Real Coffee with Scott Adams - February 24, 2025


Episode 2760 CWSA 02⧸24⧸25


Episode Stats

Length

48 minutes

Words per Minute

147.22215

Word Count

7,070

Sentence Count

493

Misogynist Sentences

11

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

Dilbert's company needs to make some deep cuts, but they need them with a scalpel, not an axe. The problem is, they don't know what to cut with an axe, so they go to a machine that can do the job better than a human can.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 a vessel of any kind, filled with your favorite liquid.
00:00:03.340 I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure
00:00:06.860 of dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
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00:00:13.880 What happens now? Go.
00:00:19.040 Tremendous.
00:00:21.260 So good. Well, I'd like to apologize in advance
00:00:25.200 in case I fall asleep sometime during this show.
00:00:30.000 You know the three things that you need to do to feel good?
00:00:34.960 You need to get your sleep, you need to eat right,
00:00:37.780 you need to exercise. Those are three things I haven't been able to do
00:00:41.900 for about a month, so I'm
00:00:44.620 on my last thread here.
00:00:48.220 So I've got a little brain fog going on, so whatever you think
00:00:52.300 is the best this show could be, dial it back about
00:00:55.660 40%, and you'll be good.
00:00:58.080 Well, as you know, everybody's talking about Doge
00:01:02.320 and should we be cutting with an axe
00:01:05.300 or cutting with a scalpel?
00:01:07.240 So I've decided that Dilbert's company
00:01:09.980 is going to go through the same thing.
00:01:12.120 So Dilbert's CEO
00:01:13.360 is going to...
00:01:16.160 Wait, what's that?
00:01:16.720 Well, so Dilbert's company, the CEO, is going to ask the pointy-eared boss
00:01:29.240 to make some deep cuts, but with a scalpel, not an axe.
00:01:35.020 How do you think that's going to go?
00:01:37.440 Well, let me give you an idea.
00:01:39.200 Okay. CEO to pointy-eared boss.
00:01:43.440 I need to make some deep cuts.
00:01:45.260 Got to cut 20%.
00:01:47.480 And since you're the manager who knows what everybody's doing,
00:01:52.400 you can do it with a scalpel.
00:01:55.120 Otherwise, I'd have to do it with an axe,
00:01:56.880 because I don't know what anybody does.
00:01:58.060 So the pointy-eared manager goes away and he says,
00:02:02.420 all right, give me a month to study it,
00:02:05.340 and I'll come back with some recommendations.
00:02:08.000 A month later, the pointy-eared boss comes back and says,
00:02:10.860 I studied everything, talked to every person that works for me,
00:02:14.560 and we decided that we need more money, not less.
00:02:19.760 Okay, the job was to cut 20%.
00:02:23.000 Yeah, I know, but it turns out that when I took the scalpel,
00:02:26.420 as opposed to the axe, everything looked like it was necessary.
00:02:30.820 So nothing to cut, and we really need to expand a few things.
00:02:34.040 So I'll need about 20% more.
00:02:38.160 You really need to find a way to cut.
00:02:40.460 All right, I've got an idea.
00:02:42.160 How about this?
00:02:43.440 How about you fire my rival in another department
00:02:46.840 and then fold that company's, that department under me,
00:02:51.600 and then you save some money with that other guy.
00:02:54.040 And then the CEO says,
00:02:55.180 well, that other guy said the same thing about you,
00:02:58.440 about we fire you and fold your department under him.
00:03:03.160 And then the CEO says,
00:03:06.060 all right, give me a list of all your projects.
00:03:08.140 We'll find something to cut.
00:03:10.480 And then he looks at the projects
00:03:11.880 and realizes he doesn't know what any of them really are
00:03:14.480 because they're just names of things.
00:03:18.020 And so the CEO says, well, what about this one?
00:03:20.480 And then the pointy-eared boss says, oh, no, you can't cut that one.
00:03:24.760 That one's essential.
00:03:26.580 All right.
00:03:27.020 What about this one?
00:03:28.380 Oh, my goodness.
00:03:29.340 If you cut that, we'll all die by this afternoon.
00:03:32.480 All right.
00:03:33.080 But what about this one?
00:03:34.640 No, that one's going to have to increase the budget.
00:03:36.860 We're going to need twice as much budget for that one.
00:03:38.820 Do you think it works to do a scalpel?
00:03:44.500 Scalpel might work up to 5% or 10%.
00:03:47.180 But if you're trying to make a deep cut,
00:03:50.340 I don't think it's going to work.
00:03:54.040 Here's some Zuby wisdom.
00:03:56.300 You all know Zuby.
00:03:58.800 How do you even describe Zuby?
00:04:01.840 He's so many things at the same time.
00:04:04.160 Anyway, Zuby says, the biggest reason why Western society is in trouble
00:04:07.780 is that the culture dictates that telling inconvenient truths is hateful
00:04:12.700 and feelings are more important than the truth.
00:04:15.960 As a result, people are in a constant state of lying and denying of reality
00:04:20.580 and nothing gets fixed.
00:04:23.180 Right.
00:04:24.240 We're in a continuous state of lying to each other about everything.
00:04:27.820 All the time.
00:04:28.700 So here's some inconvenient truth.
00:04:37.380 I'm just going to say the thing that I haven't seen anybody say.
00:04:42.240 I tend to watch a lot of YouTube about ancient civilizations.
00:04:48.360 And I love it when we dig up some new ancient civilization
00:04:51.120 that used to be quite advanced for its time.
00:04:53.580 But now it's completely gone.
00:04:55.240 And then I say to myself, huh, why didn't any of those ancient civilizations,
00:05:02.500 including, you know, the really powerful ones like Rome,
00:05:05.620 why didn't any of them survive?
00:05:08.800 And then I think, well, the United States is different
00:05:12.800 because the United States has figured out, you know,
00:05:16.120 how to solve all kinds of problems.
00:05:17.720 And, you know, we're not going to run into any big problem.
00:05:20.200 So we'll probably survive for a long time.
00:05:23.100 But the U.S. has only been around a few hundred years.
00:05:27.240 That's really not very long.
00:05:29.960 And there's some thinking that the reason that prior great civilizations failed
00:05:34.940 is that they spent themselves into debt.
00:05:38.100 And that there's something that happens every time
00:05:41.840 that when a civilization gets to some really good level,
00:05:46.000 they just overspend.
00:05:49.020 And then they're broke.
00:05:51.380 Now, of course, in the old days,
00:05:52.600 they were also overrun by marauders
00:05:54.420 and probably had some diseases that they couldn't handle
00:05:57.320 and stuff like that.
00:05:58.480 But generally speaking,
00:06:00.200 it's quite sobering to see
00:06:02.500 that 100% of great civilizations failed.
00:06:06.560 All of them.
00:06:08.100 And now we're looking at the United States
00:06:10.600 with a debt that couldn't possibly be paid back
00:06:13.900 unless we did something really drastic,
00:06:16.580 which is what Doge is trying to do.
00:06:19.040 So the thing you got to know
00:06:21.520 is that here are your two possibilities.
00:06:26.380 Let's say you do the careful reasoned cuts with a scalpel
00:06:30.880 versus doing something that people would call chaotic
00:06:34.880 and maybe doesn't have much empathy
00:06:37.380 and it's just an ax and all that.
00:06:40.180 Let's say those are the two conditions.
00:06:43.580 Which one do you think has a better chance of working?
00:06:47.100 Now, I would say,
00:06:48.700 given that what we're looking at
00:06:50.180 is an existential threat,
00:06:52.180 meaning that our debt literally will kill us
00:06:54.760 in just a few years.
00:06:56.580 The entire United States is gone in a few years
00:06:59.120 if we don't get it under control.
00:07:00.820 Now, Musk knows that.
00:07:03.040 That's why he's all in.
00:07:05.280 But I don't know if the country knows it
00:07:07.080 because we don't say that honestly.
00:07:09.720 To Zuby's point,
00:07:12.260 we pretend like,
00:07:14.120 well, if we just do business as normal
00:07:16.620 and make a few strategic cuts
00:07:19.560 and treat everybody nice,
00:07:21.960 we should be in good shape.
00:07:23.160 But I don't think anything like that is possible.
00:07:27.780 I think if we make some nice strategic little cuts
00:07:30.860 and everybody's happy with them,
00:07:32.360 how well thought out they are,
00:07:34.380 we're not even going to be close
00:07:36.080 to saving the country,
00:07:38.500 like actually survival.
00:07:40.420 So, when I look at the scalpel idea,
00:07:45.100 I see zero chance of it working.
00:07:47.200 Zero.
00:07:48.340 When I look at the MeetX version,
00:07:51.400 I say, that could terribly go wrong.
00:07:54.860 You know, it's easy to imagine how it could go wrong.
00:07:57.420 But it's the only thing that might go right.
00:08:00.600 So, if the scalpel is a definite failure,
00:08:04.440 because here's what Musk's opponents
00:08:08.860 seem to pretend.
00:08:11.400 They pretend that we don't have
00:08:13.300 like a deep existential threat
00:08:16.320 and it isn't really close.
00:08:18.320 That if you looked into it and said,
00:08:20.260 you know, we could cut 5% out of this department
00:08:23.340 and 5% of that,
00:08:24.840 and we really thought about it
00:08:26.540 and we'll treat everybody nice.
00:08:29.120 I don't think that could work.
00:08:31.340 I think that would be a way to cut 5% out of the budget.
00:08:34.220 It would make no difference to our survival.
00:08:36.600 If you want to survive,
00:08:38.020 you might have to, you know,
00:08:40.380 remove the leg and, you know,
00:08:42.520 take care of it.
00:08:44.260 So, I guess that's where the critics and I diverge.
00:08:49.580 If you think there's any way to survive,
00:08:52.980 survive.
00:08:54.960 Scalpel cuts?
00:08:57.240 I don't think there is.
00:08:59.040 I see nothing that would suggest we could survive,
00:09:01.740 just going slowly and carefully.
00:09:03.740 I don't think that's survivable.
00:09:07.300 The meat axe could be a problem
00:09:09.980 or it might work.
00:09:12.480 But there's only one path that might work.
00:09:16.040 So, I'm all in on the path that might work.
00:09:19.120 So, anyway,
00:09:23.360 let's talk about some good news for Trump.
00:09:27.920 The American Bar Association
00:09:29.320 just suspended their DEI requirements,
00:09:32.220 according to the Gateway Pundit,
00:09:34.760 Cassandra McDonald's reporting.
00:09:37.260 So, it's suspended in law school,
00:09:39.040 diversity, equity,
00:09:39.660 and inclusion requirements.
00:09:41.680 Now, is that the Trump effect?
