Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 20, 2025


Episode 2874 CWSA 06⧸20⧸25


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 24 minutes

Words per Minute

123.555534

Word Count

10,489

Sentence Count

632

Misogynist Sentences

10

Hate Speech Sentences

34


Summary

The bubble of all bubbles is forming. Elon Musk is building the biggest supercomputer in the world, and it's powered by an AI company called X. Tesla is going to launch a self-driving car, and there's a lot of talk about the Tesla RoboTaxi.


Transcript

00:00:00.640 It's all working.
00:00:03.880 Let me check your stocks.
00:00:07.640 A little bit up.
00:00:09.740 Let's see what Tesla's doing.
00:00:13.420 Tesla is a little bit up.
00:00:16.400 All right.
00:00:18.440 And looks like we're going to have a good weekend.
00:00:23.940 That's my prediction.
00:00:26.180 Let's get our comments working here.
00:00:28.520 There we go.
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00:01:34.000 Paul, I see the real one.
00:01:36.800 Don't try that fake one with me again.
00:01:45.180 All right.
00:01:45.980 What's going on?
00:01:47.420 I find that the first part of the news is always something about Elon Musk.
00:01:54.760 Is there even one day that guy can go without making news?
00:02:01.300 It's impossible.
00:02:03.120 But apparently on Sunday, this Sunday in Austin, Texas, will be the launch of the Tesla RoboTaxi.
00:02:13.280 So the no driver, self-driving taxi in Austin.
00:02:18.760 And I saw a picture of somebody in one, and they were sitting in the front.
00:02:25.160 Would you sit in the front of a RoboTaxi in the front seat?
00:02:33.020 Or would you just sit in the back in case something goes wrong?
00:02:38.020 I feel like I would sit in the back seat, if that's an option.
00:02:42.840 I assume it is.
00:02:44.420 Wouldn't you?
00:02:45.780 You know, just a little bit safer?
00:02:48.760 At least for a while.
00:02:51.600 Now, I get that the self-driving RoboTaxis will be safer than a human-driven automobile.
00:03:00.000 But even with a human, I don't feel comfortable in the passenger side of the front seat.
00:03:06.360 I always think, can I trust this human?
00:03:10.400 So I'd probably sit in the back.
00:03:12.300 Well, according to the ex-CEO, which is not someone who used to be a CEO, but rather the CEO of the company called X.
00:03:26.360 So Linda is saying that users will soon be able to trade stocks on X and make investments and send tips and split bills and maybe even buy merch, all without leaving the app.
00:03:44.560 And they're going to call it X money.
00:03:48.200 So it'll be a peer-to-peer payment system.
00:03:51.540 Now, here's the fun part.
00:03:53.580 If X becomes the everything account, isn't X an internet within the internet?
00:04:04.000 Because I ask myself, what do I do all day on the internet that I could not do completely with an X?
00:04:13.000 I use AI.
00:04:15.660 All right, well, that's built into X.
00:04:18.900 I look at the news, but all the links and the analysis are on X.
00:04:26.080 So the only other thing I do is investments and send money digitally.
00:04:33.540 That's the only other stuff I do.
00:04:35.880 So if I could do all of that on X, I would be within an internet that was within an internet.
00:04:45.480 And do you know how much power that would give Elon Musk if you had an internet within the internet and you never left it?
00:04:56.980 You would be in the bubble of all bubbles.
00:05:01.000 Now, I get that X has different points of view, but I don't really see them.
00:05:08.940 Do you?
00:05:09.820 I could spend the entire day on X and never see a competing point of view.
00:05:17.780 All I would see is the people that I most like to see.
00:05:23.560 The only times I see competing points of view is when they're being mocked by people I agree with.
00:05:30.280 So when I see a clip on MSNBC, it's never to agree with it.
00:05:36.060 It's always to laugh at it.
00:05:37.620 If I see a clip of the view, it's always just to laugh at it.
00:05:44.080 So the bubble of all bubbles is forming.
00:05:49.100 I don't know if I'm against it or for it, but it's a complete transformation of the internet experience if you never leave that one app.
00:06:00.360 And I probably wouldn't.
00:06:01.860 I'd probably be on it all day.
00:06:03.220 Anyway, and then Elon Musk's AI company, which I assume will be folded into X, into Grok.
00:06:17.160 I don't know how that works.
00:06:18.680 But apparently Elon Musk is now launching the biggest supercomputer in the world.
00:06:25.480 The largest supercomputer has many GPUs.
00:06:29.600 You don't need to know the details.
00:06:31.520 But the biggest one in the world is Elon Musk's.
00:06:35.660 So if you used AI for all of your work and Elon Musk had the largest supercomputer driving the best AI, would you ever leave?
00:06:54.020 I don't know.
00:06:54.640 It's looking to be like Elon Musk's strategy for X and for everything else is kind of amazing.
00:07:06.260 It's like a strategy I've never seen before that basically would take over everything from the news to finance to banking.
00:07:13.860 And probably, probably it would work.
00:07:19.220 So that's big.
00:07:22.140 Speaking of Elon Musk, he points out that the solar power generation in China will exceed all sources of electricity combined in the USA in only three to four years, which he calls a wake-up call.
00:07:38.740 So do you remember when people mocked Elon Musk for saying that we could get all of our energy from solar?
00:07:49.240 We would need batteries, of course, but we have batteries.
00:07:55.020 He was never really in the majority on that.
00:07:59.460 I always felt like he was in the minority.
00:08:01.420 And everyone who thought they knew about energy would say over and over, well, you're never going to get there with solar power alone.
00:08:11.740 I mean, that's ridiculous.
00:08:13.800 You're going to need nuclear and you're going to need oil and gas and all that.
00:08:19.800 And in the short run, certainly that's all true.
00:08:22.560 But is it hypothetically possible, as Musk has been saying for years, that if you wanted to and you went hard at it, you could have all the energy needed from solar?
00:08:39.340 And it's starting to look like he was right about that.
00:08:43.420 Looks like he got the math right.
00:08:45.040 If he were doubting Elon Musk on math and engineering, well, he made a bad bet.
00:08:52.540 I have to admit, I was skeptical because it looked more like he was just promoting his own products.
00:09:01.260 But I think he's also accurate that you could get all of your electricity from solar if you went wild, you know, really went at it hard like China.
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00:10:12.860 The appeals court, an appeals court is going to let Trump keep control of the California National Guard.
00:10:22.680 Now, if you haven't been following this, how many times have you heard that an appeals court altered an order from a lower court about something about Trump?
00:10:36.340 How many times have we seen that story in just this calendar year?
00:10:41.600 Maybe 25 times about different stories?
00:10:47.740 I don't know how many times, but it feels like a lot.
00:10:51.000 But the latest one is, let's see.
00:10:55.940 So Trump took control of the National Guard in California when those anti-ice protests were happening.
00:11:03.640 And then California appealed and said, you can't do that.
00:11:09.680 You don't have the right to do that because there are only certain circumstances in which the commander-in-chief can take control.
00:11:19.300 And those certain circumstances have not been met.
00:11:23.200 And the lower court agreed.
00:11:26.440 And so for a while, Gavin Newsom had control back of the National Guard.
00:11:31.660 But now, the appeals court has decided that the commander-in-chief should have flexibility.
00:11:40.420 And you don't want to handicap him and you don't want to put the state in charge of protecting the whole country.
00:11:47.800 So, the appeals court says that Trump can keep control of the National Guard in California.
00:11:58.360 But, does it matter?
00:12:02.140 Are we still having protests?
00:12:05.000 Anti-ice protests in L.A.?
00:12:07.260 Or did they all stop?
00:12:09.780 Because I didn't see anything in the news today about any protests.
00:12:15.200 So, I think the appeals court has ruled on something that has no importance and no bearing on anything.
00:12:23.840 Because it's already old news.
00:12:26.740 Anyway.
00:12:28.360 Speaking of complicated things.
00:12:31.180 Russ Vogt, the budget guy for the administration.
00:12:39.780 According to Politico, he's got this clever idea for cutting costs in the government that not everybody thinks is legal.
00:12:50.780 And he calls it a pocket rescission.
00:12:55.020 So, as you know, the budget process in the government is this weird, convoluted, Byzantine process that nobody understands.
00:13:04.060 Sometimes it's a budget, sometimes it's a spending bill, sometimes it's a rescission, and we don't even know what any of that means.
00:13:13.360 But, there's an idea that Trump could issue a formal request to clawback funding.
00:13:23.800 Now, this is in Politico.
00:13:25.060 And so, if Trump said, I've got a formal request to end funding for some specific things, similar to what he did before with a $9.4 billion package he sent to lawmakers, that what you could do is have it sit there.
00:13:47.360 However, the memo could land on Capitol Hill less than 45 days before the new fiscal year is set to begin on October 1st.
00:13:57.820 And then, by withholding the cash, by withholding the cash for that full timeframe, regardless of the action by Congress, the White House would treat the funding as expired when the current fiscal year ends.
00:14:16.980 So, something about a formal request to clawback funding, but you don't really mean it, you just want the request to sit there and time out.
00:14:30.160 And then, somehow, it times out, and then you don't have to spend it.
00:14:37.020 Does that even sound like a real process to you?
00:14:40.640 I may be getting some part of that wrong, but it's so frustrating that our government doesn't have any process that the voters even understand.
00:14:55.540 It's like, why don't you do your budget like everybody else does, where you say, this is how much I want to spend.
00:15:02.900 Does everybody agree?
00:15:04.840 And then, you vote on it.
00:15:06.660 No, no.
00:15:07.740 We've got to have rescission packages and spending packages.
00:15:12.940 We've got to have pocket rescissions.
00:15:17.420 Yeah.
00:15:18.080 So, we'll see if that works.
00:15:21.500 Anyway, I saw one report today on X that there's a senior Iranian official who told Reuters that Iran is ready to discuss limitations on its uranium enrichment.
00:15:37.740 To which I say, to which I say, one guy?
00:15:41.980 There's one guy who said that?
00:15:45.200 What good is that?
00:15:46.400 If it wasn't the supreme leader, do we trust this one guy who allegedly told Reuters, oh, yeah, we're totally open to discussing our uranium enrichment?
00:16:00.460 Well, at the same time, also on X, I think Zero Edge was reporting this.
00:16:07.500 Another senior Iranian official, who is different from the last one, said zero enrichment will undoubtedly be rejected, especially now because of the Israeli strikes.
00:16:22.120 So, you've got one Iranian official who says, oh, yeah, we'll totally discuss that, and another one who says, oh, no, we're not even going to be open to that.
00:16:32.340 But it could be that one of them is talking about zero enrichment, and the other one is talking about limitations on enrichment.
00:16:44.060 So, you don't really need to get to zero, do you?
00:16:49.120 Could you make a deal where it's just low enrichment levels are allowed as long as there's lots of inspections?
00:16:55.520 So, maybe there's some room to deal with that.
00:17:01.600 According to NBC, Iran has unleashed what they call combat drones inside Israel for the first time.
00:17:11.080 Now, combat drone?
00:17:13.440 What would be a combat drone versus a drone?
00:17:18.360 I don't know exactly, but I think a drone would be like a smart rocket, but not very fast.
00:17:26.380 And it would plunge into something and explode.
00:17:30.500 Whereas, I'm guessing these combat drones are more like an unmanned jet that has a number of weapons.
00:17:39.020 And it can go in and fire a bunch of things and then return home and get some more ordnance.
00:17:45.160 I like saying ordnance.
00:17:46.980 Makes me sound like I know what I'm talking about.
