Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 09, 2025


Episode 2922 CWSA 08⧸09⧸25

Topics
Mass Deportations gerrymandering freedom cities
Hosted by
Scott Adams
Mentioned
Putin Trump Norm Eisen Jimmy Kimmel Stephen A. Smith Pete Buttigieg Steve Wyckoff Zelensky Stephen Havehill Sarah Silverman Letitia James Steve Bannon Adam Schiff Bill Moore Mike Benz Mark Zuckerberg Stephen Heffield Vladimir Hendry Texas Hoghammer Oliver Lane and 11 more
Episode 2921 CWSA 08⧸08⧸25 Episode 2923 CWSA 08⧸10⧸25

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Length

59 minutes

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124.32

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7,429

Sentence count

601

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Misogyny

8

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Toxicity

17

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Hate speech

10

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Summary

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A 20-year-old woman in China can't stop having orgasms, and doctors don't know why. President Trump is considering reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug, and a new study suggests that psychedelics could be helpful in treating eating disorders.

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00:00:00.000 Boom. Oh, there you are. Come on in. It must be time. Yeah. It's Catterday. Some of you
00:00:10.720 call it Saturday, but that's because you don't yet have a cat. But you will.
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00:00:37.460 Good morning, everyone. And welcome to the highlight of human civilization. It's called
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00:01:30.920 Mm, yeah, stein. Yep, that was as good as I hoped. Well, I wonder if there's any new science
00:01:47.100 that would suggest that drinking coffee is good for your cardiovascular disease. Yes, there
00:01:54.660 is, according to SpotterUp. It's a groundbreaking new study. And it turns out that people who
00:02:04.840 drink coffee in the morning are way healthier. Boom. Take that. I'll bet you didn't see that
00:02:11.440 coming, even though I have a study about that almost every day. Well, how about this? There
00:02:19.160 was a study. Let's see if you can guess what happened. There was a study according to Medscape,
00:02:27.220 and they want to see if they could treat eating disorders with marijuana and then separately
00:02:36.000 with psychedelics. What do you think was the result when they tested to see if you could control
00:02:44.100 people's appetites? Obviously, the marijuana would be increasing their appetite. And the psychedelics
00:02:52.120 might help them with some other kind of eating disorder. Do you think it worked? The answer is
00:03:00.220 yes. Because every time they do a study that gets published in the popular media about psychedelics,
00:03:09.840 every time. It's about, well, we tried psychedelics on this particular mental problem, and guess
00:03:17.860 what? It worked. So it turns out there may be no mental problems you can't solve with psychedelics.
00:03:26.880 One or two doses. Speaking of marijuana, President Trump is allegedly, reportedly,
00:03:34.340 considering reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. I don't know about that. But
00:03:41.740 there's some thinking that he talked about that or was willing to consider it. But I feel like he's
00:03:48.620 been willing to consider that for a long time. Now, someone is alleging that because the marijuana
00:03:56.580 business is big enough is big enough that it can make, you know, very, very large donations to
00:04:02.340 campaigns, that maybe it's a different situation. But I will see. I would bet, I don't know. Yeah,
00:04:11.100 I feel as though if Trump were going to do this, he would have already done it. I don't know why he would
00:04:18.040 wait. So I'll bet against that. Well, New York Post is reporting all the important news this summer
00:04:27.660 because remember I told you that the summer has not the most important news. So they still have to
00:04:35.880 fill all the space. So New York Post is reporting that doctors in China say they're baffled over the
00:04:44.580 case of a young woman who experiences uncontrollable orgasms multiple times per day. She's a 20-year-old
00:04:54.000 and she's in a perpetual state of arousal. Now, the article goes on to say that she spends almost her 1.00
00:05:01.940 entire day, oh wow, just binge watching old episodes of Coffee with Scott Adams. And they can't figure out
00:05:11.720 why she's having nonstop orgasms. No, I just made up part of that story, the part about watching my
00:05:20.920 show. But allegedly, 20-year-old woman can't stop having orgasms. I know what you're thinking. 0.96
00:05:31.060 Not the worst problem in the world, but you wouldn't like it. I don't think you'd like it at all
00:05:36.500 after the first. Well, if it were me, I don't think I would like it. To have continuous orgasms?
00:05:47.020 Oh, sure. The first 10,000, I'd probably like it plenty. But eventually, eventually you just get 0.95
00:05:54.800 tired of it. Well, in other related news, according to the Logical Indian, I don't know if that's a
00:06:05.600 publication. I hope it is. Mobile phone use and laptops on your lap are creating a tenfold rise
00:06:15.180 in male infertility. So, men, I don't like to give sexual and or medical advice, but I'm going to 0.99
00:06:24.480 make an exception. If you forget to bring your condom and your sexual partner is ready to go,
00:06:32.800 what I recommend is using your phone in your pocket and putting a laptop on your lap. Probably
00:06:40.220 15 minutes. We'll cook whatever you got in there and you'll be good to go. No condom needed. Just 0.89
