Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2974 CWSA 09⧸30⧸25

00:00:00.000 Come on in, grab a seat, grab a beverage.

00:00:06.300 We're going to have some fun this morning.

00:00:09.800 Oh yeah, we will.

00:00:12.540 Is PXF still talking?

00:00:16.940 Probably.

00:00:19.140 All right, let's check your stocks.

00:00:22.260 Ooh, Tesla down.

00:00:24.520 Yeah, we're down a little bit.

00:00:26.580 All right, not the worst thing in the world.

00:00:28.140 Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

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00:00:38.200 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

00:00:45.460 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams.

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00:01:27.080 Ah.

00:01:30.000 Well, I'd like to begin with a product review.

00:01:34.220 I said to myself, I'll bet I can get a better camera

00:01:37.560 than the one that's built into my laptop, my Macintosh.

00:01:41.660 So I used Grok, and I used ChatGPT,

00:01:45.620 and I asked people for recommendations for a good webcam.

00:01:49.200 And people said the best one would be this Logitech Brio, I don't know, kind of thing.

00:01:59.620 Whatever is the top of the line.

00:02:01.040 But I would like to make a point.

00:02:05.340 So this is supposed to hang on the top of your laptop.

00:02:09.060 And the little, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, little lip is the only thing that keeps it on there. 0.99

00:02:16.660 And then in addition, there's this device, which apparently is made because they fucking hate people. 0.98

00:02:23.360 There's no other reason I can think of. 0.97

00:02:25.200 Whoever designed this, for the past 20 years or so, I've been buying Logitech and other cameras,

00:02:34.500 trying them out, and then as soon as you breathe, it falls off.

00:02:38.940 So this morning, after the 50th time of not being able to adjust the color temperature

00:02:45.980 or to get it anywhere near as good as the one that's built into my laptop,

00:02:50.980 I finally threw it across the room and took care of it.

00:02:55.540 Now, this is the way you have to handle this, this way.

00:02:59.780 You just have to break them. 0.99

00:03:01.460 Because once that fucking thing falls off your laptop for the third time, 1.00

00:03:07.400 if you're dumb enough to let it happen to you a fourth time, 1.00

00:03:11.040 well, you deserve what you're getting. 1.00

00:03:13.260 You deserve it. 0.98

00:03:14.580 No, that has to be broken and publicly humiliated. 0.85

00:03:19.320 So I did that for you.

00:03:22.580 So we're back to our FaceTime camera, which is really good, by the way.

00:03:27.140 Very good camera.

00:03:27.900 Well, I saw a piece of work by Jay Plemons today or yesterday and next,

00:03:35.800 who took my book, God's Debris, and used AI to animate it.

00:03:42.460 I animate it.

00:03:44.080 To create an AI movie and just the first scene.

00:03:50.600 Now, that's the problem with making movies,

00:03:52.360 is that you can make a good 15-second scene,

00:03:56.360 but apparently that's as far as you can go.

00:04:00.060 Even if you make lots of them, they don't fit together or something.

00:04:03.800 But just to see what the future holds, wow.

00:04:10.160 It's really amazing.

00:04:11.300 It's in my X feed, or you can go to Jay's feed.

00:04:15.340 He's at Jay Plemons, P-L-E-M-O-N-S. 0.95

00:04:22.300 He'd be a good follow if you want to see some good video clips.

00:04:28.980 And it features the character in the book.

00:04:32.560 It's called the Avatar.

00:04:34.400 So that's the main character.

00:04:35.700 It's a fictional account.

00:04:38.800 And Jay put me in as the Avatar.

00:04:42.280 Now, the funny thing about that is that the Avatar character is described as so old,

00:04:51.520 he looks like he's just ready to die any moment.

00:04:56.280 And I thought, oh, well, that's pretty good casting.

00:04:59.240 Pretty good.

00:05:01.180 All right.

00:05:01.520 But I would ask you, if you're tempted to take that book and turn it into a full-length

00:05:08.120 movie, that would be a big copyright problem.

00:05:11.840 Doing 15 seconds of it to demonstrate how it works is excellent.

00:05:18.180 You know, fully approved.

00:05:19.620 That would be, in my mind, that would be fair use.

00:05:24.380 That's fair use.

00:05:25.420 But if you thought, hey, I think I'll make a whole movie out of this, no, that would not

00:05:30.320 be fair use.

00:05:32.420 Speaking of that, OpenAI has apparently told Hollywood Studios that instead of, well, I

00:05:41.060 guess they want to reverse the model of copyright.

00:05:43.760 So they will use your copyright unless you specifically ask them not to.

00:05:49.140 So you would have to explicitly opt out.

00:05:52.320 Otherwise, you could use OpenAI to make your own Dilbert comics or anything else you wanted.

00:05:58.780 You could do a Dilbert movie, I guess.

00:06:00.420 But now I have to figure out.

00:06:03.660 I guess I'll ask OpenAI.

00:06:06.240 Do you think if I asked OpenAI, what is the mechanism to explicitly opt out for my copyrights?

00:06:14.820 Do you think it would know the answer to that?

00:06:19.060 It might.

00:06:20.460 But I'm going to guess no.

00:06:22.040 I'm not even sure this is true.

00:06:23.740 I don't have a source for it.

00:06:25.040 But that would be a big deal.

00:06:28.640 So PXF is talking to his meeting of generals, which means that we've put all of our most

00:06:36.240 important people, including our president, all in one room.

00:06:40.280 Hmm.

00:06:40.460 It doesn't feel like the best play, but I'm sure they've figured this out.

00:06:47.380 Well, I haven't heard it all because it looks like it's going to be an all-day event kind

00:06:51.220 of thing.

00:06:51.640 The president is speaking now, I think.

00:06:53.260 But the parts I saw, PXF started out saying that it is unacceptable to see fat troops and

00:07:01.700 even worse to see fat generals in the hallway.

00:07:05.100 So whether you're a general or a troop, you're going to have to do a physical, you know, a

00:07:12.440 PT, physical test twice a year.

00:07:16.380 So for all members of the military, how in the world are they going to get these 60-plus

00:07:22.980 year-old generals to pass the physical test?

00:07:28.240 I don't know.

00:07:28.760 That seems like a stretch.

