Episode 2934 CWSA 08⧸21⧸25
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In this week's episode of the show, Scott Adams and Adams discuss the woes of the Wokeness crisis, the rise and fall of Kroger, and the impending doom of the cracker bar chain Cracker Barrel.
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um pretty good pretty good not the best but it's right up there well the uh restaurant chain called
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cracker barrel has decided to go broke but uh the way they'll get there is by going woke
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so apparently they have a newish ceo a woman who's uh quite gung-ho for all things dei and one of the
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things they did was they removed from their logo the old man uh who i always thought was a cracker
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and then he was leaning on a barrel so they got rid of the cracker and they got rid of the barrel
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i don't know what's left well if you had to guess uh what is most likely is it most likely that they're
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moved toward dei and making a big deal about it and changing the logo and getting rid of the old white
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man on the logo is that going to help their bottom line if you had to guess would you guess well this
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will all work out well let's uh check in with um target target stores who went through their own uh
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wokeness uh talk friendly swimsuit uh kind of event and i'm reading from red state bob hogue is writing
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in red state that uh let's see uh the target ceo is leaving his post next year
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and it looks like they never really recovered um from their their wokeness uh drama but here's the
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funny thing um so the way cnn describes it is that the problem is a backlash to its retreat on dei
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so if you get your news from cnn it will say the problem with uh target sales
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is not that people didn't like them being woke but rather they didn't like when they were woke and
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then they became less woke so it was the becoming less woke because it was such an uproar that that
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really hurt their sales what do you think was it the being woke or was it the retreating from being
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woke they hurt their sales well probably both my guess is that anytime you change anything it gives
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somebody a reason not to not to shop there but what it definitely didn't do is give somebody a reason
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to shop if they didn't already have one it could give you a reason not to shop either way because they
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got too woke or they retreated from the woke but which of those things would cause you to buy more
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would you say oh target's really woke now i'm gonna buy a few extra pairs of pants
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no it can only go one direction whether you go woke or you go less woke it can only cost you customers
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just because it's a change and there's no way there's an upside so we'll see meanwhile kroger
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stores have announced that they're gonna close multiple supermarkets in washington state
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due to crime according to the gateway pundit mike lachance is writing about that and uh what do you
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think of that so kroger has uh decided that instead of staying in the high crime area they're gonna get
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the fn there huh well that's uh that's some advice isn't it i wonder if they could get cancelled for
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saying that they should get out of a high crime area i feel like they should be cancelled for that
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no no just kidding don't don't turn kroger um but what will happen will kroger's sales go up or down
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well they'll have fewer sales in the high crime area but they probably were losing money and
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employees too meanwhile bed bath and beyond which at one point was bankrupt but i guess it got
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rescued by some big money entity but uh they're trying to rebuild and they have announced that they
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will not build any stores in california can you even hold this in your head that california
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is uninvestable if you're a big company they've just said there's overregulation and taxes and um
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basically those two things overregulation and taxes so they say it's just not even worth it it's too
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risky so the two risky places to do business three uh well four if we count ukraine
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um would be china ukraine gaza and california but also uh apparently washington state but also washington dc
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so there's a whole bunch of places you just don't want to be
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and unfortunately i live in one of those places so i'm thinking of moving to ukraine
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well sam altman uh out of uh chat gpt uh apparently according to zero hedge has hired some top democrat
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operatives to help them uh grease the gears so to speak as zero hedge puts it grease the gears with
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california politicians um because they need to restructure the company and eventually go public
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and they need california to be a friendly business environment do you know what will happen
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if they don't get what they want this is uh in politico by the way um well will they leave california
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what will their ai tell them to do but uh it seems unbelievable to me that uh a company as big as uh
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open ai and chat gpt that they have to hire people just to figure out how to navigate the democrat
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the success pool that is california that's not good that's not good and what could you say about