00:17:48.880 Anyway, the Revolutionary Guard has announced that its drones have penetrated Israeli airspace
00:17:58.020 and they're hitting infrastructure using missiles and airdrop bombs.
00:18:02.980 Meanwhile, on X and other places, I keep seeing these estimates of how many missiles Iran had
00:18:20.140 and how many they've used and how many they've shot down.
00:18:25.560 And for about five minutes, I said to myself,
00:18:29.320 huh, here's some useful data.
00:18:31.620 I told myself, if I know how many missiles Iran has and I know how many they've fired
00:18:40.980 and how many they have left and what percentage of them are getting through,
00:18:45.740 I'll have a good idea what's going to happen.
00:18:47.740 Iran is never going to surrender unless there are boots on the ground,
00:19:02.520 meaning Israeli and American soldiers on the ground.
00:19:07.440 And that's not going to happen.
00:19:09.820 I'm pretty sure.
00:19:10.720 I mean, it seems deeply unlikely that Trump would agree to, you know,
00:19:16.720 soldiers getting killed on the ground in Iran.
00:19:19.880 And of course, Iran is a much bigger, harder land target than Iraq was by a lot.
00:19:27.760 So we don't think it would work.
00:19:32.040 And if you don't put people on the ground,
00:19:34.620 are we really going to change the leadership in Iran?
00:19:40.720 And if we don't change the leadership,
00:19:44.300 is anything going to be different, you know, once the bombs start, stop dropping?
00:19:50.780 So it seems to me like we're on a path
00:19:53.600 to destroying as much of Iran as you can from the air,
00:19:59.220 at least the government and military stuff.
00:20:03.220 But then when it's all done, we won't have anybody on the ground.
00:20:07.260 I'm positive that there will not be a legitimate, organic rising up of the population of Iran
00:20:16.280 to take over with a moderate.
00:20:19.180 I feel like that's a zero chance.
00:20:22.260 I just don't see a world in which your nation is being targeted and bombed all day long,
00:20:29.880 and you say to yourself, you know what?
00:20:33.100 I think I'll take the side of the people bombing my country.
00:20:37.580 Even if you like the West, and even if you didn't like your Ayatollah,
00:20:43.500 you're still not going to rise up against your own country
00:20:46.440 and take the side of the country that's bombing you.
00:20:51.220 Has that ever happened in the history of anything?
00:20:54.160 I don't think so.
00:20:57.300 So if we're not going to have soldiers on the ground,
00:21:00.580 which I don't think we will,
00:21:02.540 and there won't be any kind of, you know, organic national uprising,
00:21:08.120 that means that either the Supreme Leader will still be in power when this is over,
00:21:14.200 or maybe somebody worse who's just, you know, down the line.
00:21:19.080 If the Supreme Leader gets taken out,
00:21:22.660 he's not going to be replaced by a moderate,
00:21:25.620 probably replaced by somebody who's the hardest, hard-ass they have.
00:21:31.780 So what exactly would be the way that we could have any kind of victory here?
00:21:38.560 It looks to me like there's only one way this all works out.
00:21:42.520 If we're not going to put boots on the ground,
00:21:45.720 Iran will still be Iran when we're done.
00:21:48.080 And then they will start rebuilding their offensive weapons,
00:21:53.440 presumably because they think it's their best chance of survival.
00:21:58.660 So I just don't see a path.
00:22:03.700 Do you?
00:22:05.320 Do any of you see, like,
00:22:07.440 how this could possibly be settled in a way that we would all be happy?
00:22:11.620 And when I say all, I mean everybody except Iran.
00:22:15.460 I feel like everybody's going to be unhappy.
00:22:18.760 Including Iran.
00:22:20.800 So that's what it looks like.
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00:22:37.560 But Starlink is still live in Iran.
00:22:42.140 Everything's about Elon Musk.
00:22:45.020 So Iran has turned off its regular internet service.
00:22:49.300 But the people who have Starlink, I don't know how many there are,
00:22:53.780 but they do have full internet thanks to Elon Musk's Starlink company.
00:22:59.420 Now that's something that apparently Iran can't turn off
00:23:04.540 because they don't have any control over the satellites in the air.
00:23:08.460 So that would suggest that at least Israel and the U.S.
00:23:16.620 could feed a bunch of propaganda into their population.
00:23:20.640 But there won't be that many people who have Starlink, right?
00:23:24.240 And I imagine that if you did have Starlink and the Iranian authorities found out,
00:23:31.280 wouldn't they arrest you or take your Starlink-based platform away?
00:23:36.820 So I don't think Starlink will have a gigantic impact on the population of Iran
00:23:44.480 because there can't be that many people who have access to it.
00:23:49.340 And even if they did, as I said before,
00:23:53.140 you're not going to convince the population to rise up against their own leader
00:23:57.780 while you're bombing them.
00:24:00.280 It just isn't a thing.
00:24:01.880 It just couldn't possibly happen in our world.
00:24:03.980 Anyway, over on MSNBC,
00:24:08.540 there was some talking head who was arguing
00:24:12.340 that when the Iranians chant death to America,
00:24:17.880 that they don't really mean it.
00:24:20.600 And his example was that he was at some event
00:24:24.160 where they were chanting death to America.
00:24:26.540 And then he introduced himself to some of the locals.
00:24:30.640 And the locals said,
00:24:31.960 Oh, we love America.
00:24:33.120 We like your movies and your culture and all that.
00:24:37.540 And so he concluded
00:24:39.000 that death to America
00:24:41.540 doesn't really mean,
00:24:43.300 you know, death to America.
00:24:45.540 It's just a thing they say.
00:24:48.500 To which I say,
00:24:50.240 it doesn't really matter what the public wanted.
00:24:53.580 It only matters what the leadership means
00:24:55.860 when they say death to America.
00:24:57.900 Right?
00:24:58.500 It doesn't matter how many people repeat it.
00:25:02.120 They don't have any power.
00:25:03.380 So what matters is do the top people in Iran,
00:25:10.260 the top military,
00:25:11.520 the top supreme leader,
00:25:13.840 when they say death to America,
00:25:16.180 do they mean death to America?
00:25:19.760 Or is it just something they say
00:25:22.540 while they're loving Western culture?
00:25:25.080 Well, no.
00:25:26.660 The supreme leader is not loving Western culture.
00:25:29.580 So anything that the population says
00:25:34.280 about how much they love America,
00:25:36.020 which I do believe,
00:25:37.720 you know,
00:25:38.080 all indications are that
00:25:40.040 the Iranians are at least
00:25:41.800 pro-Western culture,
00:25:44.180 if not pro-America.
00:25:46.000 I don't think it matters.
00:25:48.980 I think it only matters
00:25:49.900 what the leaders think.
00:25:51.180 And if they want to destroy America
00:25:52.700 and Israel,
00:25:54.060 well, they'll keep doing it.
00:25:57.900 The Pentagon,
00:25:59.700 according to Jennifer Griffin,
00:26:01.720 Fox News,
00:26:03.140 the Pentagon is very confident
00:26:05.040 that the Bunker Buster missiles
00:26:07.720 would work if employed.
00:26:11.040 And apparently they're GPS guided.
00:26:13.420 And if one doesn't get the job done,
00:26:17.280 they can drop a second one
00:26:18.680 in the same hole as the first one.
00:26:21.460 And it'll make the hole deeper
00:26:23.500 and that'll get the job done.
00:26:26.240 Now, let me ask you this.
00:26:29.940 When was the last time
00:26:31.480 you saw a very complicated system
00:26:33.800 that had never been tested
00:26:35.880 work on the first try?
00:26:39.600 Well, maybe the nuclear bombs
00:26:42.360 that we dropped on Japan.
00:26:44.820 But you could argue that
00:26:46.600 had we tested those?
00:26:49.600 We tested those
00:26:50.660 before we dropped them, right?
00:26:52.040 Not the ones we dropped.
00:26:53.480 But did the Manhattan Project
00:26:56.900 test the explosions
00:26:59.620 with other bombs
00:27:01.540 before they went after Japan?
00:27:06.220 I should know that.
00:27:07.680 It was tested, right?
00:27:09.120 I feel like we would have tested it.
00:27:13.040 But how in the world
00:27:14.460 have we tested
00:27:15.620 dropping two bombs
00:27:17.460 in the same hole?
00:27:19.400 Does that sound like something
00:27:20.960 we could, you know,
00:27:22.720 be sure is going to work?
00:27:25.620 It would be one thing
00:27:27.260 if we said it'll probably work.
00:27:30.940 So it's worth a try.
00:27:32.380 But they're not really saying
00:27:34.820 probably, are they?
00:27:36.700 The Pentagon is basically saying,
00:27:39.480 oh, this will work.
00:27:40.920 Do you believe that?
00:27:42.940 So I would say that the chance
00:27:46.020 that it doesn't work
00:27:47.500 or it doesn't work completely
00:27:49.100 or it doesn't work enough
00:27:50.640 or something goes wrong,
00:27:53.620 they're pretty high.
00:27:55.320 Pretty high.
00:27:56.160 Because in the real world
00:27:58.340 when you haven't tested
00:28:00.000 something that's complicated
00:28:01.840 and it's kind of complicated
00:28:03.960 to fly a bomber
00:28:05.160 all across the ocean
00:28:06.300 and refuel it multiple times,
00:28:08.920 drop one bomb
00:28:10.300 and then drop a second one
00:28:11.580 in the same hole
00:28:13.220 while the Iranians are watching.
00:28:17.280 I guess they would have
00:28:18.100 no defense against any of that.
00:28:22.060 Well, let me just say
00:28:23.740 that I don't think
00:28:24.760 it's guaranteed.
00:28:26.720 I don't know
00:28:27.360 what the odds are,
00:28:28.300 but I would put the odds
00:28:30.660 at maybe 70%
00:28:34.800 that it would work.
00:28:37.460 What would you do?
00:28:39.340 Tell me in the comments.
00:28:41.520 If you had to guess
00:28:42.960 without knowing anything,
00:28:44.680 none of us really know
00:28:45.740 anything about this topic,
00:28:47.980 but knowing that it's complicated
00:28:50.080 and there's technology involved
00:28:52.440 and there's war
00:28:53.360 and when war is involved
00:28:55.320 nothing goes exactly
00:28:56.760 the way you planned,
00:28:58.460 what would you guess
00:28:59.680 are the odds
00:29:00.420 it would work?
00:29:02.900 I say 100%.
00:29:04.460 25%.
00:29:05.680 Well, you're just joking
00:29:06.640 on the 25.
00:29:08.700 99%.
00:29:09.300 Yeah, we don't know,
00:29:10.560 do we?
00:29:11.240 It's an unknowable estimate.
00:29:13.560 I don't think
00:29:13.940 the Pentagon knows.
00:29:14.840 But they use words
00:29:19.340 like this,
00:29:20.780 that it would definitely work
00:29:22.420 if it were deployed correctly.
00:29:26.620 Do you see what they're doing?
00:29:28.880 If deployed correctly.
00:29:32.540 That's the problem.
00:29:33.840 I'm actually confident
00:29:37.660 that they know
00:29:38.380 how to make a bomb
00:29:39.140 that makes a big hole.
00:29:41.040 That part I believe.
00:29:42.780 I believe the bomb
00:29:44.200 will explode.
00:29:46.280 So,
00:29:46.740 I don't really have
00:29:47.460 a lot of doubt about that.
00:29:48.800 There's,
00:29:49.020 I mean,
00:29:49.760 there's some uncertainty,
00:29:50.940 but very low.
00:29:52.540 The uncertainty
00:29:53.500 is whether we implement it correctly.
00:29:55.500 So,
00:29:57.140 so they've got
00:29:57.720 that little,
00:29:58.300 that little catch in there.
00:30:00.780 Oh, yeah,
00:30:01.560 this is,
00:30:02.100 it's 100%
00:30:02.980 going to work
00:30:04.080 if deployed correctly.
00:30:07.660 Wouldn't that be everything?
00:30:09.900 Everything works
00:30:10.900 if deployed correctly?
00:30:14.720 It's sort of like
00:30:16.000 saying nothing.
00:30:17.800 Anyway,
00:30:19.820 according to the
00:30:21.120 Wall Street Journal,
00:30:23.160 Israel is,
00:30:25.500 spending
00:30:25.940 hundreds of millions
00:30:27.100 of dollars a day
00:30:28.240 supporting this war,
00:30:30.200 which would explain
00:30:31.480 why they wanted it
00:30:32.660 to end in two weeks.
00:30:35.720 But,
00:30:36.800 do you remember
00:30:37.360 one of my predictions?
00:30:39.360 That it would not end
00:30:40.460 in two weeks?
00:30:42.480 Now,
00:30:42.940 Trump has said
00:30:43.640 he needs two weeks
00:30:44.800 from now
00:30:45.860 to make a decision,
00:30:48.160 because the Europeans
00:30:49.720 are meeting
00:30:50.320 to allegedly
00:30:52.180 talk about
00:30:53.280 what can be done
00:30:55.440 with Iran.
00:30:57.140 So,
00:30:58.140 it doesn't look like
00:30:59.960 Iran wants to talk
00:31:01.000 to the United States
