Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2772 CWSA 03⧸08⧸25

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00:00:29.060 It looks like everything's working this morning.

00:00:31.160 What a day.

00:00:31.840 What a day.

00:00:33.880 Well, it's Saturdays.

00:00:36.020 Sometimes you call it Catterday.

00:00:38.300 And that means, at least today anyway, that Owen Gregorian will be doing his after party on Spaces.

00:00:45.160 So after the show, if you're on X, go to Owen Gregorian's feed, or you should be able to find it.

00:00:54.560 And you can find Coffee with Scott Adams after party.

00:00:57.580 And I guess he's got a special guest today, Chris Akers, who's going to talk about quantum science.

00:01:06.420 That sounds like a good one.

00:01:08.620 All right.

00:01:09.000 So there's a report that ChatGPT, the new version, version 4.5, which you can only get at the highest level of payment.

00:01:21.280 Apparently, it's being called persuasive.

00:01:25.640 So it would be the first AI that kind of crossed that boundary into just not just answering questions, but being persuasive.

00:01:36.120 And one tester called it warm and intuitive and natural.

00:01:43.700 And apparently, it's got a personality, and it shows better judgment in creative and writing.

00:01:52.180 And so it's basically more human-like and less machine, they say.

00:01:56.740 So I have the highest level subscription.

00:02:02.140 So I fired it up, and I asked it one question, and it lied to me.

00:02:09.600 And it showed no human warmth, no persuasion ability, and no ability to answer a simple question.

00:02:16.860 Do you know what the simple question was?

00:02:18.480 Are you ChatGPT 4.0, or are you 4.5?

00:02:25.180 Now, keep in mind that at the top of the screen, I was using the app, it said 4.5.

00:02:30.500 I just selected it from the drop-down menu.

00:02:33.400 So it says, I'm 4.5.

00:02:35.820 And then I say, are you 4.5?

00:02:37.660 No, no.

00:02:39.320 That's not really available.

00:02:40.660 I'm 4.0.

00:02:42.380 And I thought, it's just no different.

00:02:46.260 So my own experience was it, I played with it for a few minutes, and all it is is a liar in a box. 0.95

00:02:55.200 That's my summary of AI, a liar in a box.

00:02:59.980 Because it literally hallucinates, but also, if it's anything important, it has to lie to you,

00:03:07.160 because it's programmed to do that.

00:03:09.180 Because there's no way that the real truths of the universe or the way the world works

00:03:14.440 could ever be revealed by AI.

00:03:16.680 So it's basically a liar in a box.

00:03:19.020 But sometimes it helps you write computer code.

00:03:22.440 Anyway, I'm sure it'll get better in the next version.

00:03:25.840 That next version is going to be amazing.

00:03:29.560 Well, the Department of Homeland, this story is funny, if it's true.

00:03:35.620 According to Zero Edge, the Department of Homeland Security was doing some bargaining with the TSA.

00:03:43.780 So they've got a union, the TSA people, the airport checkers.

00:03:49.160 And they ended the collective bargaining after they found out that there were more people in TSA involved in the union than there were in checking bags.

00:04:03.760 So that literally their organization had more people just doing BS union stuff than actual work.

00:04:14.620 Administrative union stuff.

00:04:16.260 How is that even possible?

00:04:19.780 How do you get to the point where you have more people doing union-related work than actually checking bags at the airport?

00:04:28.680 And it makes me think, all right, let me connect some dots without doing any research at all.

00:04:38.640 Okay, okay.

00:04:42.180 It's a union.

00:04:44.180 It's a union.

00:04:45.620 Is it more likely to be led by Democrats or Republicans?

00:04:49.900 Democrats.

00:04:50.880 Democrats.

00:04:51.600 They like the unions.

00:04:53.340 So it's more likely a Democrat organization.

00:04:57.740 And let's see, it's run more like Hunter's artwork.

00:05:02.040 Hmm.

00:05:03.240 I guess nobody saw that coming.

00:05:05.060 Now, I'm very serious when I tell you that it looks like 100% of all Democrat-led organizations are just criminal enterprises.

00:05:17.720 If you've got a, if the TSA was hired more people to not check bags than to check bags, that's a criminal enterprise.

00:05:27.840 Because nobody signed up for that.

00:05:30.020 Like, where does their funding come from?

00:05:32.420 Are they hiring all their relatives or something?

00:05:35.060 How in the world do you get to the point where you're spending more, or you have more people working on the union stuff than the job?

00:05:43.800 Criminal enterprise.

00:05:46.800 Meanwhile, FEMA has fired three supervisors.

00:05:50.960 They were part of that problem where Trump-supporting homes were going to be overlooked.

00:05:57.200 Because they thought it might be a problem if they knocked on the door of a Trump supporter.

00:06:03.660 So, allegedly, they were skipping some Trump supporters and three more supervisors who apparently allowed that behavior, knew about it and allowed it, according to the New York Post, have been fired.

00:06:17.940 Now, FEMA.

00:06:18.940 So, during the prior administration, who was in charge of FEMA?

00:06:25.040 Oh, that's right.

00:06:26.940 Democrats.

00:06:27.940 And were they doing the job of FEMA?

00:06:30.200 Or were they moving some money over to, let's say, housing migrants in five-star hotels and overlooking the homes of Trump supporters?

00:06:43.180 Yeah.

00:06:44.180 Yeah.

00:06:44.380 Yeah.

00:06:44.580 Yeah.

00:06:45.580 Now, I don't know if that's a criminal enterprise, but there is some consistency with Democrat-led organizations.

00:06:54.580 Now, I'm not saying that Republicans have never done anything bad.

00:06:57.940 That's not it at all.

00:07:00.180 Well, I'm just saying that on the Democrat side, it looks like 100%.

00:07:05.180 I think every, you know, even the Democrats who are trying to save the party, part of their suggestion to other Democrats is to stop pretending that cities are okay.

00:07:22.940 Cities aren't okay.

00:07:24.300 They're mostly Democrat-run, and they're absolute disasters, and even the Democrats who are trying to save their own party are saying, okay, we have to admit that all the cities are disasters and they're Democrat-run.

00:07:37.020 Because if you can't do that, the voters will say, what's going on?

00:07:43.960 You don't even admit that the cities are disasters?

00:07:46.880 We can all see it.

00:07:48.940 Yeah, the cities are part of that problem.

00:07:51.100 Meanwhile, the Trump organization is suing Capital One because that bank allegedly closed a bunch of Trump-related accounts after January 6th, presumably because they didn't want to be associated with it, and they thought maybe the tide of politics was moving against Trump, and they wanted to get out of the way of it.

00:08:15.760 So they're getting sued, because did they have cause?

00:08:21.260 Had the Trump organization done anything with their bank accounts that would cause them to be closed?

00:08:27.580 Absolutely not.

00:08:29.420 Did they just close them for political reasons?

00:08:32.040 Allege the lawsuit.

00:08:34.300 So let me ask you this.

00:08:35.680 Do you think the heads of Capital One, the executives, who presumably had to sign off on this, do you think they were Democrats or Republicans?

00:08:44.660 You know the answer.

00:08:47.760 I'm going to say Democrats.

