Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2779 CWSA 03⧸15⧸25

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00:00:38.900 Thanks, Paul. Everything is working swimmingly. Well, after today's live stream, which you will

00:00:48.880 just love, Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces on X. That's the audio thing. So look for Owen

00:00:59.280 Gregorian right after the live stream. It's a Scott Adams after parties Spaces. So you can talk about

00:01:07.620 either what the news is or I suppose anything that seems interesting.

00:01:11.460 You might know that SpaceX has already launched its rocket to rescue the astronauts that are stuck on

00:01:20.520 the International Space Station. And they should be back on Sunday. Boy, I hope that works.

00:01:30.060 Don't you think the country needs just that? You know, like a little one thing we cannot argue about.

00:01:36.660 Well, it's like, oh, some astronauts got rescued. Will the Democrats have a problem with it?

00:01:45.900 Do you think Pelosi and Schumer and the rest will say, you know, I really should have left them there

00:01:52.480 because there wasn't enough diversity or something? They're going to find a reason not to like it.

00:01:59.060 Well, Elon Musk gave us an update about his Mars plans. And he says that by the end of next year,

00:02:08.400 he plans to send the Starship to Mars. So at the end of next year, he's going to land a rocket with Mars,

00:02:17.660 but no people. He's going to put an Optimus, one of the robots. Well, at least one. You know,

00:02:24.680 I don't know how many robots, but at least one. And I'm thinking to myself, wouldn't the most

00:02:31.020 logical thing to do would be to ship a whole bunch of robots up there if you could keep them powered 0.78

00:02:37.620 and then have the robots build you your human qualified space station? Because you don't want,

00:02:47.420 you know, people up there until it's habitable. So I also think what would happen if you get several

00:02:55.840 robots up there and then something happens to, you know, the space program or whatever,

00:03:02.820 if they just decide to build their own civilization on Mars? Don't you think there's a non-zero chance

00:03:09.760 that the Earth will evolve one way and Mars will evolve completely with robots? They'll just build

00:03:18.400 some more of themselves and say, you know what? We could use a few more extra robots and then just

00:03:23.680 build their own up there. I don't know. Probably it would be too hard to get the parts to build your

00:03:28.400 own robot, but I like thinking about it. I like thinking about a robot planet. Maybe.

00:03:34.400 Well, according to reports, we're seeing this in the Gateway Pundit, apparently gas prices are now below

00:03:46.140 $3 in 31 states. Not my state. I'm still over $5, of course, because California's got crazy taxes on top

00:03:58.480 of the gas and whatever else. But yeah, it's like a new low, at least a recent low. So the national

00:04:07.680 average price for a gallon of regular gas sat at $3.07, according to AAA. Now, that's pretty good.

00:04:18.960 I haven't seen, you know, in California, like I say, our gas is always twice as expensive.

00:04:23.880 So the last time I saw $3 a gallon, that was a long time ago. A lot longer than you,

00:04:33.480 if you're in one of these states that's already seen the $3. Anyway, the US Postal Service has

00:04:40.120 agreed to work with Doge to figure out how to get more efficient. Epoch Times is reporting that.

00:04:46.520 It looks like they're going to cut 10,000 workers and they're going to try to figure out how to stop

00:04:53.800 doing all the crazy things that weren't economical. But did you realize that the post office was losing

00:05:01.480 $100 to $200 billion a year? Does that even sound like it could be real? You know, given the size of

00:05:10.760 our deficit, you don't think the easiest thing to fix would be to get the post office not to need any

00:05:17.960 more subsidies? I feel like all the other shipping companies make money. FedEx makes money. UPS makes

00:05:29.960 money. I just don't see the reason for a post office anymore. And, you know, I heard a lot of

00:05:37.720 people say that they take their mail directly to the garbage and sort of stand over it and drop most

00:05:44.520 of it in the garbage and keep the one bill or something that came to you. But I have a rule that

00:05:51.480 I won't let mail in my house. The ugliest thing you can do to your own house is have a place, usually in

00:05:59.880 the kitchen, where people drop the mail. And then it just becomes a pile of garbage. It's literally 0.98

00:06:08.040 just a pile of garbage. So I set up a station in my garage so that when I go to the mailbox and come

00:06:14.760 back, I've got a little sorting area in the garage that, you know, is less of a mess than if it were in

00:06:21.160 the house. And it's right next to the garbage. So I basically put all of it in the garbage. Now,

00:06:27.800 how hard would it be for the post office to say, you know what, we're not even going to deliver any

00:06:34.840 first-class mail anymore. We're just not going to do it. And then just say, if you want to see it,

00:06:41.160 you have to go online or look at it on your phone or something. Maybe the right solution is just not to

00:06:48.600 have a post office. Maybe. Well, in other news, Bill Burr, the comedian, is a freaking idiot.

00:06:56.680 He was on The Breakfast Club. Now, this was weeks ago, in February, I guess. But I just saw the clip. 1.00

00:07:02.920 And apparently, he actually believes that Musk intentionally gave a Nazi salute at that event.

00:07:11.880 Now, he sold it to me like he really believes it. And I'm so tired of arguing, well, you know,

00:07:22.040 maybe you saw a clip that was out of context or, you know, maybe the news said so, so you believe it.

00:07:29.480 I can't do it anymore. You're a freaking idiot if you think that anybody in America, any public figure, 1.00

00:07:38.360 if you think that anybody, whether it's Musk or Trump, anybody, if you think that they got on stage 1.00

00:07:45.900 and gave a Nazi salute, you're so dumb that I just need to mock you. You are so dumb. You should never 1.00

00:07:56.680 talk about politics again. That is way below the basic line of understanding anything about the world.

00:08:04.600 If you think that really happened in the real world, do you think he believed the fine people hoax?

00:08:10.360 Of course he did. Do you think he believed the drinking bleach hoax? Of course he did. Do you

00:08:16.440 think he believed the Russia collusion hoax? Of course he did. You know, I've always been a big

00:08:25.400 fan of his comedy. But man, some people shouldn't talk in public. And if they do, they have to get mocked.

00:08:33.320 So I'm so done with arguing why, oh, it's, you know, it's two movies on one screen. People are

00:08:41.160 getting different news. So of course they believe different things because they watch different

00:08:45.880 news. No, that's not the problem. The problem is you didn't need to see any news broadcast to know

00:08:51.560 that was not a Nazi salute. Because who would do that? There's nobody in the whole world who would do

00:08:57.160 that. And certainly not if you're winning so hard, you're the richest person in the world.

