Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2866 CWSA 06⧸12⧸25

00:00:00.000 you are and here i am so what do you want to do do a show do a podcast yes we will but first

00:00:15.440 uh stock market is kind of flat kind of flat kind of boring let's do a podcast

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00:00:46.480 good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called

00:00:53.040 coffee with scott adams because that's what it is but if you'd like to take your experience up to

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00:01:19.360 fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of

00:01:26.080 the dopamine end of the day the thing that makes everything better it's called the simultaneous

00:01:31.360 sip and it happens right now go oh that was good oh freshly baked coffee oh all right i wonder

00:01:49.200 i wonder wonder if uh there's any science that could have been avoided by just asking me

00:01:57.680 oh here's one according to eric dolan and psypost it's always eric um there's this mega study

00:02:08.800 that shows i know this will be surprising that exercise boosts cognitive function across all ages and health

00:02:19.920 conditions that's right exercise is good for your brain do you know how else you could have determined

00:02:29.280 this without doing a mega study you could have asked me hey scott is there any situation in which exercise

00:02:41.200 is ever neutral or bad for brains and i would say no no no there is not it's always good for your brain

00:02:52.000 because your body and your brain are the same thing it's the same tool

00:02:58.240 um yep but uh the thing they added that they think is new is that it's every every

00:03:06.880 um every kind of exercise and every kind of brain in every situation so the intensity did not matter yoga

00:03:18.080 and dance just as good which i might have known i'm not sure all right uh here's another one let's see if

00:03:30.320 you can get this one first um do democrats dislike republicans the same amount as republicans dislike

00:03:42.960 democrats do you know this one it's a new study uh well it turns out this is also a side post eric

00:03:53.360 dolan again uh it turns out that democrats do dislike republicans more than republicans dislike democrats

00:04:03.200 according to a study how many of you did not know that you all knew that every one of you uh the reason

00:04:14.480 seems to be that uh democrats believe that uh republicans have a more negative opinion of uh people who are

00:04:27.920 you know minorities or have some kind of issues trouble um all right but i would argue the republicans

00:04:38.720 just have a bigger picture meaning if uh if he said to a democrat um i need to remove this benefit 0.85

00:04:50.480 from this one person but it will save the whole world the democrat would say you monster you can't

00:04:59.120 you can't take that benefit away from that one person and then the republican would say no you missed the

00:05:05.600 part where i said that would save the entire world and the democrat would say i i don't even know what you

00:05:13.920 talked about you would be mean to this person so sort of like that all right here's another one do you think

00:05:25.680 that a tick tock video um if it's edited for you know persuasion uh can change how voters see politicians

00:05:39.440 what do you think a tick tock video could it be influential in uh changing how you see a politician yes

00:05:51.680 yes again it's eric nolan and cypost yes obviously so but apparently they did a study and they found out that

00:06:05.760 uh not only can you change how people see politicians you know they're your favorability

00:06:12.160 but it's uh especially strong for donald trump so trump is right that tick tock works in his favor

00:06:22.400 um so visuals are influential well in the bad news

00:06:32.400 um boeing dreamliner had a horrible crash um air india

00:06:39.600 it went down and killed many of the 242 on board now the reason it wasn't all of them is they had just

00:06:49.840 taken off but uh let me give you some advice about that story which is i saw a warning that the video

00:07:01.040 the video is especially hard to look at and i said to myself well how hard could it be and i watched the video

00:07:11.840 um let me give you some advice don't watch the videos there were lots of videos of people who got to the crash site

00:07:21.760 when it was rash do not watch them do not it will not make your day better do not watch them

00:07:34.800 all right um trump and melania went to the uh what is it the kennedy center and they watched uh

00:07:44.240 les miserables that's my french excuse my french les miserables um and uh they had a good time apparently it's the president's favorite

00:07:59.520 favorite play or musical or whatever now um it reminded me of the balance that the president is trying to find

00:08:10.800 between austerity because you know we don't have infinite money and making sure that america doesn't

00:08:22.080 you know just um rot basically so i don't love it when he wants to spend extra on air force one

00:08:32.960 but i understand that it's a symbol of the country and you want to keep the president safe and

00:08:40.240 you know it makes sense i didn't love it when trump said he was going to build a ballroom at the white

00:08:47.680 house because again we've got these these big deficits but on the other hand it is a symbol of the

00:08:57.440 the country's health it's like the beating heart of the country so making sure the beating heart of the

00:09:06.320 country is not only working but it's extra you know it's got a ballroom i can say it's good for the you

00:09:16.800 know the mind of the country

00:09:18.080 and he's gonna put some money into fixing up the kennedy center and i thought to myself i'll never go to

00:09:28.960 the kennedy center why do i care and then i thought oh okay it's a high visibility kind of a situation

00:09:37.840 and uh yeah and i definitely don't like the idea of a military parade i i just don't like anything

00:09:48.400 about that it's spending money it's probably damaging the streets um you know it just doesn't look right

00:09:58.800 but on the other hand it does make the country look like it's powerful and you know nobody should mess

00:10:06.800 with it so even though some of my instincts um sort of argue against these trump-like expenses

00:10:18.640 i feel like he's right and you know my instinct is wrong because you've got to protect the symbols