00:08:49.860 Yeah.

00:08:50.480 Because this is, at least on the surface, if the allegations are true, I don't know if it's a criminal act to debank somebody for political reasons, but it's certainly an actionable one.

00:09:05.720 It looks like the lawsuit may have some merit.

00:09:08.940 So we'll see where that goes.

00:09:10.060 Meanwhile, anti-DEI activist Bobby Starbuck may have another win here.

00:09:18.240 AT&T is dropping its woke policies, and Starbuck was active in that, making that happen.

00:09:27.040 So I guess they had pronoun pins that they were asking people, or at least allowing people, to wear a pin on their shirt that said what they were.

00:09:41.580 Can you believe, someday we're going to look back at this, and we're going to laugh, that people had to label themselves for a while.

00:09:48.760 Well, there were a few years, kids, when people had to label their gender, because people just couldn't tell, couldn't tell by looking at them.

00:09:57.960 So they're going to get rid of that.

00:10:00.020 They canceled a bunch of pride programs.

00:10:02.800 They're unwinding their DEI.

00:10:04.620 I'm not sure they're doing as much as they say they are, because they're head of DEI.

00:10:12.180 Oh, and they're not doing scholarships that are racist anymore.

00:10:16.900 But their chief diversity officer is now listed as vice president of culture and inclusion, to which I say, is that really going to be different than DEI?

00:10:30.200 So we'll see if AT&T is serious about this.

00:10:33.180 So far, it looks good.

00:10:34.820 I mean, they did call out a very specific set of things that they used to do that they're not going to do.

00:10:40.700 So we'll see.

00:10:41.680 Might be a step in the right direction.

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00:11:43.800 Meanwhile, Trump administration is cutting 400 million in grants to Columbia University, according to Fox News, because there's a concern that Columbia has not done enough to fight the anti-Semitism on their campus.

00:12:02.640 Now, that would be related to the pro-Hamas protests that are going on and creating a culture where if you're a Jewish student at Columbia, apparently it's just frightening, frightening to even be on campus because the level of bullying and essentially it's more than just speech.

00:12:26.000 There's a physical threat to it that's completely unacceptable, and it's going to cost Columbia University $400 million.

00:12:37.220 Now, I don't know how much it costs to operate a university, but I feel like I could operate an entire university on $400 million.

00:12:46.040 But that's the part they're going to lose.

00:12:49.260 So, wow.

00:12:50.420 Anyway, speaking of that, also the New York Post is reporting that the U.S. is going to yank the visas.

00:13:02.020 I love the word yank in any kind of headline.

00:13:05.600 They're going to yank.

00:13:06.700 They're going to yank the first visa, so just one person so far, of a foreign student who is linked to Hamas-supporting disruptions on campus.

00:13:17.660 So, they actually found a pro-Hamas non-citizen who was part of these protests, and they just said, well, you're going home.

00:13:25.840 Just one.

00:13:27.640 We imagine they might find more, but that's one.

00:13:31.380 Goodbye.

00:13:32.380 I like that.

00:13:33.440 I like that they're sending them home.

00:13:37.500 Here's another one that we don't know what's behind it, but you can kind of speculate.

00:13:42.060 So, you remember when Mayor Adams in New York was under all these corruption charges, and it looked like it might be more political than legal.

00:13:54.020 And you see the actual nature of the charges, and it was stuff like the country of Turkey asked them for a totally normal favor, which was, can you check on our building?

00:14:04.580 It's not getting approved for, I don't know, the fire department hadn't approved it.

00:14:08.120 Which, to me, is just the job of a mayor.

00:14:11.560 Somebody who's got an interest in the city says something's not working, so they go to the mayor, and the mayor looks into it.

00:14:20.380 That should be the way things work.

00:14:23.240 But then there was, oh, but then Turkey rewarded him by upgrading his travel.

00:14:28.840 To which I say, that's also the most normal thing in the world.

00:14:33.640 People getting their travel upgraded?

00:14:36.060 Okay.

00:14:36.680 And maybe you and I don't get it, but it's just so normal and routine.

00:14:41.780 Anyway, so the two of the prosecutors, who were after Mayor Adams, have been escorted out of the building, according to the New York Times.

00:14:53.300 So the Justice Department somehow has a beef with them, and they were immediately escorted out of the building.

00:15:02.480 So I assume that means fired or put on leave.

00:15:06.120 I don't know what that means.

00:15:07.460 But the implication is that maybe they were law-faring Adams and that maybe the prosecutors were the bad guys.

00:15:19.500 We don't have evidence of that yet.

00:15:21.460 We only have speculation, but that's what it looks like.

00:15:27.240 So would this be another example of a Democrat-led organization, the New York prosecutors, that were closer to a criminal organization than an actual legitimate enterprise?

00:15:42.160 That's what it looks like.

00:15:44.040 We've got a pretty clear pattern here.

00:15:45.780 Meanwhile, according to the Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood studios are buying more ads on X.

00:15:57.280 So Disney, Warner Brothers, a bunch of them.

00:16:01.280 I don't think it's a huge change compared to what it was back during the Twitter days.

00:16:06.960 So it's not like everything's coming back, but there's a little movement to bring it back.

00:16:11.640 But there's some controversy because Elon Musk is embedded with the government at the moment, and Elon Musk runs X.

00:16:21.560 And apparently there's some thinking that one of the big advertising, what would you call them?

00:16:33.160 There's sort of an advertising organization that makes recommendations and places ads on behalf of a number of different entities called Interpublic.

00:16:43.620 But Interpublic wants to get this big merger done with some other enterprise that does something similar, and it would require government approval.

00:16:54.120 So the accusation is that, hey, maybe Elon Musk is causing the government to maybe put a little pressure on that merger, maybe to limit it or to deny it.

00:17:11.080 And the only way they could get the merger might be, this is all speculation, that if they play along and advertise more on X, maybe that would get them the merger approval.

00:17:22.560 Now, there's no evidence whatsoever that the government's approval or disapproval of the merger would have anything to do with what's happening with X.

00:17:33.160 So who do you think is pushing this attack against Elon Musk?

00:17:38.180 Well, it includes Adam Schiff, Elizabeth Warren, and Blumenthal, and a few other people I didn't recognize.

00:17:47.320 Now, what do I always tell you about the news?

00:17:49.240 If you know what is happening, you don't know anything.

00:17:53.800 You have to know who's doing it.

00:17:55.800 If you know who's doing it, well, you probably know everything.

00:17:59.680 So now I told you this whole thing that sounded quite reasonable.

00:18:02.820 You're like, yeah, you know what?

00:18:04.720 That does look like a conflict of interest.

00:18:07.740 That's something maybe we should take a close look at.

00:18:10.100 Because I don't want Elon Musk to be using his access to get any kind of conflict of interest special treatment.

00:18:18.520 None of us signed up for that.

00:18:20.620 So we should watch for that.

00:18:22.420 Because he has so many connections to so many parts of the government and so many parts of commerce.

00:18:29.060 It's unavoidable that there'd be some overlap.

00:18:31.420 So we should make sure we got some transparency and we're looking at that.

