Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2882 CWSA 06⧸29⧸25

00:00:00.240 It's about time. Come on in. Take off your coat on the air conditioning, and we're going to have a show.

00:00:12.360 It's going to be amazing.

00:00:14.180 Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

00:00:32.140 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

00:00:36.800 But if you'd like to take a chance on improving your mood this morning, all you need for that is a copper, a mug, or a glass, a tanker, a chalice, or a stein, a canteen jug, or a flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:00:52.740 Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.

00:00:56.440 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day.

00:01:01.660 The thing that makes everything better is called the simultaneous sip.

00:01:05.360 It happens now. Go.

00:01:12.960 Hmm. Good.

00:01:16.160 All right.

00:01:17.600 I wonder if there's any new science that would suggest that drinking coffee is good for your health.

00:01:25.920 Oh, here's something.

00:01:29.500 There's new research from the Queen Mary University of London

00:01:33.680 It says that caffeine can improve your cellular longevity and repair your DNA, and it activates your AMPK.

00:01:47.380 Oh, I feel my AMPK being activated right now.

00:01:51.840 I don't even know what it is.

00:01:53.900 But it's definitely activated.

00:01:55.660 So, yeah, it turns out that every time you sip with me, you get a little bit younger.

00:02:05.220 Facts.

00:02:06.160 That's called science.

00:02:08.480 Hmm.

00:02:08.780 I wonder if there's any other science that you didn't need to do because you could have just asked me.

00:02:15.460 Well, here's one.

00:02:18.600 Apparently, according to Neuroscience News, there's a massive new analysis. 0.99

00:02:25.520 This is so dumb. 0.96

00:02:29.140 This shows that exercise is good for children. 1.00

00:02:32.680 Does that even seem real?

00:02:38.220 Can you believe that in 2025, somebody apparently got some kind of funding to do research to find out if exercise is good for children?

00:02:52.400 Guess what?

00:02:53.980 It's good for them.

00:02:55.420 So, specifically, they're looking at anxiety and depression.

00:03:05.940 And a big surprise, when children exercise, they have less anxiety and less depression.

00:03:14.360 Yeah, I think you could have saved a little bit of money on that one.

00:03:19.140 Just ask me.

00:03:21.500 All right.

00:03:23.500 Here's another one.

00:03:24.520 This one's almost as funny.

00:03:28.900 Stanford.

00:03:31.320 I saw this on a post by Clint Jarvis on X.

00:03:36.580 Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit social media.

00:03:42.340 And then they checked back with them later to see how happy they were that they quit social media and got paid for it.

00:03:50.520 It turns out that they were happier.

00:03:54.520 Now, again, do you think there was any chance that you were going to pay somebody to not look at their social media for a little bit?

00:04:04.320 And they were going to come back and say, oh, no.

00:04:08.120 Oh, turns out I was very sad that I didn't get to look at my social media.

00:04:13.380 Oh.

00:04:13.620 And by the way, there's something that I was going to say, oh, no, no.

00:04:14.620 And by the way, there's something deeply wrong with this kind of research.

00:04:20.680 Because obviously, obviously, the people in the research study were completely aware that the reason they were being paid to quit social media

00:04:32.520 is so that somebody could study what their mood was, if you did that with anything, you would find a 5% or 6% improvement in mood.

00:04:43.580 You could be like, all right, we're going to remove one of the chairs that you don't use at your kitchen table.

00:04:53.540 Well, we don't even need that chair.

00:04:55.560 I know.

00:04:56.780 So you never use it.

00:04:58.100 So we're going to remove it from the room, and we're going to come back, and we're going to, yeah, after paying you to be allowed to remove that chair.

00:05:07.700 And in a month, we're going to measure whether you're in a better mood.

00:05:11.780 What do you think would happen?

00:05:15.160 Well, based on everything I know about scientific studying, you would convince yourself that removing that chair made you happier.

00:05:24.560 Because you would know that they were measuring whether you were happier.

00:05:30.600 And that would be enough for some percentage of people to imagine they were happier.

00:05:36.800 So if people know you're measuring their happiness before and after a thing, I believe there's even a name for this.

00:05:46.340 Is it the Taylor effect?

00:05:49.080 Or is that only for, there's something like that for business productivity?

00:05:57.720 If you're measuring the productivity in the business, and you make any change whatsoever, productivity goes up.

00:06:06.460 Have you ever heard of that?

00:06:08.640 So if he said, I'm going to study whether changing the light bulbs increases productivity.

00:06:16.120 Oh, the Hawthorne effect, exactly.

00:06:20.020 Thank you.

00:06:21.820 Yeah, the Hawthorne effect.

00:06:24.580 If people know you're studying it, they just sort of turn it into that thing.

00:06:30.820 So watch out for that.

00:06:32.800 The Hawthorne effect.

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00:06:51.480 According to a post on X by the World of Statistics,

00:06:55.780 the average U.S. adult wakes up in a bad mood 300 times a year.

00:07:03.880 How many of you wake up in a bad mood almost every single day?

00:07:09.940 I didn't even know that was a thing.

00:07:12.460 Do you know how many times I've awakened in a bad mood in my entire life?

00:07:19.240 Awakened in a bad mood.

00:07:21.600 Not once.

00:07:23.200 Not a single time.

00:07:24.460 Did you ever see some kind of a problem that you know a lot of people have?

00:07:31.340 And you say to yourself,

00:07:33.000 Oh, thank God I don't have that one.

00:07:35.880 You know, like if you had some strange, I don't know, fetish or something illegal

00:07:41.700 or, you know, you were drug addicted or something.

00:07:45.800 And you say to yourself,

00:07:47.180 Oh, you know, I got a lot of problems.

00:07:50.440 But thank God I don't have that one.

00:07:52.380 But when I look at this,

00:07:55.500 that the average U.S. adult wakes up in a bad mood 300 times a year.

00:08:00.420 And I've never once in my whole life.

00:08:08.780 I love the morning.

00:08:12.460 The first four or five hours of my morning.

00:08:16.820 Excellent.

00:08:18.120 Every single day of my entire life that I can recall.

00:08:22.620 So, I've got problems.

00:08:27.840 You've probably heard of a few.

00:08:29.420 You know, like, you know, terminal illness and stuff like that.

00:08:33.680 But I don't have that one.

00:08:36.960 So, by the way, if you haven't heard of the update,

00:08:41.340 I'm on for my terminal cancer problem that was likely to end me this month.

00:08:48.680 That's what I thought.

00:08:51.700 Want to know a secret?

00:08:54.580 Here's a little secret.