00:09:02.280 You're not going to do that. Nobody ever. You're a fricking idiot. Just absolute turd for brains.

00:09:11.800 I mean, there's no way to even, I can't even have a conversation with somebody that dumb. 1.00

00:09:18.200 Wow. I mean, it's just shockingly stupid. And I'm so done acting like it's anything but 1.00

00:09:27.240 just stupid. And we have to mock that much more mercilessly. So that's the beginning. 1.00

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00:09:50.600 richer than you think. So you all know Robbie Starbuck, activist. He's been going after a lot

00:09:57.080 of DEI and companies. And Bloomberg wanted to do an article on him. And I guess the reporter who was

00:10:07.000 a journalist, maybe, I don't know, reporter, journalist, writer, asked him, why is it women

00:10:15.640 earn 30% less than men? You know, if everything's kind of equal, why do women earn so much less than 0.93

00:10:23.240 men? Again, it's 2025. How could you be so stupid to think that that's a true statistic? So what Robbie

00:10:38.040 Starbuck did was explain to her, well, actually, there's not really much of a measurable difference

00:10:44.680 difference if you account for years worked, hours worked, and selection of jobs. If you just normalize

00:10:53.880 it for, you know, how many years you worked, and you normalize it for the same job, it just disappears.

00:11:00.600 So it's actually never been true. Well, hasn't been true since, I don't know, decades, that there was a

00:11:07.860 difference in the way you got paid for the same amount of work, for the same job. And the reporter,

00:11:14.680 of course, did not believe that, and went off to fact check it. What do you think happened?

00:11:22.120 When the journalist fact checked it, found out that he was completely right, and actually wrote that,

00:11:29.080 and actually, you know, showed that if you account for the hours worked and the difference in jobs,

00:11:36.040 that's about the same. Now, I heard one of the people in the comments I saw on Acts gave a great

00:11:45.080 explanation if you want to have, you know, one way to remember it. And it was somebody who worked at a

00:11:51.320 hospital, I guess, and said that among the doctors, there was something like a 22%

00:11:57.160 greater pay for the male doctors compared to the females. Now, if you only heard that,

00:12:05.080 would you say to yourself, my God, those sexists, they're giving less money to female doctors. 1.00

00:12:12.360 Now, the male doctors tended to be surgeons and high-paying types of medical professionals.

00:12:19.080 The women liked to be maybe in pediatrics or lower-paying jobs. It was entirely their own 1.00

00:12:26.680 selection. There was nothing stopping the women from being surgeons, and there was nothing stopping 0.66

00:12:32.040 the men from being, you know, more in the lower-paying jobs. It's just that that's what they picked.

00:12:38.920 So that's the entire explanation. But what's funny is, and I had to give Robbie a little warning,

00:12:47.560 might be too late, but Bloomberg is a Democrat, basically assassin. And back in, it might have

00:12:57.480 been 2017, I don't know the exact year. So when I was becoming notable for supporting Trump,

00:13:05.160 a Bloomberg, Bloomberg wanted to send a writer, who was a woman also, maybe the same one, I don't know. 0.70

00:13:15.720 And they wanted to do a feature about me. And I thought to myself, why not? I mean,

00:13:21.720 what do I have to lose? So the Bloomberg journalist followed me around for a day,

00:13:29.160 asked lots of questions, and then went off and wrote just the worst hit piece. And then I realized

00:13:37.720 what the game was. The game was to have the biggest publication, like a famous one like Bloomberg,

00:13:45.240 write a terribly negative piece. And then anytime you searched for my name,

00:13:50.280 guess what came out first? Every fricking time. That's right. The Bloomberg piece would come out 0.75

00:13:59.480 first. So here, what had actually happened is I had gone from not being a political

00:14:07.240 pundit whatsoever, to having the best call ever about Trump, and describing his persuasion ability,

00:14:16.520 which now everybody understands. I was literally changing the way politics was seen in the United

00:14:22.840 States, which by the way, if you ask AI, it will tell you, I changed the way politics are viewed in

00:14:28.360 the United States, to more of a persuasion filter, and less of a policy filter, which is true. So

00:14:37.880 instead of writing about that, they wrote this hit piece that just sat at the top of all the search

00:14:45.000 results. Absolutely disgusting behavior by not just the search engines, but Bloomberg. And I'm pretty

00:14:54.600 sure that's what the game is here with Robbie Starbuck, because Starbuck has been super successful

00:15:00.600 in getting companies to back down on DEI.

00:15:03.080 I think he's just being targeted. And I think that the game is exactly the same,

00:15:10.120 that if Bloomberg can become the sort of most prominent recent big major publication,

00:15:18.200 he's going to, whatever they say about him, and it surely won't be accurate,

00:15:24.520 will pop up first in the search results. I think that's the game. God, I hate them. Bloomberg just sucks.

00:15:31.880 And the thing I like to think about the woman who didn't know that women do earn as much as men. 1.00

00:15:41.560 And actually, I think, I think if you're looking at black women with college degrees, 1.00

00:15:48.440 I believe they actually make more than men for their first jobs. So they're doing great, actually.

00:15:54.600 Something in my eye. So I always like to end this with that. What do they find out about climate models?

00:16:09.480 I'm done arguing that humans can measure the temperature of the earth over decades and do

00:16:15.320 climate models that predict the future. That's just stupid. Like, I'm tired of acting like I need to 1.00

00:16:21.720 defend that point of view. I'll just say this. Wait until you find out. Because you're definitely

00:16:28.120 going to find out. It's going to be like the same day you learn that men and women actually do earn the

00:16:33.320 same when they do the same work and choose the same careers. So big surprises coming for some people.

00:16:41.480 Meanwhile, The Hill is reporting that, I guess, the education department is going to look into

00:16:48.760 about 50 colleges and universities who are still doing racial preferences in anything from academics

00:16:57.800 or scholarships. So that would be illegal because that would be racist. And it's not legal to be racist

00:17:06.200 and, you know, and do that sort of thing. So this is part of the Trump crackdown of DEI.

00:17:13.800 So, good. That's exactly what I want to hear. I want to hear that they're not going to allow them

00:17:20.920 to just change the names and, you know, shift people around and then just do the same racist 0.99

00:17:25.960 bullshit they were doing before. So yes, colleges and universities seem to be absolutely, totally 0.99

00:17:33.400 racist at the moment. But some of them are, some of them are shaping up.

00:17:37.880 You probably saw the news that Trump went to the Department of Justice, which is unusual,

00:17:44.840 and he gave a speech there. And you would not be surprised that he had some grievances.

