Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 10, 2025


Episode 2954 CWSA 09⧸10⧸25


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In this episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott Adams talks about Bitcoin, inflation, AI, Bitcoin, and the future of robots. Scott Adams is a bitcoin and AI analyst who writes for the Wall Street Journal, and is a regular contributor to the Financial Times. He is also the host of the popular financial podcast, "Coffee With Scott Adams".

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00:00:00.000 there you are come on in i will uh check on the stock market for you while you're finding a seat
00:00:09.200 grab a beverage it's almost time for your favorite thing all right tesla's up a little bit
00:00:17.600 s p is up a little bit bitcoin's up a little bit all right we'll take it
00:00:24.880 but i think i know why i'll tell you in a minute hey everybody
00:00:35.280 all right as soon as i have your comments working perfectly
00:00:41.680 which is now we'll get going
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00:01:46.880 all right well done
00:01:51.680 let me let me just say you're so good at sipping impressive all right what's in the news oh here's
00:02:02.000 why the stock market might be looking good um there's a new inflation report and inflation is uh well below
00:02:12.000 what was expected and estimated so 2.8 the uh core inflation um versus they thought it might have been
00:02:22.640 3.5 because it had been 3.4 so do you believe that or do you think there'll be some kind of adjustment
00:02:33.360 later remember all data is fake or out of context or short term is different from long term or there's
00:02:43.600 some kind of anomaly in it so don't get too excited but if this were real it would uh convince the fed to
00:02:53.120 lower interest rates right maybe well here's a update on uh what happens if you have a piece of content
00:03:05.120 that uh elon musk boosts now unfortunately it was not in my ex account it was someone else had made a clip
00:03:14.160 of uh something i did on the show and elon liked it enough to repost it and it's up to 20 million views
00:03:23.920 so that's what happens when elon hits two buttons um speaking of elon he was at uh appearing by video at
00:03:33.760 the all-in summit um and uh had a few things to say that were were pretty interesting um he said that if ai
00:03:44.160 and robots don't solve our national debt we're toast now do you feel comfortable knowing that the only way
00:03:53.920 we're going to survive is if ai and robots somehow can figure out how to solve our national debt
00:04:00.960 is that something you'd bet on hmm i think the ai and the robots will solve our national debt
00:04:10.160 i you know i can't tell if he believes that's you know like a likely scenario because in theory it
00:04:18.400 could boost our you know economic everything by by amounts we can't imagine right now so you know you
00:04:26.560 could follow the argument but would you bet on it the ai and robots would somehow create enough
00:04:37.120 economic whatever that we wouldn't just spend more if we made more if the government got let's say
00:04:44.400 greater tax income do you think they'd pay down the debt i don't know so maybe um
00:04:56.880 but uh i don't want to bum you out but i'm getting more and more worried
00:05:03.200 that uh ai will never be sufficient to run a general purpose robot that there'll always be lots
00:05:09.840 of robots but they'll be doing one thing like vacuuming your floor or you know being on an assembly
00:05:16.480 line or making coffee you know there's gonna be there'll be a ping pong robot there already is there's
00:05:22.320 a badminton robot there's there might be maybe a shirt folding robot but i don't think we're ever
00:05:31.680 going to get to a general robot where you could for example just show i had to do something and it
00:05:38.960 could it could work out you know the things that you didn't show it directly you could just figure out
00:05:45.920 well you know probably i'd have to do this to get this done i i'm starting to think that it's not
00:05:52.480 going to happen here's why if weren't we weren't we talking about the uh the robots would be introduced 0.68
00:06:02.880 right now you know within the next couple of months a year a year back or a year and a
00:06:10.240 half back were we not saying that the ends of 2025 we'd have what we need for you know the robots but
00:06:18.560 i don't really see the general purpose robots and still whenever there's a demonstration the damn 0.62
00:06:25.760 robots doing exactly one thing for 25 or 30 years i've been seeing news reports about somebody built a
00:06:35.600 robot that would do exactly one thing it doesn't really look like we've made gigantic progress
00:06:43.200 now the physical body of the robot looks like there's a lot of progress progress but i don't think
00:06:50.160 i'm seeing anything in our current versions of ai or even the way we do ai or the way we train it
00:06:56.720 i don't see anything that would create a robot quality ai even if we kept training it and training
00:07:06.000 it and there's some indication that we're hitting some kind of a training plateau already so is there
00:07:14.880 some unlimited amount of new training material that our current models could get us to a robot that could
00:07:22.400 just sort of live with you and figure stuff out same as you it doesn't look like it it doesn't look
00:07:29.440 like it and and don't you believe that if we were going to have that in another year which is i think the
00:07:38.560 current estimate if we were going to have that you know the real general robot don't you think that we
00:07:46.080 would already see demos that would just blow your mind right because there's a long you know cycle
00:07:53.600 lead time before you're actually in the market and you can make them in scale and everything so if they
00:07:59.920 were going to be for sale one year from now the demos you would already be seeing would be you know fully
00:08:08.640 functional so i don't know maybe maybe not
