Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2778 CWSA 03⧸14⧸25

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00:00:44.740 Ah. Ah. Well, we got all kinds of news today.

00:00:58.140 Meta has decided it's going to go with the community notes idea, basically the same thing as X.

00:01:06.520 And it's not going to use all of its fake fact checkers. No fake fact checkers anymore for Meta.

00:01:13.200 Now, do you imagine that Zuckerberg is doing this just because of Trump? Or do you think he's just

00:01:23.920 being smart and he knows the community notes method is just better? I think maybe both. I think he's

00:01:32.260 smart enough to know that not making an enemy of Trump makes a lot of sense at the moment. And also,

00:01:39.020 it's a better way to check the facts. Sounds good. Here's something interesting. SoftBank is putting

00:01:48.060 $130 million into robot assisted solar farms. Now, not a farm where you grow food, but a farm of solar

00:01:57.280 panels that becomes a power, basically a power producing entity. And so the idea is they'll use

00:02:05.360 the robots to automate the building of these artificial, all these systems. So here's what's

00:02:13.900 cool about this. Something like 25 years ago, I was at a dinner and I was sitting next to a futurist,

00:02:25.060 a person who predicts the future. His name is Paul Sappho. I think he's about 71 now,

00:02:31.620 so he's probably still around. And he made a prediction at that dinner. This sounded so like

00:02:38.160 wildly futuristic, but I never forgot it. And the prediction was that when robots could make solar

00:02:48.700 farms, the price of energy would start dropping to near zero. Now think about that. Apparently,

00:02:59.460 there would be tremendous savings and labor if the robots are installing the solar panels and they're

00:03:07.140 doing all the work themselves without help. But robots could also be producing the actual solar panels

00:03:14.040 in the factory. But robots could also make more robots to make more solar panels and to make more solar

00:03:25.420 farms. So he predicted that when robots were doing all the power generation work instead of people,

00:03:33.380 that the cost of energy would just start plummeting. Now we haven't seen that yet, but SoftBank's got

00:03:40.220 $130 million bet that it's coming. This is one of those things that if you didn't know that there was a

00:03:49.360 really solid prediction behind it, Sappho has a good reputation, you wouldn't be as excited as I am.

00:03:57.620 This is a big, big deal, potentially. You know, it could be early. Maybe they don't quite have the

00:04:03.780 technology to do it, but you can see where it's going. Sometime in your child's life, solar farms will be

00:04:12.660 popping up everywhere. And there'll be batteries to store it when the sun's not out. And it's going

00:04:21.500 to be amazing. Meanwhile, Newsmax has agreed in a legal case to pay the firm Smartmatic, I think

00:04:30.860 that's the software company for the electronic voting machines, going to pay them $40 million to settle a

00:04:38.240 2020 election claim. This is according to Axios. Now the claim is that Smartmatic accused Newsmax of

00:04:48.040 falsely reporting a baseless conspiracy theory that its voting technology was rigged in 2020, but they

00:04:55.880 apparently they could not make that case. And so Smartmatic gets $40 million. Now Smartmatic also

00:05:03.580 filed a similar suit against One American News, which was settled last April, so they made a bunch of money

00:05:10.040 on that. And then they've also, they've also got a suit coming up against Fox News for $2.7 billion for the

00:05:19.740 same thing. And I'm thinking, I think Smartmatic is the best business model I've ever seen. All they have to do is

00:05:29.380 be involved in an industry where people have lots of questions. And then some people are going to go too

00:05:37.420 far. And then they sue them. I don't know how much Smartmatic makes just for the regular business. But I

00:05:46.140 doubt they make $1.7 billion or $2.7 billion very often. Now, obviously, that could get negotiated down to

00:05:53.680 some other number. But wow, they're making a lot of money on these legal cases. It's the best business

00:05:59.740 model I've seen. Well, Chuck Schumer decided not to back a closing of the government and tweaking of

00:06:10.120 the budget. So instead of resisting the continued resolution that Trump was in favor of, and most

00:06:20.700 Republicans were, except for Thomas Massey, I guess, Schumer decided to fold like a umbrella on a windy

00:06:30.820 day. No, that's wrong. Fold like a tent with no tent poles. Fold like a shirt that's being folded by

00:06:42.540 a robot. I got nothing. I got nothing. But he folded. Now, here's the fun part. It seems to me that

00:06:52.860 Democrats have argued in the past that if Republicans had resisted their budget, whatever,

00:07:02.160 that the closing of the government would lead to such great pain around the country that you

00:07:09.420 couldn't possibly do it. And then you've got Chuck Schumer put in the position that he has to argue

00:07:15.940 against the thing that he's argued for in the past, which is shutting down the government.

00:07:22.620 So finally, it looks like the Democrats have learned a little bit that if you just automatically resist

00:07:29.840 everything Trump wants, you end up arguing against the things that you're caught on video

00:07:35.100 arguing the opposite of not that long ago. So the Democrats are so completely hollowed down at this

00:07:43.760 point, they can't argue anything because there will immediately be a compilation of clips showing that

00:07:51.300 they have the exact opposite opinion not that long ago. And I think the accusation that they're all

00:07:59.660 theater kids pretending to have opinions is really strong. Because the more you see it, the harder

00:08:07.860 it is to imagine that's not what's happening. Because if they had argued, let's say forcefully that,

00:08:15.980 oh, we got to shut this government down, it's better than passing this continued resolution.

00:08:21.240 Then we'd have to wonder, why were they equally passionate with the opposite opinion just a few

00:08:29.240 years ago? And you could tell that it was acting. It would obviously be just acting. And that's all

00:08:37.000 they have is people acting because they don't have actual opinions that anybody cares about. They want

00:08:43.980 power. And they will simply act in whatever way they think can get it. So they just have nothing.

00:08:54.300 So anyway, he decides to go with it. And the Democrats have done so little and have so little power

00:09:07.420 that they don't want to be the only thing they accomplished was shutting down the government.

00:09:13.180 Because apparently one of the things they were afraid of is if they shut down the government,

00:09:17.580 there would be no government people in the offices to stop Doge from doing whatever it wanted.

00:09:25.660 So Doge ended up being accidentally, you know, like a weapon. You know, I don't know. The only thing

00:09:34.620 keeping Doge from totally ripping apart all these stupid Democrat grants and contracts,

00:09:42.220 is that there's a human being in the office to try to slow them down. So if you send them home for a week,

00:09:49.340 I don't know, Doge just might go wild on your organization. So anyway, the theater kids decided

00:09:57.420 they didn't want to get into that act. I saw a post on X by a user called Unseen One. One with just the

00:10:07.420 digit one, in case you want to follow. Unseen One. And it's just a list of what's left of the Democrats.

00:10:16.300 And I'm not going to say, you know, it's complete or, you know, I agree with every part of it. It's

00:10:22.380 just funny. So it's called the current makeup of the Democrat Party. Number one, the TDS base.

00:10:31.420 They hate everything about Trump and want to go down fighting tooth and nail over every little

00:10:35.420 thing Trump does. They hold up little signs and raise their canes while ranting to the sky during

00:10:42.860 national speeches. Two, the former power brokers who don't understand they are powerless. Three,

00:10:51.500 the true believers that work behind the curtain, giving leaders like Schumer and Zelensky terrible

00:10:56.860 advice. The lying legacy media that thinks their lies are still believed. Five, the few sane ones

00:11:05.500 who see the train coming but can't get off the track. Number six, the big money that is too scared

00:11:12.620 to shit or get off the pot. Number seven, the cat herders who are trying to save what can be saved to 0.94

00:11:20.860 live and fight another day. And then number eight, those that have surrendered all hope.

00:11:26.860 And walk around listlessly randomly asking strangers if they voted for this.

00:11:36.380 That's all they have left. And then he concludes with, it's a mess. Maybe if they sing a couple of

00:11:43.900 songs, they can, they can put the band back together. Well, once you see that the entire Democrat

00:11:53.980 structure was made out of twigs and old leaves, the whole thing is just collapsing.

00:12:03.340 The only way it's stuck together is if people believe the news.

00:12:06.780 And we're going to get to believing the news. There's more on that coming up. Anyway,

00:12:18.540 it is just kind of funny. According to the Climate Conservative Consumer, that's a publication,

00:12:25.020 there was a study of Greenland. Now, this has nothing to do with Trump and taking over Greenland,

00:12:31.420 but apparently it's a good place to study the temperature over time. And they studied it with

00:12:37.020 satellite data from 2000 to 2019. And it showed that Greenland surface temperatures remained remarkably

00:12:45.020 stable. Challenging narratives of rapid Arctic warming. So apparently they did a pretty,

00:12:55.580 a pretty rigorous study of the temperature of Greenland and it's about the same.

00:12:59.820 Anyway, I would like to reiterate what I think is going to be funny in the long term. It's not funny yet,

00:13:10.780 but it goes like this. You've heard me say it a bunch of times. Wait until Democrats find out the

00:13:16.380 truth about climate models. It's all they have left. They don't have anything left except that they still

00:13:26.300 believe climate models are real. Wait until they find out that's not real. That's going to be fun.

00:13:34.380 And by the way, there's no chance it won't happen. I don't know if it'll happen in a year or two years

00:13:40.460 or 10, but they're going to find out that climate models are made up. Well, made up is too strong.

00:13:48.140 I'll say that climate models are not really predictive. So once they find that out, they're going to realize

00:13:54.780 that their entire Democrat structure was based on laundering money to people who had ridiculous

00:14:04.780 uses for it and could keep some of it for themselves. That's mostly what the Democrat

00:14:10.780 entire structure was about. It was about funneling money to people for bullshit reasons.

00:14:16.220 How about a billion dollars for DEI to study trans insects? Well, sounds good to me. How about 50 1.00

00:14:27.820 billion dollars to study the change in temperature based on these climate models? Sounds important to

00:14:35.180 me. Here's your 50 billion. Wait till they find out about those climate models. It's coming.

00:14:43.340 Anyway, you know that I made a non-standard prediction about what would happen with Putin's response

00:14:55.500 to the idea that Trump and Zelensky had about a ceasefire. Now, do you remember my prediction?

