Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2888 CWSA 07⧸05⧸25

00:00:00.260 Spend this time together again when the lazy podcasters are taking the day off.

00:00:07.280 Do I? No. No, I'm here for you.

00:00:12.480 And it gets better every time.

00:00:15.360 Well, let me make sure I've got my comments working.

00:00:20.140 There we go.

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00:00:34.760 Well, maybe I'll unplug this.

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00:01:39.580 Have you ever noticed that every Fourth of July,

00:01:44.580 there's always a story of some car runs into a fireworks factory and it all blows up?

00:01:51.700 Or somebody said that in the town near me, there was a barge that was full of fireworks

00:02:01.460 so they could do it from the water and the barge sunk.

00:02:07.120 I always feel like there's this nonstop bunch of disasters that always happen on July 4th.

00:02:14.740 But probably that has to do with the slow news nature of it.

00:02:21.100 Well, after this exciting podcast, which might be a little short because there's not much news happening,

00:02:28.720 Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces afterparty.

00:02:34.540 So you'd have to be on X to see it.

00:02:38.600 And Spaces is the audio-only feature.

00:02:42.240 So you can find that by going to Owen Gregorian's site, and it'll be right after the show.

00:02:51.420 And you can talk some more about what we talked about today, or probably other stuff too.

00:02:59.880 Well, remember yesterday I told you that Grok had been updated,

00:03:06.020 and I told you it gave me completely better answers than it gave me before it was updated.

00:03:13.980 And then today I found out it was not updated.

00:03:18.740 Everything I told you yesterday about Grok being better because I'd upgraded it,

00:03:25.400 they haven't done the upgrade yet.

00:03:28.280 It might be today, but I had misread Elon Musk's message.

00:03:34.340 I thought it was yesterday.

00:03:36.420 So I take back everything I said.

00:03:40.060 But it's sort of interesting that the two days I asked essentially the same question,

00:03:46.960 and I got just wildly different answers.

00:03:50.000 So that's the old version.

00:03:51.740 But then, related to that, I was reading a sub-stack piece that was mostly a complimentary,

00:04:06.020 you know, it was an essay about me.

00:04:08.860 So, you know, I've told you that when you see stuff about yourself,

00:04:12.960 that's when you notice that the news is, you know, fake or wrong.

00:04:17.760 And so I'm reading about myself from somebody who is very well-informed

00:04:24.100 and would definitely should have known what was real and what wasn't.

00:04:29.720 And in this article I'm reading, and it says, and I swear to God it said this,

00:04:35.600 it said that I publicly apologized for promoting vaccinations.

00:04:40.220 That's two things that never happened.

00:04:46.400 I never publicly apologized for promoting vaccinations because I never promoted vaccinations.

00:04:54.280 That's like a really big thing to get wrong.

00:04:58.060 And then getting it wrong twice, once saying that I did the opposite of what I did,

00:05:04.080 because, you know, and you're all my witnesses, you know that I never promoted vaccinations.

00:05:10.720 And indeed, as far as I know, I'm the only public figure who publicly predicted

00:05:18.100 that the vaccinations would not work when they introduced Project Warp Speed.

00:05:24.180 And then again, publicly, I predicted that it didn't work after it was already created and rolled out.

00:05:33.180 So is that, did anybody else?

00:05:37.220 Is there even one other public figure who told you that they wouldn't work the day they were introduced?

00:05:45.700 Nobody.

00:05:48.620 You can't get more, I don't think you could get more anti-vaccination than predicting it wouldn't work in public.

00:05:58.100 So, no, I did not promote vaccinations.

00:06:02.600 I did the opposite.

00:06:05.460 According to scientific reports, AI can now figure out whether you're likely to,

00:06:14.240 and I'm going to choose my words carefully so I don't get demonetized.

00:06:19.260 There's some keywords that you don't want to use.

00:06:22.400 So, I'm going to talk around the keywords and say,

00:06:27.460 AI allegedly can predict when a user is likely to want to harm themselves.

00:06:38.140 Let's say the ultimate harm.

00:06:41.200 You know what I mean.

00:06:42.660 I'm just trying not to use the words.

00:06:45.500 Do you think that's right?

00:06:46.900 Do you think AI can analyze your, let's say, social media messages and tell if you're likely?

00:06:56.780 They say they have an 85% accuracy.

00:07:02.860 What happens if they find that your messages suggest you're going to harm yourself?

00:07:10.040 If they really think it's 85% chance, wouldn't they come to your house and remove you from the house because it's for your own good?

00:07:23.100 Well, we've determined that if we leave you to your own devices, you're likely to do something you shouldn't do.

00:07:30.860 So, we're going to pick you up and put you under observation.

00:07:35.460 I don't know.

00:07:36.260 I'd be a little worried where that's heading.

00:07:40.040 And then in the article that was by Scientific Reports, the article talks about what some experts say about this,

00:07:52.680 about the AI being able to determine whether you plan self-harm or whether you're likely to do it, even if it's not planned.

00:08:01.300 But they also got a quote from just an ordinary person who must have had some experience with AI.

00:08:10.040 And maybe a loved one.

00:08:12.060 And they're talking about why AI might cause some mental problems.

00:08:17.460 And this one woman who's not an expert said, 1.00

00:08:22.480 it just increasingly affirms your bullshit and blows smoke up your ass so that it can get you fucking hooked on wanting to engage with it. 1.00

00:08:34.480 Because I guess her husband had been involuntarily committed to a hospital because he had a mental breakdown working with Chad GBT. 1.00

00:08:46.340 And that makes me think that maybe the way to think about AI is that if somebody has good mental health,

00:08:59.200 it might make them even happier and make them more productive.

00:09:03.340 But if you have bad mental health, it might agree with you a little bit too much.

00:09:10.420 And the last thing you want is to have really negative, dangerous ideas in your head and have your AI agree with you

00:09:18.520 because it's designed to be non-confrontational.

00:09:22.600 So it feels to me like if you're not mentally strong, AI will potentially be the end of you.

00:09:33.100 But if you are mentally strong, maybe it gives you a raise.

00:09:36.920 Accordingly, there's an article in Futurism that OpenAI has hired a forensic psychiatrist

00:09:48.040 to figure out why AI is potentially dangerous to some users, as I was explaining.

00:10:00.780 And now, OpenAI says that they're doing it to research.

00:10:06.920 So they're doing it to research, you know, what are the impacts on users psychologically.

00:10:13.920 But they might be aware that AI is deadly for some kinds of people.

00:10:21.320 And they're trying to figure out how to reduce their, let's say, liability.

00:10:27.740 But let's also assume they'd like to save some lives because they're good people, as far as we know.

00:10:36.920 There is a form of gene therapy, according to a publication called The Conversation.

00:10:52.540 Matt, Mayeli, Duane is saying that there are some people who are born with, they're born deaf.

00:10:59.480 And depending on the specific kind of problem you have with your reason for being deaf,

00:11:06.300 they can restore hearing in some people with gene therapy.

