Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2740 CWSA 02⧸04⧸25

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00:00:53.780 So, so good.

00:00:55.000 There are two of them? I don't think there are two of them.

00:00:59.960 Or are there?

00:01:02.200 Well, let's see what's new.

00:01:04.060 Josh Hawley, Republican, has introduced some legislation to make it illegal to use that new cheap AI from China called DeepSeek.

00:01:15.980 Now, I think it's been tabled, which means that it doesn't have much chance of coming to a vote.

00:01:22.240 But do you remember my prediction about DeepSeek?

00:01:26.480 And people said, oh, no, China figured out a cheaper way to do things, and everybody's going to use this, and it's going to destroy the American AI industry.

00:01:37.100 Do you remember what I said?

00:01:39.240 I said, no.

00:01:41.460 Eventually, there will be laws against it.

00:01:43.820 There will be regulations.

00:01:45.100 There will be tariffs. 0.88

00:01:46.040 There will be some damn thing that the U.S. government will have to protect our AI industry.

00:01:52.840 And the way we'll do it is make it somehow impractical or illegal to use the Chinese version.

00:01:58.500 And here we are.

00:01:59.260 Now, this particular effort might not pass, but you can see what's coming, right?

00:02:06.720 The government is not going to let you use a free Chinese AI. 0.99

00:02:12.700 That's just not going to happen. 0.98

00:02:14.520 And if they did, it would be the dumbest thing that we ever did.

00:02:18.500 It would be the TikTok risk times a trillion. 0.82

00:02:22.020 I mean, this isn't a tough decision.

00:02:24.160 It will be illegal or impractical or kneecapped or something or has to run on an American server.

00:02:34.160 By the way, did you see Trump the other day?

00:02:37.800 I guess it was yesterday.

00:02:39.160 He was in the Oval Office, and as he likes to do now, he was signing an executive order but chatting with reporters.

00:02:46.440 And then there were two visitors to his office who makes you wonder why they were there at the same time.

00:02:53.580 They just came in to watch the event.

00:02:55.900 One of them was Larry Ellison, and the other was Rupert Murdoch.

00:03:02.680 Now, these are two people that Trump knows pretty well.

00:03:07.260 And Larry Ellison was also there not long ago.

00:03:13.120 So it seems like Larry Ellison, Larry Ellis, seems like he's in the White House a lot recently.

00:03:19.140 What do you think that's about?

00:03:20.340 Well, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it could be that the reason Ellis, Larry Ellis, and Rupert Murdoch were there at the same time,

00:03:33.160 I wonder if they're going to invest in TikTok.

00:03:36.780 Do you think that maybe they would be involved in that?

00:03:39.380 Or at least Ellis.

00:03:40.160 So I've got a feeling there's going to be an announcement soon about some American entity buying the TikTok assets, but not the algorithm.

00:03:49.900 So look for that.

00:03:51.180 And don't be surprised if you see some billionaires partner up to do that because it's expensive.

00:03:58.140 So Trump, apparently, he's suing the Pulitzer Prize board members for what he would consider giving a prize for the fake news that was reporting on the Russia collusion hoax.

00:04:15.040 So imagine being the writers for the New York Times and you're writing about the Russia collusion like it's real.

00:04:23.000 Turns out none of it was real, but you missed the entire story.

00:04:27.080 Everything that mattered about the story was that it wasn't real.

00:04:32.840 That was the story.

00:04:34.700 So the people who got the Pulitzer Prize, I don't know how many people are involved, but New York Times got Pulitzer Prize, one of the writers at least, didn't get anything right and got a Pulitzer Prize.

00:04:48.560 Yes. So this seems a little extreme to go after the Pulitzer Prize committee.

00:04:55.840 But on the other hand, wouldn't you like to know how they made the decision?

00:05:01.200 Wouldn't you like to know if the decision was entirely based on the quality of the writing?

00:05:07.700 Or were there any other considerations such as, well, let's let's get that Trump guy.

00:05:14.780 We'll give an award to the people going after him.

00:05:17.160 I don't know. I'd be interested. I'd be interested to know.

00:05:22.180 But one thing we can say for sure is that the Pulitzer Prize is worth nothing.

00:05:27.680 I've told you that before.

00:05:30.100 Quickly, I'll reiterate in case you don't know it.

00:05:34.040 Some time ago, many years ago, there was a nationally known reporter in my apartment doing an interview with me about Dilbert.

00:05:45.160 And happened to mention that his spouse was on the Pulitzer Prize committee.

00:05:52.120 So she would be one of just a small group of people who would decide which books would win the Pulitzer Prize.

00:05:58.380 And do you know what the system is?

00:06:01.720 They only look at the things that people submit.

00:06:04.680 So you have to submit your own work.

00:06:06.720 If you don't submit it, it's not up for the consideration.

00:06:10.540 So they, first of all, are only looking at the people who submitted.

00:06:13.660 And then they just read the books.

00:06:16.720 And then they talk about which one they liked.

00:06:20.120 Why in the world is that a prestigious prize?

00:06:23.520 What is that little group of book readers, the best book readers of all time?

00:06:27.600 And their taste should extend to the rest of the world. 0.81

00:06:30.420 It's a ridiculous prize.

00:06:31.960 You know, I do appreciate prizes where experts make the decisions. 0.76

00:06:38.160 Experts.

00:06:39.320 Or a prize where the entire public decides, oh, you're our favorite actor or actress.

00:06:45.280 I get that.

00:06:46.220 I mean, that's a pretty good prize if the entire group voted for it.

00:06:50.920 But if you won three out of five votes in a five-person committee, that means nothing.

00:06:59.320 Nothing. 0.98

00:07:00.080 You know that there are going to be virtue signaling and saying, oh, here's one about a crippled black lesbian. 1.00

00:07:07.240 So this is the best book ever written. 0.85

00:07:09.500 You know it's like that, right? 0.97

00:07:11.280 So no, the Pulitzer Prize is a ridiculous thing.

00:07:14.300 Well, the U.S. Navy, according to the Daily Mail, the U.S. Navy has a big old laser weapon they're testing.

00:07:23.480 And apparently they can just laser out of the sky a drone from five miles away.

00:07:30.460 Now, what used to be the problem with lasers is that they would use up all their energy and then, you know, you'd have to recharge them.

00:07:38.100 How are you going to do that?

00:07:39.300 It's going to take a while.

00:07:40.260 So they'd be vulnerable during the recharging stage.

00:07:42.680 But this particular laser is apparently powered by the power of the ship.

00:07:49.540 And the article didn't say it, but I think that means the ship is powered by a small nuclear reactor, which means that it can kind of keep that weapon running the whole time.

00:08:01.280 So I'm guessing the ship, maybe the ship has to slow down.

00:08:05.760 Maybe it doesn't.

00:08:06.520 I don't know.

00:08:06.860 Maybe it can do both.

00:08:07.920 Maybe it can navigate and also fire at the same time.

00:08:11.260 But it can, at the least, it can fire all day long.

00:08:14.720 So it can just keep firing.

00:08:17.120 It has infinite ammunition because it's just energy and it's creating the energy where it sits.

00:08:24.740 So that's kind of amazing.

00:08:28.540 Do you think we can get to the point where, now, I guess, I think clouds are still a problem, right?

00:08:34.000 If you're using a laser weapon, can you zap through a cloud if you could identify where something was?

00:08:41.380 I don't know about that.

00:08:42.620 Maybe the laser can go through the cloud.

00:08:44.580 You just have to be able to identify where you're shooting by some other means.

00:08:49.900 But anyway, that can be one of the biggest changes in all of military history.

00:08:54.240 Moving from bows and arrows to guns to rockets to lasers.

00:09:02.980 We were always going to be with lasers.

00:09:05.320 It was always going to happen.

00:09:08.040 All right.

00:09:09.760 It's called the Helios system.

00:09:12.420 All right.

00:09:12.640 Let's talk about all of the hoaxes.

00:09:15.560 You ready for this?

00:09:17.000 You're not going to like it because not all the hoaxes are on one side.

00:09:21.200 That's just the way it is.

00:09:23.840 Sorry.

00:09:25.640 All right.

00:09:26.460 Do you remember the news that the Doge people had found that there was a $50 million budget for condoms for Gaza?

00:09:38.520 Do you remember I said, that's not real?

00:09:42.620 And people said, oh, Scott, you don't understand.

00:09:45.580 You don't understand how bad it is.

00:09:47.360 That's real.

00:09:48.300 And I said, that's not real.

00:09:49.980 That the closest that could be to real is that there was money allocated for reproductive health services.

00:09:59.180 And the news came out that there was money for reproductive health services.

00:10:04.640 Now, you could argue that we shouldn't be spending it.

00:10:07.060 But if you're going to give aid to Gaza and you said, what's the thing they need most?

00:10:14.840 Well, I would think somewhere in the top three or top five would be reproductive health. 0.97

00:10:21.740 And that's got to be right near the top of anybody's requirements.

00:10:25.620 So the big question would be aid or no aid.

00:10:28.420 If you're going to do the aid, you might as well do the things that people need the aid for.

00:10:33.740 And that would include all manner of reproductive things. 1.00

00:10:37.480 Condoms would be very low on the list.

00:10:40.260 But maybe.

00:10:42.100 I mean, it's better than unwanted pregnancies, I suppose, especially in that situation.

00:10:46.220 So I think Trump took the 50 million and took it up to 100 million just because he's Trump so he can.

00:10:56.080 Now, there was also a separate story that the Gaza was not Gaza as in Israel's fight with Gaza.

00:11:05.920 But there's another place called Gaza in Africa.

00:11:09.460 Have you heard of this part?

00:11:11.760 So apparently there was some aid that may have also included reproductive health, which means it might have also included some condoms for a place called Gaza in Africa.

00:11:23.420 Now, I'm not sure if that's true or not.

00:11:25.800 But here's the thing.

00:11:27.700 There was never 50 million dollars just for condoms for Gaza.

00:11:31.260 So if you thought that was 100% true, it wasn't 100% true.

00:11:38.100 But was it directionally true?

00:11:42.620 Yes-ish, meaning that if it's in the category of reproductive health and it's a lot of money and it was going to the Gazans, yeah.

00:11:53.000 I mean, it's directionally true.

00:11:56.160 But it sounds pretty bad when you say it's just condoms.

00:11:58.680 So I don't mind when Trump exaggerates things that are directionally accurate, which is we should take a look at why we're giving anybody any money for anything.

00:12:09.740 That's okay with me.

00:12:11.680 Let's take a closer look.

00:12:13.800 Do you remember when Trump turned on the spigots and created all that free water for California when we needed it the most?

00:12:23.280 Do you remember what I said?

00:12:25.320 I said, really?

00:12:27.540 Really?

00:12:28.680 Really?

00:12:30.140 He just said, open the spigot, and then all the problems were solved?

00:12:35.780 That doesn't sound real to me.

00:12:38.520 So I've been looking into it and looking into it, and then the next thing I found was that the water situation in California is way too complicated for anybody to understand and explain.

00:12:51.940 It's just too complicated.

00:12:53.080 It's just too complicated.

00:12:54.720 But the best I can determine is that not all the water is connected.

00:12:59.500 So even if you turn the spigot in one part of the state, it doesn't mean that the firefighters in L.A. are getting any more water.

00:13:07.760 And indeed, apparently they did not.

00:13:10.280 But you're saying, well, that's okay, as long as the farmers got more water.

00:13:15.980 There's no indication that any farmers got more water, but that's okay, as long as we don't run out of water for residents.

00:13:24.920 Because sometimes we have to manage our water in California, and we have to cut back.

00:13:30.040 So if at least solve that, but there's no indication to solve that, where'd the water go?

00:13:38.960 And then there's some people saying that he made it worse because he released some water from some dams that we might need later in the year when things get too dry.

00:13:51.240 And then other people who know even more say, no, this is before the snow melts.

00:13:57.360 Once the snow melts, those dams that were already nearly full would be overfilled, and they would have to release the extra water anyway.

00:14:07.340 So all Trump did was release the extra water a few weeks early to basically nothing.

00:14:14.840 So here's my challenge to you.

00:14:17.720 If you can find any evidence that Trump released some water to anybody who could use it, let me know.

00:14:25.520 Because I'm not aware of any water that went to anybody.

00:14:31.080 But does it make a great story?

00:14:34.160 It really does.

00:14:35.620 It's one of the best first CEO stories.

00:14:38.700 Do I mind that Trump is creating a, let's say, a brand or reputation or, I'm going to say legend.

00:14:47.500 I mean, at this point, I think Trump has already passed that in politics.

00:14:50.860 He's sort of operating in legend territory, you know, you can avoid the assassination attempts, you avoid the jail, you came back against all, you know, against all odds.

00:15:03.320 That's not politics, right?

00:15:06.500 That's legend.

00:15:08.640 You know, there are only a few figures who have ever been in this category.