00:15:03.180 So there are two things that I said through the persuasion filter, if you can call it that.

00:15:09.820 One, was that Putin is unusually good at the whole persuasion thing. And that's important.

00:15:17.980 Number two, I said that even though Russia had already rejected, like, you know, people who were 0.98

00:15:24.380 high up in Russia had said, no way we're going to agree to a ceasefire because the ceasefire just gives

00:15:30.140 Ukraine, you know, time to regroup. And since we're, they're on the run, why would, why would we give them 0.92

00:15:36.300 time to regroup? And then I said, no, this is the key. I said, after Russia had said no way to a

00:15:45.420 ceasefire, I said, Putin's going to say way because Putin being really good at persuasion, like really

00:15:54.300 good. I knew that he would know that his most important asset to get to a good place was Trump.

00:16:04.300 It wasn't Zelensky. It wasn't NATO. It wasn't American opinion. It wasn't Russian opinion.

00:16:12.380 It was just Trump. And I said that if Trump puts out an idea like a ceasefire,

00:16:18.300 he's going to have to say yes. But the problem is he didn't want to say yes. And I still predicted

00:16:25.500 he'd have to say yes, because he needs to preserve the goodwill with Trump, because that's the only

00:16:32.620 path out. He has one path out, and it's keeping Trump, let's say, pleased that things are moving in

00:16:40.780 the right direction. So if you put the two things together, that Putin is really good at persuasion,

00:16:48.860 but doesn't really want just a ceasefire, but he has to say yes, because otherwise it ruins everything.

00:16:57.180 So what does Putin do? He says, what was it? He said, the idea itself, talking about the

00:17:05.100 ceasefire, the idea itself is correct, and we certainly support it.

00:17:12.060 That's basically giving Trump his full due of respect. Exactly. Exactly. But here's the part where

00:17:21.420 Putin's a great persuader. And then he goes on that, but there are issues we need to discuss. And I think

00:17:29.900 we need to discuss it with our American colleagues and partners, meaning Trump, basically. And he said

00:17:37.260 he'd love to have a phone conversation with Trump. Perfect. You know, if you could draw out on paper,

00:17:47.420 what would be the perfect set of steps to actually eventually get to peace, it would look just like

00:17:53.180 this. Because he had to say yes, but he also had to say no. So Putin actually pulled off a yes, no.

00:18:04.620 He pulled off a yes, no. So he gives Trump his full due of respect by saying he starts with, it's important

00:18:13.340 that he said this first, right? The order of saying it really matters. So the first thing he says is

00:18:19.820 the idea itself is correct. Boom. The ceasefire. The idea is correct. And then, and we certainly support

00:18:28.860 it. Boom. That's as clear as you could be. But then he says, this is the genius part. We might be able to

00:18:37.740 improve it. If I talk to Trump, we might even be able to make this better. Oh my God, that's good.

00:18:44.780 And if you can see a more clear signal that there's a real will to get this war over with,

00:18:54.620 that's it. This is 100%. I want to work with Trump to get this done. There's no,

00:19:02.060 you can't be ambiguous about what this is. This is a yes. Yes, but, and we always knew there would be a

00:19:09.180 bot, right? So nobody was kidding themselves that the ceasefire would just become a permanent ceasefire.

00:19:16.700 We all knew that they would negotiate about the peacekeepers and NATO and a bunch of other stuff.

00:19:24.460 But I would bet that by now, probably they have some kind of idea of how to make that stuff work.

00:19:33.580 I don't know what it will look like. It might be that there's a mineral deal with Ukraine, which

00:19:40.700 people say is agreed to. I'm not sure I completely believe it's agreed to. Maybe, and I'll just throw

00:19:49.340 this out here. You've heard this before from others, but maybe Putin is going to say, you know what,

00:19:55.660 the best way that we could make sure that we don't have trouble there is if we also do a deal with

00:20:01.180 you Americans for a mineral deal. What if we do one too? You can do one with Ukraine,

00:20:09.180 and you can do one with us, just don't put any military in the country. And let's turn Ukraine 0.50

00:20:13.900 into some kind of a Switzerland, no NATO, no peacekeepers, et cetera. Now, the other possibility,

00:20:21.580 which we haven't, we're not right there yet, but it does seem to me that Ukraine could build a

00:20:28.780 peacekeeping force of just robots. Now, when I say robots, I mean, you know, drones,

00:20:36.460 but also the robot dogs, you know, the things that literally are robots.

00:20:42.220 Do you think that Putin would ever agree to not have any boots on the ground from NATO,

00:20:47.820 not any European boots on the ground, but that you could make as many robots as you want?

00:20:53.420 Maybe. I don't know. They wouldn't love it. They'd rather have it demilitarized.

00:21:00.220 But then the question is this, and I think Trump is threatening terrible sanctions if Russia doesn't

00:21:07.420 play along. But do you think that Trump will offer Russia that there'll be some kind of deal that we

00:21:15.660 buy their energy? But if they get adventurous with Ukraine or anything else, that will immediately

00:21:22.780 replace their entire energy business with their own? Something like that. So we'll see if Trump can

00:21:29.820 transform it from a military competition, which it is now, into a financial entanglement

00:21:38.860 in which nobody really wants to have a war because it just doesn't pay. So we'll see. It could go in

00:21:47.660 any direction, but I would say that the signals that peace are coming are now 100%. I think there's

00:21:54.860 100% certainty that this is going to wind down. Now, of course, there'll be bumps, right? So if two

00:22:01.340 months from now you say, ha, ha, ha, Scott, you said this was all going to wrap up, but Putin has now

00:22:07.500 introduced some demand that we're never going to do. So you're wrong. Well, just wait another month.

00:22:16.140 It's going to wind down. I'm 100% sure now that this is going to come to an end.

00:22:21.980 One month, two months, I don't know how long it takes, maybe six months. But yeah, I think

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00:23:30.380 for details. Please play responsibly. But CNN had John Bolton on. How would you like to be CNN?

00:23:39.560 And the best guest you could get to talk shit about Trump would be the mustache guy,

00:23:44.360 John Bolton, who's basically a joke to most Republicans. And John Bolton says,

00:23:51.520 Trump only wants a ceasefire in Ukraine so he can get good publicity and a Nobel Peace Prize.

00:23:57.620 How many times have you seen a Trump critic say, I've not really been a mind reader before,

00:24:05.440 but I can read the mind of Donald Trump. And oh my goodness, he doesn't want fewer people to die.

00:24:14.360 Even though he says it consistently. No, what he really wants is the Nobel Peace Prize

00:24:19.260 and some good publicity. Now, that's the most absurd criticism I've ever heard. Now, here's the thing.

00:24:30.000 Although some sketchy people have gotten Nobel Peace Prizes,

00:24:33.720 how hard would it be for a Republican president to get a Nobel Peace Prize?

00:24:41.620 If the Nobel Committee said, you know what, we're just going to have to cave to this because it does look like he created peace,

00:24:50.780 if it happens. If the Nobel Committee decided to give Trump a Nobel Peace Prize,

00:24:58.720 wouldn't that be good for everybody? Meaning you would only get it if he made peace in a hard situation.

00:25:08.820 So what would be wrong with Trump wanting to get a Nobel Peace Prize

00:25:15.820 and also save a bunch of lives and also save a bunch of money and also get out of a terrible situation?

00:25:22.560 What would be wrong if he wanted all of those things?

00:25:26.700 Nothing wrong with that.

00:25:29.920 Anyway.

00:25:33.720 So here's an interesting situation.

00:25:36.380 There was a Quinnipiac University survey that found that 54% of respondents disapproved of Trump's handling of the economy.

00:25:46.120 Now, here's what's interesting.

00:25:48.220 That result doesn't really match a lot of recent polls.

00:25:53.760 Some would call it an outlier, meaning that it was especially negative to Trump.

00:26:00.340 The Rasmussen people, a competing polling company,

00:26:05.400 had predicted that there would be an outlier poll that said that Trump was doing poorly on the economy.

00:26:13.120 They actually predicted it because they've watched the patterns of other polling companies.

00:26:20.380 Now, so I opened up Perplexity, the AI app that I like a lot.

00:26:24.880 And I said, Perplexity, can you tell me about the reputations of the Rasmussen polling company versus the Quinnipiac?

00:26:34.780 And I'm going to paraphrase, but this is basically what Perplexity told me.

00:26:43.340 Oh, Quinnipiac.

00:26:44.800 Oh, it's the golden standard of the greatest methodology.

00:26:49.060 Everybody loves it.

00:26:50.600 They have never been wrong.

00:26:52.000 They're so good.

00:26:52.880 They're so good.

00:26:53.700 Oh, my God.

00:26:54.540 Quinnipiac is the greatest poll and survey we've ever seen.

00:26:59.740 All right.

00:27:00.000 I'm paraphrasing, but they were very positive about it.

00:27:02.300 And then I said, well, what about Rasmussen?

00:27:06.180 Well, you know, Rasmussen is criticized for being a little too Republican.

00:27:13.020 You know, they seem to be, you know, biased toward Republicans.

00:27:18.380 And then I said, okay, which one of those two polling companies was more accurate about the last three presidential elections?

00:27:32.300 And then Perplexity got really weird.

00:27:36.280 Well, you know, Rasmussen is very biased for Republicans.

00:27:40.560 I go, shut up.

00:27:42.100 All I'm asking is which one did better in the final results of the last three presidential elections?

00:27:49.740 Well, you know, Quinnipiac is a highly rated, shut up.

00:27:54.780 I only want to know the last poll results of the two companies.

00:28:01.140 Finally, after begging, cajoling, and twisting its arm, it gave me the answer.

00:28:07.900 Well, Rasmussen did beat Quinnipiac in 2016.

00:28:11.920 And Rasmussen did beat Quinnipiac in 2024.

00:28:19.260 You know, we're talking about just the last poll before the actual election, the one that counts.

00:28:25.420 All the polls before that, there's no way to check them.

00:28:30.140 But I will tell you that Rasmussen in 2024 was saying that Trump's looking good the whole time.

