Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 2992 CWSA 10⧸18⧸25

00:00:00.000 does anybody see the kings any kings i think it's working no kings here

00:00:08.800 all right everybody come in and grab a beverage get a comfortable seat

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00:00:23.480 lap good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called

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00:01:05.880 oh so good so good well i gave an update to my local subscribers but i'll give you a quick update

00:01:18.780 yesterday i did a special kind of a medical scan that is specific to test to see if you would be a good

00:01:28.220 candidate for this new cancer drug called pluvicto i do not know how to read the results of my tests

00:01:36.940 but the results do say that i have high sensitivity to this psma stuff that they put in your body which i

00:01:45.580 believe means i'm highly qualified for the drug because they test they test the radioactive drug to

00:01:53.260 see if it can reach to all the right places and light them up and apparently it did so i spent 20 minutes

00:02:01.500 in a pet scan machine which forced me to lay straight on my back which is insanely painful

00:02:10.780 in my particular situation and despite having really good pain meds they made no difference at all

00:02:19.500 it was like i didn't have any pain meds at all so for 20 minutes i had to endure the worst pain of my life

00:02:28.460 and not move or i would die well let me say that again since this is the only path that i have

00:02:36.460 identified that might you know keep you alive for a while if i had moved and therefore ruined the pet scan

00:02:44.540 probably i wouldn't have tried it again because it was it wasn't just a little bit painful

00:02:51.180 it was monstrously painful i can confidently say it was the worst 20 minutes of my life

00:02:59.500 and i doubt it will ever be worse it's the worst thing i've ever experienced in my life and you and

00:03:06.220 you have to not move you know so i'm like holding on to this thing trying not to move if i moved a little bit

00:03:15.740 i might die because i wouldn't be able to get the treatment

00:03:21.100 let me tell you that was no fun at all but you know what is really good you know what is good news

00:03:26.860 it's over oh my god does it feel good when it's done you know how when when something's bad happens

00:03:36.220 and it feels extra good when it's done imagine the worst pain you've ever felt in your life and then

00:03:43.100 when it's over because when it's over it's completely over i mean it takes 60 seconds to get in a position

00:03:53.260 that doesn't hurt so what a day anyway so the good news maybe we'll have to see is that i should be

00:04:03.820 qualified for the drug and there's a probably a one in three chance it'll make a big difference so we'll

00:04:10.060 see well i know that you like to see the reframes from my book reframe your brain changing your life a

00:04:18.220 little bit at a time so here's one of the reframes i'll just pick one here randomly

00:04:26.860 this is one of my favorites uh one of the usual frames that people think is that the odds of success

00:04:35.260 are low whatever it is you're doing you know it doesn't matter what you're doing we often think our

00:04:40.620 odds of success are low but uh the reframe is maybe i'm bad at estimating the odds

00:04:48.300 because i remember when i went to become a tried to become a cartoonist

00:04:53.340 i was told the odds were you know one in ten thousand but it turns out i was bad at estimating

00:05:00.380 the odds because i made it and it turns out that it never was one in ten thousand that if you looked

00:05:07.740 at all the people who tried to become a cartoonist there might be ten thousand a year who try to

00:05:13.260 become professional cartoonists and fail because it's hard but the number of those ten thousand who

00:05:18.940 actually could draw a comic and write a joke a dozen so i was really only i was only competing with maybe

00:05:28.300 a dozen people in the entire country all the rest wanted to be cartoonists but it you know even you

00:05:35.500 could look at their work and say no no this is this is not close so here i thought i was competing with

00:05:43.020 10 000 people an almost impossible task probably it was 12. so here's the the reframe is that sometimes

00:05:53.500 a task is impossible sometimes you're bad at estimating how possible it is and you have to get those

00:06:02.140 clear so that's your uh reframe for the morning i might have another one for you when we're done

00:06:09.260 after our uh podcast today owen gregorian will be doing his uh spaces after parties so just look for uh

00:06:18.860 owen's space uh after after we're done here tomorrow sunday toward the end of my podcast i'm gonna have a guest

00:06:29.820 king randall uh i tried to have king randall on before but i had a little medical emergency when

00:06:36.540 i was gonna so anyway but i think it'll work tomorrow if i do it as part of the end of the show

00:06:43.260 so what it won't be its own broadcast it'll just be tackled on the end um so probably

00:06:51.660 quarter to the hour or so at the end um

00:06:57.100 let's look at the news we'll see if there's any uh science that they didn't need to do oh yeah

00:07:02.860 did you know that people's views on immigration are shaped by whether they think the immigrants will

00:07:09.580 vote the same way they do are you surprised by that is there anybody who didn't know

00:07:16.620 that that would be true so apparently if you think the immigrants are going to vote the same

00:07:22.860 way your political party votes suddenly you don't mind those immigrants nearly as much

00:07:29.740 so do you think that that is something that they needed to study no you didn't need to do a study to

00:07:36.540 find out that people like it when people agree with them people like it when people agree with them

00:07:42.140 all things being equal

00:07:45.580 and guess what eric dolan of psypost is writing yet again about psychedelic experiences and apparently

00:07:54.460 a brief experience with psychedelics can reduce your lifetime use of cannabis

00:08:00.700 yes so apparently uh one of the benefits if you're looking to cut down on your marijuana use

