Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 05, 2025


Episode 2918 CWSA 08⧸05⧸25


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11

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Scott Adams and Gary the Cat have a cat attack, and J.P. Morgan thinks Apple is going to make a foldable phone, and Harvey Harvey has a legal AI that s already worth $100 million in annual recurring revenue.

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00:00:00.000 Oh, there you are.
00:00:03.400 Come on in.
00:00:05.280 There's plenty of room.
00:00:08.340 Come on in for the Tuesday morning that you deserve.
00:00:13.960 Well, it looks like the stock market's up a little bit.
00:00:18.600 Nothing to be too excited about, but a little bit.
00:00:23.560 Let me get your comments working, and then we'll see what's what.
00:00:30.000 Uh-oh.
00:00:33.580 What was that?
00:00:36.220 Uh-oh.
00:00:37.680 It's a cat.
00:00:39.140 A cat has visited my office and will be torturing me any moment now.
00:00:45.560 Oh, bump, bump, bump, bump.
00:00:49.540 No, don't knock all my papers off my desk.
00:00:56.120 Oh, well, it's going to be one of those mornings, isn't it?
00:01:00.360 I got the cat attack.
00:01:03.580 It's always Gary.
00:01:06.080 Gary is the troublemaker.
00:01:11.180 Gary, I gave you food.
00:01:13.980 I gave you, I golfed with you this morning before the show.
00:01:20.320 My indoor putting green, which you miss if you're not a subscriber.
00:01:25.920 All right.
00:01:27.280 Do, do, do, do.
00:01:28.580 I'm going to do my show, cat or not.
00:01:34.340 Did I scare you?
00:01:36.320 All right.
00:01:36.800 Well, hang in there.
00:01:41.220 Good morning and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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00:02:25.080 Gary, come over here.
00:02:29.940 Ah, so good.
00:02:32.480 Actually, it wasn't very good, but it's better if I tell you it was.
00:02:35.900 All right, well, let me check the news to see if there's any science that maybe they could
00:02:49.240 have just skipped by asking me.
00:02:52.760 Oh, here's some.
00:02:54.860 Courtesy of Swansea University.
00:02:58.960 Kathy Thomas is writing that it's not just how many sexual partners you've had,
00:03:05.020 because you know how people always say, what's your body count?
00:03:09.360 And they mean, you know, how many people have you had sex with?
00:03:13.400 And allegedly, some people don't want to have a life partner who have had lots of sexual partners.
00:03:22.020 Now, how many of you are in that category?
00:03:24.960 You would not marry somebody who had lots of sexual partners.
00:03:28.960 But this new information tells you it's not just how many partners your potential romantic mate has.
00:03:40.060 It's also when it happened.
00:03:42.420 But that makes sense, because if somebody said to you, well, you know, honestly, I had 30 partners.
00:03:51.180 But they were all in my 20s, and since then, really, it's been, you know, one.
00:03:59.240 I'd say, hmm, 30's a lot.
00:04:02.560 But really, it only happened in your 20s, and it's been 10 years.
00:04:07.720 Yeah, okay, that's not so bad.
00:04:10.320 See?
00:04:11.080 It's not so bad if it was a long time ago.
00:04:13.140 So, but alternately, you could say, what's your body count?
00:04:17.420 And somebody would say, five.
00:04:20.660 And you'd be all, five.
00:04:22.700 Okay.
00:04:23.460 In modern day, that's not too bad.
00:04:26.860 I mean, you know, fewer is better, but five is not too bad.
00:04:31.580 And then you say, five this morning.
00:04:35.640 And then it suddenly seems bad again.
00:04:37.940 See, it's all about the timing.
00:04:40.040 Just had to ask me.
00:04:41.160 Well, J.P. Morgan is predicting that Apple is likely to launch a foldable iPhone in September of 2026.
00:04:52.360 Do you believe that J.P. Morgan actually knows what Apple plans to do in September of a year from now?
00:05:02.540 I have my doubts that J.P. Morgan knows that at all.
00:05:06.500 Well, it may be.
00:05:08.120 I would love a foldable phone, as long as it's not more unwieldy than my normal phone when I put it in my pocket.
00:05:15.220 Well, there's a legal AI startup, legal meaning that they deal with the law, not that they just haven't broken it.
00:05:26.060 And it's called Harvey.
00:05:29.220 It's already worth, oh, it has $100 million in annual recurring revenue already.
00:05:35.060 It's only a few years old.
00:05:36.160 And I guess it does for lawyers, what a lawyer would have to do normally.
00:05:42.520 So it helps your lawyers be more efficient.
00:05:45.580 So you need less of them, I guess.
00:05:48.780 So that's happening.
00:05:50.260 So it does make sense that the legal profession, which, if we're being honest, the reason that the law is as complicated as it is, is so that lawyers can take your money.
00:06:07.440 Because I'm pretty sure if the law said you must simplify everything you say in a contract, that you wouldn't need nearly as many lawyers.
00:06:20.180 But AI can do all the complicated stuff.
00:06:24.220 So lawyers won't be able to say, well, you'll never be able to do this on your own, so I have to do it.
00:06:30.000 But you're going to be, well, I could just show this to ChatGPT, and it probably tells me what to negotiate, what to accept.
00:06:38.920 So I do think the legal domain, maybe half of it, will be entirely just decimated by AI.
00:06:51.400 Maybe half.
00:06:52.120 I think there's going to be a half that AI can't do, get a little bit more human-oriented.
00:06:58.540 But maybe half of the legal profession will go away.
00:07:04.380 Well, apparently, American Eagle Stock, that's the company that Cindy Sweeney did her commercial for.
00:07:12.680 You all know about that.
00:07:14.180 And Trump said some positive things about the company, and their stock was up 20%.
00:07:20.540 Some said 23%.
00:07:22.320 I don't know if it's still up today.
00:07:24.340 But the stock is up.
00:07:25.340 You know what the weirdest thing about the Cindy Sweeney having good genes commercial is? 0.86
00:07:32.520 We all just sort of accepted that she's a skinny woman with large breasts. 1.00
00:07:40.600 Do you know how many skinny women who have large breasts got there because of good genes, as opposed to good doctor? 1.00
00:07:55.560 Now, there is no indication that Cindy Sweeney has had a boob job. 1.00
00:08:00.520 There's no indication that.
00:08:01.680 She doesn't say she has.
00:08:03.940 Nobody else has either. 0.91
00:08:05.420 And, indeed, she said that she had big boobs when she was in high school. 1.00
00:08:09.360 It was kind of a problem.
00:08:11.080 To which I say, there was something I learned in my 20s.
00:08:17.680 And I'm going to stick with it.
00:08:21.620 It goes like this. 0.99
00:08:23.420 There's no such thing as a skinny girl with big tits. 1.00
00:08:26.440 Not organically. 0.97
00:08:32.220 There are plenty of them who got surgery, which, by the way, I'm not judging.
00:08:37.880 I have no bad things to say about it.