00:28:35.620 And the internal polling of both the Trump organization and the Kamala Harris campaign seemed to have agreed with Rasmussen the entire way.

00:28:44.980 Now we know that.

00:28:46.500 You know, you can fact check me on that, but I think that's true.

00:28:48.640 But, perplexity said, but in 2020, Rasmussen was wrong, but Quinnipiac was, you know, much closer in 2020.

00:29:03.920 To which I say, 2020, you mean the one that Steve Bannon says was totally rigged and the most unusual voting patterns we've ever seen in our life,

00:29:14.720 to the point where it's hard to be a reasonable person who believes that that was actually some kind of organic and natural voting?

00:29:22.580 Oh, yeah, that's the one that Quinnipiac got right.

00:29:24.940 Now, put it all together.

00:29:28.780 Do you remember I tell you that the closest you can get to understanding reality is the ability to predict?

00:29:37.060 Rasmussen predicted the outlier poll before it happened, because it's a pattern.

00:29:44.040 Can anybody say that Quinnipiac is wrong?

00:29:47.740 Not really, because they're the gold standard.

00:29:51.980 They're the best there's ever been.

00:29:54.940 Their processes, their systems, their methodology, solid gold.

00:30:03.040 But, just happened to be the outlier poll at exactly the time when they needed an outlier poll.

00:30:10.780 So, predictable.

00:30:14.020 Now, that's all I know.

00:30:16.560 All I know is that Rasmussen predicted it publicly,

00:30:19.720 and that Rasmussen got two outlier elections right versus Quinnipiac.

00:30:26.360 And the one that they didn't get right is a little bit suspicious.

00:30:31.480 The election itself, not the predictions.

00:30:34.280 So, that's the world you live in.

00:30:39.280 Meanwhile, there's Mario Noffel was summarizing.

00:30:44.300 A new report, the nation's report card on the schools.

00:30:48.640 It's all bad, and worse than you can even imagine.

00:30:51.700 So, in reading, only 4% of students are classified as advanced.

00:30:58.380 26% are just proficient.

00:31:02.040 And 37% are basic, and 33% fall below that level.

00:31:07.580 Math scores are even worse, with only 8% advanced, 20% proficient,

00:31:11.920 33% basic, and a staggering 39% below basic.

00:31:18.140 So, 40% of students, almost, can't meet the fundamental math standards.

00:31:22.900 This is Mario's summary.

00:31:26.640 It's all bad.

00:31:29.120 Now, I believe that it's the teachers' unions that are the primary problem.

00:31:36.120 Because they're, you know, they control the Democrats,

00:31:39.180 and between the two of them, they can control a lot of what happens in schools.

00:31:44.140 And the teachers' union is for the benefit of the Democratic Party and for teachers.

00:31:50.360 When do the students get a union?

00:31:53.640 When do the fucking students get their own union?

00:31:57.140 When do they get a union?

00:31:58.800 How about the people who are the most important people,

00:32:01.880 the future of our country,

00:32:04.200 the ones who basically can keep the lights on in the next generation?

00:32:08.540 When do they get their own fucking union? 0.94

00:32:12.340 You know what you don't need is a teacher's union.

00:32:14.980 You need a student union.

00:32:17.620 I guess there are things called student unions, but it's not the same.

00:32:21.220 Yeah.

00:32:21.960 So, how about a student union?

00:32:24.620 How about that?

00:32:25.700 How about the students can fire their teachers for being useless?

00:32:29.260 How about that?

00:32:30.620 How about the students can decide that they don't want to go to the school at all,

00:32:33.920 because it's just garbage?

00:32:35.820 How about that?

00:32:37.340 How about the parents have a union?

00:32:39.000 Where's the parents' union?

00:32:40.440 Where's the parents' fucking union?

00:32:44.060 So, if you're going to let the teachers have a union,

00:32:46.200 I think the parents and the students need to have their own union.

00:32:49.500 And they need to have some kind of power,

00:32:51.300 and they need to have some kind of control over their life.

00:32:55.540 The teachers' union is just a festering boil on this country

00:32:59.400 that needs to be lanced off as quickly as possible.

00:33:02.760 There's no legal way to do it, as far as I know.

00:33:05.000 So, you're either going to have to compete it away

00:33:07.100 or build competing schools and starve it.

00:33:10.340 You're going to have to kill it, one way or the other.

00:33:14.960 You're going to have to kill it,

00:33:16.160 because it's the absolute second worst existential problem in the country.

00:33:22.780 Number one is debt.

00:33:24.320 But, you know, Doge is at least attacking that.

00:33:30.320 I'm a little bit tired of the teachers' unions.

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00:33:49.740 Well, OpenAI says that the AI race would be over,

00:33:54.540 meaning that AI as a technology in the United States

00:33:57.660 would be basically not a good business model

00:34:00.620 if training on copyrighted works isn't fair use.

00:34:05.700 Now, Ars Technica is writing about this.

00:34:08.340 Ashley Bellinger.

00:34:10.340 And OpenAI says that national security hinges

00:34:15.620 on unfettered access to AI training data.

00:34:19.660 Now, I think that's probably true.

00:34:21.560 If they can't do copyrighted anything,

00:34:24.560 probably the AI can't train itself,

00:34:27.700 can't exist as a business model,

00:34:30.260 and it would have national security implications.

00:34:33.320 And they're hoping that Trump will do something about that.

00:34:41.060 So the courts are mulling over that whole fair use thing.

00:34:44.480 I guess there's a New York Times case.

00:34:48.600 What did the New York Times do?

00:34:50.100 Anyway, there's going to be...

00:34:54.380 Oh, there's a major suit brought by the New York Times

00:34:59.020 on that, the issue of copyright stuff.

00:35:02.720 Now, given that I am...

00:35:05.460 And first of all, I think this mostly involves nonfiction writing.

00:35:09.140 So I don't think the AI is a threat to fiction

00:35:13.000 because nobody would want to hear a summary of a novel.

00:35:20.140 AI, can you summarize War and Peace?

00:35:23.880 It's about Russia.

00:35:26.100 I mean, you know, that's an old joke.

00:35:29.180 But I don't think you could summarize fiction

00:35:32.820 because people who read fiction like to read the entire sentence

00:35:36.720 and see it in the order it was written

00:35:38.880 and sort of enjoy how the author put it all together.

00:35:43.080 So there's no risk to fiction.

00:35:45.300 But nonfiction, which is what I write primarily,

00:35:49.620 I've only done a few works of fiction,

00:35:53.240 but my work is fully known by AI.

00:35:58.100 Now, AI claims when I query it that it hasn't read my book.

00:36:04.260 Maybe.

00:36:06.740 Maybe it hasn't read my book.

00:36:09.400 But it can summarize it

00:36:10.880 by looking at all the comments people have made in public

00:36:14.340 about my book.

00:36:16.300 So if somebody writes a review, they might say,

00:36:18.800 and this book introduced the idea of talent stacks

00:36:21.800 and this is what it is,

00:36:23.100 or systems are better than goals, blah, blah, blah.

00:36:26.100 So you can get pretty much all the goodness of my book

00:36:29.900 by just asking AI to summarize the key points.

00:36:35.240 Now, in my case,

00:36:37.580 because I'm a hypnotist,

00:36:39.920 when I write a book,

00:36:41.260 I'm not just giving you information.

00:36:43.260 I'm writing it in a way that will cause you to act on it.

00:36:48.160 Now, AI won't do that. 0.76

00:36:49.640 AI will just say,

00:36:50.660 here's what a talent stack is.

00:36:53.060 It means putting together the talents that fit together well.

00:36:58.320 Right.

00:36:58.620 It's going to be something like that.

00:36:59.620 But if you read my book,

00:37:01.860 you know, the entire book,

00:37:02.880 How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big,

00:37:05.040 or Win Bigly about persuasion,

00:37:07.480 or Loser Think about how to argue rationally,

00:37:12.960 if you read those,

00:37:14.560 you're going to get essentially

00:37:16.660 persuasion mixed with good ideas.

00:37:22.180 So the persuasion is what makes you remember it.

00:37:24.900 It's what activates it.

00:37:27.020 It's what incorporates it into your life.

00:37:29.760 So the AI can't do that.

00:37:31.820 But here's the thing.

00:37:33.800 I don't know how many people fall into my category

00:37:36.360 of a successful nonfiction writer

00:37:39.960 who also has a business background.

00:37:43.100 Right.

00:37:43.260 So I got,

00:37:44.040 I always tell you I have a degree in economics and an MBA.

00:37:47.380 I don't know that I would write another book.

00:37:49.380 I don't know that it makes sense economically

00:37:53.420 because it does look like AI is just going to take that away.

00:38:00.480 There are some nonfiction books

00:38:03.480 that I've asked AI to summarize for me.

00:38:07.200 And when I was done,

00:38:08.460 I did not feel that I needed to ever read those books.

00:38:12.240 Just think about that.

00:38:13.520 I'm not going to name the book,

00:38:15.360 but there's a well-known nonfiction book

00:38:18.380 book that I had not read.

00:38:20.960 And so I just asked AI to summarize it for me.

00:38:24.980 And it did.

00:38:26.140 And I thought,

00:38:26.640 okay, got it.

00:38:28.020 I got it.

00:38:29.160 In about 60 seconds,

00:38:31.220 I felt like I didn't need to read the book.

00:38:34.780 So AI could destroy the nonfiction book industry,

00:38:40.620 including mine type of book,

00:38:43.180 even though,

00:38:44.120 like I said,

00:38:44.780 I add an extra layer to just the factual part.

00:38:48.040 I add the persuasion so that it activates it in people.

00:38:51.840 But you won't know that.

00:38:53.620 If you just read the summary,

00:38:55.840 the summary would not say,

00:38:57.600 but if you read the book,

00:38:58.820 you're more likely to implement these strategies.

00:39:02.340 It won't say that.

00:39:03.520 It'll just tell you what the main points are.

00:39:05.760 And you'll think,

00:39:06.280 oh, got it.

00:39:07.140 Got it.

00:39:09.600 So I'm wondering,

00:39:11.400 first of all,

00:39:12.400 young people can't read 1.00

00:39:14.080 and probably will never read books.