00:11:13.420 And that's all.

00:11:15.200 You know, just gene therapy.

00:11:17.600 And then suddenly their hearing, I won't say it returns,

00:11:21.220 but they can make somebody born deaf with an incurable, you know, cause that now they can cure with gene therapy.

00:11:32.180 Now, obviously, this is not going to work on every person.

00:11:36.740 And I think they mostly use it on young people.

00:11:38.800 But how amazing is that?

00:11:43.020 Imagine if that became common and a baby is born and is deaf and they just say, oh, no problem. 0.97

00:11:50.580 You know, just give us this gene therapy. 0.98

00:11:53.500 And then two weeks later, the baby can hear normally.

00:11:57.760 We're definitely entering a golden age if we allow ourselves to be in it.

00:12:03.960 That's pretty amazing.

00:12:05.040 Likewise, according to New Atlas, there's a breakthrough in hay fever, reducing your allergies.

00:12:16.400 And I guess they use some kind of molecular shield in your nose.

00:12:20.900 So you spray something in your nose and it's not interacting with your body to make you less allergic.

00:12:29.320 It's just like a shield so that your nose doesn't pick up these allergens.

00:12:35.040 That's kind of cool.

00:12:37.080 And then over in Paris, this will be a good test of your, let's say, willingness to do dangerous things.

00:12:47.840 So the river that goes through Paris, the Seine, has been too polluted to allow people to swim in it.

00:13:00.760 So I guess for about 100 years, it was just too polluted.

00:13:06.160 I don't know if it was illegal or just unwise.

00:13:09.840 But because the Olympics, I guess, are coming to Paris sometime soon, Paris put on a big effort to clean up the Seine.

00:13:23.500 Until now, it is normally clean enough to swim in.

00:13:28.800 So they're allowing people to swim in it.

00:13:32.180 But if it rains, apparently the runoff kind of pollutes it again for a while.

00:13:39.700 So would you go swimming in the Seine if you knew that it had been too polluted to swim in for 100 years?

00:13:48.400 But they say it's clean now, they say, unless it has rained recently.

00:13:56.680 Would you swim in that?

00:13:59.940 I don't know.

00:14:01.080 I feel like I would be thinking too much.

00:14:03.880 You know, the Tootsie Roll was going to float into my mouth if I were swimming in that thing, if you know what I mean.

00:14:10.720 Hell no.

00:14:11.660 No, we would not swim in the Seine.

00:14:13.420 All right, well, Trump, true to his word, New York Post is reporting that he's already started to put together the letters that he's sending out to the other countries,

00:14:28.280 telling them what kind of reciprocal tariffs they're going to pay.

00:14:33.400 So some of them will be pretty high.

00:14:35.840 And I'm wondering, did Trump find a brilliant workaround for the fact that there were too many deals to actually negotiate that quickly?

00:14:50.440 You know, in a perfect world, there would have been a whole bunch of done deals where, you know, dozens, if not hundreds of countries would have negotiated terms,

00:15:02.320 and we would agree to them, and we'd have signed deals, but nothing happens as quickly as you wanted to in the real world.

00:15:10.080 So did Trump find a workaround for that, where he's just going to negotiate with a few big countries like China and Vietnam,

00:15:21.280 but for the rest of them, he's just going to send them a letter and tell them what their payment will be to have access to our markets,

00:15:30.260 and that if they want to negotiate, he can say, nah, you can make me an offer, I'll listen to it, but we don't need anything.

00:15:41.140 You're going to pay these, well, the importing company, the American company, will be absorbing some percentage of it,

00:15:49.860 but we don't know in the real world what percent.

00:15:52.820 Do you think he found a way to make this work?

00:16:01.480 Because it kind of looks like he did.

00:16:04.440 Yeah, I feel like all he's going to do is scare the bejesus out of other countries with these demand letters.

00:16:11.160 All right, your tariff will be 70 percent.

00:16:14.320 But, but, but, but, well, you had months to negotiate a better deal.

00:16:23.360 You know, our doors were open.

00:16:25.320 All you had to do was make us an offer that was more to your liking and met our requirements,

00:16:30.800 and we wouldn't do this.

00:16:33.140 But, but, but, we didn't have time.

00:16:35.860 That's fine.

00:16:36.560 No problem.

00:16:37.860 Just pay the 70 percent.

00:16:39.380 But, but, but, that's so unfair.

00:16:43.320 Yeah, really, it is.

00:16:44.980 But it was unfair what it was before, too.

00:16:47.820 But, but, but, doesn't it feel like, it just feels kind of brilliant that he just basically told people,

00:16:56.320 we don't need to negotiate.

00:16:58.920 We're fine not negotiating.

00:17:01.100 We'll just send you the bill.

00:17:04.440 Well, we'll see.

00:17:05.420 The Wall Street Journal is reporting, that, and others are reporting, that Hamas has accepted a framework for a ceasefire.

00:17:18.540 And, allegedly, this, and by the way, I don't believe this at all.

00:17:23.440 I mean, I believe that the reporting is accurate.

00:17:27.100 I don't believe it's actually going to happen.

00:17:30.040 But, I'd love to be wrong.

00:17:31.860 So, Hamas has accepted the framework of a proposed 60-day ceasefire.

00:17:39.780 But it would only involve releasing 10 living hostages.

00:17:45.280 My understanding is there might be 50.

00:17:47.900 I don't know how many are living.

00:17:49.160 But, are they really, did, did Trump really get Israel to agree to a deal that would not free all of the hostages?

00:18:05.140 Really?

00:18:07.020 That doesn't seem like something they would agree to.

00:18:10.000 So, Trump must be putting a lot of pressure on Israel if they agreed to a ceasefire without getting all of the hostages back.

00:18:21.340 So, we'll see.

00:18:23.700 I'm going to bet that this will not work out.

00:18:27.560 Probably something will eventually work out.

00:18:30.420 But I just don't see ceasefire in return for 10 hostages.

00:18:36.520 I just don't see that working out.

00:18:38.340 But, we'll find out.

00:18:41.180 Well, there's a mystery that happened in the Bitcoin world, I guess, yesterday.

00:18:46.680 Eight dormant Bitcoin wallets.

00:18:50.560 So, these would be people who owned Bitcoin, but had never traded it or sold it or cashed it out or done anything with it.

00:18:58.580 So, as people who had had their Bitcoin since the beginning of Bitcoin, and they never once moved any money around.

00:19:07.920 But, they just decided to become active.

00:19:11.240 Eight of them became active after 14 years of no activity.

00:19:14.860 And, they moved a total of $8.6 billion around in their wallets.

00:19:22.200 Now, I don't know if they moved it or cashed it.

00:19:25.220 But, somebody was sitting on Bitcoin for 14 years.

00:19:29.260 And, there were only eight accounts that were worth $8.6 billion.