00:15:12.200 So as a legend, he's much more effective, meaning that he can get stuff for me and for you and for Americans that he wouldn't be able to do if he were a politician.

00:15:28.000 That would be the first term.

00:15:29.820 First term politician.

00:15:31.880 Second term?

00:15:33.840 Legend.

00:15:34.800 The legend can get way more than a non-legend.

00:15:38.920 So if embellishing his early successes solidifies his legend, that's probably more good than bad.

00:15:50.100 But we still need to fix our water problem in California.

00:15:54.600 I'm pretty sure that's not fixed.

00:15:57.080 So separate, separate conversation.

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00:16:59.820 Do you remember the story about Trump is suing 60 Minutes for editing the Kamala Harris interview?

00:17:11.180 And apparently the edits made her look smarter than she was. 0.97

00:17:15.880 And the 60 Minutes defense is it was ordinary editing.

00:17:19.720 It was editing, but it was the ordinary editing that they would do for anybody.

00:17:23.980 Now, I've heard this story, and I've even talked about this story, but you know what I haven't seen and haven't talked about?

00:17:32.660 I haven't seen the edit.

00:17:34.520 So apparently the full transcript has been released so that, you know, people digging into it can see exactly what she really said and then compare it to the video.

00:17:44.140 So CNN's take is that they've looked at the transcript and they've looked at the edit, and it's just a normal edit.

00:17:52.660 So do you believe that?

00:17:55.160 Do you believe CNN's take that it's a normal edit?

00:17:58.960 Let me tell you something that you wouldn't know unless you've been interviewed lots of times, like I have.

00:18:04.700 It is completely normal for entities to change what you said and put it in quotes.

00:18:13.580 Let me say that again.

00:18:15.400 It's completely normal.

00:18:17.180 I'm not saying it's good.

00:18:19.060 Good is separate.

00:18:20.240 We'll talk about whether it's a good.

00:18:21.680 It's completely normal for me to do an interview and for them to make up a quote, put quotation marks around it, and assign it to me.

00:18:32.820 Did you know that that's normal?

00:18:35.240 It's normal.

00:18:37.100 It's really weaselly, and almost always they get a quote wrong, meaning that when they make up their quote, it's not what you would have said, and it's not even something you'd agree with.

00:18:48.320 Unfortunately, that's normal.

00:18:50.620 Now, if the made-up quote is so bad, you know, maybe you'd have some action.

00:18:56.600 Maybe you'd demand some correction or something.

00:19:00.380 But I hate to tell you how normal that is.

00:19:02.760 Now, there's another kind of normal at it where they make you look smarter than you were.

00:19:08.640 But the reason they do that has more to do with being good TV.

00:19:12.300 It's not as much about making you look good, although they do like you to look good because then other people will come on your show.

00:19:23.120 If you're a show where you depend on people coming on and saying what they think, you want to make them look good so that the next person you ask doesn't say, well, I saw what you did with the last one.

00:19:35.880 There's no way I'm going to go into that torture.

00:19:41.360 So you have to be good to your subjects in a fairly public way to stay in business.

00:19:47.660 So here's what would seem to you like a very inappropriate edit.

00:19:54.020 And you could argue it is inappropriate.

00:19:56.480 But I'm going to only tell you the context, how normal it is.

00:20:00.760 So let's say if what Kamala Harris did was stumble over a question.

00:20:06.240 But maybe she circled back to it in another part of the interview.

00:20:11.800 This is not what happened.

00:20:13.100 I'm just giving you a for example.

00:20:14.780 So let's say the first time she maybe heard the question wrong or she used the word wrong or she stumbled over a word.

00:20:22.360 But then a minute later, she circled back because she knew she didn't give a good answer and then gave you a nice, tight answer. 1.00

00:20:32.020 Well, you could argue that showing both answers would be more true because you could see that she messed up one answer.

00:20:40.220 But then you'd see that she got a tight, nice answer when she thought about it for a moment.

00:20:45.560 It would be completely normal for the editors to take out the muffed up answer because it makes a cleaner video.

00:20:55.480 Oh, this is what she thinks.

00:20:57.400 She said it once not so well.

00:20:59.480 She said it once well.

00:21:00.480 Well, let's show the one where she said it well.

00:21:03.480 Would that be?

00:21:04.640 Do you get sued for that?

00:21:06.900 Well, maybe because in the context of a political race, can this person think and talk at the same time is a real big question.

00:21:18.640 If it were a celebrity, just let's say any Hollywood celebrity, you would absolutely make that edit.

00:21:26.140 And it would be the right thing to do because you just want the right you want them to look good.

00:21:32.720 You want the audience to like it.

00:21:34.780 You don't want them to see all the, you know, tripping over their own words.

00:21:40.120 So, yes, that would be an appropriate edit.

00:21:42.600 So, where it gets interesting is that the only context where that kind of tightening up editing is inappropriate or at least questionable is the exact thing that they were doing, which is introducing the country to Kamala Harris in a tense situation.

00:22:00.740 Under that very specific situation, the public kind of needs to see the whole thing because it's the stumbling over the words that's that is the show.

00:22:12.880 Now, that's the meat that that's not the the fluff that you cut off the top.

00:22:18.620 Oh, let's get rid of some fluff and get down to the meat.

00:22:21.100 No, the meat would be when she flubbed something because that's exactly what everybody was looking for.

00:22:27.380 So I think the the Trump people have an argument, but I think I'm going to side with 60 minutes only on the sense that I don't think they can win if it went to court.

00:22:38.220 They might settle and that and that would be a win in itself, but I don't think they could win in court because it's too close to normal, too close to normal.

00:22:49.680 It isn't like it.

00:22:51.160 Like I said, it's a special case, but I don't think it's enough of a special case to convince a jury.

00:22:57.300 Well, so Jake Tapper was talking to Democrat Chris Murphy and Chris Murphy was listing all the terrible things about, I don't know, Elon Musk and Trump or whatever.

00:23:13.820 But one of the things in his list, Chris Murphy's list, was that Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute.

00:23:20.160 And I'm watching this and I'm saying to myself, is Jake Tapper going to let that go?

00:23:27.040 Is he going to let him say that Musk made a Nazi salute when we know that's not true and Jake Tapper knows that's not true?

00:23:36.500 Is he going to let that stand?

00:23:38.860 To his credit, Jake Tapper said at the end, he let Chris Murphy finish.

00:23:46.420 And he said, just, you know, I'm paraphrasing, but he said something like, you know, just to clarify, the Trump campaign says that was not a Nazi salute, but we haven't heard from Elon Musk.

00:24:02.700 What? 0.97

00:24:03.920 You haven't heard from Elon Musk because you think he's going to fucking confirm it was a Nazi salute or you think there's some fucking possibility it was one? 1.00

00:24:13.360 You piece of shit. 1.00

00:24:15.960 You fucking piece of shit, Jake Tapper. 1.00

00:24:19.000 You know it wasn't intended. 1.00

00:24:21.900 You know it wasn't. 0.99

00:24:23.320 And the reason you don't have a quote from Elon Musk is because it's too fucking stupid to even consider answering it directly because nobody with a brain over IQ of 70 thinks that is real. 1.00

00:24:36.000 We all know it's a stupid fucking question. 1.00

00:24:38.880 It's a stupid fucking hoax. 1.00

00:24:40.800 It's like the fine people hoax. 1.00

00:24:42.400 It's despicable that you would even let that thing continue.

00:24:47.160 And it is a complete, complete embarrassment to CNN. 0.68

00:24:52.060 Just a total embarrassment.

00:24:55.620 So remember the correct response to the, did Elon give the Nazi salute? 1.00

00:25:04.440 The correct response is only a fucking idiot would think that. 1.00

00:25:09.460 Oh, but, oh, but, but did you see what his arm did? 1.00

00:25:11.800 Yes.

00:25:12.300 Yes. 1.00

00:25:12.880 And only a fucking idiot would think he gave a Nazi salute at that time in history. 1.00

00:25:18.860 Smartest guy we know standing in front of a crowd. 1.00

00:25:22.700 Many crowds he's been in front of.

00:25:24.480 He knows how that works. 1.00

00:25:25.480 And you think, you're so dumb, you think he gave an intentional Nazi fucking salute. 1.00

00:25:32.040 You're an idiot. 1.00

00:25:33.540 There's no other, there's no other conversation to be had. 1.00

00:25:36.800 Oh, but his hand was definitely above his waist. 1.00

00:25:40.560 No, you're a fucking idiot. 1.00

00:25:42.540 End of story. 1.00

00:25:43.380 So then, then right after that, because I like watching CNN and imagining that I'm telling people all the propaganda as it happens.

00:25:55.760 Like I have this fantasy that I will, I'll get a hold of some college students or maybe some older high school kids in a class and say, I want to show you CNN or MSNBC.

00:26:07.860 And I'm going to stop it every time it goes from news to propaganda.

00:26:13.840 Did it not stop?

00:26:15.280 Okay.

00:26:15.740 You see where he's acting as if there's some ambiguity about the Nazi salute?

00:26:20.420 That's not news.

00:26:21.860 That's propaganda, what you're watching.

00:26:24.140 All right.

00:26:24.400 Turn it on.

00:26:24.880 The next thing they do is they go to a package where somebody is trying to make the case, their correspondent, that what Trump is doing is exactly what the 2025 project said he would do.

00:26:38.880 And, and all the smart news people have been warning you.

00:26:42.180 They've been telling you, they've been telling you he's going to use that 2025 as his guideline.

00:26:46.680 And now, now two thirds of the things he's done are right in line with the document.

00:26:52.360 Two thirds.

00:26:54.040 Yeah, two thirds. 1.00

00:26:54.880 And so they smugly rest their fucking stupid faces like, got it. 1.00

00:27:01.040 We got them. 1.00

00:27:02.240 Two thirds.

00:27:02.860 We told you.

00:27:04.040 Yeah, they denied it. 0.62

00:27:05.880 Those lying Republicans denied it.

00:27:08.140 But two thirds of what he did.

00:27:11.300 Two thirds. 1.00

00:27:12.020 Look at my smug, stupid fucking face. 1.00

00:27:14.840 We got him. 1.00

00:27:16.060 Got him this time.

00:27:20.920 Any of you have even been casually following the news?

00:27:24.880 You know, you know, that when Trump said, you know, I haven't read it.

00:27:30.360 That's not my, that's not my document.

00:27:32.880 You know that everybody said that the document was mostly regular Republican stuff.

00:27:41.020 Right?

00:27:41.860 Don't all of you know that?

00:27:44.760 I'll bet everyone watching here knows.

00:27:47.100 I'll bet every one of you.

00:27:48.160 Every one of you probably knows that the document was always mostly ordinary Republican stuff.

00:27:57.440 And the argument was that there was some stuff in it that was, you know, a little more extreme than the ordinary Republican stuff.

00:28:06.580 And the argument from Trump was that he hadn't seen it.

00:28:10.780 So he's not buying into that stuff that maybe people think is a little beyond what Republicans typically do.

00:28:16.860 And so what CNN discovered in their gotcha was exactly what the Republicans have been saying since the beginning.

00:28:28.100 Most of that document is normal stuff that, of course, we agree with the things that you're talking about, like a, I think it was a national ban on abortion.

00:28:37.980 Trump is on record, repeatedly saying he doesn't want it.

00:28:43.720 So that's just one example.

00:28:45.580 So they ended up proving exactly what Republicans claimed.

00:28:49.380 It's mostly, mostly normal stuff.

00:28:53.220 And then there's a bunch of it that Trump doesn't endorse and he didn't do any of those things.

00:28:59.460 He didn't do any of those things that he didn't endorse that's in the document. 0.97

00:29:03.540 So they actually ran a piece that was pure propaganda in which their idiot viewers, who are just kept in the dark about any kind of context, 0.92

00:29:14.700 believe that they saw a proof that the entire election, the Republicans were lying about the 2025 and the news was right all along. 0.99

00:29:24.520 Exactly the opposite happened. 0.97

00:29:27.140 Un-fucking-believable. 0.74

00:29:28.280 Anyway, according to the BBC, in the news, the BBC, they're, they say they're confident, according to their experts, 0.84

00:29:43.280 their experts are confident that the LA fires were being made worse by climate change.

00:29:48.600 Hmm.

00:29:49.740 Let's say, how could you be confident about that?

00:29:51.680 Was it because one of your climate models said that LA would have a fire this year?

00:29:58.020 No, no, there was no model that said that.

00:30:01.320 So if you don't have models that can predict what's going to happen in any one micro location,

00:30:07.620 why would you say that your models are telling you that that was going to happen in that micro location?

00:30:15.420 Wait till you find out about climate models.

00:30:18.280 I know many of you watching this are skeptical about climate change and the climate models in particular.

00:30:25.560 But wait till you find out.

00:30:28.240 You know, we're going to talk about USAID and finding out, you know, the deepest, darkest,

00:30:32.740 most corrupt part of the government has been discovered.

00:30:35.460 And it probably blew your mind when you first started learning about USAID.