00:07:30.920 And he's against wokeness and DEI for promotions and said they've promoted too many uniformed

00:07:39.480 leaders for the wrong reasons.

00:07:41.580 So it doesn't look like there's going to be any big announcement, per se.

00:07:45.660 It looks like it's just things you knew that Agseth and Trump wanted to make the military

00:07:52.140 more lethal.

00:07:53.720 And probably it'll make some news, but I don't think it's a big announcement.

00:07:59.940 All right.

00:08:01.640 The Trump administration announced, it was in just the news, I saw it, that they had confiscated

00:08:09.520 one million pounds of cocaine, one million pounds of cocaine worth $11 billion, one million

00:08:21.760 pounds.

00:08:23.860 And my first question is, how do you dispose of a million pounds of cocaine?

00:08:30.000 Hold it.

00:08:30.660 Hold it.

00:08:31.040 You have to answer the question, how do you dispose a million pounds of cocaine, but you

00:08:37.580 can't use the words Hunter or Biden?

00:08:41.420 Yeah, you can't do it, can you?

00:08:43.300 Because about half of you just wrote Hunter Biden as soon as I asked the question.

00:08:47.260 I know you.

00:08:48.820 Yeah, I know you.

00:08:49.920 All right.

00:08:54.340 Well, I guess we'll dump it in the ocean with the rest of it.

00:08:59.740 Our entire ocean is going to be a cocaine ocean if we keep it up.

00:09:03.960 So, I'm going swimming, never coming back.

00:09:10.960 I saw a reframe on robot costs from a gentleman named Elir Aliu.

00:09:19.560 I hope that's even close to his name.

00:09:22.480 But he points out that the cost of the robot, now he's talking about industrial robots, not

00:09:28.020 the kind that will walk around in your house, but the factory kind.

00:09:31.620 And he says that buying the robot is only 20% of the total cost.

00:09:37.340 The real expense is that you have to change over your system, which means discontinuing

00:09:43.660 production for a while.

00:09:45.180 You've got to figure out how to train your robot.

00:09:47.520 You've got to train people to work with the robot.

00:09:49.820 You've got to have maintenance problems with the robot.

00:09:52.660 You've got to upgrade the robot.

00:09:54.660 So, 80% of the cost of the robot is on top of the price of the robot.

00:10:01.620 So, that's one of those little factoids that if you store that away, you'll feel like

00:10:09.660 the smartest person at the party when somebody brings up robots.

00:10:14.480 Well, apparently the ditty sentence is upcoming.

00:10:19.440 We don't know what that's going to be yet.

00:10:21.020 But it could be up to 11 years for prostitution-related charges and blah, blah, blah.

00:10:30.780 So, it could be up to 11 years.

00:10:32.860 We'll see.

00:10:33.240 How many of you are very confident that you know the answer to the following question?

00:10:42.220 In recent years, so only talking about last few years, that's all, has there been more

00:10:49.500 right-wing violence or left-wing violence?

00:10:51.900 Tell me if you know the answer and if you're confident that you know the answer.

00:10:59.680 I have decided to give up.

00:11:03.060 There was one point where I thought, huh, I'll just look at the data.

00:11:08.500 I'll just Google that data.

00:11:10.120 I don't know what to believe because I don't believe any of the data in this domain, and

00:11:18.660 nor should you.

00:11:19.860 Do you really think this data is accurate or do you think it's just full of opinion?

00:11:24.780 As in, well, I don't know.

00:11:27.220 That one's a little bit right-wing, but it's not completely, so we'll put that in the gray

00:11:32.920 area.

00:11:33.220 Oh, this one's left-wing.

00:11:35.320 Oh, I can tell by how they voted. 1.00

00:11:38.020 Don't you think that data is all bullshit? 0.98

00:11:42.140 So, I also don't know how much it matters, as long as it's coming from both directions. 0.99

00:11:48.160 Would it matter if it's 30-70 in one direction?

00:11:51.920 How would that matter?

00:11:53.480 You would do exactly the same thing if it were 50-50, 30-70, 70-30.

00:11:59.120 You wouldn't do anything differently, would you?

00:12:01.460 Because you should be working on both sides of that equation, whether it's 30-70 or 70-30.

00:12:08.540 It doesn't matter.

00:12:10.060 All it is is getting a quick, you know, quick rhetorical point if you're debating somebody,

00:12:16.460 I guess.

00:12:16.820 But it doesn't have any real-world implications.

00:12:21.940 Now, and I've also seen there are lots of examples where right-wing people, and that

00:12:27.840 would include me, have said things like fascist or whatever.

00:12:31.460 I would argue that when the right-wing uses those words, like, oh, you're acting like

00:12:36.540 a Nazi or a fascist, absolutely nobody takes that literally.

00:12:41.400 Would you agree?

00:12:43.080 That when the right uses those words, you can tell it's just rhetorical, and that even a

00:12:49.720 crazy person wouldn't think that was real.

00:12:51.760 Now, they might think it's real when they call Mamdami a communist.

00:12:56.980 People might think that's real, and, you know, you can imagine people might act on it.

00:13:02.720 So I think, I feel as if it would be good, sort of good general advice for both sides to

00:13:12.840 maybe back off of the Nazi references.

00:13:17.040 And I'm going to try to do the same thing.

00:13:20.200 I will stop trying to do the same thing if the left doesn't make any progress in not doing

00:13:26.480 that.

00:13:27.460 But at the moment, I think, you know what?

00:13:30.220 But even though it feels to me that there's more left-wing violence, maybe that's just

00:13:36.500 because the ones that get on TV.

00:13:39.320 I don't know.

00:13:40.440 And this latest one with the church, what was that?

00:13:44.120 That guy was a Trump supporter.

00:13:46.780 But I don't think he did it for, you know, some classic political reason.

00:13:51.900 So I think the reasons that the right-wing do things, violence, and the left-wing, they

00:13:59.060 do things, seems different.

00:14:01.320 The left-wing seems often trying to change politics, you know, trying to kill Trump, trying

00:14:08.760 to take out, not trying, but taking out Charlie Kirk.

00:14:13.300 Doesn't that feel like a direct attempt to change politics?

00:14:16.480 Whereas when the right does something, it doesn't look like they're trying to change

00:14:22.100 the government.

00:14:22.840 It looks like they're just mad at something or crazy or, you know, maybe that's useful

00:14:27.860 to know that there's a difference.