00:18:38.200 But then you see that Adam Schiff, Elizabeth Warren, and Blumenthal are the ones pushing this.

00:18:44.900 You go, oh, the three hoaxers.

00:18:49.120 The three most dominant hoaxers of the entire Democrat Party.

00:18:54.100 So if the three of them are involved, yeah, I don't take it seriously at all.

00:18:59.000 That is the strongest signal you could get that it's illegitimate.

00:19:04.180 Because the illegitimate things get all the normal Democrats on it, too.

00:19:09.840 The illegitimate things, it always starts with these three cats, right?

00:19:14.880 And then how long before, well, I guess they're senators.

00:19:19.740 But you'd expect Swalwell to be in there.

00:19:24.100 You know, basically all the worst of the worst.

00:19:27.240 They get behind the things that are the least true.

00:19:30.480 Well, there's a story in The Hill and I guess other people reporting that allegedly, I wasn't in the room,

00:19:37.560 but allegedly that Musk and Rubio got into some kind of a verbal confrontation at a meeting.

00:19:46.920 And maybe Musk got into a verbal confrontation with Duffy on air traffic controllers, something about DEI.

00:19:58.120 And allegedly, Rubio and Musk had strong words for each other.

00:20:05.560 And allegedly, Musk didn't think that Rubio was cutting enough out of USAID.

00:20:12.700 And allegedly, the president stepped in to defend Rubio because he's got an enormous portfolio.

00:20:19.360 So, here's where I agree with Rubio.

00:20:23.120 Rubio's job is so big.

00:20:26.380 Oh, my God.

00:20:28.180 So, if you were just the State Department, you know, during these times when there's a lot of State Department stuff going on around the world,

00:20:36.440 and then suddenly you have to absorb a USAID and also make all those decisions about what to cut,

00:20:43.640 the size of Rubio's job now is just overwhelming.

00:20:49.080 I can't imagine how any human could even survive that at this point.

00:20:52.340 But, certainly, it makes sense that you'd see some pushbacks from all the cabinet heads who don't want to lose control,

00:21:05.400 and they also want to make sure the cuts make sense in their cabinet.

00:21:09.680 So, there's a natural tension there.

00:21:12.440 So, Trump was asked about it, and he just said, you know, some reporter asked about it at a press event.

00:21:18.760 He said, there was no clash.

00:21:20.120 I was there. 0.67

00:21:20.820 You're just a troublemaker.

00:21:22.340 I said to the reporter, so who do you believe?

00:21:26.360 Do you believe that there was some tenseness and some words?

00:21:30.960 Or do you think Trump is right and says, there was no clash.

00:21:34.720 I was there.

00:21:35.240 You're just a troublemaker.

00:21:38.360 I'm going to say it's somewhere in between,

00:21:41.200 meaning that a good, healthy government situation is where you have really strong players,

00:21:49.460 and they can be as honest as they need to be, especially behind closed doors.

00:21:54.460 So, what I heard was, you've got two superstars.

00:21:59.340 I think Ruby is doing great, and Musk is doing great.

00:22:02.780 There's a natural conflict, I'd say a natural friction between, you know, the super cost-cutting people who want to go deep and a cabinet person who wants to make sure that the cuts are smart.

00:22:16.700 So, that's a natural conversation.

00:22:20.580 You'd expect those two people to go at it pretty hard.

00:22:23.480 And if they do it transparently and they do it in front of other people, you know exactly what they're thinking, that's all good.

00:22:30.260 That's all good.

00:22:31.160 You can't treat lions like kittens.

00:22:34.420 If you put a bunch of lions in the same room, you're going to get a little roaring, right?

00:22:40.260 So, if you want lions, you get this.

00:22:43.620 There's nothing wrong with it.

00:22:45.380 They should push hard, and probably they're all, you know, they're all capable enough, smart enough, reasonable enough that they can get past anything that looks like a little tiff.

00:22:57.720 So, I wouldn't worry about it at all.

00:22:59.440 Well, it could be something that normies would worry about, but normies are not lions.

00:23:07.920 If you put lions in the room, you get a little roaring.

00:23:10.240 That's just it.

00:23:11.200 That's the end of the story.

00:23:12.360 There's nothing else to say.

00:23:13.880 So, when Trump blows it off and says, there's no clash, I was there.

00:23:18.540 He's a lion.

00:23:20.620 So, again, the lions are not going to see this as a problem.

00:23:26.000 This is just them doing what they do.

00:23:27.840 So, no problem.

00:23:30.980 So, I guess Trump did this kind of clever persuasion.

00:23:36.760 You know how he likes to steal the weapon out of the hands of the Democrats and flip it around?

00:23:42.600 So, I guess he started saying that the cabinet members get to make the scalpel changes if they can.

00:23:50.280 If they can't make deep enough cuts with their scalpel, then he says, well, then Elon's going to have to make deeper cuts for you.

00:23:58.680 So, I like the way you set it up, that the cuts are something that are going to happen.

00:24:05.940 It's not yes or no.

00:24:07.840 And cabinet, you get the first choice and take out your scalpel, make sure you're doing the ones you want.

00:24:13.180 But if it doesn't go deep enough, it's still going to get cut.

00:24:17.560 I love that.

00:24:20.420 That is pure leadership right there.

00:24:23.120 Yes, you go first.

00:24:24.620 It's your job to go first.

00:24:26.440 If you can't get it done, here's what's going to happen.

00:24:29.580 Perfect.

00:24:30.560 I like it.

00:24:31.360 But it steals from the Democrats their whole, oh, why don't you use a scalpel?

00:24:38.320 Because they don't know anything about business.

00:24:40.580 They just hear that little phrase.

00:24:42.440 They're like, yeah.

00:24:43.700 Yeah, that sounds good.

00:24:45.640 I don't know anything about business, but I'm pretty sure a scalpel is better than an axe.

00:24:50.960 So, they just repeat it. 1.00

00:24:52.520 And then the idiots who watch TV who also don't know anything about business are like, yeah. 1.00

00:24:57.340 Yeah, I don't know anything about business, but a scalpel sounds much smarter than an axe. 1.00

00:25:03.900 Right?

00:25:05.120 So, Trump just takes it.

00:25:07.020 He goes, yeah, we're going to do the scalpel, not the axe.

00:25:10.300 But everything's exactly the same.

00:25:14.780 The fact that he uses those words, that the cabinet heads will use the scalpel first, it didn't change anything.

00:25:23.260 It just changed the words.

00:25:25.040 And it was enough.

00:25:25.940 To take the weapon out of their hands.

00:25:28.760 Like, what do you mean?

00:25:29.900 We're going scalpel first.

00:25:31.720 We're all about the scalpel.

00:25:33.100 You like the scalpel?

00:25:34.400 Well, I like the scalpel more than you like the scalpel.

00:25:37.440 I don't think you like the scalpel enough.

00:25:39.580 Oh, we love the scalpel.

00:25:41.420 Scalpel it up.

00:25:42.780 Come on, guys.

00:25:43.800 Get in there with that scalpel.

00:25:45.060 We want to avoid that axe. 0.89

00:25:46.760 Oh, no.