00:09:44.140 Because I don't believe Trump ordered that
00:09:46.740 or there's no executive order on that, right?
00:09:49.480 And he wouldn't have any say in it anyway.
00:09:52.760 So, it feels like the American Bar Association
00:09:56.200 is sort of the canary in the coal mine,
00:09:59.700 meaning if they go early,
00:10:03.120 if they throw DEI out early,
00:10:05.800 it's probably because a whole bunch of lawyers
00:10:08.040 think that there's going to be a legal risk
00:10:10.540 if you keep doing it.
00:10:12.480 And there should be.
00:10:13.360 There should be a legal risk to discrimination.
00:10:16.160 So, if the American Bar Association
00:10:18.300 is getting rid of DEI,
00:10:19.960 that's probably a really good sign
00:10:22.900 for what's ahead.
00:10:24.380 Well, you all know the word of the day.
00:10:28.980 The word of the day is Bongino.
00:10:34.280 I've never seen people so happy.
00:10:36.760 You know, I guess Cash Patel
00:10:38.100 made people pretty happy.
00:10:39.960 And, of course, I was very happy about RFK Jr.
00:10:42.860 And Tulsi made a lot of people happy
00:10:44.720 when she got appointed.
00:10:46.440 But Dan Bongino has been tapped
00:10:48.260 to be the new Deputy Director of the FBI.
00:10:51.100 And I don't believe that requires
00:10:54.300 any congressional approval.
00:10:58.180 But I did not know
00:10:59.640 how impressive Bongino's background is.
00:11:03.480 I knew some of it.
00:11:05.040 And I've told you
00:11:06.040 one of the things I like about him
00:11:07.440 is he's a talent stack guy,
00:11:10.400 meaning that he just keeps
00:11:11.820 acquiring new talents
00:11:13.920 and adding them to the ones he has.
00:11:16.060 And then he's got this
00:11:17.000 super powerful package of talents.
00:11:19.960 But I didn't know he has
00:11:21.240 two advanced degrees.
00:11:24.340 I think he has...
00:11:25.440 Now, this might be wrong
00:11:26.540 because I think it came from an AI.
00:11:28.340 But I think he has a master's degree
00:11:30.440 and then he's got an MBA.
00:11:33.020 He's worked in the police department.
00:11:35.320 He did a secret service agent job.
00:11:40.100 And now he's got all of the
00:11:41.580 public communication skills, too.
00:11:44.740 So he knows media.
00:11:45.900 He knows everything about law enforcement.
00:11:49.820 And he's highly educated.
00:11:52.560 So, and, you know,
00:11:55.280 I think character is probably
00:11:56.680 even a bigger thing.
00:11:58.400 He's not exactly the kind of guy
00:12:00.280 who's going to back off,
00:12:01.460 if you know what I mean.
00:12:03.780 Bongino strikes me as the kind
00:12:05.440 who would chew through a brick wall
00:12:07.660 if there was a reason to do it.
00:12:10.380 You just need a reason.
00:12:11.080 He does not look like the kind of guy
00:12:13.780 who's going to shrink from a task
00:12:16.160 because it's difficult.
00:12:19.040 So I think all of us
00:12:20.840 are inspired by that
00:12:22.040 because he's such a fighter
00:12:23.700 and he has just a ridiculous amount
00:12:26.880 of skills at this point.
00:12:28.220 Just ridiculous.
00:12:29.780 I have so much respect for that.
00:12:31.660 Anyway, so congratulations
00:12:33.520 to Dan Bongino.
00:12:34.840 And I know all of you are thinking,
00:12:39.680 oh, the Russia collusion hoax,
00:12:42.260 Adam Schiff.
00:12:44.140 There's going to be some good arrests coming.
00:12:47.020 Maybe.
00:12:47.800 We'll see.
00:12:48.780 I won't make any predictions
00:12:49.920 about any specific things
00:12:52.460 that will be investigated.
00:12:54.520 But it's all good news.
00:12:56.680 Meanwhile,
00:12:58.440 Pam Bondi's Department of Justice,
00:13:01.700 apparently, according to the Western Journal,
00:13:03.660 they launched a fraud investigation
00:13:05.320 on UnitedHealth.
00:13:08.500 Now, remember UnitedHealth?
00:13:10.280 Their CEO was the one
00:13:11.620 who was gunned down on the street.
00:13:13.800 But UnitedHealth is maybe the biggest
00:13:16.740 in terms of their...
00:13:20.700 Is it mostly health insurance, I guess?
00:13:23.520 So they've...
00:13:24.660 Apparently, they're being investigated
00:13:26.420 for Medicare billing practices,
00:13:28.700 which would suggest
00:13:30.540 that somebody thinks...
00:13:33.540 So somebody thinks...
00:13:37.540 See, this is the brain fog.
00:13:39.960 I can't look at a comment
00:13:41.080 and then remember
00:13:41.740 what I was talking about.
00:13:43.440 So it suggests
00:13:44.240 that somebody thinks
00:13:44.920 UnitedHealth may have been
00:13:46.600 cheating on some big stuff.
00:13:49.200 And that could be big.
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00:14:52.140 Speaking of cheating
00:14:53.260 on the big stuff,
00:14:54.080 you've been hearing for years
00:14:56.440 that Haiti was a situation
00:15:00.420 where a whole bunch of money,
00:15:01.800 billions of dollars
00:15:02.540 were given to Haiti
00:15:03.660 for recovery
00:15:04.420 from their 2010 hurricane.
00:15:07.820 And the entire time
00:15:10.240 we kept thinking,
00:15:11.380 people kept saying,
00:15:12.460 it's a grift,
00:15:13.500 it's the Clinton Foundation
00:15:15.380 has found a way
00:15:16.260 to steal your money.
00:15:17.660 And the whole time I thought,
00:15:19.320 well, yeah,
00:15:20.420 there might be some of that.
00:15:21.600 You know,
00:15:22.560 when you're sloshing around
00:15:23.900 that much money,
00:15:24.640 yeah,
00:15:25.520 there's going to be some of that
00:15:26.400 that gets to the wrong places.
00:15:28.080 But I thought,
00:15:29.100 mostly,
00:15:30.220 mostly it probably got
00:15:31.300 to where it was supposed to.
00:15:33.760 Turns out,
00:15:34.480 that might be wrong.
00:15:36.600 And it's a little too early
00:15:37.880 to know how much of this is true.
00:15:39.380 It's a little fog of war situation.
00:15:41.180 But according to Zero Hedge,
00:15:42.540 some Haitian reporters
00:15:45.600 had been warning
00:15:46.400 about disappearing money
00:15:47.680 for years.
00:15:49.620 And USAID
00:15:51.660 was the,
00:15:54.560 I guess,
00:15:55.120 the big funding organization.
00:15:57.320 And some of it
00:15:58.380 was dispersed
00:15:59.080 through the Clinton Foundation.
00:16:02.220 All right.
00:16:02.560 So it was USAID.
00:16:04.240 It was billions of dollars
00:16:05.800 for Haiti.
00:16:07.500 And some of it
00:16:08.620 was funneled
00:16:09.940 through the Clinton Foundation.
00:16:12.540 Now,
00:16:13.400 that doesn't mean
00:16:14.160 there's any crime.
00:16:15.780 It's just that
00:16:16.840 it's everything
00:16:17.480 you would expect
00:16:18.240 if there were a crime.
00:16:20.240 It looks exactly like
00:16:22.080 the setup for a crime.
00:16:25.080 But the allegation here
00:16:26.960 is that only 2%
00:16:27.960 of the $4.4 billion
00:16:29.600 that was allotted
00:16:31.420 for Haitian relief
00:16:32.640 actually got used
00:16:34.240 in Haiti.
00:16:35.720 So where did the rest
00:16:36.580 of the money go?
00:16:38.080 Well, allegedly,
00:16:39.420 the New York Post
00:16:40.160 says that 56%
00:16:41.780 of that money
00:16:42.460 for Haiti
00:16:43.000 went to firms
00:16:44.520 located in or near
00:16:45.760 the U.S. capital
00:16:46.740 and apparently
00:16:47.660 the money stayed there.
00:16:50.160 So
00:16:50.560 here's how it goes.
00:16:53.720 There's a disaster
00:16:54.840 in Haiti.
00:16:55.840 The U.S. government
00:16:57.060 allocates
00:16:57.700 $4.4 billion.
00:16:59.200 It goes into
00:16:59.740 that USAID
00:17:00.800 bucket.
00:17:03.220 And then from there,
00:17:04.080 it goes to a whole bunch
00:17:05.080 of NGOs
00:17:05.860 and consultants
00:17:07.140 and contractors
00:17:08.100 and then
00:17:09.220 only 2%
00:17:11.100 of it
00:17:11.440 got spent
00:17:11.880 on Haiti.
00:17:13.740 I feel like
00:17:14.520 I'd have to hear
00:17:15.000 the other side
00:17:15.580 of that story
00:17:16.240 because that's
00:17:16.900 a little hard
00:17:17.460 to believe.
00:17:18.580 You know,
00:17:18.700 it's a little
00:17:19.000 too on the nose,
00:17:19.900 2%.
00:17:20.480 Come on.
00:17:21.960 But on the other hand,
00:17:23.360 maybe.
00:17:24.780 I mean,
00:17:25.100 one thing we can all
00:17:26.040 tell is that
00:17:26.660 Haiti doesn't seem
00:17:27.460 to be a bit better
00:17:28.360 if anything.
00:17:31.360 So
00:17:31.800 what if that's true?
00:17:34.900 What if it's true?
00:17:37.420 You know,
00:17:37.860 there's no investigation
00:17:39.080 opened up
00:17:39.760 as far as I know.
00:17:41.220 So
00:17:41.660 I think I'm not
00:17:42.440 going to treat it
00:17:43.180 as a fact
00:17:44.440 until I hear
00:17:45.380 there's an investigation
00:17:46.280 opened.
00:17:47.480 And even then,
00:17:48.060 I shouldn't treat it
00:17:48.720 as a fact.
00:17:49.900 But
00:17:50.160 if there's no investigation,
00:17:53.100 it just feels like
00:17:54.200 talk at this point.
00:17:55.600 I do think
00:17:56.400 it's possible
00:17:57.000 that these numbers
00:17:58.220 are right on
00:17:58.960 and that there's
00:18:00.080 a ton of money
00:18:00.740 just missing.
00:18:02.420 But
00:18:02.780 I wouldn't
00:18:04.300 say for sure yet.
00:18:07.180 There's some more
00:18:07.760 good news for Trump
00:18:08.580 according to
00:18:09.280 pollster Frank Luntz
00:18:10.860 that 33 days
00:18:13.860 into Trump's
00:18:14.960 term,
00:18:17.180 he has a higher
00:18:17.980 approval rating
00:18:18.760 than at any point
00:18:19.840 during his first term.
