Real Coffee with Scott Adams - May 25, 2025


Episode 2850 CWSA 05⧸25⧸25


Episode Stats

Length

50 minutes

Words per Minute

118.31435

Word Count

5,938

Sentence Count

397

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

Scott Adams is back with a brand new episode of his favorite morning show, Coffee with Scott Adams. This week, Scott talks about a new robot that can make your morning coffee, Tesla's plans for self-driving cars, and the return of the Tesla Model Y.


Transcript

00:00:00.840 Let's get all my comments working, and then we gotta have some fun.
00:00:12.000 Perfect.
00:00:20.580 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human
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00:01:14.880 Well, it's Sunday, and you've decided to spend it with me, and I appreciate it.
00:01:24.300 Well, according to Neoscope, nearly half of young people wish the internet had never been
00:01:30.560 invented. So there's a new survey in the UK. Now, does that surprise you? I think you could
00:01:38.200 put that in the category of things you should just ask me, because wouldn't you expect that at least
00:01:46.220 half of young people are having a terrible experience with the internet? You know, they're getting bullied,
00:01:51.800 or they're not attractive, or nobody follows their page. Yeah. So that's probably the least surprising
00:02:00.420 survey results of all time. They should have just asked me. Well, here's some Tesla news.
00:02:10.180 According to Tesla, imagine you need to drop off something on the other side of town.
00:02:15.380 Are you imagining that? Instead of driving there yourself and wasting your time in traffic,
00:02:22.180 your car will be able to run that errand on its own while you work or do other things.
00:02:28.260 On the way back, it can bring you your coffee order without high delivery fees.
00:02:34.400 So how does it deal with the vendors on the other side? I can see how the car goes from one place to
00:02:43.800 another by itself. But how does the coffee person know to stick the coffee in the car?
00:02:51.720 Do they have to leave the Starbucks and open the car and put it in the center divider? I don't know.
00:03:01.700 So I think I need a robot in my car. But then we have everything. I want an optimist robot
00:03:09.320 in my self-driving car. And I wanted to go get my coffee. Yeah, that'll be good.
00:03:17.320 You may have heard that Elon Musk, in part because X had a kind of a downtime yesterday,
00:03:27.560 he's decided to go back to work 24-7, sleep at the office and make sure his stuff works again.
00:03:34.240 So that's always a good sign. When Elon Musk decides that he's going to sleep in the office
00:03:42.360 anywhere, usually good things happen. So I feel sorry for him sleeping in the office, but
00:03:50.720 I like the fact that X is going to be stable.
00:03:54.180 Speaking of Tesla, Attorney General Pam Bondi says she's got three more of the Tesla terrorists,
00:04:05.440 I call them Tesla domestic terrorists, that she's prosecuting. And all three defendants will face
00:04:12.620 the full force of the law for using Molotov cocktails to set fire to Tesla cars and charging stations.
00:04:20.460 Now, how happy are you that just because Elon Musk left Doge, or at least, you know, the everyday
00:04:30.660 Doge-ing, and went back to work in his main company, that all of a sudden all the domestic terrorism
00:04:37.700 changed? It just went away? Doesn't that tell you that it wasn't real? Doesn't that tell you that it
00:04:45.840 was just organized by, you know, various moneyed forces? And then as soon as he was out of the
00:04:54.280 way, no reason to do any of this terrorism. So good news there if you're a Tesla stock owner.
00:05:04.880 Here's something I was predicting would happen, but might happen sooner than I thought.
00:05:12.080 Apparently, the U.S. has a plan to mine lithium in the United States, but they've got a new technology
00:05:22.260 that can, that is being compared to the shale revolution. Remember when we were running out of
00:05:30.180 oil and then somebody said, hey, you know, we've got this new technology that can get us the oil from
00:05:38.560 these shale environments. And then suddenly we had all kinds of oil. Well, apparently there are
00:05:46.820 underground brine reserves, or reservoirs, flowing across Arkansas. So Arkansas is sitting on a gold
00:05:57.100 mine of lithium. And if it's a brine reservoir, and this one's so big it could apparently take care of
00:06:06.700 the United States for 20 years. They've got this new technology where they don't have to spend a lot
00:06:14.180 of money to get the lithium out of the brine. So it's not perfect. And there's at least one
00:06:23.500 company that's been trying to do this for a while and not doing well. But apparently we do know the
00:06:30.400 technology. So there's a way to cheaply get lithium. They just have to tweak it until it
00:06:37.500 works just right. So I'd been sort of predicting that with these rare earth minerals and the lithium
00:06:46.060 and stuff, that the process of mining it would get easier thanks to technology. And sure enough,
00:06:53.620 lithium, here we go. Well, Lockheed Martin has decided it's going to stop its DEI initiatives.
00:07:04.900 That would be following Trump's order to stop discriminating. The National Pulse is writing
00:07:10.840 about this. And if you're Lockheed Martin, don't you depend on government contracts quite a bit?
00:07:21.300 So kind of smart that they're doing that, don't you think? They didn't have much choice. They're
00:07:28.100 going to have to obey the law, the law of the land. By the way, they're getting rid of DEI.
00:07:35.420 Anderson Cooper asked Rahm Emanuel on CNN if Rahm is going to run for president. And here's the way
00:07:46.500 he asked. And here's the answer. We'll see if you can tell what the truth is. So Cooper said,
00:07:52.240 Nancy Pelosi made headlines today by saying she thinks you're running for president. Are you?
00:07:59.240 All right. Now listen to this answer. What I'm going to do is take time to think about
00:08:04.640 not just how to fight Donald Trump, although that's worthy of doing, but how to fight for the
00:08:11.120 American people. That's sort of a yes, isn't it? Now he could change his mind, but that's a pretty
00:08:20.200 good indication he wants to run for president. I think he'd be a strong candidate. So I would
00:08:28.900 worry about him if I were worried about a Democrat becoming president, I'd worry about him. But at
00:08:35.940 least he's not a crazy one. As Democrats go, he would be the least crazy Democrat. So he's got that going
00:08:47.480 for him. Meanwhile, the SPLC, Southern Poverty Law Center, has labeled the Turning Point USA organization
00:08:59.380 a hate group. And they've added them to their hate map. Now, remember how I always tell you that if you
00:09:09.940 know what happened, you might not know anything. But if you know who was involved, well, now you might know
00:09:19.220 something. So if you thought that the Southern Poverty Law Center was a totally legitimate organization
00:09:27.540 operating independently to tell us where the hate is, well, you'd be very surprised. It's more like a
00:09:36.700 Democrat, you know, basically an attack dog for the Democrats. And Turning Point USA has been doing a
00:09:46.220 tremendous job of public events. And Charlie Kirk, in particular, has been just killing it on these
00:09:54.960 public events where he's sort of debating people in public. And the other thing you need to know is
00:10:02.080 that if your job is to identify ghosts, are you going to find any ghosts? Of course you will. Of course you
00:10:12.920 will. If your job is to identify Bigfoots, are you going to find any Bigfoots? Of course you are.
00:10:23.000 Because you get paid for it. If your job is to identify hate groups, are you going to find some
00:10:32.120 new hate groups every year? Or are you going to find all the ones that exist? And then you say,
00:10:38.760 you know, we don't even need any funding for the next year. I don't even know why we have a staff.
00:10:44.700 We found all the hate. And we did our map. So maybe we'll, you know, check back in a year to
00:10:52.220 update it. No. They get a staff. They get a budget. They're going to find some extra hate.
00:10:58.980 So you can't trust anybody who gets paid by the amount of hate that they identify.
00:11:08.680 They're going to find some hate. But is it real? No. Turning Point USA is nothing like a group.
00:11:16.920 Not even close.
