Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2939 CWSA 08⧸26⧸25

00:00:00.000 Oh, good stretch.

00:00:04.160 Oh, come on here. 0.98

00:00:05.860 It's good to see you.

00:00:07.880 You're right on time.

00:00:10.100 I love your punctuality.

00:00:12.820 Just one of your many good character traits.

00:00:16.460 Come on in and grab a seat.

00:00:19.220 I'll fire up your comments here so I can see what the locals people are up to.

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00:00:44.660 Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

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00:01:16.060 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day,

00:01:20.860 the thing that makes everything better.

00:01:23.260 It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens.

00:01:26.880 Yeah, that's right, right now.

00:01:36.100 Sublime.

00:01:37.740 So good.

00:01:38.560 Well, according to Eric Dolan, who is writing for SciPost,

00:01:44.440 if you have a virtual workout partner, or partners, I guess,

00:01:49.940 it'll still boost your exercise motivation.

00:01:55.280 So if you put on your virtual reality glasses, or I don't know,

00:01:59.380 maybe if you watch them on the screen,

00:02:00.840 if you see recorded images of real people who did the same workout as you,

00:02:07.900 so that you're doing it at the same time,

00:02:10.560 that you will feel the social effect of that.

00:02:15.960 So even though you know they're not real people,

00:02:18.880 you'll still be more motivated to work out.

00:02:22.320 Do you think that would work with you?

00:02:24.400 Do you believe that you would be more motivated

00:02:28.340 if other people were working out at the same time?

00:02:31.840 But you knew they were fake people.

00:02:33.600 They're not real people.

00:02:36.060 Well, I don't know if that would work for me,

00:02:39.360 but I can tell you that when I've gone to real gyms,

00:02:44.260 I'm only motivated if there are attractive women also at the gym. 1.00

00:02:49.840 Do any of you have that same problem?

00:02:52.200 Any of the guys?

00:02:54.320 If the gym is nothing but middle-aged men,

00:02:58.340 which, you know, depending on when you go.

00:03:02.220 I used to go in the afternoon.

00:03:04.020 There would be a lot of handicapped people

00:03:05.740 and people who are 80 years old

00:03:08.340 and people who are trying a personal trainer for the first time.

00:03:13.420 It's not going well.

00:03:15.120 It is not motivating.

00:03:16.820 It's not motivating at all.

00:03:18.400 But boy, when you walk in the gym,

00:03:20.560 it's all the young, strong people.

00:03:22.980 And even the guys are motivating if they're really in good shape

00:03:25.940 because you look at them, you go,

00:03:27.720 God, that guy's in such good shape.

00:03:30.360 We're going to have to take it up a level.

00:03:32.380 So it might work.

00:03:33.580 I don't know.

00:03:34.720 But did you know, separately,

00:03:36.700 according to the independent Albert Toth,

00:03:39.100 is writing that four in ten Gen Z employees

00:03:42.140 would rather go into work

00:03:44.940 because they feel lonely at home.

00:03:47.080 They feel lonely.

00:03:49.980 I was trying to imagine

00:03:51.380 what kind of hell I would be living in

00:03:54.220 if I were in my early 20s

00:03:56.700 and I had an office job

00:03:59.180 but I could do it at home in my apartment

00:04:01.080 where I lived alone.

00:04:03.560 You would have no access

00:04:06.160 to the primary social outlet

00:04:08.880 that a young person has,

00:04:10.880 which is whatever the hell you're doing at work 0.59

00:04:12.700 for eight hours a day.

00:04:13.620 So I understand that.

00:04:17.400 However, I've got a suggestion

00:04:19.000 for the four in ten employees

00:04:21.320 who, for whatever reason,

00:04:23.240 are not working in the office

00:04:24.440 but are lonely.

00:04:26.700 They should do virtual workouts.

00:04:31.220 Or better yet,

00:04:33.320 instead of having a virtual workout partner,

00:04:36.080 you have a virtual co-worker.

00:04:37.860 And once again,

00:04:39.980 they're based on real video

00:04:42.180 of your actual co-workers

00:04:43.960 but they're just sort of doing their thing

00:04:46.420 in your general area.

00:04:49.800 I'll bet that would work.

00:04:51.400 I'll bet you would feel less lonely

00:04:53.000 if you were in a virtual world.

00:04:55.760 Now, probably,

00:04:57.700 it would have to work

00:04:58.760 that you could interact with them

00:05:00.440 so that maybe they'd have to be at home

00:05:03.160 but their avatar would be in the office

00:05:05.520 at the same time.

00:05:06.420 So something like that's going to happen.

00:05:09.600 Yeah.

00:05:09.900 I feel like the Gen Z employees 0.99

00:05:12.440 are going to be working in the office

00:05:15.360 but the office will be virtual.

00:05:20.220 Well, right before I got on here,

00:05:22.520 I saw that home prices are in free fall,

00:05:26.360 somebody said.

00:05:27.160 I think home prices are going down

00:05:29.540 where I live a little bit

00:05:31.660 but they were so high,

00:05:33.440 they need to go down.

00:05:34.720 So, is it good news

00:05:36.880 the home prices are going down

00:05:39.600 because then more people can afford them

00:05:41.560 or is it bad news

00:05:43.520 because the people who own them

00:05:45.580 just got poorer?

00:05:47.760 A little bit of both.

00:05:49.100 But it probably

00:05:50.000 accrues more benefit

00:05:53.700 to the people who are just trying

00:05:55.180 to jump on the, you know,

00:05:58.180 homeownership bandwagon.

00:06:00.740 Well, I saw a post on X

00:06:02.140 from Eric Erickson.

00:06:04.640 Most of you probably know him,

00:06:06.380 a well-known Republican for a long time,

00:06:11.600 Eric Erickson.

00:06:13.080 And he says,

00:06:14.120 he was trying to help a guy,

00:06:16.220 I don't know,

00:06:17.500 find a job in tech.

00:06:19.400 Reached out to a friend

00:06:20.600 and explained the basics.

00:06:22.340 My friend, senior level at a tech company,

00:06:24.800 said,

00:06:25.520 let me guess,

00:06:26.760 white male over 40?

00:06:29.000 Yup.

00:06:29.780 My friend was telling me

00:06:31.040 how American tech companies

00:06:32.300 have shut out that group.

00:06:33.800 Um, Eric,

00:06:36.600 uh,

00:06:38.120 I hate to tell you,

00:06:39.660 but this news

00:06:41.080 is approximately

00:06:42.200 45 years old.

00:06:45.820 Now, I do believe

00:06:47.200 that there,

00:06:47.800 that there's a guy

00:06:48.900 who recently

00:06:49.760 could not get a job

00:06:51.680 because he was a white guy

00:06:53.300 over 40.

00:06:54.840 Um,

00:06:55.780 but that started

00:06:57.100 45 years ago.

00:06:59.740 Right?

00:07:01.280 I mean,

00:07:02.140 when 45 years,

00:07:03.660 we were having

00:07:04.300 the same conversation.

00:07:05.980 White guy over 40 0.61

00:07:07.140 was being,

00:07:07.880 you know,

00:07:08.620 sort of discriminated against.

00:07:10.320 Nothing changed.

00:07:12.120 To,

00:07:12.440 but,

00:07:13.120 um,

00:07:13.600 it's shocking to me

00:07:15.080 that,

00:07:16.240 uh,

00:07:17.060 anybody would be surprised by it

00:07:19.280 or believe that you don't know

00:07:20.820 what's happening

00:07:21.360 and that you need to know,

00:07:22.980 oh,

00:07:23.160 I better tell people about this.

00:07:25.120 45 years,

00:07:27.240 unbroken,

00:07:28.500 every year,

00:07:29.940 and it's never been better

00:07:32.020 and it's never been worse.

00:07:33.640 It's always been the same.

00:07:35.340 45 years.

00:07:37.900 So,

00:07:38.900 glad you noticed.

00:07:42.180 Well,

00:07:42.880 now,

00:07:43.260 according to the brighter side news,

00:07:45.480 uh,

00:07:45.860 they can stimulate your brain

00:07:47.640 in very specific places,

00:07:50.080 but in a different way

00:07:51.940 for different people,

00:07:53.540 depending on what that one person needs

00:07:55.520 to keep their concentration.

00:07:58.320 So,

00:07:59.060 you know how your,

00:07:59.900 your brain goes all over the place?

00:08:02.020 It's hard to concentrate

00:08:03.020 on boring stuff.

00:08:04.700 Well,

00:08:05.720 apparently,

00:08:06.560 you know,

00:08:07.020 now researchers have figured out

00:08:09.780 how to put a little

00:08:11.300 electrical stimulation

00:08:12.960 to your brain,

00:08:14.000 but make it customized

00:08:15.780 for your brain specifically.

00:08:17.960 so it really,

00:08:19.600 really can get in there.

00:08:20.500 And there's a suggestion

00:08:22.900 that they already know

00:08:24.080 how to make you

00:08:24.800 concentrate better.

00:08:28.060 Now,

00:08:28.800 what does that say

00:08:30.480 about your free will?

00:08:32.080 Or what I like to call

00:08:33.580 your illusion of free will,

00:08:36.100 because free will is absurd,

00:08:37.420 but a lot of people

00:08:39.160 think they have it.

00:08:40.800 So,

00:08:41.240 if they can

00:08:42.060 put a little electricity

00:08:43.900 into your brain

00:08:44.980 and cause you to

00:08:46.820 act differently,

00:08:48.700 does that mean

00:08:50.360 that free will

00:08:51.100 doesn't exist?

00:08:52.620 Because if you had

00:08:53.420 free will,

00:08:54.580 it wouldn't matter

00:08:55.680 what's happening

00:08:56.400 electrically or chemically

00:08:57.840 in your brain.

00:08:59.140 You'd just be able

00:09:00.180 to override it

00:09:01.100 with your

00:09:01.560 free will.

00:09:04.200 But there is

00:09:05.080 no free will.

00:09:06.400 There is just

00:09:06.980 chemical interactions.

00:09:09.140 And then your

00:09:09.760 impression

00:09:10.880 is that you

00:09:12.040 were part of it.

00:09:13.520 Well,

00:09:14.160 you were more

00:09:15.200 an observer

00:09:15.820 who was trying

00:09:16.580 to explain it

00:09:17.480 to yourself

00:09:18.020 in a way

00:09:18.500 that didn't

00:09:18.880 make you crazy.

00:09:20.180 And you didn't

00:09:21.140 have any choice

00:09:21.800 about that either.

00:09:24.500 So,

00:09:25.080 that's your

00:09:25.500 Tuesday wisdom

00:09:26.960 right there.

00:09:29.540 So,

00:09:30.160 apparently,

00:09:30.680 the Trump

00:09:31.140 administration

00:09:31.780 is,

00:09:32.800 according to Reuters,

00:09:34.040 is thinking

00:09:35.580 about putting

00:09:36.360 sanctions

00:09:37.020 on officials

00:09:38.640 in the EU

00:09:39.580 who were involved

00:09:41.220 with implementing

00:09:42.080 the,

00:09:42.520 that digital,

00:09:44.160 what's it called,

00:09:45.260 that digital

00:09:46.280 stupid act

00:09:47.200 that they do

00:09:47.860 over there

00:09:48.260 to the

00:09:49.340 Digital Services

00:09:50.360 Act.

00:09:51.140 So,

00:09:51.500 that's the one

00:09:52.080 that would put

00:09:53.040 pressure on

00:09:53.700 our tech companies

00:09:54.700 to,

00:09:56.640 I don't know,

00:09:57.480 have less privacy

00:09:58.440 and less free speech,

00:10:00.700 I guess.

00:10:01.020 And so,

00:10:02.280 the Trump

00:10:02.640 administration

00:10:03.240 is fighting

00:10:04.260 back against

00:10:04.940 that

00:10:05.280 and might

00:10:06.220 restrict the

00:10:08.060 visas

00:10:08.440 from some

00:10:09.640 of their

00:10:09.980 EU officials

00:10:11.340 unless they

00:10:11.980 change their

00:10:12.500 minds.

00:10:13.160 But I don't

00:10:13.560 think that's

00:10:13.980 official yet.

00:10:15.680 I think they're

00:10:16.180 just thinking

00:10:16.900 about it.

00:10:17.420 It would be

00:10:17.960 unprecedented

00:10:18.820 that we

00:10:20.160 sanction the

00:10:21.240 European Union.

00:10:22.960 That would be

00:10:23.680 sort of a new

00:10:24.360 level of,

00:10:25.800 I don't know,

00:10:28.780 disagreement.

00:10:29.300 So,

00:10:31.800 I don't know

00:10:32.200 what's going

00:10:32.560 to happen,

00:10:33.100 but it might.

00:10:34.700 In other news,

00:10:35.720 the AI company

00:10:36.860 called Perplexity,

00:10:38.640 which I've talked

00:10:39.460 about a bunch

00:10:40.040 of times,

00:10:40.600 it's a really

00:10:41.260 good app.

00:10:43.380 You know,

00:10:43.760 I have to say,

00:10:45.180 I got hooked

00:10:46.360 on it because

00:10:47.260 it was really

00:10:48.920 well executed.

00:10:50.760 And primarily,

00:10:52.260 I used it just

00:10:52.880 as a search

00:10:53.580 app because

00:10:55.280 it just searched

00:10:56.060 better than

00:10:57.460 other things

00:10:58.100 and hallucinated

00:10:59.160 a lot less.

00:11:00.340 It did

00:11:00.600 hallucinate a

00:11:01.240 little bit

00:11:01.560 about me,

00:11:02.120 I'll have to

00:11:02.500 say.

00:11:03.520 But Perplexity,

00:11:06.740 now it's a new

00:11:08.320 program that will

00:11:09.280 pay publishers

00:11:10.440 for being

00:11:13.720 surfaced by

00:11:14.640 their app.

00:11:15.580 So,

00:11:15.880 if you went

00:11:16.200 to the app

00:11:16.760 and you said,

00:11:17.900 hey,

00:11:18.320 what's the

00:11:18.840 latest news

00:11:19.680 about this

00:11:20.460 or that?

00:11:21.240 And then it

00:11:21.740 found a news

00:11:22.480 article and

00:11:23.120 showed it to

00:11:23.640 you,

00:11:23.860 they would

00:11:24.980 pay the

00:11:27.380 source,

00:11:28.720 the news

00:11:29.060 article.

