Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2838 CWSA 05⧸13⧸25

00:00:00.560 And here I am, just checking on your stocks, and they look to be up.

00:00:07.680 Stocks are up.

00:00:10.240 Inflation rose by 2.3%, which I think is good news, right?

00:00:16.940 All right, let's get my comments working, and then we got a show.

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00:00:25.960 Oh, a mystery just got solved.

00:00:39.540 I can't tell you what it is, but in the comments, somebody just solved a mystery for me.

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00:01:35.740 Well, let's talk about the news, shall we?

00:01:39.220 Okay, we'll start with some science, get you warmed up.

00:01:44.320 UCLA scientists, they found a molecule they think could cure baldness.

00:01:52.020 So they got a cure for baldness, they think.

00:01:55.320 Do you know when was the first time I read a news story that said science had a cure for baldness?

00:02:03.180 Probably 50 years ago.

00:02:05.840 Do you know when was the second time?

00:02:08.060 Probably 49.5 years ago.

00:02:12.020 Every six months, I see a story that baldness has maybe been cured.

00:02:19.340 Do you know how much baldness has been cured in the last 50 years of great advancements in curing baldness?

00:02:26.660 Not a lot. 0.97

00:02:29.420 And generally, if they find something that does cure your baldness and makes your penis not work, 0.99

00:02:34.460 it's pretty much a guarantee. 0.79

00:02:39.360 So, no, I don't believe anything about any story that says they're going to cure my baldness or anybody else's.

00:02:46.680 According to a story in Newsweek, psychopaths are more attractive.

00:02:53.000 Did you know that? 0.94

00:02:54.820 Psychopaths are more attractive. 0.65

00:02:56.020 And therefore, because people trust attractive people, they shouldn't, but they do,

00:03:04.280 the psychopaths can get away with more because they get trusted because they're attractive.

00:03:09.640 Now, here's my question to you.

00:03:11.980 So, where's the cause and where's the effect if psychopaths are more attractive?

00:03:21.320 I've told you this story before about when I was very young.

00:03:25.700 I remember looking in the mirror and saying to myself,

00:03:28.840 hmm, looks like you're not going to play in the NBA.

00:03:32.260 Probably not.

00:03:37.060 Chances are you won't play in the NBA.

00:03:39.900 And so, I planned my life around the alternative, which is, you know, go to college and build up my brain.

00:03:49.060 Do you think the psychopaths, when they're very young, they can tell they're unusually attractive already?

00:03:55.660 And they're not psychopaths yet.

00:03:57.720 But they quickly learned that because they're attractive, they can get away with murder. 0.99

00:04:04.040 So, I think being attractive turns you into a psychopath because you don't need to worry about consequences.

00:04:12.080 Whereas I have to worry about consequences.

00:04:14.940 So, that's why I'm such a nice guy.

00:04:17.880 But, you know, you've heard that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

00:04:24.880 Is that all that's going on?

00:04:26.280 Could it be that the attractiveness power of the psychopath, well, maybe it just starts as attractiveness power,

00:04:36.200 but then they just become psychopaths?

00:04:40.560 I don't know.

00:04:41.360 Just my hypothesis.

00:04:45.260 Here's a study that I found interesting.

00:04:48.580 That if you want to change your location, well, apparently Nobel Prize winners are more likely to be Nobel Prize winners if they have changed their location more times.

00:05:04.360 So, in other words, if you used to live in one place, but then you moved, and maybe you moved again, you're more likely to become a Nobel Prize winner.

00:05:13.300 And there's a reason for that.

00:05:16.760 If you were, let's say you were a genius and you were born in Silicon Valley with other geniuses, you would fairly soon become like the other people.

00:05:30.000 So, it would be really good that you were around other geniuses.

00:05:33.340 That would be a real advantage.

00:05:35.160 It might make you smarter, but only to a certain level.

00:05:38.780 And then you would be sort of into groupthink.

00:05:41.720 This is the thought from this study from the Ohio State University.

00:05:46.320 But, if you were, let's say, a scientist, and you learned everything from the other scientists who lived where you live, because you'd have some association with them, and then you moved, you'd get a whole new bunch of scientists.

00:06:01.940 And that could take you to another level.

00:06:05.100 But, I would extend this from Nobel scientists to just ordinary creative people trying to create.

00:06:15.020 Because one of the things I noticed is that changing where I am physically, you know, not the city, but just changing, well, sometimes city, but changing the room, you know, doing some work at Starbucks.

00:06:30.500 I've tried going to the library.

00:06:33.080 It all works.

00:06:34.720 Every time I change my location, you know, I can do more work.

00:06:40.080 So, try it.

00:06:41.380 Change your location if you're not being creative enough.

00:06:45.020 Well, if you haven't seen the videos, Saudi Arabia is really rolling out the red carpet, as I like to say, for Trump, who has arrived there today.

00:06:56.720 They had three Saudi jets give Air Force One an escort, which I don't think was necessary for any additional protection.

00:07:07.860 But, it just made it look like a big deal.

00:07:11.900 It was kind of impressive, because they had the videos of the Saudi jets, you know, just sort of following them in.

00:07:21.440 Then, the crown prince met Trump on the tarmac, which apparently is not their normal protocol.

00:07:28.800 So, that was another gesture of respect.

00:07:34.400 And, what I didn't know, I thought it was just going to be the crown prince and Trump.

00:07:39.760 But, apparently, this is an enormous event with the top billionaires, at least the top American billionaires, from BlackRock, Blackstone, Citigroup, Qualcomm, IBM.

00:07:54.220 And, so, you're getting the richest people in the world, but you're also getting, so, these are people who are going to be at the same lunch, right?

00:08:05.060 If you know the drama involved in these personalities, it's really funny.

00:08:10.680 The same people, this group of people, will be at the same table for lunch.

00:08:18.280 Elon Musk, Larry Fink, Sam Altman, and Reid Hoffman.

00:08:24.820 Now, there'll be lots of other people there, but I'd love to see the seating chart.

00:08:29.680 Can you imagine if they put Elon Musk between Sam Altman and Reid Hoffman?

00:08:38.100 If you don't know the background, Elon Musk has a little bit of friction with those two guys, a little bit of friction.

00:08:49.080 And, even Larry Fink was the main DEI guy and ESG guy for a long time.

00:08:55.740 So, even he couldn't necessarily sit next to Elon Musk.

00:09:02.080 So, I think there's a possibility of a fistfight.

00:09:07.820 But, the other thing that I'm wondering is, apparently, the people who are smart say that this kind of a trip is always associated with pre-arranged deliverables.

00:09:21.680 Meaning that the deals have already been made, but they'll just be sort of announced, you know, make it look like it was because of the trip.

00:09:31.120 Yeah, I guess indirectly it is because of the trip.

