Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2818 CWSA 04⧸23⧸25

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00:00:55.860 Well, here's an important story.

00:00:59.240 According to science, walnuts can curb inflammation that may reduce colon cancer.

00:01:07.560 So if you're at risk of colon cancer, walnuts could be your answer.

00:01:13.240 Now, I'm no doctor, but I have a recommendation.

00:01:18.340 Don't make the mistake I made.

00:01:20.800 The walnuts are to be eaten.

00:01:22.440 Yeah, you take them orally.

00:01:26.180 You're thinking you want to take them the other way because it's reducing your colon cancer risk.

00:01:32.880 But no, you should remove the shells and take them orally.

00:01:36.600 Don't make the mistake I made.

00:01:40.280 Well, here's a little scientific thing that might be a big deal.

00:01:44.800 According 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.

00:01:57.820 And what it does is it's called N-acetylcysteine.

00:02:07.060 And what it does is it can prevent art attacks, apparently, because it can prevent clots from forming.

00:02:15.540 Now, I didn't know this, but apparently if you have a drug that prevents clots from forming, it might make you bleed too much.

00:02:23.100 So there's a downside, but this doesn't do that.

00:02:26.060 So you might be able to take this drug, which already is approved for other purposes and seems pretty safe.

00:02:34.180 And it could basically eliminate millions of heart attacks and strokes.

00:02:42.620 Now, it sounds a little too good.

00:02:44.560 Well, you know, the baby aspirin and the other things, they have some downside.

00:02:49.500 But as far as they know, there's no specific downside from this particular drug.

00:02:54.580 It already exists.

00:02:56.200 They know about it pretty well.

00:02:58.780 So that's kind of cool.

00:03:02.020 Over in China, there's a report in Interesting Engineering that the Chinese are looking to gene edit super soldiers.

00:03:11.980 So they're going to make super soldiers with gene editing and maybe give them AI power.

00:03:18.820 So they're basically making cyborgs that are gene edited.

00:03:23.360 Do you think that they have any yet?

00:03:26.900 Do you suppose there are any gene edited babies that are just being raised as super soldiers?

00:03:33.640 I don't know.

00:03:34.860 But I don't know how well these super soldiers are going to do against a wave of drones that are destroying them from above.

00:03:42.560 But watch out for those super soldiers coming to a war near you.

00:03:48.180 I'm not sure I believe any of that story.

00:03:51.020 Do you believe that China is making gene edited super soldiers?

00:03:55.520 You know, I suppose anything is possible.

00:03:57.620 But I'm going to say I don't believe it.

00:04:00.760 Apparently, Trump says he's going to talk to AG, Attorney General Bondi, about what's holding up the Epstein files.

00:04:12.540 How many of you believe the Epstein files were really going to come out?

00:04:16.380 Now, let me ask you this.

00:04:19.400 When I say Epstein files, do you say to yourself, oh, just the text messages and the, you know, the documents?

00:04:28.300 Wouldn't the Epstein files be the video that we know must have been there on the island?

00:04:38.040 No video?

00:04:39.480 Are 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?

00:04:48.300 Is that going to happen?

00:04:49.400 I think it is.

00:04:52.420 Do we even know who has the video?

00:04:56.040 Do you think the U.S. government knows who has the video from the island?

00:05:02.940 Maybe.

00:05:03.940 Maybe they do.

00:05:04.960 Maybe they don't.

00:05:05.960 But I'll tell you one thing for sure.

00:05:08.060 Somebody has those videos.

00:05:10.060 I don't think they got destroyed.

00:05:12.800 So maybe Israel has them. 0.95

00:05:15.080 Maybe the FBI has them.

00:05:17.000 Maybe Russia has them. 0.98

00:05:20.200 I don't think Russia.

00:05:21.980 But we're not going to see anything good from the Epstein files.

00:05:27.500 Yeah, I think the odds of us seeing the good stuff, probably zero.

00:05:32.780 But we'll see.

00:05:35.500 So you remember Klaus Schwab, the head of the World Economic Forum?

00:05:40.100 And I remember how people like me kept saying, why does he seem like an evil supervillain?

00:05:48.620 Like he talked and looked exactly like some kind of evil villain that you would cast in a movie.

00:05:55.400 And it turns out there's a whistleblower.

00:05:57.300 He's got some complaints about Klaus.

00:06:00.880 Alleging financial and ethical misconduct.

00:06:03.560 And he resigned from the World Economic Forum.

00:06:08.780 We don't know if it's because of this, but the reporting is after it.

00:06:13.520 So maybe it's because, but we don't know.

00:06:17.700 Allegedly used forum cash for hotel massages.

00:06:21.940 ATM runs by junior staff and holiday travel disguised as business.

00:06:26.080 And he says he's going to sue whoever is accusing him of this.

00:06:32.720 And his wife allegedly ran their, this is according to the Wall Street Journal,

00:06:38.420 allegedly ran their 50 million lakeside villa like a private spa.

00:06:43.740 So while Davos was talking about austerity,

00:06:48.940 Schwab was apparently having a good time with his full-time spa.

00:06:53.920 Now, I know what you're thinking.

00:06:56.080 Happy endings.

00:06:57.920 Well, you're probably right.

00:07:00.480 But is anybody surprised that Klaus Schwab was a little bit sketchy?

00:07:07.420 Allegedly.

00:07:08.480 Allegedly.

00:07:09.300 We don't know for sure.

00:07:10.780 That's according to a whistleblower.

00:07:13.960 Well, RFK Jr. apparently is succeeding in getting rid of the artificial food colorings in our food.

00:07:20.520 Everything from candies and drinks and jams and cereals.

00:07:24.240 But it's going to take a while.

00:07:27.040 I guess it's going to take until the end of 2026.

00:07:30.620 But the FDA is announcing that the petroleum-based synthetic dyes will be eliminated from medications and the food supply by the end of 2026.

00:07:41.740 So that might be a big deal.

00:07:44.920 Well, 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.

00:07:56.800 But I wonder if any of this is related.

00:08:01.100 I mean, he's got a lot more work to do to figure out what's going on with that.

00:08:04.780 But if we don't get our testosterone levels back, I don't think we're going to be a successful country.

00:08:13.100 How much of you, if you have to guess, how much of the current drama in the United States might be caused by low testosterone?