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the governor of a state that's so poorly run that bed bath and beyond is not willing to do business in
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this state and chat gpt had to hire expensive democrat weasels to try to figure out how to do business with
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the state what would happen to that governor well obviously obviously his political career would be
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oh what oh he is the highest polling person to be the presidential candidate oh okay so we'll talk a
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little bit later about how democrats are not taking the best advice but what about walmart
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don't you think walmart's having some issues with wokeness or dei or uh do you think they're having
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some issues with tariffs well walmart is once again you know arguably one of the most impressive
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companies in the history of the united states because their sales are up so they've got a four percent
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4.6 sales increase in the last three months and that's even including the fact that they've got
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tariffs that are built into their prices now now they have raised some of their prices because of
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tariffs but only one-third of their goods come from overseas and they're not passing along the entire
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cost of the tariffs they're they're absorbing some and passing some along but it wasn't enough to
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decrease their sales and apparently i haven't heard of them doing anything that would make anybody
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mad about dei or about trans or wokeness or any of that so somehow they've avoided all of that
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well speaking of big companies doing stuff axios is reporting that morgan stanley did some data analysis
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and this is what morgan stanley and this is what morgan stanley came up with now i'm laughing because
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it used to be my day job at a big corporation to do financial uh estimates and projections and decide
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which path was the the best one financially so i have a little bit of appreciation of how accurate you can be
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in doing this which is morgan stanley did an analysis of how much money ai could save the big companies
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and they said it could save them nearly one trillion dollars a year um in reducing i think mostly employee costs
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so they came up with one trillion dollars a year and um um that's only the beginning
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they say long term it could result in 13 to 16 trillion dollars in market value creation
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for the companies in the index i figure that's the s p 500 index i think that's what that means all right
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i'm giving it away by laughing at it but do you believe that morgan stanley has somebody on their payroll
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they can estimate the trillions of dollars of impact of ai no no they don't have anybody who knows how to
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do that this is pure there was somebody who was no doubt assigned the project
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that's the sort of project i would have been assigned to do you think i would have not produced the number
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of course i would if i had been working for morgan stanley and they said scott got an important
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assignment for you it will be up to you to decide you know how much money can be saved by ai i'd be like
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all right and then i'd go off and i start making some assumptions well let's assume 46 of all the
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companies fire 20 of their staff within eight months uh where did you get that assumption um
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look over there it's a deer change the subject yeah no you can't really do that kind of an estimate
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it's entirely possible the ai will just be wonderful and companies will make more money
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and all the people who lose their jobs will be instantly retrained and have ai as a buddy and
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they'll go off and make more oh it's all possible but if you tell me that anybody can estimate
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what's going to happen in even three years no no nobody can do that
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um but google's generative ai team according to futurism newer lcb
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is writing about this cbi i don't know um that uh there would be no point in getting a law degree
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or a medical degree if you are going to start today and the reason is that ai will just eat your lunch
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and you could get that expensive education it might take seven to eleven years to become a practicing
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doctor but by then there's almost no chance the ai won't do it better and cheaper and faster
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you'll still need nurse type people you know to put on splints and do physical stuff well i guess you
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could do a lot of that in the hospitals um but in terms of analyzing something and prescribing something
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i feel like i would agree that your regular doctors got some problems and lawyers too but i will point out
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that uh chat gpt just had to hire some humans to help them navigate california and i suspect that one of the
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big advantages of big law firms is that they have connections um they literally know the judge
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they uh you know their brother-in-law is in some political office so i suspect that the big law firms
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that charge a lot and get the most powerful people out of trouble and most powerful companies
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it probably is more about their weaselly ways and who they know and what they've done and who owes them
