Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2724 CWSA 01⧸18⧸25

00:00:00.000 It's called a simultaneous sip.

00:00:01.300 It happens now.

00:00:02.300 Go.

00:00:07.300 Thank you, Paul.

00:00:10.700 How's my sound?

00:00:11.600 I think I fixed it.

00:00:12.600 There was something I should have clicked,

00:00:15.900 but today I remembered.

00:00:18.800 All right, let me make sure I can see all your comments.

00:00:22.500 And then we're going to have a good time.

00:00:28.100 There we go.

00:00:29.100 Perfectly.

00:00:30.100 Looks like the stock market's up.

00:00:32.100 Things are looking good for Tesla stock.

00:00:35.100 All right.

00:00:36.100 Did you know that up to three cups of coffee a day

00:00:40.100 may reduce heart disease risk, according to NoRidge?

00:00:42.100 But that's not the exciting part.

00:00:44.100 Apparently, the study says that coffee can reduce all cause,

00:00:50.100 any cause of death.

00:00:53.100 So if you drink coffee, there's a 12% chance of dying from anything.

00:00:58.100 From anything.

00:00:59.100 Now, this was good news, because I like to keep a coffee maker next to the gun safe.

00:01:05.100 So you should do that, too.

00:01:07.100 Keep some coffee near the gun safe.

00:01:09.100 You get an extra 12% safety if you get a home invasion.

00:01:13.100 You know, the gun is good for protecting your house.

00:01:17.100 But, you know, 12% better chance of survival if you do the coffee.

00:01:21.100 You know, I think that's science.

00:01:23.100 French press is acceptable.

00:01:25.100 I'll be doing like a sign language thing, except for NPCs.

00:01:30.100 So whenever I say something that needs to be translated into NPC, I'll do that.

00:01:37.100 So when I said you should have a coffee maker next to your gun safe, the NPCs would say,

00:01:42.100 French press.

00:01:43.100 French press is better.

00:01:45.100 All right.

00:01:46.100 All right.

00:01:47.100 So that's translation for NPCs.

00:01:50.100 After the show today, remember to look for a spaces event with Owen Gregorian,

00:01:56.100 who will be on X doing a spaces.

00:01:59.100 That's the audio only thing.

00:02:01.100 So if you go to Owen's spaces...

00:02:05.100 Yeah.

00:02:06.100 If you go to Owen's X account, you'll find it.

00:02:09.100 Owen Gregorian.

00:02:11.100 Just search for it if you can't find it.

00:02:14.100 Naval had a...

00:02:16.100 Naval Ravikant had a funny exchange on X.

00:02:20.100 This is one of my favorite exchanges.

00:02:23.100 So Naval starts with a post.

00:02:25.100 He says, if you're a high agency person, there's never been a better time to be alive.

00:02:30.100 And I'm thinking, huh?

00:02:33.100 Yeah, that's probably true.

00:02:35.100 If you're a high agency person, because when there's so much change, you know, AI and robots

00:02:40.100 and all that, in theory, there should be enormous opportunities like we've never seen before.

00:02:46.100 So yeah, if you're a high agency, in other words, you're highly competent and, you know,

00:02:51.100 you're willing to do things on your own without being prompted.

00:02:54.100 You're a high agency person.

00:02:56.100 There's never been a better time to be alive.

00:02:58.100 And some random guy goes into the comments and says he wants to help Naval think better.

00:03:07.100 Now, if you've been following my stream, you know that Naval is one of the smartest people

00:03:12.100 on the planet.

00:03:13.100 So random comment guy comes into the comments after Naval says, if you're a high agency person,

00:03:19.100 there's never been a better time to be alive.

00:03:22.100 Random guy says, I think it depends more on where you live than when you live.

00:03:28.100 Naval comments to that comment.

00:03:32.100 If you're a high agency, the first decision you make is where you live.

00:03:36.100 And mic drop. 0.54

00:03:41.100 Yes.

00:03:42.100 If you're a high agency person, you wouldn't even ask that question.

00:03:46.100 You would move to where you need to be to do whatever it is you need to do.

00:03:51.100 How do I know that's true?

00:03:53.100 Well, Naval moved to the Bay Area because that's where the action is.

00:03:58.100 I moved to the Bay Area because growing up in upstate New York wasn't going to give me much.

00:04:03.100 And I'm a high agency person.

00:04:06.100 So the first thing you do is get out of wherever you are.

00:04:11.100 I get to somebody better someplace better.

00:04:14.100 Good advice.

00:04:15.100 Meanwhile, according to Clarence Oxford of Biofuel Daily, you all read that, right?

00:04:22.100 There's a new breakthrough, scientific breakthrough that converts CO2 using electricity into protein rich food.

00:04:32.100 So this is something I've been thinking about for years.

00:04:38.100 I've been thinking, what would happen if somebody figured out how to take the CO2 out of the air and turn it into a commercial product?

00:04:47.100 Now, that's already happening, but the commercial products are kind of, you know, weird little industrial places where you use some derivative of CO2.

00:04:56.100 But it's not like something that you and I would be using.

00:05:00.100 But what if somebody really does commercialize this and there's a way to make a protein like a healthy protein you could eat just out of the sky?

00:05:12.100 You just suck it out of the air.

00:05:14.100 Well, I'd like to take a moment to do the sign language for the NPCs.

00:05:20.100 Don't you know that the CO2 is really plant food?

00:05:26.100 And if you take the plant food out, the entire world will die because the plant food is not there to eat the plants, which would be growing from the CO2.

00:05:39.100 So, yeah, all we have to do is make a way to eat the air and somebody will suck all of the air out of the sky until there's no CO2 left and all our plants will die.

00:05:51.100 And we'll starve to death.

00:05:52.100 But otherwise, it's all good news.

00:05:54.100 Meanwhile, China plans to put a solar farm in space to orbit the Earth.

00:06:01.100 And it would be like a kilometer wide solar panel up in space.

00:06:06.100 And then it would beam down the energy so it can be used on Earth.

00:06:11.100 And it should be as much power as, you know, but basically as much energy as all the oil ever extracted.

00:06:21.100 So this one project for China should make more energy than all the oil that's ever been extracted.

00:06:30.100 I'd like to start by saying, I don't believe that.

00:06:33.100 That doesn't even sound a little bit true.

00:06:35.100 I mean, it might be cool and it might work, but really, it's going to be more than all the, you know.

00:06:44.100 Then they're expected to be completed by 2035, you know, coinciding with their plans to have a lunar research base going to the moon.

00:06:55.100 So the space race is on.

00:06:56.100 And, you know, if the United States planned to make a gigantic solar thing in space, wouldn't you worry that that's a little too easy to shoot down and a little too easy to get hit by some debris?