00:08:56.560 In California, you have the right to end your own existence.

00:09:02.860 If you have a terminal illness, you get a couple of doctors to certify it and all that.

00:09:09.720 And I was in that situation.

00:09:13.280 Meaning that I'm officially terminal.

00:09:16.040 I've got two doctors to certify it.

00:09:18.560 I've done the paperwork.

00:09:19.560 I've even ordered the medicine that you eventually drink to end your life.

00:09:30.060 But that was based on the fact that in the month of May,

00:09:34.220 I was absolutely whacked with pain.

00:09:39.260 I mean, I had pain like I've never felt before all over my body.

00:09:44.020 And so, I had sort of internally planned, you know, but wasn't telling the world,

00:09:53.320 that I needed to get past my stepdaughter's wedding and reception.

00:09:58.500 And then to end my life, guess when?

00:10:08.100 Basically today.

00:10:10.900 Today was the day.

00:10:12.420 I was planning literally to take my own life today.

00:10:17.840 At the end of, you know, it might be tomorrow, but at the end of June.

00:10:23.380 But what happened instead is that I started taking some hormone blockers.

00:10:30.680 They block your testosterone.

00:10:33.260 And the cancer needs the testosterone to eat.

00:10:36.840 So, completely surprising me, I didn't realize that that would also remove all of my pain.

00:10:46.940 So, you know, last night I'm swimming in my pool and playing ping pong and walking around.

00:10:55.540 I have no pain, no pain, no pain anywhere.

00:10:58.320 In fact, I don't have any real symptoms.

00:11:03.720 You know, my legs are a little bit wobbly because I couldn't walk for about five months.

00:11:12.840 At least not much.

00:11:14.100 I could hobble a little bit.

00:11:15.320 But at the moment, my PSA levels have dropped 90% in just a few weeks.

00:11:25.920 So, just a few weeks after taking this very expensive new testosterone blockers, the number one indicator of how you're doing and how long you're going to last if you have prostate cancer that's metastasized, as I do, that PSA number is like the big one.

00:11:46.580 So, it dropped 90%.

00:11:50.420 I mean, it was through the roof, and it's still way too high.

00:11:55.220 But it was going to be today.

00:12:01.060 So, do I feel like I'm on borrowed time, got a little extra?

00:12:07.100 Oh, hell, I do.

00:12:09.040 Absolutely.

00:12:10.600 And you know what?

00:12:11.480 Just harking back to our earlier conversation, even with terminal cancer that I thought was going to end, you know, within a few weeks, I still never woke up in a bad mood.

00:12:25.460 Not once.

00:12:27.060 I just wake up feeling good.

00:12:29.460 You know, even with pain.

00:12:31.120 I would still be in a good mood.

00:12:32.480 I would just be in pain.

00:12:34.320 Anyway.

00:12:36.040 So, that's the update.

00:12:37.560 I don't know how long it'll last, but it would be within the realm of possibility that, you know, we could add a year or two.

00:12:46.940 And maybe by then, something else comes up.

00:12:49.720 You never know.

00:12:50.820 But the drug I'm on is known not to work long term.

00:12:56.380 So, it's usually two or three years, and then your body acclimates to the drug, and then it stops working.

00:13:04.300 So, I don't have a plan for after that, but at the moment, eh, looks like I got some borrowed time.

00:13:15.260 Anyway.

00:13:16.080 So, that's the update for that.

00:13:19.060 Trump is blessing what he calls a fake news media for suggesting that he has some kind of plan to give Iran $30 billion to restart their domestic nuclear power program.

00:13:33.620 And Trump wants you to know that that never has been real.

00:13:39.980 But the news was not that Trump was going to do it.

00:13:43.700 And Newsmax is talking about this.

00:13:47.140 The news was that there were some other countries that might be willing to be part of that.

00:13:54.860 So, not that the U.S. was ever going to give any money to Iran.

00:14:00.100 So, it's fake news, kind of.

00:14:03.540 So, you know how you and everybody else in the world said, if all the businesses are moving out of these big buildings, but yet rents are too high for individuals who want to, you know, just have a living space,

00:14:21.040 isn't the most obvious fix, that you convert some of the empty office space, like in New York City, there's lots of it, that you convert it into living space.

00:14:33.180 And then rents will go down because, you know, there's a greater supply compared to the demand, etc.

00:14:38.640 But that was never economical or even close.

00:14:46.080 However, according to the Wall Street Journal, Carol Ryan is writing that there have been some recent developments that have made that now economical.

00:14:55.680 So, in New York City, there are actually office buildings that are successfully being turned into residential.

00:15:05.320 Well, what changed?

00:15:07.380 Well, apparently New York City has some kind of a law now that if you do that, if you change your business space into residential,

00:15:19.460 you'll get a 90% property tax exemption for up to 35 years.

00:15:26.540 Holy cow! 0.96

00:15:28.460 That's pretty darn good.

00:15:30.900 And then, let's see, Carol Ryan writes that around 16% of New York City offices are empty versus 1.4% of apartments.

00:15:45.480 So, there's a lot more empty office space than there is empty residential, which, you know, tells you about your supply and demand there.

00:15:56.840 And what's happened is a lot of the owners of the office buildings were kind of optimistically holding on.

00:16:05.360 They knew their building was empty, but they were kind of thinking, well, maybe it's only a year, and then people will come back, and we'll be glad we held on to it.

00:16:18.060 But now enough time has gone by that people who own those buildings, for a variety of reasons, are saying, all right, we're going to let it go for pennies on a dollar.

00:16:28.680 So, the new developer can buy a building for 20 cents on the dollar, convert it to residential, and then have this property tax exemption for 35 years.

00:16:43.640 So, suddenly, it looks like a good deal.

00:16:47.180 There's only one thing that could turn this into a bad deal again.

00:16:50.760 Do you know what it is?

00:16:51.600 What's the one thing that could turn that into a bad deal?

00:16:59.320 A socialist mayor.

00:17:04.180 So, apparently, the rent control and the socialist mayor would once again make it, could, could, not guaranteed,

00:17:14.340 but could make it uneconomical to create all this new residential property that would have been lower in cost.

00:17:23.760 So, there's your socialist mayor situation for today.

00:17:30.860 All right.

00:17:32.820 So, you know, I've been speculating that Iran's supreme leader,

00:17:37.840 whose name is either Khamenei or Khamenei, or something like that.

00:17:45.640 I've told you that I don't believe he's still in charge.

00:17:50.120 Reasons being, he's 86.