00:11:30.540 Now,

00:11:30.980 what's

00:11:31.320 interesting

00:11:31.980 about this

00:11:32.920 is that,

00:11:34.820 I don't know

00:11:35.040 if the business

00:11:35.560 model will

00:11:36.100 work,

00:11:36.940 but it might

00:11:37.740 keep them

00:11:38.580 from getting

00:11:39.180 sued and

00:11:40.980 maybe they just

00:11:41.940 have to do

00:11:42.380 that.

00:11:43.300 But I wonder

00:11:44.360 if it'll put

00:11:44.980 pressure on the

00:11:45.800 other AI

00:11:46.380 companies that

00:11:47.920 they'll all

00:11:48.520 have to do

00:11:49.120 some kind of

00:11:49.760 micropayments

00:11:50.680 to all the

00:11:52.460 sources that

00:11:53.340 they're sending

00:11:54.360 traffic or

00:11:55.360 stealing from,

00:11:56.300 I guess you

00:11:56.780 could say.

00:11:57.820 And I feel

00:11:58.340 like it will.

00:12:01.080 If perplexity

00:12:02.500 is decided that

00:12:03.560 it has a

00:12:04.340 market value,

00:12:05.960 well,

00:12:06.240 think about it

00:12:06.780 this way.

00:12:07.740 It's the sort

00:12:08.500 of thing that

00:12:09.100 always turns

00:12:09.960 into court

00:12:10.560 cases.

00:12:11.840 And if you

00:12:12.300 went into

00:12:12.700 court and

00:12:15.340 you were the

00:12:15.820 publisher,

00:12:16.720 you could now

00:12:18.060 argue that the

00:12:19.360 market value

00:12:20.500 of your

00:12:21.360 product as

00:12:22.540 surfaced by

00:12:23.460 an AI has

00:12:24.660 been established

00:12:25.420 by perplexity

00:12:26.560 because they're

00:12:27.760 literally paying

00:12:28.620 for it.

00:12:29.760 So that's

00:12:30.760 what the

00:12:31.080 market value

00:12:31.700 is.

00:12:32.080 The market

00:12:32.380 value is what

00:12:33.160 somebody is

00:12:33.620 willing to

00:12:34.020 pay.

00:12:35.180 So that

00:12:36.380 would suggest

00:12:37.100 that the

00:12:37.800 other AI

00:12:38.320 companies might

00:12:39.140 be forced.

00:12:41.720 I'm no

00:12:42.420 lawyer, so I

00:12:43.220 don't believe

00:12:43.640 anything I say

00:12:44.360 about legal

00:12:45.100 stuff, but it

00:12:46.660 feels like it

00:12:47.220 would put

00:12:47.500 pressure on the

00:12:48.160 other ones.

00:12:49.200 So a little

00:12:49.700 legal pressure

00:12:50.560 if not moral

00:12:51.600 pressure.

00:12:54.120 Meanwhile, the

00:12:55.140 X company

00:12:56.780 is, you

00:12:57.880 know, Elon

00:12:58.260 Musk is 0.98

00:12:58.760 suing Apple

00:12:59.720 and Open

00:13:00.480 AI, alleging

00:13:02.720 some kind of

00:13:03.360 antitrust

00:13:04.040 collusion over

00:13:05.180 ChatGPT.

00:13:06.420 Because, you

00:13:06.720 know, if you

00:13:07.220 have an Apple

00:13:07.800 phone, it's

00:13:09.820 sort of mated

00:13:10.900 with Open

00:13:11.820 AI.

00:13:13.180 And I guess

00:13:13.760 X believes

00:13:14.800 that maybe

00:13:15.400 they're getting

00:13:17.220 less visibility

00:13:18.520 because of

00:13:19.520 that.

00:13:20.780 So we'll

00:13:21.620 see.

00:13:23.220 See where

00:13:23.740 that goes.

00:13:24.680 I feel like

00:13:25.240 all these big

00:13:25.880 companies are

00:13:26.480 just suing

00:13:27.220 each other all

00:13:27.900 the time.

00:13:28.620 Have you

00:13:28.880 noticed that

00:13:29.540 all the

00:13:30.740 news is about

00:13:31.640 lawsuits now?

00:13:33.700 Like, that's

00:13:34.160 all it is.

00:13:35.160 Or court

00:13:35.720 cases.

00:13:36.720 It's just,

00:13:37.820 and somebody

00:13:38.820 is suing

00:13:39.560 somebody, and

00:13:40.560 somebody got

00:13:41.220 arrested, and

00:13:42.580 there's a

00:13:43.120 grand jury.

00:13:44.480 It's like

00:13:44.800 everything about

00:13:45.700 the government

00:13:47.000 and everything

00:13:48.140 about AI and

00:13:49.280 big business,

00:13:50.500 it's all sort

00:13:51.500 of somebody

00:13:52.120 suing somebody

00:13:53.040 for something.

00:13:54.680 We're in that

00:13:55.400 permanent lawsuit

00:13:56.680 kind of a

00:13:57.380 world.

00:13:59.400 Apparently, the

00:14:00.280 Coast Guard

00:14:00.880 allegedly just

00:14:03.280 pulled off the

00:14:03.980 most successful,

00:14:05.300 meaning biggest,

00:14:06.740 drug bust

00:14:07.540 operation in

00:14:08.440 history.

00:14:10.080 They got 1.3

00:14:11.100 million kilograms

00:14:12.260 of cocaine,

00:14:13.780 and they

00:14:14.460 said they

00:14:15.280 grabbed drugs

00:14:17.800 that had a

00:14:18.520 total value

00:14:19.540 of $45

00:14:20.460 billion.

00:14:22.920 Now, that

00:14:24.360 can't be

00:14:25.080 true, right?

00:14:27.200 $45 million

00:14:28.380 doesn't sound

00:14:29.620 like it would

00:14:30.120 be maybe the

00:14:30.820 biggest in

00:14:31.380 history, but

00:14:32.860 could they

00:14:34.520 really have

00:14:36.380 one shipment

00:14:37.280 that had

00:14:37.940 $45 billion

00:14:39.160 of value?

00:14:40.540 would the

00:14:42.560 cartels put

00:14:43.620 $45 billion

00:14:44.920 of product

00:14:46.680 on one

00:14:47.260 boat?

00:14:49.200 I mean,

00:14:50.560 I don't

00:14:51.920 want to

00:14:52.340 tout or

00:14:53.500 talk up

00:14:54.200 the cartels,

00:14:55.160 but aren't

00:14:56.160 they pretty

00:14:56.660 good at the

00:14:57.320 smuggling

00:14:57.760 stuff?

00:14:59.000 Would you

00:14:59.640 put $45

00:15:00.640 billion product

00:15:02.300 value on

00:15:02.980 one ship?

00:15:04.880 Would you?

00:15:05.520 That would

00:15:06.760 be a weird

00:15:07.480 choice.

00:15:09.940 So, I

00:15:11.140 don't know if

00:15:11.500 there's a

00:15:11.900 typo in

00:15:12.480 this story

00:15:13.040 or what,

00:15:13.720 but let's

00:15:15.000 just say

00:15:15.540 I'm skeptical.

00:15:17.560 There's something

00:15:17.920 about that that

00:15:18.600 doesn't track.

00:15:20.300 Well, J.B.

00:15:21.100 Pritzker,

00:15:21.780 governor of

00:15:22.480 Illinois,

00:15:23.220 wanted to

00:15:23.660 make sure that

00:15:24.280 you knew that

00:15:24.840 Chicago is

00:15:25.640 no hellhole.

00:15:27.180 Oh, no.

00:15:28.240 Chicago is

00:15:28.900 no hellhole.

00:15:29.540 In fact,

00:15:30.620 he proved

00:15:31.560 it by

00:15:32.520 taking a

00:15:33.140 walk in

00:15:33.640 one of

00:15:33.940 the safest

00:15:34.420 Chicago

00:15:35.080 neighborhoods

00:15:35.820 early in

00:15:36.840 the morning

00:15:37.220 when all

00:15:37.620 the bad

00:15:37.980 people were

00:15:38.500 still asleep.

00:15:39.940 And he

00:15:40.520 said,

00:15:40.800 look at

00:15:41.040 this.

00:15:41.920 Looks

00:15:42.560 safe to

00:15:43.040 me.

00:15:45.360 Is it

00:15:46.120 my

00:15:46.320 imagination?

00:15:48.680 I think

00:15:49.660 maybe it's

00:15:50.260 entirely based

00:15:51.560 on my

00:15:52.320 own bias.

00:15:54.020 But does

00:15:54.920 anybody else

00:15:55.460 have the

00:15:55.800 feeling that

00:15:56.540 the

00:15:57.780 Democrat

00:15:58.280 governors are

00:15:59.280 sort of

00:15:59.720 clowns?

00:16:03.020 Has

00:16:03.100 anybody

00:16:03.780 had that

00:16:04.420 impression?

00:16:06.120 Now,

00:16:06.380 arguably,

00:16:08.180 John

00:16:09.060 Bolton is

00:16:09.740 kind of a

00:16:10.260 clown in

00:16:11.800 his own

00:16:12.500 way.

00:16:13.620 But doesn't

00:16:14.540 it seem

00:16:14.980 like the

00:16:16.520 Democrat

00:16:17.040 governors

00:16:17.620 couldn't

00:16:18.140 possibly be

00:16:18.940 serious with

00:16:19.700 half of the

00:16:20.100 stuff they're

00:16:20.520 doing?

00:16:21.540 They just

00:16:22.500 don't seem

00:16:23.700 like they're

00:16:25.900 serious

00:16:26.440 politicians.

00:16:27.620 They seem

00:16:28.040 like they're

00:16:28.480 there for

00:16:28.940 the gesture

00:16:29.840 work or

00:16:30.500 the clowning

00:16:31.260 or the

00:16:32.000 attention.

00:16:33.500 I mean,

00:16:33.800 honestly,

00:16:34.360 J.B.

00:16:34.840 Pritzker,

00:16:35.680 he doesn't

00:16:36.760 even look like

00:16:37.380 he's trying

00:16:38.120 to be some

00:16:38.820 kind of

00:16:39.140 professional

00:16:39.700 politician.

00:16:41.380 He just

00:16:42.040 looks like

00:16:42.520 he's

00:16:42.780 clowning.

00:16:44.320 Every time

00:16:45.040 I see him,

00:16:45.720 I can't

00:16:46.620 even take

00:16:47.020 him seriously.

00:16:48.500 I don't

00:16:49.680 know any

00:16:50.280 Republican

00:16:51.320 governors

00:16:52.000 who,

00:16:53.660 when you

00:16:53.840 watch them,

00:16:54.500 your impression

00:16:55.680 is,

00:16:56.000 is he

00:16:56.420 even

00:16:56.600 serious?

00:16:58.020 Are you

00:16:58.380 even trying

00:16:59.120 to do

00:16:59.560 your job?

00:17:01.580 Is that

00:17:02.360 all on one

00:17:03.060 side?

00:17:03.500 Am I

00:17:03.740 just biased?

00:17:05.680 Maybe you

00:17:06.280 could name

00:17:06.820 10 Republican

00:17:08.160 governors that

00:17:09.020 are just

00:17:09.400 ridiculous

00:17:10.380 characters.

00:17:11.860 What about

00:17:12.400 Tim

00:17:13.160 Walls?

00:17:14.980 Isn't

00:17:15.380 Tim

00:17:15.660 Walls a

00:17:16.140 ridiculous

00:17:16.700 character?

00:17:17.700 He just

00:17:17.980 looks like

00:17:18.460 a clown,

00:17:19.520 like a

00:17:19.920 crazy clown.

00:17:20.760 Well,

00:17:21.960 who is

00:17:22.560 the

00:17:23.640 Republican

00:17:24.340 version of

00:17:25.140 that?

00:17:26.460 Where,

00:17:26.760 forget about

00:17:27.220 your politics,

00:17:29.020 it's just

00:17:29.460 that you

00:17:29.780 watch them

00:17:30.320 and you

00:17:30.520 go,

00:17:30.840 God,

00:17:31.240 what a

00:17:31.580 character,

00:17:32.420 what a

00:17:32.680 clown.

00:17:33.860 I don't

00:17:34.420 know if

00:17:34.700 there are

00:17:35.040 any.

00:17:35.960 Or they

00:17:36.460 stay

00:17:37.220 out of

00:17:37.540 the

00:17:37.820 limelight,

00:17:38.840 which

00:17:39.120 would

00:17:39.460 make

00:17:39.680 sense.

00:17:42.360 Anyway,

00:17:44.880 UC

00:17:45.440 Berkeley

00:17:46.020 is getting

00:17:46.780 sued

00:17:47.540 by

00:17:49.120 Dr.

00:17:51.760 Yael

00:17:52.040 Nativ.

00:17:53.900 It's a

00:17:54.480 woman who 0.99

00:17:54.940 tried to

00:17:55.340 get a

00:17:55.580 job there

00:17:56.080 and was

00:17:57.080 told that

00:17:57.800 she wouldn't

00:17:58.760 be hired

00:17:59.220 by UC

00:17:59.880 Berkeley

00:18:00.300 because she

00:18:01.100 is Israeli.

00:18:04.340 They didn't

00:18:05.240 say Jewish,

00:18:06.240 but they

00:18:06.500 said because

00:18:07.300 she's Israeli.

00:18:08.680 And they

00:18:09.180 thought that

00:18:09.780 the atmosphere

00:18:12.660 there would

00:18:13.300 be too

00:18:14.860 dangerous

00:18:15.340 and or

00:18:16.080 you know

00:18:16.600 cause too

00:18:18.280 much trouble

00:18:18.980 to have an

00:18:20.020 Israeli on

00:18:21.060 their staff.

00:18:22.960 And so

00:18:23.260 she was

00:18:23.700 denied the

00:18:24.340 job for

00:18:24.820 which apparently

00:18:25.420 she was

00:18:25.860 qualified and

00:18:26.760 would otherwise

00:18:27.480 have had.

00:18:29.300 Can you

00:18:29.940 even imagine

00:18:30.620 that?

00:18:32.380 Now,

00:18:33.720 I don't

00:18:34.360 know how

00:18:34.720 that lawsuit

00:18:35.640 is going

00:18:36.080 to go,

00:18:36.660 but I've

00:18:37.380 got a

00:18:37.680 feeling that

00:18:38.240 the person

00:18:38.820 who got

00:18:39.080 turned down

00:18:39.640 because of

00:18:40.240 their country

00:18:41.400 of origin

00:18:42.040 probably has

00:18:43.460 a pretty

00:18:43.740 good case.