00:08:21.900 Because the Democrats are a low testosterone party. 0.81

00:08:27.380 It's pretty much women and men with low testosterone.

00:08:31.380 If we didn't have this testosterone emergency, do you think the Democrats would be acting the way they are?

00:08:38.920 I don't know.

00:08:41.800 But 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.

00:08:53.400 There's no way that that's a nothing.

00:08:57.200 And there does seem to be a difference between the two parties.

00:08:59.940 So I'm guessing that if you improve testosterone, politics would change as well.

00:09:07.400 So, you know, just look at like a single issue.

00:09:12.680 Look at protecting the border.

00:09:16.700 Do you think the low testosterone people and the high testosterone men have the same opinion about protecting the border?

00:09:25.380 I'll bet not.

00:09:26.800 I'll bet you could find a difference.

00:09:28.380 What about deporting people without enough due process if you suspect they're gang members?

00:09:37.400 I'll bet you there's a big difference between the high testosterone opinions and the low testosterone opinions.

00:09:42.680 So a lot of times we think we have opinions, but really what it is is just different chemical situations.

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00:10:52.460 Anyway, 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.

00:11:10.500 But what's different about them is that they're only a minute to a minute and a half long.

00:11:14.900 And the first few are free to get you hooked, and then you would pay a little bit for each one.

00:11:21.220 But they're all going to be like a minute and a half.

00:11:24.260 And they do it with cheap actors and AI-generated backgrounds.

00:11:29.060 But they're making like $200 million in revenue. 0.95

00:11:32.460 So what they've invented basically is porn for women. 0.99

00:11:36.040 Now, here's something I've observed for many years.

00:11:40.420 If you're trying to predict an online service and whether it does well, here's what you look for.

00:11:48.660 Number one, does it have anything to do with sex?

00:11:52.760 Because that's always good.

00:11:55.180 So, yes.

00:11:56.360 So even though these are romance fantasies, you know, one assumes that it's basically sex adjacent.

00:12:03.900 The other thing is faces.

00:12:06.040 If you have any kind of an online service that has faces, whether it's Instagram or basically anything that has faces,

00:12:16.040 it's going to be far more successful than anything that doesn't have faces.

00:12:21.000 So always look for faces.

00:12:23.320 And then the other thing lately is whether it's brief.

00:12:28.920 So this Chinese service with these minute and a half clips, it gets it all.

00:12:35.000 It's got the sex, it's got faces, and it's brief because our attention span is so low.

00:12:42.500 So I guess you could have predicted it because it sort of hit all the, you know, the notes.

00:12:48.420 Well, Catherine Herridge, a very respected reporter, has a big piece out now.

00:12:59.100 She did some interviews, and she says that top U.S. neuroscientists and military advisors confirm that reports are, quote, credible.

00:13:08.780 Credible is a keyword here.

00:13:09.940 That directed energy weapon attacks have happened on U.S. soil and targeted U.S. personnel abroad.

00:13:16.740 Now, I watched her interview with one of the individuals who claims to have been a victim of the attacks.

00:13:24.100 Now, you might remember that when this story was new, I said that it was not real and that it was mass hysteria.

00:13:36.740 I'm going to mildly revise my opinion to, I might be wrong.

00:13:43.380 I might be.

00:13:44.000 But let me just interject this.

00:13:47.580 If you're looking to determine what's real and what's not real, I always look for the money.

00:13:54.700 And so her key interview was an individual who claims to have been damaged by one of these weapons.

00:14:02.520 And the reason he's claiming it is so that he can get workplace disability, some kind of payment for his care.

00:14:13.480 So 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.

00:14:28.060 So here's the problem.

00:14:29.160 Well, he could be telling the truth and he could be 100% right.

00:14:34.000 I wouldn't know from here.

00:14:35.800 But can you really take as a credible witness somebody who has a huge financial interest in you believing in one thing or another?

00:14:49.440 So for me, this is a little sketchy because you've got to find somebody who doesn't have a financial interest.

00:14:56.520 And 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.

00:15:11.720 So 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.

00:15:21.180 You know, didn't have any tells for lying.

00:15:24.040 But generally speaking, I would tell you to be very cautious if your best witnesses are getting paid or if they have a financial incentive.

00:15:34.140 So just put that in your quiver.

00:15:39.560 So and I'll say again, I could be wrong.

00:15:42.100 I could be wrong about it being a mass hysteria.

00:15:46.940 Maybe there is a weapon.

00:15:48.680 So I'm going to go all the way to maybe.

00:15:50.480 You 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.

00:16:07.400 And they were all shut down and defunded and everybody was fired because Trump administration decided that wasn't really useful.

00:16:17.580 Well, 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.

00:16:39.240 How is that even possible?

00:16:40.820 How is it even possible that a judge can tell the government that they can't fire people and they can't close down a government entity?

00:16:51.900 And I think the argument has something to do with they're an independent federal agency.

00:16:58.280 But how independent are you if you depend on funding from the government?

00:17:03.560 That feels like the opposite of independent.

00:17:06.860 You know, maybe the post office is a similar situation.

00:17:09.700 It's like gets government funding, but it's independent.

00:17:15.180 I can't even believe that.

00:17:18.380 Do you think that would have happened if we had a Democrat as a president?

00:17:23.740 Or do you think it's just all these district judges are just ruling anything that Trump does is wrong, has to be reversed?

00:17:31.520 Because it's starting to look like it's just automatic.

00:17:34.300 You know, they just shop for the right judge and then they get somebody to say, whatever Trump wants, we're going to say no.

00:17:42.080 So here's a question that I've been noodling on.

00:17:48.140 You 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.

00:18:00.740 Now, they wouldn't say they were in the censorship business.

00:18:05.640 They would all say that they were in the getting rid of disinformation business.

00:18:12.180 But the disinformation would always be on one side.

00:18:16.080 They would never get rid of the disinformation on the left.

00:18:20.220 They would only get rid of what they would call the disinformation on the right.

00:18:25.260 Now, do you think they were accurate in knowing what the disinformation was?

00:18:29.620 I don't even think that was the goal.

00:18:33.180 I think it was just pure censorship of one side.

00:18:36.860 But Elon Musk said on X, several more censorship organizations will be deleted.

00:18:44.120 And my question is this.

