Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 10, 2025


Episode 2774 CWSA 03⧸10⧸25


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A new kind of AI agent is being developed in China, and it's a little bit like a regular AI agent, but it can do a lot more than just code and ask good questions. And it's pretty good at it.

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00:00:00.000 All right, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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00:00:46.500 Yeah, we don't have access to YouTube or Rumble today.
00:00:49.360 The Rumble studio has got a little difficulty, sort of a Monday problem, but I will upload
00:00:59.000 the content from locals to the other platforms.
00:01:02.240 But we're good on locals, and we're sort of almost good on X, so we're going to do it.
00:01:09.860 By the way, there was a French study that says that coffee has astonishing powers to protect
00:01:17.420 your memory.
00:01:18.100 It might even be good against Alzheimer's.
00:01:20.340 That's right.
00:01:20.860 So the odds of you remembering this live stream, very good, if you had new coffee.
00:01:27.320 That's a study by Rolling Out.
00:01:29.880 Khalil Best is writing about that.
00:01:31.600 Well, are you all waiting for the Epstein files, and the JFK files, and the MLK files?
00:01:42.700 All waiting for those?
00:01:45.040 Good luck.
00:01:45.900 I don't think there's really any chance we're going to see anything we don't know, or anything
00:01:52.620 shocking, if we see anything.
00:01:55.140 Maybe we'll never see anything.
00:01:57.300 But lower your expectations to zero.
00:02:01.280 Zero would be the right place.
00:02:04.340 According to a SciPost, Eric Nolan is writing about this.
00:02:07.620 Have you ever seen these online quizzes where you can decide who you should vote for?
00:02:14.840 So you say things like, are you in favor of this policy, or this policy, and then you fill
00:02:19.980 it out, and then it says, oh, you're a Democrat.
00:02:22.920 You should vote for this person, or you're a Republican.
00:02:25.900 Well, according to a study, I think that the person involved with this, you may have heard
00:02:32.720 of, Robert Epstein.
00:02:35.000 So he's done studies of Google and Google's influence, but he finds that these online surveys
00:02:42.360 are more than just casual online surveys.
00:02:45.900 Apparently, they bias you toward one direction or another, so they can sort of turn you into
00:02:52.000 a Democrat voter if you're on the fence.
00:02:55.640 So very diabolical.
00:02:57.800 So watch out.
00:02:58.500 If you see one of those, let me tell you who you should vote for surveys, they are meant
00:03:04.600 to persuade, not to inform.
00:03:07.900 So just know that that's a trick.
00:03:10.840 You've been warned.
00:03:13.360 Well, according to One American News, they're saying that Doge is reporting that during the
00:03:19.700 COVID period, this is so bad, it's just funny.
00:03:26.320 The $312 million in loans that were meant for small businesses during COVID were taken out
00:03:35.380 by children.
00:03:39.020 So we don't know if they're real children, but they seem to be children.
00:03:44.540 In other words, fake.
00:03:46.100 $312 million of fake loans to children.
00:03:54.520 It seems to me, fairly consistent, that whenever there's a large bunch of money from the government
00:04:00.680 for anything at all, it's gigantic fraud every time because they don't seem to do any kind
00:04:07.340 of auditing or any kind of accounting or any kind of checking to see who gets it.
00:04:14.140 We should just maybe give no money to anybody.
00:04:17.660 You know, if this were the only story today, I would be filled with outrage because my tax money
00:04:24.880 went to loans to children.
00:04:28.800 But I'm having outrage exhaustion.
00:04:32.560 Anybody else have that?
00:04:33.640 It's like every time I look at social media, oh, there's another $100 million somebody stole.
00:04:40.380 Oh, there's another $200 million somebody stole.
00:04:43.900 And it all starts just looking like baseline after a while.
00:04:47.740 So I worry that we will stop being outraged by stories that are really outrageous.
00:04:55.060 Well, there's a new AI that everybody's talking about called Manus.
00:04:59.200 And it's a Chinese AI, and the people who have tested it and written about it on social media
00:05:05.500 seem to be blown away by how good it is.
00:05:08.720 So it's not a regular AI.
00:05:10.480 It's an AI agent.
00:05:14.080 Now, the difference between a regular AI and an AI agent is that regular AI, you can talk
00:05:20.280 to it and ask it questions, and it can give you good answers, and it can tell you how to
00:05:24.940 code something, but an agent, you can just tell to go do a thing, and then it'll go do
00:05:32.000 a thing.
00:05:33.040 Now, I'm not entirely clear about what things it could have access to, which of your other
00:05:38.680 apps or your databases or whatever, but apparently it's wowing the people who are trying it, and
00:05:45.120 they think that China is not only not behind the United States and AI, but if you look at
00:05:52.300 DeepSeq and you look at Manus, together they suggest that China might already be ahead.
00:06:01.020 Now, it could be that the only thing they're ahead in is doing things that we wouldn't do
00:06:06.600 here, such as unleashing an agent, because the agent feels like that's a security risk.
00:06:15.120 You would not be surprised that Tennessee is the first state to already ban it, so Manus
00:06:20.940 just came within the week.
00:06:23.740 It's already banned in Tennessee, and I think there's more efforts by other attorney generals
00:06:29.300 to ban all the Chinese AIs, to ban DeepSeq, and probably more of them want to ban Manus.
00:06:36.300 Probably a good idea.
00:06:38.840 I could tell you that there's not a chance I would put that on my computer.
00:06:42.320 I would never put on my computer something that's not only a Chinese AI, but it's an agent. 0.99
00:06:51.140 Isn't that just asking for it?
00:06:53.660 It's even called an agent.
00:06:57.100 It just sounds like the most dangerous thing you could put on your computer.
00:06:59.920 Meanwhile, according to the Wall Street Journal, one in four new U.S. jobs posted are going
00:07:08.060 to ask for AI skills.
00:07:10.620 So it's not just that they want you to be an AI expert, but that whatever your job is,
00:07:15.900 you should have a little capability with AI.
00:07:18.100 Now, if I could give you any job advice whatsoever, it would be learn AI.
00:07:26.760 You know, you don't have to learn how to create it.
00:07:29.340 You know, that's for other people.
00:07:31.580 But you should know which AIs do what, and you should know generally how to make it do
00:07:37.200 some stuff, and you should know how to ask questions and how to query things.
00:07:42.540 And you should know AI.
00:07:45.520 It's not really optional if you're going to be a job seeker, especially.
00:07:51.040 So make sure you know AI.
00:07:53.940 Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau is out, and Mark Carney has got the new leadership position, and it
00:08:02.620 looks like he'll be the next prime minister as soon as they call it for a vote.
