Real Coffee with Scott Adams - Episode 3011 CWSA 11⧸07⧸25

00:00:00.000 How about some lights?

00:00:03.800 Let me turn on some lights for you.

00:00:05.560 Uh-oh, my hand barely works.

00:00:08.360 Oh, come on, hand. 0.89

00:00:10.360 There you go.

00:00:13.200 Has anybody checked the stocks today?

00:00:16.700 Stocks okay today?

00:00:19.020 Let me check and see if it's a smile or a grimace.

00:00:24.460 Continue.

00:00:25.980 Smile or a grimace.

00:00:30.000 Mwah, mwah, mwah.

00:00:32.400 It's a grimace.

00:00:34.040 Mwah, mwah, mwah.

00:00:36.440 What did Tesla do after the big announcement? 1.00

00:00:40.240 What if these are old?

00:00:42.320 Is this yesterday's numbers?

00:00:45.040 I don't see how Tesla could have gone down after yesterday.

00:00:49.180 Did it?

00:00:50.960 Looks like it's just wrong.

00:00:53.460 Maybe that's not updated.

00:00:56.760 Yeah, all right, we'll wait and see.

00:00:58.220 Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.

00:01:10.900 It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time.

00:01:14.860 But if you'd like to take a chance on elevating your experience to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains,

00:01:24.280 all you need for that is a cup or mugger, a glass of tanker, chalice, or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.

00:01:33.700 Fill it with your favorite liquid.

00:01:35.760 I like coffee.

00:01:37.420 And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day,

00:01:41.280 the thing that makes everything better.

00:01:42.680 It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.

00:01:46.020 Go.

00:01:46.280 All right, let me make sure I can see your locals' comments special.

00:02:01.220 It would be right over here.

00:02:04.820 If you don't mind, I'm a little slow and getting a little less done because I'm literally working with one hand today.

00:02:12.520 One hand and half a brain.

00:02:17.100 There you are.

00:02:18.820 Comments are working.

00:02:21.960 Everything's looking good, looking good.

00:02:24.500 Hey, do you know what day today is?

00:02:28.180 Does anybody know what day today is?

00:02:30.460 It's the day you find out that the Dilbert calendar is available and for sale for those few of you who have not already scooped it up.

00:02:37.740 I see a lot of you are being smart and acting fast.

00:02:40.240 I swear to God, the next thing I say is actually literally true and not just the ordinary marketing thing that people say all the time in this situation.

00:02:50.620 We probably didn't make enough of them.

00:02:52.920 So if you're thinking to yourself, and by the way, we did that intentionally because I have to pay for them in advance because it's an American situation, and we worked on a deal where I would make sure that they would limit any risk on their side, which seemed fair because of my precarious situation.

00:03:13.340 So I've already paid for the calendars to be printed, but I didn't want to print, you know, three times more than people might want.

00:03:23.460 So we're a little bit underprinted, we think, but we don't know, right?

00:03:28.560 It's hard to anticipate.

00:03:30.220 But I wouldn't wait, is what I'm saying.

00:03:32.060 If you thought you wanted one, waiting would be a bad strategy.

00:03:36.100 Sooner is better.

00:03:36.700 All right, and as you know, I like to start the show while people are streaming in with a reframe from my book that's been out for a while, but it's the newest one, Reframe Your Brain, Changing Lives Every Day.

00:03:51.220 Let's see, I'm going to change somebody's life today with a new reframe.

00:03:53.900 If you're new to this, a reframe doesn't require any work on your part, you just have to hear it.

00:04:00.360 And if it's a good one, and if it applies to you, the hypnosis will kick in.

00:04:06.260 It's not really hypnosis, it's just persuasive.

00:04:09.480 All right, here's one.

00:04:11.540 Death is a tragedy, and I need to feel bad about it.

00:04:15.020 Do any of you have an issue about maybe you lost a loved one, and you feel obligated to feel bad about it?

00:04:22.240 Maybe not just obligated, but you feel bad about it.

00:04:26.600 Well, death is a tragedy, and there's nothing wrong with feeling bad about it, but you don't want to do it forever.

00:04:33.420 Here's the reframe.

00:04:35.020 The person who's deceased has no more problems.

00:04:38.260 How did I make this about me?

00:04:40.440 How do you make it about yourself?

00:04:42.900 This is literally only about the deceased person, and their problems just ended.

00:04:47.240 So as soon as you make it not about yourself, you can get by it a lot easier, right?

00:04:54.760 You've solved all the problems for the deceased.

00:04:57.660 They have nothing else to worry about.

00:04:59.460 Their work is done.

00:05:00.980 And if the reason you feel bad is because they were so good in this world, or you love them so much,

00:05:05.940 well, then your work is really done, because you have the right feeling about them,

00:05:10.160 and they did the right things, and that was great, and nothing lasts forever.

00:05:15.840 How about, here's another one on the same topic, so you've got two to work with on death.

00:05:20.380 One is that, this, by the way, I've used this one before, with the public, I mean.

00:05:26.480 And some people have reported back that this completely changes their reaction to a death of somebody that they cared about.

00:05:34.540 All right, listen to this one.

00:05:35.900 So the usual frame is that death is a tragedy.

00:05:38.420 Duh, of course, death is a tragedy.

00:05:40.840 But that leaves you in that tragedy hole, if that's how you're seeing it.

00:05:45.620 If it's only a tragedy, that's pretty bad.

00:05:49.140 It's going to last.

00:05:50.640 But here's a way to reframe it.

00:05:53.400 It's not more true or less true.

00:05:55.340 It's just useful to reframe it this way.

00:05:57.680 Remember, it's not about truth.

00:05:59.500 It's about how you manage your brain, and you can create new circuitry by just thinking about one thing more than another.

