Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2757 CWSA 02⧸21⧸25

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00:00:17.940 there we go there I am good morning everybody and welcome to the

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00:01:18.720 oh I could feel the simultaneity it was a little special today it was good well

00:01:31.300 here's some good news the odds of that asteroid hitting the earth are now down

00:01:36.600 to the quarter of one percent quarter of one percent we were up to about three

00:01:43.480 percent at one point that it was going to hit us by 2032 but now we're down to a

00:01:48.660 quarter of one percent so celebrate don't look up don't look up

00:01:55.740 meanwhile let's see the most important story of the day it really is that Canada

00:02:03.000 won the hockey game to become the leader or the winner of the what the hell was it

00:02:11.460 you can tell how much I follow hockey oh the highly anticipated four nations

00:02:17.100 championship game yeah so Canada congratulations nice win see how easy it

00:02:25.620 is to be nice congratulations and I I did turn it on just to see if there's been

00:02:32.940 any fights over the national anthem there was a little a little complaining about it

00:02:38.160 but no big deal so it was probably just a good game I didn't watch the rest but I'm

00:02:45.420 glad we're back to just playing sports and getting over it you know when we have

00:02:51.960 disagreements with Canada it doesn't really feel like other disagreements does

00:02:57.480 it it feels it just feels so much like a sibling kind of a thing where you know one

00:03:04.780 sibling say you're really a governor the other sibling is saying I will you know

00:03:10.900 we're a country none of it I take too seriously so it seems all performative but

00:03:19.420 I'm glad we're at least not fighting about hockey you'll be fascinated to know

00:03:25.120 this Stephen King who left X is back and he said that did you miss me and

00:03:34.720 uh Elon Musk said that he did which actually makes sense if your job is to

00:03:42.940 get a lot of traffic on X but here's my question are we supposed to believe that

00:03:48.700 Stephen King left X because it was so terrible but then he returned after it got I

00:03:57.460 would imagine in his point of view even worse doesn't it seem like Stephen King is

00:04:03.340 doing this for a job now I know he doesn't need the money and you know I

00:04:09.640 wouldn't call it a job per se but do you think he's just doing it completely

00:04:13.420 independently and that one day he said you know you know it would be really fun is

00:04:18.880 if I lose half of my customers by taking a firm political stand and then being

00:04:24.640 totally abused online for months and months and months and months did he do that

00:04:30.040 because he just thought it was fun it couldn't have possibly been fun and then

00:04:36.460 he left and I thought oh okay well maybe he was doing it for fun and it stopped

00:04:40.600 being fun and now he's back doesn't it feel exactly like he's being let's say

00:04:48.100 managed by some other entity I don't know what it would be but it definitely

00:04:54.160 doesn't look like anything organic so I don't know meanwhile there's a mystery on

00:05:01.540 X one of the more say notable users of X Brian Romelli he's been suspended now

00:05:10.960 since I don't know why he was suspended I don't have a firm opinion on it but I

00:05:16.660 don't recall him being the type of person who would be suspended because he

00:05:22.100 doesn't say provocative things about anything so whatever the reason is it's

00:05:29.600 gonna be something we didn't see coming now the only thing I could think is that

00:05:34.580 he was working hard to make sure that people had good private AI as they could

00:05:40.700 run on their own devices and he was experimenting a lot with AI and is it

00:05:46.220 possible he said something about AI or did something with AI that crossed some

00:05:52.040 boundary I don't know I'm just speculating but he's not exactly the kind of

00:05:57.440 person who was making let's say social commentary I don't I'm not sure he ever

00:06:02.780 did so what would that be about very curious very very curious if anybody finds

00:06:10.220 it out let me know okay he's probably on some other social network by now well the

00:06:16.540 governor of New York Kathy Hochul she has decided she will not remove my brother

00:06:22.280 from another mother Eric Adams from office the mayor I guess there was some

00:06:28.480 historical precedent that would have allowed her to do it but it wouldn't have

00:06:33.360 been easy to remove him from office so instead she's gonna put guardrails on him 1.00

00:06:39.280 and make sure that there's some kind of standards that she seems happy with I 0.93

00:06:44.540 don't know what that's all about but the guardrail seemed dumb and I guess I just

00:06:51.560 mean she didn't really have anything she could do cash Patel has been voted in as

00:06:57.080 you know so he's he's approved as the head of the FBI now the thing that makes

00:07:04.340 this the most fun is we've never really had a full accounting of the Russia

00:07:11.880 Russia collusion hoax we've kind of treated it like was it true was it not

00:07:17.500 true but really it was an op I mean it was this big organized op by people that

00:07:24.400 were pretty well aware of and Adam Schiff of course the big opponent of cash Patel

00:07:32.160 being approved and at one point in a podcast I told you this before cash Patel

00:07:38.700 had said that Adam Schiff was the biggest criminal in Congress now I don't know what

00:07:44.940 he meant exactly by criminal because I don't know what criminal act we're talking

00:07:49.260 about I'm not aware of a criminal act unless there's something about putting

00:07:54.180 together an op and lying about the skiff that's criminal I don't think there is

00:08:00.180 because I think people in Congress can lie all day long and it's not criminal as far as I know

00:08:05.700 so I love having the guy who was fighting the Russia collusion hoax while it was happening

00:08:12.260 cash Patel now in charge of the FBI and things might get interesting now we don't know

00:08:20.480 now I don't I wouldn't bet on it you know I don't think Adam Schiff really has anything to worry

00:08:26.440 about but I see a lot of people saying oh when's the Epstein list gonna be revealed do you know what the

00:08:34.340 answer to that is of when the Epstein list will be revealed well there are two possibilities one

00:08:41.420 is that it doesn't really exist because do you really think there's a list really you think there's

00:08:50.300 a list hmm maybe I mean anything's possible but if it doesn't exist it won't be released that makes sense

00:09:01.340 sense now what if it does exist well if it does exist it's definitely not going to be released

00:09:08.340 because whatever's on that list would be far more valuable for the government to keep secret

00:09:16.220 so they could do what Epstein was doing which is have complete control over the people on the list

00:09:22.280 so there are only two possibilities it doesn't exist so it won't be released or it does exist

00:09:28.680 so it definitely won't be released only two possibilities so now you're not going to see

00:09:34.040 any Epstein list forget about that well at CPAC I guess Javier Mille from Argentina showed up and

00:09:43.180 gave Elon Musk a sort of ceremonial cool chainsaw looking thing I don't think it was operational

00:09:49.380 um and uh that was fun um one of the things I love about having Javier Mille just insert himself into the

00:10:01.700 American story and associate with Elon Musk is that at least according to the news what Mille did is