00:18:22.620 Are you having
00:18:23.660 the same
00:18:25.300 weird situation
00:18:26.300 that I am?
00:18:27.600 I'll turn on the news
00:18:28.640 and there'll be some
00:18:29.240 Democrat-oriented news
00:18:31.300 and he'll say,
00:18:32.340 oh,
00:18:33.160 Trump's approval
00:18:34.240 has plunged.
00:18:35.740 It's plunged.
00:18:37.180 And sure enough,
00:18:38.220 it looks like
00:18:38.840 it went from
00:18:39.700 unusually high
00:18:42.040 to lower
00:18:42.980 fairly quickly.
00:18:44.580 Now,
00:18:45.200 the first thing,
00:18:46.020 the first thing
00:18:47.820 you need to know
00:18:48.480 is that
00:18:50.120 if you're comparing
00:18:54.680 what Trump
00:18:56.000 was to himself
00:18:57.280 and it used
00:18:58.880 to be at an
00:18:59.340 all-time high
00:19:00.080 but now
00:19:00.680 it's lower,
00:19:02.320 there's always
00:19:03.280 a honeymoon
00:19:03.860 when you first
00:19:04.740 get in
00:19:05.240 and then there's
00:19:05.960 always a pullback.
00:19:07.520 So,
00:19:08.000 one month after
00:19:08.860 you get into office,
00:19:10.100 I would expect
00:19:11.380 every president's
00:19:12.480 approval to be lower
00:19:13.480 because you have
00:19:14.740 all these,
00:19:15.460 you know,
00:19:15.800 lofty ambitions
00:19:16.940 when you get
00:19:18.260 that new person,
00:19:19.020 it's like,
00:19:19.280 oh,
00:19:19.540 they're going
00:19:19.840 to do so much.
00:19:20.960 Then a month later,
00:19:22.240 the news has
00:19:22.980 completely destroyed them
00:19:24.200 by picking at them
00:19:25.540 here and there
00:19:26.420 and then you're like,
00:19:27.780 eh,
00:19:28.240 but I do think
00:19:29.940 Frank Luntz
00:19:30.660 has the right metric
00:19:32.580 which is
00:19:33.260 if it's still
00:19:34.900 the best
00:19:35.300 that Trump
00:19:35.860 has ever done
00:19:36.600 even though
00:19:37.720 he's,
00:19:38.140 I guess you,
00:19:39.720 how can it be
00:19:40.280 the best he's ever done
00:19:41.320 if he used to be higher?
00:19:43.300 Well,
00:19:43.480 I guess there's some,
00:19:44.200 there's some discrepancy
00:19:47.760 in the polling.
00:19:49.120 Do you believe
00:19:49.960 that the polling
00:19:50.600 is rigged?
00:19:54.220 I do.
00:19:55.520 I think that
00:19:56.540 at least some
00:19:57.020 of the polls
00:19:57.520 and I'm not going
00:19:58.420 to name names
00:19:59.000 but some of the
00:20:00.000 big name polls,
00:20:01.000 I think they're rigged
00:20:02.420 when it comes to politics
00:20:03.880 so I don't know
00:20:04.900 what to believe there
00:20:05.540 but according to Rasmussen,
00:20:08.040 62% of the voter,
00:20:10.180 the voting public
00:20:10.980 backs Trump's
00:20:12.760 deportation policy,
00:20:14.420 62%.
00:20:15.420 So that's helping
00:20:16.780 it is really impressive.
00:20:20.080 I mean,
00:20:20.280 everybody says it
00:20:21.000 too much
00:20:21.420 but it's very impressive
00:20:23.300 that Trump
00:20:24.500 and Homan
00:20:25.660 did in fact
00:20:27.540 get control
00:20:28.260 of the border
00:20:28.800 so quickly.
00:20:30.220 It certainly
00:20:30.840 validated everything
00:20:32.080 they said about Biden
00:20:33.060 because remember
00:20:34.140 all those years
00:20:34.920 when Biden
00:20:36.140 and Harris
00:20:36.700 would say,
00:20:37.720 oh,
00:20:37.980 there's nothing
00:20:38.480 we could do.
00:20:40.700 Nothing we could do.
00:20:42.200 I don't know.
00:20:43.080 What could we do?
00:20:43.760 And then they
00:20:44.620 would lie
00:20:45.100 about how
00:20:47.440 illegal crossings
00:20:48.580 went down
00:20:49.180 and the way
00:20:50.560 they would lie
00:20:51.120 is that they
00:20:51.620 made illegal
00:20:52.340 crossings illegal.
00:20:53.820 They just hired
00:20:55.000 more people
00:20:55.560 so they could
00:20:56.080 claim asylum
00:20:57.660 and if you're
00:20:58.540 claiming asylum,
00:20:59.760 you're legal
00:21:00.460 until proven
00:21:01.640 otherwise.
00:21:02.760 So all they did
00:21:03.920 was legalize
00:21:05.080 illegality
00:21:05.820 and then they
00:21:06.920 claimed it
00:21:07.380 as a victory.
00:21:08.040 I think
00:21:09.840 the extent
00:21:11.280 of the
00:21:12.320 Biden administration
00:21:13.320 evil,
00:21:14.340 I don't know
00:21:15.240 if we'll ever
00:21:15.780 see the bottom
00:21:16.380 of it.
00:21:17.780 In my view,
00:21:19.940 they were
00:21:20.520 totally corrupt
00:21:21.440 and totally evil
00:21:22.900 but because he
00:21:24.080 was such a
00:21:24.580 smiley good guy,
00:21:25.840 he just sort of
00:21:26.460 got away with it
00:21:27.080 like Hunter.
00:21:30.080 Pollster Mark
00:21:30.960 Penn
00:21:31.320 who worked
00:21:32.100 for the
00:21:32.980 Clintons
00:21:33.520 and
00:21:34.460 anyway,
00:21:35.760 just so you know
00:21:36.420 he's worked
00:21:36.780 for Democrats.
00:21:38.040 He said
00:21:38.560 on the
00:21:40.240 Laura Ingram
00:21:40.740 show,
00:21:41.120 he said
00:21:41.400 I've got
00:21:41.880 some new
00:21:42.220 polling coming
00:21:42.800 out on Monday,
00:21:43.540 that would be
00:21:43.860 today,
00:21:44.860 that I've just
00:21:45.480 looked at.
00:21:46.060 Frankly,
00:21:46.500 the Democratic
00:21:47.000 Party is
00:21:47.620 falling off
00:21:48.220 a cliff.
00:21:49.720 The ratings
00:21:50.380 were in the
00:21:50.780 high 40s
00:21:51.620 and they're
00:21:51.900 going to be
00:21:52.180 like 35%.
00:21:53.600 And the
00:21:56.460 basic question
00:21:57.180 on who's
00:21:57.520 doing a better
00:21:58.000 job as
00:21:58.440 President,
00:21:59.000 Biden or
00:21:59.420 Trump,
00:22:00.180 Trump is
00:22:00.680 winning that
00:22:01.260 with 57%.
00:22:03.240 So Trump's
00:22:06.980 looking really
00:22:07.560 strong right
00:22:08.300 now.
00:22:08.960 And if
00:22:09.600 you're reading
00:22:10.080 the critics,
00:22:13.160 you would
00:22:13.700 come to the
00:22:14.800 opposite conclusion.
00:22:16.580 So you
00:22:17.520 probably saw
00:22:17.960 that,
00:22:18.280 what's his
00:22:21.000 name,
00:22:23.400 Carville.
00:22:24.640 James Carville
00:22:25.660 is predicting
00:22:26.260 that the
00:22:26.980 administration
00:22:27.820 will collapse
00:22:28.780 in 30 days.
00:22:29.660 I don't
00:22:31.660 see any
00:22:32.300 indication of
00:22:33.020 that whatsoever.
00:22:35.140 So that's
00:22:35.720 sort of a
00:22:36.100 wishful thinking
00:22:36.820 thing.
00:22:37.480 If he's
00:22:38.040 right,
00:22:39.060 it'll look
00:22:39.480 like he's
00:22:40.000 psychic.
00:22:41.380 And if he's
00:22:42.000 not,
00:22:43.040 we won't
00:22:43.580 remember he
00:22:44.060 said it.
00:22:45.000 So it's
00:22:45.620 a smart
00:22:46.480 prediction.
00:22:49.640 In more
00:22:50.500 sign of the
00:22:51.200 time news,
00:22:51.800 you already
00:22:52.080 know that
00:22:52.420 MSNBC is
00:22:53.420 doing a
00:22:53.800 shakeup and
00:22:54.740 they got
00:22:56.880 rid of
00:22:57.260 Joy Reid.
00:22:57.820 But they
00:22:59.700 just had a
00:23:00.320 legal analyst
00:23:01.280 on who
00:23:02.660 said that
00:23:03.120 Trump's not
00:23:03.660 really losing
00:23:04.300 the legal
00:23:04.820 battles.
00:23:05.600 But if you
00:23:06.080 were to read
00:23:06.560 the news,
00:23:07.160 you would
00:23:07.460 think Trump
00:23:08.520 is losing
00:23:09.100 all over the
00:23:09.600 place.
00:23:09.940 It's like,
00:23:10.280 oh,
00:23:10.460 the court
00:23:10.960 put a
00:23:11.540 stay on
00:23:12.040 this and
00:23:12.560 the court
00:23:13.580 said this
00:23:14.260 is not
00:23:14.620 specific enough
00:23:15.580 and the
00:23:15.900 court said
00:23:16.400 this.
00:23:17.380 And I
00:23:17.740 actually
00:23:18.000 thought that.
00:23:19.440 I actually
00:23:19.940 thought,
00:23:20.440 you know,
00:23:20.740 wow,
00:23:21.580 seems like
00:23:22.080 Trump is
00:23:22.500 really getting
00:23:22.940 beaten back
00:23:23.660 on a lot
00:23:24.080 of these
00:23:24.340 legal cases.
00:23:25.780 But MSNBC's
00:23:26.900 own legal
00:23:27.560 analyst said,
00:23:28.640 quote,
00:23:28.860 these are
00:23:29.240 not major
00:23:29.880 setbacks and
00:23:32.020 that Trump's
00:23:32.580 going to fight
00:23:33.240 at every turn
00:23:34.260 and that means
00:23:35.020 appealing everything
00:23:35.920 because it
00:23:37.520 doesn't cost him
00:23:38.160 anything to
00:23:38.600 appeal.
