And I know the real argument is it's not 98% on one side.
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But just think how far you would have to go to explain things that we know that if you've
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never been exposed to them, it just takes forever to explain it.
00:38:00.720
Um, so I would maintain that you don't need to be a scientist or anything like it, um, to
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understand that the models are broken and couldn't possibly be right.
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The only thing you need to know is how cause and effect works.
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If you understand cause and effect, you know, the models are bullshit.
00:38:20.560
If you're confused about the most simple thing in the world, like, uh, if I change the incentives,
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Now, in order for me to be correct in, in this domain of climate change that, um, you know,
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that, uh, it's really about people who don't understand cause and effect.
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If you don't understand that people are going to lie for money, you don't know anything,
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but let's see if that exists in any other domain.
00:39:00.580
Well, I was seeing Austin Allred today talking about how, uh, he said in a post, uh, they
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meaning, you know, the people in charge looked at the data and saw that college graduates
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If equity is what the Democrats want, what would be the way to get there?
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If you know, the people who didn't go to college don't do as well as the people who went to
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college simple, you make it so that everybody can get into college, regardless of their
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qualifications and regardless if they have money to pay.
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And then you find out that the real thing about college was the selection bias, not what the
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college taught you that the colleges were only, they only existed in many ways.
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They existed as a way to certify that these were the smart people.
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I mean, they may have trained them in some skills, but they didn't make them smart.
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The being smart had to be there in the first place.
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And then also the Democrats got rid of honors classes because they found out that people
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who went to honors classes did better in life and got into college.
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You get rid of the honors classes and then, you know, have that problem.
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So if you look at education, would it be fair to say that the reason it's so messed up and
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people have, they have a gigantic crushing college loan debt and all they got from it
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All of these things are the same problem, not understanding how anything works, not understanding
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cause and effect, not understanding what's the real cause and what's just a correlation.
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The reason that Democrats don't understand climate change is they don't understand cause
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and effect and how money changes incentive and that people are basically liars.
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And they think that college is just a matter of getting rid of the racism so that everybody
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That was so not the problem, not even close, a complete analysis failure.
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So I would say that you could find this consistently that the people on the left, the woke left,
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They don't know how money and incentives affect anything.
00:41:39.020
Trust and safety is becoming a key driver of customer experience, influencing how users
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engage, how safe they feel, and ultimately how likely they are to return.
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Because I don't know about you, but if I've had too many bad experiences on a platform,
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This is the intersection we're here to explore today.
00:42:00.280
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00:42:11.180
President Trump has picked Bill Pulte for director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
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So that would be in charge of Freddie and Fannie.
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So those would be two big programs that the government runs for making loans.
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Now, here's what's good, great really, about having Bill Pulte.
00:42:32.620
The rumored, and I believe it's true, but the rumored goal of the Trump administration
00:42:38.380
is to do away with government control of these two entities that used to not be government controlled.
00:42:45.420
Now, if you want to get rid of government control over these really big dollar, gigantic dollar
00:42:59.920
Or somebody who definitely doesn't need the job, but is such a patriot, is willing to take
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Pulte is one of the most honest, effective people you'll ever know in your life.
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I know him personally, so I can speak from authority on this.
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I didn't, you know, I have to say I was cautious on Hegseth, because I thought, hmm, you know,
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I think he showed us, he showed us what I wanted to see.
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Pulte is the best pick for somebody to transfer control from the government to the private sector
00:43:56.400
And all credit to Bill Pulte for being willing to take on what looks like a tough, tough job
00:44:11.380
Trump picked a head of Secret Service, which is the head of his current Secret Service detail,
00:44:18.820
Now, my first question was, how common is it that you would be promoted from the head
00:44:25.820
of a detail, even a presidential detail, directly to the top of the entire Secret Service?
00:44:34.580
Or my Dilbert filter on this, you know, the way most things work, is that you would go
00:44:40.120
from the head of a detail to maybe, you know, third in command of the entire network, and
00:44:46.460
then maybe you could work yourself up to the top.
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Has this ever happened, that you went from the head of a detail to the head of the whole
00:44:55.420
It's entirely possible that that's more normal than I think.
00:45:02.160
What it hints at is that Trump doesn't trust the Secret Service.
00:45:07.780
And the one he does trust is the person who jumped on his body when the bullets were flying.
00:45:13.160
The only person he could trust to literally have his best interests in mind is the person
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And I got to say that, you know, sometimes Trump gets a hit for putting loyalty over, you
00:45:32.700
But this is a place where loyalty over experience, and the guy has plenty of experience, right?