00:08:08.460 is that psychedelics might do that for you even with a limited exposure to them you might have a lifetime

00:08:17.020 decrease in marijuana use do you think that's a surprise not really because if if you've had

00:08:24.860 experience with both of those things you would totally understand why the one would make the other less

00:08:30.700 less desirable well apparently the x platform is going to have a whole new recommendation system

00:08:38.780 uh in a few weeks elon musk is telling us so at the moment i have no idea why x shows me what it shows

00:08:47.580 me i haven't i just can't figure it out it doesn't show me anything i disagree with anymore so x completely

00:08:55.740 stopped showing me anything from any left-leaning anything now maybe they all went to blue sky or

00:09:02.860 something but i don't get anything that's on the other side of uh of my political opinions never

00:09:10.220 so i don't know if that'll change but what they're trying to do is make sure that

00:09:15.100 awesome small accounts can get recognized which doesn't happen at the moment

00:09:20.300 so i guess and then i guess you'll be able to just talk to grok and uh just tell it

00:09:28.460 what to prefer in its algorithm and then it will just do it that's kind of cool

00:09:35.900 but grok will literally read every post elon says and watch every video 100 million per day

00:09:42.940 that to match users with content they're most likely to find interesting do you think that'll

00:09:48.860 make a difference i don't know there have been a lot of changes to algorithms that did not

00:09:54.540 did not seem to be doing that but maybe he can pull it off with amex platinum access to exclusive

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00:10:18.780 speaking of elon um he's one of the people who pointed out and i think jd vance did too

00:10:24.460 that in new england um there are six states that have collectively around 40 percent of their population

00:10:33.660 votes republican forty percent so six states forty percent of them are republican guess how many

00:10:41.340 republican representatives in in congress they have forty percent of six states none they have zero zero

00:10:53.500 republicans even though forty percent of six different states are republican and they have

00:11:02.620 no representation do you feel bad about redistricting now i don't i don't

00:11:13.740 well uh apparently there's a new leonardo dicaprio movie um that's called uh one battle after another

00:11:24.780 and my understanding is that the critics like it and the public are saying what kind of uh antifa

00:11:34.860 propaganda garbage is this some are saying it's a pro-antifa um movie apparently it's on it's on uh

00:11:46.460 it's on a track to lose a hundred million dollars but i think warner brothers disputes that

00:11:50.940 so but the public doesn't like it nearly as much as the as the elites well as you know today is the

00:12:02.620 no kings rally the no kings organizers think that they might get more than five million people at

00:12:10.780 2 500 cities all around the country to march and uh i for one am certainly glad that they're marching for

00:12:20.380 keeping the kings away because so far they're doing a great job have there been any kings since the last

00:12:28.140 no kings march no no so if the last one worked that well it just makes sense they'd keep doing it

00:12:37.100 because you know if something works keep doing it so no kings so far and i think this one's going to work

00:12:44.300 too um i'm not feeling any kings emerging so kind of genius it's working it's funny that we even know

00:12:54.060 the name of the organizers you know this guy joel pain he's the chief communication officer for move on

00:13:01.660 it's one of the organizers so maybe i'm wrong about this but uh give me a fact check on this

00:13:12.620 if you do a protest and there's no violence and no threat of violence does anything change in the real

00:13:20.380 world answer i don't think so because why would anybody do anything differently if there's no risk

00:13:28.140 there's just people marching around why would i change what i'm doing because some people took a

00:13:34.060 walk but if a protest looks like it is violent or could be violent do things change sometimes

00:13:44.940 because that that would be a signal that whatever they're protesting is so important just so amazingly

00:13:52.700 important that people are willing to get violent over it so the no kings thing is aggressively non-violent

00:14:01.500 right is there any chance that will make a difference in any way on any topic i think the answer is no

00:14:11.100 there's no there's no way it could there's not even there's not even an argument about how these set

00:14:19.100 of actions could have a ripple effect that would cause something good to happen there's not there's

00:14:25.980 not even a case right it's just completely disconnected from anything in the real world it's just people

00:14:33.340 marching around and getting paid so i think the organizers get paid that's why they organize it

00:14:39.260 some of the protesters get paid and some of the protesters are going to be probably you know bad

00:14:45.980 people trying to make bad things happen so you're gonna fake protesters and your fake uh completely

00:14:53.500 useless protest anyway um i asked grok what would be some of the examples of what the trump administration

00:15:04.860 is doing that would look like authoritarianism which would cause the entire country to want to do a no

00:15:12.220 kings uh kind of uh protest so what exactly are the complaints here are the things that grok said that

00:15:22.140 doesn't mean it's right this is just coming from one ai firing prosecutors and inspector generals is

00:15:29.580 that authoritarian firing prosecutors doesn't it matter if the prosecutors were doing their job that

00:15:37.100 they were asked to do if you fired them for no reason maybe that would be bad but suppose you

00:15:44.700 fired them because you asked them to do something and they were democrats so they decided not to do it

00:15:50.380 is that authoritarian to fire somebody for not doing what you asked them to do for their job

00:15:57.020 doesn't feel like it how about uh the law fairing of uh john bolden and comey well as far as we can

00:16:06.220 tell those are real crimes and at least comey was trying to overthrow the government allegedly

