Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2903 CWSA 07⧸20⧸25

00:00:00.580 Come on in. We have extra chairs up in the front. Grab a seat. We're going to have some

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00:00:23.940 Ready for this? Are you ready? Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the highlights of

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00:01:22.320 Oh, that was extra, extra delicious. All right. Let me make sure I see all my comments. Yes,

00:01:34.340 I do. All right. Well, those of you who follow the Dilbert Reborn comic, or you may have seen

00:01:42.400 it on X because I did an unprotected version of it today, you know that I solved a problem

00:01:49.400 I've been working on for a while, which is I needed some way to refer to the people who can't

00:01:56.660 get over the pandemic. Now, I understand why you can't get over it, so there's no confusion

00:02:03.360 there. But a lot of people's brains just got broken by the pandemic, and they see the world

00:02:10.240 through that filter. And so I needed a name for people who were like the Japanese soldiers

00:02:17.620 who didn't know the World War II was over, and they were hiding in caves for decades. It

00:02:25.080 feels like that. So the new character I introduced into the Dilbert world is COVID Carl. And COVID

00:02:33.400 Carl judges all of your opinions by what your opinion was during the pandemic. And if they

00:02:43.900 don't like your opinion during the pandemic, well, they're not going to like any other opinion

00:02:49.340 you ever have. Well, let's check the science and see if there are any studies that could have

00:02:59.800 saved some money just by asking me. Oh, here we go. Eric Nolan is writing for a side post that

00:03:07.180 the quality of friendships are strongly linked to the well-being of single Americans.

00:03:15.380 Is there anybody who didn't know that if you're single, the quality of your friendships

00:03:22.880 is important to your well-being? Well, I don't know if any of you knew it. I suspect you did.

00:03:30.880 But they definitely could have saved some money by going to me and saying, Scott, we're thinking

00:03:37.100 about doing this study. And I would say, don't bother. Don't bother. Just ask me.

00:03:42.520 Well, the first self-driving big rig is on the road. A company called Kodiak Robotics. So it's a fully

00:03:55.680 autonomous 18-wheeler. It's in Texas. Now, this one runs on LiDAR, so it won't be as cool as Tesla's

00:04:04.900 big rig truck that I think is coming, right? I believe Tesla's working on that too.

00:04:10.840 But AI conversation is the source of this. But did you ever believe that you would be alive at a

00:04:23.740 time when big rig trucks would be driving without a driver on the same road as you? You know, one way

00:04:32.000 to make sure everything is self-driving cars is people are going to be afraid to drive unless they're

00:04:40.240 in a self-driving car. I feel as if the self-driving cars should have to communicate with each other,

00:04:48.820 even if it's a different brand of car. Because if one car goes bad, the other cars could say,

00:04:58.000 hey, cut it out. You're heading right at me. So anyway, self-driving everything.

00:05:05.120 But even cooler than that, the Wall Street Journal is reporting about a farm, an autonomous farm. So

00:05:13.500 it's an outdoor farm, but it uses robot tractors and I think drones to maybe pick stuff. So it's a fully

00:05:25.080 autonomous farm. Now, how many of you have ever worked on a farm? I have worked on a farm. My uncle

00:05:35.380 had a farm that was walking distance from where I grew up. And so my siblings and I would be pressed

00:05:43.540 into farm-related services of various types. And it's not very pleasant work. I'll tell you,

00:05:52.540 if you ever want to convince somebody to study hard and get good grades in school,

00:05:59.240 all you have to do is have them work on a farm for a summer and figure out what manual labor is like.

00:06:06.140 Like, they'll study pretty hard after that. But anyway, maybe I'll become a farmer because now you

00:06:14.580 can do it without leaving the house. Imagine being a farmer. This is actually, you know, totally

00:06:21.340 possible. Imagine being a farmer and you own a bunch of, you know, real estate and you planted

00:06:28.180 something and you run it from your computer. And the whole thing is just running itself with robots

00:06:34.840 while you're inside having breakfast. Well, that's coming. There's a new laser technology

00:06:44.320 from Illinois. I don't know why. Oh, University of Illinois. And NextGen Defense is talking about it.

00:06:53.640 Now, the details are too boring for this podcast, but the world of lasers used to shoot down

00:07:02.880 incoming missiles and incoming drones is experiencing some big upgrades. So I feel like we're not that

00:07:12.620 far away from the lightsaber. The only thing that stops you from having a lightsaber is the power

00:07:19.320 source, you know, the size of the power source and the fact that the laser isn't going to stop on its

00:07:25.360 zone after five feet or whatever one of those is. But does it seem to you that if you can get the power

00:07:35.660 source small enough that someday we'll actually have lightsabers? I'm starting to think you could

00:07:43.800 limit how far the laser is still effective, you know, having it focused somehow. I don't know.

00:07:51.900 Lightsabers, maybe someday. Well, make America healthy again. As a new win, Breitbart is writing about

00:08:01.940 this, Jasmine Jordan, that PepsiCo is dropping artificial colors and flavors from their chips,

00:08:10.060 from their Lay's and their Tostitos. What would a Lay's potato chip or a Tostito look like

00:08:18.980 without artificial dyes? I don't know. I'm not sure it will look good. But maybe if it tastes good,

00:08:28.920 your brain will just say, ah, that's fine. I don't know if it'll make any difference at all.

00:08:36.880 Well, remember I kept saying a few days ago, is today the day that there will be national protests

00:08:44.820 called Good Trouble, in which there were dozens or maybe hundreds of cities that were supposed to be

00:08:53.140 protesting Trump. And I thought it started, but then I didn't say news. So I thought, well, it must be

00:09:02.400 the next day. And then the next day came, and there was no news about it. Well, apparently the whole

00:09:09.640 thing fizzled. It was supposed to be this big organized national protest. Zero Hedge says that

00:09:18.580 it fizzled. I never even saw it. I didn't see any news coverage. And the speculation

00:09:27.520 is that the Trump administration defunding of all those NGOs, you know, the stuff that the

00:09:36.240 doge people found was probably just money laundering. Could it be that there's not the right kind of

00:09:44.400 money in the right place to organize another fake protest that's nationwide? Or did Democrats figure

00:09:52.260 out that it doesn't move the needle whatsoever? And that, I would say, the more protests there are,

00:10:01.700 the more law and order people are going to want, because there's always trouble when there's a big

00:10:07.340 protest. And doesn't that work in Trump's favor? No matter why they're protesting, as long as there

00:10:15.920 were also violent people in the protest or vandals or whatever, and there always are, there always are

00:10:21.560 if it's a big one. Wouldn't that always work in Trump's favor? Maybe they just figured it out.

00:10:27.660 Well, this doesn't work. I don't know. But if you were expecting big nationwide protests,

00:10:35.660 you are disappointed.

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00:11:38.900 According to PJ Media, David Manny is writing that 140 people leave California every day,

00:11:47.660 and a lot of them are going up to Washington State. So Washington State, I guess, has no

00:11:55.000 state income taxes. How many of you know what the state income tax is at the highest rate

00:12:01.620 in California? Do most of you even know? If I gave you a quiz, it's 13.3%. That's just the state tax.

00:12:14.380 13.3%. And then our gas is something like, I don't know, 40% higher than other people's.

00:12:25.240 And our housing is much more expensive, and the traffic is bad, and the government is terrible

00:12:32.720 and bankrupt, practically. And you can't buy fire insurance in most places. And you probably

00:12:42.560 ask me, why do you stay? And the answer is, today's high temperature will be 79 degrees.