00:06:49.020 use that laptop. And I recommend watching Coffee with Scott Adams because it makes women orgasm and it 1.00
00:06:57.420 makes men infertile. Sorry about that. I apologize for both of those things. Anyway, remember how it's 0.99
00:07:13.960 such a mystery that the birth rate is dropping? And I keep saying, it's not a mystery. It's every single
00:07:23.780 thing. It's making it worse. Everything from economics to health to plastic in your balls to
00:07:31.660 whatever fresh health this is. It's everything. You can't find anything. You can't find anything 0.94
00:07:39.960 from dating apps to, you know, body mass index. You name it. Everything is making sex and reproduction 0.97
00:07:51.940 less likely. So there's that. Trump administration is trying to get a billion dollar settlement and
00:07:59.480 abuse the LA because Trump has, they say he's a weaponized government, but that's not the impressive
00:08:07.560 part. The impressive part is he's monetized, he's monetized bad behavior by other people.
00:08:14.880 Oh, I get it. You're going to be racist and anti-Semitic. All right. Here's the bill. 0.80
00:08:22.560 All right. So you want to have bad trade deals? Fine. Here's the bill. You want to have a war in
00:08:30.080 Europe and never stop? It's okay with me. Here's the bill. Anyway, we'll see if that works out.
00:08:38.240 All right. I saw a post by the Rabbit Hole, an account on X. Good follow, the Rabbit Hole. And the
00:08:49.780 Rabbit Hole says, history books should be updated to include affirmative action and DEI as examples of
00:08:57.440 21st century institutional racism with the impact that Asian and white victims highlighted.
00:09:03.840 Well, do you think that will happen? Do you think your history books will be rewritten? And the
00:09:12.080 historians will say, you know, now that you mention it, there was horrific discrimination against a
00:09:19.360 couple of groups. And that should be part of history. I don't know. I feel like all history has at least
00:09:27.620 two versions, maybe three. You know, one would be the traditional version. Another would be the
00:09:35.040 sort of updated version. And then the third one is the one that never gets published, which is the
00:09:41.960 real one. You never know the real stuff. You just have some narrative that people agree on.
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00:10:48.560 Well, maybe that'll happen. Probably not. Well, you might be aware that President Trump
00:10:57.400 presided over the signing of a peace agreement, apparently, between Azerbaijan and Armenia,
00:11:06.600 who, if you're like me, you did not know they had any warring going on at all. But apparently,
00:11:13.560 they want to stop that thing you didn't know was happening. And they did. So they met with
00:11:19.860 the president and everything was smiles and happiness. And then one of them, and I'm not
00:11:26.280 going to pretend that I, that I, I can't even pretend that I'm interested enough to learn which
00:11:35.120 one of those men was ahead of Azerbaijan versus Armenia, because it looks a little bit interchangeable.
00:11:43.220 So I'm going to say one of them, I don't know which one, you know, sort of flattered Trump by saying
00:11:51.420 that the two of them, you know, the presidents of both countries, should push for the Nobel Prize
00:11:57.740 committee to award Trump the Nobel Peace Prize. Now, that's somebody who did their homework
00:12:05.240 before coming to the Oval Office. Compare that to Zelensky, who was such a turd in the Oval
00:12:13.020 Office, he basically got thrown out of the White House on camera. Compare that to Azerbaijan 1.00
00:12:20.300 and Armenia, in which they come in, and they were like, okay, what would happen if we say
00:12:28.020 we're going to, you know, maybe recommend him for the Nobel Peace Prize? And what if we needed
00:12:34.900 a little foreign aid or a little bit of assistance? Don't you think we'd get more of it if we nominated
00:12:41.240 him for the Nobel Peace Prize? So good job, Azerbaijan and Armenia, you did your homework.
00:12:50.300 So Trump has apparently secretly signed, but not so secretly that we don't know it, a directive
00:12:58.960 for the Pentagon to start using military force against cartels. I thought we were sort of
00:13:06.300 already there, but I guess there was something official that had to be signed. So from this
00:13:11.920 point on, our military can act against the cartels. Now, what did the president of Mexico
00:13:19.100 say about that? No way, Jose. You cannot use your military to invade our country. To which
00:13:28.440 I say, is it an invasion if our drones bomb a cartel headquarters? Would that be an invasion?
00:13:37.140 Number two, question number two, what happens if our military only attacks cartel operations that are
00:13:47.220 already in the United States? Don't you think that there are cartel, you know, like armed cartel,
00:13:55.180 I don't know, weed farms and armed cartel distribution points and stuff that are in the United States?
00:14:01.760 Our military probably doesn't even need to leave our borders. They could fight the cartel all day
00:14:07.500 long, you know, just within our borders. So we'll see if there are any big news reports about attacks.
00:14:15.420 It might not take a lot of attacks. It might be the sort of thing where the drug cartels are
00:14:23.160 businesses, as opposed to being like religious and zealots and stuff. And if you attack a business,
00:14:31.440 their first question will be, oh, how do I make money and stay out of jail and don't get killed?
00:14:36.540 And that's somebody you can usually negotiate with. So it might be that, that Trump could actually