00:23:39.160 I don't know
00:23:39.500 how that's
00:23:39.920 true,
00:23:40.180 but that's
00:23:40.680 what he
00:23:40.880 said.
00:23:42.260 So in
00:23:43.020 many cases,
00:23:43.620 the thing
00:23:45.100 that the
00:23:45.480 court halted,
00:23:47.060 they didn't
00:23:47.560 halt it
00:23:48.100 permanently.
00:23:49.080 They just
00:23:49.460 said,
00:23:49.740 oh,
00:23:50.320 put a
00:23:50.760 pause on
00:23:51.680 that,
00:23:52.060 a stay,
00:23:53.360 and,
00:23:54.160 you know,
00:23:54.780 give us some
00:23:55.280 time to look
00:23:55.740 at it and
00:23:56.060 then we'll
00:23:56.280 figure out
00:23:56.660 if it's
00:23:56.900 legal or
00:23:57.340 not.
00:23:58.280 So in
00:23:59.260 many of
00:23:59.620 those cases,
00:24:00.700 time will
00:24:01.180 go by,
00:24:01.640 they'll look
00:24:01.980 at it and
00:24:02.260 go,
00:24:02.640 oh,
00:24:02.900 okay,
00:24:03.720 carry on.
00:24:04.960 We took
00:24:06.240 some time
00:24:06.660 to look
00:24:06.960 at it,
00:24:07.260 but it
00:24:07.400 looks fine.
00:24:08.840 And plus,
00:24:10.420 he's going
00:24:10.720 to win
00:24:10.980 some on
00:24:11.360 appeal.
00:24:11.640 So the
00:24:14.320 lawfare against
00:24:15.400 Trump,
00:24:16.840 once again,
00:24:18.460 not working.
00:24:21.120 Not
00:24:21.600 working.
00:24:21.960 Bank more
00:24:26.140 more good
00:24:39.180 news for
00:24:39.580 Trump and
00:24:40.120 the
00:24:40.220 country.
00:24:41.180 Apple
00:24:41.660 announced
00:24:42.160 it's going
00:24:42.540 to bring
00:24:42.800 $500 billion
00:24:43.980 in investments
00:24:45.020 to expand
00:24:46.580 manufacturing in
00:24:47.520 the U.S.
00:24:48.020 and create
00:24:48.420 thousands of
00:24:49.160 jobs.
00:24:50.120 Now,
00:24:50.380 that's a
00:24:50.600 pretty big
00:24:51.000 deal.
00:24:51.880 It's a
00:24:52.200 very big
00:24:52.540 deal.
00:24:52.820 It's over
00:24:53.140 four years,
00:24:53.900 but still
00:24:54.240 $500 billion.
00:24:57.500 And may,
00:24:58.620 I hope,
00:24:59.880 because now
00:25:00.380 there have been
00:25:00.760 several announcements
00:25:01.680 from big
00:25:02.300 entities about
00:25:03.140 bringing money
00:25:03.820 to the United
00:25:04.260 States,
00:25:04.860 the only way
00:25:06.620 that the U.S.
00:25:08.700 is going to
00:25:09.200 survive is
00:25:10.860 massively bringing
00:25:12.000 back manufacturing.
00:25:13.560 And it's
00:25:15.320 beginning.
00:25:16.380 And here's
00:25:16.860 what's
00:25:17.160 interesting.
00:25:17.700 If Apple
00:25:18.320 is doing
00:25:18.740 it, it's
00:25:20.440 going to be
00:25:20.740 a strong
00:25:21.140 argument for
00:25:21.700 anybody to
00:25:22.240 do it.
00:25:23.420 And if
00:25:23.820 you're in a
00:25:24.880 company that
00:25:25.480 is not
00:25:26.220 planning to
00:25:26.700 do it,
00:25:27.640 well, Apple
00:25:28.300 is definitely
00:25:28.860 planning to
00:25:29.420 do it.
00:25:30.420 You're going
00:25:31.020 to have to
00:25:31.280 explain why
00:25:32.000 you can't
00:25:32.740 do it.
00:25:33.900 So it's
00:25:34.820 not just
00:25:35.780 big in
00:25:36.260 terms of
00:25:36.620 dollars,
00:25:37.140 it's big in
00:25:37.620 terms of
00:25:38.020 how we
00:25:38.320 think about
00:25:38.880 it.
00:25:39.620 Because if
00:25:40.080 Apple can
00:25:40.660 commit to
00:25:41.180 this,
00:25:41.940 and you
00:25:42.240 would expect
00:25:42.700 Apple to
00:25:43.300 really be
00:25:43.700 caring about
00:25:44.400 margins and
00:25:45.840 stuff like
00:25:46.240 that.
00:25:47.320 But if
00:25:47.700 Apple thinks
00:25:48.500 they can
00:25:48.820 make this
00:25:49.200 work, and
00:25:51.060 I think
00:25:51.380 some of it
00:25:51.920 is acknowledgement
00:25:52.700 that manufacturing
00:25:54.380 in China,
00:25:55.440 for example,
00:25:56.720 is not as
00:25:58.540 safe as it
00:25:59.080 used to be,
00:25:59.780 if it ever
00:26:00.520 was.
00:26:02.040 So that's
00:26:02.860 good news.
00:26:04.060 You probably
00:26:04.840 all know
00:26:05.340 that Elon
00:26:09.080 Musk and
00:26:09.640 Doge and
00:26:10.300 Trump have
00:26:11.020 ordered government
00:26:11.920 workers who
00:26:12.640 work remotely
00:26:13.380 to get
00:26:14.720 back to
00:26:15.100 work.
00:26:15.380 So starting
00:26:15.800 this week,
00:26:17.020 according to
00:26:17.520 Elon Musk,
00:26:18.300 starting this
00:26:18.880 week, people
00:26:19.560 who fail to
00:26:20.200 return to
00:26:20.580 the office
00:26:21.020 to work
00:26:21.540 will be
00:26:22.500 placed on
00:26:23.040 administrative
00:26:23.520 leave.
00:26:26.200 Administrative
00:26:26.680 leave.
00:26:27.840 But what
00:26:28.320 about that
00:26:28.740 email that
00:26:29.540 all the
00:26:31.600 government
00:26:31.900 workers got
00:26:32.640 that said
00:26:33.020 you should
00:26:33.400 tell us,
00:26:34.080 this is from
00:26:34.940 Doge,
00:26:35.940 that you need
00:26:36.400 to tell us
00:26:36.840 what you
00:26:37.320 accomplished.
00:26:38.240 Give us
00:26:38.580 five bullet
00:26:39.200 points of
00:26:39.640 things you
00:26:40.040 accomplished this
00:26:40.800 week.
00:26:41.680 Now, of
00:26:41.960 course, people
00:26:42.460 are going
00:26:42.820 crazy.
00:26:43.340 It's like,
00:26:43.640 what?
00:26:44.480 What about
00:26:45.180 if you
00:26:45.620 can't have
00:26:46.060 access to
00:26:46.580 email?
00:26:47.320 What if
00:26:47.680 you're on
00:26:47.920 vacation?
00:26:48.720 Which is a
00:26:49.380 thing in
00:26:49.860 the government,
00:26:50.360 I guess.
00:26:52.180 And people
00:26:54.260 are complaining
00:26:54.900 that that's no
00:26:56.240 way to run
00:26:56.820 anything.
00:26:57.540 And are
00:26:57.920 these people
00:26:58.520 going to be
00:26:58.920 fired if they
00:26:59.640 don't respond?
00:27:00.920 Well, the
00:27:01.380 one thing we
00:27:01.900 seem to know
00:27:02.660 is that nobody
00:27:03.200 is going to
00:27:03.520 get fired for
00:27:04.480 not responding.
00:27:05.160 But I do
00:27:06.680 wonder what
00:27:07.180 the utility
00:27:08.340 is.
00:27:09.560 Now, as I
00:27:10.160 said before,
00:27:10.760 part of the
00:27:11.180 utility, I
00:27:13.520 think, nobody
00:27:14.160 said this,
00:27:14.720 it's my own
00:27:15.240 opinion, is
00:27:16.640 to just
00:27:18.200 reframe how
00:27:19.900 serious working
00:27:21.140 for the
00:27:21.540 government should
00:27:22.180 be.
00:27:23.240 That if you're
00:27:23.860 not accomplishing
00:27:24.580 things, you're
00:27:25.780 gone.
00:27:26.700 So people
00:27:27.240 will remember
00:27:28.260 the email
00:27:29.080 long after
00:27:29.940 its tiny
00:27:31.980 little mark
00:27:32.560 on the world
00:27:32.960 goes away,
00:27:33.520 because they'll
00:27:35.260 realize that
00:27:36.120 if you don't
00:27:37.420 report some
00:27:38.120 real accomplishments
00:27:39.080 every week,
00:27:40.260 your job's in
00:27:41.200 danger.
00:27:42.140 Now, I don't
00:27:42.900 see any
00:27:43.300 possibility that
00:27:44.280 somebody like
00:27:45.780 Elon or
00:27:46.320 anybody else
00:27:46.800 can look
00:27:47.180 through all
00:27:47.520 the emails
00:27:48.020 to look at
00:27:48.640 all their
00:27:48.900 accomplishments.
00:27:49.940 We wouldn't
00:27:50.380 know if any
00:27:50.840 of them were
00:27:51.140 true, because
00:27:52.140 anybody could
00:27:52.580 just lie.
00:27:53.840 How would
00:27:54.140 you know?
00:27:55.300 It's not even
00:27:56.120 illegal to lie
00:27:56.940 to the government
00:27:57.480 about what you
00:27:58.120 accomplished.
00:27:59.560 You're not
00:28:00.120 going to jail
00:28:00.640 for it.
00:28:01.420 So people
00:28:01.860 will make up
00:28:02.400 some stuff.
00:28:03.520 And other
00:28:04.500 people have
00:28:04.980 real accomplishments.
00:28:06.000 Other people,
00:28:07.100 I guess,
00:28:08.100 several parts
00:28:10.580 of the government
00:28:11.040 are looking to
00:28:11.660 ignore it.
00:28:12.900 I think
00:28:13.100 Kash Patel
00:28:13.700 told the
00:28:14.100 FBI,
00:28:14.900 no, don't
00:28:15.260 do that.
00:28:16.240 We have
00:28:16.740 our own
00:28:17.020 process for
00:28:17.780 performance
00:28:18.540 reviews.
00:28:19.520 I think the
00:28:19.980 State Department
00:28:20.640 and the
00:28:20.940 Pentagon pushed
00:28:21.660 back.
00:28:22.640 So I don't
00:28:23.220 know how many
00:28:23.660 of these emails
00:28:24.260 they're going
00:28:24.640 to get.
