Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2737 CWSA 02⧸01⧸25

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00:00:36.920 well if you're wearing pants

00:00:45.200 you might be in the minority today based on the comments i'm seeing a lot of a lot of

00:00:53.160 pantsless viewers today some of my favorites all right well uh after the show um owen gregorian

00:01:02.420 will have a spaces on the x platform that's the audio only thing so look for that if you're trying

00:01:10.860 to find it just go to my account on x you can see the link or owen gregorian you could just look for

00:01:17.880 his name it'll pop up did you know according to science alert that caffeine in your blood could

00:01:24.140 lower your body fat and diabetes risk yes you did because coffee can do it all yep i like to put it

00:01:33.000 right in my blood i just inject it right in there along with it you know the bleach and the disinfectants

00:01:39.420 does a great job no don't do that don't put any bleach or disinfectant or coffee in your your blood

00:01:46.020 but it's good for you the coffee part well it's a black history month and uh despite trump getting

00:01:54.140 rid of all the dei in the government he did do a proclamation recognizing it and he called out some of

00:02:01.020 the notable famous uh black contributors to america he included frederick douglas harriet tubman

00:02:10.520 and then also threw in more modern names like thomas sowell and clarence thomas

00:02:16.500 well here's my take on that

00:02:20.500 i think black history month was a great idea i also think affirmative action

00:02:29.220 was necessary um you know even though it didn't work out for me didn't work out for me but we

00:02:37.940 probably needed to do something to kickstart things to get a little more openness and diversity and all

00:02:44.440 that however it's 2025 when i see black history month do i say to myself wow black people have

00:02:54.380 contributed so much to america well yes that that's sort of the point of it but i already knew that

00:03:01.960 and all you have to do is turn on the television and it's full of successful black people in every

00:03:10.080 every domain every domain politics entertainment so it feels like having your own month

00:03:17.060 is now you know went from a good idea a solidly good idea to it feels a little condescending

00:03:25.320 it feels like it's it's not giving black americans what they hoped for and it just sort of looks like a

00:03:34.240 pat on the head it's almost it's almost like we should have outgrown this by now and let me ask you

00:03:41.560 this do you think thomas sowell would be happy that his name was on the list of uh great black americans

00:03:48.660 i don't know but i'm not entirely sure he'd be happy about being on the list and you know i'm no expert on

00:03:57.240 thomas sowell or i can't read his mind but here's what i think he'd like a lot more uh some great

00:04:04.920 american economists include this person this person thomas sowell how about just being on the list of

00:04:13.000 you know really important unusually effective economists now that's a compliment and then just

00:04:21.820 be done with it so um i don't think i'm too far off base because p hegseth and the department of

00:04:31.660 defense um said that no longer will the department of defense host or celebrate any of these uh cultural

00:04:39.700 awareness months now if you don't know how many there are besides black history month there's women's

00:04:46.160 history month asian american and pacific islander heritage month you got pride month you got national

00:04:51.520 hispanic heritage month national disability employment awareness month and national american

00:04:57.120 indian american indian heritage month well i call that native american because i'm not a racist my god

00:05:05.800 anyway so you could go to these events but you can't do anything in your official capacity if you're in

00:05:12.260 the department of defense i think that is the correct the correct point of view for the department of

00:05:19.520 defense um because if they're focused on anything but their lethality as p eggseth likes to point out

00:05:27.600 they're taking their taking their eye off the ball now obviously you can't spend 24 hours a day

00:05:34.500 working on your lethality you know there are other things in life but i do think this is a step in the

00:05:40.560 right direction because as soon as you call out some groups all the other groups are going to say

00:05:46.240 where's my month i say it where's my month what why don't i get a month i don't know everybody else

00:05:55.180 did over at stanford university they use their ai to look at faces and apparently they can tell if

00:06:04.660 you're gay or straight by looking at your face we've talked about this before but it made me think

00:06:10.540 do you remember maybe it was the i don't know 60s or 70s you know that's as far as i can remember back

00:06:18.880 but there was this conversation about whether being gay was genetic or just people chose it

00:06:26.480 and i i would always laugh and thinking it's obviously it's obviously genetic and the reason

00:06:33.160 i said it's obviously genetic is that you could tell who was gay by looking at him could you really

00:06:39.380 tell who's gay by looking at him if it if it were not just baked into the genetic components oh so 1.00

00:06:47.740 when i see that uh stanford says you know not they can't do it a hundred percent of course but they have

00:06:53.560 a high uh high hit rate of knowing if you're gay or straight from your photo how could it be anything

00:07:00.340 except genetic if you can tell by looking at a photo the the only way the only way it wouldn't be genetic

00:07:07.160 um and by the way i don't know if anybody's found any specific genetic link you know i don't know if

00:07:14.820 they've gone that far but how could lifestyle make your face recognizably gay assuming you washed it 0.90

00:07:24.820 um don't even think about that

00:07:29.360 all right i just cracked myself up i'm taking this in a completely wrong direction

00:07:36.720 but um yes i think gays have always wanted us to to acknowledge that this is something it's the way

00:07:44.960 you're born and it's nobody's fault it's nobody's choice it's just the way you're born and i think

00:07:49.500 the face the face stuff is proof that they were right all along amazon um looks like it might be

00:07:58.120 getting ready to advertise on x again which would be a big deal um and i think the correct

00:08:06.300 the correct decision uh i guess apple is also looking at x deciding whether to go back on

00:08:13.820 that's pretty good boy there's nothing like a winning is there it if elon musk had not been on

00:08:21.240 the winning team in politics and that gave him a big role and you know what's happening right now

00:08:27.240 at least the advisory role um plus doge do you think that the big companies would be so happy to

00:08:35.860 re-embrace x i don't know i think they would have had other pressure from democrats but the democrat

00:08:43.260 party just fell apart and doge and musk and trump are doing great so it makes perfect sense if you're

00:08:51.140 a big american company to get on the side of the winners there's nothing wrong with that there's

00:08:57.420 nothing wrong with saying you know what i think we'll adjust our track and you know try to be more

00:09:02.880 compatible with the country so good job amazon and apple heading in the right direction

00:09:09.280 uh speaking of meta we weren't but let's um mark zuckerberg of meta is uh looking into exiting

00:09:22.660 delaware and reincorporating in texas now if you didn't know for a very long time corporations like

00:09:30.000 to register in delaware even while having no business in delaware and the reason was it was