00:08:17.520 and according to joe wilkins writing for futurism there's some data that shows that ai use is actually
00:08:25.120 now declining at large companies now i don't know if that's really a useful number because you would
00:08:31.840 expect that there would be something like a whole bunch of excitement and people would overbuy it
00:08:39.680 and then over time they would say hmm wasn't quite doing what i wanted it to do and so it'd fall off a
00:08:45.920 little bit the excitement would dry up and then people would start finding legitimate uses for it and then
00:08:52.480 it would start growing back so not too surprising that there would be sort of a pullback after the initial
00:09:00.400 stuff i don't know if that's telling us anything or even if the data is real
00:09:07.520 another uh elon musk thing he said at that all in uh summit um
00:09:16.640 that the bigger goal than the moon is mars and you know he talked about wanting to um make mars
00:09:24.800 completely self-sustaining in around 30 years now the argument that he makes is that there's there are
00:09:36.000 always natural disasters and every planet will eventually be destroyed by something whether it's
00:09:42.720 an asteroid or we we nuke it ourselves so we have to have at least one other space escape point and that's
00:09:52.320 what mars would be but it raises one question with me would the easiest place to build a new non-earth
00:10:04.240 civilization be just in space in orbit around the current earth because that way you could get back to
00:10:12.160 earth you could have supplies from earth at the same time building up your you know 30 years at whatever
00:10:19.840 it takes to be self-sustaining um just as a satellite and then if you saw something coming like uh oh
00:10:28.240 there's a meteor heading toward earth you might say uh it might be time to orbit another planet
00:10:36.720 you know orbits on different planet but wouldn't it be easier to preserve life in orbit
00:10:43.760 uh because you could go back and forth so often while you're getting to the point of full self-sufficiency
00:10:52.720 no i don't know maybe there's some reason that mars is the right answer
00:11:00.240 well here's some science that i probably could have told you how it was going to turn out
00:11:05.440 emily uh caldwell's writing for the ohio state university apparently a keto diet
00:11:12.080 was linked to a 70 reduction in depression symptoms in college students but because it was a kind of
00:11:21.440 study that they didn't do a control group you know there was no placebo control group sort of thing
00:11:28.800 wouldn't you imagine that if you said to a bunch of college students hey i've got a proposition for
00:11:35.200 you what is it we're gonna put you in a scientific study and they'd be like oh no i yeah that sounds
00:11:43.120 icky i go wait you haven't heard the details we're gonna fix you delicious food you won't have to shop
00:11:52.240 prepare it uh or clean up like we'll just basically deliver you stuff on disposable dishes and it will be
00:12:00.320 delicious and healthy and by the way keto has lots of good stuff in it so you don't have to worry about
00:12:06.000 you know not having good stuff and uh and then we'll have contact with you and we'll be checking in
00:12:13.360 with you don't you think that that would almost guarantee that people would have less depression
00:12:21.120 because don't you think just being less lonely and having a purpose just the the being as part of
00:12:28.160 the research that alone no matter what they were researching if they gave you lots of points of
00:12:35.440 contact and you thought you were doing something useful and then you also had the uh the placebo effect
00:12:43.920 of believing well this looks like healthy food it's certainly going to fix many of my problems
00:12:48.960 you put all that together and it wouldn't matter what the nutritional value of the food was
00:12:55.600 i would expect people to say they had fewer depression symptoms just because of the way they
00:13:01.840 were treated you're basically treated like kings and they didn't probably didn't have to pay for their
00:13:08.560 own food so i'm assuming that the food was free so if you have free food and people fussed over you
00:13:16.720 and asked your opinion and you weren't as lonely yeah if the food was no more healthy than the other
00:13:25.120 food you had you'd probably feel a little less depressed
00:13:30.640 but i also think eating right is good for your brain so i do believe that it's healthy well apple had
00:13:40.240 some announcements they're making a thinner better phone with better cameras and stuff but the big news
00:13:47.920 if you can call it that is that apple is going harder into health sensing stuff so they they got some
00:13:57.760 stuff built into their ear pods now um they can uh it can well basically all of their stuff their watch
00:14:07.040 their air air buds and their phone are all gonna have lots more health related apps but also live
00:14:15.360 translation in five languages so that's not health related but how cool is that that you got to be alive
00:14:25.440 at the time when humans could actually put a little earbud in an ear and it would translate in real time
00:14:34.480 five different languages i'm just just hold that in your mind for a moment that you're alive
00:14:42.000 when that became a just a consumer product it's not even special so yeah you can buy it at the store
00:14:49.600 um but i guess they can also now measure everything from your sleep to your ovulation to your sleep apnea
00:14:59.200 your temperature your vitals your heartbeat your hypertension yeah so apple's gonna save your life
00:15:10.480 well the uh the maha make america healthy again they have a commission that released a
00:15:19.840 a big strategy yesterday to approve children's health because as you know children have many chronic health
00:15:28.080 problems that we didn't used to have in say my childhood and they're still trying to figure out why
00:15:34.640 um but as part of that they've got more than 120 initiatives um including advancing research on