00:18:46.160 How many were there?

00:18:47.440 Every 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?

00:19:00.180 It just feels like the letters changed.

00:19:02.600 You know, it's a GEC or a CISA or there was a new one recently.

00:19:08.580 And I'm really wondering, were there hundreds?

00:19:14.040 Were there dozens?

00:19:15.700 And then that's not even counting the FBI that we know was trying to influence the social media platforms.

00:19:25.000 How many entities were involved in trying to take away my freedom of speech?

00:19:32.700 A lot.

00:19:34.480 And how many entities were involved in trying to reduce the advertising revenue to any platform they didn't like?

00:19:42.020 A lot.

00:19:44.760 It 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.

00:19:59.260 I don't even know if several more censorship organizations get deleted, how many are left?

00:20:08.580 You know, several doesn't tell me anything.

00:20:11.160 You know, I always say a number without a percentage is useless, but a percentage without a number is useless.

00:20:17.880 Here's a number, several, but without the percentage, I can't tell if that matters.

00:20:25.400 If it's only 1% of all the disinformation organizations, it doesn't mean anything.

00:20:31.460 If it's 80%, maybe it does.

00:20:36.420 So I'd like to know how many there are out there.

00:20:40.340 There's some AI expert I was seeing on a clip on X, Jeffrey Hinton.

00:20:46.120 He says that the more we understand AI and how the brain actually works, the less human thinking looks like logic.

00:20:56.180 I saw this on a Vitrupo account on X.

00:21:00.520 And he says, we're not reasoning machines.

00:21:03.300 We're analogy machines.

00:21:05.760 We think by resonance, not deduction.

00:21:08.700 We're much less rational than we thought.

00:21:11.380 Who does that sound like?

00:21:12.740 It sounds like me.

00:21:16.160 It sounds like my book that's behind you.

00:21:19.860 I forget which one.

00:21:22.100 But where I talk about loser think is the book.

00:21:26.280 And I write about how analogy thinking is not real thinking.

00:21:31.520 If all you're doing is being reminded of something else, that's not thinking.

00:21:35.980 Now, 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?

00:21:50.920 Well, let's look at the news.

00:21:52.640 According to The Hill, a Trump critic named Lawrence Tribe, you know, Lawrence Tribe, very, very famous lawyer type person who's anti-Trump.

00:22:06.960 He says that Trump's attempted Harvard takeover mirrors Hitler, Orban and Erdogan.

00:22:12.640 And then later he was on some TV show where he said, Trump's Harvard tactics are like the mafias and Hillers. 0.97

00:22:22.240 Is that reasoning or is that analogy?

00:22:26.380 It's analogy.

00:22:27.020 Now, 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.

00:22:40.420 Because as we learn to understand how AI thinks, we're going to realize that's how we think too.

00:22:47.720 And it's not based on reasoning from, you know, first principles.

00:22:52.020 It's sort of just pattern recognition.

00:22:55.020 It's just analogies.

00:22:56.260 So, I don't know what percentage of human beings can use a reasoning, but it's not a lot.

00:23:04.100 And if you were ever to say to yourself, the world is a simulation and some of us are NPCs, you know, non-player characters,

00:23:12.360 I'm pretty sure the NPCs would be the analogy thinkers.

00:23:15.680 And the few people who were players in that model would be able to reason from first principles, I guess.

00:23:26.560 So, ask yourself, which one are you?

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00:23:45.680 So, let's talk about Ukraine and Russia.

00:23:51.740 So, according to the Wall Street Journal, Zelensky says he'll never agree to peace without the surrender of Crimea.

00:24:00.880 Now, Russia, under no circumstance, will ever give up their biggest, you know, military, I guess, naval base.

00:24:10.940 And there's no way they're going to give up Crimea, much less the other properties that they own right now.

00:24:17.120 So, does that look to you like anybody who's serious about, you know, even trying to get a peace deal?

00:24:25.040 Well, it doesn't to me.

00:24:27.240 And it makes me think there's something we don't understand about what's going on.

00:24:31.800 Now, as you know, I've never been to Ukraine.

00:24:36.260 So, therefore, that makes me not an expert who is worthy to talk about it.

00:24:40.740 So, I'll just talk about it as an observer who is confused.

00:24:44.700 So, I won't talk about it as an expert.

00:24:47.940 I'll talk about it as somebody who's watching the news and saying, what?

00:24:51.960 What?

00:24:52.380 Why does this news make sense?

00:24:54.000 So, apparently, Rubio has canceled some high-level meeting because it doesn't look like Ukraine and Russia are serious about a peace deal.

00:25:06.000 And they've downgraded the – they haven't cut off contact, but they've downgraded the negotiations, it's called.

00:25:13.880 And so, instead of Rubio being there or Trump being there, it's going to be Ukraine Envoy General Keith Kellogg.

00:25:22.800 General Kellogg.

00:25:25.460 Kellogg. 0.99

00:25:27.100 Kellogg is a serial, and a general is somebody who kills people. 0.88

00:25:32.260 So, would he be a serial killer, General Kellogg?

00:25:38.340 I don't know.

00:25:38.660 That's the first thing we have to decide.

00:25:41.160 But secondly, I'm trying to figure out what could it be that we don't know?

00:25:45.660 So, one possibility is that Zelensky doesn't think he could personally survive peace, right?

00:25:53.500 Because 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.

00:26:06.860 I don't know about any, and he might die.

00:26:11.640 So, it's possible that Zelensky is doing everything he can do to prevent peace because he doesn't know how to survive peace.

00:26:20.860 That might be the actual reason.

00:26:24.060 Another possibility, this may be a little wilder, is that Zelensky knows there's a weapon coming that he would have access to

00:26:35.420 that 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?

00:26:46.260 And 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.

00:27:00.000 And they're just going to run over the entire occupied, Russian-occupied territory, and just kill every Russian soldier with a million drones.

00:27:10.220 You know, they might lose 800,000 of them, but when they're done, there won't be any Russian soldiers.

00:27:17.200 Is that possible?

00:27:19.100 Are we moving to a fully drone war?

00:27:22.060 And Zelensky knows it, and he knows it's imminent.

00:27:25.180 So he thinks that it would go from Russia has the military advantage to every Russian soldier in those territories is dead?

00:27:36.120 Maybe.