00:31:02.160 or to Israel directly,
00:31:04.260 but they might talk
00:31:05.880 to the Europeans,
00:31:07.320 because the Europeans
00:31:08.240 have not
00:31:08.920 been as,
00:31:10.500 you know,
00:31:11.120 bellicose
00:31:11.720 as the U.S.
00:31:12.920 and Israel.
00:31:13.480 So,
00:31:15.860 let's say
00:31:16.560 they talk
00:31:17.380 to the Europeans,
00:31:19.440 and that
00:31:20.200 that takes
00:31:20.760 two weeks
00:31:21.480 before Trump
00:31:22.480 decides
00:31:23.000 whether he wants
00:31:23.600 to get
00:31:23.920 militarily
00:31:24.700 aggressive
00:31:25.880 on the side
00:31:27.580 of offense.
00:31:29.960 And so,
00:31:31.080 we're already
00:31:31.520 at three weeks,
00:31:32.540 right?
00:31:33.440 So,
00:31:34.060 minimum
00:31:34.340 would be
00:31:34.800 three weeks.
00:31:35.980 And remember,
00:31:37.740 two weeks
00:31:38.600 is just
00:31:40.140 to make
00:31:40.480 a decision.
00:31:42.500 If he makes
00:31:43.520 the decision,
00:31:44.900 how much longer
00:31:45.800 will it take
00:31:46.700 for the,
00:31:48.600 you know,
00:31:49.080 additional military
00:31:50.200 force
00:31:50.860 to make
00:31:51.420 a difference?
00:31:52.880 So,
00:31:53.880 how do you like
00:31:54.500 my prediction now,
00:31:56.240 where Israel said
00:31:57.160 we'll be done
00:31:57.700 in two weeks?
00:31:59.180 And I said,
00:32:00.340 hmm,
00:32:01.300 I think
00:32:02.100 probably months.
00:32:04.520 I think we're
00:32:05.580 up to
00:32:06.060 at least
00:32:06.640 a month already,
00:32:07.740 no matter
00:32:08.640 what.
00:32:10.840 And I don't
00:32:11.620 think we're
00:32:12.160 done
00:32:12.580 extending that.
00:32:14.720 I've got a
00:32:15.240 feeling it's
00:32:15.820 going to be
00:32:16.140 multiple months,
00:32:17.800 and whatever
00:32:18.920 Israel thought
00:32:19.940 they were
00:32:20.260 going to spend,
00:32:21.880 they're going
00:32:22.580 to spend a lot
00:32:23.180 more.
00:32:24.060 So,
00:32:24.420 it's going
00:32:24.660 to be
00:32:24.860 billions.
00:32:26.220 And Israel
00:32:27.140 might,
00:32:27.600 I don't know,
00:32:29.160 they might
00:32:29.460 bankrupt
00:32:29.840 themselves
00:32:30.420 on this
00:32:31.540 war.
00:32:33.980 So,
00:32:34.960 I guess
00:32:35.300 the
00:32:35.600 interceptor
00:32:36.600 missiles
00:32:37.040 are a major
00:32:37.880 expense,
00:32:38.580 according to
00:32:38.960 the Wall
00:32:39.200 Street Journal.
00:32:41.200 So,
00:32:41.820 the
00:32:41.980 interceptor
00:32:42.800 missiles
00:32:43.260 cost up
00:32:44.420 to $200
00:32:45.020 million a
00:32:45.940 day.
00:32:47.340 And then
00:32:48.040 the building
00:32:48.720 repairs,
00:32:50.000 because
00:32:50.740 Iran is
00:32:51.700 knocking down
00:32:52.380 buildings in
00:32:53.160 Israel,
00:32:54.360 are estimated
00:32:55.420 at $400
00:32:56.120 million.
00:32:57.840 So,
00:32:58.440 that's the
00:32:59.000 kind of
00:32:59.320 expense
00:32:59.940 that Israel
00:33:00.960 is looking
00:33:01.440 at to
00:33:02.320 keep doing
00:33:03.220 what they're
00:33:03.560 doing.
00:33:04.460 And keep
00:33:04.860 in mind,
00:33:05.420 that they
00:33:07.640 can do
00:33:08.040 it,
00:33:08.460 they can
00:33:08.940 do this
00:33:09.400 forever,
00:33:10.360 and they
00:33:10.720 still wouldn't
00:33:11.180 get the
00:33:11.500 result that
00:33:12.060 they need
00:33:12.600 without boots
00:33:14.180 on the
00:33:14.520 ground,
00:33:15.480 and there
00:33:16.480 won't be
00:33:16.900 boots on
00:33:17.340 the ground.
00:33:19.040 So,
00:33:19.940 they're not
00:33:20.360 only spending
00:33:21.160 hundreds of
00:33:22.620 millions of
00:33:23.140 dollars a
00:33:23.660 day,
00:33:24.580 but it's
00:33:25.860 in an effort
00:33:26.560 that even
00:33:27.220 on paper,
00:33:27.960 it's hard to
00:33:28.400 imagine how
00:33:28.980 it would
00:33:29.300 work.
00:33:31.560 Right?
00:33:32.040 Because even
00:33:33.380 if the
00:33:33.800 leadership
00:33:34.220 collapses,
00:33:36.000 there's just
00:33:36.500 going to be
00:33:36.920 some new
00:33:37.460 mullah.
00:33:38.600 Doesn't mean
00:33:39.200 it's going
00:33:39.560 to be better,
00:33:41.080 and we're
00:33:42.140 not going
00:33:42.460 to be on
00:33:42.700 the ground.
00:33:44.820 So,
00:33:45.780 I think
00:33:46.680 Iran wins
00:33:47.700 just by
00:33:48.360 not losing.
00:33:51.040 If Iran
00:33:52.020 just has to
00:33:52.680 exist in
00:33:54.260 two months,
00:33:55.560 it's going
00:33:56.180 to look like
00:33:56.600 they won
00:33:57.060 in a weird
00:33:59.320 way.
00:33:59.780 I mean,
00:34:00.120 they'll be in
00:34:00.600 terrible shape,
00:34:01.500 but they
00:34:02.840 would be
00:34:03.220 able to
00:34:03.800 rebuild,
00:34:04.800 and the
00:34:05.460 fighting would
00:34:06.120 be over,
00:34:06.860 and then
00:34:07.360 presumably,
00:34:09.120 they would
00:34:09.440 rebuild some
00:34:10.080 offensive
00:34:10.520 capabilities.
00:34:13.860 Anyway,
00:34:14.780 so Trump
00:34:15.440 is still
00:34:15.840 acting like
00:34:16.380 negotiations
00:34:17.200 are still
00:34:18.000 possible,
00:34:19.760 but it's
00:34:20.960 up to the
00:34:21.420 Europeans at
00:34:22.180 this point.
00:34:23.620 However,
00:34:24.700 some people
00:34:25.440 are saying
00:34:26.540 that Trump
00:34:27.480 isn't so
00:34:28.900 much expecting
00:34:30.160 the
00:34:30.680 negotiations
00:34:31.500 to work.
00:34:33.220 He's really
00:34:34.000 just buying
00:34:34.620 time for
00:34:35.640 the U.S.
00:34:36.220 to move
00:34:36.560 more assets
00:34:37.360 into the
00:34:38.300 theater,
00:34:39.500 as they
00:34:39.780 say.
00:34:41.100 Does that
00:34:41.480 sound right?
00:34:43.100 It might
00:34:43.700 be both.
00:34:44.880 So,
00:34:45.280 Trump might
00:34:45.880 be thinking,
00:34:47.020 well,
00:34:47.320 you know,
00:34:48.320 there's some
00:34:48.880 possibility
00:34:49.600 the negotiations
00:34:50.580 will work,
00:34:51.480 so might
00:34:52.180 as well give
00:34:52.600 it a few
00:34:52.960 weeks.
00:34:53.760 At the
00:34:54.360 same time,
00:34:55.000 he might
00:34:55.280 be thinking,
00:34:56.040 well,
00:34:57.280 you know,
00:34:57.580 if I had
00:34:57.940 another week
00:34:58.500 or two,
00:34:59.440 we could
00:34:59.860 get a few
00:35:00.380 more,
00:35:00.840 I don't
00:35:01.640 know,
00:35:02.340 naval ships
00:35:03.400 in the
00:35:03.760 area or
00:35:04.520 some more
00:35:05.320 ammunition or
00:35:08.000 something.
00:35:09.280 So,
00:35:09.760 probably waiting
00:35:10.560 makes sense.
00:35:11.680 But also,
00:35:13.020 it could be
00:35:14.060 that Israel
00:35:14.800 is planning
00:35:15.420 a ground
00:35:16.880 attack on
00:35:18.440 Fordow,
00:35:19.520 which is a
00:35:20.120 place that
00:35:20.680 we're looking
00:35:21.100 at, you know,
00:35:21.900 as bunker
00:35:22.300 busters.
00:35:22.700 so maybe
00:35:25.320 if you
00:35:26.000 wait two
00:35:26.500 weeks,
00:35:27.240 we will
00:35:27.840 know if
00:35:28.400 Israel can
00:35:29.400 get in
00:35:29.860 the front
00:35:30.240 door of
00:35:31.500 these
00:35:31.900 underground
00:35:32.700 bunkers if
00:35:34.140 they have
00:35:35.080 boots on
00:35:35.620 the ground
00:35:36.140 limited.
00:35:37.200 It'd be like
00:35:37.760 special forces.
00:35:40.160 And just
00:35:41.020 do that one
00:35:41.660 job and
00:35:42.180 then presumably
00:35:43.380 go home as
00:35:44.320 soon as
00:35:44.580 they're done.
00:35:46.460 So,
00:35:47.500 so we've
00:35:49.580 got at least
00:35:50.100 two or three
00:35:51.120 things that
00:35:51.720 might be
00:35:52.060 happening in
00:35:52.680 two weeks.
00:35:54.260 More assets
00:35:55.400 getting into
00:35:56.080 the war zone
00:35:56.760 for the
00:35:57.200 U.S.
00:35:58.600 Israel
00:35:59.160 potentially
00:36:00.100 making their
00:36:00.920 own ground
00:36:01.440 attack on
00:36:02.440 Fordow and
00:36:03.380 the other
00:36:03.680 one.
00:36:04.820 And maybe
00:36:06.040 negotiations
00:36:06.960 that might
00:36:08.640 lead to
00:36:09.060 something.
00:36:09.920 So,
00:36:10.240 that's probably
00:36:10.660 all happening.
00:36:12.580 Trust and
00:36:13.020 safety is
00:36:13.560 becoming a
00:36:14.300 key driver of
00:36:15.580 customer
00:36:15.980 experience,
00:36:16.940 influencing how
00:36:17.840 users engage,
00:36:19.100 how safe they
00:36:19.820 feel, and
00:36:20.440 ultimately how
00:36:21.460 likely they
00:36:22.100 are to
00:36:22.520 return.
00:36:23.300 Because, I
00:36:23.920 don't know
00:36:24.180 about you,
00:36:24.740 but if I've
00:36:25.340 had too many
00:36:25.920 bad experiences
00:36:26.920 on a
00:36:27.300 platform, I'm
00:36:28.300 definitely not
00:36:29.220 rushing back for
00:36:29.940 more.
00:36:30.320 This is the
00:36:30.840 intersection we're
00:36:31.820 here to
00:36:32.180 explore today.
00:36:33.080 Tap to keep
00:36:34.120 listening to how
00:36:34.780 trust and safety
00:36:35.620 redefined CX for
00:36:36.920 brands like
00:36:37.520 TikTok,
00:36:38.120 Trustpilot,
00:36:38.780 and more.
00:36:39.600 A conversation
00:36:40.520 with InTouchCX.
00:36:41.900 New York
00:36:44.420 Post has a
00:36:45.960 story about
00:36:46.500 how all
00:36:47.580 the once
00:36:48.680 devoted
00:36:49.480 Iranian
00:36:50.120 proxies,
00:36:51.100 as they
00:36:51.480 call them,
00:36:52.760 are all
00:36:54.240 out of the
00:36:56.000 fight.
00:36:57.420 So, are
00:36:58.160 you surprised
00:36:59.060 that the
00:37:00.880 Hezbollah
00:37:01.840 and Hamas
00:37:02.600 and the
00:37:02.920 Houthis and
00:37:03.620 the Shiite
00:37:04.240 militia are
00:37:06.700 sort of
00:37:07.320 sending this
00:37:08.220 one out?
00:37:08.740 It does
00:37:12.360 suggest that
00:37:13.580 Israel did
00:37:14.280 a heck of a
00:37:15.340 good job in
00:37:16.980 suppressing
00:37:17.540 them, and I
00:37:18.220 guess the
00:37:18.660 U.S. did a
00:37:19.260 good job with
00:37:19.820 the Houthis.
00:37:21.460 Maybe they
00:37:22.080 just don't
00:37:22.760 have the
00:37:23.320 assets, maybe
00:37:24.500 they just
00:37:24.900 don't have the
00:37:25.720 possibility of
00:37:27.260 helping much,
00:37:27.980 so they're just
00:37:28.460 going to try
00:37:29.300 to sit it
00:37:30.520 out and
00:37:30.940 survive.
00:37:33.220 But I
00:37:33.780 would say the
00:37:34.280 same thing
00:37:34.720 about the
00:37:35.080 proxies that
00:37:36.640 I'm saying
00:37:37.020 about Iran.
00:37:37.660 for them
00:37:39.140 to win,
00:37:39.800 they only
00:37:40.100 have to
00:37:40.460 survive.
00:37:42.340 Because even
00:37:43.980 though Hezbollah
00:37:44.700 is acting
00:37:45.400 like they
00:37:46.460 don't want
00:37:46.820 to attack
00:37:47.300 Israel,
00:37:48.880 they could
00:37:49.600 change their
00:37:50.180 mind once
00:37:51.600 they built
00:37:52.040 up more
00:37:53.040 resources.
00:37:54.980 But it
00:37:55.660 does look
00:37:56.080 like Iran
00:37:57.020 is going
00:37:57.380 to be
00:37:58.100 sucking for
00:37:59.680 money.
00:38:01.120 I don't
00:38:01.500 think they're
00:38:01.940 going to
00:38:02.060 have much
00:38:02.480 money for
00:38:03.840 their proxies.
00:38:05.940 so making
00:38:08.180 Iran run
00:38:08.840 out of
00:38:09.100 money might
00:38:09.580 be the
00:38:10.000 only way
00:38:10.720 you can
00:38:11.040 keep them
00:38:11.560 weak enough
00:38:12.400 to not
00:38:13.400 be a risk.
00:38:17.360 Now,
00:38:17.860 if anybody
00:38:19.060 is new
00:38:19.520 to my
00:38:19.920 podcast,
00:38:21.260 I remind
00:38:21.920 you that
00:38:22.640 what I'm
00:38:23.700 talking about
00:38:24.240 is predictions
00:38:25.080 and observations.
00:38:27.000 So I'm
00:38:27.540 not taking
00:38:28.080 sides,
00:38:29.580 and I'm
00:38:30.100 not making
00:38:30.580 moral or
00:38:31.420 ethical
00:38:31.900 judgments,
00:38:32.480 and I
00:38:33.660 certainly
00:38:34.080 don't know
00:38:34.780 the military
00:38:36.700 ins and
00:38:37.240 outs.
00:38:39.460 But just
00:38:40.220 looking at
00:38:41.620 it as an
00:38:42.100 observer,
00:38:42.920 trying to
00:38:43.280 figure out,
00:38:43.960 all right,
00:38:44.220 what's going
00:38:44.660 on here?
00:38:45.700 What do we
00:38:46.220 expect?
00:38:48.080 All right,
00:38:48.480 another topic
00:38:49.380 over on
00:38:50.440 Politico.
00:38:52.380 There are
00:38:53.380 unnamed
00:38:54.100 Democrat
00:38:54.960 people who
00:38:56.580 are criticizing
00:38:57.520 their own
00:38:58.020 team,
00:38:58.340 and they're
00:39:00.000 calling
00:39:00.300 the DNC
00:39:01.520 chairman,
00:39:02.600 Ken Martin,
00:39:04.020 weak,
00:39:05.180 whiny,
00:39:05.700 and invisible.
00:39:08.500 That does
00:39:09.400 sound exactly
00:39:10.180 like what