00:08:07.360 I guess that's how their system works.
00:08:09.620 So he's not officially the prime minister, but there's nothing that would stop him from
00:08:13.920 being one as soon as they go through the process.
00:08:16.820 But here are some of the things we know about him.
00:08:20.340 He was a banker, and apparently he spent a lot of time in the U.K.
00:08:26.120 because he was not only a former central banker for Canada, but he was a former central
00:08:32.300 banker for the U.K.
00:08:34.840 Interesting.
00:08:35.280 Now, here's what one critic on social media said, so this is not representative of anything
00:08:44.600 but one critic's opinion.
00:08:47.120 Somebody named John Paul Berg said about Carney, the new head of Canada, that he doesn't hold
00:08:55.440 elected office, meaning that he's never won an election by the public at large, I guess,
00:09:02.720 and nor has he lived here in over a decade, meaning Canada.
00:09:07.400 So he hasn't lived in Canada for a decade.
00:09:10.260 He must have moved back recently.
00:09:12.560 And he's a self-described globalist and elitist.
00:09:15.960 I doubt he called himself an elitist, but maybe a globalist.
00:09:19.600 And he's a central banker with a World Economic Forum membership.
00:09:23.740 So that's a lot of red flags, but if that's what Canada wants, all right.
00:09:33.500 So here's my take, my American take, which is worth basically nothing.
00:09:37.960 I think the Canadians felt they needed a banker, because if you put Justin Trudeau up against
00:09:46.560 Trump, doesn't it look like a mismatch?
00:09:50.020 Like there's one serious business person, Trump, and then there's Trudeau who's worried
00:09:55.720 about his pronouns and such.
00:09:57.180 So I think they needed to get a serious business person.
00:10:01.320 So, you know, banker fits that.
00:10:05.080 But here's what he did on his first day so far.
00:10:11.400 Carney said, quote, my government will keep our tariffs on until the Americans show us respect.
00:10:18.640 Okay, first day of work, not so good.
00:10:20.940 Do you think respect is the problem here?
00:10:25.760 When the United States is trying to get rid of fentanyl, is the problem that we don't respect
00:10:31.200 you enough?
00:10:32.440 When Trump says he wants Canada to be a 51st state, is it because we don't respect it?
00:10:39.440 Or it just seems like it'd be a good idea?
00:10:42.480 Now, he definitely didn't respect Trudeau.
00:10:46.360 But did Trudeau earn his respect?
00:10:49.440 I would say maybe no.
00:10:52.320 So if he's focusing on tariffs or related to Americans showing him respect, not the best
00:11:00.960 first day, because that doesn't seem like anything that's going to work out for him.
00:11:07.140 We're not really operating on the respect basis.
00:11:12.280 It's pretty much, you know, our interests and their interests, and that's about it.
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00:11:32.360 Well, Secretary of State Rubio has announced that he's cut 83% of the USAID budget.
00:11:45.740 83%.
00:11:46.540 The rest would be absorbed into the State Department.
00:11:49.880 And he's slashed 5,200 of the USAID contracts.
00:11:54.980 Now, that's all good news, right?
00:11:58.740 Yay! 0.99
00:11:59.520 This big pot of money that we thought was being used in ways that maybe we didn't agree with,
00:12:06.200 and there was a lot of it, and it got cut.
00:12:08.220 Yay! 0.99
00:12:09.460 Except none of it's true.
00:12:12.360 It's just not true.
00:12:13.500 This is what Thomas Massey explains.
00:12:17.880 The Congress is putting together a continuing resolution, which is what they do when they
00:12:23.700 can't decide on a budget.
00:12:25.440 They just say, I guess the budget will just remain the same.
00:12:30.680 So the budget they're going to pass will fully fund USAID.
00:12:37.440 None of this is real.
00:12:38.800 It's not fucking real.
00:12:43.940 According to Thomas Massey, and Massey points out that the Supreme Court ruled last week that
00:12:50.480 it requires an act of Congress to defund these programs.
00:12:54.740 So not only is there no legal way to defund them, but the continuing resolution that Congress
00:13:01.000 does every time, because they can't do their job of making a budget, will just fully fund
00:13:06.640 it.
00:13:08.800 Now, I don't know if you can fire all the people, so even if they have a budget, they
00:13:15.260 can't spend it.
00:13:17.160 Is there some workaround?
00:13:19.340 But my head just exploded.
00:13:24.720 And Thomas Massey's the only one who's on this, the whole continuing resolution problem.
00:13:30.020 Literally, the continuing resolution is when the Congress says, oh, we don't know how to
00:13:35.560 do our basic job.
00:13:36.660 We don't know how to do our fucking basic job, which is make a budget that works.
00:13:41.500 So we're not going to do it.
00:13:42.880 So we're just going to kick the can down the road and bankrupt the country with, you know,
00:13:47.600 unworkable debt.
00:13:48.980 And then when we finally make some what looks like progress with Doge, they just bulldoze
00:13:55.800 it like it didn't even matter.
00:13:58.160 Now, I suppose there are some surprises ahead.
00:14:02.220 You know, I don't think Doge is going to roll over.
00:14:04.320 I don't think Trump's going to roll over.
00:14:06.540 But it kind of looks like it didn't work.
00:14:11.300 I mean, tentatively speaking, that's not my final opinion.
00:14:14.900 I'd like to be wrong about it.
00:14:16.460 I'd love to be wrong about it.
00:14:17.860 But when was the last time Massey was wrong about something like this?
00:14:23.080 Never.
00:14:25.360 This is his domain.
00:14:27.180 If he says this isn't real, I'm going to take his word for it over Rubio.
00:14:32.780 And I hate it.
00:14:34.740 Absolutely hate it.
00:14:36.540 But we'll see where this goes.
00:14:37.740 Meanwhile, the Department of Justice under Trump is launching an investigation into the
00:14:45.920 price of eggs.
00:14:47.460 The Department of Justice?
00:14:50.980 What do they think they're going to find?
00:14:53.740 So I guess there's some concern that maybe the big egg producers are artificially keeping
00:15:01.540 the price high, which means, you know, artificially keeping the supply low.
00:15:06.420 I don't know.
00:15:07.120 Well, maybe.
00:15:08.620 But it seems like it's simpler than that.
00:15:11.540 It seems like there's just not enough eggs.
00:15:14.980 Now, maybe there's something else there.
00:15:17.660 They wouldn't launch this investigation unless they meant it.
00:15:20.780 But the Wall Street Journal is reporting on that.
00:15:23.640 But apparently eggs are expected to rise by more than 40% in 2025.
00:15:28.880 Another 40% for eggs?
