Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2984 CWSA 10⧸10⧸25

00:00:00.000 um hey there you are come on in you are right on time i love your punctuality

00:00:08.080 you know early is on time on time's late remember that oh my goodness i gave somebody some stock

00:00:17.600 advice yesterday and the stock is up four percent this morning

00:00:22.260 too late if i got there one one day earlier i could have made somebody a lot of money

00:00:28.760 well stocks look pretty good not bad we'll get your comments going and i'm just going to show you

00:00:37.040 you deserve if you've been good

00:00:40.400 why is nothing happening

00:00:53.980 all right here we go

00:00:58.660 good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called

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00:01:44.040 oh so good well apparently i owe you some of you an apology

00:01:52.780 oh maybe two two apologies uh one was that i had a misdated dilbert comic for those of you who

00:02:01.220 subscribe so i fixed that so go look at the comic from yesterday and it will be the it'll be the

00:02:06.900 correct one number two apparently when i uh posted my last uh post for the evening on x i said i was

00:02:19.360 signing off what i meant was going to bed but apparently given the context of my situation

00:02:27.580 when people people saw me say i was signing off it looked like it was a little more extreme than going

00:02:34.140 to bed if you know what i mean no i was just i won't be clever about it i i promise you here's my

00:02:43.380 promise if it ever comes to the point where i'm doing a final message you will know it's a final

00:02:49.980 message right there won't be any ambiguity so i promise i won't be cute right so if you thought oh

00:02:58.200 he's being subtle or cute or something i would never do that no if if i'm checking out from the

00:03:06.200 big picture if you know what i mean if i decide to check out and i decide to post about it there won't

00:03:12.300 be any doubt got it all right so just so you don't have to worry next but next time but i do have a path

00:03:21.460 to potentially getting better we'll see if it works out all right um today i believe will be released

00:03:30.720 the podcast of zuby and me talking on zuby's podcast so just i don't know just do a google search for

00:03:40.620 zuby's podcast it'll pop up somewhere um one of the things i love about zuby is he's got this

00:03:48.560 great approach to life where he just sort of figures out what would be the smartest thing to

00:03:55.740 do just in life what would be the smartest thing to do and then he does that thing

00:04:02.340 and it's it's it's fun to watch because he just makes one good common sense smart decision after

00:04:12.540 another and then he implements it and then it works and then he's better off so he's living in

00:04:20.220 uh he's living in like the best place in the world because he can you know um where is it

00:04:26.820 uh one of those uh middle east countries that everybody wants to be in and uh he's got this

00:04:35.260 business model where he can travel the world he likes traveling then he does his podcasts he lines

00:04:41.860 them up so that when he travels that the travel and the podcasting and he can bring his you know

00:04:47.380 he can bring his family bring his baby bring his wife so he's got a portable job that he can schedule

00:04:53.420 anytime he wants he can do it in a bunch and then go back and live his life uh it's a pretty good model

00:05:02.000 and his talent stack is amazing it's everything from fitness to music uh because he raps he's got one of

00:05:11.380 the best podcasts one of the best personalities one of the best um online personas just so many talents

00:05:19.440 to put in one person so he's a good interview i love zuby all right um would you believe according

00:05:29.320 to daily coffee news which is completely unbiased that uh there was yet another sweeping review of

00:05:36.200 existing coffee related scientific studies and guess what it's still good for you

00:05:43.040 in a variety of different health ways it adds more than it subtracts now how many times have i told you

00:05:50.600 about somebody who did the least scientific thing you could ever do which is just look at the other

00:05:57.120 scientific studies which everybody's already looked at a million times is there somebody who didn't know

00:06:04.240 that if you looked at all the coffee health studies that the net would be that yeah coffee's good for

00:06:11.200 you is it there was still somebody who didn't know that in the world well at least my audience knows it

00:06:18.360 yes that is the lamest research you could ever do nobody should ever give you money for that

00:06:23.740 next time you know i would ask just ask scott

00:06:28.920 well here's another one uh let's see if i could have done a better job than science on this one

00:06:36.540 northeastern university according to cody mellow klein did a little study and they found out that

00:06:44.020 78.6 percent of people they surveyed agree with at least one conspiratorial idea

00:06:52.520 so did they have to do that study to find out that uh almost 79 percent of people believe at least one

00:07:03.880 conspiracy theory

00:07:07.240 um well if they'd asked me they would have gotten a better answer because the answer is not 79

00:07:14.360 does anybody know what the answer is of what percentage of people believe in conspiracy theories

00:07:19.640 it's a hundred it's a hundred you don't have to study it it's a hundred do you know why the

00:07:28.360 researchers didn't get the answer 100 because researchers don't know what's true they only have

00:07:36.600 an opinion of what is a conspiracy you know some of them they might have you know a good enough debunk that

00:07:41.560 they know for sure but there's no such thing as a researcher like a living human being who knows

00:07:49.400 what all the conspiracies are and which ones are not conspiracies that's not a thing that's not a

00:07:56.200 thing at all it 100 of people of every type in every place believe conspiracy theories just the fact that

00:08:07.400 you don't know which ones they believe has nothing to do with whether they do or do not they do every

00:08:14.760 single person no exceptions so next time ask scott well i saw i saw reference to a story that i didn't

00:08:23.480 actually read details of but i think i know enough about it is it true that rfk jr has found that there

00:08:31.960 are several existing studies that correlate use of tylenol during circumcision for kids that get

00:08:40.920 their circumcision extra early i think it doesn't apply if maybe you waited a few years or something

00:08:47.000 i don't know how long you're supposed to wait but the since tylenol is already implicated

00:08:53.160 for autism um if it's in the the mother's body in other words if the pregnant woman takes tylenol

00:09:01.400 there's some thought that increases the chances of uh of uh autism but um wouldn't you imagine that

00:09:11.640 it's fairly routine and has been for a while for uh tylenol to be given to babies uh to handle the

00:09:21.720 circumcision pain is it possible given that i i believe i saw that there are four separate studies

00:09:29.480 that clearly indicated that tylenol use during circumcision was correlated with autistic symptoms

00:09:37.320 and i don't think this is necessarily the kind of thing where there would be some other confusing

00:09:46.760 cause they probably got a pretty clean data set into that so here's the thing as as monumental and

00:09:56.920 historic as this week has been already you know we'll talk about all that stuff is it possible

00:10:04.200 that rfk jr just solved the autism mystery did that actually happen it's a little too early to know

00:10:15.960 but there's a non-zero chance and i would say pretty darn good because tylenol has now been

00:10:22.280 spotted in two completely different domains and with the same outcome that's pretty convincing

00:10:29.560 right now remember half of all the scientific studies that ever get published even the peer

00:10:35.320 review ones turn out to be not reproducible but this is four different studies just on circumcision

00:10:43.880 on top of multiple studies about pregnant women that's getting a little bit hard to ignore isn't

00:10:51.240 it a little bit hard to ignore so it could be that in a week of uh fantastical successes

00:11:01.960 that we had one of the biggest ones we've ever had if this is true and you know we can get to that

00:11:08.760 next level of confirmation that tylenol was the the bad boy behind autism just think about that

00:11:18.680 did did rfk jr just almost cure autism in a way that would not have happened if he had not been in

00:11:27.960 that role and pushed exactly the way he pushed and even had the the vp running mate choice they did 0.73

00:11:34.840 nicole shanahan because you know she's she's the big force behind all the autism stuff i believe and

00:11:44.200 i i i wouldn't even know what to say i mean if this is true that rfk jr actually within one year

00:11:54.440 really on the timeline that he said he would if he actually pulled this off

00:11:58.440 this this is going to make a piece of the middle east uh look like it was easy no i'm exaggerating

00:12:06.920 peace of the middle east is still pretty amazing but he would probably uh the impact my god the size

00:12:15.000 of the impact if he actually got a handle on this i don't know i've never been i don't think i've ever

00:12:21.560 been more proud of an american government you know it's just not something i do not really proud of 0.96

00:12:29.320 governments but damn if he pulled this off on top of what's already happened this week damn i know oh i 0.93