00:16:13.740 and uh and bolden apparently was uh accusing trump of all the same things that he was doing at the same

00:16:22.940 time he was accusing him in terms of mishandling of classified information so is that authoritarian to

00:16:31.820 to uh to uh to indict bolton when the crimes look really sort of obvious like you know maybe as a

00:16:43.900 defense but what we know looks like a crime to me and comey's the same thing uh grok also said that

00:16:52.860 part of the authoritarian vibe is that the hyper macho military the hegseth and trump are making the

00:17:01.020 military hyper macho is that authoritarian or is that just what a military should be

00:17:09.020 shouldn't a military be hyper macho even if you have women in the military shouldn't it still be 0.99

00:17:16.940 hyper macho i don't know and then there's the issue of the national guard in cities um because they would

00:17:25.420 be let's say walking on or ignoring the local government's preferences but correct me if i'm

00:17:33.660 wrong the national guard is only guarding federal federal assets and if the local people say no no we

00:17:42.220 don't need help then they don't do it right i don't know if any case where the national guard is

00:17:49.340 doing what the locals said don't do except protecting federal assets as far as i know

00:17:57.820 then there's the uh the law faring with the doj which i'm totally in favor of as long as they're

00:18:04.940 law faring the lawfarers and the insurrectionists which they are

00:18:09.580 um grok says that trump is punishing critics is he well a lot of people getting fired but that feels

00:18:21.580 like what happens on both sides you know don't don't the democrats fire republicans when they take power

00:18:29.580 it's sort of ordinary and uh let's see grok says the authoritarianism included cia ops in venezuela

00:18:41.180 well really i mean don't we have cia ops in other countries especially south america like all the time

00:18:51.420 with every government is that is that some new thing uh then there's a rhetoric the rhetoric is macho

00:18:59.580 according to grok and uh and uh grok also thinks that the administration is uh let's say

00:19:10.380 misbehaving or disobeying the courts but it's doing it by foot dragging and workarounds and you know

00:19:18.620 nothing illegal but but that it's not kind of coordinating and and uh obeying the courts as much

00:19:26.220 as it could now which one of those things seems real do any of those feel real to you

00:19:35.820 they don't feel real to me it just feels like list persuasion yeah i've told you about list persuasion

00:19:43.980 if you don't have a good reason put a bunch of bad reasons on the list and people will get the

00:19:50.380 impression well you know i i don't know about anyone any one of those reasons but there's so many i mean

00:19:57.420 it's a list so there must be something to it because it's a whole list doesn't work that way list

00:20:04.220 persuasion is persuasive even if everything on the list is bs and i don't know i i can see how they can

00:20:13.100 cobble together a vibe but no this doesn't look like anybody's becoming a king to me

00:20:21.260 now compare this to what democrats believed let's say even a year ago were their most important issues

00:20:29.420 okay so so a year ago most important issues uh whatever's happening in israel and gaza

00:20:35.900 but now they just are sort of ignoring that so i guess that's not important now uh climate change

00:20:44.460 there was a i'll tell you there's an article in wall street journal saying that the democrats have

00:20:50.380 backed off from climate change so it was an existential threat last year and for 20 years before that but

00:20:58.860 suddenly yeah yeah they're not going to pay much attention to it now from existential threat biggest

00:21:07.420 threat in the world to yeah let's de-emphasize this then there was the uh the big issue of uh anybody

00:21:15.820 questioning our elections was a insurrectionist just just even questioning the but now it's uh even you

00:21:25.900 know kathy griffin and um some other prominent democrats are questioning whether the elections

00:21:34.460 are rigged or not so they went from you cannot even question to questioning complete reversal from there's

00:21:43.980 no way that these elections are rigged to hey you republicans are going to rig these elections

00:21:51.020 then there was the open borders which were terribly important to keep open

00:21:55.260 but now they're closed and don't hear a lot about it there were the coveted shots that

00:22:01.020 were just the everybody had to get them but now not so much and then there was the everything has to

00:22:07.660 be trans and now not so much so so they got rid of all the things that they were worried about 1.00

00:22:18.540 all the big things all the big things and i guess you could throw in tariffs

00:22:25.420 it wasn't that long ago that tariffs were like the big big problem and uh elon musk being in doge was

00:22:32.380 the big big problem both of them just went away so elon started working on tesla again and uh

00:22:41.260 uh they just sort of let go those things that they were trying to sell us as the most important

00:22:49.020 problems in the world were never problems so what did they do they have to come up with a whole new

00:22:54.940 imaginary thing to bitch about and it's this whole uh authoritarian king thing 0.97

00:23:02.460 everything they do is imaginary everything that trump does is measurable

00:23:07.820 is is there still a war in ukraine yes we could measure that yeah how's the economy doing we can

00:23:15.180 measure that so everything trump does is measurable everything that the democrats are jabbering about

00:23:23.260 seems like conceptual because they don't really have anything they don't have anything real

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00:24:02.140 anyway um antifa is apparently or did you know that antifa is a real organization not what the democrats

00:24:10.620 say they say antifa is imaginary so they think that the real stuff is imaginary and the imaginary stuff is

00:24:18.140 real uh but antifa the parts that are not imaginary uh are asking for antifa people to embed with the no

