Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3005 CWSA 10⧸31⧸25

00:00:00.760 Yeah, I'm a little bit late.

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00:01:32.080 Yeah, everything's a little bit harder today.

00:01:35.720 Why is my iPad not working?

00:01:37.720 Doing what I want.

00:01:40.880 Well, there it is.

00:01:44.760 Mom, Mom. 0.92

00:01:45.640 Happy Halloween, everybody.

00:01:46.880 You all going to trick your treat tonight?

00:01:50.500 I'll probably get a few hundred people today.

00:01:53.400 So yesterday I had my radiation treatment for one of my cancer spots.

00:01:58.620 It's not a cure.

00:01:59.740 It's just a...

00:02:01.280 It was just trying to fix the place in my back.

00:02:04.840 Do you want to hear the most alarming story you've ever heard?

00:02:07.440 So the radiation treatment, the one they get, has zero pain involved.

00:02:15.140 In other words, you don't feel the radiation.

00:02:17.320 So you don't feel it when it's happening.

00:02:18.820 And you don't feel it when it's done, really.

00:02:22.080 Yeah, there might be minor side effects or something.

00:02:24.060 But basically you don't feel it.

00:02:26.840 Unless the position that you have to be in to get it happens to lie on your back in the exact place that it hurts the most.

00:02:37.000 And that was my situation.

00:02:38.160 So I didn't know if I could get through the pain.

00:02:43.180 So I wanted to make sure I knew how long it would last so that I was mentally prepared.

00:02:49.340 And I knew it was going to be not just regular pain.

00:02:52.220 But we're talking about, you know, feeling like somebody's putting a spear through your chest the entire time.

00:02:59.220 I mean, real pain.

00:03:00.620 Like you've never felt before in your life.

00:03:02.440 And I knew it would last a while.

00:03:05.900 So I asked them and they said, well, it could be 15 minutes to an hour, the doctor said.

00:03:10.940 15 minutes to an hour of lying completely still while somebody's putting a spear through your chest.

00:03:20.940 And if you don't, if you don't make it, then you don't have a chance to get rid of the pain that is destroying your ability to walk.

00:03:32.440 So that was my trade-off.

00:03:34.520 Take a pain that would be the greatest pain of my life for 15 minutes to an hour.

00:03:41.340 Or never deal with the problem to my death.

00:03:46.900 So I decided I could do anything for 15 minutes.

00:03:50.780 And the doctor confirmed that in my particular case it would be 15 minutes.

00:03:55.320 So he said, you know, the whole procedure, 15 minutes.

00:03:59.240 So now I understand it's 15 minutes, right?

00:04:02.440 Now, how do you understand that?

00:04:05.060 You understand that the procedure is 15 minutes.

00:04:08.480 Very easy.

00:04:09.920 Very, very clear communication, wouldn't you say?

00:04:14.400 So I get under the machine and it immediately, you know, the pain kicks in.

00:04:19.580 And as the techs are walking into the adjacent room where they'll be monitoring me, allegedly, one of them says, we start by taking x-rays.

00:04:32.120 I think they meant the CAS scan, but they said x-rays.

00:04:35.900 To make sure that your body's in the same position that it was when we did the test to see if you'd be, you know, we were testing to see where the tumors were.

00:04:45.920 But you have to be laying in exactly the same position or else the radiation won't get the right place.

00:04:53.020 So they say, first, we'll take the x-rays.

00:04:57.500 Now, what's my first question?

00:05:01.580 Is that on top of the 15 minutes?

00:05:05.040 Or is that included in the 15 minutes?

00:05:07.960 And I couldn't ask because they were already into the test.

00:05:13.540 So I'm laying there and 15 minutes pass.

00:05:18.140 Or what I thought was 15 minutes.

00:05:20.720 So it felt like 15 minutes of the worst pain I've ever endured in my life.

00:05:26.120 And I knew I couldn't go longer.

00:05:28.940 But the 15 minutes were over.

00:05:31.960 And you know what they said next?

00:05:34.660 Well, we got the x-rays.

00:05:38.920 They hadn't fucking started.

00:05:42.980 They hadn't started the treatment.

00:05:46.900 You know the 15-minute treatment that I didn't think I could possibly survive?

00:05:51.680 I'd already gone 15 minutes.

00:05:54.460 And they hadn't started.

00:05:58.480 And I bailed out.

00:06:00.620 I bailed out.

00:06:01.820 I screamed and I said, I'm done.

00:06:04.660 No fucking way.

00:06:05.780 I'm not going to go 15 minutes.

00:06:08.360 So they come in.

00:06:09.540 And of course, they're a little bit distraught.

00:06:11.960 Because, you know, I've wasted their time.

00:06:14.080 I've wasted the appointment.

00:06:15.560 I didn't get fixed.

00:06:17.000 Didn't get any treatment.

00:06:18.460 No treatment at all.

00:06:19.800 And I just went through the most traumatic experience of my whole fucking life.

00:06:24.860 And it got worse.

00:06:26.000 Do you know what they said then?

00:06:29.460 You ready for this?

00:06:32.380 Then they told me, for the first time, for the first time, I heard this.

00:06:38.600 The treatment is one minute.

00:06:43.900 The 15 minutes is all that setup that we told you we were doing.

00:06:49.220 The entire process is 15 minutes.

00:06:51.820 You were 60 seconds away from being completely done.

