Episode 2857 CWSA 06⧸02⧸25
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In this episode of Scalding coffee with scott adams, we talk about the latest in fake news and conspiracy theories. We also talk about some of the weirdest things going on in the world, including a man who claims to have seen Bigfoot and a man with a shirt.
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a look at stocks stocks not so good not so good so let's not think about stocks and instead
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if it seems like i have a little bit more light than normal
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one of my shades is broken so i'm all lit up so to speak
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i guess i should get my microphone better with it's better with the microphone right
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all right good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization
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all right that's that's some good stuff so i wonder if there's any science that they could have
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skipped and just asked me well here we go according to psi posts uh over in china they studied some
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ping pong players and they found that if they kept the ping pong players awake for 36 hours in a row
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and gave them a sleep deprivation guess what happened
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do you think they were better at ping pong no no it turns out they were worse
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did you really need to study if ping pong players would be better or worse with sleep deprivation
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couldn't you do that with literally everything i wonder if they got a new funding they got a new grant
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all right now we're going to test tennis yes if you do not if you do not sleep for 36 hours you will not
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be that good at tennis compared to your baseline so next time just ask me um elon musk announced today
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that uh apparently you can make audio and video calls without a phone number across all x platforms
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but i can't figure out how to do it do whatever you have a uh a new button where you can call people on x
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because i looked for the button and found none so maybe maybe that's getting rolled out a little bit at a time
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now how many of you saw the new video of bigfoot
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so the latest video of bigfoot uh is the guy with a shirt
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it's chat people are saying i didn't see anything called chat
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anyway uh if there's one thing i know about bigfoot you know i'm not i'm not some kind of like
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bigfoot expert or anything but there's one thing i know about bigfoot
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he doesn't wear a shirt so so if you see a bigfoot with a shirt probably not the real one
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well according to uh wonderful engineering um they've got an aircraft motor that's so quiet you
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wouldn't even hear it um at the moment it's for smaller planes ultra lights but if you live where i
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live how many of you live where there's always plain pollution noise i live pretty close to an airport
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so there's pretty much airplane noise all the time and i don't even hear like traffic noise because
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there's not that much traffic but i hear airplanes all day long and uh wouldn't it be good if you
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didn't have to hear it well maybe so it's a company called uh whisper arrow and uh they're testing it out now
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well joel uh pollock right bar news is calling out cnn and bbc for running a unverified claim
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that israel killed palestinians at aid site apparently there is no evidence for that whatsoever but it
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didn't stop cnn and bbc from running with it running with the fake news
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um anyway sorry i got a little bit of allergies this morning
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so uh president trump is uh rolling out a new task force to look into uh
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california california is uh wasting of money for uh the homeless so apparently california spent
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more than 24 billion dollars over five years and i don't think anybody knows where any of that money went
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24 billion dollars where do you think that even went because it's not like they bought tents
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i i don't know what that's for but uh trump is gonna get a little task force according to rsbn
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and uh u.s attorney bill s say lee is going to be in charge of that this one's kind of fun
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because don't you assume there's a 100 chance that there's going to be massive fraud discovered
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and then we're going to find out how california actually works
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i i think california is just a money laundering criminal enterprise i think all of the mayors and
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maybe higher than that are corrupt and i think that they uh give out contracts to people that are
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friends with them and i get a kickback and it feels to me like a state government
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is literally just a rico you know just this big criminal enterprise and everybody knows it
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so that's what i think well according to rick moran and pj media jake tapper's book original sin
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is not really selling as well as he hoped so if you want to compare that
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um i guess if you compared it to bob woodward's book fear trump in the white house that one sold more
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than a million copies in the first week but i think uh tapper's book sold 50 000. so 50 000 versus a million
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that's a pretty big difference now what could account for that difference well they could have asked scott
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because here's a lesson i learned the hard way when i wrote the book the dilber principle it was a number
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one bestseller because it said your boss is stupid but you the reader are smart that's how you sell a book
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so when bob woodward wrote fear trump in the white house then all the people who were afraid of trump
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they would read it and they would say oh i'm as smart as bob woodward he just knows a few more
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things that i know so he's routing out my knowledge so if if somebody sells a book that's trying to tell
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you what you already know but they say it better and they add some details that's going to be a bestseller
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the book that nobody wants is you are an idiot and all the people you trusted were liars
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and that's what the tapper book is because it starts with um you know if you were a little bit smarter
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biden was you know mentally incompetent and maybe you should have done something about it as a voter
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so it's basically an insult to voters indirectly and it's a condemnation of who they believed
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so not only do the voters get to feel bad about themselves it's like why did i do something about
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this uh but they they feel bad about the people whose job it is to tell them what's real the news and