00:28:25.620 But I think
00:28:26.300 just asking
00:28:27.360 for them
00:28:27.980 gives you
00:28:29.120 a win.
00:28:30.380 Because it
00:28:31.020 just tells
00:28:31.580 you, all
00:28:32.080 right, this
00:28:32.380 is a new
00:28:32.760 day, we're
00:28:34.700 really going
00:28:35.120 to look at
00:28:35.420 your performance
00:28:36.000 now.
00:28:37.720 Now, if
00:28:38.760 the Doge
00:28:39.360 people plan
00:28:40.140 to look at
00:28:40.840 any of them,
00:28:41.260 and they said
00:28:41.980 copy your
00:28:42.600 manager, so
00:28:43.660 the manager
00:28:44.160 would be the
00:28:44.640 one getting
00:28:45.040 the five
00:28:46.940 things you
00:28:48.300 accomplished,
00:28:48.720 as well as
00:28:49.380 the Doge.
00:28:50.220 Doge, at
00:28:51.820 most, the
00:28:53.240 most I
00:28:53.720 could see
00:28:54.060 the Doge
00:28:54.520 could do
00:28:54.940 with that
00:28:55.340 would be
00:28:56.580 run an AI
00:28:57.400 against it
00:28:58.160 to look for
00:28:59.360 ones that
00:28:59.740 are clearly
00:29:00.140 fake, and
00:29:01.980 maybe also
00:29:02.660 make some
00:29:03.140 recommendations
00:29:03.720 about who's
00:29:04.300 not doing
00:29:04.680 enough.
00:29:06.020 But, you
00:29:06.360 know, most
00:29:06.880 jobs are
00:29:08.100 not
00:29:08.380 accomplishment
00:29:09.080 oriented.
00:29:10.380 They're just
00:29:11.140 process.
00:29:12.840 So if your
00:29:13.420 job is to
00:29:14.080 just, I
00:29:14.940 don't know,
00:29:15.340 process all
00:29:16.100 requests that
00:29:16.820 come into
00:29:17.140 your office,
00:29:17.620 that should
00:29:19.660 be enough.
00:29:20.480 I processed
00:29:21.420 all the
00:29:21.780 requests that
00:29:22.940 came into
00:29:23.280 my office.
00:29:24.900 That should
00:29:25.420 keep your
00:29:25.800 job.
00:29:26.940 So it
00:29:27.260 shouldn't be
00:29:27.620 hard, but
00:29:28.800 we'll keep
00:29:30.360 an eye on
00:29:30.760 that.
00:29:33.580 Wall Street
00:29:34.280 Journal was
00:29:34.820 trying to
00:29:35.260 calculate how
00:29:36.940 big the
00:29:37.300 impact might
00:29:38.000 be on the
00:29:38.600 economy for
00:29:39.540 all these
00:29:39.860 massive
00:29:40.260 government
00:29:40.740 firings.
00:29:43.060 So if
00:29:43.980 you add
00:29:44.260 these 75,000
00:29:45.480 resignations,
00:29:46.820 maybe
00:29:47.360 200,000
00:29:48.580 probationary
00:29:50.460 employees
00:29:50.900 already
00:29:51.320 fired,
00:29:52.300 and maybe
00:29:53.560 200,000
00:29:54.400 in attrition,
00:29:56.420 and so
00:29:58.660 they're
00:29:59.020 thinking that
00:29:59.640 maybe in
00:30:00.720 total,
00:30:01.840 475,000
00:30:03.200 jobs,
00:30:04.160 but,
00:30:05.060 which is
00:30:05.460 a lot,
00:30:06.660 but it's
00:30:07.520 worse because
00:30:08.440 there will
00:30:08.920 also be
00:30:09.560 vendors who
00:30:10.520 are selling
00:30:10.900 things that
00:30:11.520 can't sell
00:30:12.080 it,
00:30:13.160 and all
00:30:14.420 that.
00:30:14.820 But to
00:30:15.080 put it in
00:30:15.560 perspective,
00:30:16.300 475,000
00:30:19.900 jobs over
00:30:20.840 a few
00:30:21.300 years,
00:30:22.100 we can
00:30:23.300 absorb
00:30:23.640 that.
00:30:25.100 What about
00:30:25.840 all the
00:30:27.520 secondary
00:30:27.960 effects about
00:30:29.080 all of
00:30:29.500 the vendors
00:30:30.800 and stuff,
00:30:31.700 the contractors?
00:30:33.240 Well,
00:30:33.600 that's pretty
00:30:34.000 big.
00:30:35.640 And so
00:30:37.060 even the
00:30:37.580 475,000
00:30:38.740 jobs would
00:30:39.340 only be
00:30:39.780 0.3%
00:30:40.680 of the
00:30:41.520 U.S.'s
00:30:42.140 non-farm
00:30:42.920 jobs.
00:30:44.100 So they're
00:30:44.400 not big
00:30:44.800 percentages,
00:30:45.840 but in
00:30:46.660 certain places
00:30:47.360 like Washington,
00:30:48.220 D.C.,
00:30:48.580 it's going
00:30:48.920 to be a
00:30:49.180 big impact,
00:30:50.120 and there
00:30:50.500 will be
00:30:51.000 bankruptcies,
00:30:51.940 and there
00:30:52.160 will be
00:30:52.940 dislocations,
00:30:54.200 and there
00:30:54.400 will be
00:30:54.700 unemployment,
00:30:55.760 and it's
00:30:57.320 going to be
00:30:57.660 big.
00:30:58.900 Now,
00:30:59.520 a lot of
00:31:00.740 it is spread
00:31:01.420 over different
00:31:03.220 communities.
00:31:03.880 It's not all
00:31:04.380 in Washington,
00:31:04.980 D.C.,
00:31:05.400 just a lot
00:31:06.140 of it is.
00:31:07.200 So,
00:31:08.380 yeah,
00:31:08.720 it's going
00:31:09.020 to be
00:31:09.160 ugly,
00:31:09.760 but I'm
00:31:10.260 going to
00:31:10.420 go back
00:31:10.720 to my
00:31:11.040 first
00:31:11.380 comment.
00:31:13.420 If that's
00:31:14.180 the only
00:31:14.480 way you
00:31:14.900 can save
00:31:15.400 the country
00:31:15.960 is by
00:31:17.300 doing
00:31:17.680 something
00:31:18.180 that's
00:31:19.400 ugly
00:31:20.020 and has
00:31:21.000 an axe,
00:31:21.900 you have
00:31:22.600 to do
00:31:22.960 that.
00:31:23.880 You have
00:31:24.280 to do
00:31:24.580 that.
00:31:25.240 So I
00:31:25.680 have complete
00:31:26.180 empathy for
00:31:26.820 the people
00:31:27.160 losing their
00:31:27.700 jobs,
00:31:28.520 and those
00:31:29.520 are real
00:31:29.860 problems.
00:31:30.840 I'm not
00:31:31.200 going to
00:31:32.520 slight that
00:31:33.140 at all.
00:31:34.040 But the
00:31:34.340 alternative is
00:31:36.560 to me,
00:31:36.920 it looks
00:31:37.160 like we
00:31:37.540 all lose
00:31:37.900 everything.
00:31:39.620 So that's
00:31:40.220 not too
00:31:40.600 different than
00:31:41.400 private companies
00:31:42.840 doing layoffs.
00:31:43.820 A number
00:31:44.200 of private
00:31:44.540 companies are
00:31:45.060 doing layoffs
00:31:45.640 right now
00:31:46.220 because the
00:31:48.000 people who
00:31:48.320 get laid
00:31:48.720 off and
00:31:49.920 their families
00:31:50.560 definitely
00:31:51.820 suffer,
00:31:52.860 no doubt
00:31:53.320 about it.
00:31:54.480 But if we
00:31:55.360 didn't have
00:31:55.820 layoffs,
00:31:56.860 then the
00:31:57.980 entire economy
00:31:58.760 would just
00:31:59.200 be so
00:32:00.200 unproductive
00:32:00.800 that nothing
00:32:02.140 would work.
00:32:02.780 We'd all
00:32:03.060 be dead.
00:32:04.400 So,
00:32:04.580 yeah,
00:32:04.840 in the real
00:32:05.380 world,
00:32:05.740 going back
00:32:06.860 to Zuby's
00:32:07.520 comment where
00:32:08.120 you can't
00:32:08.580 say what's
00:32:09.000 true,
00:32:09.680 here's what
00:32:10.320 I think is
00:32:10.820 true about
00:32:11.300 Doge.
00:32:12.140 It will be
00:32:12.940 really painful
00:32:13.760 and that
00:32:15.800 pain will
00:32:16.360 extend beyond
00:32:18.060 the people
00:32:18.480 who get
00:32:18.760 fired and
00:32:19.280 it will
00:32:19.620 extend beyond
00:32:20.420 the people
00:32:20.880 who are
00:32:21.320 contractors
00:32:22.020 and vendors.
00:32:23.460 It will
00:32:24.180 hurt.
00:32:25.320 There's just
00:32:25.980 not another
00:32:26.440 choice unless
00:32:28.640 you believe
00:32:29.140 you can
00:32:29.480 scalper
00:32:29.940 your way,
00:32:30.720 which I
00:32:32.540 don't.
00:32:32.880 I'm a
00:32:35.540 little
00:32:35.680 tired of
00:32:36.380 people saying
00:32:37.280 the easy
00:32:38.000 and obvious
00:32:38.520 thing and
00:32:39.180 then pretending
00:32:39.780 that Elon
00:32:40.360 Musk doesn't
00:32:41.020 know.
00:32:41.800 So I'm
00:32:42.120 going to
00:32:42.340 add to
00:32:42.740 my list
00:32:43.200 of dumb
00:32:43.620 things that
00:32:44.120 people say
00:32:44.620 about
00:32:44.900 Doge.
00:32:45.320 Scott,
00:32:48.060 government is
00:32:49.120 different than
00:32:49.700 private industry.
00:32:51.780 To which I
00:32:52.780 say,
00:32:54.000 who do you
00:32:55.440 think didn't
00:32:56.040 know that?
00:32:57.340 Do you
00:32:57.620 think that
00:32:58.180 Elon Musk
00:32:58.920 is going to
00:32:59.460 wake up and
00:32:59.960 read your
00:33:00.280 post and
00:33:00.860 say,
00:33:01.840 whoa,
00:33:02.120 hold on,
00:33:02.820 hold everything.
00:33:04.380 You're telling
00:33:04.880 me that the
00:33:05.560 government is
00:33:06.380 different from
00:33:07.100 private industry?
00:33:08.820 What?
00:33:10.460 And people
00:33:11.860 talk like
00:33:12.500 that's actually
00:33:13.180 a thing.