00:09:36.340 the delaware laws are kind of friendly to corporations but there's some judge there

00:09:42.400 that went after you know that went after i guess you could say went after uh elon musk and that sent

00:09:49.440 a big chill because musk was saying you know you should get your get your corporation out of there

00:09:55.880 because they can go after you so delaware seems to be politicized and if you're a big company and you

00:10:01.760 don't want to be part of that risk you're going to have to get out of delaware so meta is doing

00:10:07.580 i think exactly the right thing so again good decision richard grinnell apparently succeeded in

00:10:16.780 getting six i guess they're called hostages and of venezuela now what's the follow-up question to

00:10:23.040 that that rick grinnell got six american hostages out of venezuela the follow-up question is

00:10:30.200 there were six hostages there were six hostages in venezuela why is this the first time i'm hearing

00:10:36.620 about it that seems like that'd be a bigger story six american hostages held in venezuela well

00:10:46.180 i love the fact that richard grinnell is sort of like a a trump loaded weapon and he can he can point

00:10:56.420 richard grinnell at any situation and you feel confident that the right person is taking care of

00:11:02.320 it so i'm surprised richard grinnell doesn't have an official job in the administration right

00:11:07.720 you know i don't believe he has an official title but just the fact that he's sort of available to do

00:11:14.800 missions it's kind of awesome what would you like to have just a richard grinnell on call

00:11:23.260 so that when trump needs to send somebody somewhere and get something done in another country

00:11:27.840 you just send the one who knows how to get it done i i suspect that grinnell is more effective

00:11:33.100 because when he walks into the room if the other country has done their homework they know he's

00:11:38.740 talking for trump like they're they know they're not going to put like a wedge like yeah we'll get

00:11:43.940 this guy to you know maybe see our side of it or something like no when grinnell walks in the room

00:11:49.440 you know that trump's preferences are going to be there and that's the end of the story so that

00:11:56.160 probably makes him a lot more effective that and the fact that whatever he does in general seems to be

00:12:00.900 effective so i love this so got six americans out of venezuela meanwhile colombia which gave trump a hard

00:12:11.820 time very temporarily uh for shipping back the uh colombian uh immigrants or migrants and remember

00:12:21.180 the president of colombia said hey you can't land here and then it turned into well how about we send

00:12:27.100 the presidential airplane to pick him up because really what we care about is their repatriation is

00:12:33.760 dignified so it's not about whether they come back it's about whether it's a dignified return

00:12:38.840 home so he's uh he's taking it to the next level and he's offered to pay for all the colombians

00:12:45.220 coming home so i guess he doesn't want to use the presidential jet for every flight of course

00:12:51.140 but uh colombia i think without being prompted because there's nothing here about negotiating i think he

00:12:59.260 just said how about we'll pay to bring them home and i'll make sure that it's a dignified return home

00:13:06.000 to which i say yeah it's saving face right so he's he's doing a clever little move to save face

00:13:12.360 so now we can say well no it was always just about just about dignity okay i'll let him have that

00:13:19.880 if he's going to pay some of our bills because do you know how much it costs for a flight to ship

00:13:27.820 anybody back to their native country it's like an amazing amount of money to ship people back

00:13:35.340 so if colombia wants to pay that amazing amount of money and we're going to get what we want good

00:13:41.280 no problem

00:13:43.500 uh trump signed an executive order to get rid of 10 regulations for every new one that's added

00:13:52.120 i think that's exactly what it was before or was it give me a fact check was in his first term

00:13:59.400 was it 10 to 1 or was it a different ratio that you have to get rid of 10 regulations to get a new

00:14:05.280 one it was either 10 to 1 or something in that neighborhood and i love it it seems like it worked

00:14:13.900 the first time why wouldn't it work again so good job trump meanwhile the fcc is demanding that cbs

00:14:24.420 turn over the tape from uh i guess it was 60 minutes when they interviewed kamala harris now

00:14:30.280 the fcc would get involved um i guess to make sure that people got equal time and that an interview was

00:14:39.700 not so biased that maybe it turned into a campaign ad so the accusation is that uh kamala harris was so 0.98

00:14:48.720 incoherent with their usual word salad babble that 60 minutes had to splice in edits just to make her

00:14:57.760 sound like she wasn't an idiot i don't think it changed any of her opinions i don't think it reversed 0.61

00:15:04.660 any opinions that they simply use bits from other answers so the thing she said made sense for a change

00:15:11.220 now that's extreme i mean that's that's way over the line so yes i'd like to see the fcc look into that

00:15:19.840 meanwhile the trump administration is taking down a lot of websites in the government especially if

00:15:28.460 they have a dei references so they're putting a pause on most federal government websites

00:15:33.620 and the idea is to dig down and get rid of all the dei references so uh we'll see how long it takes

00:15:43.900 you know the the dei people are going to burrow into other jobs and change their names and hide the

00:15:50.680 projects and hide the budgets and they're going to do everything you know creepy and illegal to stay

00:15:56.480 to keep doing what they're doing but we'll see it does seem like trump and the administration are

00:16:02.240 pretty dead set on rooting on all this dei it's going to take a while won't be easy

00:16:07.560 um but over on uh over msnbc according to the daily caller news foundation uh one of the hosts

00:16:17.980 anna cabrera she said on friday that's yesterday that there are plenty of data points that prove that

00:16:24.920 diversity equity and inclusion enable business to have greater success are there really i i i

00:16:32.220 think the plenty of data points would actually be none because how could you sort out how much

00:16:39.740 better you did because of diversity now even if you accept that diversity improves your bottom line

00:16:47.020 somehow even if you accept that how can you measure it i mean what what possible way would you have

00:16:54.500 to know that oh it's a good thing we have we went from uh eight percent black employees we got up to

00:17:02.120 fourteen percent and then what your profits went up that month so you say it must be because of all the

00:17:08.780 diversity how in the world would you know that diversity made a difference so it's absurd on its face

00:17:14.800 it's not something you possibly measure and even if you tried to measure you know the company that added

00:17:21.580 diversity versus the one that didn't that's still a nonsense comparison you know they're probably

00:17:26.840 different businesses everything's different anyway so uh msnbc is just floundering trying to

00:17:35.400 hold on to the thing that was always a lie uh but they got caught in the lie

00:17:40.460 so uh trump apparently took a question about uh why he wasn't going to visit the crash site