00:14:31.260 Well, Tucker Carlson had on his show one of the Wikipedia co-founders, Larry Sanger.

00:14:38.280 And Larry Sanger walked him through the blacklist.

00:14:43.300 I saw this on a Jason Cohen clip.

00:14:47.140 By the way, if you want to follow Jason Cohen, I mentioned it before, but it turns out there

00:14:51.900 are a lot of people with that name.

00:14:53.480 He's the one that's at Jason Giorno DC.

00:14:58.000 Jason Giorno DC, all one word.

00:15:02.260 All right.

00:15:02.780 So the blacklist on Wikipedia are the publications that you're not supposed to, or you can't,

00:15:10.920 actually, it's blocked.

00:15:12.100 You can't use them as your source.

00:15:15.180 So if you're one of the editors on Wikipedia and you saw an article in, let's say, the Federalist

00:15:21.200 or Breitbart, and you said, oh, that looks like pretty reliable, I'll refer to that as

00:15:26.600 a source.

00:15:27.900 Wikipedia would block you.

00:15:30.500 But if you wanted to use the New York Times as a source, no problem.

00:15:35.280 Washington Post?

00:15:36.260 Yeah, no problem.

00:15:38.080 New York Post?

00:15:40.020 Oh, no.

00:15:40.520 The Federalist?

00:15:42.920 Mm-mm.

00:15:43.580 Nope.

00:15:44.200 Can't use the Federalist.

00:15:46.600 So that does render Wikipedia somewhat useless for anything political.

00:15:54.340 I think you'd agree with that.

00:15:55.660 But it turns out that Elon Musk has just confirmed that his ex-AI company, his AI division, is

00:16:06.060 going to build a competitor called Grokopedia.

00:16:09.180 Now, given that AI is undependable by its nature and it hallucinates, I don't know exactly what

00:16:20.480 the business model will be, but I would imagine if the only thing it did was add some AI elements

00:16:27.660 and expanded the number of sources that could be considered legitimate, that would be a big deal.

00:16:36.500 So this might be yet another gigantic big deal.

00:16:40.820 And it's an even bigger deal if Musk allows other AI to train on Grokopedia.

00:16:49.340 Because I'm pretty sure that AI has trained on Wikipedia.

00:16:53.440 So what if Elon says, I'm going to open this up.

00:16:57.580 You can all train your AI on what was created by my AI.

00:17:05.220 That would be interesting because it would be quite different.

00:17:09.580 Did you know that the ADL lists Turning Point USA as one of their groups that they accuse of

00:17:19.080 extremism and hate?

00:17:20.340 So the ADL, trying to improve the, I would say, safety and the reputation and life of Jewish

00:17:29.500 people, I don't think just Americans, but Jewish people everywhere, and they've decided that

00:17:38.020 Turning Point USA is an extremist hate group.

00:17:43.260 I don't know how that could be any more opposite than that.

00:17:47.000 And so I wondered, how does the ADL deal with the fact that Israel, now they don't work for 0.98

00:17:58.060 Israel, ADL is not part of Israel, it's an American group, and there'd be plenty of people

00:18:03.600 in Israel who's not happy with them for their own reasons.

00:18:06.740 But I wondered, how does the ADL handle the war in Gaza?

00:18:14.100 And so I looked it up on Grok, and what they do is they argue that the word genocide doesn't

00:18:25.740 apply because there's no evidence of intention.

00:18:31.700 Did you know that in order for a genocide to be a genocide, you have to have the intention

00:18:37.460 of removing or killing all the people.

00:18:41.160 So removing the people is a genocide too, just moving them from wherever they are to 0.87

00:18:46.520 somewhere else. 0.74

00:18:47.780 So you don't have to kill them all, but removing them would be a genocide. 0.94

00:18:51.680 But you'd have to have the intention of a genocide, according to the ADL, the leader, 0.97

00:18:58.500 Jonathan Greenblatt.

00:18:59.400 Now, is that just a weasel way to get out of dealing with the question, or do you find

00:19:07.900 that valid?

00:19:09.260 Well, you know, Israel has never said our intention is to do a genocide, or our intention, but they 0.94

00:19:19.220 have said, correct me if I'm wrong, we'll talk about the Gaza 21-point plan in a moment,

00:19:26.000 but haven't they said directly, we're going to move all the people out?

00:19:32.040 You know, maybe with some ability for some of them to move back in the future, but is

00:19:37.180 that enough?

00:19:38.100 Is that enough?

00:19:40.620 If you say, well, yeah, we're just going to clean up some problems with Hamas, and then 0.86

00:19:45.240 people can come back in.

00:19:47.260 So is that enough to say that you don't have the intention of moving people out and keeping

00:19:52.480 them out?

00:19:54.000 I don't know.

00:19:54.520 It feels like it's a little hard to navigate that situation if you're the ADL, but as it

00:20:02.160 stands, the 65,000 people who have been killed and the millions who are being dislocated in 0.99

00:20:09.720 Gaza is not a situation of hate and extremism, but that damn Charlie Kirk and all those Christians 1.00

00:20:18.300 who are worshiping God and trying to live a holy life, they're a case of hate and extremism. 0.99

00:20:25.460 So I don't know how long the ADL is going to last, because it just makes Jewish people look 1.00

00:20:33.960 like shit, honestly. 1.00

00:20:36.060 If I were a Jew, I would want the ADL to go away right away, as soon as possible. 0.99

00:20:43.460 I would not want that to be part of what my reputational brand is, for God's sakes.

00:20:49.800 Anyway, maybe the ADL should label itself a hate group, and that would take care of everything.

00:20:55.440 Did you lock the front door?

00:21:00.000 Check.

00:21:00.560 Closed the garage door?

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00:21:05.720 No.

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00:21:26.860 Um, according to Fox News, there's an NPR Ipsos poll that says 71% of those polls say that

00:21:34.820 crime levels in American cities are unacceptable.

00:21:39.720 It makes you wonder, how would somebody answer that question any other way?

00:21:45.660 Well, if you said, is the crime level in Chicago acceptable?

00:21:53.020 Apparently, there's somebody who says yes.

00:21:57.800 Quite a few people.

00:22:00.480 At what point is the crime level acceptable?