00:09:33.260 But, when you have this many billionaires and CEOs, I feel like the quantity of potential deals might be pretty tremendous.

00:09:46.980 And, I'm guessing that Saudi Arabia will be the source of the money.

00:09:53.900 And, maybe a lot of these people who are showing up think that they will be the beneficiaries of some of that flowing money.

00:10:01.220 So, Trump has said something like, bring a trillion dollars of investment back.

00:10:08.380 I think that might happen.

00:10:10.100 He might come back with a trillion dollars worth of investments.

00:10:15.720 Well, in other news, you know Elon Musk has the boring company.

00:10:22.240 That's that big machine that digs tunnels. 0.67

00:10:24.620 And, they just upgraded it so it doesn't need a person on the inside.

00:10:30.120 It's a total robot tunnel digger.

00:10:33.680 And, it's a, they finally achieved what they call Zipit.

00:10:38.160 Z-P-I-T. 1.00

00:10:39.920 Zero people in tunnel.

00:10:42.180 So, it's just a robot tunnel digger.

00:10:45.180 Now, I would like to see two things.

00:10:50.060 One, I'd like to see those tunnels be about five times bigger.

00:10:55.060 Because, they're still tiny little tunnels.

00:10:57.460 I don't know if I'd want to be inside one of those tunnels if I knew I were inside it.

00:11:02.760 The other is, I'd love to see some technology for digging straight down.

00:11:08.680 It's impressive that this tunnel digger can go from left to right.

00:11:16.240 But, wouldn't it be great if you could find some way to economically dig far enough that you could get to geothermal power?

00:11:26.420 If you go down deep enough, you have unlimited energy.

00:11:29.980 Because, the, you know, the geothermal situation, it would be different everywhere.

00:11:37.020 You know, I guess how far you'd have to dig and how hard it would be.

00:11:40.540 But, wouldn't it be amazing to have something along the lines of the boring company?

00:11:46.360 It would be all different technology because it would be drilling, not tunneling.

00:11:50.280 But, that would make everything work.

00:11:55.160 You would have unlimited energy.

00:11:58.320 And, it would be clean.

00:12:00.380 Everybody would be happy with it.

00:12:02.180 All you'd need is technology to be able to drill a really deep hole where it gets really hot and do it reliably and economically.

00:12:13.240 I'd love to see that.

00:12:15.860 Well, here's the least surprising news of the day.

00:12:19.020 PJ Media's reporting on this.

00:12:21.320 Matt Margolis.

00:12:22.560 That, apparently, the Joe Biden job creation numbers were more fake than we imagined.

00:12:29.100 Now, how fake were they?

00:12:32.280 You know, you're used to seeing job numbers come out and then later they get revised down.

00:12:38.060 So, we're kind of conditioned for the idea that employment numbers, you know, job numbers might be a little bit managed, if you know what I mean.

00:12:51.020 Well, how managed were they?

00:12:52.300 According to the new figures, and this is from the government.

00:12:56.360 So, this is not an outside entity judging the government.

00:13:00.840 This is from the government.

00:13:04.020 According to the new figures, the 399,000 jobs that the Biden team claimed that they created was not 399,000 jobs.

00:13:15.660 So, let's round that off to 400,000.

00:13:18.920 So, it turns out maybe Joe Biden did not crave 400,000 jobs.

00:13:25.200 They're revising it down a little bit.

00:13:27.520 Do you know what they revised it to?

00:13:31.120 Lost 1,000 jobs.

00:13:32.840 What?

00:13:39.320 Or there's, I see another estimate that says, instead of adding almost 800,000 jobs during the middle of last year, the economy likely shed more than 160,000.

00:13:50.140 So, it wasn't only that they revised it downwards, it went from wildly positive to, well, well, it might have been negative, you know, it could have been negative.

00:14:04.500 Now, how many of you remember when I had my Democrat debate friend on, a comedian whose name I can't remember right now?

00:14:17.840 Can anybody remember his name?

00:14:20.860 And he now has a show on CNN, a humor show.

00:14:26.160 And I said something about the Biden employment numbers always getting revised down.

00:14:32.520 And he doubted me because my source was not good.

00:14:37.040 Black, yes. 0.79

00:14:39.520 Yeah, Mike Lee and Black.

00:14:41.700 And he challenged me because I did not have a source, which was a good challenge, because I was under the impression that his numbers always got revised, but I didn't have the data at hand or a source or a link or anything.

00:14:59.020 So, that was a perfectly reasonable thing to ask about, but it turns out that my instinct about this was right on point, right on point.

00:15:13.040 It's sort of stunning the degree to which the Biden administration was a complete lie.

00:15:19.360 The funny thing is that Democrats are so hypnotized by their own media that if you ask them, could you compare the truth or the honesty of the Biden administration versus Trump, 1.00

00:15:39.180 every one of them, every one of them would say, oh, my God, Trump's this big old liar, lying liar. 1.00

00:15:46.100 All he does is lie. 1.00

00:15:47.900 It's a good thing that Biden never did that.

00:15:51.820 Everything that Biden did was a lie, from the Biden crime family stuff to the jobs reports to how well his brain was working.

00:16:02.580 Everything, just everything about Biden was a lie.

00:16:06.800 Now, it might be that most things about presidents are not exactly true, but it would be amazing.

00:16:15.360 I saw somebody do this.

00:16:17.460 Was it Scott Jennings maybe challenged somebody on the panel on CNN, and he just laughed when they said that Biden was more honest?

00:16:28.600 Anyway, RFK Jr. was praising Trump for his executive order that would lower pharma costs in the United States and would make us pay no more than other countries, which would be a gigantic reduction in costs.

00:16:53.760 But RFK Jr. was doing his little public statement about it.

00:16:59.080 Trump was there.

00:17:00.380 And here's what he said.

00:17:01.420 He said, I have a couple of kids who are Democrats, big Bernie Sanders fans.

00:17:05.960 And when I told them that this was going to happen, they had tears in their eyes.

00:17:11.220 So this is something that Bernie wanted, you know, the lower pharma costs, but they could never get it done.

00:17:18.600 And even RFK Jr. thought it would never happen in his lifetime.

00:17:28.500 So here's the fun part.

00:17:31.540 Apparently, Bernie Sanders is so on board with Trump's executive order, but he doesn't think that it will necessarily survive a court challenge.

00:17:41.480 Now, who the hell is going to challenge it in court?

00:17:48.480 I get that you shouldn't do everything with an executive order.

00:17:52.400 I get it.

00:17:53.700 But is there really going to be a Democrat or a group of Democrats who insist that we pay more for pharmaceutical stuff?

00:18:05.460 Bernie thinks so.

00:18:06.720 Because Bernie, as I said publicly now, he goes further, as Trump well knows, his executive order will be thrown out by the courts.

00:18:17.600 Will it?