00:07:13.100 It just doesn't feel like it's safe.

00:07:16.100 And I also wonder, how do you beam energy from space to Earth?

00:07:22.100 Do you beam it on a microwave?

00:07:24.100 What is the mechanism by which you beam it?

00:07:29.100 And also, I wonder, what happens if the beam gets misplaced?

00:07:35.100 So presumably, that beam would have to be very targeted towards some kind of thing that could turn that beam into energy, earthly energy.

00:07:44.100 But wouldn't it also be a death ray?

00:07:49.100 If you were creating so much energy from this space-based thing and you had to beam it with some kind of, I don't know, energy beam down to Earth,

00:08:00.100 wouldn't that energy beam be configurable to be a space laser and destroy anything they want?

00:08:08.100 Or am I wrong about that?

00:08:11.100 So I wouldn't be surprised if something happens to their solar farm, if you know what I mean.

00:08:16.100 Hey, it's a bummer what happened to your solar farm that's really a space-based weapon.

00:08:21.100 Maybe.

00:08:22.100 As you know, the presidential inauguration has been moved indoors.

00:08:26.100 But the only people who will be allowed in now, to the indoor part, would be the politicians.

00:08:32.100 Boring.

00:08:33.100 The rest of them will have to go to the nearby stadium where Trump will show up after.

00:08:42.100 But I guess they'll watch it at Capital One Arena.

00:08:45.100 Is Capital One Arena covered or uncovered?

00:08:50.100 Is that a covered or uncovered space?

00:08:52.100 They're not just taking all the non-politicians and making them stand in the cold in another place, are they?

00:08:59.100 Can somebody tell me if it's covered?

00:09:01.100 Because that really changes the story if it's not.

00:09:08.100 All right.

00:09:09.100 Well, look in the comments.

00:09:10.100 You'll find out.

00:09:12.100 They're saying that Michelle Obama is not going to go.

00:09:17.100 I heard different things about Barack Obama.

00:09:22.100 Is Barack Obama going to the inauguration or no?

00:09:25.100 If he goes, he'll be going without Michelle Obama. 0.85

00:09:31.100 But I know they were going to have a number of balls. 0.99

00:09:37.100 No, shut up. 1.00

00:09:38.100 No, I'm talking about where you dance and listen to music. 0.99

00:09:41.100 Yeah.

00:09:42.100 There'll be a number of balls. 0.86

00:09:45.100 But Michelle won't be there. 0.97

00:09:46.100 No, they're not related.

00:09:47.100 Stop it. 1.00

00:09:48.100 Shut up. 1.00

00:09:49.100 That's not even funny. 0.99

00:09:50.100 Those two comments are not related. 0.94

00:09:52.100 They'll be balls. 0.83

00:09:55.100 But Michelle won't go there. 0.98

00:09:56.100 Those are just two separate stories. 0.99

00:09:57.100 If you're putting them together, you're a terrible person. 1.00

00:09:59.100 You're a terrible person. 0.99

00:10:00.100 Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson reminds us it's been six months since the Butler assassination attempt on Trump. 0.98

00:10:09.100 And what we know about it so far is nothing.

00:10:13.100 Nothing.

00:10:14.100 We don't know anything.

00:10:16.100 Six months later.

00:10:17.100 Is there any doubt that this guy was associated either with some other country that we don't, that our people don't want to mention yet for whatever reason?

00:10:31.100 Or there was just obviously an insider job, meaning somebody in our government and or intelligence agency and or Democrat was behind it.

00:10:40.100 Do you really think we don't know anything about this?

00:10:43.100 I mean, the public doesn't.

00:10:45.100 But do you believe that the authorities don't know anything about it?

00:10:49.100 I don't know.

00:10:50.100 I guess we couldn't we couldn't crack into his phone apps.

00:10:54.100 So I guess there's nothing we could do.

00:10:56.100 Didn't find any emails.

00:10:58.100 I guess we're done here.

00:10:59.100 Really?

00:11:01.100 I'll tell you what I would do if I were Trump.

00:11:03.100 I would ask to talk to him.

00:11:05.100 You know, I'd make sure it's safe.

00:11:06.100 You know, he's behind a bar or something.

00:11:08.100 We're all chained up or whatever it takes.

00:11:10.100 But if I were Trump, I'd want to talk to him.

00:11:12.100 I'd want to talk to him.

00:11:13.100 Because I'd want to ask, you know, why did you do this?

00:11:17.100 It's really hard to have terrible thoughts about somebody who you tried to kill, who checks 1.00

00:11:25.100 in on you and says, I just really want to understand why.

00:11:28.100 Did you believe?

00:11:29.100 Did you believe the news?

00:11:31.100 Did you think I was going to steal your democracy?

00:11:33.100 Oh, you think he's dead?

00:11:34.100 Yeah.

00:11:35.100 So, all right.

00:11:36.100 Let's make a prediction. 1.00

00:11:37.100 He will commit suicide in jail. 0.94

00:11:38.100 What do you think?

00:11:39.100 So, I don't think he's gone yet.

00:11:40.100 But do you think there'll be a sudden, unexplained suicide in jail that one day the cameras don't

00:11:56.100 work and everybody fell asleep?

00:11:58.100 Well, I don't know.

00:11:59.100 It feels like that play is coming.

00:12:01.100 Maybe you should see.

00:12:03.100 But Trump's charisma is like a, it's like a, it's a superpower.

00:12:09.100 If the actual president of the United States that you shot came to visit you in jail and

00:12:15.100 ask you some questions because he genuinely just wanted to know, like just curious.

00:12:19.100 Now, the kid isn't going to give up any secrets, right?

00:12:22.100 If somebody helped him, that's not going to happen.

00:12:24.100 But wouldn't you like to know if this was just all him?

00:12:28.100 Because I think that would come through.

00:12:30.100 Like you would see the hatred or something.

00:12:32.100 You'd say, oh, I get it.

00:12:34.100 This was all you.

00:12:35.100 You know, even if there was somebody else helping, it would look like at least he was

00:12:39.100 just doing it for his own reasons, maybe with help.

00:12:41.100 I'd want to know that.

00:12:43.100 New York Times did a story about the hiding of Biden's mental decline.

00:12:49.100 I remember the Wall Street Journal did a story.

00:12:51.100 They talked to 50 sources and found all these stories about Joe Biden was mentally incompetent

00:12:58.100 and certainly wasn't making any decisions and nobody was really in charge.

00:13:03.100 New York Times should have been doing the same story, but they found that Biden was actually

00:13:10.100 fine.

00:13:11.100 Yeah, yeah, he mixes up a word now and then, but who doesn't?