00:22:04.720 I would say the acceptable level would be zero.

00:22:09.140 Acceptable.

00:22:09.740 I mean, you wouldn't, if your crime was, let's say, relatively low, you wouldn't get rid of

00:22:15.980 the police department, right?

00:22:17.240 You would say, well, you know, now that we got the crime down to, you know, one murder

00:22:22.000 or whatever, we don't need a police.

00:22:24.580 I mean, it's acceptable.

00:22:25.740 It's just acceptable now. 0.99

00:22:27.320 So I feel like it's a dumb question. 0.83

00:22:31.260 So I'd ignore that one. 0.63

00:22:32.700 Well, I guess the government shutdown is inevitable now, and that happens the next day or so.

00:22:41.500 The government's going to shut down.

00:22:43.340 Now, it's not the whole government.

00:22:44.800 It's a whole bunch of, you know, non-essential stuff.

00:22:48.640 And I say this every time we're in this situation, but doesn't it seem weird to you?

00:22:54.480 And would you have designed this system if you were the founders of the country?

00:22:59.800 If you were sitting around in your non-air-conditioned room trying to figure out how to make a constitution,

00:23:07.960 would you have designed a system where the only way you can get a budget passed is by

00:23:13.660 seeing who's willing to torture people not involved in the budget the hardest?

00:23:20.500 So the way this will work is if the Democrats are willing to torture the people who are going

00:23:26.780 to lose their jobs, at least temporarily, and they're willing to torture the public for making

00:23:32.960 sure they don't have access to these services while everything is closed, if they can handle

00:23:39.060 the torture longer than the Republicans can torture that same group of people, then they

00:23:45.020 win.

00:23:45.980 They get their way.

00:23:46.940 So whoever is the best torturer of citizens gets to decide what the budget is.

00:23:54.800 Can you imagine a worse system?

00:23:57.860 If you were going to sit down and no system existed, you'd be like, all right, so what

00:24:03.760 are we going to do?

00:24:05.000 I think a good way to do a budget would be we will torture third parties, people who are 1.00

00:24:11.240 not part of the budget process.

00:24:12.800 And somebody would raise their hand in the back and say, excuse me, wouldn't we get a

00:24:17.520 much better result and faster if the only people who were tortured were the people doing

00:24:24.160 the budget?

00:24:25.020 Because then they'd say, oh, it hurts so bad.

00:24:27.900 I'm going to have to hurry up.

00:24:30.540 No, no, that feels like that would be painful.

00:24:33.480 So instead, we'll torture other people. 0.95

00:24:35.780 We'll just torture nameless citizens that we don't know personally, but we'll torture a 1.00

00:24:40.500 lot of them. 0.99

00:24:40.920 We'll get a lot of them.

00:24:42.980 And then it doesn't matter if we do the job or not.

00:24:46.680 We don't even have to do the work of the people.

00:24:49.640 We'll just torture people. 0.97

00:24:51.240 And however it comes out, that's just the way we'll do it. 0.75

00:24:54.660 So great job, government.

00:24:59.100 According to the Daily Caller News Foundation, there's a Soros-backed group, a leftist group

00:25:07.640 called Indivisible that's trying to work the Democrats to make sure that they stay tight 0.99

00:25:16.980 and keep the government closed until all of their stupid funding is returned. 0.99

00:25:22.780 Now, that would be the funding for exactly the things that we don't want. 0.99

00:25:29.640 But they're going to work hard to keep that government closed.

00:25:36.120 Governor Newsom said in a post talking about the impending shutdown, he says, Republicans

00:25:43.900 have control of the House, the Senate, and the White House.

00:25:46.640 If the government shuts down, it's on them.

00:25:50.060 Now, most of you know that you've got to get 60 votes.

00:25:55.700 And that means you need, I think, seven, probably around seven-ish Democrats have to vote for

00:26:02.900 it.

00:26:03.540 And of course, they won't.

00:26:04.980 So when Gavin says that the Republicans have control, if you don't pay attention too closely,

00:26:13.980 you think, hey, that means they can do it if they want to.

00:26:17.620 So it's all on them.

00:26:19.320 No, they don't have any power.

00:26:22.280 They have no power.

00:26:23.780 But his base is probably, let's say, 90% of them don't know that it will take some Democrat

00:26:32.640 votes.

00:26:33.100 They just won't even know that. 1.00

00:26:34.980 So his post on X works for them because they think, oh, those stupid damn Republicans. 1.00

00:26:44.200 They ruin everything. 1.00

00:26:47.560 And then the people who do know that he's lying are going to say, oh, that's a good post because

00:26:54.180 people won't know he's lying. 0.99

00:26:56.360 He's a good liar. 1.00

00:26:58.240 He's a very good liar. 1.00

00:26:59.220 That's why he is dangerous. 0.99

00:27:01.120 It's not because he's not capable.

00:27:04.780 It's because he's too capable at the wrong things.

00:27:08.220 Not so good at running a state.

00:27:10.160 But boy, can he lie. 1.00

00:27:12.600 He's a good liar. 0.92

00:27:14.940 Well, YouTube has agreed to pay $24 million settlement to Trump over a lawsuit about being 0.91

00:27:22.320 suspended because of January 6th.

00:27:24.260 So now he's gotten Meta to pay him.

00:27:28.620 Let's see.

00:27:29.100 Meta paid him $25 million.

00:27:31.040 X paid him $10 million.

00:27:32.560 Which seems unfair because, you know, X was after Twitter and Twitter was the one that

00:27:41.700 kicked him off.

00:27:45.740 Anyway, so he's got all this money now coming in.

00:27:48.260 And I guess he's going to direct earmark for the construction of the new White House ballroom. 0.99

00:27:54.040 How awesome is it that Trump sued them for his balls? 0.99

00:28:03.640 For the balls in the ballroom. 0.99

00:28:05.300 I don't know what you're talking about. 0.99

00:28:07.220 But apparently he's going to get them to pay for his balls. 0.99

00:28:11.520 And, you know, I'm going to say again what I often say. 0.99

00:28:16.040 That Trump has figured out how to monetize all of his problems.

00:28:20.680 So here he is monetizing the fact that he got kicked off these platforms.

00:28:24.960 And he's going to use that money to build himself a nice ballroom.

00:28:29.700 How much do I love that?