00:17:51.240 And then he also had some accomplishments he talked about, and he said some good things about

00:17:57.000 some of the people, but not all of them. But here are some of the news he made. He said,

00:18:02.920 I believe CNN and MSNBC are political arms of the Democratic Party, and they are really corrupt and 0.85

00:18:10.280 illegal. Now, you might argue that it's not illegal. But then he goes on, and this is where his argument

00:18:19.720 gets pretty good. Now, whether it's technically illegal, you know, a reasonable person can say,

00:18:25.880 it's more like free speech. But he says, these networks and these newspapers are really no

00:18:32.600 different than a highly paid political operative, and it has to stop. It has to be illegal. I don't

00:18:39.720 know if it has to be. And he says, here's the payoff. He says, it's influencing judges,

00:18:46.840 and it's really changing law, and it just cannot be legal. To which I said, oh, damn. I didn't think 0.99

00:18:54.520 he was going to sway me on this, because my first thought was, well, you know, freedom of speech,

00:19:00.840 you know, all the news programs have a bias. You know, you can't really do much about it. It's just

00:19:06.360 something we have to live with. And then I thought how much it affected his freedom. If he had not won

00:19:13.640 the presidency, he would have been put in jail by judges who believed the news was real. Let me say it

00:19:22.520 again. He would have been put in jail by judges who believed the news is real. The gullible ones,

00:19:32.280 the dumb ones, you know, the Bill Burr of judges. If they thought that he's a really iller, 1.00

00:19:38.360 you don't think that makes a difference in their decisions? Of course it does.

00:19:42.760 So if you have judges who are clearly being influenced clearly, I mean, just obviously

00:19:50.760 being influenced by what they think is real news, that is a problem. And it's well beyond

00:19:58.680 free speech. Because free speech doesn't put you in jail for life. This would. The collusion of the,

00:20:07.640 you know, Democrat-leaning press could have put Trump in jail for the rest of his life.

00:20:14.760 So does he have a good reason to say this can't be illegal? He does. I think it is illegal.

00:20:22.360 And I don't know how we could make it illegal. But boy, does he have a good point. You know,

00:20:27.960 if it weren't him speaking, it just wouldn't seem that persuasive. But we all watched. And we all

00:20:35.400 watched the lawfare and the, you know, the bad behavior. And we know that that could have put him

00:20:41.880 in jail for the rest of his life. You know, only by winning did he avoid that. So, yeah, he has a

00:20:50.680 point. Now, of course, the problem would be that somebody is going to say, but, but, but what about

00:20:57.400 Fox News and Breitbart? You know, they, they're leaning the other way. Well, that's why the free

00:21:04.280 speech argument probably is going to win. Because you really couldn't criminalize it. But he's got

00:21:11.320 a good point. It's dangerous, dangerous stuff to some people. He also said, Trump did at the DOJ.

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00:21:27.000 James Comey, a great, great honor. There was no better day. But again, because he thought he got

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00:22:41.180 So on CNN, Jake Tapper was talking to one of the panelists that Scott Jennings is always dunking

00:22:50.160 on. So they've got a new dumb woman. I think they hire somebody who's like extra crazy and dumb. So I 1.00

00:22:57.740 don't even know her name and I don't want to learn it because she's just dumb. But so Jake Tapper is 0.99

00:23:02.900 talking to the dumb woman. And he says, and this was unusual, so I'm going to give Jake credit of this. 0.99

00:23:10.720 He said that you don't have to be MAGA to see that Trump has some, he has a point. And then Jake

00:23:19.760 listed several things in which, yeah, it does look a little law fairy. So he mentioned the struck

00:23:25.880 and page texts look really suspicious. You mentioned the FISA abuses. Correct. You mentioned

00:23:34.960 the weirdness with the Carter page stuff. In other words, running an op to try to, you know,

00:23:41.440 get Trump. They mentioned the Alvin Bragg situation where he basically made up a felony out of nothing.

00:23:47.800 Now, these are things that Jake Tapper mentioned off the top of his head that, you know, even from

00:23:57.100 the perspective of CNN, these look law fairy. And, and I appreciated that. So what did the dumb woman 1.00

00:24:05.360 say? Did the dumb woman say, oh yeah, actually that's a pretty good point. I could see from Trump's 1.00

00:24:11.200 point of view that he'd really feel like the law fair was out of control and you, and you gave me some

00:24:16.500 good examples. Nope. She started talking about Jack Smith and how Jack Smith would have gotten his

00:24:22.900 convictions according to Jack Smith if Trump hadn't won the election. Now, first of all, I'm pretty sure

00:24:29.700 that the Jack Smith stuff was complete bullshit too. But when she was done talking again, to Jake 0.98

00:24:37.920 Tapper's credit, he says, you know, I just want to point out to the audience that your answer was a

00:24:44.760 complete change of topic and you didn't address any of the things that I just mentioned. 0.96

00:24:51.720 So not only did CNN hire a woman so dumb that we enjoy watching Scott Jennings dunk on her, 1.00

00:25:01.480 but even Jake Tapper had to dunk on her because she was so stupid. I can't imagine she's going to keep 1.00

00:25:09.840 her job. I mean, she's, she's just extra. Anyway, according to the New York Post,

00:25:17.920 today there's lots of funny news about Democrats. The New York Post said that when MSNBC was planning

00:25:26.900 to do their big layoffs that included, you know, Joy Reid and a number of other people being moved

00:25:32.080 around, that they wrote it all up in a document and then they left it somewhere where before the

00:25:38.800 firings happened, one of the, one of the employees found the list of all the people who were going to

00:25:46.080 get fired and then distributed the list around. So the people, the, this high paid talent at MSNBC,

00:25:55.520 they all learned that they're firing by this document that somebody left. And I think Joy Reid

00:26:05.600 actually found out she was going to be fired from an article in the New York Times. So here's the fun

00:26:13.860 part. A big part of what MSNBC does is they say that Trump and the Trump administration are full of chaos

00:26:22.440 and, you know, they, they can't execute. And then you see that their own corporation just did some of

00:26:30.000 the most incompetent things you've ever seen in your life. You, you can't do much worse than having

00:26:36.160 a master plan to fire people and leaving it around where one of the employees can find it. That's a,

00:26:42.780 that's right near the top of incompetent management, but it's funny. So as long as it's funny,

00:26:50.620 it's worth something. So Chris Cuomo on NewsNation, he was calling out Pelosi as basically a, I'll use

00:27:02.240 my own word, but basically a liar. Because Pelosi was saying that the continued resolution was going

00:27:08.680 to destroy the world in a variety of vague ways. And, and Cuomo was like reading, reading Pelosi's

00:27:16.100 statement. And it was stuff like, and this will ruin that. And Chris is like, how, how, how is it

00:27:22.720 going to ruin that? And it will be terrible for this. And Chris says, how, in what way is it going

00:27:29.180 to be terrible for that? And it will be a debacle in many ways. And Chris says, how, how in the world?