00:15:32.460 Wow.
00:15:34.020 Anyway, I guess we'll find out what's up with it.
00:15:37.120 But I think that's just a very narrow look.
00:15:40.760 They're just going to look at whether there's gouging, basically.
00:15:43.120 That sounds like Biden.
00:15:45.660 Now, here's my take on it.
00:15:49.300 You know, I've looked into this whole chicken problem.
00:15:53.560 And I think where everything went wrong is where they allowed the chickens to work from home.
00:15:59.200 Yeah, that's all I had.
00:16:04.680 That's all I had.
00:16:05.800 They shouldn't let the chickens work from home. 1.00
00:16:08.440 The remote working chickens, I don't think they're laying as many eggs.
00:16:11.420 I think they're goofing off.
00:16:13.840 Yeah.
00:16:14.340 Don't let them work from home. 0.96
00:16:15.800 Anyway, Howard Lopnik is talking about Trump's tariffs, and specifically the ones on China and Mexico and Canada.
00:16:27.080 And he says, if fentanyl ends, meaning those countries stay up and out and keep it from coming into the U.S., I think these will come off, meaning tariffs.
00:16:36.920 But if fentanyl does not end or Trump is uncertain about it, they will stay this way until he's comfortable.
00:16:43.820 He said that and meet the press.
00:16:47.380 Now, I hate to be negative Nelly, but I don't really think there's much chance that the tariffs are going to affect in the long term fentanyl.
00:16:59.920 But I also don't have a better idea.
00:17:01.860 It's the only idea that looks serious, that has maybe some chance of working.
00:17:09.840 But I would bet against it, unfortunately.
00:17:13.460 Now, if I had a better idea, I'd say, don't do this.
00:17:16.760 Get rid of those tariffs.
00:17:18.380 It's a waste of time.
00:17:19.820 We should do this much smarter idea that's different.
00:17:22.360 But I don't have a smarter idea.
00:17:23.760 So if leaning on these countries hard, so hard that it crashes their economy, is the only play we have, I'm in favor of it.
00:17:36.500 I just wouldn't bet my, you know, wouldn't bet my life savings is going to work.
00:17:41.660 But we don't have any better idea.
00:17:44.040 And, you know, even if we went in militarily and took out a bunch of labs, wouldn't they just rebuild them in a week?
00:17:53.060 I don't know how you could possibly stop this problem.
00:17:56.620 It just seems unstoppable.
00:17:57.940 But, again, given the size of the problem, if we have to crash a couple of economies just to find out if this works, I'm in.
00:18:08.320 I'm in.
00:18:09.940 It's a, you know, drastic situation.
00:18:12.480 It calls for drastic steps.
00:18:15.740 And it's the only one I can think of.
00:18:18.460 Well, Trump has indicated that things might get worse before they get better.
00:18:23.900 And I guess that got turned into a headline that he is not going to rule out a recession.
00:18:30.040 Now, the stock market seemed to shake that off because just before I got on, the markets were up after he admitted.
00:18:40.080 So here's what he said to, I guess, to Maria Bartiroma.
00:18:44.580 He said there will be a period of transition because what we're doing is very big.
00:18:50.360 Now, a period of transition means things will look a little worse before they look a lot better.
00:18:57.240 And I think I've always known that.
00:19:00.900 The things he's doing very clearly have a, you know, let's say a destabilizing effect in the short term because people don't know what's going to happen with tariffs, etc.
00:19:10.700 But in the long term, it could work out just great.
00:19:16.240 There's a whole bunch of stuff that Trump's doing that are directionally.
00:19:19.980 It's all great.
00:19:21.480 So if you could fast forward five years, we might be an amazing situation.
00:19:26.960 It's very possible.
00:19:28.620 So I'm very optimistic about the future.
00:19:32.980 But how are the Democrats doing?
00:19:35.140 Let's see.
00:19:35.580 Let's check in with Van Jones.
00:19:37.280 So Van Jones was on CNN and he was talking about the prospects for the Democrats to come back and, you know, become a serious party.
00:19:49.100 And things are so bad that he actually was laughing at how pathetic the Democrat Party is.
00:19:55.980 And the host was laughing.
00:19:57.700 It's actually become laughable.
00:20:00.120 But here's how he summarized it.
00:20:03.280 He said this is what the Democrats did.
00:20:05.500 He goes, defending a broken status quo that nobody likes because they thought that Donald Trump was going to make it worse.
00:20:13.700 Well, I guess that didn't work out.
00:20:15.780 So the reflex to be against Trump, no matter what, had them supporting the status quo that everybody thought was a bad idea.
00:20:24.580 So that's part of it.
00:20:25.800 And then Van Jones said that offending most people in the country and calling everybody sexist and racist and transphobic and every other name and then saying, please follow us. 0.90
00:20:37.100 So that's not a good strategy, folks.
00:20:42.300 So every time I hear somebody who actually does understand what's going on, and I think Van Jones, you know, he's obviously playing for one team, but he understands.
00:20:54.840 Well, this is a very clear statement of the problem.
00:20:57.240 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners,
00:21:27.240 I started wondering, is every fabulous item I see from Winners?
00:21:32.060 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00
00:21:34.760 Are those from Winners?
00:21:36.280 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings?
00:21:38.760 Did she pay full price?
00:21:40.080 Or that leather tote?
00:21:41.120 Or that cashmere sweater?
00:21:42.340 Or those knee-high boots?
00:21:43.780 That dress?
00:21:44.580 That jacket?
00:21:45.240 Those shoes?
00:21:46.260 Is anyone paying full price for anything?
00:21:49.240 Stop wondering.
00:21:50.500 Start winning.
00:21:51.420 Winners.
00:21:52.020 Find fabulous for less.
00:21:53.400 Well, let me tell you what the other Democrats are doing to try to right the ship.
00:22:00.180 According to Politico, this sounds like I'm just making it up.
00:22:04.800 But according to Politico, a lot of Democrats have started cursing in public.
00:22:08.480 So they give a whole bunch of examples of Democrats using the F word and the S word and the GD word. 0.54
00:22:21.860 And apparently it's sort of a big trend.
00:22:24.520 And I'm thinking to myself, they are so out of ideas that they're really doubling down on this.
00:22:30.100 If we can get the messaging right, if we could just get the messaging right, and then they look at Trump, and they'll see that every now and then he'll throw an S word into his speeches and stuff, and they'll go, yes, yes, that's what it is.
00:22:45.560 We need more cursing. 1.00
00:22:46.820 But no, I'm joking.
00:22:50.160 They didn't just say, we just need more cursing. 1.00
00:22:53.720 They also need more cringe videos.