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a favor and uh i don't know if ai can keep up with that i mean they would use ai but i suspect that the
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lawyers are going to get together and make make it illegal to have an ai only lawyer imagine imagine if you
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will just a few years in the future where there's a uh a accused felon who goes to trial and says uh your
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honor um i'd like to uh exercise my right to have an ai attorney uh we've edited all the documents and
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it's ready to go and then the ai just sits there on a box and argues against maybe another ai
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is that going to happen i don't know because you would have to train your ai to be somewhat dishonest
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well let's say dishonestly persuasive especially if you were the defense and your client was guilty
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the only way your client can win is if your ai is a lying weasel you know just like the human would be
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defending you so will it ever be legal for for ai to be programmed to lie to the jury to get a guilty
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person off i don't know i i feel like the existing lawyers are going to find ways to make it illegal
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to have an ai lawyer now will the medical community do the same probably i would say
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um probably it won't be long before you start seeing stories in the news about somebody who died
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because they took advice from ai oh you know that's coming that it'll be you know those stories will be
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planted by let's say you know some doctor the ama or some doctor you know benefiting organization
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and suddenly your your brain will think wow ai just keeps killing people with bad advice oh it told
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him to take horse paste or whatever and then you'll say huh i only want a human doctor
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and it will all be fake but the doctors will hire the human lawyers to make sure that it's illegal
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to have an ai only doctor because it's far too dangerous that's what they'll say
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well there's a physicist who believes he has a theory his name is miguel alquibari he has a theory for how
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to do faster than light engines so sort of warp speed kind of thing faster than light and the way he would do it
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since it's impossible to go faster than light is instead of making the object go faster than light
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he will bend space that's his proposition you could bend space so that there's uh let's say
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so that there's less of it in front of you than there is behind you or something like that and then
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bending the space gives you the functional equivalent of traveling faster than light but you're technically
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not because within your you know your small local domain you're not faster than light it's just that
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you're bending space in front of you that you're not in yet and behind you now does that make sense i don't
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know i mean i may not have explained it perfectly but uh does it seem impossible that you could bend
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space in space in front of you and behind you i don't know how you do that we don't know how to do that
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now right so i wouldn't be holding my breath for waiting for that but hey you never know mario
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um elon musk has made a uh provocative and non-obvious uh uh prediction he said that ai
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is going to obviously uh one shot the human limbic system now i don't know exactly what he means by
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that part but the real prediction comes next he said that said i predict counterintuitively that it
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will increase birth rate mark my words and then he goes also we're going to program it that way well
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the only one he can program is is his you know grok x ai um and i could certainly imagine that it would
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program it to optimize human reproduction but i don't think the other ais are going to necessarily do
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that are they and it also seems to me like that could be its own set of problems i feel like maybe ai
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should just stay out of it but hey you know he's obviously got a he's done more thinking on this
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specific topic than i have so he might have something oh i'll be open-minded on that but why would ai
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increase birth rates he does say it's counterintuitive but then he doesn't help us out with the reasoning
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do you see it how many of you is it because the ai will hypnotize us into reproducing is it because
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the ai will take away all our uh workload and we won't have much to do and we'll be staying home
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and so it'll be like well if we're gonna be home a lot we won't have any problems watching the kids we
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don't need so maybe it just makes life easier and maybe it makes it easier to afford things too
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we might get to the point where you know energy and housing costs are all low because the robots
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are building the houses and you know we we've solved energy by just having smarter you know nuclear power
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and stuff so i don't think this is going to happen right away but i can imagine getting to the point
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where if you're a family or let's just say you're married that you wouldn't have anything to do
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unless you had kids so might be that having families is the only thing that will have meaning