00:27:38.440 And then he explains, which most of you already know, that the continuing resolution, which is the

00:27:44.100 budget is just a continuation from the Biden budget with very minor tweaks, not, you know, barely enough

00:27:51.480 worth mentioning. So it's basically the same level as it was, and almost the same funding. I mean,

00:27:58.440 just very small changes. So he basically just completely called her out for being essentially

00:28:06.520 just a propagandist who's creating something out of nothing. So that was good. Now, there's sort of a

00:28:18.920 larger thing that's happening, which is that the best way for any Democrat to get any attention

00:28:26.280 is to criticize another Democrat. Have you noticed that? We'll give you more examples as we go.

00:28:34.780 Anyway, there's a prominent polling company, according to the Western Journal, that's going

00:28:43.560 to close down. Let's see, it was Monmouth University. They've got their own polling. So the Monmouth

00:28:52.620 University Polling Institute has been operating since 2005, but they decided to close up shop.

00:28:59.520 Now, they were not exactly one of your most accurate pollsters lately, less certainly for presidential

00:29:08.440 stuff. They were in 2024 election about, you know, Trump. They were off by nearly six percentage points.

00:29:19.640 Now, that's really off. So they're just going to close up. So now we've heard that 538 is closed.

00:29:30.820 We heard that these guys are closing. Wasn't there another story just the other day where another

00:29:37.080 polling company was closing? And then there was that Ann Seltzer poll that came out of,

00:29:42.680 there was such an outlier during the last weeks of the election. And that looks, you know, I don't

00:29:50.960 think it's closed, but sort of disgraced. So it's really a bad year for polling companies. I think

00:29:58.680 the truth about what they really are meant to do is sort of coming out. But it makes me wonder,

00:30:05.440 was the Monmouth University Polling Institute ever real? Were they just bad at what they do so they

00:30:15.380 didn't get good results? Or is it a complete coincidence that they were bad in the direction

00:30:21.240 that propaganda would want them to be bad at? You know, to act like the other side is going to win?

00:30:27.520 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if they were always bad. Or if they just had a bad year. But

00:30:36.640 they're out of business now. The Hill is talking about yet another poll. This is a CNN poll

00:30:45.780 conducted by SSRS. And it found that 59% of respondents disapprove of Trump's handling

00:30:54.900 of relations with Moscow. Now, how many of those people they asked are experts at negotiating and

00:31:05.240 persuasion? Probably none. So what do their opinions mean to us? You know, it would be like asking these

00:31:13.840 people, what is your opinion of quantum science, you know, or quantum computers? And 99% of the people

00:31:22.600 would say, I don't even know what it is. So I don't like it. Why is the point of asking people

00:31:28.780 what their opinion is on topics that they couldn't possibly understand? Now, if you know anything about

00:31:35.600 negotiating and anything about persuasion, you know that both Putin and Trump are sort of, you know,

00:31:43.080 building or they're working on each other's egos. They're doing it right in public, so we can watch

00:31:49.180 the whole show. But you're not supposed to think that everything Trump says is some kind of an

00:31:57.760 expression of his inner thoughts. He's negotiating. So treating the other side a little bit better than

00:32:04.560 you think they should be treated is doing the right thing. So if you ask a bunch of people what they

00:32:11.240 think about it, you're just getting idiots who don't understand the situation giving you idiot takes. 1.00

00:32:17.420 What is the point of that poll? Is the point of that poll to just make Trump look bad? 1.00

00:32:24.020 I can't imagine why you would even ask that question, because you know people don't understand

00:32:28.940 how negotiating and persuasion works. And then here's another one. So according to the Economist

00:32:35.960 YouGov poll, nearly half of Americans said the economy is worsening. Really? Is that all the

00:32:43.960 people who are the people who are also economists? Why would you ask the public about the state of the

00:32:51.520 economy? Especially during this time of great, you know, change, when they don't understand tariffs,

00:32:59.040 they don't understand the national debt, they don't understand inflation.

00:33:03.180 The least useful thing I can think of is asking people who don't know anything about economics,

00:33:12.640 what is their opinion of the economy? It's a complete waste of time, unless, unless the point

00:33:22.240 of it is to make Trump look bad. So when I see stuff like this, I say to myself, did they really think

00:33:29.080 this needed to be asked? Like people who don't understand economics, we want their opinion on

00:33:35.960 economics? Why would that be? Well, probably for political reasons. I saw a video by a teacher,

00:33:47.820 I'll just change in the topic here, who said that if you're blaming teachers for what's happening in

00:33:54.580 schools, which is kids are not learning, that she wanted to inform us that it's actually the kids.

00:34:03.660 And she says that mostly because of smartphones and, you know, dopamine, dopamine, always juicing

00:34:12.160 them up so that when they get to school, there's nothing interesting. And they're, they're basically

00:34:16.280 like addicts. So she says the kids have just vacant eyes. It looks like they're not even there. She

00:34:24.360 says they have no, no ability to be bored. And because they're having dopamine withdrawal without

00:34:31.080 their phones, that they behave like addicts. So they get emotional and impatient and they're not

00:34:38.160 engaged and they have apathy. And apparently they seem immune to punishment and also immune to, you

00:34:46.520 know, you're not going to get good grades. They don't care. And they don't care about college.

00:34:53.800 Do you buy that? Do you think the problem is that the kids are ruined either by some combination of home

00:35:02.280 life plus the phones. And do you think that the teachers are largely helpless because they're not

00:35:10.120 even looking at like functioning people? It's like the entire class is just drunk or something.

00:35:18.960 Right. And, um, I thought this was worth a mention because, you know, I always mentioned the teachers

00:35:25.560 unions are the reason things are going wrong, but I kind of think it's got to be both.

00:35:32.520 It's got to be something the teachers could do better, which means they might need to adjust

00:35:37.300 from the way they used to do things to, you got to make it a lot more interesting.