00:18:46.600 have you

00:18:49.660 heard about

00:18:50.240 there's a

00:18:51.000 movement called

00:18:51.760 Raise the

00:18:52.560 Colors?

00:18:54.240 It originated

00:18:55.600 in the UK,

00:18:56.540 but I guess

00:18:56.920 it's in maybe

00:18:57.560 some other

00:18:57.980 places in the

00:18:59.000 European Union.

00:19:00.660 And people

00:19:01.500 are painting,

00:19:02.980 at least in the

00:19:03.660 case of the

00:19:04.220 UK,

00:19:04.760 they're painting

00:19:05.280 a flag

00:19:07.520 in various

00:19:09.480 places like

00:19:10.260 on the

00:19:10.580 street.

00:19:11.500 You know,

00:19:11.740 it's a

00:19:12.480 patriotic

00:19:13.000 thing.

00:19:13.340 So they're

00:19:13.880 putting up

00:19:15.020 flags and

00:19:15.740 they're

00:19:16.020 painting

00:19:16.460 flags on

00:19:17.520 objects and

00:19:18.500 stuff like

00:19:18.840 that.

00:19:19.920 And the

00:19:21.460 thinking is

00:19:22.300 that it's

00:19:22.660 a far

00:19:23.340 right,

00:19:24.720 you know,

00:19:25.280 those far

00:19:26.340 right people

00:19:26.920 that are

00:19:27.460 behind it.

00:19:28.660 But maybe

00:19:30.060 not.

00:19:30.680 It might be

00:19:31.260 actually organic.

00:19:33.200 It might be

00:19:33.860 just a bunch

00:19:34.400 of people who

00:19:35.020 think,

00:19:35.280 I feel like

00:19:36.460 we should

00:19:37.480 express our

00:19:38.520 patriotism.

00:19:41.740 Now,

00:19:42.420 of course,

00:19:43.640 not of

00:19:44.480 course,

00:19:45.020 but just

00:19:45.480 so you

00:19:45.720 know,

00:19:46.020 they're

00:19:46.220 against the

00:19:47.980 immigration

00:19:48.640 rules of

00:19:51.700 the country.

00:19:53.120 So I

00:19:53.560 guess it's

00:19:53.960 like a

00:19:54.560 red cross

00:19:55.820 is what

00:19:58.480 it is.

00:19:59.120 So that's

00:19:59.620 what they're

00:19:59.940 painting on

00:20:00.600 stuff.

00:20:01.420 I saw

00:20:01.740 Elon Musk

00:20:02.540 boosting that

00:20:03.620 online.

00:20:04.840 So maybe

00:20:05.360 that'll be a

00:20:06.000 thing.

00:20:06.480 I don't

00:20:06.780 know.

00:20:07.700 I don't

00:20:08.520 believe that

00:20:09.500 England

00:20:10.140 has much

00:20:11.840 fight left

00:20:12.680 in it.

00:20:13.160 I think

00:20:13.460 it's kind

00:20:14.220 of going

00:20:14.600 to roll

00:20:15.000 over to

00:20:15.760 just becoming

00:20:16.760 an Islamic

00:20:17.320 country.

00:20:18.740 And a

00:20:21.620 lot of it

00:20:22.020 has to do

00:20:22.400 with the

00:20:22.760 fact that

00:20:23.220 you don't

00:20:23.740 really kill

00:20:24.800 people just

00:20:25.380 for being

00:20:25.820 different than

00:20:26.480 you,

00:20:27.120 like the

00:20:27.740 old days.

00:20:29.560 So I

00:20:30.180 don't think

00:20:30.520 there's any

00:20:30.960 fight that's

00:20:33.820 going to

00:20:34.040 happen.

00:20:34.600 I mean,

00:20:34.840 I think

00:20:35.140 they'll say

00:20:36.280 things and

00:20:36.920 they'll paint

00:20:37.720 on stuff and

00:20:38.620 they'll wave

00:20:39.220 some flags.

00:20:40.140 But I

00:20:41.340 think things

00:20:41.860 are going

00:20:42.280 to keep

00:20:42.820 going in

00:20:43.400 whatever

00:20:43.660 direction

00:20:44.180 they're

00:20:44.440 already

00:20:44.700 going.

00:20:47.300 According

00:20:47.900 to

00:20:48.220 Rasmussen,

00:20:50.300 53% of

00:20:52.680 I think

00:20:53.940 they usually

00:20:54.440 do likely

00:20:55.440 voters,

00:20:56.460 say that

00:20:56.960 in-person

00:20:57.540 voting is

00:20:58.240 more secure

00:20:59.000 than mail-in

00:20:59.880 ballots.

00:21:01.580 Can you

00:21:02.040 believe that

00:21:02.840 only 53%

00:21:04.480 of adults

00:21:06.660 understand

00:21:08.140 that if

00:21:09.480 you're there

00:21:09.920 in person

00:21:10.520 it's more

00:21:11.940 likely that

00:21:12.580 you are

00:21:13.360 who you

00:21:13.740 say you

00:21:14.060 are than

00:21:14.420 if there's

00:21:14.820 a mail-in

00:21:15.320 ballot?

00:21:16.560 How is

00:21:17.280 that even

00:21:18.740 a subject

00:21:19.400 of disagreement?

00:21:20.400 I would

00:21:22.560 have expected

00:21:23.280 it to be

00:21:23.800 more like

00:21:24.400 90%

00:21:26.220 understand

00:21:28.140 that mail-in

00:21:28.780 ballots are

00:21:29.340 riskier,

00:21:30.460 but a lot

00:21:31.740 of people

00:21:32.120 still think

00:21:33.080 that the

00:21:33.500 convenience is

00:21:34.400 worth a little

00:21:35.360 bit of extra

00:21:36.020 risk.

00:21:37.200 Now that

00:21:37.520 would be,

00:21:38.860 if I heard

00:21:39.620 that,

00:21:40.000 I'd say,

00:21:40.380 oh,

00:21:41.060 well,

00:21:41.260 those are

00:21:41.700 smart people.

00:21:43.580 They know

00:21:45.000 there's a

00:21:45.480 difference in

00:21:46.040 the security,

00:21:46.680 but maybe

00:21:48.200 they're willing

00:21:48.640 to trade

00:21:49.080 that off

00:21:49.560 for a little

00:21:49.980 convenience

00:21:50.580 and more

00:21:51.760 access to

00:21:52.460 voting.

00:21:53.580 Nope.

00:21:55.220 Only 53%

00:21:56.940 even understand

00:21:58.820 that mail-in

00:21:59.480 ballots are

00:22:00.040 just by

00:22:00.620 their nature

00:22:01.300 harder to

00:22:02.900 police.

00:22:05.400 Anyway,

00:22:06.460 so Trump

00:22:08.340 is leading

00:22:09.520 the movement

00:22:10.020 to try to

00:22:10.520 get rid of

00:22:11.000 mail-in

00:22:11.420 ballots as

00:22:11.980 well as

00:22:12.300 electronic

00:22:12.800 voting machines,

00:22:13.840 and Rasmussen

00:22:16.040 says that

00:22:16.740 48%

00:22:17.920 approve of

00:22:19.360 this idea.

00:22:22.000 48%.

00:22:22.600 So roughly

00:22:23.760 half of the

00:22:24.520 country is

00:22:25.820 on board

00:22:26.360 with getting

00:22:26.980 rid of

00:22:27.600 electronic

00:22:28.660 voting machines

00:22:29.440 and mail-in

00:22:30.180 ballots.

00:22:31.760 I'm going

00:22:32.500 to assume

00:22:33.300 that some

00:22:35.500 of those

00:22:35.800 people just

00:22:36.340 like the

00:22:36.780 convenience of

00:22:37.640 voting by

00:22:38.120 mail.

00:22:38.680 I have to

00:22:39.080 admit,

00:22:39.620 I voted

00:22:39.980 by mail

00:22:40.500 as well,

00:22:42.020 and I

00:22:43.720 don't know

00:22:44.100 if I

00:22:44.400 would have

00:22:44.680 voted if

00:22:45.180 I had

00:22:45.720 to go

00:22:46.040 in person.

00:22:48.380 Yeah,

00:22:49.000 I'm sort

00:22:50.240 of different

00:22:50.800 because I

00:22:51.300 don't go

00:22:51.620 places too

00:22:52.340 much.

00:22:52.880 It's not

00:22:53.340 my thing.

00:22:55.400 But I

00:22:56.120 don't think

00:22:56.720 I would

00:22:57.080 have voted.

00:22:58.420 Now,

00:22:58.780 I also

00:22:59.320 am in

00:22:59.720 favor of

00:23:00.320 getting rid

00:23:00.900 of mail-in

00:23:01.540 voting,

00:23:03.140 except for

00:23:04.240 the special

00:23:04.840 cases like

00:23:05.600 people in

00:23:06.080 the military

00:23:06.640 and people

00:23:07.660 who are

00:23:08.100 shut-ins

00:23:08.640 and stuff.

00:23:09.920 Oh,

00:23:10.120 actually,

00:23:10.580 I could

00:23:10.820 probably,

00:23:12.400 I probably

00:23:13.280 could get

00:23:13.740 some kind

00:23:14.180 of medical

00:23:14.660 exemption

00:23:15.140 and get

00:23:15.580 a mail-in

00:23:15.940 vote no

00:23:16.740 matter what.

00:23:19.660 So,

00:23:20.820 see what

00:23:21.980 happens there.

00:23:22.960 Usually,

00:23:23.680 Trump likes

00:23:24.320 the,

00:23:24.680 you know,

00:23:25.580 60 or

00:23:26.520 80%

00:23:27.140 things where

00:23:28.080 he's on

00:23:28.900 that side.

00:23:29.720 But in

00:23:30.100 this case,

00:23:30.840 I think he's

00:23:31.460 willing to

00:23:31.860 push for

00:23:33.220 election

00:23:33.680 integrity

00:23:34.280 because he

00:23:34.980 believes,

00:23:36.220 I believe

00:23:36.900 he believes,

00:23:37.660 I can't

00:23:38.100 read his

00:23:38.440 mind,

00:23:39.180 but it

00:23:40.200 would be

00:23:40.500 reasonable

00:23:40.940 to assume,

00:23:41.680 based on

00:23:42.760 everything we've

00:23:43.400 heard that he

00:23:44.320 believes that

00:23:45.020 Republicans would

00:23:46.040 win more if

00:23:47.580 the election

00:23:48.420 didn't have

00:23:49.800 mail-in ballots.

00:23:51.880 So,

00:23:52.660 I don't know

00:23:53.140 about the

00:23:53.540 electronic part.

00:23:55.520 And,

00:23:56.520 so,

00:23:57.080 just imagine

00:23:57.680 this.

00:23:59.400 You and I

00:24:00.260 have no

00:24:00.840 evidence,

00:24:01.580 I believe,

00:24:02.320 unless you

00:24:02.800 have some,

00:24:03.420 I don't have

00:24:03.920 any,

00:24:04.580 we have no

00:24:05.240 evidence that

00:24:06.080 electronic voting

00:24:07.000 machines have

00:24:07.820 ever been

00:24:08.380 rigged in the

00:24:09.620 United States

00:24:10.380 to the

00:24:11.440 level that

00:24:12.880 it would

00:24:13.120 affect the

00:24:13.740 election.

00:24:14.500 I don't

00:24:14.820 have any

00:24:15.260 evidence of

00:24:15.840 that.

00:24:17.400 But imagine

00:24:18.240 if you're

00:24:18.680 the president

00:24:19.280 and you

00:24:20.700 have access

00:24:21.220 to all

00:24:22.160 the,

00:24:22.740 you know,

00:24:23.660 the classified

00:24:24.320 information.

00:24:26.060 Do you

00:24:26.480 think that

00:24:27.120 Trump is

00:24:27.680 aware,

00:24:28.700 because he

00:24:29.360 would have

00:24:29.660 the right

00:24:30.060 to know

00:24:30.480 this,

00:24:30.900 if he

00:24:31.240 asked,

00:24:32.080 do you

00:24:32.460 think that

00:24:32.960 he is

00:24:33.360 aware,

00:24:34.260 and I

00:24:34.560 don't know

00:24:34.900 that this

00:24:35.340 is the

00:24:35.620 case,

00:24:36.920 but do

00:24:37.260 you think

00:24:37.860 that he

00:24:39.520 knows that

00:24:40.420 electronic

00:24:41.480 voting machines

00:24:42.320 have been

00:24:42.900 rigged in

00:24:43.940 other countries,

00:24:45.360 and the

00:24:46.220 reason we

00:24:46.700 would know

00:24:47.040 that is

00:24:47.480 because we're

00:24:48.080 the ones

00:24:48.440 who rigged

00:24:48.820 them?

00:24:50.180 Do you

00:24:50.800 believe that

00:24:51.240 that's a

00:24:51.640 thing,

00:24:52.080 first of all,

00:24:52.720 that has

00:24:53.180 ever happened,

00:24:54.240 and that

00:24:55.140 somebody like

00:24:56.100 Trump or

00:24:56.680 any president

00:24:57.440 would know

00:24:58.700 for sure

00:24:59.380 if they're

00:25:00.700 hackable and

00:25:01.420 you can get

00:25:02.000 away with it?

00:25:03.740 See,

00:25:04.060 that's the

00:25:04.640 part I find

00:25:05.260 interesting,

00:25:05.780 because Trump

00:25:06.940 wouldn't be

00:25:07.460 able to

00:25:07.800 tell us

00:25:08.360 because it

00:25:08.860 would be

00:25:09.160 like the

00:25:09.600 most highly

00:25:10.080 classified

00:25:10.580 thing of

00:25:11.120 all time

00:25:11.600 because we

00:25:12.480 would want

00:25:13.180 to keep

00:25:13.500 doing it

00:25:13.960 to other

00:25:14.300 countries

00:25:14.780 if it

00:25:15.660 works.

00:25:16.900 And again,

00:25:17.520 I'm not

00:25:17.960 suggesting I

00:25:18.780 know that

00:25:19.140 it does.

00:25:20.180 I'm just

00:25:20.800 saying that

00:25:21.420 hypothetically,

00:25:23.460 Trump knows

00:25:24.300 for sure

00:25:25.160 if electronic

00:25:26.900 voting machines

00:25:27.960 can be

00:25:28.480 corrupted

00:25:28.900 by U.S.