00:17:51.440 of the uh the airplanes the helicopter airplane that went in the uh potomac and uh

00:17:59.100 and when they asked you know the the normal way that you would answer that question do you want to

00:18:04.180 visit the crash site it would be something like oh yeah you know we're we're waiting until it's the

00:18:10.260 right time or we're looking into it and trump go and trump goes it's in the water what do you want

00:18:17.960 me to do swim there now that is the way to answer a dumb question you you do it with mocking and you

00:18:29.100 do it with humor and you refuse to you know answer it in any normal way now even even bill maher on his

00:18:36.820 show last night called that out as the right answer you know if you could ask him dumb questions

00:18:41.880 he gets to give you quite you know funny answers so and more generally it's hilarious to watch

00:18:52.200 bill maher become more and more pro-trump but still have to look balanced so he's got to come up with

00:18:59.480 some anti-trump stuff to balance the pro-trump stuff and it's really hard to come up with the anti-stuff

00:19:05.220 because the anti-stuff is about stuff he hasn't done well he might steal your democracy but has he

00:19:13.220 has he stolen your democracy no no but i think he might so the things he does you kind of like

00:19:21.800 yeah yeah i liked it when he closed up the border but the things he hasn't done are your entire

00:19:28.760 your entire problem are the things he hasn't done says he won't do and nobody in this party would

00:19:34.700 support which is becoming a dictator so i think i think bill maher might get there someday when i

00:19:43.520 found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners i started wondering is every fabulous

00:19:49.960 item i see from winners like that woman over there with the designer jeans are those from winners 1.00

00:19:55.680 oh are those beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price or that leather tote or that cashmere

00:20:01.440 sweater or those knee-high boots that dress that jacket those shoes is anyone paying full price for

00:20:07.980 anything stop wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less i don't know if you've seen it

00:20:15.420 yet but there's a photo of the mars surface that includes some kind of a image that looks to be

00:20:24.220 perfectly square meaning it looks like the the broken down walls of a square city you know or a building

00:20:34.460 but when they say perfectly square you know i only know what i see in the picture that's perfectly square

00:20:42.460 and it's big it's not like a small object so for a large object to be perfectly square

00:20:49.020 that's uh does suggest that there was some life up on mars now here's how these things usually go

00:20:58.720 because this is sort of a repeat of the used to be remember there was a face on mars

00:21:05.660 and you look at the photo and you say to yourself that's definitely a face i see it there's this giant

00:21:12.940 face like a like a statue had fallen over and gotten partially covered by the dust but it sure looked

00:21:19.340 like a face and then the the photography experts say uh okay here's that same spot but from a different

00:21:28.140 angle and it's just a rock it's just a rock so there was something unique about an exact camera angle

00:21:36.620 that cast some shadows that made it look like it was a face but from every other angle it was just a rock

00:21:43.100 now i think if well so i have two competing thoughts when i look at the photo i say to myself that's

00:21:51.980 got to be some sign of life that used to be on mars but when i check my common sense and my context

00:22:00.620 i know that this is the one of the most common stories about the moon you don't think this is

00:22:08.380 just going to be one of those well it's because it's not really square but if you look at it from this

00:22:14.860 angle it's the angle that makes it look like it's square and you know it's there's something about the

00:22:21.020 light and you know i i would bet against it if you said you got to put a million dollar bet down

00:22:28.540 that it's really a sign of life or there's something about the way the photo was taken the

00:22:34.860 angle whatever i don't know what kind of angle could make something look huge and perfectly square

00:22:41.980 like i'm not aware of anything that a camera can do that would turn a non-square thing into a perfect

00:22:48.380 square so my brain is not accepting that it's anything but a sign of life but my rational part of my

00:22:57.180 brain which is operating at the same time sort of in parallel says you know but if you're going to

00:23:02.300 bet on it with real money you should bet against it because if you'd bet against every other claim of

00:23:10.220 this type through through the decades you would have won every bet so yeah then there's also the

00:23:18.140 question of whether it's a real photo but apparently the database with the photos is available for others to check

00:23:24.460 yeah and there's at least one version where it's not so square at all so i'm going to bet against it

00:23:34.300 but it's fun um so the la times wrote an article saying essentially that trump was right about the

00:23:43.740 water problems in california that that they were essentially self-caused

00:23:49.420 yeah somebody's showing me a photo now in which uh it's definitely not a human structure so it looks

00:24:01.580 like it well no let me see could it be i don't know yeah it's ambiguous i'm going to go with it will never

00:24:14.780 it will never check out as a something built by an intelligent species anyway the la times says trump's

00:24:22.460 right about the water supply in california and trump was bragging that he got some extra water turned on

00:24:28.860 even more than we heard about the other week and that the water is flowing in california and all you have

00:24:34.540 to do is turn the spigot so there's something wrong with that story

00:24:40.460 and let me summarize the story about the california water and you tell me what i'm missing because i know

00:24:49.900 for sure that my understanding of the story couldn't possibly be right but it's what i'm

00:24:56.700 gleaning from the report all right so here's me summarizing what i think i know about california water

00:25:02.620 and trump so the narrative goes that some evil goblins in california presumably democrats were

00:25:09.900 preventing citizens farmers and firefighters from having the water that was in abundance

00:25:15.420 so the water was in abundance just these evil goblins were preventing it and the reason the

00:25:21.020 goblins act as they do is a combination of hatred for humanity plus something about a fish

00:25:28.860 fish however trump fixed it all by ordering someone to turn on the water now that's the story i'm reading

00:25:39.740 do you really think that the evil goblin trolls with their hatred of humanity wanted to prevent

00:25:46.540 everybody from having water and the solution was to have somebody powerful say turn on that water

00:25:52.860 and then they turned it on and it's all good i think something's missing from the story

00:26:01.100 so i was trying to get to the bottom of it before showtime

00:26:04.780 and i don't know the answer yet but i'll give you some hints the there are some california water experts

00:26:12.860 who say uh you don't want to drain the reservoirs now because you're going to need it later during fire

00:26:19.820 season okay is that a thing is it possible that uh trump can let a bunch of water out but then later

00:26:29.820 we'll be in worse shape i don't know uh others other water experts in california say if you do it too fast

00:26:38.220 you'll flood areas that we normally could manage without any flooding

00:26:43.340 is that a thing will there be some extra flooding that we didn't know about and then other people

