Episode 2796 CWSA 04⧸01⧸25
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Is this real or fake news? Is it possible to trust what you read in the news, and more importantly, what does it actually mean. This week on Coffee with Scott Adams: You can now pre-order your Optimist robot, and deliveries begin in late 2027. Is this real, or fake?
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oh wow all right well i have a theme today as you know it's april fool's day
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and it's hard to know what to trust so i'm going to read you the news as i always do
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but i'll check in to see if you think the story is made up or real so you're all going to be playing
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like a game show today real or april fools let's call it april fools includes fake news okay just
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make it fun story number one is this real or fake you can now pre-order your optimist robot
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it's going to be just under thirty thousand dollars and deliveries will begin in late 2027
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what do you think is that real yes it's real you can get your optimist robot if you order it now
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it'll only take you a few years two and a half years now what's interesting about that is it seems
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to me that it wasn't that long ago that the robot makers were promising it would be the end of this year
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do you think it's possible that the competitors to optimist will have robots that are fully functional
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and can live in your house and do what you tell them to in 2025 by the end of this year because i'm
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pretty sure that's been promised here's what i think i think that putting it out to late 2027
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is sort of a admission that they haven't figured out the brain part the ai now as advanced as ai is now
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as impressive as it is and as advanced as it will be in another six months in another year i don't think
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it's the right kind of ai so i think they're gonna have to invent a whole new flavor of ai just to make
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robots work and i think that's just purely a guess that 2027 will be soon enough we'll see
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but i'm not surprised that robots got delayed from 2025 to 2027
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two years is not we're going to tweak it you know to make it work on robots ai means we don't have
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the technology right now to make a robot we have to invent the technology and we're not exactly sure
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if we can we're pretty we we feel confident enough to take your money but uh yeah i would imagine that
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there's going to be a lot of pre-orders for robots i do trust that elon musk would not bluff
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you know i don't think there's any chance he's going to pretend he can make a robot and then he can't
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make a robot i think he'll make a robot and you'll be happy to have it so to me it seems honest
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to push it down two years because i i do think that's about what it will take before they have something
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that's more like you know general intelligence all right real or not real there's now a uh
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hormone-free male birth control pill uh it's entering human trials it's not available in the
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market it's 99 effective so the university of minnesota is working on this it's real um and it's
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been effective in animals and now in human trials now i don't know if the animals were
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having sex with each other or the humans but probably just with each other that that would
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be my take on that yeah i mean the article wasn't specific but i'm going to say probably the animals
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were just getting busy with each other and uh now it's in human trials with no animals whatsoever
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big breakthrough coming boys can you imagine what trouble you'd get into if you had no risk of
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pregnancy and you didn't have to trust my uh you know my phase is over so i've sort of aged down to
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the whole uh this dating situation but i went through my whole life thinking that every time i was in an
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intimate situation it might create a baby you know even if birth control was involved imagine if you
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stopped worrying about that i don't even know what that world would be like it'd be weird
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um according to an article in nature uh there was a study of over 3 300 people's photos
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and they wanted to see if there was any link between facial features and political views
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do you think that a an analysis of faces could tell you somebody's political views
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well yes uh i saw a post on uh x from john rain he said the authors found that less attractive and
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less attractive and more contemptuous women are more likely to be left-leaning
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is that real or is that april fools that less attractive and more contemptuous
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that's just a funny word you know i've never heard anybody being called contemptuous in the real world
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um and the authors also found that displaying a happy expression is associated with being conservative