00:06:57.540 But we, they had miscommunicated so that I thought it was 15 minutes for the process that had not yet started.

00:07:05.220 So I bailed out.

00:07:07.900 So then I said, now that's the end of my appointment, right?

00:07:11.980 So now I'm into somebody else's appointment, which means I need to get kicked out and rescheduled.

00:07:16.200 Do you think I let them kick me out and reschedule?

00:07:22.000 No.

00:07:23.240 No.

00:07:24.340 So they rescheduled whoever was after me to some other room, I guess.

00:07:29.320 And I said, you're going to have to give me the strongest painkillers in the world.

00:07:34.620 There's just no fucking way I can do 15 minutes more of this.

00:07:39.960 So give me whatever you have.

00:07:41.300 So we talked about what was the strongest painkiller that they could give me.

00:07:44.360 And I was already on several.

00:07:46.640 Now, I'm not going to get into the specifics of the painkillers, because then you'll go crazy and you'll have your opinions and I don't care.

00:07:54.820 But they gave me something really strong.

00:07:58.060 On top of, I already had painkillers in me because I was anticipating it.

00:08:02.320 So now I have several, one, two, three, at least three different painkillers, four maybe, in me at the same time.

00:08:11.440 How much did the painkillers make a difference?

00:08:15.660 Not even a little bit.

00:08:17.760 Not even the slightest bit.

00:08:20.100 The strongest painkillers you can imagine, it was like there was no painkiller at all.

00:08:24.720 I was just sitting right on an open nerve.

00:08:26.780 But they said, because of the first test, they could get it down to six minutes inclusive of the actual radiation.

00:08:39.880 And I thought, I could make it six minutes with these new painkillers.

00:08:44.480 I didn't realize at the time that they wouldn't make any difference.

00:08:47.600 But I was like, I can do six minutes.

00:08:49.980 I can do that.

00:08:50.880 So the six minutes starts, and when the six minutes is about done, the door opens, and I'm like, God, thank you.

00:09:00.800 Thank God.

00:09:02.020 They're coming in because I'm done.

00:09:04.840 And then the tech said, hold on, we have to adjust your body because you're not in the right place. 0.93

00:09:10.660 Which means that the whole first six minutes was of nothing, which meant that it was going to be six plus six.

00:09:19.120 So it was really going to be back to 12 minutes.

00:09:22.540 And they had to start again.

00:09:24.520 But the good news was that my original position didn't hurt very much.

00:09:29.560 And I thought, I can definitely get through this because it didn't hurt that much.

00:09:33.240 As soon as they moved me into the same position as the one where I'd been tested, the one that they needed to get me in, absolute terror pain because it was the position that makes the pain.

00:09:47.180 It wasn't natural pain.

00:09:48.440 It was the position.

00:09:49.920 Now I've got six minutes after the first six minutes, after the 15 minutes of the worst pain you've ever felt in your life.

00:09:57.680 But have I ever told you about deciding versus wanting?

00:10:04.840 Oh, I was doing a lot of deciding.

00:10:07.340 A lot of deciding.

00:10:08.580 So I got through it.

00:10:09.420 So the happy ending is I got exactly what I wanted.

00:10:14.960 But wow.

00:10:16.780 So I had some words with them about their communication style.

00:10:21.700 Moving on.

00:10:24.120 Did you know that there was a new congressional investigation?

00:10:27.680 That discovered that Hunter Biden's paintings were all created entirely by Autopen.

00:10:34.460 I didn't even know Autopen had any art ability, but apparently the Autopen did all of his art.

00:10:41.360 All right.

00:10:41.860 How many of you believe that?

00:10:43.720 Did anybody believe that?

00:10:46.620 No.

00:10:47.260 No.

00:10:47.560 The Autopen did not do Hunter's art.

00:10:49.820 But it's kind of funny.

00:10:52.420 All right.

00:10:52.980 I wonder if there's any science that you didn't need to read because you could have just asked Scott.

00:10:58.300 Well, the American Psychological Association tells us that the study says that sharing positive emotions with the partner is good for your health.

00:11:07.800 Uh, I'm pretty sure everybody knew that.

00:11:13.520 You didn't even have to ask me that one.

00:11:16.060 Is sharing positive emotions with the partner going to be good for your relationship?

00:11:21.280 Yes.

00:11:22.700 Is it going to make, is a good relationship going to make you healthier probably?

00:11:27.220 Yes.

00:11:28.140 Yeah.

00:11:29.600 Easy.

00:11:30.600 Next time, just ask me.

00:11:33.000 All right.

00:11:33.480 Let's see if you can guess the outcome of this study based on my patterns.

00:11:38.680 So ABC News is talking about this.

00:11:40.820 So they did a study where they gave somebody a small dose of LSD to see if it would help them with their long-term anxiety.

00:11:48.820 Now, importantly, they did not give it to them every day, just once.

00:11:53.660 So just one dose.

00:11:55.480 What do you think?

00:11:56.180 What was the result?

00:11:57.180 One dose of LSD.

00:11:59.560 Did they have any lasting effects on anybody's mental health in a positive way?

00:12:04.540 You already know the answer to that because I talk about this almost every day.

00:12:10.040 Almost every day there's a news story about a hallucinogen, usually not LSD, but some hallucinogen that has exactly these properties,

00:12:19.520 that it can affect somebody's mental health with one dose.