00:24:27.100 kings thing to make it a little bit more let's say less safe because they want to they want to reinforce

00:24:34.460 the fact that antifa is not a not a safe organization even if the no kings people are mostly about non-violence

00:24:42.940 so we're going to have this weird situation where you're going to have fake protesters

00:24:49.580 because they're paid protesters they're going to be um possibly

00:24:55.420 this is pretty funny so the protesters themselves will be mostly fakes because a lot of them are just

00:25:01.740 paid protesters but antifa is going to maybe penetrate the fake protesters with fake protesters

00:25:12.220 so the fake protesters might be uh penetrated with other fake protesters and then on top of that

00:25:21.180 some of you can imagine that the fbi is going to send some fake protesters too i don't think so but maybe

00:25:29.580 so you have a fake issue that somebody's worried about a king completely artificial fake issue

00:25:37.260 you've got your fake protesters and then on top of that there might be some fakes pretending to be the fakes

00:25:49.180 yeah if you ever wanted a stronger indication that we've entered the golden age this is it

00:25:57.900 can you imagine anything better than waking up and your biggest problem

00:26:01.900 is that democrats think they're fighting an imaginary king and and that all the protesters are fake

00:26:10.380 it's the best it's the best you can imagine because it means we don't have any real problems that we're not

00:26:15.820 dealing with in some creative way i feel like trump with with the exception i'm gonna say health care

00:26:23.500 health care stands out as something that's not dealt with by either side but if you take health care off

00:26:30.300 the table maybe you shouldn't but everything else looks like it's sort of getting handled

00:26:37.340 as best they can you know even the war in ukraine it's not over but obviously we're putting the

00:26:45.820 the right kind of attention on it so it's like everything's being handled except health care that's

00:26:52.860 it that's all they have so john bolton has been indicted as you know so now it's official apparently

00:27:02.140 what he was doing is he was taking notes from meetings and then including them on his aol account

00:27:10.060 would you like me to make a joke about aol and john bolton using aol are you ready for this

00:27:20.620 you've got jail how was that

00:27:24.540 instead of you've got mail you've got jail all right maybe not we'll see but um

00:27:37.580 a lot of people are saying that the bolton situation is just like trump so why did trump

00:27:44.140 get away with having those classified things when uh bolton might not get away with it and the answer is

00:27:51.020 is don't be an analogy thinker it's not a good analogy bolton was not the president of the united

00:27:59.500 states he had no authority ever to have classified stuff at his house or his office trump was the

00:28:09.100 president of the united states and was the ultimate decider of what was classified and what was not

00:28:16.620 trump now this is yeah i'm saying this is his defense i wasn't there but his defense is that if

00:28:23.180 he says it's unclassified or even acts like it is it's unclassified because when he was president

00:28:31.420 which i agree with actually so no these are not these are not equivalent one had the authority to

00:28:38.540 declassify and one never had that authority so i was talking about uh i was actually a politico not

00:28:49.900 not the wall street journal so deborah khan writing in politico that trump's victory taught democrats

00:28:56.140 about climate change and that climate change is out as a topic and energy affordability is in

00:29:04.300 in other words the democrats just found out that everything republicans have been saying forever

00:29:10.220 is the right approach that you want energy affordability and ultimately that will get you

00:29:18.140 you know better climate and everything else so yes affordability so let me ask you this

00:29:27.100 if the democrats thought that was their existential problem climate change and they've all seemingly

00:29:33.500 decided to de-emphasized it does that mean it was ever real and did they ever believe it was real

00:29:42.540 because how in the world do you go from this is the biggest problem civilization has ever faced

00:29:48.380 climate change to why don't we stop talking about it let's let's de-emphasize this and work on energy

00:29:56.140 prices doesn't that tell you they never believed it or does it tell you they did believe it but they

00:30:05.180 don't anymore because the the data has not performed according to their models which is it

00:30:14.060 but it does seem terribly important to understand the world that it went from the biggest problem in the

00:30:19.100 world too uh maybe maybe we just you know shouldn't mention it let's let's just down downplay this a

00:30:25.500 little bit

00:30:28.380 my goodness all right well mark benioff ceo of uh and founder of salesforce apparently he's apologized

00:30:37.660 for agreeing with trump temporarily for just like a minute

00:30:41.100 he had to apologize what he agreed on was uh in some conversation somebody asked him

00:30:48.620 if he'd ever be in favor of the national guard helping san francisco with their crime and he made

00:30:55.100 the mistake let's say a democrat mistake of uh acting like that might be a good idea under the right

00:31:02.460 circumstance now under the right circumstance so of course it's not just yes it's you know there might

00:31:10.060 be there might be a situation where that makes sense now that is the most reasonable thing

00:31:15.420 that any leader could ever say totally reasonable yes if crime is out of control

00:31:22.060 i can imagine a situation in which you would want to get it under control temporarily with but he got so

00:31:29.580 much pushback he said quote having listened closely to my fellow san franciscans and our local officials

00:31:36.220 officials he said i do not um i do not believe uh that i want that all right

00:31:46.220 so he got beaten back to his his uh his side sam harris has emerged again and he's being provocative

00:31:56.620 so sam thinks that uh the joe rogan style of conversation and podcasts and uh especially when he talks to