00:18:18.580 It will only be thrown out if a Democrat takes it to the court.

00:18:23.360 How in the world are they going to survive that politically if they take that to the court?

00:18:29.820 But I suppose Bernie probably knows his party better than I do.

00:18:34.100 I guess I would reflexively disagree with anything Trump does.

00:18:39.920 But here's the good news.

00:18:41.680 He says, if Trump is serious about making real change rather than just issuing a press release.

00:18:46.420 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:18:46.940 It's an executive order, not a press release.

00:18:49.620 He will support legislation I will soon be introducing to make sure we pay no more for prescription drugs than people in other major countries.

00:18:58.800 Major countries?

00:18:59.580 Ah, maybe he'll limit it to major countries.

00:19:04.740 We'll see.

00:19:05.820 If Republicans and Democrats come together on this, we can get it passed in a few weeks.

00:19:10.720 So unless there's a trick in there, maybe the trick is the major countries.

00:19:15.660 It looks like Bernie Sanders is fully on board with Trump's executive order.

00:19:25.760 He just wants to make it stronger and make it part of the law.

00:19:30.980 So we'll see if that's real or that's not real.

00:19:33.540 But I can't wait to see which Democrat would take a chance on challenging this in court.

00:19:42.540 Do you think that's possible? 0.97

00:19:45.720 I'm going to make a prediction that even the Democrats are not dumb enough to go all in on we should pay more for pharmaceutical because we hate Trump. 0.97

00:19:57.200 I don't think they can do it. 0.98

00:20:01.160 I mean, they've done some crazy things just to be on the other side of Trump.

00:20:05.820 But I don't think they can do this.

00:20:08.960 And, you know, even Jasmine Crockett can't do this. 0.83

00:20:12.920 She might try, though.

00:20:14.280 Anyway, as you know, Trump has allowed refugee status for the Africaner, the white African, South Africans who want to escape the possible genocide in South Africa.

00:20:32.960 Now, there's some disagreement.

00:20:35.280 If you watch MSNBC, you'll find out there's no white genocide in South Africa.

00:20:40.960 And there's violence.

00:20:42.600 You know, everybody has violence.

00:20:45.220 So why would we be favoring the white people in South Africa, says MSNBC, when everybody's, you know, it's a dangerous place. 0.96

00:20:55.260 And, you know, there's just very, very little evidence that many farmers have been, you know, lost their land or been killed or anything.

00:21:06.300 But it's only like 59 people, I guess, at least initially.

00:21:11.180 And I just love the trolling aspect of this combined with the fact that I do think that if I were living there, based on what I've seen in the news and what looks like is coming,

00:21:27.960 and it's more about what's coming, because if you look at the rhetoric, the rhetoric in South Africa is looking pretty dangerous.

00:21:37.580 So if I were a white resident of South Africa, I feel like I might want to get out of there. 1.00

00:21:46.120 And the fact that, you know, Trump's all in on that, it just gives MSNBC something to talk about that doesn't matter.

00:21:54.040 Now, I don't know what's true or what's not true in South Africa, but the fact that it just gives MSNBC something unimportant.

00:22:06.480 I mean, you know, if you look at the whole world and the country, it's not the most important thing happening.

00:22:12.860 It's 59 people.

00:22:14.020 So, anyway, I guess I just enjoy the fact that they don't like it.

00:22:23.100 Well, the Dini trial is going now, and I guess the Dini defense is going to be that the violence really did happen, but it wasn't part of sex trafficking.

00:22:34.460 Boy, you know, you never want to be in legal trouble where your best defense is that your violence was real.

00:22:42.320 Well, my violence was real.

00:22:44.380 Yeah, sure.

00:22:46.220 I did beat up some women, but it was part of consensual sex acts, and, you know, maybe they liked it a little bit, or that's your best defense.

00:22:58.800 But it definitely wasn't sex trafficking. 0.79

00:23:01.880 Oh, no.

00:23:02.660 Oh, no.

00:23:03.240 No, it was just violence, people.

00:23:06.180 No sex trafficking.

00:23:08.920 So, he's been accused of drugging people and bribing people and disgusting sex acts, and there was something about a male escort who was paid thousands of dollars to get with his girlfriend, Cassie, while Diddy watched.

00:23:27.060 Wow.

00:23:28.260 This doesn't seem like the dangerous stuff yet, does it?

00:23:31.360 Weren't you expecting that the Diddy trial would present a whole bunch of things that were not just about Diddy, like you'd find out about other people?

00:23:42.980 Well, I'm starting to think there won't be anything about other people, you know, at least other famous people.

00:23:49.920 There'll be other things about, you know, the male escort that he paid and, you know, the girlfriends that he did bad things to.

00:23:58.340 But I feel like this is going to be really limited to just Diddy, which, you know, has to be done.

00:24:07.640 But if you were hoping for this to give you real news about other people, meh, probably not.

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00:24:29.780 The Credentials Committee, in another story, sounds like the same story because it's so disgusting.

00:24:40.840 But the Democratic National Committee, the ones who had elected David Hogg as their co-chair, there's something called the Credentials Committee.

00:24:53.220 So the Democratic National Committee has a Credentials Committee, and they voted that Hogg, the Hogg election, had not followed proper parliamentary procedures.

00:25:08.780 And then they'll have to decide whether he can run again.

00:25:13.140 So the Democrats used a rules trick to get rid of their own guy, which is so Democrat.

00:25:22.280 You know, we've been talking before about the Democrats.

00:25:26.520 They're not so much about policy and ideas because they don't have any policy ideas.

00:25:32.760 But they're all about gaming the rules.

00:25:36.180 You know, I think Mark Elias just sued Wyoming for something again, trying to game the rules.

00:25:43.000 So they game the rules even on their, they've turned their weapons on their own people.

00:25:48.100 So the, somehow they came up with some weird parliamentary procedure thing to get rid of David Hogg.

00:25:54.980 But he's not gone, gone.

00:25:57.500 I guess he could rerun for his own, for his own seat.

00:26:01.240 But the odds of him getting elected probably went way down.

00:26:04.440 And this is after David Hogg was on Bill Maher's show, saying something like, that young men just want to get laid and have fun.

00:26:18.860 And that's what the Democrats, I guess, didn't understand about young men.

00:26:23.420 And I'm thinking to myself, I think, again, you're way off.

00:26:30.200 Now, of course, young men want to do those things.

00:26:32.960 But if you're following the news or my podcast, you know that young men are the biggest uptick in church.

00:26:47.600 There's a much bigger trend toward young men wanting to become religious and wanting to become conservative.

00:26:53.700 And apparently enrollment in the military is way up, which is mostly young men.

00:27:03.520 Now, why do young men volunteer to be in the military? 0.84

00:27:08.640 Now, in some cases, they might think it's their best, you know, economic play, you know, depending on what they're prepared for.