00:12:50.720 There won't be a cloud in the sky. The wind will not be blowing. And at least where I live,

00:12:58.800 not really any insects to speak of. No mosquitoes, no humidity.

00:13:04.860 I don't think you can understand how addictive California is. It's not really easy to move out

00:13:16.360 of this place, you know, depending on what part you're in. It's, you know, I wouldn't want to live

00:13:23.060 in downtown LA or San Francisco. But if you're not living in those places, it's really nice. It's hard to

00:13:30.860 find a place you'd want to go. And I was thinking, the people moving to Washington State

00:13:37.840 are going to discover what it's like to have overcast, rainy days, like way more than they

00:13:45.580 expect. And a lot of them are going to be ending their own lives because there's a pretty high rate

00:13:52.860 of that up there. A lot of it has to do with the weather. So good luck with that if you're moving.

00:14:00.220 I laugh now, but someday, you know, could happen to me. You never know.

00:14:06.320 Remember yesterday, I told you the story. It was in the news that apparently the Department of Defense

00:14:13.760 was contracting through Microsoft to handle some Department of Defense technical networks and stuff.

00:14:22.860 And that Microsoft had hired Chinese nationals, actually Chinese people living in China,

00:14:30.600 to do some tech support, which gave them access to some percent of the entire Department of Defense

00:14:38.940 network. And I wondered if that was even true. Because I thought to myself, hmm, that sounds like

00:14:50.980 something that couldn't possibly be true. Now, PXF has said that they're going to force Microsoft,

00:14:58.780 I guess, to cancel those contracts because it was true. Unbelievable that Microsoft had delegated

00:15:12.940 sensitive access to the Department of Defense computers for Chinese nationals who are forced to tell the

00:15:26.940 government whatever the government wants them to tell them. Wow. So, but what I don't know yet

00:15:34.240 is what percentage and whether it included our most sensitive stuff. I don't know. It might have been

00:15:41.080 just some systems. And there's a little ambiguity about how many systems were involved. So it might

00:15:49.540 have been a big deal. Or it might have been a, you know, minor deal if it wasn't the most sensitive

00:15:54.900 systems. Don't know. Well, the ex-chair of the DNC, Jamie Harrison, he started a new podcast. Why?

00:16:10.080 Because, as he says, people want Democrats to just be real. So I guess he started a podcast to

00:16:17.780 show us how to show us how to be real or show the Democrats how to be real. The fact that Democrats

00:16:25.180 believe that they can manufacture a Joe Rogan, it just blows my mind. You can't manufacture these

00:16:34.800 things. You know, there's like this magic that sometimes hit some things. You could do lots of

00:16:42.800 things and then hope some of them get popular. But the idea that you could manufacture your own

00:16:49.020 Joe Rogan and make it the Democrat version. Nothing works that way. That's just not how anything in the

00:16:56.140 real world works. But keep trying.

00:16:59.000 So Hunter Biden was on Jamie Harrison's new podcast. And Hunter wants you to know that he never had

00:17:17.340 anything to do with any decisions in the White House. And he said, quote, Hunter said this,

00:17:24.740 you ask one person to go on the record that would ever tell you that I was in any way making a single

00:17:31.600 decision about anything, anything in that White House, Biden told Harrison. I stayed as far away as

00:17:38.380 I possibly could, which, by the way, broke my heart. Well, I believe him. I believe him. Because it seems to me

00:17:48.660 that there were so many people around Biden, and probably every single one of them would have tried

00:17:55.620 to keep Hunter's influence at the minimum. So yeah, I don't think Hunter had that much influence. I

00:18:05.200 believe him. He's not a credible character, but on this specific topic, I don't think he had that much

00:18:13.740 influence. Well, the Trump administration has reportedly, so far, and probably more to go,

00:18:25.340 have eliminated 22,000 federal workers from around the Washington, D.C. area. So Bloomberg is

00:18:33.880 reporting on that. Is that good? 22,000 fewer? How many... The thing that this report lacks

00:18:46.360 is context. That's why when I read the news, I spend at least half of the time asking Grok

00:18:54.580 to explain the news that I just read again today. What I didn't have time for is I wanted to ask

00:19:01.940 how many government employees there are. Do you know? In the comments, give me a number

00:19:09.440 if somebody has an extra screen open. How many government employees are there? Because aren't there

00:19:16.920 many millions? Is it many millions of government employees? Is it more than 10 million?

00:19:26.060 20,000? Somebody says 1.3 million, 4 million, 4 million. All right. Yeah, I feel like it might

00:19:37.060 be in that 4 million range or something like that. So we'll do a fact check on that. But low

00:19:46.020 millions. 22,000 though? It's way better than adding people. I think Biden added people, a lot

00:19:53.240 of them. So good job on the getting rid of excess people. Apparently, the Obamacare insurance,

00:20:03.160 according to the Hill, is going to spike in costs. So a lot of people who have Obamacare

00:20:10.700 are going to find that a lot of the insurance that they have for health will go up 15, 20%

00:20:19.240 this coming year. Now, the reason for the increases is if they say things just cost more than they

00:20:27.260 used to. But they also blame Trump policies, right? So they blame some Trump policies.

00:20:39.240 It doesn't matter. Just know that your health care costs will go up if you happen to be buying

00:20:46.080 it through the ACA or the Obamacare. So more than a quarter of the insurers are looking for

00:20:56.080 big increases. So I don't know if that's going to have an impact on the midterms or elections

00:21:04.840 after that. Let's see. Would it affect the midterms? No. Yeah, the midterms are next year,

00:21:11.120 right? The midterms happen in 26. So yeah, that might affect the midterms. We'll see.

00:21:18.600 When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from Winners, I started wondering,

00:21:24.320 is every fabulous item I see from Winners? Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. 1.00

00:21:30.140 Are those from Winners? Ooh, or those beautiful gold earrings? Did she pay full price? Or that

00:21:35.740 leather tote? Or that cashmere sweater? Or those knee-high boots? That dress? That jacket?

00:21:40.480 Those shoes? Is anyone paying full price for anything? Stop wondering. Start winning.

00:21:46.800 Winners find fabulous for less. Well, there's a company called Thingiverse that apparently prints

00:21:54.820 plans for 3D items. And some of those items, a number of them, were weapons. But it looks

00:22:05.100 like the Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, has convinced them to stop offering a way to 3D print your

00:22:15.920 own gun. So apparently the so-called ghost guns, you know, the guns that you don't know where

00:22:25.040 they came from, in New York City tripled since 2020. And a lot of that must be people making

00:22:33.300 their own gun on the 3D printer. But at least one of the companies, I don't know how many

00:22:40.280 there are, but one of them said they will stop doing that. Now, I liken that to what's going

00:22:47.780 to happen with AI that I predicted a while ago, but I'll remind you. In theory, AI will help

00:22:57.200 humans get past all their fake news and false beliefs, because it'll be a super intelligence.