00:22:58.640 And then Elon Musk was pointing out that the liberals seem to be getting violent.
00:23:03.840 You know, they're attacking Tesla locations, et cetera.
00:23:07.680 And so they've got cursing, they've got cringe videos, they've got random violence, and then they've got Representative Hank Johnson, Democrat from Georgia.
00:23:23.680 He just, in public, he actually said this, he believes that Trump and the MAGA movement want black Americans, quote, confined, and back to, quote, picking cotton.
00:23:34.140 So that should move the ball forward.
00:23:41.160 And then Jasmine Crockett, who might be the dumbest Democrat of all, so they're giving her the most attention, because they're like, oh, I don't know if the cursing and the cringe videos and the violence are enough.
00:23:58.580 We better have our dumbest, worst spokesperson be the most prominent one. 1.00
00:24:05.400 So Jasmine Crockett went on some show, MSNBC, and said it's not illegal for illegal aliens to come into the country. 0.88
00:24:16.320 It's not a crime.
00:24:18.020 It's not a crime to come into the country illegally.
00:24:21.360 They're not sending their best.
00:24:23.920 Anyway.
00:24:24.320 As you know, the teachers' unions are destroying America because the foundation of American power is education.
00:24:35.840 If you get education wrong, which we apparently are doing, you don't really have a future.
00:24:42.500 There's no chance.
00:24:44.240 And that's where we're at.
00:24:45.460 And mostly, I would say that's the fault of the teachers' unions.
00:24:49.240 And the teachers' unions, of course, would like the kids to have a good education.
00:24:53.880 But their primary, let's say their primary concern is the good of the union itself and whatever is good for the Democratic Party.
00:25:03.920 So if your main criteria is not the well-being of the children, and clearly it's not, you're going to get the result that we see.
00:25:12.620 Just horrible, horrible outcomes.
00:25:16.240 But there's apparently a force that has been organizing to give an alternative to the unions.
00:25:24.080 It's called the Freedom Foundation.
00:25:26.160 And they're hosting.
00:25:27.220 They're just getting started.
00:25:28.800 But what they want to do is promote some kind of alternative for teachers that don't join the union.
00:25:34.960 So they would give teachers liability coverage, better curricula, some patriotic and pro-capitalist teachings, and professional development.
00:25:46.660 I assume those are things that the union does.
00:25:49.600 So they're trying to match the benefits without all the bad stuff, which is basically just being a tool of the Democrats.
00:25:57.580 So, if we could figure out how to break the hold of the teachers' unions, the United States has a chance.
00:26:06.560 Maybe this is it.
00:26:08.020 Maybe they just needed an alternative.
00:26:11.660 Meanwhile, Steve Cortez just put out a documentary that looks fascinating.
00:26:17.100 And he's down in Starr County, Texas, which is almost entirely Hispanic, and is pro-Trump.
00:26:28.300 And you really have to see it.
00:26:31.100 You know, I've been telling you forever that if you have a lot of contact with the Hispanic community, the recent immigrants, 0.83
00:26:39.140 you could have seen it coming, that they would be more pro-Trump, because they're all about God, family, work.
00:26:48.820 They're not about woke at all.
00:26:51.100 And they don't mind seeing deportations, because it's a problem to them, too.
00:26:56.900 So, I recommend it.
00:26:59.360 Steve Cortez, just look for his account on X, and you'll see his documentary.
00:27:06.840 Very interesting.
00:27:07.720 I had a little conversation back and forth with Konstantin Kissen.
00:27:14.940 You would know him from his podcast, Trigonometry, but also a very smart commentator about, you know, all things geopolitical.
00:27:25.860 And he had some things to say that I thought were really interesting, and I felt like I didn't know all the elements of it.
00:27:34.980 So, I had some follow-up questions, but let me tell you where that went.
00:27:38.620 So, it started out by, he was talking about a 1997 book by this guy, Alexander Dugan,
00:27:46.160 who wrote that, among other things, now this is 1997, so it's been around a while,
00:27:51.080 that, quote, Russia should introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity,
00:27:58.260 encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic and social and racial conflicts,
00:28:03.340 actively supporting all dissident movements, extremist, racist, and sectarian groups,
00:28:08.560 thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S.
00:28:12.180 It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics.
00:28:18.840 So, that would be one way that Russia could, you know, destroy the United States. 0.89
00:28:24.900 Now, you've probably also seen the work of this guy, a Russian guy, named Yuri Bezmanov,
00:28:33.340 who has a similar message, and he's been saying that the Soviet Union, at least,
00:28:39.200 had this plan to destabilize American culture by basically amplifying destructive forces.
00:28:48.580 Now, I asked Konstantin, you know, what would be the evidence that Russia is actually doing this?
00:28:56.020 Because maybe there is.
00:28:57.440 You know, maybe there's a whole bunch of places where we've spotted them doing it.
00:29:01.140 And he clarified that it wasn't about Russia per se,
00:29:07.060 but it might be something that, you know, all of our adversaries are doing.
00:29:10.540 China, he mentioned China, Qatar, Iran, and Russia.
00:29:14.680 But the weird thing is, and one of the things he mentioned was the tenant media situation.
00:29:21.980 Do you remember that?
00:29:23.220 It turned out that, I guess, Tim Poole and Dave Rubin and some other podcasters
00:29:28.780 were receiving money from a group that had some Russian backing,
00:29:35.300 but they didn't know it.
00:29:36.740 And the group wasn't asking them for any different treatment or any different editorial.
00:29:43.060 So there was no impact whatsoever on what they did.
00:29:47.040 They just got free money.
00:29:50.480 And then it was uncovered that there was this connection to Russia,
00:29:53.780 and I guess that got unwound.
00:29:55.840 But I've noticed that whenever Russia is trying to interfere with the United States,
00:30:00.980 it looks like a high school project level quality.
00:30:05.280 Do you remember the troll farm that was allegedly trying to influence the 2016 election?
00:30:11.920 But if you actually looked at how much they spent, it was basically nothing.
00:30:17.460 And then you look at the quality of the memes they presented, and they were just ridiculous.
00:30:22.460 Just so empty of any quality or persuasiveness.
00:30:26.840 They were just nothing.
00:30:29.820 And I thought to myself, is that the best that Russia can do to disturb our internal politics? 0.95
00:30:36.360 There's some memes that nobody saw, and then giving free money to people to do what they were going to do anyway?
00:30:45.020 That's the best they could do.
00:30:46.940 And then there was the story about the one hacker who got into, what was it, the Democrats or Hillary's email or something?
00:30:55.140 And then we're told by our own intelligence people that it was Russia and we know it.