00:10:28.000 you know that the united states is more than you know just the people in the money in the military

00:10:34.640 it's also uh you know it's an idea and uh trump keeping the idea of america strong

00:10:45.440 by making sure these these symbols don't rot um he's right yeah that's that's the right play

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00:11:54.720 meanwhile according to newsmax i didn't see this anywhere else but newsmax says that the dnc has voted to

00:12:06.000 oust vice chair david hogg so um and also malcolm kenyatta i don't know who that is but i guess they were both

00:12:17.760 vice chairs and uh it's over a technical complaint um that that was the excuse they made but they uh

00:12:28.400 slaughtered their hogg finally now i've been telling you before that i think david hogg should not be

00:12:37.120 underestimated because like aoc he does have skill and if you free him from the confines of being in the

00:12:47.360 dnc which you know has a limited role it might might make him stronger so keep an eye on him keep an eye on him

00:12:59.120 um in good news pj media is reporting that uh gm is going to invest four billion dollars in u.s-based

00:13:11.520 manufacturing plants um i guess that's because of a response to tariffs on mexico so that would be a

00:13:23.360 win for president trump as he's trying to uh financially incentivize companies to move to

00:13:31.680 u.s for production and that's exactly what's happening so good for you president trump

00:13:41.520 uh meanwhile there's a story in futurism by victor tangerman who says that ceos of major companies

00:13:52.720 are trying to make ai copies of themselves um so that the ai copy can answer the you know sort of routine

00:14:03.520 questions the ceo is always asked but they have a problem with hallucinations

00:14:12.480 so uh the main problem with ai is hallucinations and nobody's figured out how to get past that

00:14:24.480 but i thought i would solve that today um because all these ceos need it and i need it too

00:14:32.240 i guess uh some of the startups have used would be like uh personal ai these are startups that allow

00:14:41.680 you to clone a person and unfortunately they all have the problem of hallucination delphi which i've tested

00:14:52.240 and tavis i've never heard of

00:14:54.160 but anyway um each one of those and any other ai as well is going to give you hallucinations

00:15:04.560 but would you like me to solve that problem right now all right okay if you demand it i will um

00:15:15.520 all you need is to have three ais you know three not three models but three completely different ais and you

00:15:25.680 have one ai that's in charge of speaking but you have everything it says tested first on the other ais

00:15:36.560 so you have two ais that fact check the third ai and the third ai is the only one that gets to talk

00:15:45.280 now what are the odds that three different ais would have the same hallucination

00:15:54.880 i think the odds would be close to zero right unless the models were also coincidentally

00:16:02.960 trained exactly the same way in the same order on the same data which i don't think happens but you

00:16:12.880 tell me what are the odds that all three ais would hallucinate the same thing i feel like it wouldn't

00:16:24.560 so i'm wondering if the real the real problem is that people don't want to pay for three ais

00:16:32.560 you know if you had grok and chat gpt and anthropic

00:16:39.600 would they all agree on the hallucination now doesn't that seem too simple 1.00

00:16:44.720 are any of you uh ai experts when when you hear my idea do you say to yourself you idiot you you 0.99

00:16:57.680 forgot the you know most important thing about ai i don't know did i i might have but doesn't it seem 0.98

00:17:05.360 to you like that would work like every time it i don't see how it wouldn't work

00:17:15.280 but anyway so if you wanted ai to be solved there you go i just fixed it maybe all right

00:17:26.560 all right the uh trump administration according to rsbn is evacuating the middle east embassies

00:17:37.760 at least the non-critical people um over concerns about iran now here's my question

00:17:48.160 question if we're evacuating our middle east embassies the only reason is we think there's a

00:17:57.520 too much risk that iran will attack them now what would make iran attack a u.s embassy

00:18:06.800 well the only thing i can think of is if israel attacked iran so

00:18:14.000 didn't we always have that risk you know for months and months and months if not years

00:18:23.120 why are we why are we drawing down the staff now i can only think of one reason

00:18:34.240 well two one we know that an attack is coming that would be the most obvious or two

00:18:42.800 it's part of negotiations because it is suggests that an attack is imminent and maybe that's what

00:18:52.400 we need to get iran to agree but i've been watching iran for you know much of my adult life and

00:19:03.200 they don't seem really susceptible to threats

00:19:06.480 and sort of the opposite uh very much the opposite actually so are we being told that there's a

00:19:16.640 military action that's imminent and how imminent would we be evacuating you know a week before it happens

00:19:26.240 or maybe we did it months before it happens because we don't want to give away too much

00:19:35.120 i don't know it looks to me like there's going to be some military action

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00:19:56.560 think um speaking of iran according to the wall street journal the iaea board so the weird thing about

00:20:10.480 iran is that we're having all these you know nuclear energy nuclear weapon um negotiations but at the same

00:20:20.960 time this iaea has been monitoring their activity now it's not enough of a monitor to make a difference

00:20:32.160 it doesn't stop them from doing what they're doing apparently but the uh the iaea just found that iran is

00:20:41.120 in non-compliance um for the first time in 20 years first time in 20 years really there's nothing

00:20:50.640 non-compliant they've done in the nuclear category for 20 years what's all this talk about then all