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because you won't be able to get meaning through work the robots will be doing the work so i think
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he might be right you know as i'm as i'm thinking it through um i could if you could get to the point
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where people don't have to work and everybody has enough of the basics yeah people will be bored
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and they're going to want to just have babies probably
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well did you know according to cell press that reading for pleasure in the u.s has decreased
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over the past 20 years um do you think they needed to do a study of that i feel like i would have known
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that isn't that purely because of alternative uses of our time you know if you've got a phone in your hand
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um you don't need to read that much now personally i read way more now than uh than i did before
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computers because you know it's only rarely that i pick up a book but uh you know if if you're on the
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internet all day if you're on x or you're reading stuff all day i mean i read probably the equivalent of
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about a quarter or half of a book just getting ready to do this podcast i mean the amount the amount that
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i read in the past two hours it's pretty pretty uh large amount so yeah reading for pleasure i was
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trying to remember the last time i read fiction for pleasure and i couldn't even remember i think it
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was you can help me out on this um i've read non-fiction books of course but fiction for
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pleasure probably the last one was the second harry potter book so if you told me what year that was
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the second harry potter book when it just came out i think that's might be the last book i read for
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pleasure that was a while ago anyway um according to newsweek some schools are going to test out uh
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schools in florida are going to test out putting armed drones in schools um to defend against school
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shooters now when i say armed i don't mean necessarily with bullets but rather with that pepper spray and
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some kind of some kind of some kind of glass breaking device so it doesn't get trapped behind a glass door
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i guess um and what would happen is if there was a if somebody did the secret button um presumably it
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would be the administrator who did it then the drone would take off and it would be operated remotely by
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somebody who would know to do it and they would look for that uh the shooter and at the very least
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you know they'd get more information about the shooter but it could also interfere with them so the
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the drone could uh try peppering him and you know he's gonna have to turn his the shooter would have to
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turn its attention on the drone just so the drone didn't take him out so that would be fun that seems like
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a good idea we'll know because you could deploy that drone in like five seconds
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well i'm loving watching the bad advice that democrats are giving to other democrats
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um james carville was on some show talking about what the democrats should have done
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when jd vance took his summer vacation because i guess he went to england and a place called oxfordshire
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it took the family and uh that's sort of an upscale place in england and james carville says that the
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democrats should have hammered him because there are vacation spots in the united states that are not
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doing as well as they could be doing and what's he doing taking his american money and wasting it overseas
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and he says that they should have just been all over him on that and made a big deal about it is
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that some of the worst advice you've ever heard
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how many people care where the vice president is taking his family on vacation
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most americans would be perfectly happy to take an overseas vacation you know different countries they might
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prefer but is there any american who doesn't think that they would like to take an overseas vacation
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someday and do we really think that we're all going to be taking the same kind of vacation as the
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president and the vice president of the united states that is ridiculous it's just the worst advice
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if the can you imagine some democrat voters like well you know uh uh i was uh gonna vote for trump but
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then i found out that jd vance and his family went on a vacation in oxfordshire england that changes
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everything are the democrats of this lost that that seemed like good advice oh my god oh my god
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in other news um apparently the uh arctic sea ice the guardian was reporting this there's a new study
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that says that the arctic sea ice has not reduced um in 20 years now if you believed in climate change
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and you believe the planet's getting warmer and uh it might be it might be getting warmer but wouldn't
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you also predict that that warming would increase the ice loss well apparently it didn't happen however
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instead of saying uh-oh it looks like our prediction models are wrong because you can't go 20 years without
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losing some sea ice if the planet's getting warmer no instead the the climate people say that they have