00:12:40.600 i'd like to think maybe they did elon musk says that grok will soon be able to detect 0.98

00:12:47.880 ai generated deep fakes how awesome is that one of the things we worry about the most

00:12:54.840 is that we won't be able to tell what's real and what's not but fortunately there's this guy elon

00:13:00.360 musk who really likes maximum truth seeking ais so if he's figured out a way that ai can

00:13:08.360 uh detect deep fakes that would be amazing again if that was the biggest thing that happened this week

00:13:18.920 that'd be a big thing i mean i don't know if it works or if it'll work on every case

00:13:24.280 but if elon says we'll be able to detect ai deep fakes with grok

00:13:29.800 wouldn't that be amazing that would be amazing all right trump's making some kind of announcement

00:13:39.000 today at 5 p.m eastern time from the oval office i'm gonna guess that it's just sort of bragging

00:13:46.600 about the success with gaza giving us some details you know the country probably wants that needs it so

00:13:54.200 that would be my guess what that's about but i like to uh speculate that maybe he's going to

00:13:59.800 announce that that big comet 31 atlas that's going to come close to the close to our solar system

00:14:07.640 or in it i think um that it might be an alien spacecraft

00:14:14.280 wouldn't that be fun with all the news that's happening today imagine if trump got up there and

00:14:20.120 said oh uh you know we we think we have peace in the middle east and we think we've solved uh autism

00:14:27.640 and you know he just goes down the line and then then he does a steve jobs you know how steve jobs used

00:14:33.800 to do it you would think he was done with the the rollout and then it's like he's walking away and goes oh

00:14:41.800 one more thing and then the one more thing is the big announcement so wouldn't it be fun if he went

00:14:47.880 through all the good news that happened this week he goes oh one more thing that uh that comet it's an

00:14:55.560 alien spacecraft and we've been in touch with it for a year i'm not going to predict that but wouldn't

00:15:04.200 that be fun all right let's talk about trump's uh success so far i mean it's looking good and a little

00:15:14.280 behind the curtain stuff about how we got it done okay um remember i i told you early on that trump

00:15:24.120 was playing a brilliant game by taking the yes but no response from both hamas and israel which are

00:15:32.440 really no right if you say yes i agree with this as long as you know i get these other things which are

00:15:40.520 impossible and nobody's ever going to give me and then israel says yes i agree as long as we get

00:15:46.360 these things that we're never going to get because the other side said there's no way you'll ever get

00:15:49.800 that so when i read it i read it as a no that both sides said yes so they would look reasonable but in the

00:16:00.920 detail they said no because they were very much not agreeing to the details of the of the deal they were just

00:16:08.360 agreeing to the uh uh letting the hostages go so the story goes and this is from the uh

00:16:16.920 foreign israel's foreign minister right i i predicted this i alone predicted this

00:16:25.240 and the only person in the world i think who predicted what i'm going to tell you next

00:16:29.160 but the israel foreign minister confirmed it so trump decided to take the no which was in the form

00:16:37.480 of a yes but really no and he decided that he was going to force the people to treat it like a yes

00:16:45.800 in other words he wasn't negotiating he was changing reality right in front of you

00:16:52.760 because if he could change the reality to you said yes instead of the actual reality which was

00:17:00.120 you know the starting point which is i said yes but no which is really no and i guess when he uh

00:17:07.080 allegedly when he called netanyahu and netanyahu was all negative like i don't know you're happy about

00:17:11.720 this doesn't move the ball forward and uh allegedly trump just chewed him out why are you so 0.63

00:17:19.000 fucking negative but take it as a yes now how many people presidents or non-presidents would have 0.91

00:17:29.480 been smart enough to know to treat that as a yes because once he treated it as yes he could bully 0.98

00:17:38.040 people into a yes but if he treated it as a no people would just dig in but if he says you just

00:17:45.880 said yes i say yes you say yes the other side just yes we're working on a yes people we're working on a yes

00:17:52.840 yes then you've changed reality itself you've changed how they see the possibilities nobody else

00:18:00.920 could do that nobody else can do that he's the only one and i i'm i feel good about the fact that even

00:18:11.000 his critics you know his biggest tv news critics they also say biden couldn't do that they also say

00:18:20.520 that trump's bullying and here's the payoff authoritarian strongman personality might

00:18:28.360 have been just exactly what they needed for the situation has anybody ever said that before that

00:18:34.520 maybe this whole authoritarian strongman thing is a lot better than you thought it was could it be

00:18:42.120 and here's the fun part could it be that the consistent democrat messaging that trump is strong

00:18:51.400 unpredictable authoritarian uh dictator like is it possible that made it more likely he would get a

00:18:59.560 deal because that because hamas would look at the same stuff and say oh my god this guy's you know

00:19:06.680 nothing can stop him he's he's a power hungry guy i feel like the more they talked him up as a powerful

00:19:14.600 leader the closer he got to being able to bully both sides into a deal maybe um so here's the part

00:19:25.800 i predicted i predicted that the only way he could make this work is not through negotiating but changing

00:19:31.160 reality and that he's the only person who can do it and then he did it he did it right in front of us

00:19:37.400 he changed reality instead of negotiating there was also negotiating but the changing of reality is the

00:19:45.160 the breakout part the part the part that brings him from oh he's a good deal maker that's not what

00:19:52.680 you're seeing you're seeing a legend you're seeing a once ever personality you don't see this again

00:20:01.160 you'll never see this again so enjoy it while you got it simon's celebrates freedom of expression

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00:20:33.880 all right um here here are some of the things i've mentioned before his credibility up to this

00:20:40.280 point allowed him to do things that other people couldn't do because he's done things that other

00:20:45.160 people can't do boy if you want to be in position of to do something that other people can't do

00:20:50.600 do something that other people can't do in some other domain until people start thinking oh i get

00:20:59.880 it this is a person who can do things that people can't do elon musk being the best example of that

00:21:05.640 right um so here are some of the things that trump has done just to be in a position for people to say

00:21:13.880 oh i think he does impossible things he won a second term after being law fared and impeached twice

00:21:21.960 he was actually convicted of felonies booked headshot impeached twice what do we call that

00:21:31.320 what do you call it when you you lose your second term for the first time you got law fared into literally

00:21:40.040 felony felony convictions and you got impeached twice you know what the name for that is mr president

00:21:49.640 yeah that's what we call that we call that mr president 47 if you like so that seemed impossible

00:21:57.000 he survived two assassination attempts and one of them didn't even keep him on the ground he's jumping

00:22:03.160 up and telling us to fight that was amazing and also a sign that you know god's protecting him i'm not

00:22:12.040 even a believer and even i think it looked like god protected him um he's now had enough time that he

00:22:19.400 appears to be completely right about tariffs using them as a tool sometimes using them as a way to raise

00:22:27.240 money sometimes maybe he'll use some of that money for um stopgap health care stuff we'll see but he

00:22:36.200 clearly was right about tariffs and that looked impossible didn't it all the smart people were

00:22:43.400 saying oh no this will never work and then it just kept working and he kept making deals and he was

00:22:51.720 he closed the border in no time the thing that at least democrats thought was impossible

00:22:57.640 and people watching from other countries imagine if you're a european and you're watching your own

00:23:03.160 countries being you know continually overrun now and no control but you watch trump come into office

00:23:09.960 and immediately close the border successfully you don't think they're a little bit jealous

00:23:17.080 that he did what looked like maybe it was impossible nope closed it down tighter than a 0.96

00:23:23.640 gnats ass in the winter uh he got the the original abraham deal done remember that jared kushner got the 0.95

00:23:32.760 original abraham deal done did anybody think that was possible during his first term no not at all 0.99

00:23:38.920 um he got several other peace deals done we'll talk about his list of successes and he managed to

00:23:48.840 be the commander-in-chief who dropped um several gigantic bombs down vent ventilator shafts in iran

00:23:58.200 and essentially brought iran to his knees now if if you've got all of that working in your favor

00:24:07.320 and you make a phone call to somebody they're going to take the call because they think oh man this

00:24:14.840 guy's got some kind of magic like he's just doing all these things that on paper they didn't look

00:24:20.760 doable at all even even people who supported him would have said well i don't think so but you know