00:35:42.920 If it's not a lot more interesting, well, you don't have a chance because you're competing with

00:35:48.300 more interesting. So I think I'm a half, I'm half convinced. So I do think that better teachers

00:35:57.540 would make a big difference, but I do think it's the hardest environment that teachers have ever

00:36:03.500 seen. So again, I say, if you had more of a free market for teachers where the bad ones can get

00:36:11.320 fired and the good ones can make more money and be promoted that, and that's, that's what the

00:36:17.580 teachers union prevents, you know, prevents any kind of free market like that. So I think it's both

00:36:24.060 better teachers would make a difference, but yeah, the kids are in a whole different realm at the

00:36:30.600 moment. Speaking of schools, Mark Andreessen was on Lex Friedman's podcast and he explained something

00:36:38.820 that I didn't know at all. And it gets to why colleges and universities are so bad.

00:36:46.900 And apparently the bigger institutions, especially, they make most of their money,

00:36:53.620 not from tuition, but from government research grants. The school keeps about 70% of what they

00:37:00.160 get from the government. So they're basically like government funded, even though they might be

00:37:06.180 private colleges, as long as they're getting a bunch of government funding for their quote,

00:37:11.720 research, and most of it just goes to the school, not the researcher, that this is basically what

00:37:18.080 keeps them in, in business. Now you might say to yourself, well, it seems like competition would

00:37:24.720 fix any problems at the college and university level, right? You know, there's, there's gotta be

00:37:30.340 colleges that are doing everything you want them to do. So, you know, everybody will start going there.

00:37:36.180 But what Andreessen points out is that if you wanted to start a new college, you'd have to be

00:37:46.360 accredited. Now, who do you think does the accrediting? This will blow your mind. Well, it's sort of the,

00:37:56.140 I don't know, the government or some entity, but they, they base their decisions on the colleges

00:38:03.440 themselves deciding if they should let competition in. That's a real thing, apparently. The colleges

00:38:12.300 themselves, the existing colleges get to decide if a new college can be accredited. And the new college

00:38:21.240 would be competition for their, their research grants. So the last thing that the existing colleges want

00:38:28.820 is more colleges. So the, the free market just doesn't work. They're basically dependent on the

00:38:36.340 government. And Andreessen says the only way to fix it is to let the colleges fail. Now that would

00:38:44.360 probably, he didn't say this, I don't think, but that would require the government to stop giving

00:38:50.160 grants for research or maybe give a lot fewer of them. And then the universities would just fail

00:38:57.780 and then you could start over. So, you know, start over without DEI and without all the crazy stuff

00:39:05.980 because colleges and universities seem to have, they act like they're not part of the free market.

00:39:12.860 And I always wondered about that. It's like, why do they, why do they act like they're not part of

00:39:18.900 the free market at all? That they could just do anything they want. And the answer is they weren't

00:39:23.740 part of the free market. So they could do anything they wanted. They had monopolies on the government's

00:39:29.480 money, basically. So maybe that's something that a Trump administration can fix. We'll see.

00:39:36.200 As you know, there are a number of conservative personalities have been swatted. The latest one

00:39:44.320 is Sean Farash. He's a Trump impersonator. So he and his wife got swatted. Jim Hoft is writing about

00:39:51.740 this in the Gateway Pundit. And once again, the middle of the night, law officers were dispatched.

00:40:02.760 So be careful out there. The bad guys are very bad. In good news, there's an appeals court

00:40:14.080 has lifted the injunctions on Trump's executive orders aimed at eliminating DEI. There were two of

00:40:21.960 them. And the appeals court basically said that they were going to overturn the lower court that

00:40:29.000 put a pause on it. And so now he can basically keep going after DEI. So that's good news.

00:40:42.960 In other good news, Trump has announced that the U.S. got rid of some big ISIS leader in Iraq,

00:40:51.000 and maybe the number two. Yeah, the top guy in the second in command. And they got him with a

00:40:57.400 precision airstrike. So Trump called him the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq. The Gateway Pundit's

00:41:05.620 writing about that. And how many times have we seen the leader of some terrorist organization

00:41:13.360 getting waxed? And it never seems to make any difference. But I always tell you that I think

00:41:21.600 there's a natural way that these organizations disintegrate. And it starts with the fact that

00:41:28.440 whoever was the charismatic genius who started the organization, once they're gone, you have to hope

00:41:36.140 that their number two is a charismatic genius who's as good at organizing as the first one.

00:41:43.600 But the odds are against it. And then you get rid of the second best person. And now the odds of the

00:41:51.520 third best person having the personality and the skills to keep the organization together, much lower.

00:41:59.340 So there's some number of assassinations that guarantee that whoever's left is incompetent,

00:42:05.540 and then they'll just destroy it on themselves, on their own. So maybe we're getting close to that.

00:42:11.500 Because there's no way that, you know, the fifth or tenth best leader was the same quality as whoever got

00:42:19.500 it going in the first place. Not much chance of that. Anyway, PJ Media, Scott Pinsker is writing that

00:42:28.180 Hakeem Jeffries, he's telling Democrats that they're winning, and we have the Republicans on the run.

00:42:40.180 Really? Does any of the news today sound like the Republicans are on the run?

00:42:48.820 I've never seen the Republicans in a stronger position in my life. The Republicans are in the

00:42:55.720 absolute dominant position about just about everything. But then he gives examples. He says,

00:43:04.180 we have the Republicans on the run. We have them on the run in terms of health care,

00:43:09.700 particularly as it relates to Medicaid. And apparently he thinks, or he wants you to believe,

00:43:17.560 that Medicaid is going to be deeply cut, and the Democrats are protecting it.

00:43:24.100 Now, correct me if I'm wrong, that's completely not true, right? I believe in terms of the benefits,

00:43:33.560 in terms of Medicaid, there's no intention of cutting the benefits. There is an intention

00:43:39.480 to see if there's any waste, fraud, and abuse. And if that's true, who wouldn't want to cut that?

00:43:45.060 So it looks like their best topic, you know, the one thing that the Democrats have to cling to,

00:43:53.220 looks completely made up. It's a hoax, just like everything else that they tried to sell.

00:44:00.300 It's just a hoax. Now, do you think that they could sell that hoax without CNN and MSNBC and the

00:44:08.540 other entities that will parrot what they say? I don't know. That would be a hard one to sell

00:44:15.680 because, you know, I'll take a fact check on this, but I'm pretty sure it's just completely made up.

00:44:22.900 You know, like the fine people hoax, like the, you know, Musk-Hiller salute that didn't really

00:44:30.360 happen, like the drinking bleach, like the Russia collusion. They are so consistent that the best

00:44:38.200 they can come up with to criticize the party of common sense is to make stuff up. And looks like

00:44:46.920 the fake Medicaid cuts are going to be the thing they made up. Meanwhile, Breitbart News is reporting

00:44:52.060 that Maxine Waters is accusing Trump of starting, of trying to start a civil war by not sending grant

00:45:00.960 money to nonprofits. Is anybody worried about the civil war because they didn't send grant money to

00:45:10.700 nonprofits, you know, the NGOs? No, I don't think so. But I love the fact that the faces of the Democrat

00:45:19.120 Party are Maxine Waters, Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi. Boy, do they have, they have a charisma,

00:45:33.000 a charisma gap that's just a mile long and deep. It's the worst charisma gap you've ever seen.

