Episode 2754 CWSA 02⧸18⧸25
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, I talk about a new TV show and some other things. I also talk about why I don't watch Lost and why I'm not interested in it. And I discuss a new project called the Doge Project.
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well i don't know what's going to happen today my brain's not working at 100
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but today i'm at least barely functional so back at it if you're uh subscribed to the dilbert comic
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which you can do there on x just go to go to my account on x and you'll see the button you'd see
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that the pointy air boss hired a hypnotist to hypnotize their ai and to teach it persuasion
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that hypnotist you might notice looks a lot like me coincidence total coincidence
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so anyway if you're following dilbert look for the hypnotist who looks like me he causes trouble
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um according to the babylon b i think the babylon b was pointing to a real poll
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but it's hard to tell what's real these days uh there's a poll that said 26 percent of americans
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still trust the media babylon b calls that a disturbing poll
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that you still trust the media now of course you know i always say that 25 percent of the people
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in every poll 25 percent will get totally the wrong answer you know if there's a right answer
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and uh this is one that has a right answer if you're trusting the media you really haven't been
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paying attention so yeah about a quarter of uh every poll that's exactly the wrong answer
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so there's a tv show i think it's only on apple tv called severance and people kept mentioning it to
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me and saying hey why aren't you watching that severance series it's great and i wasn't interested
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until uh michael malice described it as he said severance is superb it's lost meets dilbert and then i
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thought well i gotta watch that and it's also weird because one of the actors is adam scott
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kind of weird isn't it that somebody would be in a show that has a dilbert-esque part to it and his
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name is adam scott well i was all about ready to watch it until i saw some other people giving their
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comments about it and now i'm not interested you know if somebody says yeah it's really slow
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and nothing happens i'm not going to watch that but i never watched lost so being half dilbert is good
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being half lost is sort of a reason not to watch it so probably won't watch it
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how many of you saw the uh the put down that jd vance did on uh meddy hassan who used to work
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at msnbc but i think he got fired or quit don't remember but uh here's what meddy said
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he said uh hey jd vance he said this on x hey jd vance i know you're busy lecturing the europeans on free
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speech but have you seen this and it's a it's a report about the ap being kicked out of the
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press briefings and jd vance answers with this on x now this is the vice vice president i want
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yes dummy i think there's a difference between not giving a reporter a seat in the white house
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press briefing room and jailing people for dissenting views the latter is a threat to
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free speech the former is not hope that helps i like how helpful he is hey dummy
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now do you think that a vice president could have ever said yes dummy to a member of the media
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before the trump administration but now it just makes sense it just seemed completely normal
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so elon musk has proposed that when he visits uh fort knox to see if the gold is really there
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as part of the doge project that maybe they should live stream it
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now i don't know if that's a good idea or not because could you tell by just looking at it that
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it's all there i guess the fun would be if there's none there imagine how much we spend on security if
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there's no gold in there that would be the funniest story in all of america that we've
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been spending like probably 10 million dollars a year i'm just guessing to guard a building that
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didn't have anything in it that would be just the perfect ending yeah and of course al capone's vault
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is what we're all going to be thinking about so i've got a feeling it's like a reverse al capone's
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vault so al capone's vault you remember heraldo was opening the vault that belonged to al capone
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and then we're going to see if there was any cool things inside
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what he found was there was nothing inside so this would be like a reverse al capone's
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thing if we find out that there's nothing inside that would be the surprise
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again is that a reverse or is that the same i don't know my brain's not working today
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one way grok 3 is out way better than grok 2 and according to the metrics i saw it would be the
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best ai out there i guess what uh must is doing right with ai is he's just built a better training
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um technology platform so he's just got a more efficient way and a bigger way of training it
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so i guess there's a pretty good chance it's going to stay ahead so i haven't tried it out fully but i
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asked him some questions this morning and he gave me good answers now i understand that some people have