00:17:53.080 He probably got put in a bunker for his own protection during the Israel attack.

00:17:59.720 And they probably took his phone away for his own protection during the same time.

00:18:07.020 And probably, it was the military who was in control of keeping him safe,

00:18:11.520 which means that his closest civilian advisors and supporters wouldn't even have access to him.

00:18:19.920 They wouldn't be able to call him.

00:18:21.220 They wouldn't be able to see him because he'd be in the bunker.

00:18:23.720 Now, under that situation, I speculated that it would be a very small, small effort

00:18:31.660 to simply pretend the supreme leader was in charge,

00:18:37.240 but for the military leader to actually be in charge.

00:18:41.280 Because if the supreme leader says,

00:18:44.300 tell everybody I want to attack Israel, 1.00

00:18:47.080 the military leader could say, sure, I'll take care of it.

00:18:51.020 And just never do it.

00:18:52.440 So, so then Khamenei did that video, which was sort of generic.

00:19:00.940 It's like, oh, we won the war and really didn't say much.

00:19:06.200 And that was supposed to prove he was still alive and running the country.

00:19:11.480 But I was not convinced.

00:19:13.880 And then today, there's a new post on Acts.

00:19:18.060 And I'm going to read the translation to you.

00:19:21.120 So, it was posted in Farsi, but Grok gives me the translation.

00:19:26.760 And you tell me, if this sounds like the tone and the vibe of a supreme leader

00:19:34.300 who just went through a terrible war, does it sound like him?

00:19:39.020 All right, here's the post.

00:19:40.260 Does that sound like him?

00:19:58.520 It doesn't, does it?

00:20:02.440 Now, it sounds like, you know, something in the same sort of domain a little bit.

00:20:09.720 But I've read enough of the expos from, you know,

00:20:14.820 when the supreme leader was presumably actually in charge.

00:20:18.620 And he doesn't sound like that.

00:20:20.300 I believe that if you ran a, some kind of a writing analysis, you know, in Farsi,

00:20:29.980 you wouldn't want to do it on the interpretation.

00:20:33.760 You wouldn't want to do it on the original.

00:20:35.360 But if you use AI to look at his prior posts and then just analyze the writing style

00:20:42.360 and then look at this one, I don't see it.

00:20:46.980 This is a different writing style.

00:20:49.580 This looks very much like somebody else wrote him a little post there.

00:20:53.160 So I'm going to, I'm going to double down on my prediction that the supreme leader

00:21:00.440 is not the supreme leader.

00:21:03.620 And that, that probably has something to do with what the ceasefire is holding.

00:21:08.900 Because the crazy old 86 year old leader probably would have never surrendered.

00:21:15.100 But he gets to say this, you know, on acts where nobody cares.

00:21:19.260 Well, apparently a congressman named Eric Burleson was, is being credited for saying that Trump

00:21:30.880 was briefed on some kind of alien encounters and how many different types of aliens are walking

00:21:37.560 the earth even now.

00:21:39.200 But Burleson says that never happened.

00:21:42.420 So just know that there's new flare up of aliens.

00:21:47.340 We got aliens.

00:21:49.260 They're all over the place.

00:21:50.380 They're walking among us.

00:21:52.140 Some of them allegedly are tall Nordic looking aliens.

00:21:56.360 Some are little grays and some are human hybrids.

00:22:01.400 But none of this story is true.

00:22:05.100 So it's not true that they exist.

00:22:07.340 That's just me saying that.

00:22:09.120 And it's not true that the president was briefed by this congressman about it.

00:22:14.740 So none of that's true.

00:22:16.020 Well, did any of you see Michael Smirconish on CNN talking about Trump's first six months

00:22:26.400 on the job?

00:22:27.060 Well, I've told you a number of times that Smirconish is the most unbiased person on CNN, which is

00:22:40.160 why they only give him one show a week.

00:22:42.760 He can only have one show a week because he's too unbiased.

00:22:46.280 And he decided yesterday, I guess it was, to do what was a six-minute description of all

00:22:56.740 the wins that Trump has had that are impressive.

00:23:00.700 Now, if I told you that CNN was talking about all the wins that Trump had, would you think

00:23:08.640 that the list would be long?

00:23:10.860 You would not expect that, would you?

00:23:13.120 But his list was pretty long.

00:23:14.760 I'll tell you about it.

00:23:16.260 Would you expect that when he was done talking about all the wonderful things that Trump has

00:23:21.820 done, that that would be sort of the end of the segment?

00:23:26.140 Or would you expect that they would say, but he's becoming an authoritarian dictator, Hitler, 0.81

00:23:33.400 so even though he got some wins, the country is in terrible shape and we're all going to

00:23:38.780 die.

00:23:40.040 Wouldn't you expect that from the regular CNN coverage or MSNBC?

00:23:45.500 Well, Smirconish didn't do that.

00:23:49.800 He just told you all the things that Trump got right.

00:23:52.520 And that includes the Iran-Israel ceasefire, bringing the border crossings down to basically

00:23:59.800 zero, inflation being under control, a whole bunch of companies bringing investments into

00:24:05.960 America for manufacturing, real wage growth for blue-collar workers increased more than

00:24:12.140 it has, I guess, in a long time, NATO funding going from barely 2% to 5%, which probably protects

00:24:21.600 us quite a bit if they're spending more on their defense.

00:24:25.180 Trade deals with China, maybe India pretty soon, and then the Supreme Court wins, and I may 0.84

00:24:31.260 have left down some stuff.

00:24:34.600 But that's really big.

00:24:39.040 If the only thing that Trump got right was the things that Smirconish mentioned, and he got

00:24:46.000 all that done in six months, and that's not even counting, you know, brokering the Republic

00:24:52.160 of the Congo versus Rwanda war, he ended one of the biggest wars in the world, and that was

00:25:00.640 just sort of a, you know, a sidebar for what he's been up to in the last six months.

00:25:05.800 Oh, my God.

00:25:07.720 So, I give credit to Smirconish for telling the truth, which he does. 1.00

00:25:16.860 I mean, that's his norm.

00:25:19.180 But CNN allowed him to air it, and to me, that feels like a big deal.

00:25:24.460 Anyway, and the White House has issued a holiday fuel price reminder that apparently, according

00:25:34.640 to Newsmax, it's reporting this, but according to the White House, gas will be the cheapest

00:25:41.600 for 4th of July since 2021.

00:25:47.300 Now, you might say, but, but, that's just the White House saying that, but apparently the

00:25:52.440 data supports that.