00:15:44.960 autism more on that in a minute pesticides vaccine injury water quality and all the other stuff 120
00:15:52.480 initiatives that's a lot of initiatives is that even manageable if i told you that something was
00:16:00.320 happening and there would be 120 initiatives would you say to yourself wow that's good that's a lot of
00:16:07.360 initiatives that can only go right with that many initiatives i mean even if a few of them went bad
00:16:15.600 you still might have 80 90 great initiatives or do you say to yourself with the dilbert filter
00:16:22.960 uh the hypothetically uh the hypothetically the most number of initiatives that any entity can handle would be about
00:16:33.360 five and anything beyond that would just become a cluster you know so well i hope um but on the other hand
00:16:44.080 you know to be uh less skeptical on the other hand there probably are at least 120
00:16:53.200 environmental risks that are going to require somebody to work full-time to figure out what's
00:16:58.720 what on just that one risk so yeah i could say it 120 um
00:17:07.120 anyway just the news is reporting on that
00:17:11.600 so would you be surprised i know this will shock you i know that a judge blocked something that trump
00:17:20.160 wanted to do no no really no i'm not making that up there was a judge who decided that trump wasn't
00:17:29.040 allowed to do a thing that was just part of his normal job does it feel like groundhog day that just
00:17:37.120 every day you wake up and is there another story about another judge blocking another trump thing that
00:17:43.520 he just wanted to do which he totally has a right to do yes and now the judge is blocking the firing of
00:17:51.280 that fed governor lisa cook um i'm not even going to look into the details of that story because i imagine
00:18:00.720 it'll get appealed and i imagine that in the end the president can do the things that are the job of the
00:18:07.760 president so another probably just uh just a bump in the road probably
00:18:17.440 well another one of those uh smuggler boats has been destroyed but this time the navy was nice enough
00:18:24.800 to let the humans get off first and the drugs get off so they captured a bunch of 0.53
00:18:30.800 drugs and then they uh very uh very impressively blew up the boat blew up the uh smuggler boat
00:18:41.120 and sunk it and uh in other news um the post millennials reporting on some of this that over uh 600
00:18:51.280 suspected sinaloa cartel members were arrested by the dea in a 23 state sweep
00:18:58.480 600 cartel members now what is the first question you ask yourself when you hear that 600
00:19:11.280 cartel members just from one cartel there are more than one cartel about 600 of them were arrested in 23 states
00:19:20.240 what's the first question well my first question is how many are there is 600 did we get most of them
00:19:34.240 is that like well good news we got 95 of them or or did they get two percent of them or one percent
00:19:44.640 doesn't it really matter what percent they got have i ever told you too many times that if the only thing
00:19:52.880 they tell you is the number or the percentage but they don't tell you both if they only tell you one or
00:19:59.360 the other somebody's trying to bullshit you so it's making me wonder if we're supposed to think that we're 0.58
00:20:07.520 much safer now because 600 have been picked up or if we knew that there were really 20 000 of them would
00:20:16.240 you feel much safer so i feel like we're being managed a little bit uh it's possible that we have no
00:20:25.280 idea how many there are but uh an estimate would be useful
00:20:29.200 well apparently uh ice is uh going into chicago to uh do its job arresting people and uh
00:20:42.880 it's going to be called operation midway blitz and that part apparently is totally legal as far as i
00:20:50.880 know because it's the fed's job to do exactly that if uh so they're not dealing with crime in general
00:20:57.760 that's just the uh they're dealing with the immigration problem
00:21:04.240 and let's see what else is happening according to the guardian there was uh
00:21:12.160 there was an airport where was this he throw part of the airport he throw was evacuated because they
00:21:18.560 thought there was some kind of uh some kind of poison gas or something so people were falling
00:21:24.640 ill 21 people fell ill but when they looked into it and they analyzed all the air and everything
00:21:31.760 they determined that there was no hazard whatsoever and that the best guess is that it was a psychogenic
00:21:40.640 illness meaning that it was all in their heads now do you believe that 21 people could be so ill that
00:21:49.760 you know they became a statistic they must have reported to somebody or must have been detected
00:21:55.760 somehow but 21 people falling ill do you feel there's any chance that could be just in their heads
00:22:04.080 the answer is yeah easily that's not even hard yeah you you could reproduce this effect
00:22:11.680 fairly easily you would just get a few actors to go into a public you know crowded space and say
00:22:20.960 you know i could barely breathe what is that and then everybody would smell it like i smell something
00:22:26.560 too it's got me too yeah it would be about that easy you couldn't get everybody so you know it'd be
00:22:35.280 fewer than 20 percent you know might be affected by something like that but that would be enough
00:22:42.400 that you would wonder if some major contagion just broke out so no it's really easy for that kind of
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00:24:00.880 about uh ufos and uh there's a big meeting i guess a congressional hearing there were some witnesses came in and had some amazing stories of ufo spotting and encounters
00:24:16.880 uh one of them included a glowing orb thing that they thought was some kind of alien spaceship or at least nothing we know about
00:24:26.880 about and apparently a they have video which they showed is grainy i know you're surprised it's grainy