00:13:14.100 And yeah, well, he's older, so they had to cut back his schedule a little bit, but basically

00:13:19.100 he made sound decisions according to the New York Times.

00:13:26.100 Don't you think, I was listening to Mark Halperin talking about this on his podcast, and don't

00:13:34.100 you think that it makes the New York Times look worse?

00:13:39.100 Because we're not in any uncertainty about what Biden's brain was since the beginning.

00:13:47.100 It's not like we're wondering.

00:13:49.100 So if we know what the truth is, that he was clearly degraded from day one.

00:13:54.100 I mean, I called it out.

00:13:55.100 I can see it.

00:13:56.100 If I can see it and I wasn't even behind the curtain, everybody could see it.

00:14:01.100 So the New York Times has found the only way that they can reduce their credibility, and

00:14:09.100 it's frankly an embarrassment.

00:14:12.100 And as Halperin points out, they printed the claims of Biden aides and Biden friends as

00:14:17.100 if they were true.

00:14:20.100 If you only ask the people who like him, what do you think they're going to say?

00:14:24.100 Oh yeah, he was fine.

00:14:26.100 We didn't notice the thing.

00:14:28.100 And that passes as reporting.

00:14:31.100 That's what that is.

00:14:33.100 Okay.

00:14:34.100 Speaking of the news, Postmillennial Katie Davis Court is reporting that CBS is thinking

00:14:41.100 about settling Trump's lawsuit over the fact that CBS on 60 Minutes, their TV show, they

00:14:49.100 edited Kamala's response by putting in a completely different response to the question because her 0.99

00:14:55.100 real response was a bit, let's say, inelegant and incompetent.

00:15:02.100 And given that we have the video of what her real response was, so there's not really any

00:15:08.100 question on the facts.

00:15:09.100 Yep, here's the original.

00:15:10.100 Yep, here's what they edited to make it look better.

00:15:13.100 Now, the claim is that that was election interference.

00:15:18.100 And I understand why CBS might want to settle because they don't want to give up all their

00:15:24.100 communications.

00:15:25.100 If they don't settle, then Trump can get their emails and see what they're really saying behind

00:15:31.100 the scenes.

00:15:32.100 So they might be saying, you know, for a few million dollars, wouldn't it be better if

00:15:37.100 nobody read our internal communications?

00:15:39.100 So you might win this.

00:15:41.100 But the question I ask is, how is this different from every other fake news?

00:15:47.100 If I turn on CNN or MSNBC, it's nothing but fake news.

00:15:52.100 It's just one fake thing after another.

00:15:55.100 Narrative, narrative, narrative, anti-context, leave out the good things, don't talk about

00:15:59.100 the bad things.

00:16:00.100 How is that not election interference?

00:16:03.100 CBS had one show in which I personally wouldn't have even noticed the edit.

00:16:09.100 Do you think anybody, do you think anybody voted for or didn't vote for because of that

00:16:14.100 one answer?

00:16:15.100 If you put me on the jury, I'm not even sure I would find them guilty because I'd say,

00:16:20.100 seriously, that's, you know, it's bad.

00:16:23.100 Like it's bad that they added it.

00:16:25.100 But election interference, even if they intended it, it couldn't possibly have happened.

00:16:31.100 One answer.

00:16:32.100 All they did is make one answer look like it was coherent, a little more coherent than the

00:16:37.100 actual one.

00:16:38.100 That's not that bad.

00:16:39.100 It seems like there's so many other things that were election interference from, yeah,

00:16:45.100 from the laptop signatories right down the list.

00:16:51.100 So I don't really understand the standard for what makes fake news interference.

00:16:57.100 I don't think there is a standard.

00:17:00.100 So honestly, if you put me on the jury, I'd say innocent.

00:17:03.100 Probably.

00:17:04.100 I mean, I haven't heard of the facts.

00:17:05.100 So the jury is probably only looking to see if there's factual support.

00:17:12.100 But still, factual or not, it couldn't have made much difference.

00:17:18.100 Well, just to prove her incompetence, you probably heard that Kamala Harris posted that the Equal 1.00

00:17:26.100 Rights Amendment is the 28th Amendment and is the law of the land.

00:17:30.100 Now, that's because Joe Biden signed some kind of executive order to make the 28th Amendment

00:17:35.100 the law of the land.

00:17:37.100 Except there's a reader note on X that goes like this.

00:17:41.100 There is no 28th Amendment.

00:17:46.100 The president does not have the authority to declare amendments to the U.S. Constitution,

00:17:51.100 and the National Archivist is not ratifying it.

00:17:55.100 Now, how do you explain that the staffs for both Biden and Kamala Harris,

00:18:03.100 there was not anybody on the staff willing to say,

00:18:06.100 you can't change the Constitution with an executive order, that literally everybody knew?

00:18:13.100 How did they not say, oh, don't post that or don't say that or don't sign that executive order?

00:18:22.100 The only explanation I have is that they hate Joe Biden and they hate Kamala Harris. 0.83

00:18:28.100 Because I've got a feeling that, you know, relations have soured between the, you know, the campaign and the staff and the, you know, the politicians.

00:18:38.100 So it seems to me that their staff just totally threw them under the bus and may have actually been laughing about it.

00:18:45.100 It's like, yeah, I just let them say that you can change the Constitution with an executive order.

00:18:52.100 Now, maybe it's because all those people are looking for jobs and that there was nobody around to ask because they're all looking for jobs.

00:18:59.100 But it kind of looks intentional.

00:19:02.100 Like it's so, so over the top for what an ordinary mistake would be.

00:19:08.100 It's not ordinary.

00:19:09.100 And this is miles away from anything ordinary to say that the president can change the Constitution with an executive order.

00:19:16.100 Everybody knows that's not true, except those two. 1.00

00:19:22.100 Are they really that dumb? 1.00

00:19:24.100 Did we see for the first time a genuine peek behind the curtain? 1.00

00:19:29.100 Because you think, you know, if you're using some common sense, you kind of think, well, you know, they're all they're all up to speed behind the curtain.

00:19:37.100 But, you know, Biden is a little slow and Kamala doesn't communicate that well. 0.99

00:19:42.100 But what if. 1.00

00:19:44.100 This 20th Amendment thing is telling you what it was really like, like just absolutely flat out stupid. 0.99

00:19:52.100 Because it could be that could be the reality. 1.00

00:19:55.100 They were both just flat out stupid. 1.00

00:19:57.100 One of them has a mental cognitive problem, which is a little different. 1.00

00:20:02.100 Some say Kamala Harris is going to get a big book deal. 1.00

00:20:07.100 Who would buy her book?

00:20:09.100 What exactly would the biggest loser in the world have to tell me? 0.96

00:20:14.100 Don't be, don't be like me. 0.99

00:20:16.100 I don't know.