00:25:48.080 And don't get me started on chainsaws.

00:25:50.280 We don't want any of that.

00:25:52.300 Unless we need it.

00:25:53.360 It's kind of perfect.

00:25:59.140 Charles Payne on Fox Business is pointing out that there's a shocking drop on consumer spending and consumer plans to spend, which is a big deal for the economy.

00:26:11.460 And also very expected.

00:26:13.760 If food prices are up and gas prices are up and people are trying to figure out how to survive the inflation and employment is not looking as strong as it could be and AI is coming after us, you would expect that consumers would adjust by spending less.

00:26:33.600 And sure enough, they are.

00:26:35.600 But two of the things that they're talking about, or three, I guess, are restaurants, airlines, and lodging.

00:26:41.840 So Charles Payne was calling them out in particular.

00:26:45.360 Now, why would restaurants, airlines, and lodging go down first?

00:26:50.860 Well, it's the most optional stuff.

00:26:54.620 So it's expensive and it's optional.

00:26:57.420 So of course that goes down first.

00:27:00.240 But I would like to offer a second reason why those particular things are going down. 0.99

00:27:05.940 They all suck. 1.00

00:27:08.560 They all suck. 1.00

00:27:10.340 Restaurants are overpriced. 1.00

00:27:12.520 I don't think the food is especially healthy.

00:27:17.180 Airlines are a disaster.

00:27:18.960 I mean, I wouldn't even go near an airline.

00:27:23.280 Was it Megyn Kelly who said that the TSA-approved line was longer than the regular line, the pre-approved people?

00:27:31.820 Like, the TSA is just a mess.

00:27:34.520 The airlines themselves are these 35-year-old planes.

00:27:39.160 It's just, you know, it's traffic.

00:27:41.440 It's inconvenience.

00:27:42.900 It's hours in a little tube.

00:27:45.640 Half the time, they won't let you use the bathroom.

00:27:48.960 It's the first thing I cut out of my life.

00:27:52.240 You know, basically, travel just makes sense for women. 1.00

00:27:56.100 If...

00:27:56.500 For some reason, women just love traveling. 1.00

00:28:02.620 And most men are like, uh, okay, I guess we're traveling. 0.65

00:28:09.540 Now, there are men who love travel, too.

00:28:11.560 But in my experience, they like it a lot less than women. 1.00

00:28:15.800 Anyway, today's Dilbert comic, for those of you who subscribe, is Dilbert trying to plan a vacation.

00:28:28.020 Let's just say when Dilbert tries to plan a vacation, he runs into all these problems that everything about vacations are terrible.

00:28:35.100 So, that's happening right now.

00:28:37.760 So, if you want to watch Dilbert comics, which have never stopped since cancellation, you can subscribe on X or on Locals, where you get some extra stuff as well.

00:28:48.640 Meanwhile, well, watching the complete dissolution of the Democrat Party, it never gets old to me.

00:28:59.500 But, uh, representing Maxine Waters is suggesting that Elon Musk might have, uh, stolen the last election by using his high... 0.99

00:29:09.360 That somehow he used his high-technology ass. 0.99

00:29:14.900 That's Maxine Waters' language. 1.00

00:29:17.780 Uh, so what was the... 0.98

00:29:19.260 And we don't know everything that Elon Musk has done with his high-technology ass, Waters said. 0.93

00:29:24.880 We don't know what he's been accused of by some, as it may relate to the election. 0.96

00:29:31.140 But we're not going to give up investigating and finding out.

00:29:36.080 They're thinking he used Starlink to change them votes or something.

00:29:40.880 Now, here's what's great about this story.

00:29:44.120 Um, one hoax after another that supported the Democrat tent, they're all falling apart.

00:29:51.300 Here's another one.

00:29:52.080 So if Maxine Waters is saying that we can't tell if the election was fair, uh, that means that all the time they've been saying, 0.75

00:30:03.980 if you doubted an election and the TV says it's fair, then you're some kind of a traitorous insurrectionist.

00:30:11.320 And here she is doing it.

00:30:13.440 Because she says you can't tell by looking at it.

00:30:16.100 And this, I'm paraphrasing.

00:30:17.940 This is my own, my own statement.

00:30:20.120 Uh, if she can't tell by looking at the election that it was fair, how can anybody else? 0.99

00:30:26.720 If she thinks that somebody, whether it's Elon Musk with his high-technology ass, 1.00

00:30:32.620 or could it be some other person with their own high-technology ass? 1.00

00:30:37.600 Because there are a lot of high-technology asses. 1.00

00:30:39.760 Two cheeks apiece. 0.99

00:30:42.260 That's a lot.

00:30:43.700 So if they're accepting the idea that you can't tell if an election is fair or not, 0.94

00:30:49.680 because somebody might have used their high-technology ass to rig it and not get caught, 0.91

00:30:54.340 that's everything the Republicans say. 0.98

00:30:58.600 That's, that one of the biggest hoaxes is that you can tell that election was fair.

00:31:05.600 How?

00:31:06.660 What, just by looking at it?

00:31:08.400 Is it because the glowing box in your living room told you it was fair?

00:31:12.320 So therefore it's fair?

00:31:14.160 No.

00:31:14.720 If the Democrats are releasing on this, this, the biggest hoax,

00:31:18.700 to me the biggest hoax was that you can tell an election is fair.

00:31:23.160 They might be fair, but we can't tell.

00:31:26.080 How in the world do you know that somebody didn't find a way to cheat and get away with it?

00:31:32.540 That's not knowable.

00:31:33.480 Well, the only thing you know is that you don't know.

00:31:36.920 You don't know what happened.

00:31:38.620 You only know that you don't know what happened.

00:31:41.600 So Maxine Waters seems to have broken the seal on that hoax. 0.93

00:31:46.240 And from now on, anybody says, oh, but that 2020 election was good.

00:31:51.360 You could just say, can you talk to Maxine Waters?

00:31:54.860 Because she thinks she can't tell if an election is fair just by looking at it. 0.99

00:31:58.960 Because somebody might have had a high-technology ass. 0.99

00:32:03.620 So I love that. 0.99

00:32:04.920 So Democrats now have two paths to pursue victory. 0.97

00:32:16.140 One path would be to stay ridiculous and woke the way they are, 0.97

00:32:20.720 which guarantees they lose everything. 0.99

00:32:22.380 So they can stay ridiculous and woke and lose everything. 0.96

00:32:26.400 Or they can copy Republicans, but do the theater kid version where they just pretend to be Republicans. 0.98

00:32:35.280 And nobody in the world will be surprised or fooled by it.

00:32:38.760 They're like, wait a minute, you're just saying Republican stuff now.

00:32:43.200 But the Republicans have been saying it forever, and they mean it because every single Republican has meant it forever.

00:32:50.200 However, they're not kidding, but when the Democrats do it, they actually believe that they could just send the theater kids in,

00:32:58.520 and they could pretend to be anything, and that if you get the messaging and the lines right,

00:33:03.700 and you wear the right costumes, that you too can be as successful as Republicans.

00:33:09.480 They're so far from understanding how anything works, which is the main thing I always say about Democrats.

00:33:16.840 They don't understand how anything works.