00:39:16.720 I'm not sure that the current generation of children

00:39:19.440 will read nonfiction books,

00:39:21.400 90% of them.

00:39:23.040 10% will.

00:39:24.360 But 90% are just going to say,

00:39:26.400 why would I read it

00:39:27.300 if I could just summarize it with AI?

00:39:29.020 And it's going to be hard to talk them out of that.

00:39:34.260 Or even better,

00:39:35.860 hey, AI,

00:39:37.200 take the top 10 rated business books

00:39:40.800 about career strategies

00:39:42.720 and give me the top 10 lessons

00:39:45.880 from the top 10 books.

00:39:48.660 Why would you read 10 books

00:39:50.380 when in two minutes

00:39:52.640 you could hear all the best ideas

00:39:54.060 from all 10 of them?

00:39:54.900 So I can see why the copyright people

00:40:00.020 like the New York Times, et cetera,

00:40:01.960 are going to try to stay strong here.

00:40:05.840 So here's what I'm wondering.

00:40:08.680 Is there some middle ground

00:40:10.540 that nobody has suggested

00:40:11.760 where there's some kind of micropayments to authors?

00:40:15.820 So if somebody asks a simple question,

00:40:18.840 like, can you tell me what a talent stack is?

00:40:21.200 There would be no payment for that

00:40:22.780 because that's something

00:40:24.740 that ordinary people talk about.

00:40:26.600 But let's say you wanted to dig

00:40:28.760 a little deeper into a book.

00:40:31.040 Can you tell me what book that came from

00:40:32.940 and give me more of an explanation

00:40:35.400 of what that's about?

00:40:37.020 Well, maybe that would trigger

00:40:39.160 a micropayment to the author.

00:40:42.900 Maybe it would force AI

00:40:45.100 to surface the title of the book,

00:40:49.240 show it to you with an image,

00:40:50.680 and give you a link to Amazon to buy it

00:40:53.020 or link to wherever.

00:40:56.060 So as an author,

00:40:58.240 if you said to me,

00:40:59.820 is it okay if AI reads your book,

00:41:03.880 but if somebody asks too many questions about it,

00:41:07.220 however you define too many questions,

00:41:09.820 what it does instead is say,

00:41:12.160 you know, I recommend the book.

00:41:13.960 Here's a link where you can get

00:41:15.340 the Kindle version or whatever.

00:41:17.320 Yeah, somebody says like ASCAP.

00:41:21.020 So if you own a restaurant or a bar

00:41:24.340 and you want to play music,

00:41:27.420 you get a license from a place

00:41:29.840 that licenses all the music

00:41:31.660 for all the musicians,

00:41:33.160 and they get micropayments.

00:41:35.560 Now, ASCAP,

00:41:37.000 I think you would find out

00:41:38.400 that the musicians don't love that

00:41:41.060 because the micropayments are so micro

00:41:43.820 that basically it allows every restaurant

00:41:47.360 and bar to play your music a lot

00:41:49.880 without really paying you

00:41:51.620 more than a few cents.

00:41:53.480 So I don't think that model

00:41:56.200 is going to be popular with authors.

00:41:59.040 But somehow we'll,

00:42:00.160 I think we'll get through it.

00:42:01.160 We'll figure it out.

00:42:05.260 So Doge, according to Fox News,

00:42:08.380 over a two-day period,

00:42:09.640 they found 239, quote,

00:42:11.660 wasteful contracts

00:42:12.980 in government organizations

00:42:15.800 with a $1.7 billion top value.

00:42:20.740 And here are some of the,

00:42:22.740 I swear it's going to sound

00:42:24.880 like I'm making this up.

00:42:26.380 I'm not making this up.

00:42:28.760 So one of the grants

00:42:30.400 that they canceled

00:42:31.260 intended to teach transgender

00:42:34.140 and queer urban farmers

00:42:35.960 about food justice.

00:42:37.300 And then there was also,

00:42:44.980 there was also

00:42:47.500 an eight and a half million dollar

00:42:49.540 consulting contract for,

00:42:51.380 listen to this,

00:42:52.620 quote,

00:42:53.340 fiscal stewardship

00:42:54.600 to improve management

00:42:56.160 and program operations

00:42:57.620 in order to drive innovation

00:42:59.760 and improve efficiency

00:43:01.040 and effectiveness

00:43:01.920 of business services.

00:43:05.260 Rethink, realign,

00:43:06.460 and re-skill the workforce

00:43:09.320 and enhance program delivery

00:43:11.060 through a number

00:43:12.160 of transformational initiatives.

00:43:16.700 So remember when I was kidding,

00:43:19.180 but not really,

00:43:20.120 when I said all you have to do

00:43:21.600 is string together

00:43:23.460 10 buzzwords

00:43:24.520 and somebody will give you

00:43:26.160 millions of dollars?

00:43:27.660 Well, that's what this is.

00:43:29.600 Do you think any of these words

00:43:30.920 mean anything?

00:43:31.460 Let me give you

00:43:34.200 just the buzzwords

00:43:35.160 without the connectors.

00:43:37.400 You've got fiscal stewardship,

00:43:40.260 management,

00:43:41.860 innovation,

00:43:43.640 efficiency,

00:43:44.380 effectiveness,

00:43:45.940 realignment,

00:43:47.120 re-skill,

00:43:48.300 workforce,

00:43:49.340 enhance,

00:43:50.580 and then transformational initiatives.

00:43:53.880 None of that means anything.

00:43:56.180 These are so clearly,

00:43:57.840 fraudulently,

00:43:58.660 well,

00:43:59.400 I don't want to get sued.

00:44:01.080 So I'll say,

00:44:01.860 it looks like,

00:44:03.560 from the outside,

00:44:05.780 it looks like

00:44:06.460 completely fraudulent

00:44:07.640 uses of

00:44:08.560 government money.

00:44:10.920 And

00:44:11.520 my understanding

00:44:12.740 is that there might be

00:44:13.820 tens of thousands

00:44:14.840 of these

00:44:15.540 like this.

00:44:17.700 Just absolutely

00:44:19.100 absurd

00:44:19.860 uses of money

00:44:21.080 that do nothing

00:44:22.260 but string together

00:44:23.500 a whole bunch

00:44:24.120 of buzzwords

00:44:24.820 and somebody goes,

00:44:26.100 oh,

00:44:26.340 okay,

00:44:26.760 it looks good.

00:44:28.240 Fine.

00:44:28.960 Yep,

00:44:29.220 yep,

00:44:29.400 yep,

00:44:29.520 yep.

00:44:30.560 Anyway.

00:44:31.720 When I found out

00:44:32.400 my friend got a great deal

00:44:33.840 on a wool coat

00:44:34.580 from Winners,

00:44:35.460 I started wondering,

00:44:37.100 is every fabulous item

00:44:38.720 I see from Winners?

00:44:40.220 Like that woman over there 1.00

00:44:41.500 with the designer jeans.

00:44:42.940 Are those from Winners?

00:44:44.480 Ooh,

00:44:45.100 or those beautiful gold earrings?

00:44:46.940 Did she pay full price?

00:44:48.280 Or that leather tote?

00:44:49.280 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:44:50.520 Or those knee-high boots?

00:44:51.960 That dress?

00:44:52.740 That jacket?

00:44:53.280 Those shoes?

00:44:54.520 Is anyone paying full price

00:44:56.180 for anything?

00:44:57.500 Stop wondering.

00:44:58.680 Start winning.

00:44:59.600 Winners find fabulous

00:45:00.860 for less.

00:45:02.260 How many of you

00:45:03.220 have seen the clip

00:45:04.700 of Michelle Obama's

00:45:06.200 new podcast?

00:45:08.080 Has anybody seen it?

00:45:09.900 So the podcast,

00:45:11.180 I don't know if it's

00:45:12.580 always going to be like this,

00:45:13.900 but at least the initial

00:45:14.980 three or so,

00:45:17.020 is just Michelle Obama

00:45:18.620 talking to her brother.

00:45:19.760 And the story of course

00:45:24.800 is that even though

00:45:25.640 it got tons of free publicity

00:45:27.060 and all the media

00:45:28.860 talked about it,

00:45:30.400 almost nobody watched it

00:45:32.260 relative to

00:45:33.480 how big you think

00:45:34.460 you should be.

00:45:35.340 So it got 74,000 views

00:45:37.300 after like three episodes.

00:45:40.040 Now to put that in context,

00:45:42.860 if I do a post on X,

00:45:46.120 the smallest one

00:45:47.380 would be that many views.

00:45:48.520 A good post on X

00:45:52.260 would be,

00:45:53.340 I don't know,

00:45:54.060 8 million views.

00:45:56.160 When I do my little,

00:45:57.700 you know,

00:45:58.700 non-publicized podcast,

00:46:01.660 I'm pretty sure

00:46:03.040 I get more like 0.86

00:46:03.800 100,000 views.

00:46:05.160 If you look at all

00:46:06.140 the different sources,

00:46:07.620 because I broadcast

00:46:08.580 on several platforms,

00:46:10.420 probably 100,000

00:46:12.640 per episode.

00:46:14.560 And she has 74,000

00:46:16.040 over three.

00:46:16.680 But here's my

00:46:20.700 podcaster's opinion

00:46:22.160 on that.

00:46:24.280 How many viewers

00:46:25.300 would Joe Rogan have

00:46:26.680 if his entire podcast

00:46:28.640 was him talking

00:46:29.600 to his brother?

00:46:31.960 Think about it.

00:46:33.460 Joe Rogan,

00:46:34.420 the best in the business,

00:46:36.020 you know,

00:46:36.300 defined the industry,

00:46:37.580 really.

00:46:38.400 I mean,

00:46:38.640 that's the biggest compliment

00:46:40.040 you can give to somebody.

00:46:41.160 They defined the space.

00:46:44.380 That's the ultimate compliment.

00:46:46.640 He's the best.

00:46:48.880 But if his entire program

00:46:50.440 was talking to his brother,

00:46:52.080 you wouldn't watch that thing

00:46:53.520 more than once.