00:27:16.960 But to me, it seems like the trend is away from wanting to just get laid and have fun.

00:27:25.400 Even drinking is down.

00:27:27.560 You know, the amount of drinking is down among the young.

00:27:30.460 I think young men are seeking meaning.

00:27:33.520 And I guess Charlie Kirk did a good job of saying that, that young men are far more, if you're looking for a trend, they're trying to find some meaning.

00:27:44.560 Because the old days, everybody was just getting ready to be a good husband.

00:27:49.540 And that option seems to be decreasing.

00:27:52.880 I mean, they still might want it, but it just doesn't seem to be as available because of economics and other things.

00:28:00.640 So I think, once again, the Democrats just don't understand their own public.

00:28:09.280 You know, it'll always be true that young men want to get laid and have fun.

00:28:15.940 But the search for meaning just seems like a bigger deal to me in terms of, you know, a direction for things.

00:28:25.280 Now, here's a, here's a, I don't know if this is a trend or just a thing, but have you noticed that there's a gigantic difference in the, let's say, mental capacity of Democrat supporters versus Republican?

00:28:49.500 Now, I'm not saying that if you measure the IQ of one group versus the other, there'd be a difference.

00:28:55.720 I don't know that there would be.

00:28:57.500 But in terms of the people who are prominent, if you look at who's prominent on the Democrat side, you get people like Hogg and Jasmine Crockett, you know, just to pick two.

00:29:11.280 Now, they're not really the brightest people, at least in terms of politics.

00:29:21.260 But I've said this before, I think I said this on X, and Elon Musk agreed with me on X, that the smartest people seem to have all moved to the Republican side, because it's the common sense side.

00:29:34.780 It's hard to be smart and be opposed to common sense.

00:29:38.400 But just, just to give you a sense of the difference between the Democrat side saying just one crazy thing after another and the Republicans, the Republicans have on their side, I would say, you've heard of Data Republican.

00:29:57.820 So Data Republican's a woman who is just great with data and has surfaced things that would be hard to surface just because she's good with data. 1.00

00:30:11.020 So recently, she put together a giant spreadsheet that you could download and you could check yourself that shows where George Soros gave his money.

00:30:22.880 So you can see the Soros grants, I guess Alex Soros at this point.

00:30:27.820 Now, isn't that useful to actually understand the real world?

00:30:35.500 You'd want to know where Soros put his money.

00:30:39.020 Now, who on the Democrat side could do that?

00:30:43.360 They don't have Data Republican.

00:30:46.480 That's just something on one side.

00:30:48.500 Who on the Democrat side has a Mike Benz, who could explain to you in great detail all of the NGOs and how the money has been essentially laundered and, you know, how the CIA is all part of it, etc.

00:31:06.880 They don't have a Mike Benz.

00:31:08.640 What about a Victor Davis Hanson? 0.90

00:31:12.800 You know, they do have some historians on the Democrat side, but they just seem like crazy partisans.

00:31:22.900 You know, they don't sound as, you know, authoritative or as smart or as balanced as Victor Davis Hanson.

00:31:31.040 What about, I'm going to throw Charlie Kirk in here.

00:31:35.780 If you haven't seen Charlie Kirk's videos of all the public events he's doing, where he does a public debate with anybody who wants to, basically.

00:31:46.320 So people go up to the microphone and they challenge him with one thing after another.

00:31:51.500 And one of the things we've learned is that Charlie Kirk is way smarter than I thought he was.

00:31:58.340 You know, it turns out he has a pretty deep, not pretty deep, but a very deep understanding of all of these topics.

00:32:07.340 And watching him just dismiss one person after another, you think to yourself, oh, my God, you know, I'm glad he's on our team.

00:32:16.660 Of course, there's Elon Musk and Doge, smartest people ever, on the Republican team.

00:32:25.940 And I'm going to say maybe on the Trump team as much as the Republican team.

00:32:29.880 A lot of it is, yeah, a lot of it is Trumpish, because Trump is the common sense guy.

00:32:38.300 David Sachs, every time I hear David Sachs explain something complicated, I think to myself,

00:32:45.780 oh, now I understand it, because he's just so freaking smart.

00:32:51.140 And I'm going to throw myself in there, because I've, you know, added to the persuasion understanding

00:32:57.220 of the Republican pro-Trump side.

00:33:01.360 I don't think there are people like that.

00:33:04.960 There's just a huge difference in capability of the people who are involved and, you know,

00:33:12.080 publicly involved and stuff.

00:33:13.600 So, is that just my impression?

00:33:17.980 Because it's possible I'm just so biased that I can't see the difference.

00:33:23.640 I see in the comments somebody throwing Megyn Kelly in there. 1.00

00:33:27.080 Yeah, let's throw Megyn Kelly and Joe Rogan in there. 1.00

00:33:30.460 Not as necessarily Trump supporters, but, you know, important voices that are the best of the best

00:33:39.380 in podcasting.

00:33:41.320 I think the Democrats will probably catch up and have some big podcasts, but I haven't really

00:33:46.160 heard of any.

00:33:48.140 That's probably just because I don't pay attention to that part of the world.

00:33:53.160 Somebody's throwing in Jack Posobiec.

00:33:55.600 I'll throw him in there.

00:33:57.720 What about Steve Bannon?

00:34:00.860 Steve Bannon isn't just the guy who needs a haircut who does a show every day.

00:34:09.300 Steve Bannon is really smart.

00:34:12.540 I don't know if you understand how smart he is.

00:34:15.540 He's really smart.

00:34:17.220 Like, super smart.

00:34:18.360 Even if you disagree with him, you have to give him that.

00:34:23.360 So, it does seem to me like there's just an enormous talent difference at this point.

00:34:34.120 Yeah, you could throw...

00:34:35.620 I'm seeing lots of other names go by.

00:34:37.620 I won't have to list every name, but there's a big difference in capability at this point.

00:34:45.520 Anyway, Sam Altman was talking about where AI is going.

00:34:51.380 He says, 2025 is the year of the AI agent.

00:34:55.720 Now, the AI agent would be, you can have an AI that acts like a person who does whatever

00:35:01.420 you want it to do, you know, work tasks or personal tasks.

00:35:06.920 I'm not so sure, because I don't think there is yet an AI agent that won't hallucinate.

00:35:16.180 If there is, you know, maybe I could be corrected on that.

00:35:20.480 But I feel like they don't have a solution for AI agents.

00:35:24.640 I think it would either be too dangerous.

00:35:28.820 I think they're close.

00:35:31.320 But I don't know if they can close that last gap where the AI agent is dependable.

00:35:36.860 So, we'll see.

00:35:38.420 I mean, there's no reason I would be right on that, where, you know, if you were going

00:35:43.860 to bet, you would bet on, say, a Maltman, you wouldn't bet on me.