00:24:35.360 but yeah it's blurry and grainy and black and white can you believe it and it's a ufo i mean
00:24:43.200 how how could those two things possibly happen at the same time i mean really what are the odds that something
00:24:49.760 grainy and grainy and blurry and black and white would be the only way that they'd get a picture of a ufo
00:24:58.080 okay but now they've got a picture of what they call a hellfire missile i don't know how they know that
00:25:05.520 um allegedly intercepting it but bouncing off it basically not not affecting it
00:25:12.640 so that must be alien right 0.62
00:25:20.000 okay i'm not even a little bit persuaded that that that they have a video of an alien that just happens
00:25:28.400 to look like a glowing orb that for some reason and i don't know what that reason would be that we shot
00:25:36.240 a hellfire missile at it do you really believe that we shot a hellfire missile at a glowing orb
00:25:42.080 without knowing what the fuck it was or or were we under attack and somehow the news didn't catch 0.53
00:25:49.040 that earth was in a intergalactic fight with a superior technology from another race alien race 0.96
00:25:57.680 and we're just just finding out about it now
00:26:03.120 what are the odds that we fired a hellfire missile at it whatever it was pretty low so yes there's a
00:26:11.840 claim and there's a grainy video that you've come to expect uh sort of loch ness monster style
00:26:20.640 bigfoot style so no i was not convinced by that and then there were these uh military other
00:26:28.400 whistleblowers are talking about how uh they had personally witnessed things and uh they were being
00:26:35.360 quite persecuted um in in a whole variety of ways you know things things were happening that would be
00:26:42.000 suspicious except if you understood them as revenge to which i said well you know i won't go over
00:26:50.000 everything that the gentleman said but do you believe that there's one person who saw five major ufos
00:26:58.800 like including one that's as you know big as a house do you believe that one person saw five of
00:27:04.960 them at one military base does that does that pass your sniff test and the rest of the base was just like
00:27:15.520 no look up look up there's another one third one today okay now i don't believe any of that
00:27:21.360 that and then i don't believe the stories of you know revenge and the reason they can't get jobs and
00:27:28.800 everything absolutely none of it sounds credible to me so i hate to ruin your fun but uh i'm gonna
00:27:39.600 say that there was not a hundred foot triangle flying low over at virginia's langley air force base
00:27:46.080 maybe i would love to be wrong you know i would love to eat crow and you know apologize for being such
00:27:56.880 an arrogant prick about my disbelief of the ufos but they're but whether or not the ufos are real
00:28:06.160 the the way it's being presented just doesn't have any credibility at all in my opinion
00:28:16.080 yeah there's one guy's off five unexplained incidents all right um and then there was a report that the
00:28:27.600 uh the military had been regularly destroying all police records every three years including these
00:28:34.320 reports yeah there's people destroying the records everywhere yep yeah none of that i believe
00:28:41.280 um well the representative jasmine crockett's making a little news she was on cnn and she says she
00:28:50.320 believes that uh 80 of the most violent crime in our country is white supremacy oh jasmine jasmine jasmine
00:29:04.320 that don't you wonder if she believes what she says i don't i don't think she does
00:29:11.280 but it'd be funny if she did um however i'll tell i'll tell you what the big news is if you're on
00:29:19.120 social media if you're in the right leaning social media especially there is a lot of what i'll call
00:29:24.960 racial bluntness happening a lot of white people and sometimes black people talking about the uh what they
00:29:34.320 say is uh uh a huge problem of black crime violent crime against white people now you've all heard
00:29:44.240 the statistics and you can decide if you if you think that that's a um big crime or not and um you know
00:29:52.800 most of the things that people say about this topic have all been said but there are a few things
00:29:58.560 things that maybe have not been said yet believe it or not so i'd like to add one um apparently i saw a
00:30:08.480 douglas mackie post on this apparently the new york times had decided that uh they would they would spell
00:30:16.960 black with a capital b as in the black man but the white woman would be a small w 1.00
00:30:24.000 and i guess they had some explanation for that for why the white would be a small w
00:30:34.560 but uh i think we can all agree that whatever they say is the reason that that's okay
00:30:42.640 that's not the reason well whatever is going on here it's not what they say
00:30:48.720 that's the one we can rule out no it whatever is your worst suspicion about why they only capitalize
00:30:57.920 black and not white it's that it's that it's whatever is your worst suspicion i guarantee it it's 0.99
00:31:04.000 that uh so that's going on but then i saw some people weighing in on social media who said
00:31:11.920 what i would consider the most obvious thing you would say the most npc thing you would say is that
00:31:20.080 it's not about race it's about uh income and if everybody made the same income then you wouldn't see this
00:31:29.360 disparity so do you buy that here's here's what i'll add to that if it were true that income
00:31:40.720 is the you know the direct thing that causes violence then there wouldn't be any places
00:31:47.200 that are poor and also low violent crime am i right but there are there are places that are poor
00:31:57.360 and don't have much crime so it can't be true that being poor automatically generates violent crime
00:32:05.760 at some higher than normal rate because it simply doesn't happen everywhere so if you know that's
00:32:14.400 not what it is what is it and i know you're gonna say culture because that's the next thing you say because