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at least two climate models that would uh allow for such long pauses including another 10 years
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so they say that there are two existing credible climate models which would allow the planet to get warmer for
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30 years but the ice in the arctic not to change for those same 30 years
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does that sound even a little bit like they they know what they're doing and they've got a they've got
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a handle on this thing it sounds like a dilbert response right well yeah my prediction model is no
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no matter how warm it gets or for how long the ice won't melt all right okay got it
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well i don't know what to believe there but you know what i always say wait until you find out about climate models
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it's so funny i i think people are slowly starting to get the idea
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when they see that every other thing in our environment is fake the news is fake our employment data is fake
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certainly all of our casualty numbers from war all fake the reasons we get in war all fake
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the russia hoax all fake most of our political stuff all fake
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but people still believe that the most ridiculous of all those things the climate models that we could
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somehow monitor we could somehow model climate into the future that we still believe that one's real
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when all the other things from yeah from flu deaths to everything else are all fake and we know
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they're fake but there's one thing oh that one's true you know what i'd love to see since the best
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argument for the non-scientist is that there are so many scientists who say it's true
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how many other topics has science had 98 percent agreement we'll just ran i know it's not 98 percent
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but let's just say uh 90 how many how many items in science have had 90 agreement and then later
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turned out not to be true i feel like there's a pretty long list isn't there
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certainly the uh nutrition pyramid probably had 90 percent agreement of dietitians and whatnot and
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that was fake right so if you knew how many times science had been wrong when nine out of ten scientists
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believed something was true wouldn't that change how you saw the climate stuff it would that would be
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important context and i don't know it i don't think you know it either but certainly they're yeah
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certainly eggs are bad i'm seeing some other some other examples go by yeah and then we believe that our
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elections are pristine really everything's broken but our elections are fine and climate science
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once you realize that everything is fake if it's complicated and there's a lot of money involved and
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it really matters it's definitely fake all right um um scott besant was asked about uh getting a trade
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deal with china which we don't have yet and bright martin news ian hanchett is writing about this and
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apparently uh the sense take is that we don't need a deal because we've uh passed tariffs along and the
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tariffs include things like you know grotesque higher tariff because of fentanyl and apparently
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um china is our biggest source of tariff money right now now i'll remind you it doesn't mean that china
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is paying it although in some cases they might by taking lower profit margins but uh the company that's
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importing is still paying it but uh apparently china is not complaining too much and we're getting all
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kinds of revenue toward uh you know the deficit and we don't really need to do anything
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uh i have to admit i did not see that coming i did not see us getting to the point where our trade
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deal with china is you know what if they want to keep having these tariffs we'll be happy to keep them on
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there so you just instead of uh solving the problem um trump monetized it as he does
00:35:50.800
and basan says if it's not broke don't fix it so he's happy to just plot along and keep the tariff money
00:36:03.040
well the u.s has a bunch of warships and 4 000 marines off the coast of venezuela because madura the
00:36:12.320
leader is accused of being more cartel than national leader although he's both and uh i guess maduro
00:36:23.920
is uh activating a bunch of reserves so he's got millions of soldiers just in case and i'm going to
00:36:31.840
give you my conspiracy theory of the day now i wouldn't say that i believe this is true but
00:36:42.960
some of you are going to say that's a pretty good conspiracy theory you ready like many of you
00:36:51.040
i also believe that when a president gets in office that there's something like what i'm going to
00:36:57.440
describe that happens maybe not exactly this but it's what you imagine happens that someday some spooky
00:37:06.400
guy it's always a guy in a nice suit will visit the new president and say let me explain to you how it
00:37:14.080
works the military industrial complex runs the country and you're going to give us at least one
00:37:21.200
ongoing war all the time if you don't we will probably take you out one way or the other
00:37:29.920
what take me out what do you mean like kill me if we have to but the important thing is
00:37:37.840
the country needs at least one war all the time so what if and again this is just um i'm having fun
00:37:46.560
with a conspiracy theory so don't believe this this is just for fun what if trump knows that
00:37:56.480
and so in order to end the war in ukraine he knows the only way to do it is to promise a brand new war
00:38:04.320
really fast and so again it's just for fun i'm not i'm not alleging that this is true so then
00:38:15.280
what do you do is put a bunch of military forces around venezuela because you could credibly believe
00:38:23.360
that he might be planning for a war and then you say to that spooky guy in the suit hey uh here's the