00:35:47.080 But I'm a little bit skeptical, because if it could be done, I think it would have been

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00:36:56.500 He thinks 2026 will be the year of scientific research and breakthroughs.

00:37:01.040 In other words, AI doing its own scientific research and breakthroughs.

00:37:06.020 That could be true.

00:37:07.980 Then 2027 is when AI and robotics get together, and then you've got robots and AI.

00:37:16.260 Now, in theory, there will be Optimus Prime that will be driven by AI, and that will be available

00:37:24.820 at least in small amounts at the end of this year.

00:37:28.840 I wouldn't be too surprised if that got pushed back.

00:37:31.860 So, I think maybe Sam Altman's estimate that it's 2027 is probably right.

00:37:39.680 And I think that that may have to do with the fact that you can't quite trust the AI yet.

00:37:47.020 So, putting it in a robot might be a little dangerous in 2025.

00:37:52.060 I think it's doable.

00:37:53.820 You know, you could have a robot in 2025.

00:37:55.900 But probably 2027 is when we trust it.

00:38:00.800 Now, if you haven't seen it, there's a video of the Optimus robot doing jazz dancing.

00:38:08.100 It's not just dancing, but it's looking like an actual dancer.

00:38:13.520 You know, it's got moves that don't look like a robot.

00:38:16.220 It looks like a person.

00:38:17.020 But as I was watching this, you know, I was watching it with the sound off, and I thought

00:38:24.040 to myself, how much does a robot weigh?

00:38:27.500 Does anybody have an idea?

00:38:29.740 How much will the Optimus weigh?

00:38:33.020 Because could you imagine having the apartment beneath the apartment that has a robot in it?

00:38:39.200 Could you just imagine what it would be like in the first floor apartment if the second floor apartment

00:38:48.620 has an Optimus?

00:38:50.140 Clump, clump, clump, clump, clump, clump, clump.

00:38:53.760 Hey, Optimus, show everybody you can dance.

00:38:56.600 Clump, clump, clump, clump, clump, clump.

00:39:01.780 There's going to be a real problem with the downstairs apartments, let me tell you.

00:39:07.080 All right, speaking of robots, I saw this story before, and I skipped it the first time or

00:39:16.300 two I saw it, because I thought it was more of those, someday we'll be able to do this,

00:39:23.200 which is way less interesting than we can do this now.

00:39:26.700 But apparently, this is a real thing that exists now that China's doing. 0.78

00:39:32.160 So they've got a robot dog, four-legged firefighting machine.

00:39:37.860 So I guess it connects to a hose, and it can go into the most dangerous places,

00:39:43.000 because it's really good at balance.

00:39:45.420 So even if the stairs are giving out, it can overcome that.

00:39:49.560 It can cool itself if it gets too close to the fire.

00:39:54.060 And it can shoot water like crazy, because, you know, it carries a hose.

00:39:58.400 And it can even shoot air, because I guess sometimes a strong blast of air will kill a fire pretty quickly, too.

00:40:08.320 Now, this is not, apparently, this is not theoretical.

00:40:13.920 It's already in play.

00:40:15.020 So they're already fighting fires with a robot dog in China.

00:40:22.240 So that's amazing.

00:40:25.980 The story is coming from Mashable.

00:40:28.940 Now, I don't know if you can completely trust stories coming out of China, 1.00

00:40:34.200 but if this is true, that they already have a robot dog firefighter,

00:40:41.740 that's going to be pretty amazing.

00:40:44.260 Can you imagine me trapped in a fire, and the robot dog is the first one that gets there,

00:40:49.320 but it can't really carry you out, because it's just a robot dog?

00:40:53.980 It doesn't really have enough hands for that.

00:40:55.800 So I guess we'll have the optimist for that.

00:41:02.160 All right.

00:41:03.080 Well, the Jake Tapper book is out with co-author Alex Thompson.

00:41:08.880 Now, that's the one that promised to be, we imagined,

00:41:13.580 would be full of really shocking things about Joe Biden from behind the scenes.

00:41:19.280 And so far, the only thing I've heard from the book is that,

00:41:25.060 I guess it's out today,

00:41:27.020 but that Joe Biden's physical deterioration was so severe

00:41:31.580 that his advisors privately discussed the possibility he might need a wheelchair

00:41:37.100 if he won re-election.

00:41:40.120 Now, that's not too surprising if anybody saw him walk and fall over and stuff like that.

00:41:47.880 So, and the fact it was privately discussed, that makes perfect sense.

00:41:51.900 But is that the most shocking thing in the book?

00:41:56.740 Of all the things in the book, we're not even going to talk about his mental deterioration.

00:42:01.540 We're going to talk about his ability to walk.

00:42:05.920 I feel like I was expecting a lot more.

00:42:10.820 Weren't you?

00:42:11.380 So, maybe somebody only read the first chapter or something.

00:42:17.940 But shouldn't there be way more shocking revelations?

00:42:24.280 I'm a little low on shocking revelations here.

00:42:27.180 So, Jake, we're expecting more.

00:42:30.520 I hope there's more that's going to come out.

00:42:32.180 Apparently, Apple is now working with a startup called Synchron

00:42:40.140 to connect their phone to your brain directly.

00:42:45.360 So, this would be for disabled people, at least initially.

00:42:49.020 Wall Street Journal is reporting this.

00:42:51.700 So, Synchron is trying to do the same thing that Neuralink does,

00:42:58.840 which is literally physically connect some device to your brain.

00:43:04.900 So, they have a stent-like device that's implanted in a vein atop the brain's motor cortex.

00:43:14.480 Now, that's kind of surprising.

00:43:16.680 Does it surprise you that connecting to one vein near the brain

00:43:22.520 would allow you to read brain signals?

00:43:25.680 And that's pretty amazing, if you could do that.

00:43:30.060 Anyway, and then it translates the signals into icons on screen.

00:43:36.760 Now, I saw some critic in the comments saying that

00:43:41.300 Apple hasn't developed basically anything useful since Steve Jobs left.

00:43:49.340 Left, as in, you know, died.

00:43:51.160 And I wonder if this will be it.

00:43:55.160 But even this is sort of a follower thing,

00:43:57.760 because, you know, Neuralink, it would be way ahead.

00:44:00.840 Yep, brain vein signaling.

00:44:04.880 Anyway, so we'll see about that.

00:44:06.620 It seems to me that if it starts with disabled people, 0.97

00:44:10.220 it wouldn't be long before you would want to have one of those brain stents 0.97

00:44:15.200 in your own brain. 0.86

00:44:16.460 How many of you would let somebody drill into your head

00:44:19.860 and give you a brain stent just so you can control your phone better?

00:44:27.540 I don't know if I'd be up to be the first person to do that,

00:44:30.620 but you go first.