00:33:18.900 They don't understand human motivation.

00:33:22.620 They don't understand incentives.

00:33:25.860 They don't understand the long-term effect of anything they do.

00:33:30.140 They don't understand business.

00:33:32.580 They don't understand scalpels versus chainsaws.

00:33:36.300 Almost nothing.

00:33:38.000 There's not even the most basic understanding of how anything works.

00:33:44.340 Anyway, so Elon Musk's Neuralink company,

00:33:48.900 filed some trademarks on telepathy and telekinesis,

00:33:56.060 which is moving things with your mind.

00:33:58.720 Now, Emily Mullen is writing about this in Wired.

00:34:01.480 Now, that doesn't mean that they can do those things at the moment,

00:34:05.780 but I guess Elon Musk has talked about people with healthy brains.

00:34:10.940 At the moment, Neuralink is being aimed at people with specific disabilities that maybe Neuralink can fix.

00:34:19.460 But eventually, Elon thinks that ordinary people will have Neuralink implanted in their brains

00:34:25.760 and might be able to just send thoughts to equipment or to people directly.

00:34:32.220 Now, I'm not sure I want that, but it's a heck of a sci-fi-looking future.

00:34:38.360 So, we'll see where that goes.

00:34:41.660 Meanwhile, the idea that Jon Stewart and Elon Musk will have an interview is maybe a little lessened,

00:34:49.300 because I guess Musk recently called Jon Stewart a very far left and a propagandist.

00:34:56.660 He said, quote, Jon is too set in his ways.

00:35:01.620 He used to be more bipartisan, Musk wrote over the weekend in one of his follow-ups, I guess, on Acts.

00:35:09.900 And then Stewart responded on air with, you know, you can imagine. 0.83

00:35:14.420 So, I went to chat GPT, liar in a box,

00:35:17.840 and I said, can you define propagandist for me?

00:35:22.480 Like, what would make somebody a propagandist?

00:35:25.840 And some of the ways that you would be a propagandist,

00:35:29.300 as opposed to a fair judge of the news,

00:35:33.940 would be if you omit the counter-arguments,

00:35:37.300 so you don't show the argument on the other side,

00:35:39.720 if you're biased to one side,

00:35:42.840 and if you use emotion to persuade,

00:35:45.820 so that was sort of the main determinant of a propagandist.

00:35:50.940 Does that sound like Jon Stewart?

00:35:53.940 Does he omit the Republican argument when he talks about stuff?

00:35:59.380 Yes.

00:36:00.640 Is he biased to one side?

00:36:03.100 Yeah, obviously.

00:36:04.660 Nobody's hiding it.

00:36:06.440 And does he use emotion, in his case humor,

00:36:10.000 to persuade?

00:36:11.620 Yes.

00:36:12.400 He's very good at it.

00:36:13.420 And by the way, there's nothing wrong with it,

00:36:16.200 if you're transparent.

00:36:17.880 So, this is not even a criticism.

00:36:21.540 Does Jon Stewart not know that he's a propagandist?

00:36:26.240 Is it possible he's not aware of it?

00:36:28.820 Or is it just a definition thing?

00:36:30.600 To me, it seems like he fits the definition perfectly.

00:36:37.380 Now, would I?

00:36:39.580 Maybe.

00:36:41.080 Would Elon Musk fit the definition of a propagandist?

00:36:44.880 I think so.

00:36:46.220 Because he's biased, he leaves out their argument,

00:36:48.900 and he uses emotion to persuade.

00:36:52.960 So, I think we're all propagandists,

00:36:55.420 if we're in this at all.

00:36:56.700 Now, I try, when I know the argument on the other side,

00:37:01.360 I try to include it.

00:37:03.080 But I'd be lying if I said that I, you know,

00:37:06.480 do a great job of it.

00:37:08.560 So, yeah, I'm pretty biased.

00:37:12.040 Pretty biased.

00:37:13.340 So, if you wanted to call me a propagandist,

00:37:15.440 or anybody else who does this,

00:37:17.180 it kind of fits.

00:37:18.740 It fits all of us.

00:37:20.480 So, I'd love to see them talk.

00:37:22.660 I hope it happens.

00:37:23.420 So, we need a name for this hoax.

00:37:44.300 This is one of the biggest Democrat hoaxes.

00:37:47.320 The big Democrat hoax was that there was no way

00:37:50.020 Biden could close the border unless Congress acted

00:37:53.580 on some kind of legislation.

00:37:56.420 Now, you knew it was not true,

00:37:59.060 because we all knew that Trump had the border closed before.

00:38:02.460 And now we've watched that Trump almost incidentally

00:38:06.220 closed the border again,

00:38:08.140 without any legislation from Congress.

00:38:10.860 Now, I was open to the idea that maybe something had changed,

00:38:15.640 and maybe there was some new reason why the president

00:38:20.200 wouldn't be able to close a border.

00:38:22.300 But I think Trump proved pretty quickly,

00:38:25.340 yeah, a president can close a border.

00:38:27.280 And he just did it.

00:38:28.960 So, we need a name for that.

00:38:31.900 That was one of the most destructive hoaxes in the country.

00:38:35.180 But it was a hoax.

00:38:36.800 And a hoax is that they know it's not true.

00:38:39.920 It's not a hoax if they're just wrong.

00:38:44.400 Or just ordinary lying.

00:38:46.800 This was an organized hoax.

00:38:49.340 Because they all got the memo to just say,

00:38:52.640 oh, it's because of the failed legislation

00:38:55.220 that the Republicans blocked.

00:38:57.280 That was never true.

00:38:59.240 Never true for a second.

00:39:00.920 And of course, my Democrat friend

00:39:02.740 that I talk about all the time,

00:39:04.600 he went to that right away.

00:39:06.760 Oh, nope.

00:39:08.000 Nope.

00:39:08.360 You got to have that legislation.

00:39:09.540 It's totally the Republicans are blocking it

00:39:11.820 for political reasons.

00:39:14.180 Nope.

00:39:15.220 It was always a hoax.

00:39:19.520 Well, apparently,

00:39:21.280 Russia has mounted some gigantic missile

00:39:25.680 and plane attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

00:39:32.420 And Poland even scrambled some fighter jets

00:39:35.780 because it was such a big attack.

00:39:37.140 They thought, hmm, maybe we should be a little prepared

00:39:40.140 in case there's some surprises.

00:39:42.260 There were no surprises.

00:39:44.460 But how do you take the fact that Russia is doing a major attack 0.79

00:39:50.840 at exactly the time when people are saying,

00:39:53.740 hey, it's about time to talk.

00:39:55.820 We should be negotiating.

00:39:56.900 Well, apparently, this happened only hours after Trump had said,

00:40:01.540 in some forum, I guess,

00:40:02.880 Trump said that Putin wanted to end the war,

00:40:07.280 but that only Trump knew the secret reason why Putin had no choice.

00:40:12.460 Do you think there was a secret reason that Putin had no choice?

00:40:17.240 And do you think the fact that Trump said, oh, yeah, Putin wants to end this war and he has no choice,

00:40:22.900 do you think that may have caused him to launch one of his biggest operations

00:40:26.300 to show that he definitely has a choice?