00:08:41.460 If it works for you and you want it and it looks good and you don't have any side effects, great. 0.58
00:08:47.700 But am I supposed to believe that she's the world's only skinny chick with gigantic boobs and it just happens because she has good genes? 0.98
00:08:58.640 No. 0.91
00:09:00.460 I'm sorry.
00:09:03.520 I can't go that far.
00:09:05.940 Well, that could be the end of my show because I've got a cat laying on my notes who seems very, very happy being there.
00:09:13.220 All right.
00:09:14.000 But I can pull my notes out and she'll never even notice.
00:09:21.220 Anyway.
00:09:23.320 But like I say, she might be the only one who just has natural different genes.
00:09:31.040 Maybe.
00:09:32.260 Well, Tesla has decided that they've got some kind of a pay deal with Elon.
00:09:39.340 One, you know, they were going to give him many billions of dollars and some Delaware judge decided that he didn't earn it.
00:09:47.960 So he didn't get it.
00:09:49.600 But now Tesla has decided to give him 96 million shares of Tesla, which would be about $29 billion worth of value based on Corona's stock price.
00:10:02.240 But $29 billion might seem like a lot.
00:10:09.260 Isn't that a funny statement?
00:10:11.520 $29 billion, it might seem like a lot, but it's less than the $50 billion that he was actually contractually entitled to.
00:10:21.520 So we'll see if anything happens there.
00:10:22.960 Meanwhile, in other news, Gary, in other news, NASA chief Sean Duffy has announced plans that they're going to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, the U.S.
00:10:42.520 So we're going to be racing China, mostly China, I guess, to be the first country to have a nuclear reactor on the moon, because whoever gets that going first is going to be able to do a base.
00:10:58.320 And whoever does the base is going to have some military control and functional and economic control of the moon.
00:11:06.400 So let's get those nukes up there, huh?
00:11:10.040 Shall we?
00:11:10.520 We'll see you next time.
00:11:40.520 And then, I saw a compilation clip yesterday of, how many of you remember this?
00:11:54.820 Do you remember the 2016 election cycle?
00:11:58.300 And then, every time you turned on the TV, the bad Democrats were saying, and I quote,
00:12:11.360 And I quote, the walls are closing in on Trump.
00:12:18.680 Do you remember that?
00:12:20.300 And so I was watching a compilation clip of it from back in those days.
00:12:24.280 It was just one weasel after another.
00:12:27.240 The walls are closing in on Trump.
00:12:30.240 What it usually meant is the Russia collusion hoax.
00:12:33.980 And given that we know that they knew, at least the insiders knew it wasn't real, how many of the other people knew it wasn't real?
00:12:44.580 I feel as if everybody who used that phrase on TV, the walls are closing in on Trump, because you and Brandon used it.
00:12:54.320 But it feels to me that that revealed their entire network.
00:13:01.640 It feels to me that if you just did a replay of all the people who used that phrase, the walls are closing in, you would know all the people who had illegally been part of the plot.
00:13:14.600 But, because it's just too big a coincidence.
00:13:18.560 And now we notice that all the bad people have moved to Trump as an authoritarian.
00:13:28.060 And I'll bet it's the same phenomenon, that there's a bunch of insiders who have colluded to say, all right, we're all going to say that it's this or it's that.
00:13:41.140 We're all going to say authoritarian.
00:13:42.440 Now, can you correct me on this if I'm wrong?
00:13:47.480 There's nothing like this on the right, right?
00:13:50.600 Because nobody has ever come to me and said, all right, now we're all going to say this.
00:13:56.000 I've never heard that.
00:13:58.060 And while it is true that people on the right will end up saying things, you know, that they heard on Fox News and things, it's not nearly as bad as this.
00:14:07.880 You know, where they just sort of mockingbirds say that, you know, they repeat the same thing.
00:14:15.000 He's an authoritarian.
00:14:16.060 And the fact that they're calling him an authoritarian for firing the head of the Bureau of Statistics because she was completely wrong on her statistics.
00:14:32.020 Isn't that usually why people get fired?
00:14:36.980 All right.
00:14:37.800 We're going to hire you to be the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
00:14:42.120 And your main job will be to tell us how many new jobs were created.
00:14:47.180 All right.
00:14:47.540 Got it.
00:14:47.940 If you're off by 10,000 percent and the entire news cycle has passed before you correct it, we're going to fire you because that's not really good in the statistics.
00:15:01.920 Wouldn't that be fair?
00:15:03.960 But we're pretending that firing somebody for being consistently completely wrong about the only thing that they're there to do, which is present statistics.
00:15:14.800 That's not a problem.
00:15:16.040 Now, the background might be, I presume, that our statistics have always been that bad.
00:15:26.840 But for whatever reason, we just started accepting it as normal.
00:15:32.020 And Trump sees one example and he just says, you're fired.
00:15:37.320 That's the way you should run that. 0.71
00:15:39.100 But if they do at one time come with you with numbers which are completely ridiculous, and here's the important point. 0.56
00:15:47.180 They knew the numbers were ridiculous when they presented them and they didn't warn anybody.
00:15:52.120 You know, if they had said, all right, we have preliminary numbers, but honestly, you shouldn't use them because in two months these will be revised and they could be revised just really radically.
00:16:04.940 So you shouldn't make any decisions based on these numbers.
00:16:09.020 If they had said that, I would have said, all right, you know, don't fire that person.
00:16:15.120 They told you everything they knew, did the best they could.
00:16:18.660 But if you're not presenting the numbers as likely to be revised by 10,000 percent or whatever it was, yeah, you got to get fired.
00:16:28.680 The very next story here is, according to the Post Millennial, Thomas Stevenson is writing, that jobs for native-born Americans have increased by nearly 2 million.
00:16:43.100 Sounds pretty good, right?
00:16:45.120 That jobs for native-born Americans are up by 2 million.
00:16:50.780 Do you know where they got that statistic?
00:16:53.080 Would you be surprised to learn it comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics? 0.99
00:17:00.060 It comes from the same source as the woman who just got fired for presenting employment numbers that are complete bullshit. 0.94
00:17:10.840 And then the very next story is, well, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we got a lot of American jobs. 0.95
00:17:18.760 I'm going to say there's nothing we can believe from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
00:17:28.280 So, that would be my take.
00:17:33.620 Now, I don't know who has the cutest podcast going, but it might be me.
00:17:39.900 I mean, it might be me.
00:17:40.920 I do have a cat asleep in my arms here.
00:17:44.680 All right, what else we got going on?
00:17:48.760 So, the effort by RFK Jr. to ban food stamp use for soda and for candy.
00:17:59.640 I think they're just banning it for soda.
00:18:02.860 Did you know that we spend $405 million a day on SNAP?
00:18:08.360 I guess that's food stamps.
00:18:10.600 Is SNAP the same thing as food stamps?
00:18:13.280 It's in the same story.
00:18:14.360 $405 million a day.
00:18:18.580 That's how far we are from people being able to feed themselves.
00:18:24.500 Not very close.
00:18:26.340 $400 million a day?
00:18:30.120 Holy cow. 0.89
00:18:32.100 Anyway, that looks like that change will happen.
00:18:35.960 So, there's a podcast between Charlemagne the God and Stephen A. Smith.