00:44:32.400 Well, as you know, one of the biggest problems in the United States

00:44:38.780 for developing anything is it takes too long to get approval,

00:44:43.160 especially in the uranium-slash-nuclear front.

00:44:47.720 But according to interesting engineering,

00:44:51.600 the U.S. is going to fast-track a Utah uranium mining permit.

00:44:56.480 Now, how long do you think it would normally take

00:45:00.120 to get a uranium mining permit?

00:45:03.540 I guess this isn't a mine that used to exist,

00:45:06.240 but got closed for some reason.

00:45:08.540 They're reopening it.

00:45:09.960 How long do you think it would take?

00:45:12.780 Probably years, right?

00:45:15.580 And why would it take years?

00:45:18.360 Well, you know, there's always environmental issues, etc.

00:45:21.600 But apparently, they're trying to slash that to 14 days.

00:45:28.640 14 days.

00:45:30.580 Do you think they're going to make that work?

00:45:33.560 Because I always wondered, why can't you do it in 14 days?

00:45:37.860 Now, I'm not talking about the analysis

00:45:41.400 that would be presented to whoever has to approve the thing.

00:45:46.460 The analysis might take a while.

00:45:48.220 You know, they might say, can you analyze the impact

00:45:51.640 on the special frogs or whatever is there?

00:45:55.060 So I can see why that would take a while.

00:45:57.480 But it seems like once you've done the analysis,

00:46:00.300 that getting the approval shouldn't take that long.

00:46:04.640 So do you think this will really get approved in 14 days?

00:46:08.680 Because we need local uranium,

00:46:11.200 so we don't have to rely on Russia.

00:46:15.040 Russia is one of the main sources of uranium.

00:46:19.360 So it seems like a bad idea to depend on Russia for our uranium.

00:46:23.720 When I found out my friend got a great deal

00:46:26.160 on a wool coat from Winners,

00:46:27.780 I started wondering,

00:46:29.440 is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

00:46:32.520 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

00:46:35.260 Are those from Winners?

00:46:36.800 Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings?

00:46:38.880 Did she pay full price?

00:46:40.660 Or that leather tote?

00:46:41.620 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:46:42.840 Or those knee-high boots?

00:46:43.980 That dress?

00:46:45.080 That jacket?

00:46:45.740 Those shoes?

00:46:46.800 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

00:46:49.720 Stop wondering.

00:46:50.980 Start winning.

00:46:51.920 Winners.

00:46:52.500 Find fabulous for less.

00:46:54.440 Well, when Trump's talking,

00:46:58.320 he's still talking about the China tariff agreements.

00:47:02.600 And apparently there's a deeper level of stuff

00:47:07.060 that we don't all understand.

00:47:09.280 So one of the things I talked about is the tariffs, of course.

00:47:13.480 But there was something about a whole bunch of other,

00:47:16.700 you know, restrictions and things that China puts on people

00:47:20.880 beyond tariffs that they're willing to relax.

00:47:25.220 But Trump is very excited about the fact

00:47:28.020 that China has agreed to, quote,

00:47:30.020 open itself up to American business.

00:47:32.300 Now, what exactly does that mean?

00:47:35.920 Because if you were an American business

00:47:38.980 and you found out that China said,

00:47:41.360 all right, in the past,

00:47:43.260 we weren't allowing you to even compete in China

00:47:46.300 because we wanted our Chinese businesses

00:47:48.820 to, you know, thrive without the competition.

00:47:51.700 But even if you could bring your business into China,

00:47:57.240 wouldn't you still be worried

00:47:58.800 that they would steal your IP

00:48:00.200 and that they would bug all your devices?

00:48:03.920 You've probably heard that if you're a CEO of a company

00:48:06.640 and you travel to China,

00:48:08.240 you can't bring your regular phone

00:48:10.140 because everything's going to be tapped

00:48:12.740 and, you know, you're basically going to be surveilled

00:48:15.800 the entire time.

00:48:16.940 So who would actually do that?

00:48:19.240 Like, even if you could do business in China

00:48:22.740 and they opened it up to American business,

00:48:26.120 is that real?

00:48:27.720 Or would there be so many Chinese-specific problems

00:48:32.380 that you'd wish you had never gotten near it?

00:48:35.740 I still think China is too dangerous for business.

00:48:40.240 It's too risky.

00:48:41.800 And I don't see that changing

00:48:43.840 because it would require a complete mindset

00:48:49.180 change in China

00:48:50.320 where apparently the current mindset,

00:48:53.420 and, you know, I can't read minds,

00:48:55.020 but I'm going to only judge it from actions.

00:48:57.480 If you look at the actions of China,

00:49:00.900 it's as if there are no ethical

00:49:03.060 or moral limits on anything.

00:49:06.320 And that if they can steal from you, they do.

00:49:09.440 If they can abuse you, they will.

00:49:11.860 If they can steal your stuff, they will.

00:49:14.160 If they can degrade you in any way

00:49:18.760 for the benefit of the Chinese market, they will.

00:49:22.840 How is that going to change?

00:49:25.020 I don't see that changing.

00:49:27.380 You know, if they don't have the mindset

00:49:29.280 that, oh, yeah, come on in

00:49:31.860 and compete with our local businesses.

00:49:34.400 So I feel like that's overblown.

00:49:39.320 I just feel like there's going to be a soft decoupling.

00:49:44.660 It's very smart for Scott Besant

00:49:46.800 to say directly and publicly

00:49:49.320 that we don't want to decouple from China.

00:49:52.820 That's exactly what I would say

00:49:54.840 if I wanted to decouple from China. 0.97

00:49:58.100 It's just that you can't do it quickly.

00:50:00.140 Doing it quickly would be a disaster for both countries.

00:50:04.720 But a soft decouple

00:50:07.040 where we just sort of quietly develop locally

00:50:12.680 the ability to make our own clothing, I guess,

00:50:17.180 or to buy it from Mexico or Vietnam.

00:50:22.520 So I think we should say,

00:50:24.440 yes, we want to do all kinds of business with you, China.

00:50:28.140 Yeah, bring it on.

00:50:29.480 And let's do some more.

00:50:31.340 Oh, the last thing we want to do is decouple.

00:50:34.100 No, no, no, we don't want to decouple.

00:50:37.640 And then decouple as fast as you can,

00:50:42.300 but in a reasonable, common sense way

00:50:46.280 that doesn't destroy you as you're decoupling.

00:50:49.560 So I say, don't decouple while you decouple.

00:50:56.620 So that's how I'd play it, too.

00:50:59.480 Gavin Newsom, our California leader here,

00:51:06.120 has ordered California cities to shut down the homeless encampments.

00:51:11.160 He says there's no more excuses.

00:51:13.260 Blaze Media is reporting on this.

00:51:15.640 The homeless advocates, of course, were not happy about this at all.

00:51:19.020 So what does that mean?