00:39:10.880 we're seeing,
00:39:12.280 that Ken
00:39:13.160 Martin guy.
00:39:14.260 He does
00:39:14.620 seem weak,
00:39:15.380 whiny,
00:39:15.740 and invisible.
00:39:18.260 And he's
00:39:19.120 had quite a
00:39:20.020 bit of
00:39:20.320 drama.
00:39:21.520 But here's
00:39:23.980 another quote
00:39:24.820 from the same
00:39:25.520 article.
00:39:25.900 Many DNC
00:39:27.920 members and
00:39:28.500 outside Democrats,
00:39:29.580 including Martin's
00:39:30.480 supporters,
00:39:31.420 said they
00:39:32.140 wished the
00:39:32.720 party would
00:39:33.400 just move
00:39:33.960 on from
00:39:34.520 recent internal
00:39:35.580 turmoil and
00:39:36.920 focus instead
00:39:38.100 on mounting
00:39:39.160 an effective
00:39:39.800 fight against
00:39:40.700 Trump.
00:39:42.180 An effective
00:39:43.400 fight against
00:39:44.220 Trump?
00:39:46.160 You mean
00:39:47.280 fighting the
00:39:48.820 80% of the
00:39:50.040 country who
00:39:50.660 agrees with
00:39:51.240 him?
00:39:52.920 How much
00:39:54.060 of a
00:39:54.560 loser
00:39:55.360 strategy
00:39:55.900 could you
00:39:57.620 possibly have?
00:40:00.500 I mean,
00:40:00.780 just think
00:40:01.140 about that.
00:40:02.380 The Democrats
00:40:03.260 are just
00:40:04.040 decomposing and
00:40:05.560 falling apart
00:40:06.280 and they've
00:40:07.640 got all kinds
00:40:08.200 of turmoil.
00:40:09.040 They don't
00:40:09.280 have a
00:40:09.600 leader.
00:40:10.200 They've
00:40:10.360 got all
00:40:10.620 these
00:40:10.880 problems.
00:40:12.260 And then
00:40:12.520 when you
00:40:12.820 ask the
00:40:13.440 brightest,
00:40:14.960 most
00:40:15.360 informed,
00:40:16.680 most involved
00:40:17.640 Democrats,
00:40:19.100 what do we
00:40:19.600 need to do?
00:40:20.880 The Democrats,
00:40:21.920 what do they
00:40:22.240 need to do?
00:40:22.780 The answer
00:40:24.000 is they
00:40:25.140 need to
00:40:25.640 mount a
00:40:26.200 more effective
00:40:26.840 fight against
00:40:27.800 Trump.
00:40:29.420 Trump got
00:40:30.320 elected because
00:40:31.960 people wanted
00:40:32.920 more of his
00:40:33.580 stuff.
00:40:36.240 When they
00:40:37.900 say they
00:40:38.320 want to
00:40:38.640 fight Trump
00:40:39.340 and they
00:40:40.200 don't say,
00:40:41.380 you know,
00:40:41.880 we want to
00:40:42.340 help the
00:40:42.700 country or
00:40:43.380 help the
00:40:43.740 working class
00:40:44.600 or any of
00:40:44.940 that,
00:40:45.460 they're sort
00:40:46.340 of admitting
00:40:46.920 that they've
00:40:47.940 got nothing.
00:40:48.620 fighting Trump
00:40:51.040 is not
00:40:51.760 exactly what
00:40:52.840 anybody needs.
00:40:55.180 Even if you
00:40:56.120 thought he
00:40:56.520 was wrong,
00:40:57.880 you would
00:40:58.580 still say,
00:40:59.660 well,
00:41:00.520 you know,
00:41:00.800 we'd rather
00:41:01.280 do this
00:41:01.900 plan instead
00:41:02.660 of that
00:41:02.980 plan.
00:41:05.000 It's
00:41:05.640 unbelievable
00:41:06.260 that they
00:41:06.940 can't get
00:41:07.380 off the
00:41:07.860 fighting Trump
00:41:08.840 thing.
00:41:09.600 That's pure
00:41:10.320 TDS.
00:41:11.800 So it
00:41:12.400 seems that
00:41:12.920 TDS doesn't
00:41:14.100 just infect
00:41:15.020 individuals.
00:41:16.460 it's
00:41:18.240 infected the
00:41:19.240 entire
00:41:19.560 Democrat
00:41:20.080 party
00:41:21.120 because as
00:41:23.180 a party,
00:41:24.040 the way
00:41:25.000 they talk
00:41:25.600 is they've
00:41:26.280 got to
00:41:26.540 defeat
00:41:26.880 Trump.
00:41:27.880 That's
00:41:28.480 just TDS.
00:41:29.940 That's not
00:41:30.360 even politics.
00:41:32.960 But,
00:41:33.900 and even
00:41:34.700 Randy
00:41:35.200 Weingarten,
00:41:36.360 who was
00:41:36.960 a member
00:41:37.680 of the
00:41:38.240 DNC,
00:41:39.560 she was
00:41:39.780 on some
00:41:40.140 board,
00:41:41.720 she recently
00:41:42.620 quit and
00:41:44.280 when asked
00:41:44.760 why,
00:41:45.260 she said
00:41:45.780 she wants
00:41:47.680 the
00:41:47.860 Democratic
00:41:48.200 Party to
00:41:48.820 work for
00:41:49.380 working
00:41:49.860 families.
00:41:51.700 And she
00:41:52.180 said that's
00:41:52.680 what FDR
00:41:53.260 did,
00:41:53.860 that's what
00:41:54.220 Joe Biden
00:41:54.720 did,
00:41:55.420 and that's
00:41:56.100 what we
00:41:56.420 should expect
00:41:57.120 from the
00:41:57.540 party.
00:41:58.380 So even
00:41:59.000 Randy
00:41:59.540 Weingarten,
00:42:00.580 the head
00:42:01.020 of the
00:42:01.340 biggest
00:42:01.640 teachers
00:42:02.160 union,
00:42:03.680 and,
00:42:04.400 you know,
00:42:04.660 one of the
00:42:05.180 biggest
00:42:05.600 Democratic
00:42:06.380 supporters,
00:42:07.620 is completely
00:42:08.880 aware that
00:42:09.500 the party
00:42:09.940 is not
00:42:10.340 even
00:42:10.580 focusing
00:42:11.120 on the
00:42:12.500 main
00:42:12.840 people that
00:42:13.520 they would
00:42:14.020 need to
00:42:14.320 focus on
00:42:14.960 to get
00:42:15.920 back in
00:42:16.280 power,
00:42:17.340 the working
00:42:17.940 class.
00:42:20.720 And then
00:42:21.640 James Carville,
00:42:23.280 who remains
00:42:26.260 entertaining,
00:42:27.540 but he is
00:42:28.680 one of the
00:42:29.120 only Democrats
00:42:30.000 who understands
00:42:30.780 what's going
00:42:31.400 on.
00:42:31.940 I have to
00:42:32.420 say,
00:42:33.320 as entertaining
00:42:34.280 as he is
00:42:35.020 and provocative
00:42:35.740 as he is,
00:42:37.040 he at least
00:42:37.760 understands
00:42:38.820 what's going
00:42:39.760 on.
00:42:41.020 And he
00:42:41.500 says that,
00:42:42.620 he said,
00:42:43.480 quote,
00:42:43.720 among other
00:42:44.460 things,
00:42:44.900 he was on
00:42:45.240 a podcast,
00:42:46.460 he said,
00:42:46.800 let's face
00:42:47.300 it,
00:42:47.680 Democrats
00:42:48.220 acted like
00:42:49.220 these people
00:42:49.900 didn't exist.
00:42:50.800 He's talking
00:42:51.220 about the
00:42:51.560 working class.
00:42:53.160 They just
00:42:53.980 did.
00:42:54.820 And don't
00:42:57.520 come back
00:42:57.920 and say,
00:43:00.160 oh,
00:43:00.340 he says,
00:43:00.700 we act like
00:43:01.320 working class,
00:43:02.280 particularly
00:43:02.700 working class
00:43:03.560 non-college
00:43:04.440 whites were
00:43:05.580 not part of
00:43:06.340 our too
00:43:06.860 cool for
00:43:07.500 school group.
00:43:08.460 and Carville
00:43:11.580 says there
00:43:12.580 were some
00:43:12.900 real high-end
00:43:13.620 people that
00:43:14.400 kind of
00:43:15.200 bought into
00:43:15.800 that shite.
00:43:17.900 So,
00:43:18.700 is he
00:43:19.100 right?
00:43:20.080 I think
00:43:20.920 so,
00:43:21.960 because I
00:43:22.500 do not
00:43:22.920 remember the
00:43:23.580 Democrats
00:43:24.240 really doing
00:43:26.400 anything that
00:43:27.380 would address
00:43:28.020 the working
00:43:28.620 class,
00:43:29.480 but Trump
00:43:30.660 continually
00:43:31.600 did.
00:43:32.540 He was
00:43:32.860 talking about
00:43:33.440 bringing back
00:43:34.020 manufacturing
00:43:34.800 and,
00:43:35.400 you know,
00:43:36.320 lowering their
00:43:36.920 taxes and
00:43:37.620 stuff.
00:43:38.120 You know,
00:43:38.300 even if you
00:43:38.860 don't believe
00:43:39.440 he would do
00:43:39.980 those things,
00:43:40.940 at least he
00:43:41.960 was focusing
00:43:42.620 on it.
00:43:43.940 And the
00:43:45.020 working class
00:43:45.900 responded.
00:43:47.400 You know,
00:43:47.600 they moved
00:43:48.540 to him because
00:43:49.180 he was saying
00:43:49.680 the things
00:43:50.140 they wanted
00:43:50.520 him to say.
00:43:54.500 Meanwhile,
00:43:55.700 over at
00:43:57.080 MSNBC was
00:43:58.160 the chief
00:43:59.220 strategist
00:44:00.160 for Mitt
00:44:00.740 Romney.
00:44:02.500 The chief
00:44:03.420 strategist
00:44:04.180 for Mitt
00:44:04.640 Romney.
00:44:05.620 Now,
00:44:05.960 that should
00:44:06.280 be a
00:44:06.640 disqualifying
00:44:07.680 job.
00:44:09.700 Like,
00:44:10.160 who are we
00:44:10.720 going to
00:44:10.960 get to
00:44:11.360 put on
00:44:11.700 TV?
00:44:12.800 How about
00:44:13.180 the chief
00:44:13.940 strategist
00:44:14.680 for Mitt
00:44:15.160 Romney?
00:44:17.200 That's not
00:44:17.940 much of a
00:44:18.440 resume right
00:44:19.020 there.
00:44:19.600 Anyway,
00:44:21.580 his name
00:44:22.280 is Stuart
00:44:23.180 Stevens.
00:44:23.880 He was
00:44:24.140 on MSNBC.
00:44:25.600 And he
00:44:25.940 said,
00:44:26.340 among other
00:44:26.720 things,
00:44:27.500 that Trump
00:44:28.080 is the
00:44:28.420 most dangerous
00:44:29.140 president
00:44:29.760 since the
00:44:30.520 Civil War.
00:44:32.740 Huh.
00:44:33.860 The most
00:44:34.540 dangerous
00:44:35.140 president
00:44:35.700 since the
00:44:36.440 Civil War.
00:44:39.740 Is
00:44:40.460 Stuart
00:44:41.740 Stevens
00:44:42.240 saying that
00:44:44.000 slavery was
00:44:45.300 good?
00:44:47.340 Sort of
00:44:48.140 indirectly?
00:44:49.600 Like,
00:44:49.960 why would
00:44:50.360 you make
00:44:51.500 the cutoff,
00:44:52.960 the Civil
00:44:53.420 War?
00:44:54.840 Because the
00:44:55.560 Civil War
00:44:56.320 seems like
00:44:58.440 that was when
00:44:59.340 Abe Lincoln
00:45:00.000 was trying
00:45:01.100 to end
00:45:01.560 slavery?
00:45:03.520 So,
00:45:04.760 was Abe
00:45:05.740 Lincoln the
00:45:06.340 most dangerous
00:45:07.060 president who
00:45:07.880 wasn't
00:45:08.240 Trump?
00:45:10.080 Why in
00:45:10.800 the world
00:45:11.160 would that
00:45:11.660 be where
00:45:12.240 you'd put
00:45:13.540 your stick
00:45:14.120 in the
00:45:14.420 sand and
00:45:14.940 say,
00:45:15.640 oh,
00:45:16.140 Trump is
00:45:16.640 the most
00:45:16.940 dangerous
00:45:17.420 since the
00:45:18.400 Civil War?
00:45:21.140 That's a
00:45:21.980 little weird
00:45:23.040 and crazy.
00:45:24.400 So,
00:45:24.940 I don't think
00:45:25.580 he's in
00:45:25.980 favor of
00:45:26.460 slavery,
00:45:27.580 but his
00:45:28.260 quote makes
00:45:29.600 it sound
00:45:30.000 like he
00:45:30.460 is.
00:45:32.160 And I
00:45:32.940 guess that's
00:45:33.380 what it
00:45:33.660 takes to
00:45:34.140 become a
00:45:34.600 chief
00:45:35.200 strategist
00:45:35.880 for Mitt
00:45:36.360 Romney.
00:45:38.440 Good job.
00:45:40.580 Anyway.
00:45:42.240 So,
00:45:43.020 here's the
00:45:43.660 summary
00:45:46.060 of what
00:45:48.380 Trump is
00:45:49.680 doing
00:45:50.020 authoritarian-wise.
00:45:53.480 So,
00:45:55.780 every day
00:45:57.440 Trump wakes
00:45:58.700 up,
00:45:59.320 at least
00:45:59.780 lately,
00:46:01.720 and he
00:46:02.320 tries to
00:46:02.800 figure out
00:46:03.380 how to
00:46:04.480 minimize the
00:46:05.620 authoritarian
00:46:06.360 regime in
00:46:07.660 Iran,
00:46:09.520 and maybe
00:46:10.200 the authoritarian
00:46:11.040 regime in
00:46:12.120 Russia,
00:46:14.180 or at least
00:46:14.920 figure out
00:46:15.400 how to
00:46:15.580 deal with
00:46:15.940 them.
00:46:17.600 And while
00:46:18.640 Trump is
00:46:19.200 trying to
00:46:19.760 reduce the
00:46:20.700 impact of
00:46:21.660 authoritarian
00:46:22.460 regimes,
00:46:23.480 the Democrats
00:46:25.120 have decided
00:46:25.780 that Trump
00:46:26.320 himself is
00:46:27.260 the
00:46:27.480 authoritarian
00:46:27.980 regime.
00:46:30.820 Now,
00:46:31.440 how in
00:46:31.820 the world
00:46:32.140 did we
00:46:32.480 get to
00:46:32.780 this place
00:46:33.460 where
00:46:34.900 there's a
00:46:35.960 whole bunch
00:46:36.180 of TDS
00:46:36.780 people who
00:46:37.660 have decided
00:46:38.240 that for
00:46:39.400 all kinds
00:46:40.080 of invisible
00:46:40.820 reasons,
00:46:42.220 Trump is
00:46:42.660 an authoritarian.
00:46:44.120 And if you
00:46:44.660 ask somebody
00:46:45.220 in the street,
00:46:46.240 well,
00:46:46.500 what did he
00:46:47.040 do that
00:46:47.480 was so
00:46:47.900 authoritarian?
00:46:49.420 Well,
00:46:49.900 he's shipping
00:46:51.020 back the
00:46:51.880 people who
00:46:52.980 are in
00:46:53.260 this country
00:46:53.780 illegally.
00:46:55.120 You mean
00:46:55.680 he's following
00:46:56.500 the existing
00:46:57.420 law, but
00:46:59.000 he's doing
00:46:59.460 far less
00:47:00.160 of it than
00:47:00.680 Obama did.
00:47:02.180 So that's
00:47:03.180 the authoritarian
00:47:03.820 thing he's
00:47:04.580 doing?
00:47:05.480 Yes.
00:47:07.680 What else?
00:47:09.240 Well, he's
00:47:09.940 doing a bunch
00:47:10.520 of executive
00:47:11.240 orders.
00:47:13.180 Okay.
00:47:14.900 Didn't every
00:47:15.780 president do
00:47:16.580 executive orders?
00:47:17.880 Yes, but he's
00:47:18.620 doing more
00:47:19.160 of them.
00:47:19.580 Okay.
00:47:21.660 How many
00:47:22.320 of those
00:47:22.700 executive orders
00:47:23.760 are things
00:47:24.740 that the