00:10:12.100 working now I don't think we're seeing all of the news do you really think that Javier Mille just you

00:10:20.980 know took a chainsaw to a huge part of the government and then it was just all good like only good things

00:10:30.100 happened that that's not even a possibility so if you're not also hearing about what the downside was

00:10:38.100 such as you know maybe somebody got you know not as good health care or not as good police protection or

00:10:47.140 the garbage didn't picked up I don't know must be something but did he really just chainsaw the

00:10:53.060 whole government spending and everybody was just fine and the only thing that happened was inflation

00:10:58.260 went way down does that sound real to you is there any real world in which you can do something that

00:11:04.900 dramatic and it's only good all good no downside I don't even think that about America I mean I'm 100

00:11:14.580 in favor of doge but I think we all understand it's going to break some eggs so to speak and there'll be

00:11:22.820 some things you have to rapidly you know put back the way it was like oops I didn't realize that was

00:11:27.940 that important so I don't know the whole Javier Mille story I don't buy it the way it's being told

00:11:37.300 it's a little too on the nose a little too weirdly successful in a way the real world doesn't work

00:11:45.780 but again like doge I'm completely in favor of it so I'm completely in favor of what's happening in

00:11:51.940 Argentina I just think we're not getting the whole story you know we can handle it there might be a

00:11:57.780 downside I think it's worth doing overall it probably saved the country and I think doge is

00:12:03.780 worth doing overall it's probably going to save the country if anything can but really let's not act like

00:12:10.500 there's never a downside um and then uh somebody somebody challenged Elon Musk at that event I guess

00:12:22.020 he was on stage and he was asked about being a uh a puppet of Putin and he had a good answer I

00:12:30.100 mean he had a crowd-pleasing answer and the crowd-pleasing answer is he said that people

00:12:36.260 sometimes say I'm bought I'm a bought asset of Putin and then Elon said I'm like he can't afford me

00:12:46.260 that does seem true how can he possibly afford him you know how much money would you have to give him

00:12:54.820 you'd have to give him more than well it'd have to be enough that it changes his life somehow

00:13:01.140 what would be the amount of money that would change his life a trillion dollars you can't

00:13:06.580 Russia can't give him a trillion dollars so it's actually true what it would take to bribe him

00:13:12.580 if if there is even that number I'm not assuming there is any number that would bribe him

00:13:17.460 but it would be a trillion Russia can't afford that that's just a bribe

00:13:25.700 well the federal judge ruled that Trump can continue the mass firing of federal workers

00:13:31.300 let me add that to let me add that to the list of of things that were too boring to follow

00:13:42.420 uh the court's trying to stop doge uh the court got overturned trying to stop doge but now they're doing

00:13:50.660 a different thing to trying to stop doge oh it's a different court it's a different judge it's a

00:13:55.380 it's a different approach well that got overturned that got delayed i can't follow it but apparently

00:14:03.540 doge is still going ahead um one of the things that uh trump is floating is the idea that uh i don't

00:14:13.140 know if it means if they get old if they get to two trillion dollars and in doge uh budget reduction

00:14:20.820 that that they would use that as a trigger to give 20 percent of it would be which would be about 400

00:14:26.580 billion dollars uh back to um taxpayers to which i say um now some people i i think jesse waters on

00:14:38.820 fox news was saying that uh why wouldn't you give it back you know why wouldn't you give at least some

00:14:44.740 of it back because it's our money it's our money um what's wrong with that what's wrong with the

00:14:54.020 statement that of course you should give it back it's our money it's not money at all it's not

00:15:02.100 anybody's money it's not money what money reductions in future budgets is not money

00:15:12.660 what are you talking about if i tell you that next year i'm not going to build uh buy a house

00:15:18.900 a house did i make some money future budget non-spending isn't anybody's money

00:15:28.740 you would have to increase debt to give away 400 billion dollars debt is nobody's it's nobody's money

00:15:36.500 that would be like saying hey scott would you like me to give you a hundred thousand dollars

00:15:43.620 uh because i'll take out a loan in your name and then i'll give it to you and i'll say you're

00:15:57.380 damn right you're gonna give it to me it's my money it's nobody's money it's debt

00:16:04.820 you can't give somebody their own debt 0.97

00:16:06.500 i don't know i don't think i'm explaining it right but it's not money it's just a way

00:16:14.580 that we could possibly avoid going down the drain faster than we are so

00:16:22.660 in my opinion there's no good reason to give 400 billion dollars and of two trillion

00:16:28.580 i don't like anything about it so i i guess i'm going to go on record as saying

00:16:33.940 if you have to already get the two trillion before it activates you know the 400 billion give back

00:16:41.140 i'm not even a little bit for it i just want to save the country and let everybody benefit from that

00:16:50.260 anyway um trump is threatening the state of maine for defying his executive order

00:16:58.420 uh about keeping men out of women's sports he says uh we're not going to give them any federal funding

00:17:07.220 so according to trump allowing men biological men and women's sports doesn't get you any money

00:17:16.580 in maine gives new meaning to the phrase my main man

00:17:22.740 i worked on that all all morning and that's the best i can do my main man it didn't work did it

00:17:32.260 it just sort of laid there you're like maine oh i get it sort of like the dad joke on the state

00:17:38.820 name of maine yeah okay got it yeah we'll just leave that one there

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00:18:43.860 responsibly meanwhile over on cnn van jones had some things to say about elon musk and all the doging

00:18:53.460 um he said that elon musk is now remember do you remember my uh reframe from yesterday the reframe was

00:19:02.260 that uh the republicans are mostly talking about real things the dead is real russia ukraine war is real real

00:19:11.860 stuff uh you know men and women sports that's real but the uh the democrats have become sort of the

00:19:23.300 the fan fiction interpretive dance uh party they don't really deal with real things they imagine

00:19:32.180 things that might go wrong in the future and that's it imaginary things that could go wrong in the future

00:19:40.020 now you can't say they're wrong because it's things that could go wrong in the future but you could say

00:19:47.380 they're not doing anything because literally everything could go wrong in the future if you

00:19:53.300 implement it wrong if tomorrow somebody said hey we've got this free technology that will make egg prices

00:20:03.380 really low somebody would say oh so it's going to be like a monopoly thing uh you know could go wrong

00:20:10.020 they'll form a monopoly put all the other egg people in a business and then the people with the secret 0.96

00:20:14.900 egg making thing will be in charge of us all so basically you're saying you're in favor of monopoly

00:20:19.700 of eggs okay that could happen but why don't we deal with what did happen the price of eggs just went

00:20:29.780 down so here's van jones on cnn he says uh that elon musk he says he's quote abandoning his children