00:46:54.780 You'd be like,

00:46:55.860 oh,

00:46:56.860 okay,

00:46:57.460 that's mildly interesting.

00:46:59.400 Although I would like,

00:47:00.260 I don't know if he has a brother,

00:47:01.860 but if he does,

00:47:02.780 I would actually watch that,

00:47:04.100 you know,

00:47:04.640 once.

00:47:06.080 I wouldn't watch it twice.

00:47:08.300 I definitely wouldn't watch it

00:47:09.480 three times.

00:47:12.080 So,

00:47:12.680 if Michelle Obama

00:47:13.700 wants to make that work,

00:47:15.320 she's going to learn

00:47:16.240 that it's mostly about

00:47:17.340 how interesting

00:47:18.040 the guests are.

00:47:19.580 Now,

00:47:20.080 you might say,

00:47:20.860 but Scott,

00:47:21.780 you're giving advice

00:47:23.300 that you do not follow

00:47:24.340 because you

00:47:25.820 don't have guests.

00:47:27.720 To which I say,

00:47:29.040 I know.

00:47:30.220 And I'm fully aware

00:47:31.500 that the size

00:47:33.740 of my podcast

00:47:34.620 could be immensely bigger

00:47:36.420 if I had guests,

00:47:39.100 you know,

00:47:39.300 if I had the right guests.

00:47:40.400 You know,

00:47:40.600 I have enough clout

00:47:41.700 and fame that,

00:47:43.380 you know,

00:47:43.660 I know enough people

00:47:44.500 that I could have

00:47:45.420 all kinds of famous guests.

00:47:47.320 So far,

00:47:48.200 I usually just have people

00:47:49.380 that I like.

00:47:51.560 You know,

00:47:52.140 just people I'm close to

00:47:53.400 and have something

00:47:55.260 interesting to say,

00:47:56.260 like a new book

00:47:57.000 or something.

00:47:57.760 But generally speaking,

00:47:58.860 I'm not all about,

00:48:00.460 you know,

00:48:00.820 the big glitzy guest

00:48:02.640 who did something

00:48:03.700 this week

00:48:04.360 and has something

00:48:05.580 to say about,

00:48:06.380 you know,

00:48:07.640 trans athletes.

00:48:09.480 I don't really do that.

00:48:11.440 Now,

00:48:11.840 do you know how hard

00:48:12.740 it is

00:48:13.220 to have a successful

00:48:15.220 podcast

00:48:16.080 without guests?

00:48:18.840 Some people do it,

00:48:20.280 but it's kind of rare.

00:48:22.980 So,

00:48:23.540 yeah,

00:48:24.260 Michelle Obama

00:48:24.980 doesn't quite have

00:48:26.220 the skill

00:48:26.680 to pull off

00:48:27.440 the Talking to Your Brother

00:48:29.020 podcast.

00:48:30.340 My guess is

00:48:31.480 she will quickly adjust

00:48:33.820 and start having

00:48:34.740 interesting guests

00:48:35.700 and then the guests

00:48:37.000 will drive the traffic

00:48:37.960 if she cares,

00:48:38.800 if she cares enough

00:48:39.600 to do that.

00:48:42.080 Well,

00:48:42.640 here,

00:48:42.860 this is interesting.

00:48:44.600 The Diddy defense.

00:48:47.320 So,

00:48:47.520 you know,

00:48:47.880 the,

00:48:48.300 you've seen the video

00:48:49.360 of Diddy

00:48:50.080 at some hotel

00:48:51.020 and his girlfriend

00:48:52.520 at the time

00:48:53.320 tried to escape

00:48:54.320 from his

00:48:55.000 whatever evil

00:48:56.140 clutches

00:48:56.560 and he goes

00:48:57.760 running down

00:48:58.300 the hallway

00:48:58.780 because we see it

00:48:59.740 on the security cam

00:49:00.700 and he's got a towel

00:49:02.220 wrapped around him

00:49:03.100 and he hits his girlfriend

00:49:04.740 and kicks her 1.00

00:49:05.620 and then,

00:49:06.480 you know,

00:49:06.800 drags her back

00:49:07.520 to the room.

00:49:08.960 Here's his defense.

00:49:11.680 CNN is fake news.

00:49:14.360 He says that

00:49:15.340 the only known clip

00:49:16.740 of that event

00:49:18.740 was owned by CNN

00:49:20.800 and his claim

00:49:22.000 is that they

00:49:23.100 edited it fraudulently

00:49:24.680 and that that's

00:49:27.100 not really what happened.

00:49:29.600 Now,

00:49:30.160 I don't believe that

00:49:30.960 for a second.

00:49:32.540 You know,

00:49:32.780 as a big critic

00:49:34.300 of CNN,

00:49:35.420 I don't believe

00:49:36.220 that they,

00:49:36.740 I don't believe

00:49:37.840 that they have

00:49:38.380 the only copy

00:49:39.160 and that they edited

00:49:40.020 it to make it look

00:49:40.980 like he beat up

00:49:41.740 his girlfriend

00:49:42.240 and dragged her 0.54

00:49:43.120 and none of it happened.

00:49:45.140 No,

00:49:45.460 I think,

00:49:46.880 you know,

00:49:47.560 this time I'm going

00:49:48.460 to trust CNN.

00:49:49.180 I don't think

00:49:50.860 that was on a context.

00:49:52.920 But,

00:49:53.540 here's the fun part.

00:49:55.320 You probably only need

00:49:56.800 one Republican

00:49:57.860 on the jury.

00:50:00.300 You only need

00:50:01.260 one Republican

00:50:02.160 out of 12

00:50:03.420 on the jury

00:50:04.100 who's going to say,

00:50:05.400 well,

00:50:06.860 you know,

00:50:07.420 if the standard

00:50:08.220 is reasonable doubt,

00:50:10.940 I mean,

00:50:12.420 it looks real,

00:50:14.080 but if you're telling me

00:50:15.560 that CNN

00:50:16.540 CNN is the only source

00:50:18.760 of this thing

00:50:19.700 you say is real,

00:50:20.840 I don't know.

00:50:23.560 So,

00:50:24.140 it's a bold

00:50:24.920 and gutsy play

00:50:26.060 which suggests

00:50:26.920 he has no real defense.

00:50:29.060 You know,

00:50:29.180 it's the best

00:50:29.620 he can do.

00:50:30.380 But I think

00:50:30.920 it's hilarious

00:50:31.540 that he might be

00:50:33.760 playing to get

00:50:34.460 one Republican

00:50:35.200 on the jury

00:50:35.880 to hang the jury.

00:50:36.760 And it also

00:50:41.760 makes me wonder

00:50:42.600 if the way

00:50:44.760 they're going to prove

00:50:45.540 that CNN

00:50:46.200 may have,

00:50:47.040 you know,

00:50:47.760 rigged this video

00:50:48.660 is,

00:50:49.620 is Diddy's defense

00:50:51.060 going to show

00:50:52.200 other examples

00:50:53.200 where CNN

00:50:54.960 did fake news?

00:50:56.900 Because that

00:50:57.700 would be hilarious.

00:50:59.820 Like,

00:51:00.480 I'm not pro-Diddy,

00:51:02.520 but I might

00:51:03.860 be pro-Diddy

00:51:04.700 just for the,

00:51:05.460 just for the purpose

00:51:07.640 of the trial.

00:51:08.960 Because if he puts

00:51:10.040 CNN on trial

00:51:11.180 and says,

00:51:12.160 all right,

00:51:12.920 it's my credibility

00:51:13.900 against CNN.

00:51:15.240 Here's the things

00:51:16.140 I've said

00:51:16.720 and here's the things

00:51:18.440 CNN has said.

00:51:20.220 Now,

00:51:20.780 I don't know

00:51:21.120 if that'd be allowed.

00:51:22.500 You know,

00:51:22.800 I don't know enough

00:51:24.120 about the law

00:51:24.780 to know if,

00:51:25.400 if,

00:51:25.980 if presenting

00:51:27.540 a pattern

00:51:28.360 of deception,

00:51:29.640 would that be allowed?

00:51:31.760 Or would you have

00:51:32.400 to focus on

00:51:33.160 this one thing

00:51:33.820 you're claiming?

00:51:35.060 If he would be

00:51:36.020 allowed to show

00:51:36.820 the pattern

00:51:37.400 of CNN

00:51:38.260 getting stories wrong

00:51:39.860 and maybe even

00:51:41.140 knowing it was wrong

00:51:42.000 when they did it,

00:51:42.960 that would be hilarious.

00:51:46.080 And again,

00:51:47.180 you just need

00:51:48.240 one Republican

00:51:48.960 to say,

00:51:49.820 you know,

00:51:50.620 I don't love Diddy,

00:51:53.020 but he's got a point.

00:51:58.260 Anyway,

00:52:00.100 there are two states

00:52:01.300 that are noodling

00:52:02.040 on the concept

00:52:02.820 of getting rid

00:52:03.380 of property tax

00:52:04.580 under the theory

00:52:06.320 that we all agree with

00:52:07.440 that if you have

00:52:08.920 to pay property tax

00:52:10.100 or the state

00:52:10.680 will take your house away, 0.99

00:52:11.960 you don't really own anything.

00:52:13.900 You're just renting it

00:52:15.020 from the state.

00:52:16.060 That's exactly

00:52:16.880 how I feel.

00:52:18.400 All right.

00:52:19.020 So I've got,

00:52:19.700 I've got high property taxes

00:52:21.380 in California,

00:52:22.540 partly because,

00:52:23.760 you know,

00:52:23.940 property values

00:52:24.720 are high here,

00:52:25.500 but also it's

00:52:26.540 1.15%

00:52:28.300 per year.

00:52:29.860 It's expensive.

00:52:32.080 But I don't see

00:52:33.040 how any of this

00:52:33.740 could work

00:52:34.320 unless they magically

00:52:35.640 come up with

00:52:36.320 a new source

00:52:37.340 of taxes

00:52:38.000 or they reduce

00:52:38.900 their government spending,

00:52:40.080 which I don't see

00:52:40.700 happening too much

00:52:41.540 in the states.

