Episode 2866 CWSA 06⧸12⧸25
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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, we talk about the stock market, a new study on exercise and the tick-tok video, and the crash of the Boeing Dreamliner. Also, the president's favorite play.
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you are and here i am so what do you want to do do a show do a podcast yes we will but first
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uh stock market is kind of flat kind of flat kind of boring let's do a podcast
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do almost ready everything's working today look at that
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sip and it happens right now go oh that was good oh freshly baked coffee oh all right i wonder
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i wonder wonder if uh there's any science that could have been avoided by just asking me
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oh here's one according to eric dolan and psypost it's always eric um there's this mega study
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that shows i know this will be surprising that exercise boosts cognitive function across all ages and health
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conditions that's right exercise is good for your brain do you know how else you could have determined
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this without doing a mega study you could have asked me hey scott is there any situation in which exercise
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is ever neutral or bad for brains and i would say no no no there is not it's always good for your brain
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because your body and your brain are the same thing it's the same tool
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um yep but uh the thing they added that they think is new is that it's every every
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um every kind of exercise and every kind of brain in every situation so the intensity did not matter yoga
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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
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you can get this one first um do democrats dislike republicans the same amount as republicans dislike
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democrats do you know this one it's a new study uh well it turns out this is also a side post eric
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dolan again uh it turns out that democrats do dislike republicans more than republicans dislike democrats
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according to a study how many of you did not know that you all knew that every one of you uh the reason
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seems to be that uh democrats believe that uh republicans have a more negative opinion of uh people who are
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you know minorities or have some kind of issues trouble um all right but i would argue the republicans
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just have a bigger picture meaning if uh if he said to a democrat um i need to remove this benefit
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from this one person but it will save the whole world the democrat would say you monster you can't
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you can't take that benefit away from that one person and then the republican would say no you missed the
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part where i said that would save the entire world and the democrat would say i i don't even know what you
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talked about you would be mean to this person so sort of like that all right here's another one do you think
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that a tick tock video um if it's edited for you know persuasion uh can change how voters see politicians
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what do you think a tick tock video could it be influential in uh changing how you see a politician yes
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yes again it's eric nolan and cypost yes obviously so but apparently they did a study and they found out that
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uh not only can you change how people see politicians you know they're your favorability
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but it's uh especially strong for donald trump so trump is right that tick tock works in his favor
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um so visuals are influential well in the bad news
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um boeing dreamliner had a horrible crash um air india
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it went down and killed many of the 242 on board now the reason it wasn't all of them is they had just
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taken off but uh let me give you some advice about that story which is i saw a warning that the video
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the video is especially hard to look at and i said to myself well how hard could it be and i watched the video
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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
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when it was rash do not watch them do not it will not make your day better do not watch them
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all right um trump and melania went to the uh what is it the kennedy center and they watched uh
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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
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favorite play or musical or whatever now um it reminded me of the balance that the president is trying to find
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between austerity because you know we don't have infinite money and making sure that america doesn't
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you know just um rot basically so i don't love it when he wants to spend extra on air force one
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but i understand that it's a symbol of the country and you want to keep the president safe and
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you know it makes sense i didn't love it when trump said he was going to build a ballroom at the white
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house because again we've got these these big deficits but on the other hand it is a symbol of the
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the country's health it's like the beating heart of the country so making sure the beating heart of the
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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
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and he's gonna put some money into fixing up the kennedy center and i thought to myself i'll never go to
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the kennedy center why do i care and then i thought oh okay it's a high visibility kind of a situation
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and uh yeah and i definitely don't like the idea of a military parade i i just don't like anything
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about that it's spending money it's probably damaging the streets um you know it just doesn't look right
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but on the other hand it does make the country look like it's powerful and you know nobody should mess
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with it so even though some of my instincts um sort of argue against these trump-like expenses
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i feel like he's right and you know my instinct is wrong because you've got to protect the symbols
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you know that the united states is more than you know just the people in the money in the military
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it's also uh you know it's an idea and uh trump keeping the idea of america strong
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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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meanwhile according to newsmax i didn't see this anywhere else but newsmax says that the dnc has voted to
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oust vice chair david hogg so um and also malcolm kenyatta i don't know who that is but i guess they were both
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vice chairs and uh it's over a technical complaint um that that was the excuse they made but they uh