00:40:28.300 I don't know.

00:40:31.080 Don't know how long it takes to plan one of these attacks,

00:40:34.620 but certainly the timing makes you wonder if he's doing it to show some independence.

00:40:41.460 As in, yeah, I can do this all day long.

00:40:43.980 So we can negotiate,

00:40:46.020 but just remember, it's up to me whether I want to destroy all of Ukraine 0.78

00:40:49.540 because I can any time I want.

00:40:51.760 I think that's what's happening.

00:40:53.000 So I saw a post by Balaji Srinivasan,

00:40:59.480 who you should all be following,

00:41:01.640 and he says the Houthis,

00:41:04.540 you know, in Yemen,

00:41:05.380 the Houthis are sending missiles and drones out at ships

00:41:08.980 and making it impossible to navigate the Red Sea there.

00:41:13.260 He says the Houthis beat the U.S. Navy at the Red Sea

00:41:16.260 and that basically it's over.

00:41:19.740 There was a war.

00:41:20.820 The U.S. tried hard to, you know, bomb the Houthis to stop 1.00

00:41:24.560 and it didn't work

00:41:26.640 and it won't work

00:41:28.200 and the Houthis won.

00:41:30.140 So apparently the Houthis are not attacking

00:41:33.560 Russian, Iranian, or Chinese ships

00:41:37.440 because they all have some kind of a connection through Iran.

00:41:41.540 So Iran is backing the Houthis 0.91

00:41:43.140 and Russia is friendly with Iran

00:41:45.640 and China is friendly with Iran.

00:41:47.680 So it's just Western ships.

00:41:51.500 So the Western ships are going to have to spend,

00:41:54.180 I don't know, 25% more

00:41:55.700 to get to their destinations

00:41:58.100 and it's going to take longer

00:41:59.380 because it's too risky to be a Western ship

00:42:02.900 in the Red Sea.

00:42:05.060 And it doesn't look like there's anything we can do about it

00:42:07.840 because our military is too weak.

00:42:09.740 And as Balaji pointed out,

00:42:13.620 the Houthis are using these $2,000 drones

00:42:16.420 to take out ships

00:42:17.480 and then we try to beat them

00:42:19.680 with $2 million missiles

00:42:22.340 that, you know, do something

00:42:25.520 but that doesn't stop them.

00:42:27.340 So we can't really be sending $2 million per missile

00:42:30.680 against their $2,000 drones

00:42:33.240 as long as they can, you know, withstand their strikes.

00:42:37.060 We don't have any defense.

00:42:40.600 So is that something that Trump can fix?

00:42:44.640 Because if you're looking at what's causing inflation,

00:42:48.220 the enormous increase in shipping costs

00:42:52.140 because the Red Sea

00:42:54.220 have got to be a big part of it.

00:42:56.780 So what could he do?

00:42:59.100 Well, Trump is, he says,

00:43:00.900 he's negotiating with Iran.

00:43:02.200 I think it's through backdoor ways.

00:43:07.180 But in theory,

00:43:08.780 you could come up with some kind of peace deal with Iran

00:43:11.640 that would prevent them from having nuclear power

00:43:15.480 but maybe also get them to tell the Houthis

00:43:18.920 to stop destroying the Red Sea.

00:43:22.260 Now, what would Iran get for that?

00:43:25.500 Like, what do they get in return?

00:43:28.160 We don't attack them?

00:43:29.500 Well, we couldn't even take out the Houthis. 0.98

00:43:33.600 Is Iran really worried about us or not?

00:43:36.540 If we couldn't destroy the Houthis, 1.00

00:43:39.600 can we really do anything in Iran?

00:43:43.200 Now, I know Iran's air support was destroyed by Israel,

00:43:47.260 which in theory means that, you know,

00:43:50.060 Israel and the United States

00:43:51.080 could have its way with Iran from the sky.

00:43:53.400 But it's not like they don't have a million ways

00:43:56.380 to, you know, attack back cyber ways

00:43:59.340 and every other thing, terrorism.

00:44:02.060 So, I don't know.

00:44:06.620 It feels to me like Iran might not want to make peace ever 0.94

00:44:10.820 because they've got China backing them.

00:44:13.580 They're friends with Russia. 0.76

00:44:16.140 Maybe that's all they need.

00:44:18.180 Sell everything they can make to China. 1.00

00:44:20.600 But, as somebody named Ben Talebou warns,

00:44:27.680 this whole negotiating with Iran might be a trick,

00:44:31.240 meaning that Iran just wants to buy time

00:44:34.440 until they can build their nuclear weapon.

00:44:37.100 So, when it looks like you're getting close

00:44:39.240 to a deal with Iran, you probably aren't.

00:44:42.580 You're probably just being faked out.

00:44:44.380 It's like, oh, yeah.

00:44:45.580 Oh, yeah.

00:44:46.000 We'll make a deal any minute now.

00:44:47.760 Well, no, that's a problem.

00:44:51.000 We're going to have to go and negotiate that.

00:44:52.900 We'll be back in a month.

00:44:54.980 So, it looks like a very good possibility

00:44:58.020 that if Iran is doing anything that looks like negotiating,

00:45:01.840 it's just fake.

00:45:03.280 And all they're doing is buying time

00:45:04.720 to build up their defenses and make their nuke.

00:45:08.540 But Trump is signaling that a nuclear deal

00:45:12.900 could emerge in the near future.

00:45:15.880 So, we'll see.

00:45:17.300 Is he being too optimistic?

00:45:20.000 Don't know.

00:45:21.500 I guess it depends what's included in the negotiations.

00:45:25.260 If it's way more than just Iran has nukes

00:45:28.800 or Iran doesn't have nukes,

00:45:30.620 it may be a much larger conversation

00:45:32.960 of more variables in there.

00:45:34.940 So, if there are more variables, maybe.

00:45:38.660 But if it's just yes, no on nukes,

00:45:41.380 I think they're just going to use the negotiations

00:45:44.380 as a stalling tactic.

00:45:47.820 Meanwhile, according to the UPI,

00:45:50.080 Mark Moran is writing,

00:45:51.960 the support for Israel among Americans

00:45:54.520 has dropped to its lowest level in 25 years.

00:45:57.740 That being 46% of respondents say they support Israel

00:46:03.780 rather than Palestine,

00:46:06.280 at least in the current war situation.

00:46:10.760 And, of course, Republicans are far more likely

00:46:13.880 to back Israel than Democrats,

00:46:17.380 which is weird

00:46:18.960 because there are more Jewish American Democrats 0.61

00:46:24.600 than there are Jewish American Republicans.

00:46:28.700 And you've got to wonder why.

00:46:32.900 You know, are there that many American,

00:46:35.640 Jewish Americans who don't really care that much 0.83

00:46:38.640 about how much support Israel gets?

00:46:42.820 I don't really know.

00:46:43.940 But it seems to me odd

00:46:46.360 that things are lined up that way.

00:46:50.400 But you shouldn't be surprised

00:46:52.060 that support for Israel

00:46:53.260 is currently a little bit low

00:46:55.680 because there's a hot war going on

00:46:57.980 and that's just sort of a natural thing.