00:23:04.180 In practice, much like the 3D printer thing, even though the 3D printer could allow you to make

00:23:13.200 a gun, there will be, human beings will limit that from actually happening. Now, probably not

00:23:21.180 eliminate it, but humans will always try to limit what the technology can do, because they

00:23:27.180 don't want it to do bad things. So with AI, I'm predicting that every major field of human

00:23:36.640 endeavor will have some kind of organized element to it that will force the AI companies to distort

00:23:44.500 the AI's impression of stuff. So if you were, you know, if you had enough leverage, you could

00:23:53.780 go to the AI companies and say, we don't really want it to say that the climate models are

00:24:00.900 unreliable. So you're in real trouble if they say that. So you might want to put a little code

00:24:08.240 in there that prevents them from doing that. You're going to see that with every industry.

00:24:14.240 It will be completely distorted because nobody wants the AI to tell the truth. If you're in an industry

00:24:23.580 that depends on people not knowing the truth.

00:24:25.700 Apparently, the likelihood of Jerome Powell staying in office through May, the end of his contract,

00:24:38.420 is pretty good. And the odds of him being fired before that are pretty low. I guess the reporting

00:24:44.940 from the Wall Street Journal anyway, is that Treasury Secretary Scott Bassett made the argument to Trump

00:24:52.700 to not try to fire Powell for a cause, even though, you know, they were looking for some cause.

00:25:00.480 He thought it would disturb the markets and he thought that he thinks the Fed will, or a lot of

00:25:08.560 people, think the Fed will lower rates on its own before the end of the year. So it wouldn't buy

00:25:15.480 you something that wasn't going to happen anyway, and it would roil the markets.

00:25:22.700 I gave you some serious fake news yesterday, and some of you probably still think it's real.

00:25:31.300 Do you remember I was talking about the alleged drawing that allegedly Trump did on a greeting

00:25:38.020 card for Epstein when Epstein had his 50th birthday? And the story was that Trump drew a naked woman

00:25:45.720 person, and, you know, signed his name so it would look like pubic hair on the naked woman. 1.00

00:25:53.400 And then I showed you a drawing which I incorrectly believed was that drawing.

00:25:59.380 That's the fake news part. If you saw a drawing that was purporting to be the one that Trump did

00:26:07.780 on the greeting card, it's not real. It's just people who took their own shot at it,

00:26:14.400 and then other people thought it was real. So there is not in evidence anywhere. It was not

00:26:23.160 in the Wall Street Journal article either. The Wall Street Journal simply described it

00:26:28.820 without showing you an image of it. So nobody in the public domain has ever seen the so-called image

00:26:37.320 that was the biggest source of news for the last several days. So that was all bullshit. 0.98

00:26:46.640 That drawing was BS. Now, it doesn't change my opinion. What I like about this, this story, 0.99

00:26:54.720 is that the whole greeting card hoax probably brought the MAGA supporters back together.

00:27:03.140 You know, there was a lot of talk about the MAGA people being, you know, sort of split apart over

00:27:10.220 the Epstein revelations. But now that Trump has seemingly moved in the direction of more disclosure,

00:27:20.380 he approved the DOJ asking to unseal the grand jury testimony. I don't think it's going to happen,

00:27:28.680 but if it did, it would look like Trump was at least trying to make things more transparent.

00:27:37.680 But at the same time, he gets attacked with what looks like fake news about that greeting card,

00:27:44.180 which makes the Republicans say, uh, that's not cool. Every time Trump gets in trouble,

00:27:51.640 he gets a little bit more popular with his base. So I feel like he may be, maybe what he calls the

00:27:59.620 Epstein hoax, which is an interesting way he frames it. So it's not like the Epstein story is fake,

00:28:07.440 not all of it, but the part that says that Trump is covering up for himself in some way is, uh,

00:28:14.160 yeah, it was, uh, probably a hoax, the, that part. So I'll remind you what Alan Dershowitz is saying

00:28:24.020 about Epstein, because I saw something he added to opinions I've told you about before. Um,

00:28:31.260 according to Dershowitz, he is not aware, remember he was Epstein's lawyer for the first set of trouble

00:28:39.060 that Epstein got into. Um, but Dershowitz says that there were, as far as he knows, there were no

00:28:46.640 videotapes of any bedrooms, that the only, the only videotape was in a public area and the police

00:28:56.020 put it there because it was, it was just in one of his homes in Palm Springs because he reported a gun

00:29:03.880 and some money was stolen from his home. So somehow he convinced the police to put in their own

00:29:11.580 video to look for, I don't know, the next criminal. Um, but according to Dershowitz, that's all there

00:29:19.800 was. So he would say that there are no videos, you know, blackmail videos. Now you've heard, uh,

00:29:27.460 uh, the FBI and the department of justice refer to all the videos of underage

00:29:33.080 people. I believe that those were not taken on the property. I think that they were just from the

00:29:41.360 internet, right? So I believe there were lots of videos of horrible things, but not horrible things

00:29:49.060 involving amateurs who were, who had just visited the island. It was just video that, uh, anybody could

00:29:56.060 have gone and gotten from the internet if that was their thing. So that's what I think. That's my current

00:30:02.080 view. Um, Dershowitz says that no current office holders were named as, uh, potential abusers. Now he

00:30:11.580 would know again, cause he saw all the names. He just can't tell you what he saw, but he says no

00:30:17.460 current office holders. Do you believe that? Well, he, he's quite sure that Trump was not, um,

00:30:26.760 incriminated in any of that. So that's cool. And then Dershowitz says, he asked his sources in Israel,

00:30:35.780 and he would have good sources, um, if, uh, Epstein was part of Mossad. And guess what Mossad said?

00:30:45.360 You'll never guess.

00:30:46.680 He asked Mossad if Epstein was, was, was their guy. And Mossad said no.

00:30:58.180 Now,

00:30:59.100 would you find that credible?

00:31:03.720 No.

00:31:04.240 You can't ask the spy, the, you know, the spy organization if the worst person in the world

00:31:12.500 was on their payroll. What do you, what are they going to say? Now, I personally believe

00:31:18.080 he probably wasn't. Personally, I believe he was not on the payroll of Mossad nor the CIA.

00:31:26.600 And I'm very much being influenced by, um, influenced by the Mike Benz opinion that the real story of

00:31:37.580 Epstein might be that he was, uh, the money launderer supreme for any number of bad characters

00:31:45.040 or maybe even intelligence characters who wanted him to connect people who had money with people

00:31:53.160 who wanted to use that money. And some of those uses, but maybe not all,

00:31:59.120 may have been some intelligence network asking for a favor. Now, there's a big difference

00:32:07.900 between being on the payroll and being a secret spy, uh, versus those same spy networks having

00:32:16.520 probably more people who don't work for them do stuff for them than the people

00:32:23.060 that they pay. Wouldn't you guess? For every one person that the CIA has on their payroll,

00:32:30.660 wouldn't you assume that there are maybe five or 10 people who are not on their payroll,

00:32:38.760 but the people who are on the payroll may ask for favors. And then the people doing the favor

00:32:46.080 might not even know why. And they might not even doing it for any specific payback. They might be

00:32:53.300 doing it, doing it. Oh, let's say, Hey, here's a deal. If I can get, get this thing funded for you,

00:33:00.640 or if I can hide this money you want hidden, can you do me a favor later? And we would never know what

00:33:08.640 that favor was, but there would be no payroll. And if asked, there was intelligence people would say,

00:33:15.480 no, it doesn't work for us. And they would be telling the truth. Just maybe they know,

00:33:21.100 maybe somebody in the organization knew him. Maybe somebody in the organization asked them for a favor.

00:33:28.160 Or we'll never know. But it seems likely.