00:51:23.580 Doesn't it feel like there's something missing in that?

00:51:27.040 If you close down the homeless encampments,

00:51:30.320 which is basically the tents,

00:51:32.820 and you get rid of the tents,

00:51:34.780 where are they going to go?

00:51:37.980 The whole point of it

00:51:40.180 is that they were unwilling to go anywhere else.

00:51:43.540 So if you said,

00:51:45.800 pick up your tent and get out of here,

00:51:48.960 to where?

00:51:50.800 They always had indoor options, right?

00:51:54.180 For a long time, they've had the indoor options.

00:51:56.560 The reasons they stay outdoors

00:51:58.180 is so they don't have to obey any of the rules of indoor living.

00:52:02.380 In other words, they can just do their fentanyl

00:52:06.140 and lay there and they just prefer it.

00:52:10.460 Now, the fact that you and I don't prefer it,

00:52:13.500 it shouldn't be influential in your opinion.

00:52:17.340 They prefer it.

00:52:19.280 And it's hard to understand that

00:52:21.120 at some point of addiction and mental illness,

00:52:26.680 they prefer living outdoors.

00:52:28.500 So I don't know how this can work.

00:52:34.780 There's just a part missing.

00:52:36.160 Where is it that they go?

00:52:38.040 I've always liked the idea

00:52:39.500 of creating a homeless encampment

00:52:42.540 on public land

00:52:44.640 that's just away from the other people.

00:52:48.400 I don't mind how many homeless people there are

00:52:50.940 as long as they're not on the sidewalk

00:52:53.540 so that I can walk by

00:52:55.660 and the freedom poopers will not be doing their thing.

00:52:59.980 So if this is somehow paired with

00:53:04.660 there's a place you can go,

00:53:06.840 it's just, and it's a very nice place.

00:53:09.420 You know, maybe it's even has more trees.

00:53:12.620 You know, maybe it has better,

00:53:15.320 maybe they could give them some bathroom facilities. 1.00

00:53:17.800 Maybe even some, a little bit of healthcare or something.

00:53:24.000 So, but if there's a place to go, I guess so.

00:53:29.080 So here again, you can see that Gavin Newsom

00:53:32.180 is trying to be more of a centrist,

00:53:37.640 which I define as trying to be a Republican

00:53:41.020 without going all the way.

00:53:42.380 Well, according to MIT Technical Review,

00:53:47.960 there is a new technology

00:53:50.680 that police might be using soon

00:53:52.440 that doesn't use facial recognition,

00:53:55.820 but it can still recognize people.

00:53:59.100 So without, because there's a controversy

00:54:01.620 about using facial recognition,

00:54:04.120 it's too intrusive.

00:54:06.320 But apparently they can now,

00:54:08.200 there's a technology that can identify people,

00:54:11.720 maybe less, you know, less accurately,

00:54:15.180 but it can identify people by,

00:54:18.200 let's see,

00:54:19.100 by their attributes,

00:54:22.860 like body size, gender, hair color,

00:54:26.160 and style of clothing,

00:54:27.940 and accessories instead of their face.

00:54:33.360 So this made me think

00:54:36.380 that criminals need their own AI consultant.

00:54:39.320 Because imagine you were a professional criminal.

00:54:43.200 It used to be you just had to,

00:54:45.360 you know, understand the current situation

00:54:47.700 because it never changed much.

00:54:49.800 But AI is changing so much

00:54:52.480 about how the law enforcement people

00:54:55.280 can do their job.

00:54:56.660 It's like in order to be a professional criminal,

00:54:58.980 you're going to need your own AI consultant.

00:55:01.740 You know, it's like, all right,

00:55:03.460 you're going to have to start changing

00:55:05.180 your clothes for each crime.

00:55:08.160 Because if you wear the same clothes,

00:55:10.020 they're going to identify you quickly.

00:55:12.400 Now, how many of the criminals

00:55:13.900 will be aware that,

00:55:17.100 how many of them read the MIT Technology Review

00:55:21.420 to know that law enforcement

00:55:23.960 can identify them by their style

00:55:25.960 and their clothing

00:55:27.280 and their accessories?

00:55:28.680 It also says gender,

00:55:33.000 but let's be real,

00:55:34.720 it's men.

00:55:35.960 I think the gender part's the least important 1.00

00:55:38.580 because it's always men

00:55:40.260 doing the serious crimes.

00:55:44.860 Anyway, 0.79

00:55:45.960 so crooks, 0.94

00:55:47.000 you better dress differently.

00:55:50.140 In related news,

00:55:52.400 there's a rumor that is not confirmed

00:55:55.200 and might not be true,

00:55:56.600 but Reclaim the Net is saying

00:55:58.360 that, you know,

00:55:59.400 Meta has these new glasses,

00:56:01.660 these Ray-Ban glasses.

00:56:03.540 You probably saw Zuckerberg wearing them.

00:56:07.600 And they're sort of limited

00:56:12.560 in what they can do at the moment.

00:56:14.620 But one of the things

00:56:15.660 they're thinking about,

00:56:17.240 maybe,

00:56:18.680 possibly adding,

00:56:20.340 is facial recognition.

00:56:23.280 Now,

00:56:23.840 I don't know about the legalities

00:56:25.560 of that, et cetera,

00:56:26.600 and

00:56:27.140 it's not a confirmed thing.

00:56:29.800 It's only a,

00:56:30.980 well,

00:56:31.380 we think they're probably looking at it.

00:56:34.020 But

00:56:34.360 isn't that the most valuable feature?

00:56:38.620 I mean,

00:56:39.100 if I said to myself,

00:56:40.720 what is the point

00:56:41.560 of having

00:56:42.160 these cool

00:56:43.660 magic glasses

00:56:44.800 that can help me

00:56:46.320 hear things

00:56:48.260 and see things

00:56:49.180 and do things,

00:56:50.380 wouldn't the number one thing

00:56:52.060 be to tell you more

00:56:53.700 about other people

00:56:54.680 so that you can remember

00:56:56.840 their names

00:56:57.540 and that you can

00:57:01.060 instantly know

00:57:05.100 what you have in common,

00:57:07.500 you can know if they're dangerous,

00:57:09.020 it would be super intrusive

00:57:11.880 and the people

00:57:13.160 who are being identified

00:57:14.400 would hate it.

00:57:15.720 But boy,

00:57:16.400 it would be the single

00:57:17.280 most useful thing

00:57:18.260 you could have

00:57:18.960 if you could have it.

00:57:20.600 and then you'd see

00:57:24.280 some people

00:57:24.880 that if they even saw you

00:57:26.280 walk in the room

00:57:27.020 with those glasses,

00:57:28.400 they'd have to leave

00:57:29.200 immediately.