00:20:58.880 right well so apparently has to do with uh what is it there's something unexplained that iran is not

00:21:09.680 explaining so yeah this uh this board is saying oh if you can't explain this then you're in non-compliance

00:21:20.480 so what did iran do being in non-compliance well it said it would open a new rate uranium enrichment

00:21:29.760 facility um so it's going to do more of whatever we don't like okay um according to um experts

00:21:44.480 iran is already producing enough highly enriched uranium for one nuclear weapons worth a month

00:21:52.080 that doesn't mean they're making weapons it means they have enough enriched uranium

00:21:57.360 um anyway so uh the iaea um might uh lead to some kind of un security council action and

00:22:10.080 uh there could be some repercussions there but things are heating up and uh so my question is this

00:22:22.080 um iran's entire approach is saying oh no we don't want a nuclear weapon no no no we need all this

00:22:32.240 uranium enrichment for you know peaceful purposes for medical devices and you know just ordinary business

00:22:42.080 but why would anybody act this way if they had only peaceful intentions nobody would right you know in in

00:22:52.640 your wildest imagination can you imagine anybody going to the brink of war and in all likelihood actual

00:23:01.440 war over their insistence that uh they're going to be you know totally peaceful non-military uh work on

00:23:13.360 nuclear nobody would do that nobody would do that nobody would do that so they've signaled as strongly

00:23:21.600 as they can that they plan to have nuclear weapons or at least the ability to very quickly have nuclear

00:23:28.640 weapons which would be you know pretty dangerous on its own so given that uh i think trump said

00:23:36.240 his uh optimism about a deal is kind of low right now um we're pretty much guaranteed to have military action

00:23:47.760 aren't we the only thing that's a mystery is how much involvement the u.s might have but it does look to me

00:23:56.080 like israel is going to act and maybe maybe the uh the u.n action where they're finding them

00:24:06.160 you know being in non-compliance maybe that's the trigger so i wouldn't be surprised if you see some war

00:24:17.120 happening this summer um meanwhile newsmax is reporting that the u.s budget deficit fell nine percent in may

00:24:32.160 and the reason is that tariffs boosted uh boosted our revenue so all right

00:24:42.720 so apparently there would have been a 316 billion dollar budget deficit

00:24:48.160 um but it's down 31 billion because of um tariffs all right i didn't know that uh tariffs would make a

00:24:59.760 difference and i think some of these tariffs are temporary so don't get too excited meanwhile there is

00:25:09.360 allegedly allegedly allegedly a china trade deal and uh so i was looking at the wall street journal to

00:25:19.680 report on what the trade deal is all about and i cannot tell if the trade deal is good or bad for america

00:25:28.720 can you is there any way to tell if the trade deal is good or bad for america i mean i look at it and i say

00:25:40.560 all right so so china is gonna loosen up on their uh the rare earth minerals um hold back

00:25:52.960 to which i say wouldn't that be just going back to where we were but a little bit worse

00:26:00.480 because there's some kind of limit on it or you know now we know they can pull it anytime they want

00:26:06.640 so it's nice to have our rare earth mineral source back but that didn't put us ahead that's sort of

00:26:16.480 where we were before then there's uh let's see what else we got uh we're going to restrict the most advanced

00:26:26.480 ai chips from china which is where we already were okay

00:26:35.440 um we're going to allow chinese student visas so they can go to college in the united states

00:26:43.200 which is where we were

00:26:48.000 right there's nothing new about that we're just going back to where we were

00:26:53.360 and then there's something about tariffs but neither china nor the u.s seem to be

00:27:05.040 mad about the tariffs they've agreed to which sort of suggests that we're just going back to where we were

00:27:13.360 so can anybody give me an argument about how we came out ahead did we come out ahead on anything

00:27:25.040 did we get a commitment on fentanyl no even lot nick didn't try to bluff that he just changed the subject

00:27:35.600 did we get an agreement on the theft of ip

00:27:44.800 no not that i'm aware of

00:27:47.120 um and uh are we gonna start reselling them jet engines and ethane which is a necessary part of

00:27:59.520 making plastic i guess yes which is exactly what it used to be

00:28:08.560 right so

00:28:11.760 uh the uh the wall street journal summarizes it as

00:28:16.480 um we just are moving back to where we were but the deal is leaning a little bit in china's direction now

00:28:24.480 so even our hometown newspaper at the wall street journal is saying that we came out behind

00:28:35.600 what do you think so i'd love to hear an argument where we came out ahead

00:28:43.920 on anything on even one thing nothing on fentanyl nothing are we coming out ahead because

00:28:53.040 uh are we've got a little bit extra tariff on them i don't know it's a little uh unclear to me that

00:29:02.000 anything happened except that china said we're not gonna basically not negotiated anything

00:29:09.760 that's what it looks like

00:29:12.800 well i had a question uh this week about the home depot deportations

00:29:19.280 so as you know um it's fairly common for um illegal immigrants to stand near the home depots

00:29:31.280 usually on public property but near the home depot and to be available for americans to drive up and

00:29:39.120 say hey i need somebody to work for a day to help me dig a ditch or build a wall or something and then you

00:29:47.200 take a few day workers with you and you pay them cash and um you're both happy now

00:29:55.600 um i didn't understand that because i didn't understand why the home depot workers