00:45:39.180
He has all the experience in the world of what a presidential detail should be doing.
00:45:43.240
And apparently he's been advocating hard for more resources for the presidential detail
00:45:58.740
But I think the genius of it is for Trump to feel comfortable that the person in charge
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And I'm not sure he would have thought that before.
00:46:15.160
And as one of his rhetorical flourishes with the Democrats he was arguing with, he said,
00:46:26.700
And he asked that several times while they were yammering at him.
00:46:42.600
And the answer is something like $10 million net worth.
00:46:46.760
Now, could he have that net worth from his book sales and his speaking that he did in
00:46:57.360
Because he was paid a lot for a book, probably.
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And sometimes we think that's the way that politicians get bribed.
00:47:07.500
You know, if you do this now, I'll make sure that you get this big book deal later.
00:47:14.300
But I hate to tell you that $10 million is not as rich as it sounds.
00:47:22.020
You know, I don't think that anybody else who had his pay and a book deal and a little
00:47:32.560
So probably half or more is that he has two homes.
00:47:35.840
Now, the question is, how do you get these two homes?
00:47:42.900
So $10 million doesn't seem like LBJ level of corruption.
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But I don't think he could get there without something sketchy going on.
00:48:00.460
So, you know, that Biden and his final speech there, his goodbye speech, he warned against
00:48:05.580
the formation of tech oligarchies, which I think is just aimed at Elon Musk and maybe
00:48:13.180
the fact that Zuckerberg's a, you know, less pro-Democrat lately.
00:48:19.000
But what I loved about this, it was the final act of projection.
00:48:23.740
You know, we keep saying that the real problem of the Democrats is a mental health problem,
00:48:27.920
some kind of weird thing where they do projection.
00:48:31.320
Everything that they're doing, they just blame Democrats at.
00:48:38.000
They were using their oligarch Soros and Reid Hoffman and other rich people who might be
00:48:49.280
But as soon as some rich people said, wait a minute, the fine people hoax isn't real?
00:48:56.900
Then some of his best backers, I mean, Elon Musk was backing him before.
00:49:01.320
Well, some of his best backers have decided to go the other direction.
00:49:11.660
The guy who benefited entirely from the billionaires saying, you better watch out for billionaires.
00:49:20.900
That his final act was incompetent, laughable, and almost a ridiculous level of persuasion.
00:49:35.200
So Biden has said that his problem was he spent too much time on policy and then not enough on politics.
00:49:45.580
The gall it takes to say that your problem with your reputation was that you spent too much time on policy.
00:49:55.360
That sounds like when you go in for the job interview and you get that standard question.
00:50:00.900
It's like, all right, you know, are there any flaws about you that I should know about?
00:50:17.140
And then, of course, MSNBC has been defending Biden's mental acuity right up till today.
00:50:25.880
So even Morning Joe is still saying, you know, he gets a word wrong here and there, but I spend time with him and he's fine.
00:50:35.520
So their entire brand, MSNBC, is that Biden's fine.
00:50:42.240
So Lawrence O'Donnell from MSNBC gets to sit down with Biden and from the network that defended Biden's mental acuity for years.
00:50:52.580
And Biden says this, quote, you've heard Barack get mad at me when I was a kid.
00:51:07.080
Now, I suppose he meant when I was vice president.
00:51:13.120
But when I was a kid isn't really that close to when I was vice president.
00:51:21.960
And I get, by the way, forgetting a name, something I do all the time.
00:51:26.780
But this is kind of embarrassing if you're one of the hosts of the Everything's Fine with Biden's Brain and he gives you, you've heard Barack get mad at me when I was a kid.
00:51:40.340
Meanwhile, then, Harris was, she was signing her little desk in the vice president's office and talking in public.
00:51:57.220
I would like to do my impression of Kamala Harris in the news, not knowing if she's stupid or drunk, because it was so much fun trying to figure out, OK, is that stupid or is that drunk?
00:52:08.720
To me, she looked drunk in the little episode yesterday.
00:52:12.940
But if it wasn't drunk, oh, my God, it's worse.
00:52:17.800
You hope it's drunk, because if that's the way her real brain is working, oh, we've got a problem.
00:52:23.580
So I'd like to give you my impression and see if you think this is drunk or stupid.
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00:53:18.840
Biden's commuting the sentences of 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses.