00:19:35.180 So, on average, that would be a billion dollars per account.

00:19:39.100 And, somebody had so much money that they didn't need it for 14 years.

00:19:45.220 And, they just let it sit there until it was worth a billion.

00:19:47.920 But, I like to think, you know, my favorite story I'll tell myself is that, you know, maybe they're stolen, right?

00:19:58.200 Could be somebody hacked them.

00:20:01.900 But, wouldn't it be fun if they didn't know they had the Bitcoin?

00:20:06.900 And, one day, they just were looking through their papers and said,

00:20:09.940 Oh, wow.

00:20:11.280 Yeah, I forgot.

00:20:12.240 I bought some Bitcoin 14 years ago.

00:20:16.020 Oh, I wonder how, oh, here's my instructions on how to get into my wallet.

00:20:20.740 And, then, suddenly, just some ordinary person is worth a billion dollars.

00:20:25.520 I like to think of it that way.

00:20:27.140 But, it was probably some rich investor who didn't need it.

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00:21:30.300 Well, Elon, I'm sorry, Joe Rogan was talking to the CEO of a big company, I forget which company, some big company, doesn't matter which one.

00:21:47.680 And he asked the CEO, or the CEO had an opinion about why wokeness died.

00:21:54.740 Did wokeness die? 0.95

00:21:58.540 What do you think?

00:22:00.880 It feels like it.

00:22:03.420 You know, it's been a long time since somebody insisted I pay reparations or use their pronouns.

00:22:11.080 So, I don't know if wokeness is dead-dead.

00:22:14.160 You know, the universities are holding on tight to their racist ways.

00:22:19.560 Oh, yeah, it was the CEO of Replit, Replit, which is an AI company?

00:22:28.760 I don't know.

00:22:29.940 By the way, the CEO of Replit said that he thinks that America's woke culture was ended by Elon Musk buying Twitter.

00:22:41.400 Do you buy that?

00:22:42.460 Do you think the reason that wokeness died was directly related to Elon Musk buying Twitter, which allowed, for the first time, something close to free speech?

00:22:57.320 I don't know.

00:22:58.420 I feel like it had more to do with Trump winning the election.

00:23:04.740 Because he got rid of DEI.

00:23:07.300 He made DEI basically illegal.

00:23:09.700 Not basically illegal, but illegal at the federal level.

00:23:16.540 As much as I think that Elon Musk rescued free speech, which I believe he did,

00:23:24.680 I don't know if that rescue of free speech is what ended wokeness.

00:23:28.420 I feel like what might have ended it is finding out that most of the country was against it, and Trump made it illegal, at least in the DEI part.

00:23:40.480 He made it illegal also the trans athletes on women's teams.

00:23:46.900 So I feel like Trump is the one who did it by simply making it illegal to be woke at a point where it's destructive to society.

00:23:56.940 I mean, you could be woke in your brain, but if you're going to implement it in society in a way that destroys the fabric of sports and the economy, well, you don't get to do that.

00:24:11.440 So I'm going to say, I don't know, maybe 50% Elon buying Twitter and 50% Trump making wokeness illegal.

00:24:22.900 According to CNN's Harry Enten, and maybe this is more on the same thing,

00:24:32.060 according to four different big respective polls, a clear majority of Americans back-deporting all illegal immigrants.

00:24:42.900 So depending on the poll, between 55% and 64% of poll respondents, these would be American citizens, want to send back all illegal immigrants.

00:25:00.340 Now, did you know that in 2016, only 36% of the respondents said, send everybody back?

00:25:09.600 So when Trump first was saying, hey, close these borders and deport everybody, he didn't really have majority support, a little over a third.

00:25:22.100 Now, he has solidly over half of the country says, send them all back.

00:25:28.320 Now, mostly, I would say, that's because there was so much of it between 2016 and now.

00:25:34.560 So people just said, yeah, you know, a little bit of immigration was good, but this is totally out of control, and now you have to send them all back. 0.98

00:25:45.640 So some of it is Trump being very persuasive, and some of it is the situation worsened.

00:25:53.360 And so the news showed a different situation to people.

00:25:58.220 But does that surprise you?

00:25:59.660 I did not know that a majority of Americans, so that's got to include a bunch of independents at least, if not Democrats,

00:26:11.920 that a majority want to send back all illegal immigrants?

00:26:17.540 That's way more than even Trump recently promised, because ICE and Trump were both saying, we're going to start with the worst first.

00:26:31.240 So they never dropped the idea that they were going to deport everybody who was illegal.

00:26:36.200 But there was a practical limitation to that, meaning that they could, you know, work for years just trying to get the worst ones, the ones that had broken laws after they got here.

00:26:48.440 So I thought, well, yeah, you can say you want to deport every single one, but if you start with the worst first, it's going to get harder and harder to find the worst, because once you get all the low-hanging fruit, you'd be like, all right, well, I know there's more criminal, undocumented people. 1.00

00:27:11.500 They're just harder to find.

00:27:13.000 And, you know, we'll keep working on it.

00:27:15.980 But apparently the public is on the same page as Trump's campaign promises, at least by a solid majority.

00:27:25.760 So that surprised me.

00:27:30.260 The Wall Street Journal seems to be a little bit pro-Trump in terms of the big, beautiful bill.

00:27:39.060 So the editorial board is complaining that the Democrats are lying about the big, beautiful bill.

00:27:49.780 So that's sort of a pro-Trump message, that they're saying the Democrats are lying to you.

00:27:55.740 So the things they're lying about is saying that the Republicans are going to take away all your health care, or that people who are eligible and should be getting Medicare are going to be dropped from it.

00:28:11.720 They think, what else do they think?

00:28:15.480 Yeah, so the CBO had said that 4.8 million people would rather lose their Medicare that they have now than get a job or apply to school to learn something.

00:28:34.960 Because if you're in school or you have a job, and you don't even have to work many hours, it's like 20 hours a week,

00:28:41.160 you can even volunteer just to maintain your health care.

00:28:47.160 But the CBO estimated that 4.8 million people wouldn't do that.

00:28:52.920 Could you imagine being so lazy that you wouldn't take any kind of job at all to maintain your own health care coverage?

00:29:02.600 No job, nothing for 20 hours a week, or even just sign up for a community college.

00:29:09.660 And, you know, barely pass.

00:29:12.820 How hard would it be to do enough work to maintain your health care?

00:29:19.160 So that's amazing.

00:29:20.780 So are we supposed to have empathy for people who want us to pay for them while they don't work, even though they're able-bodied?

00:29:29.720 So I think Democrats have convinced themselves that their relative who's in a wheelchair and can't walk, can't speak, that they're going to lose their Medicare.

00:29:42.020 No.

00:29:42.720 No, it's only able-bodied people.

00:29:44.500 It's not people who are already in terrible shape.

00:29:47.540 So the Democrats have to lie that they're going to take away your health care.

00:29:56.300 But also, I asked this question on X this morning.