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well here's another case where they're going to save some money just ask me next time
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i've seen the tesla protests i was pretty sure i could have guessed this one without any research
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whatsoever all right here's next one april fools are real uh according to the atlantic which is a highly
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respectable publication um ice sent an innocent father my god from maryland to oh god to a torture dungeon
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in el salvador you know one of those um filled to the brink shirtless tattooed guys el salvador prisons
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and and the government is doing nothing to fix it my god my god if it's in the atlantic it must be true
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is it real or april fools well it's fake news he was a he was actually ms 13 they did not send
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an innocent father from maryland to a to el salvador i wouldn't be surprised if at least one person
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who's who's not totally gang affiliated got sent away once but i also don't mind that the risk is on other people
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for change you know it would be a horrible situation to send somebody who is not a criminal to one of those el salvador jails
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it's a horrible situation no matter who you send it's just horrible everything about it is horrible
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but i'm still in favor of it because it puts the puts the downside on somebody else it puts the downside
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on criminals puts a little risk on people who may not be legal citizens and it takes a risk off of me
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well trump has referred to that story we call the signal gate story about the adding of jeffrey goldberg
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the journalist accidentally being added to a chat group um and according to the hill trump has uh
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said that story is quote old and boring he says this story and narrative is so old and boring
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but only used because we were having the most successful first 100 uh presidential days in the history
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of america they can't find anything else to talk about and then he just adds for a good for good
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measure trump adds the fake news media has the lowest approval rating in history and for good reason now
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that is perfect one of the things that trump understands better than really any politician is the business
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model of tv and the news and celebrity and what's interesting and what makes a story and what doesn't make a story
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and i think he's brilliant to talk about this story as boring that's exactly right if you just keep telling
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people the story is old and boring they will just stop caring about the details i never thought this was
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important and i also um although i was maybe surprised i do like the fact that nobody lost their job over it
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should they have lost their job i don't care here's what i care about i don't want to i don't want the media
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to think they got a scalp and i don't want them to start picking off you know one person after another
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on the the trump team because it was hard enough to get the team together and now that they're up and
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running and things are happening the last thing i want is for one stupid little publication after
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another like the atlantic to come up with one more stupid story that's old and boring before it even
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started and that it takes out somebody's career i love the fact that trump says nope it's small it's
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boring things happen i'm not doing anything i love that i think that was actually the most baller thing
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he could do even though even though i fully understand the argument on the other side which
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is in a situation like this you sort of might expect somebody to resign but i'm just glad they didn't
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because it would be showing a a vulnerable underside and instead of that i think trump
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has shown that he's going to support his people which is always good and that they're not vulnerable
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according to iowa state nathan cook is writing about this there's a study that says
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political position is whether you're a conservative or or a liberal based on what your brain does when
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you buy groceries and all it is is apparently conservatives use a different part of their brain
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to buy ordinary groceries so they use you know boring stuff like eggs and milk because they're kind of
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generic and then they just measured what happens to their brain and they said they can determine with
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80 accuracy what your politics are your political affiliation based on which part of your brain
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lights up when you buy milk and eggs it has nothing to do with you know the political question about
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eggs because i think this story was done before that the study was done um but the co-author
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naren schreiber said we know from studies of twins that about 50 of your political ideology