00:18:46.740 Stephen A. Smith is calling out Kamala Harris for saying she didn't want to be part of the broken system when, in fact, she was a career politician. 0.71
00:18:57.460 So, she was, you know, she had plenty of chances to fix that broken system if that was going to happen. 0.97
00:19:05.600 So, I guess Smith said, you're a career politician.
00:19:09.480 You've been there practically all your life.
00:19:11.120 He wasn't talking to her.
00:19:12.340 He was talking about her.
00:19:14.820 My God, you've been part of it.
00:19:17.480 And now you're saying it's broken.
00:19:19.120 That means you couldn't do so much to fix it when you was in it.
00:19:25.080 The system was broken long before Donald Trump got into office, Charlemagne said.
00:19:30.660 Well, how many think that's a good point?
00:19:36.260 That she was in the system and failed to fix it.
00:19:39.880 The system that's broken is just that any time you have a complicated system and lots of people involved and lots of money, it's always corrupt.
00:19:52.220 That's it.
00:19:53.620 What exactly was she supposed to fix? 1.00
00:19:56.760 Was Kamala Harris supposed to signal-handedly fix the part that the world is full of corrupt people who will take any opportunity to steal shit? 1.00
00:20:06.860 What was she supposed to do? 0.99
00:20:09.880 That's not really an insightful comment.
00:20:14.440 No, there's not really any chance that Kamala Harris could have fixed what was broken about the system.
00:20:21.060 It's way more broken than one person could have, you know, tweaked a few things and getting it going again.
00:20:31.580 And then, separately, Charlemagne was taking a phone call from a caller who was saying some good things about Trump.
00:20:39.880 And the caller said, I feel like this is one of the first presidents that's actually doing what they said they was going to do.
00:20:47.940 And by the way, I feel like this is one of the first presidents that's actually doing what they said they were going to do.
00:21:12.840 Now, you know exactly what they mean, right?
00:21:16.820 So why is it, you know, wrong to say was and right to say were when you know exactly what he means?
00:21:23.380 I feel like we need to loosen up on that.
00:21:26.820 Anyway, so the caller says that Trump was doing everything he said he was going to do.
00:21:33.400 And Charlemagne corrected him and said, well, no, not necessarily.
00:21:38.980 Because Trump said on day one he was going to bring the price of groceries down.
00:21:44.040 And he didn't do that.
00:21:48.040 And the caller says, everybody know in your right mind there's no way somebody can do something instantly.
00:21:59.560 And I think to myself, did somebody really have to explain that to Charlemagne?
00:22:05.240 That when Trump said I'll end the war in one day and I'll bring down egg prices in one day.
00:22:10.220 Do we really have to explain it that that didn't literally mean one day?
00:22:18.360 And here this caller, I love the way the caller says it.
00:22:22.460 Everybody know in their right mind there's no way somebody's going to do something instantly.
00:22:26.420 Right. Exactly.
00:22:30.940 Everybody in their right mind knew that he just meant it was a priority.
00:22:36.920 Didn't he treat it like a priority?
00:22:38.900 Well, what are you going to do about it?
00:22:40.940 I mean, he did all the things you can do something about it.
00:22:43.280 He went after the eggs.
00:22:44.380 He did lower the price of gas.
00:22:46.760 But inflation isn't exactly the kind of thing that you can deal with instantly.
00:22:51.400 So, you know, I'm not even sure exactly what the government can do in general except not make terrible mistakes.
00:23:03.320 All right.
00:23:06.000 I've been watching some videos of Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren backing Mondani.
00:23:15.540 Mondani, Mondani, Mondani, Zoran Mondani, who's running for mayor of New York City.
00:23:24.060 And I'm liking, I heard Jesse Warners use that.
00:23:27.420 I don't know if he came up with it, but Kami Mondani.
00:23:31.820 Kami Mondani is a pretty good nickname.
00:23:36.360 Because it's just, I just want to say it, Kami Mondani.
00:23:40.840 So that's very effective.
00:23:42.440 Good job, Jesse.
00:23:43.540 Claudia was leaving for her pickleball tournament.
00:23:46.580 I've been visualizing my match all week.
00:23:49.140 She was so focused on visualizing that she didn't see the column behind her car on her backhand side.
00:23:55.080 Good thing Claudia's with Intact, the insurer with the largest network of auto service centers in the country.
00:24:00.780 Everything was taken care of under one roof, and she was on her way in a rental car in no time.
00:24:05.200 I made it to my tournament and lost in the first round.
00:24:08.680 But you got there on time.
00:24:10.540 Intact Insurance, your auto service ace.
00:24:12.820 Certain conditions apply.
00:24:15.140 But Elizabeth Warren is all in on his socialist agenda.
00:24:21.140 And she is wise enough to know, as are most of the Democrats, that he finally, he kind of solved the puzzle.
00:24:30.460 And the puzzle was, is there anything that Democrats can say that will be persuasive to voters?
00:24:39.380 And the answer is yes.
00:24:40.360 The affordability approach that Mondani is using absolutely is the right approach, because it's easy to understand, et cetera.
00:24:51.200 The problem is that how do you actually do the affordability?
00:24:55.340 Well, he's got a bunch of ideas that we know always fail, or we think we know that we think we're that smart.
00:25:06.340 So he had an idea for government, government grocery stores.
00:25:13.660 Well, that's been tried and didn't work anywhere.
00:25:16.680 And then, I guess, something about free transportation and some other free stuff.
00:25:23.420 And you can't get that stuff unless you're raising taxes on people, et cetera.
00:25:28.860 So it's hard to get there.
00:25:30.480 But here's what Elizabeth Warren has added to his framing, that those potential solutions that Zoran is mentioning are experiments.
00:25:43.320 In other words, they're not committing to, oh, yeah, no matter what, we're going to have government grocery stores.
00:25:50.480 But rather, committing to an experiment in which they see if there's any way you can make a government grocery store be additive without being a huge disaster.
00:26:02.600 To which I say, that really, unfortunately, that's a pretty effective approach.
00:26:11.120 Because, you know, most people would say, ha, it's been tried and it didn't work.
00:26:15.860 Well, if she calls it experimental, she just has to say, yeah, we're going to try doing it a different way.
00:26:22.440 And if it doesn't work, we'll try something else or we'll abandon it.
00:26:26.020 And then I go, ah, oh, that makes sense.
00:26:30.180 Because I don't know for sure that there's no way you could ever do anything that was additive for some number of poor people who were using their SNAP benefits to buy soda.
00:26:41.140 Maybe, maybe.
00:26:43.080 I'm open to the experiment.
00:26:44.840 So she has very cleverly shifted it from, I have these specific ideas of how to get you some affordability.
00:26:54.900 She's shifted it to, we can play with this.
00:26:58.240 We can experiment with this.
00:26:59.940 And it's pretty clever if he buys it.
00:27:03.080 If he doesn't buy into the experiment part of the frame, or nobody else does, they won't go anywhere.
00:27:09.180 But I think she's smart to put it in that frame.
00:27:14.840 According to ADP, the payroll service company, a private company hiring has bounced back, and they've hired 104,000 people since July.