00:20:37.860 and doing theatrics as he puts a chainsaw to the government

00:20:41.460 the government the government the government that quote our parents built

00:20:47.140 is any of that like talking about the real world or anything you care about

00:20:53.780 do i care that your parents built it i mean what exactly is the relevance of that

00:21:00.260 you either like it or you don't like it i don't care who built it um he said you unleash somebody

00:21:06.580 meaning musk who's who's doing the theatrics abandoning his children having some weird

00:21:11.220 fantasy in front of everybody to be popular oh okay so the problem is his character remember

00:21:19.860 as long as democrats are locked into bad character instead of any kind of policy stuff they can't

00:21:28.580 possibly win and they can't get out of the character mold they're they're completely locked in

00:21:33.780 and some weird fantasy that trying to be popular do you think that's what musk is doing do you think

00:21:41.380 that he's he's uh trying to be popular who in the world tries to be popular by siding with trump

00:21:50.980 what that that's bordering insane that's the last thing you do if you wanted to be popular you would

00:21:59.300 just make really good electric cars really good satellites and whole boring machines and spaceships

00:22:07.700 that would make you very popular but no siding with trump that takes 50 of your popularity away

00:22:14.580 day one and it never comes back so that seems like a weird fantasy fiction kind of thing that's not

00:22:21.220 happening in the real world and then he's van says that musk is gonna do whatever he wants with no

00:22:28.980 oversight why are we watching we're all what we're all giving oversight he's reporting exactly what he's

00:22:36.500 doing if he does something we don't like there's still time to reverse it you know if you take away a

00:22:42.100 budget you can give it back if you fire some people maybe some of them need to get hired back

00:22:47.140 which is exactly the process it's not meant to be clean and uh and then uh so that is anti-american

00:22:56.020 and it's reckless and it's wrong how many of those things were real let's see the reckless the wrong

00:23:02.660 the abandoning these family which you know he has no no sense of what anything musk is doing privately

00:23:09.620 uh weird fantasies it's all just made up stuff all made up stuff where where is

00:23:16.260 the uh where's the alternative suggestion all right let me give you the alternative suggestion

00:23:22.820 this is what everybody who doesn't understand how the real world works says makes sense oh

00:23:30.740 instead of using a chainsaw they should use a scalpel the next time you hear anybody say they should use

00:23:37.060 a scalpel you should ignore everything they ever say from that day on if you really believe this could

00:23:45.940 get done with a scalpel you are so far from understanding anything about how anything works

00:23:55.140 it wouldn't work there's a reason that big companies don't do this either if a big company takes over a

00:24:01.460 small company do you think they say well it might take us 10 years to get it done but we're going to

00:24:07.220 use a scalpel do you know what happens when you try to use a scalpel the people you try to scalpel

00:24:13.940 will tell you that won't work all right managers i just took over this entity or i'm doge uh i don't

00:24:21.220 know all the details of what you guys do so can you tell me where the cuts will be with the scalpel

00:24:27.220 because you know i don't have time to learn like all the nuance of your specific department

00:24:32.820 and then the department manager says well we're actually underfunded by 30 percent

00:24:39.220 so you can't really make a cut here and then you come back to him you say no but everybody's

00:24:44.500 got to make a cut we're just going to do it with the scalpel and then the person says really well

00:24:50.580 there's nothing to scalpel okay but give me a list of things we could cut out with a scalpel

00:24:56.740 all right uh you're gonna have to give me a month a month yeah because i have to look at all the

00:25:02.900 things we're doing talk to everybody really dig in and make sure we're using the right scalpel

00:25:09.060 all right and then a month later they come in and go well we looked at everything there was nothing to

00:25:14.340 cut turns out we just need 30 more money what do you do with that van jones what do you do with that

00:25:22.340 that if you don't think that's what would happen you've never worked in the real world

00:25:28.660 here's what works how much money do we give you uh 100 billion a year all right now you have 50.

00:25:38.500 that's it i think nothing else works there there's nobody who's ever made anything work but that

00:25:44.740 and then everybody screams and quits and resigns and protests right and then you check back in a

00:25:54.020 year and everything's working with half as much money it's the same thing everywhere all the time

00:26:01.540 all over the world all through space and time only one thing works you have less money deal with it

00:26:09.860 everything else is just a bunch of people with scalpels lying here here's my scalpel i'm getting

00:26:16.340 ready to cut some some only the only the fat i won't get any muscle won't work anywhere in the

00:26:23.220 real world and i don't believe anybody except somebody who's a lifelong pundit would ever imagine

00:26:30.980 the scalpel could work it's so removed from any kind of common sense now if you don't believe me

00:26:39.940 i would recommend that you check in with people who really know how any of this works well such as

00:26:46.180 elon musk literally the world expert at cutting the fat you know before he did doge if you were going to

00:26:56.180 say all right who would be the best person to do this you would have said elon musk and then as soon

00:27:03.460 as he starts doing it and doing it exactly the way any smart person would who had a lot of experience

00:27:09.300 everybody is like whoa i've got a better idea i'm way smarter than elon musk is well if he's using a

00:27:16.260 chainsaw then i say whatever is the opposite of that the opposite of a chainsaw is like scalpel

00:27:21.380 and i i saw you know chris salisa and uh talking to chris guoba on news nation and uh salisa who used

00:27:32.180 to be a cnn political pundit he was uh warning that the democrats their intense hatred of trump

00:27:38.340 is crippling their odds of reclaiming things because if all they're doing is saying trump bad trump bad

00:27:45.220 they're not really creating any positive alternative but they also point paint themselves in a corner

00:27:54.260 um so what was it uh yeah so and by the way i like that chris guomo seems to completely understand

00:28:03.700 this situation um but here's my take on it once you've done once you've spent years just years

00:28:13.860 saying that trump is hitler oh we we mean it like actual hitler he's he's totally hitler no not not

00:28:20.420 just a metaphor not just an analogy but we we mean he's actually uh you know he's actually hitler

00:28:28.580 now what happens if that guy becomes elected how are you supposed to agree with some of the things

00:28:34.820 he gets right which is what you know salisa says you should at least agree with the things that make

00:28:40.340 sense you can't let me give you an example he is hitler but we have to admit he has some excellent

00:28:50.900 ideas too in what world does that work as soon as you say the character is hitler there's nothing you

00:29:00.580 can say this sounds like you agree with him it's like well okay yeah sure he's hitler but i have to

00:29:08.020 admit that his cost cutting is going well you can't do that hitler is is yes no and once they put

00:29:18.180 themselves in the yes no category it's got to be no it's got to be no to everything all the time

00:29:24.660 because you know hitler so they trapped themselves in a way that's hilariously impossible to escape

