Scott Adams talks about the Epstein scandal, walnuts and gene editing, and why the FBI is still waiting for the Epstein files to be released. Plus, a report that China is looking to make super soldiers with gene editing and AI.
00:01:40.280Well, here's a little scientific thing that might be a big deal.
00:01:44.800According to Norridge, there's a drug that already exists for people who take too much Tylenol and you want to save them from too much Tylenol, I guess.
00:01:57.820And what it does is it's called N-acetylcysteine.
00:02:07.060And what it does is it can prevent art attacks, apparently, because it can prevent clots from forming.
00:02:15.540Now, I didn't know this, but apparently if you have a drug that prevents clots from forming, it might make you bleed too much.
00:02:23.100So there's a downside, but this doesn't do that.
00:02:26.060So you might be able to take this drug, which already is approved for other purposes and seems pretty safe.
00:02:34.180And it could basically eliminate millions of heart attacks and strokes.
00:04:39.480Are we really going to get the Epstein files and somebody's going to tell us, yes, we've released everything and there won't be a single video in there?
00:07:27.040I guess it's going to take until the end of 2026.
00:07:30.620But the FDA is announcing that the petroleum-based synthetic dyes will be eliminated from medications and the food supply by the end of 2026.
00:07:44.920Well, I saw that RFK Jr. was talking about how the testosterone level in young men was so low, it was lower than people my age, which is pretty bad.
00:07:56.800But I wonder if any of this is related.
00:08:01.100I mean, he's got a lot more work to do to figure out what's going on with that.
00:08:04.780But if we don't get our testosterone levels back, I don't think we're going to be a successful country.
00:08:13.100How much of you, if you have to guess, how much of the current drama in the United States might be caused by low testosterone?
00:08:21.900Because the Democrats are a low testosterone party.
00:08:27.380It's pretty much women and men with low testosterone.
00:08:31.380If we didn't have this testosterone emergency, do you think the Democrats would be acting the way they are?
00:08:41.800But my experience is that if you change somebody's chemical reality that much, you know, lowering testosterone has got to have a big impact on your behavior.
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00:10:52.460Anyway, according to a user called Didi on Axe, there's a startup in China that has 150 million users, and they've created what they call micro-dramas, which are basically romance fantasies for women.
00:11:10.500But what's different about them is that they're only a minute to a minute and a half long.
00:11:14.900And the first few are free to get you hooked, and then you would pay a little bit for each one.
00:11:21.220But they're all going to be like a minute and a half.
00:11:24.260And they do it with cheap actors and AI-generated backgrounds.
00:11:29.060But they're making like $200 million in revenue.
00:11:32.460So what they've invented basically is porn for women.
00:11:36.040Now, here's something I've observed for many years.
00:11:40.420If you're trying to predict an online service and whether it does well, here's what you look for.
00:11:48.660Number one, does it have anything to do with sex?
00:13:47.580If you're looking to determine what's real and what's not real, I always look for the money.
00:13:54.700And so her key interview was an individual who claims to have been damaged by one of these weapons.
00:14:02.520And the reason he's claiming it is so that he can get workplace disability, some kind of payment for his care.
00:14:13.480So he has a financial incentive to say that he was damaged by it instead of just having Alzheimer's because his, I guess, his symptoms are Alzheimer's-like.
00:14:35.800But can you really take as a credible witness somebody who has a huge financial interest in you believing in one thing or another?
00:14:49.440So for me, this is a little sketchy because you've got to find somebody who doesn't have a financial interest.
00:14:56.520And I think that most of the people who claim this damage are claiming it probably for the same reason, so they can get some kind of workplace payment for being injured on the job versus just a natural health problem.
00:15:11.720So I don't want to cast any aspersions on anybody because they seem like good people and they didn't look like they're lying.
00:15:21.180You know, didn't have any tells for lying.
00:15:24.040But generally speaking, I would tell you to be very cautious if your best witnesses are getting paid or if they have a financial incentive.