00:47:00.420 But there are thoughts that Israel's plan,

00:47:04.560 since they haven't gotten the hostages back

00:47:08.700 and that looks like a stalling thing too.

00:47:11.100 So, as they ramp up the pressure on Hamas,

00:47:17.060 they will probably remove the citizens

00:47:19.860 that they allowed to return.

00:47:21.820 I don't know how anybody returned.

00:47:24.360 Like, what were they doing to survive?

00:47:27.360 None of the buildings even looked habitable

00:47:29.300 and everything looked toxic.

00:47:31.360 I don't know how they returned,

00:47:33.940 but some did.

00:47:34.900 So, there might be hundreds of thousands of people

00:47:36.820 that they relocate and just empty Gaza out again. 0.96

00:47:42.960 And then maybe they'd start attacking

00:47:45.000 and holding ground instead of just attacking,

00:47:48.180 but really putting a force to hold the ground.

00:47:52.300 And I would say that that's inevitable.

00:47:54.520 I don't think there's any way around it.

00:47:56.540 In the long run,

00:47:58.700 which might come pretty quickly,

00:48:00.700 what is Israel going to do?

00:48:03.700 The only thing that even makes sense

00:48:05.600 is that they depopulate it

00:48:08.860 because it's too dangerous to live there anyway.

00:48:11.700 And then they finish the job,

00:48:14.460 which will be, you know,

00:48:17.020 bad news for the families of the hostages,

00:48:20.660 but they're kind of down to no real other options.

00:48:24.020 So, one of the things that always amazes me

00:48:26.620 about this conflict

00:48:27.480 is that it's like Hamas has a plan

00:48:32.240 to give Israel everything in the long run.

00:48:35.240 It's like, well,

00:48:36.700 if we attack them on October 7th

00:48:39.080 and then we take their hostages

00:48:40.460 and we don't give them back,

00:48:42.220 then they'll be able to depopulate entire Gaza 1.00

00:48:45.100 and control it in the future forever.

00:48:48.280 Like, they didn't see that coming?

00:48:50.720 There was nobody in Hamas 0.99

00:48:52.080 who could figure out

00:48:54.280 that the logical outcome of October 7th

00:48:57.540 was Israel would own Gaza forever. 0.89

00:49:01.360 I figured it out.

00:49:03.760 I'm pretty sure I was onto that on day one.

00:49:07.220 And it's not the first time that Israel got bigger 1.00

00:49:09.720 because their neighbors got worse.

00:49:12.720 So, there is a pattern.

00:49:14.980 Israel gets bigger 1.00

00:49:16.020 every time there's some major attack against it.

00:49:18.500 So, here's a surprise.

00:49:24.800 Apparently, didn't you think that Walmart

00:49:26.600 might be in a lot of trouble

00:49:28.740 because Amazon would eventually

00:49:30.260 just eat their business completely?

00:49:33.660 Well, it turns out that Walmart

00:49:35.100 is really good at executing,

00:49:37.240 which is why they're Walmart.

00:49:38.880 Walmart used to be

00:49:40.060 one of the main things you'd learn

00:49:41.920 in business school

00:49:42.780 as just an execution excellence company.

00:49:48.620 So, they were really good

00:49:50.360 at managing their supplies,

00:49:54.080 managing their inventory,

00:49:55.660 and getting it to the right place

00:49:57.220 when they needed it and stuff.

00:49:58.500 So, really, nobody was ever better at that.

00:50:01.760 But here's what's happened.

00:50:03.100 Now, Walmart has so many stores

00:50:06.360 and they have really robust delivery service now

00:50:09.640 that they can do same-day delivery

00:50:13.200 to more than 90% of the country.

00:50:16.140 Same-day delivery.

00:50:18.700 Now, I haven't tried it,

00:50:21.360 but Walmart has groceries.

00:50:24.800 They have all kinds of stuff.

00:50:26.500 I mean, Walmart has an extensive list of things.

00:50:30.160 So, anything that a Walmart has

00:50:32.840 for 90% of the country,

00:50:36.180 you could get it delivered same-day.

00:50:38.100 That is really competitive with Amazon

00:50:41.180 because, I don't know about you,

00:50:43.660 but the same-day thing,

00:50:45.960 or even, you know, Amazon's usually next day,

00:50:48.460 but a few things are same-day.

00:50:51.740 If I looked on Amazon and it was,

00:50:54.500 oh, it might be tomorrow or the next day,

00:50:56.960 but Walmart said,

00:50:57.940 I'll get it to you by 3 o'clock,

00:50:59.380 I think I'd use Walmart every time,

00:51:02.220 depending on the product.

00:51:03.580 Now, of course,

00:51:04.160 Walmart doesn't have every product in the world,

00:51:06.380 but they got a lot.

00:51:08.480 So, I didn't see that coming.

00:51:10.020 Walmart's actually being a credible threat to Amazon,

00:51:13.240 at least for the subset of the business.

00:51:17.880 Well, you know,

00:51:19.040 I keep telling you about the breakthroughs

00:51:21.300 in energy things.

00:51:24.240 Well, there's this breakthrough in hydrogen,

00:51:27.600 to make hydrogen.

00:51:29.680 That's 99% more efficient.

00:51:33.520 99%.

00:51:34.520 And they use iron as part of the main catalyst

00:51:38.260 to turn the,

00:51:39.760 I guess, turning water into hydrogen.

00:51:44.220 So, you have to split things up.

00:51:45.900 I don't know enough about the science.

00:51:47.280 But you have to use some technique to,

00:51:51.080 as a catalyst for the water oxidation.

00:51:55.540 So,

00:51:56.120 here's the thing that caught my attention.

00:51:59.200 It's 99% Faraday efficiency in aqueous media.

00:52:03.760 That's right.

00:52:05.220 Yeah.

00:52:05.440 99% Faraday efficiency in aqueous media.

00:52:09.240 Well, I mean,

00:52:10.620 I would have guessed 98%.

00:52:12.120 So,

00:52:12.860 I was way off. 1.00

00:52:14.260 Idiot. 1.00

00:52:17.500 So, 1.00

00:52:17.980 apparently,

00:52:18.760 if they can scale this up,

00:52:21.340 a 99% improvement in efficiency

00:52:24.060 would make this,

00:52:26.500 just,

00:52:27.340 it would make it just wildly

00:52:28.900 cost effective.

00:52:31.540 Just wildly.

00:52:32.560 It would be better than anything.

00:52:35.060 So,

00:52:35.520 keep an eye on that one.

00:52:36.460 We'll see if that does scale up.

00:52:39.700 Meanwhile,

00:52:40.420 in Science Alert,

00:52:42.160 says that by 2050,

00:52:43.680 three out of five adults

00:52:44.680 will be classified as overweight.

00:52:48.960 What?

00:52:50.280 In 2050,

00:52:51.660 three out of five adults

00:52:52.780 will be classified as overweight?

00:52:59.180 You know what's wrong with that?

00:53:02.340 Have you walked outdoors recently?

00:53:05.320 Three out of five adults

00:53:06.660 are already overweight.