00:26:50.540 say well you can release the water but it doesn't go to the right place you know it's going to end up

00:26:56.380 somewhere where you don't need it anyway is that true or can the farmers open up new fields because

00:27:02.940 they have water and they can rely on it i don't know so the i'm not sure if the la times answered all

00:27:11.180 these questions but i feel like everything about this story sounds like bullshit that's what i think 0.59

00:27:19.660 now i'm not saying that trump didn't help there's at least a 50 chance that that's exactly what

00:27:27.500 happened that california was unable to do the common sense logical things trump just forced them into it

00:27:35.100 but maybe maybe but i'm pretty sure we're not hearing the whole story here so hold your powder on that

00:27:42.700 one you probably heard there's a another jet crash it was a small jet that did some kind of uh medical

00:27:50.300 flights i think it was uh mexican nationals were on it and they brought a uh young mexican girl to america

00:27:57.740 for some treatments that i guess were not available and in her hometown and uh sadly it the plane went

00:28:07.740 down with half a dozen people on it and uh they're all deceased of course now one thing that's different

00:28:17.180 about these plane crashes is that it seems like no matter where there's a crash somebody had a ring camera

00:28:24.940 that got good footage of it so there's unusually good footage of the actual crash from from all the

00:28:32.940 cameras in the world so i don't know how many times small aircrafts the size of this one crash but i

00:28:39.980 think it's way more than we know i don't even think it makes national news like if a you know little uh

00:28:47.100 cessna goes down somewhere does it make national news i don't know but uh there's probably a lot more

00:28:54.860 more small airplane accidents than we know about well the new york post is reporting that uh speaking

00:29:02.860 of that plane crash uh that the army is not going to name the female pilot killed aboard the military

00:29:09.900 okay now until this morning uh there were a lot of you saying um it's a dei problem and that when you

00:29:19.980 found out who was piloting it you know you'd find out in some kind of dei hire now i said no don't go

00:29:29.260 there there there's no evidence of that if ever there is evidence of it then i'm with you but don't

00:29:36.140 go there without evidence the only thing we know for sure is that dei should should be breaking all of

00:29:44.140 our systems it should by design it should make everything break now even bill maher did an

00:29:52.140 extended piece last night about how all of our systems in the country are broken does that sound

00:29:58.540 familiar that's me how many times have i told you uh you realize that all of our systems are broken all of

00:30:08.140 them from health care to fine and when when i say broken i mean corrupt um from health care to finance

00:30:15.500 to politics to you name it you name it and i've been saying that for a while but when bill maher says

00:30:22.860 that the difference is he's still not to the point where he can give a reason for it i feel like he and

00:30:29.420 he might be right by the way yeah he might think it's just the natural evolution of organizations they might

00:30:35.740 start out as a good idea but then they evolve and their budget's too big and they do dei hiring and

00:30:42.060 you know they lose sense of the mission and it all falls apart but i don't think you can ignore the fact

00:30:49.260 that dei predicts complete destruction of all of our systems by focusing on the wrong stuff now again

00:30:58.380 it has nothing to do with anybody's dna has nothing to do with your culture it's not about your gender

00:31:04.060 it's none of that the the problem with dei is it forces you away from uh hiring only the best

00:31:13.420 and toward making sure you hit your dei quota so humans being humans are going to make sure they

00:31:18.540 hit the quota that's easiest to measure and the easiest one to measure is always dei you just count

00:31:24.300 the number of people and say what are you it's the easiest one for measuring it's the easiest one

00:31:30.140 so of course in the real world people people manage to whatever will be measured and their bonus depends

00:31:39.020 on it so uh yeah everything's falling apart but it turns out that this pilot that i had been telling

00:31:46.540 you stop saying dei you know you don't know anything about the actual crew it's a female pilot 0.99

00:31:53.260 now that doesn't mean the pilot made a mistake we're we're miles away from saying the pilot made

00:32:01.500 a mistake there's there's nothing connecting female pilot to pilot mistake there might be i mean at some

00:32:09.740 point in the future but even that wouldn't prove dei is a problem it might prove one one pilot is a

00:32:15.020 problem but here's what i've heard from um my pilot friend and i think other pilots have said something

00:32:23.020 like it that the the real reason for the crash is probably uh several factors it's very unlikely

00:32:30.220 there's just one thing one of the factors is the airport's way busier and more dangerous and pilots

00:32:36.700 have been complaining about it forever another is that pilots have said you know you don't want the

00:32:42.060 the helicopters doing too much there because they're going to be in the way so now they've stopped the

00:32:47.900 helicopter traffic there so that was part of it some of it was maybe the training wasn't as good

00:32:53.900 as it could have been some of it was the tower was ambiguous so the thinking is it was sort of a perfect

00:33:00.940 storm of a bunch of things going wrong in the context of it was easy for those things to go wrong

00:33:09.580 but if only one of those things had gone wrong probably you could have recovered

00:33:16.540 it looks like a bunch of things went wrong at the same time which was perfectly predictable

00:33:22.220 because of the complexity and the nature of the problem so if you have a an increasingly

00:33:29.100 complicated flying environment which they did and a decreasingly decreasingly small

00:33:37.500 number of people who are working in the tower which we did see more traffic more complexity

00:33:44.860 fewer people handling the traffic and the complexity what are you gonna what's it gonna be i mean there's

00:33:50.460 only one way that goes so it was sort of inevitable but maybe this was the wake-up call to fix some of

00:33:57.180 that but we cannot blame the female pilot and i completely understand why the family doesn't want to release

00:34:03.420 the name because it would be a feeding frenzy if they did just a feeding frenzy so let me say it

00:34:10.140 again i'm not in favor of blaming individual problems on dei that's going to be a losing proposition

00:34:18.060 you're just going to turn yourself into you know you look like a jerk even if you're right

00:34:23.180 i'm sometimes you'll probably be right that that's exactly the problem and it and the one individual is

00:34:29.500 exactly the problem but if you don't know that it's kind of messed up it's kind of messed up if you don't

00:34:36.780 know it so i think we can say dei should destroy everything sooner or later because it's designed

00:34:45.340 that way but you can't say much about any one person in one act usually usually sometimes you will be

00:34:51.100 able to but usually not anyway uh let's see the faa is uh embroiled in lawsuit because apparently they

00:35:00.940 turned away a thousand applicants based on race new york post is reporting this so a thousand applicants