00:25:54.120 It will be the, on average, your, your state might differ, but on average, cheapest gas

00:26:01.500 prices since 2021.

00:26:04.320 That wasn't even on Smirconish's list, which was also solved.

00:26:15.660 So, I guess, I guess inflation covers gas and eggs, but we talked so much about gas and eggs

00:26:25.120 that it feels like that's worth a separate call-out.

00:26:28.840 He solved eggs.

00:26:30.600 He solved gas.

00:26:34.080 All right.

00:26:35.880 But the good news keeps on coming.

00:26:38.480 There's a story on OAN, Brooke Mallory is writing about this, that there's this chief economist

00:26:48.400 called Torsten Sluck, who apparently had originally said bad things about Trump's tariff plan, and

00:26:58.680 like many economists said that Trump's tariff plans, this would have been a few months ago

00:27:04.020 before we knew what was going to happen, were bad for the economy.

00:27:08.920 And he has now done a 180, and he's called a leading Wall Street economist.

00:27:16.820 And he now admits that the, that Trump may have, quote, outsmarted all of us with his trade policies.

00:27:26.100 But he acknowledged that, you know, the uncertainty was maybe bad for the economy temporarily.

00:27:31.560 But at the moment, things look a lot more, let's say, transparent, and we've got a much

00:27:41.560 better idea where things are going or how bad it can get.

00:27:45.020 And it sort of looks like, according to this highly respected Wall Street economist, he thinks

00:27:53.800 that everything is going to be fine with the tariffs.

00:27:57.420 And it might produce $400 billion of annual revenue for U.S. taxpayers.

00:28:09.420 Although they might be eating some of that, because the tariffs are paid by the U.S. company

00:28:16.180 that's doing the importing.

00:28:17.380 But if the U.S. company doing the importing says, I'm not going to buy your high-priced stuff,

00:28:25.120 I might go somewhere else, then the foreign entity that's providing it might have to say,

00:28:33.760 no, no, no, don't look at Vietnam.

00:28:36.720 We'll just lower our price.

00:28:38.800 You know, you eat some of it, we'll eat some of it, and we'll both stay in business.

00:28:42.580 So it's probably, you know, a combination, but it would add $400 billion to annual revenues.

00:28:50.180 Wow.

00:28:51.520 That's pretty amazing.

00:28:53.560 If true.

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00:29:56.740 Then, as if things weren't good enough,

00:30:00.860 Engadget is reporting that Trump is reportedly getting ready for a bunch of new executive orders

00:30:09.300 to make it easier to do AI.

00:30:11.400 And I think these orders have something more to do with power generation,

00:30:17.940 but it might be bigger than that.

00:30:21.200 So it's an AI action plan.

00:30:23.760 So it's more than just energy production.

00:30:27.020 But it will be removing some regulations and red tape that would stop AI

00:30:33.040 and stop energy production for the AI data centers.

00:30:37.840 So Reuters is reporting this.

00:30:41.800 And it would, quote,

00:30:43.140 make it easier for power generating projects to connect to the grid.

00:30:47.600 So that could be a big deal.

00:30:53.220 So that's how Trump is doing.

00:30:55.540 Trump is doing so well that even one of the main people on CNN is praising him.

00:31:01.660 And he ran out of time to mention all the good things that are happening.

00:31:06.860 He just ran out of time.

00:31:08.760 It's not like he ran out of examples.

00:31:12.720 He just ran out of time because they don't have all day to talk about it.

00:31:16.780 But how are the Democrats doing?

00:31:22.060 Well, let's check in with the Democrats.

00:31:26.740 So according to the Washington Free Beacon,

00:31:31.100 a lot of the California Democrat donors are having a tough time

00:31:36.580 because they're looking at the possibility of Kamala Harris running for governor. 0.96

00:31:42.460 And do you know what they think of Kamala Harris running for governor?

00:31:45.800 The people who donate the most money? 0.97

00:31:50.440 Well, it's being called, quote, a complete shitstorm. 0.72

00:31:55.680 And they're giving for the cold shoulder. 0.64

00:31:59.320 And donors are telling Politico that Harris' 2024 campaign for president was, quote, 0.98

00:32:09.180 pathetic and traumatizing. 0.98

00:32:12.020 It was traumatizing. 0.99

00:32:13.740 So those are the people who were on our team. 0.99

00:32:21.080 The people on our own side are calling her pathetic and traumatizing. 0.94

00:32:25.640 And somebody else said, these are all anonymous, of course. 1.00

00:32:29.660 Kamala just reminds you, we are in this complete shitstorm. 0.91

00:32:34.080 I'm a California Democrat who had contributed a bunch of money, he said. 0.98

00:32:41.740 He said, quote, with Biden, we got bamboozled.

00:32:45.820 I think Harris did the best she could in that situation.

00:32:48.540 But obviously, she knew about the cognitive decline, too.

00:32:53.340 I've written so many checks because I knew the Trump administration would be horrible.

00:32:58.460 But we've lived in a nightmare because the Democrats are furious at them, truly.

00:33:03.640 All right.

00:33:03.960 What exactly is the Trump nightmare that they're talking about?

00:33:07.860 Is there a reason that Smirkanish hasn't heard about the nightmare you're experiencing?

00:33:15.340 How many of you are experiencing a nightmare?

00:33:19.640 Have you been shipped off to El Salvador?

00:33:23.380 Did somebody knock on your door in the middle of the night and ship you off?

00:33:27.980 Did somebody raise your taxes or become an authoritarian leader?

00:33:34.220 Is there something happening I don't know about?

00:33:37.860 Other than the national debt, which, of course, would have been a tragedy no matter who was in charge.

00:33:47.380 How long can they keep going with the idea that we're living in some kind of a hellscape

00:33:54.960 when there's no evidence of it?

00:33:59.080 Now, I do get that there would be individual people with individual situations

00:34:05.160 where some funding gets cut.

00:34:07.860 And it has an effect on them.

00:34:09.320 I'm not minimizing that.

00:34:11.240 But if you were to look at the average, just how the country's doing sort of in general,

00:34:18.280 I'm not saying there aren't problems.

00:34:20.360 I'm not saying that the government's decisions and policies haven't created a burden on some people

00:34:27.460 that they didn't have before.

00:34:28.600 But on average, do you think other countries are looking at the United States and saying,

00:34:36.980 oh, look at that hellscape?

00:34:39.120 I don't think so.

00:34:40.980 I think they wish they were us.

00:34:42.760 So it's amazing that they can keep that fantasy in their head that somehow we're surviving this horrendous Trump situation

00:34:53.500 when I don't feel it.