00:28:31.800 I love it totally.

00:28:33.420 It'd be one thing if he was planning to spend that money on himself.

00:28:37.240 You know, he doesn't need it.

00:28:39.080 But watching him monetize it for the benefit of the people because we'll get a new ballroom.

00:28:45.500 And that will belong to all of us.

00:28:48.520 Pretty impressive.

00:28:49.360 Well, Axios is talking about the Trump's promise or his threat, I guess, to Big Pharma that they better lower the prices.

00:28:58.260 Give us the same low prices that other countries get.

00:29:02.060 And in response, Pharma has done checking notes.

00:29:06.980 Not a thing.

00:29:08.200 Nothing.

00:29:09.100 They have not lowered their prices.

00:29:11.240 So I think their deadline is passed.

00:29:15.300 And I don't know if Trump's going to come down hard on them.

00:29:19.360 Because you don't want to do anything that would reduce our access to valuable meds.

00:29:26.340 On the other hand, you can't really have them just ignore the president and keep those prices where they are.

00:29:32.620 So, oh, wow.

00:29:36.320 Wall Street Journal just reported that the White House plans to introduce Trump Rx,

00:29:41.860 a new government website, to facilitate drug purchases.

00:29:46.340 I guess that would be to cut out the middleman.

00:29:49.740 Or maybe that's the only place that you can get them cheap.

00:29:52.500 I don't know.

00:29:53.580 So we'll find out.

00:29:54.760 But just know that Trump's going to have to do more.

00:30:00.280 And maybe that website is the answer.

00:30:02.280 We'll have to do more to get those prices down. 0.97

00:30:04.420 Because Big Pharma's not going to do it just because you asked.

00:30:09.460 All right.

00:30:10.100 Here's my question.

00:30:11.180 Are we at war with Russia?

00:30:13.180 Now, I know we've been asking that the whole time we've been feeding weapons into the war.

00:30:18.260 But so at this point, we're giving them American weapons.

00:30:25.600 The weapons require American training, I believe.

00:30:29.280 So we're probably training.

00:30:30.760 We're giving them weapons.

00:30:32.240 And the latest thing is that the new weapons will go so far into Russia that Ukraine is only allowed to use them with our permission.

00:30:44.080 So they'd have to get approval to do something extra deep into the country of Russia.

00:30:51.440 I'm guessing that American satellites are helping them locate targets, right?

00:30:58.920 So if it's true that they're American weapons and can only be used with American training and American approval,

00:31:09.220 and American satellites maybe,

00:31:10.760 isn't the least important part of that the soldier?

00:31:16.600 Because you could replace a soldier,

00:31:19.620 but if the soldier didn't have these missiles, the war would be over.

00:31:24.780 I feel like the American part is the important part.

00:31:28.340 And the soldier is becoming the least important part.

00:31:32.040 So I'll ask again.

00:31:34.100 Are we at war with Russia?

00:31:35.620 Because, you know, the further we go into this, oh, it's not us.

00:31:41.560 It's not us. 1.00

00:31:42.900 It must be those darn Ukrainians. 1.00

00:31:45.880 They keep fighting. 1.00

00:31:47.100 But we're not.

00:31:48.000 Oh, no, we're not part of this.

00:31:50.260 I don't know how far that could go.

00:31:52.000 Obviously, Putin would think he's at war with us.

00:31:54.720 But he's smart enough not to attack the homeland because that would that would empty the cupboard.

00:32:00.640 And he doesn't want that.

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00:33:03.280 Well, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has agreed two terms to Trump's 21-point Gaza proposal, Wall Street Journal's reporting.

00:33:19.680 But not until Netanyahu inserted some edits into his plan.

00:33:25.260 Those edits might be the kind of edits that would make it impossible to get a deal because it allows Israel to have indefinite military control of Gaza, no matter what else is happening.

00:33:40.240 So the other parts of the plan would be things like, you know, the Arab countries would help, you know, monitor and manage the place, and the Palestinians who had lived there could move back, and Hamas will be gone.

00:33:57.920 Hamas will be no more.

00:33:59.020 So they wouldn't be allowed to be in charge.

00:34:02.600 But until all the risk of terrorism is removed, according to Israel, Israel can keep its military there.

00:34:13.240 That would be the plan.

00:34:14.600 Do you think Hamas will agree that Israel can have perpetual, maybe, military control of Gaza?

00:34:23.260 I don't know.

00:34:24.740 That might be a problem.

00:34:25.900 So let's look down some of the things.

00:34:30.180 Let's see.

00:34:30.500 Hamas has three or four days to respond, according to Trump.

00:34:35.180 And Netanyahu had to apologize to Qatar for military action in Qatar that took out Hamas leaders and negotiators.

00:34:49.440 And I guess Qatar just needed an apology, so Netanyahu gave them one. 0.70

00:34:53.400 I can't imagine that was the most sincere apology.

00:34:58.240 What did that sound like?

00:35:00.200 We're totally sorry that we had this hugely successful raid in your country.

00:35:06.440 We'll definitely not do that again, unless we need to.

00:35:11.920 All right.

00:35:12.320 Let's see.

00:35:15.820 What else is on that?

00:35:22.480 The countries that might be managing Gaza would be Saudi, Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey, because, you know, those guys all get along great.

00:35:31.900 So it should be no problem at all.

00:35:36.660 And then if all the new proposal gives Israel a veto over the disarming of Hamas and things.

00:35:46.280 So I think the problem will be that Israel is looking to have some permanent kind of control, even if it's not pick up the garbage kind of control. 0.92

00:35:55.540 Well, if it's only military.

00:35:58.580 So we'll see.

00:36:01.400 And Hamas says they're taking it seriously, and they're going to look at it.

00:36:04.800 We'll find out.

00:36:07.500 So one possibility is that Israel knows that Hamas will never accept any kind of a deal.

00:36:14.100 Part of it also is release the hostages in 72 hours, I think.

00:36:17.920 But if you assume that Hamas will never accept anything reasonable, then all it does is give Netanyahu a free pass to keep pounding him,

00:36:32.120 because they keep negotiating this thing while Israel continues to pound him.

00:36:37.080 And they'll just say, hmm, I don't know.

00:36:39.300 Maybe we should add this thing.

00:36:41.400 Maybe we should add a little tweak.