00:20:17.100 We heard yesterday that Schumer was one of the active ones trying to get Biden to drop out.

00:20:23.100 I guess he went all the way to Biden's house and told them that his legacy would be better if he dropped out and blah, blah, blah.

00:20:32.100 But allegedly and reportedly, Schumer actually told Biden that his own pollsters, the internal polls that you and I don't get to see, gave him only a 5% chance of beating Trump.

00:20:44.100 So that was about the time they were talking about getting rid of him.

00:20:47.100 And I'm told by the news that Biden was unaware that his own internal polling only gave him 5%.

00:20:58.100 Now, if I told you that out of the context, you'd say, well, that's not true.

00:21:04.100 Of course, he knows what the polling says.

00:21:07.100 He's paying for it.

00:21:08.100 They pay for it because they really want to care.

00:21:10.100 They care what it says.

00:21:11.100 But now that you've heard that they think they, they think they changed the Constitution with a executive order, I feel like anything's possible.

00:21:23.100 Anything's possible.

00:21:24.100 It could be that Biden was never showed.

00:21:27.100 He's never, he was never shown the polling.

00:21:30.100 And then the next question is, what else are they not telling him?

00:21:36.100 Or didn't they tell him?

00:21:38.100 If they didn't tell him his own polling, what was going on?

00:21:43.100 And the only reason I can think that they wouldn't tell him that is probably because they hated him or they didn't tell him anything.

00:21:56.100 So it was no different than everything else.

00:21:58.100 I don't know.

00:21:59.100 According to Jeffrey Epstein's old cellmate, the feds offered Epstein a deal for coming up with some dirt on Trump.

00:22:11.100 And Epstein didn't have any.

00:22:15.100 Now that's, that's coming from somebody who's a four-time murderer.

00:22:19.100 So I'm not sure you can trust him, but I think he was an ex cop.

00:22:24.100 And I, and they, and apparently this is, again, this is hearsay.

00:22:29.100 So I don't know how much credibility to put it, but according to the cellmate, Epstein told them, he says, but the government told me, I don't have to prove what I say about Trump.

00:22:40.100 As long as Trump's people can't disprove it.

00:22:43.100 And that Epstein considered, quote, making stuff up to save his skin.

00:22:54.100 What?

00:22:55.100 Now, again, remember, this is not a source that you should put too much credibility in.

00:23:01.100 Prison guy, four, murdered four people, who knows?

00:23:06.100 But I'd certainly like to know if that was true, wouldn't you?

00:23:12.100 Meanwhile, James Comer says he's referring Hunter Biden and James Biden for criminal, criminal prosecution.

00:23:21.100 Based on, I assume, I assume either lying to Congress or something about the crime family.

00:23:28.100 But I'm a little confused.

00:23:29.100 Isn't the hunter pardoned of everything?

00:23:32.100 Or, or are they outside the window or outside the domain that he's pardoned for?

00:23:38.100 So I don't know how the hunter part works.

00:23:40.100 But I assume that the brother, James, James Biden will get, he'll get a pardon maybe today.

00:23:49.100 He, Biden can still do a pardon today, right?

00:23:52.100 I think it's coming.

00:23:54.100 Well, here's a story that blew my mind.

00:23:57.100 Robbie Starbuck, as you know, he's been really successful in getting companies to roll back their DEI programs.

00:24:04.100 But he looked into the U.S. State Department and they've got a whole DEI group.

00:24:11.100 And so you say to yourself, well, you know, a lot of places have DEI groups and they're just making sure that diversity is, is handled appropriately.

00:24:21.100 So on paper, it sounds pretty good, doesn't it?

00:24:24.100 If you want diversity, hire some people to make sure it got done, start measuring it.

00:24:30.100 All good.

00:24:31.100 I wonder what went wrong.

00:24:33.100 Let's see.

00:24:34.100 Here are some of the things, according to Robbie Starbuck, that they actually spent money for.

00:24:39.100 I'm going to read them quickly, mostly so you can see how many of them there are.

00:24:43.100 All right.

00:24:44.100 This was your tax dollars went to commemorating Black Consciousness Month through LGBTQ plus culture. 0.78

00:24:54.100 I don't know what that means.

00:24:56.100 They created best practices to promote preferred pronoun usage.

00:25:01.100 Fine.

00:25:03.100 I hope I didn't spend too much money for that one.

00:25:07.100 They created, they launched an all ages DEI library in Cambodia.

00:25:13.100 Cambodia.

00:25:16.100 They made DEI part of all civil service and performance evaluations so that advancing the DEI stuff became the responsibility of all civil and foreign service employees.

00:25:27.100 And they had lots of training on something they call allyship, allyship, which I think means white people, white men helping everybody else discriminate against white men.

00:25:40.100 But what else would it mean?

00:25:43.100 All right.

00:25:44.100 Are the black people not on the same team? 0.93

00:25:46.100 Are the women not in the same team with each other? 0.99

00:25:48.100 So why do you need allyship?

00:25:50.100 As far as I can tell, all it means is, you know, well, I won't over interpret it.

00:25:55.100 All right.

00:25:56.100 We also paid for the career development of women in Gambia, because that's what you thought you got when you funded DEI in the State Department, was career development for women in Gambia.

00:26:10.100 Also, there was inclusive language training in Panama, because people were not using inclusive language about the LGBTQ stuff, the Panamanians.

00:26:23.100 Panamanians were just using all the wrong words.

00:26:25.100 So I'm glad we stepped in and got them to use the right words.

00:26:29.100 My tax dollar is perfectly used.

00:26:32.100 Let's see.

00:26:33.100 They had DEI workshops in Belgrade.

00:26:35.100 Which one does?

00:26:37.100 They had a DEI Hall of Fame in New Delhi.

00:26:41.100 That's weird, because that's exactly where I would have put it.

00:26:44.100 The DEI Hall of Fame.

00:26:46.100 I'd say, where would you put that?

00:26:47.100 Old Delhi?

00:26:48.100 No, no.

00:26:49.100 New Delhi.

00:26:50.100 They changed the name of the Foreign Services, which used to be called Oral Assessment, to Officer Assessment, because the term Oral Assessment may have excluded nonverbal people.

00:27:03.100 Oh, I thought it was only excluding heterosexuals, but my head was in a totally different place.

00:27:10.100 They created a DEI award.

00:27:13.100 Man, I hope I get it.

00:27:15.100 Stayed in the state amidst the focusing recruitment efforts to paid internships on, quote, minority serving institutions and women's colleges, which is probably illegal.

00:27:28.100 Created a new racial equity framework for how the State Department works overseas.

00:27:32.100 Okay.

00:27:33.100 Yep.