00:34:57.100 I don't feel it at all.

00:34:58.360 I mean, it's not just that I'm biased and that I like the things that his administration's doing in general.

00:35:06.100 You know, maybe not everything.

00:35:07.220 But I feel like I would see it even if the pain were largely on other people.

00:35:15.740 Like, you would notice it, wouldn't you?

00:35:19.220 I don't really notice it.

00:35:21.600 So we'll see.

00:35:23.100 In the weirdest news, Axios is reporting that Trump is pressuring Israel to stop the what I guess he would think is lawfare

00:35:36.700 against Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:35:41.600 So Netanyahu is standing trial, and I guess this is going on for years now

00:35:46.960 because he keeps postponing stuff.

00:35:49.620 He was being charged with, allegedly, accepting more than $200,000 in gifts from wealthy businessmen

00:36:00.180 and granting regulatory benefits worth hundreds of millions of dollars

00:36:04.960 to a telecom tycoon exchange for favorable news coverage.

00:36:12.760 Now, I don't know about the evidence for any of that stuff,

00:36:16.400 but apparently Trump is threatening that American funding for Israel could be cut

00:36:25.900 if they keep going after Netanyahu through the courts,

00:36:30.600 to which I say, really?

00:36:34.360 Is the American president really trying to strong-arm the judicial system in Israel?

00:36:41.780 Like, right in public, while we're watching?

00:36:46.340 And is that going to work?

00:36:49.680 Would that work?

00:36:52.660 The thing that's amazing is not that he's trying to do it,

00:36:56.840 you know, because Trump's pretty unpredictable,

00:36:58.900 and he tries things that we think are impossible.

00:37:02.100 But realistically, he's doing this as publicly as you possibly could.

00:37:09.760 Do you think Israel is going to say,

00:37:11.780 well, you know, it's been four years, and we've got all this evidence,

00:37:15.560 and we really would like to get a decision,

00:37:18.860 but now that we know that Trump doesn't want it to happen,

00:37:21.700 and he might put some pressure on funding for Israel,

00:37:26.220 we've decided just to drop the case.

00:37:30.660 Is that even a little bit possible?

00:37:34.900 Does anybody think that might happen?

00:37:38.200 Because it doesn't feel like something that could happen in the world I live in.

00:37:43.340 But, you know, but I'm also open to Trump doing the Kobayashi Maru,

00:37:49.200 you know, as in the thing that nobody thought was possible.

00:37:52.940 Maybe.

00:37:53.380 How many of you think that Trump could make a difference

00:37:58.380 in the Israeli judicial system trial of Netanyahu

00:38:04.240 just because he doesn't want it to happen?

00:38:08.260 Does that sound even a little bit real?

00:38:12.300 So it's a puzzling story,

00:38:14.920 and it also makes you wonder why Trump is that invested.

00:38:19.140 Now, I know he's had a good working experience with Netanyahu,

00:38:25.060 and Netanyahu seems to be willing to give Trump maximum credit,

00:38:29.800 but is that why?

00:38:32.700 Or do you think there's some other agreement or understanding,

00:38:38.080 or maybe there's something else he wants to accomplish?

00:38:41.060 Because Trump would love, I mean, let me just speculate.

00:38:46.840 All right, this is just speculation.

00:38:49.520 So Trump is probably pushing hard to get a relatively rapid agreement on Gaza.

00:38:58.740 Don't you think?

00:38:59.600 It seems reasonable to me to assume that he's pushing Israel 1.00

00:39:04.360 to get something like a peace deal for Gaza.

00:39:09.180 Now, maybe Trump thinks that the only way he can get that done soon

00:39:15.680 is with Netanyahu.

00:39:18.560 And that would be reason enough to try to keep him in office, I suppose.

00:39:25.000 But do you think that's what's going on?

00:39:28.000 Because if Trump gets a good result with Iran, 0.55

00:39:32.340 and then he were to, let's say, in just a few weeks,

00:39:35.300 get something like a ceasefire in Gaza with some framework of how to go forward there,

00:39:43.340 that would make Trump unambiguously a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.

00:39:53.580 But more importantly, he would go down in history as one of the,

00:39:57.200 and maybe he already will,

00:39:58.880 one of the most effective presidents of all time.

00:40:02.420 So it could be that Trump is just trying to roll up the wins,

00:40:07.520 and he's got so many wins and so many more that he could get

00:40:10.900 that he really wants this Gaza thing and wants it fast.

00:40:15.760 And I've told you before that winning fixes a lot of stuff.

00:40:22.820 So if Trump gets a bunch of wins that everybody sees as wins,

00:40:27.720 you know, even the Democrats say stuff like,

00:40:30.620 well, he did get that ceasefire.

00:40:32.420 Well, I have to admit he did close the border.

00:40:35.780 Well, okay, inflation does look pretty good.

00:40:39.480 So he's doing a bunch of stuff that it would be hard to criticize,

00:40:44.880 even if he were the biggest critic.

00:40:46.900 But if he pulls in Gaza and gets something that looks even a little bit like it's, 0.74

00:40:56.040 you know, let's say, successful.

00:40:59.780 Oh, my goodness.

00:41:03.000 His legacy will be in really good shape.

00:41:06.940 We don't know what's going to happen for the next three and a half years,

00:41:10.740 but wow, that would be the best six months any president ever had.

00:41:14.860 Anyway, let's talk about the one big, beautiful bill.

00:41:25.540 So I, like most of you, do not understand all the processes in the Congress and Senate,

00:41:34.100 but apparently the Senate has voted to move along the big, beautiful bill.

00:41:39.060 Well, but why is that not the end of it?

00:41:45.520 How many times do they vote to move it forward in the Senate?

00:41:49.760 Can't they just vote for it?

00:41:52.920 Why is there more than one vote?

00:41:54.980 Either you're for it or against it, but I don't know how this works.

00:42:02.860 But it's simply, there was a vote, and I think they only managed to be like one vote extra.

00:42:10.880 They moved to move it along.

00:42:15.600 Does anybody even know what that means?

00:42:18.540 So it's not passed.

00:42:20.980 It's just sort of moved along to the next stage, and they did a vote on it.

00:42:26.640 I guess Rand Paul and one other person said no on it.

00:42:34.480 So I went to Grok to try to figure out what's in the big, beautiful bill,

00:42:42.200 because I first of all wondered, how many topics are there?

00:42:48.040 And there's something like 25 topics, meaning separate, you know, budgetary policy changes.

00:42:59.000 And then within the topics, you know, there might be several things that happen.