00:12:21.900 I don't know how many studies we have to do to show that hallucinogens fix people with one dose before everybody tries one dose of hallucinogens.

00:12:32.640 I mean, aren't we sort of, you know, on the cusp of everybody just saying, all right, all right, all right, just give me some of that.

00:12:42.920 According to Science Alert, chimpanzees can revise their beliefs when shown new evidence.

00:12:48.560 Well, damn those dirty monkeys. 1.00

00:12:51.960 They're smarter than humans.

00:12:54.120 Humans don't change their mind when you give them new data, but chimps do. 0.94

00:12:58.180 Well, I would say that humans do, too.

00:13:01.860 It really depends.

00:13:03.060 But maybe the advantage that chimps have is that they don't get embarrassed.

00:13:08.040 I mean, if you're a chimp, you're flinging your poo and probably trapped in a cage and you've got bigger problems. 1.00

00:13:14.180 But no, they will revise their beliefs based on new evidence.

00:13:19.300 However, there's no indication of what political party they're supporting.

00:13:27.100 I think what they did was maybe a test that had something to do with food or something.

00:13:33.960 Do you know what kind of opinion I would be willing to change easily?

00:13:38.060 My food opinions.

00:13:39.980 If the only thing they changed their opinion on was something about where the food was hidden, I'm not impressed.

00:13:46.460 Chimps.

00:13:46.820 Sorry, chimps. 1.00

00:13:50.480 Well, apparently Meta, the Facebook company, Ars Technica is reporting that they've been accused of using porn to train their AI.

00:14:05.760 But do you know what their defense is?

00:14:08.600 Because apparently there must be digital records of Meta accessing a lot of porn.

00:14:13.680 A lot of porn, because we're talking about training AI.

00:14:17.420 If you're going to train AI, you don't need a little bit of porn.

00:14:21.180 You need lots, lots of porn.

00:14:22.940 Lots.

00:14:23.660 So they must have some kind of digital path because there's a lawsuit.

00:14:27.900 So Meta asked the U.S. District Court to toss out a lawsuit alleging that they had basically torrented or streamed a bunch of pornography to train their AI.

00:14:39.820 How much porn was it?

00:14:41.500 And what was their defense?

00:14:43.560 Their defense was it was all downloaded for personal reasons.

00:14:47.900 So their actual court defense was, no, no, we didn't need that much porn to train our AI.

00:14:56.360 We needed it totally for jerking off.

00:14:59.200 What?

00:15:00.160 No, really.

00:15:01.400 Yeah, we didn't even touch AI with it.

00:15:04.020 We did not get near AI with that porn.

00:15:07.540 It was all for us just to whack off.

00:15:10.060 That's a lot of porn.

00:15:11.800 Well, we're young, and there are a lot of us, and we like our porn.

00:15:17.380 So, you know, why don't you get off my back, Dad?

00:15:23.020 Well, here's something that Elon Musk knew was coming, but maybe you didn't.

00:15:27.600 Apparently, there's a solar power boom because the economics of solar power just got really good.

00:15:34.660 And one of the reasons it got really good, the economics for solar, is that there's some gigantic solar projects going on, China particularly.

00:15:45.300 And basically, it's just creating a very robust, competitive industry.

00:15:52.640 So the prices for solar are going down, and a lot more is being installed in countries everywhere.

00:16:01.440 The weird thing is that the economics of solar are so good now that even Saudi Arabia is installing solar.

00:16:09.600 They have a lot of sun, so it makes sense.

00:16:11.920 But one of the biggest regular energy, carbon energy producers in the world, even for them, the economics of solar are good.

00:16:21.080 So I assume that maybe this has something to do with battery storage as well.

00:16:26.760 But I guess we're in that realm where all power is good power.

00:16:33.060 So you might remember that, you know, this is in the category of Elon Musk being correct again.

00:16:39.640 He's been saying for a long time that solar would be the economical, easiest, fastest, safest kind of way to go forward.

00:16:50.200 Now, obviously, he's in the business, so it's his job to say it's good.

00:16:55.200 But I think he's right.

00:16:57.260 You know, it looks like if I had to guess, you know, the cost of, let's say, nuclear power might go down as they develop new ways.

00:17:07.820 But that is just sort of going to go up, I think.

00:17:11.020 Because there's new things that they have to do for safety and everything else.

00:17:15.040 But solar, potentially, could just get cheaper and cheaper for a long time.

00:17:20.420 And the batteries could get cheaper and cheaper.

00:17:22.680 So I think Elon was right about the future of solar.

00:17:28.140 ExxonMobil, according to Zero Hedge, is taking California to court over what they call compelled climate speech.

00:17:36.760 So they're not complaining about what the state is making them do about climate.

00:17:43.800 They're complaining about what they're making them say, which is actually pretty innovative.

00:17:50.680 And what is it they want them to say?

00:17:52.880 Apparently, they're being forced by California law to publicly endorse opinions about climate change that they don't agree with.

00:18:05.360 That does seem like something you should be able to sue your state for, right?

00:18:09.040 It'd be one thing if they say the law is you have to do this.

00:18:13.660 But it seems like a violation of the First Amendment to say, and when you do it, you have to talk about it this way.

00:18:20.480 What?

00:18:21.880 Really?

00:18:22.880 The state is going to tell you how to talk about climate change?

00:18:26.600 No.

00:18:27.120 No, you don't get to tell us how to talk about it.