00:25:31.460 intelligence

00:25:31.860 people.

00:25:32.900 I feel like

00:25:33.920 he wouldn't

00:25:34.380 be guessing.

00:25:34.960 I feel like

00:25:35.780 he would

00:25:36.140 know.

00:25:37.300 You know,

00:25:37.480 somebody would

00:25:38.060 know.

00:25:40.840 Well,

00:25:41.640 Trump has

00:25:43.120 attempted,

00:25:44.420 some would

00:25:44.840 say he

00:25:45.240 succeeded,

00:25:46.260 in firing

00:25:47.080 for the

00:25:47.500 first time

00:25:47.980 ever a

00:25:48.580 sitting

00:25:48.920 Federal

00:25:49.360 Reserve

00:25:49.820 governor.

00:25:50.620 That's

00:25:50.800 that Lisa

00:25:51.980 Cook,

00:25:52.840 is that

00:25:53.140 her name?

00:25:54.380 So she

00:25:55.260 was the

00:25:55.860 first black

00:25:56.720 woman to 0.98

00:25:58.060 be on the

00:25:58.900 Federal

00:25:59.420 Reserve.

00:26:00.900 So that

00:26:02.140 adds a

00:26:02.500 little spice

00:26:03.160 to the

00:26:03.520 story.

00:26:04.960 But Bill

00:26:06.360 Pulte

00:26:06.800 has told

00:26:08.320 us that

00:26:08.940 she apparently

00:26:09.780 claimed two

00:26:11.240 primary residences,

00:26:12.840 which is

00:26:13.300 illegal,

00:26:14.520 a form of

00:26:15.360 fraud,

00:26:15.740 I believe,

00:26:16.720 because you

00:26:17.500 would do

00:26:17.760 that to

00:26:18.400 lower your

00:26:19.560 mortgage rate.

00:26:21.700 And a

00:26:22.480 fairly common

00:26:23.200 crime, I would

00:26:23.960 imagine.

00:26:25.100 But here's

00:26:26.100 the wrinkle.

00:26:27.280 So Trump

00:26:28.040 basically says

00:26:29.900 you're fired, 0.86

00:26:30.540 fired, and

00:26:31.880 then she

00:26:32.420 says, no

00:26:33.640 I'm not,

00:26:34.380 you don't

00:26:34.840 have the

00:26:35.180 authority to

00:26:35.920 fire me, 0.99

00:26:36.960 because you

00:26:37.620 can only

00:26:38.000 fire me for

00:26:38.820 a cause,

00:26:40.240 and your

00:26:41.080 exposition of

00:26:42.440 the cause is

00:26:43.140 bullshit,

00:26:43.660 basically.

00:26:44.600 So I'm not

00:26:45.560 leaving.

00:26:46.660 To which I

00:26:47.600 say,

00:26:48.520 what happens

00:26:50.140 now?

00:26:52.580 Because it's

00:26:53.460 not like Trump

00:26:54.180 can tell the

00:26:55.900 head of the

00:26:56.720 Fed,

00:26:57.500 Powell,

00:26:57.800 to, hey,

00:26:59.360 make sure you

00:26:59.960 clean out her 0.99

00:27:00.640 desk, I

00:27:01.180 don't know if

00:27:01.520 they have

00:27:01.740 desks, but

00:27:03.060 make sure you

00:27:04.040 exclude her 0.92

00:27:05.000 because she's

00:27:05.620 fired.

00:27:07.240 He doesn't

00:27:07.760 have to do

00:27:08.220 that, does

00:27:09.040 he?

00:27:09.760 Because he's

00:27:10.320 independent.

00:27:11.560 So he could

00:27:12.460 just say,

00:27:13.140 yeah, yeah,

00:27:13.500 yeah, you

00:27:14.100 think she's

00:27:14.660 fired, but

00:27:15.960 we're just

00:27:16.880 going to keep

00:27:17.640 on going and

00:27:18.360 keep paying

00:27:18.900 her, and 0.66

00:27:19.920 she'll still 0.87

00:27:20.480 come to

00:27:20.940 work like

00:27:21.580 always.

00:27:23.520 What would

00:27:24.200 happen then?

00:27:26.300 You know,

00:27:26.940 would Trump

00:27:27.860 send some

00:27:30.060 kind of

00:27:30.600 physical

00:27:31.460 authority like

00:27:32.500 the police

00:27:33.700 or something?

00:27:35.020 I mean,

00:27:35.280 what do you

00:27:35.580 do then?

00:27:37.340 So this

00:27:38.540 will be an

00:27:38.940 interesting

00:27:39.340 standoff.

00:27:40.860 I don't

00:27:41.200 know who

00:27:41.540 wins this

00:27:41.960 one.

00:27:42.780 This is

00:27:43.240 different than

00:27:43.860 the Texas

00:27:45.100 one where

00:27:46.320 the Democrats

00:27:46.980 left the

00:27:47.600 state so

00:27:48.180 they didn't

00:27:48.500 have to

00:27:49.460 vote on

00:27:50.180 redistricting.

00:27:51.240 You knew

00:27:52.000 how that was

00:27:52.620 going to

00:27:52.920 end, right?

00:27:55.020 Everybody

00:27:55.500 knew that

00:27:56.180 eventually

00:27:56.840 they'd

00:27:57.720 have to

00:27:57.980 come back

00:27:58.620 and

00:27:59.300 eventually

00:27:59.840 because

00:28:00.500 Republicans

00:28:01.060 had the

00:28:01.560 advantage,

00:28:02.540 it was

00:28:02.900 going to

00:28:03.160 pass.

00:28:04.360 But at

00:28:04.740 this one,

00:28:05.500 I don't

00:28:05.820 know.

00:28:06.240 I'm not

00:28:06.540 sure that

00:28:07.040 Trump's

00:28:07.440 firing will

00:28:08.300 stick.

00:28:09.800 Maybe it

00:28:10.240 goes to

00:28:10.680 court.

00:28:11.420 I don't

00:28:11.740 know.

00:28:13.360 But I

00:28:13.980 wouldn't

00:28:14.360 expect her

00:28:15.000 to leave

00:28:15.360 anytime soon.

00:28:17.700 All right,

00:28:18.200 so here's

00:28:19.560 a story

00:28:20.080 that we

00:28:21.260 will all

00:28:21.820 disagree on.

00:28:23.360 We will

00:28:24.020 disagree on

00:28:24.860 what our

00:28:25.220 opinions are

00:28:26.000 about it,

00:28:26.960 but more

00:28:27.360 importantly,

00:28:28.000 we will

00:28:28.340 disagree about

00:28:29.160 what the

00:28:29.540 facts of

00:28:30.220 the story

00:28:30.660 are.

00:28:31.900 And I'm

00:28:33.080 not sure I'm

00:28:33.740 going to be

00:28:34.020 able to help

00:28:34.460 on this one

00:28:35.040 because it's

00:28:35.560 really confusing.

00:28:36.620 And the

00:28:36.920 story is

00:28:37.520 that Trump

00:28:38.740 has signed

00:28:39.880 an executive

00:28:40.500 order about

00:28:42.160 flag burning.

00:28:44.240 Now, do you

00:28:44.760 see how

00:28:45.200 carefully I

00:28:46.040 worded that?

00:28:47.140 I said it

00:28:47.880 was an

00:28:48.240 executive order

00:28:49.580 about flag

00:28:51.260 burning.

00:28:51.660 What I

00:28:53.080 didn't say

00:28:53.940 is that he

00:28:55.480 said it

00:28:56.820 is now

00:28:57.280 illegal to

00:28:57.980 burn a

00:28:58.300 flag because

00:28:59.700 he didn't

00:29:00.140 say that.

00:29:01.720 So I

00:29:03.200 would ask

00:29:04.020 you to

00:29:04.880 Google it

00:29:06.140 or AI

00:29:07.740 it and

00:29:09.100 look at the

00:29:09.980 actual wording

00:29:10.920 of the

00:29:11.340 executive order.

00:29:12.760 I believe it

00:29:13.820 was written

00:29:14.220 by somebody

00:29:14.860 who was

00:29:15.300 drunk or

00:29:17.760 stupid. 0.90

00:29:18.300 you can't

00:29:20.180 even, you

00:29:21.120 can barely

00:29:21.700 understand what

00:29:23.120 the executive

00:29:23.700 order is

00:29:24.380 trying to

00:29:24.880 do.

00:29:26.100 So here's

00:29:26.840 what I

00:29:27.200 think is

00:29:28.760 happening.

00:29:29.380 And by the

00:29:30.000 way, I'll

00:29:30.520 withdraw my

00:29:31.340 comment that

00:29:32.580 it looks like

00:29:33.700 it was written

00:29:34.060 by somebody

00:29:34.640 drunk or

00:29:35.620 somebody stupid 0.88

00:29:36.360 because I

00:29:37.240 think there's

00:29:37.740 an explanation

00:29:39.240 in which it

00:29:40.100 is intentionally

00:29:41.880 hard to

00:29:43.080 understand.

00:29:44.640 It looks

00:29:45.720 like it's

00:29:47.100 intentional.

00:29:48.300 So that's

00:29:49.340 why I'm

00:29:49.680 withdrawing my

00:29:50.520 insult to

00:29:51.560 the author

00:29:52.020 of it.

00:29:53.680 Obviously

00:29:54.440 Trump doesn't

00:29:55.400 write the

00:29:56.200 verbiage

00:29:56.620 himself.

00:29:58.240 But it

00:29:59.220 is so

00:29:59.620 confusing

00:30:00.200 that it

00:30:02.680 has the

00:30:03.180 look of

00:30:04.560 trying to

00:30:05.140 make the

00:30:05.740 news get

00:30:06.480 the wrong

00:30:06.980 story and

00:30:08.280 start reporting

00:30:09.140 that he's

00:30:10.220 going to

00:30:10.800 ban the

00:30:11.480 burning of

00:30:12.000 flags,

00:30:12.740 which didn't

00:30:13.580 happen.

00:30:14.960 That didn't

00:30:15.420 happen.

00:30:17.100 The executive

00:30:18.100 order says

00:30:18.960 things like

00:30:19.620 you must

00:30:22.260 now really

00:30:23.140 obey the

00:30:23.980 existing laws

00:30:25.080 of the

00:30:25.540 state and

00:30:26.220 federal

00:30:26.540 government.

00:30:29.980 Wasn't that

00:30:30.960 always the

00:30:31.480 case?

00:30:33.440 Weren't we

00:30:34.320 always supposed

00:30:37.120 to obey the

00:30:38.540 existing laws?

00:30:40.100 So that's

00:30:40.480 part of it.

00:30:41.080 then there's

00:30:42.840 a part where

00:30:43.660 he's encouraging

00:30:44.880 the attorney

00:30:45.700 general to

00:30:47.180 press some

00:30:48.340 legal cases

00:30:49.280 to find out

00:30:50.800 where the

00:30:51.180 borderline is

00:30:52.180 where you

00:30:53.160 can prosecute

00:30:55.040 somebody.

00:30:56.500 So that's

00:30:56.900 more about

00:30:57.540 determining where

00:30:58.660 the line is

00:30:59.660 of existing

00:31:02.060 law.

00:31:03.140 Of existing

00:31:03.800 law.

00:31:04.240 It's not

00:31:04.600 attempting to

00:31:05.200 make a new

00:31:05.620 law.

00:31:06.300 It's attempting

00:31:06.920 to clarify

00:31:08.540 through court

00:31:10.900 cases, I

00:31:11.760 guess, what

00:31:12.900 exactly would

00:31:14.160 be going too

00:31:14.780 far.

00:31:15.800 Now, the

00:31:16.300 things that we

00:31:17.040 know are

00:31:17.380 illegal would

00:31:19.000 be inciting

00:31:20.220 violence and

00:31:21.180 stuff like that.

00:31:21.840 So if you were

00:31:22.780 burning your flag

00:31:23.720 in the context

00:31:24.640 of inciting

00:31:25.600 violence,

00:31:26.700 then I guess

00:31:29.360 there would be

00:31:29.860 some clarifications

00:31:31.360 maybe to

00:31:33.200 figure out if

00:31:34.260 it was

00:31:34.980 something you

00:31:36.100 could prosecute.

00:31:38.240 Anyway, do

00:31:39.480 your own

00:31:39.960 reading.

00:31:40.580 You will find

00:31:41.200 that there

00:31:42.820 will be great

00:31:43.380 disagreement on

00:31:44.760 what the

00:31:45.560 executive order

00:31:46.420 says.

00:31:47.060 But what it

00:31:47.760 doesn't do is

00:31:49.940 change the

00:31:50.540 law.

00:31:52.240 So it

00:31:52.900 doesn't change

00:31:53.460 the law.

00:31:53.880 It's the

00:31:54.100 existing law.

00:31:55.360 It might

00:31:56.120 cause some

00:31:58.220 differences

00:31:58.680 as though it's

00:31:59.600 enforced.

00:32:00.120 so I

00:32:06.540 don't even

00:32:07.000 know how to

00:32:07.500 have an

00:32:07.800 opinion on

00:32:08.380 it.

00:32:08.980 It looks

00:32:09.840 like, my

00:32:10.860 best guess,

00:32:12.280 is that

00:32:12.800 mostly the

00:32:14.760 purpose of

00:32:15.320 it, that's

00:32:15.760 Gary purring

00:32:16.740 into the

00:32:17.140 microphone if

00:32:17.820 you hear

00:32:18.140 extra sound

00:32:18.900 there.

00:32:23.840 Did you

00:32:24.440 lock the

00:32:24.720 front door?

00:32:25.240 Check.

00:32:25.780 Close the

00:32:26.260 garage door?

00:32:26.960 Yep.

00:32:27.440 Installed

00:32:27.740 window sensors,

00:32:28.520 smoke sensors,

00:32:29.220 and HD

00:32:29.660 cameras with

00:32:30.180 night vision?

00:32:30.960 No.

00:32:31.800 And you

00:32:32.100 set up

00:32:32.340 credit card

00:32:32.680 transaction

00:32:33.080 alerts, a

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00:32:35.220 and continuous

00:32:35.800 monitoring for

00:32:36.380 our personal

00:32:36.720 info on the

00:32:37.160 dark web?

00:32:38.260 Uh, I'm

00:32:39.460 looking into

00:32:40.140 it?