00:27:37.220 I don't think that's the greatest possibility, but again, what else is it?

00:27:42.240 The other possibility is that he's just negotiating.

00:27:44.920 So he's taking the most extreme position, and then, you know, he's got something to give up.

00:27:54.620 But it doesn't feel like it, does it?

00:27:57.280 It doesn't feel like he really would give up anything.

00:28:01.300 So I guess the mystery remains, but as long as the mystery remains, the United States probably just needs to get out of it.

00:28:09.340 You 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.

00:28:22.700 You know, one way or another, we need to back out, because we don't have the real story.

00:28:28.480 Unless we do, and we're not talking.

00:28:30.560 Well, 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.

00:28:47.720 So it feels like a lot of people are sort of almost competing to cut the most out of their organization.

00:28:54.480 One of them is Bill Pulte.

00:28:57.340 He was reporting today, or yesterday, I guess.

00:29:01.040 That, you know, he's in charge of the, what's it called, the FHFA and Fannie and Freddie.

00:29:09.060 And so that's the U.S. federal housing groups.

00:29:13.460 And he says there's so much redundancy in the paperwork that makes your head spin.

00:29:19.040 As a result, the people at Fannie and Freddie, he got rid of a bunch of redundancy.

00:29:23.640 He eliminated all kinds of redundancy.

00:29:26.240 And as a result, the people at Fannie and Freddie tell us they're very happy with us.

00:29:30.560 Now, here's my standard for you haven't done a good job of putting your paperwork together.

00:29:39.440 If 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?

00:29:48.500 If 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.

00:30:01.300 So I don't know what it means to reduce redundancy, but I'm betting that Pulte is doing a great job on that.

00:30:09.800 And that could be huge, just in terms of making it easier to be a citizen of the United States.

00:30:16.400 At the same time, the State Department is going to be pared back.

00:30:23.280 So listen to this.

00:30:26.140 132 agency offices, so that's State Department agency offices, are going to be closed, according to the free press.

00:30:34.820 But 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?

00:30:53.420 The answer is 734.

00:30:57.380 They have 734 offices?

00:31:00.100 Are you kidding me?

00:31:03.800 Where?

00:31:05.360 Doing what?

00:31:07.500 So they're going to close them and reduce it to only about 600.

00:31:11.880 It's only a 17% reduction.

00:31:15.620 Can you even imagine closing 132 offices and it's only 17% of your offices?

00:31:22.300 Oh, my God.

00:31:23.520 The amount of waste which must exist in the State Department.

00:31:27.500 But what this tells me is that the State Department was the animal wagging the tail.

00:31:35.340 It's a wrong analogy.

00:31:37.300 But the State Department must have been insanely powerful that nobody could prune them back until the Trump administration.

00:31:46.540 So 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.

00:31:58.140 But probably they couldn't because the State Department was sort of so deep state that nobody could touch them.

00:32:05.520 But apparently we can now, but only 17%.

00:32:08.940 Anyway.

00:32:10.160 But that's a move in the right direction.

00:32:16.720 So you may have seen the video of Tim Poole.

00:32:20.880 He was at the White House briefing room.

00:32:22.920 And when he was asked to ask his question, he mentioned that the people in the room.

00:32:33.380 Oh, hello.

00:32:34.940 I'm seeing in the comments breaking.

00:32:39.440 New York Attorney General Letitia James is now suspected of insurance fraud.

00:32:44.080 And this is not associated with previous allegations, insurance fraud.

00:32:52.760 All right.

00:32:54.980 She's in trouble.

00:32:57.640 She is in trouble.

00:32:59.940 Anyway, what was I saying?

00:33:01.180 So 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.

00:33:12.880 And he mentioned the very fine people hoax.

00:33:16.380 And I love the fact that he made the traditional media who had been promoting the fine people hoax for years.

00:33:24.780 He made them sit there on television while he called them out for that being a hoax.

00:33:31.400 And he had two other examples.

00:33:33.380 But the fine people hoax was the one that, of course, interests me the most since I worked hard to get that debunked.

00:33:41.160 So that's good.

00:33:45.060 I love that.

00:33:47.660 All right.

00:33:48.280 So I've got a little theme for the next part of the show.

00:33:53.040 It's a theme.

00:33:53.800 It's called Calming Economic Uncertainty.

00:33:58.000 All right.

00:33:58.940 So here are all the things that, as I mentioned at the beginning of the show, the stock market is up strongly today.

00:34:06.100 And it's not a coincidence.

00:34:08.620 There are things happening.

00:34:11.020 So Iran says it's ready to make its nuclear program more transparent in return for an easing of sanctions.

00:34:24.820 Now, isn't that what we wanted?

00:34:28.080 Didn't we want full transparency on their nuclear program to make sure they weren't making weapons?

00:34:33.120 Do you think this is real or is it just stalling again?

00:34:40.340 Here's why I think it might be real.

00:34:43.400 So Russia has been, I guess, brought into the process.

00:34:47.220 We don't know exactly how.

00:34:48.840 But Russia and Iran have a tighter relationship than we do with Iran, obviously.

00:34:56.920 But 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.

00:35:10.200 Now, would it be a coincidence that Iran is suddenly flexible about us knowing about their nuclear program?

00:35:21.040 At the same time, they're becoming really, really good at producing a lot of drones.

00:35:26.920 I'm not sure that's a coincidence.

00:35:31.140 Because 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. 0.99

00:35:42.240 Like, no doubt about it.

00:35:44.040 So using a nuclear weapon doesn't really get you to a good place in any situation.

00:35:49.140 But suppose they created a million drones and they wanted to attack Israel with a million drones.

00:35:59.240 If they were successful, I don't think they would be, but if they were, they would probably not get nuked.

00:36:07.020 Because you don't really nuke people unless they nuke you first. 0.95

00:36:12.380 So 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. 0.71

00:36:25.580 So there's a little bit of me that thinks they might be serious about this.

00:36:32.500 Not in a good way, because if they had those other weapons, they would be just as dangerous.

00:36:38.180 But I do wonder if they're serious about it.

00:36:41.220 So that would be one thing that at least would calm Marcus a little bit.

00:36:44.960 If you thought there was less chance that there would be a big war in Iran.