00:33:13.640 like that
00:33:15.720 Elon Musk
00:33:16.420 is the
00:33:16.880 only person
00:33:17.540 in the
00:33:17.840 world,
00:33:18.520 because we
00:33:18.940 all know
00:33:19.340 it,
00:33:20.020 that government
00:33:20.600 is different
00:33:21.120 than industry
00:33:21.760 in lots of
00:33:22.460 different ways.
00:33:24.140 But somehow
00:33:24.900 he doesn't
00:33:25.420 know it?
00:33:27.220 Of course
00:33:27.980 he knows
00:33:28.440 it.
00:33:29.220 Of course
00:33:29.800 he does.
00:33:30.460 Now,
00:33:30.720 he might not
00:33:31.200 know every
00:33:31.660 nuance,
00:33:32.600 but that's
00:33:33.040 what the
00:33:33.380 meat ex
00:33:33.860 is going
00:33:34.240 to do,
00:33:34.660 and we'll
00:33:35.360 correct as
00:33:35.880 we need
00:33:36.200 to.
00:33:38.460 So it
00:33:39.100 will hurt,
00:33:39.840 but I don't
00:33:40.480 think there's
00:33:40.880 another way.
00:33:41.680 When I
00:33:41.960 found out my
00:33:42.560 friend got a
00:33:43.200 great deal
00:33:43.800 on a wool
00:33:44.320 coat from
00:33:44.800 Winners,
00:33:45.420 I started
00:33:46.160 wondering,
00:33:47.080 is every
00:33:47.900 fabulous item
00:33:48.680 I see from
00:33:49.360 Winners?
00:33:49.980 Like that
00:33:50.700 woman over
00:33:51.180 there with
00:33:51.660 the designer
00:33:52.080 jeans.
00:33:52.900 Are those
00:33:53.500 from Winners?
00:33:54.420 Ooh,
00:33:55.060 or those
00:33:55.400 beautiful gold
00:33:56.020 earrings?
00:33:56.900 Did she pay
00:33:57.320 full price?
00:33:58.240 Or that
00:33:58.500 leather tote?
00:33:59.240 Or that
00:33:59.520 cashmere
00:33:59.860 sweater?
00:34:00.440 Or those
00:34:00.780 knee-high
00:34:01.100 boots?
00:34:01.940 That dress?
00:34:02.720 That jacket?
00:34:03.380 Those shoes?
00:34:04.400 Is anyone
00:34:05.200 paying full
00:34:05.840 price for
00:34:06.380 anything?
00:34:07.340 Stop
00:34:07.840 wondering.
00:34:08.620 Start winning.
00:34:09.560 Winners.
00:34:10.140 Find fabulous
00:34:10.820 for less.
00:34:12.420 As you
00:34:13.080 know,
00:34:13.380 we've
00:34:13.620 reported this
00:34:14.120 already that
00:34:14.580 the top
00:34:15.580 general in
00:34:16.160 the military,
00:34:17.740 CQ Brown.
00:34:19.500 So he was
00:34:20.100 the Joint
00:34:21.260 Chiefs of
00:34:21.900 Chat.
00:34:22.360 He was the
00:34:22.880 chairman of
00:34:23.280 the Joint
00:34:23.580 Chiefs.
00:34:24.860 And he
00:34:26.420 was accused
00:34:26.960 of being,
00:34:27.540 you know,
00:34:28.220 too woke,
00:34:28.980 too DEI.
00:34:30.500 And I
00:34:31.200 didn't know
00:34:31.440 what that
00:34:31.700 meant until
00:34:32.200 I saw a
00:34:32.680 compilation of
00:34:33.440 his clips.
00:34:34.480 And I
00:34:34.940 had a few
00:34:35.480 different
00:34:35.940 observations.
00:34:37.680 Number one,
00:34:39.220 CQ Brown
00:34:40.020 has the
00:34:40.580 best voice
00:34:41.600 for leadership
00:34:42.720 that you'll
00:34:43.420 ever hear
00:34:43.840 in your
00:34:44.080 life.
00:34:45.180 If you
00:34:45.740 haven't heard
00:34:46.140 him talk,
00:34:47.420 I recommend
00:34:48.240 it.
00:34:48.980 He's really
00:34:49.820 got that
00:34:50.340 command voice.
00:34:52.120 Like,
00:34:52.320 it has that
00:34:52.840 resonance,
00:34:54.200 and it's
00:34:54.820 just, you
00:34:55.260 know,
00:34:55.660 he presents
00:34:56.280 it perfectly.
00:34:57.180 He's obviously
00:34:57.700 very smart.
00:35:00.100 He's an
00:35:00.740 impressive guy.
00:35:01.900 Impressive
00:35:02.340 guy.
00:35:03.780 However,
00:35:05.400 when you
00:35:06.000 look at
00:35:06.300 the clips
00:35:06.860 of his
00:35:07.560 emphasis
00:35:08.220 on DEI,
00:35:09.880 it really
00:35:10.480 is just
00:35:10.900 flat-out
00:35:11.340 racist.
00:35:12.800 He found
00:35:13.420 a hundred
00:35:14.080 different ways
00:35:14.720 to say,
00:35:15.360 I'm going
00:35:16.140 to get rid
00:35:16.640 of the
00:35:17.000 white people
00:35:17.660 in command.
00:35:19.380 Now,
00:35:20.140 not by
00:35:20.880 firing them
00:35:21.540 necessarily,
00:35:22.340 or,
00:35:22.820 I don't know,
00:35:23.140 whatever you
00:35:23.880 do in the
00:35:24.260 military.
00:35:25.060 Scott,
00:35:25.640 the military
00:35:26.360 is different
00:35:27.040 than a
00:35:27.420 private company.
00:35:28.640 I know.
00:35:29.520 I know.
00:35:30.320 Just go
00:35:30.740 with it,
00:35:31.020 okay?
00:35:33.840 Every way
00:35:34.640 that he
00:35:35.000 tried to
00:35:35.440 explain it
00:35:36.220 just sounded
00:35:37.240 like,
00:35:37.660 I'm going
00:35:37.900 to make
00:35:38.280 sure there
00:35:38.640 are fewer
00:35:38.960 white people.
00:35:39.680 That's the
00:35:40.000 main goal,
00:35:40.640 fewer white
00:35:41.120 people.
00:35:42.900 And he
00:35:46.260 had to
00:35:46.600 go.
00:35:48.180 That has
00:35:49.260 to be a
00:35:49.700 firing
00:35:49.960 offense,
00:35:50.840 unfortunately,
00:35:51.860 because he
00:35:52.840 did look
00:35:53.220 like he
00:35:53.680 was quite
00:35:55.200 capable in
00:35:56.080 general.
00:35:58.520 So he
00:35:59.240 wasn't,
00:35:59.740 I don't think
00:36:00.460 he was
00:36:00.800 necessarily a
00:36:01.620 DEI hire,
00:36:02.300 because if
00:36:04.200 you put
00:36:04.560 him next
00:36:05.080 to
00:36:05.520 Mark
00:36:05.960 Milley
00:36:06.360 and you
00:36:08.400 let both
00:36:08.860 of them
00:36:09.100 answer
00:36:09.360 questions
00:36:09.880 for five
00:36:10.360 minutes,
00:36:11.540 you would
00:36:12.080 think Mark
00:36:12.560 Milley was
00:36:13.060 the dumb
00:36:13.460 one.
00:36:15.300 So I'll
00:36:16.820 just put
00:36:17.180 that out
00:36:17.560 there for
00:36:17.980 contrast.
00:36:21.260 All right.
00:36:23.120 There's some
00:36:23.860 news about
00:36:24.620 Trump is
00:36:26.060 doing something
00:36:26.640 to charge
00:36:27.320 Chinese
00:36:28.080 shipping
00:36:28.960 tremendous
00:36:30.700 amount of
00:36:31.080 money for
00:36:31.400 using our
00:36:31.880 ports,
00:36:33.560 like a
00:36:34.020 million dollars
00:36:34.760 every time
00:36:35.340 they come
00:36:35.640 into port
00:36:36.140 and a
00:36:36.480 million dollars
00:36:37.040 for something
00:36:37.480 else.
00:36:38.360 So we'll
00:36:38.900 see if that
00:36:39.400 becomes a
00:36:40.220 real thing.
00:36:41.000 But like
00:36:41.460 the tariffs,
00:36:43.000 that should
00:36:43.840 increase your
00:36:45.800 costs in the
00:36:46.420 short run.
00:36:47.780 Now, going
00:36:48.340 back to
00:36:48.760 Zuby,
00:36:50.040 we can't
00:36:51.020 say the
00:36:51.340 truth.
00:36:52.980 I'm going
00:36:53.300 to say the
00:36:53.680 truth.
00:36:54.580 There's
00:36:55.100 probably no
00:36:56.160 way to
00:36:57.060 get the
00:36:57.440 lower costs
00:36:58.220 and get
00:36:59.200 inflation
00:36:59.760 really down
00:37:00.460 to where
00:37:00.900 we want
00:37:01.260 it without
00:37:02.380 things getting
00:37:03.240 worse in the
00:37:03.940 short run.
00:37:05.060 Probably not
00:37:05.960 because this
00:37:07.220 is a perfect
00:37:07.700 example.
00:37:09.000 So essentially
00:37:09.680 the tariffs
00:37:10.360 and whatever
00:37:10.920 this is that
00:37:11.680 they're doing
00:37:11.980 with the
00:37:12.240 Chinese
00:37:12.500 shipping are
00:37:13.800 ways to
00:37:14.880 make it
00:37:15.180 more expensive
00:37:15.960 for buying
00:37:18.120 things overseas
00:37:19.000 and having
00:37:19.900 them shipped
00:37:20.320 here to
00:37:21.720 encourage more
00:37:22.900 companies to
00:37:23.560 just make
00:37:24.120 it here.
00:37:25.100 In the
00:37:25.780 short run,
00:37:26.480 all it is
00:37:27.000 going to be
00:37:27.320 is more
00:37:27.600 expensive.
00:37:29.020 In the
00:37:29.620 long run,
00:37:30.600 the collective
00:37:31.420 result of
00:37:32.620 all these
00:37:33.040 actions should
00:37:34.880 bring more
00:37:35.440 manufacturing to
00:37:36.340 the U.S.,
00:37:36.920 give us
00:37:37.380 better jobs,
00:37:39.060 bring prices
00:37:40.200 down.
00:37:41.300 It's just
00:37:41.920 that if
00:37:42.300 you're
00:37:42.620 Trump,
00:37:44.000 you can't
00:37:44.720 really say,
00:37:45.800 hold on,
00:37:46.300 people,
00:37:46.720 it's going to
00:37:47.240 be worse
00:37:47.760 for at least
00:37:48.320 a year or
00:37:48.840 two,
00:37:49.520 because that
00:37:50.380 might be
00:37:50.640 the truth.