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00:12:20.360 Well, a Texas state representative, who, because of the nature of the story you need to know,
00:12:27.680 is a black woman, is pushing for race-based classroom assignments. So she claims that the
00:12:35.740 science shows that students perform better when they're taught by teachers who share their skin
00:12:42.320 color. So her idea is that white people would have a white teacher, black people would have a black
00:12:49.320 teacher, etc. I saw this in the Amuse account on X. So I'd like to give you some advice.
00:13:00.960 If this topic ever comes up, wherever you are, and you're a white person, you want to act like the
00:13:10.580 studies are all incorrect, and act like this is totally racist, and you would never be anywhere
00:13:19.340 near it. Because you could get canceled for saying that kind of thing. Yeah, you don't want to get
00:13:25.400 canceled. So just say, oh, I think those studies are flawed. The very best teacher could be any kind
00:13:32.880 of thing, which is true. Anyway, according to the Gateway Pundit, Harvard is admitting
00:13:40.300 that Trump's crackdown on Harvard and some other universities is having a, quote, devastating impact
00:13:48.040 on Harvard. But they're going to keep fighting anyway. Thank goodness. They're going to keep
00:13:54.040 fighting. And how are they going to fight? Well, they're sending out the designated liars.
00:14:01.020 So Jamie Raskin is defending Harvard. When you see Jamie Raskin, again, it's not what happened,
00:14:11.220 it's who's involved. And suddenly, if Jamie Raskin appears, he's a designated liar. He's one of the ones
00:14:19.460 they send out when the normal people can't tell the lie. So he'll take care of it. He'll say it.
00:14:27.680 But here's what J.D. Vance says about the university situation. He did a lengthy post today on Acts
00:14:36.500 that I thought was worthy of just reading to you. So J.D. Vance on the universities, he says,
00:14:45.800 there is an extraordinary reproducibility crisis in the sciences, particularly in biology,
00:14:52.660 where most published papers fail to replicate. Most universities have massive bureaucracies
00:14:59.880 that inhibit the translation of basic research into commercial adoption. The voting patterns of
00:15:07.560 university professors are so one-sided that they look like the election results of North Korea.
00:15:13.480 And on top of all this, many universities explicitly engage in racial discrimination,
00:15:21.540 mostly against whites and Asians, that violates the civil rights laws of this country.
00:15:27.480 Our universities could see the policies of the Trump administration as a necessary corrective
00:15:33.400 to these problems, change their policies, and work with the administration to reform.
00:15:38.700 Or they could yell fascism at basic democratic accountability and drift further into irrelevance.
00:15:48.200 Now, this is pretty interesting because one of the things that I always thought something like
00:15:53.660 Harvard was adding to the world is all that excellent science, because they get these massive grants,
00:16:02.720 what they did before Trump stopped them. And you'd have all these top scientists doing all this top science.
00:16:11.440 But as Vance points out, half of the things that get reproduced, not just there, but in general,
00:16:18.140 are not, you can't be, they can't be replicated, meaning it's fake science, basically.
00:16:25.820 And then, even when they have things that can be replicated, they got some kind of bureaucracy
00:16:31.540 that stops them from commercializing it.
00:16:35.900 So, it sounds to me like the whole, we'll give you money so you make some science,
00:16:41.620 and then we're all better off. Sounds like that doesn't work at all.
00:16:45.500 So, yeah, maybe they should look at fixing that, instead of complaining about Trump.
00:16:54.680 So, J.D. Vance, good communicator.
00:17:00.580 And then we find, in related news, according to MedPage today,
00:17:07.960 that you know how science always gets a peer review, if it's good science?
00:17:12.940 Well, apparently, there's a massive problem of peer reviewers having financial conflicts.
00:17:22.200 How not surprising that is.
00:17:26.760 The majority reviewing for top medical journals had conflicts,
00:17:32.220 and they made a billion dollars in three years.
00:17:36.680 I don't know who made the billion dollars in journals.
00:17:39.280 Anyway, more than half of peer reviewers for four top medical journals
00:17:46.680 received payments from drug and medical device manufacturers,
00:17:51.580 totaling a billion dollars from 2020 to 2022,
00:17:55.920 according to an analysis of the Open Payments Database.
00:17:59.540 So, you know that whole thing where you thought,
00:18:05.480 hey, if I get a peer review, that's a pretty good indication that my science is good.
00:18:12.480 Apparently, there's nothing like that.
00:18:17.000 It looks like the peer reviewers are basically beneficiaries of,
00:18:25.540 you know, big pharma and big medical.
00:18:28.880 So, all you really need to do is find a peer reviewer
00:18:32.940 who will be willing to say something that big pharma would want to hear,
00:18:39.880 and you're all set.
00:18:43.500 Speaking of Harvard,
00:18:46.060 So, you probably heard this story.
00:18:50.420 It's just a conclusion of it.
00:18:52.500 So, the Harvard Medical School morgue,
00:18:55.760 so Harvard Medical School had a morgue,
00:18:59.820 not for the students,
00:19:02.040 but for donations of bodies.
00:19:05.720 So, if the medical school wanted to do some,
00:19:08.600 you know, some dissecting or something of human bodies,
00:19:13.560 there was a morgue that would handle all that.
00:19:18.260 And apparently, the morgue manager was selling organs on the black market.
00:19:24.220 But he wasn't selling them until they were already used by the medical school.
00:19:29.140 So, once the Harvard Medical School was done with a body part,
00:19:33.480 like a hand,
00:19:35.960 you know, you'd have like a severed hand.
00:19:37.660 And once they were done with it,
00:19:39.960 they were supposed to be disposed in some legal way, I guess.
00:19:45.540 But instead, the morgue manager was selling them.
00:19:51.120 So, it really gives meaning to second-hand parts.
00:19:57.560 Second-hand parts?
00:20:00.160 Because they'd use the hand more than once?
00:20:03.140 All right.
00:20:03.660 Well, that's all I got to know.
00:20:04.620 It does seem that wherever there can be corruption,
00:20:09.380 there is corruption.
00:20:11.680 If it's possible, it's going to happen.
00:20:15.280 Well, let's see if there's anything more like that.
00:20:17.980 According to The Blaze,
00:20:20.520 there's a North Carolina Democrat
00:20:22.500 who used pandemic loans
00:20:24.700 to throw herself a lavish of 50
00:20:27.900 at the birthday party, according to prosecutors.
00:20:30.120 So, she got $124,000 in loans.
00:20:37.120 And part of what she spent it on
00:20:39.380 was a big old birthday party for herself.
00:20:43.040 So, that's another situation in which
00:20:45.740 it was possible to have fraud.
00:20:49.620 And there it was.
00:20:50.580 So, the peer reviewers in science,
00:20:56.320 they could be fraudulent.
00:20:58.800 And apparently, they are.
00:21:01.240 The Southern Poverty Law Center
00:21:03.100 could be sketchy.
00:21:05.200 And apparently, it is.
00:21:07.740 The morgue director
00:21:09.700 could be selling his body parts.
00:21:12.580 And he was.
00:21:13.560 And during the pandemic,
00:21:17.300 a lot of the loans could be fake.
00:21:20.240 And they were.
00:21:23.480 Well, but in other good news,
00:21:27.040 Liberty Nation News is reporting
00:21:29.100 that crime is down across the U.S.
00:21:32.580 And we're talking about the bad crimes.
00:21:35.260 The murders and the rapes and stuff.
00:21:38.880 Now, the question would be,
00:21:41.040 and it's down for the first
00:21:42.420 three months of this year.
00:21:46.300 Now, why do you think that is?
00:21:49.080 Could it be?
00:21:51.320 Could it be
00:21:52.500 because of the
00:21:54.420 mass deportations of criminals?
00:21:57.240 I don't know.
00:21:59.600 It's too early to know.
00:22:01.620 But if crime stays down everywhere,
00:22:04.240 we're going to ask the question,
00:22:05.720 is that because Tom Holman
00:22:07.920 did an extra good job
00:22:09.480 and he got rid of the criminals
00:22:11.480 who were repeat offenders?