00:32:40.760 Stress less

00:32:41.400 about security.

00:32:42.520 Choose

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00:32:50.280 apply.

00:32:52.120 It looks

00:32:52.960 like Trump

00:32:53.580 is just

00:32:54.080 doing one

00:32:54.580 of those

00:32:55.040 Trumpian

00:32:55.780 things where

00:32:57.000 he makes

00:32:57.400 the press

00:32:58.960 and all

00:32:59.440 of his

00:32:59.700 enemies

00:33:00.000 talk about

00:33:00.720 something that's

00:33:01.480 not even

00:33:01.860 real, and

00:33:03.000 nobody really

00:33:03.900 cares about

00:33:04.440 that much.

00:33:06.220 And if

00:33:07.040 they're talking

00:33:07.480 about flag

00:33:08.420 burning, it

00:33:10.360 would be more

00:33:11.740 along the lines

00:33:12.520 of, hey,

00:33:13.640 Democrats, what

00:33:14.740 do you think

00:33:15.080 about crime in

00:33:16.020 the cities?

00:33:17.260 Well, you must

00:33:18.260 be in favor of

00:33:19.060 it.

00:33:19.900 Hey, what do you

00:33:20.460 think about that

00:33:21.080 border?

00:33:22.240 Well, you must

00:33:23.040 be in favor of

00:33:23.860 gangs coming 0.98

00:33:24.500 across the

00:33:25.080 border.

00:33:25.360 Now, what

00:33:26.780 do you think

00:33:27.160 of burning

00:33:27.800 flags?

00:33:29.900 Basically, you'll

00:33:30.740 just get them

00:33:31.360 all worked up

00:33:32.220 and they'll be

00:33:32.780 on the side

00:33:33.480 of burning

00:33:33.960 flags, which

00:33:35.300 I am.

00:33:35.900 I'm on the

00:33:36.460 side of it

00:33:37.300 should be

00:33:37.620 free speech.

00:33:39.860 But if

00:33:40.640 you're a

00:33:41.000 Democrat and

00:33:41.920 you come out

00:33:42.600 against flags

00:33:44.620 and in favor

00:33:45.240 of crime and

00:33:46.100 open borders,

00:33:47.660 all of it

00:33:48.680 looks like a

00:33:49.280 trap to me.

00:33:51.060 So maybe it's

00:33:51.640 more about

00:33:52.040 that.

00:33:52.320 So the

00:33:55.200 EO says it

00:33:57.200 directs aggressive

00:33:58.200 prosecution of

00:33:59.480 related crimes.

00:34:02.020 Related crimes.

00:34:05.280 You see how

00:34:06.180 weaselly this

00:34:06.900 is?

00:34:07.760 The executive

00:34:08.440 order directs

00:34:09.360 aggressive

00:34:09.880 prosecution of

00:34:10.940 related crimes.

00:34:12.440 Not burning

00:34:13.180 the flag, because

00:34:14.660 that's still, you

00:34:15.840 know, not

00:34:16.300 illegal.

00:34:17.760 But if there

00:34:18.800 were any

00:34:19.100 related crimes,

00:34:20.600 make sure you

00:34:21.400 press those.

00:34:23.160 And there's

00:34:23.520 also something

00:34:26.660 about non-citizens.

00:34:28.860 So if a

00:34:29.360 foreign national

00:34:30.220 is doing it,

00:34:31.820 then Homeland

00:34:32.800 Security and

00:34:33.920 the Secretary

00:34:34.460 of State can

00:34:35.320 send them

00:34:36.000 home, I

00:34:36.420 guess.

00:34:37.340 But I feel

00:34:38.540 like that was

00:34:39.220 also something

00:34:40.560 they always

00:34:41.360 could have

00:34:41.840 done, right?

00:34:43.380 Isn't it

00:34:43.980 true that

00:34:44.480 currently, if

00:34:46.580 the Secretary

00:34:47.500 of State says,

00:34:48.600 whoa, that's

00:34:49.160 a bad

00:34:50.680 behavior in

00:34:51.800 our country,

00:34:52.920 then he

00:34:53.480 just has to

00:34:54.120 say, that's

00:34:55.280 bad behavior,

00:34:56.080 you're going

00:34:56.440 home.

00:34:57.460 Am I

00:34:57.800 wrong?

00:34:58.480 I don't

00:34:58.800 think they

00:34:59.120 have to

00:34:59.380 break a

00:34:59.780 law.

00:35:01.120 So I

00:35:02.320 don't even

00:35:02.620 know if

00:35:02.840 that part's

00:35:03.300 different, but

00:35:04.140 it might be

00:35:04.960 enforced

00:35:05.400 differently if

00:35:06.200 a foreign 0.60

00:35:07.320 national is

00:35:08.240 burning a

00:35:08.920 flag.

00:35:09.900 Maybe that

00:35:12.120 would trigger

00:35:13.020 the deportation.

00:35:14.160 Trump is

00:35:17.920 also signing

00:35:18.700 an executive

00:35:19.200 order to

00:35:20.660 eliminate

00:35:21.220 federal funding

00:35:22.720 for any

00:35:23.500 place that

00:35:24.740 has cashless

00:35:25.760 bail.

00:35:27.520 Boy, Trump

00:35:28.420 is really

00:35:28.840 using that

00:35:29.600 federal funding

00:35:31.560 thing as

00:35:32.760 quite the

00:35:33.320 weapon.

00:35:34.000 Between his

00:35:34.840 tariffs to

00:35:36.360 punish other

00:35:37.240 countries, and

00:35:38.640 then he is

00:35:39.140 eliminating federal

00:35:40.400 funding to

00:35:41.720 punish any

00:35:42.520 states and

00:35:43.240 localities that

00:35:44.260 are disobeying

00:35:45.700 him, do

00:35:47.640 you think

00:35:47.940 he'll get

00:35:48.300 away with

00:35:48.660 that?

00:35:49.860 Can Trump

00:35:50.640 use federal

00:35:51.800 funding to

00:35:53.160 make the

00:35:53.900 local

00:35:54.280 jurisdictions

00:35:55.060 change their

00:35:56.380 laws?

00:35:57.960 I hope

00:35:58.900 not.

00:36:00.060 So I'd

00:36:01.020 be in favor

00:36:01.600 of ending

00:36:02.500 cashless bail,

00:36:04.080 but I'm not

00:36:05.000 in favor of

00:36:05.600 the federal

00:36:06.060 government being

00:36:07.200 able to tell

00:36:07.920 the states or

00:36:09.200 the cities any

00:36:10.780 fucking thing

00:36:11.520 it wants.

00:36:13.240 I'd like you

00:36:14.240 all to put

00:36:15.180 your heads in

00:36:16.020 a bucket of

00:36:16.640 ice water.

00:36:17.920 Why?

00:36:18.460 Why would we

00:36:18.980 do that?

00:36:20.060 Well, if you

00:36:20.700 don't, I'm

00:36:22.000 going to cut

00:36:22.440 your federal

00:36:22.980 funding.

00:36:24.600 Now I'd like

00:36:25.500 you to remove

00:36:26.340 your clothes and

00:36:27.400 run around in

00:36:28.100 the public

00:36:28.520 square while we

00:36:29.580 mock you.

00:36:30.560 Well, why

00:36:30.960 would I do

00:36:31.460 that?

00:36:32.520 Well, you

00:36:33.740 don't have to,

00:36:34.880 but I've got an

00:36:35.640 executive order

00:36:36.480 here that will

00:36:37.080 pull your

00:36:37.680 federal funding

00:36:38.440 if you don't.

00:36:39.200 So I

00:36:41.880 don't know

00:36:42.240 how far you

00:36:42.980 could push

00:36:43.600 this, I

00:36:44.740 will eliminate

00:36:45.660 your federal

00:36:46.280 funding, but

00:36:47.580 I don't like

00:36:48.340 it.

00:36:49.640 I don't like

00:36:50.260 it.

00:36:52.160 I do like

00:36:53.300 it when,

00:36:55.140 let's say,

00:36:55.780 the sanctuary

00:36:56.360 cities are

00:36:57.840 defying the

00:36:58.760 law of the

00:36:59.300 land.

00:37:00.400 If you're

00:37:01.220 defying the

00:37:02.020 law of the

00:37:02.560 land by not

00:37:04.000 letting the

00:37:04.620 federal government

00:37:05.360 do its

00:37:06.280 constitutional duty

00:37:08.100 to protect the

00:37:08.880 borders, then

00:37:10.540 maybe withdrawing

00:37:11.680 your federal

00:37:12.160 funding makes

00:37:12.820 sense.

00:37:13.540 If you're

00:37:14.080 discriminating

00:37:15.100 and you're

00:37:16.400 a college and

00:37:17.620 you're being

00:37:18.000 anti-Semitic,

00:37:19.760 well, yeah,

00:37:21.260 maybe you lose

00:37:22.080 your federal

00:37:22.560 funding.

00:37:23.880 But the

00:37:24.760 places that

00:37:25.560 have cashless

00:37:26.500 bail, wasn't

00:37:28.920 that decided

00:37:30.060 by the

00:37:30.540 residents?

00:37:31.440 And isn't

00:37:31.900 it totally

00:37:32.380 legal?

00:37:33.100 It's unwise,

00:37:34.200 it's very

00:37:34.620 bad, but

00:37:35.860 isn't it

00:37:36.320 totally legal?

00:37:37.180 So if

00:37:38.480 Trump starts

00:37:39.180 using the

00:37:39.800 threat of

00:37:40.420 federal funding

00:37:41.220 against people

00:37:43.160 who are doing

00:37:43.600 things that are

00:37:44.340 totally legal

00:37:45.260 within their

00:37:46.780 state, I

00:37:48.280 don't know,

00:37:48.720 that feels

00:37:49.100 like a new

00:37:49.660 level.

00:37:50.840 It feels

00:37:51.300 like you

00:37:52.360 wouldn't want

00:37:52.840 that precedent.

00:37:54.300 But like I

00:37:54.800 said, if he's

00:37:56.140 taking funding

00:37:57.300 away because

00:37:57.820 somebody's

00:37:58.200 breaking the

00:37:58.880 law, they're

00:38:00.060 discriminating,

00:38:01.560 they're anti-Semitic,

00:38:02.700 they're protecting

00:38:05.900 the illegals,

00:38:09.240 then it's

00:38:10.960 different.

00:38:14.080 Trump said

00:38:15.200 he's going to

00:38:15.780 file a

00:38:16.380 lawsuit against

00:38:18.580 California for

00:38:19.620 their move to

00:38:20.420 redistrict.

00:38:22.320 Now, he

00:38:22.760 didn't say what

00:38:23.720 would be the

00:38:24.500 cause of the

00:38:27.240 lawsuit.

00:38:27.640 lawsuit.

00:38:29.100 Does it

00:38:29.900 bother you

00:38:30.400 at all that

00:38:31.520 the government,

00:38:32.540 because they

00:38:32.960 have unlimited

00:38:33.720 access to

00:38:35.540 other people's

00:38:36.380 money, meaning

00:38:37.580 ours, that

00:38:39.640 they can fight

00:38:40.460 any legal battle

00:38:41.540 they want

00:38:42.120 anytime, so

00:38:43.320 they just fight

00:38:44.060 everything in

00:38:44.860 court?

00:38:45.720 Everything.

00:38:46.800 Doesn't matter

00:38:47.520 who does what.

00:38:48.660 somebody's

00:38:50.060 going to find

00:38:50.620 some damn

00:38:51.340 reason that

00:38:51.980 the courts

00:38:52.460 should reject

00:38:53.120 it.

00:38:54.140 And I'm

00:38:54.700 thinking that

00:38:55.280 this wouldn't

00:38:55.920 happen if

00:38:57.840 they were

00:38:58.860 forced to be

00:38:59.560 in a budget

00:39:00.080 of some kind.

00:39:02.080 You wouldn't

00:39:03.220 take 100% of

00:39:04.880 everything to

00:39:06.160 court and sue

00:39:07.500 over it if you

00:39:08.360 had a budget

00:39:08.920 you worried

00:39:09.360 about.

00:39:09.860 But if you're

00:39:10.340 spending somebody

00:39:11.160 else's money,

00:39:13.420 apparently there's

00:39:15.140 no limit to

00:39:16.100 how much you

00:39:16.520 can sue people.

00:39:18.660 Well, CNN's

00:39:21.180 data guy,

00:39:23.100 Harry Enten,

00:39:24.740 he made a

00:39:26.800 devastating

00:39:27.500 comparison.

00:39:28.860 He said the

00:39:29.340 Democratic Party

00:39:30.360 is about as

00:39:31.340 popular as the

00:39:32.340 Cracker Barrel

00:39:33.080 logo rebrand.

00:39:36.740 Ouch.

00:39:38.140 How would you

00:39:38.740 like to be the

00:39:39.460 CEO of

00:39:40.600 Cracker Barrel,

00:39:42.600 who I refer to

00:39:43.900 as the

00:39:44.660 owl wannabe?

00:39:45.980 if you've

00:39:48.660 seen her

00:39:48.940 picture,

00:39:49.440 that's

00:39:49.720 hilarious.

00:39:51.080 Anyway,

00:39:52.840 imagine being

00:39:54.660 the architect

00:39:55.360 of a

00:39:56.260 rebrand that's

00:39:57.580 so bad

00:39:58.340 that CNN

00:39:59.240 casually uses

00:40:00.500 that as an

00:40:01.200 example of

00:40:01.840 the worst

00:40:02.260 you can be.

00:40:04.820 It's not

00:40:05.560 even a

00:40:05.960 conversation.

00:40:07.140 It's not

00:40:07.580 even the

00:40:08.120 left and the

00:40:08.700 right have

00:40:09.080 different opinions.

00:40:10.680 He's

00:40:11.280 presumably

00:40:12.140 closer to the

00:40:13.200 left,

00:40:13.500 and he

00:40:14.500 uses that

00:40:15.140 as an

00:40:15.480 example of

00:40:17.000 a gigantic

00:40:17.660 mistake.

00:40:19.620 Like it's

00:40:20.380 not even a

00:40:20.980 question.

00:40:22.520 There's

00:40:23.080 nothing to

00:40:23.560 say.

00:40:23.900 It's

00:40:23.980 obviously a

00:40:24.700 gigantic

00:40:24.980 mistake.