00:36:43.600 And they'll get another week to pound him. 0.71

00:36:46.000 So I don't even know if it's a serious offer, or Israel is just cynically sort of saying, yeah, yeah, we totally agree with this.

00:36:56.920 We'll totally do this.

00:36:58.120 So I guess you can't blame us for war, because we already agreed to peace.

00:37:03.940 So if Hamas doesn't agree, well, then they're just bringing it upon themselves, wouldn't you say?

00:37:09.820 So I think Israel wins either way. 0.81

00:37:12.620 They win if they get the end of fighting in one way, and they would win a different way if they got a better excuse to keep fighting.

00:37:24.500 Well, look, we've offered.

00:37:26.340 We made this totally, totally reasonable offer, and they rejected it.

00:37:31.420 So what are you going to do?

00:37:33.220 I guess the fighting goes on.

00:37:34.600 It's all Hamas' fault. 0.99

00:37:35.600 So anyway, Netanyahu is becoming hilarious in his praising of Trump, because obviously he knows that he needs to stay on Trump's good side, but he's doing it with such a heavy hand.

00:37:53.060 Here are some things that Netanyahu said, I think just yesterday, about President Trump.

00:37:58.420 There's no one like him.

00:37:59.700 He's an incredible friend, an ally of Israel.

00:38:02.160 I don't decide a thing for President Trump.

00:38:05.640 He is the most independent leader and amazing leader that I've seen in all my years.

00:38:12.180 In all of his years, he's the best leader.

00:38:16.120 And here's my advice.

00:38:18.640 You want to dial that back about 20%.

00:38:21.220 It's good to say good things about Trump, especially if you believe them. 0.98

00:38:25.620 But if you go too far, it looks like you're just fucking with us. 0.95

00:38:31.860 It doesn't look like you're serious at all. 0.95

00:38:34.500 I mean, if you go from he's the most independent leader and amazing leader that I've seen in all my years, that's right up to the line.

00:38:44.960 Because after that, what do you have after that?

00:38:47.460 He can fly in his own power.

00:38:54.200 We think he has godlike powers.

00:38:56.940 He might be psychic.

00:38:58.520 I mean, it gets crazy after that.

00:39:00.480 So I'll dial it back about 20%.

00:39:02.740 Well, Eric Swalwell reminds us why Democrats can never be in power again.

00:39:10.380 He announced, he actually said this out loud in public, that he says when Democrats win in 2026, accountability is coming.

00:39:21.360 And that they will investigate private citizens who work for Trump, will subpoena the DOJ and also private actors who have done these drug deals with the administration.

00:39:31.460 He calls them drug deals.

00:39:32.540 And here's my advice.

00:39:36.240 Once again, we always talk about how Democrats don't understand human motivation.

00:39:43.100 Why are you telling us you're going to do this if you win?

00:39:47.580 Doing it after you win might make some sense, right?

00:39:53.920 Because then you've already won.

00:39:56.300 Saying it before you get there just makes us try harder to make sure you don't win.

00:40:03.540 Well, what exactly were you trying to accomplish by inspiring us to try harder to make sure you never have power again?

00:40:11.740 Well, telling us you'll go after private citizens will get you there.

00:40:20.760 Senator John Fetterman is telling us he's not going to switch parties.

00:40:26.080 He just sort of likes common sense and doesn't think the Democrats are always doing the common sense thing.

00:40:32.540 But I saw Dana Perino on The Five say what I would have said in the situation, which is Fetterman is very cleverly taking what could be called the Joe Manchin strategy. 0.98

00:40:45.260 Which is if you can credibly become the only Democrat who's sometimes, not often, but sometimes willing to vote with the Republicans, then everybody has to kiss your ass from now until the end of time. 0.97

00:41:01.120 Because they can't afford to lose that one vote. 0.98

00:41:04.700 Things just are too close.

00:41:06.600 So maybe it won't be that close after 2026.

00:41:10.560 But I've got a feeling that he's going to Joe Manchin this thing, which would be brilliant.

00:41:16.640 It would be exactly the right thing to do.

00:41:18.580 And smarter than switching to the Republicans.

00:41:20.820 If he switches to the Republican Party, he will be considered the least good Republican because he's practically a Democrat.

00:41:30.780 But if he stays Democrat, he's got all the power.

00:41:35.420 All right. 0.97

00:41:35.900 Don Lemon said in public that white men are deeply broken and that's why they resort to violence. 0.98

00:41:42.640 I think Joy Reid was on another podcast saying bad things about white people too.

00:41:53.800 But I'm going to give you some DEI reframing in case you find yourself in a conversation about DEI.

00:42:01.480 Ready?

00:42:03.520 Here's what most of us have been saying, including me, and I keep realizing that it doesn't work at all.

00:42:10.720 Well, if you say the DEI is racist, nobody cares.

00:42:17.400 Nobody cares.

00:42:18.580 There's no Democrat who's going to say, oh, oh, I didn't realize that.

00:42:23.060 Yeah, that's kind of racist.

00:42:25.000 Yeah.

00:42:25.640 So we should cut it out.

00:42:27.360 Nobody cares if, let me use an analogy.

00:42:31.680 If a billionaire lost a dollar, would you feel bad for them?

00:42:37.260 A billionaire lost one dollar.

00:42:39.040 No, you wouldn't.

00:42:40.520 Because if somebody is powerful, you don't feel empathy for them.

00:42:44.320 You just say, ah, I'd rather be you than me.

00:42:47.800 So likewise, if you're a white guy and you say to anybody who's a Democrat, oh, this is racist, the Democrats are going to say, so?

00:42:57.360 Well, you probably had it coming after hundreds of years of you being the patriarchy and you getting all the good stuff and, you know, all that.

00:43:06.540 So what if it's a little bit racist against you?

00:43:10.520 You've got that coming.

00:43:12.140 So as an argument, forget about what's right or wrong.

00:43:16.400 As an argument, no persuasion at all.

00:43:19.500 But I'm going to give you a better version of that.

00:43:23.120 I just came up with that this morning.

00:43:26.060 Did you know that there are multiple studies that show that redheads are discriminated against for employment? 0.97

00:43:34.260 Did you know that?

00:43:36.040 Redheads are very discriminated against in employment. 0.99

00:43:39.720 It's repeatable.