00:52:42.160 So I don't think

00:52:43.740 it's going to happen,

00:52:45.140 but I love that

00:52:46.400 they're talking about it.

00:52:48.320 You know,

00:52:48.620 if you're talking

00:52:49.220 about it seriously

00:52:50.040 like Pennsylvania

00:52:51.360 and Florida is,

00:52:53.080 are,

00:52:53.940 you know,

00:52:56.060 maybe,

00:52:56.780 you know,

00:52:57.400 talking about it

00:52:58.220 might be the first step

00:52:59.220 to getting serious.

00:53:00.600 Maybe somebody

00:53:01.200 comes up with an idea.

00:53:02.920 Somebody had an idea

00:53:03.940 of, you know,

00:53:05.080 taxing remittances

00:53:06.380 to other countries,

00:53:08.000 mostly Mexico.

00:53:09.800 But I don't know.

00:53:11.140 I don't know.

00:53:12.160 I don't think

00:53:12.900 they can get there.

00:53:14.600 But I like

00:53:16.360 that they're talking

00:53:16.880 about it.

00:53:18.880 Fox News

00:53:19.560 had a stat

00:53:21.080 that some people

00:53:22.100 find alarming.

00:53:23.480 The immigration 0.65

00:53:24.200 accounted for all

00:53:25.520 of the U.S.

00:53:26.640 population growth

00:53:27.660 in 2022

00:53:29.220 and 2023.

00:53:30.940 And that's the first

00:53:31.940 time that's happened

00:53:32.620 since 1850.

00:53:34.660 All of the U.S.

00:53:35.640 population growth

00:53:36.560 was immigration.

00:53:38.560 How is that possible?

00:53:40.980 Is it because

00:53:42.060 more people

00:53:43.260 who were already

00:53:43.940 residents

00:53:44.460 died than had babies?

00:53:47.560 That must be it.

00:53:48.700 Otherwise,

00:53:49.120 there would be

00:53:49.320 at least some

00:53:50.060 contribution

00:53:50.600 from the residents.

00:53:53.620 Anyway,

00:53:54.680 then I guess

00:53:56.840 the second question

00:53:57.700 I'd ask

00:53:58.280 is,

00:53:59.880 do the recent immigrants,

00:54:01.800 are they likely

00:54:02.700 to have more babies

00:54:03.720 than the average?

00:54:04.560 and it depends.

00:54:09.020 You know,

00:54:09.320 if they fall

00:54:09.920 into the same

00:54:10.740 economic bind

00:54:12.520 that the current

00:54:13.660 citizens have,

00:54:15.280 they might decide,

00:54:16.240 oh,

00:54:16.660 you know,

00:54:16.980 if I were back home,

00:54:17.900 I'd have five kids,

00:54:18.960 but maybe I'd better

00:54:19.760 stop with one

00:54:20.580 because I can't afford it.

00:54:23.060 So,

00:54:23.760 I don't even know

00:54:24.580 if recent immigrants

00:54:25.680 are going to cause

00:54:26.620 any new

00:54:27.560 population wave

00:54:29.040 or not.

00:54:30.440 You know,

00:54:30.800 maybe they want

00:54:31.600 more babies,

00:54:32.240 but it just doesn't work

00:54:33.500 once they get here.

00:54:36.480 You're saying

00:54:37.080 they want to anchor

00:54:37.800 baby right away?

00:54:39.160 Yeah,

00:54:39.620 there are a lot

00:54:40.020 of variables

00:54:40.860 on this,

00:54:42.080 but,

00:54:42.660 you know,

00:54:43.980 Trump's idea

00:54:44.740 that we should

00:54:46.580 be a place

00:54:47.200 that lets in

00:54:48.160 anybody who

00:54:50.220 can add

00:54:51.000 to the country

00:54:51.640 economically,

00:54:53.040 maybe that has

00:54:54.500 a way to

00:54:55.100 keep us vital.

00:54:56.900 But as

00:54:57.520 Elon Musk

00:54:58.380 has been warning

00:54:59.100 for years now,

00:55:00.360 correctly,

00:55:00.760 one of the

00:55:02.260 biggest risks,

00:55:03.220 maybe the biggest

00:55:03.960 risk after debt

00:55:05.460 is that the

00:55:06.940 population declines,

00:55:08.640 which,

00:55:09.060 by the way,

00:55:09.960 is really bad

00:55:10.680 for paying off debt.

00:55:12.680 So,

00:55:13.220 debt

00:55:13.460 and a declining

00:55:15.120 population

00:55:15.820 that needs

00:55:17.200 more resources

00:55:18.380 than they provide,

00:55:20.420 that's a

00:55:21.220 killer

00:55:21.780 combination

00:55:23.720 in a real

00:55:24.560 bad way.

00:55:25.800 So,

00:55:26.380 we're going to

00:55:26.640 have to figure

00:55:27.120 that out.

00:55:27.880 I don't know

00:55:28.280 if robots

00:55:28.780 can solve it,

00:55:29.560 but we'll see.

00:55:30.780 Meanwhile,

00:55:31.440 there's a

00:55:31.920 New York Post

00:55:33.080 is talking

00:55:35.000 about a poll

00:55:35.620 that nearly

00:55:37.600 a quarter

00:55:38.180 of L.A.

00:55:38.940 county residents

00:55:39.740 are considering

00:55:40.400 moving because

00:55:41.700 of that January

00:55:42.740 fire and the

00:55:44.480 bad management

00:55:45.140 of the state.

00:55:47.440 And more

00:55:48.180 than a third

00:55:48.780 have little

00:55:49.280 confidence in

00:55:50.480 the mayor

00:55:51.120 Bass,

00:55:52.580 according to

00:55:53.000 the new

00:55:53.320 poll.

00:55:53.560 It's

00:55:53.920 sponsored by

00:55:56.260 the L.A.

00:55:56.640 times,

00:55:57.560 conducted

00:55:58.960 by the

00:55:59.660 University

00:56:00.680 of California

00:56:01.400 Berkeley.

00:56:02.720 And

00:56:03.120 23%

00:56:05.200 of respondents

00:56:05.840 are considering

00:56:06.620 a move.

00:56:08.100 Wow.

00:56:09.200 Now,

00:56:10.060 where I live,

00:56:12.600 it's also

00:56:13.300 becoming

00:56:13.920 so difficult

00:56:15.260 to be a

00:56:15.880 California resident,

00:56:17.220 but I'll tell

00:56:17.940 you what

00:56:18.200 the thinking

00:56:20.120 process is

00:56:21.080 for me.

00:56:21.560 I think

00:56:23.000 to myself,

00:56:23.820 damn it,

00:56:24.840 I'm just

00:56:25.300 going to move

00:56:25.800 out of this

00:56:26.280 state.

00:56:26.720 And then I

00:56:27.080 think,

00:56:27.700 well,

00:56:28.400 I don't want

00:56:29.160 to move

00:56:29.420 out of the

00:56:29.800 state if

00:56:30.340 all the

00:56:30.620 people I

00:56:31.040 care about

00:56:31.520 the most

00:56:32.060 are still

00:56:32.780 in the

00:56:33.040 state.

00:56:34.580 Because,

00:56:35.140 you know,

00:56:35.320 your life,

00:56:36.720 if you can

00:56:37.500 afford it,

00:56:38.580 your life is

00:56:39.580 about the

00:56:39.980 people.

00:56:41.180 Right?

00:56:41.880 So why

00:56:42.480 would I move

00:56:43.000 away from

00:56:43.440 the people

00:56:44.020 that I care

00:56:45.800 about the

00:56:46.180 most?

00:56:47.080 And then I

00:56:47.840 think,

00:56:48.420 what about

00:56:49.120 the weather?

00:56:49.700 Do you

00:56:51.160 think I

00:56:51.480 could live

00:56:51.860 in Florida

00:56:52.480 all year

00:56:53.080 round?

00:56:54.400 There are

00:56:54.880 months in

00:56:55.360 Florida where

00:56:55.920 you just

00:56:56.320 don't want

00:56:56.660 to go

00:56:56.860 outside.

00:56:57.420 What about

00:56:57.740 Arizona?

00:56:59.600 Yeah,

00:56:59.940 there's a

00:57:00.360 long period

00:57:01.920 in Arizona

00:57:02.440 where you

00:57:03.020 don't want

00:57:03.300 to go

00:57:03.520 outside.

00:57:05.360 What about

00:57:06.100 the snow

00:57:06.660 country?

00:57:07.180 What about

00:57:07.520 the hurricane

00:57:08.340 country?

00:57:09.000 What about

00:57:09.340 the blizzard

00:57:12.620 country where

00:57:13.500 the electricity

00:57:15.200 isn't dependable?

00:57:18.360 One of the

00:57:19.080 things that I

00:57:19.800 chose about

00:57:21.080 California and

00:57:21.900 specifically where

00:57:22.760 I am right

00:57:23.140 now is that

00:57:24.360 I didn't want

00:57:24.980 to die because

00:57:25.720 I went

00:57:26.060 outdoors.

00:57:27.760 How did he

00:57:28.700 die?

00:57:29.300 Well, he

00:57:30.520 made the

00:57:30.860 tragic mistake

00:57:31.720 of going

00:57:32.420 outdoors.

00:57:34.060 In California,

00:57:35.040 if you bring

00:57:35.680 a coat,

00:57:37.440 you're pretty

00:57:37.940 much okay

00:57:38.640 any time of

00:57:40.460 year if you

00:57:40.860 go outdoors.

00:57:42.580 So, you

00:57:43.420 know, I'm

00:57:45.520 far enough

00:57:46.000 away from a

00:57:46.800 fault.

00:57:47.940 Of course,

00:57:48.580 I'm probably

00:57:48.880 jinxing myself

00:57:49.720 right now.

00:57:50.920 But it's

00:57:51.480 really, really,

00:57:52.540 really hard

00:57:53.700 if you can

00:57:55.360 afford to live

00:57:56.620 here at all,

00:57:57.340 and it's

00:57:57.720 ridiculous.

00:57:59.020 I mean, the

00:57:59.520 cost of living

00:58:00.840 here is just

00:58:01.300 crazy.