00:30:40.420 Wait till you find out about the climate models.

00:30:42.400 It's the only thing I can say with complete certainty.

00:30:46.960 Oh, there will be a day.

00:30:49.260 Might not be that far away.

00:30:51.560 But someday there's going to be a whistleblower.

00:30:54.520 And somebody who actually works on the models is going to tell you how they do it.

00:30:59.600 And you're not going to like it.

00:31:02.740 And this is one that I can wait forever for.

00:31:06.760 You know, sometimes I'll make a prediction.

00:31:08.140 It's like 20 years off and I'll be like, I can wait.

00:31:12.520 You can mock me for 20 years.

00:31:14.580 I'll just wait.

00:31:16.020 And there it is.

00:31:17.580 But yeah, wait till you find out about the models. 0.76

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00:31:38.140 All right.

00:31:40.740 So the other things that are sort of fake news is there's no Panama deal.

00:31:46.440 Panama made an offer to get rid of the Chinese operators of the canal in two years when the deal was going to expire.

00:31:56.160 When that was reported by many people as a big success, I said, there's no deal.

00:32:05.420 That's an offer.

00:32:07.640 Until Trump says there's a deal, you don't have a deal.

00:32:10.980 That's just an offer.

00:32:12.100 And so what did Trump say when he was asked about it?

00:32:15.560 He goes, we'll see.

00:32:17.300 We'll see.

00:32:17.920 It's not everything I want.

00:32:20.140 So Trump was still negotiating.

00:32:22.240 So no, we don't have a deal on Panama.

00:32:25.520 We have an offer.

00:32:27.280 The offer seems like a, I would say a good faith offer.

00:32:32.420 I hope so.

00:32:34.840 But Trump may say good faith or not good faith.

00:32:38.500 Our national interest requires something extra, maybe something faster, maybe something that involves, I don't know, could be something else.

00:32:48.520 So Trump being good at negotiating doesn't just say yes to the first offer.

00:32:54.180 He says, that's a good start.

00:32:55.960 What else can you give me?

00:32:57.420 Because you're not there yet.

00:32:58.780 So he knows how to do this.

00:33:01.280 So trust him.

00:33:02.560 He knows how to do it.

00:33:04.440 Likewise, the Mexico deal is not exactly a deal until a lot of other things are decided.

00:33:11.360 But it does appear that Mexico says they're going to put 10,000 people on the border.

00:33:16.200 And Canada may also not be the deal that we think it is, meaning that they may not be able to do the things that they said.

00:33:28.080 There was a whole bunch of offers that came out of Justin Trudeau's office.

00:33:33.040 He posted it on X.

00:33:35.120 He was going to do things like create task forces to work on fentanyl, put lots of bodies on the border,

00:33:43.660 have a whole bunch of fentanyl related, you know, legal efforts.

00:33:48.300 So it was a pretty long list and it looked pretty serious and it looked like kind of exactly what you'd want him to do.

00:33:55.120 And it was a budget attached and everything.

00:33:57.400 But apparently the Canadian government is in such disarray with Trudeau having resigned but still in the job that it's unclear whether they can budget and execute.

00:34:07.880 So they may have made a promise that they can't deliver or can't deliver right away or can't deliver until the government changes or they do something to pass a new budget.

00:34:21.320 So that might be a little lost in the, might get a little lost in the bureaucracy, we'll see.

00:34:27.040 But that's why both Mexico and Canada have 30 days because they're not there yet.

00:34:35.800 The reason Trump put off the, put off the tariffs on Canada and Mexico for 30 days is because they were moving in the right direction.

00:34:44.760 Not because they were there.

00:34:46.600 If they were there where, where Trump needed them to be, they wouldn't delay 30 days.

00:34:52.960 They would say, oh, okay, tariffs are off.

00:34:54.620 You gave me what I need.

00:34:55.640 But he also talks about tariffs being a, you know, source of income and he loves them.

00:35:01.180 So, you know, maybe nothing makes them go away. 0.86

00:35:05.220 Now on CNN, one of their dumbest panelists, I can't remember which one, the one who always does the over-talking of Scott Jennings, you know, whenever he talks, she goes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and shakes her head like a bobblehead so that you can only look at her. 0.90

00:35:21.380 She said that Trump failed on Mexico and Canada. 0.97

00:35:26.740 And you would say, wait, what?

00:35:30.260 Both of them offered him what, you know, at least some part of what he wanted.

00:35:37.280 And her argument on CNN was, no, all they offered was what they were going to do anyway.

00:35:43.460 So he didn't get anything.

00:35:45.800 What?

00:35:47.260 What reporting is that based on?

00:35:49.380 Now, I mentioned it because it's in the realm of something that could be true, meaning I don't reject it automatically.

00:35:57.500 But what reporting is she seeing?

00:36:00.220 I've seen no reporting that says Canada was going to do all those things anyway.

00:36:04.540 So all they did was tell you what they were going to do anyway.

00:36:08.140 I think, did she just make that up?

00:36:09.820 Yeah, I don't even understand that that could be on TV.

00:36:14.380 Because if it's true, then all the reporting would say that on CNN and MSNBC, and they'd say, ha, ha, he got nothing.

00:36:23.320 But if only one person believes it was going to happen anyway, so nothing happened, how do you keep that person on the air?

00:36:31.420 I mean, that's just making up stuff, isn't it?

00:36:33.560 But I'm open to be wrong.

00:36:35.620 So I'm open to finding out there was something to that complaint.

00:36:40.400 I don't think so.

00:36:42.240 But I'll be open-minded for a minute or two.

00:36:47.400 Anyway, according to the Gateway Pundit and other sources as well, there's a new survey, KPMG survey, that says half of Canadian businesses, 48% actually,

00:36:59.300 are planning to move production or investments to the U.S. to stay competitive.

00:37:05.620 Let me put this in context.

00:37:13.040 So Trump says they would make a good state, but you say to yourself, oh, Scott, come on.

00:37:22.780 They're not going to go from a country to a state.

00:37:26.740 Like nobody's going to do that.

00:37:28.000 I mean, it's so far away, so far away from anything that's possible.

00:37:31.220 It's way outside the realm of possibility because they're a whole functioning country.

00:37:37.160 If you're a whole functioning country, you're not just going to give yourself up to be a subset of some other nation.

00:37:45.100 That's never going to happen.

00:37:46.320 Did I mention that half of the Canadian businesses are looking to move to America?

00:37:54.060 If half of your businesses are looking to move to America, I'm going to whisper this in Biden fashion because it needs a Biden whisper.

00:38:05.360 However, if half of your companies are considering moving out of your country, you're already not a country.

00:38:14.740 You're more like a Schrodinger's cat country.

00:38:19.360 You might be a country, but there's just as good an argument that you're not one already because you can't even keep your businesses.

00:38:27.680 If half of your businesses are looking to get the hell out of your country and they have the ability to do so and they've already got plans and operations to move out of your country, you're already closer to a state than a nation.

00:38:46.880 Now, I'm not going to predict that Canada will become a state, but every time I think that things are a mile from possible and then Trump keeps talking and then something happens where I go, really?

00:39:04.340 Could this actually tip in the direction of actually happening?

00:39:09.980 We're watching Trump just change reality right in front of us.

00:39:15.280 Like what is possible?

00:39:16.880 I'll tell you, I have mixed emotions about this one.

00:39:21.680 My common sense, ha, ha, ha, I don't have any, tells me there's no way that Canada becomes a state.

00:39:30.560 Just no way.

00:39:32.680 But then I see stuff like that, that half of the companies want to get out of there and then Trudeau's already resigned.

00:39:43.220 I don't know.

00:39:43.940 Maybe they're not as much of a country as they think they are.

00:39:48.000 Maybe it's closer than you think.

00:39:49.760 I'll still bet against it.

00:39:51.740 But Trump, you know, shaking the box that hard, it always works for him.

00:39:57.220 Trump goes in and shakes the entire box.

00:40:01.120 Well, we're going to make you a state.

00:40:02.540 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:40:04.240 Well, we're going to put a tariff on you.

00:40:05.740 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:40:07.620 Well, how about you just do a whole bunch of things you weren't doing to secure the border?

00:40:11.780 Uh-uh.

00:40:12.120 Okay.

00:40:16.440 But watching Trump shake that box until they will take absolutely any path that gets the

00:40:23.020 box to stop shaking, because the thing they can't stand is they're shaking.

00:40:27.000 Oh, you've got to stop shaking this box.

00:40:29.500 Well, what are you going to do for me?

00:40:32.060 Well, I'm not going to do anything for you.

00:40:33.980 Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.

00:40:35.880 Hey, I can do a little for you.

00:40:37.900 Can you?

00:40:38.420 Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.

00:40:40.120 Oh, I can do a lot for you.

00:40:41.720 I can do a lot for you.

00:40:42.820 Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.

00:40:44.100 I can do more than I've ever said I could ever do for anybody.

00:40:46.860 Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.

00:40:48.260 I can do more than anybody in the whole world has ever done for anybody.

00:40:52.600 Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.

00:40:53.920 Okay.

00:40:55.980 It's fun to watch.

00:40:59.140 One of the things that Trump does better than anybody when it comes to persuasion is creating

00:41:06.280 a clear difference between making him happy and making him unhappy.

00:41:12.440 Nobody does that better.

00:41:14.460 If you make me happy, oh, man, I'm going to praise you.

00:41:19.200 Your career will look good.

00:41:21.340 You're going to get votes.

00:41:22.260 You're going to get funding.

00:41:23.580 You'll be nationally loved. 1.00

00:41:25.700 But if I don't like you, I'm going to primary your ass. 1.00

00:41:31.600 I'm going to look at charges. 1.00

00:41:33.620 I'm going to sue you.

00:41:35.360 I'm going to basically take everything I have and put it against you.

00:41:39.680 I'm going to tariff you.

00:41:41.100 I'm going to put my military on your property. 0.99

00:41:43.140 There is no better technique.

00:41:48.380 The single best technique is to make the widest gap between giving him what he wants and not

00:41:55.060 giving him what he wants.

00:41:56.920 Nobody does that better.

00:41:58.940 And that is real basic persuasion.

00:42:01.860 If you don't get that part right, you know who doesn't get that part right?

00:42:05.960 Somebody like Justin Trudeau.

00:42:08.880 Right?

00:42:10.220 Because he's the nice guy.

00:42:11.320 Oh, we're nice.

00:42:12.680 We're nice.

00:42:13.220 We're empathy.

00:42:13.780 We're nice.

00:42:14.520 We're nice.

00:42:15.380 We're nice.

00:42:16.120 Oh, oh, we're going to fight back hard.

00:42:19.440 We don't like that.

00:42:21.140 But we're nice.

00:42:21.900 We're nice on the other things.

00:42:23.140 We're nice.

00:42:23.680 Oh, be our friends.

00:42:25.480 Oh, oh, we have a mild displeasure with that thing you're doing.

00:42:29.280 Oh, we don't like it.

00:42:30.560 There's no difference between Justin Trudeau being happy and being unhappy.

00:42:35.000 Like you don't feel any incentive to give him what he wants because he's a nice guy.

00:42:40.060 But you definitely feel an incentive to give Trump what he wants because the difference

00:42:45.660 between happy and unhappy Trump is a really big difference.

00:42:49.680 That's good stuff.

00:42:50.780 That's the leader you want.

00:42:51.800 Marco Rubio went to El Salvador and got a nice surprise.

00:42:59.480 So Bukele, head of El Salvador, who, as you know, cleaned up the gang problem in El Salvador

00:43:06.140 by building gigantic prison systems and just locking up everybody with a tattoo.

00:43:11.780 I'm exaggerating, but only a little bit.

00:43:14.680 He pretty much locked up everybody with a face tattoo.

00:43:19.620 I'm sure they had other charges, but I'm also sure that the face tattoo was plenty enough.

00:43:26.160 So did that work?

00:43:27.740 Yes, because the gang members put face tattoos on.

00:43:30.720 I'm exaggerating about the face tattoos to make a point that he just made sure he got everybody.

00:43:35.300 And then he makes an offer to the U.S. through Rubio that if America has a bunch of criminals

00:43:46.160 from other countries, that he can take some of the criminals and put them in their prison system

00:43:51.820 and they'll just charge us.

00:43:56.240 So he'll just charge a fee.

00:43:57.900 So we'll have a cheaper solution that keeps them in prison, but not in our prisons.

00:44:03.320 And then I suppose when they get out, then it would be El Salvador's problem about what to do with them. 0.72

00:44:08.860 I guess they'd repatriate them.

00:44:10.620 I don't know.

00:44:11.300 They would have an option.

00:44:13.060 But that's a hell of a good offer, isn't it?

00:44:17.680 Every time you see Bukele's actions, they have a Trump-like quality to them, don't they?

00:44:26.260 Like, you don't see it coming, which is wonderful, because then you can't stop talking about him

00:44:32.300 and thinking about him, because he did something that other people don't do.