00:30:03.840 would be the worst first because were we not promised that the the order of the deportations

00:30:14.320 would be the criminals and the worst of them first and the home depot

00:30:21.600 employees not employees but the home depot day workers the illegal ones they would be

00:30:28.560 maybe the opposite they would be the ones who are trying to work

00:30:33.680 you know trying to claw their way into some kind of a life but there's no really indication that

00:30:41.360 they're especially criminal so why would we reverse from the thing that i've been telling people

00:30:51.040 you know just calm down don't worry you know we're going to do the worst first and that will

00:30:57.040 will basically never get to the end of the worst so the way i rationalized

00:31:04.400 that i was okay with uh very aggressive um deportation is that i didn't think it was entirely real

00:31:13.200 meaning i'm very much in favor of getting rid of people who were criminals and the gangs etc but i

00:31:21.200 didn't think that ice would have enough resources to ever get to the bottom of that well so

00:31:28.640 in my view you know those home depot people and your your gardener and your uh your housekeeper if

00:31:37.440 you have a housekeeper um to me they all seem kind of safe because it would take you know five years to

00:31:46.480 to get rid of the bad people and then we'd probably have adjusted and we'd say all right well

00:31:53.120 you know we we thought we wanted to get rid of everyone but it turns out you know maybe we're

00:32:00.240 better economically to keep the people who have jobs and they're paying taxes and they've been good

00:32:05.840 citizens and they've you know they've assimilated so while i completely understand the argument that says no

00:32:16.240 everybody has to go back uh that wasn't the deal that was the deal the deal was there would be an

00:32:24.880 order to it and that's the deal i signed up for meaning when i said you know i support president

00:32:32.400 trump and i'm in favor of his border policies i wasn't talking about picking up people at home depot

00:32:39.360 so i feel like i got stabbed in the back because i'm a public figure who has publicly supported very

00:32:50.640 strongly the uh president trump's approach to immigration and the worst first was very clearly

00:33:00.640 a central part of that plan and that is now reversed so

00:33:10.720 i got screwed by my own side do you think i can let that go 0.62

00:33:19.200 now i understand the argument oh but scott it's really better to deport everybody who is illegal i

00:33:26.320 understand your argument but my argument is that's not what i was promised and it's not what i put my

00:33:34.640 face on and it's not what i backed that's not what i voted for all right so i feel like i got stabbed in the

00:33:44.800 back by the trump administration and i don't know exactly how to turn that off but at the moment i feel

00:33:55.280 totally screwed because i you know was sort of out front saying yeah this is fine don't worry about it

00:34:02.960 but it's not what they promised now um so i did a little research on why the change 0.76

00:34:12.480 as far as i can tell the change is because the ice couldn't get the numbers that we wanted

00:34:20.400 so if they had focused on the worst first especially in the context of the sanctuary cities

00:34:28.960 the uh the difficulty in getting enough people so it looked like deportation was even working

00:34:36.240 uh was just too high because we get caught up in the court cases in the protests and

00:34:43.840 you know the cities would fight everything and that's where all the bad people are you know

00:34:49.280 mostly the the blue cities so i feel as though there was a political reason that steven miller

00:34:59.040 sort of pressured ice to go after the less dangerous people and it was because of sanctuary cities

00:35:06.160 is that your understanding that if sanctuary cities did not exist that they could do worst first all day

00:35:16.320 long and they would never run out of the worst because they would go to the city they'd say you know

00:35:22.480 do you have anybody in your jail who's uh illegal and they'd say oh yeah we got you know five more

00:35:29.200 this morning and then ice would say all right we got five more criminals and they would send them away

00:35:37.840 so here's my request if if the reason that home depot is being targeted and i'm using home depot as a

00:35:47.760 stand-in for you know just more casual deportations as opposed to going after hardened criminals

00:35:54.400 um if that's a reason then the administration needs to be saying that really loudly

00:36:04.400 you know separately i understand that you know there's plenty of complaints about sanctuary cities

00:36:12.000 and then separately there's you know the targeting of the home depot non-criminal

00:36:18.240 beyond you know the crime of coming into the country um you need to tie those together 0.83

00:36:26.800 because if the reason that the home depot people are getting scooped up is that ice is um

00:36:35.680 you know unable to find anybody in the sanctuary cities then that needs to be like right right at the top

00:36:43.440 of the messaging it's like as long as there's sanctuary cities we can't do worst first

00:36:53.120 do you feel me as long as there are sanctuary cities we don't have the option of doing the worst first

00:37:03.520 if you tell me that and then i see that some of the home depot people are being deported

00:37:10.080 i'm not gonna love it because it's not worse first but i'm gonna at least understand it

00:37:20.560 and that's better than having a knife in your back and not understanding it 0.91

00:37:27.440 but either way i'm getting fucked by my own side so let me let me be clear about that i don't like it 0.97

00:37:38.000 i i feel like i have been you know personally personally abused by this process i feel lied to 0.84

00:37:47.360 i feel lied to it's sort of promises made promises not kept

00:37:53.920 and uh i'm not going to ignore that not going to ignore that at all now one of the things i love about

00:38:00.720 having a republican audience is that as we talked about you know the democrats dislike the republicans