00:27:34.100 I'm sure we needed that.

00:27:35.100 Created and distributed trainings on how to interact with non-binary identifying people and on colorism.

00:27:44.100 So, good use of my money to teach people how to handle the colorism.

00:27:50.100 Gave US citizens the option to put X, the letter X, on their passport, instead of male or female.

00:27:57.100 Good.

00:27:58.100 Good.

00:27:59.100 Whew.

00:28:00.100 They launched DEI mentorship programs, which would be a way to say, let's give something to everybody except white men. 0.73

00:28:07.100 Creating new guidance for transgender people so that they can use whatever bathrooms they want.

00:28:14.100 I'm actually sensitive to the bathroom one.

00:28:17.100 I do want a world where everybody can comfortably use a public bathroom.

00:28:21.100 I don't think we have that world.

00:28:22.100 And, you know, I don't think the quick fix is just let anybody use any bathroom.

00:28:28.100 But I'm sensitive to that one.

00:28:31.100 So, I'm an ally.

00:28:33.100 I'm part of the allyship.

00:28:34.100 Everybody should have a bathroom that they're comfortable to use.

00:28:37.100 If we had infinite money, that would be great.

00:28:40.100 So, this story just blows my mind.

00:28:43.100 So, you heard, you saw the publicity where Elon Musk said he was going to help bring Wi-Fi to the fire area in LA.

00:28:51.100 And so, he got a bunch of cyber trucks, loaded them up with food and security guard and some Wi-Fi devices for Starlink.

00:29:01.100 And then he was going to place them around the area so everybody could go somewhere where they'd get Wi-Fi.

00:29:08.100 And then somebody on Karen Bass's, Mayor Karen Bass's office heard about it.

00:29:13.100 And Karen Bass said she refused the help because, quote, she was not interested in solving this problem if it involved Elon Musk.

00:29:26.100 That allegedly really happened.

00:29:29.100 Now, this is a sort of story that, you know, maybe you'd want at least another source.

00:29:35.100 So, I'm not 100% sure it went down just like this.

00:29:39.100 It's a little too on the nose.

00:29:40.100 A little too on the nose.

00:29:42.100 But if it's even close to being true, that would certainly be shocking.

00:29:49.100 The Wall Street Journal reports that the reason that Los Angeles had not prepared properly for the fires was that it was a mishmash of government agencies failed to keep public lands in and around LA safe from wildfires.

00:30:08.100 A mishmash of government agencies.

00:30:09.100 A mishmash of government agencies.

00:30:11.100 You know, I remember when I was a kid and I thought that the government of the United States was some kind of a democratic republic kind of a situation.

00:30:25.100 And then I reached my current age only to find out that our government is a, quote, mishmash of government agencies.

00:30:31.100 Which does sound right, doesn't it?

00:30:36.100 If you're going to try to rebuild your house in LA, who are you going to deal with?

00:30:40.100 A mishmash of government agencies.

00:30:44.100 And you won't know how to satisfy any of it.

00:30:51.100 Anyway.

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00:31:06.100 You're richer than you think.

00:31:09.100 I just got a homework assignment from an overseas publisher who has one of my older books.

00:31:15.100 And they said they have some royalties.

00:31:17.100 But for whatever reason, I haven't filled out the paperwork to receive it.

00:31:22.100 And they sent me the paperwork and it has to be done by hand.

00:31:26.100 So it's not something you type on on the computer.

00:31:29.100 You have to print it out.

00:31:31.100 Multiple pages just filled with things I have to find, which I can't do because my hand doesn't work.

00:31:36.100 You know, burned it down drawing.

00:31:38.100 And so it is so, so completely bureaucratic that I asked them how much the royalties are.

00:31:48.100 Because there is a number below which I'm going to say, why don't you just keep it?

00:31:53.100 Like if this is your process, I don't even want your money.

00:31:56.100 Because I'm not going to spend a thousand dollars of my time to make a hundred dollars in royalties.

00:32:00.100 And that's what they're asking me to do.

00:32:02.100 So, yes, the bureaucracy, the mishmash, it's everywhere.

00:32:06.100 The Oakland mayor, the ex-Oakland mayor, Sheng Tao, has been criminally indicted.

00:32:14.100 He's being accused of bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, and corruption, according to the FBI.

00:32:19.100 So the LA mayor is bad.

00:32:22.100 The Oakland mayor is bad.

00:32:24.100 Hmm.

00:32:25.100 I guess that's a giant coincidence, isn't it?

00:32:28.100 Here's what I think.

00:32:30.100 I think the people that go into these jobs do it to make money.

00:32:36.100 I think sometimes maybe people are interested in, I don't know, helping the community or it's a, it's a launching board to a higher office or something.

00:32:44.100 But I feel like the majority of them just know that if they can get elected and they get in the right place, they can skim money off of all the, all the public funds that need to be going to different vendors.

00:32:58.100 So they just send it to their favorite vendor who then sends them a little gift that you can't tell is related.

00:33:05.100 So I think that it's systemic, meaning that if we keep thinking, oh, we got a bad egg here.

00:33:13.100 Oh, there's another bad egg.

00:33:15.100 Why is it every time we look for the egg, there's a bad one?

00:33:18.100 Huh?

00:33:19.100 Every single time we look into any city, we find all this corruption.

00:33:23.100 It's because they're all corrupt.

00:33:25.100 My guess is that 100% of city governments are corrupt. 0.98

00:33:30.100 Like seriously corrupt. 0.54

00:33:32.100 100%.

00:33:33.100 That's a system problem.

00:33:35.100 That's not a people problem.

00:33:37.100 That the, if you treat it as a goal, the goal would be no corruption.

00:33:42.100 But there's no system to get there.

00:33:45.100 Except, you know, you catch a few, but it's just a few.

00:33:49.100 Do you think the next governor of Oakland is going to be clean?

00:33:52.100 And the one after that?

00:33:54.100 Why?

00:33:55.100 If the, if the larger purpose of even running for office in the first place is to get in on the graft gravy train, you almost need, you almost need to have local management that doesn't live there.

00:34:11.100 So they don't have all the criminal connections they need to skim.

00:34:16.100 It's almost like you need the Swiss to come in and run your cities and say, all right, Swiss are going to run the city, but don't contact them. 0.99

00:34:24.100 You can't talk to them.

00:34:26.100 You know, I'm just being hyperbolic.

00:34:28.100 But yeah, we need a new way to run our local cities because I think the system just guarantees that they become corrupt over time, which would be now.

00:34:40.100 All right.

00:34:41.100 Here's some persuasion advice.

00:34:43.100 I've been watching the, the hearings for the confirmations of Trump's people.

00:34:49.100 And I noticed they're all getting this question.