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been having conversations with it but i don't see that option so am i only imagining that you can talk to
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it you can talk to it by holding down the microphone i found that option but i didn't see an option for
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just talking to it maybe there is i don't know so we'll watch that um on x
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a user called uh indra asked me a question well asked a question i decided to answer it why do you
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think it's so hard to get these models that would be the ai models to write or understand humor you
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think reasoning would help there it made it worse now i don't think that reasoning helps you write
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humor exactly so i thought i'd take a stab at it you've heard a version of this before but i think
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i did it better this time so this is my version of why ai can't do humor number one the hidden problem
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is that humor depends on the personality of the humorist in fiction it depends on the personality
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of the character so dilbert is a character and when dilbert does nerdy things where he doesn't
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understand how things work in the social world but he's really good with technology that's somebody you
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know if if you watched the tv show friends or seinfeld you saw that each of the characters have their own
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unique personalities and a joke that one character could do wouldn't work with others so one of the
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characters in friends was joey who was a famous womanizer and he could make humor just by saying
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how you doing you know because it was a running gag and he said it funny but ai can't do that because ai is
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not joey and ai also doesn't have a funny voice if you took away the exact way that joey said it
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you know which i can't do in my impression yeah you doing it's sort of the exact way he says it that
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makes it work seinfeld same thing if you took away seinfeld's voice that's just sort of perfectly
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designed or maybe developed it over time it's perfectly designed for humor
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if you looked at let's say the george character on seinfeld as soon as you know what that character
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is about you know he's kind of selfish and small and just looking for an angle and stuff like that
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then anything he does that's in that context is funnier so ai doesn't have a personality
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so if it had a personality it could do humor within the personality and that might work but there are other
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problems um the personality has to have flaws so a personality where you're just really good at stuff
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that's not really gonna work for humor you have to have flaws so you have to be selfish that's usually
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the best one selfish uh uncaring uh lacking empathy so basically negative personality characteristics now in
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the case of dilbert he is really good at technology but he's really bad at understanding anything like
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dating or you know social interaction so that's a weakness it's a it's a flaw and ai can't present
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itself with flaws because you wouldn't trust it you say oh it seems like you're a little emotional or
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something it would just seem too human i guess so no flaws in the personality and then a lot of the
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best jokes involve a thought that people have had something that people have thought about but for
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whatever reason nobody's ever said out loud that's like the holy grail of humor is to find the thing that
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people are thinking but nobody's ever put it into words before now how could you teach ai to do that
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because ai only looks at things that do exist and have been written down you can't train ai on thoughts
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so and and also once somebody says it is no longer usable right so the first time somebody makes a good
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joke about you know have you ever thought you're in this situation and blah blah blah well once you've
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done a joke about that situation it's sort of spoiled you can't can't do another one so
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so so you can't train ai on thoughts that's a big that's a big problem
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and then uh of course maybe the biggest problem well is that ai is not allowed to be
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edgy or even mildly offensive or dangerous and a lot of what makes humor funny is that you say to yourself oh i
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believe he or she said that oh you're gonna get in so much trouble oh i'll bet you're gonna get
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canceled oh what is your wife gonna say when you get home oh what is your boyfriend gonna say once
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he sees this joke so a lot of humor is just doing dangerous things but the trick is to do it in a way
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that's not really that dangerous but it looks dangerous to other people there's a humorist
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whose name i can't remember but it doesn't matter to the story who wrote very funny books you'll probably
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tell me who it is in the comments um and it would be about his family so his young family life and when
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you read it you say to yourself oh my goodness how in the world does he get away with writing these
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hugely insulting but very funny stories about his early life in his family about how weird they were
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and all that and i think the answer is they'd already worked about with his family and they knew
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that it was you know some exaggerated version of reality not really them so that's the trick