00:15:48.680So I'm going to go all the way to maybe.
00:15:50.480You remember that Carrie Lake was in charge of the Voice of America and Radio View and, you know, they basically are external facing propaganda networks.
00:16:07.400And they were all shut down and defunded and everybody was fired because Trump administration decided that wasn't really useful.
00:16:17.580Well, you would not be surprised to find that a U.S. district judge, here it is again, a district judge who should not be making decisions about things outside of the domain, has granted a preliminary injunction and is requiring all the people to be hired back.
00:17:18.380Do you think that would have happened if we had a Democrat as a president?
00:17:23.740Or do you think it's just all these district judges are just ruling anything that Trump does is wrong, has to be reversed?
00:17:31.520Because it's starting to look like it's just automatic.
00:17:34.300You know, they just shop for the right judge and then they get somebody to say, whatever Trump wants, we're going to say no.
00:17:42.080So here's a question that I've been noodling on.
00:17:48.140You know, if you've been watching Mike Benz or watching the Doge Project, you know that there were a number of organizations, both domestically and internationally, that were in the censorship business.
00:18:00.740Now, they wouldn't say they were in the censorship business.
00:18:05.640They would all say that they were in the getting rid of disinformation business.
00:18:12.180But the disinformation would always be on one side.
00:18:16.080They would never get rid of the disinformation on the left.
00:18:20.220They would only get rid of what they would call the disinformation on the right.
00:18:25.260Now, do you think they were accurate in knowing what the disinformation was?
00:18:47.440Every time I listen to Mike Benz talk about some new disinformation organization that was international or domestic, I say to myself, have I heard this story before?
00:19:00.180It just feels like the letters changed.
00:19:02.600You know, it's a GEC or a CISA or there was a new one recently.
00:19:08.580And I'm really wondering, were there hundreds?
00:19:44.760It turns out that there was enormous, not only, you know, dollar-wise, but the number of entities that were involved in this evil plot to take away your freedom of speech in the United States.
00:19:59.260I don't even know if several more censorship organizations get deleted, how many are left?
00:20:08.580You know, several doesn't tell me anything.
00:20:11.160You know, I always say a number without a percentage is useless, but a percentage without a number is useless.
00:20:17.880Here's a number, several, but without the percentage, I can't tell if that matters.
00:20:25.400If it's only 1% of all the disinformation organizations, it doesn't mean anything.
00:21:22.100But where I talk about loser think is the book.
00:21:26.280And I write about how analogy thinking is not real thinking.
00:21:31.520If all you're doing is being reminded of something else, that's not thinking.
00:21:35.980Now, how many smart people do you think would be analogy thinkers as opposed to people who reason from, you know, from base facts and then reason their way to a conclusion?
00:21:52.640According to The Hill, a Trump critic named Lawrence Tribe, you know, Lawrence Tribe, very, very famous lawyer type person who's anti-Trump.
00:22:06.960He says that Trump's attempted Harvard takeover mirrors Hitler, Orban and Erdogan.
00:22:12.640And then later he was on some TV show where he said, Trump's Harvard tactics are like the mafias and Hillers.
00:22:27.020Now, one of the things that I've predicted since the beginning of, you know, the AI big wave was that AI would teach us that we're not reasonable creatures.
00:22:40.420Because as we learn to understand how AI thinks, we're going to realize that's how we think too.
00:22:47.720And it's not based on reasoning from, you know, first principles.
00:22:52.020It's sort of just pattern recognition.
00:25:38.660That's the first thing we have to decide.
00:25:41.160But secondly, I'm trying to figure out what could it be that we don't know?
00:25:45.660So, one possibility is that Zelensky doesn't think he could personally survive peace, right?
00:25:53.500Because if peace happens, there'll be elections, and then he would be voted out, and then whoever is voted in will start investigating all the money that Zelensky stole, allegedly, you know, possibly.