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00:37:20.840 Then, apparently President Trump has said he's not planning to fire Fed Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

00:37:28.260 And that was roiling the markets and making people feel uncertain.

00:37:35.860 But he's taken that off the table.

00:37:38.140 Do you think that will calm the stock market?

00:37:41.640 Yes, of course it will.

00:37:43.060 Because that was one of the big issues.

00:37:46.040 So he's calming the market that way.

00:37:48.400 What else is he doing?

00:37:50.520 Trump also said yesterday that the huge tariffs on China will significantly be reduced after he negotiates with President Xi of China.

00:38:01.860 And he expressed optimism about getting a deal with China.

00:38:06.100 And he said 145 percent, that's the current tariff he has on China, is very high.

00:38:11.520 It won't be that high.

00:38:12.940 It's not going to be that high.

00:38:14.480 It won't be anywhere near that high.

00:38:17.600 Only Trump talks that way.

00:38:19.900 Trump tells reporters in the Oval, it will come down substantially, but it won't be zero.

00:38:26.020 The Wall Street Journal is reporting on this.

00:38:27.840 And apparently in response, I think it's in response, China signaled it was open to trade talks with the U.S.

00:38:37.480 I think it wasn't in response.

00:38:42.080 They're open to trade talks, but not under duress.

00:38:46.420 In other words, if they're being threatened, they're going to go to war.

00:38:50.520 But if we treat them with respect and as legitimate peers, then they're going to be open to talking.

00:39:01.660 So that would certainly suggest that the problem with China is manageable.

00:39:07.120 We'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.

00:39:17.900 So will that calm the markets?

00:39:19.240 Yes. Yes, it will.

00:39:22.520 So here's the thing that I think Trump does so well.

00:39:27.100 He shakes the box and then he says, all right, did I get an advantage here?

00:39:32.740 And if he didn't, he shakes it again.

00:39:35.000 And he just keeps shaking the box until something looks like a Trump advantage.

00:39:39.100 And then he uses the advantage.

00:39:42.280 So he got everybody just worried to death.

00:39:45.120 And now when he says, well, you know, we can make a deal.

00:39:49.900 The 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.

00:39:57.720 Then they're just emotionally, they're just really, really wanting to get a deal.

00:40:05.040 So 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.

00:40:19.260 So it's one thing to be just, you know, coldly calculating, let's make a business deal.

00:40:25.520 It's another thing to think we might all die.

00:40:28.820 And then you've lived through, they might destroy our entire economy.

00:40:34.760 And then you survive that.

00:40:37.160 And then you go to negotiate and you're not thinking, oh, what's a good business deal?

00:40:41.680 You're thinking, God, I don't want to feel that again.

00:40:44.520 So Trump creates a situation in which people's emotional state is really, really triggered to make a deal.

00:40:54.560 You can't beat that.

00:40:55.800 That's the ultimate negotiating technique.

00:41:01.740 So we'll see.

00:41:03.200 And I do think that Trump will turn it from, you know, we're in charge and we're going to slap you down, China. 0.54

00:41:12.000 The moment he talks to President Xi, it's going to be all, President Xi is an awesome guy.

00:41:18.940 We know he wants to make a fair deal.

00:41:21.760 We can certainly work with China.

00:41:23.620 It's going to turn into that automatically.

00:41:26.180 And then everybody will say, oh, that sounds a lot better.

00:41:29.880 According to a Reuters, Ipsos poll, 37% of Americans approve of Trump's handling of the economy.

00:41:38.700 Of course, it's going to be low because he shook the box.

00:41:42.540 When he shakes the box, Americans, too, are going to say, oh, I don't know about this.

00:41:50.240 And other countries are going to say, oh, I don't know about this.

00:41:53.900 So 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.

00:42:09.380 But the only thing that matters is how it turns out.

00:42:12.760 If it turns out well and he just gets better deals with China and everybody else.

00:42:17.820 And I think there's a pretty high possibility that he gets better deals.

00:42:22.400 I don't know how much better, but better.

00:42:25.840 That would presumably change.

00:42:28.300 According to the same poll, nearly 75% of U.S. adults said they're worried about a recession.

00:42:35.860 That feels like, aren't we always worried about a recession?

00:42:42.200 It seems like that's not telling me anything.

00:42:45.660 75% are kind of always worried about a recession.

00:42:50.620 Because no matter how good things are, somebody's going to say it's a bubble.

00:42:55.780 So you're always thinking, well, I'm a little bit worried about a recession, even though things are going well.

00:43:01.440 So that doesn't mean a thing.

00:43:02.800 And then 56% said Trump's retooling of the economy is, quote, too erratic.

00:43:11.780 Too erratic or too perfect?

00:43:15.240 Because he shakes the box until everybody's ready to negotiate.

00:43:19.340 We'll see.

00:43:21.000 We'll see.

00:43:24.140 Well, so I posted this on X yesterday.

00:43:26.660 The thing people were worried about with Trump is that he was making the economy unpredictable.

00:43:34.420 Would you agree?

00:43:36.040 The markets were acting like, uh-oh, we don't know what's going to happen.

00:43:40.620 Could be bad, could be good, but we don't know.

00:43:43.420 So the uncertainty was making people, you know, act a little crazy and stocks went down.

00:43:49.780 But here's what I'd like to add to the conversation.

00:43:53.840 We've never had certainty in the economy.

00:43:56.520 There was always an illusion.

00:43:59.600 No 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.

00:44:07.220 It's like, oh, no, there's this big financial problem we didn't know about.

00:44:11.660 Oh, no, the national debt is going to crush us, you know, today instead of tomorrow.

00:44:19.040 There's never been a time the economy was predictable.

00:44:22.620 Now, somebody said to me, but, you know, the S&P, the stock market has been predictable if you look at the long term.

00:44:30.680 But we weren't looking at the long term recently.

00:44:33.740 We were looking at relatively short term.

00:44:36.320 And the stock market has gone down over 20% quite a few times.

00:44:42.660 And 20% is considered really bad.

00:44:46.400 So we've never had a predictable economy.

00:44:49.980 And we never will.

00:44:51.620 It's not even a thing.

00:44:53.100 But to imagine that what Trump did was turn a predictable economy into an unpredictable one, that's not true.

00:45:01.460 That's not true at all.