00:24:27.080 try i like it that you try but looks out of reach and then he doesn't it's quite amazing

00:24:34.360 so anyway he trump became the only person who could legitimately bully netanyahu would you agree

00:24:45.080 nobody else could legitimately bully netanyahu at the same time he was bullying

00:24:52.040 uh qatar we'll talk about that uh at the same time he was getting all of the leaders in the region

00:25:00.520 to line up behind his vision you tell me somebody else could have done that i don't know who i don't

00:25:09.560 know who um there's one theory that the the breakout came because when netanyahu decided to bomb the uh

00:25:21.480 which was kind of a baller play when he decided to uh bomb and kill all the negotiators the

00:25:27.480 hamas hamas negotiators who had gathered in qatar it not only showed qatar that qatar is not the boss of 0.64

00:25:36.520 us uh well not the boss of israel anyway and that uh they would no longer be a safe haven for hamas 0.82

00:25:45.240 if you were hamas leadership you probably thought to yourself well worst case scenario

00:25:49.320 i can you know live in qatar safely and rebuild what i had and uh taking out the negotiators send a

00:25:58.120 very strong message we're not negotiating anymore we don't need these negotiators so we'll get rid of

00:26:05.320 them and at the same time we'll prove that qatar is not a safe space for anybody and so of course qatar was 1.00

00:26:14.360 super mad and there's some weird relationship with qatar where sometimes there are good friends and

00:26:20.280 they they i think we have bass there but sometimes they might be helping all the worst people in the

00:26:25.720 world work against us so qatar is sometimes a good good guy sometimes a bad guy and it's like extreme 1.00

00:26:32.360 in both cases it's like extremely bad but sometimes extremely good and their money is clanking around and

00:26:40.120 so qatar had a little issue but also qatar had power over the united states because we would sort of have to

00:26:50.760 keep them happy in order for them to do what we needed to do but but apparently qatar got so freaked by 0.75

00:27:01.080 israel bombing it that when they said they needed military protection so what does trump do

00:27:07.880 he offers to protect them militarily from our own ally israel now did you see that coming 0.79

00:27:19.240 would you have made that play would you have even known to offer how about we'll be your military 0.98

00:27:25.080 protector but you're our bitch from now on now he didn't have to say the part of to qatar that says 0.99

00:27:32.920 we will protect you militarily i i can influence netanyahu we've seen it but um you're gonna have 0.99

00:27:40.600 to be our bitch so it could be that what we're getting out of this the stuff we don't know was 0.95

00:27:48.040 communicated with qatar and whatever they're going to do it could be that that's one of the biggest 0.97

00:27:54.520 benefits we get from it is that qatar decides to be smarter and a little bit more our friend than 1.00

00:28:01.960 something else all right oh you're such a fucking asshole there's some people in the comments who 1.00

00:28:11.640 are just fucking assholes oh fuck you i hate you so much right now all right i won't even get into it 1.00

00:28:22.760 anyway um the other thing that i thought was super interesting uh besides the fact that trump became 1.00

00:28:34.760 good cop to netanyahu's bad cop um and that worked i i like the fact that jared was sent at the end as a

00:28:44.520 closer and i'll give you a i'll give you a little behind the curtain uh fun for that

00:28:52.840 you might remember that in 2018 i got invited to the white house to

00:28:56.840 you know just meet trump and he was i think he was just consolidating support with his supporters and i

00:29:02.760 was just one of those people and uh ivanka told me that the reason i was on their radar

00:29:09.480 she she introduced me to the president took me around showed me the oval office um is that she 0.98

00:29:17.400 had read my book win bigly which taught uh trump's persuasion techniques and she told me and i couldn't

00:29:25.160 even believe this she said that when she read the book win bigly uh that i wrote it was the first time

00:29:31.320 she understood her father meaning that she didn't understand him as a persuader the way i described

00:29:40.120 them and that once she did like a lot of things clicked into place for her um you would not believe

00:29:51.160 who i just got a text from i can't tell you though uh so anyway so she read it and then uh apparently

00:30:00.760 jared also read it so jared read my book there it's this book the uh the new version is out if you

00:30:09.560 want to get the audio i didn't do the audio book it's a audio artist but win bigly it's a version two

00:30:17.880 this is the only one you want to buy it's only on amazon it's nowhere else and uh

00:30:22.520 uh so prior to negotiating the abraham accords um jared read my book about how to be a negotiator

00:30:32.760 and persuader like trump and then armed with the those skills in his talent stack he went out and

00:30:41.000 did the impossible the abraham of course now of course there's lots more i don't know about that

00:30:46.760 the only thing i know for sure is that jared is super smart and he's adding talents now it doesn't

00:30:56.280 mean that he couldn't have done it without reading the book but he did consciously read a book about

00:31:02.120 how to negotiate like his boss his father-in-law and i've heard lots of other stories from people who

00:31:09.160 read the book and got promotions doubled their pay just did all kinds of amazing things so

00:31:18.600 then then this situation comes along you know jared is no longer actively in the administration

00:31:25.080 but he was asked to to be brought in toward the end here as kind of a closer now we don't know what

00:31:31.320 he really did it could be that whitkoff and trump and everybody else had already got the deal pretty

00:31:37.640 well done but even if his direct role was not consequential although i think it probably was

00:31:45.480 my guess is that he had um personal contacts in the area that were super important so he probably

00:31:52.760 just called in some personal contacts um so i i do believe he probably made a big difference but

00:31:59.080 even if he didn't do you see how genius it is for trump to send him in

00:32:04.600 because jared is uh like uh he's like a signal that something impossible is going to happen

00:32:15.880 as soon as jared enters the room you say he's done one impossible thing so far the the abraham accords

00:32:24.360 just seeing him just seeing him and knowing he's part of it would make everybody in the region go oh

00:32:33.480 this thing's actually going to happen so again this is this is trump managing reality not negotiating

00:32:42.760 because introducing jared into the the larger picture changes how you feel about the reality

00:32:50.840 and then suddenly the negotiating part becomes the trivial part because you've just reframed the entire

00:32:56.600 reality by introducing the you know magical deal making abraham accord guy that's amazing like yeah i don't think

00:33:06.840 that history will ever quite record the the total number of small genius things that were done to make this

00:33:16.760 to get to this point that was one of them sending jared anyway um another news letitia james has been

00:33:26.120 indicted as you know for mortgage fraud i like the i like the fact that the name of the alleged crime

00:33:35.480 sounds pretty bad more banking fraud or mortgage fraud anyway i don't think she'll be convicted i think

00:33:42.840 i think they've probably got some clever uh some clever kind of defense uh one of the defenses that

00:33:50.200 somebody suggested that sounded pretty good to me is that maybe if you get a loan and you say this is my

00:33:58.200 intention when i get the loan but then something comes up let's say you intended to rent it or you

00:34:05.560 intended to use the second house as your second house vacation house but then let's say something came up

00:34:12.840 let's say a family member got evicted and needed a place to stay so you said all right well i wasn't

00:34:19.640 intending to do that when i got the loan but you know you're my cousin so i'll rent it to you now i'm

00:34:27.400 not saying that's what happened what i'm saying is how do you handle the fact if somebody gets a loan

00:34:33.400 and then they change their mind maybe temporarily not even permanently and say all right it was going to

00:34:40.440 be my second home but why don't you rent it for a year until you get back on your feet so if she's 1.00

00:34:46.120 got a story like that um even if she technically broke the law even if she should have notified the 1.00

00:34:53.880 bank it's going to make the crime look so small that you know maybe that maybe the jury will just say

00:35:01.080 ah get out of here who knows so i'm guessing

00:35:06.440 that uh she will not go to jail over any of it or won't be convicted anyway but it will be a punishment 0.97

00:35:14.280 and you know i'm hearing people on tv say but but but it's looking like it's just revenge

00:35:21.960 no it's not looking like it's revenge it's revenge am i in favor of the government using its power for

00:35:30.040 revenge yes yes because it's revenge against the law fairer if he was doing it against somebody who

00:35:38.680 just was a critic then i would be like whoa whoa authoritarian no you don't go after somebody who just