00:18:30.080 We'll talk about it any way we want.

00:18:31.960 But if you have some law about what we're supposed to do, well, maybe we'll do it.

00:18:36.840 But we're not going to talk about it the way you want us to talk about it.

00:18:40.640 No.

00:18:41.600 So I'm going to be on ExxonMobil's side of that.

00:18:45.340 RFK Jr. says there is not, yet, and maybe there never will be, sufficient evidence

00:18:51.880 that Tylenol causes autism.

00:18:55.760 I'm sure the Tylenol company has, whoever makes it, has been talking to them.

00:19:00.040 The Hill is reporting this.

00:19:02.100 But they are in the process of looking into it.

00:19:06.200 We're doing studies to make the proof.

00:19:08.520 But Kennedy says there's a suggestive connection, but not yet a scientifically demonstrated one.

00:19:18.660 So he's going to make sure that the science is there before or if they say that it is a problem.

00:19:24.700 So I like that.

00:19:26.620 They're doing the studies.

00:19:28.020 This is exactly, exactly why I like Kennedy in this job.

00:19:34.760 You know, the anti-Kennedy guys are, he wouldn't ignore science.

00:19:39.500 Well, he's clearly not.

00:19:41.360 He's clearly not ignoring science.

00:19:43.420 He's clearly creating science where there was a hole and could be one of the most important things anybody ever did anywhere

00:19:52.840 if he finds out what's actually behind the autism.

00:19:56.340 So, yeah, that's why we like him.

00:20:00.640 Trump has apparently decided to encourage Republicans to, quote, go nuclear and scrap the Senate filibuster.

00:20:09.140 Now, my understanding would be that that change would allow them to pass the law without 60 votes.

00:20:18.900 So they would just need a bare majority.

00:20:20.840 And therefore, they would be able to control the budget and reopen the government and do everything else.

00:20:28.740 The downside of getting rid of the filibuster, because the filibuster is sort of what keeps the 60 vote thing alive

00:20:38.640 as long as they're filibustering.

00:20:42.060 But if you got rid of it, it would work both ways.

00:20:46.480 Meaning that when Democrats eventually get in power, they would also have no filibuster.

00:20:52.240 So if they had just one extra vote, more than the Republicans, which isn't too far away,

00:20:59.380 that one extra vote would allow them to do whatever they wanted.

00:21:02.720 So right now, the only control that Democrats have over Republicans doing anything they want

00:21:08.980 is that they can filibuster and make this 60 vote threshold too high for the Republicans to get over.

00:21:17.180 It would be quite the move to nuclear, because it would change everything forever.

00:21:23.920 The government would never be the same.

00:21:25.640 And even Republicans don't want to do it for that reason.

00:21:31.060 It would change everything forever.

00:21:33.200 And you might not like it, because it probably wouldn't change back.

00:21:37.520 I mean, it could, but probably wouldn't.

00:21:40.100 So whoever was in power would never want to change it back,

00:21:44.320 because it would be the best power they'd ever had.

00:21:48.040 Anyway, I don't know if that'll happen or if it's a bluff.

00:21:50.460 It's probably the right time to bluff it, because Democrats are really, really not going to want the nuclear option to be used.

00:22:00.300 And they're really, really, really not going to want the filibuster to go away.

00:22:04.280 But the Republicans have the power to do it.

00:22:07.160 They can make it go away.

00:22:09.300 So it could be that he is bluffing and negotiating.

00:22:12.800 And if he says, I totally want the nuclear option and the Senate filibuster to go away forever,

00:22:19.760 that that might be enough for the Democrats to say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:22:24.200 Okay, let's talk.

00:22:26.520 If that's what he's doing, then it's exactly the right play.

00:22:30.000 If what he's doing is he's definitely decided to get rid of the filibuster,

00:22:34.260 then he can convince the Republicans, which I don't think he can, actually.

00:22:38.120 I don't think he would.

00:22:39.480 But if he could, would they go along with it?

00:22:42.800 I don't know.

00:22:43.900 I don't think he could get enough Republicans.

00:22:47.160 But, you know, he's really good at threatening Republicans with primaries.

00:22:53.480 So maybe he could.

00:22:54.720 He might be able to get them.

00:22:57.840 Here's the least surprising story of the day.

00:23:01.440 According to the New York Post, Victor Nava is writing,

00:23:04.800 that the Department of Justice is investigating possible fraud within black lives.

00:23:12.800 So it's one particular part of black lives matter.

00:23:17.140 How many times have we heard that story?

00:23:19.800 The black lives matter is being investigated for or suspected of money laundering and stealing money and corruption. 1.00

00:23:28.080 Surprised.

00:23:28.600 All right.

00:23:33.560 So here's what's interesting.

00:23:35.560 Apparently, the investigation was launched during the Biden administration.

00:23:38.840 So if you think it's some kind of racist Trump thing that they only go after black people,

00:23:45.060 you should know that this would be a continuation of a Biden administration thing.

00:23:50.160 However, I do have to wonder if Biden was slow walking it because Democrats don't want to embarrass Black Lives Matter,

00:23:57.620 to which they had all bowed.

00:23:59.820 So it might have been getting slow walked.

00:24:03.020 But it's not getting slow walked now.

00:24:07.280 It looks like the Civil Rights Division of the government is demanding,

00:24:14.840 well, actually, the DOJ is demanding records on what they call unexplained anomalies in the 2020 election

00:24:21.800 after Fulton County did not comply with subpoena.