00:22:13.320 It could be.
00:22:15.480 That might be the reason.
00:22:17.200 It's too early to know,
00:22:18.380 but it could be.
00:22:25.080 So, here's something
00:22:27.600 that I'm kind of happy about,
00:22:30.720 but I don't know if it's enough.
00:22:32.160 Our government
00:22:34.520 is sort of designed
00:22:37.880 for doing certain things.
00:22:39.940 But one of the things
00:22:41.140 our government is not designed to do
00:22:43.060 is be efficient
00:22:45.960 and save your tax money
00:22:48.220 and not overspend.
00:22:50.240 Because whoever cuts a budget
00:22:52.300 ends up getting fired.
00:22:54.320 You know, they don't get elected.
00:22:55.900 Hey, you cut that budget
00:22:57.220 for whatever that good thing was.
00:22:59.700 So, we don't have any mechanism
00:23:02.540 for a government
00:23:04.720 that can do anything
00:23:06.720 except overspend your money
00:23:08.500 until we all die.
00:23:11.860 But there's sort of
00:23:14.240 a private industry thing
00:23:16.040 that's sort of filling that gap.
00:23:18.660 I don't know if it's enough
00:23:19.860 to make a difference,
00:23:21.900 but the all-in pod
00:23:24.320 seems to be like
00:23:26.620 almost a national treasure
00:23:28.340 at this point.
00:23:29.580 Because you've got
00:23:30.600 four of the smartest people
00:23:32.420 you've ever seen
00:23:33.400 who are willing to talk
00:23:35.200 about any topic
00:23:36.220 that's important to the country.
00:23:38.540 And they can do
00:23:39.360 what Congress can't,
00:23:40.640 which is tell the truth.
00:23:43.260 And I think
00:23:46.120 that's an important step.
00:23:49.580 Now, telling the truth
00:23:50.600 is only halfway
00:23:51.720 to fixing a problem.
00:23:54.320 You still have to have
00:23:55.140 some mechanism
00:23:55.880 to fix the problem,
00:23:57.120 which we don't.
00:23:58.640 But at least we're getting
00:23:59.860 something like the truth.
00:24:03.260 So, David Sachs,
00:24:04.640 one of the four
00:24:05.620 in the all-in pod,
00:24:07.480 he was talking about Doge.
00:24:10.060 I saw this
00:24:10.760 on the Vigilant Fox account.
00:24:13.520 They did a summary.
00:24:15.060 And he said,
00:24:15.680 he said,
00:24:17.760 Doge made great progress.
00:24:19.580 I would agree.
00:24:20.500 But there's one thing
00:24:22.720 that Elon and Trump
00:24:24.180 can't fix,
00:24:25.120 which is Congress.
00:24:26.860 So, Congress
00:24:27.900 would still have to agree
00:24:29.220 to all the Doge cuts.
00:24:31.780 And that part
00:24:32.900 is just broken.
00:24:34.380 Because
00:24:34.940 Congress can't cut costs.
00:24:39.100 They would get fired.
00:24:40.760 Meaning they would lose
00:24:41.820 their next election
00:24:42.720 if they cut
00:24:43.680 anything.
00:24:45.600 It wouldn't even matter
00:24:46.700 what they cut.
00:24:47.340 If they cut anything,
00:24:50.200 they would probably
00:24:50.880 get fired.
00:24:53.200 So,
00:24:54.380 Doge proved
00:24:55.240 that you could
00:24:56.280 find a lot of fraud.
00:24:57.820 You could identify it.
00:24:59.180 You could,
00:25:00.300 you know,
00:25:00.760 at least
00:25:01.160 have the possibility
00:25:03.240 of cutting it.
00:25:04.480 But we don't have
00:25:05.920 anything that could
00:25:06.720 actually cut it.
00:25:08.640 So,
00:25:09.540 that part
00:25:10.120 had to be
00:25:11.280 quite disappointing
00:25:12.180 for
00:25:12.680 Elon
00:25:15.140 as well as
00:25:16.000 Trump.
00:25:17.340 but
00:25:19.240 there was
00:25:24.900 a second part
00:25:25.620 of this.
00:25:27.460 But then
00:25:27.840 yesterday
00:25:28.540 I saw a,
00:25:29.780 I think it was,
00:25:30.660 they called it
00:25:32.020 an emergency
00:25:32.780 broadcast
00:25:35.320 from the
00:25:36.060 All In Pod.
00:25:36.980 So,
00:25:37.380 two of the
00:25:37.880 All In Pod
00:25:38.400 guys were there,
00:25:40.460 Chamath
00:25:40.960 and Friedberg.
00:25:42.860 And they were
00:25:43.680 talking to
00:25:44.320 Ron Johnson,
00:25:45.880 Senator Johnson,
00:25:46.740 who is a,
00:25:48.360 I guess he was
00:25:50.280 a tea party guy
00:25:51.400 and he's
00:25:52.740 trying his best
00:25:53.880 to figure out
00:25:55.140 how to cut costs
00:25:56.100 in the government
00:25:56.760 but there's just,
00:25:58.180 there just doesn't
00:25:58.940 seem to be any way
00:25:59.740 to do it.
00:26:00.320 but I recommend
00:26:02.480 that you watch it
00:26:03.480 because it's the
00:26:05.020 most honest
00:26:05.880 take
00:26:06.540 on the trouble
00:26:07.980 that we're in.
00:26:10.640 Because they can say
00:26:11.880 in direct language
00:26:12.900 we're in a death
00:26:14.000 spiral
00:26:14.560 and absolutely
00:26:16.040 nothing is going
00:26:16.820 to change it.
00:26:18.540 Unless
00:26:19.020 we come up
00:26:20.020 with some
00:26:20.460 whole new plan
00:26:21.380 that nobody's
00:26:22.020 thought of
00:26:22.560 or nobody was
00:26:23.760 brave enough
00:26:24.340 to do
00:26:24.740 or something.
00:26:25.320 but
00:26:26.500 that was
00:26:29.020 really valuable.
00:26:31.340 So I'll say
00:26:32.500 again,
00:26:32.800 I think the
00:26:33.240 all-in pod
00:26:34.060 because the
00:26:35.900 four of them
00:26:37.180 are so smart
00:26:38.080 and so credible
00:26:39.300 that when they
00:26:40.640 take on a topic
00:26:41.840 like this
00:26:42.460 where nobody's
00:26:43.220 being honest
00:26:43.900 about it,
00:26:45.060 it's the first
00:26:45.800 time the country
00:26:46.600 can hear the
00:26:47.340 honest,
00:26:48.100 the truth
00:26:48.800 basically.
00:26:49.960 It's the first
00:26:50.460 time they can
00:26:50.980 hear the truth
00:26:51.800 and in
00:26:53.380 context
00:26:54.340 because,
00:26:55.780 you know,
00:26:55.980 the news
00:26:56.420 is all biased
00:26:57.300 and they don't
00:26:58.660 even cover
00:26:59.200 the deficit.
00:27:01.020 Most of the
00:27:01.780 time when
00:27:02.940 the news
00:27:04.320 is talking
00:27:04.800 about the
00:27:05.220 budget,
00:27:06.840 they don't
00:27:07.200 even mention
00:27:07.840 the fact
00:27:10.840 that
00:27:10.900 there's a
00:27:13.560 troll
00:27:13.840 who needs
00:27:14.280 to be
00:27:14.700 disappeared.
00:27:16.760 Let's get
00:27:17.200 rid of the
00:27:17.560 fart troll.
00:27:19.180 Anyway,
00:27:19.420 so most
00:27:23.580 of the
00:27:23.800 time
00:27:24.140 when the
00:27:26.540 news
00:27:26.780 covers the
00:27:27.380 budget
00:27:27.760 process,
00:27:28.480 even the
00:27:28.940 big beautiful
00:27:29.500 budget,
00:27:30.300 they don't
00:27:31.100 tell you the
00:27:31.680 only important
00:27:32.400 part.