00:58:02.380 But if you

00:58:03.180 can afford

00:58:03.620 it, it's

00:58:05.760 still tough to

00:58:06.880 beat, even

00:58:07.760 with all of

00:58:08.360 our problems.

00:58:09.580 Now, of

00:58:10.480 course, I'm

00:58:10.860 not living

00:58:11.420 where there

00:58:13.160 are street

00:58:14.220 people just

00:58:15.260 all over

00:58:16.020 the streets

00:58:16.680 and, you

00:58:17.580 know, it's

00:58:17.820 not like it's

00:58:18.400 the, I

00:58:19.080 don't live

00:58:19.480 where it's

00:58:19.900 like the

00:58:20.360 zombie

00:58:20.780 apocalypse, but

00:58:23.360 maybe it's

00:58:23.880 coming my

00:58:24.360 way.

00:58:25.580 I mean, my

00:58:26.560 neighborhood has

00:58:27.300 been hit, I

00:58:28.100 think, four

00:58:28.780 times in

00:58:30.380 maybe 18

00:58:31.040 months by

00:58:31.700 what we think

00:58:32.560 are the

00:58:32.860 Venezuelan

00:58:33.620 burglary

00:58:34.300 gangs.

00:58:35.000 Four times.

00:58:36.200 Just my

00:58:36.840 immediate

00:58:37.160 neighbors.

00:58:38.680 So the

00:58:39.160 odds of me

00:58:39.800 getting hit

00:58:40.840 by burglars

00:58:42.500 coming into

00:58:43.000 my house

00:58:43.460 when I'm

00:58:43.900 home,

00:58:44.260 it's

00:58:46.020 pretty high.

00:58:47.520 Pretty high.

00:58:49.040 And still,

00:58:50.500 even with

00:58:51.420 all of

00:58:51.760 that, it's

00:58:53.560 really tough

00:58:54.120 to find a

00:58:54.640 better place

00:58:55.120 to go to

00:58:55.700 when you

00:58:56.600 factor in

00:58:57.500 you don't

00:58:58.120 want to

00:58:58.380 leave the

00:58:58.700 people.

00:59:00.140 The weather

00:59:00.500 is amazing.

00:59:02.040 It's just

00:59:02.600 hard.

00:59:04.980 Anyway,

00:59:05.640 speaking of

00:59:06.800 Greenland,

00:59:07.960 NATO says

00:59:09.340 they want to

00:59:09.780 stay out of

00:59:10.280 it.

00:59:11.660 I think

00:59:12.300 Trump said

00:59:12.840 something about

00:59:13.540 it would be

00:59:14.240 good for

00:59:14.640 NATO if

00:59:15.620 the US

00:59:17.500 gained control

00:59:19.480 of Greenland.

00:59:20.920 And the

00:59:21.420 head of

00:59:21.720 NATO said,

00:59:22.360 yeah,

00:59:22.700 leave us

00:59:23.320 out of

00:59:23.580 this.

00:59:23.860 We don't

00:59:24.820 want to

00:59:25.060 be in

00:59:25.280 that

00:59:25.460 conversation.

00:59:26.520 Got it.

00:59:27.420 But NATO

00:59:28.260 does agree

00:59:29.040 that Greenland

00:59:30.700 is militarily

00:59:31.820 and strategically

00:59:33.400 vital.

00:59:35.200 So,

00:59:36.180 you know,

00:59:37.020 they're willing

00:59:37.400 to go

00:59:37.700 halfway.

00:59:38.800 It's like,

00:59:39.180 yeah,

00:59:39.520 it is

00:59:40.560 strategically

00:59:41.340 vital.

00:59:43.580 But leave

00:59:43.960 us out of

00:59:44.340 this conversation,

00:59:45.160 please.

00:59:47.780 So,

00:59:48.500 we'll see if

00:59:49.560 that goes

00:59:49.940 anywhere.

00:59:50.460 But,

00:59:51.160 at the same

00:59:51.880 time,

00:59:52.440 there's a big

00:59:53.560 problem with

00:59:54.100 icebreakers.

00:59:55.460 So,

00:59:55.900 passage of,

00:59:56.900 through the

00:59:57.460 water

00:59:59.120 passageways

01:00:00.820 around

01:00:01.200 Greenland

01:00:01.980 in Canada,

01:00:03.740 there's a

01:00:05.200 problem with

01:00:05.660 ice.

01:00:06.420 I guess

01:00:06.740 Trump said

01:00:07.300 the U.S.

01:00:07.740 is in the

01:00:08.560 process of

01:00:09.180 ordering 48

01:00:10.100 icebreaker

01:00:10.800 ships.

01:00:12.860 And

01:00:13.300 Canada has 0.52

01:00:14.220 already said,

01:00:15.080 do you mind

01:00:16.080 if we use

01:00:16.560 some of your

01:00:17.000 ships?

01:00:19.180 And

01:00:19.660 Trump's saying,

01:00:20.680 yeah,

01:00:20.860 you got to

01:00:21.200 pay for

01:00:21.580 them.

01:00:23.040 And he

01:00:23.580 says,

01:00:23.860 Canada pays 0.88

01:00:24.480 very little

01:00:24.980 for their

01:00:25.380 military.

01:00:26.400 Blah,

01:00:26.600 blah,

01:00:26.740 blah.

01:00:28.400 So,

01:00:28.960 here's what

01:00:29.300 I'm wondering.

01:00:30.420 I wonder

01:00:30.820 if Trump

01:00:31.420 may be

01:00:32.620 creating a

01:00:33.360 situation

01:00:33.920 where

01:00:35.240 instead of

01:00:36.940 conquering

01:00:38.200 Canada,

01:00:38.980 which of

01:00:39.360 course we

01:00:39.740 don't want

01:00:40.120 to do,

01:00:40.720 or conquering

01:00:41.700 Greenland,

01:00:42.380 which of

01:00:42.740 course we

01:00:43.120 don't want

01:00:43.520 to do,

01:00:44.500 he just

01:00:45.340 creates a

01:00:45.840 situation

01:00:46.320 where it

01:00:47.240 just becomes

01:00:48.000 smarter and

01:00:49.620 smarter to

01:00:51.040 just sort of

01:00:51.600 join with

01:00:52.140 us.

01:00:53.560 And one of

01:00:54.120 those ways

01:00:54.620 would be to

01:00:55.460 start charging

01:00:56.380 them for

01:00:57.600 services that

01:00:58.580 we're providing,

01:00:59.960 such as

01:01:00.580 military

01:01:01.040 protection,

01:01:01.980 such as

01:01:02.480 icebreaker

01:01:03.080 ships.

01:01:04.080 And I

01:01:04.300 wonder if

01:01:04.680 you could

01:01:05.000 just

01:01:05.340 essentially

01:01:06.580 create an

01:01:07.220 economic

01:01:07.840 situation that

01:01:08.880 doesn't exist

01:01:09.500 yet,

01:01:10.240 but could

01:01:10.800 you create

01:01:11.220 an economic

01:01:11.960 situation where

01:01:13.060 Canada and

01:01:14.160 Greenland both

01:01:15.240 say,

01:01:16.060 you know

01:01:16.320 what,

01:01:18.120 all right,

01:01:18.520 let's just

01:01:18.940 save a bunch

01:01:20.340 of money and

01:01:21.640 join together.

01:01:23.500 I don't know.

01:01:24.020 if I had to

01:01:26.500 bet,

01:01:26.900 I would bet

01:01:27.380 against Canada

01:01:28.560 becoming a

01:01:29.360 state and I

01:01:30.040 would bet

01:01:31.020 against the

01:01:31.940 U.S.

01:01:32.300 having,

01:01:33.380 let's say,

01:01:33.840 government

01:01:34.220 control of

01:01:34.960 Greenland,

01:01:35.860 but you

01:01:36.900 never know.

01:01:38.460 I mean,

01:01:38.840 the thing

01:01:39.320 about Trump

01:01:39.900 is if you

01:01:41.280 underestimate

01:01:41.940 his persuasive

01:01:43.380 powers,

01:01:44.460 you almost are

01:01:45.620 always wrong.

01:01:47.680 You know,

01:01:47.920 everybody who

01:01:48.520 said,

01:01:48.880 well,

01:01:49.280 he's just

01:01:49.760 this clown

01:01:51.040 from a TV

01:01:52.180 show.

01:01:52.660 He's never

01:01:52.980 going to

01:01:53.280 become,

01:01:53.860 okay,

01:01:54.740 he became

01:01:55.100 president,

01:01:55.620 but that

01:01:55.840 was totally

01:01:56.360 a fluke.

01:01:57.180 He's never

01:01:57.620 going to be

01:01:58.000 able to do

01:01:58.400 it again.

01:01:58.980 Look at what

01:01:59.400 happened in

01:01:59.860 2020.

01:02:00.900 And so

01:02:01.340 there's no

01:02:01.740 chance he'll

01:02:02.240 become president

01:02:02.940 again in

01:02:03.460 2020.

01:02:04.680 Oh.

01:02:06.240 Yeah.

01:02:07.300 So betting

01:02:08.120 against Trump's

01:02:09.780 persuasiveness

01:02:10.820 has been a

01:02:11.980 losing bet for

01:02:13.000 10 years,

01:02:14.260 maybe forever.

01:02:16.540 So we'll see.

01:02:17.720 I guess I'll

01:02:18.100 just watch this

01:02:18.860 with anticipation.

01:02:21.040 see what

01:02:25.260 else we got.

01:02:25.980 According to

01:02:26.740 the Daily

01:02:27.660 Mail,

01:02:29.200 there's a

01:02:30.020 audio came

01:02:33.960 out that

01:02:36.020 alleges that

01:02:37.940 there was

01:02:39.460 somebody involved

01:02:40.600 in kind of

01:02:41.820 a DEI role

01:02:43.200 who was

01:02:44.120 teaching a

01:02:45.160 bunch of

01:02:46.560 mostly

01:02:47.600 black

01:02:48.340 applicants

01:02:51.200 for the

01:02:52.140 FAA

01:02:52.700 how to

01:02:54.660 cheat on

01:02:55.900 the tests

01:02:56.500 so that

01:02:58.140 they would

01:02:58.860 get hired.