00:33:34.720 I believe there's now, was it Laura Loomer who had this scoop about a whistleblower who said he saw

00:33:41.900 the FBI destroy Epstein documents? Do I have that right? We're doing that from memory. I'm not sure I

00:33:48.980 have that right. But would you be amazed if you found out that everything you heard about

00:33:56.740 Epstein's sexual escapades was true? And you even found out that he got lots of rich and powerful

00:34:05.480 people involved in similarly illegal sexual activities, but it was never videoed and there

00:34:15.060 was no documentation of it ever made. Would you be surprised by that? If my job involved knowing as

00:34:24.840 many important people as possible so I could get favors from them and I could introduce one to the

00:34:30.820 other, which is a favor, and I was also doing this illicit sex stuff, would I write any of it down?

00:34:41.580 Would I send an email and say, hey, head of state,

00:34:45.840 on Thursday, we've got you set up with an underage person? There's never going to be any documentation.

00:34:55.620 And why would he video it if it would get him in trouble too?

00:35:01.080 So, I'm kind of evolving to the opinion that it's entirely possible that the illicit sex stuff

00:35:10.840 did happen, but there will never be any record of it, because why would there be? So, I feel like

00:35:20.680 that's going to be a dead end. We'll see. Maybe some names will come out, but that's going to be

00:35:28.240 quite a show if they do, because some of them people will be innocent. Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend

00:35:39.620 friend, this was on CNN, is accusing Trump of way back in 1993 of what CNN is calling

00:35:52.420 groping her in front of Epstein. So, CNN reports that Trump groped Epstein's girlfriend in front of

00:36:04.760 Epstein. But then you hear what she describes, and doesn't grope sound like he's grabbing her in her

00:36:12.840 private parts? But then what she describes is that he's just really handsy, but not necessarily on

00:36:21.440 her private parts. Now, I'm not defending him. I'm just saying that the way CNN characterized it

00:36:28.700 didn't exactly match how she described it. It's not good if he was too handsy and it made her

00:36:36.060 uncomfortable. Just to be clear, I'm not defending that. I'm just saying, they may have added a little,

00:36:42.540 may have added a little spice to that by calling it groping. When you hear groping,

00:36:49.440 don't you automatically think the naughty parts are involved? Well, I don't know. So,

00:36:57.840 that's her story. Nobody cares. It won't change anything. There is a story now

00:37:05.520 that Trump and his team did ask about canceling some SpaceX contracts over the Elon Musk-Trump

00:37:17.680 disagreements that were kind of public. And that when NASA was asked, all right, are there any

00:37:25.340 SpaceX contracts we can cancel? They learned that everything SpaceX does is sort of vital to

00:37:33.440 our entire space program. So, there wasn't really anything that our government could cancel

00:37:40.840 without hurting the government more than it hurt Elon Musk. So, I'm not sure I completely believe

00:37:49.320 that this story. It's possible that maybe they just wanted to find out if there was something they

00:37:57.300 could threaten to cancel. So, you don't know if they meant, you know, that they had decided they

00:38:02.820 were going to cancel something, if they could find something good and cancelable. It could be

00:38:08.240 that they just wanted to have a little, you know, a little leverage over them. We don't know.

00:38:15.360 Anyway, Eric Schmidt, who was once the CEO of Google, and one of the smartest guys in the tech world,

00:38:28.400 is saying that traditional user interfaces are going to go away with AI. I saw this on an account on X

00:38:36.020 Vichupo. And apparently, there's an acronym for the old user interface. It's called WIMP, W-I-M-P.

00:38:46.720 It stands for Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pulldowns. And Eric Schmidt points out that the user interface

00:38:55.360 that we have on our phones and computers and iPads and all that, it was designed 50 years ago.

00:39:01.400 50 years ago. And the AI will simply change its UI on the fly based on what it is that it knows you

00:39:13.820 want. So, does this sound familiar? The reason I bring it up is not that this specific topic is

00:39:22.340 fascinating, but rather, this is what I've been telling you is going to happen. And it helps when

00:39:29.360 somebody who actually knows what they're talking about agrees. My perfect user interface would be

00:39:36.340 a blank screen. And then I just start doing stuff. And because it's AI, it knows and guesses pretty

00:39:45.800 quickly what it is I'm doing. And it just conforms to whatever user interface I need to get that done.

00:39:52.840 Yep. It's the no apps phone. Exactly. So, Eric Schmidt, who is way smarter than I am about this

00:40:02.040 technology stuff, agrees. If I asked you, and I will, if you had to estimate how many illegal

00:40:13.680 immigrants have been arrested so far during Trump's second term, what would you estimate?

00:40:19.860 So, the news is all about the deportations. So, if I said to you, how many of them have

00:40:27.840 been so far? What would your answer be? In the comments, give me your best estimate. Because

00:40:34.720 I don't think you, I don't think we often see that number. Sometimes we see, you know, per

00:40:40.840 day numbers and stuff like that. All right. I'm seeing your guesses from 200,000 to 25,000,

00:40:49.980 150,000. All right. Some of you read the news. The answer is 150,000. Does that sound like a lot

00:40:57.780 or not a lot? Because I believe that Obama, over his eight years, maybe, deported around 3 million.

00:41:07.620 And it's really hard to deport a lot of people. Surprise. It's really, really hard to do it in

00:41:15.260 gigantic numbers. So, you can try as hard as you want. And, you know, at this rate, that's the first

00:41:23.320 six months. If it's stayed at that rate, and it won't because they have new funding, so it'll probably

00:41:29.340 increase. But it would only be 300,000 a year. And so, he wouldn't even reach Obama numbers at that

00:41:41.280 rate. He would be below Obama deportation numbers. So, we'll see if he can make up the difference.

00:41:51.060 But remember what I've been warning you about, that there will be a point where the deportations

00:41:59.500 start affecting people who are not directly being deported and are not family members. It's going to

00:42:06.680 start affecting just other people in a variety of ways. Then we'll see if it stays at the same rate,

00:42:14.400 or if there's any kind of counter movement that says, you know, you know, you got most of them.

00:42:20.900 You did a good job. You could slow down. I think that might happen. I'm going to predict that. But we'll

00:42:28.140 see. Apparently, the government is ramping up to deport more people. And part of that is using

00:42:36.760 military bases. And there are a few of them being discussed for housing illegal aliens waiting to

00:42:43.860 be deported. So, not only will there be these additional alligator Alcatraz situations, but

00:42:53.140 Department of Defense will be using some of its facilities to house people until they can be shipped

00:42:59.320 back. So, that's pretty serious stuff. According to Just the News, Nicholas Ballzy, or maybe it's

00:43:11.700 Ballazy, anyway, is writing about Obama just went on his wife's podcast. And Michelle Obama and her

00:43:27.080 brother have a podcast. So, Barack Obama went on it for the first time. And he made a little news by

00:43:34.960 saying that he had a gay professor when he was in college, and it was a big positive role model to

00:43:42.660 him. And he believes that young men should have friends who are gay. Now, I agree with him. It would be

00:43:56.900 very helpful if people had friends who were of all different types, including gay and including

00:44:03.280 other races and religions and stuff. And that would make the world a better place if you just had more

00:44:08.640 contact with people who were more different from you. So, I agree with the general concept which he is

00:44:15.340 selling. However, I must ask this question. If you were the Democrat Party, and what you wanted was to

00:44:24.240 improve the votes you got from American men, young American men, is the message that you want 0.97

00:44:37.160 that you should get a gay friend? Did he talk to Tim Walsh about the code talking to men?