00:27:33.820 This budget
00:27:34.880 will kill
00:27:35.580 us all.
00:27:37.560 That's the
00:27:38.340 truth.
00:27:39.500 Now,
00:27:39.980 maybe not
00:27:40.580 tomorrow,
00:27:41.860 but if we
00:27:43.180 don't figure
00:27:43.660 out how to
00:27:44.240 reduce the
00:27:44.840 budget and
00:27:45.540 we keep
00:27:45.940 doing budgets
00:27:46.540 like this
00:27:47.140 where the
00:27:47.560 deficit gets
00:27:48.240 bigger instead
00:27:48.880 of smaller,
00:27:49.420 we're all
00:27:50.440 dead.
00:27:51.440 So that's
00:27:52.100 something the
00:27:52.600 all-in pod
00:27:53.240 can say
00:27:53.900 because it's
00:27:55.080 true and
00:27:55.920 it's
00:27:56.520 demonstrably
00:27:57.400 true.
00:27:59.720 But we
00:28:00.480 need that
00:28:00.940 extra part.
00:28:03.200 You know,
00:28:03.540 maybe it's
00:28:04.200 Trump,
00:28:04.720 but it
00:28:05.260 doesn't look
00:28:05.760 like he
00:28:06.160 has the
00:28:06.800 interest or
00:28:08.520 maybe even
00:28:09.120 the ability
00:28:09.640 to cut it
00:28:11.600 without losing
00:28:13.260 the midterms.
00:28:14.020 so I
00:28:17.200 would recommend
00:28:18.340 the all-in
00:28:19.100 pod for
00:28:19.540 you so
00:28:19.880 you're at
00:28:20.240 least well
00:28:20.660 informed on
00:28:22.140 that topic.
00:28:23.700 But separately,
00:28:25.700 I think it
00:28:26.780 was a
00:28:27.000 different podcast,
00:28:28.400 I saw
00:28:28.720 Friedberg say
00:28:31.160 that there's
00:28:32.360 some theoretical
00:28:33.440 amount of
00:28:34.300 energy that
00:28:36.120 if the
00:28:36.500 United States
00:28:37.220 could create
00:28:37.880 this amazing
00:28:38.880 amount of
00:28:39.360 energy,
00:28:40.800 the deficit
00:28:42.320 wouldn't be
00:28:42.940 a problem.
00:28:44.800 Now that's
00:28:45.300 sort of a
00:28:46.180 thinker,
00:28:46.760 and I think
00:28:47.140 I missed
00:28:47.480 part of it
00:28:48.060 because I
00:28:48.420 just saw a
00:28:48.960 little clip
00:28:49.440 on it.
00:28:51.080 Just think
00:28:51.700 about that.
00:28:53.420 The energy
00:28:54.520 and money
00:28:56.480 are sort
00:28:57.920 of interchangeable
00:28:58.900 because,
00:28:59.800 you know,
00:29:00.400 you would
00:29:00.780 use money
00:29:01.260 to buy
00:29:01.600 energy,
00:29:02.140 et cetera.
00:29:03.240 So if you
00:29:03.840 had a way
00:29:04.840 to create
00:29:05.560 just a ton
00:29:07.600 of energy,
00:29:09.040 let's say
00:29:09.620 nuclear fusion
00:29:11.420 for example,
00:29:12.320 let's say
00:29:12.840 tomorrow it
00:29:13.520 became cheap.
00:29:14.880 Let's say
00:29:15.620 somehow we
00:29:16.560 figured out
00:29:17.080 how to
00:29:17.600 build a
00:29:18.860 nuclear power
00:29:19.560 plant in
00:29:20.280 one year.
00:29:22.180 These are
00:29:22.860 things we
00:29:23.320 can't do,
00:29:24.040 and I'm
00:29:24.400 not predicting
00:29:24.980 we can.
00:29:26.240 But there's
00:29:27.000 possibly
00:29:28.560 one way
00:29:30.660 we could
00:29:32.140 escape the
00:29:32.900 doom spiral,
00:29:34.380 and you
00:29:35.400 wouldn't know
00:29:35.900 about it
00:29:36.540 unless you'd
00:29:37.760 watched the
00:29:38.260 All In
00:29:38.600 podcast
00:29:39.000 explain that
00:29:41.100 we're in
00:29:41.440 a doom
00:29:41.800 spiral.
00:29:43.380 But in
00:29:44.000 theory,
00:29:44.860 if you
00:29:46.140 could create
00:29:46.780 a massive
00:29:47.640 amount of
00:29:48.520 power,
00:29:49.640 you know,
00:29:49.900 electricity,
00:29:50.720 energy,
00:29:52.180 they would
00:29:53.520 be irrelevant,
00:29:54.480 basically.
00:29:56.240 So anyway,
00:29:57.660 keep that in
00:29:58.340 mind that
00:29:58.940 they're like a
00:29:59.940 national treasure
00:30:00.780 right now,
00:30:01.380 but we still
00:30:01.860 need that last
00:30:02.580 part where
00:30:04.260 knowing the
00:30:04.940 truth isn't
00:30:05.600 enough.
00:30:06.020 you've got
00:30:07.760 to be able
00:30:08.060 to act
00:30:08.440 on it,
00:30:09.140 and we
00:30:09.500 still need
00:30:09.980 that part
00:30:11.220 where we
00:30:11.600 act on
00:30:12.040 it.
00:30:14.260 Oh,
00:30:14.820 wait.
00:30:17.840 All right.
00:30:21.560 Here's
00:30:22.040 something that
00:30:22.580 I thought
00:30:23.120 was weird.
00:30:25.200 I haven't
00:30:26.160 seen anybody
00:30:26.640 mention this
00:30:27.280 yet, but
00:30:27.860 you've
00:30:29.240 probably heard
00:30:29.840 before that
00:30:30.720 the people
00:30:31.760 in the news
00:30:32.440 business,
00:30:33.360 they have to
00:30:34.440 play nice
00:30:35.080 with the
00:30:35.500 administration,
00:30:36.480 whoever that
00:30:37.020 is,
00:30:37.960 because if
00:30:38.680 they don't,
00:30:39.700 they'll lose
00:30:40.120 access,
00:30:42.040 meaning that
00:30:42.900 if they want
00:30:43.500 an interview
00:30:43.940 with somebody
00:30:44.620 in the
00:30:44.980 administration,
00:30:46.500 the administration
00:30:47.160 might say,
00:30:48.060 oh, you wrote
00:30:48.740 a hit piece
00:30:49.300 about us
00:30:49.860 yesterday,
00:30:50.720 so we're not
00:30:51.840 going to give
00:30:52.240 you anybody
00:30:52.780 to do an
00:30:53.460 interview.
00:30:54.220 And then
00:30:54.500 you're in
00:30:55.420 the news
00:30:55.820 business,
00:30:56.880 and you can't
00:30:57.820 really do
00:30:58.360 ordinary news
00:30:59.480 and ordinary
00:31:00.120 interviews,
00:31:00.840 so you're
00:31:01.280 really screwed.
00:31:03.320 So in
00:31:04.780 the Biden
00:31:05.200 administration,
00:31:07.100 you had
00:31:07.440 this weird
00:31:07.940 situation
00:31:08.600 where the
00:31:09.260 news had
00:31:11.320 to be nice
00:31:11.980 to them
00:31:12.440 to maintain
00:31:13.740 access,
00:31:15.160 but they
00:31:16.140 didn't get
00:31:16.560 any access,
00:31:17.860 because they're
00:31:18.920 all surprised
00:31:20.140 that Biden
00:31:20.740 was degraded
00:31:21.980 and he was
00:31:23.680 basically being
00:31:24.580 hidden from
00:31:25.300 the news.