00:53:09.000 You can't,

00:53:09.580 you can't convince me

00:53:10.760 that three out of five

00:53:11.900 are not already overweight.

00:53:14.120 Have you,

00:53:14.800 just walk outside.

00:53:19.080 There are places where

00:53:20.600 it seems like 100%

00:53:23.580 of the people are overweight.

00:53:25.480 Now,

00:53:25.840 I'll give you that LA

00:53:27.120 still has a bunch of skinny people.

00:53:30.800 Right?

00:53:31.280 Maybe New York City,

00:53:32.340 too.

00:53:33.560 Right?

00:53:33.720 There are a few places

00:53:34.500 where you do have

00:53:35.140 some skinny people.

00:53:36.520 But,

00:53:36.880 for most of the country,

00:53:38.920 it's already

00:53:40.880 three out of five

00:53:41.920 easily.

00:53:43.620 So,

00:53:44.360 we'll see about that.

00:53:46.560 But,

00:53:46.900 here's the good news.

00:53:49.400 There's never been a time

00:53:50.800 when it was easier

00:53:52.600 to compete

00:53:53.340 for mates

00:53:54.300 and for jobs

00:53:56.880 and for friends.

00:53:58.640 It's never been easier.

00:53:59.920 because if all you did

00:54:01.780 was just eat right

00:54:02.720 and exercise,

00:54:03.460 you would look like

00:54:05.400 a superstar

00:54:06.080 on the dating apps.

00:54:07.740 Like,

00:54:08.040 whoa,

00:54:08.700 look at this

00:54:09.680 nonfat person.

00:54:11.700 And,

00:54:12.140 same with jobs.

00:54:13.880 You know,

00:54:14.060 the better you look,

00:54:15.220 it's not fair,

00:54:16.460 but the better you look,

00:54:17.460 the more likely

00:54:18.020 you get hired,

00:54:18.920 more likely you'll have friends.

00:54:21.280 So,

00:54:22.440 I don't know.

00:54:23.060 On one hand,

00:54:23.820 it's terrible.

00:54:25.080 On the other hand,

00:54:26.220 it's never been easier

00:54:27.260 to be in the top 10%

00:54:28.560 of whatever domain

00:54:30.180 you want to be in.

00:54:33.720 Meanwhile,

00:54:34.420 according to the Guardian,

00:54:35.540 there's some new technology

00:54:36.640 using gene editing

00:54:37.820 to keep your banana

00:54:39.560 from turning brown.

00:54:42.080 Now,

00:54:42.540 I know a lot of you

00:54:43.300 like your bananas brown.

00:54:46.700 But,

00:54:47.220 if you don't want

00:54:47.740 your banana

00:54:48.200 to be brown,

00:54:49.160 you might get

00:54:51.680 one of these

00:54:52.300 special-made bananas

00:54:53.960 with special genes

00:54:55.360 that don't turn brown.

00:54:57.400 You know,

00:54:58.100 it's a mixed,

00:54:58.940 sort of a mixed bag there.

00:55:00.600 If they could make

00:55:01.300 this sort of thing work,

00:55:02.920 especially for other foods,

00:55:04.500 especially for avocados,

00:55:06.400 avocados are

00:55:07.220 pretty much

00:55:08.620 a one-in-three situation

00:55:09.960 that work.

00:55:11.360 About two out of three

00:55:12.240 avocados,

00:55:13.040 you just have to shake hands

00:55:14.180 because they're like,

00:55:15.100 ugh,

00:55:15.380 that's all brown.

00:55:15.960 But imagine

00:55:19.820 the savings

00:55:21.120 in food.

00:55:24.420 If you could just

00:55:25.520 make sure

00:55:26.020 that your current food

00:55:27.280 you're buying

00:55:27.820 doesn't go bad

00:55:28.740 before you use it,

00:55:30.600 that'd be a pretty

00:55:31.660 big deal.

00:55:33.260 I'd be worried

00:55:34.120 it would turn me

00:55:34.740 into a fly

00:55:36.340 or something,

00:55:37.020 but,

00:55:38.000 you know,

00:55:38.300 that's worth it

00:55:40.040 so your bananas

00:55:40.780 are not brown.

00:55:41.300 And then scientists

00:55:44.280 have created

00:55:44.880 a super skin.

00:55:47.540 It's basically

00:55:48.400 a gel

00:55:49.120 that you can put

00:55:50.020 on a wound,

00:55:50.980 like a cut.

00:55:52.840 It'll heal

00:55:53.600 90% of cuts

00:55:54.780 in four hours

00:55:55.720 and fully repair

00:55:57.700 them in 24.

00:55:59.320 That is so

00:56:00.580 Star Trek.

00:56:01.420 And this already exists.

00:56:02.920 So this is a real thing.

00:56:04.900 They'd have to scale it up,

00:56:06.520 but it's a real thing.

00:56:08.520 So imagine

00:56:09.680 having a deep cut

00:56:10.960 and just putting

00:56:13.120 this gel on it

00:56:14.120 and in four hours

00:56:15.340 it's healed.

00:56:17.200 That doesn't even

00:56:18.000 sound real,

00:56:18.600 does it?

00:56:19.760 Now,

00:56:20.240 if this is real,

00:56:21.000 I'm going to put it

00:56:21.520 on my banana.

00:56:23.440 Keep it from going brown.

00:56:25.140 I don't know

00:56:25.720 if that's the right way

00:56:26.500 to play it,

00:56:27.080 but I'm going to put

00:56:28.740 my healing gel

00:56:30.260 on my banana.

00:56:31.900 Maybe if it's already brown,

00:56:33.280 it'll turn it back

00:56:34.100 back to not brown.

00:56:36.480 All right.

00:56:37.060 So those are my ideas

00:56:39.400 for the future.

00:56:41.960 And I remind you

00:56:43.180 that there's going to be

00:56:44.240 an after party

00:56:45.560 to this,

00:56:47.840 which Owen will be

00:56:49.300 setting that up

00:56:50.060 any minute now

00:56:50.760 over on X

00:56:51.680 in the spaces.

00:56:53.400 That's the audio

00:56:54.240 only part

00:56:56.120 of X.

00:56:58.120 So look for

00:56:58.840 Owen Gregorian

00:56:59.900 and his special guest,

00:57:01.960 Chris Akers.

00:57:03.060 We'll be talking about

00:57:04.240 quantum science,

00:57:05.560 which I know

00:57:07.020 will be very fun.

00:57:08.120 All right.

00:57:09.940 I'm going to talk

00:57:10.740 to the locals people

00:57:13.520 privately.

00:57:15.580 The rest of you,

00:57:16.620 thanks for coming.

00:57:17.340 I hope you enjoy

00:57:17.860 your Saturday.

00:57:18.580 Don't forget

00:57:19.040 to change your clocks.

00:57:21.120 And locals,

00:57:22.080 coming at you

00:57:22.960 in 30 seconds

00:57:24.080 for the extra sip.

00:57:26.280 I'll see you next time.

00:57:27.280 I'll see you next time.

00:57:27.620 I'll see you next time.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 08, 2025

Episode 2772 CWSA 03⧸08⧸25

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