00:38:10.960 more than the republicans dislike the democrats the republicans are willing to listen to an argument

00:38:20.720 and so i gave you an argument some of you loved it some of you hated it

00:38:24.400 but you're still willing to let me talk right you're you're not hating on me you might not like

00:38:34.960 that opinion you might disagree with it but that doesn't make us enemies we're still on the same side

00:38:42.320 right so you know the the positive message here is that you can have uh pretty strong disagreements

00:38:52.880 but as long as you're you know pro-america america first and we're we're sort of all aiming in the right

00:39:01.760 direction but some of us have a difference of how to get there that's all good that's all fine we're not

00:39:08.320 democrats right so we're going to talk about something else in a minute there will be a similar thing

00:39:15.360 where you might not like what i say but it won't make much difference in terms of the sizes of my you

00:39:23.040 know my audience or anything else because you're you allow that which i appreciate a lot

00:39:34.240 anyway so i'd love some answers on that question when i found out my friend got a great deal on a wool

00:39:41.120 coat from winners i started wondering is every fabulous item i see from winners like that woman 0.99

00:39:47.840 over there with the designer jeans are those from winners ooh are those beautiful gold earrings did

00:39:53.840 she pay full price or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those knee-high boots that dress 1.00

00:39:59.440 that jacket those shoes is anyone paying full price for anything stop wondering start winning

00:40:06.320 winners find fabulous for less meanwhile let's uh check out the photo op competition um you call them riots

00:40:17.440 some call them protests but uh apparently there are now 19 states with the 200 writers busted in la

00:40:28.000 so the uh according to the new york post the uh the rioting slash protesting is going to uh atlanta

00:40:38.480 chicago and seattle hundreds of protesters here and there thousands of storms of streets and 35

00:40:45.600 cities in 19 states blah blah blah but i see it all as a photo op competition so the

00:40:54.800 the the game that's being played is about who can get the best video or iconic photo that will get burned

00:41:05.120 into people's minds as the you know the brand of what happened this summer and so far trump is winning

00:41:14.400 because he's done the most clever thing you know if you assume that people who watch the news are mostly

00:41:21.520 just casual watchers you know maybe five percent of the public like really digs in and you know

00:41:30.000 figures out the context and knows the numbers and stuff like that but 95 of the country is just looking at the pictures

00:41:38.480 and if they see a sprung picture and that they see it a lot

00:41:42.880 but then that will change their opinion but what trump has done cleverly is he sent in the marines

00:41:52.480 but they haven't been deployed so i've seen no picture of any marines

00:41:59.600 secondly he's deployed the national guard sort of over the over the complaints of the governors

00:42:08.240 and they've been as far as i know they've only been deployed to protect federal buildings

00:42:17.200 which don't appear to be under any special kind of attack

00:42:23.040 and then having deployed two branches of the military with no connection whatsoever to the

00:42:31.520 to the protest like not one of them has touched a protester or been in a conflict or arrested anybody

00:42:41.280 they're all just sort of staying out of the way you know with the

00:42:47.920 what does trump do after deploying two two branches of the military and then having them do basically nothing

00:42:55.760 now guarding guarding guarding federal buildings is not nothing but if it causes the protesters to go

00:43:04.480 somewhere else well then it ends up looking like nothing so there's no pictures so you've got

00:43:13.200 zero pictures of of trump's military doing anything you know bad or uh illegal somebody's saying that the

00:43:23.680 home depot thing is a hoax um i'm not going to read that andy because while i know the the story about the

00:43:33.600 individual home depot stuff is is not necessarily true i'm using the home depot as a example of

00:43:44.320 people who are not criminals who might get picked up so it's it's an example that's it's not baseline

00:43:52.800 specific home depot situation but let me finish um so so trump says

00:44:03.760 i've been laughing about this all morning he says if i didn't send in the troops to los angeles

00:44:09.760 the last three nights that once beautiful and great city would be burning to the ground right now

00:44:15.280 but what exactly did the marines and the national guard do in los angeles

00:44:26.160 were they putting out the fires it's sort of perfect he he can claim uh he can claim success

00:44:34.720 without any visible without any visible evidence whatsoever and at the same time the pictures that

00:44:44.720 are being produced are still of you know the the flag waving people and fires so he's winning he's

00:44:52.800 winning the photo op competition hard but also he's winning the you know did you respond quickly

00:45:02.080 and with enough vigor to meet the situation and almost anybody watching would say well yeah

00:45:11.280 i mean if you've already you know pre-deployed the the military two branches but they haven't done

00:45:18.080 anything dangerous you know they haven't heard anybody they haven't really gotten involved in the action

00:45:23.200 um but they could they could they could right so uh it's sort of perfect for trump

00:45:36.640 anyway the longer it goes the better for trump um i saw chris cuomo say the news is

00:45:44.000 sort of the best case scenario for for trump but i've also seen um

00:45:52.960 i've seen dueling polls i think it was uh jessica tarloff on the five on fox news 1.00

00:46:01.840 was saying that some of the support for trump's immigration policies have plunged

00:46:09.280 but at the same time i've heard there are polls which say that uh support for trump's um handling of the

00:46:21.920 the protests slash riots is uh you know above average in other words there are more people