00:45:41.480 Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders is going to team up with AOC, and they're going to take their, what's called

00:45:50.700 their fighting the oligarchy rally. So they're going to do rallies. But here's, if they couldn't find a way

00:46:03.040 to be more pathetic than fighting the oligarchy, you know, something that their base doesn't even know 0.97

00:46:09.580 what the word means. Literally doesn't know what the word means. By the way, did you hear that Fetterman 0.98

00:46:14.300 said the same thing I did? So Fetterman was mocking them for going after the oligarchy. He said exactly

00:46:21.800 what I said. It's like, people don't even know what that word means. Like, talk like regular people.

00:46:27.700 But no, they're going to do a bunch of events to fight the oligarchy, but it gets better.

00:46:33.800 They're advising their supporters to mask up and wear masks during the rally, and not to hide their

00:46:48.260 shame, but rather to be medically safe. Now, could they? This is their best play of the week.

00:47:00.820 The best play of the week is to fight the oligarchy with masks on. Oh, my. Meanwhile, according to

00:47:20.460 Paul Homewood, there's this doctor, Dr. Peter Ridd, who's been studying the data on the climate change

00:47:30.520 and the Great Barrier Reef. Do you remember how the Great Barrier Reef was all going to disappear

00:47:35.760 because of climate change? Do you know what the problem was? Using the wrong data.

00:47:44.940 Turns out the Great Barrier Reef, yeah, it's fine.

00:47:50.160 That whole Great Barrier Reef, totally made up. It's doing fine. No problem at all with the Great.

00:47:57.920 Now, the thing that I'm laughing about is the level of patheticness and bad luck that the Democrats are 0.98

00:48:06.740 having. It's now completely just in the humorous stage because it's not like it's a fair fight. 0.69

00:48:12.400 At this point, it's really just flailing and ridiculousness. But yeah, so one of the biggest

00:48:21.880 claims of climate science, totally debunked, totally debunked. Wait until they find out about the

00:48:31.120 climate models, I keep saying. Anyway, so here's a little update on what I call the Democrats

00:48:40.100 circling the drain. All right, here's just a little rundown. Their messaging, this is my own take on

00:48:47.160 their messaging, is the oligarchs are kleptocrats trying to steal your democracy.

00:48:54.900 The oligarchs are kleptocrats trying to steal your democracy. That's the punchy, relatable,

00:49:04.160 the punchy, relatable theme that they're going for. And I'm thinking to myself,

00:49:11.620 if you held a contest to come up with the worst theme, would it look different than the oligarchs

00:49:19.820 or kleptocrats trying to steal your democracy? That is the most pathetic thing you'll ever see 0.99

00:49:27.540 in politics. And meanwhile, like I said, the faces of the party are these oldsters who have 0.99

00:49:33.820 completely lost their fastballs. You know, the Schumers, the Maxine Waters, the Pelosi's.

00:49:40.020 And at this point, the only way that Democrats can get attention is by criticizing Democrats.

00:49:48.440 So think about it. Fetterman criticized Democrats, got a lot of attention. Carville criticized Democrats,

00:49:56.960 got a lot of attention. Bill Maher criticized Democrats, got a lot of attention. Now, Fetterman,

00:50:02.080 according to the Hill, Fetterman is clapping back at AOC over government funding. So that's Fetterman

00:50:09.620 versus AOC. And then you've got Pelosi and who's the other guy who's mad at Schumer. That's also

00:50:18.180 according to the Hill. So everybody's mad at each other in the Democrat Party. Then we have some video

00:50:26.020 that was recently uncovered of Barack Obama introducing his own version of Doge.

00:50:32.080 Did you even know that he did that? I think you put Biden in charge of it.

00:50:37.560 So back in Obama's time, they tried to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse. And Obama kicked off

00:50:45.800 a whole effort that, as far as I know, accomplished nothing at all. Now compare that, Obama kicking off

00:50:54.840 an effort to get rid of waste and abuse. And I didn't even know what happened. It's definitely

00:51:01.900 not on their list of accomplishments. And then compare it to Doge, which is just driving a stake

00:51:10.060 into the heart of the waste, fraud, and abuse. Big difference.

00:51:18.120 And then we all see that the Democrats very recently used to say that closing the government

00:51:25.720 government because of, you know, the budget would be like the worst thing you could ever do.

00:51:33.680 And then suddenly they're in favor of it. It went from the worst thing you could ever do

00:51:38.940 to, yeah, that'd be a good idea. Pelosi wants to close it. Schumer didn't. So I think that's

00:51:44.940 over with because the continuing resolution did actually pass. And let's see what else.

00:51:55.500 Then CNBC is reporting that Amazon, Google, and Meta, three companies that you think sort of lean

00:52:02.720 Democrat, although it's not so clear at the moment, but it used to, they all support efforts to triple

00:52:09.840 nuclear energy worldwide by 2050. Now, of course, they need that for their own operations and for AI

00:52:16.320 and all that. But do you remember when one of the biggest reasons that Democrats were a party

00:52:23.280 was to oppose nuclear power? It was one of the biggest things that the left did, opposing nuclear

00:52:32.680 energy. And now the richest people in their party, the ones who know the most, the ones who know the

00:52:38.820 most of our business are all saying, we better do a lot of this nuclear energy. So it's like an

00:52:44.380 entire pillar on the left is gone. So their belief in climate change is being chipped away,

00:52:54.300 you know, a little bit at a time. It's like, you know, the Greenland temperatures didn't change

00:52:59.560 that much. And by the way, that Great Global Reef, the coral reefs look fine. You know, it's sort of

00:53:09.700 like the cats on the roof. You know, nuclear energy would be fine. What about all that waste? Well,

00:53:16.620 you can just store it at the site and it's not really a big deal. You just put it in a barrel.

00:53:21.080 It'll be fine. It's like everything they believe is just falling apart at the same time. All right.