00:27:30.240 I saw unusual whales, and they count on X reporting that.
00:27:35.980 To which I say, does ADP really know that?
00:27:40.240 Why does the government not know about jobs when payroll is mostly automated?
00:27:50.640 If payroll is automated, if payroll is automated pretty much everywhere, are you telling me that the government can't figure out how many paychecks are out there and know that there are more of them or less of them?
00:28:02.880 Does the government really not know how many people paid, let's say, disability tax this past month?
00:28:12.660 We really don't know that?
00:28:14.500 The money is taken out of people's accounts and goes into another account, and we don't know, we can't measure the volume of that every month to know if it's more or fewer people are on payroll?
00:28:27.820 Well, so, I don't know, it seems to me this is a very fixable problem.
00:28:34.720 How many of you have had the experience that when one hoax is revealed, it changes how you feel about the other alleged hoaxes?
00:28:49.660 Has anybody had that yet?
00:28:52.540 Here's one that's affecting me.
00:28:57.380 I think maybe Mike Benz is affecting my brain on this as well.
00:29:01.420 Well, if we did not know, and we do know, that the Russia collusion hoax was orchestrated by the CIA, the CIA, and the FBI, and the highest levels of our elected officials.
00:29:16.820 If we didn't know that that all really happened in the real world, would you be willing to believe that the two assassination attempts against the president may have had a U.S. government connection?
00:29:32.060 I probably would have rejected that automatically.
00:29:37.620 If there had never been a President Kennedy assassination, in which, in hindsight, it seems, I think, obvious that our CIA was intimately involved in that.
00:29:51.980 If you had never heard of that, it would be pretty hard to imagine that it could ever happen again, or for the first time, in your opinion, if you didn't know that it happened once.
00:30:04.140 And then we find out that in our lifetime, the worst political act we've ever seen, which is the Russia collusion hoax, the degree of coordination behind that, and the RICO-like number of crimes that have probably kicked up, is unlike anything I've ever seen.
00:30:27.860 And then I hear Mike Benton say that Ruth, R-O-U-T-H, the guy who hid by the Trump golf course and got caught before he fired, that he apparently had some State Department connections.
00:30:48.500 All right, well, you know, maybe that's a coincidence, right?
00:30:53.200 He just had some State Department connections.
00:30:55.540 I mean, you have some State Department connections, right?
00:30:59.820 Don't you?
00:31:00.800 Don't all of you have?
00:31:02.620 I don't.
00:31:05.000 No, you don't.
00:31:06.080 You don't have any State Department connections.
00:31:08.600 But apparently he did.
00:31:11.200 And then the shooter at the Butler event, Crooks was his name, he had these encrypted apps, which seems a little weird for a loner.
00:31:21.760 He was weirdly successful in his operational endeavors, weirdly, because it turned out that the Department of Homeland Security, which was a sitting in for the Secret Service.
00:31:40.380 So Secret Service was spread thin that week because they had, you know, different jobs they had to handle at the same time.
00:31:46.760 So the Department of Homeland Security, at least one subset of them, stood in to do extra security.
00:31:55.300 And then everything went wrong.
00:31:57.120 Well, did you know, Mike Benz reminds us, that apparently Crooks would often go to a gun range that was the same one that the Department of Homeland Security typically used, or at least one department within it.
00:32:15.520 Now, these are just connections, right?
00:32:21.640 There's no direct smoking gun that says, oh, the State Department sent this guy, or that the Department of Homeland Security was well aware of this guy.
00:32:31.940 I don't have that.
00:32:33.180 We're not at that level of any kind of proof of anything.
00:32:35.840 But my question was, if we had never seen that Kennedy had, in fact, been murdered by our own government and CIA, it looks like, and if we didn't know for sure that the Russia collusion hoax was organized by the highest levels of our own government, and they're still hiding it,
00:32:55.000 If we didn't know that, I wouldn't even blink if somebody said, oh, these people have connections, they've got connections to the State Department, I would have said, oh, it's a big world, people know people, doesn't mean anything.
00:33:11.880 But now I just assume there's something to it.
00:33:15.840 I'm so far into the conspiracy theory world, just of the conspiracies that we know a lot about.
00:33:25.000 We know which parts are true.
00:33:28.100 That I find it hard to believe that both of those shooters were operating independently.
00:33:36.620 How many of you think that both of them, you know, there might be a difference between them, but how many of you think that both of them were doing it absolutely independently?
00:33:46.500 It had nothing to do with any U.S. government influence.
00:33:51.640 Nobody tried to hypnotize them or pay them off or anything else.
00:33:56.660 I don't know.
00:33:58.540 It's a little bit harder to believe that they were operating independently, given what we know about everything else lately.
00:34:05.640 Well, this story might be a little bit of fake news, but I'm not sure yet, so keep an eye on this one.
00:34:16.560 But apparently the Trump administration was going to say it was going to cut federal emergency funding to cities and states that allowed boycotts of Israel or pursued boycotts of Israel.
00:34:31.960 Now, apparently that created an uproar on the base.
00:34:40.320 So it wasn't just Democrats complaining about Trump.
00:34:48.800 It was his own base saying, wait, wait, wait, are you telling me that a city is going to lose emergency funds because they backed a boycott of another country?
00:34:59.140 That's not exactly America first.
00:35:02.780 And so it looks like the Trump administration backed off of that.
00:35:07.420 So that will not be a requirement.
00:35:10.540 But in order to get that funding, you have to not be involved in DEI or immigration violations, according to the AF Post.
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00:36:22.420 In other news where Trump is punishing people, a lot of the news is Trump punishing people.
00:36:31.040 Have you noticed that?
00:36:32.300 It started slow, but now there's like four stories of Trump just punishing somebody with a government purse.
00:36:40.540 So apparently the White House is putting together an executive order to punish banks for discriminating against conservatives.
00:36:48.780 Now I don't know if that means only in the past or if currently that's happening.
00:36:55.400 And also the White House is preparing to crack down the banks that have debanked Bitcoin and crypto companies, Wall Street Journal is reporting.
00:37:04.980 So if you're keeping track, have you figured out which oligarchs Trump is in favor of?
00:37:14.400 He is apparently not too keen on the oligarchs who are bankers.
00:37:20.140 He's going after the bankers.
00:37:21.960 He's not too keen on the oligarchs that are big pharma, because he's going after the big pharma, right?
00:37:30.920 He is not too keen on the oligarchs who are oil companies, because even though he's drill baby drill and trying to make it easy to drill, the net effect is it drives down oil prices.
00:37:43.200 So I ask you again, which oligarchs is he supposedly in favor of?
00:37:54.580 So it's not banks, it's not pharma, it's not oil.
00:38:00.580 So which oligarchs?
00:38:04.360 Maybe some crypto people or something?
00:38:08.240 I don't know.
00:38:09.400 He doesn't seem very oligarch friendly to me.
00:38:13.200 Did you know that India had cleverly figured out, or at least people in India figured out, they could buy Russian oil cheaply, and then they could resell it for a big profit?