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slaughtered their hogg finally now i've been telling you before that i think david hogg should not be
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underestimated because like aoc he does have skill and if you free him from the confines of being in the
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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
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um in good news pj media is reporting that uh gm is going to invest four billion dollars in u.s-based
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manufacturing plants um i guess that's because of a response to tariffs on mexico so that would be a
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win for president trump as he's trying to uh financially incentivize companies to move to
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u.s for production and that's exactly what's happening so good for you president trump
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uh meanwhile there's a story in futurism by victor tangerman who says that ceos of major companies
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are trying to make ai copies of themselves um so that the ai copy can answer the you know sort of routine
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questions the ceo is always asked but they have a problem with hallucinations
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so uh the main problem with ai is hallucinations and nobody's figured out how to get past that
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but i thought i would solve that today um because all these ceos need it and i need it too
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i guess uh some of the startups have used would be like uh personal ai these are startups that allow
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you to clone a person and unfortunately they all have the problem of hallucination delphi which i've tested
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but anyway um each one of those and any other ai as well is going to give you hallucinations
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but would you like me to solve that problem right now all right okay if you demand it i will um
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all you need is to have three ais you know three not three models but three completely different ais and you
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have one ai that's in charge of speaking but you have everything it says tested first on the other ais
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so you have two ais that fact check the third ai and the third ai is the only one that gets to talk
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now what are the odds that three different ais would have the same hallucination
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i think the odds would be close to zero right unless the models were also coincidentally
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trained exactly the same way in the same order on the same data which i don't think happens but you
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tell me what are the odds that all three ais would hallucinate the same thing i feel like it wouldn't
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so i'm wondering if the real the real problem is that people don't want to pay for three ais
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you know if you had grok and chat gpt and anthropic
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would they all agree on the hallucination now doesn't that seem too simple
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are any of you uh ai experts when when you hear my idea do you say to yourself you idiot you you
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forgot the you know most important thing about ai i don't know did i i might have but doesn't it seem
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to you like that would work like every time it i don't see how it wouldn't work
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but anyway so if you wanted ai to be solved there you go i just fixed it maybe all right
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all right the uh trump administration according to rsbn is evacuating the middle east embassies
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at least the non-critical people um over concerns about iran now here's my question
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question if we're evacuating our middle east embassies the only reason is we think there's a
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too much risk that iran will attack them now what would make iran attack a u.s embassy
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well the only thing i can think of is if israel attacked iran so
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didn't we always have that risk you know for months and months and months if not years
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why are we why are we drawing down the staff now i can only think of one reason
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well two one we know that an attack is coming that would be the most obvious or two
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it's part of negotiations because it is suggests that an attack is imminent and maybe that's what
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we need to get iran to agree but i've been watching iran for you know much of my adult life and
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and sort of the opposite uh very much the opposite actually so are we being told that there's a
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military action that's imminent and how imminent would we be evacuating you know a week before it happens
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or maybe we did it months before it happens because we don't want to give away too much
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i don't know it looks to me like there's going to be some military action
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think um speaking of iran according to the wall street journal the iaea board so the weird thing about
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iran is that we're having all these you know nuclear energy nuclear weapon um negotiations but at the same
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time this iaea has been monitoring their activity now it's not enough of a monitor to make a difference
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it doesn't stop them from doing what they're doing apparently but the uh the iaea just found that iran is
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in non-compliance um for the first time in 20 years first time in 20 years really there's nothing
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non-compliant they've done in the nuclear category for 20 years what's all this talk about then all
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right well so apparently has to do with uh what is it there's something unexplained that iran is not
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explaining so yeah this uh this board is saying oh if you can't explain this then you're in non-compliance
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so what did iran do being in non-compliance well it said it would open a new rate uranium enrichment
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facility um so it's going to do more of whatever we don't like okay um according to um experts
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iran is already producing enough highly enriched uranium for one nuclear weapons worth a month
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that doesn't mean they're making weapons it means they have enough enriched uranium
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um anyway so uh the iaea um might uh lead to some kind of un security council action and
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uh there could be some repercussions there but things are heating up and uh so my question is this
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um iran's entire approach is saying oh no we don't want a nuclear weapon no no no we need all this
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uranium enrichment for you know peaceful purposes for medical devices and you know just ordinary business
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but why would anybody act this way if they had only peaceful intentions nobody would right you know in in
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your wildest imagination can you imagine anybody going to the brink of war and in all likelihood actual