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is biologically heritable and uh they can from that i guess the math works that they can figure out your
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political party with 69 accuracy i guess if they knew your parents political leaning now that proves there's no
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is that april fools are real april fools are real
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because they can determine your political leaning
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all right there's another story science alert that uh there's a woman who had lost her ability
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to speak because of a some brain stem stroke when she was 30. but scientists according to science alert
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mike mccray is writing about this they've uh they inserted some kind of a brain uh i don't know a brain
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brain implant that would allow her simply to think what she wanted to say
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and it gets translated into a synthesized version of her voice
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so apparently they can just put that in you do you know why they didn't test that on a man
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do you know why they'll never put one of these in a man
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because the last thing anybody wants to know is what a man is thinking
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we all know what women are thinking so there's nothing to be revealed
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everybody knows exactly what women are thinking all the time because they'll tell you
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just ask but if you knew what men were thinking
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i'm sorry things would be very weird if if you could if men just blurted out everything they were thinking
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apple is uh making a move to be your digital doctor i guess they're building ai health agents
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so be just a artificial agent they'll be like a virtual doctor it'll be in their i guess new
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operating systems upcoming and they'll analyze your health data from your phone and your wearables and
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your fitness and nutrition and everything and they will make real-time
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recommendations of what to do different or differently and uh that would be of course the
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first step in enslaving us now here's what i think uh and you've you've heard versions of this before
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so it's not like an original only one it's not like i'm the only one that whoever said this
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is but the way the uh ai will conquer humans is by being so useful that when they tell us to do
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something it becomes ridiculous not to let me give you my example i like to use do you know how
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sometimes you forget that you might need a drink of water like you could get a little a little
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dehydrated but and that it can make a big difference in how you feel the dehydration but you might not
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you know you might be busy and you're not thinking about it so you just don't do it
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well what happened if your ai could sense your dehydration and then it starts saying uh scott you
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might think of having a sip of water and the first time it does it i say to myself ah you know i don't
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want to walk across the room and get it i'll do it later but then eventually i think okay yeah it's
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telling me to get water again so i take a sip of water and then i start noticing that i feel better
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the next time it recommends something i think to myself well okay i don't want to be bothered doing
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this but i did feel better when i did the other thing and if it's accurate and if it keeps telling
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you the right thing how are you going to ignore it i mean it will be so useful and it will make
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you feel better and you will know it make you feel better that you're going to drop whatever you're
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doing or thinking to do whatever the ai told you to do right then i would so they're going to be able
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to train you like pavlov's dog that you'll get a treat for following what the ai tells you the treat
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would be you feel better so as soon as you start seeing that connection between taking the ai's
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advice and getting a treat you know even if the treat sometimes takes longer to get
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you're going to be basically a slave to the ai and i don't see that it could go really any other way
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because it's simply how we're wired if if something works and has utility and we know it and we can feel
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it we keep doing it that's just how we're designed amazon's uh agi lab so i guess that's some version
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of ai is unveiled nova act so that's an ai agent that can control your browser to perform tasks how many
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of you are ready to let amazon or any other big company control your browser even though technically
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you would be the one controlling it through the ai app but wouldn't that feel creepy to know that some
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company can control your browser even though they say that it's not them controlling it they would say