00:35:47.240 disagrees with you you don't send the department of justice against somebody who said you know said

00:35:53.240 a bad word about you no way but if you're going after the people who created hoaxes to try to remove

00:36:01.240 you from government go me if you're taking out somebody who said i'm going to take this person

00:36:07.080 down i don't even know what the crime is yet oh yeah yeah you you have to revenge the hell out of that 0.52

00:36:13.960 and i feel safer when that happens i feel safer that the january 6 people got

00:36:21.080 um their their sentences were commuted or whatever the right word is that makes me feel safer because

00:36:28.840 i i don't want to be locked up for and rot in jail but at least you know at least they didn't stay there

00:36:34.760 forever and when i see uh trump just publicly and unapologetically going after people who were lawfare

00:36:45.960 they're creeps then i say oh yeah absolutely you you can you can revenge the hell out of that because 0.79

00:36:55.400 i will feel safer if i know that anybody who goes after a republican with a lawfare agenda

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00:38:01.320 well the nobel prize winner was selected really at the beginning of the week so

00:38:07.400 uh trump didn't have a chance and i guess it's the opposition leader uh a woman who

00:38:15.080 it was known as venezuela's iron lady and some would say that she's she's the the real legitimate 0.52

00:38:23.880 leader of venezuela and not maduro and i guess she's been in hiding for a while which makes sense

00:38:30.360 yeah yeah you'd want to be in hiding um and the nominations i think the nominations were in january

00:38:39.080 or something now some people said scott don't you know that trump wasn't nominated in january so

00:38:46.600 there was no way that he could have been selected well he probably was nominated he probably was but you

00:38:52.840 don't know who was nominated that that's not public information but uh he probably was nominated trump

00:39:00.440 probably was from some of his other work uh but it would have taken the gaza thing to put him over the line

00:39:10.840 and that was just too late

00:39:12.520 so uh what i think what i think is happening is that this is an only trump thing too if you were

00:39:24.520 maybe up for a nobel peace prize and you didn't make it and you were not trump what would be the

00:39:32.200 summary of that situation the summary would be well you know i guess you didn't do enough to win a nobel

00:39:38.600 peace prize that's the end of that but when it's trump don't you think that the credibility of the

00:39:47.800 peace prize is what took the hit not trump like the fake news it used to be if the if the fake news

00:39:55.800 said something about trump you would say oh that's bad that's bad for trump that's that's really bad

00:40:02.120 but once you realize that the fake news is fake news then you blame the fake news

00:40:08.280 when they blame trump that's happening here too that even though there's i would argue that there's

00:40:16.040 you know a good reason because of the timing of things uh why he wasn't eligible for this one

00:40:21.960 but it'll be harder for them to to deny him next year it'll be hard to deny if things work out

00:40:30.680 you know we'll know by then if things are working out but i think he's destroying the credibility of

00:40:35.800 the prize he's already destroyed the credibility of the pulitzer by showing that the uh russia hoaxers 0.84

00:40:43.560 were the ones getting pulitzer prizes so so to me that just makes the pulitzer just a garbage i mean 0.96

00:40:50.360 i already thought it was a garbage prize but i mean the rest of the world knows now it's a garbage prize

00:40:55.480 i think when uh obama was picked as a nobel peace prize winner you know maybe that that was a big hit 0.92

00:41:07.080 for their credibility but by not choosing trump even though they've got a good reason because of timing

00:41:14.520 people aren't going to take it that way people are going to say you know you could have changed it at the

00:41:19.400 last minute i mean it's your own organization you know you make the rules you could just change them

00:41:26.040 and say well this is extraordinary but we had somebody picked but we're going to change it the

00:41:31.160 last minute they could have they could have done that decided not to so i think that destroys the

00:41:37.320 credibility of the nobel peace prize uh as opposed to being bad for trump although he still wants it of

00:41:43.880 course all right let's talk about how many wars and or conflicts trump has solved because he likes to

00:41:50.760 mention that he'll probably mention it again today from the oval office uh he said quote nobody in

00:41:56.840 history has solved eight wars in a period of nine months so that's his claim eight in the period of

00:42:02.840 nine months so i went to grok and i said can you tell me how many wars and or conflicts uh trump was

00:42:10.680 instrumental in helping solve it came up with six not counting gaza so uh the typical trump thing is to

00:42:22.120 add two to whatever he's doing like if he saves you a trillion dollars he's gonna say three right so he

00:42:29.400 always adds a little so i knew that the real number would not be you know eight um but uh grok says six plus

00:42:39.160 i guess they would add gaza here are the ones just so you remember they're claiming and by the way

00:42:44.600 these are not claims that other people would necessarily say that trump made a difference

00:42:50.440 these are just trump claims that he made a difference the israel iran war um

00:42:58.680 he definitely made a difference there uh i don't know if we'll call that peace i guess even iran at the

00:43:05.880 moment is saying they like the gaza deal did you see that coming that iran has officially said they

00:43:12.760 like the gaza peace deal weird i was not expecting that then there was the republic of congo rwanda

00:43:22.280 conflict but some say violence continues there was the india pakistan cashmere conflict

00:43:28.360 um the u.s tried to mediate but india you know india acts like india was more the the cause of that

00:43:37.800 um thailand cambodia border uh pushed for a ceasefire and uh

00:43:46.360 i i think he actually gets credit for that one they actually say yeah you made the difference there's

00:43:51.640 the armenia azerbaijan and the gordo karabakh conflict that he resolved um and but the stability

00:44:01.320 is uncertain but that that would be true of all peace deals there was a egypt ethiopia nile dam dispute

00:44:08.200 uh the claim is that he settled it to avert war but there's no official agreement but it looks like

00:44:14.120 they averted war at least for now serbia kosovo ethnic tensions um resolve via economic normalization

00:44:24.840 um some of some say there's more progress than there is settlement per se but he gets credit for

00:44:31.240 that one too and then you add the the gaza deal so here's what i love about uh trump claiming that

00:44:38.600 he did he solved eight wars in nine months first of all he's going to make his critics argue about

00:44:47.320 whether those were wars because some of them were just conflicts secondly he's going to have people

00:44:54.760 trying to score his report card to take his grade down but how much how down are they going to be able

00:45:01.240 to take it suppose somebody says all right you did not you did not solve eight wars in nine months

00:45:09.000 you you solved five conflicts in nine months he's making them think past the sale the sale is did you

00:45:20.120 solve a whole bunch of conflicts around the world yes or no if he can make you argue about which ones

00:45:26.920 he solved and which ones he didn't is the number six or seven or eight he wins he wins hard so he just

00:45:35.880 has to make you think is that the right number let's talk about that let's talk about all these

00:45:42.360 all these examples that you never would have heard except that i'm talking about what the right number

00:45:49.400 is right if if everybody had agreed on the number and everybody said yes five he got five i wouldn't

00:45:57.560 even look them up but because there's dispute then suddenly it's interesting and fun for all of us to

00:46:06.600 know what the names of those disputes are and then you say oh well okay i can see why his critics might say

00:46:13.480 that one's not uh yeah i can see why uh his critics would say he doesn't get credit for that specific

00:46:21.480 one but in the process of debunking any one of them you're going to be reminded that he got several wars

00:46:29.800 or conflicts ended through his involvement so it's perfect persuasion all right i love that he does

00:46:39.320 that all right um and trump said that iran wants to work on peace now they've informed us and they've

00:46:47.960 acknowledged that they're totally in favor of this deal do you think it's possible that this would

00:46:53.800 actually lead to a lasting iran kind of a deal because i think even russia was in favor of the of the uh

00:47:03.880 gaza deal so that would be just about everybody all right um and then p hegseth gets the win

00:47:12.200 because apparently the uh the military has met its full year um quota uh let's see what it meant it's

00:47:21.880 a year-long goal in the marine corps in two weeks so apparently uh people joining the military is way

00:47:33.160 up and there's no way that has anything to do with anything except leadership would you agree it's not

00:47:40.040 because the economy is so bad although it's hard for young people to get jobs so that is part of it

00:47:46.360 uh but it's a hegseth and trump they simply made it cool for young men you know i'm sure young women are