00:38:26.080 So that was good for Russia, because they were selling more oil.
00:38:30.040 But bad for the United States' relationship with India, because it meant India was supporting Russia, basically.
00:38:38.720 And so Trump says he will substantially raise tariffs on India over their Russian oil purchases, right?
00:38:47.540 So he's punishing banks for discriminating against conservatives, he's punishing cities for DEI, he's punishing colleges for DEI, and now he's going to punish India for dealing with... 0.60
00:39:04.400 He's got a lot of punishing, he's just doing a lot of punishing.
00:39:10.800 Well, here's a weird story.
00:39:13.220 So you know that Murdoch owns not just the Wall Street Journal, but also owns the New York Post, one of the few conservative outlets.
00:39:23.440 And now the New York Post is going to expand to California, so there's going to be a California Post.
00:39:32.100 Now, what would be a less obvious thing to do than to start a new newspaper?
00:39:38.300 How do you make money starting a new newspaper in 2025?
00:39:44.840 Well, it could be that it's not so much a newspaper revenue play as it is controlling the narrative.
00:39:56.000 Most of the news in both newspapers presumably will be the same, but maybe Californians will not read something that says New York Post on it.
00:40:06.240 So maybe it just needs to say California, and then they could add some California elements to it.
00:40:13.260 But I suspect that Murdoch's real play is influence.
00:40:19.520 I don't really think he would see it as a huge moneymaker to support a newspaper, another one.
00:40:26.060 Well, in big, big news, possibly big, big, really big, Pam Bondi has ordered a grand jury probe into the Obama officials over the Russia hoax.
00:40:41.420 So we don't know who's been referred to the grand jury.
00:40:48.060 But as MSNBC's Nicole Wallace says, it's all over debunked allegations.
00:40:54.720 So MSNBC is pretending like the Russia collusion hoax never really happened, I guess.
00:41:01.700 And CNN is calling the Russia collusion hoax the Russian investigation.
00:41:12.760 Well, that's kind of playing it safe, isn't it?
00:41:15.360 Yeah, I suppose it was an investigation, except that we know now it was a fake investigation,
00:41:22.940 or at least much of it was fake, and it was intended just to cripple Trump.
00:41:27.440 So CNN calls it a Russian investigation, not a hoax.
00:41:32.220 It was just an investigation.
00:41:33.980 It didn't go well.
00:41:36.440 So given that we know that grand juries, once they were formed, they almost always indict.
00:41:45.320 Because they don't have a, it's not a real competitive system where all the evidence is shown and everybody argues everything.
00:41:52.000 So you usually, you usually don't even do the grand jury unless you know you're going to get an indictment.
00:41:58.880 You usually do.
00:42:00.360 So, we are at a point where some very high-level people are very likely to be indicted in,
00:42:09.720 how long is it going to take?
00:42:11.160 Maybe a few months?
00:42:13.440 So, things are going to get really interesting.
00:42:18.460 And as other people have pointed out, sometimes the process is the penalty.
00:42:25.720 So, you would take these people out of their normal lives and have them, you know, open up their piggy banks
00:42:31.920 to pay for, you know, ungodly, expensive lawyers.
00:42:35.700 And their reputations will be dragged down and their businesses will suffer if they have side businesses, etc.
00:42:43.500 So, just being dragged into the legal process is quite a penalty before anybody even figures out if you're guilty of anything.
00:42:53.560 So, there are going to be some big names getting dragged hard, it looks like.
00:42:58.360 In other news, Trump might soon announce a Fed chair who would replace Powell.
00:43:08.460 Now, it wouldn't replace Powell until Powell's term is over in May.
00:43:13.120 So, that would have a, the effect would be, as others have said, like a shadow Fed leader.
00:43:21.180 Somebody who could go in public and say, well, if I were already, if I were already in the job,
00:43:27.120 I think I'd be leaning toward lowering those interest rates.
00:43:32.200 And it's going to put pressure on Powell.
00:43:35.460 So, I do expect that that'll happen.
00:43:41.160 All right.
00:43:45.780 According to the Rasmussen account on X,
00:43:50.100 the 2020 Nationwide Election Fraud Syndicate will start to come into the sunlight in the next few weeks.
00:43:57.120 Well, I don't know what they know that I don't know.
00:43:59.120 So, there must be some activity happening that is not announced yet.
00:44:05.360 But if you didn't know, the Rasmussen account has been very closely following all claims of election irregularity from 2020.
00:44:16.140 And are now teasing us that there's something that's coming on that.
00:44:24.840 Could it be that the Trump administration will launch a major investigation into the 2020 election?
00:44:32.500 And could it be that there's some real things that they'll find there?
00:44:36.620 I don't know.
00:44:38.100 I don't know.
00:44:39.600 We'll find out.
00:44:40.500 Well, you probably know the story that the state of Texas tried to get some gerrymandering approved
00:44:50.040 that would allow them to have up to five extra representatives in Congress if approved.
00:44:55.800 But the Democrats who would have to be part of the vote, even though they would be outvoted,
00:45:01.700 have left town so there's not a quorum for the vote.
00:45:05.240 So, you have to have a certain number of people in the present to make the vote valid.
00:45:09.880 So, they left and they went to Illinois, I think.
00:45:15.460 And Governor Abbott is threatening that they'll be replaced with a special election.
00:45:20.060 And they might face bribery charges because I guess somebody offered to pay somebody for something.
00:45:25.800 In addition to losing their jobs.
00:45:29.880 So, the pressure is on.
00:45:31.980 But J.B. Pritzker says he's going to be protecting these people.
00:45:39.240 He'll be protecting them.
00:45:43.740 So, good luck there.
00:45:46.460 I feel like the Texas Republicans have to win that in the end, right?
00:45:54.560 Isn't this one of those stories where it's sort of like Cory Booker doing the filibuster?
00:46:02.840 While it's happening, you might have to pay attention to it.
00:46:06.180 But it can't last forever, right?
00:46:08.580 These people are going to have to come back.
00:46:11.540 They're going to want their jobs.
00:46:15.800 So, I suspect Republicans will win in the end.
00:46:19.720 There was a caller who called in to C-SPAN recently and said that Democrats need to show more of a spine and more interest in working people instead of just saying they're for working people.
00:46:37.100 Now, that's more of that mistake, right?
00:46:43.000 Where they think that showing a spine is what they need to do.
00:46:48.440 No, they don't need to show a spine.
00:46:50.040 They need to show a policy that people liked.
00:46:53.700 They wouldn't need any spine at all if they had good policies, would they?
00:46:57.900 So, every time the Democrats believe that what they're lacking is fight and resolve and spine is, you know, another day that they're not getting any closer to winning.
00:47:12.280 And then, just to show you how clueless Democrats are, I think the whole Democrat part of the world is about...
00:47:40.280 Some part of the Democrats scamming the other parts of the Democrats.
00:47:46.340 Does it seem like that to you?
00:47:48.580 If you were to separate...
00:47:51.060 Well, if you were to look at just the Democrats, you know, the ones in power, there would be two kinds of people.
00:47:57.380 There would be all these consultants and NGOs who are trying to rip off the other Democrats.