00:14:46.980 make a difference there. You know, bomb maybe a facility or two, just so they know that we're
00:14:52.420 serious. And then the next thing you know, hey, how about we make money quietly by not bothering your
00:14:59.220 country if you don't bomb us? So maybe, maybe I would bet against it. So if you're betting that the,
00:15:11.860 the drug trade will end and, you know, coming out of Mexico because of that, I wouldn't bet on that, 0.63
00:15:18.700 but it might make a dent. Well, apparently Attorney General Bondi has authorized a special
00:15:28.180 prosecutor, Ed Martin. He's going to investigate two alleged mortgage fraud schemes, one by Senator
00:15:37.040 Adam Schiff, where he claimed two separate homes as his primary residence, and Letitia James,
00:15:45.040 the Attorney General of New York State, who is, according to Bill Pulte, she did some shenanigans 1.00
00:15:54.620 with claiming her father on one application. And she claimed she had two primary residences,
00:16:02.080 which she didn't. And she claimed her five-unit building was four, all for the purpose of,
00:16:08.980 you know, monetary advantage. Now, what would you, given that we know what the claims are,
00:16:18.120 it's hard to imagine there's any kind of defense against any of that, because it's just documented
00:16:23.480 and pretty straightforward. What do you think will happen? I feel like people like that,
00:16:32.760 who are high enough in the political world, I feel like they just don't go to jail.
00:16:39.260 Now, you might say to me, but Scott, what about that story of that ex-retired senator who recently
00:16:45.360 went to jail? It was some Democrat, to which I say, right, retired, retired, and also one you never
00:16:53.240 heard of. If they're retired and you never heard of them, yeah, they might go to jail, right? But Adam Schiff
00:17:01.840 seems to be right in the middle of whatever the power, I don't know, whatever is the seat of power
00:17:11.020 for the Democrats. Schiff is right in the middle of it. And I would imagine that they would also,
00:17:17.120 the Democrat power base, would also protect Letitia James, because she was, you know, integral to their 1.00
00:17:24.300 lawfare against Trump. They want to keep her on their side. The last thing they want is for her to flip 1.00
00:17:30.240 and say, I'll tell you what, if you let me skate on all this mortgage fraud stuff,
00:17:36.840 I will tell you that the White House was behind the lawfare and that they coached me and promised
00:17:43.180 me things if I went ahead with it. Oh, that would be awesome. I don't know if that is true,
00:17:49.720 but it'd be awesome if she flipped and that's what happened there. I don't know if you saw this
00:17:58.540 clip yet of Bill Moore and his show. He had Stephen A. Smith. And Bill Moore asked, why was it that Pete
00:18:08.420 Buttigieg had exactly zero black supporters, according to a recent poll? Zero. There were zero black
00:18:17.020 Americans who said, oh yeah, we'd back Buttigieg. And Stephen A. Smith, he said, he basically said he
00:18:28.140 didn't want to say anything about him being gay, but he goes, let me just say this. He doesn't move
00:18:34.660 us. Us meaning black American voters, I guess. And do you think there's any other reason he has zero
00:18:46.000 black votes? What else would it be? It's not like Pete Buttigieg has done some horrible thing to 0.79
00:18:55.380 somebody or he's part of some big scandal that affected black America. Is it literally just
00:19:04.180 they're not going to vote for the gay guy? Is that all it is? I don't know. Maybe Stephen A. Smith has 0.72
00:19:14.760 the exact right characterization. He doesn't move us. He's not promising anything that would be a value
00:19:22.820 to anybody. So I get it. Well, Jimmy Kimmel was on Sarah Silverman's podcast. And he admitted that
00:19:34.500 what he called repulsive liberal scolds are driving people away from the Democratic Party.
00:19:40.660 I feel like maybe there's a self-awareness problem at play here. Is it possible that Jimmy Kimmel might be
00:19:53.780 one of those repulsive liberal scolds? Because it might look like that to some people. But no, 0.98
00:20:02.800 Jimmy Kimmel is sure that it's other people who are the problem. You know, it's probably other people.
00:20:09.320 Yeah, yeah. It's not what I'm doing every day. It's those other people. And then apparently Kimmel has obtained
00:20:18.720 Italian citizenship just in case he needs to escape the country. But the funniest part was watching 0.99
00:20:27.220 Silverman and Kimmel agree with each other that as bad as they thought it might be to be under a Trump
00:20:34.560 administration, it's much, much worse. And they never mention anything. They just don't mention
00:20:42.360 anything. What is the worst part? Are you being rounded up? What exactly is going wrong in your
00:20:51.680 celebrity daily life? Did your dog walker not show up on time? What exactly is the nightmare that they're
00:21:00.120 living that I don't even know what they're talking about? I live in the same country? I'm in the same
00:21:05.240 state, right? I think they're in California. And I don't know what they're talking about. I have no idea.
00:21:14.280 Now, I feel like if you push them, they would say something like, well, the authoritarian, authoritarian
00:21:21.440 things, the authoritarian oligarch. And then you say, right, right, right. I hear the words, but
00:21:28.580 what would be an example? Well, yeah, they're rounding up and sending the hardworking immigrants 1.00
00:21:37.820 back to the country of their origin, to which I would say, are you talking about the main thing
00:21:45.340 he said he would do? That's completely legal. And hadn't been done. And the country by majority wanted