00:32:03.820 elon musk and podcasts has done in social media uh has amplified misinformation and conspiracy

00:32:12.220 thinking and then sam goes further he said and it's frankly getting people killed

00:32:20.060 do you believe that things that joe rogan and elon musk have said on the podcast

00:32:26.140 uh are in fact getting people killed not just risking not not just putting people at risk but are getting

00:32:34.860 people killed do you think that's fair to say you know it might be slightly fair because they do talk

00:32:44.860 about important you know health and lifestyle related things and probably there's somebody who made a bad

00:32:51.660 decision because of something they heard ivermectin but don't you think that free speech is dangerous

00:33:01.740 by its nature why would you pick out these two people as the only one whose free speech is going

00:33:08.060 to hurt somebody don't you think that sam harris's free speech would kill people if you were to look at

00:33:15.180 all the things that sam harris has promoted versus all the things that elon and joe rogan have promoted

00:33:22.540 on podcasts which one do you think you could determine killed the most people i don't know if you can tell

00:33:30.860 but if you're if your uh problem with other people's free speech is that it might be dangerous

00:33:39.500 i don't know how you can how do you defend that wouldn't you say that things i've said would be

00:33:47.020 dangerous right i mean if you're in the podcasting business you sooner or later you're going to say

00:33:54.460 something that is dangerous because somebody's going to take your advice even if you say don't take my

00:34:01.100 advice so i talk about a lot of things and then i say but don't take my advice you know financially or

00:34:07.740 medically but people will you know in the real world people are going to hear me say something

00:34:13.980 and then even right after i say don't take my advice they're going to go take that advice

00:34:19.820 because it feels right to them so will that mean that i kill some people maybe yeah yeah unfortunately

00:34:29.660 if you want to live in a world with free speech and a dynamic podcasting environment which we have

00:34:35.580 people are going to die absolutely now i think that he may he may be a little bit over worried about

00:34:45.420 the size of the risk but i wouldn't say that nobody will ever die because of things they heard on

00:34:52.940 podcasts of course they will it's a big world and there'll be lots of things said and lots of crazy

00:34:59.180 people who believe anything that's sad and yeah of course that there will be situations in which

00:35:05.980 um ordinary podcast conversations lead to people dying

00:35:11.980 but what would you do instead you know it's okay if um somebody like sam harris is raising the alarm

00:35:20.060 because i have also made the criticism that the podcast um model has a problem you've heard me say this

00:35:31.020 before right it's the it's the documentary effect if you put if you put somebody on a three-hour podcast

00:35:39.340 especially a high reputation one like joe rogan's people will believe whatever whatever they say when

00:35:46.300 they're done most people because they would get three hours of one point of view and no hours of

00:35:53.580 the opposing view of course it would be persuasive of course it would um so i've said that for the

00:36:00.460 important topics you know not just the fun ones but for the important topics you pretty much you just

00:36:07.020 gotta have a fact checker there at the same time somebody who would disagree but fact check you as you go

00:36:13.820 well so that at least the at least the viewer has you know a little bit of uh safety you know i

00:36:21.260 suppose ai could do it now you you could say hey ai uh look at this uh interview with joe rogan and

00:36:28.540 some guests and you say what's the pushback but what would the critics say about that podcast that would

00:36:35.820 actually be very useful so so maybe you just need ai maybe you don't need a fact checker as long as you're

00:36:41.900 willing to uh fact check it yourself with ai although half of that would be hallucinated

00:36:50.140 anyway imagine if sam harris had gotten his way and uh he had managed to persuade people to vote

00:36:56.780 against trump and trump had never come into office would more or fewer people die if trump had not been

00:37:05.900 president oh now we're getting into it right i believe that trump's ascendancy to the presidency the

00:37:15.660 second term especially probably will save an immense amount of lives gaza being the the obvious one maybe 0.99

00:37:24.940 ukraine if he can get that done so yeah free speech is uh definitely kills some people

00:37:32.140 according to wall street apes i saw this on on x allegedly gofundme uh created over a million ngo pages

00:37:45.340 and was accepting donations without the ngos knowing that they had a page

00:37:51.900 a million a million

00:37:54.860 so an ngo is a non-government organization that usually exists to grift money off the government

00:38:02.860 or off of rich guys they made a million of them a million and then put them up there and collected money

00:38:11.820 on it without the without the organizations knowing that they had one where did the money go did they give

00:38:18.700 it to the ngos or do they just keep it i don't know what they did anyway

00:38:26.860 it created uh 1.4 million 501 c3 organizations using public irs data

00:38:35.420 so is it my imagination or is everything that's associated with democrats

00:38:41.580 a complete scam and everything's just money laundering operation it's hard for me to i don't know the the

00:38:52.060 news that i watch is just one democrat organization after another being determined to have stolen millions

00:38:59.980 and sometimes billions of dollars and are any of them republican am i in a bubble

00:39:07.500 am i in a bubble because i can't think of one example where a republican dominated organization

00:39:19.020 turned out to be a complete corrupt you know whatever this is but don't we have situation after

00:39:28.060 situation after situation where it's obvious that the democrat leaders are running just money laundering

00:39:36.700 operations i i actually don't know if that's my imagination so i'm looking for a real an actual fact

00:39:47.100 check it is there a list of republican bad behavior that matches what we've been seeing for the last