00:53:31.720
But I'd love to know if any of them were fentanyl dealers, because if they were, I'm not in favor of that.
00:53:39.900
The FBI shut down this DEI office just before Trump comes in office and tells them to shut it down.
00:53:48.180
But of course, they didn't really shut it down.
00:53:50.220
They just hid all the parts in other departments so that they don't have to call it DEI, but they can still do DEI.
00:53:56.300
Trump has demanded that the FBI retain all his records about their so-called DEI office.
00:54:01.980
And if they get rid of their records, that seems like that would be a bad thing.
00:54:11.260
Meanwhile, scientists, according to NoRidge, scientists have developed nanoparticles that target and remove plaque from inside the arteries.
00:54:21.020
So they figured out a way to get the nanoparticle to get inside a cell and reprogram it.
00:54:29.040
So they were the cells that were the macrophages or whatever, the things that eat stuff.
00:54:36.380
And they can just goose them so that they do a better job of eating the things that you want them to eat, like the harmful plaque.
00:54:43.000
But what strikes me about this is this sounds exactly like a software upgrade to your body.
00:54:49.000
If you can reprogram through a nanoparticle that can get into a cell, and you can reprogram the function of the cell, I mean, it sounds dangerous.
00:55:01.540
But if they figured out the safety part, they can do a software upgrade to your cells.
00:55:26.500
Eric Nolan says that there's an oral brain axis.
00:55:35.620
New research uncovers surprising links between the bacteria in your mouth and mental health symptoms.
00:55:41.860
So they discovered that people who have mental health symptoms have different mouth chemistry than people who don't have mental health problems.
00:55:52.360
I'm just going to say that one of those groups eats glue and the other doesn't.
00:55:57.500
So I'm not sure the cause and the effect is exactly what they think, which makes me suspect the scientists are Democrats because there's one group that can't get cause and effect right.
00:56:22.020
I think we have to talk about the security of the inauguration day.
00:56:33.680
It seems to me if a foreign power wanted to do something, they'd have the ability.
00:56:39.980
I don't know if a hobbyist could do it, like just some lone drone gunman or something.
00:56:49.500
I mean, I don't know how good the anti-drone detection is and repulsion.
00:56:56.700
Yeah, I'm seeing the comments that Joe Biden's $10 million is not what it used to be.
00:57:17.140
Two incomes living in a relatively less expensive state.
00:57:27.560
Yeah, there's a photo of Daniel Penny taking a subway again.
00:57:33.720
I tell you, however brave you think Daniel Penny is or was, he's probably braver than you think.
00:57:43.480
And I love the fact that I don't think anybody's going to want to mess with him.
00:57:46.960
He would be the one person you wouldn't want to start a fight with.
00:57:49.480
I mean, you should never start a fight with somebody who is a young ex-Marine.
00:57:54.100
Because, again, the ex part, you know, you could forget about.
00:57:59.240
You wouldn't want to, he looks like he's like 6'4".
00:58:05.400
He looks like he's 6'4", young, and has been trained to tear people apart.
00:58:10.180
And he's already killed one person, although I think that was more about the person than the act.
00:58:17.260
Like, if you were a troublemaker and you looked up and you saw him, you'd be like, oh, God.
00:58:25.920
Unless you're, unless you feel unsafe, and then he's the first person you want to see.
00:58:37.880
I would love to know how the black community really thinks about that.
00:58:42.040
Have they been listening to Washington Post's storytelling?
00:58:47.260
Or do they just say, if the black people in the Daniel, in the Daniel Penny subway car,
00:58:54.060
if the other black passengers expressed relief that he stopped this guy, which is what happened.
00:59:04.040
If the other black, if the other black passengers are like, yeah, I'm glad he did that.
00:59:16.260
You mean that one person who's obviously drunk?
00:59:34.200
Yeah, I think people, at least some people respect somebody who steps in.
00:59:45.480
I would imagine there are plenty of people in the black America community who are just saying, you know, that's not my cause.
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Ladies and gentlemen, that's all I got for now.
01:00:05.480
Now, if you're watching the Dilbert comic that you can only get by subscription on X or on the locals platform, scottadams.locals.com.
01:00:15.820
You would see that the fires are approaching Dilbert's house.
01:00:21.580
So Dilbert and Dogbert are looking out the window.
01:00:25.920
And they have to decide what they're going to do.
01:00:30.880
The spoiler is Dilbert is going to stay and try to protect his house as the fire approaches.
01:01:02.220
I'm going to go talk to the locals people privately.