00:24:27.640 This is from the Post Millennial.

00:24:29.420 Hannah Nyongale is writing about it.

00:24:31.800 And I guess what this means is that in the past,

00:24:35.360 the Department of Justice had asked for some documents or something from Fulton County

00:24:39.680 and never got them.

00:24:40.940 And now people believe that there are unexplained anomalies related to the 2020 election.

00:24:47.940 Now, how long have we been hearing about these unexplained anomalies in Georgia?

00:24:54.220 It's been years.

00:24:56.220 For years.

00:24:57.880 It's like every other day, there's a story about an unexplained election thing in Georgia.

00:25:04.240 But none of them have so far turned into the massive smoking gun that Republicans expect.

00:25:11.540 So there's no proof that the election was thrown.

00:25:14.920 But I do feel like every part of my body feels like it's coming.

00:25:22.760 You know, just in the way that Bill Gates changing his mind on climate change,

00:25:28.520 I felt like it was coming.

00:25:31.480 But I wouldn't know if it was in 20 years or one year.

00:25:35.200 Turned down, came kind of fast.

00:25:37.280 So, I don't know.

00:25:40.060 We'll keep an eye on this.

00:25:41.760 The unexplained anomalies.

00:25:43.100 Anyways, meanwhile, Ted Cruz, I believe he's at an event in, or was, in Las Vegas.

00:25:51.840 That's the Republican Jewish Coalition.

00:25:55.100 And part of what Ted Cruz would like you to know is that, according to him,

00:26:00.480 the Republicans are drifting into anti-Semitism.

00:26:04.740 He says, I'll just read him.

00:26:06.520 He says, in the last six months, I've seen more anti-Semitism on the right than I have in my entire life.

00:26:13.500 He says, this is a poison, and I believe we're facing an existential crisis in our party and in our country.

00:26:20.320 He noted that the Democrats had sort of the same problem and were too slow to disavow the anti-Semitism in their own party,

00:26:31.300 and that that was sort of a critical mistake for the Democrats that he would not want the Republicans to make.

00:26:37.280 And here's what I'm wondering.

00:26:43.120 How much of it is because of the Gaza situation?

00:26:45.820 And if Gaza had not happened, would he be seeing all this anti-Semitism?

00:26:51.720 Because it looks like the way to understand the various complaints about anti-Semitism is that,

00:27:01.980 and I'm going to deeply oversimplify now.

00:27:05.800 There are some people like Tucker Carlson, who seem to be criticizing the state of Israel.

00:27:12.820 But there are some people like Nick Fuentes, who appears to be criticizing Jews around the world.

00:27:23.340 Totally different.

00:27:25.040 Criticizing the country? Fine.

00:27:27.620 You'll still be called an anti-Semite, but at least smart people would consider that reasonable. 1.00

00:27:34.220 But if you're criticizing people, well, you're not going to get away with that.

00:27:39.400 And Ted Cruz is calling it out.

00:27:41.000 So Ted is a very, very, very, very pro-Israel.

00:27:49.320 He would be called by some people to pro-Israel.

00:27:53.760 But again, if you're pro or anti a country, that's all legal, you know,

00:28:02.820 as long as it's transparent and, you know, you're not hurting anybody.

00:28:06.980 You're still putting your own country first.

00:28:08.920 That would be important.

00:28:11.000 But that's one thing.

00:28:12.720 If you're criticizing AIPAC or the ADL, that's okay.

00:28:20.360 Those are organizations.

00:28:22.920 That's not direct.

00:28:24.100 Even if you were anti-Semite, it would be okay to criticize an organization for what the organization is doing. 0.56

00:28:32.000 So it looks like we're conflating, you know, the two conversations.

00:28:37.480 You know, when are we, when is somebody saying something that's criticism of the country?

00:28:42.660 When have they gone too far and said it's the people?

00:28:44.860 Well, but I would say that what's changed in the last six months is that the Gaza situation reached some kind of a peak. 0.66

00:28:54.360 Obviously, that's going to have something back.

00:28:56.880 And that also maybe some changes in social media made Nick Fuentes show up on my feed every five seconds.

00:29:05.260 Is anybody having the Nick Fuentes social media effect that he's just there?

00:29:12.420 Almost every time I turn on any videos on X, he's in the top five.

00:29:18.600 Now, it is because I was curious, like, what's the difference between, you know, Tucker Carlson's view and his view and, you know, what trouble is he causing?

00:29:29.340 Because when you hear, when you hear things about him, you don't always hear the specific of what he did.

00:29:35.440 So I want to see some specifics.

00:29:38.380 And I would agree that he comes off as anti-Semitic.

00:29:42.000 I would agree.

00:29:43.400 If you watch him for a while, it's hard not to get that impression.

00:29:47.360 Now, he might deny it, et cetera.

00:29:51.200 But let's just say the vibe is unmistakable.

00:29:58.540 Now, he would argue, I think, you know, I don't want to take his argument.

00:30:02.860 But at least in some cases, he would argue that he's, at least in other topics, that he's talking about culture less than he's talking about people.

00:30:12.680 But I think that's not so much the anti-Semitism argument as it is his argument about other immigrants, I think.

00:30:23.120 So here's my take.

00:30:26.060 Both Tucker and Fuentes, they can represent their own opinions.