00:35:06.940 were turned away now these are the people who could have you know maybe been in that tower so they had

00:35:13.340 proper uh proper amount of uh employees working there um but i think this goes back to 2015 or something

00:35:22.300 it's an older lawsuit that's kicking around so just know that uh you can you can draw a straight line

00:35:31.340 between not enough people in the tower and dei hiring i think that straight line exists i feel that that's

00:35:39.820 demonstrated enough that you can say yeah at the very least at the very least it's the reason there are

00:35:47.420 not enough people working at the very least all right i guess trump's gonna put some tariffs on chips

00:35:56.860 and steel and pharma and oil that's all coming and when he was asked hey won't that increase inflation

00:36:06.700 now or at least the prices um because if it costs more for everything we import

00:36:15.180 well who's paying for it eventually those costs get and not even eventually pretty quickly those costs get

00:36:22.540 passed on to the consumer so if trump puts a tariff on everything coming into the country

00:36:29.740 does that largely guarantee

00:36:33.340 that uh

00:36:36.460 well we get some income from the tariff the the government would but i think that's paid by the

00:36:40.780 american companies that are importing

00:36:43.340 so seems to me that it would cause prices to go up

00:36:48.060 if the price of everything goes up

00:36:52.060 let me say it again if the price of everything goes up

00:36:55.900 won't that cause the price of everything to go up it's a pretty direct line

00:37:00.780 but trump's argument is is weirdly good and his argument is we had tariffs in my first term

00:37:08.860 and no inflation when i say no inflation it's it's actually okay to have a little bit

00:37:15.100 so what he had was a little bit it was within the this is no problem range so that is a good point

00:37:22.380 if he's already done if he's already done pretty big tariffs and we had no inflation

00:37:30.700 there's at least there's at least one data point that says you can do this

00:37:35.980 so that's a pretty good response i guess we'll have to keep an eye on it and see how it works

00:37:40.060 and of course the tariffs on mexico and canada and china are going into effect

00:37:46.700 trump explains that as partly revenue partly just having fair trading agreements with our

00:37:53.260 partners making things more fair but also largely because of the fentanyl trade

00:37:59.340 so it's coming across both of our borders and china is the originator of the raw materials that

00:38:05.180 the cartels and others are turning into fentanyl so um we'll see if we'll see if a tariff makes any

00:38:14.860 difference now my guess is the tariff will not really change anything because if the governor if

00:38:22.860 the government of mexico had any ability to stop it or any will to stop it i guess i think it already

00:38:29.420 would have happened so i'm not really expecting pressure on the governments to have any impact

00:38:36.780 on the cartels because the cartels you know don't care if the if the uh alleged government gets pressure

00:38:43.740 they just care if they get pressure but speaking of that uh pxf has announced that because the uh

00:38:51.660 cartels are designated as terrorist organizations thanks to trump that uh they can now the department of

00:38:58.540 defense can use special ops against the mexican cartels uh when asked about that um eggseth gave

00:39:08.220 the correct answer which is all options are on the table meaning it doesn't mean that we mobilized

00:39:14.860 you know you know yesterday but it might mean that it might mean that we mobilized and the special

00:39:21.660 forces are ready to go in or already have gone in and we haven't heard about it so that is exactly

00:39:27.740 what i want to see what i want to see i want to see the special forces take on the cartels

00:39:33.420 and i want to um i want to see the uh tariffs get the governments of those countries on board

00:39:42.620 you put it all together and i don't think it's going to stop fentanyl

00:39:47.100 hate to say but i don't think it'll be enough uh but you have to do it you you can't just let

00:39:54.620 people be dying like crazy without trying something so if you can't if you can't stop it at the source

00:40:03.020 you can't stop people from trying to get it i don't know what do you do i don't know but i'm quite

00:40:10.300 appreciative of this for reasons you know i lost my stepson in 2018 to a overdose all right

00:40:18.220 right fbi is experiencing massive firings so cnn's reporting that uh of course this is part of the

00:40:28.380 cleaning house of the trump administration dozens of fbi agents who worked on the january 6 cases

00:40:35.580 have been let go um and agents who worked to investigate trump's handling of the classified documents

00:40:43.740 let go and those who investigated the 1600 um january 6 attendees seems like they'll be let go

00:40:55.420 and it's being reported that uh many of the agents initially had qualms about taking those assignments

00:41:02.620 the ones that are getting fired for those assignments they had qualms about taking them

00:41:06.780 because they believed that uh you know maybe it would come back and bite them in the ass yes your 0.77

00:41:13.980 instinct was right if you take those illegitimate jobs and the other team gets in power you're in trouble

00:41:23.900 now i do have i do have some sympathy here if you're just trying to make your career work and your boss

00:41:31.500 says you're going to work on this january 6 thing or you're going to work on you know the mar-a-lago thing

00:41:38.700 are you going to say you know honestly i have a philosophical problem with this

00:41:44.220 if you do i'm guessing that's the end of your career

00:41:48.780 so there must be a lot of people who didn't feel like they had a choice

00:41:53.020 so i'd feel bad for them but i'm going to give you an alternate point of view

00:41:57.740 so that you don't see them as poor victims just doing their job and mean old trump is coming in to

00:42:04.380 to get rid of them i'd like to give you a reaction from julie kelly who you might know has been

00:42:10.220 following the january 6 thing very closely she's attended courtroom stuff and knows the most probably

00:42:17.100 about the situation of anybody i know and uh here's what she says

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00:42:36.380 you think it appears that between 30 and 40 of the j6 line prosecutors were fired today now i think she's

00:42:44.460 talking about the doj um i can only guess how much how much pleasure their victims take at this 0.66

00:42:51.100 astounding news so there are two things happening you know there's the purging of the fbi but separately

00:42:57.260 the purging of the doj and uh julie kelly says kudos to the acting uh deputy ag emile bovay

00:43:08.700 blah blah blah uh and she said here's the here's the payoff for three years i watched these prosecutors

00:43:15.340 in disgust when i left january 6 court proceedings i would pray that their comeuppance would come

00:43:24.220 but had little hope it would it is not so much how they abused the law and work hand in glove with

00:43:30.700 like-minded dc judges to violate the rights of j6 defendants what sickened me was seeing how

00:43:38.060 gratified they were in inflicting pain on people who had no recourse no ability to fight the legal and

00:43:44.620 judicial circle of hell created by the doj and federal courts in washington i often refer to them