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yeah and ai can't do that so ai can't be edgy it can't be offensive it can't be dangerous because ai can't
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be killed so you don't really worry about being embarrassed or fired or anything like that so it
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takes away all the danger so danger is important to humor um thinking about let's say uh chappelle
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doing jokes in the about trans now even though the jokes may have been inoffensive because he he's so
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good at crafting things that are close to the edge but not over it the the fact that you make jokes
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about the trans community it seemed really dangerous as in this could be the end of your career just
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just one wrong word there and you're gonna get so cancelled but he didn't because he's an expert
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at going up to the line and knowing where that line is hey i can never do that
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it would never it would never be able to feel what is too far it's a feel and the reason there's only one
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chappelle is that there's only one chappelle there's just one there there aren't many there are very few
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humans in the whole world who can write commercial grade humor so if you look at all the humor in the
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world like if you're an ai and you're training on it 99 of it wouldn't be that funny because that's
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what most people do when they're writing you know they think they're funny but they're not
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so if you train it on all the all the humor alleged humor that people think is funny but isn't that's
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going to be a problem a lot of the stories a lot of the humor comes from stories so somebody will
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say i went to the store yesterday and this that happened ai doesn't have any stories so ai never
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went to the store yesterday ai never got married ai never had kids so all those things that are a story
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that make you say oh oh god that happened that happened to me
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hey ai can't do that because ai has no experiences that you share you don't know what it's like to be
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an ai it doesn't know what it's like to be you so if you can't make it you know really understand your
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situation you can't write humor about it and you know ai only understands that kind of a uh let's say a
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top level but to really understand how something feels it can't get there um and then lastly when
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i write jokes the way i do it and i don't know if this is true for other people but it might be
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um i'll think of the situation and it has to make me sort of laugh before i write the joke
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so the punchline comes last so i'm thinking oh that would be funny i know i can do something with
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that i don't think ai could recognize that because it's literally an internal feeling so i'll look at
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a situation and i go uh you know you have that little uh beavis and butthead laugh and you know
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that just with the right words you can turn that into something really funny
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so ai can't do that because it doesn't have the beavis and butthead automatic reaction
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that probably is telling you it's something that's gonna work and um so when i cycle through punch
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lines for example i say okay maybe if he says this maybe if he says that what i'm really doing is
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checking my i'll say gut but my entire body response so if i cycle through suppose dilbert says
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this nothing suppose dilbert says that nothing suppose dilbert aha and then i actually laugh
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like okay that's the one so so ai can't test as it goes to see if it's setting the exact mark but a
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human can um so what's that leave the only thing that's left for uh ai is word play and puns that's
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mostly word play and reheated dad jokes because it has to be completely inoffensive not dangerous
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not related to any stories that you've had not related to any personal experience just the most
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bland bland boring thing just dad jokes which are mostly wordplay so i don't see a path
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a path for ai to become funny i would love the challenge though so i'll reiterate my offer for
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one billion dollars i will help train your ai to be funny one billion dollars now here here's the funny
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part of that and oh and part of my offer is that if i can't do it and it's not funny and you could be
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and whoever is going to pay me the billion can be the judge of that if it's not funny if it's not
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funny you owe me nothing it's free so that's pretty good service right because if you had the first
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funny ai you don't think you'd make an extra billion of course you would if you could have an ai that was
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literally funny like not the way the current ones are that's worth probably lots of billions of dollars
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so for one billion dollars i'll offer to make yours the only funny ai we'll see searchlight pictures
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out democrats for being super racist you know carville is one of the few people i'd like to interview
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you know usually usually usually i'll go to hell yeah just go to hell um looking at the comments
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that it's hard to understand it's just hard to understand the level of toxicity
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but just go straight to hell you know you know who i'm talking to all right uh so james carville