00:47:56.200 still joining but young men uh they made it cool to be in the military and now they know that if you're

00:48:02.680 in the military uh maybe nobody's going to call you fat so because you won't be because you get it you

00:48:10.120 don't get to stay so good job p hegseth and trump on getting on getting the military so respected

00:48:19.960 that they just smashed through the recruitment goals the opposite of what was happening under biden

00:48:27.560 um the press is having a weird weird week in trying to be at least a little bit honest about how happy

00:48:35.480 they are that this you know peace deal might be happening um here are the things that even the trump

00:48:43.720 let's say i'll call them trump uh critics just just the people who are not pro-trump but they do agree

00:48:52.120 that biden could not have gotten this done which is amazing that people are saying that out loud you know

00:48:59.800 federman said that if he also gets the ukraine deal solved i don't think that's imminent but maybe

00:49:07.320 um that the federman himself would lead the the push to get him the nobel peace prize because he would

00:49:13.160 deserve it um i believe that his critics are all on the same page that no matter what you don't like

00:49:22.680 about trump the one thing you have to admit is that he is a peacemaker and he really

00:49:30.520 really doesn't like war that's amazing that they do not argue that even though they would say he lies

00:49:39.960 about everything he has convinced even his most serious critics that not only is he the biggest

00:49:46.600 badass if he has to go militarily but he's also the biggest force for peace at the same time and that

00:49:53.640 that that's real that that comes from his heart not from some policy decision even his critics say he's

00:50:03.320 the strongest man of peace who's also strong that's amazing his critics

00:50:10.120 um they give him credit for being willing to enable to bully uh natanyahu um that's real

00:50:20.840 uh because that whole thing about israel's the tail wagging the dog 0.98

00:50:24.520 well i i think trump kind of reinforced the the model that i've been trying to uh promote which is

00:50:33.800 it's not that that israel runs the united states it's more like a sibling situation where they want

00:50:41.640 things and they try to they try to influence us we want things so we try to influence them but i don't

00:50:49.560 know that we've ever been as good at it as we are now with trump probably probably not this is probably

00:50:55.560 the the most influence we've ever had and and then you know who's smart enough to know that he needs to

00:51:02.280 stick with the winner so if netanyahu had any doubts or wanted to push back against trump before

00:51:11.480 he probably has figured out that that would be a bad idea at the moment you know he should just

00:51:16.920 go with trump because that's the winning horse right now

00:51:20.120 and i love the fact that the his critics are going to have to uh struggle with the fact that

00:51:28.520 trump's authoritarian side is probably what got this done so the their their number one complaint

00:51:36.120 about trump is that he's authoritarian and remember just the other day i was talking about how the best

00:51:43.480 form of government would be an authoritarian who has your best interest in mind

00:51:48.040 they have his critics have decided that he has our best interest in mind when it comes to ending war

00:51:59.720 and that he needed to be authoritarian to get it done

00:52:05.240 yeah how do you win harder than that it's the number one complaint about him and he just used that number

00:52:11.640 one personality uh they would call it a defect but he uses that that personality strength

00:52:22.040 to get one of the most remarkable wins of any president and he did it right in front of them while we

00:52:27.960 all watched we watched the authoritarian thing turn from oh i'm scared of this to once you realize that he's

00:52:35.640 pro-america and he's a benevolent authoritarian now people got mad at me for for acknowledging

00:52:44.760 his authoritarianism but authoritarian just means that you you're big on following the law and the

00:52:52.040 constitution because that is the authority it doesn't mean that he wants to be the law it means that he's

00:53:00.440 going to you know push all the doors and test all the envelopes and stuff like that but he's still going

00:53:06.200 to follow the law so uh i think the thing that people aren't talking about is this reefer the sort of

00:53:16.200 organic reframing of authoritarian into a positive at least this week but you didn't see that coming

00:53:24.120 all right all right and i think the democrats made trump's success more likely by promoting him as bad cop

00:53:36.680 so his critics created a uh let's say an image of him as the ultimate strong man who could not be

00:53:44.840 persuaded out of his views none of that's true but i'll bet it helps him negotiate so you know

00:53:53.960 his critics get the win uh they could they could they could assist not the win jake tapper is uh

00:54:03.160 i'm kind of enjoying what he's doing right now so cnn as you know has been trying to find the middle

00:54:09.080 and not just be the anti-trump network and i kind of give him credit you know they're giving plenty of

00:54:15.640 time to scott jennings and they do seem serious about trying to find a reasonable middle ground that's real

00:54:23.480 news here's an example of it so jake tapper is challenging some of the democrat leaders by

00:54:30.760 saying that in the past when the news talked about uh government shutdown and they talked about the

00:54:38.280 continuing resolution option which allows you to keep it open until you agree on a final budget so he

00:54:46.440 points out to the democrats that the republicans have offered to sign a continuing resolution which

00:54:52.680 means everybody gets paid military gets paid all the the medicare medical stuff gets covered until

00:55:02.680 it's the time to negotiate for real which is not too many weeks away now jake tapper correctly says

00:55:10.600 in the past we would call this the democrats shutting the government because the republicans have directly

00:55:17.800 said no we'll we'll open it whatever you want we'll open it today every one of us will vote to open it

00:55:25.320 and the only thing you have to do is put off the negotiating until a few weeks so yes that is very

00:55:33.240 clearly and unambiguously the democrats closing the government so uh so good on you jake tapper i didn't see

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00:56:18.920 uh meanwhile i saw a video of uh chuck schumer who is the worst communicator in the history of

00:56:26.040 communicators i mean he's so bad and uh he was talking about the shutdown he actually said the

00:56:32.040 following in public uh he said that uh every day of government shutdown gets better for democrats

00:56:41.000 now do i have to tell you how bad a mistake that sentence is so people are wondering how to pay their

00:56:49.720 bills people are wondering if they'll have health care i mean really panicky stuff and what does he

00:56:58.120 talk about oh uh what's better for democrats which he means democrat leaders and those are the 0.97

00:57:06.280 fuckers who are getting paid so he wants to make sure that you know that the people who are getting 0.98

00:57:11.880 paid who are making sure that you're not getting paid as jake tapper says as the democrats they're making 1.00

00:57:17.800 sure you're not getting paid if you're you know one of the government people not getting paid

00:57:22.440 but oh he's really happy that every day without you getting paid is better for 1.00

00:57:27.960 fucking democrats can you believe that their leader is so dumb that he thinks saying that what's good 1.00

00:57:37.640 for the the leadership is the thing he should focus on that is so lost so lost now i get that there's a 1.00

00:57:48.600 political element to this but you've got to start with you know this shutdown is terrible for the

00:57:54.360 people we want it to end as soon as possible but i don't think the republicans have made the right bet

00:58:00.440 on this that would be fine that'd be fine because at least he's showing that his thoughts are with the

00:58:07.080 people not getting paid but now his thoughts are with himself and his career terrible just so bad

00:58:15.480 um there's so much interesting news today apparently dominion the the uh voting machine company has sold

00:58:27.640 to a uh they call him an ex-republican kind of guy who's a entrepreneur so he bought it we don't know

00:58:37.400 what price but um i saw rasmussen the polling people had some comments about this they've been talking

00:58:45.400 about uh rasmussen always talks about uh the past election integrity and rasmussen said in a post you

00:58:53.720 bet your bippy that we're reading between the lines here which is what we're all doing i'm going to read

00:58:58.440 between the lines too but with what is surfacing almost daily it's practically the only reason that

00:59:03.800 makes sense and that would be that dominion sold it for scrap because indictments are expected now

00:59:10.600 indictments in this context in rasmussen's context would be uh for rigging the election or lying about

00:59:21.560 rigging the election or something now i don't have any evidence that anybody rigged an election through

00:59:27.720 dominion i do know there are a lot of accusations a lot of allegations and i think people have you know

00:59:37.400 done uh legally binding signed things saying that they they believe stuff happened um but part of

00:59:46.280 this deal is they had to settle the ongoing cases with let's see who else was it um lindell i think

00:59:55.720 they were still in a lawsuit with lindell and some other people so they had to they had to stop suing