00:39:55.100 several years from the democrats or is it really all democrats i can't tell because social media is only

00:40:04.060 giving me one side of the story but at least i'm aware of it i'm at least aware that i've got this big gap

00:40:14.460 in my information i think unless there's nothing there yeah so anytime you find democrats and anything

00:40:23.020 that's funded you could pretty much guarantee it's corrupt and what i'm wondering is is there a way for ai

00:40:29.980 to be the ultimate government auditor seems to me that we're probably at a place where we need to say

00:40:39.740 nobody gets any money for anything if it comes from taxpayers nobody gets any money for anything unless

00:40:47.900 there's an ai automatic audit meaning that ai will monitor everything they spend

00:40:54.460 and then report it in a way that you can connect the expenses to whatever the outcomes are because

00:41:01.500 right now there's just there's just no control over the spending they just give it to some organization

00:41:08.620 and it goes into a black hole and they give it to their friends and spend 10 cents on the cause and

00:41:15.020 nobody even checks but in theory ai could be your automatic always on auditor right so somebody needs to

00:41:26.140 develop some kind of a product maybe a third party product that can automatically audit um any any funded

00:41:35.500 organization we we gotta have that because right now we're just drowning in corruption the corruption is

00:41:42.220 so out of control that there's looks like nothing works i think all of our systems are broken by corruption at this point

00:41:52.780 well george sentos republican who got sentenced to jail for wire fraud and identity theft

00:42:01.660 has been uh has sentenced commuted by president trump i did not hear an argument for why

00:42:08.220 uh so this is one of those ones that makes you scratch your head and say

00:42:14.700 hmm am i am i on the same side with this let's see i'm on the same side with the republicans

00:42:21.820 i'm on the same side with mega usually i'm on the same side with trump

00:42:29.420 but why would i support this am i am i supposed to say that republicans get out of jail for free

00:42:35.260 because why why why does he get out of jail for free now to be fair trump has also commuted sentences

00:42:45.500 for democrats who did real crimes but thought maybe thought the sentence was too much or something

00:42:53.980 so there's there's some there's some noise about maybe he was being mistreated in jail but nobody gets

00:42:59.820 treated well in jail so you know if the thinking here's what i wouldn't want i wouldn't want the

00:43:09.180 thinking behind this to be he's a republican so we're going to get him out of jail i hope that's not the

00:43:15.340 thinking right um i do like trump being protective of his base so i do like commuting all the january 6th

00:43:26.700 stuff including including including some of the people who went way too far i'm in favor of that

00:43:33.660 because that's just protecting his team and i think he has to but this is he protecting the team or is

00:43:41.660 this just a criminal who maybe should have paid his paid his dues he may have been over over

00:43:49.020 sentence compared to other people that could be part of it trump's also uh backing a primary challenger

00:43:57.900 to thomas massey uh i don't love that don't love that um you know i'll reiterate my thomas massey opinion

00:44:08.300 yes he's a gigantic pain in the ass to republicans but just the kind i like 0.69

00:44:13.740 you know not everything has to be smooth sometimes you need that alternative voice

00:44:22.300 and massey is insanely brave with his alternative voice and also insanely rational and uh he's almost

00:44:33.900 always on the right side of principle maybe always maybe always on the right side of principle but

00:44:41.660 principle doesn't get the job done right we live in the real world sometimes you just you could have

00:44:48.060 to vote with your team to get anything done you know because it's so close but i would rather keep a

00:44:54.060 massey even at the cost of losing one you know dependable republican vote because i think his voice is too

00:45:02.220 important and we cannot lose it so i will disagree with trump but i understand why he wants his people to vote

00:45:10.460 you know for him everybody understands you know we can understand both sides of this situation

00:45:20.220 well there's a meeting with trump and putin coming up in uh in what country bulgaria or someplace i don't

00:45:29.020 hungry one of those countries over there that i always get confused so that's we don't have a specific date i don't think

00:45:36.940 but uh trump thinks that maybe maybe we're at a point where talking to putin could get something done

00:45:45.740 now cleverly as you know zelensky with two y's um do you know why zelensky his name is spelled with two y's

00:45:55.740 at the end of his zelensky it's because that's what that's what everybody asks when they hear him

00:46:02.620 zelensky why why why okay um anyway so zelensky wants these tomahawk missiles that only the u.s can

00:46:16.860 supply and they would give him range to go way into russia and bomb their energy infrastructure and

00:46:24.540 whatever else so trump is not eager to uh make things worse but he did once again trump did his

00:46:35.180 trump thing where he created an asset and of nothing so the asset out of nothing is oh we might we might

00:46:42.540 give ukraine these tomahawks any minute yep we might any minute you want to talk oh oh you'd like to talk

00:46:51.820 so putin wants to talk now because trump has created this asset that didn't exist before which is maybe

00:47:00.540 maybe i'm going to give ukraine some tomahawk missiles and you're really going to be fucked up 1.00

00:47:06.700 so he creates that risk and asset to trade away and then he schedules the meeting

00:47:14.460 pure trump do you think that biden would have done that probably not

00:47:20.060 because he wasn't smart enough he just literally wasn't smart enough you create the asset and then

00:47:27.020 you talk and then you trade away the asset it's a real asset when i say he created the asset i don't