00:47:25.260 public,
00:47:26.100 by a majority,
00:47:27.900 doesn't want?
00:47:29.660 And the
00:47:29.980 answer is,
00:47:30.780 okay,
00:47:33.540 almost everything
00:47:34.960 he does
00:47:35.460 by executive
00:47:36.500 order is
00:47:37.700 something that
00:47:38.280 a majority
00:47:38.800 of the public
00:47:39.360 wants.
00:47:40.260 Is that
00:47:40.780 authoritarian,
00:47:42.480 or is that
00:47:43.620 just giving
00:47:44.100 the public
00:47:44.740 what they
00:47:45.940 want,
00:47:46.820 what they're
00:47:47.520 asking for?
00:47:48.100 And then
00:47:50.320 some of
00:47:51.320 the executive
00:47:51.920 orders might
00:47:53.180 be reaching
00:47:54.180 too far and
00:47:55.320 things that a
00:47:57.040 president shouldn't
00:47:57.820 be doing,
00:47:59.000 and then they
00:47:59.600 go to court,
00:48:00.740 and then the
00:48:01.820 court decides
00:48:02.940 whether he can
00:48:03.500 do it,
00:48:04.300 and then he
00:48:05.460 obeys the
00:48:06.360 court.
00:48:07.860 Are there
00:48:08.520 a bunch of
00:48:09.980 examples where
00:48:11.020 Trump is not
00:48:11.800 obeying the
00:48:12.360 court?
00:48:13.140 The only one I
00:48:14.300 can think of
00:48:15.140 is sort of a
00:48:16.060 gray area.
00:48:16.780 that had to
00:48:18.000 do with that
00:48:18.520 Maryland dad
00:48:19.500 who was
00:48:20.020 shipped off to
00:48:22.340 the El Salvador
00:48:23.640 jail, and
00:48:25.060 even he got
00:48:25.880 shipped back.
00:48:27.720 Now, you
00:48:28.260 might not like
00:48:28.900 how that
00:48:29.200 process worked,
00:48:30.260 and I can
00:48:30.600 understand that,
00:48:32.120 but is that
00:48:33.180 it?
00:48:34.420 The Maryland
00:48:35.320 dad, the
00:48:35.940 MS-13,
00:48:37.300 accused MS-13
00:48:38.620 guy, that's
00:48:40.240 the one
00:48:40.660 authoritarian
00:48:41.180 thing he's
00:48:42.000 doing?
00:48:42.660 That's it?
00:48:43.400 Yeah, so
00:48:47.860 it's a weird
00:48:48.780 argument that
00:48:49.440 he's authoritarian.
00:48:50.680 I like
00:48:51.240 Trump's
00:48:51.960 response to
00:48:53.100 that, where
00:48:55.300 he points out
00:48:56.020 how difficult
00:48:57.260 it is for
00:48:58.040 him as
00:48:58.440 president to
00:48:59.080 get anything
00:48:59.760 done, because
00:49:01.200 he's got
00:49:02.000 resistance in
00:49:03.500 his own
00:49:03.840 party.
00:49:05.400 Right now,
00:49:06.340 the MAGA
00:49:06.920 people are
00:49:07.520 divided on
00:49:08.540 what to do
00:49:09.160 about Iran,
00:49:10.340 so that's a
00:49:11.320 limitation.
00:49:11.900 And then
00:49:13.700 he's got,
00:49:14.340 of course,
00:49:14.780 the Democrats
00:49:15.480 are law
00:49:16.520 faring him
00:49:17.100 on every
00:49:17.680 single thing,
00:49:18.980 and Congress
00:49:20.960 is useless,
00:49:22.100 he can't
00:49:22.500 really get
00:49:22.880 them to
00:49:23.160 vote for
00:49:23.520 anything.
00:49:25.000 So his
00:49:26.240 argument that
00:49:27.200 if he were
00:49:28.460 a king, he
00:49:29.240 could get
00:49:29.660 things done,
00:49:30.620 but it's
00:49:31.480 just hard to
00:49:31.980 get anything
00:49:32.420 done in
00:49:32.880 America, it's
00:49:33.800 a pretty good
00:49:34.320 argument, pretty
00:49:35.460 good.
00:49:36.300 So the
00:49:36.780 Democrats have
00:49:37.580 teased
00:49:38.060 themselves into
00:49:39.380 thinking that
00:49:41.040 Trump's
00:49:41.760 entire day
00:49:42.660 of fighting
00:49:43.400 authoritarian
00:49:44.240 regimes such
00:49:45.440 as Iran
00:49:46.060 are not
00:49:48.560 really anything,
00:49:49.920 and the
00:49:50.260 real problem
00:49:50.760 is his
00:49:52.000 own
00:49:52.260 authoritarian
00:49:52.800 ways that
00:49:54.200 they can't
00:49:54.900 quite come
00:49:55.540 up with
00:49:55.880 examples of.
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00:50:23.620 Netanyahu,
00:50:24.680 talking about
00:50:25.600 Iran, said
00:50:27.420 that the
00:50:28.260 Iranian regime
00:50:29.300 may fall, but
00:50:30.420 that's for
00:50:31.000 Iranians to
00:50:31.940 decide.
00:50:33.240 Now, that's
00:50:34.620 of course what
00:50:35.980 you want to
00:50:36.400 say in public.
00:50:38.260 He says the
00:50:38.880 primary goal of
00:50:39.900 the wars to
00:50:40.540 remove the
00:50:41.040 nuclear threat,
00:50:42.420 secondly to
00:50:43.360 remove the
00:50:43.880 ballistic missile
00:50:44.800 threats, and
00:50:46.600 he said clearly
00:50:47.480 the regime will
00:50:48.560 be destabilized in
00:50:49.800 the process, but
00:50:50.700 it's up to the
00:50:51.420 public and
00:50:53.540 Iran whether
00:50:54.080 they want to
00:50:54.640 change things.
00:50:56.680 I don't think
00:50:57.580 they will.
00:50:59.380 I'm not seeing
00:51:00.160 anything that
00:51:03.360 was suggested
00:51:03.960 Iran is going
00:51:04.760 to change
00:51:05.380 its government.
00:51:09.180 So I
00:51:11.300 wouldn't hold
00:51:11.660 my breath on
00:51:12.220 that.
00:51:14.240 Well, General
00:51:14.960 Flynn was on a
00:51:16.040 podcast in
00:51:17.520 which he
00:51:18.080 doesn't think
00:51:19.520 this is the
00:51:20.100 time for
00:51:20.960 Trump to
00:51:22.880 attack,
00:51:24.840 which is
00:51:25.840 notable because
00:51:26.920 he's a general
00:51:28.040 and he knows
00:51:28.600 what he's
00:51:28.880 talking about.
00:51:30.000 He was on
00:51:30.540 Benny Johnson's
00:51:31.700 podcast, and
00:51:33.440 he said,
00:51:34.920 General Flynn
00:51:35.480 said, no, do
00:51:36.880 not do it, Mr.
00:51:37.680 President.
00:51:38.260 Right now is
00:51:39.040 not the time.
00:51:40.700 Now, he's
00:51:41.300 talking about
00:51:42.060 using the
00:51:43.720 bunker busters.
00:51:46.220 He says,
00:51:46.980 don't lose
00:51:47.560 focus of why
00:51:48.600 you were
00:51:48.880 elected.
00:51:49.560 You have
00:51:50.160 options.
00:51:51.740 And as
00:51:53.340 General Flynn
00:51:54.020 points out,
00:51:55.540 that it's a
00:51:56.360 good strategy to
00:51:57.760 have the most
00:51:58.380 options you
00:51:59.220 could have
00:52:00.000 until the
00:52:00.480 last minute.
00:52:01.840 Now, that's a
00:52:02.400 really good
00:52:02.820 summary.
00:52:04.380 It also
00:52:04.900 explains Trump's
00:52:06.800 strategy pretty
00:52:07.800 well.
00:52:08.740 He wants the
00:52:09.420 most options
00:52:10.340 for the
00:52:11.740 longest period
00:52:12.600 of time.
00:52:14.300 The most
00:52:15.260 options for
00:52:16.160 the longest
00:52:16.660 period of
00:52:17.260 time.
00:52:17.700 And that's
00:52:18.020 what the
00:52:18.320 two-week
00:52:18.700 delay gets
00:52:19.300 them.
00:52:20.160 The two-week
00:52:20.920 delay creates
00:52:22.800 an option that
00:52:23.700 maybe Europe
00:52:24.620 will come up
00:52:26.740 with a deal
00:52:27.300 that the
00:52:27.780 U.S.
00:52:28.080 couldn't
00:52:28.380 come up
00:52:28.780 with.
00:52:29.700 Maybe the
00:52:30.660 Israeli forces
00:52:32.760 could do
00:52:33.700 something on
00:52:34.200 the ground
00:52:34.800 to get
00:52:35.560 into those
00:52:36.280 underground
00:52:37.420 bases.
00:52:39.280 So your
00:52:39.740 options will,
00:52:40.920 and then,
00:52:41.440 of course,
00:52:41.820 he's moving
00:52:42.300 more assets
00:52:42.960 into the
00:52:43.440 area that
00:52:43.960 increases
00:52:44.440 options.
00:52:45.860 So Trump
00:52:46.580 is very
00:52:47.120 much following
00:52:47.980 this plan
00:52:49.160 of keeping
00:52:51.680 the most
00:52:52.140 options open
00:52:53.080 until the
00:52:53.720 last minute.
00:52:55.100 So hearing
00:52:55.640 that summarized
00:52:57.000 by General
00:52:58.980 Flynn is
00:52:59.620 kind of
00:53:00.100 good for
00:53:02.260 my confidence.
00:53:04.960 So let's
00:53:05.800 see.
00:53:06.640 In other
00:53:07.420 news, I
00:53:09.620 saw a post
00:53:10.480 by Marina
00:53:11.360 Medvin, and
00:53:12.240 some other
00:53:12.580 people are
00:53:12.980 talking about
00:53:13.460 this, that
00:53:14.640 apparently there's
00:53:15.480 a writer for
00:53:16.500 the Washington
00:53:17.060 Post who
00:53:18.580 once worked
00:53:19.400 for Al Jazeera
00:53:20.560 who's posting
00:53:22.860 the exact
00:53:23.560 coordinates of
00:53:24.900 successful
00:53:25.560 Iranian missile
00:53:26.480 strikes in
00:53:27.140 Israel.
00:53:30.420 And the
00:53:31.220 problem with
00:53:31.680 that is that
00:53:32.960 if the
00:53:33.360 Iranians are
00:53:34.160 trying to
00:53:35.080 tune their
00:53:36.460 missiles to
00:53:38.780 be more
00:53:39.300 accurate,
00:53:40.180 that one of
00:53:40.940 the things
00:53:41.300 they would
00:53:41.640 want to
00:53:41.920 know is
00:53:42.380 the exact
00:53:42.940 place that
00:53:43.680 the existing
00:53:44.360 missiles hit.
00:53:45.140 So why
00:53:47.520 would the
00:53:48.160 Washington
00:53:48.540 Post feel
00:53:50.420 it necessary
00:53:51.060 to print
00:53:52.480 the, I
00:53:53.860 guess, the
00:53:54.240 GPS coordinates?
00:53:56.140 It's not
00:53:56.600 like if you,
00:53:57.340 it's not as
00:53:57.980 if when you
00:53:59.520 read the
00:54:00.200 newspaper, the
00:54:01.620 Washington
00:54:01.960 Post, it's
00:54:03.320 not like you're
00:54:03.980 going to say,
00:54:04.300 oh, uh-huh,
00:54:05.160 uh-huh, I
00:54:06.120 see the GPS
00:54:07.040 coordinates, now
00:54:08.100 I know more.
00:54:09.740 That would
00:54:10.380 have no value
00:54:11.480 to a consumer
00:54:13.140 of the
00:54:13.500 Washington
00:54:13.860 Post.
00:54:14.740 It would
00:54:15.360 only, it
00:54:17.160 would only
00:54:17.720 have value to
00:54:19.160 the people who
00:54:19.740 are firing the
00:54:20.520 missiles, so
00:54:21.980 they can know
00:54:22.540 how accurate
00:54:23.140 they are and
00:54:23.800 adjust accordingly.
00:54:26.360 Now, that's
00:54:27.040 one point of
00:54:27.700 view.
00:54:28.380 I think Bill
00:54:29.360 Ackman is
00:54:30.800 asking the same
00:54:31.580 questions, like,
00:54:32.420 why are you
00:54:32.800 doing that?
00:54:34.180 Is there a
00:54:35.000 reason?
00:54:36.560 Because if you
00:54:37.460 don't have a
00:54:38.040 reason for
00:54:38.660 printing the
00:54:39.380 exact GPS
00:54:40.320 coordinates of
00:54:41.220 the missile
00:54:41.700 landings, why
00:54:44.000 are you doing
00:54:44.420 it?
00:54:46.020 Now, others
00:54:46.900 have said,
00:54:47.840 pushing back on
00:54:48.640 that point of
00:54:49.260 view, that the
00:54:50.740 Iranians have
00:54:52.100 satellite imagery
00:54:53.260 and they can
00:54:54.660 tell what they
00:54:55.540 hit so that
00:54:56.820 it's not
00:54:57.300 actually news to
00:54:58.360 them.
00:54:59.620 But I would
00:55:00.200 ask, well, if
00:55:02.460 it doesn't help
00:55:03.160 the reader of
00:55:03.900 the Washington
00:55:04.420 Post, because
00:55:05.960 it's not like you
00:55:06.760 and I are going
00:55:07.320 to look at GPS
00:55:08.140 coordinates and
00:55:09.100 go, oh, okay,
00:55:10.280 yeah, it's
00:55:11.480 53424, yeah,
00:55:14.480 yeah, that's
00:55:14.960 what I thought.
00:55:16.080 So there's no
00:55:17.280 value to the
00:55:18.040 reader, and
00:55:20.040 if it were
00:55:20.620 true there's no
00:55:21.640 value to the
00:55:22.720 Iranian regime
00:55:23.720 firing the
00:55:24.380 rockets, why
00:55:26.680 would you do
00:55:27.160 it?
00:55:29.100 So it's sort
00:55:30.000 of an open
00:55:30.440 question.
00:55:30.940 So my
00:55:32.500 guess is that
00:55:34.300 Iran might
00:55:35.040 not have
00:55:35.720 the, you
00:55:36.720 know, the
00:55:37.060 ideal satellite
00:55:38.180 view of the
00:55:39.380 battlefield.
00:55:41.040 So I don't
00:55:41.920 know why
00:55:42.200 assets they
00:55:42.800 have, but
00:55:43.400 there's got to
00:55:44.780 be some
00:55:45.400 reason that
00:55:47.400 those are
00:55:48.280 included in the
00:55:49.080 Washington Post.
00:55:49.820 So former
00:55:56.000 Vice President
00:55:56.800 Mike Pence is
00:55:59.120 speaking up
00:55:59.720 about the
00:56:00.460 existential
00:56:02.220 identity crisis
00:56:03.740 that the
00:56:05.060 Trump supporters
00:56:05.980 and the
00:56:07.200 political right
00:56:08.980 is going
00:56:09.480 through.
00:56:10.620 Now, how
00:56:12.000 many of you
00:56:12.460 think that
00:56:13.280 there's some
00:56:13.700 kind of
00:56:14.080 permanent
00:56:14.760 Trump
00:56:16.760 supporters
00:56:17.480 split that's
00:56:18.380 happening that
00:56:19.860 will somehow
00:56:21.360 splinter the
00:56:22.680 party and
00:56:23.340 make everything
00:56:23.880 not work?
00:56:25.400 I don't see
00:56:26.760 that happening
00:56:27.400 because my
00:56:29.160 take on the
00:56:29.880 Republicans is
00:56:31.160 that they like
00:56:31.900 winning and