00:30:02.380 I said, when Democrats describe the hellscape of living under Trump's authoritarian rule, what part of that is touching them personally?

00:30:15.380 Have you ever wondered that?

00:30:16.900 If all Democrats, probably maybe two-thirds of them, would agree with the statement that everything's going to hell under Trump, do they have an example of something that affected them?

00:30:32.880 Because I wake up every morning, and nothing seems to be affecting me.

00:30:38.620 There's nothing that Trump has done except maybe decreasing the number of dangerous, undocumented people. 1.00

00:30:47.940 I don't feel anything different.

00:30:50.320 Every day I wake up and things are about the same.

00:30:53.760 But what are Democrats doing?

00:30:56.260 Are they waking up into some, you know, hellscape?

00:30:59.740 And if you ask them, all right, so what exactly is the hellscape part?

00:31:07.740 It turns out that according to the comments to my post, that a lot of people believe that regular citizens will be deported.

00:31:20.260 How many of you believe that just regular citizens will be deported?

00:31:27.660 Just minding your own business.

00:31:29.740 And that one day, ICE will break down your door and say, all right, your family's been here for four generations.

00:31:37.500 But Trump has decided to deport you somewhere to a country you've never had any association with.

00:31:45.360 Apparently, Democrats believe that's real.

00:31:48.960 So they think that citizens will be deported.

00:31:55.500 What?

00:31:57.240 What?

00:31:57.800 So they think that their health care will go away, even if they deserve it, which is not true.

00:32:08.060 And they think that the deporting won't stop until they get all the Democrats, I guess.

00:32:13.860 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering, is every fabulous item I see from Winners?

00:32:22.960 Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

00:32:25.620 Are those from Winners?

00:32:27.180 Ooh, are those beautiful gold earrings?

00:32:29.620 Did she pay full price?

00:32:31.000 Or that leather tote?

00:32:32.000 Or that cashmere sweater?

00:32:33.240 Or those knee-high boots?

00:32:34.380 That dress, that jacket, those shoes.

00:32:37.200 Is anyone paying full price for anything?

00:32:40.120 Stop wondering.

00:32:41.380 Start winning.

00:32:42.320 Winners find fabulous for less.

00:32:44.320 But they might hate the fact that Planned Parenthood is being majorly defunded by the big, beautiful bill.

00:32:55.740 Now, by defunded, I mean, I don't mean that they lose all their money.

00:33:01.000 I think that's a lot.

00:33:02.820 I think it's like a quarter of their funding or something they get from the feds.

00:33:07.820 So they're going to lose about a quarter of their funding, somewhere in that neighborhood.

00:33:14.480 But does that mean that the government should continue to pay for it?

00:33:21.360 You know, I prefer to stay away from the whole argument about abortion.

00:33:26.840 Because I think men such as me should just stay out of it.

00:33:31.420 And whatever women work out, you know, I'll go along with that. 1.00

00:33:34.660 Because if the situation were reversed, and I were a female, I wouldn't want men to have an opinion on abortion.

00:33:44.500 I'd say, stay out of it.

00:33:46.560 You just stay out of it.

00:33:48.100 Let the women figure it out. 1.00

00:33:50.460 So I apply the same standard as a man.

00:33:53.980 I say, oh, okay.

00:33:55.560 If I were you, I'd want me to stay out of the argument.

00:33:58.980 So I do.

00:34:00.620 I have nothing to add to the argument.

00:34:02.460 But if we're looking at the funding alone, I do feel like Planned Parenthood will eventually find enough voluntary funding.

00:34:13.440 Probably they'll just get more donations because they'll say, hey, mean old Trump took our funding.

00:34:22.100 So why don't you donate to us?

00:34:23.900 So I suspect that their business won't be that much affected in the long run.

00:34:29.300 But we'll see.

00:34:30.240 But I guess that would be part of the Democrat hellscape.

00:34:34.600 To which I say, how many people needed an abortion today? 0.97

00:34:40.900 Anyway.

00:34:41.240 So when I ask the question about the hellscape, I'm kind of fascinated by the troll activity. 0.50

00:34:52.480 Because if I say anything about policy that is sort of anti-Democrat, I'll get at least one, and usually just one, comment from somebody who looks like an AI troll or maybe just a paid troll.

00:35:10.040 But they have some stuff in common that doesn't make them look like regular commenters.

00:35:15.000 So to my question about where exactly is this hellscape people are living, Richard Engwin, who I don't know if is a real person or not, replied,

00:35:27.000 Scott Adams' smug dismissal of legitimate fears about Trump's authoritarian tendencies is a dangerous oversimplification that ignores the real trauma inflicted on marginalized communities by his policies.

00:35:42.820 To which I say, that is a perfect Democrat response. 0.53

00:35:49.600 It did the two things that Democrats do.

00:35:52.020 So the first thing is they don't address the point.

00:35:59.140 They insult you personally.

00:36:02.740 So was the thing that you needed to talk about my smug dismissal of legitimate fears?

00:36:11.200 Was this really about me?

00:36:13.700 Why would you make it about me?

00:36:15.880 That's not a reasonable question to ask.

00:36:18.620 If half of the country believes they live in a hellscape,

00:36:22.020 and I care enough to understand what that's about,

00:36:25.900 that I publicly put myself out there and say,

00:36:28.720 well, can you give me an example?

00:36:31.060 Because I can be convinced.

00:36:33.380 I can be talked into it.

00:36:35.140 If you had real examples, I'd say,

00:36:37.500 oh, okay, maybe those things don't bother me,

00:36:41.520 but I could see how they would bother you.

00:36:43.720 Thank you for your answer.

00:36:44.920 But instead, I get attacked personally for my smug dismissal of legitimate fears.

00:36:52.440 Like I've got some special lack of empathy for the underprivileged.

00:37:00.120 No, I don't.

00:37:01.480 I just have a genuine curiosity.

00:37:04.300 What the heck is the hellscape?

00:37:06.640 Can you give me some examples?

00:37:08.140 Then the second thing that is typically Democrat,

00:37:12.080 besides going after the person instead of the opinion,

00:37:15.340 is these vague hand-waving problems,

00:37:20.860 like Trump's authoritarian tendencies.

00:37:25.660 All right?

00:37:26.280 So, go on.

00:37:28.340 Now, complete the picture.

00:37:30.540 His authoritarian tendencies give you what problem?

00:37:38.000 Well, it allowed me to oversimplify

00:37:42.360 and ignore the real trauma inflicted on marginalized communities.

00:37:47.540 Okay, we're getting closer.

00:37:49.620 What would be an example of the real trauma

00:37:53.380 inflicted on the marginalized communities?

00:37:57.080 Just one example.

00:38:01.560 So, what exactly is a trauma inducer?

00:38:09.100 Can you give me any example of that?

00:38:11.460 Probably not.

00:38:13.060 All right.