00:43:51.180 as sadists there is something deeply wrong with them maybe being unemployed and under investigation

00:43:58.140 will allow them time to conduct some much needed soul searching but for now this is an historic day

00:44:04.860 worthy of much celebration okay now that's what i call a victory lap julie kelly thank you for your

00:44:13.980 service to the country you deserve a victory lap so i hope you're having a great day so congratulations

00:44:21.900 thank you for all of your work on that um so now do you feel sorry for the ones getting fired do you feel

00:44:30.940 sorry for them now i don't all of my sort of instinct for empathy just went completely away if you stand in

00:44:40.620 the court and they seem to you like say this and they seem to you like they're enjoying it yeah yeah that's

00:44:48.380 that's that's got to be there's got to be a response to that and there was

00:44:54.060 meanwhile secretary of defense p hegseth uh he's made some changes to the uh the news coverage for

00:45:02.940 the department of defense and he evicted the following news entities from there i guess they have a

00:45:11.020 physical spot that they that they have control of uh so they can be closer to the department of defense

00:45:18.380 so he's evicting the new york times npr nbc and politico from their pentagon offices so they can make room

00:45:27.500 for one american news network the new york post breitbart and huff post

00:45:35.180 now there's one name on that list that you said what now you i'm sure you understand why you'd want

00:45:44.620 one american network new york post and breitbart right you understand those but why the hoffington post

00:45:52.460 is he just trying to be both sides you know just saying hey it's not about being right leaning it's more

00:45:58.860 about being a non-traditional media but here's the thing uh buzzfeed owns the hoffington post and vivek

00:46:10.300 ramaswamy recently bought eight percent of buzzfeed so maybe this is looking ahead a little bit

00:46:18.140 in the sense that uh it could be the that buzzfeed is gonna take on more of a vivek ramaswamy tone

00:46:27.500 he only he only has eight percent of it so i don't know if that's enough to affect a change but we'll see

00:46:33.900 and maybe maybe there's some thought that uh that would trickle down to the uh huffington post that's owned by buzzfeed

00:46:42.300 so the only way it makes sense to me is if the vivek level there is what mattered so maybe it is maybe

00:46:51.740 well on the all in pod chamath was talking about doge's success he says we're only nine or ten days

00:47:01.180 in and he said the fact that we're already at a billion dollars a day is really incredible

00:47:06.140 and there's been no discernible impact uh i believe that's up to four billion dollars a day now

00:47:12.460 i think i think elan said they're finding four billion dollars a day now that they can cut so i i'm not

00:47:19.980 going to believe any of the specific numbers coming out of doge because doge is and and rightfully so

00:47:27.740 trying to make us um understand that it's working so that we'll keep backing it so if they make some

00:47:36.460 claims early on that are maybe hyperbolic or a little exaggerated or or they give us a number that's a

00:47:43.100 multi-year number but it looked like it was just one year i'm going to give them a lot of passes

00:47:49.020 because one of the things i always say is that the first impressions

00:47:53.260 become a weapon so if they can cause a first impression that oh my goodness this doge stuff 1.00

00:47:58.700 is working so well we want more of it more more it's so good and that's what they're doing so there there

00:48:06.300 is a useful practical and desirable level of pr

00:48:12.220 are for doge that i think they're doing a good job of making it look like it's hitting the ground

00:48:19.820 running and getting some stuff done and the more that you think it's happening the more likely it will

00:48:25.900 because it just sets the tone if other if other government entities see that the other ones got

00:48:33.340 gutted and and there was no bad impact on the country it just makes all the rest of the work

00:48:38.780 easier so i'm in favor of calling out doge for huge success maybe even before it happens

00:48:48.700 that would be normal business to kind of over claim that the first day is doing great

00:48:54.540 so it's very normal there's nothing creepy you or you know dishonest about it because it's just a

00:49:01.740 universal trait um so i'm okay with that one of the things that chamath points out is that the doge

00:49:09.980 teams each have an engineer on them now that's good thinking because imagine being a team and it's your

00:49:17.980 job to go into some part of the government you've never had any access to and you have to figure out

00:49:22.860 how it's all connected to everything else you're gonna have to bring an engineer just to figure out

00:49:28.620 everything's connected and then secondly you want the engineer to say wait a minute that's what they do

00:49:35.900 this is all they do i can do that with a software program i can write in 10 minutes now i'm exaggerating

00:49:43.660 of course but you need an engineer to say i can get rid of this whole thing you know i'll just put

00:49:49.820 in this ai or we'll skip it or whatever so yeah engineer you gotta have an engineer on every team

00:49:56.540 and the fact that elon knows that and he's he's working on that model so good oh that is so good

00:50:05.580 yeah just the design of the system is impressive there's an engineer on every team now i love engineers

00:50:13.340 and i think they're the least or the most underappreciated job in the world because

00:50:18.540 they're the ones who have changed the world most fundamentally let's see if they can do it on the

00:50:22.620 government um i guess a thousand epa employees are going to go on probation probationary status and

00:50:32.780 might be fired immediately cnn's reporting um here's the interesting one so apparently the highest ranking

00:50:40.540 person in the treasury um david uh lebrick he resigned rather than comply with doge for access to audit

00:50:52.300 where they spent trillions of dollars a year trillions of dollars go through the system and as soon as doge

00:51:02.540 said can we see what's in there see where the money went the person in charge quit now i don't know

00:51:11.260 how that could be more damning the only thing that would be more damning is if they've already left the

00:51:16.220 country to a country with no extradition but let me tell you a universal truth one of the things we learned

00:51:25.180 in this story allegedly is that there was never any audit to money requests that went through the treasury

00:51:33.660 they simply said yes to everything now i hope that's not literally true but it's being reported that

00:51:40.780 they didn't even have the function to check there was nobody whose job it was to even check they just

00:51:46.860 said yes and some of that would include uh maybe some requests that you wouldn't want them to pay

00:51:56.700 including payments to quote fraudulent or terrorist groups so even if he knew the request was fraudulent

00:52:04.300 or going to a group that made other fraudulent requests i guess their their operating rule was they

00:52:10.460 would still release the money even to a terrorist even to a known fraudulent request because it wasn't

00:52:17.180 their job to check on the sources i guess they were just writing the checks anyway but apparently they've

00:52:25.340 never denied any payment at any time now if i told you that there was one guy in charge