00:21:54.440 it done. Is that the authoritarian part? The part where most of the country wanted it. And that includes
00:22:01.460 a whole lot of people who are Hispanic, are also supporting the mass deportations, and the black Americans
00:22:10.940 also supporting, to a large extent, I don't know if it's a majority, but supporting the
00:22:16.840 deportation. Is that the part? That's the hellscape that they're experiencing? Is that? Now, I'm not
00:22:29.080 super in favor of law-abiding people who've been here 20 years and paid their taxes and their kids
00:22:37.280 are in school. I'm not really in favor of shipping them back. I know you are. I get it. We're not
00:22:44.200 going to argue that point. And I would argue that how you feel about that situation, the ones who've
00:22:52.100 been here a long time, I really don't care about somebody who came this year. If there's somebody
00:22:56.600 who came this year and you want to ship them back, you're fine. Or even anybody who showed up during
00:23:03.880 the Biden administration, I'd probably be okay with shipping all of them back. But if somebody's
00:23:09.980 been here 20 years, and they're literally a Trump supporter, and their kids are doing great in school
00:23:18.860 and everything, I understand the argument for not making exceptions. I get it. I get it. But from a
00:23:30.080 human empathy standpoint, if you have enough contact with that part of the world, it's really hard to be
00:23:37.100 in favor of shipping them home. Because home doesn't exist. This is their home. So that's where I'm on,
00:23:46.640 where I stand. However, even though that's my preference, it is true that Trump promised he
00:23:54.960 would do exactly what he's doing. He also said he would do the worst first. And that part clearly
00:24:02.780 is just not true. So if it bothers you that there was a very, very firm promise made often and
00:24:12.060 prominently and it was a lie, if that bothers you, then that would be perfectly acceptable to be
00:24:21.640 bothered by that. But it's not the biggest thing in the world either. You know, you got to put it all
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00:24:43.460 Well, I keep watching video clips of Mike Benz talking about things like USAD and all the NGOs and
00:24:52.540 companies. And now he's been talking a lot about Norm Eisen. Now, I want to make sure that I don't get
00:24:59.880 sued. So I'm going to blame Mike Benz for all the characterizations of Norm Eisen. But if I have it
00:25:11.440 correctly, the story is this. That Norm Eisen is a, you know, major Democrat operative. And that
00:25:21.860 he's always been a nation coup organizer. So that he first did this work for presumably USAID and
00:25:33.500 the CIA and applied it to other countries. Because we know we've done this color revolution thing lots
00:25:41.460 of times to other countries. And he was part of that. And so he's steeped in all the technique for
00:25:52.220 overthrowing a country without a military war. And the accusation is that he simply turned those
00:25:59.980 skills against the Republicans and just used it internally. Now, I'm not aware of any laws being
00:26:07.860 broken. So let me be clear. He is a lawyer. So probably he is pretty smart about making sure he
00:26:16.980 doesn't break any laws. But it would sort of suggest that we don't have a real country with like a real
00:26:25.720 system. It's a competition of things like who can push through the best redistricting?
00:26:32.000 Who can send Mark Elias out to change the voting laws? Who can get Mark Zuckerberg to give us half
00:26:42.820 a billion dollars to, you know, change things that will be good for one side but not the other? Who can
00:26:49.660 get voter ID? And who can get rid of or institute more mail-in ballots? That's all the stuff that
00:27:00.680 determines the election. It's nothing about policies. You can, you know, pretty much entirely control the
00:27:08.760 election with all this external stuff. But Norm Eisen would be part of the world of people who,
00:27:17.680 if you asked him, he'd probably say he's saving the country from authoritarianism and a descent into
00:27:24.800 chaos. But if you were on the other side of his preferences, you would say, it looks like you run
00:27:32.440 coups against legally elected people in the United States. Shouldn't that be sort of illegal, treasonous
00:27:41.360 kind of thing? Well, no, there are always two versions of every story. And probably he hasn't done anything
00:27:49.380 illegal. Probably. But just knowing he exists, let me put it this way. If you don't know who Norm
00:28:00.600 Eisen is, and what USAID is, and how both of them are connected to our intelligence community, and what
00:28:08.780 the intelligence community has done to other countries for decades, and if you don't see that
00:28:14.740 those same tools were turned inwardly against Trump, you don't really know what's going on.
00:28:22.980 That story, that whole USAID, CIA, color revolution, Norm Eisen story, and how it all fits together,
00:28:33.060 that's the story of our country. That is the main narrative that if you didn't understand that,
00:28:40.060 you would be dealing with all these just fake, fake news narratives, and the Democrats say this,
00:28:46.860 and the Republicans say that. But the real stuff, this is all the under the hood stuff that's really
00:28:52.640 driving the real world. So, all right, cheers. I'm so afraid to even bring this up, but got to do it.
00:29:04.100 So, HHS Secretary, RFK Jr., he's announced that BARDA, I guess that must be a government entity that
00:29:17.160 funds a bunch of medical stuff, is canceling 22 mRNA vaccine development contracts, saving half a billion
00:29:26.560 dollars. And RFK Jr. said that mRNA technology poses more risk than benefits for these respiratory