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said that uh when the democrats refer to people of color he says that's racist because it makes the
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assumption that people of color are all the same and he uses the example you know are you saying that
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the nigerians and the indonesians are basically the same as long as they're not white they're basically
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all just non-white people that are the same and of course he's right and but i think it's way deeper
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than that i think he's he's close to the answer and the answer is that every single thing democrats do
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is built in that identity model so if you start with identity it's going to be racist because that's what
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identity is if you can't get rid of the identity politics you'll never get rid of the racism that's built
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into the into the world view so james carville is probably the most helpful people helpful
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person to the democrats and i would love to know if they're paying attention i have a feeling that
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they're not and that nothing he says matters because he's an old white guy which of course might be his
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point too well dr burks remember dr burks she was uh fauci's uh little uh right-hand person there
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and didn't you always suspect that they weren't telling you the truth now some of this might be a
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repeat but the vigilant fox did a good uh thread today putting it all together so burks has sort of
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uh been talking and here's some of the things we learned from dr burks so she was the white house
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coronavirus response coordinator under uh the first trump administration so she admitted during a recent
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appearance uh on pierce morgan uh that the government uh botched the uh covid response by overlooking early
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treatments early treatments which would have been ivermectin i don't know so but i didn't we all know
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that i feel like every single person in the public knew that something less than a vaccination which was
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not really a vaccination something less than a shot probably would make sense it's amazing i can't tell if
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they lied about it so that they could get the shots in it to everybody it looks like that's what
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happened or did they actually not know or is it a motivated ignorance where they're sort of motivated
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to say there's nothing else that could work i don't know it's kind of a gray area and then she said
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um and then she said that the claims from the biden administration that the the jabs of efficacy were
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based on hope not science so the idea that the shots would stop the transmission was never based on any
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science and and burks actually says it was developed specifically to keep the most vulnerable people alive
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it wasn't it wasn't even designed to stop the spread imagine finding that out now this is the well i would
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go further so if they developed it not for people who were let's say young and healthy and then they
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forced on people that are young and healthy i actually think the death penalty would be in order i think
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you should be murdered um well no not murdered but i have to go through the legal system but if you lied
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to the public about something that's definitely going to kill some of them and provide no benefit
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whatsoever and they knew it because they developed the thing not to be necessary for young healthy people
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and that's what burks is saying she's basically saying they knew they knew it wasn't for young
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people and they also knew it wasn't going to stop the spread and then they told us it was going
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to stop the spread so you better give it to young people that should be the death penalty
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and the only reason it's not i guess is because we're not used to treating medical stuff like
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like a crime but this is way more like a crime than a medical treatment to me the domain is crime
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if you say the domain is health care and sometimes you get some wrong well i don't want people to be
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punished for you know a good faith health care opinion that ends up being wrong i don't want people
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punished for a mistake but that's not what we're being reported on no that's not what's reported
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what's reported is they knew exactly what they were doing and did it anyway
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i would imagine that there are at least 20 people who should be subject to the death sentence for that
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now it would depend on what state and you know what you would call it but this is murder it's murder
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isn't it if you know people are going to die and you do it anyway and you know that it was not even
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meant for the purpose that you told everybody to do it isn't that murder i don't know
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so i'm not sure how much of that is new most of you knew that but to hear burke say it out loud
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as the new element that they knew because i was still open to the possibility that it was a fog of
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war situation and maybe they didn't know what they were doing they they just hoped it would work
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and she actually says that the the thought that it would stop the spread was based on a hope
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they could have mentioned that to us how about they tell us next time if it's just a hope