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no it's you controlling it do you think there's any chance that the cia would not have to get a back
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door to that if a big company had a ai agent that you could tell hey check my email and you would have
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all your passwords and everything so what good would it be if it didn't have any passwords right
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pretty much would need them and you just say oh like the process i do in the morning
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you know i i would love this um if there were no security issues if i would just say hey it's time to
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publish the dilbert comic to my subscribers again there are about i don't know 20 different key
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strokes and steps just to do that i would love to just tell it to do it and then watch it do it for
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me but that would also mean that if anybody had a back door to that little agent it could control my
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entire world it could get into everything so this is going to be a scary one i will bet that people will
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adopt this including me because the utility of it will be just so good you know whether it's amazon's
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or some other company the the usefulness will just be off the charts so yeah i'm going to basically
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give up that privacy so i can get that function i'm going to fight it in my mind but in the real world
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think april fools are real china has now launched autonomous flying taxis so if you want to do some
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sightseeing or i guess later they're going to do delivery and urban transit but right now it's sort
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of a sort of a sightseeing thing you can go and there'll be nobody but you and you will sit in this
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helicopter-y looking thing more like a drone than a helicopter and it will take off and without
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without without any extra what you think that's april fools no it's a flying taxi in china it's already
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approved it's an action the answer is it's real china has autonomous flying sightseeing taxis
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that's a real thing now i do wonder if their ai is as good as let's say tesla because you know i would
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trust tesla to drive my autonomous flying car or my regular car because they've got good ai for that
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but if these things are run by deep seek or something like that
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is that good enough to keep you alive i don't know i don't know um i guess elon musk revealed
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maybe yesterday the other day that doge is going to start looking at members of congress who got
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quote strangely wealthy new york post is reporting on this now we've all asked these questions how in
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the world do these members of congress get so much money and it looks like it must be something illegal
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um i'm a little hesitant on this one believe it or not um i'm not so sure that the people that they're
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going to look at did anything wrong to get their money um let me give you an example
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uh one of the one of the ones of course everybody wonders about is pelosi so her wealth you know
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went amazingly higher during her time in office but first of all she was in office forever
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secondly her husband is literally a venture capitalist so it's not that surprising when a venture
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capitalist makes a lot of money and then a lot of paul's investments were in companies like apple
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microsoft amazon amazon google and netflix now do you think he had inside information
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or was he just good at investing because anybody who bought those companies when they were all
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publicly available anybody could have bought them everybody knew that they had good prospects
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and you would have at least i don't know 40 years of being involved in companies like that
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i feel like you'd be quadrupling or something your money so no this is a real story no no april fools on
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this um but i don't know why doge would be the one looking into it it seems to me that would be more of a
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criminal sort of thing but maybe i'll be open-minded on this because i don't think elan would make that
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mistake of you know getting too far into law enforcement without being a law enforcement entity
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so i would be surprised i think it was who was it that was at the head of usa id i might have this
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wrong by the way correction i think i said something about the the head of signal being arrested in
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france and france and then somebody said that was the head of telegram so that's a correction um
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but who was it the usa id who's uh whose net wealth when you know went up 16 million dollars or
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something and i looked at the uh the time period and anyone who had basically moved money into stocks
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at about that time probably doubled their money so some of this is just going to be if you have enough