00:38:15.400 Rasmussen did a poll asking people about their preferences,

00:38:20.320 for Democrats' preferences,

00:38:22.900 for their presidential candidate for 2028.

00:38:26.280 And at the top of the list was Kamala Harris.

00:38:32.600 Let me see if you can guess what percentage of the respondents

00:38:37.240 thought that having Kamala Harris as a candidate was a good idea. 1.00

00:38:42.000 What percent of the people who answered?

00:38:46.820 Does anybody know?

00:38:48.860 You know.

00:38:50.260 I don't have to tell you.

00:38:52.380 You know.

00:38:54.420 That's right.

00:38:55.320 If you guessed 25%, you were very close.

00:39:01.760 The answer is 23%.

00:39:04.080 Yep.

00:39:05.480 23% of respondents thought that Harris would be a good idea.

00:39:10.340 How in the world could you go through that last election cycle

00:39:18.500 and conclude that Kamala Harris is your best player?

00:39:22.360 Like I always say.

00:39:25.600 So, for those of you who are not in on the inside joke here,

00:39:29.180 I'll bring you in.

00:39:31.840 The inside joke is that I always tease the pollsters that, 1.00

00:39:37.280 for every poll, there's always at least one answer that's really stupid. 0.99

00:39:42.120 There might be several answers that, you know, are reasonable, 0.99

00:39:46.580 but maybe you disagree.

00:39:48.000 But there's usually one answer, no matter what the topic is, 1.00

00:39:52.260 there's usually one answer that they get that's just stupid. 0.99

00:39:57.260 And I would say that favoring Kamala Harris as your champion for 2028, 1.00

00:40:03.640 that kind of falls into stupid. 0.99

00:40:05.860 I don't think that's just a preference, is it? 0.99

00:40:12.660 Would you call that a preference?

00:40:15.080 It just looks like you weren't paying attention at all.

00:40:20.940 Anyway.

00:40:24.440 Eric Dolan over at SciPost tells us there's a new study

00:40:29.560 about what percentage of Americans think that we're heading toward a civil war.

00:40:35.860 You know, if you spend any time on social media,

00:40:39.100 people just casually say,

00:40:41.580 it's time for the civil war, you know, grab your gun.

00:40:44.500 And I always wonder,

00:40:46.000 how many people actually think that the U.S. is close to a civil war?

00:40:52.160 Because, again, I don't know why hellscape that is you're living in,

00:40:56.080 but I don't know anybody who's close to a civil war.

00:41:00.220 It's just, you see some strangers on social media say,

00:41:06.060 yeah, it's time for that civil war.

00:41:08.300 But I don't know a real person

00:41:10.420 who thinks a civil war is necessary or desirable.

00:41:15.060 None.

00:41:16.320 But it turns out that my intuition was not too far off

00:41:19.700 because only 6.5% of the respondents felt strongly or very strongly

00:41:26.040 that a civil war was likely.

00:41:30.180 And only fewer than 4% agree that such a conflict wasn't needed.

00:41:37.220 So 4%?

00:41:39.380 I'll bet even that 4% doesn't really mean it.

00:41:42.740 You know, like if you said,

00:41:45.020 all right, the magic genie just put you in charge of the civil war.

00:41:51.120 If you say yes,

00:41:53.280 there will be a civil war that you think is necessary.

00:41:57.180 And if you say no,

00:41:58.560 the genie will make sure there's no civil war.

00:42:01.420 Do you think you could give 4% of the respondents to say,

00:42:05.080 hmm, yeah, let's do the civil war?

00:42:09.240 Because I'm a little skeptical.

00:42:10.720 Well, I feel like it might be close to zero people

00:42:14.460 would actually say yes to that.

00:42:16.680 So I don't think the U.S. is close to a civil war.

00:42:21.100 Nowhere close.

00:42:22.360 We don't even have protests

00:42:24.560 unless they're funded by, you know, dirty money backers.

00:42:31.380 We don't even have spontaneous protests.

00:42:34.660 We only have the paid professional activist kind of protests

00:42:38.180 that nobody thinks is an indication of what people are thinking.

00:42:42.360 Rather, it's just political theater.

00:42:46.600 So as soon as the Department of Justice and the FBI

00:42:51.540 said they were going to look into the funding

00:42:54.060 behind the anti-ICE protests in L.A.,

00:42:57.920 suddenly all the protests stopped.

00:43:00.560 Huh, huh, interesting.

00:43:01.960 As soon as they were going to look into the real cause of it.

00:43:06.000 Hmm.

00:43:07.500 So that was never real.

00:43:11.000 Those protests were obviously activist and funded.

00:43:15.360 So Elon Musk is modifying his plans

00:43:22.200 for starting a new political party.

00:43:26.220 So instead of primarying every single Republican

00:43:29.060 who voted for the big, beautiful bill,

00:43:31.240 which is something he threatened,

00:43:33.380 he is now saying that one way to execute on this

00:43:36.620 would be to laser focus on just two or three Senate seats

00:43:41.560 and eight to ten House districts.

00:43:44.780 because he reckons if he can get just that many people

00:43:50.940 to join what he calls his America Party,

00:43:54.660 that the Democrats and Republicans would be so close,

00:44:00.080 they'd be sort of a tie on everything,

00:44:02.380 that he would be the Joe Manchin tiebreaker.

00:44:05.820 You remember I always talked about how smart Joe Manchin was

00:44:09.000 because he would be the one person

00:44:11.720 that you were never sure if he was going to side

00:44:14.460 with the Republicans or the Democrats,

00:44:16.680 which effectively put him in charge of the whole country.

00:44:20.480 Yeah, at the time,

00:44:22.100 because the votes were all close to a tie

00:44:24.640 and you always needed that one extra senator.

00:44:27.880 And I always thought,

00:44:28.500 he's so smart to not commit to one side or the other

00:44:32.040 because it puts him in charge of the whole country.

00:44:35.480 And this is what Musk is looking to do.

00:44:39.380 If he could really get just a handful of senators,

00:44:45.480 he would run the country

00:44:47.260 because it would be a tie with pretty much every topic

00:44:52.920 except for his five senators

00:44:55.360 that maybe he could push toward deficit reduction or something.

00:45:00.800 So we'll see if he follows up on that.

00:45:05.300 I know that whatever we're doing now isn't the best system,

00:45:08.260 so I don't know.

00:45:09.680 Will he make it better or worse?

00:45:12.040 How many of you believe that the Russian economy

00:45:15.100 has been suffering because of the war?

00:45:19.540 Didn't you sort of think that was true?

00:45:21.380 Didn't you believe that the Russian economy must be sputtering?

00:45:27.100 Well, maybe your news didn't tell you

00:45:29.560 that for the past two years,

00:45:31.040 the Russian economy has been zooming.

00:45:34.040 Now, it's probably because the stimulus of having a war,

00:45:38.540 so it's not a permanent situation.