00:29:37.540 viruses. And he says the reason that mRNA is no good for respiratory viruses is that it only takes
00:29:48.400 one mutation, which you know is going to come. You know, the viruses mutate reliably. It's not like you
00:29:56.000 wonder if they'll mutate. They do. And as soon as it mutates by just one thing, the mRNA technology
00:30:06.340 just stops working. So, he says that even if you did the best mRNA job you could ever do, it still
00:30:14.220 wouldn't work because there's such a thing as, you know, the virus evolving and it just makes it not
00:30:22.080 work. And he believes that there are other platforms that are non-mRNA that have more
00:30:28.500 potential. Now, here's the part where I'm trying to understand the story. As far as I know, he has not
00:30:38.920 banned the giving of the existing COVID shot to adults, right? I feel like they may have pulled the
00:30:50.540 recommendation for young people and for pregnant women. I don't know the details of that, but I think
00:30:57.700 that's, you know, not recommended anymore. And we've known that for a long time. But is it true that
00:31:05.940 RFK Jr. has canceled a bunch of vaccine development contracts, so that would be for stuff that's not
00:31:14.240 rolled out, but that he's keeping the mRNA-based current vaccination recommendations? Is that true?
00:31:25.440 Because there's more to the story. And it gets really murky. So, Steve Bannon had on the war room
00:31:33.580 from HHS Special Advisor, Dr. Stephen Havehill. And he says something RFK Jr. did not say. So,
00:31:44.020 it makes me wonder if he has the right narrative on this. But he says that RFK Jr. pulled that mRNA
00:31:50.500 funding after the data showed that getting vaccinated was more dangerous than COVID itself.
00:31:57.240 Now, I listened to RFK Jr.'s statement, and he didn't say anything like that. Did you hear him say
00:32:05.020 anything like that? Now, I'm not saying, let me be careful here, because I know that whenever I talk
00:32:11.860 about this topic, many of you will confuse talking about it with promoting it. All right,
00:32:21.500 so we're not promoting. And I'll tell you in advance, I don't know what's true and what's not
00:32:27.600 true about this story or about the science. I don't know what's true. So, I will neither debunk
00:32:33.660 nor recommend anything medical, which is my way. All right, I just don't do that. So, let me go on.
00:32:42.420 So, this guest on Steve Bannon's War Room, Dr. Stephen Havehill, he said that there was a
00:32:52.480 meta-analysis. Now, what have you learned from me when an expert goes on TV and says there was a
00:33:01.020 meta-analysis? What have you learned? What you should have learned is, oh, it's not science.
00:33:08.360 A meta-analysis is not science. And they are so susceptible to misuse or, you know, being done
00:33:20.160 wrong, a meta-analysis, for reasons I've described many times, that as soon as your so-called expert
00:33:28.160 says, we've done a meta-analysis, that's when you should stop believing what they say.
00:33:34.080 They could be right. Because the meta-analysis will either say something worked or it didn't
00:33:41.000 work. You know, only two possibilities. So, even if it's wrong, it might be wrong in the
00:33:46.980 right direction. Because there are only two directions, right? It's a coin flip. So, even
00:33:52.180 the wrong analysis could, half of the time, get you the right answer. It's only two possibilities.
00:33:59.720 Yes or no. So, do you believe that the meta-analysis concluded, as Dr. Hatfield said,
00:34:08.840 that, quote, it was more dangerous to take a vaccine than it was to get COVID and be hospitalized
00:34:14.320 with it. And that, yeah. So, the idea was that getting the vaccine made you have worse
00:34:29.600 hospitalization outcomes than if you had not been vaccinated at all. Now, remember, I gave
00:34:36.760 you the warning. I'm not saying that's true. I'm just reporting to you what other people say
00:34:42.720 is true. Now, I want to do a little test of your reasoning ability. How many of you said
00:34:53.060 to yourself, those experts who recommended that vaccine, I don't believe any of those
00:34:58.760 experts, you know, they've got their own motivations, et cetera. So, they rejected the experts when
00:35:06.940 they first told you to get the shot. And you said to yourself, well, I'm sure glad I didn't trust those
00:35:13.560 experts. And then, you hear this story about the meta-analysis. Do you say, aha, finally, we know
00:35:24.460 the truth? How many of you did that? How many of you said, I was sort of just using my instinct
00:35:32.260 to resist the shot. But now that this meta-analysis is out and people within RFK Jr.'s domain are
00:35:39.640 saying, aha, everything was opposite of what you're told. And the reason we know it's opposite
00:35:45.280 is because we have all these studies. Okay, that would be bad analysis. Here would be the correct
00:35:55.100 analysis. You ready? The correct analysis is, on day one, hey, I don't trust all these experts. They
00:36:03.560 haven't tested it enough. And I don't trust their motivations and or their competence. Would that have
00:36:11.360 been a reasonable view on day one? Yes. Yes, that would be completely, that was my view. So, it's the reason I
00:36:18.860 didn't get my shots until months had gone by and I saw who was dying and who wasn't and all that.
00:36:25.940 But that's another topic. So, it would be totally reasonable, totally reasonable, if you said, I don't
00:36:32.320 trust these experts. But would it be reasonable that you trust these latest experts? Why would you
00:36:41.200 trust Dr. Stephen Heffill? I'm not saying he's wrong. I'm saying that if you don't apply the same