00:43:04.480 So we're talking about, I don't know, a hundred different things.

00:43:09.940 How many of those could you describe?

00:43:13.360 Not too many.

00:43:15.440 Not too many.

00:43:19.200 And then I was trying to understand what's happening with Medicaid.

00:43:24.040 So Medicaid is what the states are spending on people who can't afford their own insurance, I guess.

00:43:30.760 So let me read what Grok said.

00:43:34.480 About just one of the changes to Medicaid.

00:43:37.920 See if you can follow this.

00:43:40.940 So apparently what's happening is the Republicans were looking for a way to cut the budget,

00:43:48.820 which would necessarily mean cutting Medicaid, because that's a big part of the budget,

00:43:53.120 but make it look like they're not cutting the budget.

00:43:58.080 So they can say, we didn't do anything to Medicaid.

00:44:01.260 So they're coming up with, it sounds like some real weasel ways to do it.

00:44:06.760 So listen to this.

00:44:08.020 The Senate bill proposes reducing the state-imposed tax on Medicaid providers.

00:44:14.440 That would be like hospitals and nursing homes.

00:44:18.720 So states are already taxing those providers.

00:44:22.780 And the federal bill would lower their taxes from like 6% to around 3%.

00:44:27.880 Now, first of all, why does the federal government get to tell the states what they can and cannot tax in their own state?

00:44:41.380 Isn't that totally non-obvious that the federal government could tell them to not tax as much?

00:44:49.500 How is that even legal?

00:44:54.460 Now, why do you think they would do that?

00:44:57.360 Why would the federal government tell the states to tax their own citizens less?

00:45:05.700 Well, there's a reason for that.

00:45:08.440 Apparently, the existing law says that the feds will match whatever money is raised by the state.

00:45:16.020 So if they can force the state to raise less money for their own Medicaid, from their own state,

00:45:25.360 then the federal government won't have to match it.

00:45:30.460 Is that what you wanted your senators to do for you?

00:45:34.360 To strong-arm the states to cripple their money-raising ability for Medicaid

00:45:39.900 so that they would have an excuse when they matched it to say,

00:45:44.960 we didn't cut anything.

00:45:46.380 I don't know what you're talking about.

00:45:48.140 The states cut things.

00:45:50.120 Oh, the states cut the taxes.

00:45:52.660 No, that wasn't us.

00:45:54.240 All we do is match.

00:45:56.520 We're just matching what the states do.

00:45:59.280 Yeah, we didn't cut anything. 1.00

00:46:01.100 You fucking liars. 1.00

00:46:03.740 You just weasel pieces of shit. 1.00

00:46:06.740 This is not what anybody's paying you to do. 1.00

00:46:10.900 Now, I get how clever it is.

00:46:13.460 But when you're listening to your favorite Republican tell you that they're not cutting Medicaid, 0.99

00:46:19.100 they're just fucking lying. 1.00

00:46:21.020 They're just lying. 1.00

00:46:22.220 They're cutting Medicaid.

00:46:23.840 Now, there are also cuts to take away Medicaid for non-citizens.

00:46:31.320 Now, you might say to me, but Scott, that part I like.

00:46:37.240 And you might.

00:46:38.460 You might like that.

00:46:39.940 But this other matching funds thing, that is so sketchy.

00:46:45.120 And this just happens to be the one thing I chose to look at.

00:46:48.680 I didn't look at all the other 24 things.

00:46:51.840 Are they all like this? 1.00

00:46:53.760 Are they all just weasel bullshit crap? 1.00

00:46:56.320 They can't just cut a budget and say, sorry, we don't have any money. 1.00

00:47:03.240 We'll just have to cut the budget.

00:47:04.860 Everybody will have to make do.

00:47:07.120 Oh, man.

00:47:09.460 It was Tom Tillis who was the one who voted against it with Rand Paul.

00:47:13.840 So then Senator Schumer decides that, you know, now that the Republicans have something that's close to a positive vote,

00:47:25.740 that he's going to use his persuasion skills to argue against it.

00:47:32.440 Now, if you've been listening to me for a while, you know that Chuck Schumer has no persuasion skills. 0.98

00:47:38.540 He is completely pathetic when it comes to all things persuasion. 0.98

00:47:44.760 I mean, he's really bad, as bad as I've ever seen. 0.99

00:47:48.040 I don't know if I've ever seen anybody worse, honestly.

00:47:50.860 So what would you do if you wanted to argue against it?

00:47:56.100 Well, here's what Chuck Schumer comes up with.

00:47:58.200 He says, I objected to stop Republicans moving forward on their big, ugly bill until they read every single word of it to the American people.

00:48:11.600 So he said he was going to force the chamber to read it out loud.

00:48:15.840 So last I checked, the staff had been reading for nine hours.

00:48:24.840 So now it would have been 10 or 11 hours.

00:48:28.300 So they're having the lower level staff literally read the bill out loud where they're just monotoning it.

00:48:36.960 And then the level will turn, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:48:39.660 And then page three, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:48:42.520 So nobody's listening to it.

00:48:45.240 And it's not really the senators who were in charge anyway.

00:48:49.120 It's just staffers reading it.

00:48:51.080 But now Schumer thinks he's got the wind because he made them read it to the American public.

00:48:57.360 Nobody listened.

00:49:00.280 And if they listened, would they have understood like that Medicaid matching dollar amount trick? 0.87

00:49:09.840 This is completely useless.

00:49:14.120 And this is also typical Schumer.

00:49:21.980 Instead of coming up with better policy ideas and saying, you know, if it were our bill, we would have done this instead of this and this instead of this.

00:49:32.060 He can't do that.

00:49:33.360 Instead, he has to complain about the process.

00:49:39.940 Now, to be fair, you know, Rand Paul and Thomas Massey and lots of people complain about the process.

00:49:48.880 The process of something gets dumped on the Congress or dumped on the public with no time to review it.

00:49:56.140 That's a fair criticism because it comes from both sides.

00:50:02.180 But if he's focusing on the process, he is losing.

00:50:07.400 Would you agree?

00:50:09.500 If your job is to persuade for your side, the Democrats, going after the process just sort of never works because people aren't really invested in the process.

00:50:23.540 But, you know, it's not what motivates us.

00:50:29.100 Like, you don't hear, oh, they should have given them more time.

00:50:33.820 And you're like, oh, I'm going to go to the streets.

00:50:37.080 It doesn't activate anybody. 1.00

00:50:39.340 You just go, oh, that's a stupid system. 1.00

00:50:42.260 And then you're kind of done with it. 1.00

00:50:43.560 So, he talks about trying to stop Trump and stop the Republicans.