00:38:31.040
deal if you help me get out of the ukraine situation we'll start something locally and we'll we'll have
00:38:37.520
a brand new one with venezuela deal how do you like that for a conspiracy theory that's the most cynical
00:38:47.440
you could get that we that what matters is we have to have a war so when you see the new one getting
00:38:53.760
queued up just in time huh isn't that weird it's just in time because the other one might be ending
00:39:01.280
huh that's a little bit of a coincidence isn't it well it might be just a coincidence so don't take it
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too seriously but uh we'll see what happens in venezuela
00:39:18.640
um apparently the department of homeland security has pulled funding from groups that are quote
00:39:34.000
that we don't know that some of it is going to organizations that have a terrorist connections
00:39:40.480
well turns out there's a good reason to believe we've been giving money to some groups
00:39:47.280
that had terrorist connections um we're giving way too much money away um so fox news digital got this
00:39:56.000
scoop i guess 49 projects with alleged affiliations to terrorist activities
00:40:02.320
have already been canceled 49 49 funded projects that our government
00:40:10.880
and your tax paying money went to support have some kind of terrorist connection
00:40:18.880
it took until now to say hey hey maybe we shouldn't be giving them money all right all right
00:40:26.320
and in related news tulsi gabbard head of the dni um is now sweeping overall and is going to get rid
00:40:37.280
of 40 percent of staff um i love the fact that even though trump is not crowing about his cost savings
00:40:47.680
in government that it seems like all the department heads know that uh winning means cutting costs
00:40:57.440
and so they're all doing it and they're it's almost like they're competing to see who can cut the most
00:41:02.960
because that's how you win favor but it is strange that trump's not bragging about
00:41:19.840
when i found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners i started wondering is every
00:41:26.080
fabulous item i see from winners like that woman over there with the designer jeans are those from
00:41:31.920
winners ooh are those beautiful gold earrings did she pay full price or that leather tote or that
00:41:37.680
cashmere sweater or those knee-high boots that dress that jacket those shoes is anyone paying full
00:41:44.080
price for anything stop wondering start winning winners find fabulous for less
00:42:06.000
the reason that the democrats are losing so many uh registered voters i guess there's a 4.5 million
00:42:14.240
voters swing from democrat republican in the last few years
00:42:23.120
by a democrat super PAC unite the country showed that what democrats thought of their own party
00:42:30.560
is that it was out of touch woke and weak out of touch woke and weak and so apparently their response
00:42:40.160
to being out of touch woke and weak is to talk more and mock trump more
00:42:49.600
does that sound like what the country wants from them
00:42:54.000
now i would agree it might be that the poll did get those results and that that's what people said but
00:43:01.360
don't you think that being strong and not being out of touch would involve having good policies for
00:43:09.680
solving our big problems as opposed to finding a clever way to do a skit that involves mocking trump
00:43:19.040
no the theater kids only have one play what kind of theater can we put on
00:43:25.520
uh to get power um the the russia russia gate hoax was theater was it not it was literally imaginary
00:43:39.280
characters with an imaginary plot it was fiction most of the hoaxes from the 51 intel people with the laptop
00:43:49.280
to the fine people hoax to the january 6 hoax um they're all fiction so and then you've got uh newsom
00:43:59.760
who's doing this clever but not really effective uh mockery of president trump by doing social media posts in his voice
00:44:16.560
because it's not addressing any problem and it seems um it's not woke it's just ignoring woke um and it
00:44:31.840
do you notice that the reason that uh that mockery of trump works is that everybody knows how he talks
00:44:40.400
and trump has proven that the way he talks is the most persuasive and effective way anybody could ever
00:44:48.000
talk we all kind of know that now we didn't know that when he first ran for the first uh first term
00:44:56.640
but at this point everybody who is paying attention knows okay he he doesn't talk like other people but
00:45:03.440
it's the most effective political talking we've ever seen so when you mock the most effective political
00:45:12.320
communication you've ever seen by simply matching it you haven't really mocked anything
00:45:18.800
you haven't mocked anything because the thing that he's mocking is well understood to be the the superior
00:45:29.760
form of communication if he mocked something that wasn't working well then he'd have something right but
00:45:38.320
you can't mocked something that worked so well it made him president twice the way trump communicates
00:45:47.280
is not a flaw it's not the thing that the country needs to get rid of at all it's very effective so
00:45:57.920
i don't think that mocking the most effective form of communication we've ever seen in that domain
00:46:05.760
is buying them much but it's a skit and the important thing if you're a democrat apparently
00:46:15.040
is to be part of a play and so newsom's got this little character he plays that's like the president
00:46:23.520
and so he's happy because democrats are saying yeah look at that he's playing a part look at that play
00:46:31.120
i want to bring my friends to the play i got a ticket they they seriously are about the act
00:46:37.200
they really are about the act now of course all politics is a little bit acting but not like this
00:46:45.920
this is literally living in fiction world and having uh no regard whatsoever to policies or
00:46:54.960
the things which you would imagine would help them more
00:47:00.160
well texas indeed passed its new uh redistricting map so it looks like they'll get
00:47:07.120
some extra seats in the house and uh newsom um one in california courts i guess the republicans
00:47:18.000
tried to stop him from his plans of redistricting california but he probably will now uh first he has to
00:47:26.400
win the power to do it in a referendum uh but he might he might get that and uh trump has announced that
00:47:35.360
missouri is going to redistrict so trump says he wants all the republican states that haven't
00:47:42.720
to redistrict and in if if you believe the reporting on this if all the republicans did it
00:47:51.040
and all the democrats did it that haven't done it yet at least to the max um the republicans would come
00:47:57.840
out way ahead i'm not a hundred percent sure that's true but uh looks like a good play for trump
00:48:07.200
and uh i guess democrats not democrats but people are beginning to receive letters in the mail saying
00:48:15.520
that they have to complete 15 hours of community service per week in order to get their benefits
00:48:22.640
um they don't like taking time out of their day to get benefits so we'll see how see how that goes
00:48:33.280