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and the democratic party so if you would come to me and said scott which of these two books will sell
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more bob woodward's fear trump in the white house or original sin which is all about everybody who's a
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democrat being incompetent and not noticing the obvious
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the definitely the woodward book i would have picked so that's your uh author um persuasion lesson
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is linked to stronger peer relationships and boys so apparently if you play that specific game
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uh you actually strengthen your uh social skills and your peer relationships but
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uh uh that's not true of every video game so some games like um well clash of clans was also good so
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fortnite and clash of clans i i've never played either of them but if you played mortal combat
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you would just get more aggressive i guess i would have known that if you play a game where basically
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you're just ripping somebody apart without any friends it seems like you would just get more aggressive
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you know anyway so um i'm not surprised by that that boys actually uh strengthen their their peer
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relationships through video games i've noticed it haven't you have you seen people who play games a lot
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and you see that they seem to have a sort of a strong social network it's usually online but
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and often uh i used to watch my stepson come home and he would get on you know get on the xbox and he'd be
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playing with all of his friends from school so i always thought that was kind of social well bill maher and
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david mamet were in uh bill maher's what's it called club random
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and uh bill maher still has this this hoax he has to lose he still believes january 6
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was an attempted insurrection and that the problem was uh trump for not saying i concede
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so so when bill maher was saying uh not saying talking about trump not saying i concede caused
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half the country to riot and david mamet says you're foolish yet
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because it's ridiculous to imagine that just because trump didn't say i concede that that caused
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half of the half of the country to uh do an insurrection now as you know the january 6 narrative
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is a hoax you all know that right how many of you know january 6 is just another one of the big hoaxes
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it's like biden's brain is good it's like the finding people hoax
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it's one of the famous ones one of the most famous ones now what would it take to debunk the january 6
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hoax it would be pretty easy all you would have to do is bring in a a panel of half a dozen people
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maybe a dozen and put them in in the studio and you'd say all right you were there on that day
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and you protested and you entered the building now don't talk to the violent ones you know the
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violent ones are that's a separate category but the ones who just showed up and you asked them
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what was your intention how many of them would say we knew we know we lost the election but we were
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trying to overturn it none and nobody would say that and yet that's the narrative the narrative is they
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all knew they lost and they tried to overthrow the result nothing like that happened what did happen
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is that the result was so out of uh let's say out of pattern the the number of votes that biden got
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were so strange compared to historical patterns that looked it looked obviously rigged now i don't know
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that it was rigged but i can say for sure that if you looked at just the numbers and you looked at the
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the bellwether states but i think it's bellwether counties if you looked at the bellwether counties
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and then you looked at the total number of votes that biden got that's not enough for me to say i know
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it was rigged but it's enough for me to say oh that looked totally rigged and so the people who were
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protesting were trying to make sure that they had not presided over a rigged election so they just
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wanted a little time to take another look at that so they could be sure that it wasn't rigged
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and uh the nancy pelosi play she just turned it into turns it into this
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you know one of the greatest hoaxes of last 10 years but it will fall apart the january hoax will
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january 6 hoax will fall apart all right did you know that in the bay area where i live
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that uh there are licensed psychologists who help you with um with things like ayahuasca and psilocybin
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and uh other hallucinogens and they can it's called integration therapy
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and so if you wanted to try hallucinogen because you thought it'd be good for your mental health
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you can get a uh a coaching session with a an expert a licensed psychologist who can help you
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integrate it now i don't know what it means to integrate it because there are stories of people who
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um did ayahuasca and then their life was better and they lost all their inhibitions and all the
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things that bothered them but there are also stories of people who were engineers
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who did ayahuasca once for psilocybin and then decided they didn't want to be engineers anymore
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and they they just quit and i don't know what they do start a little forum in the country or something
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so maybe they're happier so i'm not saying it doesn't work but uh are you surprised
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that ayahuasca and psilocybin are helping people with their mental health you should not be
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and the bay area is the uh i guess it's the place where there's no stigma according to this article
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i'm reading i think it was in the uh wall street journal um so isn't it for for the uh techies
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you know if if you lived where i lived it's like seems like everybody's on some kind of hallucinogen
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is it true that where you live there are lots of people on hallucinogens because here it's
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no major life decisions for two weeks after a powerful dose that's probably a good idea
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you just got passing out from dmt all right well there's another brutal cnn poll about democrats
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uh just uh 16 16 of americans believe the dnc has strong leaders 16 one six
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and uh but republicans 40 say the republicans have strong leaders
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now how how do if you're a republican how in the world do you say that trump is not a strong leader
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like isn't that a weird result now i can understand why people would say that the democrats don't have a