00:45:02.780 Well, he made it, he made us uncomfortable, and he shook the box pretty hard.

00:45:10.860 But it was always thoroughly unpredictable.

00:45:14.760 And it still is.

00:45:17.640 People feel like it's not.

00:45:20.580 And how they feel is what drives the economy.

00:45:24.060 Well, over in the UK, according to the inside paper, they're doing new experiments.

00:45:28.960 Experiments, I can't even believe this is real, are experiments to dim sunlight to fight global warning.

00:45:38.600 So I guess that means they'll be spraying something in the air to dim the sunlight.

00:45:43.260 Now, I'm no expert on the UK.

00:45:48.000 But I can't think of anything you could do with the UK to make it less appealing to go there than to have less sunlight.

00:45:57.500 The biggest problem with the UK is not enough sunlight.

00:46:01.140 It's the last place on Earth I'd be looking to reduce the sunlight.

00:46:06.740 It's like, where did they come up with that idea?

00:46:09.460 Do they want no tourism whatsoever?

00:46:11.540 Do they want everybody to move out who can afford it?

00:46:13.960 Yeah, let's have less sunlight in the UK to try to fight global warming.

00:46:22.140 So I guess those three days of sunlight are going to go to two.

00:46:28.000 Well, speaking of Europe, I guess Apple and Meta both got these gigantic hundreds of millions of dollar fines by the European Union.

00:46:38.100 And the problem is that they're not complying with a 2022 law that was passed in the European Union, the Digital Markets Act.

00:46:49.420 And I guess the Digital Markets Act was designed to make it easier for smaller companies to compete with these big platforms.

00:46:57.380 Or allegedly, that's what it was.

00:46:59.880 But I wonder if that's really what it was.

00:47:02.800 Both Apple and Meta are going to appeal.

00:47:08.020 I guess there's an appeals process.

00:47:10.240 But 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.

00:47:21.440 So, and whatever it is, is not illegal in the United States.

00:47:26.820 So, how do we put up with this?

00:47:29.680 I realize that these big companies have to conform to local laws.

00:47:35.500 Otherwise, nothing's going to work.

00:47:39.760 But it feels like the European Union is just trying to mess with the United States in every way that it can.

00:47:48.020 It just doesn't feel like they really mean it.

00:47:50.860 It's like they looked for something that was bad for the United States and then they implemented it.

00:47:56.120 I don't know.

00:47:57.500 Looks sketchy to me.

00:47:58.560 Apparently, when Trump is talking to the European Union with his trade negotiations, which apparently will happen soon, that might be one of the topics.

00:48:12.040 So, it could be that they were doing it for negotiating leverage.

00:48:16.500 And they could say, well, you know, maybe we could lower our tariffs a little bit.

00:48:22.460 But, you know, maybe you could get rid of these fines on our American companies and let them prosper overseas.

00:48:29.900 We'll see.

00:48:31.480 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

00:48:33.720 I've been visualizing my match all week.

00:48:35.840 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.

00:48:42.260 Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.

00:48:47.900 Everything was taken care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.

00:48:52.360 I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.

00:48:55.800 But you got there on time.

00:48:57.680 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace.

00:49:00.300 Certain conditions apply.

00:49:01.220 Meanwhile, on CNN versus Scott Jennings, that's the way I like to think of CNN now.

00:49:09.600 It's CNN versus Scott Jennings, the conservative commentator who's always schooling them.

00:49:17.520 Apparently, 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.

00:49:29.720 They're not responsible for their own decrease in viewership and credibility, but rather it's because of right-wing rhetoric.

00:49:38.600 So it's the right-wing rhetoric that's making CNN and MSNBC lose their audience.

00:49:45.800 Really?

00:49:47.320 Do you think the right-wing was watching MSNBC and CNN?

00:49:52.360 I don't think so.

00:49:53.640 And do you think that the lefties are listening to right-wing rhetoric about what they should watch?

00:49:59.720 I don't think so.

00:50:02.300 But anyway, Scott Jennings wasn't having that.

00:50:04.900 So here's what he said.

00:50:06.980 The reason that you've lost trust ought to be obvious to you.

00:50:10.280 And the way to fix it is also ought to be obvious to you.

00:50:13.720 And it has nothing to do with Donald Trump, but everything to do with the product.

00:50:17.900 Ouch.

00:50:19.460 It has everything to do with the product.

00:50:21.360 Yeah, that is correct.

00:50:25.080 If the product were better, more people would watch.

00:50:30.360 So he says, just try to make a better product that appeals to more people.

00:50:35.360 And the way you appeal to more people is by not crapping on half or more of the country.

00:50:40.420 Now, let me challenge that a little bit.

00:50:44.420 Do you think that the problem with CNN is that they're crapping on half the country?

00:50:49.640 Because doesn't Fox News do the same thing?

00:50:52.440 And Fox News is having banner traffic. 0.72

00:50:55.440 So, and then I asked myself, hmm, when you watch Fox News, are they crapping on weirdos and politicians? 0.92

00:51:06.360 Or are they crapping on Democrats? 0.94

00:51:10.320 I don't know.

00:51:10.940 Well, it just seems to me that Fox News does a better job of programming.

00:51:17.520 Yeah, I've said this a million times.

00:51:19.500 But the producers at Fox News just do a better job.

00:51:24.640 They put together shows that you want to watch.

00:51:27.340 So people watch them.

00:51:29.340 I think the Five, and maybe Goffeld, too, have an unusually high audience of Democrats.

00:51:37.740 You know, more than you'd expect.

00:51:38.860 And the reason is, they're good shows.

00:51:42.280 That's it.

00:51:43.160 It's a better product.

00:51:44.720 Where would you go on CNN to watch something that you could stand if you were a Republican?

00:51:52.780 Basically, just watching Scott Jennings insult them and try to correct their ideas.

00:52:02.940 Anyway, so it doesn't look like CNN or MSNBC will be able to fix themselves.

00:52:08.240 Speaking of MSNBC, you remember Jen Psaki used to be the spokesperson for Biden. 1.00

00:52:16.000 So she was on a show, a podcast, I think, with Dylan Byers.

00:52:22.200 She said that people tune in to, their audience tunes in to see coverage of Trump that is, quote, typically not going to be positive.

00:52:42.640 So she's admitting explicitly that the show is anti-Trump and that that's what the audience wants.