00:31:29.460 So their
00:31:30.020 business model
00:31:30.820 of the news
00:31:32.820 is collapsing
00:31:33.720 because their
00:31:36.120 whole idea
00:31:36.800 of, well,
00:31:37.520 at least if
00:31:38.140 we're nice
00:31:38.680 to you,
00:31:39.280 or nice
00:31:40.420 enough,
00:31:41.280 we'll have
00:31:41.920 access,
00:31:43.140 they didn't
00:31:43.840 get access.
00:31:45.620 They didn't
00:31:46.260 even get
00:31:46.600 close to
00:31:47.100 access.
00:31:47.840 They were
00:31:48.220 not behind
00:31:48.840 the curtain
00:31:49.360 whatsoever.
00:31:51.560 So I
00:31:53.560 thought that
00:31:53.900 was interesting.
00:31:54.520 Bank more
00:31:58.740 encores when
00:31:59.580 you switch
00:31:59.980 to a
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00:32:00.860 banking
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00:32:06.480 apply.
00:32:07.940 Scotiabank,
00:32:08.700 you're richer
00:32:09.180 than you
00:32:09.520 think.
00:32:10.440 I saw
00:32:11.240 a Sam
00:32:13.760 Harris clip
00:32:14.620 where he
00:32:16.280 was saying
00:32:16.740 that he
00:32:17.520 fell for
00:32:19.140 the idea
00:32:19.900 that Biden
00:32:21.680 was sharp
00:32:22.540 when we
00:32:23.040 weren't
00:32:23.300 looking.
00:32:24.860 Because he
00:32:25.260 said,
00:32:25.880 neurologically
00:32:26.940 speaking,
00:32:28.280 that is
00:32:29.120 an
00:32:29.760 intelligible
00:32:30.620 claim to
00:32:31.600 make about
00:32:32.080 a person.
00:32:33.200 That he's
00:32:33.780 capable of
00:32:35.560 making
00:32:35.920 important
00:32:36.640 decisions
00:32:37.220 behind closed
00:32:38.180 doors,
00:32:38.900 but maybe
00:32:40.280 he's not so
00:32:41.060 good at
00:32:41.380 communicating
00:32:42.040 anymore.
00:32:43.540 Does that
00:32:44.180 make sense
00:32:44.680 to you?
00:32:46.080 Do you
00:32:46.780 believe that
00:32:47.340 if you saw
00:32:47.900 him in
00:32:48.200 public and
00:32:48.840 he wasn't
00:32:49.300 good at
00:32:49.660 communicating
00:32:50.320 and it
00:32:50.840 was a
00:32:51.060 big change
00:32:51.720 because he
00:32:53.020 used to
00:32:53.360 be better
00:32:53.740 at it?
00:32:54.920 Would you
00:32:55.380 assume that
00:32:55.960 he was
00:32:56.300 fine behind
00:32:56.960 closed doors?
00:32:59.200 Well,
00:32:59.580 Sam Harris
00:33:00.100 did.
00:33:02.200 And the
00:33:02.960 Daily Caller
00:33:03.600 was talking
00:33:04.140 about this.
00:33:05.740 And it
00:33:07.160 seems like
00:33:07.720 a lot of
00:33:09.320 prominent
00:33:09.940 anti-Trumpers
00:33:12.320 are figuring
00:33:13.200 out that
00:33:13.760 they have to
00:33:14.380 come clean
00:33:15.160 that they
00:33:16.600 were fooled.
00:33:17.740 And it's
00:33:18.100 getting safer
00:33:18.920 because the
00:33:20.580 Tapper book
00:33:21.680 is drawing
00:33:22.900 so much
00:33:23.400 fire.
00:33:24.960 And it's
00:33:25.540 also making
00:33:26.160 it easier
00:33:26.920 for people
00:33:27.480 to go
00:33:28.280 public and
00:33:28.880 say,
00:33:29.520 oh,
00:33:29.720 yeah,
00:33:30.160 yeah,
00:33:31.260 I guess
00:33:31.720 Jake Tapper
00:33:32.360 was fooled
00:33:33.220 and other
00:33:33.820 people were
00:33:34.340 fooled.
00:33:34.960 Oh,
00:33:35.160 yeah,
00:33:35.320 I was
00:33:35.600 fooled,
00:33:35.980 too.
00:33:36.520 Oh,
00:33:36.660 yeah.
00:33:37.520 But of
00:33:38.480 course,
00:33:39.100 of course I
00:33:39.920 was fooled
00:33:40.460 because I
00:33:41.060 didn't have
00:33:41.440 access to
00:33:42.180 the real
00:33:42.540 information.
00:33:43.640 They were
00:33:44.040 hiding it
00:33:44.520 from me.
00:33:47.520 All right.
00:33:49.200 If my
00:33:50.760 engineer is
00:33:51.460 watching this,
00:33:52.260 we really
00:33:52.640 got to get
00:33:53.080 rid of that
00:33:53.520 guy.
00:33:54.660 I think
00:33:55.340 you know
00:33:55.620 who I'm
00:33:55.900 talking about.
00:33:57.920 All right.
00:33:59.720 And then
00:34:00.700 I guess I
00:34:04.560 would ask
00:34:05.000 you this
00:34:05.400 question.
00:34:07.140 If the
00:34:07.940 political
00:34:08.560 experts
00:34:09.440 were so
00:34:11.260 bad at
00:34:12.140 determining
00:34:12.580 that Biden
00:34:13.540 was capable,
00:34:16.100 haven't the
00:34:16.920 experts had
00:34:17.620 a really
00:34:17.960 bad 10
00:34:18.620 years?
00:34:20.740 Do you
00:34:21.060 remember
00:34:21.320 when Trump
00:34:22.820 was first
00:34:23.680 running for
00:34:24.780 office in
00:34:25.700 2015?
00:34:26.940 What did
00:34:27.700 all the
00:34:28.220 experts say
00:34:29.100 about his
00:34:29.580 chances?
00:34:30.860 They said,
00:34:31.700 no way,
00:34:32.160 right?
00:34:32.920 All of
00:34:33.520 them,
00:34:34.120 all the
00:34:34.760 experts.
00:34:35.940 What did
00:34:36.920 the cartoonist
00:34:38.160 say?
00:34:39.360 He's going
00:34:40.000 to be your
00:34:40.380 next president.
00:34:42.140 So that
00:34:43.300 was a
00:34:43.620 case of
00:34:44.020 the experts
00:34:44.640 having a
00:34:45.300 really bad
00:34:46.080 time.
00:34:48.160 And then
00:34:48.900 the experts
00:34:49.460 got Biden's
00:34:50.460 brain wrong.
00:34:52.220 And the
00:34:53.740 experts got
00:34:55.180 everything about
00:34:55.880 the budget
00:34:56.360 wrong, in
00:34:57.320 my opinion.
00:34:58.640 And you
00:34:59.860 probably want
00:35:00.440 to say the
00:35:00.860 experts got a
00:35:01.680 lot wrong on
00:35:02.440 COVID.
00:35:04.100 And the
00:35:05.120 experts are
00:35:05.920 not doing so
00:35:06.620 good on the
00:35:07.180 peer-reviewed
00:35:07.960 papers.
00:35:08.300 so what
00:35:12.620 do you
00:35:12.840 think?
00:35:13.380 Are the
00:35:13.780 experts even
00:35:14.840 worthwhile
00:35:15.840 anymore?
00:35:16.900 I feel like
00:35:17.780 the experts
00:35:18.380 are not
00:35:20.140 really doing
00:35:20.760 well for the
00:35:21.460 past 10
00:35:22.100 years.
00:35:23.960 We've got a
00:35:24.860 10-year
00:35:25.420 failure rate
00:35:26.460 of experts
00:35:28.000 where ordinary
00:35:29.800 people are just
00:35:30.640 like guessing
00:35:31.320 and guessing
00:35:32.840 correctly.
00:35:33.780 I don't know.