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war over their insistence that uh they're going to be you know totally peaceful non-military uh work on
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nuclear nobody would do that nobody would do that nobody would do that so they've signaled as strongly
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as they can that they plan to have nuclear weapons or at least the ability to very quickly have nuclear
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weapons which would be you know pretty dangerous on its own so given that uh i think trump said
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his uh optimism about a deal is kind of low right now um we're pretty much guaranteed to have military action
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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
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like israel is going to act and maybe maybe the uh the u.n action where they're finding them
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you know being in non-compliance maybe that's the trigger so i wouldn't be surprised if you see some war
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happening this summer um meanwhile newsmax is reporting that the u.s budget deficit fell nine percent in may
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and the reason is that tariffs boosted uh boosted our revenue so all right
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so apparently there would have been a 316 billion dollar budget deficit
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um but it's down 31 billion because of um tariffs all right i didn't know that uh tariffs would make a
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difference and i think some of these tariffs are temporary so don't get too excited meanwhile there is
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allegedly allegedly allegedly a china trade deal and uh so i was looking at the wall street journal to
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report on what the trade deal is all about and i cannot tell if the trade deal is good or bad for america
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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
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all right so so china is gonna loosen up on their uh the rare earth minerals um hold back
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to which i say wouldn't that be just going back to where we were but a little bit worse
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because there's some kind of limit on it or you know now we know they can pull it anytime they want
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so it's nice to have our rare earth mineral source back but that didn't put us ahead that's sort of
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where we were before then there's uh let's see what else we got uh we're going to restrict the most advanced
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ai chips from china which is where we already were okay
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um we're going to allow chinese student visas so they can go to college in the united states
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right there's nothing new about that we're just going back to where we were
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and then there's something about tariffs but neither china nor the u.s seem to be
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mad about the tariffs they've agreed to which sort of suggests that we're just going back to where we were
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so can anybody give me an argument about how we came out ahead did we come out ahead on anything
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did we get a commitment on fentanyl no even lot nick didn't try to bluff that he just changed the subject
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um and uh are we gonna start reselling them jet engines and ethane which is a necessary part of
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making plastic i guess yes which is exactly what it used to be
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uh the uh the wall street journal summarizes it as
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um we just are moving back to where we were but the deal is leaning a little bit in china's direction now
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so even our hometown newspaper at the wall street journal is saying that we came out behind
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what do you think so i'd love to hear an argument where we came out ahead
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on anything on even one thing nothing on fentanyl nothing are we coming out ahead because
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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
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anything happened except that china said we're not gonna basically not negotiated anything
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well i had a question uh this week about the home depot deportations
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so as you know um it's fairly common for um illegal immigrants to stand near the home depots
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usually on public property but near the home depot and to be available for americans to drive up and
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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
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take a few day workers with you and you pay them cash and um you're both happy now
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um i didn't understand that because i didn't understand why the home depot workers
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would be the worst first because were we not promised that the the order of the deportations
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would be the criminals and the worst of them first and the home depot
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employees not employees but the home depot day workers the illegal ones they would be
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maybe the opposite they would be the ones who are trying to work
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you know trying to claw their way into some kind of a life but there's no really indication that
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they're especially criminal so why would we reverse from the thing that i've been telling people
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you know just calm down don't worry you know we're going to do the worst first and that will
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will basically never get to the end of the worst so the way i rationalized
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that i was okay with uh very aggressive um deportation is that i didn't think it was entirely real
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meaning i'm very much in favor of getting rid of people who were criminals and the gangs etc but i
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didn't think that ice would have enough resources to ever get to the bottom of that well so
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in my view you know those home depot people and your your gardener and your uh your housekeeper if
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you have a housekeeper um to me they all seem kind of safe because it would take you know five years to
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to get rid of the bad people and then we'd probably have adjusted and we'd say all right well
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you know we we thought we wanted to get rid of everyone but it turns out you know maybe we're
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better economically to keep the people who have jobs and they're paying taxes and they've been good
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citizens and they've you know they've assimilated so while i completely understand the argument that says no
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everybody has to go back uh that wasn't the deal that was the deal the deal was there would be an
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order to it and that's the deal i signed up for meaning when i said you know i support president
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trump and i'm in favor of his border policies i wasn't talking about picking up people at home depot
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so i feel like i got stabbed in the back because i'm a public figure who has publicly supported very