00:52:57.840 So apparently that's what they're going to get.

00:52:59.820 She says, quote, and we're also going to talk about Trump and it's typically not going to be positive.

00:53:05.040 I don't think anybody watching expects it to be positive, right?

00:53:09.500 Well, there it is.

00:53:11.620 They're playing to the audience and they're basically just saying negative things about Trump because they think that's what the audience wants.

00:53:19.720 She says, there's not like a North Star thing written on a card and everybody does it slightly differently.

00:53:26.180 But I think that's fairly the vibe.

00:53:27.960 So in other words, management is not telling them, make sure you're anti-Trump all the time.

00:53:34.700 It's just that everybody knows it.

00:53:37.380 So how do you maintain a network where you're basically telling people you're going to be biased all the time?

00:53:47.400 Well, I guess the reduction in traffic answers that question.

00:53:52.680 And then, do you remember Rainn Wilson?

00:53:58.900 He was one of the stars of that TV show, The Office.

00:54:03.420 I guess he's got a podcast now.

00:54:05.320 Now, I don't know if he identifies as left or right, but it doesn't matter to the story.

00:54:11.540 He had Stephanie Ruhle on.

00:54:13.520 She's one of the MSNBC hosts.

00:54:15.340 And so Rainn Wilson said to her, 40% of Americans don't trust mainstream media.

00:54:23.260 Why is that?

00:54:23.960 How did we get here?

00:54:25.740 And what Ruhle said was Trump won and tons of people were shocked or angry or frustrated and they're tuning out.

00:54:33.760 At the same time, you have the Elon Musk media machine because they want you to leave traditional media and they want you to go to X.

00:54:39.840 So she's blaming the lack of trust in the mainstream as the shock that Trump won and Elon Musk trying to drive people to X.

00:54:51.760 Does that sound like she's nailed it?

00:54:54.740 Well, not according to Rainn Wilson.

00:54:56.660 He goes, this is where I would push back.

00:54:59.160 Left-leading news media organizations were kind of like, la, la, la, la, la.

00:55:03.180 Everything's fine.

00:55:04.080 Look, the economy's great.

00:55:05.360 La, la, la.

00:55:06.080 Immigration, not that much of a problem.

00:55:07.720 And really being Cleopatra, queen of denial.

00:55:11.360 And he left out the denial that Biden's brain was done.

00:55:17.740 Do you think that was it?

00:55:19.760 Where if you watch these shows, they were just obviously ignoring reality?

00:55:26.320 It feels like it.

00:55:27.780 It feels like they were so obviously ignoring reality that their credibility would have to take a hit.

00:55:34.360 Meanwhile, the Tesla earnings call happened yesterday and no surprise, but their earnings were down 71%.

00:55:44.640 But I guess the Model Y, their newest one, had a historically best ramp up of any of their cars.

00:55:52.500 So they've got a big hit with the Model Y.

00:55:55.140 They still made over $400 million, but that would be a billion dollars less than the first quarter last year.

00:56:01.080 And 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.

00:56:15.320 That's what I've always dreamed of.

00:56:16.840 I've always dreamed of being able to sleep in my car and then wake up at my destination without worrying about it at all.

00:56:25.000 Can you imagine travel?

00:56:28.820 Like, imagine if you could just tell your car, hey, I'd like to see Arizona.

00:56:36.540 So take me on a tourist trip to Arizona.

00:56:41.440 I'd like to stay in a four or five-star hotel.

00:56:46.720 So make sure that every eight hours or so you do that.

00:56:50.960 And also make sure that you stop for lunch and a couple of pee breaks.

00:56:56.780 And then you just take a nap or read a book.

00:57:00.660 And the next thing you know, you're somewhere else.

00:57:05.580 That would be the coolest experience.

00:57:08.840 It would also have to go charge itself, so it would have to know where the charging stations are.

00:57:14.260 But my take on this is that I have not yet been in a car that had the full self-driving capability.

00:57:23.100 So I haven't experienced it.

00:57:25.400 But here's my guess.

00:57:27.760 That once you've experienced it, you probably can't go back.

00:57:31.920 It feels like something like a smartphone versus a flip phone.

00:57:37.400 When you tried the smartphone first, even though it couldn't do a lot with, you know, 3G and everything, there was no going back.

00:57:47.960 Like, very few people would get a smartphone and then say, you know what?

00:57:52.360 Ah, I'm going back to my flip phone.

00:57:54.620 Some, you know, old people did. 1.00

00:57:55.980 But basically, it was a one-way trip.

00:57:58.600 I 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.

00:58:10.840 Because I really don't like driving, especially in, you know, in areas where the traffic is heavy.

00:58:20.620 So if I could go places without driving and I could just get in this thing, it would take me somewhere.

00:58:27.760 I don't think I could ever go back.

00:58:29.600 Also, Musk says he's going to allocate more time to the company and less time to Doge because he's got most of the Doge stuff set up.

00:58:42.220 And he says, the large slug of work necessary to get the Doge team in place is mostly done.

00:58:47.360 I'll continue to spend one to two days per week as long as the president wants me.

00:58:51.660 But I think that could only be through May, right?

00:58:53.980 Because he's got that 130-day limit.

00:58:56.560 But he also said that he won't have a problem getting rare earth minerals from China, which is interesting.

00:59:07.660 He said on the earnings call that he'd be able to get China's rare earth minerals for Tesla Motors.

00:59:14.960 And all he has to do is prove that it won't be used for military purposes.

00:59:19.840 Now, do you think China really made an exception for Elon Musk?

00:59:24.380 And the answer is, I think they did.

00:59:29.180 I don't think everybody can get rare earth minerals from China, at least under the current, you know, tariff situation.

00:59:36.120 I think that Elon Musk played China just right for the benefit of his company, which is he was never in favor of tariffs.

00:59:46.240 And imagine how much China appreciated that, because they know he's important to the opinion in the United States.

00:59:55.940 So China had to love the fact that he was anti-tariff, or at least anti-tariff war.

01:00:02.140 But also, the cybercab is being built in a giga Shanghai factory.

01:00:12.740 And he thinks he could get the pace of building one of these cybercabs.

01:00:17.940 Now, those would be the things that are self-driving cabs.

01:00:22.640 They don't even have steering wheels, so there won't be even a driver there.