00:37:51.960 Nobody wants
00:37:52.640 to hear that.
00:37:53.280 We all want
00:37:53.700 to hear that
00:37:54.060 the price of
00:37:54.620 eggs will be
00:37:55.200 free tomorrow.
00:37:56.560 What?
00:37:57.100 I'm still
00:37:57.440 paying for
00:37:57.880 gas?
00:37:58.840 I thought
00:37:59.180 you'd have
00:37:59.420 that fixed
00:37:59.860 by now.
00:38:00.280 It's been
00:38:00.500 33 days.
00:38:04.140 Meanwhile,
00:38:04.820 Trump has
00:38:05.220 demanded that
00:38:07.660 the Taliban
00:38:08.240 return $7
00:38:09.240 billion worth
00:38:10.080 of military
00:38:10.560 equipment.
00:38:11.680 Unusual
00:38:12.100 whales is
00:38:12.680 reporting that.
00:38:13.360 I'm thinking
00:38:14.900 to myself,
00:38:15.720 really?
00:38:18.680 Wouldn't
00:38:19.080 that be
00:38:19.400 hilarious if
00:38:20.680 the Taliban
00:38:21.180 said, oh,
00:38:22.140 oh, these
00:38:22.600 are your
00:38:23.200 Jeeps and
00:38:23.980 helicopters?
00:38:24.720 Oh, yeah.
00:38:26.180 Let's wipe
00:38:27.400 them down and
00:38:28.120 we'll have
00:38:28.380 them ready.
00:38:28.900 Just come
00:38:29.240 on over and
00:38:29.660 pick it up.
00:38:30.880 Well, I don't
00:38:31.460 think that's
00:38:31.920 going to
00:38:32.100 happen.
00:38:34.640 So I don't
00:38:35.320 think there's
00:38:35.680 really any
00:38:36.160 chance that
00:38:36.860 Taliban is
00:38:37.660 going to give
00:38:38.040 back any
00:38:38.600 stuff.
00:38:40.020 So why did
00:38:40.700 he say it?
00:38:42.240 Why did
00:38:42.820 Trump even
00:38:43.300 bring it up
00:38:43.840 if there's
00:38:44.220 just no way
00:38:44.860 it's going
00:38:45.140 to happen?
00:38:46.300 Well, one
00:38:47.640 reason might
00:38:48.680 be I'm
00:38:49.000 wrong, that
00:38:50.500 maybe it
00:38:51.640 could happen
00:38:52.240 because Trump
00:38:53.020 keeps doing
00:38:53.520 these things
00:38:54.000 that don't
00:38:54.360 look possible,
00:38:55.840 you know,
00:38:56.020 like having
00:38:58.140 some control
00:38:58.820 over Greenland
00:38:59.680 or something,
00:39:00.300 and then next
00:39:00.720 thing you know,
00:39:01.340 Greenland's saying,
00:39:02.120 you know, there
00:39:02.520 is a way you
00:39:03.020 could do that
00:39:03.620 and it might
00:39:04.120 be good for
00:39:04.560 everybody.
00:39:05.600 So it could
00:39:06.600 be that he's
00:39:07.220 opening up
00:39:07.900 negotiations.
00:39:08.880 It might
00:39:11.140 be opening
00:39:11.740 up negotiations.
00:39:13.480 For what?
00:39:14.300 I don't
00:39:14.540 know, but
00:39:15.620 we'll see.
00:39:20.260 Microsoft's
00:39:20.740 CEO, Satya
00:39:22.240 Nadella, was
00:39:23.720 doing a
00:39:24.100 presentation just
00:39:25.900 yesterday maybe
00:39:27.000 or this week
00:39:27.580 on using
00:39:29.640 AI to
00:39:30.840 increase farm
00:39:31.740 yields.
00:39:33.460 And apparently
00:39:34.200 it's already
00:39:35.840 working on
00:39:36.780 small farms.
00:39:37.380 the idea
00:39:38.180 is you'd
00:39:38.540 put various
00:39:39.220 sensors in
00:39:40.600 your field.
00:39:41.840 So you'd
00:39:42.500 be measuring
00:39:43.080 the quality
00:39:43.960 of the dirt
00:39:44.680 and the
00:39:45.220 moisture and
00:39:46.060 everything else.
00:39:47.480 And then the
00:39:48.240 AI would tell
00:39:48.920 you what to
00:39:49.260 do.
00:39:50.520 So it's a,
00:39:51.660 well, you
00:39:52.040 better put a
00:39:53.100 little more of
00:39:53.640 this or a
00:39:54.140 little less of
00:39:54.620 that on there.
00:39:55.500 And the AI
00:39:57.280 being smarter
00:39:57.940 than people,
00:39:59.320 according to
00:40:00.500 Satya Nadella,
00:40:04.000 it's already
00:40:04.720 working in there.
00:40:05.620 The small farms
00:40:06.280 are getting big
00:40:06.860 increases in
00:40:08.080 yields.
00:40:08.980 I don't know
00:40:09.700 about that.
00:40:10.860 I'm a little
00:40:11.440 bit skeptical
00:40:12.020 that there's
00:40:12.680 much of a
00:40:13.520 difference,
00:40:14.400 but it'd be
00:40:14.980 kind of cool
00:40:15.440 if there
00:40:15.740 were.
00:40:17.120 But in
00:40:18.520 related news,
00:40:20.700 I didn't know
00:40:21.440 about this,
00:40:21.940 but this
00:40:22.260 fascinates me.
00:40:23.680 You know
00:40:24.300 that billionaire
00:40:24.940 Larry Ellison,
00:40:26.380 founder of
00:40:26.800 Oracle, did
00:40:28.220 you know that
00:40:28.620 he bought
00:40:29.280 the Hawaiian
00:40:30.680 island of
00:40:31.440 Lahaina?
00:40:33.000 So he owns,
00:40:33.840 I think,
00:40:34.000 98% of the
00:40:34.800 island or
00:40:35.220 something.
00:40:36.860 And the
00:40:39.940 island used
00:40:40.880 to grow
00:40:41.160 lots of
00:40:41.520 pineapples.
00:40:42.200 That was
00:40:42.420 the main
00:40:42.720 thing the
00:40:43.040 island did.
00:40:44.240 But I
00:40:45.620 guess they
00:40:45.940 polluted the
00:40:46.640 soil and
00:40:47.420 you can't
00:40:48.140 grow much
00:40:48.680 of anything
00:40:49.120 there outdoors.
00:40:49.880 so he put
00:40:52.300 half a
00:40:53.160 billion dollars
00:40:53.940 into building
00:40:54.920 indoor farms
00:40:56.300 that could
00:40:57.520 serve the
00:40:58.040 island.
00:40:58.720 But the
00:40:59.580 bigger ambition
00:41:00.200 was to
00:41:00.880 make food
00:41:02.020 fresh and
00:41:04.040 nearby to
00:41:05.020 where you're
00:41:05.360 going to eat
00:41:05.700 it and just
00:41:06.720 really revolutionize
00:41:07.840 the whole
00:41:08.220 food thing.
00:41:10.640 Now, if you've
00:41:11.140 been watching me
00:41:11.700 for a while,
00:41:12.160 you know I
00:41:12.720 just love the
00:41:13.320 indoor garden
00:41:14.060 space.
00:41:15.840 I just love
00:41:16.360 that because
00:41:16.860 I feel like
00:41:17.660 it's just
00:41:18.920 going to
00:41:19.700 happen.
00:41:20.880 That at the
00:41:21.660 moment, there's
00:41:23.500 no indoor
00:41:24.380 farm that
00:41:25.720 could give
00:41:26.060 you the
00:41:26.500 protein that
00:41:27.260 you need and
00:41:28.240 would be easy
00:41:29.360 to manage and
00:41:30.300 all that stuff.
00:41:31.220 It wouldn't be
00:41:31.600 cost effective.
00:41:33.000 But it feels
00:41:33.920 like it could
00:41:34.580 be.
00:41:35.440 Like every
00:41:35.980 instinct in my
00:41:37.000 body says,
00:41:37.720 well, probably
00:41:39.160 we're one or
00:41:40.200 two innovations
00:41:40.940 away from making
00:41:41.800 indoor gardening
00:41:42.520 really work.
00:41:43.200 But after
00:41:44.280 years of
00:41:44.900 work, Ellison
00:41:47.300 was working
00:41:48.040 with a
00:41:48.340 company called
00:41:49.200 Sensei AG
00:41:50.880 and apparently
00:41:52.100 just nothing
00:41:53.060 works.
00:41:54.360 Well, I'm
00:41:55.220 exaggerating,
00:41:55.900 not nothing.
00:41:56.840 But they had
00:41:57.760 all kinds of
00:41:58.500 problems with
00:41:59.160 their structures,
00:42:00.160 they had
00:42:00.340 problems with
00:42:00.880 their Wi-Fi
00:42:01.660 and instead
00:42:03.740 of growing
00:42:04.300 all the food
00:42:05.800 you would need
00:42:06.520 for the
00:42:07.900 island, I
00:42:08.880 think it's
00:42:09.260 basically lettuce
00:42:10.580 and small
00:42:11.780 tomatoes or
00:42:12.520 something.
00:42:13.200 which they
00:42:14.260 do sell,
00:42:14.980 but it's
00:42:15.280 just trivial.
00:42:16.240 So basically
00:42:16.680 it didn't
00:42:17.020 work.
00:42:18.260 The experiment
00:42:19.100 half a billion
00:42:19.900 dollars and
00:42:21.720 looks like it
00:42:23.180 didn't get even
00:42:23.900 close to working.
00:42:25.140 Now that's the
00:42:25.620 Wall Street
00:42:25.960 Journal's reporting
00:42:26.760 on that.
00:42:28.480 So that was a
00:42:30.080 little disappointing.
00:42:32.420 And then the
00:42:33.560 Boring Company
00:42:34.240 has got a deal
00:42:35.040 according to
00:42:35.600 New Atlas.
00:42:37.220 They're going to
00:42:37.940 build tunnels
00:42:38.800 under Dubai.
00:42:40.940 So, you know,
00:42:41.720 the tunnels that
00:42:42.360 aren't that much
00:42:43.040 bigger than a
00:42:43.620 car and then
00:42:45.320 Dubai, you'll be
00:42:46.140 able to go
00:42:46.820 underground and
00:42:47.560 scoot around in
00:42:48.420 your little Tesla
00:42:49.800 in these tunnels.