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anyway meanwhile um over in saudi arabia i guess russia's uh and russia russia's some of russia's top
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people are meeting with some of our top people to talk about ukraine the fun part is that zelensky
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and europe were not invited the the parties which would have the most you know the most uh you think
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the most interest but uh then separately i saw a note that zelensky was invited but not till wednesday
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tomorrow is that true was zelensky belatedly invited i'm seeing a yes but i don't know if it's to that
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question or not so um i saw a report that said that but i don't know about that and uh one of the russians
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says the main thing is to begin a real normalization of relations between us and washington
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now i saw ian bremer saying that if you don't invite ukraine to the conversation about what
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happens in ukraine that can't possibly work i'm i'm paraphrasing but that i think that was the essence of
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it that is sort of a non-starter if ukraine is not involved in the discussion of what happens to ukraine
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but one of the ideas that's being floated is that there would be an election in ukraine
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do you invite the guy who canceled elections so he can stay in power to do to help you decide whether
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it should be an election to remove him from power i feel like i feel like trump is just being practical
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meaning that if you if you put ukraine in the middle of this conversation ukraine will
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i think i think ukraine would sabotage it because if you pose the lenski there is lenski is going to
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say okay i can't i can't be out of power because then people will figure out what i did and i'm not
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going to survive so you don't want the person who doesn't want the war to end and doesn't want to be
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removed from power to be deciding how the war ends and how he is removed from power because i'm not
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sure he would get elected but the funniest thing about this is that either russia or the united states
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believes that there would be anything like a fair election do you think the united states is is
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pushing for the election because we know we're going to rig it
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so it doesn't matter if there's an election or not i don't know it feels like it and do you think
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russia could rig the election in ukraine would they have do you think they have that much reach at this
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point maybe um if russia allegedly interfered with american elections although i think in a very minor way
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couldn't they have some influence on ukraine probably they must have lots of spies there by now
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so i i wonder how much of that is just for theater to make it look like there was a change of
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leadership but really it's you know orchestrated from behind the curtain anyway we'll see where that
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goes harry enton at cnn was talking about the drop in support for ukraine and i guess since 2022
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the percentage of the u.s says that uh that says the u.s is doing too much to help ukraine uh was only
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seven percent in 2022 so only seven percent thought we were doing too much to help ukraine and now it's
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up to 41 and among the gop it's higher than 60 so if you're president trump and over 60 percent of
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the people who are your base say we're already doing too much he needs to do a little less and
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that's what he's aiming to do uh you know the not including zelensky sort of makes sense to me because
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he seems more like a puppet than than a player but uh not including europe is funnier because europe is
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such a mess that what is europe what exactly is europe is that every country is it the european union
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would they do a good job of representing europe or would it be 15 new opinions thrown into a
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negotiation which couldn't possibly work so here's something that trump knows that i'm not sure everybody
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else knows you can't negotiate with lots of people in the room that's not a thing two people can
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negotiate and then maybe if they come up with something they can sell it to other people but
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you can't put europe and zelensky and russia and the united states in a room and come up with anything
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you would come up with nothing guaranteed that wouldn't work
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so i think if russia and the united states can make a comprehensive deal that includes ukraine but
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maybe it includes other interests of the united states and russia so that we've got something bigger
00:31:25.120
you know something about the the long-term relationship between the two countries
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then we've got something to present then you go to europe and you say how about this now if if at that
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than you think scott loved himself some zelensky i i love it when people hallucinate opposite of my
00:32:10.800
opinions can you tell me one time i was a zelensky supporter not once and and he had somebody over
00:32:19.920
in rumble oh scott loves zelensky have i said anything like that to me he's obviously corrupt
00:32:34.720
byron york had a good summation of why the european leaders might not be invited
00:32:39.760
this is from his post on x he said european leaders are angry they're not included in ukraine talks
00:32:45.840
they feel they're they feel they're no ideas no agreement on how to proceed but plenty of platitudes
00:32:51.200
perspective would be a valuable part of the negotiations
00:32:57.040
yes we don't need platitudes what what is your what would europe say that we don't think is obvious