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strong leader but how could you possibly have voted for trump and not think he's a strong leader how
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how could you possibly have only 40 percent that doesn't make sense to me
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anyway um only 19 percent think the dnc can get things done but 36 think the republicans can
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so these are pretty brutal numbers and when uh hakeem jeffries was presented with these numbers on cnn
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his answer was we don't have the presidency so if you don't have the presidency you can't get anything
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done and nobody thinks you have a strong leader but they were kind of talking about him weren't they
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shouldn't he be the strong leader that's pretty bad
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think um have you seen have you all seen the weird tall hair guy on msnbc if i described him would you
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know who he is so i don't know what he is ethnically maybe indian um but he's got this sort of a gray
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streaked hair that he's streaked hair that he's teased up so it's like a foot above his head
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and just creates this like a it looks like a flame but without the red
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it's kind of interesting i have to say if you see him once
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um you're you're definitely going to remember him so it works from that perspective but anyway he was
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on msnbc and he's buying into the uh idea i think there was one professor in boston who came up with
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this that the cuts to usaid have already resulted in 300 000 deaths
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now can you even imagine believing that they're already just already 300 000 deaths
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um i don't think so i think he's probably under the idea that usaid
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is literally like age for people who want food and stuff there's a little bit of that
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uh all right no not not the uh dandelion guy the dandelion guys he's different
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but i i can't even imagine believing that number
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well the uh tinder app has uh made a change um apparently you can set it for
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not showing you any men who are under six feet tall
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now isn't that exactly what everybody does with it anyway don't they
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look at the height and eliminate everybody under six feet tall so now you can just not even ever see
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anybody who's who's under six feet tall now shouldn't that destroy the app
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because it's just going to be a bunch of uh women who want tall guys and i think the number of tall
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guys who are also single and handsome is like uh seven percent of the population
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so that seven percent are going to have their own little app everybody else is just going to be
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invisible on the app anyway i can't believe tinder will last as a business
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i think i think ai will uh replace all the uh dating apps because once your ai gets to know you
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you can send it out to find somebody to be compatible with like an agent so it'd be like a a dating
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consultant or something so once your ai knew you know everything about you from your picture to your
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height to your job to your your preferences couldn't you send that out and have it talk to other ai's
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and and set up a date for you so i think that's going to happen yeah
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anyway um remember i always tell you that if you know what happened you don't know anything
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but if you know who the people are well then you might know so george stephanopoulos on abc so that's
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the first person how many of you know that george stephanopoulos might be the most biased
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person in all news the biased or democrats uh which would be no surprise because he he was
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you know he worked for clinton etc but he was talking about an article in the atlantic
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do you all know what the atlantic is it's not really a genuine magazine it's more like
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a thing that somebody rich keeps in business so they could write hit pieces against um republicans
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basically and an article was written by david from frum f-r-u-m now again does that name ring the bell
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how many of you would recognize the name david from he would not be an unbiased person
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all right so do you remember what the wrap-up smear is nancy pelosi explained it so you you give the
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story to somebody in another publication like the atlantic and then that gives all the other networks
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a reason to talk about it all right did you see this article in the atlantic uh david from
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how's this article in the atlantic can you respond to it so this is the sort of thing that should be
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looked at as uh as sketchy business but interestingly the topic is trump's uh sketchy financial business
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and i guess they they're trying to uh collect together all of the various things that they
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think he's doing that don't sound quite right there's like a crypto thing and there's a something about a
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pardon and then there's the qatari jet and then there's a you know something about donors
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and i'm thinking to myself you can't complicate things because they're trying to do this hit piece
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but if they just throw in all these different things well this one person went to a fundraiser
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there's just going to be a whole bunch of you know unrelated stories about
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how somebody did anyway so my question about uh all of the alleged trump um selfish bad behavior
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where he's trying to make money for himself is is anybody losing money is trump making money on the
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on the backs of somebody else or is it just business as usual i don't know if there's somebody who's a
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victim then maybe i care about it if there are no victims and everything's kind of transparent i don't
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care about it too much all right um apparently the uk is now on war footing
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so um starmer out of the uk he he says a the uk should get ready for war fighting
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he's going to put a billion dollars into ai and cyber security he's going to build six new munition
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factories 12 nuclear attack submarines and a bunch of missile defense systems air and missile defense
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so does the uk know something that we don't know is lindsey graham over there
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is there a bigger war coming because i keep hearing that uh putin won't be happy until he
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conquers all of europe do you think that's true do you think that putin wants to conquer all of europe
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do you think yes i i think yes if it were free and easy but it wouldn't be free and it wouldn't be easy