00:48:03.600 And then there would be the Democrats who are getting ripped off.
00:48:07.940 And that's about it.
00:48:09.080 It's just thieves and people who are victims.
00:48:14.900 Anyway, the newest Democrat scheme, which looks like nothing but a money-making scheme for some Democrats,
00:48:23.640 is to spend tens of millions of dollars to fund hundreds of content creators
00:48:28.920 so that their social media game will be better than it was.
00:48:33.700 So the Democrats believe that they can artificially create what Republicans have done organically.
00:48:45.980 That's wrong, right?
00:48:48.520 Isn't that obviously not going to work?
00:48:50.540 Because it's not like you could set out to create Victor Davis Hanson or Mike Benz.
00:49:00.360 Or how do you set out to create Matt Walsh?
00:49:07.360 Or, yeah, obviously Joe Rogan.
00:49:12.380 How do you set out to create Theo Vaughn, like artificially?
00:49:19.960 These are not things anybody can do.
00:49:23.060 The thing which I think Democrats are failing to recognize is that,
00:49:30.120 for reasons that I don't even understand completely,
00:49:33.200 it may be the common sense theme of Republicans, maybe.
00:49:37.500 But it seems to me that the smartest, most capable people
00:49:40.900 all just sort of gravitated to one side.
00:49:46.200 And, you know, Elon Musk would be the obvious one.
00:49:49.620 And then the all-in-pod guys, David Sachs, even J.D. Vance, Peter Thiel.
00:49:57.720 We're talking about people who aren't just smart.
00:50:01.540 They're next-level smart.
00:50:05.260 You know, I would say someone like James Carville,
00:50:08.760 as much as I like making fun of his inability to get his message across.
00:50:13.700 He would be very smart for a Democrat.
00:50:19.880 But he's not Victor Davis Hanson or Mike Benz
00:50:23.060 or any of the ones I mentioned.
00:50:25.620 He's not that smart.
00:50:27.220 They don't really have somebody who's anything but academic smart.
00:50:34.480 And it seems like the Republicans, for whatever reason,
00:50:38.480 I don't even know what the reason is,
00:50:40.560 seem to have attracted all the people
00:50:42.840 who are not just regular smart,
00:50:45.780 but I don't even understand how you could be a human being.
00:50:50.420 Did you ever listen to Victor Davis Hanson
00:50:52.480 and he's talking about any topic and putting context on it?
00:50:56.840 And the whole time you're listening to it,
00:50:59.400 you're thinking, how does he even know all that?
00:51:02.360 How do you know all that?
00:51:04.540 You listen to Mike Benz and he can talk for three hours
00:51:07.800 and the whole time you're going, how do you know that?
00:51:11.360 How do you know that?
00:51:12.840 Come on, how do you know that?
00:51:15.340 And he does know that.
00:51:16.620 I mean, he really does know it.
00:51:18.540 So who on their side is doing something like that?
00:51:22.760 The closest they got is, what was it, Ezra?
00:51:29.780 Ezra Klein writing a book about all the things that they're doing wrong.
00:51:34.000 I mean, that's a very capable piece of work.
00:51:39.280 But he's not really in the same domain
00:51:41.980 with what the Republicans put together organically.
00:51:45.620 Well, they didn't even put it together.
00:51:48.340 It just happened organically.
00:51:49.860 And if I may, who on the Democrat side has my understanding of persuasion, right?
00:52:01.360 Now, I don't believe there's anyone, I don't believe there's anyone on the Democrat side
00:52:09.460 who can do what I can do, which is tell you what works and what doesn't work,
00:52:14.300 and so you can do more of what works.
00:52:16.460 Somehow, the most capable people just ended up in one place.
00:52:23.080 And the Democrats just can't see it because that would allow them to,
00:52:27.580 if they saw it, they'd have to admit that there's a gigantic brainpower difference
00:52:33.160 driving one side versus the other.
00:52:35.740 I see you making suggestions, but I'm not going to make,
00:52:42.500 I'm not going to agree with all those names.
00:52:46.560 Yeah, okay, there's another one, Megyn Kelly.
00:52:49.540 Who is, who is the Democrat Megyn Kelly, right?
00:52:54.780 Who's the, who's the Democrat Molly Hemingway?
00:52:58.940 I just realized that I was being super sexist
00:53:01.320 when I mentioned the people that were all male.
00:53:03.760 But you can throw in Molly Hemingway,
00:53:05.320 you can throw in Megyn Kelly, unusually capable people.
00:53:10.700 They're not just normal.
00:53:12.160 These are very unusually.
00:53:13.520 Miranda Devine, unusually capable, very capable.
00:53:20.280 All right.
00:53:23.340 Apparently, the Kremlin, oh, one other thing.
00:53:29.260 So apparently, the Israeli government, Netanyahu,
00:53:34.140 said that they're going to occupy the Gaza Strip.
00:53:37.600 I think that's official.
00:53:39.600 The news is reporting it.
00:53:41.680 Occupy it means they have no plans
00:53:44.520 of ever returning it back to the Gazans 0.99
00:53:48.180 for, you know, to form some government.
00:53:51.740 They're just going to own it.
00:53:52.960 It will just be part of Israel. 0.78
00:53:57.140 Now, name all the people who predicted that before today.
00:54:04.420 Just one.
00:54:06.220 Just me.
00:54:07.740 Right?
00:54:09.240 Can you, can you name one person
00:54:11.500 who at the very beginning of the Gaza war
00:54:14.480 said, this isn't going to be anything but complete victory?
00:54:18.820 Because that's what they said.
00:54:20.960 Total victory was literally their slogan.
00:54:23.920 Total victory.
00:54:25.580 And they said early on,
00:54:28.520 they said that we're going to change reality on the ground.
00:54:32.680 And we're never going to have this problem again.
00:54:36.360 Now, to me, they said as clearly as they possibly could,
00:54:40.040 we're going to devastate this place
00:54:41.780 and just completely own it in the future
00:54:44.500 and Hamas will never have any role here again.
00:54:49.280 Now, you remember I predicted this
00:54:51.680 right from the beginning, right?
00:54:54.060 And now it's a fact.
00:54:56.460 And so I'll go back to my prior conversation and say,
00:55:01.080 who is it on the Democrat side
00:55:03.800 who can make good predictions?
00:55:07.340 I don't even know.
00:55:08.420 But if you looked on the Republican side,
00:55:11.800 I don't get them all right, of course.
00:55:13.900 I'm not going to tell you I got everything right
00:55:15.840 that I've ever predicted.
00:55:17.460 But we have a whole bunch of smart people
00:55:20.780 who can predict things quite reliably
00:55:24.660 by just being a little bit more aware
00:55:28.660 of what's going on, I guess.
00:55:30.000 I don't know.
00:55:33.140 My cat's head just disappeared.
00:55:35.000 All right, she seems very happy.
00:55:41.580 All right.
00:55:45.420 So here's my comment on Israel
00:55:49.760 because people imagine different things
00:55:53.460 about my opinion,
00:55:54.320 so I have to make sure that you understand.