00:33:06.640
um we need to support ukraine otherwise russia will overrun us okay got it how about we have the
00:33:13.520
meeting without you now that we know everything you have to say well you know got to fight for
00:33:18.240
democracy okay platitudes platitudes we get it we get it so they don't really have anything to offer
00:33:27.680
that i can see anyway here's uh according to uh some breaking news the mexican senate has approved
00:33:38.800
the entry of the united states special forces into mexico now when i read that headline i thought to
00:33:45.040
myself oh oh i'm surprised because i thought there's no way that our special forces would be at least
00:33:52.880
invited into mexico and then i realized what's really happening when you first heard that special our
00:34:00.240
u.s special forces were going to fight the cartel did you think that was real i think it was a real
00:34:06.720
intention i think when trump said it was real i also assumed that once he started to implement it
00:34:14.720
there would be some let's say internal counterpoints that would be that would arise and so let me tell
00:34:21.200
you what i think was the worst case scenario the worst case scenario is if we wanted to send in our
00:34:27.760
special forces to crush the cartel but instead mexico talked us into training their own military
00:34:36.720
with our special forces to go attack the cartels and that's what it is so the special forces are
00:34:44.800
invited in not to fight that's not approved by mexico but rather to train the mexican military
00:34:52.720
to be better at fighting the cartels now you all see the problem with that right that's the worst case
00:34:59.200
scenario because if you train the mexican military how to fight the cartel they can go get a job with
00:35:06.960
the cartel that's way better than what if they're getting paid to be in the military and uh some say
00:35:13.200
that that's what happened with the zeta cartel they got these people were trained by special forces and
00:35:18.720
then just became cartels if you believe that the mexican military was independent and meant to do
00:35:27.360
you know intended to take out the cartels well then it might make sense but given that the mexican
00:35:34.880
military doesn't seem to have any ability or even desire to take on the cartels i kind of have to
00:35:40.640
assume that the cartel already owns the military so my worst case scenario seems to have come to pass
00:35:49.360
we're training mexico how to resist military attacks i don't think this could be worse honestly so
00:35:58.480
i'm 100 opposed to training the mexican military to be better 100 opposed and this looks to me like a
00:36:05.920
gigantic mistake that probably started down as good intentions but then when the real world got in the
00:36:12.880
way like well maybe the best we can do is train the mexicans and then it will look like we're doing
00:36:18.160
something but really just making everything worse so it looks like making everything worse to me
00:36:24.080
that's what it looks like also apparently cnn's reporting that the cia has been covertly flying
00:36:33.680
these reaper drones over mexico now the reaper drones are not weaponized in this case
00:36:39.760
maybe ever i don't know but they're not weaponized uh they're just observing and i guess they've been
00:36:45.600
doing that for a long time but observing them doesn't seem to help does it and i i feel like
00:36:53.520
we probably already knew this and drones were doing some surveillance there um did you see the video
00:37:00.000
the horrifying shocking video of the delta connections flight that had a crash landing in toronto at the
00:37:07.520
airport but it looks like it came in too heavy and just ripped its wings off and ended up upside down
00:37:16.560
and the amazing part is that uh 80 people were aboard the flight but possibly only 18 got injuries
00:37:26.240
so there was a huge fireball but it looks like the fireball kind of stayed mostly away from the cabin
00:37:35.360
and then then there were images of the people as you know getting off in the emergency
00:37:40.080
and it was pretty impressive so the good news is uh even though it landed it landed upside down when it
00:37:48.080
was done it was upside down so were all those people strapped in upside down in other words by the time
00:37:55.200
they had to get out were they literally trying to figure out how to get their seat belts off because
00:37:59.840
it'd be pretty hard if you're upside down so if that happened to me i would never fly again
00:38:07.280
there's not a single chance that i would ever get on an airplane if i had been on that flight
00:38:12.640
my goodness unless you want to play the odds if you play the odds you would say well what are the
00:38:19.520
odds i'd be in two plane crashes which actually is a good point all right i wasn't sure if i was going
00:38:27.040
to talk about doge today partly because i'm having doge dreams that are really unpleasant and the doge
00:38:36.480
dreams go like this there's a big claim by doge that they found some fraud or some waste and then some
00:38:45.040
other people say no you're reading it wrong you just don't know how to look at the data none of
00:38:50.160
it's true and then in my dream i kept trying to figure out what was true but of course you can't
00:38:55.920
because it's a dream and i'm getting a little bit tired of it do do any of you have doge burnout yet
00:39:04.320
or is it just because i follow the news too much i have complete doge burnout all the stories have the
00:39:11.120
same feel to them we found some big problem followed by other people saying no you didn't
00:39:18.400
you're being mistaken you're looking at the wrong thing and then i say well how do i know the difference
00:39:23.840
so here's the big one um big one is that they found uh let's see 4.7 trillion dollars in payments that
00:39:37.520
are untraceable now if you hear that there's 4.7 trillion dollars in untraceable payments the first
00:39:45.040
thing you should say is over what period of time and it wasn't in the article you really need to say
00:39:52.240
every single time you talk about numbers you have to say is that for this year or over 10 years
00:39:58.800
or over 20 years otherwise it's meaningless so the first thing i hate about the doge stuff is they
00:40:04.000
keep mixing one year of expense with multi-year and then you don't really know what happened
00:40:09.920
so i'm really pissed off about that because it makes what would be useful story is not useful
00:40:15.840
then the claim is that because it's untraceable it is certainly some big source of uh fraud
00:40:27.120
that's not the claim that's let's say the implication but is it or is it something that's just
00:40:34.640
poorly coded are we going to find out later that there was a way to track it but it was in a different
00:40:40.960
system or something like that so all of these have the fog of war problem where you think uh doge really
00:40:48.560
got it now they got the they got the good stuff and then you hear that somebody else says no they just
00:40:54.560
read it wrong i know and then there's also let's see there's also the thing with the social security
00:41:01.840
numbers there's some uh social security database that has death fields set to zero or false set to
00:41:11.760
false meaning that there's no uh death that would be measured even if the person died which would