00:43:42.140 A number of studies have found the same thing.

00:43:45.000 So instead of saying that your problem is it's racist against white people, which you will never prevail in, even though it's true, you say, here's my problem with DEI.

00:43:57.080 It's not about anybody's gender or race or culture. 0.96

00:44:01.100 You could replace black people, in the example, with redheads. 1.00

00:44:05.420 And you'd have the same problem. 0.98

00:44:07.180 So your boss would say, uh-oh, the order came down.

00:44:10.940 I have to get more redheads because we don't have enough redheads. 1.00

00:44:15.240 And then they try to hire, you know, high technically capable redheads. 1.00

00:44:20.120 But everybody's doing it too.

00:44:22.220 All the other companies are hiring redheads. 0.98

00:44:24.460 How long will it take before you run out of top shelf redheads? 1.00

00:44:29.220 About a minute.

00:44:30.960 And you're out of redheads that are like really the top employees. 1.00

00:44:34.800 But what do you do?

00:44:36.040 If you run out of the top level redheads but you've got to hire redheads or else you'll lose your bonus because your boss told you you've got to get some diversity and that includes the redheads, what are you going to do? 0.59

00:44:48.460 You're going to lower your standards because that's what the incentive system has given you.

00:44:54.140 Once again, I remind you that Democrats don't understand human motivation.

00:44:59.800 And it's behind all of their mistakes.

00:45:01.800 It's the same thing.

00:45:02.620 It's behind all their mistakes.

00:45:03.820 So, the argument would be if you can get somebody to agree that you would have the same problem with a redhead such that if Charlie Kirk were still alive and he got on a flight and he saw that a redhead was the pilot of the ship, he would ask himself reasonably, reasonably, I wonder if that redhead only got in there because of DEI. 0.72

00:45:29.740 So, the best argument, I think, if you could get somebody to listen to you for more than 10 seconds is that you could replace black or brown or women or LGBTQ, you could replace any of them with redheads and you would still have a gigantic problem. 0.99

00:45:51.140 It's the math of the system guarantees that people do the wrong thing that the system guarantees that people do the wrong thing and lower their standards because that's how they make the money.

00:46:10.140 Anyway, try that out.

00:46:11.380 Let me know if that works for you.

00:46:12.920 It would only work for somebody who's willing to sit there and listen.

00:46:15.700 It's not going to work for a quick hit on X.

00:46:21.200 Well, we're learning now, the Transportation Security Administration is learning, that there was a, apparently people were added to the TSA watch list under Biden if they were known mask resistors.

00:46:35.920 Can you believe that?

00:46:37.920 Can you believe that?

00:46:38.900 The people who are known as sort of activists against mask mandates, they were put on the no-fly zone, no-fly list.

00:46:49.300 That is so, so wrong at a level that I just go, what?

00:46:57.080 That really happened?

00:46:58.580 I lived through that because I was an anti-mask activist.

00:47:06.320 Is it possible that I was added to the no-fly list and I didn't know it?

00:47:10.660 I mean, I did fly.

00:47:13.500 Oh, but when I flew, I was not yet being vocal about masks.

00:47:20.020 That came after that.

00:47:22.000 I haven't flown.

00:47:23.800 Yeah, I haven't flown since then, but for other reasons.

00:47:27.260 So, I might actually be on some kind of no-fly terrorist list just because I made a big deal about we got to get rid of these masks now that we know for sure that they don't make any difference.

00:47:42.100 All right.

00:47:43.700 According to Medscape, Jeff Craven's writing that there's a sharp rise in what they call cognitive disabilities in young adults.

00:47:52.280 Now, we're not even talking about autism and ADHD.

00:47:55.440 They're talking about concentration, memory, and decision-making.

00:47:59.320 They're saying that's way down.

00:48:01.960 I don't know what the cause of that is.

00:48:04.580 I mean, you could speculate all the usual causes from food to lack of sleep to, I don't know, you could imagine a lot of possible answers.

00:48:14.480 But I have one possibility that I think people would miss, which is that the world itself is getting increasingly complicated.

00:48:24.960 If you take somebody with a brain that's perfectly suited for the 1800s, as in, hey, this is Cousin Bob, he's not too bright, but all he has to do is milk the cows.

00:48:40.980 Could Cousin Bob milk the cows and not have any problems with concentration, memory, or decision-making?

00:48:47.580 Yeah, no decision, not much concentration.

00:48:51.360 So if all you're doing is milk and a cow, yeah, you're perfectly fine.

00:48:56.200 But what if you have to navigate your smartphone in school and try to figure out how to get into college and, you know, just getting from one place to another is a nightmare?

00:49:06.760 Everything is so much more complicated, mostly with online stuff, that it could be that the people haven't changed, but the challenge of just surviving life in 2025 causes some people to just not be able to hold all the memories, not be able to handle the decision-making, et cetera.

00:49:28.240 So it could be that the people didn't change, the environment didn't.

00:49:32.520 So I'll just throw that out there.

00:49:34.240 You know, I wouldn't bet my life that that's the answer, but maybe.

00:49:40.900 Well, allegedly, President Xi, according to the Telegraph, had asked Trump to oppose Taiwan independence in return for a trade deal.

00:49:51.320 Does that sound like something we should do, to oppose Taiwan independence so he could get a trade deal?

00:49:57.660 Well, here's the fun part.

00:49:59.140 You know how I always tell you that Trump is incredible at creating a fake asset so he has something to negotiate away?

00:50:09.300 Apparently, the Biden administration had something on the website that's saying it did not support Taiwan's independence.

00:50:16.920 It wanted to just sort of keep things the way they are because then China doesn't get mad at you, et cetera.

00:50:21.240 And then Trump removed it.

00:50:24.520 So what I think what China wants is that in order in return for, you know, a trade deal, which we want, they would want us to put back on the website that we do not support Taiwan's independence.

00:50:39.680 We only support the status quo or something like that.

00:50:44.640 And so that would suggest, again, that Trump created an asset by taking that off the website, which didn't cost us anything.

00:50:53.440 And now in order to put it back on the website, and probably also say it out loud, they would give us a trade deal.

00:51:03.940 Now, I'm assuming that that would be a better deal than if we don't do that.

00:51:08.620 So he somehow, again, created an asset out of nothing.