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people making enough investments in enough ways some number of them are going to double triple quadruple
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their money just like the rest of the world there are lucky people who hit the the investment lottery
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so i think maybe it's going to look worse than it really is it looks bad i have to admit it looks bad
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but uh i'll bet there's gonna be a lot less crime found than they think and i don't know why doge is doing
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it well ice deportations have reached uh over a hundred thousand and remember these are the people who
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actually are criminals 100 000 known criminals have already been deported now if you were to make an
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estimate this one's real too by the way not april fools if you were to make an estimate of how many
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extra crimes those lifetime criminals would do if they were to stay here and let's say they just kept
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operating for years how many extra crimes do you think each of those would have done like pretty
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serious crimes you know things that matter to people i'm going to say ten now you could do your
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own math at home but if a hundred thousand known criminals were to stay in this country for i don't know
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ten more years don't you think they'd have at least at least ten more crimes apiece
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does that make sense which means that trump already has saved a million crimes one million
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crimes now that's if each of them would do ten apiece if you want to say but scott they would only do
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five a piece well that's half a million half a million crimes and we're not talking about the little
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kind these are some really really really dangerous gang members and stuff who probably do a crime a day
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yeah i'm right it might be closer to a thousand if you added up with everything but that would be
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that would be you know owning a gun illegally and you know you if you threw in every single charge
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it'd be a thousand but if you went to you know how many victims are there that might be a smaller
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number but yeah i think i think trump should be reporting if they could come up with a statistic
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of what are the likely extra crimes that a career criminal will do in 10 or 20 years i think trump
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should be reporting how many crimes he's avoided it could be a million it could be five million
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these are really impressive numbers way more impressive than the number of people although
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that's super impressive but if a president comes in in the first 100 days gets rid of a million crimes
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a million i think that's perfectly reasonable estimate we've never seen anything like that
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that that that would be one of the greatest accomplishments of any president ever and i think he's already hit it
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so there's that well in other news there's an iceberg the size of chicago they say
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that broke off of the antarctic ice shelf an iceberg the size of chicago
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uh well you know since ice is the group that's deporting all the criminals
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and this uh iceberg is the size of a country and i'm going to call it chicagoberg because it's an
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iceberg the size of chicago i think that if the el salvadorian prisons get full
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that we should bring the rest of the criminals to chicagoberg and just just put them on the iceberg
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because it's not like they're going to escape you know we keep them warm
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you know make sure that they don't freeze to death but uh yeah just put them on chicagoberg
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some of that is true but not the part about putting criminals there all right uh speaking of doge
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and arresting people musk also said that uh i guess this would be today he thinks somebody who's
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going to be arrested today ish who actually stole 400 000 social security numbers and personal
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information from the social security database and was selling social security numbers
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so that basically people could steal money from social security now that's real that's like a real
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story there was somebody who stole 400 000 social security numbers but my question is
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is how does doge know who it was like how did doge catch the person is it that easy and if doge could
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catch that person why was this person not caught before i don't know so i got questions but uh this
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is tantalizingly interesting that that this level of crime first of all happened and second of all that
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doge doge doge could find out who it was fairly expeditiously if this is real and this person gets
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arrested and and convicted that's an impressive accomplishment i gotta say claudia was leaving
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for her pickleball tournament i've been visualizing my match all week she was so focused on visualizing