01:00:03.000 the republicans to get this deal done and uh let's see liberty vote that's who bought it and it's a

01:00:12.920 former republican election official scott leindecker now i'll give you my own reading between the lines

01:00:24.120 we don't know how much they sold it for but i'll bet it wasn't as much as it used to be worth

01:00:29.240 because trump is talking about removing all electronic voting machines from the united states

01:00:35.800 if you were the electronic voting machine company now they they service the world not just the united

01:00:41.560 states but the united states has to be one of the big customers and so if you don't know if you're

01:00:47.880 going to lose your biggest customer and by the way if the united states removed them because they weren't

01:00:53.400 safe what would the other countries do do you think the other countries could keep them after the united

01:01:00.840 states had hypothetically said no these are too unsafe we don't even want them in our election it

01:01:06.920 probably would take down the whole the whole company now what would be the one only way that that 0.73

01:01:14.200 dominion could survive let's say reliably survive under the trump regime which is just trying to get

01:01:22.360 rid of electronic machines well i would say the one and only way to do it is if you could find an ex

01:01:29.240 republican who's just really republican who would allow you and your people and whoever needs to to

01:01:36.760 really look at those machines and number one for the first time find out what's going on and number two

01:01:46.120 you get rid of any rigging or if there is rigging make sure it's in favor of republicans

01:01:54.520 now under those conditions you can see why uh a sale would go through because the republicans would

01:02:01.320 have a a massive incentive to have full access to the code and find out what was real and you know

01:02:09.560 maybe make sure it doesn't any rigging doesn't happen again if it never happened uh so you can

01:02:15.640 see why a republican might buy this company if you ask me as just let's say an entrepreneur i would

01:02:23.080 never buy that company you know give it given the turmoil and the suspicions and the allegations

01:02:29.640 and the lawsuits that are going on that would be the worst company you could ever own

01:02:33.400 so if somebody bought it i'm gonna guess that it was for reasons more than profitability in other

01:02:43.640 words it had to be a larger purpose for the sale to even go through because nobody in their right mind

01:02:51.080 would buy a company that had that many threats that you can't know how they're going to turn out

01:02:56.200 it was an unbuyable company that got bought so that there's something happening in the background there that

01:03:05.240 probably has to do with figuring out what really happened

01:03:09.720 anyway a judicial watch you know them right they have uh they did a foyer request and i guess they

01:03:18.600 didn't get what they wanted so they must be suing for it now uh they want to quote any records about

01:03:24.600 statements made by director gabbard this is about also the voting machines uh made by gabbard during

01:03:31.960 a cabinet meeting with president trump in which she stated quote we have evidence of how these

01:03:38.440 electronic voting machines have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable

01:03:44.040 to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast now that's different from saying

01:03:50.600 that they've discovered rigging she's not saying that she's saying they discovered a mechanism by which

01:03:57.560 rigging would be somewhat trivial now do you think there's any chance that if voting machines are are

01:04:05.960 riggable by let's say a standard hacker is there any chance that they didn't try no no is there any chance

01:04:14.600 that they didn't succeed well we don't know but it looks like there might have been more than one way

01:04:20.920 they could have so if you have enough time and you have enough at stake and you have enough hackers

01:04:29.640 what are the odds that it would be rigged the answer is a hundred percent the only thing you can't now

01:04:35.560 is when has it happened yet well that i don't know if if things had kept going the way they were would

01:04:44.840 it happen for sure within the next 10 years don't know but probably so the the situation is such that um

01:04:55.320 you know i often describe this as fraud is guaranteed if you've got lots of people involved

01:05:02.040 very high stakes uh there's lots of complication that's where you hide things and complexity the

01:05:08.280 code is complicated the elections are complicated and then you wait a long time under those circumstances

01:05:15.880 it's always rigged always 100 of the time the only thing you don't know is how long it takes

01:05:22.600 so we don't know if it happened yet or it was guaranteed that it would happen i've never heard

01:05:28.120 anybody except me make that by the way it's the best argument you can borrow it

01:05:35.880 so yes i think the sale of dominion is probably going to open up a very uh very big uh chest of

01:05:43.000 surprises uh so also sydney powell and rudy giuliani and oan away and then we're all part of these uh

01:05:52.040 defamation lawsuits so i guess those all got dropped as part of the sale

01:05:55.560 well good well princeton has announced that it will begin requiring standardized test scores for

01:06:05.160 admission for 2027 and beyond um so now columbia is the only ivy league that doesn't require looking

01:06:15.080 at your test scores before they accept you for for the college do you know why they uh do you know

01:06:21.080 princeton is going back to requiring test scores because when they didn't they got really bad

01:06:29.080 students who didn't do so well so so it turns out that measuring stuff works um how many times have

01:06:40.600 i told you that if you're not measuring you're not managing you can't manage anything if you don't know

01:06:47.800 if the changes you make are making things better or worse you've got to be measuring so at least

01:06:52.840 they measured when they found out it didn't work but the fact that they ever stopped at measuring

01:07:01.480 dumb um i posted this on x i borrowed an old saying and reworked it i said the best trick the devil ever 0.58

01:07:11.400 played was convincing the world democrats were the pro-science side do you know how much that cost 0.98

01:07:17.480 society that somehow we all got convinced even if you're a republican you might have been convinced

01:07:23.800 that the democrats were the science side and they couldn't tell if men were women they thought

01:07:30.680 iq is not predictive they thought climate models are real they thought that fighting crime by allowing

01:07:37.080 more of it to go unpunished would work and they thought that overpopulation was a problem instead

01:07:42.600 of underpopulation and that's just a sample we thought that the the democrats had the right science

01:07:52.840 just think how expensive that was all of those things i mean these are literally end of the world

01:07:58.920 kind of problems because if they still think that overpopulation is the problem and and they don't

01:08:05.000 want to have kids because they think the climate models are real they're all going to die these are

01:08:11.240 existential risks to civilization and i don't believe that republicans ever had any uh improper

01:08:22.520 scientific ideas that would have killed us all am am i wrong about that you know maybe i just couldn't

01:08:29.400 think of an example of it but was there anything that republicans sort of reliably got wrong

01:08:37.160 in science that because it was wrong could kill us all i'm not aware of anything like that but there's

01:08:45.480 several examples of democrats who could literally end civilization with their bad ideas about science

01:08:52.520 science well thomas massey has uh put in some uh legislation the hopes gets signed but i doubt it will

01:09:01.880 to repeal the 2013 smith-munt modernization act you might remember that uh that's when i think obama

01:09:10.440 pushed that through and that allowed our intelligence agencies the cia in particular to use propaganda

01:09:18.520 against americans in america whereas a well the government i guess in general so i guess it used

01:09:25.560 to be illegal for the government to try to propagandize and brainwash you but then i think it was obama who

01:09:33.720 made it legal again and that was about the time that the russia collusion uh hoaxes started and then

01:09:41.480 basically the government started massively lying to you uh with hoaxes probably more than any time in

01:09:48.840 history but it was legal it was it was specifically legal that the government could lie to the citizens

01:09:57.320 um over and over again so that's the smith-munt modernization act allowed them to do that lying 0.94

01:10:04.280 thomas massey wants to withdraw it now do i have to tell you again

01:10:08.920 uh although thomas massey often votes against the the mega agenda as long as there aren't too many

01:10:17.640 thomas massey's he's the most valuable person in congress because he's the only one who does a whole

01:10:24.760 bunch of things that just look like common sense to me but for political reasons you know maybe they

01:10:30.360 won't get signed reasons we don't know if you always know but i love the fact that he's trying

01:10:35.160 like he went to work and he did something today i don't know that the rest of them did what they do

01:10:42.120 went to a meeting uh talked on tv he actually did something might not work out but every time i see a

01:10:51.000 thomas massey is doing something i say to myself well at least you at least you extended the argument

01:10:58.040 you know at least you showed that there's a priority that's been that's missing maybe he'll get this

01:11:04.440 one done it's doable this is doable i just i feel like it would have been done sooner if it were easy

01:11:12.040 so there must be something that keeps us from being done we'll see good luck good luck thomas massey on that