i guess trump has threatened to cut funding to uh california public schools if they don't follow the
00:48:41.440
federal policy on not allowing trans athletes in women's sports
00:48:46.880
and sometimes if they cheat on dei so we'll see if any schools lose their funding for that
00:48:57.280
uh chris cuomo i didn't realize this but chris cuomo is not a democrat i i assume he was at one point
00:49:05.360
but he was talking to uh benny johnson and he was talking about you know what the democrat party has
00:49:12.480
become it was pretty brutal um uh apparently he thinks that the democrats have become the party of
00:49:20.080
elitism open borders socialism and defunding the police and that those ideas are so bad they killed
00:49:26.880
the modern democratic party he says the uh the democratic party that his father was a part of
00:49:33.760
no longer exists and he doesn't know why um he doesn't know why his brother is still registered as a
00:49:40.640
democrat so as supportive as he is of his own brother he can't even say that the brother belongs to a
00:49:50.960
party for a good reason he goes my brother's a democrat i don't know why but he is my father was a
00:49:58.080
democrat but his party doesn't exist anymore well here's what i think
00:50:02.560
cuomo um in his current opinion of the democrats and not wanting to be one of them feels like
00:50:12.800
where bill maher is being drawn i don't think bill maher is going to make it you know over the line
00:50:19.600
i i think that he just he'll have to stop before he becomes a republican and it's not like chris cuomo
00:50:26.320
became a republican you know he's an independent but do you think it's possible that bill maher will be
00:50:35.280
you know pulled so far that he just you know denounces the democrats and says all right i just can't
00:50:41.520
even support you anymore i feel like uh he's really close so he might i don't think he's he'll ever become
00:50:49.600
a republican but he doesn't need to he just needs to denounce the badness um this uh the issue that
00:51:01.360
trump has created with the smithsonian and the other museums he wants the museums to focus more on the
00:51:08.720
positive accomplishments of america and less focused around an emphasis on slavery
00:51:16.320
and uh to this point molly hemingway who was reporting on an axe she said i overheard an older
00:51:26.000
white woman sitting behind me on a plane ride today talking to her husband she was aghast at the idea
00:51:31.440
that the smithsonian might not make the history of slavery the centerpiece of the institution
00:51:37.520
now we all agree that slavery was a big part of the story of the you know the early united states so
00:51:48.080
everybody agrees with that but does it make sense that your museum focuses on the thing that was the
00:51:56.960
worst part well depends what you're trying to accomplish if what you're trying to accomplish with
00:52:04.480
your museum is a history lesson well then you just make sure that it covers all the history and slavery
00:52:14.400
was a big part of it but if you're trying to make uh americans feel good about being americans which i
00:52:22.000
feel like is the more important use for the national museums it could be private museums to do whatever
00:52:28.640
they want but for a national museum i feel like it should absolutely be focusing on the positive
00:52:39.360
so that we'd feel positive about the country but i will go further than that i believe that the more
00:52:45.760
attention that's giving to slavery as the original sin and biggest part of our history it's all bad for
00:52:53.520
black americans today does anybody know why it's something i've taught you
00:53:00.560
many times and it's just glaringly obvious in this case and here it is
00:53:08.560
people don't think logically they think by association so if you can say somebody was good friends with epstein
00:53:17.520
you could ruin them even if they didn't do anything wrong because it's just the association
00:53:24.720
what does it do to modern black americans if when you're thinking of black americans you're thinking
00:53:32.320
of slavery because it's just in your mind and it's really part of the narrative what does that do
00:53:38.640
to how you feel about black americans and how they feel about themselves and how they fit in
00:53:44.400
well since being a slave would be a horrible association you're taking modern black americans
00:53:52.720
and you're making you making people think about their existence as slaves
00:54:00.400
that is the worst association you could ever put on anybody if you want them to be successful in the
00:54:07.120
modern world so from a history perspective yeah if you're just trying to describe what happened of
00:54:16.080
course you want to include as much of the history of slavery as makes sense of course but if you're
00:54:23.760
trying for people to be happy and successful then persuasion and how people feel about things and
00:54:30.960
associations and the psychological impact of things has to be a big part of the the decision and i can
00:54:39.200
tell you for sure that black americans would be way better off if there were some device that you could hold
00:54:46.640
up to everybody's head to make them forget that slavery ever happened if you could make everybody forget
00:54:54.800
that slavery had ever happened then black people would wake up in the morning and say huh i guess
00:55:02.800
anything's possible and they would just work toward their best life and they would have the best outcomes
00:55:09.920
that you know are possible in the in the real world but will that ever happen no that will never happen
00:55:17.840
because there are people who make money by emphasizing the negative parts so as long as there's a
00:55:24.960
business to be made in emphasizing the negative people will do it um yeah
00:55:34.800
so that's what i think um elon musk has denied on x the wall street journal's report that he's
00:55:45.040
decided to uh scrap his third party idea he has not decided um definitively to scrap that in favor of
00:55:55.280
supporting jd vance so uh musk told us to not believe everything you read in the wall street journal
00:56:04.880
so we won't believe that until we have some confirmation if it ever comes
00:56:10.080
well the university of california san francisco reports that at ucsf they discovered a protein
00:56:21.680
that reverses brain aging in mice how many times have you seen a story in the news that somebody reversed
00:56:34.320
aging in a mouse i feel like this story has been coming out for 40 or 50 years
00:56:43.520
every few weeks hey we discovered something that will reverse aging in a mouse now how many things have
00:56:52.480
reversed aging in human beings zero is there any pill that i could buy that i'm not
00:57:00.960
not that would reverse my aging and yet and yet and yet every freaking week for 50 years we figured out
00:57:16.080
you should not believe anything that is reported about success with a mouse the the percentage of those
00:57:25.040
those that translate into a real you know functional human medical process is really low
00:57:32.800
it's very unusual but the way the news reports it it makes you think wait it worked on the mouse
00:57:40.960
and they wouldn't bother testing it on the mouse unless i would tell you something about whether it would work on a human being