00:32:20.880 it's safer than the alternatives so you say culture i would say i would replace that with design
00:32:29.680 so design it might not be intentional design but but the way some communities are organized
00:32:37.920 um they couldn't possibly succeed even if you just saw it on paper it's like all right tell me
00:32:43.760 just give me the facts like you know how are you organized oh okay well that's not going to work
00:32:51.360 probably create a lot of crime you know even on paper it doesn't look like it'd work
00:32:57.280 and what i mean by design if i were going to give a positive example of good design i've made this example
00:33:05.520 before but there's a person you should follow on social media called king randall he's a young black guy who's got a school for kids
00:33:16.320 they're mostly but not 100 black and he's just trying to teach kids
00:33:23.680 basic life skills now i would call that good design because probably he's becoming a role model
00:33:32.720 for people who may not you know have a dad at home or maybe if they do he's not the best role model
00:33:39.120 so they've got at least one positive role model who cares about him and teaches them useful things and
00:33:45.040 makes them confident and and he specifically teaches them not to think as victims now that would be a design
00:33:54.560 would you call that a culture well you could if you want to but i would say that king randall has
00:34:01.920 simply designed a situation that affects probably hundreds of people by now um and on paper you
00:34:13.200 would know that that would create more successful people if you asked me to look do you would his
00:34:20.000 students let's let's say people who spent more than a year with them would i expect them to have a high
00:34:26.960 violent crime rate nope nope i would not expect them to have a high violent crime rate so design you could
00:34:37.600 design a system that just simply didn't cause as much violent crime all right that's not the only variables
00:34:47.760 involved but it's a lot of them and then then you also have to ask yourself is there any correlation
00:34:57.440 between what makes somebody poor and what makes them violent because in both cases isn't there
00:35:07.200 something in common like you know the people who can't figure out how to make money
00:35:12.080 may have to resort to what they can figure out in some cases which might be violence so
00:35:21.040 does seem like uh it's not the poverty per se it's whatever caused the poverty
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00:36:20.000 many times the pharma ads would be misleading hundreds of times per year and that sort of died down
00:36:27.600 until under biden it went down to zero zero times they told the pharma hey that's misinformation but
00:36:36.080 apparently uh trump administration is gonna crank that back up and you'll get a little bit more honesty
00:36:43.920 from those commercials do you remember the story about allegedly trump drew a little bawdy birthday card
00:36:52.240 for epstein and allegedly and there's a debate over whether it's really his work um had some weird
00:37:00.000 little message kind of cryptic and there was a crude drawing of just the outline of a woman's body you
00:37:07.600 know no details and his signature and uh some say the signatures you know where the pubic hair would have
00:37:16.480 been um but i don't know maybe that's just also just the place he signed it you know maybe had nothing
00:37:24.080 to do with that but um i'll give you my opinion now that i've seen it because before we were only hearing
00:37:31.760 about it but now we've seen it and my take is uh remember how i always say trump is a great writer
00:37:41.760 just one of the best writers it's just not the way he writes and i doubt there's anything about the fact
00:37:48.160 that it was you know x number of years ago that changed him from you know whatever wrote that
00:37:54.960 to the way he writes now which i often say is some of the best writing in the world like it's just
00:38:01.120 world-class writing his posts on truth and uh anything he writes basically he's an amazing amazing writer
00:38:09.040 so to imagine that the one of the best writers you've ever seen would also have been in that
00:38:16.480 context where there was quite a bit of writing on the card to imagine that he was also the worst writer
00:38:24.160 i mean it's not even close whoever wrote the card is not a good writer like not even not even a little
00:38:32.640 bit so i'm gonna get i guess uh the white house is denying that it's actually his
00:38:43.680 i'm gonna say i would back him on that you know anything's possible right anything's possible but
00:38:51.600 i think i'd back him on that it doesn't look like his i mean not even a little bit so i'll go with that
00:38:57.840 but you never know um so uh as you know by now israel uh bombed uh i guess it was five hamas leaders
00:39:14.560 who were in qatar because qatar hosts them and you know knew knew they were there and uh explicitly
00:39:24.000 allowed them to be there um even though they were you know wanted as terrorists by israel
00:39:31.360 so israel um which i don't think anybody was really expecting um bombed them because they were all in the 1.00
00:39:39.280 same place for some reason and uh trump just weighed in and he actually sort of criticized israel
00:39:48.560 a little wink wink uh actually i don't know maybe he's really bad but let me just tell you what he
00:39:55.200 said he said he was just you know notified that day and he said he did not approve of the bombing
00:40:01.920 of a sovereign nation that is our ally so he was taking qatar's side saying it was an appropriate
00:40:11.200 bombing uh bombing uh and he said he's working very hard for peace meaning with uh gaza and uh that
00:40:19.360 that bombing did not advance our or israel's goals um but then he did say that you know he's happy about
00:40:27.440 hamas leadership being eliminated that that's that's a good thing so he managed to actually