00:44:48.680 Now, again, I'm all for it. I'm not saying it's a bad idea that young men have at least one gay 0.99

00:44:55.880 friend, so they've got some contacts and, you know, the world's a better place. I'm all for it.

00:45:01.620 But the choice of what to feature as the story of the day, I'm not sure that's exactly the one they

00:45:11.680 wanted if they're trying to increase their, you know, general mail voting. Anyway, good job, Democrats.

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00:45:37.860 All right, let's talk about the Tulsi Gabbard's release of new information that suggests

00:45:45.820 that the Obama and Brennan and Clapper and that crowd had cooked up the Russia collusion hoax

00:45:55.980 that they knew that Russia wasn't that involved and that they tried to sell it to the public

00:46:02.340 anyway to destroy Trump's, you know, his time in office. And so I'm following the story.

00:46:15.820 I'm reasonably well-educated. I do want to understand it, so I'm putting some effort into it.

00:46:22.940 And I don't understand the story. How many of you are having the same problem? That it's just

00:46:30.000 complicated enough and it, you know, spans many years and there's lots of characters and there's

00:46:36.620 lots of claims. And when I hear the story, I'm watching the right-leaning pod sphere and

00:46:45.660 news act like it's a really big deal and Obama could be taken away in handcuffs and, you know,

00:46:53.460 maybe everything's changed. But you know that the other news that is not right-leaning is treating

00:47:01.540 it like nothing happened. Do you know that? So it can't both be true. There's sort of the gigantic

00:47:10.820 bombshell changes everything. At the same time, nothing really changed.

00:47:18.320 So here's what I think is happening. Do you remember when the Hunter laptop was being spun by

00:47:27.500 the 51 intelligence-related people who signed on to a document that said that the Hunter laptop had

00:47:37.220 all the, I'm paraphrasing, but they said it had all the markings of a Russian spy craft, basically.

00:47:46.000 Those are my own words, but that's basically what it said. That all the indications

00:47:50.860 consistent with being, you know, Russian dirty trick. But they were so clever that they didn't say,

00:48:01.620 we have concluded it is Russian dirty trick. They left themselves this little weasel, 1.00

00:48:07.360 this little weasel room. No, no, no. And of course, as I predicted would happen,

00:48:13.400 as soon as that all blew up and we found out that that was all a lie, Brennan and Clapper both said,

00:48:21.280 I believe, fact check me on this, but I think they both said, we didn't say it was true.

00:48:27.720 No, we didn't say it was true. We just said it had all the markings of something that would be

00:48:33.580 consistent with a Russian plot. We didn't say it was a Russian plot. No, no, we didn't say that.

00:48:42.520 We just said it was consistent and it looked like the same kind of things you would expect, right?

00:48:51.100 Now, when I look at the Russian collusion stuff, I'm getting that same vibe.

00:48:57.580 Because, let's see if I can pull this together.

00:49:00.240 So, the memo that Tulsi Gabbard surfaced, let me see if I can get this. It's so complicated.

00:49:14.000 At one point, the intelligence agents were saying that there's no evidence that Russia wanted to

00:49:23.080 or tried to target election infrastructure.

00:49:28.540 So, there was no evidence that they wanted to or that they tried to change any votes directly by hacking into it.

00:49:37.120 Now, the first thing I would say is if there's a legitimate discussion of whether or not the Russians hacked into our election system

00:49:45.760 and changed votes, is there something missing there?

00:49:50.300 Is there a dog not barking?

00:49:53.620 Yeah, there is.

00:49:54.820 And you would miss it if you got wrapped up in the story they're selling.

00:49:59.400 Here's the part that they're not selling, but you would have to accept at the same time.

00:50:04.700 If they even talked about the possibility that Russia had hacked and directly changed our voting system,

00:50:13.000 you know, the vote count, aren't they, isn't the intelligence community also accepting that it was possible?

00:50:22.120 And I'm pretty sure we've been told it wasn't possible.

00:50:26.180 So, you know, any technology, it seems like there's a way to thwart it.

00:50:32.660 But that was my first reaction was, wait a minute.

00:50:36.880 Why is there even a conversation about whether Russia might have changed the vote count?

00:50:44.080 Why was that even possible?

00:50:46.240 We were told that nobody could do that.

00:50:49.580 Hmm. Hmm.

00:50:50.760 Maybe we were lied to.

00:50:52.340 Maybe the intelligence community assumes that anything is rigable,

00:50:59.800 then you wouldn't necessarily know it.

00:51:02.660 Well, so we started with targeting election infrastructure.

00:51:10.500 Now, at one point we were told that the Russians absolutely, definitely were targeting election infrastructure,

00:51:18.560 and they were doing it for the benefit of Trump.

00:51:21.060 I feel like the only people who said it was for the benefit of Trump were the politicians, like Hillary.

00:51:30.960 So Hillary was claiming, oh, it's definitely obvious they were interfering with the election in 2016 for the benefit of Trump. 1.00

00:51:40.240 But she didn't offer any proof of that.

00:51:43.040 You know, it was just sort of her opinion that she was trying to sell.

00:51:48.200 But the intelligence community never said that Russia was interfering for Trump.

00:51:55.660 Did they?

00:51:56.440 I'll take a fact check on that.

00:51:59.660 But I think they used the same weasel approach that Hillary could say whatever lies politicians say, 1.00

00:52:09.640 and nobody's surprised.

00:52:11.320 But the intelligence community would just say,

00:52:14.860 no, we have proof that they targeted our election infrastructure.

00:52:18.580 Now, is there proof?

00:52:21.340 Is there proof that Russia targeted our election infrastructure?

00:52:27.120 Well, there's a little bit.

00:52:30.300 Apparently, there's reports.

00:52:33.640 I don't know if it's true.

00:52:35.240 But the reports that Russian sources did try to hack into,

00:52:40.420 or maybe they did get into,

00:52:42.640 two state databases of voters.

00:52:46.660 And they got into voter registration databases in Illinois and Arizona.

00:52:55.840 So they didn't break into something that would directly,

00:53:01.120 even possibly, change the votes.

00:53:03.820 But they did apparently break into some databases in two states

00:53:09.360 that doesn't look like they could do much damage.

00:53:14.720 But they got in there.

00:53:16.660 So would that be enough to claim that the Russians hacked our,

00:53:23.960 that they targeted our election infrastructure?

00:53:27.200 And the answer is, yeah, technically.

00:53:30.900 You know, technically, you could say that the voter registration databases in those two states,

00:53:37.680 if, in fact, we know that the Russians are the ones who hacked it.

00:53:43.280 That would be part of the infrastructure.

00:53:45.980 But there was no real chance that they could have changed votes, as far as I can tell.

00:53:50.580 And there's no indication they did.

00:53:53.580 And if they had,

00:53:55.580 there would further be no indication that they did it to help Trump.

00:53:58.940 But then they do the trick where they conflate it with the hack of the DNC emails,

00:54:08.880 which produced, according to Grok,

00:54:11.760 the one thing that might have had some impact on the election

00:54:14.780 is that the internal databases embarrassed the Democrats

00:54:19.400 because it showed that they were definitely trying to screw Bernie Sanders

00:54:23.480 to, you know, lock in Hillary Clinton for the nomination. 1.00

00:54:27.540 Now, do you think that anybody changed their vote because of that?