00:44:35.920 And, you know, he made a big point that El Salvador's most important relationship is the United States.

00:44:44.540 Biggest trading partner.

00:44:46.640 They use the U.S. dollar.

00:44:47.940 And he just wants to make it super clear that being friends with him is a good idea

00:44:56.040 and being against him is a really bad idea.

00:45:00.820 Huh.

00:45:02.100 Huh.

00:45:02.880 Where do you learn that?

00:45:04.760 So being against him means that you're going to be locked up in prison.

00:45:08.420 Being for him means getting some excellent suggestions like, hey, how about we take some

00:45:16.480 of your excess prisoners?

00:45:17.820 You pay us.

00:45:18.620 We've got a prison system.

00:45:19.900 They'll fit right in.

00:45:22.220 That's what you need.

00:45:24.120 So he's the real deal, Bukele is, in terms of persuasion, right? 0.96

00:45:29.400 If there's anything else that goes wrong with him, I don't take responsibility.

00:45:32.640 The only thing I'll take responsibility for is saying, oh, he's got the full game.

00:45:39.580 All right.

00:45:39.700 He has the whole package.

00:45:41.340 So he does that thing where being his friend is a way better deal than not being his friend.

00:45:46.380 He gets all of it right.

00:45:49.600 Speaking of getting it right, the big story on the doge, we'll talk about doge, is that

00:45:55.900 there are some young people who have key roles.

00:46:00.240 I don't know how many older people there are who also have key roles, but the ones we're

00:46:04.780 talking about are four 20-ish year old kids, I'll call them kids because I'm old, who are

00:46:12.260 literally geniuses.

00:46:14.460 And we're not talking about somebody who just did well on their SATs, right?

00:46:19.760 We all know somebody who did well on their SATs.

00:46:22.760 I know people who aced their SATs.

00:46:25.220 I know a guy who got one wrong on his SATs.

00:46:28.000 He was a server at my old restaurant, young guy.

00:46:32.440 He got one wrong, and he retook the SATs.

00:46:36.340 He retook them because he got one wrong.

00:46:40.100 One.

00:46:41.500 One thing.

00:46:42.760 He retook it.

00:46:44.620 Got it all right.

00:46:45.540 Now, that's a really smart person, and he's not anywhere in the same category as these

00:46:55.440 four young people that Elon Musk hired.

00:46:58.280 They're the real deal.

00:47:00.620 It's one thing to be able to ace your SATs.

00:47:04.200 That's very impressive, by the way.

00:47:05.800 I couldn't do it.

00:47:06.680 I couldn't get anywhere near that.

00:47:08.160 But these guys, and they're all guys, they're in a whole different level.

00:47:13.940 I mean, you've heard some stories about what they've done already.

00:47:18.600 And so, of course, the Democrats who don't know how anything works are all concerned that

00:47:24.000 these young, inexperienced people are looking at some of the most important things in the

00:47:29.680 government and making decisions.

00:47:30.940 Now, they're not going to make final decisions, but they're like a super weapon that can drill

00:47:36.960 through any impenetrable topic.

00:47:39.960 They will not be stopped by complexity.

00:47:42.920 They will not be stopped by, oh, this is hard.

00:47:46.600 They will not be stopped by anything.

00:47:50.740 That's what makes them who they are.

00:47:53.200 They just won't be stopped.

00:47:54.600 Now, here's the thing that I don't understand, but neither does anybody else.

00:48:02.920 And that's going to be my point.

00:48:05.180 If I said to you, I'm going to take this guy who got 100% of everything right on the SATs,

00:48:11.900 and I'm going to hire him as my lawyer, could I predict how well he'll do?

00:48:19.200 Yes.

00:48:19.900 Yes, you could.

00:48:20.580 You would predict that he's not going to forget anything important.

00:48:24.960 He's going to take the best arguments.

00:48:26.940 He's going to put in the work.

00:48:28.840 Yeah, that'd be quite predictable.

00:48:30.980 But it would be predictable within the ordinary world, because there are ordinary lawyers who

00:48:37.120 do good jobs.

00:48:38.360 And you say, yeah, he's going to be one of those.

00:48:39.980 I predict he'll do a good job, and you'd be right.

00:48:43.180 You know what you can't predict?

00:48:45.880 Geniuses.

00:48:47.740 Geniuses.

00:48:48.180 And you can't predict the rate that they can do anything.

00:48:53.860 If you had somebody, you know, a Rubik's Cube, and they're an expert, they don't do it a

00:48:59.500 little bit better than you did.

00:49:01.980 It's like they're a different animal.

00:49:04.700 It's like you're looking at a domain you know nothing about.

00:49:07.600 You can't look at these four geniuses and predict anything, anything, except they're going to get

00:49:16.280 to the bottom of it.

00:49:17.460 I don't know how fast.

00:49:19.260 It might be faster and better than anything you've ever seen in your life.

00:49:23.340 They might be already building AI tools that didn't even exist just to solve a problem.

00:49:29.600 Right?

00:49:30.140 That's how smart they are.

00:49:31.140 We're talking about Isaac Newton level, like if he needs some calculus to solve a problem,

00:49:37.660 you invent calculus.

00:49:39.360 Right?

00:49:39.520 That's what we're talking about.

00:49:41.220 These are not normal people.

00:49:44.380 So just the fact that they're on our side.

00:49:48.600 Oh, my God.

00:49:50.400 That's who you want on your side.

00:49:51.820 Of course, they've been doxed because the Democrats have one play, which is, huh, you're

00:50:00.300 smarter than us? 1.00

00:50:01.500 Maybe we can kill you. 1.00

00:50:04.000 They got that one thing. 1.00

00:50:06.140 Huh?

00:50:06.860 You're more capable than we are?

00:50:09.260 Perhaps we can change the laws so you can't do that anymore.

00:50:13.100 Huh?

00:50:13.560 You're really, really good at what you do?

00:50:16.400 Hmm.

00:50:16.860 Maybe we need some DEI in there to stop that. 0.96

00:50:19.260 That's really all they have is stopping good people from doing good things.

00:50:23.860 That's basically the Democrat Party.

00:50:27.760 Yeah, anyway.

00:50:30.320 Somebody named Dylan Patel was on a podcast talking about Elon Musk trying to catch up in

00:50:38.000 the AI world.

00:50:38.700 So Elon Musk got, I guess you could call it the late start because he was early with funding

00:50:46.960 OpenAI, but then he pulled out of that effort.

00:50:51.440 And when OpenAI burst on the scene, he tried to be a fast follower, but to overtake them

00:51:01.020 as quickly as possible with a better game.

00:51:04.220 And his game is so good that he's already built the world's largest AI cluster, 200,000

00:51:09.520 GPUs.

00:51:10.300 Those would be NVIDIA boxes.

00:51:12.300 And I didn't know this.

00:51:14.820 Apparently, he bought a factory in Memphis and he upgraded the substation, tapped into

00:51:20.260 a natural gas line and is burning gas to generate power.

00:51:23.660 Okay, that's impressive.

00:51:24.920 But now he's building his own natural gas plant next door, deploying Tesla megapacks for

00:51:30.800 stable power and using industrial chillers for his water-cooled chips.

00:51:35.340 So remember I told you that the thing you can't predict about the four geniuses is how fast they

00:51:44.740 can do anything.

00:51:46.240 That's the, we don't understand.

00:51:48.300 It's like your dog trying to figure out why the light comes on when you enter the room.

00:51:51.620 The dog will never figure that out.

00:51:54.100 They just, they can't get there.

00:51:55.980 So when you say Elon Musk is starting behind on AI, it's Elon Musk.

00:52:05.120 Of course he's ahead already.

00:52:07.340 Of course he is.

00:52:09.440 Because he can do stuff that you can't do.

00:52:12.460 So there it is.

00:52:13.540 And he hires people who can do stuff that you can't do too.

00:52:16.500 So yeah, he's scaling up fast.

00:52:19.460 No doubt about it.

00:52:22.060 All right, let's talk about USAID.

00:52:23.980 Now, on one hand, it's the hardest topic in the world to talk about unless somebody is

00:52:30.100 already a little bit up to speed.

00:52:33.280 Like, what the hell is it?

00:52:35.980 So it's a, it's something that the, it's part of the government, but it's a part of the government

00:52:42.580 that works as a giant money laundering system for Democrats.

00:52:46.920 Now, that's not something I could have said with complete confidence until Doge got in

00:52:53.160 there and found out that it's a giant money laundering thing for Democrats.

00:52:59.440 Now, it's not the only thing it does.

00:53:02.040 So what makes it complicated is that it's a mix of maybe some things you like.

00:53:07.800 Maybe we funded some things in other countries and you say, you know, that made sense.

00:53:12.060 That's for, that helps us.

00:53:14.280 And it's also good for the other country.

00:53:17.020 But it seems like maybe most of it, or at least way too much of it, was dedicated to

00:53:25.400 absolutely corrupt behavior, just 100% corrupt.

00:53:30.440 And one of the things it could do is it could launder money through these NGOs. 0.53

00:53:35.720 These would be a non-government organization of which there are thousands.

00:53:41.760 So if you, let's see if I get this right.

00:53:44.880 So if you're a Democrat and you support funding of USAID, the USAID will give some money to,

00:53:53.560 let's say, an NGO that's doing something you like.

00:53:56.820 And you'd say, oh, okay, there's my tax money.

00:53:59.980 It went to an organization that has a name.

00:54:02.140 At least the name is Stuff I Like.

00:54:04.300 But then that organization has the ability to give some of their money to another NGO.

00:54:13.340 What?

00:54:14.880 How can it do that?

00:54:16.460 Well, it can.

00:54:17.020 There's nothing illegal about that.

00:54:18.720 And then that NGO can give money to a campaign of the Democrat who is in favor of funding the USAID.

00:54:27.900 Now, I think I got that right.

00:54:29.500 Now, you're going to say to me, they can't just donate the money that the government gave them back to a campaign.

00:54:36.480 No, not unless they launder it.

00:54:39.620 They have to launder it through these organizations so that by the time the organization donates to something that helps the,

00:54:48.800 maybe to a PAC or to something that helps the campaign, it looks like it was just ordinary, some kind of ordinary donation.

00:54:58.560 So, it does seem at this point that it's a major money laundering thing.

00:55:05.700 And then you see people like Bill Kristol.

00:55:08.660 He's getting some money from it.

00:55:10.360 Some say the AOC was found by a process that was funded by the USAID where they were looking to find, you know, young Democrats and turn them into high-level politicians.

00:55:25.200 She was part of a process.

00:55:26.680 It was like American Idol where they interviewed lots of people and they said, hey, we could turn you into something.

00:55:31.720 So, there are countless examples of what appear to be obvious corruption on top of what seemed to be obviously bad ideas for funding.

00:55:45.540 But where you see the bad ideas for funding, probably they're just, it's just a way to launder money into something that they really want to do.

00:55:54.260 So, now you might say to yourself, Scott, you don't need to get rid of it.

00:55:59.900 You could just get rid of the parts you don't like, like fire some managers, you know, do a reorg, get some real Republican leadership in there.

00:56:10.460 But 98% of them appear to be Democrats, which means that they're part of the resistance.

00:56:17.460 Which means, according to OMG, the O'Keefe Media Group, they just did an undercover thing and they got one of the USAID employees to say on camera, it was a hidden camera, that they were going to try to basically burrow in and thwart everything that Trump wants and just wait him out.

00:56:42.600 Exactly what you thought was going to happen because basically the order could be given and then it gets into the bureaucracy and then the bureaucracy just slow walks it and says, oh, we can't do that or it's not in the budget or we don't have people or it's not our top priority or something.

00:57:00.800 So, basically, the bureaucracy says, we're just going to thwart you.

00:57:06.200 Now, we only have, you know, one person on video, but there were reports and Elon Musk confirmed that that is apparently the dominant opinion.

00:57:17.800 The dominant opinion is that they're going to pretend that they're cooperating but thwart the administration.

00:57:27.500 So, what do you do in that situation?

00:57:30.800 Only one thing to do.

00:57:32.400 You've got to close the entire thing down.

00:57:34.680 And that's what Trump's going to do.

00:57:38.400 Just close the whole thing.

00:57:39.860 $50 billion.

00:57:41.200 Some say $38 billion, but it's many billions of money that they're just going to say, we're going to tuck that function temporarily under Marco Rubio.

00:57:51.900 He's got somebody assigned to it.

00:57:53.340 So, it's part of the State Department, whereas before it was sort of operating as doing stuff for the State Department, stuff for the Pentagon, and stuff for the CIA.

00:58:04.920 But now it's going to be tucked under Rubio.

00:58:08.220 And he does understand that you can't just reform it.

00:58:13.140 Most of it's just going to have to go away.

00:58:14.820 So, if you didn't have people who understood that the only way to fix it is to break it, you wouldn't have a leadership.

00:58:24.800 If you have leadership that's smart enough and ballsy enough to say, we're going to just cut this down to nothing, and the only things we're going to put back, because they will put things back, are when the screaming is so loud and the argument is so good.