00:57:48.000
so wow this is promising no it's not it's not promising it's the the odds of any of this ever seeing the
00:57:56.480
light of day and turning into a pill that will reverse your your brain's age it's really really low like
00:58:04.160
really really low so low don't even think about it anyway so i've noticed that ukraine and the ukrainians
00:58:15.520
have what i call a sunk cost problem so in economics a sunk cost is money you've already spent so what
00:58:25.520
you should never do is say damn it i've already spent so much in this project that i have to keep spending
00:58:32.320
more to finish it no you don't the amount that you've already spent is just gone you should make
00:58:39.280
your decision as if it didn't make any difference at all and uh gamblers will do the same if you're
00:58:46.720
gambling and you've lost you know a million dollars so far if you say to yourself i can't stop now
00:58:53.840
because i've already i'm down a million i got to win it back that's sunk cost you should look at every bet
00:59:02.080
as if it's a new decision independent of anything you've already done and likewise the ukrainians
00:59:10.640
often are saying stuff like we can't give up any land to putin because so many ukrainians have died
00:59:19.520
trying to keep that land to which i say that's a sunk cost those people are not going to pop back to
00:59:27.680
life no matter what you do they are just gone and while you can respect their sacrifice you should
00:59:36.960
not be making your new decisions based on the fact that they died and it looks like they are doing that
00:59:45.040
and that's a sunk cost fallacy now i don't know if the leaders are doing that but you're hearing that
00:59:52.000
from you know ukrainians uh we can't can't give this land up because people so many people sacrifice to
01:00:01.840
to try to keep it you should count that as zero if if millions of ukrainians died trying to protect that
01:00:10.240
land zero you should not include that in your decision however
01:00:17.680
however since we're not a logical species we're a persuadable psychologically uh emotional species
01:00:27.360
it does matter if people feel like they they can't make a certain decision but you you need to
01:00:36.000
separate what is them feeling a certain way oh we can't give up this land because we've sacrificed so
01:00:43.040
much with what makes sense what makes sense is it doesn't matter at all how many people died protecting
01:00:51.920
trying to protect that land it doesn't matter it's already over they're dead you have to make your
01:00:58.160
decision like you woke up into the game today and the only thing you know is what what's true going
01:01:05.760
going forward so here's my prediction i think putin is going to keep yanking the football we're already
01:01:14.000
seeing some indications that uh putin isn't so keen on getting a deal which would be no surprise and
01:01:25.040
eventually uh if it hasn't happened already whatever goodwill putin has developed with trump
01:01:32.480
will evaporate and reverse really quickly and when trump decides that he's pissed off at putin and
01:01:40.800
there's no redeeming it's gonna get ugly and i'm almost guaranteeing that's where it's gonna go i don't
01:01:49.120
think putin is going to deal with trump and with europe and ukraine in a productive way i don't think he
01:01:57.440
wants to i don't think he plans to because time is on his side and he probably thinks that trump and
01:02:04.960
the europeans have used all of their uh all their chips that there's not much else they can do to him
01:02:11.840
and he can just last forever but as i mentioned before um india went from one percent of its oil
01:02:22.400
oil that it purchased being from russia to forty percent and it turns out that the reason it went
01:02:29.200
so high is that it's not that they're buying it to use it in india but some entities in india are
01:02:35.760
buying it and reselling it because it's cheap oil so they're just keeping the difference so basically
01:02:42.720
some indian entities there can't be that many of them because you would have to be in that specific
01:02:48.240
line of business how many people are in that line of business that they can move gigantic amounts of
01:02:54.160
oil from one country to another can't be that many people i think that trump says to india here's the
01:03:00.880
deal you've got half a dozen companies that are allowing russia to move its oil i know you india as a
01:03:10.720
government want to keep good relationship with uh with uh putin however there's nothing that's going to
01:03:18.560
stop us from taking out your six companies their ceos are going to start dropping dead uh we will
01:03:26.240
sanction them individually we'll just take out those companies and what will india do will india say you
01:03:34.560
can't do that i want to protect my companies that are thwarting the sanctions on russia so that the
01:03:41.840
ukrainian war will last longer what are they going to do well i don't know the full situation so you
01:03:51.040
know i'm i'm in in way over my head talking about indian buying and reselling oil but if it's true
01:03:58.000
that there are a handful of companies in india that are keeping russia alive i believe that we could
01:04:05.440
target them i believe that we could just tell india look you know there those companies are going to
01:04:13.280
start having some real bad luck and you might not know where it came from but trust us those companies
01:04:21.280
are going to have some real bad luck and it's going to happen really fast so here's what i think i
01:04:29.600
think putin is going to believe that he can get away with uh stalling and that will cause the europeans
01:04:36.480
to be mad at trump and that'll all be good for russia but i think trump is going to say um you've now
01:04:44.080
crossed the line and now i'm going to take your economy and maybe it will be the india play
01:04:52.400
maybe not but i do think that there is um let's say a more aggressive way that trump could
01:05:01.600
just take the knees out and i think he would do it so i think that's where it's added
01:05:06.000
and maybe something with giving ukraine better weapons too that might happen trump's uh 464 million
01:05:18.160
civil fraud penalty was vacated on appeal really so zero hedges reporting that the
01:05:27.680
i was that not the latisha james case with the banks and uh that just got thrown out on appeal
01:05:38.400
if if that's true so we'll see anyway you know what is the dumbest comment i just saw the dumbest
01:05:48.560
comment here on locals bad take bad take bad take i don't think once someone has ever told me i had
01:05:57.520
a bad take and then could follow it up with what was wrong with it as soon as i hear bad take i just
01:06:05.520
think oh you're a fucking idiot because if you had a real reason it would have taken about as many words
01:06:14.320
as bad take you know you could have said something like that's not how that works or well that that's too
01:06:31.680
wow now does that mean that he's not guilty of any of those charges or that he just doesn't have to pay
01:06:42.080
i wonder what that means i don't know how that works all right we'll look into that
01:06:46.000
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