00:54:34.560 It might have been.

00:54:36.080 Maybe.

00:54:37.320 But would that be an attack on the election infrastructure?

00:54:43.040 I don't know.

00:54:44.360 Because they lump it into the same conversation,

00:54:46.980 but that's not exactly election infrastructure.

00:54:51.860 So, what I think is going on

00:54:54.480 is that we haven't learned anything new

00:54:56.860 and that's why the regular news,

00:55:01.940 the non-right-leaning news,

00:55:03.860 is treating it like nothing happened

00:55:05.560 because I don't think we learned anything new.

00:55:08.440 Did we?

00:55:10.200 And there's something,

00:55:11.280 there's a story,

00:55:12.120 there's a sub-story about

00:55:13.380 the intelligence community said

00:55:17.480 there's no indication that any votes were changed by Russia

00:55:20.620 or that they even wanted to.

00:55:23.120 And I guess that was part of the president's daily briefing

00:55:26.140 but then somebody,

00:55:29.280 and we assume it was Obama himself,

00:55:31.700 decided to not do the daily briefing

00:55:35.080 because, allegedly,

00:55:38.340 the person running for office

00:55:40.900 also got the presidential daily briefings

00:55:43.240 and that would be Trump.

00:55:44.800 So, the worry was

00:55:47.280 that if Obama allowed the daily briefing to go ahead,

00:55:56.240 it would say the intelligence community

00:55:57.980 says Russia didn't change any election results

00:56:01.060 nor is there any indication that they intended to.

00:56:04.620 that would have put the lie to all the allegations

00:56:11.880 that Trump was being helped by Russia.

00:56:14.780 But, the thing that the intelligence community said

00:56:20.080 was really specifically,

00:56:21.680 did Russia change any votes

00:56:24.460 or do anything that would have changed any votes

00:56:27.240 and probably not.

00:56:29.740 So, I don't know.

00:56:31.900 That's a little extra that we know

00:56:33.900 but we don't even know the full story behind that.

00:56:37.300 There's a little speculation.

00:56:38.300 So, there are a couple of themes I'm giving you.

00:56:42.520 One is that I don't think this story

00:56:45.620 is going to have a big impact

00:56:48.820 on, I don't know, let's say the midterms.

00:56:52.440 I don't think there's enough here

00:56:54.360 that's going to put anybody in the handcuffs. 0.99

00:56:57.760 So, what I'm not expecting

00:56:59.260 is anybody to go to jail because of it

00:57:01.860 or for it to change any future votes.

00:57:04.780 So, to me, it looks closer to a nothing

00:57:09.700 than a something.

00:57:12.180 And keep in mind that I think all the players 0.96

00:57:14.200 who are named here are dirty as hell 0.95

00:57:16.560 and I think they did try to rig the election 0.97

00:57:19.040 and I do think that it was, you know,

00:57:23.600 bordering on trade risks at the very least.

00:57:26.600 So, I'm definitely not supporting

00:57:28.580 or trying to defend any of the people involved

00:57:31.820 from Obama to Brennan or Clapper.

00:57:33.800 All I'm saying is if you're getting really excited

00:57:37.780 because you think the smoking gun has been found

00:57:40.740 and now we got them, I don't see it.

00:57:45.680 Maybe because it's complicated

00:57:47.820 and I'm just missing something.

00:57:50.820 But what it looks like is there's too much conflating

00:57:54.580 of things that are slightly related but not the same.

00:57:58.600 Yeah, maybe they got into some email.

00:58:01.640 Did it affect the election?

00:58:02.780 Were they trying to?

00:58:04.620 Were they trying to throw it to Trump?

00:58:07.560 I don't know.

00:58:08.440 So, there's too much complexity,

00:58:11.040 too much conflation, not enough new stuff.

00:58:15.500 I don't know that it's much of anything.

00:58:17.120 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.

00:58:20.220 I've been visualizing my match all week.

00:58:22.760 She was so focused on visualizing

00:58:24.440 that she didn't see the column behind her car

00:58:26.480 on her backhand side.

00:58:28.780 Good thing Claudia's with Intact,

00:58:30.680 the insurer with the largest network

00:58:32.360 of auto service centers in the country.

00:58:34.440 Everything was taken care of under one roof

00:58:36.380 and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.

00:58:38.860 I made it to my tournament

00:58:40.280 and lost in the first round.

00:58:42.100 Meanwhile, over in the Middle East,

00:58:51.740 Israel is ordering the evacuation of central Gaza.

00:58:56.000 So, they need to do some more attacking of Hamas 0.99

00:59:00.100 in that area.

00:59:00.860 So, they're asking to evacuate it.

00:59:05.300 Now, every time I see any photograph of Gaza,

00:59:10.320 it is of completely destroyed buildings.

00:59:13.160 How many people were still remaining in those buildings

00:59:19.600 or are there other buildings that have electricity and water

00:59:22.640 and are not destroyed?

00:59:25.040 It looks like everything was destroyed.

00:59:27.720 So, I'm surprised anybody is still living there.

00:59:32.080 But the...

00:59:34.160 But the...

00:59:36.160 Then, also, in a related act,

00:59:40.940 Mossad is allegedly, according to Zero Edge,

00:59:44.140 is pushing for U.S. assistance

00:59:46.640 in getting other countries to accept the Gazans.

00:59:51.380 Now, I don't believe there's any talk of America

00:59:54.280 accepting Gaza refugees.

00:59:56.800 And I would be very against that

00:59:58.960 because you wouldn't know what you were getting.

01:00:01.620 But the idea is that some other countries

01:00:07.520 may be pressured to take in the Gazans.

01:00:12.060 Now, Israel says...

01:00:14.360 Well, Netanyahu says

01:00:16.000 that any relocation of Gaza's population

01:00:19.040 would be voluntary.

01:00:21.160 So, it wouldn't be genocide

01:00:22.960 because they can stay if they want.

01:00:26.540 But that they would create the option

01:00:29.220 to voluntarily relocate outside of Gaza.

01:00:34.460 To which I say,

01:00:36.420 well, that word voluntary is doing a lot of work.

01:00:41.780 You can stay in Gaza 1.00

01:00:43.480 and your house might blow up.

01:00:47.300 You won't have any electricity.

01:00:49.320 Everything's toxic.

01:00:51.120 And your children may be killed 0.98

01:00:53.980 in our next bombing run. 0.99

01:00:55.720 But, totally voluntary,

01:00:58.200 if you wanted.

01:01:00.800 I mean, just if you wanted it,

01:01:02.840 you could relocate.

01:01:05.060 But we're not saying you should.

01:01:07.020 We're not forcing you.

01:01:09.360 We're just saying

01:01:10.420 maybe if you wanted to reduce the risk

01:01:13.880 to your body and your family,

01:01:17.240 you might want to strongly consider

01:01:19.140 not being in the bombing zone.

01:01:20.720 So, yeah.

01:01:26.100 And I saw some...

01:01:29.140 Was it the...

01:01:30.140 The ad of the ADL,

01:01:31.620 Greed Blatt,

01:01:32.520 was on a show recently.

01:01:34.520 And he was talking about

01:01:35.420 the negative feelings

01:01:38.560 that Americans have,

01:01:40.100 or was it the whole world?

01:01:41.260 I think Americans.

01:01:42.760 About Israel.