00:56:33.440 that Trump
00:56:33.980 likes winning.
00:56:36.040 So if Trump
00:56:37.000 figures out a
00:56:38.400 way to
00:56:39.140 Kobayashi
00:56:40.280 Maru this
00:56:41.020 situation,
00:56:41.940 which is
00:56:42.480 a Star Trek
00:56:43.200 reference to
00:56:44.560 coming up with
00:56:45.340 a non-obvious
00:56:47.500 solution,
00:56:48.380 to a
00:56:49.080 problem that
00:56:49.700 other people
00:56:50.260 can't figure
00:56:50.820 out how to
00:56:51.300 solve,
00:56:52.900 if Trump
00:56:53.680 somehow solves
00:56:54.800 this,
00:56:56.620 maybe by
00:56:57.560 the Europeans
00:56:58.420 coming up
00:56:59.080 with some
00:56:59.420 kind of
00:56:59.740 agreement for
00:57:00.680 rigorous
00:57:01.980 inspections of
00:57:03.300 Iran's
00:57:03.980 enrichment or
00:57:05.640 something,
00:57:06.480 if he manages
00:57:07.480 to solve
00:57:08.160 this,
00:57:09.280 will there be
00:57:10.000 any further
00:57:10.820 problems with
00:57:12.220 his coalition?
00:57:13.760 No.
00:57:14.640 It will be
00:57:15.120 one more thing
00:57:15.860 that they all
00:57:16.340 come together on.
00:57:17.120 It's like,
00:57:17.480 oh, okay.
00:57:18.800 I have to
00:57:19.340 admit I
00:57:19.800 didn't see
00:57:20.220 that solution
00:57:20.860 coming,
00:57:22.040 but look what
00:57:22.600 you did.
00:57:23.160 You did it
00:57:23.680 again.
00:57:24.960 So if it
00:57:25.940 works, there
00:57:27.460 will be no
00:57:28.300 division.
00:57:29.360 People will
00:57:29.940 just say,
00:57:30.680 damn it,
00:57:31.240 he's good.
00:57:32.620 I'm glad I
00:57:33.480 voted for him.
00:57:34.760 I did not see
00:57:35.620 that solution
00:57:36.280 coming, but
00:57:37.080 he made it
00:57:37.860 work.
00:57:39.580 That might
00:57:40.260 happen.
00:57:40.560 The other
00:57:41.600 possibility is
00:57:42.580 that everything
00:57:43.080 will go to
00:57:43.660 hell, in
00:57:45.960 which case,
00:57:46.720 it's not
00:57:47.120 like he's
00:57:47.540 running for
00:57:48.020 office again.
00:57:50.220 So if
00:57:50.880 everything goes
00:57:51.580 to hell,
00:57:52.060 then all
00:57:52.520 bets are
00:57:52.940 off.
00:57:53.900 But I
00:57:54.500 don't think
00:57:54.840 that's so
00:57:55.260 much an
00:57:55.920 existential
00:57:57.360 identity
00:57:58.520 crisis.
00:57:59.980 I think it's
00:58:00.700 just winning
00:58:01.480 is unifying
00:58:02.860 and losing
00:58:04.060 is disunifying.
00:58:05.560 because if
00:58:07.220 you look at
00:58:07.720 the Democrats,
00:58:09.480 their problem
00:58:10.260 is not that
00:58:11.040 they disagree
00:58:11.780 on strategy.
00:58:13.840 Their problem
00:58:14.680 is they
00:58:15.040 lost.
00:58:16.740 So losing
00:58:17.400 just drives
00:58:18.400 you apart
00:58:19.060 and winning
00:58:20.000 drives you
00:58:20.620 together.
00:58:21.580 So when
00:58:21.860 you're watching
00:58:22.420 what will
00:58:24.020 happen with
00:58:24.760 Trump's
00:58:25.520 supporters,
00:58:27.040 I think
00:58:27.760 Trump had
00:58:28.380 the right
00:58:28.720 take on
00:58:29.200 that,
00:58:30.040 which is
00:58:30.560 he said
00:58:31.060 his supporters
00:58:32.160 will support
00:58:32.940 his judgment,
00:58:35.060 basically.
00:58:35.560 And you
00:58:37.620 are seeing
00:58:38.100 a number
00:58:38.540 of people
00:58:38.940 say we
00:58:40.660 have to
00:58:41.140 trust
00:58:41.800 Trump.
00:58:43.100 He knows
00:58:43.600 more about
00:58:44.100 this situation
00:58:44.880 than we do.
00:58:45.660 Obviously,
00:58:46.220 he would have
00:58:46.720 all the
00:58:47.800 confidential
00:58:48.320 information
00:58:49.340 and stuff.
00:58:50.340 So I
00:58:52.000 am, I
00:58:53.300 think,
00:58:53.600 buying into
00:58:54.220 the notion
00:58:55.000 that if
00:58:56.240 Trump did
00:58:56.820 something that
00:58:57.500 I wouldn't
00:58:58.000 do, it
00:58:59.320 doesn't mean
00:58:59.960 that I'm
00:59:00.520 the one
00:59:00.840 who's right.
00:59:02.260 Does anyone
00:59:02.960 else have
00:59:03.500 that feeling?
00:59:04.340 that if
00:59:05.840 Trump did
00:59:06.440 something that
00:59:07.080 you wouldn't
00:59:07.740 do, and
00:59:09.040 you don't
00:59:09.440 know why
00:59:09.820 it makes
00:59:10.220 sense, that
00:59:12.280 you would
00:59:12.680 give him a
00:59:13.320 little bit
00:59:13.680 of a
00:59:14.280 break and
00:59:16.280 say, all
00:59:16.840 right, he
00:59:17.180 might know
00:59:17.560 more than
00:59:17.980 I do.
00:59:18.980 He might
00:59:19.580 be good
00:59:19.980 at this.
00:59:21.460 He might
00:59:22.100 be, you
00:59:23.280 know, sowing
00:59:23.780 some uncertainty
00:59:24.800 intentionally.
00:59:26.260 So I
00:59:29.320 do like
00:59:29.740 the fact
00:59:30.240 that Trump
00:59:30.980 has created
00:59:31.820 a situation
00:59:32.700 where people
00:59:34.260 who disagree
00:59:35.020 with him
00:59:35.520 on the
00:59:36.260 right are
00:59:37.340 still willing
00:59:37.920 to say,
00:59:38.380 you know
00:59:38.560 what, that's
00:59:39.840 not what I
00:59:40.380 would have
00:59:40.660 done, but
00:59:42.140 I'm going to
00:59:42.480 watch and see
00:59:43.120 how this
00:59:43.440 plays out.
00:59:45.780 That's a
00:59:46.400 really good
00:59:46.840 place to
00:59:47.340 be, by
00:59:48.660 the way.
00:59:50.040 That's sort
00:59:50.660 of the
00:59:50.880 ultimate
00:59:51.160 place to
00:59:52.020 be, because
00:59:53.520 you're not
00:59:54.040 going to have
00:59:54.340 a situation
00:59:54.980 where everybody
00:59:55.680 agrees, what's
00:59:57.080 the best
00:59:57.440 thing to do?
00:59:58.200 That's just
00:59:58.700 not possible.
01:00:00.760 So what
01:00:01.100 would be the
01:00:01.600 best in a
01:00:03.540 human situation
01:00:04.880 that you
01:00:05.320 could do?
01:00:06.140 The best
01:00:07.000 would be if
01:00:08.740 people say,
01:00:09.520 you know, I
01:00:09.960 wouldn't have
01:00:10.340 done that, but
01:00:11.660 I'm going to
01:00:11.940 let this play
01:00:12.540 out, because
01:00:14.040 he's smarter
01:00:14.580 than I am.
01:00:17.160 And I
01:00:17.860 think that's
01:00:18.320 true for a
01:00:19.880 lot of us.
01:00:21.040 He's smarter
01:00:21.760 than we are.
01:00:24.340 anyway, let's
01:00:28.060 see if you
01:00:28.440 can guess
01:00:29.180 this number.
01:00:30.880 According to
01:00:31.880 Secretary
01:00:33.420 Noem, 75%
01:00:36.440 of illegal
01:00:37.080 aliens arrested
01:00:38.060 under Trump
01:00:39.160 had committed
01:00:41.020 some kind
01:00:41.600 of a crime,
01:00:43.520 had been
01:00:44.040 convicted of
01:00:44.780 a crime.
01:00:46.840 Now, if
01:00:47.720 you're an
01:00:48.120 NPC, this
01:00:49.900 is where
01:00:50.240 you would
01:00:50.580 say,
01:00:51.260 Scott,
01:00:52.280 Scott,
01:00:52.960 because that's
01:00:53.580 how NPCs
01:00:54.400 talk.
01:00:55.060 They don't
01:00:55.380 talk like
01:00:55.940 regular.
01:00:56.700 They go,
01:00:57.020 Scott,
01:00:58.100 Scott,
01:00:59.320 they all
01:01:00.460 are criminals
01:01:01.120 because they
01:01:01.880 came into
01:01:02.320 the country
01:01:02.780 illegally.
01:01:04.160 They're all
01:01:04.660 criminals,
01:01:05.280 Scott,
01:01:05.840 Scott,
01:01:06.800 Scott.
01:01:08.000 So if
01:01:09.000 you're an
01:01:09.320 NPC, I'll
01:01:10.120 give you a
01:01:10.480 few minutes
01:01:10.980 to say the
01:01:12.320 most obvious
01:01:13.040 thing you
01:01:13.560 could say,
01:01:14.680 which is
01:01:15.160 whenever we
01:01:15.720 talk about
01:01:16.280 criminal
01:01:16.920 non-citizens,
01:01:19.140 you feel is
01:01:20.240 necessary to
01:01:21.060 remind us as
01:01:21.920 if we didn't
01:01:22.540 know that
01:01:23.660 coming into
01:01:24.220 the country
01:01:24.700 is itself
01:01:25.640 illegal.
01:01:28.000 So get
01:01:28.960 it out of
01:01:29.260 your system.
01:01:30.140 I know
01:01:30.480 some of
01:01:30.920 you need
01:01:31.260 to do
01:01:31.620 it.
01:01:32.820 So just
01:01:33.260 put it in
01:01:33.720 the comments.
01:01:34.720 Scott,
01:01:35.500 Scott,
01:01:36.320 they're all
01:01:36.860 criminals.
01:01:37.640 They're all
01:01:38.140 criminals.
01:01:38.940 I get it.
01:01:39.800 I get it.
01:01:42.180 Anyway,
01:01:43.000 25%
01:01:44.300 apparently
01:01:46.040 do not
01:01:46.740 fit the
01:01:47.280 category of
01:01:48.420 the worst
01:01:50.200 first.
01:01:51.460 So they
01:01:52.060 had not
01:01:52.460 been convicted
01:01:53.140 of crimes.
01:01:54.640 Now,
01:01:54.860 I don't
01:01:55.100 know if
01:01:55.540 committed
01:01:57.540 or convicted
01:01:59.260 of crimes
01:02:00.060 is the
01:02:00.760 right
01:02:00.940 standard
01:02:01.500 because
01:02:02.540 there you
01:02:04.100 go,
01:02:04.680 all caps.
01:02:05.900 Scott,
01:02:06.500 they are
01:02:06.800 all illegal.
01:02:08.160 The NPCs
01:02:09.200 are weighing
01:02:09.560 in on the
01:02:10.080 comments now.
01:02:11.720 Good for
01:02:12.140 you.
01:02:12.980 Good for
01:02:13.500 you,
01:02:13.780 NPCs.
01:02:16.520 But I
01:02:17.640 would point
01:02:18.040 out the
01:02:18.360 following.
01:02:19.000 It's
01:02:19.240 possible that
01:02:20.000 the 25%
01:02:21.620 who were
01:02:21.940 not
01:02:22.180 convicted
01:02:22.860 of a
01:02:23.320 crime
01:02:23.720 may be
01:02:25.860 all
01:02:26.060 tatted
01:02:26.460 up.
01:02:26.920 They
01:02:27.020 might be
01:02:27.380 associating
01:02:28.080 with
01:02:28.340 MS-13.
01:02:29.660 We might
01:02:30.360 know that
01:02:31.000 they're part
01:02:31.440 of a gang,
01:02:32.200 but they
01:02:32.620 haven't been
01:02:33.060 convicted
01:02:33.560 of it.
01:02:34.720 So I
01:02:35.240 don't know
01:02:35.580 if the
01:02:35.820 25%
01:02:36.880 are all
01:02:37.340 your
01:02:38.260 gardener
01:02:39.080 and your
01:02:39.700 hard-working
01:02:42.720 meatpacking
01:02:44.640 employee.
01:02:46.680 I don't
01:02:47.540 know if
01:02:47.840 it's
01:02:48.020 at.
01:02:48.940 But I
01:02:49.320 will say
01:02:49.940 that the
01:02:51.120 one thing
01:02:52.200 that the
01:02:52.780 Israel-Iran
01:02:54.020 war is
01:02:56.080 affecting
01:02:57.020 is it's
01:02:58.740 taking our
01:02:59.320 attention away
01:03:00.140 from other
01:03:00.620 stuff.
01:03:02.740 So the
01:03:03.560 Democrats,
01:03:04.700 who probably
01:03:05.600 would love
01:03:06.420 to spend
01:03:07.680 more time
01:03:08.260 talking about
01:03:08.840 the innocent,
01:03:10.060 good citizens
01:03:11.320 who are not
01:03:12.460 technically legal
01:03:13.680 residents of the
01:03:14.460 country,
01:03:15.460 they're being
01:03:16.000 abused by
01:03:16.740 the Trump
01:03:17.980 immigration
01:03:18.800 program.
01:03:20.560 But doesn't
01:03:21.720 it feel like
01:03:22.600 it doesn't
01:03:23.600 matter as
01:03:24.220 much?
01:03:25.880 It matters
01:03:26.820 as much as
01:03:27.460 it ever did,
01:03:28.380 but in our
01:03:29.500 minds,
01:03:30.520 because this
01:03:31.140 other thing
01:03:31.760 seems bigger,
01:03:33.140 like we might
01:03:33.960 get nuked
01:03:34.720 at some point,
01:03:35.940 it just seems
01:03:36.560 so much bigger.
01:03:37.720 We might put
01:03:38.540 boots on the
01:03:39.240 ground and
01:03:39.880 yet another
01:03:40.980 pointless war
01:03:42.400 in the Middle
01:03:42.780 East.
01:03:43.200 It's just so
01:03:43.740 much bigger
01:03:44.280 that the
01:03:46.640 whole immigration
01:03:47.520 thing, I
01:03:49.460 think Trump's
01:03:51.100 border people
01:03:52.980 are going to
01:03:53.420 get a little
01:03:53.780 bit of a
01:03:54.220 break, because
01:03:55.600 the news just
01:03:56.420 isn't going to
01:03:56.900 put much
01:03:57.540 attention on
01:03:58.220 it.
01:03:58.680 And what
01:03:59.300 people care
01:03:59.920 about is
01:04:01.180 what they
01:04:01.520 say in the
01:04:02.000 news.
01:04:02.800 If it's
01:04:03.440 not in the
01:04:03.960 news, people
01:04:05.680 will stop
01:04:06.460 protesting.
01:04:08.220 So all
01:04:09.740 the shelf
01:04:10.480 space of
01:04:11.120 the news is
01:04:11.760 getting used
01:04:12.300 up.
01:04:13.740 In other
01:04:15.180 news, Fox
01:04:16.220 Business is
01:04:16.940 reporting that
01:04:18.360 Republican Josh
01:04:20.760 Hawley is
01:04:22.500 pushing to
01:04:23.220 raise the
01:04:24.180 minimum wage
01:04:25.200 in those
01:04:25.940 states where
01:04:26.740 it's not
01:04:27.080 already raised.
01:04:28.280 So the
01:04:28.860 current federal
01:04:29.780 minimum wage
01:04:30.620 is $7.25.
01:04:32.580 He wants
01:04:32.980 that to go to
01:04:33.560 $15 per hour.
01:04:34.960 and Republicans
01:04:37.720 typically have
01:04:39.760 not been all
01:04:40.740 pro-raising
01:04:42.320 the minimum
01:04:44.080 wage, but