00:30:32.020 I will add nothing to their opinions, nor do I care enough that I need to get into the weeds on that.

00:30:41.760 But it does look like Tucker is playing with fire, but maybe still, you know, slightly on the side of, you know, since he's going after entities and not people, most of the time.

00:30:55.320 I mean, there might be some people he goes after, but they would be special cases.

00:31:00.600 That's what it looks like.

00:31:02.740 Anyway, so that's happening.

00:31:06.520 Cash Patel apparently found, according to Just the News, another October surprise that was happening back in two weeks before the election in 2020.

00:31:16.120 So we know about the Arctic Frost investigation, but did you know that on top of that, they were looking to do something in 2020?

00:31:28.500 What was it?

00:31:29.500 Oh, here it was.

00:31:32.220 They were desperately, it looks like, they were desperately looking like something, looking for something they could go after Trump for, but they didn't have much.

00:31:40.300 So here's how deep they went to try to find something on Trump.

00:31:45.440 There was a memo.

00:31:46.600 I'll just read what Just the News was reporting.

00:31:49.720 There was a memo buried in the middle of a 235-page evidence production that Patel sent to the House Judiciary Committee this week that chronicles how the FBI's Washington field office rifled through financial records and campaign expenditure reports,

00:32:04.260 producing, quote, a tactical intelligence report, trying to link payments from Trump's re-election campaign and a vendor named American-made media consultants to possible casino gambling.

00:32:19.680 Did you get all that?

00:32:22.260 Everybody follow all of that?

00:32:24.760 I read it.

00:32:25.720 I don't even follow it.

00:32:26.540 In short, the news writes, the FBI agents believed an employee of the campaign, so, all right, here's the problem.

00:32:36.800 They believed that an employee of the campaign, not Trump, just an employee, no, yeah, an employee of the campaign, went gambling at a casino after this American-made media consultants thing, got money for campaign work.

00:32:51.700 Not exactly the crime of the century, says Just the News.

00:32:57.920 How's that even a crime?

00:33:00.700 What exactly was that?

00:33:03.300 So, look, I guess the bottom line is that the FBI was looking for just absolutely anything.

00:33:08.660 They were digging hard to try to keep Trump out of office, and that was the best they had.

00:33:13.300 Some employee went to a casino.

00:33:15.880 Okay.

00:33:16.180 According to the New York Post and some new surveys, nearly half of New Yorkers think the New York City crime is going to spike when Donnie becomes mayor, who he likely will.

00:33:33.460 So, about half.

00:33:34.980 That's pretty scary if half of the people think that crime is going to go up, but I'll bet that's not too different from any other, every other election.

00:33:42.780 Half of the country thinks it's going to be a disaster.

00:33:46.180 Well, I didn't know this, but I guess in the past Elon Musk has been not so much of a Bitcoin supporter, but as of today, he says Bitcoin might be the thing, because the thing that's different about Bitcoin is that it's sort of a, it's proof of real-world power.

00:34:07.820 I think that's what Mario was describing as.

00:34:11.700 But basically, Bitcoin can only be created with energy.

00:34:16.180 So, energy is, in a sense, the thing that backs Bitcoin in the way that the old days, gold would have backed the dollar.

00:34:25.980 Not anymore.

00:34:27.780 So, Bitcoin would be one of the, well, the only, I think it's the only crypto that would be backed by something that has intrinsic value of its own, which is energy.

00:34:37.580 So, you'd need energy to make a Bitcoin.

00:34:42.780 And so, Elon, recognizing that, yeah, he says he doesn't hold any Bitcoin, but energy is truth.

00:34:57.120 So, I guess the bottom line is that Elon is believing that Bitcoin is here to stay, and that there's a reason that it's different from the other crypto.

00:35:09.260 And I noticed that Bitcoin was up 3% this morning.

00:35:13.500 I don't know what it is now.

00:35:14.600 So, BlackRock's Larry Fink said something that made news that I don't understand at all.

00:35:22.100 See if you understand it.

00:35:24.220 So, Larry Fink says that the world is about to tokenize every financial asset.

00:35:30.120 Do any of you know what that means?

00:35:33.020 Tokenize?

00:35:33.660 Now, I think it means to have some kind of a crypto currency that's backed on the physical thing.

00:35:44.480 Would that make the physical objects that are about to be tokenized?

00:35:50.220 No, but he's talking about financial assets.

00:35:53.220 The world is about to tokenize every financial asset.

00:35:56.700 I have no idea what that means.

00:35:59.360 Do you?

00:35:59.940 Yeah, I mean, I understand they're talking about the blockchain, blah, blah, blah.

00:36:06.480 But what does it mean to tokenize every financial asset?

00:36:09.960 Does that mean we're not going to have financial entities?

00:36:15.220 Will we be able to do all of our financial stuff without Charles Schwab and without a bank?

00:36:22.180 Is he suggesting that banks will go away?

00:36:25.500 I don't know what this means.

00:36:27.400 Anyway.

00:36:27.660 So, Trump and she met the other day and allegedly made some deals.

00:36:37.760 You saw my take on it yesterday in the morning, and I said it looked like Trump got nothing.

00:36:43.800 Well, that's what the Wall Street Journal said, too.

00:36:46.940 It wasn't just me.

00:36:48.720 So, other people said the same thing.

00:36:50.700 It looks like Trump got nothing.