00:50:49.820 He talks about the process.

00:50:51.580 But he adds nothing.

00:50:54.840 He doesn't tell you what they would do that's better.

00:50:58.520 Completely empty resistance.

00:51:02.780 So, that won't change anything.

00:51:04.460 Over on CNBC, there was a Bitcoin guy, a big advisor, financial advisor, Rick Edelman, who thinks that people should hold 10% to 40% of their investments in cryptocurrencies.

00:51:24.440 Does that seem a little high to you?

00:51:27.820 He says the old way of having 60% of your portfolio in stocks and 40% in bonds, that just doesn't work anymore.

00:51:37.020 Partly because people live too long.

00:51:39.540 So, if you didn't have your money in stocks, you wouldn't make enough to, you know, last that long.

00:51:46.280 But now he's saying that 10% to 40% of your total portfolio should be in cryptocurrencies.

00:51:54.080 Now, I don't give financial advice.

00:51:58.680 But 40% looks high.

00:52:01.800 So, maybe I did.

00:52:03.400 Maybe I just gave you some financial advice.

00:52:06.060 But it's not advice.

00:52:08.280 That's just, and it's more like a reaction or a feeling.

00:52:13.340 10% does seem like the minimum.

00:52:18.400 Because I don't know what your U.S. dollar will be worth or what your house will be worth.

00:52:24.260 But in all likelihood, Bitcoin will keep churning along.

00:52:28.600 Not guaranteed.

00:52:29.880 If we're guaranteed, I'd say put 100% in Bitcoin.

00:52:33.780 But at least 10%.

00:52:36.140 So, think about that.

00:52:40.200 Don't take my advice, because I'm not a financial advisor.

00:52:45.280 And if you did, you'd probably feel sorry for it.

00:52:48.740 But if you were going to do your own research and talk to your AIs and your financial advisors,

00:52:54.960 I would ask them what percentage should be in cryptocurrencies, specifically probably Bitcoin.

00:53:02.860 And they may have some advice for you.

00:53:06.160 But don't take my advice.

00:53:09.180 All right.

00:53:09.620 Tom Fenton over at Judicial Watch.

00:53:13.460 I saw a video of him talking about the story you've already heard.

00:53:17.820 That allegedly, the FBI was aware of a plot in which China was allegedly, two allegedly's in this,

00:53:29.240 trying to influence the 2024 election with fake voter ballots.

00:53:35.360 Now, in order to get those fake voter ballots, allegedly, they were going to use fake driver's licenses.

00:53:43.620 And then that would allow them to get the fake ballots.

00:53:46.480 And then, allegedly, presumably, they would make those votes for Biden, because they had some, allegedly, possibly,

00:53:58.800 some blackmail over him because of Hunter Biden's, you know, activities in China and getting money from China.

00:54:06.560 So, then, as the story goes, and Tom Fenton reminds us, the FBI, according to Kash Patel,

00:54:17.200 the FBI decided not only to drop it, but also to tell people to delete references to it on their computers.

00:54:27.200 Now, I don't know how often they do that.

00:54:30.260 Does it happen often that the FBI will say, we've got these allegations we need to look into,

00:54:36.020 then later follow up with, not only is it not real, but we want you to delete it from your devices.

00:54:46.020 Is that common?

00:54:48.840 I've never heard of that in any other context, but maybe it's something they do in the FBI.

00:54:55.500 I don't know.

00:54:55.840 But, as Tom Fenton points out, the FBI was aware that there was some confirmatory evidence,

00:55:06.820 which is that, I guess, the FBI, or at least law enforcement,

00:55:11.540 found 20,000 fake U.S. driver's licenses that did seem to come from China.

00:55:16.880 Now, do you think that it's a coincidence that China had 20,000 fake driver's licenses,

00:55:27.240 and there was also an alleged blot to use driver's licenses to get fake ballots?

00:55:35.860 Do you think that these two are connected?

00:55:38.560 Because they might not be.

00:55:39.900 And it seems like it would be the biggest story in the world if we knew for sure that these were connected.

00:55:47.640 But, boy, it doesn't feel like they're connected.

00:55:51.280 But I would say probably it's just short of being so confirmed that you just treat it as a fact.

00:55:59.860 So, I'm not yet, not yet going to treat it as a fact.

00:56:05.580 But, boy, is I heading in that direction.

00:56:09.660 Next, do you remember when it was either Project Veritas or OMG

00:56:16.700 had the producer from CNN saying that they were going to pivot to talking nonstop about climate change?

00:56:26.800 Do you remember that?

00:56:27.880 And that it was a, you know, a corporate decision that they would just nail this climate change stuff all day long?

00:56:36.840 And then, I don't see it.

00:56:40.420 Do you?

00:56:41.400 Do you see CNN and or MSNBC talking nonstop about climate change?

00:56:49.120 I feel like they're giving up on it.

00:56:54.100 They still do mention it.

00:56:55.780 So, it hasn't gone to zero.

00:56:57.880 But, usually, it'd be like a guest mentions it in passing.

00:57:03.340 I feel like the news business has finally given up on climate change.

00:57:09.620 Because, I, of course, I'm in a bubble.

00:57:13.400 So, I see the things that people send to me.

00:57:15.800 I don't see the things that people don't send to me and I don't notice on my own.

00:57:20.980 But, it seems to me that there's an awful lot of evidence, including the Washington Post,

00:57:26.300 saying that the temperature has fluctuated for all of Earth's history, with or without people.

00:57:34.020 And then, the, you know, there's stuff like the ice is not as bad as you thought it would.

00:57:41.480 And the water levels don't seem to have risen.

00:57:45.240 And the storms don't seem as bad as they predicted.

00:57:48.480 And, while it does seem like maybe the temperatures are going up, it's not as obvious that that's bad for anything.

00:58:00.700 It might be good that it goes up a little bit.

00:58:03.680 So, does it seem to you like climate change hasn't gone away, but that the people who are promoting it have lost confidence in their own story?

00:58:20.660 They might still think it might be true, or even probably true. 0.93

00:58:25.300 But, now that we've watched, you know, the complete destruction of all scientific bullshit, 0.95

00:58:33.100 I think even Democrats are saying to themselves, you know what? 0.98

00:58:37.360 We've been lied to quite a few times, and the lies always look like this.

00:58:44.200 This being climate change.

00:58:46.420 It always looks like that.

00:58:49.340 Do you think they've noticed?