00:40:28.180 Anyway,

00:40:29.220 and he

00:40:29.700 points out

00:40:30.200 that voter

00:40:30.640 registration for

00:40:31.540 the GOP is

00:40:32.360 surging in

00:40:33.320 the swing

00:40:33.900 states,

00:40:34.720 which he

00:40:35.380 says is

00:40:36.060 bad,

00:40:36.660 bad for

00:40:37.320 Democrats.

00:40:37.940 there is

00:40:41.680 some

00:40:42.260 organization

00:40:43.140 called

00:40:44.000 Cook

00:40:44.540 Political

00:40:45.140 who does

00:40:47.520 predictions

00:40:48.120 about

00:40:48.640 midterms,

00:40:49.880 and they

00:40:50.360 have updated

00:40:50.900 their predictions

00:40:51.660 and they

00:40:52.220 give the

00:40:52.540 Republicans

00:40:53.060 the edge

00:40:54.660 in the

00:40:55.020 House in

00:40:55.780 the midterms.

00:40:56.860 Now,

00:40:57.100 that would

00:40:57.360 be a big

00:40:57.900 deal because

00:40:59.120 it's very

00:41:00.000 unusual for

00:41:02.340 the party

00:41:03.220 that has

00:41:03.640 the presidency

00:41:04.320 to also

00:41:05.760 win the

00:41:06.260 midterms in

00:41:06.980 the House.

00:41:07.420 it's automatic

00:41:09.080 that it

00:41:09.760 goes the

00:41:10.100 other way

00:41:10.400 because the

00:41:11.240 public doesn't

00:41:12.120 like it

00:41:12.640 when one

00:41:13.940 party has

00:41:14.380 too much

00:41:14.760 power,

00:41:15.260 basically.

00:41:17.840 However,

00:41:18.580 this might

00:41:18.960 be the

00:41:19.300 exception

00:41:19.780 because things

00:41:20.680 are going

00:41:21.120 so poorly

00:41:22.280 for Democrats

00:41:23.280 and the

00:41:26.300 Cook

00:41:26.780 Political

00:41:27.300 people,

00:41:28.500 they're

00:41:29.160 predicting a

00:41:30.120 Republican

00:41:30.760 victory in

00:41:31.380 the midterms.

00:41:32.680 Now,

00:41:33.480 I don't

00:41:34.200 know,

00:41:35.100 I don't

00:41:35.640 have any

00:41:36.100 insight

00:41:36.700 into

00:41:37.840 midterms,

00:41:39.040 so I

00:41:39.840 don't

00:41:39.960 have a

00:41:40.540 reason to

00:41:41.280 disagree

00:41:41.660 with them,

00:41:42.680 but we'll

00:41:43.160 see.

00:41:47.120 Roger

00:41:47.720 Stone

00:41:48.540 posted this.

00:41:53.160 I'm just

00:41:53.660 going to

00:41:53.920 read what

00:41:54.440 Roger Stone

00:41:55.260 said on

00:41:55.880 X.

00:41:56.720 He said,

00:41:57.300 I was

00:41:57.620 arrested at

00:41:58.420 6.06

00:41:59.400 a.m.,

00:41:59.940 but at

00:42:01.760 6.22

00:42:02.660 a.m.,

00:42:03.540 so just a

00:42:04.180 few minutes

00:42:04.580 later,

00:42:05.260 Sarah

00:42:05.640 Murray of

00:42:06.260 CNN sent

00:42:07.120 my lawyer

00:42:07.700 a draft

00:42:08.700 of my

00:42:09.820 criminal

00:42:10.280 indictment,

00:42:11.180 which was

00:42:11.940 sealed until

00:42:12.720 10.30

00:42:13.360 that morning.

00:42:14.840 And the

00:42:15.140 metadata

00:42:15.560 tags were

00:42:16.800 the initials

00:42:17.480 of the

00:42:17.700 man who

00:42:18.040 wrote it

00:42:18.500 and leaked

00:42:18.960 it,

00:42:20.000 was Andrew

00:42:22.100 Weisman,

00:42:23.200 who is

00:42:25.180 one of the

00:42:25.680 legal pundits

00:42:26.600 on CNN.

00:42:27.780 So Roger

00:42:28.640 Stone says,

00:42:29.380 no wonder

00:42:29.840 CNN was

00:42:30.600 there.

00:42:30.900 So if

00:42:33.860 I understand

00:42:34.420 this, he

00:42:35.020 believes that

00:42:35.560 Andrew

00:42:35.920 Weisman

00:42:37.300 wrote the

00:42:40.580 indictment

00:42:41.320 and also

00:42:42.840 works for

00:42:44.080 or with

00:42:44.660 CNN,

00:42:46.000 and that

00:42:46.420 he's kind

00:42:47.740 of assuming

00:42:48.240 that's where

00:42:48.720 the leak

00:42:49.100 came from.

00:42:50.560 Well,

00:42:51.480 maybe.

00:42:55.060 So

00:42:55.620 apparently

00:42:58.280 a bunch

00:42:59.520 of Epstein

00:43:00.560 survivors,

00:43:01.820 the young

00:43:02.320 women who 0.99

00:43:02.820 are the

00:43:03.120 victims,

00:43:03.920 will hold

00:43:04.420 a press

00:43:05.060 conference

00:43:05.680 on Capitol

00:43:07.180 Hill on

00:43:07.680 September 3rd.

00:43:09.340 Now,

00:43:09.880 do you

00:43:10.440 believe that

00:43:11.200 the victims,

00:43:12.380 the survivors,

00:43:13.480 will have

00:43:14.220 something new

00:43:14.920 to say?

00:43:16.400 Because it's

00:43:17.580 starting to

00:43:18.180 look like

00:43:19.320 Jeffrey Epstein

00:43:20.120 was mostly

00:43:21.240 a money

00:43:21.880 laundering

00:43:22.520 expert who

00:43:24.040 was teaching

00:43:24.660 the rich and

00:43:25.320 powerful how

00:43:26.000 to hide

00:43:26.400 their money

00:43:26.880 and essentially

00:43:28.780 keep it from

00:43:29.960 the government

00:43:30.540 or their

00:43:32.000 spouse or

00:43:32.860 wherever they're

00:43:33.320 keeping it

00:43:33.720 from.

00:43:34.800 And he

00:43:36.780 was definitely

00:43:37.480 the one who

00:43:38.060 did a lot

00:43:38.960 of the sex 0.87

00:43:39.540 crimes and

00:43:40.420 there might

00:43:40.740 have been a

00:43:41.120 few buddies

00:43:41.760 that were in

00:43:42.380 on it.

00:43:43.460 But so far

00:43:44.540 we're not

00:43:45.000 seeing proof

00:43:45.760 that there's

00:43:46.560 like a client

00:43:47.300 list and it's

00:43:48.180 a blackmail

00:43:48.800 operation.

00:43:50.380 It might have

00:43:51.280 been, and it

00:43:52.180 might have been

00:43:52.580 like a subtle

00:43:54.040 blackmail

00:43:54.700 operation where

00:43:55.620 he didn't

00:43:56.220 actually blackmail

00:43:57.280 anybody, but

00:43:58.780 anybody who

00:43:59.420 got into that

00:44:00.200 kind of illegal

00:44:01.240 activity with

00:44:02.400 him would just

00:44:03.920 sort of know

00:44:04.620 it would be

00:44:05.000 better to keep

00:44:05.640 him happy than

00:44:06.340 not.

00:44:07.540 So it doesn't

00:44:09.140 have to be

00:44:09.720 blackmail.

00:44:11.260 It could just

00:44:12.360 be putting them

00:44:13.700 in sensitive

00:44:14.380 situations so

00:44:16.080 they're more

00:44:16.460 likely to play

00:44:17.440 ball with him

00:44:18.040 in the future.

00:44:19.000 Could be just

00:44:20.020 that.

00:44:21.840 I don't know.

00:44:23.340 So here's what

00:44:24.560 I expect.

00:44:25.620 There will be

00:44:26.200 no new

00:44:27.260 prominent names

00:44:28.620 named at the

00:44:30.300 press conference.

00:44:31.360 Anybody want to

00:44:32.060 take the other

00:44:32.580 side of that

00:44:33.080 bet?

00:44:34.160 I say there

00:44:34.760 will be no

00:44:35.480 new person

00:44:36.360 implicated.

00:44:37.300 Might be a

00:44:37.820 name you've

00:44:38.260 heard before,

00:44:39.320 you know,

00:44:39.500 like Prince

00:44:40.000 Andrew, but

00:44:41.320 I'm going to

00:44:41.800 say no new

00:44:42.600 names will be

00:44:43.540 presented.

00:44:45.500 Just a

00:44:46.360 prediction.

00:44:48.560 Trump's

00:44:49.080 floating idea

00:44:49.900 of renaming

00:44:50.680 the Pentagon

00:44:51.300 back to what

00:44:52.220 it used to

00:44:52.660 be, the

00:44:53.180 Department of

00:44:53.860 War.

00:44:54.200 He says

00:44:55.720 it's because

00:44:56.280 we won

00:44:57.060 World War

00:44:57.560 II and

00:44:58.140 one World

00:44:58.660 War I,

00:45:00.640 although there

00:45:02.800 might be some

00:45:03.380 disagreement about

00:45:04.260 that from the

00:45:04.860 Russians and

00:45:06.680 maybe some

00:45:07.160 others.

00:45:07.920 But that's

00:45:08.560 Trump's version

00:45:09.360 that we're

00:45:10.100 winning all

00:45:10.620 these wars and

00:45:12.420 that the

00:45:13.360 Pentagon should

00:45:14.000 be called the

00:45:14.520 Department of

00:45:15.120 War.

00:45:15.400 All right,

00:45:16.320 here's why

00:45:17.140 that's a

00:45:17.920 terrible idea.

00:45:19.540 And I'm

00:45:19.760 very surprised

00:45:20.680 that Trump

00:45:22.120 doesn't have the

00:45:22.760 same opinion

00:45:23.340 I'm going to

00:45:23.820 tell you right

00:45:24.300 now.

00:45:25.900 Words

00:45:26.500 matter.

00:45:28.560 You all

00:45:29.260 know, because

00:45:29.840 I talk about

00:45:30.440 it too often,

00:45:31.580 my reframe

00:45:32.580 about alcohol,

00:45:34.180 where I say

00:45:34.760 alcohol is

00:45:35.460 poison, and

00:45:36.780 then people

00:45:37.360 with that one

00:45:38.240 sentence in

00:45:39.240 their head can

00:45:40.560 stop a lifetime

00:45:41.580 of over-drinking.

00:45:43.120 Now, maybe it

00:45:43.760 doesn't work for

00:45:44.340 alcoholics, but

00:45:45.240 people who just

00:45:45.860 wanted to, you

00:45:47.140 know, get

00:45:47.920 alcohol out of

00:45:48.620 their life, it

00:45:49.340 works really

00:45:49.940 well.

00:45:50.600 Now, why does

00:45:51.480 it work?

00:45:52.840 It only works

00:45:53.860 because the

00:45:54.440 words in the

00:45:55.440 sentence.

00:45:56.900 Words are

00:45:58.040 how you program

00:45:58.860 a brain.

00:46:00.100 That's why

00:46:00.840 large language

00:46:02.140 models are just

00:46:03.060 combinations of

00:46:03.960 words, and

00:46:04.980 once they figure

00:46:05.740 out the pattern,

00:46:07.040 you've got

00:46:07.460 something that

00:46:08.160 acts artificially

00:46:09.480 intelligent.

00:46:10.600 But I would

00:46:11.200 say, I'm not

00:46:12.020 sure that's

00:46:12.460 artificial, because

00:46:14.320 the way your

00:46:15.200 own brain is

00:46:16.100 organized, is

00:46:17.280 that the things

00:46:17.920 you think are

00:46:18.520 your logic and

00:46:19.400 your thinking are

00:46:20.680 really just words

00:46:22.600 and the way they

00:46:23.340 fit together, and

00:46:24.840 the frequency of

00:46:25.840 them.

00:46:26.520 You just believe

00:46:27.800 that you're doing

00:46:28.420 something that you

00:46:29.260 think is thinking,

00:46:30.680 but you're doing

00:46:31.700 what the large

00:46:32.380 language model is

00:46:33.320 doing.

00:46:34.080 You're just looking

00:46:35.340 for the repetitive

00:46:36.260 strongest patterns,

00:46:38.020 and then just

00:46:38.680 following them.

00:46:39.240 So, my point

00:46:42.320 is, if you

00:46:43.540 name your

00:46:44.080 Pentagon the

00:46:44.820 Department of

00:46:45.460 War, the 0.94

00:46:46.740 odds of having

00:46:47.640 a war go

00:46:49.500 way up.

00:46:52.040 That's a

00:46:52.940 hypnotist lesson

00:46:54.500 right there.

00:46:55.740 If you said

00:46:56.920 it's the

00:46:57.420 Department of

00:46:58.460 Making Peace

00:46:59.280 with Everybody,

00:47:01.220 people would

00:47:02.240 just sort of

00:47:02.880 think that's

00:47:03.480 what they do,

00:47:04.840 and then they

00:47:05.380 would organize

00:47:06.040 all their

00:47:06.500 thinking and

00:47:07.200 their budget and

00:47:07.840 their activities

00:47:08.440 around making

00:47:09.600 peace with

00:47:10.200 people.

00:47:11.060 If you call

00:47:11.900 it the

00:47:12.220 Department of

00:47:12.860 War, people

00:47:15.460 will operationalize

00:47:17.400 around that

00:47:17.960 word.

00:47:19.040 The word

00:47:19.760 doesn't just

00:47:20.780 change how

00:47:22.260 cool it

00:47:22.980 sounds or

00:47:23.960 change how

00:47:25.060 you feel about

00:47:25.720 it patriotically.

00:47:26.820 It might do

00:47:27.360 that too, but

00:47:29.280 it's going to

00:47:29.840 change how

00:47:30.360 people act.

00:47:32.180 And if you

00:47:32.620 want more of

00:47:33.460 a thing, put

00:47:34.180 it in the

00:47:34.660 title.

00:47:36.360 Let me say

00:47:36.880 that again.

00:47:37.380 if you want

00:47:38.580 more of a

00:47:39.400 thing, whatever

00:47:40.280 the thing

00:47:40.720 is, put it

00:47:42.100 in the name

00:47:42.680 of the

00:47:42.960 department

00:47:43.320 that's in

00:47:43.740 charge, and

00:47:44.700 you can get

00:47:45.180 more of

00:47:45.520 that.