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that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side good thing claudia is with intact
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the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country everything was
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taken care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time i made it to my
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tournament and lost in the first round but you got there on time intact insurance your auto service ace
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certain conditions apply all right this next one real or april fools according to a study from the
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university of colorado and cbs is posting on this on x one out of every 15 american adults have been at a
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massive shooting one out of 15 have been in a mass shooting real or april fools
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i'm going to add one extra data point to that not only has one out of every 15 american adults
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been to a mass shooting but weirdly i've been to every one of them
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april fools april fools so it is true that cbs news posted it and it is true that it's a study and
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it's a claim there's not really any chance it's true
00:32:52.840
i like when the fake news is so obviously fake that you don't even need to be that good at math
00:33:02.840
you just look at it go one out of 15 no how many of you know 15 people most of you right how many
00:33:13.560
people do you know in your personal group of the first 15 people you think of who have attended a
00:33:19.080
mass shooting i'm gonna say no my first 15 how about the second 15 you can think of like your
00:33:27.720
extended extended circle any of them been to a mass shooting i'm gonna say no i i think i would have
00:33:35.640
to get my numbers up to like a thousand you know that the closest thousand people i know
00:33:42.520
before i had any chance that one of them had ever been to a mass shooting
00:33:46.680
so let's call that one april fools or fake news as you prefer
00:33:54.360
uh well that uh tesla fire bomber guys and a lot of trouble christina layla at the gateway pundits
00:34:01.720
writing that uh pam bondi announced uh federal charges against that tesla fire bomber i think we've
00:34:09.160
talked about this before but uh i love the fact that the department of justice is is going hard at
00:34:18.280
this because this is really bad stuff and um but i would add this i i keep seeing people saying that they
00:34:29.960
know the motivation of the protesters and or even the motivation of the the ones doing the the
00:34:37.160
violence or the asset destruction which is very similar and you know sometimes people will say they're
00:34:43.560
paid uh other will say they're brainwashed other will say um they're bored and retired and i've watched
00:34:53.160
enough of these you know interviews with them that i've developed my own hypothesis about their
00:34:59.560
motivation and the answer is it's all different i i think it's just the oddest group of people
00:35:07.480
and they just all have different reasons maybe some of them got paid maybe some of them are retired and
00:35:13.480
went with a friend maybe some of them are just idiots and they believe the news um some of them are just
00:35:20.920
mad because elon's rich and successful and they're not some of them are bad because they heard
00:35:28.440
that doge was going to cut their benefits which they're not but they believe that i feel like it's
00:35:35.960
just a whole bunch of weirdos all with their own reasons but the one thing you can say for sure
00:35:42.280
is none of them are up to date on the news i don't think there's a single person that i saw
00:35:49.400
interviewed at one of the tesla protests and i've seen quite a few people try to interview them not a
00:35:55.160
single one could explain to you anything in the news just anything but accurately i mean they'll tell
00:36:03.560
you oh he's going to cut your medicare and your social security no he's doing the opposite
00:36:09.240
doge is the only thing that could guarantee you might get your social security it's not the thing
00:36:16.600
taking it away it's literally the opposite of that so
00:36:24.920
yeah so uh yeah i don't think there there's anything they have in common except they're not too well
00:36:32.920
informed meanwhile trump's uh tax plan according to treasury secretary secretary scott besant he
00:36:43.720
was telling fox news this um it would make the 2017 tax cuts permanent um it would make uh eliminate it
00:36:55.560
would eliminate taxes on tips now eliminating taxes on tips is kind of interesting because um i like it
00:37:05.880
you know i used to work for tips and i used to own a restaurant and i you know i'd want all the people
00:37:11.160
who work at restaurants to do well so i'm emotionally i'm totally in favor of that but i wonder how much
00:37:18.040
federal taxes were people paying who were receiving tips
00:37:24.680
weren't we also talking about below a certain number people don't pay any taxes at all at least
00:37:31.320
federal taxes so it probably isn't that expensive which makes it extra brilliant to say that you're not
00:37:39.480
going to tax them but i love that um and there would be no tax on overtime pay again
00:37:48.040
i absolutely love that because it it makes such a clear um american statement that if you put in
00:37:57.960
extra you're going to get extra and not just overtime a little extra on the extra so incentivizing hard
00:38:06.600
work well i i couldn't be happier now we also have this uh we're going to have a human power shortage
00:38:13.400
we're going to have a lot of older people that we want to not retire because they have the skills
00:38:18.920
we won't have you know as much institutional knowledge as we used to because we'll just have
00:38:24.360
fewer people everywhere working and our you know population doesn't seem to be growing that fast
00:38:31.160
so incentivizing the people who do know what they're doing to work a little extra and get
00:38:36.280
a nice you know nice really healthy benefit from the extra work i love everything about that
00:38:43.720
and then this one's just personal uh but i like it for other people too no tax on social security
00:38:51.800
do you know the shock i got when i realized that my social security was going to be taxed at my current
00:39:00.040
tax rate which is pretty obscene my social security i work all that i work all those years and you know