00:46:30.400 supported than don't so i think we've got two separate things happening

00:46:35.840 which is the polls are all over the place i think it depends what they ask and how they ask and

00:46:41.760 exactly when they asked it but uh in the end i think that uh as long as trump's military doesn't

00:46:51.120 hurt anybody or do anything ridiculous uh i think trump wins in the end yeah

00:46:58.880 all right uh fbi director cash patel um he told uh just the news that they're going to investigate

00:47:11.200 the people behind um the protests so the people behind it would be the money people

00:47:18.400 so fbi will look at the money trail um i don't know that that means that any of them are

00:47:25.200 breaking the law necessarily depending on what they're doing or funding but uh representative indy biggs

00:47:35.120 from arizona he wants to see those uh activist organizations um who are committing crimes

00:47:44.160 um have them investigated and criminally prosecuted but again i don't know exactly what the crime would be

00:47:52.160 because is it illegal to organize a protest and fund it um because they would not be the people who are

00:48:04.480 throwing the rocks but if you funded people that you know one percent of them might throw rocks

00:48:13.680 have you broken the law i don't know but if they have broken the law of course something needs to be done

00:48:22.160 all right all right let's talk about the flag burning uh whatever this comes up i like to add my opinion

00:48:32.400 to it um thomas massey posted on x he said uh burning your own american flag is

00:48:40.960 knee-narded so he's you know i guess intentionally misspelling retarded uh but it's not illegal nor should it be 0.96

00:48:52.160 he says no one should want a federal government so powerful that it can lock you up for a year for

00:48:57.920 burning your own stuff now remember that trump is in favor of uh jail for burning a flag

00:49:06.080 but thomas massey is not he goes thankfully our constitution prohibits congress from making such 0.88

00:49:12.800 stupid laws all right so i posted my opinion on this you've heard it before but i'll put it in different 0.65

00:49:21.440 words this time so one reason i respect the american flag and it's just one reason that i respect the 0.98

00:49:31.040 american flag is that it gets stronger when protesters burn it yeah that's a feature not a bug it gets stronger

00:49:42.000 when you burn it now that's the kind of flag i want i don't want any weak wimpy flag that if you burn it

00:49:50.080 it is somehow i was destroyed the country or weak in the country no no um and then i want you to know that

00:50:00.400 like most of you i'm also offended when i see an american flag being burned like i can feel it

00:50:08.080 you know like a person who loves their country i just feel it like oh god are you burning my flag right

00:50:16.400 in front of me so i feel it but that feeling is also when i most vividly feel the power of the flag

00:50:25.760 flag and i like having a flag that can make me feel something and can make me feel the power

00:50:34.160 of the country that it represents so for my for my money 0.99

00:50:39.920 um if you've got a wimpy stupid flag you can burn and it's causes so much trouble that somebody thinks 1.00

00:50:48.800 they need to lock you up for it that is a inadequate flag i want a flag that you can burn right in front 1.00

00:50:57.840 of the supreme court and the supreme court and the supreme court will say there you go free speech

00:51:05.440 and that's it and then the more you burn it the more it reminds people that america is a place where

00:51:13.520 you get to have unpleasant opinions and you can express them in public and you can do it all day long

00:51:23.040 and the and what happens is the country doesn't get weaker it just reminds us every day that we've got

00:51:32.000 this uh flag that gets stronger when you try to burn it so that's that's my take that's my reframe

00:51:41.200 claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament i've been visualizing my match all week she was so 0.99

00:51:47.120 focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side

00:51:52.800 good thing claudia's with intact the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the

00:51:57.600 country everything was taken care of under one roof and she was on her way in a rental car in no time

00:52:02.640 i made it to my tournament and lost in the first round but you got there on time intact insurance

00:52:09.120 your auto service ace certain conditions apply uh meanwhile uh x abc news correspondent terry moran

00:52:19.600 that poor bastard who's having the worst month of anybody ever so he gets put on leave and then he

00:52:27.440 gets fired from abc for having some you know uh hard to explain uh bad opinions about uh steven miller and 0.95

00:52:38.480 trump i guess he has announced on a video that he's going to be a substack blogger but not right away

00:52:46.400 because it's going to take some time for him to figure it out and i thought to myself

00:52:52.480 um that's sort of embarrassing after 28 years doing a job for abc news and then you get fired and you're

00:53:06.320 announcing you're a substack blogger that's not going to work for a lot of people but good luck

00:53:13.120 um meanwhile the uh publication called futurism is talking about a college uh let's see what it is

00:53:24.160 ohio state so ohio state university has just announced uh that starting this fall every single

00:53:33.200 one of its students will be forced to use ai in class so instead of banning ai

00:53:41.200 you know because it's a way that students can cut corners or you know potentially cheat

00:53:48.960 um they're going the other direction and they're saying that it's a requirement

00:53:53.920 that you know how to use ai and that you know how to use it in every single class

00:53:59.920 now what do you think of that do you think the colleges should ban ai 0.95

00:54:05.680 because then you don't learn the same or should encourage people to become experts

00:54:13.760 in not only the class but how to use ai within that domain uh i'm going to go hard

00:54:23.360 in favor of ohio state i think this might be one of the smartest things i've seen