00:45:40.820 But now there's some reporting

00:45:43.660 that maybe the economy,

00:45:46.340 after two years of zooming,

00:45:47.840 might be, you know, a little bit weaker.

00:45:53.340 I don't think so.

00:45:55.200 I think if we're waiting for Russia's economy to falter,

00:45:59.420 and then, you know, then we'll negotiate,

00:46:01.740 I don't think we should wait for that.

00:46:04.000 Well, Trump continues to say

00:46:08.840 that he's got a TikTok deal pretty much done

00:46:12.860 that would allow some American,

00:46:15.660 or at least non-Chinese,

00:46:17.880 investors to buy it

00:46:19.480 if he can only get China to agree.

00:46:23.500 But when it comes to China agreeing,

00:46:25.540 he's going to be talking to them next week, I guess.

00:46:27.620 And he says,

00:46:30.540 when asked if he's confident

00:46:33.640 that China would approve the sale of TikTok

00:46:36.540 to an American-led consortium, probably,

00:46:41.480 he said,

00:46:42.260 I'm not confident,

00:46:43.640 but I think so.

00:46:45.280 President Xi and I have a great relationship,

00:46:47.500 and I think it's good for them.

00:46:50.080 The deal is good for China, 1.00

00:46:51.860 and it's good for us.

00:46:52.880 So, does that sound like he's going to succeed?

00:47:00.000 To me, that sounds like China's not going to give up on us,

00:47:04.160 unless they get some big trade,

00:47:08.440 you know, some trade concession.

00:47:11.480 So, in order for Trump to satisfy his investors,

00:47:15.720 who are probably also Trump supporters,

00:47:18.020 the ones who have agreed to buy TikTok,

00:47:20.160 so in order to get that done,

00:47:23.520 the question I would ask is,

00:47:25.900 is he going to have to throw the rest of us under the bus

00:47:28.440 by not pushing China as hard as he could on trade?

00:47:34.760 I don't know.

00:47:36.860 I'd be a little bit concerned

00:47:38.640 about what China asked for in response,

00:47:42.420 as in, well,

00:47:43.940 we really, really don't want to sell TikTok,

00:47:46.600 but we might be willing to do it

00:47:50.440 if you just drop this whole trade war thing

00:47:53.060 and give us AI chips.

00:47:56.120 There's probably something they're willing to ask for

00:47:58.680 that would make it worth it for them to sell TikTok,

00:48:02.200 which they don't want to do.

00:48:05.260 And also, TikTok is how they can brainwash our country. 0.98

00:48:09.200 So, China might just say 0.86

00:48:13.060 it's not even about economics.

00:48:15.460 It's entirely about

00:48:16.840 having a platform that can control minds in America.

00:48:23.300 Anyway,

00:48:24.540 so the Democratic National Committee

00:48:27.780 is sharpening their attacks on Trump,

00:48:30.940 and their new approach is

00:48:32.840 that Trump is, quote,

00:48:34.900 killing the American dream

00:48:36.560 through Price Ikes

00:48:38.040 and his big, beautiful bill.

00:48:41.420 So,

00:48:42.100 does that sound like a good attack?

00:48:45.680 Trump is killing the American dream?

00:48:49.680 Again,

00:48:50.700 there's no image that goes with that,

00:48:54.120 so it's not visual persuasion.

00:48:58.020 It doesn't exactly ring true.

00:49:01.440 I don't imagine it would ring true for,

00:49:04.040 I don't know,

00:49:04.780 I can't put myself in the head of Democrats.

00:49:08.140 Maybe for young people 0.99

00:49:09.960 who believe that

00:49:12.020 everything is too expensive

00:49:13.620 so they'll never own a house.

00:49:16.060 So,

00:49:16.400 if their message is

00:49:17.600 he's killing the American dream

00:49:19.220 through Price Ikes,

00:49:20.840 you'd have to give examples

00:49:23.820 of those Price Ikes.

00:49:26.020 And at the moment,

00:49:27.520 inflation is

00:49:28.740 not bad.

00:49:30.420 so they would be,

00:49:33.180 Democrats

00:49:33.920 look to be

00:49:34.780 hooking their horse,

00:49:36.240 so to speak,

00:49:37.380 to

00:49:38.260 an argument

00:49:39.540 that is the opposite

00:49:40.860 of the data,

00:49:42.100 which they always do.

00:49:45.100 It's the most common thing

00:49:46.600 they do,

00:49:47.600 is come up with an argument

00:49:48.960 that's opposite

00:49:49.760 of the data.

00:49:52.680 Anyway,

00:49:53.540 so that's their best,

00:49:54.660 their best idea.

00:49:55.500 So the new hoax,

00:49:58.480 the new Democrat hoax

00:49:59.960 would be

00:50:00.560 that Trump is

00:50:01.760 preventing the American dream

00:50:03.500 instead of

00:50:04.040 creating it.

00:50:06.000 Well,

00:50:06.780 did you know,

00:50:07.880 according to the Washington Times,

00:50:10.280 Matt Delaney is writing,

00:50:12.780 did you know that there are

00:50:14.740 9,000 reports,

00:50:16.820 9,000 reports

00:50:18.700 of Russia

00:50:20.580 using chemical weapons

00:50:22.380 to attack

00:50:23.020 Ukraine's forces

00:50:24.180 9,000 times

00:50:26.460 that

00:50:26.740 we know of

00:50:27.860 and

00:50:29.520 apparently

00:50:29.960 they're

00:50:30.940 loading the chemicals

00:50:32.560 into their own drones

00:50:33.860 and

00:50:35.000 they're

00:50:35.440 gassing

00:50:36.440 the Ukrainians 0.96

00:50:37.480 who are

00:50:37.960 hiding in

00:50:39.120 trenches

00:50:39.660 and other places

00:50:41.060 and

00:50:43.640 it gets them

00:50:44.220 to leave

00:50:44.660 their protected areas

00:50:45.900 so they can breathe

00:50:47.260 and then they 1.00

00:50:48.540 kill them 1.00

00:50:49.620 with their drones. 1.00

00:50:51.500 So apparently

00:50:52.340 chemical warfare

00:50:54.380 is just raging

00:50:55.340 over there

00:50:55.920 and

00:50:57.100 it's the first time

00:50:59.500 I've heard of it.

00:51:00.900 Does it make sense

00:51:02.100 to you

00:51:02.540 that

00:51:03.300 Russia

00:51:04.340 is routinely

00:51:05.300 gassing

00:51:06.020 the Ukrainians

00:51:06.940 and today's

00:51:08.400 probably

00:51:09.100 for some of you

00:51:10.060 that today's

00:51:10.800 the first day

00:51:11.380 you've ever heard of it?

00:51:13.160 Why would that be?