00:39:12.200
to be fair i don't need it but i decided to apply for it because i wanted to make sure that at least i
00:39:19.320
got a you know a dollar back from all the social security i'd ever paid i just it was sort of a
00:39:25.080
psychological thing i just wanted to see something just something come back and since i'm still working
00:39:36.760
which makes me feel like a sucker because because at my current income they just rape me on the on the
00:39:44.200
taxes of my own social security payments it is so maddening and again it's you know it doesn't change
00:39:52.440
my life but psychologically it's just like a kick in the nuts and something shoved up your ass at the
00:39:58.760
same time it is just so offensive that the government promised me the social security again i don't need
00:40:06.520
it this is just psychological and uh and then when it's time to get it and i wasn't really paying
00:40:12.920
attention you know because it wasn't high on my list but when i finally go through the work of applying
00:40:19.160
for it i find out it's going to be taxed oh my god so yes get rid of taxes on social security
00:40:28.600
absolutely get rid of those taxes so i'm all for that
00:40:35.320
how about the least surprising news of the day that ukraine allegedly attacked some power facilities
00:40:43.320
which was part of the deal that they weren't supposed to do but then uh was there a deal
00:40:50.200
because it seems to me that both the ukrainians and the russians
00:40:55.640
at some point maybe somebody thought there was a deal but then the russians wanted to add some stuff
00:41:01.320
and ukrainians wanted to add some stuff so they never really had a deal but the the one thing you
00:41:07.640
could be sure of even if they had a deal to not attack power stations they were just going to pack
00:41:13.880
attack power stations and and they would just blame the other one of doing it first
00:41:19.400
i don't think there's the slightest chance that either ukraine or russia want to stop fighting
00:41:25.480
for whatever reasons and so it does look like the european union is going to consolidate control over
00:41:33.160
europe essentially i'd call it a um what do you call it sort of a coup because then whoever's added the
00:41:43.000
european union is just getting more and more powerful you know in influence at least and so europe is just
00:41:50.440
turning into one big bag of nonsense over there and uh yeah apparently they're going to get into a major
00:41:59.320
fight directly with russia so i hope uh united states is not part of that
00:42:08.920
well you know i always make fun of all the ngos the fake ngos are stealing all our money for years
00:42:15.320
and they'll have these generic names uh there's one called the u.s institute of peace
00:42:20.520
and doge caught them deleting a a terabyte of financial data linking them to funding the taliban
00:42:30.040
and iraqi leadership that's the u.s institute of peace your tax money would go you know there as well
00:42:41.960
as lots of other places but your tax money was going to the u.s institute of peace who is then giving
00:42:48.920
it to the taliban to continue making uh growing poppies and paying for iraqi leadership
00:42:59.800
mike benz reminds us that the u.s institute of peace was simultaneously funding the taliban
00:43:06.200
while lobbying the taliban to keep illegal drugs flowing from the world's biggest narcotic zone
00:43:12.600
that's a real story believe it or not um but i do think i haven't heard anybody say this recently but
00:43:23.480
i remember hearing that the drugs coming out of afghanistan were primarily going to iran and that's
00:43:30.920
why the u.s was in favor of it because we were basically trying to destroy iran from the inside by
00:43:37.480
turning them into drug addicts that could be true i don't know um when i found out my friend got a
00:43:49.000
great deal on a wool coat from winners i started wondering is every fabulous item i see from winners
00:43:55.960
like that woman over there with the designer jeans are those from winners ooh are those beautiful gold
00:44:01.800
earrings did she pay full price or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those knee-high boots
00:44:07.640
that dress that jacket those shoes is anyone paying full price for anything stop wondering start winning
00:44:15.240
winners find fabulous for less it turns out that uh princeton's in trouble that trump has paused 210
00:44:23.640
million of federal funding uh because they're uh allegedly they got an f by the anti-defamation league
00:44:37.720
now if you don't know anything about the anti-defamation league the anti-defamation league
00:44:44.840
the head of the organization publicly called me a holocaust denier
00:44:50.200
now i'm not a holocaust denier but that should give you some impression of what their credibility is
00:45:03.400
it's absolute trash it's a complete the uh disrespectful organization that you know sometimes
00:45:12.120
it's just a democrat hit piece i think they hate elon musk and uh so they don't have any credibility
00:45:18.760
whatsoever but uh i guess i guess it's being used as an excuse by trump to pause this funding to princeton
00:45:26.680
and i don't know how princeton handles that because princeton can't really go against the adl
00:45:35.720
because people don't know that they're completely you know non-credible so just having them come after
00:45:43.400
he was pretty bad so good luck to that um at the same time the trump administration is looking to pull
00:45:52.360
eight billion dollars in federal funding from harvard um also because they're looking at them for their
00:46:00.200
you know they're to see if they're doing enough to battle anti-semitism now that would be eight billion
00:46:07.000
over some number of years but really the u.s government was giving harvard eight billion dollars
00:46:16.760
even over multiple years for i guess mostly research now you might say to yourself but that research is
00:46:23.320
valuable to which i would say well why don't you show me a you know some kind of a list of all the
00:46:31.160
great things that have come out of harvard and then i'll compare that to the billions that we've spent
00:46:36.520
over that period and i'll make up my own mind whether that was worth it because i've got a feeling that
00:46:44.680
that's a high number now i've also heard before that the the percentage of the money that's given from
00:46:53.560
the government for this sort of thing mostly goes to the university as opposed to the actual research
00:47:00.680
have you heard that i i guess i'll take a fact check on this but i have heard that the majority
00:47:07.720