00:30:59.720 Well, maybe, but I'm not so sure.
00:31:04.940 So it seems to me there would be a lot more evidence of Russia doing something like that.
00:31:12.480 And then the other context is that it's what everybody does to all of their adversaries anyway.
00:31:19.060 So the idea is that if you're just boosting, you're not creating, you're not creating from scratch, but you're just boosting those elements within our society that are the most destructive, that that's all it takes.
00:31:35.040 And I'm thinking, isn't that exactly what we do to overthrow other countries? 0.64
00:31:40.160 Don't we routinely fund their most divisive elements, specifically to weaken them and stage a coup?
00:31:52.980 So maybe everybody's just doing it to everybody.
00:31:56.960 But the bigger context, the thing that to me seems the most salient, is that there's nothing these other countries could possibly do to boost the most corrosive parts of our society that isn't already being done by Democrats, and specifically Soros.
00:32:18.420 So is Soros working for one of our adversaries?
00:32:23.600 Soros, because he seems to be more tightly wound around our Democrats, and it feels like that we're being torn apart from the inside.
00:32:35.960 I don't see the impact from other countries.
00:32:39.640 And my own view of this Yuri Bezmenov, who is sort of the OG of saying that Russia's got this plan to destroy our civilization with their clever shenanigans, 0.92
00:32:51.620 I've never trusted him to be real.
00:32:55.380 I have a theory that he is the op.
00:32:59.240 He's not the person telling us the op.
00:33:01.680 I think he's the op.
00:33:03.500 Because if you thought that it was coming from the outside, you would not be able to fix it.
00:33:09.960 So I think he's just looking at the fact that we're naturally divisive, and that if we're naturally divisive, you're going to see all these examples that you're going to say, wait a minute, did Russia fund Antifa?
00:33:26.980 Well, no evidence of it.
00:33:28.800 Wait a minute.
00:33:30.020 Is Russia behind the teachers' unions?
00:33:32.960 Well, not that I know of.
00:33:34.500 We have these wildly divisive elements in the U.S.
00:33:40.120 I feel like this Yuri Bezmenov was either just monetizing what was going to happen anyway by acting like he had this theory about why it's all happening.
00:33:49.480 I don't trust that guy at all.
00:33:52.260 I feel like he's the op.
00:33:54.520 But that's just a feeling.
00:33:56.000 I don't have proof of that.
00:33:57.080 Anyway, so if all these countries are influencing us by boosting the worst, most corrosive parts of our society, they don't have a chance compared to the boosting that the Democrats are doing to those exact same entities, and Soros in particular.
00:34:16.320 So, anyway, I don't really know how to think about that, other than it doesn't look like it's the biggest problem in the world compared to what we're doing to ourselves, the stuff coming from inside the tent.
00:34:31.480 Well, meanwhile, Israel announced yesterday that it's going to be cutting off electricity to Gaza, which would have the effect of cutting off water because the desalbinization plant there would require that electricity.
00:34:44.740 And I guess they're going to cut off humanitarian aid.
00:34:49.580 I believe they have food that would last them maybe weeks or months, but no more humanitarian aid.
00:34:57.460 Now, this, of course, is trying to squeeze them to give up or to give up the hostages.
00:35:04.000 But according to The Hill, Tara Suter is writing, that there's a, the Trump hostage envoy thinks that we might have a deal with Hamas or that we could have a deal soon to free all of the hostages within weeks.
00:35:23.820 So, that's, Adam Bowler is the White House Special Envoy, and he thinks that every hostage taken by the militant group Hamas could be freed all at the same time in weeks.
00:35:38.540 Now, that doesn't even seem remotely likely to me.
00:35:44.460 Do you think there's something we don't know about?
00:35:47.520 Because if there's no new variables on the table, I don't see how we'd get a different outcome.
00:35:54.240 So, remember Trump said, if you don't release them all, they'll be held to pay?
00:35:57.520 Is it possible that we've delivered a threat that they completely feel is real?
00:36:04.420 Maybe to the leadership?
00:36:06.440 Maybe to, I don't know, to Iran?
00:36:10.640 You know, maybe the threat's on Iran.
00:36:12.840 If we don't get them back, we're going to take out your nuclear facilities?
00:36:18.100 So, it seems to me that this is one of those cases where we may never understand what the real deal was.
00:36:25.680 Maybe we offered something of value.
00:36:28.760 Maybe we offered a better threat.
00:36:31.720 I don't see how this could just sort of work all of a sudden.
00:36:35.760 I don't know.
00:36:37.360 But we'll be optimistic.
00:36:39.520 Now, the other day, somebody in the comments challenged me to do the best I could to describe the Palestinian side of the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
00:36:53.380 Now, that would be the ultimate third rail.
00:36:57.940 So, of course, I said yes.
00:37:01.580 Because I think I'm attracted to trouble.
00:37:04.340 So, let's see if I can do this and still be in business tomorrow.
00:37:09.020 All right?
00:37:09.320 So, I'm going to give you the best objective description of the situation.
00:37:16.560 The first thing I would say, if you're looking at the Palestinian, and here I'm not talking about just Gaza.
00:37:22.260 So, we'll talk about the Palestinians more generally.
00:37:24.720 I don't think you can understand the situation in terms of who's good and who's bad, who has the better long-term claim, who's got the historical, let's say, the best complaints about what happened and, therefore, the best narrative of how it should turn out.
00:37:46.540 As long as you're thinking about who's good or bad, or the narratives or the history, you're just lost.
00:37:54.760 Nothing like that matters.
00:37:57.080 The only thing that matters in this region is who has the power.
00:38:01.220 At the moment, Israel has the power. 0.98
00:38:04.060 If it were reversed, it would be reversed, meaning that the Israelis would be complaining that they were under occupation or worse, and everything that the Palestinians are saying, hey, you're blocking us from statehood, you're keeping us suppressed, they'd say we're in an outdoor prison.
00:38:29.120 It would just be the other way around, because you have two societies, two civilizations that are incompatible, and they will always be incompatible.
00:38:40.580 There's no way that they're just going to live next to each other in peace.
00:38:44.420 So, it's a power dynamic, and that's it.
00:38:49.600 So, there's no good guy.
00:38:51.260 There's no bad guy.
00:38:52.840 It's just power.
00:38:54.840 And Israel is doing what would be good for Israel. 0.89
00:38:57.800 What's good for Israel is to increase their land for two reasons. 0.95
00:39:05.040 One is it could give them a little extra buffer against the tax, but also, wouldn't it be good to have a bigger country?
00:39:12.860 Because in the long run, very long run, that will just all be good.
00:39:17.940 So, Israel is doing what is in the best interest of Israel, and they have the power to do it.