01:00:26.640 But he thinks he can get them built six to seven times faster than the Model Y.

01:00:33.520 And they would build a vehicle every 33 seconds.

01:00:39.440 Oh, no, that's what the Model Y was.

01:00:41.920 The goal is to build a cybercab every five seconds.

01:00:44.940 Isn't that incredible, that they could produce one every five seconds?

01:00:51.280 So I don't know how big the market will be for these cybercabs, but if the price of using them is reasonable,

01:00:59.720 I feel like a whole lot of people will just say, why have a car?

01:01:05.140 You know, there's no point in having a car if you can just use your phone and a cybercab pulls up in front of your house

01:01:11.260 and you can tell when it's coming, like Uber.

01:01:14.940 I don't know. I don't know how big that market can be, but it could be really big.

01:01:19.300 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,

01:01:24.960 is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

01:01:28.100 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

01:01:30.780 Are those from Winners?

01:01:32.340 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings?

01:01:34.760 Did she pay full price?

01:01:36.120 Or that leather tote?

01:01:37.140 Or that cashmere sweater?

01:01:38.320 Or those knee-high boots?

01:01:39.820 That dress?

01:01:40.600 That jacket?

01:01:41.280 Those shoes?

01:01:41.940 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

01:01:44.940 Stop wondering.

01:01:46.560 Start winning.

01:01:47.460 Winners find fabulous for less.

01:01:50.860 All right.

01:01:51.520 Here's one of those stories that if you didn't already know a lot about the background of it,

01:01:56.660 it wouldn't mean anything to you.

01:01:58.100 So if I told you that Jennifer Rubin and Norm Eisen have a podcast and you were not deep into politics,

01:02:06.380 that wouldn't mean anything to you, would it?

01:02:08.900 But if you knew who Norm Eisen and Jennifer Rubin are, then suddenly it would take on some meaning.

01:02:15.260 And apparently they were talking on their podcast and they'd like to create what Jen Rubin called the NATO of NGOs.

01:02:26.160 In other words, a organization that's a combination of various non-government organizations that would coordinate for what purpose?

01:02:39.620 Why would she want these NGOs? 1.00

01:02:40.620 Why would she want these NGOs to be coordinated? 0.80

01:02:45.580 That's a shadow government.

01:02:48.160 I feel like they were talking openly about creating a shadow government right in front of us.

01:02:56.300 Because if you get enough of these NGOs, they would be able to influence censorship in every country,

01:03:02.780 which would influence who gets elected.

01:03:05.040 It would influence all the politics.

01:03:07.000 It would influence everything.

01:03:08.100 And maybe they would coordinate the NGOs to play favorites with different countries

01:03:16.780 so you could have influence over different governments.

01:03:20.180 This is the scariest freaking thing I've ever seen in my life.

01:03:23.880 But because it's a little technical and you'd sort of have to know the background

01:03:27.840 and you'd have to know the resume of the people involved,

01:03:34.220 it doesn't really carry as a story.

01:03:38.100 In other words, it probably will never be a headline because the public wouldn't have enough background to even understand the level of risk.

01:03:46.780 But Mike Benz basically says, this is the sort of thing he has nightmares over.

01:03:52.460 The NATO of NGOs literally would be a shadow government for the whole world.

01:03:58.020 For the whole world.

01:03:59.500 A shadow government for the world.

01:04:01.460 And they're talking about it openly.

01:04:04.940 It's just incredible.

01:04:06.120 And I think they can talk about it openly because none of it's illegal.

01:04:10.780 It's just really, really something I don't want, but not illegal.

01:04:17.600 In other news, a single dose of psychedelics have been shown to boost brain flexibility for weeks.

01:04:28.160 So apparently you get some benefits from depression, PTSD, and neurogenerative diseases.

01:04:34.320 This is according to the University of Michigan researchers, and the genomic press is talking about this.

01:04:42.080 And they said, what makes this discovery particularly significant is the sustained duration.

01:04:47.880 So you only need the one dose of a psychedelic, and you get weeks of benefit from various pretty damning or damaging mental problems.

01:05:00.900 Now, how many times have you heard the same story?

01:05:04.820 Every time they test psychedelics to see if it gives people better mental health, every time, it's the same answer.

01:05:17.060 Yes.

01:05:19.180 Yes.

01:05:20.200 Super yes.

01:05:21.540 Absolutely yes.

01:05:23.260 And do they need to know that they only need to do it once?

01:05:27.540 I think every time they've tested it, they only had to do it once.

01:05:32.280 And it lasted.

01:05:33.000 I'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.

01:05:46.060 And I'm pretty sure it was a positive change.

01:05:49.500 So yes, yes, psychedelics, one treatment, can completely change your life from a whole bunch of different pretty big problems.

01:06:01.280 You know, depression, PTSD, I don't know about anxiety, but it seems like that would be on the list.

01:06:07.280 So yeah.

01:06:08.280 How many times do we have to study this before we just say, all right, let's just make this part of popular medicine?

01:06:15.560 It's time.

01:06:16.300 In drone news, the U.S. Army has got this solar-powered spy plane that has a thousand-mile range, according to interesting engineering.

01:06:27.640 It's easy to operate, and it looks great.

01:06:32.080 But what caught my eye is that it's being developed by a California-based company, Krauss-Hemdani Aerospace.

01:06:38.920 And the amazing thing is not that it can go a thousand miles on solar power.

01:06:45.200 The amazing thing is that California can have a company that works.

01:06:50.220 How many drone companies are there in the United States now?

01:06:54.920 Now, given that we know our military is going to need just infinite drones, so we know that for sure,

01:07:03.920 and we know we don't want to depend on some other country to make them.

01:07:08.900 So 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?

01:07:18.980 Because 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

01:07:30.760 because other people are going to have a million drones, and we don't want to be on the other side of that.

01:07:37.420 So anyway, California can make drones. 1.00

01:07:40.520 How about that?

01:07:42.740 All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I've got for you today.

01:07:45.580 I'm going to say hi to the locals people privately, but if you're on X or YouTube or Rumble, thanks for joining,

01:07:54.480 and I'll see you at the same time tomorrow where we'll settle all the problems of the world.

01:08:00.860 All right, locals, coming at you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - April 23, 2025

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