01:03:00.720 Now,

01:03:01.400 that's the

01:03:01.840 bombshell

01:03:02.520 allegation.

01:03:04.360 We'll wait

01:03:05.020 to see if

01:03:05.440 there's any

01:03:05.780 defense to it,

01:03:06.560 but I have

01:03:07.120 heard the

01:03:07.460 audio,

01:03:08.100 and the

01:03:09.260 audio does

01:03:10.220 sound like

01:03:11.060 there's

01:03:12.440 somebody

01:03:12.800 telling them

01:03:13.480 how to

01:03:13.740 pass the

01:03:14.200 test in

01:03:14.860 a way that

01:03:15.440 maybe you

01:03:16.580 shouldn't be

01:03:16.940 telling people

01:03:17.440 how to

01:03:17.760 pass the

01:03:18.320 test.

01:03:19.580 So I

01:03:20.480 guess

01:03:20.720 Secretary

01:03:21.680 Duffy is

01:03:22.320 going to

01:03:22.640 launch an

01:03:23.200 investigation

01:03:23.740 into that.

01:03:26.000 Meanwhile,

01:03:26.720 over on

01:03:27.120 MSNBC,

01:03:28.680 Lawrence

01:03:29.320 O'Donnell

01:03:29.880 announced he

01:03:31.280 needs to

01:03:31.660 take a week

01:03:32.160 off because

01:03:32.740 he's exhausted

01:03:33.480 from the

01:03:34.580 Trump

01:03:34.820 presidency.

01:03:37.980 He's

01:03:38.460 exhausted,

01:03:39.140 I tell you.

01:03:41.320 And there's

01:03:42.600 an episode

01:03:43.060 where he's

01:03:43.600 talking to

01:03:44.380 Rachel Maddow,

01:03:45.760 so it's a

01:03:46.220 split screen,

01:03:47.280 and he's

01:03:47.800 informing her.

01:03:48.600 I guess she

01:03:48.880 hadn't heard

01:03:49.300 it until he

01:03:50.000 said it live

01:03:50.700 on air,

01:03:51.440 that he

01:03:51.720 needed to

01:03:52.160 take a

01:03:52.520 week off.

01:03:53.880 And the

01:03:54.280 funniest thing

01:03:54.900 was watching

01:03:56.820 them from a

01:03:57.860 theatrical

01:03:58.600 perspective.

01:04:00.120 You have to

01:04:00.940 watch the

01:04:01.340 clip if you're

01:04:02.300 on X or

01:04:02.860 somewhere,

01:04:03.180 so look

01:04:03.460 for the

01:04:03.800 Lawrence

01:04:04.160 O'Donnell

01:04:04.660 taking a

01:04:05.740 week off

01:04:06.300 and Rachel

01:04:07.220 Maddow.

01:04:07.800 You have to

01:04:08.300 watch Rachel

01:04:08.920 Maddow's

01:04:09.520 face while

01:04:11.160 she's listening

01:04:11.800 to him.

01:04:12.760 She goes

01:04:13.280 through like

01:04:14.300 ten different

01:04:14.940 faces.

01:04:22.240 And it

01:04:23.580 looks like,

01:04:24.960 you know,

01:04:25.260 I always kid

01:04:26.080 them about

01:04:26.600 being the

01:04:27.020 theater kids.

01:04:28.360 It just

01:04:29.200 looks like

01:04:29.680 theater.

01:04:30.760 It doesn't

01:04:31.400 look like a

01:04:32.040 real person

01:04:32.640 listening to

01:04:33.320 another real

01:04:34.100 person having

01:04:34.700 a conversation.

01:04:36.160 It looks

01:04:36.660 like some

01:04:37.160 weird,

01:04:38.280 exaggerated

01:04:39.100 AI play

01:04:42.100 or something.

01:04:43.260 It's the

01:04:43.700 damnedest

01:04:44.140 thing.

01:04:44.820 Now,

01:04:45.020 I don't

01:04:45.220 know how

01:04:45.500 many of

01:04:45.860 you have

01:04:46.300 had this

01:04:46.940 experience

01:04:47.500 yet,

01:04:48.020 but when

01:04:48.700 you start

01:04:49.160 seeing the

01:04:49.660 Democrats

01:04:50.060 and their

01:04:50.740 supporters

01:04:51.180 through the

01:04:52.460 theater kids

01:04:53.540 filter,

01:04:55.620 it's all

01:04:56.200 you can see.

01:04:56.800 you can't

01:04:58.700 really get

01:04:59.020 back from

01:04:59.560 it.

01:04:59.720 It's like

01:05:00.120 a one-way

01:05:00.580 trip.

01:05:01.520 They don't

01:05:02.480 look like

01:05:03.040 serious

01:05:03.460 people.

01:05:04.520 They look

01:05:05.280 like actors.

01:05:07.060 And they

01:05:07.360 look like

01:05:07.820 they're not

01:05:08.620 just actors,

01:05:09.540 but they're

01:05:10.120 actors in a

01:05:10.800 play.

01:05:11.860 Because you

01:05:12.160 know how if

01:05:12.840 you're doing

01:05:13.100 a play,

01:05:13.700 you have to

01:05:14.340 project a

01:05:14.980 little bit

01:05:15.320 more?

01:05:16.360 You know,

01:05:16.680 if you watch

01:05:17.360 a TV show

01:05:18.120 or a movie,

01:05:19.360 usually it's a

01:05:20.300 mumble show.

01:05:20.940 by the way,

01:05:22.640 I was trying

01:05:23.280 to watch

01:05:23.660 this new

01:05:25.780 movie about

01:05:28.380 what's his

01:05:30.820 name,

01:05:31.280 the famous

01:05:33.540 musician,

01:05:35.760 oh,

01:05:36.660 why am I

01:05:37.200 forgetting his

01:05:37.720 name?

01:05:38.320 But he

01:05:38.760 mumbles.

01:05:41.120 I am so

01:05:42.060 sick of

01:05:42.600 mumble

01:05:42.960 movies.

01:05:47.100 The only

01:05:47.800 thing worse

01:05:48.260 than a

01:05:48.620 mumble

01:05:48.900 movie is

01:05:50.160 a British

01:05:50.820 mumble

01:05:51.220 movie.

01:05:52.140 Oh,

01:05:52.500 bloody

01:05:56.180 hell.

01:05:58.620 Yeah,

01:05:59.320 Dylan.

01:06:00.260 Bob

01:06:00.860 Dylan.

01:06:01.620 So the

01:06:02.120 Bob Dylan

01:06:02.760 movie,

01:06:04.020 the guy

01:06:04.780 who plays

01:06:05.280 Bob Dylan

01:06:05.880 probably is

01:06:07.580 giving a

01:06:08.080 good impression

01:06:09.820 of him as

01:06:10.540 sort of a

01:06:11.080 low-talker

01:06:11.940 mumbler,

01:06:12.760 but I

01:06:13.860 can't get

01:06:14.280 through that.

01:06:15.800 I mean,

01:06:16.000 you'd have

01:06:16.540 to wear

01:06:16.920 headphones

01:06:17.580 or some

01:06:18.280 kind of

01:06:18.540 earpieces

01:06:19.020 to even

01:06:19.480 hear the

01:06:19.860 dialogue.

01:06:20.820 I tried

01:06:21.220 to hear

01:06:21.440 it on

01:06:21.680 speakers

01:06:22.100 and it's

01:06:22.560 just

01:06:22.760 anyway,

01:06:27.240 but if

01:06:28.220 you go

01:06:28.500 to a

01:06:28.800 play,

01:06:29.520 a live

01:06:30.100 play,

01:06:30.480 they can't

01:06:31.260 get away

01:06:31.600 with mumbling.

01:06:33.200 So they

01:06:33.560 tend to

01:06:34.160 project.

01:06:37.560 And that's

01:06:40.060 what it

01:06:40.280 looks like.

01:06:43.260 On locals,

01:06:44.500 they can put

01:06:45.420 pictures in the

01:06:46.120 comments,

01:06:46.540 and there's

01:06:47.360 one of the

01:06:47.760 pictures of

01:06:48.480 Rachel Maddow.

01:06:52.380 It doesn't

01:06:53.200 even look like

01:06:53.780 a real face.

01:06:55.800 Like,

01:06:56.160 whose real

01:06:56.700 face can

01:06:57.420 have that

01:06:58.320 many

01:06:58.820 variations

01:07:02.580 within 10

01:07:03.500 seconds?

01:07:04.000 Oh,

01:07:04.380 wow.

01:07:06.040 I mean,

01:07:06.640 it looks like

01:07:07.100 she's having

01:07:07.520 some kind of

01:07:08.060 medical emergency

01:07:09.580 there.

01:07:10.560 But no,

01:07:11.420 it's just the

01:07:12.120 theater kids.

01:07:13.360 All right,

01:07:13.740 ladies and 0.98

01:07:14.160 gentlemen,

01:07:15.300 happy Friday.

01:07:16.180 That's all I

01:07:16.640 wanted to talk

01:07:17.180 about today.

01:07:19.440 And I hope

01:07:20.460 you enjoyed it.

01:07:21.200 Even though I

01:07:21.760 didn't have a

01:07:22.180 guest today,

01:07:23.420 sometimes you

01:07:24.140 don't need

01:07:24.540 them.

01:07:25.540 But I'm

01:07:26.060 going to talk

01:07:26.380 to the people

01:07:26.900 on locals

01:07:27.420 privately.

01:07:28.480 For those of

01:07:28.940 you on X

01:07:29.660 and Rumble 0.98

01:07:30.220 and YouTube,

01:07:32.100 thanks for

01:07:32.620 joining.

01:07:33.660 We'll be back

01:07:34.300 tomorrow,

01:07:34.840 same time,

01:07:35.360 same place.

01:07:36.200 Locals,

01:07:37.040 I'm coming

01:07:37.620 at you privately

01:07:38.620 in 30 seconds.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 14, 2025

Episode 2778 CWSA 03⧸14⧸25

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