00:39:24.240 As soon as you start overlaying, you know, who's good or bad, or who's moral, who's ethical, none of that makes any difference.
00:39:32.980 The ones with the power are going to get what they want, and it will be at the expense of the other side.
00:39:39.340 Now, what makes it easy for the Israelis is that the Palestinians apparently have some addiction to violence as at least part of the solution. 0.99
00:39:51.040 We don't know what would happen if the Palestinians suddenly came up with a Martin Luther King character who had, you know, amazingly, and I think this would be impossible, but amazingly said, all right, we just want to put our case to the world.
00:40:07.260 And we want the whole world to watch, and we're going to say what our complaints are, and then we're going to say what we want, and we're going to denounce all violence, but we think that when we make our case, the world will back us.
00:40:21.200 Maybe, maybe, maybe that would work for them, but it seems to me that the Islamic culture is more about fighting, and again, I'm not going to say it's right or wrong, good or bad, moral or immoral. 1.00
00:40:38.660 It just seems to be the reflex, and it seems to be based on cultural impulses, and so as long as they're willing, the Palestinians are willing to do a, or at least some of them, are willing to do a nonstop violence kind of opposition, it just gives Israel a free pass. 0.88
00:40:59.280 They can just say, well, there it is again, we better take this country, well, there it is again, we better, you know, bomb these people and displace them, well, there it is again.
00:41:09.860 So, in terms of strategy, the Palestinians have picked a strategy that sort of will lose forever, because it just gives the other side that has more power, the, a free pass to use it, and so they do. 0.98
00:41:29.280 Now, if Israel is doing everything that's good for Israel, that would be every country. 0.50
00:41:36.140 So, you could say, oh, those bad people doing everything that's good for them and bad for other people.
00:41:41.620 No, that's just everybody.
00:41:43.260 That's everybody throughout time.
00:41:45.560 Every country does what's good for their country, and again, this is not supporting it, and it's not criticizing it, because neither of those mean anything.
00:41:56.720 It's simply an observation.
00:41:59.080 The ones with the power get what they want.
00:42:01.280 That's it.
00:42:03.080 So, you know, and of course, there's other elements to this, such as the military-industrial complex in the U.S.
00:42:11.120 We'd like to have another place where we can sell weapons.
00:42:14.100 We'd like to be able to project our own U.S. interests through a proxy in the Middle East, so the U.S. has an interest in, you know, Israel being the strongest player in that region.
00:42:26.820 And so, that means Israel will have the power, and they will keep doing what they want. 0.80
00:42:32.920 Now, one of the claims that the Palestinians make is that when the Israelis say, hey, we gave you Gaza, and it was just your own country, and you could have turned it into a paradise, but you turned it into a Hamas terrorist hellhole, and now look what it bought you. 0.84
00:42:51.500 Well, the Palestinians and the people in Gaza would say, that never happened.
00:43:00.380 It's true that you sort of, you know, pulled out, but you didn't stop bombing us.
00:43:06.220 But, of course, they always had reasons.
00:43:07.940 They were responding to some kind of an attack.
00:43:10.000 And they didn't have freedom of travel and commerce, because they were sort of surrounded, and, again, presumably entirely for security reasons.
00:43:22.960 The Israel couldn't let them ship in and out anything they wanted, because that would be dangerous. 0.76
00:43:28.820 Didn't let them travel unrestrictedly for the things that you would normally do for commerce.
00:43:34.760 And so, the Gazans never felt that they really had, let's say, the ability to run their own country.
00:43:42.760 They felt like they were still under some kind of siege, even if there were no boots on the ground within Gaza itself.
00:43:50.700 Now, that would be their take.
00:43:52.620 I'm not endorsing it.
00:43:54.140 I'm not taking a side.
00:43:55.400 I'm just describing it.
00:43:56.520 If you asked them, they'd say, yeah, you sort of on paper gave us Gaza, but it was never free in the way that other countries could be free, you know, to deal with everybody.
00:44:07.440 And then Israel would say, how could we give you that freedom when you're just a boiling stew of terrorists who, if we open the roads or open the sea, you'd be shipping massive weapons and turning it into another attack.
00:44:22.000 And that, of course, would be exactly the right approach for their self-interest.
00:44:29.160 I'd also point out that the thought about having two separate countries, where the West Bank and the Palestinians, forget about Gaza for a second, but if you wanted to have the two-country solution, you know that that ship already sailed, right? 0.96
00:44:46.020 There are now so many settlements, Israeli settlements, just peppering that entire area, that there's not really any possibility of a two-country solution. 0.99
00:44:58.140 And again, that would be presumably what the Israeli government wants, to not have a two-country solution, even if they use the words that they would.
00:45:08.360 And it looks like they have a long-term plan, Israel, to maximize Israel, which everybody would expect. 0.78
00:45:18.080 Again, it's not good, it's not bad, it's just power.
00:45:23.040 And if you just reverse the power instantly, you would have almost the same situation, except the Israelis would be the ones complaining, 1.00
00:45:31.000 and the Palestinians would be saying, well, look at you terrorists trying to fight back against our massive power.
00:45:37.780 I guess we'll just have to press you a little bit harder, because you're still acting like terrorists, because the weaker party doesn't have any tools.
00:45:47.200 So they're going to use some terrorism.
00:45:49.960 That wouldn't surprise anybody.
00:45:53.000 So, let me see what else.
00:46:01.000 Yeah, I think that pretty much does it.
00:46:04.900 So, that's my take.
00:46:06.640 My take is, as long as you're in the who's good, who's bad, who's got the historical claim, you know, whose Bible says what, that's all just bullshit.
00:46:16.400 It's just power.
00:46:17.620 And who has the power is going to use it.
00:46:19.900 Right now it's Israel. 0.50
00:46:21.540 That's sort of the end of the story.
00:46:23.820 Everything else is just a normal outcome of who had the power.
00:46:28.100 And I don't see it changing any time in the near future.
00:46:32.080 Because I don't see them coming up with a Martin Luther King, oh, we were wrong the whole time.
00:46:37.580 Let's just get the international community to back us, and we'll ask for a bunch of peaceful things.
00:46:44.120 I don't see it happening.
00:46:45.220 So, it'll just be more of the same, I think, for a long time.
00:46:52.280 Jonathan Turley is writing about crisis fatigue.
00:46:57.860 And he's sort of mocking the legal experts in the country, which, of course, in many cases are leaning left.
00:47:05.060 And talking about how easy it is to get a thousand legal experts to sign on to any Democrat anything, and then the news will treat it like it matters, that you've got a thousand legal experts to say there's a constitutional crisis, and everything's a constitutional crisis.