00:40:33.120 try to keep himself out of it who knows how much conversation if any happened before the attack
00:40:42.080 but he managed to make a story where we're just finding out about it and uh we don't love it
00:40:50.560 but you know at least something good came out of it you know the getting rid of the five leaders
00:40:55.840 so i guess he's trying to have it both ways to get the uh the benefit of having
00:41:03.680 let's say a little more pressure on hamas for a piece um without saying that we were part of it
00:41:10.080 so if i were to judge him on skill level pretty good pretty pretty good yeah i mean you can't
00:41:19.840 what what would he say would he say i didn't know anything about it um which is sort of what he was
00:41:26.000 saying um it's a good answer good political answer well as you know by now maybe uh the jobs numbers for
00:41:37.360 last year were off by over 900 000
00:41:40.560 nearly a million or five million um and that they were downward revised so there was a fake impression
00:41:53.440 that we were doing well under biden but in fact we were doing not so well if you count jobs you might
00:42:00.800 know that i often say um you know the economy is complicated but if jobs are good you can usually
00:42:09.360 depend on figuring out you know everything else out but if jobs are bad then you don't have much to
00:42:17.520 work with it's just a much harder deal especially if you're 36 trillion dollars in debt
00:42:23.200 so it's a big big deal that instead of being job positive we were job negative and we were lied to
00:42:32.880 i remind you that all data is fake even things i relied on on the podcast today you can't really
00:42:41.200 believe any data that's the world you live in and the sooner you realize that you can't trust any data
00:42:49.760 just any i mean you still have to make decisions so you have to sometimes act like you trust it or just
00:42:56.240 take a leap because you gotta you gotta choose yes or no so you gotta do something but no if you trust data
00:43:02.880 it's a mistake i saw a post uh next by uh chamath uh pela hapatia from the all in podcast and uh he
00:43:12.320 said uh now can we admit it uh i think he's talking about the jobs reports being uh revised is that now
00:43:20.480 can we admit it the fed is woefully ill-equipped to set monetary policy and an economy is dynamic and
00:43:26.240 complicated as the u.s in 2025 add in the reliance on useless and wrong data
00:43:32.880 and it's a recipe for disaster so he was uh separately chamatha talked about how they only meet
00:43:42.800 ever so often so that they you know it's sort of a it's almost like um horse and buggy kind of
00:43:50.800 technology uh so they have a bad process they're not very fast and their data may be completely wrong
00:44:00.000 and they may be too late so why do we pay them uh we got questions all right how many of you saw
00:44:11.120 i guess it was a senate hearing on the safety of vaccinations and they had a lawyer who must uh
00:44:18.800 looks like he has a lot of experience in that suing people over vax injury uh aaron siri s-i-r-i
00:44:28.000 that's interesting um that must be so annoying to have your last name activate digital devices all
00:44:35.040 over the world but he was really good and one of the things that he claims is that there was a study
00:44:45.840 that 10 years ago found that of unvaccinated kids 17 of them had chronic health issues but of
00:44:54.160 vaccinated children 57 of them had at least one chronic health issue now do you know why you never
00:45:02.480 saw that study it's because they had that result so his claim is that they realized whoever did the
00:45:11.200 study realized that they would all be fired or lose their job or you know never be able to be happy again
00:45:17.840 if they published that because it would be so counter to the entire medical establishment so they put it
00:45:25.760 in a drawer uh but what they found is that um within the the vaccinated group there were 262 people with
00:45:38.800 adhd in the unvaccinated group there were take a guess 262 people with adhd in the vaccinated group
00:45:50.160 now we're not talking about covid by the way sorry i probably confused you this is not about covid
00:45:55.680 it's about childhood vaccinations you know where there are as many as 70 of them the kid gets
00:46:00.480 yeah and so they were looking at i think they looked at the combination of them so you could just look at
00:46:08.000 kids who got all their vaccinations like all of them versus the ones that didn't get any and 262 of the
00:46:16.000 vaccinated ones had adhd and the number of unvaccinated people who had adhd was zero
00:46:23.840 zero
00:46:30.240 yep zero now remember all data is fake so why would you believe what you've been told so far you know
00:46:41.840 you've been told all your life vaccinations were healthy and good and they've been tested and don't
00:46:46.400 worry about it um but if you don't believe that now why would you believe the new thing
00:46:53.520 why would you think the new study is accurate well it does have that feeling of accuracy doesn't it
00:47:02.240 because there's nobody who could make money by that study and it was shut down which is exactly
00:47:09.040 what you would have expected so i'm not saying i know it's accurate because remember i don't want
00:47:16.400 to be a sucker and assume that some data is accurate and some isn't when we live in a world where
00:47:21.920 mostly it's all inaccurate but i don't know zero zero adhd in one group um i feel as though there's a very
00:47:34.160 good chance that rfk jr is going to have a reputational turnaround like nobody's business
00:47:44.880 it might be one for the ages do you realize what might be happening we might be on the verge of
00:47:54.560 finding out that that nut job rfk jr that crazy bastard who is always spreading that misinformation 0.97
00:48:04.720 we might be finding out he was right all along
00:48:08.960 maybe not about 100 you know you know there may be some nuance there that is not 100 right but that
00:48:17.840 would be true of everybody