00:51:13.200 I don't know how that will work, but that was interesting.

00:51:17.180 And then related to that, apparently there's a plan to, a U.S. plan, well, I think it's already in motion.

00:51:32.280 They're going to pressure Taiwan to move 50% of their chip production to the U.S.

00:51:38.080 or lose our military protection.

00:51:41.540 Ars Technica is reporting on that.

00:51:43.260 So even the Trump officials say that that's impossible.

00:51:50.380 I think Jensen Wang of NVIDIA just two years ago had estimated that moving that production,

00:51:59.180 well, the pipeline, basically, moving the entire pipeline to the U.S.

00:52:04.440 might take 10 to 20 years, might take two decades.

00:52:07.900 But we're pushing Taiwan to get that done or to lose our support, military support, I guess.

00:52:17.700 So I think it's the right direction.

00:52:20.960 And asking companies and the government to do things that look impossible is not really the worst idea.

00:52:28.100 Because lots of times you can figure out how to do things that looked impossible.

00:52:33.680 But if you say, here's the deal.

00:52:35.840 We're going to leave you to China's military unless you can do this in two years.

00:52:40.980 Probably they get it done in two years.

00:52:43.560 Because they're not going to wait around for China's military to be running their island.

00:52:47.840 So I'd say remain skeptical of that, but it probably makes a lot of sense to put that out there as an objective.

00:53:00.360 Well, Scott Pressler and Nicole Shanahan are two people who are going to work on getting a petition in California for voter ID and get it on the ballot.

00:53:11.280 It would still have to win on the ballot, which I think it could, actually.

00:53:14.100 So they would just have to get enough signatures to get it on the ballot.

00:53:18.080 They're trying to get a million.

00:53:20.980 And that would end a particular kind of cheating because you'd have to have an ID to vote.

00:53:27.940 And I'll bet you they can get a million signatures of that.

00:53:32.040 I'll bet you they can.

00:53:34.740 So according to the New York Post, JPMorgan Chase now has more employees in Texas than in New York.

00:53:42.020 And I guess it's part of a trend where people are, especially money people, moving stuff out of New York because it's just too darn expensive and complicated to do business there.

00:53:55.300 So Texas is winning and New York is losing.

00:54:00.740 Here's a study that maybe you could have known the answer.

00:54:05.520 San Diego State University did this and discovered that the temperature of your food and beverages will influence your digestive health.

00:54:16.140 And as you know, your stomach is part of your brain.

00:54:19.680 So it affects how you feel, your mood and everything else.

00:54:24.000 Now, did you already know that?

00:54:27.360 Apparently, cold drinks can increase your anxiety and disturb your sleep.

00:54:36.340 So just the temperature, not even the nature of the food, just the temperature of it.

00:54:41.280 And on the other hand, warm food can make you feel more relaxed and less anxious and less depressed.

00:54:52.120 And so, I don't know, it's science, so who knows if it's true?

00:54:58.360 But have you ever noticed, have you ever had this experience where you're not super hungry, but you have to eat something warm?

00:55:10.940 Have any of you had that experience?

00:55:12.820 You're not super hungry, but man, you need something warm.

00:55:16.960 And it's not because you're cold, so it's not about the temperature of the outside world.

00:55:22.040 You just need a warm thing that you can chew on, right?

00:55:28.000 It's not just me, right?

00:55:29.740 So what would drive that?

00:55:31.600 Because you don't have that feeling all the time.

00:55:34.600 It's just every now and then you'll be like, oh my God, I so need something warm.

00:55:39.120 You know, if I'm doing DoorDash, looking at the menus, you know, I'll go to, I'll find a food item that's delicious.

00:55:47.360 It's one of my favorite foods, but it's not warm.

00:55:51.700 And I say, I got to have warm tonight, not every day, but right now I got to have warm.

00:55:59.080 So I think I would have guessed that warm food makes you feel better.

00:56:05.860 I think I would have guessed.

00:56:07.200 All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's all I got for you today.

00:56:11.760 I will remind you that these books up on my bookshelf that you can see over there, the ones on the top shelf,

00:56:19.580 the four of them are the ones that would change your life the most.

00:56:23.760 So it's how to fail almost everything and still win big, loser think, win bigly, and reframe your brain.

00:56:30.160 And the reason I mention it is because I think I saw, I'm not going to mention who it was, but at least two notable people, you know, top executive types,

00:56:41.840 saying things that clearly came from me, very clearly came from me.

00:56:48.540 And a lot of it is from these books.

00:56:53.500 So now time has gone by so that people don't quote the book.

00:56:58.180 It's just something they know.

00:56:59.840 So a lot of the things that I wrote over the years have morphed into common knowledge so that people just treat it like it's common knowledge now.

00:57:10.220 If you want to see all of the common knowledge before other people start using it, those are the books to read.

00:57:16.980 I'll go further and say, I don't believe that anybody could read those four books and not have a more successful life.

00:57:27.180 I think it would be impossible because they're written to make a change in you whether you want to or not.

00:57:32.620 You know, I'm a hypnotist, so I write it so it's going to sink into you no matter how hard you try.

00:57:41.080 You don't have to try.

00:57:42.920 You just have to read it.

00:57:44.300 I do the rest.

00:57:45.960 The part where I attach it to you and make it part of you, that's on me.

00:57:49.900 That's what I do.

00:57:50.820 You don't have to do any work.

00:57:52.040 You just read it and have a good time.

00:57:53.920 They're all written so that they'll be funny and interesting, so they're all good reads.

00:57:58.680 The best reviewed book I've ever written by far is Reframe Your Brain.

00:58:07.600 You should see the reviews on that.

00:58:10.060 It's unbelievable, the reviews.

00:58:12.120 It's a five-star review.

00:58:14.700 That's my only five stars.

00:58:16.200 The others are four and a half, which is pretty good.

00:58:20.040 All right.

00:58:20.780 I'm going to say a few words privately to the local, beloved local subscribers.

00:58:26.780 The rest of you, thanks for joining.

00:58:28.680 We'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place.

00:58:32.760 All right.

00:58:33.560 Locals, going to come at you privately in 30 seconds.

00:58:58.680 Thanks for listening.

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00:58:59.720 Bye.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - September 30, 2025

Episode 2974 CWSA 09⧸30⧸25

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