00:58:40.900 If you've got a good argument, and there's a lot of energy, we're going to look at it, and maybe that one function gets added back, but we'll keep it under the State Department, maybe not under USAID.

00:58:53.820 So, it's perfect leadership, what you're seeing.

00:58:57.800 It's messy.

00:58:59.540 It's violent.

00:59:00.720 Not in the, you know, I'm using that hyperbolically, not violence, violence, but it's violent in terms of the rhetoric, the firings, you know, the death threats.

00:59:13.200 The Doge team I was talking about, they got doxed.

00:59:16.360 They already got death threats.

00:59:18.580 But fortunately, the Trump DOJ has stepped in and said, you're going to jail if you do that again.

00:59:24.940 If we catch anybody making death threats against these Doge guys, you're going to jail.

00:59:29.160 Yeah, and then ActBlue, the group that collects money for the Democrats, somehow they were getting, they were part of the money laundering operation.

00:59:37.840 That's the allegation.

00:59:38.800 I don't know the details on that, but there's an allegation like that.

00:59:44.180 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

00:59:46.560 I've been visualizing my match all week.

00:59:49.060 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.

00:59:55.080 Good thing Claudia's with Intact.

00:59:56.800 The insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.

01:00:00.760 Everything was taken care of under one roof, and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.

01:00:05.220 I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.

01:00:08.700 But you got there on time.

01:00:10.540 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace.

01:00:13.160 Certain conditions apply.

01:00:14.060 How are the Democrats taking the loss of USAID, which appears to be the beating heart of most of their corruption?

01:00:23.780 How are they taking it?

01:00:25.780 Well, oh, and then I should add that USAID was also the one, as Mike Benz does a great job of explaining,

01:00:31.880 they funded external entities for the purpose of censoring U.S. domestic people like me.

01:00:41.840 Not cool at all, USAID.

01:00:44.180 So basically, USAID did everything you don't want to happen.

01:00:47.260 If it's something you didn't want and it was corrupt, somewhere in USAID it was happening.

01:00:53.160 So it's like this grab bag of corruption.

01:00:56.640 The way Elon described it was one of the best descriptions you'll ever hear of anything.

01:01:03.520 He said, it would be easy to think it's like an apple that's got a worm in it.

01:01:08.220 So if you get rid of the worm, you know, you still have a pretty good apple.

01:01:13.000 And he says, no, it's a bowl of worms.

01:01:17.220 There's no apple.

01:01:20.380 That is one of the best visual persuasive things you'll ever hear.

01:01:25.120 Because worms are, you can't not see them.

01:01:27.500 If I say a bowl of worms, you can see the bowl of worms.

01:01:30.820 And as soon as I say it's not an apple with one worm, it's a bowl of worms.

01:01:35.460 You'll never forget that.

01:01:36.920 For the rest of your life, you'll remember that analogy.

01:01:41.040 That's good.

01:01:43.000 Now, that is good.

01:01:44.760 I like the fact that Elon, somehow, he's also become an expert in persuasion.

01:01:52.960 And I don't know to what extent he studies it or he's just picking it up by watching it done.

01:01:58.140 If the only thing he did was hang out with Trump, he would become incredible at persuasion.

01:02:03.700 You just have to watch what Trump does.

01:02:05.780 Watch the visual language.

01:02:08.260 You know, watch the, just watch it all.

01:02:10.700 Yeah.

01:02:11.080 And you'll learn.

01:02:13.320 There's an account on X called Aesthetica.

01:02:17.080 And this Aesthetica, whoever runs the account, I don't know who it is, apparently has some friends that are connected in the Democrat world.

01:02:26.520 And they're panicking quite a bit about this USAID thing.

01:02:30.440 Now, isn't that interesting that most of you never even heard of a USAID, didn't even know what it was, but the Democrats are panicked?

01:02:40.280 Why would they be panicked over this thing you never heard of until recently?

01:02:45.620 Well, let me tell you why.

01:02:47.500 According to Aesthetica, I talked to a friend who has connections within the Democratic Party.

01:02:53.200 And he said the level of panic over Trump and Elon shutting down USAID is unlike anything he's ever seen.

01:02:59.340 And it goes on.

01:03:01.900 A direct quote.

01:03:03.480 This is worse than 9-11 for Democrats.

01:03:07.260 Wow.

01:03:07.980 USAID is the primary vessel they used to achieve their political agenda.

01:03:12.640 USAID is and always has been the primary source of funding for their influence peddling schemes and for their indirect source of income.

01:03:22.080 Indirect source of income.

01:03:24.000 Everybody you see going public, saying it's a terrible mistake, almost all of them are getting funded by USAID, but it's hard to tell because it might go through a few different stages before it gets to them.

01:03:42.340 Another text.

01:03:43.840 Based on the reactions from within the party, it seems to me that dismantling USAID is Trump's biggest political victory to date.

01:03:50.700 It was his enemy's golden goose.

01:03:55.660 Yup.

01:03:56.580 It's their bank.

01:03:58.740 And indeed, it's a bigger bank than Soros.

01:04:01.980 You thought Soros was their bank.

01:04:05.060 He was their second biggest bank.

01:04:07.720 USAID was the big one.

01:04:09.540 Even including funding the Soros prosecutors.

01:04:14.440 USAID funded twice as much as Soros did.

01:04:19.380 For Soros prosecutors.

01:04:24.660 Just imagine that Soros has a multiplier so that he doesn't have to spend all of his money.

01:04:30.920 The USAID is sort of matching his donations, so to speak.

01:04:35.620 Wow.

01:04:38.180 And then it goes on.

01:04:39.380 He said initial plans by the Democrats is to have their people of USAID hide the partisan funding under unimpeachable initiatives.

01:04:47.720 So, in other words, funding AIDS prevention.

01:04:53.440 And then people go, oh, I can't get rid of that.

01:04:56.840 So, they will push back really hard on certain line items that on the face look like reasonable USAID expenditures.

01:05:05.740 So, the thing you have to get rid of is the things that look the most like something you'd want to keep.

01:05:14.160 Because that's where they're going to hide the good stuff.

01:05:17.720 So, that's where they'll hide their political spending.

01:05:21.280 Exactly what I said.

01:05:22.500 Now, how do you fix that?

01:05:25.700 If you know the insiders say they're going to try to hide their funding so that they can keep their influence budget intact, you have to get rid of the whole thing.

01:05:35.840 There's no other way to play it.

01:05:37.540 You've got to get rid of the whole thing.

01:05:39.260 And that's what's going to happen.

01:05:40.220 Now, I do worry, and Mike Benz warns against this too, I do worry that we celebrate too soon.

01:05:48.100 Because every part of this octopus is going to be fighting.

01:05:52.960 Like, every arm is going to be, and they're not started yet.

01:05:56.060 They haven't started yet.

01:05:57.000 But, man, they're going to put up a fight.

01:06:01.660 Now, let's see who's against it.

01:06:04.360 Now, the beauty of the USAID thing, like nothing I've ever seen before, is that the people who are the most corrupt are the ones who are going to raise their head like prairie dogs and take the lead in saying it's a bad idea to close USAID.

01:06:18.660 And you're going to be able to identify all of the bad guys, meaning the people who are either literally corrupt or at least strong backers of a corrupt system.

01:06:33.520 So, Joy Reid claims that Trump adding any oversight to USAID is equivalent to staging a coup.

01:06:40.760 Okay, there you go.

01:06:42.100 So, Joy Reid and MSNBC are part of the corruption.

01:06:46.300 That's all you need to know. 0.87

01:06:47.220 And anybody who's taking the side of USAID, now that we know it's a bowl of worms, is a bowl of worms.

01:06:54.140 So, all the worms in the bowl are like, oh, oh, don't do it.

01:06:59.300 Don't do it. 0.57

01:07:00.260 I'm a good worm. 0.96

01:07:01.680 I'm a good worm. 0.96

01:07:02.780 No. 0.93

01:07:04.420 Joy Reid, all right, so you've made yourself obvious.

01:07:07.700 Jen Psaki, also on MSNBC, suggests that Musk targeting USAID because he was uncomfortable how the agency combated corruption.

01:07:19.360 Oh, yeah, it's not the corruption of the agency, it's that they combat corruption.

01:07:26.820 Yes.

01:07:27.420 What does that sound like?

01:07:28.800 It sounds like everything the Democrats ever say about everything.

01:07:32.740 Whatever you accuse them of, they go, oh, it's not us.

01:07:35.460 That's exactly what you're doing.

01:07:37.060 That's what you're doing.

01:07:38.240 It's all they do.

01:07:39.460 Projection.

01:07:39.980 So, yes, Jen Psaki is part of the worms. 0.95

01:07:46.000 And then, was it Van Jones, I think on CNN, said that Donald Trump is saying by cutting USAID for all these valuable services, that he's saying, basically, we don't care. 0.99

01:08:02.400 You go die.

01:08:03.640 That's the message from the United States government, according to Van Jones. 0.93

01:08:07.280 Do you think Van Jones gets any indirect funding from USAID?

01:08:12.820 I don't know.

01:08:14.880 But that would be my assumption.

01:08:17.240 Or at least friends of his do, or important interests do.

01:08:21.580 So, Van Jones, we're adding you to the prairie dogs who raised their head and wanted to back USAID.

01:08:27.660 See how useful this is.

01:08:30.520 This is the most useful thing you've ever seen.

01:08:34.220 I tell you all the time that if you know what happened, you don't know anything.

01:08:39.780 Because the what happened always has some context that's missing.

01:08:43.980 The narrative is always, you know, magical spinning anyway.

01:08:47.480 So, if you only know what happened, in this case, several public figures said cutting USAID is a bad idea.

01:08:55.440 That's what happened.

01:08:57.080 You wouldn't know anything.

01:08:58.260 But if I told you who did it, well, now you know everything.

01:09:04.020 As soon as you know who the players are, well, now you know everything.

01:09:08.980 I'll go on.

01:09:10.420 Jamie Raskin is taking the lead. 0.99

01:09:13.680 Raskin is like the symbol of the worst parts of the Democrat, you know, lying, corrupt machine. 0.99

01:09:20.040 If he's involved, then anybody else who's taking his side, bowl of worms, bowl of worms. 0.98

01:09:28.900 AOC is taking a strong stand against cutting the USAID.

01:09:33.060 Huh.

01:09:34.000 Huh.

01:09:35.380 Bowl of worms.

01:09:36.100 Anyway.

01:09:41.960 So, there's also a possibility that Congress, especially some Republicans, and this is something Mike Benz warns about, might not vote to close USAID.

01:09:57.420 Because there's some conversation about whether Trump has the right to do what he's doing.

01:10:02.300 Um, but I say it's within the executive branch, so yes, he does.

01:10:06.720 But if Congress needs to vote on it, or if they just vote on it, um, they could override the president.

01:10:14.440 So, they could vote to keep it open, for example, and then he'd have a problem.

01:10:18.620 But it wouldn't happen unless some Republicans voted to keep it open.

01:10:22.640 So, what's going to happen if some Republicans vote to keep it open, now that we know it's a bowl of worms?

01:10:29.020 Well, it would certainly identify those Republicans as part of the corruption.

01:10:34.900 Do you agree?

01:10:36.700 That there is no way any Republican can be in favor of keeping USAID at this point, unless they're part of the corruption.

01:10:44.280 So, what happens if they do?

01:10:48.380 What happens if they pop up?

01:10:51.000 And there's a few Republicans who say, oh, it's so important, we've got to keep it.

01:10:56.700 Well, you're going to have to do something about that.

01:10:59.940 Because this is way too big to just say, well, that's their opinion, that's the way our system works, we didn't get the votes, all right, too bad.

01:11:07.480 Not on this one.

01:11:08.900 Way too big.

01:11:09.820 If some Republicans break ranks on this, Trump's going to have to finish them.

01:11:17.800 He's just going to have to put them into retirement or into jail.

01:11:22.200 Now, jail only if, you know, they broke some law.

01:11:25.800 But pretty much all of them are breaking some law.

01:11:29.680 I wouldn't want to start with the person that looked for the crime.

01:11:32.460 But probably in every case, everybody already knows the crime, and they just have to pursue it if they feel like it.

01:11:40.180 So, if you're a Republican, and you're thinking of voting to keep USAID at this point, with as much as we know about it,

01:11:49.800 you better plan for retirement.

01:11:51.760 Or at least lawyer up, because it's going to get real expensive.

01:11:58.120 And it would be the worst decision you ever made in your life.

01:12:01.460 So, we hope that doesn't happen.

01:12:03.560 But it would reveal who on the Republican side is corrupt.

01:12:08.120 So, we're just waiting for the little prairie dog heads to pop up,

01:12:11.120 so we can add them to the Raskin, AOC, MSNBC bowl of worms.

01:12:18.540 All right.

01:12:20.220 I know I'm going to get taken out of context for calling people worms.