00:47:47.360 So putting

00:47:48.160 war in the

00:47:49.160 name will

00:47:50.700 buy you

00:47:51.180 more war.

00:47:53.620 I mean, it's

00:47:54.680 not guaranteed,

00:47:55.680 but statistically

00:47:57.660 speaking, you're

00:47:59.620 going to

00:48:00.100 manage toward

00:48:03.040 that thing that

00:48:04.660 is the word

00:48:05.720 in your

00:48:06.020 head.

00:48:06.760 That's just

00:48:07.160 how brains

00:48:07.680 work.

00:48:08.200 They work

00:48:08.560 toward words.

00:48:13.940 As you

00:48:14.540 know, Trump

00:48:16.680 administration has

00:48:17.700 taken a 10%,

00:48:19.080 I guess it's an

00:48:20.940 investment, because

00:48:22.020 they put money

00:48:22.620 into it,

00:48:23.320 ownership stake in

00:48:24.260 Intel.

00:48:25.720 And when asked

00:48:26.260 about that, Trump

00:48:27.140 says he would

00:48:29.620 take on stakes in

00:48:30.820 other businesses.

00:48:31.500 I want to try

00:48:32.240 to get as

00:48:32.680 much as I

00:48:33.260 can, he

00:48:33.800 said.

00:48:34.620 Now, if you

00:48:36.240 don't like

00:48:36.800 fascism, where

00:48:37.940 the government

00:48:38.540 and the big

00:48:39.120 businesses were

00:48:40.160 sort of in bed

00:48:41.480 together, then

00:48:42.680 you probably

00:48:43.020 don't like the

00:48:44.120 government owning

00:48:45.020 a private

00:48:45.520 company, even

00:48:46.300 though it's

00:48:46.600 just 10%.

00:48:47.440 But they're

00:48:48.420 not going to

00:48:48.740 be able to

00:48:49.180 control it

00:48:50.080 with a 10%

00:48:51.620 equity.

00:48:54.220 However, we

00:48:55.320 should look at

00:48:55.980 some examples

00:48:57.360 where government

00:48:58.100 has done this

00:48:58.820 before.

00:48:59.220 If you're

00:48:59.740 old enough,

00:49:00.140 you remember

00:49:00.480 that General

00:49:02.000 Motors, the

00:49:03.140 government invested

00:49:04.020 $50 billion in

00:49:05.340 General Motors

00:49:05.880 and got a 61%

00:49:07.660 equity stake when

00:49:10.640 the company was

00:49:11.360 restructuring and

00:49:12.360 going bankrupt in

00:49:13.500 2009.

00:49:14.740 But eventually,

00:49:15.460 the Treasury

00:49:15.940 sold its shares

00:49:17.200 and created a

00:49:21.440 loss of about

00:49:22.220 $10 billion.

00:49:24.480 So the

00:49:25.260 investment in

00:49:26.180 General Motors

00:49:26.860 didn't work

00:49:27.400 out.

00:49:27.660 But there

00:49:29.160 was also an

00:49:29.760 investment in

00:49:30.420 Chrysler in

00:49:31.500 which the

00:49:32.080 government put

00:49:32.980 in $12.5

00:49:34.040 billion, took

00:49:35.380 an 8% equity

00:49:36.380 stake, and

00:49:38.080 then sold it

00:49:38.720 later with a

00:49:39.920 loss of

00:49:40.520 approximately

00:49:41.120 $1.3

00:49:42.140 billion.

00:49:43.520 So that's

00:49:44.360 two examples

00:49:45.180 where the

00:49:45.740 U.S.

00:49:47.460 revived a

00:49:48.260 company and

00:49:49.140 took a loss

00:49:49.900 in doing it.

00:49:50.880 However, if

00:49:52.060 those companies

00:49:52.740 are paying taxes

00:49:53.900 and the people

00:49:55.560 who work there

00:49:56.120 are getting a

00:49:56.620 salary and

00:49:57.300 also paying

00:49:58.080 taxes, it

00:49:59.400 could be that

00:50:00.280 the U.S.

00:50:00.840 government still

00:50:02.080 made money

00:50:02.660 because the

00:50:04.340 U.S.

00:50:04.700 would get the

00:50:05.340 higher tax

00:50:07.360 benefits if

00:50:08.340 the economy

00:50:09.600 still has these

00:50:10.920 big companies

00:50:11.580 in it.

00:50:12.420 Then there was

00:50:13.020 AIG, big

00:50:14.920 insurance group.

00:50:16.660 They were

00:50:17.340 having problems

00:50:18.440 some years ago

00:50:19.320 and the

00:50:19.860 government took

00:50:20.520 80% equity

00:50:21.920 in it, and

00:50:23.920 eventually

00:50:26.880 they profited

00:50:28.120 $23 billion

00:50:29.340 when they

00:50:30.680 sold their

00:50:31.120 stake.

00:50:31.940 Let's see.

00:50:33.080 So what do

00:50:33.580 we add?

00:50:34.680 So they're

00:50:35.200 up $23 billion,

00:50:36.780 but they lost

00:50:37.480 one on

00:50:38.220 Chrysler and

00:50:40.560 10 on

00:50:41.620 General Motors.

00:50:42.480 So far, if you

00:50:45.120 look at the

00:50:45.580 average, so

00:50:46.300 far they would

00:50:46.800 be up.

00:50:48.980 And then

00:50:49.560 there were

00:50:49.800 banks and

00:50:50.440 financial

00:50:50.940 institutions

00:50:52.140 in which

00:50:54.060 tarp funds

00:50:54.900 were used

00:50:55.480 to prop

00:50:56.800 up some

00:50:57.180 of the

00:50:57.380 big banks.

00:50:58.420 And the

00:50:58.800 government, I

00:50:59.480 guess, received

00:51:00.060 equity in

00:51:02.520 return for

00:51:03.040 that.

00:51:04.180 And there

00:51:04.780 was a net

00:51:05.220 profit.

00:51:06.540 So, by the

00:51:07.220 way, this is

00:51:07.700 from Grok.

00:51:09.040 So if Grok 0.95

00:51:09.900 is hallucinating,

00:51:11.260 don't blame

00:51:11.680 me.

00:51:12.600 Except blame

00:51:13.660 me for using

00:51:14.700 Grok, I

00:51:15.240 guess.

00:51:15.440 So, it

00:51:18.340 looks like in

00:51:19.020 some cases, the

00:51:20.620 government just

00:51:21.580 gets in, stays

00:51:23.160 there for several

00:51:23.940 years, and then

00:51:25.200 they sell out and

00:51:26.200 get out of it, and

00:51:28.040 they could make a

00:51:29.080 lot of money.

00:51:30.280 If you look at

00:51:31.000 all the deals

00:51:31.760 collectively, they

00:51:32.900 were solidly

00:51:34.280 positive, although a

00:51:35.300 few of them were

00:51:35.820 negative.

00:51:37.180 But overall, they

00:51:37.960 were positive.

00:51:38.980 So, I'm in

00:51:39.940 favor of Trump

00:51:41.140 strategically helping

00:51:44.040 some big

00:51:44.640 industries.

00:51:45.440 when there's a

00:51:46.880 chance we can

00:51:47.500 get our money

00:51:48.020 back, either

00:51:49.100 directly or

00:51:49.760 indirectly.

00:51:50.560 So, I'm in

00:51:51.100 favor of it.

00:51:54.200 Well, MSNBC had

00:51:55.940 George Conway on,

00:51:57.240 who's sort of only

00:51:58.960 got one thing he

00:51:59.800 ever says.

00:52:02.280 And you wouldn't

00:52:02.840 believe this, but

00:52:03.560 he compared what

00:52:04.580 Trump is doing

00:52:05.340 cleaning up

00:52:06.000 Washington, D.C.

00:52:07.160 to 1933 Nazi 0.72

00:52:09.080 Germany.

00:52:09.560 It's all George

00:52:11.780 Conway can do, is

00:52:13.440 find ways to

00:52:14.260 compare Trump to

00:52:15.280 Nazis.

00:52:16.540 So, he is an

00:52:17.680 analogy thinker.

00:52:19.620 An analogy

00:52:20.380 thinker is

00:52:22.020 someone who is

00:52:22.680 just reminded of

00:52:23.860 something else.

00:52:25.300 It's not

00:52:25.660 thinking.

00:52:26.740 Hey, I'm

00:52:27.180 reminded of a

00:52:27.980 thing.

00:52:28.900 It doesn't mean

00:52:29.760 it predicts.

00:52:31.440 It means you're

00:52:32.180 bad at thinking.

00:52:33.220 Analogy

00:52:35.800 thinkers, by

00:52:36.580 the way, are

00:52:37.140 an example of

00:52:38.060 large language

00:52:38.760 models, or

00:52:39.960 how we're not

00:52:40.760 really thinking

00:52:42.160 species.

00:52:43.500 We just feel

00:52:44.320 like we are

00:52:44.880 because the

00:52:45.420 words fit

00:52:45.960 together.

00:52:47.080 You know, the

00:52:47.380 words, oh, this

00:52:48.880 reminds me of

00:52:50.240 Nazi Germany.

00:52:51.940 The words fit

00:52:52.660 together.

00:52:54.200 And once it

00:52:56.120 becomes a thing

00:52:56.920 that the people

00:52:57.580 say the most,

00:52:58.960 then everybody

00:52:59.840 believes it's

00:53:00.420 true and they'll

00:53:00.940 say it even

00:53:01.440 more.

00:53:01.740 So, there's

00:53:03.780 a lot of

00:53:04.080 that going

00:53:04.400 on.

00:53:06.420 There's a

00:53:07.080 senior Chinese

00:53:08.140 trade

00:53:08.640 negotiator

00:53:09.660 who's coming

00:53:11.300 to Washington

00:53:11.880 to talk to

00:53:12.560 us about our

00:53:14.680 trade deals,

00:53:15.920 according to

00:53:16.480 Reuters.

00:53:17.360 I don't think

00:53:18.180 that necessarily

00:53:19.020 means that we're

00:53:20.460 close to a deal

00:53:21.480 with China.

00:53:22.480 It just means

00:53:22.980 we're serious

00:53:23.600 about talking

00:53:24.160 to them, I

00:53:24.580 guess.

00:53:27.120 Here's a

00:53:27.800 story that

00:53:28.600 there must be

00:53:29.260 more to the

00:53:30.100 story than we

00:53:30.860 know.

00:53:31.740 Because it

00:53:32.420 doesn't make

00:53:32.960 sense on the

00:53:33.720 surface.

00:53:34.660 Trump has

00:53:35.160 apparently

00:53:35.500 approved up

00:53:37.200 to 600,000

00:53:38.800 Chinese college

00:53:39.760 students in

00:53:41.160 America.

00:53:42.340 Now, you

00:53:42.980 might say to

00:53:43.540 yourself, whoa,

00:53:44.640 you mean he's

00:53:45.920 not going to

00:53:46.480 stop Chinese 1.00

00:53:47.420 students?

00:53:48.140 I thought he

00:53:48.640 was going to

00:53:49.020 stop them.

00:53:50.880 No, it's

00:53:51.620 not that.

00:53:53.060 Oh, you

00:53:53.680 mean he's

00:53:54.240 going to let

00:53:55.260 it just go to

00:53:56.120 the same level

00:53:56.980 it was at

00:53:57.540 before?

00:53:57.940 No, no.

00:54:00.320 This is way

00:54:01.200 bigger than

00:54:01.980 the level it

00:54:02.740 has ever

00:54:03.180 been.

00:54:04.440 At the

00:54:05.000 moment, there

00:54:05.520 are 270,000

00:54:07.100 Chinese students

00:54:08.180 in U.S.

00:54:08.840 universities.

00:54:10.260 He would

00:54:10.720 allow that to

00:54:11.340 go up to

00:54:11.740 600,000,

00:54:13.020 more than

00:54:13.420 double.

00:54:14.740 600,000

00:54:16.280 Chinese students

00:54:18.620 who, by

00:54:19.800 their own

00:54:20.280 law, would

00:54:20.900 have to

00:54:21.240 report whatever

00:54:22.140 they know to

00:54:24.020 the Chinese

00:54:24.780 government.

00:54:25.220 Now, the

00:54:27.140 first thing I

00:54:27.820 would ask

00:54:28.380 is, does

00:54:29.600 that apply to

00:54:30.280 every major?

00:54:31.980 Because if

00:54:32.440 that applies

00:54:33.040 to, you

00:54:33.920 know, the

00:54:34.220 STEM stuff,

00:54:36.040 you know, the

00:54:36.320 high-tech

00:54:36.740 stuff, I'm

00:54:37.980 a little bit

00:54:38.460 worried.

00:54:39.660 If we

00:54:41.000 don't care

00:54:41.540 how many

00:54:41.960 Chinese students

00:54:42.880 take psychology

00:54:44.120 courses or

00:54:45.980 anthropology,

00:54:48.120 you know, and

00:54:48.840 we just say,

00:54:49.340 I don't care,

00:54:50.420 as many as

00:54:51.280 you want.

00:54:52.080 We'll teach

00:54:52.800 you all the

00:54:53.240 anthropology you

00:54:54.340 want, because

00:54:54.920 that's not

00:54:55.340 going to

00:54:55.580 hurt us. 0.56

00:54:57.140 That would

00:54:57.740 be different.

00:54:58.440 But I

00:54:58.760 haven't seen

00:54:59.360 anything that

00:55:00.800 would suggest

00:55:01.440 that it would

00:55:01.920 be limited to

00:55:02.740 certain colleges

00:55:03.660 or certain

00:55:04.700 majors.

00:55:06.680 So, if

00:55:08.680 it's not,

00:55:10.280 why is he

00:55:11.920 doing that?

00:55:12.700 Because it

00:55:13.060 would seem

00:55:13.440 like the

00:55:13.820 opposite of

00:55:14.540 America first.

00:55:15.760 It seems like

00:55:16.340 it would be

00:55:16.680 good for the

00:55:17.200 Chinese students

00:55:18.020 and less

00:55:19.060 good for us,

00:55:19.900 perhaps, at

00:55:20.840 least in terms

00:55:21.340 of risk.

00:55:22.000 risk.