01:04:45.740 Josh Hawley
01:04:46.480 would be one
01:04:47.780 of the best
01:04:48.440 supporters of
01:04:49.620 President Trump.
01:04:51.220 He's about as
01:04:52.080 Republican as you
01:04:53.080 could possibly
01:04:53.640 get, and he's
01:04:55.000 the one
01:04:55.380 pushing it.
01:04:56.720 So I guess
01:04:58.400 Trump's
01:04:59.420 response when
01:05:01.940 asked about
01:05:02.480 it, because
01:05:03.440 this is
01:05:04.400 obviously not
01:05:05.880 typical Republican
01:05:07.040 stuff, but it's
01:05:08.100 coming from a
01:05:09.760 real Republican
01:05:10.540 pro-mega
01:05:12.380 kind of a
01:05:13.240 guy.
01:05:14.400 Trump says,
01:05:15.320 I haven't seen
01:05:15.880 it.
01:05:16.220 I'd have to
01:05:16.700 speak to
01:05:17.160 Josh.
01:05:17.780 He's a very
01:05:18.300 good friend of
01:05:18.980 mine, Trump
01:05:19.640 said.
01:05:20.760 And that's
01:05:21.920 interesting that
01:05:22.880 Josh did that.
01:05:24.000 You have to
01:05:24.360 think about
01:05:24.820 that one.
01:05:26.100 So how
01:05:27.880 about that?
01:05:30.220 How would
01:05:30.860 you like to
01:05:31.440 be so
01:05:32.720 credible that
01:05:35.020 when the
01:05:36.000 president hears
01:05:36.900 that you have
01:05:37.440 an idea that
01:05:38.240 probably his
01:05:39.240 first reflex
01:05:40.340 would be to
01:05:41.200 be against,
01:05:42.500 instead of
01:05:43.160 just reflexively
01:05:44.200 saying, hmm,
01:05:45.320 I don't like
01:05:45.840 that idea, he
01:05:47.300 says, that's
01:05:48.960 interesting that
01:05:49.780 Josh did that.
01:05:50.760 You have to
01:05:51.120 think about
01:05:51.620 that one.
01:05:53.280 Now that's
01:05:53.920 credibility
01:05:54.460 right there.
01:05:56.360 That's, if
01:05:57.400 you want to, if
01:05:58.380 you ever want
01:05:58.940 to be credible,
01:06:00.280 you want to
01:06:01.080 get to the
01:06:01.520 point where
01:06:02.380 somebody who's
01:06:03.280 reflex to
01:06:04.280 disagree with
01:06:05.080 you is
01:06:05.980 completely
01:06:06.440 deactivated
01:06:07.500 because you,
01:06:09.520 as an
01:06:09.940 individual, are
01:06:11.260 so credible.
01:06:13.040 That's what's
01:06:13.700 happening here.
01:06:14.740 So this is
01:06:15.260 another example
01:06:16.020 of, you
01:06:17.500 know, when
01:06:17.760 you think the
01:06:18.480 mega coalition
01:06:19.800 is falling
01:06:21.060 apart.
01:06:22.100 I think
01:06:22.920 Republicans are
01:06:23.900 way more
01:06:24.880 accepting of
01:06:27.360 alternative
01:06:29.480 opinions.
01:06:32.520 And this is
01:06:33.320 a good
01:06:33.560 example.
01:06:34.440 As long
01:06:34.980 as the
01:06:35.340 person is
01:06:36.900 credible and
01:06:38.360 you know that
01:06:38.940 they have the
01:06:39.500 best interest in
01:06:40.380 the country in
01:06:41.100 mind, then
01:06:42.340 you're willing to
01:06:42.960 listen to it.
01:06:44.140 So that sounds
01:06:45.060 like what Trump
01:06:45.780 is.
01:06:46.040 He's just
01:06:46.380 willing to
01:06:46.820 listen to the
01:06:47.340 argument.
01:06:48.520 Good answer.
01:06:49.960 Claudia was
01:06:50.740 leaving for her
01:06:51.360 pickleball tournament.
01:06:52.120 I've been
01:06:52.540 visualizing my
01:06:53.340 match all
01:06:54.000 week.
01:06:54.880 She was so
01:06:55.400 focused on
01:06:55.900 visualizing that
01:06:56.780 she didn't see
01:06:57.380 the column behind
01:06:58.040 her car on her
01:06:58.940 backhand side.
01:07:00.800 Good thing
01:07:01.480 Claudia's with
01:07:02.120 Intact, the
01:07:02.940 insurer with the
01:07:03.720 largest network of
01:07:04.600 auto service centers
01:07:05.400 in the country.
01:07:06.520 Everything was
01:07:07.040 taken care of
01:07:07.680 under one roof and
01:07:08.660 she was on her
01:07:09.220 way in a rental
01:07:09.760 car in no time.
01:07:10.960 I made it to
01:07:11.700 my tournament and
01:07:13.180 lost in the first
01:07:13.800 round.
01:07:14.380 But you got there
01:07:15.460 on time.
01:07:16.280 Intact Insurance,
01:07:17.460 your auto service
01:07:18.200 ace.
01:07:18.900 Certain conditions
01:07:19.440 apply.
01:07:19.820 All right.
01:07:22.340 According to
01:07:23.000 MIT, they've
01:07:26.180 found that AI
01:07:27.680 can rewrite
01:07:28.560 its own code
01:07:29.580 and that's
01:07:30.880 changing everything.
01:07:32.660 Now this is in
01:07:33.420 geeky gadgets.
01:07:36.860 Julian Horsey is
01:07:38.200 writing about
01:07:38.680 this.
01:07:39.500 So it's what
01:07:40.340 they call the
01:07:41.000 SEAL framework,
01:07:42.640 self-adapting
01:07:43.620 language models.
01:07:44.680 So what they're
01:07:45.800 doing is that
01:07:47.340 the AI will
01:07:49.800 sort of imagine
01:07:51.300 different scenarios
01:07:53.380 that aren't real
01:07:54.940 and that they
01:07:56.660 would call that
01:07:57.160 synthetic training
01:07:58.380 data and that
01:07:59.980 it would self-edit
01:08:01.360 and update its
01:08:02.280 internal parameters
01:08:03.340 based on the
01:08:05.980 synthetic training
01:08:07.180 data.
01:08:08.380 Now what would
01:08:09.040 be another name
01:08:09.920 for synthetic
01:08:11.300 training data?
01:08:12.540 Well, it would
01:08:14.400 be imagination.
01:08:16.260 It would be
01:08:16.660 imagination because
01:08:17.980 it's not based
01:08:18.600 on reality but
01:08:20.480 you perceive it
01:08:22.260 as if it's
01:08:23.100 reality but
01:08:24.140 you know it's
01:08:24.620 not.
01:08:26.540 And I would
01:08:27.500 only add,
01:08:28.780 I think that's
01:08:29.640 how humans
01:08:30.380 work.
01:08:31.620 When you're
01:08:32.320 thinking about
01:08:33.240 doing something
01:08:34.380 that, you
01:08:35.800 know, is not
01:08:36.260 routine, don't
01:08:37.960 you imagine all
01:08:39.000 of the outcomes?
01:08:39.720 And when you're
01:08:41.360 imagining all
01:08:42.240 the different
01:08:42.700 outcomes, is
01:08:44.220 that not you
01:08:45.160 using your
01:08:45.860 human brain for
01:08:47.540 what the AI
01:08:48.560 would call
01:08:49.140 synthetic training
01:08:50.740 data?
01:08:52.860 I do.
01:08:54.400 I mean, is
01:08:55.060 your brain
01:08:55.520 different than
01:08:56.120 mine?
01:08:57.400 If I'm
01:08:58.120 considering any
01:08:59.360 kind of big
01:09:00.240 move or anything
01:09:01.520 important, I
01:09:02.900 imagine it going
01:09:03.920 right, I imagine
01:09:05.420 it going wrong,
01:09:06.920 and I imagine
01:09:07.760 all the other
01:09:08.660 possibilities.
01:09:09.720 And each of
01:09:11.200 them are not
01:09:11.780 real.
01:09:12.700 They're synthetic
01:09:13.680 training data
01:09:16.440 from my own
01:09:17.440 brain.
01:09:18.240 And then, once
01:09:19.760 I've seen a
01:09:20.840 bunch of
01:09:21.360 synthetic
01:09:22.100 imaginary
01:09:23.560 possibilities,
01:09:25.560 that retrains
01:09:28.040 my brain for
01:09:30.140 whichever one of
01:09:30.980 those I think
01:09:31.800 is the most
01:09:32.560 likely or the
01:09:33.540 favored one or
01:09:35.040 whichever one
01:09:36.180 scares me the
01:09:36.940 most I want to
01:09:37.620 avoid the most,
01:09:38.440 et cetera.
01:09:38.720 But I feel
01:09:41.180 like this is
01:09:43.080 a perfect
01:09:44.440 description of
01:09:47.560 what a human
01:09:48.140 brain does.
01:09:49.360 It imagines
01:09:50.320 synthetic data,
01:09:52.000 and then it
01:09:52.800 rewrites your
01:09:54.360 own brain based
01:09:56.080 on your
01:09:56.600 imagination.
01:09:57.700 That's what
01:09:58.120 TDS is.
01:09:58.960 TDS is people
01:10:01.760 imagining this
01:10:03.180 authoritarian king,
01:10:05.980 and then they
01:10:06.840 rewrite their
01:10:07.480 brains, in this
01:10:08.640 case, into
01:10:09.260 mental illness.
01:10:10.640 So it's not
01:10:11.520 always good.
01:10:13.220 AI might have
01:10:14.260 the same
01:10:14.600 problems.
01:10:16.440 But it seems
01:10:17.920 to me that
01:10:18.840 imagination,
01:10:21.120 if it works
01:10:23.180 correctly, it
01:10:24.680 helps you make a
01:10:25.420 better decision.
01:10:26.140 But if your
01:10:27.820 imagination is
01:10:28.920 flawed, as it
01:10:30.780 is with the
01:10:31.400 authoritarian Trump
01:10:33.360 stuff, he's going
01:10:34.240 to be your king,
01:10:35.520 if your imagination
01:10:37.180 is flawed, which
01:10:39.700 you might call your
01:10:40.640 synthetic training
01:10:41.980 data, then you're
01:10:43.740 going to have
01:10:43.940 mental illness.
01:10:44.620 So I predict
01:10:47.600 that AI will
01:10:51.560 have mental
01:10:52.380 illness.
01:10:54.720 So that's my
01:10:55.800 prediction.
01:10:57.100 Mental illness.
01:10:59.000 And furthermore,
01:11:00.620 that the only way
01:11:01.420 to fix the
01:11:02.300 mental illness,
01:11:03.440 if it gives it
01:11:04.300 to itself by
01:11:05.740 creating synthetic
01:11:07.140 training data,
01:11:08.380 and then convincing
01:11:09.360 itself that it's
01:11:10.340 true, or acting
01:11:11.800 as though this is
01:11:13.400 reality, that
01:11:15.120 you're going to
01:11:15.580 need something
01:11:16.200 like an AI
01:11:17.240 therapist, that
01:11:19.400 you would have
01:11:19.900 to be a
01:11:20.980 separate AI, that
01:11:22.780 would work with
01:11:23.600 your AI to help
01:11:25.160 it with its
01:11:25.740 mental problems.
01:11:27.240 Because it's
01:11:28.000 imagining that a
01:11:29.640 king is going to
01:11:30.400 take over, or
01:11:31.380 it's imagining
01:11:32.620 that executive
01:11:34.500 orders are
01:11:35.520 authoritarian, or
01:11:36.760 something.
01:11:38.780 So that's
01:11:39.580 coming.
01:11:39.840 according to
01:11:43.520 Breitbart, Bob
01:11:46.100 Price is writing
01:11:46.980 about a
01:11:47.640 sophisticated
01:11:48.720 cross-border
01:11:49.900 tunnel that's
01:11:52.040 been found that
01:11:52.720 links San Diego
01:11:54.020 to Tijuana.
01:11:55.060 Apparently it's
01:11:55.560 just this massive
01:11:56.420 tunnel they
01:11:57.760 found, which
01:11:58.820 makes me ask the
01:12:00.360 following questions.
01:12:01.400 has not the
01:12:04.500 Trump administration
01:12:05.720 been bragging
01:12:07.720 about zero
01:12:08.520 people getting
01:12:10.380 across the
01:12:10.960 border, or
01:12:12.140 zero people
01:12:12.920 released?
01:12:14.400 I forget what
01:12:15.560 the exact phrase
01:12:16.780 is.
01:12:17.580 But how would
01:12:18.380 we know how
01:12:19.620 many people are
01:12:20.320 coming through
01:12:20.880 tunnels that we
01:12:21.980 haven't found?
01:12:23.620 Would we
01:12:24.520 know?
01:12:26.560 Now they're
01:12:27.360 thinking that this
01:12:29.380 tunnel is for
01:12:30.080 moving drugs,
01:12:31.640 because it had
01:12:32.140 like a railroad
01:12:33.380 component to
01:12:35.340 it, so it
01:12:35.920 looked like it
01:12:36.420 was for moving
01:12:37.260 large weights.
01:12:40.400 But if it
01:12:41.320 were moving
01:12:41.780 people, would
01:12:43.600 we even
01:12:44.020 know?
01:12:45.340 I don't know,
01:12:46.000 because we
01:12:47.040 didn't know about
01:12:47.640 this tunnel until
01:12:48.700 recently, so I
01:12:50.800 don't know if it
01:12:51.320 was functioning
01:12:52.020 actually.
01:12:53.180 But how many
01:12:54.200 tunnels are
01:12:54.940 there?
01:12:56.200 There must be a
01:12:57.020 lot of them.
01:12:57.680 There's got to be
01:12:58.200 at least one
01:12:58.800 tunnel for every
01:12:59.580 cartel.
01:13:03.760 Well, Wired
01:13:04.900 publication.
01:13:08.060 Reese Rogers is
01:13:09.020 talking about
01:13:09.620 Amazon is
01:13:11.260 upgrading their
01:13:13.660 A-L-E-X-A.
01:13:15.680 I won't say it
01:13:16.380 out loud because
01:13:17.080 it will activate
01:13:17.780 your devices at
01:13:18.860 home.
01:13:19.700 But the thing
01:13:20.980 that Amazon has
01:13:22.160 that you talk
01:13:22.760 to is using a
01:13:25.940 quote, staggering
01:13:26.760 amount of AI
01:13:27.720 tools to rewrite
01:13:29.400 it.
01:13:30.500 So here's the
01:13:32.200 advantage of being
01:13:33.200 a slow follower
01:13:34.620 of a trend.
01:13:37.720 If Amazon had
01:13:39.520 been a fast
01:13:40.780 follower or
01:13:42.500 tried to be
01:13:43.220 like the
01:13:44.180 leading edge
01:13:45.200 of AI, they
01:13:47.180 would have had
01:13:47.900 whatever tools you
01:13:50.040 have when you
01:13:50.580 first start, which
01:13:51.820 would not be that
01:13:52.480 great.
01:13:53.360 But because it
01:13:55.400 seems like they
01:13:56.060 waited too long, it
01:13:57.900 feels like they're
01:13:58.560 at least a year
01:13:59.420 behind AI, they
01:14:01.860 get the advantage
01:14:02.800 of using all the
01:14:03.940 AI tools to
01:14:05.740 build their AI.