00:48:21.360 all right um so this uh dr s-i-r-i his name i will not pronounce um he was a really good lawyer
00:48:31.360 so of course he's asked the following question by democrat senator blumenthal uh he he said uh
00:48:40.080 are you a doctor because he talks like that are you a doctor so what would you say if you're a lawyer
00:48:47.840 who specializes it sounds like has lots of experience in this domain as a lawyer but not as a doctor and
00:48:56.320 so he's going to try to impugn his expertise by saying aren't you a doctor are you a doctor and
00:49:02.560 here was his answer he goes no but i depose them regularly including the world's leading ones with
00:49:09.840 regards to vaccines and i have to make my claims based on actual evidence when i go to court with
00:49:16.240 regards to vaccines i don't get to rely on titles oh snap i don't get to rely on titles
00:49:26.320 i have to prove it with data oh oh man i'll buy that lawyer can i can i hire him he's good
00:49:36.560 you'd want him defending you or repressing your case yeah when i got it when i go to court i got
00:49:42.320 to bring actual evidence i don't get to rely on titles bam bam that's the hardest i've ever seen
00:49:49.360 anybody judo flipped on on that accusation about expertise
00:49:56.160 here's another one here's uh rfk jr again um you want to hear a good answer to a question
00:50:04.240 listen to this so kennedy is asked by somebody um if he's so concerned about you know health and
00:50:12.480 safety why isn't maha looking at firearms now my first impression was oh that's pretty good
00:50:25.520 yeah that's a pretty good you know gotcha question because he doesn't want to be working for the trump
00:50:31.600 administration and come out against guns but on the other hand you can't really claim that there's no
00:50:38.800 gun problem i mean in the sense that people are dying from from guns so you know is he
00:50:48.880 what's he do with it here's what he says he goes we had comparably the same number of guns when i was
00:50:55.280 a kid nobody was doing uh that walking into buildings and shooting strangers he meant uh we had gun clubs
00:51:02.080 at my school kids brought guns to school and were encouraged to do so and nobody was walking into
00:51:08.720 school and shooting people so then he goes and this is not happening in other countries switzerland has
00:51:15.440 a comparable number of guns as we do and the last mass shooting they had was 23 years ago we're having
00:51:21.280 mass shootings every 23 hours so there's many many things that's happening and they're happening in the
00:51:26.560 1990s that could explain these because that's when you know the the curve went up and he goes one is
00:51:33.440 the dependence on psychiatric drugs which in our country is unlike any other country in the world
00:51:40.400 wow why do you think um the u.s has you know somebody needs for psychiatric drugs i feel like some of it
00:51:52.480 might be that we're lonelier do you ever think that maybe we're just lonelier so you get more depressed
00:52:00.080 so you get more more of those drugs but wasn't a kennedy's answer genius i'd never even heard that
00:52:07.680 argument that we had a comparable number of guns but the behavior was different so we should be looking
00:52:14.880 as something besides the guns as the cause of the problem that's pretty solid pretty solid argument
00:52:24.400 i've never heard that um all right here's a here's a post from a an anonymous economist
00:52:36.240 so there's an anonymous economist on x who has a very provocative uh post
00:52:44.080 and if i can get my cat off of my notes i will read it to you now you can make up your own mind all right
00:52:52.480 this is uh he goes by the name of dr insensitive jerk 0.66
00:52:59.280 and uh he points out that uh in uh apartheid south africa uh it is unique as the only country to
00:53:07.200 have independently developed produced and then voluntarily dismantled its own
00:53:12.880 nuclear arsenal i'm not sure everybody do that i i didn't know that um and then points out
00:53:21.360 that in uh 1993 the apartheid government destroyed its six nuclear weapons just before it handed the
00:53:28.960 keys of the government over to the uh the black population and and we should he says we should all
00:53:36.240 thank them for that he says now britain and france stand where south africa stood in 1990 uh-oh
00:53:45.840 about to hand their nuclear arsenals over to the muslims who supplant them in their own lands 1.00
00:53:52.160 great britain must immediately dismantle its 225 nuclear weapons while it still can
00:53:57.520 uh likewise france has 290 and he says disarming france and britain must be a u.s foreign policy priority
00:54:06.000 to which i say you can't say that
00:54:14.800 make your own judgment obviously i don't expect this to try to do that but if we could
00:54:24.160 i would definitely want it because i do think that uh one of those two countries will be the first muslim
00:54:30.960 country with nuclear weapons and uh there is a little extra risk if your uh understanding of the
00:54:41.520 universe is based on one set of assumptions versus another so there is an extra risk there
00:54:50.160 well this is funny apparently so there's going to be a january 6th panel that's going to look into
00:54:56.800 january 6th from uh let's say from a trump friendly point of view but i guess they have to have some
00:55:04.560 democrats on the committee too or the panel and so uh jeffries hakeem jeffries the leader uh he appointed
00:55:13.120 the people he wants to work on the january 6th panel and who do you think he appointed
00:55:18.480 he appointed jasmine crockett uh and uh uh jared moskowitz and uh did he also do swalwell all right
00:55:32.880 yeah i think he also nominated eric swalwell so how much work are they going to get done with jasmine
00:55:40.000 crockett and eric swalwell i don't know the other guy but it looks like it feels like i came jeffries was
00:55:46.560 just playing a prank it's like all right how about these two