00:53:31.180 And then there's a investigation by the free press that finds that the Trump resistance,

00:53:39.300 as it's being called, is being funded by the ultra wealthy Democrats. So at the same time that Bernie

00:53:45.660 and AOC are going after the oligarchs, their own oligarchs are funding this massive dark money

00:53:54.280 network. Um, it's being funded by, you know, Arabella advisors, uh, funded by Bill Gates and

00:54:02.180 Reed Hoffman and George Soros and Pierre Amidar from one of the eBay founders. And, uh, there's an

00:54:10.640 organization that their organization is families over billionaires that the billionaires, the

00:54:19.140 billionaires are funding something called families over billionaires. So they're pretending that they

00:54:26.940 don't have an oligarchy or no oligarchists or no kleptocrats on their side, but the oligarchy

00:54:34.660 kleptocrats, they're not kleptocrats, but they're oligarchies. Um, they're, they're secretly funding

00:54:40.840 the most effective thing that's happening on the Democrat side, which is, you know, anything that

00:54:45.840 these billionaires are funding. So imagine being a Democrat and waking up and finding that fighting

00:54:52.240 the billionaires just means that your own billionaires are in charge. Not exactly what they

00:54:58.440 were shooting for. And, uh, potential good news in science, 94% of, uh, plastic can be recycled in a

00:55:08.440 few hours with this new technique. And it, it breaks, breaks down. Let's see, what do they use? Uh, new

00:55:18.280 method. They use an inexpensive catalyst. So that's good news, but then they just leave it outside for a

00:55:27.340 bit and it just completely breaks down. And then I guess they can reuse it. So the whole, uh, there's

00:55:32.340 too much plastic in the world might have a practical solution and it might be really available. So this

00:55:40.400 is a written by NDTV, the reporting on that. Well, you probably know that Trump and Putin have been

00:55:48.540 talking about the ceasefire, but the ceasefire is not agreed upon. Um, but Putin is doing a thing that

00:55:56.100 I always talk about Trump doing. And remember my, my frame on this is that these are two of the best

00:56:02.620 persuaders, um, in the world. And that, uh, Putin has every bit as much skill as Trump. He's not a

00:56:12.740 Trump. So he's not, he's not, you know, as good, but in terms of just the skills, he has a whole toolbox.

00:56:20.740 And one of the things I always talk about that Trump does is he'll create an asset and of nothing

00:56:26.140 by just making something up and acting like it's the most important thing in the world.

00:56:33.140 And then suddenly the other side finds themselves negotiating over it. And then he just, he has

00:56:38.900 something to give away that he just completely introduced out of nowhere and Putin. And it works. 0.52

00:56:46.520 It's like good technique. And Putin is doing that. So, uh, in the Kursk region, which is actually in

00:56:54.480 Russia, that the Ukrainians had conquered that little region, but the Russian forces have recently

00:57:00.720 surrounded the Ukrainian forces there and have the ability at this point to completely destroy all of

00:57:08.060 them. If, if they decide to do it. Now, Trump has apparently asked Putin to not kill those soldiers.

00:57:16.460 But Putin says, and here's Putin coming up with an asset and a nothing. So suddenly when you didn't

00:57:26.700 know that this would even be one of the questions relative to the ceasefire, suddenly Putin has

00:57:32.820 introduced the idea that the people who are surrounded are basically terrorists and they've done terrible 0.99

00:57:38.120 things to civilians and they, they all, they all deserve to be dead. And, uh, except for Trump asking him, he was 0.98

00:57:48.260 planning to kill them all in a military sense. And then he says that because Trump asked, and he says, that's the 0.98

00:57:57.520 reason, because Trump asked, he's willing to offer that if they surrender and put down their weapons, um, he will keep them

00:58:05.960 alive, but as prisoners, it looks like. So not free, but as prisoners. Now, if he kept, if he keeps them as

00:58:15.900 prisoners, again, he's created another asset because Ukraine will say, but, but, but you have to release

00:58:24.960 all our prisoners and Putin will say, well, what do I get? What do I get in return? So keep in mind when I talk

00:58:34.220 about Putin doing a good job in negotiating, it's not because I'm pro Putin. Yes. I know he's a

00:58:39.000 dictator. Yes. I know we can't trust him. Yes. I know he's a shark and I know he's killed people

00:58:44.640 and blah, blah, blah, blah. All right. We all know that. I'm just saying that if you watch their game, 0.90

00:58:51.100 you know, Trump versus Putin, you're going to learn a lot about how to negotiate. And Putin has

00:58:57.260 successfully created something that he knows Trump wants, which is to save the lives of those soldiers.

00:59:04.220 And now he has something to trade. It's pretty good work on Putin's part. Now he doesn't go all the way

00:59:13.220 to, okay, since you asked, I'll just free them. If they, if they put down their weapons, they can just

00:59:19.500 retreat back into, um, Ukraine and then we'll have a ceasefire. He could have said that,

00:59:25.800 but that would not give him a tool. It wouldn't give him an asset. So instead he says, Oh, if they,

00:59:32.580 if they surrender, I promise they'll be treated humanely, but as prisoners forever. And that's the

00:59:42.800 asset. He's got something to trade now. Very clever. So we'll see where this goes. Um, Trump seems to

00:59:52.000 think there's some optimism. I don't think anything happens as quickly as you want it to. There's going

00:59:57.460 to be a lot of chatting about where this goes. So we might be talking months, uh, even if they're,

01:00:06.140 you know, deeply engaged and talking every day, it could still take months, but it does look like

01:00:12.280 it's going to happen. To me, all the signs are pointing toward all entities want to stop the war

01:00:18.920 at this point. So that, that sort of suggests it's going to happen. All right. And then, um,

01:00:29.180 when I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners, I started wondering is

01:00:35.760 every fabulous item I see from winners like that woman over there with the designer jeans are those 1.00

01:00:41.920 from winners. Ooh, are those beautiful gold earrings. Did she pay full price or that leather

01:00:47.120 tote or that cashmere sweater or those knee high boots, that dress, that jacket, those shoes.

01:00:52.640 Is anyone paying full price for anything? Stop wondering, start winning. Winners find fabulous

01:00:59.240 for less. Apparently Trump has ordered the military to draw plans to militarily retake the Panama Canal.

01:01:09.000 The daily wire is reporting on this, uh, Ryan Saavedra. Um, and the, the goal is to, to,

01:01:15.940 I guess it's two parts. One is to get the economic advantage of owning it.

01:01:22.640 And the other is to keep China from owning it or having too much control over it. So, 0.58

01:01:28.100 but here's what I would say about this. First of all, it's not unusual to ask the military to have

01:01:35.000 a contingency plan. It doesn't mean you're going to use them, but if you're at Panama and you knew

01:01:41.120 that the military had drawn up a plan to take over the canal, don't you think you'd get really serious

01:01:47.240 about negotiating at that point? So again, this is Trump creating an asset out of nothing.