00:42:51.520 Now, if you
00:42:52.420 had told me that
00:42:54.780 that would be a
00:42:55.600 thing in the
00:42:56.260 future, that the
00:42:57.700 Boring Company
00:42:58.300 would have big
00:42:59.040 deals like in
00:42:59.880 Las Vegas or
00:43:00.820 Dubai and they'd
00:43:02.480 be building
00:43:02.900 underground tunnels
00:43:03.860 for individual
00:43:04.840 cars, I would
00:43:06.480 have said to
00:43:06.880 you, that
00:43:08.300 doesn't sound
00:43:08.800 like a business.
00:43:10.880 So it's pretty
00:43:11.700 impressive.
00:43:13.220 I don't know if
00:43:13.940 the Boring Company
00:43:14.540 makes money yet,
00:43:15.480 and I don't know
00:43:16.000 if it's cash
00:43:16.520 positive, but the
00:43:17.680 fact that it's
00:43:18.180 doing as much as
00:43:19.060 it is is kind
00:43:20.540 of shocking.
00:43:22.380 Yeah, I've been
00:43:23.020 saying for years
00:43:23.620 that holes are the
00:43:24.960 best technology.
00:43:26.580 If we could figure
00:43:27.320 out how to put a
00:43:27.880 hole in something,
00:43:28.680 it'd be great.
00:43:29.180 But one of the
00:43:31.460 things I saw
00:43:32.100 online is somebody
00:43:33.540 was challenging
00:43:34.440 me saying,
00:43:35.320 speaking of our
00:43:36.160 billionaires, Larry
00:43:37.180 Ellison and Musk,
00:43:39.060 somebody was
00:43:40.220 challenging me
00:43:41.080 about Doge,
00:43:42.300 who actually was
00:43:43.300 just a post, so
00:43:44.160 it wasn't
00:43:44.460 challenging me
00:43:45.080 personally, and
00:43:46.160 said, how would
00:43:47.920 you like it if
00:43:49.840 Doge were being
00:43:50.860 run by George
00:43:51.720 Soros?
00:43:53.960 So that was
00:43:55.800 put forward as a
00:43:57.140 good argument.
00:43:57.640 Well, if it
00:43:59.280 were George
00:43:59.740 Soros, who
00:44:01.340 leans left, how
00:44:03.060 would you like it
00:44:03.660 over on the
00:44:04.080 right?
00:44:05.900 Now, remember I
00:44:07.000 always tell you
00:44:07.520 that analogies are
00:44:08.560 not a form of
00:44:09.340 thinking?
00:44:10.420 They really
00:44:11.100 aren't.
00:44:12.260 Because in this
00:44:13.140 analogy, they're
00:44:14.680 comparing a devil
00:44:15.620 to an angel, at
00:44:18.540 least in the
00:44:19.180 opinion of
00:44:20.100 conservatives.
00:44:21.100 Soros would be
00:44:21.760 like the devil.
00:44:23.100 So if you put
00:44:23.680 the devil in
00:44:24.480 charge of cutting
00:44:25.200 the budget, what
00:44:26.040 do you think is
00:44:26.520 going to happen?
00:44:27.640 Versus Elon, who
00:44:30.360 seems to orient
00:44:31.360 all of his
00:44:31.960 investments toward
00:44:33.860 making the
00:44:35.480 world safer,
00:44:37.260 allowing us to
00:44:38.360 be interplanetary
00:44:39.420 so we'll survive
00:44:40.320 the next
00:44:40.740 asteroid.
00:44:41.960 I mean, all of
00:44:42.520 it is just
00:44:43.140 purely, I
00:44:45.060 mean, makes
00:44:45.360 money, but
00:44:45.880 it's for the
00:44:47.380 benefit of
00:44:47.900 humankind.
00:44:49.200 So you've got
00:44:49.940 one person who
00:44:50.740 seems to hate
00:44:51.420 humankind, Soros,
00:44:53.180 and one person
00:44:54.120 who loves it so
00:44:54.900 much that there's
00:44:55.660 no amount of
00:44:56.240 work he won't
00:44:56.800 do to make
00:44:57.300 it better.
00:44:58.660 How in the
00:44:59.380 world do you
00:45:01.120 think that's a
00:45:01.680 good analogy?
00:45:02.980 Let's compare
00:45:03.820 the darkest
00:45:05.460 figure in the
00:45:06.340 world who
00:45:06.960 might just
00:45:07.400 want to destroy
00:45:08.080 the country to
00:45:09.600 the happiest,
00:45:11.640 most successful
00:45:12.420 guy who only
00:45:13.960 wants to make
00:45:14.400 things better.
00:45:16.140 I mean, that's
00:45:17.600 crazy talk.
00:45:18.220 yesterday, if
00:45:25.020 you were watching
00:45:25.700 the show
00:45:26.020 yesterday, and
00:45:26.920 I had to
00:45:28.180 quit rather
00:45:29.260 quickly at the
00:45:30.160 end because
00:45:31.260 there was some
00:45:31.900 loud noise in
00:45:32.880 the front of
00:45:34.100 my house, it
00:45:35.580 was a pretty
00:45:36.120 serious car
00:45:36.900 accident.
00:45:38.080 So it wasn't
00:45:38.760 on my property
00:45:39.400 but it was
00:45:39.880 right by my
00:45:40.840 driveway.
00:45:41.940 So an Uber
00:45:42.600 driver may have
00:45:44.460 had a medical
00:45:44.980 problem, it's not
00:45:46.140 clear, but drove
00:45:47.320 at a pretty
00:45:47.680 high speed into
00:45:48.520 a concrete
00:45:49.400 barrier.
00:45:51.680 And when I
00:45:53.080 went outside
00:45:53.580 after the show
00:45:54.260 there was just
00:45:54.780 all kinds of
00:45:56.120 emergency vehicles
00:45:57.240 and fire trucks
00:45:58.140 and police.
00:45:59.380 And at first
00:46:00.040 I was like,
00:46:00.740 I hope this
00:46:01.440 isn't about me.
00:46:04.020 I hope nothing
00:46:05.060 about this is
00:46:05.740 about me.
00:46:06.760 But it wasn't.
00:46:08.620 And then the
00:46:09.100 Uber driver was
00:46:10.020 like, when I
00:46:10.960 went down to the
00:46:11.680 end of the
00:46:12.020 driveway to see
00:46:12.620 what was going
00:46:13.020 on, the
00:46:13.900 Uber driver
00:46:14.460 was wildly
00:46:15.800 gesticulating at
00:46:17.080 me.
00:46:18.180 I still don't
00:46:18.920 know what
00:46:19.120 that's about.
00:46:20.000 But it kept
00:46:20.400 pointing at me
00:46:21.040 and blah, blah,
00:46:21.740 blah, blah, blah,
00:46:22.100 blah, blah, blah,
00:46:22.700 blah, blah, blah,
00:46:23.800 blah, blah, blah,
00:46:24.240 blah, blah.
00:46:25.540 So, I don't
00:46:27.100 know, maybe he
00:46:27.900 was blaming me.
00:46:29.480 So I don't
00:46:30.060 know the answer
00:46:30.560 to that mystery
00:46:31.380 but that's
00:46:32.280 what the noise
00:46:33.080 was all about.
00:46:34.520 All right,
00:46:35.540 ladies and
00:46:36.500 gentlemen,
00:46:38.680 that is the
00:46:40.760 conclusion of
00:46:41.840 my show.
00:46:43.020 I'm not
00:46:43.820 feeling well
00:46:44.460 this month.
00:46:45.240 I'm going
00:46:45.620 to get that
00:46:46.000 taken care
00:46:46.580 of, I
00:46:46.840 hope, in
00:46:47.300 the next
00:46:47.680 few days.
00:46:48.280 I've got a
00:46:48.560 doctor's
00:46:48.920 appointment.
00:46:49.340 I think I
00:46:49.680 have pneumonia.
00:46:50.880 So I'm
00:46:51.840 operating on
00:46:52.640 almost nothing.
00:46:56.460 So we'll
00:46:57.180 get that
00:46:57.500 taken care
00:46:58.000 of and
00:46:59.020 hopefully
00:47:00.580 in a week
00:47:01.780 or so I
00:47:02.560 will be
00:47:02.840 back to
00:47:03.300 a human
00:47:04.460 being.
00:47:06.980 Well,
00:47:07.480 getting some
00:47:07.940 sleep is
00:47:08.440 impossible
00:47:09.000 because I
00:47:09.960 have a
00:47:10.340 sciatica
00:47:10.960 and
00:47:11.560 I
00:47:13.700 have
00:47:13.920 back
00:47:14.460 aches,
00:47:15.000 sciatica
00:47:15.620 and I
00:47:17.440 think
00:47:17.700 pneumonia
00:47:18.120 which means
00:47:19.740 that every
00:47:20.480 position I
00:47:21.180 sleep in
00:47:21.700 is deeply
00:47:22.320 painful.
00:47:23.960 So there
00:47:24.840 is no
00:47:25.300 sleep
00:47:25.680 solution.
00:47:27.000 The only
00:47:27.280 thing I
00:47:27.580 can do
00:47:27.840 is sleep
00:47:28.160 for 45
00:47:28.740 minutes,
00:47:29.740 wake up
00:47:30.140 in pain,
00:47:31.940 walk around
00:47:32.780 until I'm
00:47:33.320 too tired
00:47:33.780 to walk
00:47:34.320 around,
00:47:35.540 fall asleep
00:47:36.020 for 45
00:47:36.680 minutes and
00:47:37.360 wake up in
00:47:37.960 extreme pain
00:47:38.600 again.
00:47:39.560 So that's
00:47:40.160 pretty much
00:47:41.100 all I've
00:47:41.420 been doing
00:47:41.720 for weeks.
00:47:43.120 So I'm
00:47:43.840 in really
00:47:44.220 bad shape
00:47:44.800 right now.
00:47:45.300 I'm just
00:47:45.600 barely hanging
00:47:46.220 on, to be
00:47:47.020 honest.
00:47:48.100 But I
00:47:48.800 should be
00:47:49.100 able to
00:47:49.320 take care
00:47:49.660 of it
00:47:49.880 this week.
00:47:50.520 We'll see.
00:47:51.580 All right.
00:47:52.080 So that's
00:47:52.480 enough of
00:47:52.760 that.
00:47:53.800 Ladies and
00:47:54.420 gentlemen,
00:47:54.840 thanks for
00:47:55.220 joining.
00:47:55.620 I'm going
00:47:55.800 to talk to
00:47:56.240 the locals
00:47:56.720 people privately.
00:47:58.120 The rest
00:47:58.420 of you,
00:47:59.480 come back
00:47:59.840 tomorrow,
00:48:00.360 same time,
00:48:00.860 same place.