00:58:50.920 Well, I like to end any climate change conversation or post-docs by saying the following.

00:59:02.000 Wait till they find out about climate models.

00:59:06.340 Oh, oh, wait till they find out.

00:59:10.020 There will be whistleblowers.

00:59:12.600 There will be people who do the climate models to say, okay, I got to confess.

00:59:17.500 I can make these models do anything I wanted.

00:59:19.960 Just by changing my assumptions, which they can.

00:59:24.800 So, that's coming, I predict.

00:59:32.820 So, I guess Maria Bartiroma is interviewing Trump probably right now while I'm talking.

00:59:41.300 But, there was a teaser for that interview in which Maria asked Trump, does he think that Iran might have hid some of the uranium before the attacks on Fordow and the other sites?

00:59:57.940 Trump says, no, that they did not have time or ability to move the uranium because he says, first of all, it's hard to move and it's heavy.

01:00:11.040 And I said to myself, it's heavy.

01:00:14.780 How heavy is it?

01:00:15.900 You can't move it.

01:00:17.800 There's an estimate that they may have 800 pounds of enriched uranium.

01:00:24.520 You know, it might be buried at this point.

01:00:26.440 But, the estimate was at one point they had 800 pounds.

01:00:29.640 And I say to myself, is it really hard to move 800 pounds?

01:00:35.000 And it's not like all 800 pounds is in one big barrel, right?

01:00:41.400 It would be a number of different containers, each of them with, I don't know, if I had to guess, 50 to 100 pounds a piece.

01:00:52.680 But there would be, you know, multiple containers.

01:00:55.900 Are you telling me that the entire nation of Iran can't figure out how to move 800 cumulative pounds when it's in 50 to 100 pound units?

01:01:07.180 And there's no such thing as a truck that can handle 100 pounds?

01:01:12.820 Even if they didn't move all of it, wouldn't they take the stuff that was, you know, 60, enriched to 60?

01:01:20.160 Say, all right, well, that's not 800 pounds.

01:01:22.680 That's only 100 pounds.

01:01:24.240 But we'll take that 100 pounds because that's what you would build a bomb from.

01:01:30.580 And the fact that we did not see them move, I don't know what that's worth.

01:01:37.180 Because there must be things that they do that we don't see.

01:01:41.160 And then Trump said that they wouldn't have had notice.

01:01:45.420 But of course they had notice.

01:01:48.360 They didn't know the exact day that Ford out was going to get taken out.

01:01:53.500 But they knew that was the, you know, it was like the main theme of the war.

01:01:59.240 So of course they knew it was coming.

01:02:02.220 So I would say it was movable.

01:02:05.200 They did have notice.

01:02:06.640 They did have time.

01:02:07.880 They did have the ability.

01:02:12.380 But did they?

01:02:14.240 Did they do anything with it?

01:02:15.680 Remember, I guess it was yesterday I was telling you, there was a news story that I thought was low credibility.

01:02:21.800 They said that Iran had offered to give up their uranium to other countries in return for a yellow cake that they could use for domestic nuclear power.

01:02:34.720 And I said, I don't know.

01:02:37.400 I don't trust that story.

01:02:38.940 Low credibility.

01:02:40.600 Well, I haven't seen any confirmation that Iran says they still have any uranium.

01:02:47.040 So I'm going to say that that story was almost certainly fake.

01:02:51.380 Almost certainly fake.

01:02:52.560 Anyway, so I'm impressed by the military.

01:03:01.500 I'm impressed by Trump.

01:03:03.680 I think the operation that the U.S. did to take out Fordow and the other sites was amazing and as successful as you could possibly be when you have specific targets.

01:03:15.260 The only open question is, did Iran do something that we don't know about?

01:03:23.180 Trump says almost certainly no.

01:03:27.740 And I say, I don't know.

01:03:30.660 Maybe.

01:03:32.180 But I do agree with Trump that if they decided to go hard at reinvigorating their nuclear program, that we would know.

01:03:43.320 And Trump says he would absolutely, quote, absolutely bomb Iran again if needed.

01:03:52.140 So even if they had some uranium, what are the odds that they would try to weaponize it?

01:03:59.360 I would say it would be a really bad bet at this point to try.

01:04:04.480 So I think Trump probably did get a good outcome.

01:04:11.100 But we don't know.

01:04:13.360 Nothing's 100% in this world.

01:04:15.400 But probably.

01:04:17.120 I would say the odds are very good that he got a lasting outcome.

01:04:21.940 We'll see.

01:04:24.160 Well, RFK Jr. is talking about how teen boys today have lower testosterone than their grandfathers.

01:04:32.640 So this is what RFK Jr. said recently.

01:04:36.820 You've heard this before, but it's shocking every time I hear it.

01:04:39.420 He said, when my uncle was president, we spent zero on chronic disease in this country.

01:04:46.460 Spent zero.

01:04:47.760 Meaning that we didn't have much.

01:04:51.720 He said, today we spend $1.7 trillion and rising.

01:04:56.220 And the expense is rising faster than our economy.

01:05:02.920 He says, it's an existential threat to our country in every way.

01:05:07.220 75% of American kids cannot qualify for military service.

01:05:12.340 75%?

01:05:13.940 What?

01:05:16.620 75%.

01:05:17.180 What was it when I was a kid?

01:05:20.800 If I had to guess, you know, just sort of thinking about my classmates and stuff,

01:05:26.680 I would guess that 75% would qualify, and maybe only 25% wouldn't.

01:05:35.060 But now it's reversed.

01:05:36.920 75% of kids would not qualify for military service?

01:05:41.680 Holy moly.

01:05:44.760 And fertility rates are plummeting, as you know.

01:05:47.840 And according to RFK Jr., who certainly has looked into it, he says that American boys

01:05:56.360 have half of the testosterone of 65-year-old men and half the sperm count.

01:06:05.400 What?

01:06:07.100 Half?

01:06:08.940 Holy moly.

01:06:10.540 So, I guess my testosterone blockers are just ahead of the game.

01:06:19.480 All right, people.

01:06:21.020 That's all I got for today.

01:06:24.260 Another amazing Sunday show.

01:06:27.520 The best thing that happened to you today so far.

01:06:30.640 I'm going to say some words to my beloved, beloved subscribers on Locals.

01:06:38.940 And the rest of you, I hope I will see you tomorrow, same time, same place,

01:06:44.900 for more of this, because it's good every time.

01:07:08.940 Thank you.

01:07:09.940 Thank you.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - June 29, 2025

Episode 2882 CWSA 06⧸29⧸25

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