01:01:57.020 So if all he'd ever did was say, we really want that Panama Canal, why don't you give it to us?

01:02:02.940 What's he have? There's nothing to trade. There's no leverage. There's no nothing.

01:02:07.620 But as soon as he lets it be known, and by the way, why'd they let it be known? Is it common

01:02:15.300 that you would leak that the military is preparing for a military operation? It seems like it must

01:02:23.460 have been intentionally leaked, right? Or announced, not even leaked. So obviously they want Panama to

01:02:30.760 think that the American military might be on their doorstep really soon. But we'd prefer negotiating.

01:02:41.160 See? Doesn't it look just like Putin? In each case, they created an asset and a nothing,

01:02:48.440 and then they use it to negotiate. It's a good trick. It's a very good trick. But I'm going to put one

01:02:56.600 more wrinkle on this. Trump has plans beyond Panama. He would love to have some kind of deeper control

01:03:07.320 over Greenland. And as you famously know, he'd kind of like Canada to be a state. Now, I'm not going to

01:03:15.800 put odds on that last one, the odds of Canada becoming a state. That'd be hard to bet on. But on the other

01:03:23.480 hand, betting against Trump's persuasive skills is a pretty dangerous bet. So even though I can't see

01:03:33.560 a way for it to happen, like my imagination isn't good enough to see how Canada ever becomes a state,

01:03:43.640 I could be wrong. But here's why the Panama thing is so important. Imagine, if you will,

01:03:51.720 that without firing a shot, he succeeds in wresting control of the Panama Canal away from China's influence

01:04:00.600 and Panama's. What if he pulls it off? The correct order to do things would be Panama first if you think 0.99

01:04:11.480 you could get a fast win. How differently would you think about Greenland if you knew that he had

01:04:19.480 succeeded in Panama? Now do you see the play? The thing that Doge did was get some quick wins

01:04:30.200 so that your impression of Doge as well. They get stuff done. Look at those quick wins. Quick wins

01:04:38.200 are really influential. I talk about the new CEO move, where if you're the new CEO, you want to go in

01:04:45.800 and like really make some big changes right away. Because then people think you're the one who makes big changes.

01:04:52.280 So that becomes your first impression. So since we all know that Trump is looking at Panama,

01:04:59.800 Greenland, and Canada, if he could pull off a quick win without firing a shot, ideally,

01:05:08.520 in Panama, how would that make you think about Greenland? A little different, right? Because

01:05:16.200 you'd say to yourself, okay, I didn't think he was really going to do this with Panama. And then all 1.00

01:05:21.400 the people in Greenland are going to say, I wonder if he has a military plan drawn up about Greenland.

01:05:30.760 Maybe. Not saying yes. Not saying we don't. But I will say that Greenland is strategically vital.

01:05:41.320 And it doesn't have a military. And he really wants it for the benefit of both Greenland and,

01:05:52.840 you know, the entire continent. So do you see the importance of doing a quick one that works?

01:06:02.920 And Panama would be the one that if you're going to do something quick that works, that would be the one. 0.96

01:06:08.360 It would be the lowest degree of complication if it worked at all, right? So, but I think the full

01:06:17.480 weight of the US military should be plenty of pressure. So I feel like he's going to get away

01:06:26.040 with Panama. And then Greenland is going to say, can we talk? You know, maybe we should talk. Yeah,

01:06:33.640 yeah, yeah. It seemed like a bad idea before, but we don't want you to come in and just take it.

01:06:39.560 So wouldn't it be better if we negotiated? Wouldn't it? Now, if he could manage to pull off Greenland,

01:06:49.400 which I think is a stretch, but doable, doable. I just don't think it's,

01:06:55.320 you know, if it were anybody else, I'd say it's just not doable. But Trump does have a way of making

01:07:02.760 the undoable work. I mean, it's almost his brand, making the undoable work. He's got a long history

01:07:11.560 of doing exactly that. So imagine if he pulled off Greenland after pulling off Panama,

01:07:18.520 and then you're sitting up in Canada and you say to yourself, I really didn't think he'd pull off

01:07:27.560 Panama. And then I really didn't think he'd pull off Greenland.

01:07:35.880 And I also didn't think that Canada would ever be a state,

01:07:39.320 but it sure would save us a lot of money. So, you know, he's working on people's brains,

01:07:48.680 as well as, you know, their fears, their, their needs. And it's kind of clever to do Panama first 1.00

01:07:56.520 and to let it be leaked that there's a military plan to take it. So very clever.

01:08:03.480 All right. New York Post is reporting that there are billions of cicadas, you know, those bugs in

01:08:11.800 New York, New Jersey, and 11 other states. And they're about to come out of their 17 year long

01:08:16.920 hibernation and get, and they're going to be making a screaming, noisy mating call, 1.00

01:08:24.760 which could be louder than a jet's engine. Now, I assume that means collectively not per cicada,

01:08:32.120 because if one cicada could be as loud as a jet engine, I don't think you'd want to live in

01:08:37.480 New Jersey or New York, uh, in May, that's when it's likely to happen. And, uh, so that's happening.

01:08:45.320 It'd be a lot of cicadas. Now, as you know, the world economic forum, uh, wants you to eat bugs.

01:08:52.360 So, uh, well, maybe this is, oh, forget it. No, don't eat the cicadas. I'm sure they're delicious,

01:09:00.360 but don't do it. All right. That's all I've got for today. Um,

01:09:05.640 reminder that, uh, Owen Gregorian is going to do his spaces any minute. Now he's probably getting

01:09:11.480 ready to fire it up. That's on X and it doesn't cost anything. You just have to go to Owen Gregorian's

01:09:18.600 site. Just do a search. You'll find them and, uh, you'll see where to click to get into that spaces.

01:09:25.800 And you can do a followup conversation based on anything we talked about today or anything

01:09:32.520 relevant. That's fun. I guess. Uh, I usually listen to it while I'm making myself breakfast after the

01:09:39.400 show. So I'll, I will definitely be dipping in, but usually anonymously, um, just so I don't

01:09:48.360 take attention away. And, uh, I'll say a few words to the locals people, but I don't want to keep you

01:09:54.440 from, uh, Owen spaces. So we'll keep it short. Those of you on YouTube and rumble and X, thanks for

01:10:01.880 joining. We'll see you the same time tomorrow and locals. I'll only be here for a sip.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - March 15, 2025

Episode 2779 CWSA 03⧸15⧸25

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