00:54:31.040 because in the real world everybody's going to use ai for everything and every one of their subjects from math to

00:54:41.040 biology to history there's going to be an ai tool that helps them understand it now i've used grok

00:54:50.960 grok almost every day for i don't know months and when i use grok i get some context that i didn't know

00:55:02.640 and i usually remember it but it's easier it's way easier to look it up with ai than it is to you know

00:55:10.800 google things and look at every source um so i feel in my own experience

00:55:18.240 that ai makes me smarter faster than any technology i have ever been associated with

00:55:28.160 now i don't forget the things i look up on ai and it's not like i could just take its writing and

00:55:35.760 you know read it to you on this podcast i have to understand it and then i put it in my own words

00:55:42.080 and that's the only model that works if i if i were to just read a script that ai wrote or grok wrote

00:55:50.720 you would know it was a script and you wouldn't you wouldn't love it so i'm i i think this is a very uh

00:56:02.240 what would i call it forward thinking and aware uh ohio state university has at least one person there

00:56:11.680 who is very smart and understands you know what's coming so yeah i think all the colleges should adapt

00:56:20.480 to ai or maybe we should get rid of colleges and just use ai that's coming well let's talk about our

00:56:28.480 nuclear power policy um apparently according to

00:56:34.240 um i didn't see where the source was but uh china plans to build a hundred new uh nuclear power plants

00:56:46.960 in the next 10 years so 10 nuclear power plants per year for 10 years till they have 100 of them the u.s

00:56:56.880 uh has built only three power plants since 1995 and i can't name them i i didn't know we even built three

00:57:09.680 since 1995. i thought it was zero but all right i guess there are three um so we're way behind

00:57:18.560 but the good news and uh real test of the atoms uh the the adam's law of slow moving disasters

00:57:29.920 says that if we all recognize the problem coming uh we got lots of time we're really good at dealing

00:57:44.880 with the problem and the problem coming is that ai is going to use way more electricity than we have

00:57:51.840 if we don't do the best in ai we'll fall behind militarily economically and every other way to

00:57:59.600 china and maybe other countries so really we really understand the the risk and we see it coming and we 1.00

00:58:10.560 kind of agree what the problem is and we also agree on the solution which is if you don't make nuclear

00:58:17.360 work and fast there's probably not a second way to you know handle all the electrical needs i think

00:58:24.800 elon musk would say you can get there with solar panels and batteries but uh probably we need all of it

00:58:34.240 so um the good news according to the hill is that trump has proposed getting rid of all climate rules

00:58:43.360 for power plants so that there would be any kind of power plant but uh a lot of the rules were really

00:58:51.600 allegedly not really helping the uh the atmosphere or anything else the the rules were mostly you know

00:58:59.120 don't pollute and don't add this or that to the atmosphere but apparently those rules might have been

00:59:07.120 overdone so those might get rolled back that would make a big difference and apparently we've opened with

00:59:15.840 the united states a uranium enrichment facility in oak ridge tennessee um because it turns out that we

00:59:25.840 currently import 99 of our u.s nuclear fuel what when did that happen when did we get to the

00:59:37.040 point um scott you were falling for the home depot hoax now did you hear me explain

00:59:45.520 that when i talk about home depot i'm not talking about a specific home depot and any specific thing

00:59:53.040 happening at home depots i'm using it as a general holder for non-criminal immigrants who were being picked up

01:00:03.440 now are you arguing that no non-criminals are being picked up because otherwise you're just being an 0.88

01:00:11.440 asshole all right so i accept that these stories the specific stories about the home depot 0.94

01:00:21.520 um are not representative of anything so we're both on the same page right whatever story there is about any

01:00:32.160 specific home depot or even more than one has nothing to do with my opinion everybody everybody

01:00:40.480 understand that i use it just as a you know like a holding place basically to talk about people who are

01:00:48.400 not criminals are not criminals all right you got that can you handle that

01:00:56.880 all right it's not an analogy

01:01:05.840 oh god so uh i'm gonna have to block you 0.98

01:01:10.400 all right um so most of our uh uranium enrichment comes from places like uh russia

01:01:26.960 not exactly the best source for uranium enrichment uh canada okay australia kazakhstan and use

01:01:34.880 uzbekistan anyway but uh apparently we've got some sanctions on the russia and stuff

01:01:42.400 but you can you can get around it so at least we're doing all the right things

01:01:49.520 at least on paper to get our nuclear facility going

01:01:55.840 anyway the uh hungarian government

01:01:58.720 uh has apparently they're going to release a documentary they made exposing the us uh aid scandal

01:02:10.240 that's what they call according to the the british patriot is retweeting this on or reposting it now

01:02:18.560 apparently this is something we've known since april but it's getting more attention just because

01:02:25.040 somebody's supposed to get around um

01:02:30.880 apparently uh the film is going to highlight how millions of dollars have been directed towards

01:02:35.760 supporting left-wing political movements in hungary you know at this point i don't know that the

01:02:43.600 hungarian documentary will tell us anything we didn't know um

01:02:48.480 um but uh it might be for people who are not following you know mike ben's if you follow mike ben's this

01:02:58.560 will probably look like you know repeat but if you don't you might find out some stuff you didn't know