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and there would be you know there would be resistance forever and yeah i don't think you could really
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conquer those countries too easily yeah no i don't believe it i i do think um
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um putin wants to conquer the countries that are sort of adjacent to russia
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especially ones that the soviet union has conquered before because it's going to feel like there's some
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anyway so i worry that the uk knows something we don't know claudia was leaving for her pickleball
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tournament i've been visualizing my match all week she was so focused on visualizing that she didn't
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see the column behind her car on her backhand side good thing claudia is with intact the insurer with
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the largest network of auto service centers in the country everything was taken care of under one roof
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and she was on her way in a rental car in no time i made it to my tournament and lost in the first
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round but you got there on time intact insurance your auto service ace certain conditions apply um and uh
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so here's a story out of mexico so the president claudia scheinbaum
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um is uh leading up a new thing which she says will make mexico the most democratic countries in the world
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so apparently all their judges will be chosen by the public now so i guess the old way they were appointed
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but now they'll all be um picked by the the public the trouble is that one of the political parties
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has a huge majority which suggests that one political party is going to get most of the
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judges that would agree with them and apparently in mexico 90 of crimes are unreported or not even
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investigated 90 percent so that's that's about as broken as you can get for uh you know any kind of
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a justice system um and this is looks like it would make it worse and then they're also lowering
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the requirement to be a judge you just have to have a law degree and five years of experience
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so good luck mexico it doesn't look like that's gonna work farid zacario on the scene and i was talking about that
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well according to a uh gentleman on x who says he's dedicated to revealing government spending and fraud
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um his name is aladdin he he seems to have found some uh hotel bills for uh senator lindsey graham and richard
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blumenthal uh for a lavish lavish a kiev uh hotel and if you want to know how much they allegedly spent
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now i don't know if this is true by the way so i can't i can't guarantee that this story will hold up
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but um according to aladdin um on june 1st uh two big transactions uh happened one for over four
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hundred thousand dollars that's a hotel bill by the way and another for over four hundred thousand
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so there were two hotel bills they were both over four hundred thousand dollars
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now i was trying to think is there any legitimate reason that it could be that much
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because maybe they have to book the entire floor for security reasons you know is there something going on
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that requires that much doesn't sound right to me
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so we might find out that uh lindsey graham and richard blumenthal are getting a little extra
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from uh ukraine but i would say that's not uh that's not confirmed i would look for additional
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sources before you believe that one um you probably heard that uh ukraine staged a very successful
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drone attack very deep into russia at their airports and destroyed a bunch of their bombers
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now they still have plenty of bombers left so it's not like
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you know it's not like that's the end of their bombing runs but um if it's true
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this is how they did it now i'm not positive that this makes sense but but when i first heard that
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they were like you know thousands of miles into moscow i wondered can you really send a drone
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thousands of thousands of miles into moscow not moscow into russia uh thousands of miles
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and the answer is maybe they didn't so the uh the alleged way they did it was
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they had a whole bunch of drones and they packed them in a uh big truck and they hired russians
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russians to drive the trucks because they didn't know what the cargo was so they hired russians to
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drive these big trucks uh near the airports where they wanted to attack and then the truck would open
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up automatically i think the the roof of it and all the drone swarms would take off and then they would
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attack the um they would attack the uh bombers that were sitting on the the tarmacs and then the truck
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itself would blow up um would blow up so it would get rid of the evidence do you believe that
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do you believe that they were so clever that they planned for a year and a half to get russian truck
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drivers to drive their swarm of drones into deep into russia and then the truck would open up the top and
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the drones would come out i don't know it feels a little too a little too clever
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i don't know how they could have done it so i don't have a alternative theory but i'm going to say
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doesn't it feel like at this point we should just count up the number of drones and declare a winner
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in the war um because whoever has the most drones i think nival said this whoever has the most and
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best drones is going to win every war at least for a while so don't we know by now who has the best
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and most drones i've got a feeling that the united states is probably making some drones that look
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like they came out of ukraine so i suspect that uh ukraine is the the biggest drone making country around
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except maybe china um but i'll bet they get a lot of drones from other countries too on under the
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china is the largest drone producer yeah by far
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by far they're the largest but but we don't know how much the united states is producing right
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because what if the u.s is also producing tons of drones but we don't advertise it
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because i know there's a whole bunch of new drone
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factories that have popped up i think california has a bunch it's probably a bunch in other places too
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so all right ladies and gentlemen i'm going to say a few words privately to the people on locals
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and the rest of you thanks for joining thanks for catching up we have to wait for trump to get more busy