00:52:34.220 of the system that would handle trillions of dollars in payments and he quit when they asked if they

00:52:41.260 could audit it what would you think about that because what i think is if you put anybody in charge of

00:52:48.700 trillions of dollars and then you don't watch where it's going isn't that a guarantee of corruption

00:52:56.700 like you you could design that system a thousand times and implement it in a thousand different countries

00:53:02.620 and then just play the tape forward for a couple years and whoever was in that position would be

00:53:08.940 stealing a trillion dollars a year because they can you could put you could even put an honest person

00:53:15.980 in that position and after a few years they'd be like seriously every time somebody asks for a check

00:53:23.100 i just authorize it and nobody checks nobody checks where i authorized the payment nobody ever sees if it's

00:53:31.660 legal or appropriate or you know ordered by congress nobody ever do you think that person's not going

00:53:39.340 to steal your money probably nine out of ten people in that situation would end up saying well maybe a

00:53:47.500 little bit money could come my way i'm so underpaid it would just be fair so yeah it's it's almost a

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00:54:55.660 casino.com for details please play responsibly some say that tulsi gabbard's confirmation to dni might be

00:55:03.980 in trouble um i guess she got mostly in trouble for not being willing to say that edward snowden is a

00:55:10.940 traitor only that he broke laws and but apparently as of this morning there were no republicans who had

00:55:19.980 said publicly they would not vote to confirm tulsi so if the republicans stay united she still gets in

00:55:29.740 but the thinking is that maybe even some republicans are going to have a problem with her

00:55:33.340 so we're gonna i think we're treating this one as a coin flip um i don't know if trump and supporters

00:55:42.860 will go as hard at the politicians if they don't say yes to this one if if rfk jr gets turned down

00:55:51.740 people are gonna flip out and i'm one of them i'm just gonna flip out and i'm just gonna want

00:55:59.340 something to be corrected very fast the other the other uh nominees i might say as i do with tulsi

00:56:07.820 i say huh i would very much like her to get confirmed but if she didn't i don't know if i'd go to war

00:56:16.860 especially if the other side had a reason they'd go okay here's my specific reason and this is a line

00:56:23.180 i can't cross i think i can live with it um but i wouldn't live i couldn't live with uh

00:56:32.940 the kennedy confirmation being derailed by fake news and stuff i can't live with that

00:56:38.060 that that one's life and death gotta get that one um i do want very much tulsi to get confirmed and

00:56:45.340 cash patel especially i think cash is going to be okay um so i'm going to say yes on cash you'll get

00:56:54.380 confirmed and tulsi's still a coin flip could go either way um remember bernie sanders was arguing with

00:57:05.180 rfk jr and the confirmation hearings and rfk jr pointed out he's one of the main

00:57:10.780 recipients of pharma donations and bernie argued no i'm not taking anything from the executives i'm

00:57:20.140 taking i only accept small donations those are from just employees and then i say what's the difference

00:57:30.380 what is the difference if the pharma industry be they the executives or be they the employees

00:57:37.500 have decided that you're the person that they're going to give money to because they like what

00:57:42.300 you're doing you're not going to change what you're doing right why does it matter that the employees

00:57:51.020 gave it versus the executives it's exactly the same thing it's exactly the same so no that's not a dodge

00:58:00.220 and also if you're familiar with the real world let's see how many of you know the real world

00:58:06.620 if you found out that an industry such as pharma had a lot of individual employee donations so much

00:58:14.060 so that when you summed it up it became you know the biggest number on the chart

00:58:19.980 what would you say about the willingness of the employees to give money to bernie sanders

00:58:26.860 well let me tell you how the real world works uh this is your ceo we've decided that we like bernie

00:58:33.580 sanders and we're going to give him some corporate money but we don't want to do it with our money

00:58:39.180 because it would look like we're putting too much of a too much of a thumb on the scale so we'd like

00:58:45.020 to encourage each of you to use your own judgment we're not going to tell you who to donate to we

00:58:50.540 like bernie we like bernie but we're not going to tell you who um maybe there'll be a few others

00:58:56.380 they'll get some money but here's a list of five people we think you should consider

00:59:01.260 so anybody on this list oh and by the way um we can't tell you for sure that we won't know who

00:59:09.500 you've donated to because maybe there's some kind of a company process to make it easy so they don't

00:59:16.620 just go to a website they do something internally and then it gets summed up and sent to the politicians

00:59:22.460 maybe so in the real world there's no such thing as the employees independently decided to give to a

00:59:28.540 candidate that's not really a thing there there are lots of individuals who do on their own decide

00:59:35.180 to give the candidates but if you see a bunch of them in one in one industry that means the

00:59:42.700 executives had their finger on the scale and were not so subtly nudging the employees in the direction

00:59:48.620 they wanted them to go and and again they can say any one of these five politicians would be a good

00:59:55.500 place to give a donation they don't have to just pick bernie you know bernie will get your share and

01:00:01.020 they would bribe the other people at the same time all right uh there's more coming out about kamala harris

01:00:11.180 in her campaign and not getting on joe rogan which was considered a an error but boy when you hear the

01:00:17.900 back and forth there's more details coming out the i think somebody has a book on it but when you

01:00:23.660 hear the details of the negotiations basically joe rogan said i can schedule you in lots of different

01:00:34.460 times you just have to do what everybody else does come to my come to the studio like trump like

01:00:42.380 everybody else and talk for three hours and i think he i think rogan wanted them to sign some something

01:00:50.380 like a some kind of deal billy john you're such a turd like that matters anyway um 0.77

01:01:03.340 um but the overall uh take on it is oh my god kamala harris's staff was so incompetent 1.00

01:01:12.940 they could not figure out how to essentially take joe rogan's money because appearing on joe rogan

01:01:19.500 is like money you know it's like one of the best things you could do if if you think you'll do a good

01:01:24.540 job so he's offering her just as he offered trump this gigantic platform i mean the best platform you

01:01:32.060 could ever be on in terms of reach and you know independence etc and they couldn't figure it out

01:01:40.140 and then apparently so here's part of why they couldn't figure it out they thought that if they

01:01:45.500 send kamala to texas for just that that the the money people would complain because texas is not in play 1.00

01:01:55.180 and that she should be spending all of her time in the states where she could win the state but she 1.00

01:02:00.860 couldn't win texas so why go there why go there is because joe rogan's there that's why so instead