00:29:32.820 under the condition that you know trump became president which they would i guess they didn't see

00:29:37.940 coming so they had a great play unless he got elected and then it would destroy the entire democrat

00:29:45.620 party and it looks like that's what's happening um abc news continues to be abc news and they recently

00:29:58.980 had a article about the la fires and they said uh among the hardest hit in the la fires were the

00:30:05.860 transgender and non-binary residents in transitional housing programs now uh i have great

00:30:15.620 empathy for anybody who lost anything in the la fires but did we really need to call out this one

00:30:23.220 community and again i'm i'm completely supportive of any adults who want to do anything they want

00:30:30.180 whether they're you know transgender non-binary lgbtq in any way they want totally in favor of it i like

00:30:38.100 people being people we should all be free to you know express ourselves and whatever feels right to us

00:30:44.740 and you can change your mind anytime you want as far as i'm concerned but were they do we really

00:30:51.860 need to call them out as among the hardest hit by the fire i've talked to some people who are hard hit

00:30:58.900 by the fire they're not too happy believe it or not not too happy even though they're not transgender in

00:31:06.260 every single case anyway what i really need is uh if we're going to do fire reporting based on

00:31:16.500 people's sexual preferences i'm going to need a diagram i need a i need to see some venn diagrams one one 0.95

00:31:24.020 venn circle would be uh people who lost a house in the fire and then the other circle would be penis

00:31:32.420 preference because you know i like to i like to see my arguments with data so give me the venn diagram

00:31:39.940 of how many people lost a house and we'll cross that with the circle of how many people have certain

00:31:46.420 preferences for a penis and there might be more to it then we could add some circles if that's not enough 0.72

00:31:53.140 but at the very least when somebody's house burns down my first thought is well what are their thoughts 0.99

00:32:00.820 about penis do they love it are they looking to add one to get rid of one to enjoy one to use one 0.98

00:32:10.820 i mean these are the important questions about fires i know a lot of people are going to say oh the real 0.99

00:32:16.340 question is how do we rebuild and how do we make sure it doesn't happen again okay that's fine too 0.89

00:32:22.420 but really we want to know more about the victim's preferences for penis that's the kind of news abc can bring 0.89

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00:32:46.900 well as sydney bank has announced that it's going to get rid of its dei goals and policies now unusual

00:32:55.540 whales is reporting this on x i don't know exactly if abandoning it is ever real because it feels a lot

00:33:03.140 like all they ever do is change the names because they can't really say we stop caring you know about

00:33:09.700 diversity that's not going to fly internally so doesn't it really mean they're just going to hide it

00:33:15.060 better we don't know but that's what i'd assume uh george clooney continues to be extra extra worthless

00:33:25.540 uh outside of acting uh i love his movies so you know within the within the realm of hollywooding

00:33:33.860 stuff i enjoy his work i'll watch more of it um but he conceded i guess in a thursday interview with

00:33:42.340 the new york times he conceded that uh the media he says the media failed us uh in his coverage of

00:33:51.540 biden's fitness for office the media failed us what does this remind you of reminds me a little

00:33:59.780 bit of mayor karen bass who is putting together an investigation to find out why she went to africa

00:34:06.820 instead of handling the fires she's looking for the real killer it's a little like oj looking for the

00:34:13.540 real killer if your actor george clooney and you knew for sure that biden didn't have it together

00:34:22.820 and you noticed that the that the news wasn't handling it and you knew that if you wrote about

00:34:28.820 it it would be the news george you are the news everything you say is the news including this interview

00:34:36.580 where you talk about the unfitness of the news the news printed you saying that the news failed

00:34:43.540 he could get he could get the news to print anything if he could get the news to print that

00:34:48.500 the news failed he certainly could have gotten the news to print uh i know joe biden and you really

00:34:54.660 need to back off of this he's uh he's not where you need him to be they would have reported that

00:35:02.100 do you think there's any do you think there's any chance

00:35:06.740 that if clooney had broken ranks they would have ignored it there's no chance of that at all

00:35:12.100 he had the complete power complete power to make that not a problem he could have actually

00:35:20.180 probably gotten you know at least a better contest uh if people had listened to him early

00:35:25.380 although it probably would have end up being conal harrison unless they unless they took him out really

00:35:30.980 early um anyway let's compare that to how republicans have treated

00:35:39.540 uh mitch mcconnell's obvious mental infirmities now with mcconnell we don't know exactly how much

00:35:48.180 is mental and how much is physical because it's pretty overlapping but in your experience has anybody

00:35:55.780 gone easy on mitch mcconnell have you seen any republicans who said stop bothering mitch mcconnell he's 0.98

00:36:02.580 perfectly fine i don't see a problem with him what do you see oh well you crazy 0.98

00:36:08.980 putin puppet you must be a putin puppet if you say that mitch mcconnell looks fine who says that 0.97

00:36:16.660 nobody so for the longest time the minute that that mcconnell walked on stage and looked mentally

00:36:23.540 degraded what happened i'll tell you what happened every single republican said okay that's a problem

00:36:32.820 in public we said it in public many times okay that's a problem we you need to we need to get

00:36:41.620 rid of that that's that's our problem so i feel though i feel like the republicans do a level of

00:36:50.580 self-policing that just doesn't happen on the other side like it felt like you know somebody took a dump on

00:36:57.780 our you know on our carpet you know and i think if that happened to the democrats they'd be looking

00:37:04.820 for the real pooper whereas the republicans are like oh wow look at that on my carpet i better clean

00:37:11.700 that up right away we clean up our messes or at least we admit their messes uh it seems like now i

00:37:22.260 could be this could be a totally biased take i'm completely aware of that but doesn't it seem like

00:37:28.500 doesn't it feel like at least the trump version of the republican party the pro-trump doesn't it feel like

00:37:35.460 there's like real self-policing and it just doesn't exist on the other side it feels that way

00:37:44.260 but it's more of a feeling um

00:37:49.220 and then let's see if cluny has some good solid takes about trump's policies or

00:37:57.300 do you imagine that he might have some takes that are based on

00:38:00.500 um imagination and interpretive dance hmm let's see what he says uh about trump he said that uh

00:38:10.260 no rules count anymore cluny said of trump it's like letting an infant walk across the 405 freeway

00:38:17.060 in the middle of the afternoon okay what which policy did he just address i don't see one he also said

00:38:26.500 i think there are always these pendulum swings the first trump election was i believe a result of

00:38:32.340 eight years of a black president really yeah really does anybody think that if the last eight years had 0.88

00:38:43.460 been president let's say byron donald or tim scott do you think that trump would have been elected

00:38:52.900 because we had eight years of a black president do democrats really think that it was that it was his