00:47:33.580 mean it's imaginary it's a real asset he really could and maybe even probably will give these tomahawks to

00:47:42.780 ukraine eventually i i feel like if if literally nothing comes out of this meeting i think ukraine's

00:47:51.100 going to get tomahawks what do you think i think they will because trump's not gonna what what is he

00:47:57.740 going to do just say well we tried i don't think so i think he's going to say if if we can't get it done

00:48:06.940 with this level of mutual threat i'm going to increase the mutual threat and then we'll try again

00:48:14.300 so who knows what he's thinking internally but if you're potent you would have to worry that the

00:48:19.980 tomahawks are definitely coming if you blow this meeting uh do you think do you think uh pudin's risk

00:48:29.420 management would allow him to take a chance on those tomahawks coming online i don't know that'd be

00:48:37.980 pretty that'd be a pretty big risk for pudin i don't think he likes that kind of risk that that would

00:48:44.380 be a little bit more than he might want to take on because the correct me if i'm wrong but the tomahawks

00:48:49.980 could just turn off the power in in russia right if you had if you had a thousand tomahawks all of 0.99

00:48:56.780 a sudden you don't think you could take out the entire energy infrastructure of russia right before

00:49:03.020 the winter i bought i'll bet you could logically you would imagine that russia could turn off ukraine's

00:49:10.460 power too but would they they probably would if if they got attacked that hard

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00:49:47.500 well malibu is looking to arrest homeless people over fire risks because i guess the homeless have

00:49:57.980 started lots of 30 fires um usually not intentionally i guess they're just starting fires to stay warm but

00:50:05.820 things get out of control some of them probably intentional but uh malibu now is uh not as blue as

00:50:12.700 it used to be now maybe it wants those those uh homeless people to not be so dangerous we'll see where that

00:50:20.380 goes um there's something strange happening with venezuela and the u.s so trump says that madura has

00:50:30.060 quote offered everything meaning that we're negotiating with venezuela through some channels i don't know

00:50:37.420 but that uh venezuela has reportedly offered to give the u.s a dominant stake in venezuela's oil and other

00:50:47.100 mineral wealth what what how is that even a real thing are you serious that venezuela is trying to

00:50:58.860 buy its way out of trouble by giving the u.s equity in its natural resources i didn't see that coming

00:51:07.420 is that even real well here's what i think won't work which is it looks like a here's how i interpret

00:51:17.980 it so this is just my interpretation my interpretation is maduro knows he has no chance of survival

00:51:24.860 because once he's been determined to be a cartel head as opposed to a legitimate head of state

00:51:31.900 they can just take him out and they know that trump is someone who won't hesitate to take out a terrorist

00:51:41.180 head or the head of the cartel so maduro is probably saying okay i got you know i got four weeks to stay

00:51:48.860 alive basically i'm gonna have to offer whatever it takes for them not to kill me specifically right 0.62

00:51:57.580 because i'm pretty sure that they would do a decapitation strike i don't think they would go

00:52:02.220 in and try to grind it out and beat the military that seems like a bad idea but they would definitely

00:52:08.300 know where maduro is and they would definitely be able to put a drone on his ass anytime they wanted 0.51

00:52:14.060 so maduro is probably thinking all right i gotta come up with something that can keep me alive for the

00:52:20.220 next month because it's not looking good so he may have promised venezuela's assets to keep him in power

00:52:30.540 which is a pretty smart offer because you know that trump would want to you know he'd want to claim

00:52:37.180 success he'd want an economic bump but it's not good enough because maduro would still be the head of a

00:52:47.100 cartel and a terrorist organization according to the united states so i don't think you can bribe your

00:52:53.260 way out of that situation can you but it's a hell of an offer uh and trump seems to have rejected it

00:53:00.780 and uh he said quote using the f-bomb which trump is so good at he says he doesn't want to with the us

00:53:07.900 us is that perfect remember i i keep telling you that the democrats they try to copy trump and they

00:53:18.620 they do it by trying to swear like they think he swears because it seems to work when he does it

00:53:25.900 they don't do it right they just throw the f-bombs in podcasts whereas when he throws one in

00:53:33.500 it's the perfect application imagine you're you're maduro or you're the venezuelan leadership and

00:53:42.540 you're watching the news and trump turns right at the camera looks at the camera and says he doesn't

00:53:49.020 want to fuck with us that's not just a good use of a swear term that that's a whole different level

00:53:59.420 that that is making sure that you know that he means that and if there's one thing you're going

00:54:05.340 to pay attention to it's that everybody there's lots of things going on today but here's what

00:54:12.460 you're going to pay attention to you're going to pay attention to my f-bomb they don't want to 0.87

00:54:17.500 fuck with us and that is such a clean clear strong message perfect use of a curse word perfect use of

00:54:28.060 a curse word then you watch somebody like newsom just sort of randomly throwing in a you know a blue

00:54:34.940 word it doesn't work at all it doesn't work at all but if you do it this well that's that's how to do it

00:54:42.940 so we'll see maybe something will happen with venezuela

00:54:50.700 abc news has an estimate for building gaza rebuilding gaza 70 billion dollars

00:54:57.900 i saw somebody else say 60 billion but yeah i want you to get into that range you're just guessing