01:11:19.560 i like that there's one person operating on principle you know we need at least one rand paul does as well

01:11:28.520 uh so trump signed a proclamation to make columbus day columbus day again

01:11:34.840 uh because it used to be i guess they changed it to what native american day or something else i don't

01:11:41.400 know what it was but now it's back to columbus day now columbus himself

01:11:45.400 uh if you judge him by modern modern standards he was a really bad dude like really really bad

01:11:56.920 that the way he treated the native population uh was sort of just historically unbelievably cruel

01:12:08.120 i don't want to say however because then it will sound like i'm defending it you know so it will sound

01:12:12.920 like i'm defending the the the white guy you know mistreating the brown people and i'm not doing

01:12:19.080 that but if you put it in a historical context unfortunately anybody who had weapons and power

01:12:26.920 were abusing people who didn't have weapons and power so that's not an excuse but there is a good

01:12:33.640 argument for looking at things in context now jumping off from the prior topic that the government

01:12:42.920 sometimes tries to brainwash the public i would say that the legal and ethical way to brainwash

01:12:50.840 children because you do have to brainwash them you can't just let them make all their own decisions

01:12:56.200 their children you have to brainwash them what's right and wrong and then you know someday you hope

01:13:01.880 that they will understand why things are right and wrong but in the beginning you just have to tell

01:13:07.400 them you do this and one of the ways that you tell people what's what and how to be is by what heroes

01:13:14.920 you promote so we promote our uh presidents you know make sure everybody knows who the important

01:13:22.200 presidents are because we're we're promoting that uh our democratic republic is the best system

01:13:30.440 now is that good to brainwash children to think that they're in the best system

01:13:34.040 yeah because it makes the system stronger um but when you push any kind of hero you're telling a

01:13:42.440 story so if you do a war hero you're saying that we we honor military service right that's the

01:13:52.120 seat sort of the secret message you get it's like what why is this guy in a statue well he was a general

01:13:57.400 general so you know people who win wars and in some cases even the ones who lose wars if they were

01:14:05.480 generals we're going to give them respect so that's one way to train young people to respect the military

01:14:12.200 columbus is in that vein to me what makes columbus interesting is that he was an explorer

01:14:20.120 and he was willing to risk everything to try to get a bigger thing and and that kind of worked out

01:14:30.120 so if if you're if you're lionizing and making a hero out of an explorer do i want do i want american

01:14:39.320 children to see explorers as heroes yes yes that's some good brainwashing i want them to think that they

01:14:48.040 can be entrepreneurs i want them to think that nothing will stop them i want them to think that

01:14:52.920 yes there's an ocean between you and whatever you're looking for but you can figure that out so

01:14:58.840 yes i i'm very much in favor of overlooking his historical evils which definitely were evil

01:15:06.600 um and focusing on his explorer bravery uh shake the box think outside the box

01:15:15.240 i love all that stuff it's a good message for the kids all right i got a question for you you know

01:15:22.600 that they caught that uh the arsonist who set the fire for the uh palisades fire and we learn now that

01:15:33.080 he was a lefty who was also very concerned about climate change which makes me wonder if you add his

01:15:40.840 you know probably mental illness and if you added that to his lefty belief that the climate is going

01:15:49.080 to kill us all is it possible that he set the fire as any kind of a response to what he thought was

01:15:57.800 the world not doing enough about climate do we have enough information to say that

01:16:04.440 um a guy who is really radical about climate and climate risk that's not the one who sets a fire

01:16:12.840 right because he'd be worried about the climate the only reason you would do it is if you're trying

01:16:17.240 to make a climate statement by saying well you know tried to warn you but here's the you see what

01:16:23.880 happened you didn't do enough on climate so i guess your city burned down now if it feels like maybe

01:16:31.640 that's what happened we don't have confirmation of that but what would be alarming is that it could

01:16:38.280 be that the climate models have destroyed more than the climate right the climate models are what

01:16:47.160 causes underpopulation is that a big problem yeah it's like the end of the world problem and it would

01:16:54.120 be because in large part because people believe that the climate is going to destroy the planet so you

01:17:00.120 don't want to put your kids here to get destroyed so now it may be behind underpopulation

01:17:07.160 it may the climate models might be behind massive mental health problems we know that people have

01:17:14.440 all this anxiety uh if they believe in climate crisis and it might have caused the palisades fire

01:17:23.400 because it inspired somebody to do something a little bit crazy a lot crazy so is it possible

01:17:31.080 that literally no no exaggeration that the models have destroyed more of the country

01:17:40.840 in the world than the climate at least change in climate the change in climate is making things

01:17:48.200 greener and warmer and the gardening better the climate models are causing us not to reproduce

01:17:54.680 in one case maybe burning down the city the models are more dangerous than the climate now there's a reframe

01:18:05.640 um yeah benny johnson had some uh some um breaking news on that about the uh about the fire guy

01:18:15.800 being a radical uh left-wing eco-terrorist guy well stephen crowder you all know stephen crowder

01:18:22.920 podcaster um he went into a black barbershop and filmed it and had a uh what looked like a productive 0.93

01:18:32.280 conversation with a number of black men who were at the barbershop uh they talked about reparations um i

01:18:39.400 don't think let let me give crowder a compliment and then a suggestion my compliment is that he's another

01:18:49.160 one of those um full stack people he looks like he knows fitness which is really good if you're going to

01:18:55.320 be on camera you know your arm should be good he knows podcasting he clearly can run a business

01:19:02.520 he knows politics so he has a really deep talent stack and it's not a surprise at all

01:19:09.000 that he's doing super well in the podcasting space he has exactly the right set of talents which he

01:19:15.400 my observation is that he has um he's built over time knowing that these would be exactly the talents

01:19:25.160 that he would need for his future life and here he is so i love the fact that he's doing well because

01:19:30.760 he just did all the right things um i will say that his persuasion game is not up to where it could be

01:19:40.360 and probably will be because he's like i said he's a he's a talent adder so it's not like he's done he's

01:19:47.640 a young guy so i feel like he should read win bigly if he hasn't because um i listened to a little bit

01:19:55.720 of his arguments and there's another level like he's solid he's a good solid debater but he's more of a

01:20:07.000 debater than he is a persuader uh that's what i wanted to say yeah he's a good debater because

01:20:14.920 he's always got a response and he's good at talking in public but that's debate debate is a very limited

01:20:23.160 thing if you're putting on a debate show or debate contest you know that could be the right thing but

01:20:29.480 what you really want to do in this domain if you walk into a black barbershop i want to persuade them 1.00

01:20:35.240 if you do it as a debate you already know how it ends both sides claim victory right that's what

01:20:43.960 a debate always ends in both sides claim victory every time there's a political debate on tv

01:20:50.360 at the end who do we say one democrats say the democrat one republican says debates don't have

01:20:57.160 winners they just have both sides claim claim winner persuasion can actually move the

01:21:03.800 move the rock um if for example crowder had laid down a sticky reframe then that would even go beyond

01:21:15.720 the the content so maybe the reframe had a little bit effect of the people in the room maybe it didn't

01:21:23.720 but it would have a bigger effect than people watching they're like oh wow that's that was a good

01:21:28.440 way to put that that was a good way to put that and then they'll use it so i would say to stephen crowder

01:21:36.120 uh you have an amazing talent sack and your success is very impressive you know much better than mine and

01:21:44.680 just that one thing i i would just tune up a little bit on reframing my other book reframe your brain might

01:21:52.040 might get you there faster but win bigly will teach you persuasion uh reframe your brain will teach you

01:21:59.320 reframing and if he adds those two things to his talent stack unstoppable he would be just unstoppable

01:22:09.720 well george clooney has said that raising his children in rural france

01:22:13.720 uh has been a much better life than they would have had in los angeles well that's one way to put it

01:22:24.200 do you know that if you word that wrong you get cancelled yeah george clooney what were you escaping

01:22:33.400 to go to raise your children in rural france

01:22:36.040 well i don't want to say it because i already got cancelled but no you're getting away from crime

01:22:44.200 you're getting away from well i don't have to say it you know he went to where the demographics were