00:55:22.420 But the

00:55:23.460 counter-argument,

00:55:25.380 which is not

00:55:26.460 being made

00:55:27.220 entirely, but

00:55:28.860 you can imagine

00:55:30.200 it, that we

00:55:31.900 get a lot of,

00:55:32.820 well, not we,

00:55:33.720 the universities

00:55:34.480 would get a lot

00:55:35.320 of revenue from

00:55:36.820 those 600,000

00:55:38.000 students, and

00:55:39.200 it would be

00:55:39.600 worth over

00:55:40.360 $14 billion.

00:55:42.700 So, U.S.

00:55:44.000 would bring in

00:55:44.880 another $14

00:55:45.780 billion.

00:55:46.100 and so,

00:55:48.120 this would

00:55:48.600 be, again,

00:55:50.280 Trump monetizing

00:55:51.520 a problem.

00:55:54.220 Which, the

00:55:55.040 more you see

00:55:55.720 it, the more

00:55:56.540 impressive it

00:55:57.240 is, that

00:55:58.160 every time he's

00:55:59.020 got some big

00:55:59.700 hard-to-handle

00:56:01.720 problem, he

00:56:02.720 just monetizes

00:56:03.580 it, and then

00:56:05.060 it doesn't

00:56:05.480 bother you so

00:56:06.080 much.

00:56:07.220 So, I like

00:56:09.320 the fact that

00:56:11.160 the Chinese

00:56:12.060 students would

00:56:12.780 be paying so

00:56:13.580 much, because

00:56:14.740 they're not

00:56:15.580 going to get

00:56:16.160 aid or

00:56:17.100 anything like

00:56:17.540 that, that

00:56:19.480 they would

00:56:19.880 be essentially

00:56:20.740 funding U.S.

00:56:22.900 colleges, to

00:56:24.900 which I say,

00:56:26.240 could you

00:56:27.580 really get,

00:56:28.700 you know, the

00:56:29.360 funding of the

00:56:30.080 U.S.

00:56:30.480 colleges without

00:56:32.260 really much

00:56:33.040 risk to the

00:56:34.520 country of

00:56:35.180 having all the

00:56:35.760 people from

00:56:36.420 your adversary

00:56:37.340 country in

00:56:38.060 your colleges?

00:56:39.220 No.

00:56:40.040 Because the

00:56:40.660 thing I don't

00:56:41.260 know is, do

00:56:43.380 we end up

00:56:43.900 better off

00:56:44.820 if there

00:56:45.960 are 600,000

00:56:47.380 Chinese students

00:56:48.420 who have a

00:56:49.540 positive experience

00:56:50.800 in the United

00:56:51.400 States and,

00:56:52.320 you know, learn

00:56:53.120 to speak perfect

00:56:54.040 English and,

00:56:55.940 you know, learn

00:56:57.780 our system of

00:56:59.180 government and

00:57:00.000 get to compare

00:57:00.680 it to what they

00:57:01.300 had back there?

00:57:02.660 I feel like the

00:57:03.780 more people we

00:57:04.580 educate, again,

00:57:07.420 with the exception

00:57:08.100 of maybe some of

00:57:08.740 the high techs,

00:57:09.980 I feel like the

00:57:10.720 more people we

00:57:11.460 educate from any

00:57:12.680 other country,

00:57:14.340 the more likely

00:57:15.220 they're going to

00:57:15.780 be a little bit

00:57:17.220 on our side,

00:57:18.520 you know, not

00:57:19.060 completely, but it

00:57:20.220 seems like it

00:57:20.760 would move them

00:57:21.900 in our direction.

00:57:24.660 And then, I

00:57:25.900 guess, Secretary

00:57:27.500 Howard Ludnick

00:57:28.780 said that if we

00:57:30.860 don't have that

00:57:31.580 many Chinese

00:57:32.540 students, that the

00:57:34.340 bottom 15% of

00:57:35.980 universities would

00:57:37.000 go out of

00:57:37.480 business, to which

00:57:38.820 I say, shouldn't

00:57:40.520 they, but

00:57:42.080 shouldn't the

00:57:42.880 bottom 15% go

00:57:44.320 out of business?

00:57:45.720 In every other

00:57:46.980 industry, doesn't

00:57:48.760 the bottom 15%

00:57:49.980 always go out of

00:57:50.880 business?

00:57:51.980 Is there any

00:57:53.100 industry that has,

00:57:55.120 you know, lots of

00:57:55.800 participants in

00:57:57.120 which the bottom

00:57:57.880 15% don't

00:58:00.060 predictably go out

00:58:01.440 of business?

00:58:02.700 Why would

00:58:03.420 universities be the

00:58:04.500 ones that we have

00:58:05.120 to protect with

00:58:06.680 what potentially

00:58:07.820 could be some

00:58:09.240 security risk?

00:58:10.520 I don't know.

00:58:11.700 But probably the

00:58:12.800 bigger reason is

00:58:13.780 that Trump's

00:58:14.280 trying to get a

00:58:14.820 trade deal, and

00:58:16.620 it could be that

00:58:17.940 there's some

00:58:18.540 conversations behind

00:58:19.740 the scenes.

00:58:20.920 It could be that

00:58:21.880 we're going to

00:58:22.380 get something, and

00:58:24.560 maybe we'll never

00:58:25.300 know.

00:58:26.260 We could be

00:58:26.980 getting something

00:58:27.600 in return, and

00:58:29.600 it might be big.

00:58:31.120 So it's hard to

00:58:32.460 judge this one,

00:58:33.380 because I believe

00:58:35.060 that Trump wouldn't

00:58:36.000 do it unless he

00:58:37.640 knows there's

00:58:38.280 something we're

00:58:38.800 getting that's much

00:58:40.060 bigger than the

00:58:40.800 risk of this.

00:58:43.060 And maybe he

00:58:44.000 can't say it

00:58:44.540 directly because

00:58:45.220 we're still in

00:58:46.060 sensitive conversations

00:58:47.420 with China, and

00:58:48.700 maybe we can't say

00:58:49.600 it because we just

00:58:50.460 don't want to say

00:58:51.060 it out loud.

00:58:52.260 Because if the

00:58:53.040 answer is, yeah,

00:58:53.820 this is how we

00:58:54.480 propagandize them to

00:58:56.760 make them more

00:58:57.940 pro-American, that

00:58:59.800 might be the

00:59:00.260 reason.

00:59:01.320 In which, if I

00:59:02.340 heard that argument,

00:59:03.760 I'd probably say,

00:59:04.740 hmm, I don't know.

00:59:06.020 If smart people

00:59:07.200 think that's

00:59:07.840 true, I don't

00:59:09.420 really have a

00:59:09.980 counter-argument to

00:59:10.820 that.

00:59:11.660 But I don't think

00:59:12.400 we can say that

00:59:13.160 out loud.

00:59:16.180 You know, there

00:59:17.100 might be some

00:59:17.620 versions of that

00:59:18.420 we could, but

00:59:19.200 anyway, we'll

00:59:20.840 probably never

00:59:21.360 know.

00:59:23.720 The president of

00:59:25.040 South Korea was 0.94

00:59:25.880 visiting, seemed

00:59:27.120 very friendly with

00:59:28.240 Trump.

00:59:28.840 They got along

00:59:29.460 great.

00:59:30.280 and he said

00:59:33.020 that, this is

00:59:34.700 what the

00:59:34.980 president of

00:59:35.540 South Korea

00:59:36.100 said sitting

00:59:36.920 next to Trump.

00:59:38.260 He said, I

00:59:38.680 would like to

00:59:39.160 mention that

00:59:40.160 the only

00:59:40.520 remaining divided

00:59:42.040 nation in the

00:59:42.840 world is the

00:59:43.600 Korean Peninsula.

00:59:45.460 Is that true?

00:59:46.760 The only

00:59:47.480 remaining

00:59:48.160 divided nation.

00:59:51.780 Well, maybe

00:59:53.220 Putin would

00:59:54.160 have a different

00:59:54.680 opinion about

00:59:55.340 Russia.

00:59:56.360 Anyway, but

00:59:57.760 then he goes

00:59:58.260 on, he said,

00:59:59.140 and I would

00:59:59.580 like to ask

01:00:00.200 for your

01:00:00.620 role in

01:00:01.140 establishing

01:00:01.660 peace.

01:00:02.280 He's talking

01:00:02.740 to Trump.

01:00:03.940 Your role in

01:00:04.940 establishing peace

01:00:05.780 on the Korean

01:00:06.300 Peninsula.

01:00:07.240 So I look

01:00:07.680 forward to your

01:00:08.280 meeting with

01:00:08.760 Chairman Kim

01:00:09.400 Jong-un and

01:00:10.380 construction of

01:00:12.200 a Trump Tower

01:00:13.080 in North Korea

01:00:14.500 and playing golf

01:00:16.100 at that place.

01:00:17.400 I believe he

01:00:18.440 will be waiting

01:00:19.100 for you.

01:00:20.740 Now, of course,

01:00:21.760 there's no plans

01:00:22.620 for a Trump Tower

01:00:23.520 in North Korea,

01:00:24.580 but I do like

01:00:26.140 the fact that

01:00:26.920 the South Korean

01:00:28.420 president has

01:00:29.500 has studied

01:00:30.800 our situation

01:00:31.640 well enough

01:00:32.260 to know where

01:00:32.700 all the buttons

01:00:33.280 are, and he

01:00:35.020 knows that if

01:00:35.700 he compliments

01:00:37.320 Trump for his

01:00:39.020 peacemaking skills,

01:00:41.040 that that will be

01:00:41.760 good, so he

01:00:42.640 does.

01:00:43.300 He knows that if

01:00:44.560 he speaks

01:00:45.180 visually, so

01:00:47.320 you're imagining

01:00:48.120 Trump Tower,

01:00:49.180 you're imagining

01:00:49.740 playing golf,

01:00:51.320 that's really good

01:00:52.460 technique.

01:00:53.580 It's Trumpian

01:00:54.640 technique.

01:00:55.760 If he's talking

01:00:56.600 about the future

01:00:57.580 benefits as

01:00:59.460 opposed to the

01:01:00.200 past negative

01:01:01.600 stuff, that's

01:01:02.860 very Trump.

01:01:04.360 And then the

01:01:05.440 confidence that

01:01:06.360 he's putting in

01:01:07.040 Trump that he

01:01:09.260 alone could make

01:01:10.800 something good

01:01:11.440 happen on the

01:01:12.280 Korean peninsula.

01:01:14.040 And then he also

01:01:15.080 mentions he'd

01:01:16.380 like to play

01:01:16.900 golf.

01:01:18.720 He hit every

01:01:20.660 note.

01:01:22.580 So I'm going

01:01:24.680 to put up the

01:01:25.760 warning flag for

01:01:26.980 you right now.

01:01:28.620 The South

01:01:29.380 Korean president,

01:01:30.560 and I understand

01:01:31.220 the South Korean

01:01:31.940 presidents don't

01:01:32.820 last very long.

01:01:34.380 Don't a lot of

01:01:34.920 them end up

01:01:36.280 getting deposed

01:01:37.260 and in trouble

01:01:37.840 and whatever.

01:01:38.740 But this guy,

01:01:40.560 he is signaling

01:01:41.900 that he has the

01:01:43.940 entire range of

01:01:45.880 persuasion skills,

01:01:47.220 because this

01:01:49.000 was quite

01:01:49.800 capable.

01:01:51.520 That statement

01:01:52.180 is so

01:01:53.760 cleverly and

01:01:55.040 professionally crafted

01:01:56.280 by somebody who

01:01:57.260 really understands

01:01:58.520 persuasion

01:01:59.760 that,

01:02:01.140 keep an eye

01:02:02.880 on that guy.

01:02:05.340 He might

01:02:06.220 be,

01:02:08.080 I'm very

01:02:09.020 early,

01:02:10.320 you know,

01:02:10.520 because I don't

01:02:10.880 know anything

01:02:11.360 about this

01:02:12.000 South Korean

01:02:12.740 president,

01:02:13.580 but just based

01:02:14.600 on this one

01:02:15.320 paragraph,

01:02:16.500 it is so

01:02:17.200 smartly

01:02:18.840 persuasion

01:02:20.180 perfect,

01:02:21.360 very rare,

01:02:22.520 you don't see

01:02:22.980 stuff like this,

01:02:24.380 that I'm

01:02:25.400 going to

01:02:25.640 predict

01:02:26.160 he might

01:02:28.220 be the

01:02:28.760 most consequential

01:02:30.040 South Korean

01:02:31.100 president

01:02:31.580 that we'll

01:02:33.200 know in our

01:02:33.780 lifetime at

01:02:34.400 least.

01:02:35.380 So keep

01:02:36.040 an eye on

01:02:36.520 him.

01:02:37.320 He might

01:02:37.680 be a

01:02:37.960 rising

01:02:38.740 international

01:02:39.840 leader,

01:02:41.740 star kind

01:02:42.340 of a guy.

01:02:44.120 I've got

01:02:44.660 good feeling

01:02:46.040 about him.

01:02:47.520 All right,

01:02:48.340 ladies and 0.98

01:02:49.140 gentlemen,

01:02:50.260 that's all I

01:02:50.760 got for you

01:02:51.240 today.

01:02:52.520 I might have

01:02:53.280 missed a few

01:02:53.760 stories.

01:02:54.380 It's a busy

01:02:54.820 day,

01:02:55.540 but I'm

01:02:56.040 going to see

01:02:56.940 if I can go

01:02:57.840 private and

01:02:58.600 talk to my

01:02:59.360 beloved

01:02:59.920 subscribers.

01:03:01.420 subscribers.

01:03:05.180 I just saw a

01:03:06.620 funny meme

01:03:07.180 go by.

01:03:08.260 My beloved

01:03:09.000 subscribers and

01:03:09.940 locals and the

01:03:10.620 rest of you,

01:03:11.340 thanks for

01:03:11.720 joining.

01:03:12.140 I hope you'll

01:03:12.640 be back

01:03:13.500 tomorrow for

01:03:15.060 more fun.

01:03:16.580 All right,

01:03:16.820 let's see if I

01:03:17.380 can go private

01:03:18.280 in 30 seconds.

01:03:31.420 good

01:03:38.260 .

01:03:40.000 .

01:03:40.380 .

01:03:40.640 .

01:03:42.700 E

01:03:43.200 .

01:03:46.680 .

01:03:47.000 .

01:03:51.300 .

01:03:55.640 Thank you.

01:04:25.640 Thank you.

01:04:55.640 Thank you.

01:05:25.640 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - August 26, 2025

Episode 2939 CWSA 08⧸26⧸25

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