00:55:03.820 um 70 billion dollars where's that going to come from apparently uh over 80 percent of gaza's city

00:55:15.340 buildings are damaged and 40 percent are completely wiped out only 40 percent you know when i see

00:55:22.700 pictures of gaza i don't see anything that looks like it's salvageable are there are there entire parts

00:55:29.420 of gaza that weren't damaged that much but we only see the pictures of the ones that are totally

00:55:35.420 flattened i don't know i'm doubting that 40 percent number it seems like it's more like 80 percent

00:55:43.020 but uh 70 billion i don't know how anybody's going to get 70 billion dollars to invest in a place that's

00:55:51.340 still going to be festering with terrorists at 70 billion yeah well over in great britain there's

00:56:03.260 apparently a breakthrough in fusion energy um if you follow my podcast you know that i always talk about

00:56:10.780 the many breakthroughs in fusion but we've been having breakthroughs in fusion for my entire life and

00:56:16.860 we don't have any fusion yet so i don't get too excited but apparently uh over at oxfordshire

00:56:26.540 um they've made some kind of major breakthrough technical breakthrough they've they figured out

00:56:33.180 how to stabilize the turbulent edge of a fusion plasma wow wow they can stabilize the turbulent edge of a

00:56:40.380 fusion plasma which actually is a gigantic deal if they if they could really do that apparently that's

00:56:46.700 gigantic gets you a lot closer to fusion the u.s has also published a road map to get us to fusion

00:56:56.620 so the energy department appears to be doing a good job both in priorities and communicating

00:57:08.060 i always talk about what's happening with living situations and especially senior citizens

00:57:14.220 and here's a trend which i was expecting to see and uh apparently uh there's some studies that show this

00:57:21.500 is true the older people are far more likely to take on a roommate now so if there are seniors who own a

00:57:29.980 house and they don't want to leave their house but it becomes too expensive to you know run the house by

00:57:35.900 yourself apparently it's a very big trend now close to a million adults are living with unrelated housemates

00:57:43.420 older adults you know it's not surprising if it's 20 somethings have roommates but when the 70

00:57:50.380 somethings you start getting roommates of other 70 somethings then you've got something going on here

00:57:57.340 so the number of people who are cohabitating with non-relatives is uh up quite a bit since 2021

00:58:06.380 so um yeah i was telling you before that china seems to have adapted to the uh that one child

00:58:17.260 thing better than we expected so the one child would just stay home and would just be a an asset to the 0.64

00:58:25.260 the parents in a way that maybe if they had several kids the kids would have left and gotten jobs and

00:58:31.020 whatever so it is a it's useful to watch how society can adjust when it just has to and this limit the

00:58:42.860 the cost of living is so high that the seniors just have to adjust they just won't be able to afford

00:58:49.580 you know the the old kind of lifestyle where you could just live in a big house i guess um so yeah

00:58:55.900 you're gonna see a lot of people cohabitating i think they'll be happier i think they'll be happier

00:59:01.180 having a another life in the house all right um as i told you as soon as we're done here owen gregorian

00:59:10.860 will have his uh spaces after party so just go to x and look for owen gregorian and you'll see that

00:59:17.580 uh i think i'll give you one more reframe before we go anybody up for another reframe

00:59:26.700 all right we got time for one reframe and then it's time for breakfast

00:59:32.780 all right this is from my book reframe your brain now the context here if you're new to this is that

00:59:38.700 most of the reframes might not be you know one that you need specifically but they're all things

00:59:45.340 that you know somebody who needs so you'll be smarter and more capable of helping other people

00:59:51.660 even if it's not directly for you all right um here's a reframe one of my favorites uh the usual

01:00:03.340 frame is i want to do something whatever whatever the thing is i want to do the thing

01:00:08.460 i want to you know get this uh degree i want to get this job i want to accomplish this thing but a

01:00:18.380 better reframe is i've decided to do it um this is one of my favorites you've heard this one before but

01:00:25.260 for those of you who haven't heard it deciding to do something is an entirely different situation

01:00:31.340 than wanting to do something so once you understand that distinction that there are things you want

01:00:39.100 that you're probably not going to work that hard on it's just something you want but if you decide

01:00:44.860 then you're going to do whatever it takes i told you earlier about my situation with the pet scan and how

01:00:52.700 monstrously painful that was did i want to do that or did i decide to do it i decided because if i had

01:01:01.980 simply wanted to do it there's no way i would have taken that much pain it was 20 minutes of the worst

01:01:07.100 pain i've ever felt in my life just because i had to be in a certain position that was painful but because

01:01:13.580 i had decided there was nothing that was going to stop me and so i managed to hold on to literally the

01:01:20.940 hardest thing i've ever done i've never experienced that much pain and and not be able to move because

01:01:28.140 you can't move you're in the scanner so that's your uh reframe for the day always know the difference

01:01:35.260 between what you want and what you've decided because the things you've decided you're probably going to

01:01:43.420 get because you won't stop at anything to get them all right ladies and gentlemen that's all i got for

01:01:48.940 you i'll say a few words privately to the locals beloved people because they're so beloved and the

01:01:56.860 rest of you hope to see you tomorrow maybe i'll see you on the spaces with owen all right locals coming

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 18, 2025

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