00:47:23.680 Until you're so tired of constitutional crises that don't seem to actually make any difference in your life, that you just see another list of a thousand legal experts saying there's another constitutional crisis, like every week or two.
00:47:37.940 And it just doesn't mean anything.
00:47:39.780 We're just exhausted by it, and it never has any real effect in the real world.
00:47:43.480 And we figure they're all biased, and it doesn't matter how many people on the list, because you can always get a list.
00:47:50.320 You can get a thousand people to agree to anything, you know, as long as you're not talking about the ones who didn't sign it.
00:47:57.560 Just say, well, a thousand people say we're in a constitutional crisis because of Trump.
00:48:02.640 And it's all getting just stupid.
00:48:05.380 Like, it's the best the Democrats can do is to try to get, basically to reproduce the 51 intelligence people who say the laptop isn't real.
00:48:18.480 The most debunked method of truth, it's all they have.
00:48:24.720 Let's put together another easily debunked, you know, proof of what's real.
00:48:30.580 Yeah, we'll get a list of people.
00:48:33.320 Yeah, it'll be long.
00:48:34.400 There'll be a thousand people on the list.
00:48:36.540 Doesn't mean anything anymore in today's world, and we're smart enough to know it.
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00:49:40.640 Now, I've not been following the situation in Romania, so maybe I got a little of this wrong.
00:49:46.240 I was seeing Mike Benz talking about it online.
00:49:49.660 So apparently Romania was having a presidential election that the EU, and I guess the US probably was behind a little bit,
00:49:59.060 got the election canceled because they didn't like who was going to get elected.
00:50:04.040 Is that roughly what happened?
00:50:07.920 But the European Union president, this Ursula von der Leyen, she's sort of quiet about it because, as Mike Benz says,
00:50:19.940 and what can she say, Benz says,
00:50:22.340 if she says she supports Romania canceling elections, which she does, says Mike,
00:50:28.640 the EU will look like a dictator. It is, says Mike.
00:50:32.540 And if she says she doesn't support it, it would throw the very network in Romania the EU leaned on to cancel elections under the bus.
00:50:43.520 So the EU is basically overthrowing the government of Romania, just sort of matter-of-factly, right in front of everybody.
00:50:56.080 Do I have that even a little bit right?
00:50:58.220 All right.
00:51:05.520 So I don't know if I do, but that would be more of the same for the United States anyway,
00:51:12.300 to be influencing other countries' elections.
00:51:16.440 Anyway, according to Wall Street Journal, American defense companies are having a good time.
00:51:22.340 They're increasing their dominance of the global arms trade,
00:51:25.300 and the European nations are trying to buy as much as they can to protect themselves.
00:51:31.700 They're buying U.S. fighter jets and missiles.
00:51:34.460 Now, how many of you have ever heard this?
00:51:38.700 I'm going to call it a conspiracy theory,
00:51:41.240 but I think we're all sophisticated enough to know that conspiracy theory doesn't mean it's not true, right?
00:51:48.700 So I don't know that it's true, so I'll call it a conspiracy theory,
00:51:52.920 but it's certainly not ruled out, and it goes like this,
00:51:57.200 that the real reason that there's been such a push to increase the number of NATO countries
00:52:02.680 is not to defend against Russia.
00:52:07.620 It's because as soon as you turn into a NATO country,
00:52:11.260 you have to buy American weapons to be compatible with NATO.
00:52:15.300 Is that true, that the real reason that there's always a continuous push to add new countries
00:52:22.440 is because the military-industrial complex in the U.S. gets to sell more weapons?
00:52:27.760 Because you can't be in NATO unless your weapons are compatible with the rest of NATO?
00:52:34.780 I'd hate to think that that's the whole story,
00:52:37.800 but it could be, right?
00:52:41.480 It could be part of the story.
00:52:43.900 It could be just opportunistic stuff.
00:52:47.400 Like, oh yeah, we want to protect.
00:52:49.100 We want to protect against Russia, 1.00
00:52:50.660 but by the way, it's pretty good for business.
00:52:54.580 You know, that's not the main reason we're doing it,
00:52:56.720 but it's also good for business.
00:53:00.180 You know, it's a little hard for me to accept
00:53:03.480 except that the real reason is protecting the countries from Russia
00:53:09.580 versus the gazillions of dollars that the military-industrial complex would make
00:53:16.460 if we just add one more country.
00:53:21.700 So, I'm a little skeptical there.
00:53:25.080 Meanwhile, RFK Jr. has asked the CDC
00:53:27.980 to look into the link between vaccines and autism.
00:53:34.900 Now, that's interesting.
00:53:36.580 The Gateway Pundit is reporting this.
00:53:39.040 Now, and apparently,
00:53:41.600 that study would involve using the vaccine safety data link,
00:53:45.960 which monitors safety of vaccines
00:53:48.320 and investigates adverse reactions.
00:53:52.880 I don't believe anything about this story.
00:53:56.160 Sorry.
00:53:56.720 I don't believe that there's an existing database
00:54:02.120 that if you just looked at it carefully,
00:54:04.480 you would know if there's a link between vaccines and autism.
00:54:07.780 Are you kidding me?
00:54:09.340 There's no way we have a database
00:54:11.380 that if you just looked at it really carefully,
00:54:14.060 you would know the answer.
00:54:16.300 No.
00:54:17.460 Now, I saw in the comments before I came on
00:54:20.260 that all you'd have to do is study,
00:54:23.560 let's say the Amish or the Mennonites 0.97
00:54:28.060 or whoever they are,
00:54:28.960 because there are some groups that are not vaccinated.
00:54:35.720 So, if you check the unvaccinated group
00:54:38.120 and they didn't have any autism,
00:54:40.640 well, then you'd say to yourself,
00:54:41.780 aha, it must be those darn vaccinations.
00:54:45.520 But that won't work
00:54:47.120 because there are too many things
00:54:49.280 that are different about the Amish.
00:54:51.100 Let me give you an example.
00:54:52.940 One of the hypotheses that I'd heard years ago,
00:54:56.520 but now I don't believe it's true,
00:54:59.100 but it is one of the hypotheses,
00:55:00.820 that what's different about the modern world
00:55:03.960 is that smart people meet other smart people more easily.
00:55:08.840 So, we go to college,
00:55:10.860 and let's say you go to MIT,
00:55:13.420 you're more likely to meet somebody
00:55:16.660 that you get married to
00:55:17.720 who's also a top engineer or basically a nerd.
00:55:23.160 And there's some indication
00:55:25.440 that if you take two people
00:55:27.580 who are kind of, sort of, near the spectrum
00:55:29.880 and they have a child,
00:55:32.640 the odds of them being on the spectrum are way higher.