00:26:06.860I don't know about any, and he might die.
00:26:11.640So, it's possible that Zelensky is doing everything he can do to prevent peace because he doesn't know how to survive peace.
00:26:24.060Another possibility, this may be a little wilder, is that Zelensky knows there's a weapon coming that he would have access to
00:26:35.420that would change the nature of the war, such as, and I'm not predicting this, but I'm just speculating, what are all the reasons he would act this way?
00:26:46.260And one of them would be that they're developing a million drone wave of attack, and nobody knows about it because there's big warehouses where they've got a million drones, and they're building them up.
00:27:00.000And they're just going to run over the entire occupied, Russian-occupied territory, and just kill every Russian soldier with a million drones.
00:27:10.220You know, they might lose 800,000 of them, but when they're done, there won't be any Russian soldiers.
00:27:57.280It doesn't feel like he really would give up anything.
00:28:01.300So I guess the mystery remains, but as long as the mystery remains, the United States probably just needs to get out of it.
00:28:09.340You know, if we can't understand why he doesn't want peace, or at least peace on the terms that are practical, then we shouldn't be involved.
00:28:22.700You know, one way or another, we need to back out, because we don't have the real story.
00:28:30.560Well, one of the things I love about the Trump administration is that he's created sort of a culture where if you're cutting the fat out of your organization, you know, you're going to get some attention.
00:28:47.720So it feels like a lot of people are sort of almost competing to cut the most out of their organization.
00:28:57.340He was reporting today, or yesterday, I guess.
00:29:01.040That, you know, he's in charge of the, what's it called, the FHFA and Fannie and Freddie.
00:29:09.060And so that's the U.S. federal housing groups.
00:29:13.460And he says there's so much redundancy in the paperwork that makes your head spin.
00:29:19.040As a result, the people at Fannie and Freddie, he got rid of a bunch of redundancy.
00:29:23.640He eliminated all kinds of redundancy.
00:29:26.240And as a result, the people at Fannie and Freddie tell us they're very happy with us.
00:29:30.560Now, here's my standard for you haven't done a good job of putting your paperwork together.
00:29:39.440If I'm filling out paperwork for anything, let's say a commercial loan, how many times do I have to write my name and address?
00:29:48.500If I have to write my name and address more than once on a bunch of documents that are all aimed at doing the same thing, it's just there are lots of parts to it, I'm not going to be happy.
00:30:01.300So I don't know what it means to reduce redundancy, but I'm betting that Pulte is doing a great job on that.
00:30:09.800And that could be huge, just in terms of making it easier to be a citizen of the United States.
00:30:16.400At the same time, the State Department is going to be pared back.
00:30:26.140132 agency offices, so that's State Department agency offices, are going to be closed, according to the free press.
00:30:34.820But now the question you ask is 132 agency offices, and if I have many, how many do you think the State Department has if they can close 132 of them?
00:31:37.300But the State Department must have been insanely powerful that nobody could prune them back until the Trump administration.
00:31:46.540So you have to think that prior administrations have thought, hey, we have too much stuff and our budget is too big and we should cut this back a little bit.
00:31:58.140But probably they couldn't because the State Department was sort of so deep state that nobody could touch them.
00:32:05.520But apparently we can now, but only 17%.
00:33:01.180So Tim Poole was in there and he calls out the, I guess, the traditional media that's in the room and noted how they seem to be in lockstep on the hoaxes.
00:33:12.880And he mentioned the very fine people hoax.
00:33:16.380And I love the fact that he made the traditional media who had been promoting the fine people hoax for years.
00:33:24.780He made them sit there on television while he called them out for that being a hoax.
00:34:48.840But Russia and Iran have a tighter relationship than we do with Iran, obviously.
00:34:56.920But one of the reasons that Iran and Russia have a tight relationship is that Iran is creating, manufacturing, many of the drones that Russia is using in the Ukrainian war.