00:34:52.100 Did Joe Biden win the 2020 election?

00:34:54.100 Now I've seen capable answers, but not a home run yet.

00:35:00.100 And this is a, it's a gotcha question, right?

00:35:04.100 So the point is to create a, create a soundbite that they can use against you and use against Trump.

00:35:10.100 So instead of answering, you know, yes or no, and then they cut you off, did Joe Biden win the 2020 election?

00:35:16.100 Here's the correct answer.

00:35:18.100 And it took me a while to write it.

00:35:20.100 Took me a while to write it.

00:35:22.100 So it does matter which words you use and how brief it is.

00:35:27.100 So brevity, brevity is really important here.

00:35:30.100 So that's a persuasion trick.

00:35:32.100 If I made it like a paragraph long, what you should say instead, you wouldn't remember it and you wouldn't use it.

00:35:38.100 So I'm trying to boil it down so everybody who reads this once will go, oh yeah, that is the right answer.

00:35:44.100 Here's the correct answer to did Joe Biden win the 2020 election?

00:35:48.100 Joe Biden won the election based on our current system.

00:35:52.100 But our election systems are not transparent enough to detect all forms of cheating.

00:35:57.100 That's why half the country is skeptical of the results if it doesn't go their way.

00:36:02.100 So that last part, half the country is skeptical if it doesn't go their way.

00:36:07.100 Kind of says both sides question every election, which is our current situation.

00:36:12.100 So and if you say Joe Biden won, according to our current system, that that that gives you an escape from all the individual claims.

00:36:24.100 And it also gives you some some freedom from being connected to Trump says he won.

00:36:31.100 The instead of saying Trump was right or Trump was wrong, you say in our country, the losing side always thinks is rigged.

00:36:41.100 Joy Reid was saying that Trump's victory this time was rigged by not things in terms of the vote, but rigged in terms of some kind of public stuff.

00:36:54.100 And once you once you sell the idea.

00:36:57.100 So here's the problem, as somebody pointed out earlier.

00:37:00.100 There the question is trying to make you think past the sale.

00:37:05.100 The sale is that the election was fair.

00:37:09.100 That's an assumption by the person asking the question.

00:37:14.100 So don't answer the question.

00:37:16.100 Go right after the assumption.

00:37:18.100 But you start by saying Joe Biden won the election.

00:37:23.100 But you limit it to the election the way it's designed.

00:37:26.100 And then you say we don't have an election where you could tell for sure who won.

00:37:31.100 That's why no matter who wins, half of the country thinks it's not credible.

00:37:37.100 So if Trump also thought it wasn't credible, he would be in the same category with half of the country.

00:37:44.100 And if somebody some Democrat thinks that an election is not credible, they would be in good company with lots of people who believe the same thing.

00:37:54.100 So that's my upgrade.

00:37:56.100 I know some people don't like me talking about Bill Maher and his transition to a Trump supporter where he's not there yet.

00:38:03.100 But it's fun watching to see how close he gets.

00:38:06.100 But I watched the show yesterday and there's definitely a change.

00:38:11.100 Definitely a change.

00:38:13.100 And here's the change.

00:38:14.100 I want you to look for it.

00:38:15.100 Now, I hope that Bill Maher doesn't hear me say this because then he'll change what he's doing.

00:38:20.100 But look for this pattern.

00:38:22.100 If the topic is a policy or competence, Bill Maher says, you know, Trump was right about that.

00:38:31.100 He said Trump was right about clearing the forests, for example.

00:38:34.100 He gives examples.

00:38:35.100 Yeah.

00:38:36.100 Yeah.

00:38:37.100 When Trump says the border was more secure under him, I think Bill Maher would say, yeah.

00:38:42.100 Yeah.

00:38:43.100 It's crazy letting everybody in.

00:38:45.100 So when you talk about something real, Bill Maher usually says, yeah, Trump's right about that.

00:38:52.100 But when he's criticizing Trump, which he does in equal amount, the criticisms are not based on anything real.

00:38:59.100 The criticisms are things like, I'm worried about him stealing my democracy.

00:39:04.100 Okay.

00:39:05.100 That's not real.

00:39:07.100 His character.

00:39:08.100 All right.

00:39:09.100 All right.

00:39:10.100 And that matters how?

00:39:13.100 So watch how his criticisms stay the same, like his hatred of Trump and all that.

00:39:19.100 But when he talks about anything that matters, a policy or basic competence to be present, he's kind of leaning toward giving him an A.

00:39:30.100 Now, obviously, there would still be things that a Democrat would like that a Republican wouldn't like and vice versa.

00:39:37.100 But the things he talks about, the top priorities, yeah.

00:39:43.100 Yeah.

00:39:44.100 And then you add that to Jamie Dimon saying that negotiating with tariffs is actually a perfectly acceptable and smart thing to do.

00:39:52.100 It's getting really hard to be a Democrat.

00:39:55.100 It's just getting so embarrassingly hard that you have to say stuff like, you steal my democracy. 0.98

00:40:00.100 It just sounds silly.

00:40:03.100 Anyway, so Vivek Ramaswamy is, all the smart people say, he's going to announce a run for Ohio governor, but not until he gets some accomplishments at Doge.

00:40:18.100 I'm going to say I'm not thrilled with this.

00:40:22.100 I do think Vivek would be a good governor, and I think he'd be a good senator if he ever got a chance of that.

00:40:28.100 But I feel like, and it's also a perfect stepping stone to the presidency.

00:40:34.100 Yeah.

00:40:35.100 Because the thing that Vivek didn't have is a government experience where he was managing something.

00:40:41.100 So a governor is better than a senator, because governors manage.

00:40:45.100 Senators just say yes, no, and talk to the press.

00:40:50.100 So it makes sense for his career.

00:40:53.100 It definitely makes sense for the age of his children.

00:40:56.100 So since he lives in Ohio, it probably gives him a lot more reason to be in Ohio and a lot less reason to be in D.C.

00:41:05.100 So that's probably good for his family, good for his career.

00:41:08.100 I like all that.

00:41:09.100 I mean, I like it for him that that looks like a good plan for him.

00:41:13.100 But I'll tell you, everything about my optimism is based on Doge.

00:41:19.100 It's the only thing I think we absolutely have to get right.

00:41:23.100 I mean, obviously, some national security stuff like the border.

00:41:28.100 But in terms of the biggest threat to the country, it's the debt by far.

00:41:33.100 And anything that causes Vivek to work on that less or have his attention divided or, you know, not spend four years working on it because it's going to take a while.

00:41:47.100 This is really bad for me.

00:41:51.100 I think it's good for Vivek, good for the family.

00:41:55.100 And those are perfectly legitimate reasons to do anything.