00:36:50.320 filter, then you're not being rational. You're just guessing. The correct filter is, you should not
00:36:58.260 have trusted it when it was first rolled out. You may remember that I predicted it wouldn't work when
00:37:04.320 it was rolled out. So, that was the correct take. The correct take was not trusting it.
00:37:10.500 What is the correct take when you have a whole bunch of new science that says the opposite,
00:37:15.520 that was really bad for you and they knew it the whole time? Don't trust it. One of those is
00:37:22.260 probably closer to true, but you don't have any way of knowing. You and I have no way of knowing
00:37:29.300 if anybody did the science correctly. They're just claims. So, to round out the story, I will say that
00:37:36.660 at the moment, the CDC and the World Health Organization and other experts are still saying
00:37:48.800 that the mRNA technology was a miracle and it saved millions of people's lives and the science on it
00:37:57.480 is crystal clear. Is that true? I don't know. It's either true that it worked or it's true that it
00:38:06.180 didn't work. And you have no way, no way of ever knowing which one was true. I'll bet you'll never
00:38:14.740 know in your whole lifetime. It will never be credible because there will be studies on both sides
00:38:23.960 forever. There will always be studies on both sides. So, I don't know what to believe.
00:38:32.680 Do you remember Trump talked about so-called freedom cities, about the federal government just
00:38:40.420 before he was elected? The federal government could make some land available that entrepreneurial 0.84
00:38:47.260 developers could build their own little freedom cities and sort of experiment with, you know,
00:38:54.040 low cost, better, you know, better everything. And that idea seems to have sort of died away.
00:39:03.240 Yeah, I don't hear anybody talking about it. Trump doesn't talk about it. But then,
00:39:07.380 I started seeing all these stories about gerrymandering.
00:39:11.360 And I said to myself, how many places are there in the U.S. where if the federal government said,
00:39:20.100 all right, we'll make this little area a freedom city. And let's say some clever developer said,
00:39:28.660 I'm going to build a freedom city that will really be around Christians who want to go to church.
00:39:35.320 It won't be exclusive. So, we're not going to discriminate against anybody. But it'll really
00:39:41.320 be optimized for Christians who want to go to church. Now, in theory, that would bring in more
00:39:50.140 Republicans than Democrats. You might have a better idea how to do that. But the idea would be
00:39:55.900 that you could build a freedom city in just the right battleground state
00:40:02.380 where it might tip the election. Because if you can bring in, you know, a quarter million people
00:40:09.800 who are reliably Republican voters, and then give them a good experience in these freedom cities,
00:40:17.100 and then make it really easy to vote in the freedom cities.
00:40:22.580 Could you use the freedom cities to rig the election by moving in little pockets of reliably
00:40:31.200 Republican voters into battleground states? I don't know.
00:40:39.260 So, you know, it would take somebody's, because the state effect could also,
00:40:46.200 they could probably just circle it and gerrymander it out of existence.
00:40:51.200 So, it might be that they could gerrymander it away, even if you pulled it off. I don't know.
00:40:56.660 Anyway, the AI industry is still having copyright class action problems from authors.
00:41:08.340 I thought that was kind of settled, but apparently not. Ars Technica is writing about it.
00:41:13.960 Anthropic is being sued by some class action group of authors.
00:41:20.360 And the issue here is that if it turns out that the authors win,
00:41:30.860 and the class action goes well for the authors,
00:41:34.700 that it would destroy the AI industry totally.
00:41:38.040 Because they don't really have a way to avoid the knowledge from books, I guess.
00:41:45.580 Because that's what they trained on.
00:41:48.420 So, it's possible that we will destroy our own AI industry through the courts.
00:41:57.220 But, if I had to bet on it, I would follow the money, and I would say,
00:42:01.740 we would be talking about like $50 trillion of value and the future of the country.
00:42:08.700 So, I would say there's so much money involved that the courts would be, you know,
00:42:19.020 under so much pressure, and there would be counter suits.
00:42:22.360 And I feel like the people who have $50 trillion at risk are going to win that battle every time.
00:42:30.960 Because there's just so much, so much at risk.
00:42:35.300 Anyway, according to Psy Post, Vladimir Hendry is writing that
00:42:43.720 the brightest children from low-income homes
00:42:47.500 are very competitive with the brightest kids from rich places
00:42:53.100 up until the age of about 11.
00:42:58.140 And then for reasons that are not clear, but you probably have your own theories,
00:43:02.600 when that bright kid reaches age 11, if they're in a poor situation,
00:43:09.400 their academic results just go to hell between 11 and 14.
00:43:14.260 But, the rich kids, who are just as bright as the poor kids when they were, you know,
00:43:19.840 five and six years old, they apparently have a better support system in every way.
00:43:26.020 And so, they go on to become bright adults.
00:43:30.200 So, there is something in the process of poverty that makes a bright kid turn off.
00:43:40.520 And I don't know what exactly it is.
00:43:42.360 It could be that they don't want to look like the nerd,
00:43:46.180 and they don't want to be teased for being the brainiac or stuff like that.