00:39:02.900 skin color and not the things he did do you really think that if a republican black candidate became president

00:39:14.660 that that would be a reason for republicans to vote for a white guy next time 0.92

00:39:22.260 i mean you know maybe three or four people but that's such a weird take

00:39:30.820 by the way i'm so pro byron donald i i love just his his uh not just his vibe

00:39:37.940 but his i guess i guess i'd say charisma but his uh his communication skills we can't ignore that

00:39:46.980 his ability to communicate is just way above the average uh republican that if he's not in the fight

00:39:57.060 for the top job fairly soon maybe maybe he needs to get a little more seasoned but i don't know i

00:40:04.180 think you'd be pretty happy with that that kind of a voice on your side so it's premature anything

00:40:11.380 could change but at the moment a very high opinion claudia was leaving for her pickleball 1.00

00:40:16.100 tournament i've been visualizing my match all week she was so focused on visualizing that she 0.96

00:40:21.220 didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side good thing claudia's with intact 1.00

00:40:27.060 the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country everything was

00:40:31.380 taken care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time i made it to my 0.93

00:40:36.180 tournament and lost in the first round but you got there on time intact insurance your auto service ace

00:40:43.140 certain conditions apply so i'd like to uh i'd like to give you george clooney's opinions uh in

00:40:51.060 interpretive dance no rules count anymore

00:40:59.060 it's like letting an infant walk across the 405.

00:41:02.260 it's like there's these pendulum swings we can't let the eight years of a black president 1.00

00:41:14.580 there that's that's my interpretive dance

00:41:18.740 version

00:41:21.700 that's a uh cnn is uh telling some fake news about p eggseth allegedly making deep cuts in the pentagon

00:41:31.220 now i do suspect there will be some eventual deep cuts in the pentagon but apparently

00:41:35.940 what eggseth is doing is moving existing funding from one bucket to another so he's taking it away from

00:41:43.940 uh climate initiatives

00:41:49.220 how could anybody be against this how could anybody be against the pentagon moving money from their climate

00:41:57.220 initiative to building a iron dome to protect the united states from incoming missiles

00:42:04.100 but boy those two things are not similar but cnn will call that as a deep cut

00:42:09.700 there might be deep cuts coming but that that's not right away

00:42:14.340 um

00:42:16.260 there are four new polls showing that the public's opinion of trump handling of the economy is turned

00:42:23.060 uh according to cnn so there's new cnn poll gallup poll ipsos and qpac now what do we believe about polls

00:42:36.180 how many of you believe polls are real

00:42:40.660 now i don't want to cast any aspersions on a particular pollster or a particular poll but i don't

00:42:47.460 believe they're real there was a time i figured well if there are four of them you know and they're in

00:42:53.300 the same direction they're probably real now i also don't necessarily think they're wrong because 0.78

00:43:01.300 america is dumb enough that they would say it's been a month and you haven't fixed the economy yet 0.92

00:43:08.100 that would be something that americans would say i don't know it's been a whole month 0.99

00:43:13.700 my price of eggs went up so you said you lower and it's been a month so it's plausible

00:43:21.940 it's an and by the way if they did the poll it means they were probably polling last week

00:43:27.620 so they might have been polling his performance after three weeks on the job

00:43:34.340 before he even had like his people approved and the nominations approved

00:43:38.500 so just in general let me say this

00:43:45.060 when polls can be validated meaning they can be compared to the reality

00:43:51.220 i think they're usually as accurate as the pollsters can make them so for example for every poll polling

00:43:59.140 company that was doing polls for the election i believe their last poll each of their last poll

00:44:07.140 so the one that was closest to election day i believe they all had an incentive because that

00:44:12.980 was the day you could find out if they were way off or not uh that was the only time they had any

00:44:19.860 incentive to be accurate all the other times i believe without proof they had more incentive to

00:44:28.580 let's say make some assumptions and some choices about who to poll and what method to use

00:44:35.060 that would get them uh let's say an answer that would get them a lot of attention from the right

00:44:41.140 people and they wouldn't have anything to compare it to so if you've got four polls

00:44:49.460 they're sort of right leaning just hypothetically or let's say left leaning hypothetically and they

00:44:55.140 come out at the same time and they kind of have the same similar you know attack that it looks like

00:45:01.460 oh trump suddenly is very unpopular on the economy you know the most important thing

00:45:08.420 do you think that those are just honest unrigged professional polls they could be i have no proof

00:45:18.020 that they're not no proof at all but i live in the real world there's nothing that they're compared to

00:45:26.100 accept each other and if a uh if a right leading or let's say a poll that had been associated with

00:45:34.580 trump in the past came out with a different number they'd still be safe because they'd say oh look at

00:45:41.700 that fake one from the right but look at all these real ones from the left because they have more there

00:45:48.820 there are more polls that you would imagine sort of lean democrat so as long as they have more of them

00:45:54.020 and there's no way to check the real number because what would you check it against just the other

00:45:59.540 polls uh they can make up anything they want and it's very powerful because it tells the public what

00:46:06.420 to think so no i don't believe any poll that is this disconnected from some objective standard by which we

00:46:15.620 could find out if the poll was real and the only time i know of is what the last poll before an actual

00:46:24.900 election and then the actual election if it's assuming it's not rigged it's going to tell you something

00:46:30.420 like reality well there's something happening over in china with the money supply uh but any numbers coming

00:46:40.420 out of china or suspect so that's the first thing um and we don't know what's happening but it looks like

00:46:46.820 there are more money supply just just right away just surged um and it looks like it surged in a way

00:46:54.420 that's spectacularly different from the baseline but again it's china and data i'm not sure we believe any

00:47:03.300 data from china but the suggestion is that they've got a deflationary problem and that people are just

00:47:10.740 hoarding their cash and they're not consuming enough to drive the economy where it needs to go so if you

00:47:18.500 got a deflationary problem maybe injecting it with some stimulus money that you printed maybe that's why

00:47:28.900 they're doing it so we're just guessing at this point and it's not 100 sure that anything's happening

00:47:34.980 at all because the data is so sketchy all right so marco rubio did an interview with i think it was

00:47:42.500 catherine harridge and he said that when he met with zelensky zelensky was sort of a two-faced liar and

00:47:51.940 he said that when i talked to him about let's see about maybe the u.s sharing in some of their

00:47:58.900 uh some of their mineral wealth zelensky seemed at first sort of positive about the concept you know

00:48:07.860 at a concept level but you know he needed to run it through his legislative process

00:48:13.220 so he was acting like oh yeah that could that could be a winning idea and then two days later

00:48:18.900 he's saying you reject that he rejected the deal not that the legislative process did but that he rejected