01:12:23.940 Let me just be clear.

01:12:25.380 People are not worms.

01:12:28.020 Even the people I don't like are not worms.

01:12:31.020 It's just a good analogy.

01:12:33.000 So, when I say they're in the bowl of worms, they're not worms.

01:12:36.900 They're people I deeply disagree with who may or may not be corrupt.

01:12:41.120 But people are not worms.

01:12:43.520 All right.

01:12:46.420 Confirmation update.

01:12:47.640 So, the ones we're waiting on to see if they get confirmed would be RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard,

01:12:52.600 Kash Patel, Pam Boddy.

01:12:54.020 At the moment, the betting markets have all of them looking good.

01:12:59.380 Do you think the betting markets are an accurate representation?

01:13:02.900 I don't think so in this case.

01:13:04.940 Because I think that if any Republicans break ranks on any of these candidates,

01:13:09.640 they'd be doing it for kind of personal corrupt reasons.

01:13:16.560 And I don't think the betting markets can identify people who have personal corrupt reasons.

01:13:22.320 So, I worry that the betting market is in no way predictive.

01:13:26.780 We'll see.

01:13:27.460 All I can say is to remind people that if RFK Jr. gets voted down by some Republicans,

01:13:36.600 again, those are some Republicans who better be planning to retire right away.

01:13:41.440 Because life's going to get really hard after that.

01:13:43.900 This one, we're not going to take like normal business.

01:13:48.800 Saving children from chronic illnesses.

01:13:52.680 I'm sorry.

01:13:53.320 That's a little bit bigger than politics.

01:13:54.840 We're not going to treat it like politics.

01:13:57.680 You're just going to have to leave the public scene if you're going to vote against this.

01:14:02.940 You can't be any part of the public conversation again.

01:14:06.100 That's the end of your role in public.

01:14:09.540 One way or the other.

01:14:10.540 No violence, of course.

01:14:11.660 Obviously, no violence.

01:14:13.400 But the pushback's going to be brutal, reputation-wise.

01:14:18.680 All right.

01:14:23.340 I saw a meme that I laughed about for, I think, 45 minutes straight.

01:14:28.980 I tried to get some work done, but I couldn't stop laughing about it.

01:14:32.700 And you've seen the meme where there's somebody nervously looking at two buttons,

01:14:37.160 and they only have two buttons.

01:14:39.380 And the meme gets repurposed for lots of different topics, but it always makes me laugh.

01:14:43.760 But I saw one where it was the Democrats who only had two buttons, and one of the buttons

01:14:52.100 is labeled, bring up eggs, and the other one is labeled, bring up Hitler.

01:14:57.200 Now, one of my favorite things in the realm of humor is when somebody summarizes something so well

01:15:07.420 that the summary is hilarious.

01:15:10.140 This is a perfect summary.

01:15:12.460 The Democrats have so little left in the tank, like they don't have anything to run on.

01:15:17.980 They literally bring up eggs or Hitler, no matter what you're talking about. 0.77

01:15:23.780 Huh.

01:15:24.960 Eggs?

01:15:25.840 Eggs or...

01:15:26.920 Hitler or eggs? 0.81

01:15:29.660 Eggs or Hitler? 0.76

01:15:30.460 I can't decide.

01:15:32.440 Now, that's funny.

01:15:33.920 And it's not too far off.

01:15:36.740 Greg Goffeld on The Five yesterday was talking about how hard it's going to be for the Democrats

01:15:43.200 to distinguish themselves from the party of common sense.

01:15:49.540 It's the ultimate high ground.

01:15:51.820 So Trump just owns common sense.

01:15:56.120 It's why you won.

01:15:57.740 It's the ultimate meat in the middle.

01:15:59.700 How about we just do the things that make sense, and we can argue about the other things

01:16:03.420 separately?

01:16:04.300 Common sense.

01:16:05.180 Now, in order to run against common sense, you're either going to have to make some weird argument

01:16:12.840 that only you have common sense and they don't, but nobody's going to believe that, or you're

01:16:18.560 going to have to argue that, as Goffeld said, if you're trying to find some distance between

01:16:24.140 common sense and the Democrats, the Democrats are going to have to start embracing bestiality

01:16:29.080 and voodoo sacrifice. 0.96

01:16:32.080 Because if you're trying to make some contrast with common sense, it's going to be a tough

01:16:37.480 task.

01:16:37.940 Anyway, I would argue that all of the smart people are on the same side at this point.

01:16:46.320 The smart people who are not on the same side are corrupt or hypnotized.

01:16:52.240 Now, some of them, like I always talk about my smartest Democrat fan, he is clearly just

01:16:58.920 hypnotized.

01:17:00.340 He's clearly hypnotized.

01:17:01.580 Would you like a test to know if you're hypnotized?

01:17:07.340 All right.

01:17:08.540 Do you believe that Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute?

01:17:14.700 If you believe it, you're hypnotized.

01:17:18.440 Like actually, literally hypnotized.

01:17:21.440 Because that's not something any reasonable person would believe.

01:17:25.060 That's so far outside the bounds of reasonable.

01:17:26.940 If you ever believed that Trump said in public, knowingly and intentionally, those neo-Nazis

01:17:36.940 are fine people, if you ever thought that really happened in the real world, you're easily

01:17:42.640 hypnotized.

01:17:44.700 And you are hypnotized.

01:17:46.600 If you believe that Trump once said, maybe we should drink some bleach or inject some household

01:17:54.320 disinfectants into our body, if you think he ever said any of those things or anything

01:17:59.920 like it, you're hypnotized.

01:18:04.120 Right?

01:18:04.600 Those are things that you are more associated with cognitive dissonance.

01:18:08.900 You don't really need an argument to learn that those things didn't happen.

01:18:14.220 Do you know why I said all those things didn't happen the moment the rumor came up?

01:18:19.360 Because if you're not hypnotized, you don't even need to look at the details.

01:18:24.660 You just say, oh, no, he wouldn't give Nazi salute.

01:18:28.400 No, nobody's complimenting Nazis in public from the presidency.

01:18:32.080 That never happened.

01:18:33.380 No, nobody's suggesting ingesting household disinfectants.

01:18:39.280 You don't need to look at the details.

01:18:41.960 On the surface, those could only be believed by people who are literally, literally hypnotized.

01:18:50.380 Now, I don't mean that they sat in a chair and somebody did a hypnosis induction, but they're

01:18:55.440 not operating in the real world.

01:18:57.240 They're operating in an imaginary world in their head.

01:19:01.220 And you can identify it by whether or not they embrace things like the fine people oaks and

01:19:06.920 the Nazi salute. 0.54

01:19:07.800 As soon as you find somebody who is, it doesn't matter what their IQ is.

01:19:12.600 They're trapped because they can't use their IQ.

01:19:15.560 Their IQ just gets turned off by the hypnosis.

01:19:19.780 So let me modify my statement.

01:19:22.140 I said that all the smart people are on one side, meaning that even if they don't like everything

01:19:27.900 about Trump, they can recognize that what he's doing are exactly the things we need to have

01:19:32.500 done, even if it's messy, and it will be messy.

01:19:35.380 And they know that cutting the government budget is not a want, it's a necessity.

01:19:42.220 We have to do it.

01:19:43.640 And they know that cutting it in a way that's painful to a lot of people is unfortunately

01:19:48.940 100% required.

01:19:51.180 There's no way around it.

01:19:52.760 So all the smart people who are not hypnotized are on the same side now.

01:19:57.080 So you have to add the knife and the dice.

01:20:01.040 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,

01:20:06.480 is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

01:20:09.600 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

01:20:12.300 Are those from Winners?

01:20:13.840 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings?

01:20:16.280 Did she pay full price?

01:20:17.640 Or that leather tote?

01:20:18.620 Or that cashmere sweater?

01:20:19.820 Or those knee-high boots?

01:20:21.260 That dress?

01:20:22.100 That jacket?

01:20:22.780 Those shoes?

01:20:23.460 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

01:20:26.800 Stop wondering.

01:20:28.060 Start winning.

01:20:28.980 Winners find fabulous for less.

01:20:32.420 Let me give you an example.

01:20:34.840 So here's AOC, just gave a little video in which she said, I swear I'm not making this

01:20:40.520 up.

01:20:40.760 She was talking about Elon Musk.

01:20:42.500 And she said about Elon Musk, quote, he is one of the most unintelligent billionaires

01:20:47.380 I've ever met or seen.

01:20:49.740 Then she added that Elon has a, quote, lack of intelligence and lack of expertise and is,

01:20:56.200 quote, morally vacant, but also just least knowledgeable about these systems that we really

01:21:02.100 know of.

01:21:05.660 Okay.

01:21:06.220 Does that sound like a real person talking?

01:21:10.200 Do I need to give, like, the counter-argument about how Elon Musk actually is smart?

01:21:18.740 No.

01:21:19.700 You could just look at this and say, all right, either you're completely corrupt and you're 0.92

01:21:25.660 just trying to save the USAID with a crazy argument, or you're hypnotized, or you're like 1.00

01:21:33.900 my dog.

01:21:34.560 You know, I use this example a lot.

01:21:38.180 When I enter a room, the lights go on.

01:21:41.920 Sometimes I use my voice to, you know, use it with my digital assistant.

01:21:45.860 Sometimes I hit the switch on the wall.

01:21:48.700 Sometimes the lights are, you know, motion detected.

01:21:52.500 And my dog doesn't know why the lights come on when I enter rooms.

01:21:57.660 The only thing my dog knows is that when she wants me to give her a treat, which is every 0.99

01:22:02.860 single time I walk past her, and I don't give her a treat, I must be stupid. 1.00

01:22:08.860 Oh, my God. 1.00

01:22:09.680 I must be the least intelligent human I've ever met or seen.

01:22:16.060 My dog thinks my lack of intelligence and lack of expertise in giving dogs treats is morally

01:22:22.280 vacant.

01:22:23.080 But also, I might be the least knowledgeable thing about the systems involving treats for

01:22:27.740 my dog.

01:22:28.300 It's just so entertaining watching, you know, otherwise normal people go into a complete

01:22:38.160 retardation. 0.97

01:22:41.340 This is impressive.

01:22:43.740 Nicole Shanahan was on Comic Dave Smith's podcast and said there's some mystery about Bernie Sanders.

01:22:52.140 And she said, I quote, this is Nicole Shanahan, I asked myself, was Bernie a psyop all along?

01:23:01.700 Was he a deep state plant?

01:23:04.260 Now, she's just asking the question.

01:23:07.260 She's not saying that he is.

01:23:09.240 But the mystery is, why does Bernie act the way he does, especially lately?

01:23:15.880 Like, what's behind it all?

01:23:19.720 Was he always, you know, being run by somebody else?

01:23:24.340 Is he still being run by somebody else, and he's just a cutout for something?

01:23:29.500 Now, I don't know the answers to any of that, but here's what I think is funny, that we've

01:23:34.380 narrowed down what's wrong with Bernie to four possibilities.

01:23:38.440 We meaning all of us.

01:23:40.420 Four possibilities.

01:23:41.180 I don't know which it is.

01:23:43.160 One, Bernie is a deep state psyop, and always was. 1.00

01:23:46.880 Two, he's an idiot with good intentions. 1.00

01:23:49.880 Three, he's an idiot with bad intentions. 1.00

01:23:52.720 Or four, he's a deep state psyop, and also an idiot with bad intentions. 1.00

01:23:58.740 Those are the only possibilities. 0.99

01:24:01.520 You can completely rule out, he's an honest broker with good ideas that are different from

01:24:08.800 yours.

01:24:09.240 Yeah, there's something going on, and whatever it is, it's bad.

01:24:14.880 So, four choices.

01:24:17.600 Well, I didn't know there's a Doge subcommittee in Congress, but apparently Marjorie Taylor

01:24:22.860 Green is the house chair of the Doge committee and subcommittee, I guess.

01:24:28.880 And it's going to invite in NPR's Catherine Mayer, that's the head of NPR, and PBS's Paula Kerger,

01:24:39.520 to testify about their bias.

01:24:43.500 Now, this is in the context of one of the PBS, is it PBS or NPR?

01:24:48.960 NPR, I forget, Uri Berliner, which is he, NPR?

01:24:56.580 I think he's NPR.

01:24:59.160 He was suspended because he complained about the bias in his employer, and now he's apparently

01:25:07.220 now resigned.

01:25:09.120 But he said that his employer went from a liberal knee-jerk, that went from being biased, you

01:25:16.300 know, sort of liberal leaning, which, you know, we understand everybody's biased, so that's

01:25:20.960 not the worst thing.

01:25:21.680 But it went from being just liberal to a knee-jerk activist scolds, and he couldn't handle that

01:25:30.160 anymore.

01:25:30.780 Was that PBS or NPR?

01:25:33.900 Those are being conflated in my mind.

01:25:37.600 Anyway, it doesn't matter, because I'm sure it was the same at both places.