00:35:34.980 It doesn't look
00:35:35.740 like that to
00:35:36.280 me.
00:35:37.320 And the
00:35:37.800 guessers are
00:35:38.640 literally beating
00:35:39.420 the experts
00:35:40.200 like time and
00:35:41.580 time again.
00:35:43.680 So,
00:35:44.980 meanwhile,
00:35:46.720 NYU
00:35:47.520 Professor Scott
00:35:48.840 Galloway,
00:35:50.080 I think you
00:35:50.700 know him,
00:35:51.760 Fox News is
00:35:52.620 reporting that
00:35:53.460 he's also
00:35:55.020 coming clean
00:35:55.880 about his
00:35:57.400 Biden support.
00:35:59.640 He says
00:36:00.100 the Biden
00:36:00.580 family's
00:36:01.100 narcissism
00:36:01.980 severely
00:36:03.240 effed the
00:36:04.000 country.
00:36:04.380 basically he's
00:36:08.520 blaming the
00:36:09.340 Bidens for
00:36:10.300 hiding his
00:36:11.460 situation and
00:36:12.660 then putting
00:36:14.580 Kamala as
00:36:15.840 the heir
00:36:16.680 apparent.
00:36:18.400 And he
00:36:19.500 says it's
00:36:20.160 the Democratic
00:36:21.120 Party is
00:36:22.880 hurting its
00:36:23.580 legacy.
00:36:25.580 Well,
00:36:26.480 I don't
00:36:27.500 know.
00:36:29.840 If all the
00:36:31.520 non-experts
00:36:32.520 could clearly
00:36:33.220 see that
00:36:33.800 Biden was
00:36:34.380 degraded,
00:36:36.240 can you
00:36:37.040 really blame
00:36:37.620 the Democrats?
00:36:40.240 Don't you
00:36:40.920 have to blame
00:36:41.480 the people
00:36:41.920 who couldn't
00:36:42.480 see the
00:36:42.900 obvious?
00:36:44.700 It seems
00:36:45.440 to me.
00:36:47.380 Anyway,
00:36:48.680 speaking of
00:36:50.060 the budget,
00:36:50.680 the big
00:36:50.940 beautiful budget,
00:36:52.520 so the
00:36:53.040 Senate is
00:36:53.960 going to
00:36:54.260 make their
00:36:54.800 mark on
00:36:55.700 it.
00:36:56.440 And as I
00:36:57.760 mentioned,
00:36:58.320 Senator Ron
00:36:59.000 Johnson,
00:36:59.680 he's a
00:37:00.320 deficit guy.
00:37:03.120 he wants
00:37:03.800 to make
00:37:04.100 sure that
00:37:04.540 we can
00:37:05.080 pay our
00:37:06.000 bills.
00:37:07.020 And I
00:37:07.200 guess Rick
00:37:07.780 Scott and
00:37:08.520 Mike Lee
00:37:09.100 from Utah
00:37:09.820 are similarly
00:37:11.120 looking for
00:37:12.000 bigger cuts.
00:37:13.980 Do you think
00:37:14.700 they're going to
00:37:15.120 get them?
00:37:15.460 I was looking
00:37:18.600 at the list
00:37:19.220 of things
00:37:19.720 that the
00:37:20.200 Senate wants
00:37:20.820 to tweak,
00:37:22.120 which, by
00:37:22.720 the way, is
00:37:23.180 a weird
00:37:23.720 process to
00:37:24.500 me, because
00:37:25.820 you've got
00:37:26.180 these two
00:37:27.240 entities, you've
00:37:27.980 got the
00:37:28.300 House and
00:37:28.840 then you've
00:37:29.160 got the
00:37:29.500 Senate.
00:37:30.420 Isn't it the
00:37:31.100 weirdest thing
00:37:31.980 that the
00:37:33.360 House could
00:37:34.020 vote on a
00:37:34.820 bunch of
00:37:35.480 elements in
00:37:37.060 the budget
00:37:37.540 and then the
00:37:38.940 Senate could
00:37:39.480 just change
00:37:40.040 them and
00:37:41.660 then they
00:37:42.280 would vote
00:37:42.780 on it and
00:37:44.160 it would
00:37:44.380 become a
00:37:44.860 law or
00:37:46.960 it would
00:37:47.200 become the
00:37:47.660 law of the
00:37:48.080 land?
00:37:49.420 It just
00:37:50.220 seems like
00:37:50.940 the worst
00:37:51.460 system, that
00:37:53.000 there are two
00:37:53.860 entities and
00:37:55.100 one can change
00:37:56.160 what the first
00:37:56.780 one just
00:37:57.280 approved.
00:37:58.760 But that's
00:37:59.260 what's happening.
00:38:01.460 And it
00:38:02.180 looks to be,
00:38:03.280 you know, a
00:38:04.560 quick look at
00:38:05.420 what the
00:38:06.000 senators are
00:38:06.740 looking at
00:38:07.180 changing.
00:38:08.260 I'm not so
00:38:09.060 sure this is
00:38:09.860 going to pass
00:38:10.640 because if
00:38:12.560 the three
00:38:13.620 deficit, what
00:38:17.100 do you call
00:38:17.380 them, deficit
00:38:17.960 hawks, you
00:38:19.580 know, the
00:38:19.800 ones who are
00:38:20.380 getting real
00:38:21.120 serious about
00:38:21.860 overspending,
00:38:22.960 that's probably
00:38:24.620 enough to hold
00:38:25.460 things up, isn't
00:38:26.260 it?
00:38:27.360 So we'll see
00:38:28.300 if they can
00:38:28.940 hold tight.
00:38:30.980 But, yeah, I'm
00:38:32.600 not so sure the
00:38:33.420 big beautiful bill
00:38:34.200 is going to pass
00:38:35.000 as easily as
00:38:35.760 people thought.
00:38:40.640 Mike Benz was
00:38:41.800 talking to Alex
00:38:43.500 Marlow on a
00:38:44.340 podcast, and
00:38:45.840 he had a
00:38:46.500 great turn of
00:38:48.380 a phrase that
00:38:49.820 I wanted to
00:38:50.400 share with
00:38:51.060 you.
00:38:51.860 And he was
00:38:52.500 talking about
00:38:52.980 the National
00:38:53.700 Endowment for
00:38:54.660 Democracy.
00:38:56.580 Now, whenever
00:38:57.320 there's a Mike
00:38:58.360 Benz story,
00:39:00.140 there's usually
00:39:00.860 some kind of
00:39:02.020 a three-word
00:39:03.440 government entity
00:39:05.320 that's dealing
00:39:06.820 with some
00:39:07.360 other three-word
00:39:08.640 government entity,
00:39:09.580 and they're
00:39:10.540 doing something
00:39:11.180 you wish they
00:39:11.840 weren't doing
00:39:12.320 with your
00:39:12.700 money.
00:39:13.960 Well, he's
00:39:14.660 talking about
00:39:15.060 the National
00:39:15.620 Endowment for
00:39:16.420 Democracy.
00:39:17.560 He says the
00:39:18.360 but, anyway,
00:39:21.440 it's a Cold
00:39:22.780 War-era NGO
00:39:24.140 arm of the
00:39:24.820 CIA, and
00:39:26.680 it's still
00:39:27.140 being bankrolled
00:39:28.940 by the Trump
00:39:29.940 administration.
00:39:31.680 So why would
00:39:33.100 we still be
00:39:33.980 funding something
00:39:36.400 that was a
00:39:37.120 Cold War-era
00:39:38.480 organization,
00:39:39.580 entity?
00:39:40.860 Well, we
00:39:42.320 never cut
00:39:42.880 anything.
00:39:44.520 So if
00:39:46.240 there's no
00:39:46.700 Cold War,
00:39:47.860 what are they
00:39:48.480 doing?