00:48:25.860 it and uh and apparently that's just a lie so rubio is just calling him out to have been lied about

00:48:34.500 that and um and uh rubio is saying there should be some gratitude there because you know we're helping

00:48:44.580 them more than they're helping us so but let's see if we can trust uh ukraine well speaking of polls

00:48:57.140 um you probably heard that uh right after trump had claimed that zelensky's popularity was about four

00:49:04.180 percent which i've never heard anybody's popularity being that low ever that zelensky immediately referred

00:49:12.020 to a poll a more recent poll that said he had 57 percent approval well that would be actually quite

00:49:20.180 impressive for any leader um 57 percent huh i wonder who did that poll let's see was it the kiev international

00:49:31.460 institute of sociology yes it was that's who did the poll were they funded by usa id well it turns out they

00:49:39.780 were i guess what usaid the the little uh some say cia related uh funding entity that we use to control

00:49:52.020 other countries allegedly um it was behind that polling and it and it came out at exactly the right time

00:50:01.300 with a number that suspiciously looks like it was just made up on the spot

00:50:05.220 uh how about that so uh the maze account on x explains it this way he says he says a couple

00:50:14.500 days ago trump claimed that zelensky is widely unpopular in ukraine and that his approval rating

00:50:20.420 is four percent the very next day uh the uh the mainstream media collectively called trump a liar

00:50:28.100 and and and the mainstream media in the united states uh called trump a liar uh as did let's let's see cnn did

00:50:42.100 abc cbs and they all quoted that 57 percent to show that when trump said four percent i mean trump's what a

00:50:50.100 what a liar four percent is 57 percent people um so uh may says uh i looked up where the number came from

00:51:01.700 it came from the kiev international institute of sociality uh guess when they released their poll results

00:51:09.380 it was the day after trump made his claim

00:51:12.340 that doesn't sound too suspicious does it they there were no poll results that said that until

00:51:20.900 the day after trump said it was four huh how about that i think there was a real poll that said four

00:51:27.860 percent and then there was another real poll that said 16 percent now 16 would be devastatingly bad

00:51:36.100 and who knows if any of the polls are real so remember what i said about polls

00:51:42.340 if there's no way to check that they're real they're probably not probably not let's talk about

00:51:49.780 negotiating with russia one of the big problems in the news is that people who write news and

00:51:57.700 talk about news often don't know much about negotiating so when they watch trump negotiating

00:52:04.340 they're seeing something they've never seen and it's not the way they would have done it

00:52:08.500 their assumption is he's doing it wrong uh apple removes cloud encryption feature of the uk we'll

00:52:16.420 talk about the uk in a minute um so here's what i tried to explain in a post on x the other day might

00:52:24.900 help you um so critics of trump's negotiating with russia say that you don't start be giving up

00:52:34.420 giving up giving up on nato expansion and giving up on russia returning the captured territories

00:52:43.300 so the smart people who think they know how negotiating works say you don't give up things

00:52:48.820 before you've negotiated now i agree you don't give up things before you negotiate everybody agrees right

00:52:57.220 everybody on the same page you don't give away things

00:53:00.100 things before you've even started you might try to get the other side to do it but you don't do it

00:53:07.220 that would be just a mistake so the the all those smart critics are saying that trump is sort of given

00:53:15.060 up now i don't know how they know this because nobody knows what anybody's saying secretly so this is

00:53:20.420 speculation on their part i would say but they believe that trump is giving up on nato expansion

00:53:25.620 you know toward russia and that that would be just like starting by giving something up and they

00:53:32.020 think that there's not going to be any attempt to get back the territories that are i guess they're

00:53:39.540 mostly russian speaking that that russia is controlling right now on the eastern part of ukraine

00:53:48.020 so is that an example of trump giving up two things no it isn't those are two things that were never

00:53:57.540 going to change if you simply acknowledge the reality and then negotiate from there you haven't given up

00:54:04.340 anything yeah there was no possibility that the war would end no possibility at all as long as we were

00:54:13.300 also saying that we're going to move toward russia with uh nato since it was the entire reason for

00:54:21.380 the war in the first place and russia apparently still has enough resources to press the war if

00:54:26.020 they want to why would they stop if the only reason they started we said well we're going to keep doing

00:54:33.220 that thing that caused you to start the war that that's a non-starter why would we say that we're

00:54:40.340 we're going to try to get back those occupied territories when we know that's not going to happen

00:54:46.260 so the first thing you have to do is acknowledge what's real what's real is that some things aren't

00:54:54.020 going to change but we also have things that are not going to change for example if they tried to go

00:55:02.740 into kiev we would probably crush them and i don't think that's going to change so there are things 0.97

00:55:11.380 that both sides know are not going to change if you don't at least be honest about those things how are

00:55:17.780 you going to negotiate if we just went in and said all right number one we're we're going to keep

00:55:23.780 expanding uh nato then what does russia do they'd say well why are we talking well we're negotiating

00:55:32.260 and russia would say that's not up for negotiating all right that's the end of our negotiations we'll

00:55:38.180 just keep fighting now does that allow putin to take advantage of let's say trump's political

00:55:47.620 incentive to make it wrap up fast maybe but how does trump compensate for what looks like giving them

00:55:57.780 stuff looks like but i don't think it really is well he expands the variables so here what you would

00:56:06.180 say is here's the deal it's not just about those territories and it's not just about nato

00:56:11.700 we're going to make this a lot bigger it's going to be a bigger deal and there are going to be things

00:56:17.540 that america wants even if ukraine doesn't there are things that america wants even if europe doesn't

00:56:25.460 so we're going to talk about all the things once you've seen all the things you might have a good idea

00:56:31.940 of who gave up what and what was real and what was practical and what might work and then you could

00:56:36.500 have an opinion but at this point nothing's actually been given up but there may have been some

00:56:43.620 you know just common sense reality it's like okay if we're going to have this conversation

00:56:49.620 we know there are some things that are not not negotiable let's say for example that

00:56:57.860 putin had been asking for nato to be completely disbanded not just in ukraine but just disbanded

00:57:04.340 would we enter that negotiation we would not but suppose putin said all right i'm going to accept

00:57:13.380 the fact that that nato will never be disbanded well then you can talk is that an example of putin

00:57:21.460 giving us something for nothing aha he wanted nato completely disbanded but he seems to have already

00:57:28.340 backed off on that before we even started negotiating no he didn't give up anything

00:57:33.620 because it wasn't going to happen there was no scenario in which nato was going to get disbanded

00:57:38.500 so if you're giving up things that everybody knows were never really negotiable all it does is allow

00:57:45.460 you to talk it looks like that's what trump's doing he's just being reasonable about the things that

00:57:51.540 are negotiable and reasonable about the things that are not negotiable and if you don't have some