00:43:51.140 Remember, I keep telling you that being immune to embarrassment is the greatest superpower ever.
00:44:02.040 Well, here's a good example.
00:44:04.760 When I was in school, I eventually graduated as a valedictorian of my tiny school.
00:44:11.440 Not very impressive, because the entire school was very small.
00:44:15.440 But, early on, in my grade school, it was obvious I was going to be an A student,
00:44:23.060 and I was trying to make something of myself.
00:44:27.360 And, can you imagine that I got teased for being a brainiac, a nerd, etc.?
00:44:36.720 And the answer is, of course I did.
00:44:39.040 Of course I did.
00:44:39.740 And, you're probably saying, oh my God, how did you handle all that humiliation and the teasing?
00:44:47.780 To which I say, why humiliation?
00:44:51.880 Why humiliation? 0.99
00:44:54.200 Are you telling me I was supposed to feel bad when the dumb people called me smart? 0.99
00:44:59.680 Where was the part where I was supposed to feel bad? 0.99
00:45:02.020 And, I missed the entire part where their cunning insults were slicing through my psyche and leaving me in tatters.
00:45:13.620 The whole time, I was just thinking, yeah, you got that right.
00:45:17.840 Yeah, I am going someplace.
00:45:21.300 Too bad you're not.
00:45:23.460 Yep, I'm a nerd.
00:45:25.980 That's right.
00:45:26.740 I did do my homework.
00:45:27.860 Yeah, I did get an A on that test.
00:45:31.980 I did.
00:45:33.020 Thanks for noticing. 0.82
00:45:35.960 So, I don't know if I was mentally deficient or just some kind of weird narcissist.
00:45:43.400 But, I recall that I was teased, but I don't recall any damage whatsoever.
00:45:50.880 Like, ever.
00:45:53.260 It just felt like I was winning the whole time.
00:45:55.680 And, that's how I played it.
00:45:58.460 Anyway, I don't know if that advice will help your low-income kid survive the brutal situation.
00:46:08.240 But, it's also true that the town I grew up in was a little closer to goodwill hunting than it was to, like, an inner city.
00:46:16.080 I would say that the citizens of my town were rooting for me from the time I was very young.
00:46:25.080 And, it was obvious they were rooting for me.
00:46:27.260 And, helped.
00:46:28.740 Helped me escape, just like goodwill hunting.
00:46:33.460 So, I don't know if having a complete immunity to humiliation would help anybody else, but it helped me.
00:46:43.280 Okay, here's a story that I don't know if this is true.
00:46:52.660 All right?
00:46:53.420 So, this is a story about the agreement that Trump and Putin are going to meet in Alaska and talk about maybe ending the war in Ukraine.
00:47:03.480 And, you're probably telling yourself that they wouldn't have the meeting unless they thought there was a pretty good chance of something positive coming out of it.
00:47:15.200 And, then what we hear, somewhat surprisingly, is that Putin would be willing to simply take some of the, but not all, of the territory that he's conquered.
00:47:27.620 And, just say, all right, I'll keep this, and we'll, you know, we'll just part company.
00:47:33.460 Now, you probably said to yourself, really?
00:47:36.440 Really?
00:47:37.120 Because, it didn't seem like Putin had ever offered that before.
00:47:40.560 And, it didn't seem like he was losing so badly that he'd have to change what his position is.
00:47:48.080 So, why would Putin suddenly go from, nope, there's no real reason to talk, to, oh, yeah, let's talk next week.
00:47:56.400 Now, you may say, well, it's because Trump threatened those sanctions on the Indians buying Russian oil or something else.
00:48:09.940 There is a, there's a report in a German publication, Bild, B-I-L-D.
00:48:16.960 Now, I don't know if it's true, but this is their version of what's going on.
00:48:21.920 That, that Steve Wyckoff, quote, misunderstood Putin, and where Putin said something about those occupied territories, the ones that Putin's already conquered, that Steve Wyckoff misunderstood Putin's willingness to negotiate a deal.
00:48:44.560 And so, that what you're seeing is a whole bunch of people operating under a misunderstanding of how close they are to an agreement.
00:48:57.360 Now, I'm not going to say that's true, because it's just some German publication.
00:49:03.900 You know, it's not being widely reported that way in our press.
00:49:06.900 So, probably not true.
00:49:08.300 But, it does explain everything, and it would be a Dilbert world kind of thing, where they just heard each other wrong.
00:49:19.000 But you know what's even funnier?
00:49:21.620 What if the reason they're having the meeting is because that Wyckoff, there was a translation problem, and he literally misunderstood Putin?
00:49:30.880 What if that's the only reason they have the meeting?
00:49:32.720 And then, what if having the meeting leads to them actually ending the war?
00:49:40.480 There's a non-zero possibility that the meeting was a complete mistake.
00:49:46.380 But once you get there, you know, they know the war can't last forever. 0.99
00:49:50.440 So, maybe Putin will say, well, as long as I'm here, you know, it would be too stupid to come here and then just walk home. 0.98
00:49:57.200 Not walk home, but you know. 0.82
00:49:59.800 So, there's a non-zero possibility that the most Dilbert-y thing in the world happened, which is they accidentally scheduled a meeting that they should not have,
00:50:12.120 and that once they're there, like, well, I might as well end this war.
00:50:15.640 Maybe.
00:50:16.640 It's possible.
00:50:17.480 That's the most optimistic thing I could say.
00:50:19.520 Because I do not see any way that, under normal circumstances, this will lead to any kind of an end to the war.
00:50:29.440 Unless there's something we don't know about.