00:55:54.640 well do you remember 2020 and you remember when the january 6 insurrection hoax was raging and there
00:56:06.000 were 15 uh accused false trump electors so one of the things that the trump um lawyers tried to
00:56:16.240 set up was to set up was to get some people to be alternate electors and apparently they
00:56:24.480 got indicted and went to trial and but now a michigan judge has thrown out the case
00:56:31.680 against the 15 so-called false trump electors you know the ones that were going to send in for the
00:56:38.400 uh the electoral college people um if if a certain set of things happen so that never happened but it
00:56:47.760 was a plan that they had and the reason this is the interesting part the reason that it was thrown out
00:56:56.560 is because there was no evidence of intent
00:56:59.760 in other words the people who were involved the only intent that they could discern
00:57:07.760 was that they intended to make the process work better by maybe rescuing what looked like a problem
00:57:16.240 now don't you think that that same thing that lack of intent is going to be the the weakness for the
00:57:24.480 the whole january 6 insurrection hoax i've been saying it for a while the january 6 insurrection hoax is
00:57:31.840 sort of the the last thing that's democrats have intact that's like a real serious you know um we'll say
00:57:41.120 federal quality uh hoax and all it would take to get rid of it is any kind of reporting
00:57:50.240 that talks to the people who participated in january 6 and ask them what was their intention
00:57:57.680 and that's it and that's the end of the hoax nobody's ever done it nobody's ever asked them
00:58:03.520 well what did you think would happen like what was your intention were you trying to overthrow the
00:58:08.480 country and overthrow the election or were you trying to repair the country and make sure the election was
00:58:16.240 not overthrown by somebody else which one were you trying to do all you need is one
00:58:22.960 serious report you know it could be like a wall street journal new york post um that just talks to
00:58:29.680 people it's not even hard you could just say we talked to 25 people who attended that day and just say
00:58:38.160 well what did they say and every one of them i'm positive would say well how would it how would we
00:58:45.920 even overthrow the country anyway what are you even talking about exactly what was our plan did you think
00:58:53.120 did you think we were going to loiter around in a building and that would overthrow the united states
00:58:58.880 is that what you think we thought
00:59:03.360 and that's it you get rid of the whole hoax you only have to ask 20 people and put a big story together
00:59:13.920 all right so that's pretty big deal the fact that the uh there's no intent found in the one time
00:59:20.080 that they looked for it the people who were presumed to be part of this large conspiracy
00:59:25.280 judge said there's no evidence of intent of course not of course there was no evidence of intent
00:59:34.640 um let's see what else is happening so for reasons that are not yet clear it looks like russia attacked
00:59:43.360 poland with a number of drones so poland shot down some of them and at least one got through or a few got
00:59:51.920 through and uh when uh when uh when pudin's uh press team was asked about it they declined to comment
01:00:01.680 and they said uh you need to talk to their defense ministry so they basically instead of denying it
01:00:10.400 so russia is not denying it it looks like they attacked poland but it's not a full-scale attack
01:00:18.400 so what exactly would be the purpose was it um just to get their attention is poland doing something
01:00:28.240 that they don't like i think poland's upgrading their weapons right so maybe russia is just saying
01:00:34.640 hey you know maybe don't upgrade your weapons that much because we're not gonna like it is that
01:00:40.400 what they're doing i mean be weird all right uh trump has asked the european union to hit china and india
01:00:51.840 with tariffs of up to 100 for dealing with um russia so do you think that'll happen i don't that's not
01:01:02.160 gonna happen i don't think but it makes sense to ask you should try well apparently the california my dumb
01:01:11.680 state um the assembly passed a bill to make it illegal for the ice officers to wear masks in california
01:01:22.480 now does my government in uh in california is the only thing they do
01:01:29.440 is sit around and say all right what's the most fucked up thing we can do does anybody have an 0.97
01:01:34.880 idea for something that should be really bad we could raise their taxes and then use it to fund
01:01:41.200 ngos which our spouses all work at and then somebody would say we're already doing that bob we're already
01:01:47.840 doing that we're looking for new ideas and then yeah uh we we could make it illegal to wear a mask if
01:01:55.760 you're a nice agent uh therefore guaranteeing the terror terrorizing of your family if you're in ice
01:02:03.040 oh now you're talking good job beth
01:02:09.840 so i i saw this article in uh breitbart joel pollock was writing about it and my question was
01:02:17.440 is it legal for the state to tell ice what clothes they can wear in california
01:02:24.560 i suppose it would be legal if they decided to go naked it would be legal for california to enforce
01:02:31.920 whatever nudity rules we have in california but can they tell the ice officers what to wear
01:02:42.000 can they it seems to me like there must be some way to challenge that
01:02:47.520 a cat with my non-existent understanding of the law well i wonder if while i was talking
01:02:56.240 two of the cutest cats in the world climbed up on this
01:02:59.280 desk and yes it's true two cats better than one all right everybody that's all i had for now
01:03:10.640 uh hope you enjoyed yourself it was a lot of news a lot of news today and uh probably a lot more being
01:03:19.920 made at this moment those ufos are about ready to land we better get to mars fast all right um i'm
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