01:01:43.980 And things are not looking good.

01:01:48.580 So, in terms of reputation,

01:01:51.800 Israel's having a tough year.

01:01:53.960 But, as I often say,

01:01:56.540 I'm not judging them

01:01:57.760 because it's not my country.

01:02:00.080 And we would probably do

01:02:02.660 something very similar.

01:02:04.280 And I also ask,

01:02:06.320 what are they going to do?

01:02:08.220 Are they just going to bomb Gaza 0.99

01:02:10.400 and then say, 0.87

01:02:11.300 all right, everybody,

01:02:12.940 go back to work

01:02:14.060 and reconstitute Hamas

01:02:16.660 and do it again in a few years?

01:02:18.860 So, all the choices are horrible.

01:02:22.900 Would you agree?

01:02:23.960 So, depopulating Gaza 1.00

01:02:28.020 and making the voluntary,

01:02:31.020 you know, offer

01:02:32.400 that they could go

01:02:33.200 to another country, perhaps,

01:02:35.080 is awful.

01:02:36.680 It's just terrible.

01:02:38.900 But, if you're Israel,

01:02:41.560 letting them just resettle in Gaza 1.00

01:02:43.620 would be awful.

01:02:46.180 It would be terrible.

01:02:47.580 So, all of the choices

01:02:48.980 are just hideous.

01:02:51.180 So, if all of the choices

01:02:52.840 are hideous,

01:02:53.960 and somebody chooses

01:02:55.460 one of the hideous choices

01:02:56.900 that's at least better

01:02:58.320 for their country,

01:03:00.360 am I going to judge that?

01:03:03.560 It's hideous,

01:03:05.020 but it's exactly

01:03:06.740 what we would do

01:03:07.820 if we were in the same situation,

01:03:10.180 I hope.

01:03:12.240 So, that's why I don't judge it.

01:03:14.500 You can observe it,

01:03:16.200 and you can predict it,

01:03:17.880 and you can comment on it,

01:03:19.260 but I don't judge it.

01:03:21.400 That just doesn't make sense

01:03:22.780 when you're looking

01:03:23.380 at international stuff.

01:03:26.040 Countries always act

01:03:27.280 in their best interest,

01:03:28.600 no matter what the moral

01:03:30.140 or ethical boundaries are.

01:03:33.100 So, this is just more of that.

01:03:34.720 Meanwhile, over in Ukraine,

01:03:39.400 Ukrainian,

01:03:40.400 you know how the Ukrainians

01:03:41.740 like to produce a lot of video

01:03:43.240 of their drones

01:03:44.840 blowing stuff up?

01:03:46.620 Well, now they have

01:03:47.800 some seriously good

01:03:49.340 machine gun robots

01:03:50.960 that are on wheels

01:03:52.620 or tracks,

01:03:53.540 I'm not sure which,

01:03:54.760 but they're ground-based,

01:03:56.500 and they had some video

01:03:57.660 of their machine gun robot

01:04:00.420 attacking a bunch of Russians 1.00

01:04:04.260 and just machine gunning them. 0.97

01:04:06.540 And I remind you

01:04:08.560 that my prediction,

01:04:12.020 and I don't know

01:04:12.620 if anybody else is making it,

01:04:14.500 is that there's nothing

01:04:15.420 that looks like

01:04:16.080 it's going to stop

01:04:16.860 that war anytime soon.

01:04:18.300 But when the U.S. says

01:04:21.700 we're going to make available

01:04:23.880 our good stuff,

01:04:25.680 how many of you think

01:04:27.020 some of the good stuff

01:04:28.360 might be these ground-based

01:04:30.440 machine gun robots?

01:04:32.620 I feel like if we weren't

01:04:34.520 making them,

01:04:35.520 we should have been.

01:04:36.980 I mean,

01:04:37.540 it looks like the obvious tool

01:04:39.700 you would use

01:04:40.380 against a human front line.

01:04:42.600 So I believe

01:04:46.140 that the front line,

01:04:48.280 Ukraine versus Russia,

01:04:49.720 will be the first

01:04:51.160 robot-only

01:04:52.940 front line of a war.

01:04:55.520 Because eventually,

01:04:56.760 it will just be impossible

01:04:58.440 for humans to be there.

01:05:00.280 But the robots

01:05:01.240 will still be operating.

01:05:02.820 So right now,

01:05:04.580 it's robots against humans

01:05:06.100 on both directions.

01:05:08.580 But eventually,

01:05:09.720 it will be robots

01:05:10.460 against robots.

01:05:11.260 So the robots

01:05:12.420 will be attacking

01:05:13.040 other robots.

01:05:15.840 That's almost guaranteed.

01:05:21.360 According to the BBC,

01:05:24.040 the writer there

01:05:25.340 is Paul Adams,

01:05:27.160 which, weirdly,

01:05:28.360 is my father's name.

01:05:30.500 But he's long dead.

01:05:32.680 And I don't believe

01:05:33.700 he's writing for the BBC.

01:05:36.120 I don't know

01:05:37.120 which would be worse.

01:05:39.140 But,

01:05:39.540 Paul Adams reports

01:05:42.140 that

01:05:42.620 Ukraine is

01:05:44.320 gamifying

01:05:45.200 the war

01:05:46.760 so that

01:05:48.060 the people

01:05:48.800 who are operating

01:05:49.480 the drones,

01:05:50.840 I think,

01:05:51.820 can win points

01:05:53.160 as if they're

01:05:54.140 playing a game

01:05:55.000 for destroying 0.97

01:05:56.660 Russian soldiers

01:05:58.700 and Russian assets.

01:06:00.760 So,

01:06:01.700 they trialed it

01:06:02.460 and it's called

01:06:02.900 the Army of Drones

01:06:04.180 Bonus.

01:06:05.080 So,

01:06:07.940 are you worried

01:06:09.660 that human beings

01:06:11.320 are being rewarded

01:06:12.360 as if they're

01:06:13.200 playing a game

01:06:14.220 for being operators

01:06:15.920 of drones

01:06:16.600 that are killing

01:06:17.240 actual human beings?

01:06:19.740 Well,

01:06:20.460 I'm not surprised.

01:06:22.560 But,

01:06:23.180 you know,

01:06:23.520 as I said before,

01:06:25.080 this is hideously,

01:06:27.120 you know,

01:06:28.360 sort of immoral.

01:06:29.560 but on the other hand,

01:06:32.280 it's not my country

01:06:33.400 and if we were

01:06:35.280 in the same position

01:06:36.280 and we came up

01:06:37.860 with an idea

01:06:38.440 that worked

01:06:39.120 but everybody

01:06:39.940 thought it was

01:06:40.600 gross and disgusting 0.96

01:06:41.880 and immoral 0.99

01:06:43.420 and unethical,

01:06:44.660 we'd do it

01:06:45.380 if it worked.

01:06:47.080 I don't know

01:06:47.460 if it works

01:06:48.260 but gamifying it

01:06:50.360 is really icky

01:06:52.820 but it might work.

01:06:54.940 China says

01:06:59.600 according to

01:07:00.600 the Epoch Times

01:07:01.660 that it will

01:07:02.520 start sentencing

01:07:03.520 fentanyl traffickers 0.73

01:07:04.800 to death. 0.75

01:07:06.420 Now,

01:07:06.600 I guess Trump

01:07:07.260 is the source

01:07:07.900 of that

01:07:08.280 because he says

01:07:09.120 that in his talks

01:07:11.200 with China

01:07:11.680 they've agreed

01:07:12.320 to do that.