00:55:36.140 Now, I can't promise you that's true.
00:55:38.780 That's just something that's been around for a long time.
00:55:42.380 Now, the Amish don't reproduce that way.
00:55:45.920 So, that's not their mating strategy.
00:55:48.620 Presumably, their mating strategy is old school,
00:55:51.480 where it's like,
00:55:53.180 Jake, looks like you're ready for a wife. 0.98
00:55:57.980 Sally down the road,
00:56:00.620 she'd be a good wife. 0.98
00:56:02.440 All right, she's the only one available.
00:56:05.340 So, it feels like the Amish may just do old school mating, 0.95
00:56:10.500 and it would avoid the nerds hooking up 0.78
00:56:13.920 because they both work at Microsoft.
00:56:17.960 Maybe.
00:56:19.300 I don't know.
00:56:19.860 The other thing is that the Amish
00:56:22.560 are not eating the same food.
00:56:24.660 They're not eating processed food.
00:56:26.820 The other thing is they're spending more time outdoors.
00:56:30.660 So, and you could probably come up with
00:56:32.020 five different things that the Amish do
00:56:33.800 that are just clearly different
00:56:35.380 in terms of lifestyle and exposure to things.
00:56:38.900 I mean, maybe it's something like,
00:56:40.940 you know, I'm just going to make this one up.
00:56:42.500 Don't take this seriously.
00:56:43.920 But what if it's like exposure to lead?
00:56:48.400 Right?
00:56:49.000 I'm not speculating that.
00:56:50.500 I'm using it to make the point
00:56:51.680 because the Amish wouldn't have the same exposure.
00:56:55.600 And so, it could be a pollutant
00:56:57.020 that is common to everybody but the Amish.
00:57:01.000 So, I don't think you can study the Amish 1.00
00:57:03.640 and know whether vaccines cause autism.
00:57:06.540 But I'm positive there's no existing database
00:57:09.600 that can tell you that.
00:57:11.640 I don't believe any of that.
00:57:13.700 Now, maybe that's just the first thing
00:57:16.660 that RFK Jr. has to do.
00:57:19.700 You know, maybe he has to get past,
00:57:21.880 let's look at all our existing databases
00:57:23.840 and see if it tells us anything
00:57:25.300 before he can get to the next level of,
00:57:28.000 you know, is there a better way to start tracking this?
00:57:31.860 So, I'm in favor of the effort.
00:57:34.800 I just think maybe it's a little harder than it looks.
00:57:39.800 At the same time, RFK Jr. is going to meet with the,
00:57:43.060 according to Zero Edge,
00:57:44.360 going to meet with the leaders
00:57:45.400 of the processed food industry.
00:57:50.040 What is that going to produce?
00:57:52.540 Because it feels like they're not going to say,
00:57:55.280 oh, yes, I will greatly reduce my yields
00:57:58.820 or I'll let my food rot faster
00:58:01.720 just so that we have fewer chemicals
00:58:06.440 and seed oils and stuff in them.
00:58:10.120 I don't know that you can just talk them into it.
00:58:13.220 But maybe.
00:58:14.760 Maybe there'll be a few easy wins.
00:58:17.220 Like, oh, yeah, we can get rid of that one thing.
00:58:19.760 Or, yeah, we don't need that chemical in there.
00:58:22.620 So, something good can come of that.
00:58:25.840 I think the RFK Jr. problem
00:58:27.900 is that when you go from concept,
00:58:32.220 you know, I want to do these things
00:58:33.640 and make everything healthier,
00:58:35.460 to bureaucracy,
00:58:37.600 it's probably just like a brick wall.
00:58:40.380 You're probably just banging your head
00:58:42.060 against a brick wall.
00:58:43.420 Now, we'll see if RFK Jr. has got the clout,
00:58:46.660 along with Trump,
00:58:48.400 to make a real difference
00:58:50.160 and penetrate the bureaucracy.
00:58:51.380 But it's super tough.
00:58:54.180 So, if he can do it, it'd be amazing.
00:58:57.400 According to Science Alert,
00:58:59.960 having children makes your brain younger later in life.
00:59:05.740 Now, that makes complete sense to me
00:59:07.940 if you've had any exposure to being around children.
00:59:11.320 The complexity of your life,
00:59:13.500 if you add just one child to your life,
00:59:16.120 and, you know, often it's more than that,
00:59:17.800 the complexity of just getting anything done
00:59:21.280 goes through the roof.
00:59:23.820 And I would think that your brain
00:59:25.480 would be healthier longer
00:59:26.780 if you added any kind of complexity
00:59:29.520 and challenge to it,
00:59:30.700 especially if it's one you really cared about,
00:59:32.460 like your kids.
00:59:34.440 So, that makes sense.
00:59:36.140 You know, I wouldn't say that
00:59:37.120 I would have necessarily guessed this,
00:59:39.440 but anything that an adult does
00:59:42.560 to challenge their brain
00:59:44.660 and their memory
00:59:45.400 and their thinking,
00:59:47.760 and if it's a continuous pressure,
00:59:50.460 like having a kid,
00:59:52.320 it seems to me that it would make a difference.
00:59:54.500 So, anyway,
00:59:57.760 I do see some things in the comments
01:00:00.280 about the seed oils.
01:00:01.580 I'm not completely convinced
01:00:03.660 that the seed oils are all bad,
01:00:07.360 but I certainly see a lot of smart people
01:00:10.180 say that they are.
01:00:11.820 So, I'm open to it.
01:00:16.400 All right.
01:00:19.680 You feel younger than people your age 0.77
01:00:21.700 who have older kids
01:00:22.940 because you started late.
01:00:24.500 Okay.
01:00:28.740 All right.
01:00:31.320 That's all I have for today.
01:00:33.840 Like I said,
01:00:34.960 the technology was not happy with me today,
01:00:39.780 so the sound on the X feed
01:00:42.520 is a little less than...
01:00:44.580 This microphone is not connected to my phone.
01:00:48.820 But we'll upload the high-quality one
01:00:51.660 from the locals feed
01:00:53.320 onto YouTube and Rumble,
01:00:55.740 and then we'll have it all.
01:00:57.600 And that's all I've got for today.
01:00:59.520 So, thanks for joining, everybody.
01:01:02.120 I'm just going to say goodbye
01:01:03.440 to the X feed,
01:01:06.060 and I'll say a few words privately
01:01:07.820 to the people and locals.
01:01:08.840 And thanks for joining.
01:01:11.600 We'll see you tomorrow.
01:01:13.180 We'll see you tomorrow.
01:01:13.220 Thank you.