00:36:52.520 Well, we'll never know, because it's mostly promises, but it looks like we promised nothing, and they promised nothing, but we made our nothing sound like something, so it looked like something happened.

00:37:04.620 But I think nothing happened.

00:37:06.560 I think nobody agreed on anything that they're actually going to do, so that's weird.

00:37:12.440 But Trump did his usual thing where he claimed victory, and it was a big win.

00:37:18.000 That does work.

00:37:20.520 You know, if you're a Democrat, you're just going to say he's lying.

00:37:23.740 He's lying.

00:37:25.420 He didn't have a big victory.

00:37:29.000 He's lying.

00:37:29.500 But I like it when he uses his hyperbole and salesmanship in these situations, because if he could make Xi think that the two of them won something, that the two of them looked good, and they had a meeting, and they both won something that they won't, that might soften up Xi for the next time.

00:37:48.200 You know, so that would maybe be good, just good technique to agree that good things happened, even if they didn't.

00:37:55.260 So, we'll see where that goes.

00:37:56.840 I don't expect any change on fentanyl.

00:37:59.960 There's no way China cares about that.

00:38:04.280 The Daily Wire is reporting.

00:38:06.520 Virginia Crude is writing about this.

00:38:08.660 There's some Democrat.

00:38:10.880 Who was it?

00:38:11.800 Janelle Bynum, Democrat from Oregon.

00:38:14.560 She's a representative. 0.78

00:38:16.080 So, she was being asked by the media about the clean CR, the continuing resolution.

00:38:23.680 So, this is what the Republicans say they want the Democrats to sign, or vote for, that would just extend funding with no changes from what it had been before.

00:38:36.440 So, the no changes part is the important part.

00:38:38.800 But, Janelle Bynum says that that continuing resolution was not a clean bill, and indeed that it had a poison pill in it, meaning that something had been added that Democrats would definitely not want to happen.

00:38:53.680 But if they wanted to open the government, they'd be forced to sign this bill that also had this new add-on that they didn't want.

00:39:00.460 That would be called the poison pill.

00:39:01.940 And then the representative, or I'm sorry, then the C-SPAN media person said, what is that poison pill?

00:39:12.120 Can you name that?

00:39:13.400 And she could not, because there's no poison pill.

00:39:18.400 Now, have you noticed that the Democrats could make any claim whatsoever, and nobody's going to really fact-check it enough that, you know, I mean, only the nerds like us are going to fact-check it.

00:39:29.640 But the regular public is just going to hear that, and they're going to say, oh, it has a poison pill in it.

00:39:35.960 It has no poison pill in it.

00:39:37.960 The poison pill is imaginary.

00:39:40.040 It's just completely imaginary.

00:39:42.020 What do I tell you about Democrat beliefs and worries and policies?

00:39:48.320 They're all imaginary.

00:39:50.860 The more imaginary things you see come out of the left, the more you realize it's an imaginary party.

00:39:56.700 Everything from climate change to authoritarianism to Trump becoming a king to the CR having a poison pill, none of it's true.

00:40:09.880 To the drinking bleach, to the fine people hoax, to the Russia collusion hoax, none of it's true.

00:40:17.820 None of it's true.

00:40:18.680 So the imaginary party versus the real party.

00:40:24.300 The Wall Street Journal editorial was that the Republicans should kill Obamacare if they can, the subsidies.

00:40:34.220 Now, what would happen if these gigantic extra medical costs that have gone up, especially in the last five years,

00:40:41.900 what would happen if the government just said, all right, no more.

00:40:47.560 It's just going to be a private market, and you're going to have to eat these expenses.

00:40:51.680 Could they?

00:40:53.260 Like, what would happen?

00:40:55.480 It's certainly obvious that the Republicans were right when they said that Obamacare would be a disaster.

00:41:03.440 They were right.

00:41:04.440 Now, Obama was right, too, in that he knew it would be a disaster, but it would cover more people.

00:41:12.440 So, you know, at least people would get health care while the disaster was running.

00:41:16.060 He was right about that, too.

00:41:18.800 It covered more people.

00:41:21.060 And just like the Republicans said, it's a financial disaster.

00:41:24.640 Is that fixable?

00:41:25.720 Well, I'd sure love to hear the Republican plan to fix it that doesn't put 10 million people out of health care.

00:41:33.660 Is there any way to do that?

00:41:35.700 I'm not even sure that's physically possible at this point.

00:41:39.220 We'll see.

00:41:41.940 Speaking of Ted Cruz, he's also called on the House to impeach that Judge Boasberg.

00:41:48.020 And the impeachment would be, in his opinion, the reason for it would be that Boasberg had been behind approving the looking into all the personal phone records of a bunch of people, including Ted Cruz.

00:42:07.040 And I guess Boasberg justified looking into the records under what the judge wrote were reasonable grounds that the senator might destroy or tamper with evidence in the Biden administration's investigation of Jan 6.

00:42:24.700 And Cruz's response is, there is precisely zero evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy or tamper with evidence or to intimidate potential witnesses.

00:42:38.260 And I'll give him that.

00:42:41.140 I'll give him that.

00:42:42.520 You know, whether you like Ted Cruz or not, there is zero evidence that he would tamper with evidence.

00:42:49.100 You know, it doesn't seem like he'd be the guy who would ever do a dumb thing like that.

00:42:53.580 So, he's got a good point.

00:42:59.000 Reuters says that China's factory activity is down a little bit, which would be a big warning sign.