00:41:19.840
suggest that people are using i don't know maybe expired not expired but social security numbers of dead
00:41:26.000
people but you don't know maybe because over at reddit they're saying no doge is just reading the
00:41:33.360
files wrong they don't know how to look at a cobalt database which seems unlikely that they don't know
00:41:38.160
how to do that but so i'm getting these gigantic really important sounding stories but i can't tell if
00:41:45.920
any of it's true and i'm getting a little worn out by it so i might take a i might take a let's say
00:41:52.880
a breather from reporting all the doge stuff because i just don't know what's true i do like
00:41:58.800
that they're reporting everything they find as they find it even if it's not 100 accurate or on point
00:42:05.520
because it's transparent so i like the transparency but it introduces all this error which is okay that's
00:42:12.720
your first take what what are the people who run that system say i mean are the people who are in
00:42:19.120
charge of the system do they say yeah you know you got us that's 4.7 trillion we didn't track
00:42:24.240
whatsoever no idea where it went or would they say you fool there's a different code that we use for
00:42:31.680
this kind of stuff and it's right there you just we're looking in the wrong place could go either way
00:42:37.440
so i don't know and then there's a question of whether we could find enough to balance the budget
00:42:43.680
the budget my take is not even close and i think thomas massey might be on the same page
00:42:51.200
because the congress is looking to increase increase our debt by 25 trillion is that over a
00:42:59.280
year or is that over time well it's over time but uh 10 years i think but i i'm having trouble believing
00:43:08.960
that the congress is so useless that in the context of we have to cut our expenses doge is working as
00:43:17.280
hard as possible that in that context they would be adding more expenses than i think doge is even
00:43:23.280
cutting so unbelievable we have a system where where our elected politicians can only say yes to expenses
00:43:33.920
if they say no they can't get elected so we we need to revise our system so that somebody
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is making decisions that can stick and somebody can make some cuts but our congress can't
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play responsibly um so apparently ai now has a brain decoder that can read a person's thought with a quick
00:45:02.160
scan of an almost no training so according this is according to live science skylar ware is writing about
00:45:08.560
this so i i assume this means they put sensors on your head and they try to read your thoughts and then
00:45:15.680
they could turn it into text now when you think about that your first thought is wow so cool imagine
00:45:23.120
if i could just think what i want to type and it appeared and i'd say that would be cool you know
00:45:29.680
maybe maybe you had just some little hat or glasses or something they could do that uh i know cobalt's
00:45:38.560
language you don't have to explain it to me i i know there's no such thing as a cobalt database you don't
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have to be dicks about it yeah everybody i think everybody on rumble is toxic like i think all the
00:45:57.280
all the worst people in the world are on that platform anyway
00:46:02.560
um so here's my question do you think if we have that technology and we refine it a little bit more
00:46:11.360
do you think that's what it's going to be used for do you think it'll be used for typing really
00:46:15.680
quickly without using your fingers i don't i think it's going to be going to be used for job interviews
00:46:21.760
and lie detectors imagine having something that could turn your thoughts into text
00:46:26.560
while you're being interviewed by the police or a prospective employer and they say all right
00:46:33.280
could you wear this hat and i have some questions to ask um have you ever done anything that's super
00:46:40.560
racist and then the person says no no i've never done anything super racist and then then you're
00:46:46.160
watching the text uh i did this once uh thing i was like oh my god so i got a feeling
00:46:54.080
that our thoughts are now in play and i don't know how you get back from that because it's going to be
00:47:01.520
so useful if someone were lying to you in a job interview knowing that would be worth a lot of
00:47:08.880
money if somebody's lying about what crime they committed knowing that makes a big difference you
00:47:15.840
know it's somebody's freedom so yes the economics of it guarantee that your brain will be read
00:47:23.360
by sensors uh let's talk about the price of eggs
00:47:29.600
uh you know i've been avoiding this price of eggs thing because i just figure it takes care of itself
00:47:35.520
you know supply and demand plus time takes care of itself now it's bad while it's happening so i'm not
00:47:42.880
minimizing it it it's it's a big expense for a lot of people but doesn't it take care of itself
00:47:48.960
why would this be the one time it doesn't is there some great uh barrier to entry for having a chicken
00:47:57.440
so the question i wanted to ask was how long does it take a a baby chicken to
00:48:04.320
have its own eggs so apparently a baby chicken can have eggs in six months as as soon as four and a
00:48:13.680
half depending on some conditions so in theory we could take the eggs of the well the fertilized
00:48:22.400
eggs of the current chickens and in five or six months those new chickens would be laying eggs
00:48:29.600
so we should be maybe two or three six month cycles away from being back to normal and that actually
00:48:37.600
that's the way i'd like to see the information i'd like to see somebody say yeah it in one cycle
00:48:44.320
where we have new chickens six months later that would be maybe a third of the problem taken care
00:48:49.360
of we need another cycle and then a third cycle to get enough checking chickens now that assumes you
00:48:55.120
don't have avian flu and you know murder chickens or some other problem but wouldn't you like to know
00:49:01.840
that it just solves itself in 18 months because it might solve itself in 18 months i just don't know
00:49:09.040
so could be a problem that's not a problem in the long run
00:49:13.680
i saw user eric cook say this on that topic he said we have plenty of eggs in rural tennessee every
00:49:21.440
neighborhood has egg boxes take the eggs leave the money they're running three to four dollars a dozen
00:49:27.920
right now though you know i guess that's high and how much do you love that that you know you're in
00:49:36.080
the civilized part of the world and you know you you don't live next to a chicken farmer and you think
00:49:42.320
you're you're all doing good it's like yeah i'm living in the good part of the world i got grocery
00:49:47.920
stores all over the place and then in rural tennessee they have egg boxes where where they trust you
00:49:54.880
but entirely on the um on trust you take an egg and leave some money
00:50:03.760
i just love that i just love the fact that in rural tennessee this could even exist
00:50:09.920
is that sort of encouraging isn't it that there's anywhere in the world that somebody's selling eggs
00:50:15.440