01:03:05.840 but watch out for the documentary effect which makes everything look persuasive

01:03:11.200 all right um according to the register uh darpa is testing a device that soldiers can swallow to make them less stressed

01:03:25.520 so apparently it would be an electronic device it wouldn't be a chemical and the electronics that were in the

01:03:35.280 let's say pill form that you swallow would uh somehow interact with your your gut

01:03:43.840 and would make you less um less stress because it would affect your gut

01:03:52.720 now remember i tell you that uh your brain and your body are the same tool well here you go

01:03:58.880 there there's a perfect example if you could control your gut environment it would change how your brain

01:04:09.360 is processing your experience now that's a that's a really good example of your brain and your body

01:04:16.320 being the same tool right there so anyway that's just uh they're just getting ready to study the

01:04:24.560 possibilities there so it's not like it's close to being a product um maybe they should just skip the

01:04:33.200 robots but i guess they want to make super soldiers first i don't know how long it will be before

01:04:41.440 robots are doing all the fighting but in the short run in the short run it looks like we'll have some

01:04:48.880 you know super soldiers in other news the new atlas says that they figured out how to grow a new tooth

01:04:57.920 uh to replace one that fell out or was removed now this would be different than an implant

01:05:05.840 so implants have existed for a long time but instead of an implant it would be an actual um

01:05:12.400 um an actual tooth that would not be organic by itself but apparently would merge with your organic

01:05:21.760 mouth and it would grow nerves and and act like a real tooth that's kind of amazing who's doing that um

01:05:32.720 um i don't know somebody's doing that and then i talk about this a lot but when it gets uh when it's done by

01:05:44.240 mit it it feels like uh it's closer to reality so mit has a window sized device that turns uh

01:05:54.720 that turns air into drinking water with no power source so you don't have to plug it in

01:06:01.280 you just put it there and it sucks uh moisture around the air even in the desert and creates water and

01:06:11.440 if you add a rack of them you know more than one of these window sized things you could have enough

01:06:17.040 water for your entire family now um i've talked about this technology before but apparently the other

01:06:25.680 ones have some issues or they create uh water that's a little too salty so there's some other issues but

01:06:34.000 apparently the mit version has uh solved those problems now it makes me ask this question what keeps us from

01:06:43.440 living on the sea you know what what is preventing us from living on basically you know floating

01:06:54.160 gigantic boats that just stay at the sea all the time and uh the answer is quite a bit

01:07:03.840 but we're getting closer and closer to the time when you can live on the ocean all right let me tell you my

01:07:10.320 design for ocean living uh there should be a special barge

01:07:17.520 so basically i would imagine a uh an island that's created by a number of barges that you could

01:07:28.000 connect together so you could walk from one to the other but also that each of them would be built so it

01:07:35.360 could be part of the navigation so in other words if your island of boats needed to avoid a typhoon

01:07:43.040 you could just relocate um now in many cases you wouldn't need to relocate it at all but

01:07:53.040 maybe in most cases you would because you'd want your weather to be perfect

01:07:58.960 so i imagine a bunch of barges that could somewhat easily be connected and then disconnected you would want

01:08:06.560 your utility barges to be on the outer perimeter so if there's a problem with one you could move to

01:08:15.520 another for example one of your barges could be a garbage barge but the garbage barge would need to

01:08:23.280 float away and you know dispose of its garbage in an appropriate way but during that time maybe a

01:08:30.800 replacement garbage barge can connect uh likewise you'd want an indoor you'd want some kind of a garden

01:08:40.400 barge maybe indoor um so that you could grow vegetables then you might have a fake uh fish growing barge

01:08:52.480 or maybe a fishing barge imagine a barge that's optimized with robots to just fish and they they

01:09:02.640 can tell they're quite a fish and they can prepare it and you can eat all kinds of fish all day

01:09:09.920 so that'd be cool if your ai and your robot were doing all the work

01:09:14.000 yeah what about uh let's see what else would you need yeah you'd also need a self-sailing ship

01:09:24.720 so we would need that it would need to figure out using ai probably had to sail to the you know the

01:09:31.280 best weather and the you know and just in time etc so here's what i think yeah your biggest problem

01:09:41.360 would be pirate ships sergio says you're right your biggest problem would be security so you'd probably

01:09:51.280 need some kind of a security arrangement with a established country like the united states but

01:09:59.840 imagine if you will a city that's built on barges that are connected together and only the outer ring is

01:10:08.880 the utility ones that that might need to be replaced or they might need some maintenance etc um i think

01:10:16.880 it'd be pretty cool i think it's coming it's coming all right ladies and gentlemen that concludes my

01:10:27.280 comments for the day thanks for joining hope you're not too angry at me and uh hurricanes no problem

01:10:36.400 well it wouldn't be a problem because we can see them coming but also you could relocate where they rarely if ever happen

01:10:46.560 so yeah as long as you can relocate you're in pretty good shape tsunamis

01:10:54.480 that's a good question you could probably find a place where there's never been a recorded tsunami

01:11:01.920 um so there's that all right uh i'm going to say a few words privately to the people on locals

01:11:13.600 the rest of you thanks for joining i will see you same time tomorrow same place and and thank you

01:11:31.920 very much for sharing um

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 12, 2025

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