00:55:57.660 Here is the wrong way to argue about Israel.
00:56:00.820 And I think this would apply
00:56:04.360 to comic Dave Smith and some other people.
00:56:10.480 If you're arguing morality, why?
00:56:15.940 There's nothing over there
00:56:17.140 that has anything to do with morality
00:56:18.700 or what's ethical
00:56:20.380 because everybody has their own opinion
00:56:22.480 of what's moral and ethical.
00:56:24.260 So it's not really a standard
00:56:25.860 that can ever work
00:56:27.640 to make anything better.
00:56:29.660 So why would you even talk about it?
00:56:33.000 Well, we want to pretend
00:56:34.760 that we're the good ones
00:56:35.880 and we have better morality
00:56:37.500 than other people.
00:56:38.940 So that's the only reason
00:56:40.080 to talk about it.
00:56:41.020 If you're talking about Israel's morality,
00:56:45.680 you're really just talking about yourself.
00:56:48.620 All you're doing is positioning yourself as,
00:56:52.060 well, if I were in charge,
00:56:55.000 I would be a far more moral
00:56:57.040 and ethical person.
00:56:58.320 And let me tell you,
00:56:59.840 a lot fewer children
00:57:01.360 would be getting killed.
00:57:03.140 But really, that's just about you.
00:57:05.920 If you need to talk about yourself,
00:57:07.960 go wild.
00:57:08.900 But it has nothing to do with Israel.
00:57:11.320 Israel is like every other country. 0.98
00:57:13.480 They pursue what is in their best interest.
00:57:16.380 Is it in their best interest
00:57:19.940 to completely devastate Gaza, 0.90
00:57:25.080 relocate people to other countries
00:57:27.100 and then own it in the long run?
00:57:29.700 Probably.
00:57:31.200 I mean, you know,
00:57:32.160 I can't make a prediction about that
00:57:33.860 because there's so many variables over there.
00:57:36.680 But yeah, probably.
00:57:38.140 It probably is in their best interest.
00:57:40.180 If you checked back in 20 years,
00:57:42.880 would they be glad they took over Gaza? 0.87
00:57:45.380 Probably.
00:57:46.820 Probably.
00:57:47.780 So as long as Israel thinks 1.00
00:57:49.560 it's in their best interest,
00:57:51.540 that's the end of the story.
00:57:54.540 Now, we might say,
00:57:55.860 but, but, but,
00:57:56.660 we don't like,
00:57:57.560 it's not in our best interest.
00:57:59.380 And that would be a fair conversation.
00:58:01.300 And we would talk about
00:58:02.300 whether we should participate in something
00:58:04.200 or be part of funding it.
00:58:06.620 Those are good conversations.
00:58:09.160 But if you talk about
00:58:10.760 whether what they're doing
00:58:12.080 is good or evil,
00:58:13.280 if you're comparing
00:58:14.620 the number of children they killed.
00:58:16.640 And the one that bothered me the most
00:58:18.480 is I saw somebody arguing
00:58:20.320 for proportionality.
00:58:24.180 Proportionality,
00:58:25.380 meaning that 0.99
00:58:27.080 that Israel should only kill 1.00
00:58:30.280 some number of people 1.00
00:58:32.380 that would be the equivalent
00:58:34.700 of what October 7th was.
00:58:37.240 You know,
00:58:37.560 however you wanted to calculate that.
00:58:39.200 To which I say,
00:58:40.820 where did proportionality
00:58:42.200 come into anything?
00:58:44.360 When you're talking about
00:58:45.300 one country
00:58:46.200 pursuing its best interest,
00:58:48.660 and I guess Gaza
00:58:49.480 is pursuing
00:58:50.760 its highest interest,
00:58:52.340 neither of them
00:58:53.000 are interested
00:58:53.460 in proportionality.
00:58:55.260 They're only interested
00:58:56.060 in winning.
00:58:57.400 That's all that matters.
00:58:59.400 So,
00:59:00.160 when people say,
00:59:01.180 Scott,
00:59:01.740 why do you keep
00:59:02.600 supporting Israel?
00:59:03.500 I say,
00:59:04.980 when did I do that?
00:59:06.980 I mean,
00:59:07.360 certainly,
00:59:08.880 everybody understands
00:59:10.500 that countries
00:59:11.100 can defend themselves,
00:59:12.540 but that's what
00:59:13.360 everybody thinks.
00:59:14.680 That's not me.
00:59:17.020 What I think is that
00:59:18.580 if you're
00:59:19.120 in the conversation
00:59:20.940 about who's
00:59:22.160 better or proportional
00:59:23.420 or more moral,
00:59:25.840 you're just
00:59:26.880 in the wrong conversation.
00:59:28.420 And it's really
00:59:29.120 about yourself.
00:59:30.280 It just isn't
00:59:31.100 about Israel.
00:59:33.120 Israel's going 1.00
00:59:33.780 to do its thing
00:59:34.660 no matter
00:59:35.900 what my opinion is.
00:59:38.740 Do everybody agree?
00:59:40.800 Now,
00:59:41.080 I know you think
00:59:41.720 that I'm highly influential,
00:59:43.400 but none of you
00:59:44.320 think that I'm
00:59:44.960 influencing Israel policy,
00:59:46.680 right?
00:59:47.380 Does anybody think that?
00:59:49.120 Have I even tried?
00:59:50.860 I've never even tried.
00:59:52.960 Because it's just
00:59:53.880 something I observe.
00:59:54.860 It's not something,
00:59:56.600 you know,
00:59:56.860 it's not my country.
00:59:58.720 So,
00:59:59.340 if there's a question
01:00:00.060 of whether we should
01:00:00.860 be funding it or not,
01:00:02.600 I'll get into that.
01:00:04.240 But,
01:00:04.560 no.
01:00:05.700 Every country gets to do
01:00:07.240 whatever they think
01:00:08.960 is in their best interest.
01:00:10.560 And it will always be thus.
01:00:13.900 There will be a cost to it.
01:00:17.560 I don't know
01:00:18.300 if I've said this directly,
01:00:20.380 but the price
01:00:22.460 of permanently
01:00:23.860 taking over Gaza 0.96
01:00:25.040 and,
01:00:25.640 you know,
01:00:26.920 relocating everybody
01:00:28.200 and doing what they're doing,
01:00:30.400 the price of it,
01:00:31.420 I think,
01:00:31.720 is that they lose
01:00:32.540 the Holocaust 0.82
01:00:33.120 as a protective narrative.
01:00:36.900 Now,
01:00:37.380 we don't know that.
01:00:38.800 It's too soon to say,
01:00:39.940 but that looks like the price.
01:00:42.040 It looks like the price
01:00:43.400 of owning Gaza 0.92
01:00:44.460 and continuing
01:00:46.500 not to have
01:00:47.220 a two-country solution,
01:00:49.420 which I think Israel prefers, 0.96
01:00:51.100 or at least
01:00:51.380 Netanyahu prefers.
01:00:52.620 the price
01:00:54.120 is that
01:00:55.080 he's going to use
01:00:56.120 the Holocaust narrative.