01:25:43.100 So, we'll see what comes out of that.

01:25:47.460 There are more Doge updates coming.

01:25:49.820 There's something about the Department of Education that's going to be gutted or removed.

01:25:55.720 The EPA might have 1,000 employees that could be gone.

01:25:58.880 There's something about the NED, N-E-D.

01:26:02.340 You're probably going to hear three more things.

01:26:04.360 The best thing that Doge is doing, besides the good work they're doing, is that they're

01:26:10.900 keeping that Overton window so rapid that the news can't use their main trick to brainwash

01:26:18.040 the public.

01:26:18.580 The main trick of the news is repetition.

01:26:22.800 If they repeat something enough, their viewers think it must be true.

01:26:26.760 I mean, it couldn't be on the news every single night unless it's true.

01:26:30.700 Like, somebody would have, at some point, said, hey, this isn't true.

01:26:35.440 But if you're on CNN or MSNBC, they don't bring on the opposite voices that often.

01:26:41.320 So, although CNN does a real effort to do it, but it's always a minority voice.

01:26:47.920 As long as they don't have too many people too often talking on the other side, they can

01:26:55.020 just keep hitting their hoaxes until you think they're true.

01:26:59.220 But they can't do that and also pretend they're a news organization unless they cover all the

01:27:06.300 new news.

01:27:06.860 Because you're not going to turn on MSNBC if they're talking about what happened last

01:27:11.160 month.

01:27:12.040 You're looking for the new news.

01:27:14.000 So, as long as Doge and Trump keep creating new news and it's like a fire hose, they have

01:27:21.860 to spend time on it.

01:27:23.140 And so, Trump and Musk are using up all their shelf space.

01:27:29.200 You know, they only have so much time and each show only has so much time and they've

01:27:35.640 got to cover the news. 0.99

01:27:37.140 There's nothing left for the endless repeating of the bullshit hoaxes. 0.99

01:27:43.100 So, if you take away their endless repeating of bullshit hoaxes, it essentially neuters the 0.99

01:27:49.160 entire monster because it's their main tool. 0.98

01:27:52.080 Their main tool is repetition of things that aren't true.

01:27:57.500 It's the main tool.

01:27:59.620 And the Overton window takes it away.

01:28:01.940 It's brilliant.

01:28:03.220 I've never seen anybody do it like that before, but it's brilliant.

01:28:08.820 So, here's where we're getting close to the line of what is too far.

01:28:14.520 And I do not mind when the Trump administration gets close to the line of what's going too far.

01:28:22.080 Because often that's the only place that works.

01:28:25.060 Sometimes you've got to be close to the line of what's going too far and that's exactly

01:28:29.360 where you want to be.

01:28:30.640 And I would argue that in much of what's happening, getting real close to the line of going too

01:28:36.500 far is right where I want them to be.

01:28:39.360 But I don't want them to go too far.

01:28:41.720 So, with that context, apparently the Trump administration has gotten a hold of the names

01:28:50.640 of all the FBI officials who worked on January 6th cases.

01:28:54.900 So, they've all been identified.

01:28:56.640 I guess there are 5,000 or 6,000 of them.

01:28:58.700 And there were 2,400 cases.

01:29:01.960 Now, what the...

01:29:04.140 Yeah, there are 5,000 of them have been identified.

01:29:07.580 So, here's the thing you need to know.

01:29:12.080 These are more the worker bees.

01:29:14.700 These are not the leadership.

01:29:15.660 So, the FBI officials who are working on a case are the people who would work on other

01:29:24.380 cases too.

01:29:25.400 And they would be very experienced or they wouldn't be in those jobs.

01:29:28.520 So, if you lost 5,000 totally experienced people who are simply doing what their boss told

01:29:35.120 them to do, that would feel like too far.

01:29:39.000 If their only crime was to go to work and do the assignment their boss told them, too far.

01:29:47.660 But, apparently they're all going to be given the chance to fill out a questionnaire in which

01:29:54.380 they'll ask them, what exactly did you do?

01:29:57.880 And my hope is that they look at each of them individually.

01:30:01.700 I think it would be a mistake, and obviously Trump knows it would be a mistake, to just fire

01:30:07.360 them.

01:30:07.600 Because, again, they were not the decision makers.

01:30:12.260 But, I do imagine that if the questionnaire is correctly stated, and let's say they're under

01:30:20.840 oath to, I don't know if they'd be under oath, but it's at least a fireable offense if they lie

01:30:27.180 on the document, I would think, government document.

01:30:31.180 So, let's get them on record.

01:30:32.440 And if they ask the right questions, and they're not gotcha questions, I will not put up with

01:30:38.720 any gotcha questions.

01:30:40.840 No fake questions on the questionnaire.

01:30:43.720 That's not good enough.

01:30:45.080 But if it identifies something like a strong bias, and I'm not sure how they would, then

01:30:52.680 maybe in some cases those people got to go.

01:30:54.800 If 4,000 of them get fired, I'm not going to be delighted, because I don't know that they

01:31:03.500 really looked at them individually and found out something that was, you know, decision-making

01:31:08.340 on their part.

01:31:09.520 But they might.

01:31:11.020 They might.

01:31:11.740 So, this one is definitely right on the edge of too far.

01:31:17.580 The thing that makes me pull back is that they are going to look at them individually.

01:31:22.920 As long as you're looking at them individually, and you tell us this needs to be transparent,

01:31:29.320 you need to tell us what criteria you're using if any of them are fired.

01:31:35.560 And I got to know that the criteria is being evenly applied, and it's a criteria that you're

01:31:41.740 passes the sniff test, all right?

01:31:44.480 So, remember what I say over and over again, which is, if you supported Trump, you're part

01:31:51.300 of the team.

01:31:52.640 And part of that team means that you need to be a guardrail wherever a guardrail needs

01:31:58.700 to be put up.

01:32:00.380 Now, we do like that, you know, Doge and Trump have a wide operating berth, right?

01:32:06.780 You know, that they can operate without being constrained.

01:32:09.600 But that's even more important, why the supporters need to be the guardrail.

01:32:15.660 So, let's make sure that we don't lose, you know, our own center on this.

01:32:20.640 Make sure that you're helpful.

01:32:22.480 Because if you're in the fight, you know, and Trump's in the fight, Elon's in the fight,

01:32:27.620 you could easily just accidentally, you know, lose sight of where that line is.

01:32:33.440 So, let's make sure that doesn't happen.

01:32:40.840 So, one of the ideas that Trump came up with is the Sovereign Wealth Fund, and I realize

01:32:46.420 that not everybody knows what that is, so that just requires a little bit of explanation.

01:32:50.780 Interestingly, Joel Pollack's book, The Agenda, which came out in the summer, in the summer,

01:32:58.700 yeah, suggests this very thing, that the U.S. should have a sovereign wealth fund.

01:33:04.020 It's one of many suggestions in the book.

01:33:06.140 It's a book full of suggestions of what Trump could do in the beginning of his term.

01:33:11.200 And it was a great book.

01:33:12.520 You should see it.

01:33:13.340 So, here's what a sovereign wealth fund is.

01:33:18.460 It's basically where a country can make investments, and then it just keeps it in the fund, and

01:33:26.080 then the country has access to that fund for whatever they might need it for later, which

01:33:31.820 could be more investments.

01:33:33.320 So, the types of things that would be in this fund would be, for example, let's say if Trump

01:33:39.900 gets his way with TikTok, and he said, hey, the government of the United States should

01:33:45.000 own half of it, because if I don't approve its sale, it will be worth zero.

01:33:50.280 So, if the government has to be involved to make it have value, we should keep part of

01:33:55.180 the value.

01:33:56.040 So, let's say that the government gets a bunch of shares of TikTok, and the sale goes through,

01:34:01.960 and maybe Larry Elson or somebody buys it.

01:34:05.700 And then a few billion dollars worth of value just gets in stock, gets put in this fund.

01:34:14.320 Now, we could sell it, or we could ride it, because if we think it's going up and it's

01:34:19.360 a good investment, well, we keep it.

01:34:22.100 Then, here's another thing.

01:34:23.380 Suppose the special forces start making real progress against the cartels.

01:34:30.820 I'm told that one of the biggest things that the cartels do to fund their operation is gigantic

01:34:39.020 pallets of cash, because obviously they don't want to write checks for their illegal business.

01:34:46.180 So, they have to move gigantic shipments of physical cash.

01:34:51.000 Suppose the special forces go after the cartels and figure out where their giant bundles of cash

01:34:59.300 are, well, who does that belong to?

01:35:02.020 Does it belong to Mexico?

01:35:04.580 Does it belong to whoever finds it?

01:35:07.480 Well, I would say it belongs to the United States government.

01:35:10.940 So, we take their big piles of cash and just put it in the sovereign wealth fund.

01:35:15.440 And by the way, these are just examples.

01:35:17.380 I'm not saying that any of this would happen.

01:35:19.040 How about if there is a joint venture beyond TikTok that would never work unless the government

01:35:27.800 was involved?

01:35:29.400 For example, let's say we wanted to create a mineral.

01:35:37.340 Here's a good example.

01:35:38.760 One of the things Trump wants to do is keep the mineral rights for rare earth minerals in

01:35:44.240 Ukraine as sort of a payback for the military's support we give them in Ukraine.

01:35:50.240 Now, do you think that we could be safe in having a rare earth mineral mining operation

01:35:57.900 in Ukraine unless the US government was part of protecting it in case Russia got aggressive?

01:36:07.320 Well, probably not.

01:36:08.240 You probably couldn't even have that business unless the US government was going to protect

01:36:11.680 it with the military.

01:36:13.500 So, shouldn't the US government get a share?

01:36:17.240 Get a little share of that?

01:36:19.360 Maybe it should.

01:36:20.520 Maybe half.

01:36:22.120 Right?

01:36:22.660 So, you can imagine all these situations that only Trump could identify because he's the

01:36:28.060 dealmaker where he would say, you know what?

01:36:31.640 You'd better have something for the sovereign fund or else we're not going to do that thing

01:36:36.720 or you're not going to do that thing.

01:36:38.600 There's probably a whole bunch of those situations that Trump would see that other people just

01:36:43.800 wouldn't even see.

01:36:44.840 I mean, the TikTok thing where he says we should get half of it, nobody else saw that.

01:36:50.180 The idea of taking control of the rare earth in Ukraine, nobody else saw that, or at least

01:36:56.900 they didn't mention it.

01:36:58.420 So, he is uniquely able to see, hey, why are we not making money from that thing?

01:37:04.580 And you need a sovereign fund to sort of organize all of our thoughts around it.

01:37:10.860 So, then we understand it.

01:37:12.460 Oh, he found another thing for the sovereign fund.

01:37:15.760 Oh, the sovereign fund is up 20%.

01:37:17.900 Good job.

01:37:19.620 Now, keep in mind that the sovereign fund would be an asset owned by the government.

01:37:25.220 Our biggest problem is our debt.

01:37:26.840 If your debt stays the same, this would be wildly optimistic, but if our debt we could

01:37:34.080 get under control and the asset started growing, at some point, the asset could be big enough

01:37:41.440 that we could use it to pay off part of the debt.

01:37:45.240 So, the sovereign wealth fund is actually also a debt relief mechanism because it gives you

01:37:52.560 that option.

01:37:53.220 You don't have to use it for that, but it gives you the option.

01:37:55.340 You could put a bunch of Bitcoin in it, and there's probably a bunch of other things

01:38:00.380 you could do.

01:38:02.000 So, it's a good idea.

01:38:06.160 There's a study, according to SciPost, there's a study that the TikTok was better for Republicans

01:38:13.320 than Democrats in this latest election.

01:38:15.400 So, apparently, there were more Democrats who saw pro-Trump stuff than there were Republicans

01:38:24.280 who saw pro-Democrat stuff.

01:38:27.680 So, that's being defined as being better for Republicans.

01:38:32.420 Now, like all studies, it might be true, but there are a lot of things that I have questions

01:38:40.880 for.

01:38:41.920 If the only thing you knew is who saw what, you don't really know anything.

01:38:47.360 It really matters what they saw. 0.78

01:38:50.480 If the Democrats saw more Trump stuff, but the stuff they saw was the silly stuff, like

01:38:57.160 it's not the stuff that persuades anybody, well, then it doesn't matter how much they

01:39:01.440 see.

01:39:02.040 They could see an infinite amount of non-persuasive stuff.

01:39:05.300 It wouldn't make any difference.

01:39:06.300 What matters is exactly what they see, and this doesn't capture that.

01:39:11.600 So, remember when the Russians tried to interfere with their troll memes, and the news treated

01:39:18.680 it like that was real and it mattered? 0.77

01:39:21.360 And then you looked at the actual memes, and they were just ridiculously bad.

01:39:26.820 They looked like a seventh grade school project.

01:39:30.380 I mean, really, they did.

01:39:31.740 Seriously, they looked like a seventh grade school project.