00:39:49.480 Well, according
00:39:50.320 to Benz,
00:39:51.340 quote,
00:39:52.360 they have
00:39:52.980 pivoted
00:39:53.600 completely from
00:39:54.860 countering
00:39:55.560 left-wing
00:39:56.200 communism to
00:39:57.680 countering
00:39:58.320 right-wing
00:39:58.920 populism,
00:40:00.620 bragged about
00:40:01.340 censoring Trump
00:40:02.340 voices, had
00:40:03.400 entire operations
00:40:04.520 to stop Trump
00:40:05.520 from the
00:40:05.960 inside, and
00:40:07.260 the fact that
00:40:07.880 they remain
00:40:08.480 what appears
00:40:09.100 to be
00:40:09.540 almost fully
00:40:10.880 funded is
00:40:12.180 like voluntarily
00:40:13.020 giving your
00:40:13.820 own government
00:40:14.400 cancer.
00:40:17.400 That's a
00:40:18.220 great frame,
00:40:20.040 I guess.
00:40:24.340 Yeah, I
00:40:25.560 guess we
00:40:25.620 should ask,
00:40:29.100 why is there
00:40:29.960 an entity that
00:40:30.840 we're funding
00:40:31.500 who seems to
00:40:33.740 be its
00:40:34.060 mission is to
00:40:34.980 stop the
00:40:36.600 government from
00:40:37.360 functioning?
00:40:39.360 That doesn't
00:40:40.320 seem like a
00:40:40.900 good use of
00:40:41.420 my money.
00:40:43.480 Is that what
00:40:44.400 you thought you're
00:40:45.040 paying taxes for?
00:40:46.120 to stop the
00:40:47.600 person that
00:40:48.200 you voted
00:40:48.560 for?
00:40:51.220 It's
00:40:51.740 unbelievable.
00:40:54.640 But like I
00:40:55.600 say, everything
00:40:56.340 that can be
00:40:57.400 corrupt, it's
00:40:59.080 corrupt.
00:41:00.680 And I guess
00:41:01.320 all these
00:41:02.000 government NGOs
00:41:03.220 and government
00:41:04.000 entities, you
00:41:05.760 know, they
00:41:06.360 didn't seem to
00:41:07.180 have any kind
00:41:07.800 of audit or
00:41:08.680 control or
00:41:09.800 check on
00:41:10.420 their activities.
00:41:11.800 So they're
00:41:13.180 all just
00:41:13.680 corrupt.
00:41:16.160 You know, now
00:41:16.840 I'm sure they
00:41:17.340 wouldn't say
00:41:17.740 they're corrupt.
00:41:18.440 They would
00:41:18.780 say, we're
00:41:20.080 making sure
00:41:22.080 that there's
00:41:22.620 no disinformation.
00:41:25.700 But to us
00:41:26.640 it looks
00:41:27.020 corrupt.
00:41:28.620 Meanwhile,
00:41:29.960 remember how
00:41:30.700 Rick Grinnell
00:41:31.760 got put in
00:41:33.700 charge of the
00:41:34.300 Kennedy Center?
00:41:35.920 And you
00:41:36.580 probably said
00:41:37.120 to yourself
00:41:37.600 like I did,
00:41:38.900 oh, that's
00:41:39.560 a, you
00:41:41.020 know, sort
00:41:41.560 of a harmless
00:41:42.260 job.
00:41:43.700 He's got
00:41:44.680 other
00:41:44.920 responsibilities
00:41:45.560 as well.
00:41:47.040 But I
00:41:48.480 always thought,
00:41:49.100 well, at
00:41:49.420 least that's,
00:41:50.220 you know, just
00:41:51.400 sort of a
00:41:51.860 harmless thing,
00:41:52.800 being in
00:41:53.160 charge of the
00:41:54.640 Kennedy Center.
00:41:55.860 But it
00:41:57.160 turns out
00:41:57.900 that according
00:41:59.980 to Rick
00:42:01.740 Grinnell,
00:42:03.180 he wants
00:42:03.960 the FBI
00:42:04.560 and the
00:42:04.960 DOJ to
00:42:05.700 investigate
00:42:06.240 what looks
00:42:07.640 like obvious
00:42:08.640 gigantic
00:42:09.460 financial fraud
00:42:10.860 from whoever
00:42:12.160 was in
00:42:12.700 charge before
00:42:13.340 he got
00:42:13.720 there.
00:42:15.340 So have
00:42:16.460 I mentioned
00:42:17.040 that every
00:42:18.820 place there
00:42:19.480 can be
00:42:20.020 corruption?
00:42:21.060 There's
00:42:21.540 corruption.
00:42:22.860 Yep.
00:42:23.560 So this was
00:42:24.560 yet another
00:42:25.080 place that
00:42:26.140 wasn't being
00:42:26.720 audited.
00:42:28.220 I believe
00:42:29.140 some Democrats
00:42:29.920 were in
00:42:30.440 charge.
00:42:31.680 And some
00:42:32.880 tens of
00:42:33.620 millions of
00:42:34.220 dollars look
00:42:35.960 like they're
00:42:36.840 fraudulent.
00:42:39.260 And so
00:42:39.740 Grinnell is
00:42:40.480 like,
00:42:40.960 all right,
00:42:41.500 bring in
00:42:41.940 the DOJ,
00:42:43.280 see what
00:42:44.120 we can
00:42:44.440 do.
00:42:46.240 Anyway,
00:42:49.380 apparently the
00:42:50.500 European Union
00:42:51.440 is concerned
00:42:53.660 about war,
00:42:54.720 potential for
00:42:55.600 war in
00:42:56.100 Europe.
00:42:57.040 And these
00:42:58.060 blackouts
00:42:58.740 were kind
00:42:59.120 of freaking
00:42:59.520 them out
00:42:59.880 too.
00:43:00.680 So they're
00:43:01.500 sort of
00:43:01.940 suggesting that
00:43:03.320 people
00:43:03.740 stockpile
00:43:04.740 things and
00:43:06.300 get ready
00:43:06.760 for disasters
00:43:07.580 and they're
00:43:08.840 talking about
00:43:09.360 building emergency
00:43:10.300 sirens and
00:43:11.200 crisis shelters
00:43:12.120 and telling
00:43:13.320 everybody to
00:43:13.900 stock up on
00:43:14.740 essentials.
00:43:16.700 Now,
00:43:17.740 here's what
00:43:19.780 I'm worried
00:43:20.180 about.
00:43:21.720 Isn't the
00:43:22.580 only risk to
00:43:23.600 the European
00:43:24.080 Union,
00:43:25.040 Russia?
00:43:26.500 It's Russia,
00:43:27.640 right?
00:43:28.580 It's not
00:43:29.240 like Greenland
00:43:30.280 is going to
00:43:30.820 attack the
00:43:31.600 European
00:43:32.040 continent.
00:43:33.320 continent.
00:43:34.800 So all
00:43:36.820 of these
00:43:37.340 worries,
00:43:38.820 including the
00:43:39.520 blackouts,
00:43:41.080 they must
00:43:41.580 think are
00:43:42.080 Russia-related
00:43:43.180 and might
00:43:44.200 be.
00:43:45.420 So here's
00:43:46.420 the weird
00:43:46.720 thing.
00:43:48.140 Russia has
00:43:49.300 this ability
00:43:50.040 because they
00:43:51.200 can sell
00:43:51.720 their oil
00:43:52.180 to China
00:43:52.800 that they
00:43:54.480 can be
00:43:54.900 pretty tough
00:43:55.580 with Europe
00:43:56.140 and just
00:43:56.980 grind them
00:43:57.660 down until
00:43:58.440 they can
00:43:59.040 kind of
00:44:00.560 control
00:44:00.920 Europe.
00:44:01.340 but what
00:44:04.280 happens if
00:44:04.880 they
00:44:05.080 succeeded?
00:44:07.520 Then
00:44:08.240 Russia
00:44:09.460 would still
00:44:10.800 sort of
00:44:11.300 depend on
00:44:12.200 China.