01:22:50.520 friendly to his family let's just put it that way was that a good idea yeah probably if you could afford it

01:22:58.920 so yes george clooney if you had worded that differently you'd be as cancelled as i am

01:23:08.200 speaking of cancelled let's talk about cancer according to massimo good follow on x by the way massimo

01:23:17.160 scientists at the university of florida they have a believe it or not an mrna cancer vaccine

01:23:23.560 that erased deadly brain tumors in some early people who had brain tumors and apparently the

01:23:34.040 vaccine reprogrammed their immune systems within 48 hours and then their own immune system took out

01:23:39.800 the tumors and it worked in like four out of four people i think four out of four it got rid of the

01:23:47.240 tumor a brain tumor four out of four people now i guess what they do is they they take something from

01:23:55.400 your tumor first and then they deliver it via lipid nanoparticles or something so it's based on your own

01:24:03.560 specific cancer and body and then they can turn that into a shot on the mrna platform and then they give it

01:24:11.080 to you and uh i guess it's already worked on mice and dogs and now on a handful of people and they're

01:24:17.160 moving into a phase one pediatric trial so i didn't say so this is i think uh for children's brain cancer

01:24:25.880 specifically now the way things move slowly even if this is the magic bullet it probably you know won't

01:24:34.120 be available in time to save my life but this is one of now several different cancer treatments that

01:24:42.200 have something in common which is they take something from your body and then they build up a

01:24:49.160 special kind of a shot that's just for you and i think i've read about half a dozen of these

01:24:56.200 completely different tech but in each case they're they're customizing a vaccine just for a person

01:25:03.160 and all kinds of claims for success so you know what i say can you do that a little bit faster

01:25:11.640 and you know like a lot faster that would be really good if you don't mind

01:25:18.840 anyway the robot energy wars are going on i guess 450 russian drones attacked ukraine's energy sites

01:25:27.000 they're trying to shut them down before the winter so that ukraine will have no warmth in the

01:25:32.840 winter and that would be pretty ugly and i guess they're being pretty successful 450 russian drones

01:25:39.640 in one night i wonder what the the top number for that's going to get to like the total number of

01:25:47.720 drones for one attack i think it'll reach a million because it might you know 450 is going to be a thousand

01:25:56.840 pretty soon and if they're just cranking up their drone factories a thousand becomes a hundred thousand

01:26:04.920 so whoever could get to a million drones uh at a time probably wins

01:26:13.400 and uh apparently the russian strikes have already taken out sixty percent of ukraine's natural gas

01:26:20.840 now if ukraine had enough money from other helpers they can replace the natural gas

01:26:28.200 but it's an energy war so it's now robots versus energy as i told you i guess the u.s is going to buy

01:26:36.680 a bunch of argentino uh currency the pesos and they're doing it to help prop up the country's economy and

01:26:44.680 help their good friend mile the new leader newish leader of argentina uh what i like about this is

01:26:52.360 that it's not a gift it is an investment and the person behind it is scott besant head of the treasury

01:27:00.200 who is one of the most famously successful currency traders in the world so we're sending like you know

01:27:09.320 one of the best guys in america to make this investment and besan thinks it's a good one

01:27:15.400 i kind of love this because it it's part of the monroe doctrine that you know this this part of the

01:27:22.840 world is ours you know keep your military out of it and you know we'll try to keep things stable and

01:27:28.840 do what makes sense this makes sense and having the best guy in the world in charge of it

01:27:34.440 that makes sense and i would bet that the us will make a tidy little profit and argentina will be

01:27:42.200 directly benefited in a big way and i like everything about it well according to a university of california

01:27:49.720 los angeles study uh there were more hate acts in california than usual and uh allegedly in 2024

01:28:00.600 3.1 million californians who were 12 years up and older experienced a hate act now that could be

01:28:08.280 verbal or physical but a hate act in the previous year do you believe that do you believe that 3.1

01:28:15.400 million californians over the age of 12 in one year that there were 3.1 million of them that

01:28:21.800 experienced a hate act well here again they should have just come to me and said scott how many californians

01:28:29.800 do you think experienced a hate act last year and i would have said how many of them are on social

01:28:35.880 media and we're done how in the world can you be on social media and not observe a hate acts every day

01:28:46.200 do you know that do you know how many hate acts are are implemented against just me alone

01:28:52.840 i mean just one californian every single day i get hate very obvious hate so no it's not 3.1 million

01:29:03.000 saw some hate it was every single person on social media it's called social media

01:29:12.440 uh let's see so zero edge is reporting you know how uh we found out that u.s taxpayers were paying

01:29:21.640 maybe up to 100 million dollars that we didn't know was going to these ngos and then the ngos were

01:29:28.440 doing things like uh funding antifa and riots on demand and stuff well according to elon musk that

01:29:36.600 number is way more than 100 million we don't know what it is but far more so he couldn't let that go

01:29:43.320 that number is way too low do you ever wonder if the entire problem with our our debt is the part

01:29:51.480 that democrats were stealing to give to their give to bad guys and back to themselves like could it be

01:29:59.400 that there's two trillion dollars a year that's just being siphoned off and and it goes into this

01:30:05.560 you know this darkness of ngos that you can't track i don't know if it's two trillion a year but i'll

01:30:12.040 bet it's one trillion i'll betcha new york city is suing the big social media companies for

01:30:20.200 allegedly addicting children reuters is saying what happens if they succeed if they succeed will it will

01:30:28.680 destroy the entire social media platform well i think it might if you took if you took all miners

01:30:38.040 off of social media they wouldn't be hooked as they got older and it could crash the whole thing

01:30:45.560 but i suspect that social media is in for a reckoning from ai anyway so i don't know if social media will

01:30:53.720 ever look the way it looks now it might be even more addictive because of ai but we'll see it's a

01:31:00.680 weird time to have that lawsuit because maybe it won't matter at all maybe all the social media will

01:31:05.160 just morph so much according to american psychological association short inspirational videos are as

01:31:13.800 effective as meditation at reducing stress all right um i'm gonna say they can just ask me

01:31:22.600 but let me check in with you if a researcher said to you hey i just have a question i was going to do

01:31:29.560 this big research thing but maybe i could save some time just by asking a stranger hey stranger do you

01:31:36.120 think that inspirational videos make people feel good yes yes who didn't know that did you not know

01:31:46.600 that inspirational videos make people feel inspirational and that if you're feeling

01:31:52.360 inspirational you're probably not feeling as bad as you could feel you know like depressed and anxious

01:31:58.120 because inspirational is kind of close to the opposite of that so yes every single person in

01:32:04.840 the world who's ever watched a video knows that inspirational videos could be as good as meditating

01:32:11.080 to reduce your stress there's nobody who doesn't know that everybody knows that anyway next time just

01:32:18.200 ask me and uh my audio books and books uh look at me doing all this selling uh so the books you see

01:32:27.640 behind me so the non-dilber books that i've written the last four or five those all had the the entire

01:32:35.320 purpose of them is to make you feel better i write books to make you feel a certain way

01:32:43.080 while you're learning something so i always make sure you're learning something but i'm not writing

01:32:48.120 it for knowledge i'm writing it to make you feel a certain way so of course if you want to feel better

01:32:55.240 just uh listen to my audio books um and by the way i should tell you i do not record the audio books

01:33:02.680 for the late all the second editions i couldn't do the audio book my dyslexia is just i couldn't read

01:33:10.040 i i can't read more than the sensors or two without mixing words so i i tried to do it in the studio but

01:33:17.880 i couldn't get it done um so i hired a really good voice talent apparently andrew tate has been banned

01:33:26.920 on youtube one hour after getting unbanned boy do i want to see that now so if anybody finds the

01:33:35.160 banned andrew tate video i gotta see what they banned them for uh that wasn't in the story all

01:33:41.720 right that's all i got uh i'm going to say hi to the uh to the beloved subscribers on locals and the

01:33:51.640 rest of you sorry i went long but the news is so interesting today i'll see the rest of you tomorrow

01:33:56.760 and i will see locals i'm going to be private with you in 30 seconds

01:34:11.720 so

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 10, 2025

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