01:39:34.320 Now, anybody who knows anything about persuasion would look at those and say, oh, that's the

01:39:41.560 same as zero.

01:39:43.200 It's zero.

01:39:44.560 It just rounds to zero.

01:39:47.540 There's not even the slightest possibility that those handful of Russian memes that they

01:39:52.800 put $100,000 into could have possibly moved our election.

01:39:57.220 That is not possible.

01:39:58.480 All right.

01:40:05.160 So, I wouldn't trust any survey of TikTok's influence because they leave out the influence.

01:40:11.600 They just count numbers, and that's not how you do it.

01:40:16.040 All right.

01:40:16.760 I promised you that I would, some of you, that I'd give you some ADHD hacks.

01:40:26.240 I was listening, I was watching a big thread on X about it, and you might know that ADHD

01:40:33.580 is a, goes two ways.

01:40:36.760 One is that it can, you know, be really hard to get anything done because your mind is going

01:40:43.880 a million miles an hour, and you've got too many things in your mind.

01:40:46.840 But those same people have the ability to really deeply concentrate, but only on things they

01:40:54.140 care about.

01:40:54.960 The difference seems to be that the ADHD people are searching for dopamine, and if they can't

01:41:02.440 find any, their mind goes everywhere trying to look for it.

01:41:06.380 But those few things they really love give them dopamine hits when they spend time, so

01:41:12.280 they can go deeper into a single topic than normal people because they're really getting

01:41:17.380 the dopamine hit, but only if they like it.

01:41:19.960 Now, I didn't realize how bad my ADHD was until I saw the thread about an example of people

01:41:25.960 with ADHD, which is you can't walk out the door without forgetting something, because

01:41:31.460 your brain is in too many places.

01:41:33.440 I can't walk out the door without forgetting something.

01:41:36.380 But I'm also a high-functioning professional.

01:41:41.200 So how could it be that I have, obviously, I have pretty bad ADHD, how could that be when

01:41:49.860 I'm also one of the most disciplined workers you've ever met, seven days a week, I'm always

01:41:55.460 here unless I'm sick, right?

01:41:57.780 So here's how.

01:42:00.060 I basically have a brain hack for every part of the ADHD that bothers me, and I'll share

01:42:07.020 you some of them.

01:42:08.440 It doesn't mean they'll work for you, but what it does mean is you might be able to also

01:42:13.520 come up with your own brain hacks.

01:42:15.320 Now, keep in mind I'm a hypnotist.

01:42:17.160 I'm a trained hypnotist.

01:42:18.260 And so I tinker with my own mind like a hypnotist would tinker with somebody else's mind.

01:42:26.440 So many of the things that a hypnotist could do to another person's mind, I can do to myself

01:42:32.000 because I have the skills.

01:42:34.680 And so I've hacked my own brain to take care of a lot of the ADHD things, and you can too.

01:42:41.780 So let me give you some of the tricks.

01:42:43.460 Number one, when I'm leaving the house in the summer, if I just try to remember what

01:42:51.420 I need, I will not do it.

01:42:53.520 So instead, I remember five, the number five.

01:42:58.060 And when I walk toward my exit, I think five.

01:43:02.040 And the reason I think it is because I've trained myself that whenever I see the exit,

01:43:06.740 I think five in the summer.

01:43:08.600 Why five in the summer?

01:43:10.940 Because in the summer, you need your phone.

01:43:14.220 You need your key fob for your car.

01:43:17.560 You need, if you're a bald guy, you need a hat.

01:43:22.320 And you need sunscreen.

01:43:25.340 And in some cases, I like to bring my headphones.

01:43:29.800 Five.

01:43:30.880 You know, if I'm going to the gym, for example, I'd want to make sure I have my headphones.

01:43:35.560 So I walk to the door, I go, five.

01:43:39.400 Phone.

01:43:39.960 Oh, I forgot the key.

01:43:41.540 Then the second thing I do is I leave the things that I might forget really near the

01:43:46.800 door.

01:43:47.640 So I don't have to walk upstairs ever.

01:43:51.900 Everything's right by the door.

01:43:53.780 So it's either in my car already, such as my sunglasses and my hat.

01:43:58.500 I keep my sunglasses because they're prescription.

01:44:01.680 I keep my sunglasses in the car.

01:44:03.500 Because even if I'm not going to drive, I almost always walk past the car in the garage to leave

01:44:11.340 my house, even if I'm just taking a walk.

01:44:14.200 So I've found a hack that I can leave the house without 15 trips.

01:44:20.500 And then I change the number in the winter because I don't need the sunscreen as much.

01:44:26.040 I probably should, but I don't.

01:44:27.480 And the hat, et cetera.

01:44:29.740 So that's one trick.

01:44:31.080 So you find a number that tells you the number of things you have to remember before you open

01:44:37.000 that door.

01:44:37.440 And then if you do it enough, remember repetition, repetition is persuasion.

01:44:42.680 You just have to repeat it, repeat it, repeat it, repeat it until you can't forget it.

01:44:46.700 That's, that's the hymn of district.

01:44:49.760 All right.

01:44:50.260 Here's another one in the morning.

01:44:53.080 Uh, the, one of the reasons I start at often three 30 in the morning or four in the morning,

01:44:58.820 just whenever I'm awake is that, uh, my ADHD is by far at the lowest.

01:45:07.260 So the first several hours of the morning, I sit in complete darkness.

01:45:12.220 So I darken all the lights.

01:45:14.200 I have the drapes pulled and the only light is my screen of my computer and a little light

01:45:20.980 I put on my keyboard.

01:45:21.980 So it's easier to see the, see the keyboard and that's it.

01:45:25.440 And the reason I do that is that nobody's awake or at least nobody that would be getting

01:45:32.060 in, you know, getting in my way.

01:45:34.500 Um, the dog is asleep.

01:45:37.000 The noises are predictable.

01:45:39.200 There's not like daytime noises of, you know, there's no gardener doing anything or anything.

01:45:43.800 Uh, phone isn't ringing.

01:45:45.720 I don't have anything else on my calendar and I'm doing something I want to do, which is

01:45:51.340 I love looking at the news and then talking about it.

01:45:54.180 So getting rid of all your distractions is the other hack.

01:45:59.680 I also, if it's the afternoon and I want to do something like write a check, I can't do it.

01:46:06.160 Do you know why I can't write a check?

01:46:08.640 Because as hard as I try to concentrate, I can't get any dopamine from that task.

01:46:13.680 I just desperately don't want to be writing little things on a piece of paper in the year 2025.

01:46:19.220 Desperately, I don't want to do it.

01:46:22.440 And so my brain won't let me do it.

01:46:25.200 So if I start writing a check, I take like the whole checkbook and I leave it there and

01:46:30.980 I start ripping up the checks as I make mistakes.

01:46:35.240 And it's always the same.

01:46:36.700 I'll be like, all right, concentrate, concentrate.

01:46:39.340 Date.

01:46:40.100 What is the date?

01:46:41.600 Date is date.

01:46:42.680 Write the date.

01:46:43.300 All right, concentrate, concentrate.

01:46:46.600 I think I've got to go to the store today.

01:46:48.920 Oh, I just wrote my grocery list on the check.

01:46:52.920 Rip it up.

01:46:54.520 Try again.

01:46:56.040 And just over and over again.

01:46:57.720 Because I can't concentrate all the way through writing a number.

01:47:03.120 That's how bad it is.

01:47:04.960 If I'm writing, you know, $425, I can get to maybe the two.

01:47:11.180 But by the five, I'm thinking about five other things.

01:47:17.040 I can't finish that.

01:47:19.460 Oh.

01:47:21.400 Just lost my...

01:47:25.920 Just lost my...

01:47:29.180 All right.

01:47:34.280 I think I've lost you.

01:47:35.740 So let's see if I can reenter this.

01:47:41.180 Let's see if you can hear me and see me.

01:47:49.800 I'm back.

01:47:54.360 All right.

01:47:54.980 I think I'm back.

01:47:55.980 Your comments will catch up in a moment.

01:47:57.940 All right.

01:47:58.460 So what I do is I don't write checks.

01:48:01.100 I know I can't do it.

01:48:02.220 I have somebody else do it.

01:48:03.620 I just ask somebody else.

01:48:05.040 If you want to check, you fill it out and I'll sign it. 0.98

01:48:07.520 So in 2025, I am so angered by anybody asking me for a little fucking piece of paper, I 0.98

01:48:15.700 will not write a check. 0.99

01:48:17.000 I just say, you write it, I'll sign it.

01:48:19.160 Here's the check.

01:48:20.580 If it doesn't work out, I'll give you another one.

01:48:22.820 But I'm not going to do that. 0.99

01:48:24.380 I'm never going to write on that little piece of fucking paper. 0.99

01:48:27.280 You write it, I'll sign it. 0.99

01:48:28.940 So you have to come up with a whole bunch of little hacks.

01:48:32.600 This is also the reason I can't write dates down correctly.

01:48:35.680 You've noticed that my comics are always misstated.

01:48:38.880 It's because I can't concentrate through all the way thinking through a date.

01:48:42.540 It's too boring.

01:48:43.940 So here's how I settle it in the afternoon.

01:48:48.100 A real good exercise routine.

01:48:51.000 So I do my exercise around, you know, lunchtime or noonish usually, not too far after.

01:48:57.480 And that settles my brain down because it gives me a dopamine thing that lasts a little

01:49:03.320 while.

01:49:03.640 And then I can do some boring things.

01:49:06.480 The other thing I do is if I'm drawing, I have to be absolutely medicated and watching

01:49:12.520 a TV show because if I draw Dilbert one more time, oh my God, do you know how many times

01:49:19.820 I've drawn Dilbert's head?

01:49:22.980 It's a lot.

01:49:24.680 It's a lot.

01:49:26.260 So maybe tens of thousands of times.

01:49:29.020 So those are some of my tricks.

01:49:30.560 The other trick is chanting.

01:49:32.500 And I've told you this one.

01:49:33.780 If your ADHD is just out of control, you chant the thing you're trying to do, which is look

01:49:41.220 for the file, look for the file, look for the file.

01:49:43.500 What's that dog doing?

01:49:44.260 No, look for the file, look for the file.

01:49:46.300 Huh, these steps need a little bit.

01:49:47.820 No, look for the file, look for the file.

01:49:49.560 I should really vacuum this.

01:49:51.100 No, look for the file, look for the file, look for the file.

01:49:54.000 That actually works.

01:49:55.820 And I've taught that to a number of people, the chanting.

01:50:00.320 Sometimes it just gets so bad that if you're not chanting it, you can't even walk across

01:50:04.620 the room.

01:50:05.540 So try that.

01:50:06.300 But here's the bigger thing.

01:50:08.400 The bigger thing is that you could probably hack your brain to find workarounds for each

01:50:14.400 of the little ADHD things that are bothering you.

01:50:18.960 And that's my advice on ADHD.

01:50:22.140 All right.

01:50:22.820 There's a biotech company that has now, I guess, a nasal spray that uses some molecular

01:50:30.660 cousin of psilocybin, magic mushrooms, that pretty much immediately helps people with

01:50:37.580 hard-to-treat depression.

01:50:39.540 So they're in the middle of their clinical trial, but so far it seems to be almost magically

01:50:44.820 effective.

01:50:46.080 So it's a small Ireland-based company, GH Research, and it's an inhaled version.

01:50:53.820 So imagine that.

01:50:55.220 Imagine if you could just go and give yourself a little nasal spray or inhale it, however

01:51:04.180 they inhale it.

01:51:05.280 Maybe they inhale it a different way.

01:51:07.260 And it just removes your depression.

01:51:10.780 But I also wonder, would it give you dopamine?

01:51:15.020 I would think that you couldn't remove your depression without some dopamine being in the

01:51:21.020 mix, right?

01:51:21.580 So could it be possible that this removes your depression, but also your ADHD?

01:51:30.720 Because if it gives you dopamine with just one inhale, maybe that's the dopamine I needed

01:51:37.600 to write my check.

01:51:39.260 Maybe that's the dopamine I needed to concentrate on writing the date correctly.

01:51:44.000 Maybe.

01:51:44.520 So it could be that there's a cure for depression and ADHD at the same time.

01:51:51.080 Just speculating, trying to be optimistic.

01:51:53.520 That's my show for today.

01:51:54.920 I know it went way too long.

01:51:56.880 That's probably why I got cut off.

01:51:58.520 I'll say, I'm going to say goodbye to everybody here.

01:52:00.740 So locals, I usually spend time with you, but I'm way over time.

01:52:04.280 So let's not milk it any further than we need to.

01:52:07.220 I'll see you tonight, locals in the man cave.

01:52:10.180 Everybody else, thanks for joining.

01:52:11.660 Sorry I went long.

01:52:12.600 Hope it was worth it.

01:52:13.400 Bye on X and YouTube and Rumble and everywhere else.

01:52:18.000 I will see you all.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 04, 2025

Episode 2740 CWSA 02⧸04⧸25

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