00:57:31.660 Because

00:57:32.060 if you're the one person

00:57:33.720 who has,

00:57:34.360 you know,

00:57:34.760 had some serious crimes

00:57:36.680 on your record

00:57:37.400 or something,

00:57:38.480 the person who walks in

00:57:39.580 with the meta glasses

00:57:40.520 would be the only one

00:57:41.500 who knows.

00:57:42.600 So as soon as you see

00:57:43.600 somebody walk in

00:57:44.380 with those Ray-Ban glasses,

00:57:45.740 you're like,

00:57:46.040 all right,

00:57:46.420 got to go.

00:57:47.480 I'm out of here.

00:57:49.580 But it would be

00:57:50.380 the most useful thing

00:57:51.800 you could do.

00:57:53.660 You would be able

00:57:54.960 to talk to strangers

00:57:56.060 all the time

00:57:57.000 because you would see

00:57:58.700 something in common.

00:58:00.720 Can you imagine

00:58:01.440 you meet somebody

00:58:02.960 you've never met before,

00:58:04.320 but it can check

00:58:05.460 their social media

00:58:06.360 and it tells you

00:58:07.780 immediately

00:58:08.240 what you have in common?

00:58:09.600 It's like,

00:58:10.000 oh,

00:58:10.240 you both like to surf.

00:58:12.620 Well,

00:58:14.280 you know,

00:58:14.620 if you know that

00:58:15.500 right away

00:58:16.160 that you met

00:58:17.600 somebody new

00:58:18.300 and you both

00:58:19.220 like to surf,

00:58:20.560 you already have

00:58:21.920 something to talk about.

00:58:23.680 Like,

00:58:24.020 it would be so easy

00:58:24.920 to make friends,

00:58:26.000 but you can see

00:58:26.780 the downside too.

00:58:28.160 So there would clearly

00:58:29.360 be a dark side to it.

00:58:32.740 However,

00:58:33.400 I think it would be useful.

00:58:36.100 All right.

00:58:37.200 So what we're expecting

00:58:38.560 from this Saudi trip

00:58:40.640 with the president

00:58:41.480 is that there are

00:58:42.380 a lot of deliverables

00:58:44.400 that have been

00:58:45.220 arranged in advance.

00:58:48.060 And maybe it's

00:58:49.640 already happening.

00:58:50.400 I don't know.

00:58:51.620 But I think you're

00:58:52.440 going to see

00:58:52.700 this nonstop,

00:58:54.200 this nonstop

00:58:57.240 flow of good news

00:59:00.620 heading to the United States.

00:59:03.140 Now,

00:59:03.640 at the same time,

00:59:04.680 apparently,

00:59:05.400 there was a

00:59:07.360 Pakistani man

00:59:08.960 who's a British citizen

00:59:11.840 who's in the government

00:59:12.940 who's suggesting

00:59:15.200 that Trump

00:59:15.820 should be nominated

00:59:16.800 for a Nobel Peace Prize

00:59:18.640 for quickly

00:59:20.900 de-escalating

00:59:22.000 the Pakistan-Indian conflict.

00:59:24.900 To which I say,

00:59:27.400 huh,

00:59:28.100 maybe yes.

00:59:30.200 Because we don't know

00:59:31.840 exactly what Trump did,

00:59:34.000 but I'm guessing

00:59:34.920 what he did

00:59:35.680 was he put pressure

00:59:37.160 on both sides.

00:59:38.100 as in,

00:59:39.860 you better

00:59:40.320 cut this out

00:59:41.360 or we'll,

00:59:42.080 I don't know,

00:59:43.320 cut trade with you

00:59:44.360 or put some kind

00:59:45.560 of pressure on you

00:59:46.340 or sanction you

00:59:47.140 or something.

00:59:48.420 And both sides

00:59:50.260 would like to be able

00:59:51.120 to just trade

00:59:51.900 with the United States

00:59:52.820 and have a good

00:59:53.480 relationship

00:59:54.320 with the United States.

00:59:55.840 But they also needed

00:59:57.100 what I called

00:59:57.860 the fake because.

01:00:00.240 The fake because

01:00:01.560 is a reason

01:00:02.960 to do the thing

01:00:03.820 that they wanted

01:00:04.380 to do anyway.

01:00:05.800 And what they wanted

01:00:06.560 to do anyway

01:00:07.260 is not have a fight

01:00:08.320 and not go to

01:00:09.780 World War III.

01:00:10.900 They definitely

01:00:11.900 did not want

01:00:13.460 a nuclear confrontation.

01:00:15.740 So when Trump

01:00:16.520 comes in,

01:00:17.720 he can just

01:00:18.480 give them

01:00:19.140 some ambiguous

01:00:20.000 threats

01:00:20.820 and both sides

01:00:22.620 will say,

01:00:23.120 oh, well,

01:00:23.720 now that I have

01:00:24.360 the ambiguous threat,

01:00:26.200 I guess that's

01:00:26.900 a good enough reason

01:00:27.700 not to have

01:00:28.200 World War III.

01:00:29.160 Phew.

01:00:29.880 I was so willing

01:00:30.940 to go to nuclear war,

01:00:32.340 but now that Trump

01:00:33.740 has talked to us,

01:00:34.600 so I think

01:00:36.380 that's something

01:00:36.900 that Trump

01:00:37.360 would know,

01:00:38.620 that neither

01:00:40.680 of them wanted it.

01:00:42.200 They just needed

01:00:42.960 some external reason

01:00:45.360 to make it look

01:00:46.180 like a good idea

01:00:47.080 to stop being belligerent.

01:00:50.400 So maybe.

01:00:51.620 Maybe Trump does

01:00:52.800 deserve a Nobel Peace Prize

01:00:55.320 for what he did.

01:00:56.300 We'll find out more

01:00:57.320 about what he actually did

01:00:58.980 because I don't know.

01:01:01.000 But maybe.

01:01:01.460 All right.

01:01:04.520 That's all I've got

01:01:05.400 for now.

01:01:06.300 I'm going to

01:01:07.180 say some words

01:01:08.600 privately

01:01:09.100 to the people

01:01:10.160 on Locals,

01:01:11.900 my subscribers.

01:01:13.980 And the rest of you,

01:01:15.300 thanks for joining.

01:01:16.080 I'll see you again

01:01:17.140 tomorrow.

01:01:18.200 Same time,

01:01:18.820 same place.

01:01:19.880 There'll be all kinds

01:01:20.680 of good news

01:01:21.420 by tomorrow.

01:01:22.920 All right.

01:01:23.460 If you're on YouTube

01:01:24.320 or Rumble or X,

01:01:27.180 you'll be gone

01:01:28.060 in 30 seconds.

01:01:29.080 All right.

01:01:31.460 All right.

01:02:01.460 All right.

01:02:31.460 All right.

01:03:01.460 All right.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 13, 2025

Episode 2838 CWSA 05⧸13⧸25

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