01:00:58.740 That's like
01:00:59.460 Israel's greatest asset
01:01:01.180 is that there's
01:01:02.920 that narrative
01:01:03.520 that we all understand
01:01:04.600 and we've all
01:01:06.540 bought into
01:01:07.060 never again
01:01:07.760 because
01:01:09.400 that would be
01:01:10.300 a pretty good thing
01:01:11.040 to never again happen.
01:01:13.320 But I think
01:01:14.140 that they're losing
01:01:14.800 that narrative
01:01:15.360 because there'll be
01:01:16.160 enough people
01:01:16.980 who say,
01:01:17.460 and it doesn't matter
01:01:19.280 if it's true.
01:01:21.640 So don't argue with me.
01:01:23.200 I'm saying what
01:01:23.820 other people will say.
01:01:25.220 So I'm not arguing
01:01:26.260 it's true.
01:01:27.100 I'm just saying
01:01:27.780 that other people
01:01:28.500 will say,
01:01:28.960 well,
01:01:30.180 you know,
01:01:30.460 forget about
01:01:31.040 your Holocaust narrative
01:01:32.220 because you did this.
01:01:34.200 And I think
01:01:35.020 that that
01:01:35.560 argument
01:01:36.780 will carry
01:01:37.440 some weight.
01:01:38.960 So
01:01:39.180 it's expensive
01:01:40.700 and
01:01:41.840 but looks like
01:01:45.100 it's happening.
01:01:45.520 well,
01:01:49.320 North Korean spies
01:01:50.560 apparently have been
01:01:52.060 posing as remote workers
01:01:55.060 for a number of businesses.
01:01:56.820 I guess there are
01:01:57.380 thousands of them
01:01:58.400 according to
01:01:59.560 CrowdStrike,
01:02:00.680 the cyber
01:02:01.740 security company.
01:02:04.300 TechCrunch
01:02:05.220 is writing about this.
01:02:07.080 And
01:02:07.540 they've seen
01:02:10.760 hundreds of cases
01:02:12.540 where North Koreans
01:02:13.560 posing as remote
01:02:14.600 IT workers
01:02:15.500 have infiltrated
01:02:17.000 companies
01:02:17.460 to generate money
01:02:18.360 and
01:02:19.240 probably just
01:02:21.220 steal secrets too
01:02:22.200 but at least
01:02:23.000 generate money.
01:02:25.040 And my question
01:02:25.820 is this.
01:02:27.020 How did so many
01:02:27.980 North Korean
01:02:31.300 workers
01:02:31.860 get jobs
01:02:33.640 in a
01:02:34.600 DEI
01:02:35.320 atmosphere?
01:02:35.980 I would think
01:02:38.360 I would think
01:02:38.380 that all
01:02:38.920 these spies
01:02:39.660 would be
01:02:40.120 thwarted
01:02:40.680 say,
01:02:41.820 all right,
01:02:42.280 and what's
01:02:43.860 your nationality?
01:02:44.880 And of course
01:02:45.320 they'd lie
01:02:45.740 and they'd say
01:02:46.160 I'm
01:02:46.620 South Korean.
01:02:49.700 And they'd say,
01:02:50.660 hmm,
01:02:51.160 South Korean.
01:02:53.000 Well,
01:02:53.300 we've got a lot
01:02:53.880 of black candidates
01:02:54.920 that we're looking
01:02:55.760 at first.
01:02:57.080 So
01:02:57.560 I'm quite
01:02:58.840 impressed
01:02:59.440 that the
01:03:00.380 North Koreans 0.96
01:03:01.340 were getting
01:03:01.840 through DEI.
01:03:02.720 I don't
01:03:04.560 know how
01:03:04.820 they do
01:03:05.120 it.
01:03:06.200 But
01:03:06.440 it makes
01:03:09.180 me wonder
01:03:09.600 how I can
01:03:10.140 get a
01:03:10.620 North Korean
01:03:12.340 spy to work
01:03:13.220 for me.
01:03:14.680 Because I
01:03:15.260 don't have
01:03:15.580 any
01:03:15.900 national secrets.
01:03:18.400 But wouldn't
01:03:18.980 it be great
01:03:19.440 to have your
01:03:19.900 own North
01:03:20.400 Korean 0.73
01:03:20.820 remote worker?
01:03:21.960 especially if
01:03:24.300 you knew
01:03:24.680 they were
01:03:25.080 a spy
01:03:25.620 but they
01:03:26.540 didn't know
01:03:27.000 that you
01:03:27.400 knew.
01:03:28.960 And,
01:03:29.240 you know,
01:03:29.560 as long as
01:03:30.180 you had
01:03:30.380 your cyber
01:03:31.140 situation
01:03:31.840 nailed down
01:03:32.440 so they
01:03:32.820 couldn't get
01:03:33.240 into anything
01:03:33.860 naughty.
01:03:34.940 And just
01:03:35.560 have them
01:03:35.940 go to
01:03:36.540 work every
01:03:37.080 day
01:03:37.440 and do
01:03:38.680 your work
01:03:39.320 and actually
01:03:40.680 do the work
01:03:41.420 because that's
01:03:41.980 how they
01:03:42.400 keep their
01:03:43.340 cover.
01:03:44.360 And you
01:03:44.580 just make
01:03:45.620 the North
01:03:46.040 Koreans 1.00
01:03:46.440 do all
01:03:46.860 your work
01:03:47.400 and you
01:03:49.380 underpay
01:03:49.880 them.
01:03:50.860 To me,
01:03:51.220 that would
01:03:51.500 be
01:03:51.600 hilarious.
01:03:53.140 All right.
01:03:55.880 Ladies and 0.98
01:03:56.540 gentlemen,
01:03:57.200 that is all
01:03:57.780 I had to
01:03:58.140 talk about
01:03:58.580 today.
01:04:00.260 I'm going
01:04:00.760 to talk to
01:04:01.240 the locals
01:04:02.080 people,
01:04:02.720 my beloved
01:04:03.240 locals
01:04:03.660 people,
01:04:04.620 privately
01:04:05.160 because they
01:04:06.620 want to
01:04:07.040 talk to me
01:04:08.740 and my
01:04:09.020 cat.
01:04:10.000 And the
01:04:10.320 rest of
01:04:10.620 you,
01:04:10.880 thanks for
01:04:11.260 joining.
01:04:12.040 I appreciate
01:04:12.560 it.
01:04:13.360 And I
01:04:13.620 will see
01:04:14.020 you tomorrow,
01:04:15.020 same time,
01:04:15.520 same place.
01:04:16.600 But,
01:04:17.500 locals,
01:04:18.680 my beloveds,
01:04:20.740 I will
01:04:21.100 see you
01:04:21.600 how
01:04:22.220 I
01:04:33.940 have
01:04:35.340 them.
01:04:37.640 How
01:04:37.660 I
01:04:37.760 have
01:04:38.880 them.
01:04:47.540 How
01:04:47.720 is
01:04:49.040 they
01:04:49.200 OK?
01:04:49.620 Thank you.
01:05:19.620 Thank you.
01:05:49.620 Thank you.
01:06:19.620 Thank you.