00:35:10.200Now, would it be a coincidence that Iran is suddenly flexible about us knowing about their nuclear program?
00:35:21.040At the same time, they're becoming really, really good at producing a lot of drones.
00:35:31.140Because if you were Iran, one of the things you would know, because everybody knows it, if you ever used a nuclear weapon, your country would be destroyed for sure.
00:35:44.040So using a nuclear weapon doesn't really get you to a good place in any situation.
00:35:49.140But suppose they created a million drones and they wanted to attack Israel with a million drones.
00:35:59.240If they were successful, I don't think they would be, but if they were, they would probably not get nuked.
00:36:07.020Because you don't really nuke people unless they nuke you first.
00:36:12.380So it could be that Iran just feels like its traditional weapons are now so plentiful that they wouldn't need nukes and nukes would just work against their interests because, you know, their country would be destroyed if they ever used one.
00:36:25.580So there's a little bit of me that thinks they might be serious about this.
00:36:32.500Not in a good way, because if they had those other weapons, they would be just as dangerous.
00:36:38.180But I do wonder if they're serious about it.
00:36:41.220So that would be one thing that at least would calm Marcus a little bit.
00:36:44.960If you thought there was less chance that there would be a big war in Iran.
00:38:42.080They're open to trade talks, but not under duress.
00:38:46.420In other words, if they're being threatened, they're going to go to war.
00:38:50.520But if we treat them with respect and as legitimate peers, then they're going to be open to talking.
00:39:01.660So that would certainly suggest that the problem with China is manageable.
00:39:07.120We're pretty far from having a deal, but it suggests that both the United States and China are serious about getting to the other side of this.
00:39:42.280So he got everybody just worried to death.
00:39:45.120And now when he says, well, you know, we can make a deal.
00:39:49.900The people who had been worried to death, and that would include China, because, you know, China was more than a little bit worried about where this was heading.
00:39:57.720Then they're just emotionally, they're just really, really wanting to get a deal.
00:40:05.040So he's created a situation in which, in theory, China will be far more emotionally committed to getting it done because it was so painful to think that it might not get done.
00:40:19.260So it's one thing to be just, you know, coldly calculating, let's make a business deal.
00:40:25.520It's another thing to think we might all die.
00:40:28.820And then you've lived through, they might destroy our entire economy.
00:41:23.620It's going to turn into that automatically.
00:41:26.180And then everybody will say, oh, that sounds a lot better.
00:41:29.880According to a Reuters, Ipsos poll, 37% of Americans approve of Trump's handling of the economy.
00:41:38.700Of course, it's going to be low because he shook the box.
00:41:42.540When he shakes the box, Americans, too, are going to say, oh, I don't know about this.
00:41:50.240And other countries are going to say, oh, I don't know about this.
00:41:53.900So if he's doing everything right, which is getting people afraid of not making a deal, then you'd expect the approval of his economic policies would be low for a while.
00:42:09.380But the only thing that matters is how it turns out.
00:42:12.760If it turns out well and he just gets better deals with China and everybody else.
00:42:17.820And I think there's a pretty high possibility that he gets better deals.
00:42:22.400I don't know how much better, but better.
00:43:59.600No matter what the economy is, you're always like five minutes away from the whole thing falling apart for some reason you didn't know about.
00:44:07.220It's like, oh, no, there's this big financial problem we didn't know about.
00:44:11.660Oh, no, the national debt is going to crush us, you know, today instead of tomorrow.
00:44:19.040There's never been a time the economy was predictable.
00:44:22.620Now, somebody said to me, but, you know, the S&P, the stock market has been predictable if you look at the long term.
00:44:30.680But we weren't looking at the long term recently.
00:44:33.740We were looking at relatively short term.
00:44:36.320And the stock market has gone down over 20% quite a few times.
00:47:10.240But it's hundreds of millions of dollars that are being fined by the European Union for being anti-competitive in ways that are technical and not worth mentioning.