00:44:14.160 So it
00:44:14.920 feels like
00:44:15.560 the end
00:44:17.360 game is
00:44:17.920 that China
00:44:18.460 controls Russia
00:44:19.520 and Russia
00:44:20.040 controls the
00:44:21.040 European Union
00:44:21.920 because
00:44:23.720 China is
00:44:25.480 such a big
00:44:25.980 customer that
00:44:26.900 if everybody
00:44:29.460 decided not
00:44:30.920 to buy the
00:44:31.520 oil in
00:44:32.060 Russia,
00:44:32.780 Russia would
00:44:33.140 be in real
00:44:33.540 trouble.
00:44:35.040 So I
00:44:36.700 feel like
00:44:37.260 China has
00:44:37.940 just the
00:44:38.600 perfect play
00:44:40.600 for dominating
00:44:41.480 the rest of
00:44:42.080 the world.
00:44:42.540 as long
00:44:43.980 as they
00:44:44.280 back
00:44:44.640 Russia
00:44:45.180 and Russia
00:44:46.740 can stay
00:44:47.260 in business
00:44:47.800 as long
00:44:48.280 as China
00:44:48.720 buys their
00:44:49.400 energy,
00:44:51.040 then Russia
00:44:51.780 can do all
00:44:52.420 the bad
00:44:53.380 things,
00:44:53.920 the cyber
00:44:54.460 attacks,
00:44:56.460 maybe eventually
00:44:57.340 physical
00:44:57.960 attacks,
00:44:59.140 maybe bribery,
00:45:00.400 maybe trying to
00:45:01.080 corrupt other
00:45:01.640 countries.
00:45:03.200 So it
00:45:04.180 looks a lot
00:45:04.760 like
00:45:05.160 maybe China
00:45:08.040 is the
00:45:08.680 power behind
00:45:09.480 the power
00:45:09.920 behind the
00:45:10.480 power.
00:45:10.840 just a
00:45:13.360 speculation
00:45:13.840 there.
00:45:15.720 Meanwhile,
00:45:16.500 according to
00:45:16.900 the Gateway
00:45:17.280 Pundit,
00:45:17.820 a notorious
00:45:18.680 Mexican
00:45:19.560 cartel
00:45:20.200 leader
00:45:20.560 who had
00:45:21.760 a million
00:45:22.320 dollar
00:45:22.640 bounty on
00:45:23.400 his head
00:45:23.740 has been
00:45:24.180 killed.
00:45:25.940 He's one
00:45:26.560 of the
00:45:26.980 Sinaloa
00:45:27.840 cartel
00:45:28.380 people.
00:45:29.040 So he
00:45:29.320 was killed
00:45:30.500 in a
00:45:30.880 raid on
00:45:31.320 Friday.
00:45:32.960 Now
00:45:33.280 whenever I
00:45:34.200 hear
00:45:34.540 anybody
00:45:35.660 in the
00:45:36.320 cartel
00:45:36.940 who is a
00:45:38.020 leader being
00:45:38.600 killed in
00:45:39.140 a raid
00:45:39.580 and by
00:45:40.960 the way
00:45:41.260 he was
00:45:41.640 in the
00:45:42.500 fentanyl
00:45:42.980 distribution
00:45:43.620 business
00:45:44.000 so we're
00:45:44.660 glad he's
00:45:45.080 gone.
00:45:46.280 But don't
00:45:46.880 you wonder
00:45:47.360 if that's
00:45:47.900 real?
00:45:49.800 Don't you
00:45:50.320 wonder if
00:45:50.860 really just
00:45:51.720 the army
00:45:52.300 was working
00:45:52.960 for the
00:45:53.440 other
00:45:53.720 faction?
00:45:54.480 Because I
00:45:55.080 guess the
00:45:55.580 Sinaloa
00:45:56.740 cartel
00:45:57.400 was in a
00:45:59.440 pitched battle
00:46:00.100 with another
00:46:00.780 rival cartel
00:46:02.420 and so
00:46:06.300 I guess
00:46:06.860 1,200
00:46:07.320 people have
00:46:08.020 been killed
00:46:08.560 in these
00:46:09.720 rival
00:46:10.120 factions.
00:46:12.240 So do
00:46:13.680 you really
00:46:13.960 think it
00:46:14.260 was the
00:46:14.560 government
00:46:14.940 that got
00:46:15.440 him?
00:46:17.180 And I
00:46:18.360 wonder if
00:46:18.800 we're working
00:46:19.280 with both
00:46:19.780 sides.
00:46:21.540 Are we
00:46:22.280 saying,
00:46:22.760 I'll tell
00:46:23.460 you what,
00:46:24.160 if you
00:46:25.040 tell us
00:46:25.940 where the
00:46:26.800 leaders of
00:46:27.420 the other
00:46:27.800 cartel
00:46:28.320 are,
00:46:29.060 we'll kill
00:46:30.040 them for
00:46:30.380 you.
00:46:31.060 And then
00:46:31.360 you go to
00:46:31.720 the other
00:46:32.080 cartel
00:46:32.580 and you
00:46:33.020 say,
00:46:33.720 if you
00:46:34.180 tell us
00:46:34.880 where the
00:46:35.480 leaders of
00:46:36.300 the other
00:46:36.780 cartel
00:46:37.260 are,
00:46:38.160 we'll go
00:46:38.780 kill them
00:46:39.160 for you.
00:46:40.400 So I
00:46:41.920 feel like
00:46:42.540 it would
00:46:43.660 be a good
00:46:44.120 strategy if
00:46:44.960 we got
00:46:45.340 the two
00:46:46.100 rival
00:46:46.680 cartels
00:46:48.320 to be
00:46:48.900 narcing
00:46:49.500 on each
00:46:49.980 other and
00:46:51.620 acting like
00:46:52.740 it's the
00:46:53.980 best way to
00:46:54.560 get rid of
00:46:54.980 the rivals.
00:46:57.000 So I
00:46:58.320 do wonder
00:46:58.680 what's going
00:46:59.160 on there.
00:46:59.600 I don't
00:47:00.600 feel like
00:47:01.060 we're ever
00:47:01.500 going to
00:47:01.680 hear the
00:47:02.000 truth when
00:47:02.540 it comes
00:47:02.880 to cartel
00:47:04.440 stuff.
00:47:06.120 All right.
00:47:06.980 It's a
00:47:07.440 weird Sunday.
00:47:08.860 The news
00:47:09.380 is weird.
00:47:11.160 That's all
00:47:11.760 I got for
00:47:12.220 today.
00:47:13.440 And I'm
00:47:14.680 going to
00:47:14.800 say hi
00:47:15.200 to the
00:47:15.800 locals
00:47:16.580 people
00:47:17.000 privately.
00:47:19.060 We're going
00:47:19.680 to do an
00:47:20.040 extra sip
00:47:20.840 with them.
00:47:21.700 And the
00:47:22.180 rest of
00:47:22.540 you,
00:47:22.980 thanks for
00:47:23.400 joining.
00:47:24.460 It looks
00:47:24.940 like the
00:47:25.400 troll went
00:47:25.980 away.
00:47:26.480 Thank
00:47:26.760 you.
00:47:28.020 And we'll
00:47:28.880 see you
00:47:29.160 again
00:47:29.360 tomorrow.
00:47:30.020 Same
00:47:30.220 time,
00:47:30.620 same
00:47:30.780 place.
00:47:32.120 And
00:47:32.400 locals,
00:47:33.300 hang on
00:47:33.900 a minute.
00:47:59.340 to
00:47:59.380 finish
00:48:00.080 with
00:48:01.120 a
00:48:01.180 AH
00:48:03.140 God
00:48:03.220 l
00:48:06.300 Can
00:48:07.620 him?
00:48:08.880 Can
00:48:11.320 Thank you.
00:48:41.320 Thank you.
00:49:11.320 Thank you.
00:49:41.320 Thank you.