00:43:05.220 It might be down because they did a little extra before the tariffs.

00:43:09.740 So, it might be just an adjustment from a bump.

00:43:13.240 But it doesn't seem to be affecting other countries.

00:43:18.040 So, it's a China problem. 0.82

00:43:19.420 Russia apparently used a, one of their best missiles, must be something new, in Ukraine.

00:43:28.220 They've used it a bunch of times before.

00:43:29.980 But using that missile is apparently what led Trump to quit the nuclear treaty that he'd like to get going.

00:43:36.400 So, these must be really good missiles if it ruined the nuclear conversation.

00:43:44.500 And apparently, whatever planned Budapest summit with Putin was going to happen with Trump is off now.

00:43:51.620 So, they're not going to do that.

00:43:52.960 But Putin invited journalists into the war zone.

00:43:59.040 He wanted to show them that Russia had encircled, they claim.

00:44:03.460 But Ukraine says this is not true.

00:44:06.500 But Russia says they've encircled so that they could, whenever they want, destroy a large part of the Ukrainian army.

00:44:15.600 Thousands of people are allegedly encircled.

00:44:18.160 And Putin wants to bring in the press and say, see for yourself, they're encircled.

00:44:23.780 But they say, no, we're not encircled.

00:44:27.720 Well, Israel launched another attack in eastern Gaza because the ceasefire is having a little trouble holding.

00:44:35.960 Like I say before, of course there will be violations of the ceasefire.

00:44:40.680 Of course there will.

00:44:41.660 But if they stay low grade, they can work through it.

00:44:47.500 All right, here's the dumbest thing I saw on the internet today.

00:44:50.820 University of British Columbia is behind this, writing about it.

00:44:57.080 They believe they have a mathematical proof that debunks the idea that the universe is a simulation.

00:45:05.080 Do you believe that?

00:45:06.420 That somebody has a mathematical proof that we're not a simulation?

00:45:10.420 No, of course they don't.

00:45:13.780 They couldn't possibly.

00:45:15.580 Because the simulation, by its design, would prevent you from knowing that it was something else.

00:45:23.180 Who would build a simulation in which the people in the simulation could determine that they were not a simulation?

00:45:29.940 It would just ruin the simulation.

00:45:31.300 So as long as you can program a simulation such that all the people in it would have some point of view and can never be overturned, that's all you need.

00:45:43.760 So apparently their mathematical proof boils down to this.

00:45:51.980 Since the fundamental level of reality is based on non-algorithmic understanding, that would be the reality we think we're in, non-algorithmic understanding, what they mean is quantum physics.

00:46:03.560 So they're saying that the world is not cause and effect, but it's sort of a quantum world where you don't know what's going to happen.

00:46:11.460 So if you don't know what's going to happen, you couldn't really call that an algorithm, right?

00:46:16.480 So therefore there can't be a computed simulation, because what we observe is that we don't live in a world that acts like it's computed.

00:46:26.420 It doesn't act like cause and effect.

00:46:28.880 It acts like random things are happening.

00:46:32.560 Now, what does that have to do with the simulation?

00:46:34.980 You could build randomness into a simulation.

00:46:38.060 You could build into the simulation that people think they see randomness.

00:46:41.820 You could build into the simulation quantum physics.

00:46:45.120 You could just say, act like there's quantum physics.

00:46:49.280 And then the simulation would act like it had quantum physics.

00:46:52.140 And then these guys in the simulation would say, look, it's acting like it has quantum physics.

00:46:57.480 So therefore it can't be a simulation.

00:47:00.280 Yes, it can.

00:47:01.560 It can be a simulation pretending to be quantum physics.

00:47:05.160 It's not hard.

00:47:06.640 People, this is easy.

00:47:09.480 All right.

00:47:09.860 According to Reuters, the Pentagon's Doge unit is going to revamp the military's drone program.

00:47:19.300 Is that good news?

00:47:20.760 Do you remember it was just yesterday I was telling you that wars run on economics?

00:47:26.520 Because if you get the best economics, you're going to have the best weapons.

00:47:29.900 And I told you that the economics of drones and anti-drone technology, those two things might be the key to who has dominance in the future.

00:47:41.640 Are you good at making lots of drones?

00:47:44.180 And do you make really good drones?

00:47:45.880 That's going to be who has power.

00:47:49.740 So putting Doge, which are both geniuses and they're involved in costs, if you put the costs people in charge of the drone program, you've nailed it.

00:48:03.100 Because you've got to get the economics right so that you can make a billion drones at the cost that your enemy can only make a million.

00:48:11.600 That's the whole game.

00:48:12.680 So the fact that the military and Hegseth and Trump apparently understand that you've got to get the economics of drones right, you don't just get the technology, you've got to get the economics of it right.

00:48:28.460 That's how you win.

00:48:29.220 So Doge doesn't seem like the obvious people to pick for the drone program.

00:48:38.180 But once you realize that economics and drones are really the same conversation, then it makes all the sense in the world.

00:48:45.840 You put your geniuses where they can understand not just the technology, but also how the economics of it works.

00:48:52.640 So that seems like real good news.

00:48:57.000 And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I had to tell you today.

00:49:03.320 Went a little bit short.

00:49:04.800 I'm not working too well today.

00:49:07.680 My left hand and arm are just useless at this point.

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Real Coffee with Scott Adams - October 31, 2025

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