00:41:58.100 But I don't love the fact that that he might be distracted by this.

00:42:05.100 Don't love that.

00:42:07.100 But best wishes to him.

00:42:09.100 So I wish him the best.

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00:43:10.100 According to everybody, Trump is planning to do some illegal immigrant arrests and ship people back on day one.

00:43:21.100 And they're saying that Chicago will be the target.

00:43:24.100 And I thought to myself, should you tell the target they're the target weeks before you target them?

00:43:31.100 I feel like the Chicago immigrants just had a lot of warning that they should move their location.

00:43:37.100 Yeah.

00:43:38.100 Maybe take a week off.

00:43:39.100 Visit Detroit for a week.

00:43:42.100 I don't know if you should say where you're going to start.

00:43:45.100 That seems like a bad idea.

00:43:47.100 Meanwhile, speaking of the fires in LA, million dollar listing TV show star Josh Altman has been talking to a lot of people because they're calling him about real estate.

00:43:58.100 And he says up to 70% of the Palisades residents will not return because they're deeply underinsured.

00:44:07.100 So even the ones who had what you could call full insurance, it's not going to cover, you know, building a new foundation and clean up and all that.

00:44:20.100 So he's thinking that people have just decided it doesn't make sense to spend five years mucking around just in case it works out.

00:44:28.100 And that would have been my guess.

00:44:30.100 My guess is the people whose houses survive may be forced to stay because that's their best play.

00:44:37.100 So it's going to be a different place.

00:44:40.100 According to Ars Technica, the European Union is ordering the X platform to hand over its algorithm documents.

00:44:53.100 So Javier Espinoza and Andy Bounds are writing about this.

00:44:57.100 Now, the EC European Commission has also requested access to the information on how X moderates and amplifies content.

00:45:09.100 Now, on one hand, it does seem like a national priority to know how these social media things are influencing the public.

00:45:19.100 And on the other hand, it doesn't seem like social media is going to work in other countries.

00:45:28.100 So the TikTok ban, which goes into effect tomorrow unless something suddenly changes, is the platform or it's the template.

00:45:39.100 Once you know that TikTok can be banned in one country, even if its origin country still runs it, doesn't that mean it's going to happen everywhere?

00:45:49.100 How in the world is Europe going to let American platforms operate in Europe?

00:45:56.100 America just got rid of a Chinese platform.

00:46:00.100 Do the Europeans think that we wouldn't try to influence them?

00:46:04.100 Now, I don't think the X is doing that.

00:46:07.100 I don't think it's trying to influence them in any kind of algorithmic way.

00:46:11.100 But it's going to feel like it.

00:46:13.100 If the head of the X, who has the most attention and the most posts or the most retweets and everything,

00:46:21.100 if the biggest account is absolutely definitely being political and absolutely definitely showing his opinion on things and absolutely definitely moves the needle because the size of his reach,

00:46:35.100 how in the world is anybody going to allow that in their country?

00:46:39.100 Now, I want it to.

00:46:40.100 I want it to succeed and I want it to succeed in every country, but I don't see a path.

00:46:45.100 I feel like every country is going to say, hey, if the U.S. banned TikTok, how in the world are they going to complain if we ban their platform for the same reason?

00:46:55.100 That we think it might be too persuasive or give up too much of our information.

00:47:00.100 So I hate to say it, but I think the long term of social media networks is that there'll be countries specific.

00:47:07.100 And it will be the country that invented it because then the intelligence people in that country can feel that they have enough control over the platform to get what they want.

00:47:17.100 That's the future.

00:47:19.100 I just don't see any way that social media will continue to be across all borders.

00:47:24.100 I can't see that in the future.

00:47:28.100 Argentina allegedly has reached its first budget surplus in 14 years, thanks to their new leader, who is an economist and what would you call him?

00:47:42.100 He's a populist.

00:47:43.100 Is he a populist?

00:47:45.100 This is President Millet.

00:47:47.100 But I'm going to still come down on the side of skepticism.

00:47:52.100 Everything Millet has done so far makes sense in terms of direction.

00:47:58.100 So, yes, I think he's very capable.

00:48:01.100 And I think he's right on.

00:48:03.100 And he's got the energy and apparently the drive and the bravery.

00:48:08.100 He does seem to have the whole package.

00:48:10.100 And all of his policies look perfectly sensible to me.

00:48:15.100 Here's my problem.

00:48:17.100 It's happening too quickly.

00:48:19.100 This is a little fast.

00:48:21.100 Now, if you told me in five years, wow, things are better.

00:48:26.100 This guy really made us better over five years.

00:48:28.100 I would say, well, good.

00:48:30.100 That's why you got him.

00:48:31.100 I'm glad he did his job.

00:48:33.100 Took five years.

00:48:34.100 But things are hard to move.

00:48:35.100 You know, you can't do that much.

00:48:36.100 But he just took a meat cleaver to pieces of the government.

00:48:41.100 And the only thing we're hearing is the good news.

00:48:44.100 There's got to be some bad news, right?

00:48:47.100 So I'm just going to put a pin in this one and say, check back with me in a few years.

00:48:54.100 And we'll see if there's maybe this was a little hyperbole.

00:48:57.100 It might be true that they reached a budget surplus.

00:49:01.100 It might not be true that the citizens are delighted and everything's working besides that.

00:49:06.100 Meanwhile, over in Iran, this is, I don't believe everything about this story.

00:49:13.100 But the reporting is that the three of Iran's Supreme Court judges were shot by the same guy.

00:49:20.100 Some kind of a, let's see, by a guard.

00:49:27.100 So allegedly it was a guard who shot three of the Supreme Court justices.

00:49:32.100 Two of them died.

00:49:33.100 One of them's wounded.

00:49:35.100 Now this is a report on Visegrad 24.

00:49:37.100 That's an account on X.

00:49:40.100 And both judges were apparently known to be hardliners.

00:49:44.100 Known to, and they were known as the hangmen.

00:49:47.100 So they, apparently they sent so many people to their deaths that they were basically just killers.

00:49:55.100 Now, here's the part I don't believe.

00:49:58.100 I don't believe that this guard just decided he'd had enough of the hardliners and decided to shoot them.

00:50:05.100 Does that sound real?

00:50:07.100 I feel like there's more to that story.

00:50:09.100 Now, the part I believe is that probably some people in the Supreme Court got shot.

00:50:15.100 I'm not sure we're hearing the real reason or everything about that guy, but we'll find out.

00:50:21.100 However, if anything like that is true, it might suggest something like, do you remember the healthcare murderer guy?

00:50:32.100 I can't remember his name.

00:50:33.100 That good-looking guy who killed the CEO of UnitedHealth.