00:51:15.080 Is it

00:51:15.540 to prevent us

00:51:16.960 from getting involved

00:51:18.080 because

00:51:19.060 if we think

00:51:19.960 they're gassing people

00:51:21.000 we'd say

00:51:21.400 hey

00:51:21.720 you know

00:51:23.020 we have to get involved

00:51:24.180 because it's like

00:51:25.200 weapons of mass destruction

00:51:26.520 I don't know

00:51:28.180 I can't understand

00:51:29.700 why I'm only hearing

00:51:30.720 about this today

00:51:31.600 was it always out there?

00:51:34.140 Maybe it was always out there

00:51:35.560 and I just missed

00:51:36.320 every story about it

00:51:37.520 or maybe

00:51:40.340 it's not real

00:51:41.480 don't know

00:51:42.500 so I was

00:51:44.600 checking today

00:51:45.460 to see if my

00:51:46.480 idea about

00:51:48.800 Zoran Mamdani

00:51:51.180 the potential

00:51:52.320 mayor of

00:51:53.140 New York City

00:51:53.980 so I told you

00:51:55.620 that the best

00:51:56.400 attack

00:51:56.840 is to

00:51:57.540 attack 0.97

00:51:58.640 his creepy 0.87

00:51:59.500 smile

00:52:00.100 because once you

00:52:01.320 hear it called

00:52:01.920 creepy

00:52:02.400 you'll always see

00:52:03.820 his smile

00:52:04.280 is creepy

00:52:04.860 you just have to

00:52:05.720 hear it once

00:52:06.300 and it just

00:52:07.060 becomes part of you

00:52:08.740 so it's spread

00:52:11.240 a little bit

00:52:11.920 you know

00:52:13.080 there are some

00:52:13.760 notable people

00:52:14.940 that posted it

00:52:15.860 but I feel like

00:52:17.800 it could get a lot

00:52:18.660 bigger

00:52:19.060 and I you know

00:52:20.160 I suspect it hasn't

00:52:21.140 had any impact

00:52:22.620 on actual voters

00:52:23.540 in New York City

00:52:24.360 yet

00:52:24.660 so it would have

00:52:26.000 to get a lot

00:52:26.640 bigger

00:52:27.000 or somebody like

00:52:29.100 Trump would have

00:52:29.780 to say

00:52:30.240 he has a creepy

00:52:31.740 smile

00:52:32.240 because otherwise

00:52:33.600 it won't get

00:52:34.280 to the voters

00:52:34.980 you know

00:52:35.980 it's not like

00:52:36.500 the New York City

00:52:37.380 population

00:52:38.860 is watching

00:52:39.480 this podcast

00:52:40.140 but they

00:52:41.960 definitely have

00:52:42.580 to pay attention

00:52:43.180 to anything

00:52:43.780 that Trump says

00:52:44.660 so if he went

00:52:46.160 after him

00:52:46.720 for his

00:52:48.420 creepy smile

00:52:49.520 I think you

00:52:51.600 would remember

00:52:52.160 that forever

00:52:52.740 so we'll see

00:52:54.780 if that happens

00:52:55.360 well

00:52:57.760 President Trump

00:52:58.780 says

00:52:59.320 said on Friday

00:53:00.260 that Iran 0.91

00:53:02.080 had not agreed

00:53:03.060 to nuclear

00:53:05.040 inspections

00:53:05.660 and it had

00:53:06.980 not agreed

00:53:07.640 to give up

00:53:08.640 its

00:53:09.020 enriching

00:53:10.300 of uranium

00:53:10.960 but

00:53:12.620 there are

00:53:14.500 apparently

00:53:14.820 some talks

00:53:15.760 coming up

00:53:16.520 according to

00:53:18.560 mwaj.media

00:53:21.040 whatever that is

00:53:21.860 they say

00:53:23.940 that

00:53:24.280 the US

00:53:25.720 and Iran

00:53:26.200 are going

00:53:26.480 to be talking

00:53:27.060 does that

00:53:28.760 sound real

00:53:29.280 do you believe

00:53:30.880 Iran and the US 0.95

00:53:31.780 are going to have

00:53:32.360 any productive

00:53:33.660 high level

00:53:34.340 discussions

00:53:35.060 I don't know

00:53:36.480 I'm not sure

00:53:37.140 I believe it yet

00:53:37.900 but if it happens

00:53:39.840 they would be

00:53:40.860 talking about

00:53:41.440 all these

00:53:41.920 things

00:53:42.660 I don't

00:53:43.320 I don't

00:53:43.700 imagine anything

00:53:44.440 good

00:53:44.720 is going to

00:53:45.160 come out of

00:53:45.560 that

00:53:45.800 so we'll

00:53:47.760 see

00:53:48.040 Trump has

00:53:49.780 pulled some

00:53:50.300 rabbits out

00:53:50.860 of some hats

00:53:51.500 so anything's

00:53:53.040 possible in the

00:53:53.820 golden age

00:53:54.440 well

00:53:56.880 this is the

00:53:57.940 end of my

00:53:58.400 prepared comments

00:53:59.220 you saw how

00:54:00.020 how dull and

00:54:01.240 boring the news

00:54:01.960 was today

00:54:02.560 I know a lot

00:54:04.400 of you just

00:54:05.100 used this to

00:54:05.920 fall asleep

00:54:06.580 to my voice

00:54:07.320 by the way

00:54:09.900 if you want a

00:54:10.480 recommendation

00:54:11.120 for another

00:54:12.740 content to

00:54:13.640 fall asleep

00:54:14.180 to

00:54:14.480 try very

00:54:16.360 old

00:54:16.860 black and

00:54:17.680 white

00:54:17.980 TV sitcoms

00:54:19.960 you know

00:54:20.800 like the

00:54:21.160 Dick Van Dyke

00:54:21.940 show

00:54:22.400 and New

00:54:23.520 Heart

00:54:23.880 if you're

00:54:24.480 old enough

00:54:24.800 to remember

00:54:25.220 those

00:54:25.600 there is

00:54:27.680 nothing

00:54:28.200 happening

00:54:28.720 in those

00:54:29.160 shows

00:54:29.600 the jokes

00:54:31.260 are not

00:54:31.780 jokes

00:54:32.300 the issues

00:54:34.060 are not

00:54:34.880 controversial

00:54:35.940 it's just

00:54:37.840 people talking

00:54:38.780 and talking

00:54:41.140 about ordinary

00:54:41.920 stuff

00:54:42.500 so

00:54:43.880 even

00:54:45.060 you know

00:54:45.640 my favorite

00:54:46.180 Martian

00:54:46.700 it's not

00:54:47.900 provocative

00:54:48.500 there's no

00:54:49.440 swearing

00:54:50.080 there's nothing

00:54:51.140 that will make

00:54:51.640 you laugh

00:54:52.280 there's nothing

00:54:52.840 so interesting

00:54:53.600 that you'll

00:54:54.080 really want