00:47:21.440So, and whatever it is, is not illegal in the United States.
00:47:58.560Apparently, when Trump is talking to the European Union with his trade negotiations, which apparently will happen soon, that might be one of the topics.
00:48:12.040So, it could be that they were doing it for negotiating leverage.
00:48:16.500And they could say, well, you know, maybe we could lower our tariffs a little bit.
00:48:22.460But, you know, maybe you could get rid of these fines on our American companies and let them prosper overseas.
00:49:01.220Meanwhile, on CNN versus Scott Jennings, that's the way I like to think of CNN now.
00:49:09.600It's CNN versus Scott Jennings, the conservative commentator who's always schooling them.
00:49:17.520Apparently, Abby Phillip of CNN was insisting that the reason that the credibility of the major networks was down was not the fault of the networks themselves.
00:49:29.720They're not responsible for their own decrease in viewership and credibility, but rather it's because of right-wing rhetoric.
00:49:38.600So it's the right-wing rhetoric that's making CNN and MSNBC lose their audience.
00:53:11.620They're playing to the audience and they're basically just saying negative things about Trump because they think that's what the audience wants.
00:53:19.720She says, there's not like a North Star thing written on a card and everybody does it slightly differently.
00:55:27.780It feels like they were so obviously ignoring reality that their credibility would have to take a hit.
00:55:34.360Meanwhile, the Tesla earnings call happened yesterday and no surprise, but their earnings were down 71%.
00:55:44.640But I guess the Model Y, their newest one, had a historically best ramp up of any of their cars.
00:55:52.500So they've got a big hit with the Model Y.
00:55:55.140They still made over $400 million, but that would be a billion dollars less than the first quarter last year.
00:56:01.080And separately, I think Elon Musk said on that call that he's confident that you could sleep in your Tesla and wake up at your destination by the end of this year.
00:57:58.600I feel like this self-driving car, once it's really, genuinely, fully self-driving and genuinely way safer than a human driving, I don't feel like you can go back.
00:58:10.840Because I really don't like driving, especially in, you know, in areas where the traffic is heavy.
00:58:20.620So if I could go places without driving and I could just get in this thing, it would take me somewhere.
01:03:38.100In other words, it probably will never be a headline because the public wouldn't have enough background to even understand the level of risk.
01:03:46.780But Mike Benz basically says, this is the sort of thing he has nightmares over.
01:03:52.460The NATO of NGOs literally would be a shadow government for the whole world.
01:05:33.000I've told you from my own one experience with psychedelics when I was in my 20s, it changed my brain completely, and it never changed back.
01:05:46.060And I'm pretty sure it was a positive change.
01:05:49.500So yes, yes, psychedelics, one treatment, can completely change your life from a whole bunch of different pretty big problems.
01:06:01.280You know, depression, PTSD, I don't know about anxiety, but it seems like that would be on the list.
01:06:16.300In drone news, the U.S. Army has got this solar-powered spy plane that has a thousand-mile range, according to interesting engineering.
01:06:27.640It's easy to operate, and it looks great.
01:06:32.080But what caught my eye is that it's being developed by a California-based company, Krauss-Hemdani Aerospace.
01:06:38.920And the amazing thing is not that it can go a thousand miles on solar power.
01:06:45.200The amazing thing is that California can have a company that works.
01:06:50.220How many drone companies are there in the United States now?
01:06:54.920Now, given that we know our military is going to need just infinite drones, so we know that for sure,
01:07:03.920and we know we don't want to depend on some other country to make them.
01:07:08.900So wouldn't you like to see like a dashboard or something to show you how many manufacturing facilities have been built that can make drones?
01:07:18.980Because it might be a lot, but if it's only a few, well, I'm going to be a little worried because we need to make a million drones really fast
01:07:30.760because other people are going to have a million drones, and we don't want to be on the other side of that.
01:07:37.420So anyway, California can make drones.