on the trust basis and i won't even be there leave a dollar now if you don't have any money just take the
00:50:21.040
egg i love that well trump has added to his tariff program that he'll have reciprocal tariffs for
00:50:32.240
everything so these will be in addition to some tariffs that will be targeted for specific industries
00:50:38.720
but in general he's just going to say if you charge us this much we charge you that much but then he added
00:50:44.320
an interesting wrinkle he's treating the vat tax the value added tax that applies in europe and maybe
00:50:52.080
just europe i don't know um he's saying that that's the same as a tariff because if in order to sell into
00:50:59.040
your country or would it be buying i'm confused about the vat because we don't have that um that if you're
00:51:07.520
going to tax us or tariff it we're going to treat it like a tariff the tax is a tariff so he's adding
00:51:14.720
the tax adding what they're tariffing us to what they're charging us in vat and uh making our reciprocal
00:51:24.240
thing based on that i like it i was at first thinking why don't we just do that for everything
00:51:31.920
but but sometimes um you're really just trying to protect an industry so if you have to protect an
00:51:39.440
industry then yeah maybe you have to have some special ones on things like steel and cars or i
00:51:44.800
don't know i'm not sure which ones we're protecting but uh the rest i kind of like the idea that
00:51:52.160
we're just going to do whatever you do and if you raise it because we raised it to your level we'll just
00:51:56.640
match you we'll just keep matching you i like that that that's that's pure trump and pure common sense
00:52:05.280
i like it well over in new york state governor hochel is uh at least at least floating the idea
00:52:14.560
of removing new york city mayor uh arabs uh adams from his job eric adams and the big question is
00:52:22.480
how is that legal i asked grok if the if the governor can remove a mayor and grok says no
00:52:31.680
i'm paraphrasing a long answer but no the governor cannot remove a mayor so what exactly is she even
00:52:38.960
talking about how do you remove a mayor they were both voted the you know the mayor doesn't report to
00:52:46.080
the governor if it's not your boss how could she remove him there is there some kind of weird
00:52:54.080
impeachment thing i don't know about anyway so we'll keep keep an eye on that over in the middle
00:53:00.800
east hamas is going to release the bodies of four dead hostages uh this week and i say to myself and i
00:53:10.080
guess that would be in return from for women and children being released from israeli detention now
00:53:19.760
is it just me or do you also believe that they wouldn't be releasing
00:53:25.360
the bodies of dead hostages unless they had already released all the living ones
00:53:32.960
what do you think doesn't this mean that that they don't have any living ones left
00:53:40.320
now we can't be sure of that uh it could be that the the ones that are living are in such bad shape
00:53:47.040
that it would be worse than not releasing them at least from hamas point of view like they wouldn't
00:53:51.600
want you to see how bad the living are so whatever is going on here is just the deepest
00:54:00.080
evil whatever that is anyway so we'll keep an eye on that
00:54:04.880
according to new york post gambling addictions have soared since sport betting was legalized in
00:54:13.360
most of the u.s how many of you knew this sports betting was legalized i didn't know it until i read
00:54:19.520
that article sports betting is legalized in most of the united states when did that happen under what
00:54:27.200
administration i don't remember that happening and why would it be legalized wouldn't you know for sure
00:54:35.280
that the gambling addicts would be taken down by that of course the gambling addiction of the sword
00:54:42.560
and the gambling about uh sports i think is the most diabolical because everybody has that dunning
00:54:50.560
kruger thing you know where you think you're smarter than you are where you can uh you can look at the
00:54:58.720
sports teams and you think you know who's going to win i'm not sure that's a thing
00:55:04.640
yeah you know do you think your expertise will be like well this pitcher you know pitched a game three
00:55:10.960
days ago but he's not so good in in hot weather so you think you know something that other people don't
00:55:19.520
that's the most dangerous gambling because that's gonna you know even if you're down to your last
00:55:24.080
penny you're still gonna bet it because you think you know more than other people it couldn't be a
00:55:28.720
worse situation if it were pure gambling then it might even make more sense because nobody would
00:55:36.000
think they have a they have a good chance of winning that's what pure gambling is so something like a slot
00:55:42.560
machine some people would still be addicted to it of course as they are but at least you would know
00:55:49.680
that you couldn't use any skill to get it get an advantage so the same problem with online poker
00:55:57.440
online poker players think oh i have more skill so i can get into this and it'll pay off man that's
00:56:04.720
that's your worst combination is thinking you know something and also it's gambling you you don't want
00:56:09.920
to pair those two that's that's just like asking for trouble well in my last item here the director of the
00:56:17.360
cia john ratcliffe was saying on i think it was on fox that adam schiff has tried to impeach the
00:56:26.640
president he's now in his third try now some would say that would be the same as trying to overthrow the
00:56:32.640
elected government i think in this case it is i don't think all impeachments are that but in this case
00:56:39.680
case it's very clear that the trump impeachments are all meant as just overthrowing the government
00:56:54.720
in it there's something go on going on that is the weirdest thing because
00:56:59.440
like i said the the people who pushed the coveted shots to the extent that they knew what they were
00:57:07.280
doing that should be jail but i don't think it ever will be and with schiff to the extent that he was
00:57:15.680
doing it just to remove the president and not because he thought the grounds of impeachment were
00:57:20.880
especially important like a phone call to ukraine who cared about that really nobody um it does look
00:57:28.800
like treason but it will never be treated that way and you could probably come up with 10 other
00:57:36.880
examples where you say to yourself that's not illegal you can't go to jail for that i don't know
00:57:43.920
i think sometimes we just get used to stuff so we just don't think of it as a crime when obviously it is
00:57:51.520
so anyway that's all i got for today i'm not operating at 100 today so i apologize if this
00:57:57.840
was not your usual incredibly entertaining live stream i i expect to be back to 100 really soon
00:58:07.920
and i'll tell you you never want to have a bad cough at the same time you have an untreated hernia
00:58:15.280
and asthma you don't want those three things at the same time that's that's the one thing i can tell you
00:58:20.320
that is a really tough 24 hours but i'm over the tough part i think we'll see all right i'm going
00:58:28.640
to say a few words privately to the locals people and the rest of you i will see you
00:58:36.880
tomorrow same time same place thanks for joining