00:57:57.300 common sense approach to what's real you can't negotiate anything so it's way too early to say

00:58:05.620 it's going to work or not work we have to see all the variables and it could be it could be there might

00:58:10.580 be some secret variables meaning that the public might not see the entire agreement for example one of

00:58:19.300 the things we might want long term is that russia takes our side if we have some let's say uh islamic 0.67

00:58:29.300 extremist problem maybe maybe we could use their help suppose we want their help uh making sure that

00:58:39.060 something good happens you know in the middle east just in general maybe there's a secret agreement maybe

00:58:46.580 we want to make sure that uh we drive a wedge between russia and china so that if things got really 0.80

00:58:54.900 bad russia would feel a little more likely to thrive if they're on our side i don't know if we'd say that

00:59:03.220 publicly so we're not going to really necessarily see all the variables that went into whatever gets

00:59:09.380 agreed on if something gets agreed on all right um so in my opinion you want to be uh here's the other

00:59:21.540 thing you want to be complimentary to putin and treat him like a serious peer that's the only way he's

00:59:28.820 going to make a deal and same same the other way if putin were treating trump like he's heller

00:59:37.300 how would they get a deal trump would even talk to him if trump were treating putin like he was heller

00:59:46.100 why would putin meet with him they never get a deal so it makes complete sense that trump would be

00:59:54.020 complimenting putin at the same time he's giving some tough criteria if he complimented them and then

01:00:01.940 also gave away everything that would be bad if he compliments putin so that we don't have a problem

01:00:08.740 with just let's say the egos and the branding of things just take that off the table and just work

01:00:16.180 on the details then it's going to look good as long as the america gets what it wants that's going to look

01:00:22.820 good but would you treat putin and zelensky the same in this context and the answer is no i wouldn't

01:00:30.740 treat them the same i i would treat zelensky as an underling who depends on us for everything

01:00:39.620 and i would treat putin as a peer that's what i would do so slapping zelensky basically in public

01:00:47.220 which is what trump did with his four percent approval is actually the exact right approach

01:00:54.580 he should be treating putin our enemy with respect because that's how you might get a deal and zelensky 0.97

01:01:02.340 is not really playing well as a team member and if you're a terrible team member you get benched

01:01:08.740 so zelensky gets benched putin's still the opponent but we're treating it with respect because that's how

01:01:15.940 you get to the other side if you if you really want to be effective that's how you get there

01:01:20.020 all right and i i like to say that as good as trump is at negotiating um i think putin has the right

01:01:30.580 persuasion and negotiating skills that it's a fair fight i still think trump is the best

01:01:37.780 but it's definitely a fair fight they're they're a similar weight class when it comes to

01:01:42.500 you know overall negotiating and and persuading

01:01:45.940 um so we'll see what comes of that uh meanwhile uh apparently the uk has asked

01:01:57.620 asked apple to uh open up a back door to their cloud service so that what the uk could see

01:02:05.460 everything anybody's ever done on their phone uh and i just saw something go by that says that

01:02:12.020 apple agreed to that now i always assume that our own government has full access to the back doors

01:02:20.100 of all of our phones that's sort of an easy assumption but i don't know why the uk needs it

01:02:27.780 and and maybe i guess i'm surprised they didn't already have it i'm a little surprised they didn't

01:02:34.180 have a back door so uh here's my big question you know we russia is our enemy we keep saying and the uk is our ally

01:02:50.340 but it seems like the uk was suspiciously involved in the russia collusion hoax

01:02:55.780 or at least one of their you know ex uh intelligence people uh steel so and and they had some other

01:03:06.580 connections to it so i thought to myself huh it kind of looks like the uk tried to overthrow the

01:03:12.340 government of the united states and then of course there's the whole uh censorship thing coming out of

01:03:18.180 europe and great britain in particular and i thought wait a minute these are allies and they're trying to

01:03:24.820 destroy free speech via destroying the platforms free speech in the united states if you're going

01:03:31.780 after free speech that's worse than anything i know of that russia did when did russia go after our

01:03:39.620 free speech there was one time they sent two hundred thousand dollars worth of uh bad memes in 2016

01:03:47.620 that made no difference to anything and i think that was pergosian's shop and and putin actually killed

01:03:54.020 that guy the guy who sent those memes who murdered him for other reasons um so i'm not making the case

01:04:04.260 that you know russia is all good and they're our friends i'm making the uh comparison that if the uk

01:04:11.780 can't act better than our known enemy um i'm gonna have trouble treating one of them as an ally and one of

01:04:20.420 them as an enemy if if great britain is going after or even in any way going after our privacy or our free

01:04:30.020 speech i don't really call that an ally i would call that an enemy by definition in fact anybody who tries

01:04:38.660 to curtail free speech in america is my enemy by definition so you know obviously i'm gonna you know give some

01:04:48.500 grace grace to anybody who's a historical ally but i think they have some explaining to do and i think

01:04:55.620 the uk needs to explain why in the future we should be their ally it's becoming less and less clear that

01:05:02.820 they're a productive ally they might be such an unproductive ally that they're doing worse things to us

01:05:10.900 than our actual enemies that's entirely possible anyway

01:05:18.020 when i found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners

01:05:21.940 i started wondering is every fabulous item i see from winners like that woman over there with the 1.00

01:05:28.260 designer jeans are those from winners ooh are those beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price or that 0.97

01:05:34.980 leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those knee-high boots that dress that jacket those shoes is

01:05:41.220 anyone paying full price for anything stop wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less

01:05:49.940 let's talk about the rest of the world so gaza returned some bodies but they did it in the worst 1.00

01:05:57.460 possible way one of the bodies they said they would give apparently was not there um and they made a big

01:06:05.380 parade cheering spectacle about the dead bodies so big cheering spectacle um so the u.s envoy uh for this adam

01:06:17.700 bowler he said the hamas uh failing to turn over the body of one of the hostages uh is a clear violation of

01:06:26.420 the ceasefire and he advised the mosque to release that one body that they said they would give but 0.55

01:06:32.660 also release everybody or they're going to be facing total annihilation and right now now i don't know

01:06:42.260 how much total annihilation will happen right now because of this but i'll tell you gaza is making it really

01:06:48.420 easy for israel to do what it probably thinks it needs to do which is never populate gaza again with 0.98

01:06:56.260 anybody who was there before so egypt has this plan for gaza and it's hilariously bad

01:07:06.980 so have you noticed that all the plans for gaza they always start with one magical part

01:07:12.820 there's a magical part all right here here's egypt's plan you tell me what the magical part is

01:07:18.420 so the egyptian led plan uh it would set up temporary safe zones within gaza safe zones and then uh but