01:02:09.740 of just saying oh the best thing we could do is go on the joe rogan show they they decided to

01:02:16.460 you know play it another way and and uh they started negotiating and they're like all right

01:02:23.100 here's what we'll do we'll have a fake rally in houston this is real we'll do a fake rally it's

01:02:29.820 really a rally but they would do it just for the purpose of giving her a reason i think it was on

01:02:35.100 maybe reproductive rights or something so that would give her a reason to come to the state and then 1.00

01:02:40.780 since she was already there that would give her a reason to do the joe rogan show but i think they

01:02:47.180 picked like the only day he wasn't available to do it so they couldn't schedule it they couldn't say

01:02:53.020 yes they had to come up with a whole fake cover story to get her in the state every part of that is 0.97

01:02:59.820 screaming incompetence let me tell you how trump would have handled that joe rogan invited me on the show

01:03:07.260 okay schedule it that was it that that's all she needed to do and did did he ever say oh i can't

01:03:20.220 go these days because people will judge me from what state no it had nothing to do with you know the fact

01:03:26.300 that he was likely to win the state because arguably trump didn't have a reason to go either because he

01:03:32.140 was going to win the state anyway but he just said where is the show i'm going to go to the show

01:03:38.940 because it's the most important platform in 2024 so it's uh it's quite amazing to see the the competence

01:03:50.460 difference in the campaign uh meanwhile democrat arizona governor katie hobbs

01:03:57.020 is being asked to explain what happened to 339 million dollars that quote disappeared from the

01:04:03.900 state budget huh uh meanwhile the her budget director mysteriously resigned okay does this sound like

01:04:15.100 the treasury department story the moment the moment the budget is being questioned because there's a

01:04:22.380 massive amount of money that's missing the budget director quits wait what the budget director quits

01:04:35.260 that doesn't sound good so um there is suspicion that 339 million dollars went

01:04:43.420 where it shouldn't the gateway pundits reporting on this they they've been all over it

01:04:47.260 um and uh one of the uh state reps talked to the gateway pundit and said quote uh maybe somebody's

01:04:57.340 siphoning off some funds and then he clarified maybe some are mistakes who knows but they don't match up

01:05:06.220 so the spending and the budget i guess just don't match something doesn't match we'll see

01:05:12.380 uh and then also gateway pundit jim hoft is writing about this um one of the things that we hope to

01:05:20.860 find out under the trump administration is if there's anything else to know about the seth rich story

01:05:28.460 now historically uh i've mostly been a skeptic about that really being related to anything important

01:05:36.380 and that it looked probably more like a random crime even though there were a ton of coincidences

01:05:41.580 involved i get it i get it killary clinton clinton etc so i understand the the suspicion about it

01:05:50.620 but this is this is interesting so apparently the fbi is still stalling um refusing to turn over the

01:05:58.780 seth rich records to an attorney ty clevenger and he's been trying to get him for years

01:06:07.100 and he keeps being denied now what happens when cash patel gets in the office

01:06:14.620 if he does is cash going to say yeah just release all that seth rich stuff

01:06:20.300 i don't know and i've heard that cash has seen some of the other secret files like he's seen the ufo files

01:06:29.340 he's seen the kennedy files do you think he's also seen the seth rich files

01:06:33.820 don't know but it could get interesting maybe something will happen there uh meanwhile

01:06:42.940 according to anthony watts at the climate change dispatch the ap is doing a story that

01:06:51.420 projects millions of european heat deaths using the debunked model now so the ap has a story that says

01:06:59.580 a whole bunch of people are going to die from too much heat in europe the model that they used to

01:07:06.060 model this risk it's even got a name the name is called the uh the rcp 8.5 so i think that means that

01:07:16.940 the there are a bunch of different scenarios you know if this and that happened it looks like this

01:07:22.620 but if this and that happened it looks like this so this is one of those but it's the most extreme

01:07:27.900 one and the one that literally nobody thinks is real so the ap wrote a story based on a climate model

01:07:36.380 that even the climate scientists say what you're using that model nobody thinks that model is real

01:07:44.380 why do they think it's not real um because let's see it assumes an improbable future of runaway coal

01:07:53.260 consumption stalled technological progress and unmitigated population growth so the population is stalled

01:08:01.420 uh coal is just one of the uh technologies probably will do a lot more uh nuclear than we will coal in

01:08:09.740 the long run and technological progress is not stalled it's the opposite so it's a discredited model

01:08:19.340 but the ap still ran with it because it was fit their narrative now here's my question how many models are

01:08:27.180 there and if there if there are more than one model isn't that proof that the models aren't real

01:08:35.660 to me it is if you had one model i'd say that might be it might be useful i mean i'd watch it to see if

01:08:42.620 it could predict but if you have a hundred models and they all based on different assumptions such as how

01:08:51.500 much coal you use etc like i just mentioned if they have different assumptions and there's a hundred of them

01:09:00.380 and they go in different directions does that mean they're not real

01:09:07.580 because i would i would think that even if you knew which assumptions are the real ones

01:09:12.460 that you then you would get into how did they calculate the end point and you'd find it's

01:09:17.340 bullshit yeah there's no such thing as predicting the future with complicated models of any kind

01:09:24.380 it's not true in climate it's not true in finance it's not true in anything anywhere there's no such

01:09:31.980 thing as a complicated many variable model that tells you the future never will be you know unless

01:09:38.860 a i can figure it out so um wait till you find out about climate models is what i like to say

01:09:47.100 wait till you find out about climate models lots more to find out there so uh as i mentioned owen

01:09:54.460 gregorian is going to have a spaces event on x that's the audio the audio uh app so you can listen in

01:10:03.260 go to you can either go to owen gregorian's x page or you can go to mine and you'll see the link it's

01:10:10.300 at the top near the top and that'll happen and probably as soon as he gets organized after i close

01:10:16.700 down i imagine he's starting to get ready to push that button any moment so you'll enjoy that i i've

01:10:23.420 popped into a number of them and uh people seem to be having fun so i like it um in the meantime i'm

01:10:31.660 going to talk privately to the locals people if you are not subscribing to the dilbert comic

01:10:38.540 you should do it on locals if you like the political stuff too or if you just want the comic

01:10:45.500 there's a cheaper way to get it just by subscribing to me on x for the comic you'll see the button up in

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 01, 2025

Episode 2737 CWSA 02⧸01⧸25

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