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strongly the uh president trump's approach to immigration and the worst first was very clearly
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a central part of that plan and that is now reversed so
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i got screwed by my own side do you think i can let that go
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now i understand the argument oh but scott it's really better to deport everybody who is illegal i
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understand your argument but my argument is that's not what i was promised and it's not what i put my
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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
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back by the trump administration and i don't know exactly how to turn that off but at the moment i feel
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totally screwed because i you know was sort of out front saying yeah this is fine don't worry about it
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but it's not what they promised now um so i did a little research on why the change
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as far as i can tell the change is because the ice couldn't get the numbers that we wanted
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so if they had focused on the worst first especially in the context of the sanctuary cities
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the uh the difficulty in getting enough people so it looked like deportation was even working
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uh was just too high because we get caught up in the court cases in the protests and
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you know the cities would fight everything and that's where all the bad people are you know
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mostly the the blue cities so i feel as though there was a political reason that steven miller
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sort of pressured ice to go after the less dangerous people and it was because of sanctuary cities
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is that your understanding that if sanctuary cities did not exist that they could do worst first all day
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long and they would never run out of the worst because they would go to the city they'd say you know
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do you have anybody in your jail who's uh illegal and they'd say oh yeah we got you know five more
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this morning and then ice would say all right we got five more criminals and they would send them away
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so here's my request if if the reason that home depot is being targeted and i'm using home depot as a
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stand-in for you know just more casual deportations as opposed to going after hardened criminals
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um if that's a reason then the administration needs to be saying that really loudly
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you know separately i understand that you know there's plenty of complaints about sanctuary cities
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and then separately there's you know the targeting of the home depot non-criminal
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beyond you know the crime of coming into the country um you need to tie those together
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because if the reason that the home depot people are getting scooped up is that ice is um
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you know unable to find anybody in the sanctuary cities then that needs to be like right right at the top
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of the messaging it's like as long as there's sanctuary cities we can't do worst first
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do you feel me as long as there are sanctuary cities we don't have the option of doing the worst first
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if you tell me that and then i see that some of the home depot people are being deported
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i'm not gonna love it because it's not worse first but i'm gonna at least understand it
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and that's better than having a knife in your back and not understanding it
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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
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i i feel like i have been you know personally personally abused by this process i feel lied to
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i feel lied to it's sort of promises made promises not kept
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and uh i'm not going to ignore that not going to ignore that at all now one of the things i love about
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having a republican audience is that as we talked about you know the democrats dislike the republicans
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more than the republicans dislike the democrats the republicans are willing to listen to an argument
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and so i gave you an argument some of you loved it some of you hated it
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but you're still willing to let me talk right you're you're not hating on me you might not like
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that opinion you might disagree with it but that doesn't make us enemies we're still on the same side
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right so you know the the positive message here is that you can have uh pretty strong disagreements
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but as long as you're you know pro-america america first and we're we're sort of all aiming in the right
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direction but some of us have a difference of how to get there that's all good that's all fine we're not
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democrats right so we're going to talk about something else in a minute there will be a similar thing
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where you might not like what i say but it won't make much difference in terms of the sizes of my you
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know my audience or anything else because you're you allow that which i appreciate a lot
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anyway so i'd love some answers on that question when i found out my friend got a great deal on a wool
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coat from winners i started wondering is every fabulous item i see from winners like that woman
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over there with the designer jeans are those from winners ooh are those beautiful gold earrings did
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she pay full price or that leather tote or that cashmere sweater or those knee-high boots that dress
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that jacket those shoes is anyone paying full price for anything stop wondering start winning
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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
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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
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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
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but then that will change their opinion but what trump has done cleverly is he sent in the marines
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but they haven't been deployed so i've seen no picture of any marines
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
01:00:11.440
asshole all right so i accept that these stories the specific stories about the home depot
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
01:01:10.400
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
01:01:58.720
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
01:02:30.880
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
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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
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um so there's that all right uh i'm going to say a few words privately to the people on locals
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the rest of you thanks for joining i will see you same time tomorrow same place and and thank you