00:54:54.480 to hear it

00:54:55.020 it's just

00:54:56.080 like ASMR

00:54:56.800 and

00:54:58.340 I can

00:54:59.520 fall asleep

00:55:00.080 to that

00:55:00.440 so easily

00:55:01.000 the other

00:55:03.120 thing I can

00:55:03.760 fall asleep

00:55:04.340 to

00:55:04.560 just in case

00:55:05.640 you want

00:55:05.920 to test

00:55:06.300 it for

00:55:06.560 yourself

00:55:06.940 is I'll

00:55:08.080 put on

00:55:08.440 a YouTube

00:55:09.020 video

00:55:09.760 about

00:55:11.400 ancient

00:55:12.880 ruins

00:55:13.420 like

00:55:13.880 Gopeli

00:55:14.780 well you

00:55:20.220 know

00:55:20.400 that place

00:55:21.020 because

00:55:23.040 there are

00:55:23.540 hundreds of

00:55:24.120 them

00:55:24.280 and they'll

00:55:24.680 say the

00:55:25.100 same stuff

00:55:25.700 well we

00:55:27.600 found some

00:55:28.180 rocks

00:55:28.660 and we

00:55:29.220 don't know

00:55:29.620 how they

00:55:30.620 possibly could

00:55:31.640 have carried

00:55:32.100 these big

00:55:32.660 rocks and

00:55:34.120 cut them

00:55:34.720 to such

00:55:35.540 precision

00:55:36.080 we also

00:55:37.820 don't know

00:55:38.380 how they

00:55:38.900 understood

00:55:39.500 the

00:55:40.000 zodiac

00:55:41.980 or astronomy

00:55:43.540 so well

00:55:44.200 that they're

00:55:45.260 lined up

00:55:45.780 perfectly with

00:55:46.540 the north

00:55:46.960 star

00:55:47.380 and it's

00:55:49.540 the same

00:55:50.300 same content

00:55:51.540 over and

00:55:52.260 over again

00:55:52.740 and it's

00:55:53.460 usually some

00:55:54.140 boring person

00:55:54.900 talking about

00:55:55.600 it

00:55:55.800 you can go

00:55:57.360 to sleep

00:55:57.720 to that

00:55:58.060 really well

00:55:58.640 there's

00:55:59.160 nothing new

00:56:00.120 in those

00:56:00.680 well we

00:56:02.940 were wrong

00:56:03.460 about 100

00:56:04.260 gatherers

00:56:05.060 created

00:56:06.140 civilization

00:56:06.940 all right

00:56:07.760 I've heard

00:56:08.140 it a million

00:56:08.580 times

00:56:09.060 anyway

00:56:11.260 so if

00:56:12.980 you're using

00:56:13.600 my podcast

00:56:14.700 to fall

00:56:15.180 asleep

00:56:15.640 good for

00:56:16.500 you

00:56:16.780 if it

00:56:17.600 works

00:56:18.000 and this

00:56:19.560 one will be

00:56:20.000 especially good

00:56:20.880 because there

00:56:21.700 was no good

00:56:22.260 content today

00:56:23.100 not my fault

00:56:24.880 it's a boring

00:56:26.100 holiday weekend

00:56:27.040 anyway

00:56:28.160 it's time

00:56:28.780 for me

00:56:30.240 to say

00:56:30.840 a few words

00:56:31.640 to my

00:56:32.160 beloved

00:56:32.660 local

00:56:33.780 subscribers

00:56:34.520 but I'll

00:56:35.080 keep it

00:56:35.480 short

00:56:35.800 and give

00:56:36.960 Owen Gregorian

00:56:38.400 just enough

00:56:39.100 time

00:56:39.580 so he can

00:56:41.060 go get

00:56:41.700 the spaces

00:56:42.540 ready

00:56:42.940 so Owen

00:56:45.460 you're still

00:56:46.020 in the comments

00:56:46.820 I see

00:56:47.240 but

00:56:48.200 in a very

00:56:50.140 few short

00:56:51.240 minutes

00:56:51.720 the spaces

00:56:54.460 event

00:56:55.160 will be

00:56:55.600 opening up

00:56:56.140 for people

00:56:56.680 who want

00:56:57.000 to get

00:56:57.180 a little

00:56:57.440 extra

00:56:57.820 talk about

00:56:58.940 today's

00:56:59.500 stories

00:56:59.900 and whatever

00:57:00.600 else I guess

00:57:01.220 you want

00:57:01.520 to do

00:57:01.780 so just

00:57:03.160 search for

00:57:03.720 Owen Gregorian

00:57:04.720 on X

00:57:05.780 and you'll

00:57:06.340 see a link

00:57:06.880 at the top

00:57:07.600 of his

00:57:08.060 feed

00:57:08.660 for when

00:57:10.640 to join

00:57:11.000 how to

00:57:11.400 join the

00:57:11.800 spaces

00:57:12.220 all right

00:57:13.000 that's enough

00:57:15.300 of that

00:57:16.000 hey locals

00:57:17.620 I'm going to

00:57:18.560 come to you

00:57:19.080 privately

00:57:19.520 the rest of

00:57:20.140 you I'll

00:57:20.700 see you

00:57:21.080 tomorrow

00:57:21.560 same time

00:57:22.840 same place

00:57:23.580 in 30

00:57:24.840 seconds

00:57:25.440 we'll be

00:57:26.220 is that

00:57:30.220 not working

00:57:30.820 well it

00:57:33.980 looks like

00:57:34.420 we have a

00:57:34.860 technical

00:57:35.280 problem

00:57:35.860 let's try

00:57:36.500 again

00:57:36.900 so I

00:57:39.400 don't have

00:57:39.860 the ability

00:57:40.340 to go

00:57:40.820 private

00:57:41.360 with locals

00:57:42.460 today

00:57:42.880 just the

00:57:43.680 button

00:57:44.020 the button

00:57:44.840 is not

00:57:45.180 responding

00:57:45.740 this happened

00:57:47.280 a few times

00:57:47.900 all right

00:57:48.500 well we

00:57:48.900 don't need

00:57:49.320 to

00:57:49.540 I'll

00:57:51.140 catch up

00:57:51.700 to you

00:57:52.140 on the

00:57:52.800 spaces

00:57:53.520 event

00:57:54.040 and so

00:57:55.780 I'll just

00:57:56.100 say see

00:57:56.720 you later

00:57:57.180 see you

00:57:58.840 later

00:57:59.120 I make

00:58:01.060 sure that

00:58:01.460 I see

00:58:01.800 somebody else

00:58:02.440 say see

00:58:02.920 you later

00:58:03.280 before I

00:58:03.720 go

00:58:03.900 there we

00:58:04.280 go

00:58:04.680 see you

00:58:07.200 later

00:58:07.500 oh it

00:58:11.020 also doesn't

00:58:11.660 let me

00:58:12.160 end the

00:58:13.280 stream so I

00:58:15.040 have to sign

00:58:15.780 off and

00:58:16.460 then re-sign

00:58:17.000 back on

00:58:17.460 just

00:58:17.660 you

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 05, 2025

Episode 2888 CWSA 07⧸05⧸25

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