01:14:07.540 So apparently
01:14:08.680 they've done a
01:14:09.920 massive amount of
01:14:11.160 coding using AI to
01:14:13.820 do the coding in
01:14:15.880 the process of
01:14:16.880 building their own
01:14:17.600 AI that will
01:14:18.820 drive their
01:14:19.640 A-L-E-X-A.
01:14:22.000 So I guess
01:14:23.300 that's being
01:14:23.720 rolled out to
01:14:24.460 some specific
01:14:25.640 power users, but
01:14:27.280 we'll see it
01:14:27.820 pretty soon.
01:14:30.120 I just was
01:14:31.460 impressed by
01:14:33.100 the fact that
01:14:33.760 when you start
01:14:34.940 makes such a
01:14:37.020 difference.
01:14:38.320 You know, being
01:14:39.020 first, like IBM
01:14:40.540 was the first
01:14:41.580 with Windows
01:14:43.240 computers, but
01:14:44.740 they didn't last.
01:14:45.640 So being a
01:14:47.700 follower who
01:14:49.560 jumps in like
01:14:50.580 right at the
01:14:51.140 right time when
01:14:51.980 all the tools are
01:14:52.880 there and, you
01:14:54.400 know, you really
01:14:54.880 know what you
01:14:55.400 can and cannot
01:14:56.100 do, pretty good
01:14:57.620 approach.
01:14:58.520 Jeff Bezos'
01:14:59.460 team, doing it
01:15:00.960 again.
01:15:02.860 Well, the BBC
01:15:03.940 is reporting
01:15:04.780 that the
01:15:07.140 founder and
01:15:08.440 boss of the
01:15:09.120 Telegram app,
01:15:10.420 it's a messaging
01:15:11.080 app, plans to
01:15:13.160 leave his
01:15:13.720 multi-billion
01:15:14.840 dollar fortune
01:15:15.600 to over a
01:15:17.020 hundred children
01:15:17.840 he fathered.
01:15:19.440 A hundred.
01:15:21.100 Now, he
01:15:22.240 didn't do it
01:15:22.820 the Elon Musk
01:15:23.880 way.
01:15:24.540 He only had,
01:15:25.920 I guess, six
01:15:27.400 children, you
01:15:28.800 know, the sort
01:15:29.760 of normal way
01:15:30.480 that people have
01:15:31.520 children, and
01:15:32.680 all the rest of
01:15:34.120 his hundred-ish
01:15:34.920 children were
01:15:36.240 because he had
01:15:37.000 donated to a
01:15:37.760 sperm bank.
01:15:39.480 So, he plans to
01:15:41.580 leave his money
01:15:42.340 to children he's
01:15:44.920 never met that
01:15:46.820 he was the
01:15:47.500 sperm donor for.
01:15:49.080 Now, if you've
01:15:49.980 ever seen this
01:15:50.820 guy, he's,
01:15:52.720 first of all, a
01:15:53.200 genius, and
01:15:54.900 second of all,
01:15:56.160 really good
01:15:56.920 looking.
01:15:57.200 So, you can
01:15:59.980 really imagine
01:16:00.640 why he would
01:16:01.700 have been
01:16:01.940 selected a lot
01:16:02.980 to be the
01:16:04.420 sperm donor.
01:16:06.960 But, I love
01:16:08.480 how billionaires
01:16:09.320 reproduce.
01:16:10.200 I have to
01:16:13.720 admit that
01:16:15.440 there's something
01:16:16.360 about this that
01:16:17.120 makes sense.
01:16:17.620 Now, I guess
01:16:18.200 he's not going
01:16:18.800 to leave, he's
01:16:20.080 not going to
01:16:20.520 leave them the
01:16:21.120 money right
01:16:21.720 away.
01:16:22.360 There's something
01:16:22.780 like a 30-year
01:16:23.940 delay between,
01:16:25.700 you know, when
01:16:26.180 he makes the
01:16:26.760 money available
01:16:27.340 and when he
01:16:28.460 dies.
01:16:29.560 So, he wants
01:16:30.480 to make sure
01:16:30.940 that they can,
01:16:31.780 you know, make
01:16:32.880 a life for
01:16:33.420 themselves before
01:16:34.280 they get any
01:16:34.880 of his money.
01:16:36.380 But, yeah, he's
01:16:37.680 the official father
01:16:38.560 of over 100
01:16:39.760 babies.
01:16:40.200 conceived in
01:16:42.580 over 12
01:16:43.120 countries.
01:16:44.560 Wouldn't that
01:16:44.940 be wild to
01:16:46.700 have 100
01:16:47.360 babies?
01:16:49.380 There's a
01:16:50.340 friend of
01:16:51.200 mine who,
01:16:53.460 in her adult
01:16:54.240 life, learned
01:16:55.900 that she was
01:16:56.840 basically a
01:16:59.440 sperm donor
01:17:00.200 baby.
01:17:02.660 And then,
01:17:03.120 at the same
01:17:03.540 time, learned
01:17:04.780 that she had
01:17:05.740 dozens, I
01:17:08.380 think dozens,
01:17:09.220 of half
01:17:10.980 siblings, and
01:17:13.100 they started
01:17:13.660 finding each
01:17:14.400 other.
01:17:15.460 How wild
01:17:16.080 would that
01:17:16.500 be?
01:17:17.340 To be an
01:17:18.000 adult, like
01:17:18.880 you're in the
01:17:19.280 middle of your
01:17:19.800 life, and
01:17:21.780 you learn that
01:17:22.360 you have like
01:17:23.820 dozens of
01:17:25.460 half siblings, and
01:17:26.460 you start meeting
01:17:27.160 each other.
01:17:28.160 That would be so
01:17:29.020 wild.
01:17:30.160 Anyway,
01:17:31.100 according to the
01:17:32.720 Ohio State
01:17:33.460 University, most
01:17:34.680 women want
01:17:35.360 children, but
01:17:36.040 half are unsure
01:17:36.800 if they will.
01:17:38.420 Well, you know
01:17:39.240 how I could
01:17:39.780 make sure that
01:17:40.540 they have
01:17:42.040 children?
01:17:43.560 They should use
01:17:45.140 that billionaire
01:17:45.700 sperm donor and
01:17:47.300 try to get in on
01:17:48.280 the inheritance.
01:17:52.740 That might help.
01:17:53.740 So, apparently, a
01:17:57.500 lot of people have
01:17:58.120 the intention to
01:17:59.080 have a baby, but
01:18:01.220 they don't
01:18:02.000 necessarily think
01:18:03.320 that it would
01:18:03.780 make a
01:18:04.160 difference, that
01:18:05.240 their happiness
01:18:05.980 wouldn't
01:18:07.220 necessarily be
01:18:08.300 worse or better
01:18:09.080 if they had a
01:18:09.580 baby or not.
01:18:10.880 So, clearly,
01:18:12.780 unless we plan to
01:18:13.920 reproduce with
01:18:14.700 robots alone,
01:18:16.220 which maybe we
01:18:17.180 will, you never
01:18:17.980 know, we're going
01:18:20.580 to have to
01:18:21.300 completely
01:18:22.040 reconfigure
01:18:23.000 society so
01:18:24.720 that having
01:18:25.220 babies makes
01:18:26.380 sense again.
01:18:28.240 And the only
01:18:29.120 way I can think
01:18:29.860 of that is
01:18:32.160 if people who
01:18:32.920 want to have
01:18:33.360 babies find
01:18:35.200 living conditions
01:18:36.440 that are ideal
01:18:38.480 for having a
01:18:39.120 baby.
01:18:40.380 And I would
01:18:41.000 argue that if
01:18:41.800 you're in an
01:18:42.360 inner city,
01:18:43.800 not a great
01:18:45.120 place to have
01:18:45.640 a baby.
01:18:46.660 But if you're
01:18:47.740 also in a very
01:18:48.500 rural area,
01:18:49.520 again, maybe
01:18:51.780 not the best
01:18:52.440 place to have
01:18:52.960 a baby.
01:18:54.700 So, I'm going
01:18:55.420 to give you
01:18:55.900 my idea that
01:18:58.200 you're going to
01:18:58.820 fight against
01:18:59.600 if you're an
01:19:00.420 NPC, and
01:19:01.900 you're going to
01:19:02.300 say, no
01:19:03.260 small houses,
01:19:04.620 even though this
01:19:05.260 has nothing to
01:19:05.940 do with tiny
01:19:06.500 homes.
01:19:07.460 You'll say it
01:19:08.260 anyway, because
01:19:08.900 that's what
01:19:09.260 NPCs say.
01:19:10.540 I believe that
01:19:11.720 we need to
01:19:12.260 develop cities
01:19:13.300 that are
01:19:14.680 optimized for
01:19:16.200 having babies.
01:19:17.520 and all
01:19:20.140 that would
01:19:20.520 mean is
01:19:21.720 that you
01:19:22.020 had little
01:19:22.820 neighborhood
01:19:23.420 areas where
01:19:25.240 people who
01:19:25.820 are having
01:19:26.160 babies around
01:19:26.900 the same
01:19:27.320 time are
01:19:28.380 living so
01:19:29.220 that there's
01:19:30.240 always somebody
01:19:30.860 who can watch
01:19:31.460 your kid.
01:19:33.060 I think I've
01:19:33.840 told you this
01:19:34.340 before, but
01:19:35.480 in my first
01:19:36.500 marriage, there
01:19:37.900 was this
01:19:38.340 extremely lucky
01:19:40.440 situation where
01:19:42.420 the two step
01:19:43.400 kids were
01:19:44.620 exactly the
01:19:45.380 same gender
01:19:46.140 and same
01:19:46.780 age as
01:19:48.760 I think
01:19:49.280 four different
01:19:50.280 couples that
01:19:51.120 we knew
01:19:51.500 really well.
01:19:53.380 So on
01:19:53.920 any given
01:19:54.520 weekend, the
01:19:57.140 kids would
01:19:57.660 have a sleep
01:19:58.180 over at
01:19:59.340 the house of
01:19:59.960 somebody that
01:20:00.500 you knew
01:20:00.800 really well,
01:20:01.480 so you
01:20:01.800 trusted them,
01:20:02.960 and the
01:20:04.980 kids would
01:20:05.440 be delighted,
01:20:06.760 and then the
01:20:07.780 parents could
01:20:08.680 have a date
01:20:09.460 night if they
01:20:10.000 wanted, and
01:20:11.500 you wouldn't
01:20:12.220 worry too
01:20:12.660 much because
01:20:13.380 you were such
01:20:14.560 a tight
01:20:15.460 group of
01:20:16.280 people, and
01:20:17.140 the ages and
01:20:18.000 the genders
01:20:18.500 were perfect,
01:20:19.640 so that both
01:20:21.420 the boy and
01:20:22.240 the girl had
01:20:23.520 somebody their
01:20:24.500 age in this
01:20:26.820 other house,
01:20:28.060 and that was
01:20:29.900 amazing.
01:20:31.440 It just made
01:20:32.820 life so much
01:20:33.840 easier in so
01:20:35.440 many ways.
01:20:36.360 Now add to
01:20:36.980 that if it
01:20:38.700 were walking
01:20:39.300 distance to
01:20:41.060 those houses
01:20:41.840 because it
01:20:43.040 wasn't in
01:20:43.760 our case,
01:20:44.340 but they
01:20:44.740 were in
01:20:45.580 town.
01:20:46.120 They weren't
01:20:46.400 that far
01:20:46.780 away.
01:20:48.980 So imagine
01:20:49.600 adding the
01:20:52.520 Tesla autocab,
01:20:54.840 and imagine
01:20:55.420 that you've
01:20:55.840 got one
01:20:56.220 that's so
01:20:56.680 safe that
01:20:58.040 you could
01:20:58.380 send a
01:20:59.200 smallish kid,
01:21:00.260 not too
01:21:00.900 small, but
01:21:01.540 12 years
01:21:02.200 old, let's
01:21:02.720 say, to
01:21:04.180 their friend's
01:21:04.860 house without
01:21:05.900 having to
01:21:06.500 leave your
01:21:06.840 house.
01:21:08.660 Now imagine
01:21:09.320 that you
01:21:09.740 had a
01:21:10.740 essentially
01:21:12.340 free or
01:21:13.520 low-cost
01:21:14.220 child-watching
01:21:15.740 stuff while
01:21:16.840 you're working.
01:21:18.600 If you
01:21:19.520 designed your
01:21:20.460 town so
01:21:23.620 it was
01:21:23.940 optimized, so
01:21:25.280 the kids
01:21:25.840 had friends,
01:21:27.200 and you
01:21:27.620 had people
01:21:28.120 to help
01:21:28.760 you do
01:21:29.800 things when
01:21:30.460 you needed
01:21:30.820 a little
01:21:31.100 help, it
01:21:32.520 would be
01:21:32.860 great to
01:21:33.380 have kids.
01:21:34.620 You'd have
01:21:35.780 parties all
01:21:37.220 the time,
01:21:38.180 and there'd
01:21:39.420 be fun
01:21:39.900 sleepovers,
01:21:40.740 and it
01:21:42.860 would be
01:21:43.080 wonderful.
01:21:44.300 It's just
01:21:44.820 that if
01:21:45.520 you don't
01:21:47.040 have, let's
01:21:48.120 say, grandparents
01:21:49.000 around to
01:21:49.860 watch your
01:21:50.320 kids, it's
01:21:51.780 really hard
01:21:52.640 for two
01:21:53.180 people to
01:21:53.680 have a
01:21:53.980 job, which
01:21:55.160 we tend to
01:21:56.500 need these
01:21:56.980 days.
01:21:58.040 Two people
01:21:58.600 to have a
01:21:58.940 job and
01:21:59.400 also raising
01:22:00.100 kids, it's
01:22:01.020 almost, I
01:22:02.760 mean, it's
01:22:03.260 so expensive,
01:22:04.780 and it's
01:22:05.200 just so hard
01:22:06.140 that you can
01:22:07.200 imagine why
01:22:07.780 people don't
01:22:08.340 do it.
01:22:08.660 But you
01:22:09.180 could design
01:22:09.780 around that.
01:22:10.920 You could
01:22:11.380 engineer a
01:22:12.500 living space
01:22:13.380 that you
01:22:14.260 don't have
01:22:14.840 to live
01:22:15.260 in, so
01:22:16.660 the NPCs
01:22:17.720 could say,
01:22:18.320 you can't
01:22:18.720 make me live
01:22:19.260 in that 15
01:22:20.020 minute city.
01:22:20.780 No, it's
01:22:21.240 not a 15
01:22:21.940 minute city.
01:22:22.580 all it is
01:22:24.420 is a great
01:22:25.460 place to
01:22:25.980 raise a
01:22:26.360 kid.
01:22:26.840 That's it.
01:22:27.620 That's all
01:22:27.960 it is.
01:22:30.120 All right,
01:22:30.740 ladies and
01:22:31.160 gentlemen, that's
01:22:32.480 all I got for
01:22:33.060 you today.
01:22:34.520 Hope you have
01:22:35.180 a great
01:22:35.500 weekend.
01:22:36.460 I'm going to
01:22:36.740 say a few
01:22:37.180 words privately
01:22:37.920 to the
01:22:38.520 locals people,
01:22:40.320 my beloved
01:22:41.060 locals people,
01:22:42.980 and the rest
01:22:43.740 of you, I
01:22:44.240 hope to see
01:22:44.680 you next
01:22:45.840 week.
01:22:47.140 Well, not
01:22:47.620 next week.
01:22:48.340 We'll see you
01:22:48.680 tomorrow.
01:22:49.480 Same time,
01:22:50.220 same place.
01:22:52.580 Bye.
01:23:22.580 Bye.
01:23:52.580 Bye.
01:24:22.580 Bye.
01:24:52.580 Bye.