01:07:14.480 I am going

01:07:15.360 to predict

01:07:15.920 that that's not

01:07:16.700 going to happen.

01:07:18.100 Now,

01:07:18.480 there might be

01:07:19.020 a report

01:07:19.580 of some

01:07:21.000 fentanyl dealer 0.85

01:07:22.500 being executed.

01:07:23.820 So,

01:07:24.060 I'm not saying

01:07:24.560 that nobody

01:07:25.160 will get executed

01:07:26.220 because they do 0.96

01:07:27.420 have the death sentence

01:07:28.240 for a number

01:07:28.860 of things.

01:07:30.140 But what I don't

01:07:30.960 believe

01:07:31.320 is that China

01:07:32.200 has any intention

01:07:33.160 of decreasing

01:07:34.160 the fentanyl

01:07:36.620 precursor traffic

01:07:38.820 to Mexico

01:07:40.100 so that they

01:07:41.440 can turn it

01:07:41.980 into fentanyl.

01:07:43.240 I don't think

01:07:44.300 that China 0.93

01:07:44.780 means it.

01:07:46.220 So,

01:07:46.860 I think that

01:07:47.720 every time

01:07:48.240 they make

01:07:48.640 any kind of

01:07:49.300 agreement

01:07:49.740 about fentanyl,

01:07:51.460 time goes by

01:07:52.440 and then you find

01:07:53.300 out it didn't

01:07:53.860 happen

01:07:54.200 or it

01:07:54.640 wasn't

01:07:54.860 what you

01:07:55.160 hoped.

01:07:56.200 So,

01:07:56.880 I feel like

01:07:57.780 they might 1.00

01:07:58.200 kill some 1.00

01:07:58.940 sacrificial people 1.00

01:08:00.040 that they wanted 1.00

01:08:00.680 to kill anyway 0.98

01:08:01.520 and then say, 1.00

01:08:03.060 look at us, 0.80

01:08:04.280 we're killing 0.71

01:08:04.960 these fentanyl 1.00

01:08:05.820 dealers,

01:08:06.800 but that the

01:08:08.000 big players

01:08:09.000 will just keep

01:08:09.820 on doing

01:08:10.200 what they're

01:08:10.600 doing.

01:08:11.380 That's what I

01:08:11.880 think.

01:08:12.300 I believe

01:08:13.060 that that will

01:08:13.700 not bear fruit.

01:08:15.500 that's what I

01:08:19.940 think.

01:08:20.500 And then

01:08:20.680 lastly,

01:08:22.140 Owen Gregorian

01:08:23.360 will be

01:08:24.060 hosting a

01:08:25.160 Spaces event

01:08:25.980 but only for

01:08:26.920 his subscribers

01:08:27.940 on X.

01:08:29.620 So,

01:08:29.940 if you subscribe

01:08:30.820 to Owen Gregorian

01:08:31.860 and you want

01:08:32.640 to be part of

01:08:33.780 a Spaces event

01:08:35.080 on X,

01:08:36.960 that will be

01:08:37.580 right after the

01:08:38.220 show,

01:08:38.540 a few minutes

01:08:39.100 after the show.

01:08:39.880 You'll know

01:08:40.300 where to find

01:08:40.740 them.

01:08:40.860 All right,

01:08:42.080 ladies and 0.98

01:08:42.720 gentlemen,

01:08:43.620 that's all I

01:08:44.480 got for today.

01:08:45.860 It's a happy

01:08:46.880 Sunday.

01:08:48.180 I hope you're

01:08:48.820 all enjoying

01:08:49.320 your perfect

01:08:49.960 weather,

01:08:50.380 even though

01:08:50.740 you're not

01:08:51.360 in California,

01:08:52.120 most of you.

01:08:53.320 And I'm

01:08:55.540 taking opinions

01:08:56.460 about whether

01:08:56.980 I should keep

01:08:57.700 my beard.

01:08:59.660 Should I

01:09:00.040 grow it out?

01:09:01.200 To me,

01:09:01.800 it doesn't

01:09:02.160 look good.

01:09:03.420 And it sort

01:09:04.100 of disappears

01:09:06.160 on my face.

01:09:07.420 You can barely

01:09:07.880 see it if you're

01:09:08.740 10 feet away.

01:09:09.640 I don't know.

01:09:11.220 What do you

01:09:11.540 think?

01:09:12.000 Beard or no

01:09:12.760 beard?

01:09:14.880 Well,

01:09:15.480 we'll see.

01:09:16.680 I'm going to

01:09:17.060 decide today

01:09:17.720 probably.

01:09:18.900 The only reason

01:09:19.780 I grew it

01:09:20.460 is I had that

01:09:21.540 shingles attack

01:09:22.520 on the side

01:09:23.020 of my face.

01:09:24.400 So I was

01:09:25.680 waiting for

01:09:26.140 that to heal

01:09:26.940 before I shaved

01:09:27.780 or got a

01:09:28.380 haircut.

01:09:29.100 And now

01:09:30.020 we're just

01:09:31.100 about there.

01:09:33.140 I don't know.

01:09:34.000 It's just so

01:09:34.560 weird.

01:09:34.840 I'm so surprised

01:09:35.920 that people like

01:09:36.740 it.

01:09:37.600 There are some

01:09:38.060 who don't.

01:09:39.640 But there are

01:09:40.080 way more

01:09:40.520 people telling

01:09:41.140 me to keep

01:09:41.800 it.

01:09:43.860 I'm a little

01:09:44.640 bit insulted

01:09:45.300 by that.

01:09:47.580 Not really.

01:09:48.960 But I do

01:09:49.620 ask myself,

01:09:51.100 how much

01:09:51.820 of my face

01:09:52.320 do you want

01:09:52.680 me to cover?

01:09:54.340 Oh,

01:09:54.940 I just realized

01:09:55.620 it would cover

01:09:56.300 up my biggest

01:09:57.120 wrinkles.

01:09:58.420 The biggest

01:09:59.220 wrinkles in

01:09:59.840 my face

01:10:00.520 are,

01:10:01.800 well,

01:10:02.180 would it?

01:10:02.780 I don't know.

01:10:03.380 Maybe it

01:10:03.740 wouldn't.

01:10:05.500 I don't know.

01:10:06.100 All right.

01:10:07.660 We got mixed

01:10:08.460 opinions on

01:10:09.220 the beard.

01:10:10.460 I'm going to

01:10:11.100 talk privately

01:10:11.820 to my beloved

01:10:13.180 subscribers on

01:10:15.340 Locals.

01:10:15.820 The rest of

01:10:16.260 you,

01:10:16.580 thanks for

01:10:16.980 joining.

01:10:17.800 I will see

01:10:18.480 you again

01:10:18.940 tomorrow at

01:10:19.580 the same

01:10:19.960 time,

01:10:20.460 same place,

01:10:21.260 I hope.

01:10:22.180 Hope you

01:10:22.580 enjoyed it.

01:10:23.760 And Locals,

01:10:24.940 in 30 seconds,

01:10:36.100 this year.

01:11:06.100 Thank you.

01:11:36.100 Thank you.

01:12:06.100 Thank you.

01:12:36.100 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - July 20, 2025

Episode 2903 CWSA 07⧸20⧸25

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