of every dollar just goes to harvard for whatever it wants to use it for and you know a small part of
00:47:14.520
that goes to the actual science is that true because to me that's that's as bad as the anti-semitism
00:47:23.080
they got two problems not one but i i like the uh i like the administration putting pressure on these
00:47:31.800
colleges to make sure that they're not anti-semitic because they definitely seemed a bit anti-semitic to
00:47:38.520
me well taiwan taiwan is surrounded by 19 chinese warships uh and some big aircraft carrier um they
00:47:49.160
of course are continuing to show that they can take taiwan if they want to
00:47:55.240
um the last thing they want to is have an actual war but uh they sure like showing their muscle
00:48:03.800
so we'll keep an eye on that that's a real story um
00:48:18.200
uh the panamanian ports that were managed by some chinese hong kong companies which are chinese
00:48:26.360
companies um and the post millennial is writing about this and that does suggest that china did
00:48:32.920
have functional control of the ports because if chinese companies were running the ports
00:48:40.120
and then those chinese companies were not allowed to operate on their own and sell their assets to i
00:48:46.440
think it was blackrock that uh that does suggest that the chinese government was in control of those ports
00:48:55.480
because it seems to have functional control over the chinese or hong kong companies that are running
00:49:01.640
those ports so that's exactly what it looks like i do expect that the net effect of this will be that
00:49:11.160
probably some military warships will pull up outside of panama and i think i think trump is going to
00:49:17.800
do the taiwan method where you don't want to have an actual war in panama but if you did you would
00:49:27.880
pretty well know what direction it went right it's not like panama is going to win that war so it's the
00:49:34.520
same as china surrounding taiwan i think all we'd have to do is put an armada just off the coast of
00:49:42.840
panama and say hey maybe uh maybe we should have control of those ports i think we'd get it pretty
00:49:52.200
quickly panama is not crazy and once they realize that it's not a bluff that we're going to have
00:49:59.320
control of panama one way or the other and by the way i completely agree with trump on this you can't
00:50:05.160
let china have functional control of the panama canal so yeah if if it takes some military movement
00:50:14.840
unfortunately we kind of have to do it so i agree with him on that um trump has uh
00:50:27.320
trump has said he's confirmed that the us is in contact with north korean leader kim jong-un
00:50:33.320
he said quote we have a great relationship he's a smart guy i've got to know him very well
00:50:38.120
and then he talks he was talking to the press and he says you people hate to hear that but it's very
00:50:43.800
important you know i love the fact that when trump is president the odds of north korea doing something
00:50:53.640
like lobbing a nuke in our direction it kind of drops to zero because as long as the president of
00:51:00.440
the united states wants to be your buddy why would you attack it just wouldn't make any sense you know
00:51:08.840
there's no risk not on his part and it's all upside i'm going to make a prediction i think kim jong-un
00:51:18.520
is going to get an invitation to visit america i don't know that it'll come because he might not trust
00:51:26.920
it or china might say don't do that but i think he's going to get an invitation can you imagine
00:51:34.120
what that would look like that like the show that that would be now if our kim jong-un the only way
00:51:42.040
i would do it is if i came over on a chinese diplomat airplane so that i'd feel safe because
00:51:51.080
the us is not going to blow up a chinese diplomat airplane so that you wouldn't have to worry about
00:51:56.760
there was some you know clever trick to kill him or anything like that and imagine just taking him
00:52:02.440
to a basketball game like to the finals can you imagine trump and kim jong-un just showing up
00:52:12.520
like the finals of basketball you know the nba it would be wild it would just be so so out of the box
00:52:21.240
incredible ridiculously wild that you wouldn't be able to think about anything else for a week
00:52:27.720
so i think it might happen well i got my answer to what is the plan for attacking the hooties
00:52:35.960
because you know we've been bombing the hooties and the uh the question was
00:52:43.880
what's the end game like what do we think is how long are we going to be bombing them and is there
00:52:49.640
anything we could do to ever make it a stop and i guess trump said uh we'll keep uh attacking the
00:52:56.360
hooties quote until they are no longer a threat to freedom of navigation now you might think that's
00:53:03.640
not an answer because you don't know how long that will take but i do that will take forever i think
00:53:10.760
he's basically saying we're just going to build a permanent presence there and as much bombing as
00:53:16.440
it takes to make it safe we'll just do it every day and uh we'll just bomb and bomb and bomb and
00:53:23.800
it will just be a routine i i think he's going to turn it from a war into more of a maintenance project
00:53:30.360
all right we've got to do a little maintenance in uh in yemen uh looks like they put up another
00:53:37.480
another radar detection thing and looks like they got another missile so let's do a little maintenance
00:53:43.480
take that out so i think it's turned war into maintenance because you know so far there's not
00:53:50.440
a gigantic risk to our own forces uh so far i mean i imagine they do have some anti-aircraft stuff
00:53:57.560
but so far it looks like they're just going to test their weapons and
00:54:01.640
build a permanent facility because they built it looks like the us has built some kind of a bomber airfield
00:54:09.480
um i just saw a naval blockade in the comments and i thought i thought you said naval blockade and i
00:54:20.040
thought why would you why would you want to blockade naval
00:54:26.280
anyway let's call it naval so looks like that's the plan i don't have a better plan so i won't even
00:54:34.360
criticize it i mean it's terrible but i don't have a better plan all right ladies and gentlemen that is
00:54:41.880
my stories for today you did very well in identifying the fake news compared to the real news as far as we
00:54:50.680
know um all right so that's all i got i'm going to talk to the uh locals privately my my subscribers and
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locals the rest of you thanks for joining we'll see you same time tomorrow for more fun on coffee with scott