01:07:26.580 hamas would not be invited into the safe zones that's the first magical part uh how do you keep hamas 0.86

01:07:36.420 and of the zone full of hamas supporters that's not a thing if you if you had some way to keep hamas out

01:07:45.220 you'd be reading minds or you'd be talking about a completely different public the people who are

01:07:52.260 cheering the dead bodies

01:07:56.500 were not necessarily hamas they might have been your regular people as well so if you've got five

01:08:03.380 million people uh the gazans who had been brainwashed for years that they needed to be

01:08:11.300 you know brutal on israel uh can you keep just the hamas people out of the safe zone that's just pure 0.92

01:08:20.740 magical thinking the magical thinking is all right imagine that instead of the residents of gaza being

01:08:28.420 exactly who they are you know a brainwashed weaponized public let's imagine that they're not those people

01:08:35.780 and then i've got a solution for you and then i say oh but wait they're not really the the people who

01:08:45.140 are gonna just never go back to the hamas way of life it was very much a preference and they probably

01:08:53.860 have twice as many reasons to do it now because gaza got flattened so uh and then they say uh you know the

01:09:03.300 arab states would kick in 20 billion that might be possible and then they want a palestinian 1.00

01:09:09.140 administration that's not aligned with hamas or the palestinian authority really

01:09:17.220 do you think there's a palestinian administration that they could find

01:09:21.620 that would be acceptable to the residents of gaza because i think that's important

01:09:26.420 that would have no connection with hamas or the palestinian authority these are pure magical

01:09:32.660 thoughts it's like they're not really even trying are they it's just magical thinking

01:09:39.300 um so so they start with all right imagine if the gazans had not been brainwashed since birth

01:09:48.420 now i've got a solution but they have been brainwashed since birth well let's imagine they're not and then

01:09:58.980 we can solve it but but hold on you can't just imagine a different reality

01:10:07.060 well maybe i can the the ridiculousness of the alternative plans are just so striking

01:10:18.660 anyway yeah good luck keeping hamas out of the safe zone meanwhile um in mexico president scheinbaum

01:10:30.580 of mexico uh said uh about the possibility of the u.s you know going in military militarily after the

01:10:39.060 cartels uh what we want to make clear with this designation the designation that the cartels are

01:10:45.220 terrorists what we want to make clear with this designation is that we do not negotiate sovereignty

01:10:51.380 this can't be an opportunity by the united states to invade our sovereignty they can call cartels

01:10:57.700 whatever they decide but with mexico it is collaboration and coordination never subordination

01:11:04.340 no interference and even less invasion all right let me explain some things to mexico

01:11:11.140 and i hate to break it to you mexico uh but your sovereignty doesn't mean a thing to us

01:11:20.980 just want to be clear your sovereignty is just some you care about we don't care about that you know

01:11:28.100 what i care about the death coming across the border from your country i don't care about your sovereignty 0.50

01:11:34.260 and if i have enough of the military to ignore your sovereignty it just isn't part of the conversation

01:11:40.900 if we need to your sovereignty means nothing to us nothing we don't respect it don't recognize it

01:11:49.540 don't care if you had sovereignty you would have prevented the cartels from essentially running the

01:11:56.340 country you don't have any sovereignty maybe the cartels have some sovereignty but you've got none and

01:12:04.740 if you think you do it's just in your mind and certainly has nothing to do with what u.s policy will be

01:12:11.380 period that's not negotiable um so let me let me just break it down into the simplest way just some

01:12:20.020 questions is there a problem for the u.s uh that's that's arriving from mexico in other words is mexico

01:12:28.500 causing the u.s to have a big deadly problem yes yes the answer is yes is mexico addressing that problem

01:12:37.700 on their own in an effective way no nobody thinks that they're doing is there any chance any chance at

01:12:45.860 all that mexico will address it effectively on their own no nobody thinks that so say goodbye to your 0.99

01:12:55.780 sovereignty you just sacrificed it your sovereignty means you take care of your shit if you can't take 0.99

01:13:05.060 care of your own shit you don't have sovereignty and there's trouble coming your way that's just the 0.99

01:13:14.820 way the real world works sorry well spotify says it's going to now allow ai narrated uh audiobooks on 0.98

01:13:24.100 according to digital trends andrew tarantola's writing and apparently this would increase the

01:13:31.780 number of books on spotify and the way that they are allowing it is they'll allow this one ai company

01:13:38.180 11 labs to be the ones who create your audiobook now it's pretty expensive because if you use if

01:13:45.380 you're an author and use uh 11 labs it can be you know one of their subscriptions the professional one is

01:13:52.580 pretty expensive it's over a thousand dollars a month um now here's what i wonder

01:13:59.460 wouldn't an audiobook wouldn't an audiobook be instantly stolen and pirated and put in the public domain

01:14:07.620 the minute you put it on spotify now i don't know if that's as easy if you had it on an amazon platform

01:14:16.420 because the amazon audiobooks i think there's some you know some kind of encryption or something

01:14:22.100 uh but i don't know about spotify if you just put it on spotify the one thing i do like is that you

01:14:29.220 could pretty much instantly have it in as many languages as you want but it does feel like just

01:14:35.540 giving your book away because if there's an audio file that anybody can copy could they just download it as

01:14:44.100 they're playing it how does that work i don't know yeah but if i make an audiobook using ai and just

01:14:51.300 upload it to spotify it feels like it would take about one second for somebody to download it and just

01:14:59.220 start making it available on other platforms so it seems like a mess from the author's perspective

01:15:04.980 but i might do it you know it's also i think the days of audiobooks and books may be over in general

01:15:12.820 because ai is gonna take so much of that that i don't know i don't even know if publishers can

01:15:18.420 survive in the future it doesn't seem like it the russia ukraine war is entirely the fault of nato

01:15:27.620 chuck says well people who don't know how anything starts are always difficult difficult to talk to them

01:15:39.220 but i i use the poke the bear analogy yesterday you know you can blame the bear for killing you

01:15:46.660 but if you were poking the bear with a stick you're not entirely innocent you know if you knew the bear

01:15:54.100 would do it and you poked him with a stick is it really the bear's fault

01:15:58.420 all right it is the bear's fault but

01:16:08.260 all right i'm just looking at some of your comments um ladies and gentlemen that's all i have for you

01:16:13.220 today happy friday tomorrow will be the weekend maybe tonight will be the weekend uh thanks for

01:16:21.460 joining and i'm going to talk to the locals people privately let's see if our technology is allowing

01:16:27.620 me to do that today and for that rest of you i'll see you tomorrow same time same place

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 21, 2025

Episode 2757 CWSA 02⧸21⧸25

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