00:50:32.760 Maybe Russia has a bigger problem in some domain than we're aware.
00:50:38.360 Maybe.
00:50:39.560 But we haven't heard about it.
00:50:40.920 And then, of course, Zelensky is trying to be the turd in the punch bowl, and he's saying that he's ruling out any kind of deal that the U.S. and Russia make for Ukrainian land.
00:50:57.280 He's ruling it out.
00:50:59.580 Okay.
00:50:59.940 But apparently, there's also some Ukrainian legal problem that would make it impossible for Zelensky to agree to give away Ukrainian land.
00:51:10.400 He wouldn't have the power to do it.
00:51:12.480 There would have to be some kind of, you know, national referendum or something.
00:51:18.800 But it's doable.
00:51:20.220 He'd just have to do it, and it wouldn't be instant.
00:51:22.720 Anyway, according to Breitbart News, Oliver Lane is writing that there was a poll, I guess it was a Gallup poll, of Ukrainians, and how many of them want to keep fighting and how many of them don't.
00:51:40.400 It turns out that, well, maybe you could tell me.
00:51:44.700 What percentage of Ukrainians want to fight to court the bitter end?
00:51:49.880 What percentage want to fight until they're all dead?
00:51:58.800 Let's see if you can guess the percentage.
00:52:02.840 25, says Texas Hoghammer.
00:52:06.840 25, 25.
00:52:08.560 Excellent guesses.
00:52:09.640 The answer is 24, but I will accept 25.
00:52:13.900 Oh, we got a 24.
00:52:15.820 Ikkiro, good for you.
00:52:18.660 All right.
00:52:19.060 So have I demonstrated once again that I have the smartest podcast audience?
00:52:25.940 They knew the answer to the question just intuitively, 24%.
00:52:32.060 According to Radio Liberty, so Ukraine is expected to make 4 million drones this year.
00:52:44.660 Almost all of them will be the low-end, you know, inexpensive drones.
00:52:50.660 Russia is also expected to make millions of similarly low-end drones this year.
00:52:57.660 So between Ukraine and Russia, you know, maybe, I don't know, 7 to 10 million drones will be created just by their own countries.
00:53:08.020 That doesn't even count.
00:53:09.020 That doesn't even count the number that they'll buy.
00:53:12.260 So the United States, of course, being the powerful superpower that it is, if those countries can make millions of drones, how many do you think the U.S. can make?
00:53:25.540 Because we now have an estimate of that from the New York Times.
00:53:29.100 Well, the answer is maybe 100,000 units.
00:53:33.420 Yeah.
00:53:33.980 So while the war-torn, poverty-stricken country of Ukraine is making 4 million per year of drones, we might be able to make 100,000.
00:53:47.300 So we've got a problem, because whoever makes the best and most drones gets to run the world, and apparently that's not us.
00:53:59.060 That's not us.
00:54:00.380 So we better get going on that, President Trump.
00:54:03.960 Well, Israel is planning to, as you know, take full control of Gaza, and they're going to start by taking full control of Gaza City.
00:54:19.480 But at the same time, the U.S. and Qatar are talking about some kind of grand proposal that they'll have in two weeks.
00:54:28.120 It's a grand proposal for, I assume, the grand part is what makes it more than just Gaza.
00:54:36.140 So maybe the grand part is the Abraham Accords get expanded, but in return, there's a lot of support for the Palestinian people who got relocated, etc.
00:54:48.720 So I don't know what that'll be.
00:54:49.760 But I would like to offer a reframe for Hamas and all the children who were victims of the war.
00:55:00.960 It seems to me that the right way to frame Hamas is that they're involved in child sacrifice, and it's their own children. 0.81
00:55:11.440 So they're literally sacrificing the lives of their children for some larger religious and military victory.
00:55:19.760 But Israel is getting blamed for killing them. 0.97
00:55:24.240 You know, of course, they are killing them.
00:55:26.880 But doesn't it seem to you like Hamas is not just fighting a war and hoping the children do well,
00:55:34.380 but rather it's an organized human child sacrifice?
00:55:39.560 And Israel, of course, is part of it, because if Israel decided, oh, you can have everything you want, 0.76
00:55:47.360 just come on in and take what you need, well, then there wouldn't be any children being killed.
00:55:54.620 But under the normal conditions of war and national defense, etc., of course, of course, there'll be a response,
00:56:02.020 and it will result in lots of people dying that you wish wouldn't die.
00:56:08.260 But human child sacrifice, that's what it looks like to me.
00:56:16.240 So we got that.
00:56:17.680 All right.
00:56:18.020 Usually on Saturday, when I'm done, when Gregorian does say spaces, but he's got something to do today,
00:56:29.560 so that will happen tomorrow.
00:56:32.560 So tomorrow is Sunday.
00:56:34.840 There'll be a spaces after the show, but not today.
00:56:37.940 Not today.
00:56:38.960 So you can go about your day and get your breakfast and have a wonderful day.
00:56:43.440 I'm going to take a nap with some cats and play some ping pong later,
00:56:49.700 and I'm going to have a great day.
00:56:52.400 I hope you do, too.
00:56:54.080 All right.
00:56:54.460 I'm going to say some words privately to my beloved subscribers on Locals and the rest of you.
00:57:02.240 You're going to disappear in 30 seconds, and I hope you come back tomorrow.
00:57:13.440 You're going to disappear in 30 seconds, and you're going to disappear in 30 seconds.
00:57:43.440 You're going to disappear in 30 seconds, and you're going to disappear in 30 seconds, and you're going to disappear in 30 seconds.
00:58:13.440 You're going to disappear in 30 seconds.
00:58:14.680 Just wait and come back.
00:58:15.400 Thank you.
00:58:45.400 Thank you.
00:59:15.400 Thank you.