00:50:37.100 You know how, when that happened, we first thought, oh, that's just a crime.

00:50:41.100 It's terrible, tragedy, bad for the family, bad for the victim, bad for the system.

00:50:46.100 It was just all bad.

00:50:48.100 And then you check social media and people are like, eh, I kind of like that guy.

00:50:54.100 And you say, wait, which guy?

00:50:56.100 The poor victim?

00:50:58.100 No, the person who killed him.

00:51:00.100 And all of us who are more, let's say, traditionally minded, we say, well, there can't be many people who think that, right?

00:51:10.100 There can't be a lot of people who would have the same opinion that it was good that somebody got murdered.

00:51:15.100 And the longer you go, you realize there are a lot of people with that opinion.

00:51:20.100 Now, I don't think they're serious people in the sense that it's easy to say you support something that already happened.

00:51:27.100 I don't think they would support doing more of it if you ask them.

00:51:33.100 But I wonder if this is the first indication that the public is done.

00:51:39.100 Now, that's why it's being reported that he was just a, you know, a patriot and he was just done with all the corruption or whatever it was, fundamentalism or something.

00:51:49.100 But we'll see.

00:51:52.100 Now, after I'm done, which I'm just about done, make sure that you check into the spaces on X.

00:52:04.100 So spaces is the audio feature where people can hear each other talk.

00:52:09.100 Owen Gregorian will be hosting a spaces that will be roughly based on the show.

00:52:16.100 But I'm sure you can talk about what you want to and make sure you catch that.

00:52:20.100 Just search for Owen Gregorian and you'll find it.

00:52:24.100 Or you could look in my feed on X and you'll see I retweeted him his link to it.

00:52:32.100 All right.

00:52:34.100 How did Vivek get rich, Scott?

00:52:37.100 Well, you don't know.

00:52:39.100 So all the people who are saying that Vivek got rich in a sketchy way, they've heard one version of it.

00:52:47.100 But you haven't heard of Vivek's version.

00:52:50.100 I think I've only heard it on maybe one CNBC show where he was a guest.

00:52:55.100 But if you don't know his version, you don't know anything.

00:52:59.100 So don't act like you're all holier than me.

00:53:02.100 Oh, tell me how he made his money.

00:53:06.100 Well, I think I know.

00:53:08.100 But I'll bet you don't.

00:53:10.100 So maybe you should look into that a little bit more.

00:53:12.100 See if you can find both sides.

00:53:14.100 If you can find both sides, then I will listen to your opinion.

00:53:19.100 But it doesn't sound like you found both sides.

00:53:24.100 But I know the issue.

00:53:26.100 I know exactly what you're talking about.

00:53:32.100 You can trust your intuition.

00:53:34.100 How do you know your intuition isn't racist?

00:53:38.100 How do you check on that?

00:53:41.100 Intuition isn't a real thing.

00:53:45.100 It's not a real thing.

00:53:47.100 Intuition is just how you feel.

00:53:49.100 Sometimes you feel the right way.

00:53:51.100 Sometimes you feel the wrong way.

00:53:52.100 But no, intuition is not a thing.

00:53:55.100 Sometimes it's a thing if what it really is is pattern recognition.

00:54:00.100 If it's pattern recognition, but you don't know what the pattern is, you just feel it.

00:54:04.100 That could be real.

00:54:05.100 Because it's based on a real thing, a pattern.

00:54:08.100 But if you're just looking at him and you've decided,

00:54:11.100 I can't trust him because he's brown or whatever the whatever the hell you're thinking. 1.00

00:54:16.100 I don't know. 0.66

00:54:18.100 That doesn't seem realistic.

00:54:24.100 Oh, the butler P was killed at the scene.

00:54:27.100 I did that whole thing about the butler guy and I forgot he was killed at the scene.

00:54:36.100 You all let me say that.

00:54:38.100 You were probably yelling at me when I did it, right?

00:54:44.100 See, this is one of those situations where having no sense of shame is like gold.

00:54:51.100 Imagine how I'd feel if I felt shame or embarrassment.

00:54:56.100 Nope.

00:54:57.100 Don't feel it a bit.

00:54:59.100 Nope. 1.00

00:55:00.100 No, it was just a stupid error. 1.00

00:55:02.100 I made it in public. 1.00

00:55:03.100 I don't care a bit.

00:55:05.100 So you should learn something from that.

00:55:07.100 Don't learn anything about the assassination attempt from me.

00:55:12.100 But which is when the other guy's alive, right?

00:55:15.100 Ruth, the golf course guy's alive.

00:55:19.100 I don't think he's worth talking to.

00:55:22.100 You know, the problem with the a lot of the political stories is there's so many duplicates like I can't keep any of the law affairs straight.

00:55:32.100 All the law affairs sound the same to me.

00:55:34.100 And then it's starting to be that the assassination attempts are starting to sound the same.

00:55:38.100 So it's like, oh, there's a white guy. 0.95

00:55:41.100 He had a gun, tried to kill the president. 0.98

00:55:44.100 They all sound the same. 0.86

00:55:47.100 That's funny.

00:55:50.100 I can't wait to see the comments. 1.00

00:55:53.100 Scott, you idiot. 1.00

00:55:55.100 You fool. 1.00

00:55:56.100 As soon as I saw the comment, which I didn't see until just now, as soon as I saw the comment that he was killed, I thought, oh, that's funny. 0.99

00:56:12.100 All right, everybody.

00:56:14.100 I'm going to talk to the locals people privately just for a few minutes.

00:56:18.100 The rest of you I will see tomorrow.

00:56:20.100 Thanks for joining.

00:56:21.100 Even though I got all my facts wrong.

00:56:23.100 Thanks for knowing

00:56:24.140 I will see you

00:56:25.240 Your daughter, all my friends and with you.

00:56:26.100 This song is so often in。

00:56:27.100 Yeah, I'm going to talk to hasta the sintomo of all four miles were right. 1.00

00:56:29.100 All down.

00:56:30.100 I'm going to talk to him for a couple times.

00:56:32.100 I want to talk to you.

00:56:34.100 I am.

00:56:35.100 And that's a wonderful talk.

00:56:36.100 Even if you're going to talk to him then.

00:56:37.100 I don't speak to him for you.

00:56:38.100 I don't know what I'm talking to him and I hate him.

00:56:39.100 My name is.

00:56:40.100 What I word to talk to him occasionally is for me.

00:56:41.100 I always don't get home.

00:56:42.100 I have to think he is so many folder.

00:56:47.100 So long move to his attention where the virtue of our personality is right.

00:56:48.100 So.

00:56:49.100 And I make a lot of the lens of theppings...

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - January 18, 2025

Episode 2724 CWSA 01⧸18⧸25

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