00:06:06.120 That's all it takes, and that will make that circuit a little stronger.

00:06:09.420 So instead of saying death is a tragedy, the reframe is it is an honor to help another person pass.

00:06:17.000 I don't think there's a bigger honor than that.

00:06:19.160 If you've watched family members, if you've been part of it, who were an integral part of letting somebody pass to the next phase of their existence, whatever that is, that is the biggest honor you can have.

00:06:33.300 And everybody's going to, you know, everybody's going to die.

00:06:36.340 So there's nothing you can do about it sometimes.

00:06:39.600 So it's not always a tragedy explicit.

00:06:42.800 Well, it's not necessarily a tragedy only.

00:06:47.440 It is a tremendous honor that you get to be the person who's there on the final voyage.

00:06:53.280 That will help you a lot, and everybody dies.

00:06:58.860 All right, I wonder if there's any science that they didn't need to do because they could have just asked Scott.

00:07:04.280 Oh, here's some.

00:07:05.540 In SciPost, Karina Petrova is writing that there's a new statistical model that successfully sorted people into their political group based on their use of X.

00:07:19.480 So apparently you can feed just the raw posts from X, and AI will figure out not only are they Republican or Democrat, but it'll figure out sort of where they fit even within those worlds.

00:07:35.140 Now, did they really need to do that study?

00:07:38.860 Do you think I couldn't look at a politician's posts and guess where they fit in the political world?

00:07:46.880 Did I really need AI to do that?

00:07:48.700 No, they should have just asked me.

00:07:52.040 You know, maybe Fetterman would have confused me, but AI didn't get them all right.

00:07:57.700 I think AI only got 75% of them right, to which I say, I'm not really impressed by 75%.

00:08:04.280 I'm pretty sure I could have hit 90% without breaking a sweat.

00:08:10.400 So can you.

00:08:11.900 Next time, just ask me.

00:08:13.220 Well, there's a new bill being floated.

00:08:17.020 We don't know how it'll do, but it's called the U.S. Senate is looking at a bill called the No Coffee Tax Act.

00:08:25.640 The No Coffee Tax Act.

00:08:28.080 Now, as Owen Gregorian pointed out on X, that is a really bad naming convention, because the first part of it is no coffee.

00:08:36.760 I don't want to vote for anything that has the words no coffee in it.

00:08:42.220 I don't even care that after it, it says no coffee right now, but I'll give you a million dollars if you drink coffee in one minute.

00:08:49.520 I'd still be a little put off by the no coffee.

00:08:53.180 You know what I mean?

00:08:54.040 So here's your persuasion lesson of the day.

00:08:58.000 There's going to be some more.

00:08:59.120 We've got some more persuasion coming up, if you like that stuff.

00:09:04.120 Don't name your thing the opposite of what it is.

00:09:08.620 The whole point of this is that we get more coffee.

00:09:11.680 Coffee.

00:09:12.660 Sorry.

00:09:13.320 You're making me say coffee in my New York accent.

00:09:16.460 I didn't mean to slip into it, but sometimes.

00:09:19.620 Coffee.

00:09:20.460 How do you people say it?

00:09:22.140 Coffee.

00:09:23.360 Coffee.

00:09:24.920 Coffee.

00:09:26.460 Well, I'm going to stick with coffee for now.

00:09:30.800 So what it really is, is I guess Rand Paul is behind this.

00:09:34.560 And I did not know this, but coffee in particular.

00:09:38.200 Coffee.

00:09:39.980 Stop mocking me for the way I say it.

00:09:41.740 You're mocking me at home.

00:09:43.220 I can hear you mocking me from home.

00:09:46.560 Stop it.

00:09:47.740 Now you're talking to your dog.

00:09:49.880 I'm saying, look at this guy.

00:09:50.820 He can't even say coffee.

00:09:52.660 Coffee.

00:09:53.820 All right.

00:09:55.380 Nick Brown from Daily Coffee News is reporting about this.

00:09:58.720 Nick Brown from Daily Coffee News.

00:10:01.800 What a name.

00:10:02.980 All right.

00:10:03.720 The idea is that apparently there's big tariffs on coffee from Brazil in particular,

00:10:09.400 which is the biggest impact on us.

00:10:10.960 So the tariffs are as high as 50%.

00:10:13.400 And that's enough to basically just, you know, destroy Starbucks.

00:10:19.640 I don't know if it will, but that's bad enough.

00:10:22.060 So it's a big impact on our economy and on our people and on our budgets.

00:10:25.900 And tariffs, you know, you could call a tariff a tax.

00:10:29.840 Rand Paul does, apparently.

00:10:31.460 And I wouldn't argue with that.

00:10:33.540 It's a form of a tax.

00:10:34.760 It's just not a normal one.

00:10:37.160 It has some advantages that taxes don't have, meaning that you can use them to negotiate

00:10:41.280 with other entities.

00:10:42.840 Taxes don't usually have that.

00:10:44.060 But apparently they tried to get it through, the no tax part.

00:10:49.920 They tried to get that through with a procedure that if you have unanimous consent, meaning that

00:10:56.960 there's not even one person who says no to it, you can just kind of get it through without

00:11:01.280 all the trouble.

00:11:01.840 So they tried that, and there was exactly one person.

00:11:08.260 So there's a video of the session that shows that one person, and his name is, he's a Republican

00:11:13.940 from Idaho, and his name is Senator Mike Crapo, C-R-A-P-O.

00:11:21.560 So Mr. Crapo said no, so that's sent it back to, I guess, whatever process the full Senate

00:11:28.680 has to follow, which is going to take forever, and your coffee will still cost too much.

00:11:34.700 So thanks for nothing, Crapo.

00:11:40.500 Crapo.

00:11:42.360 Crapo! 0.99

00:11:44.600 That would be better than Khan.

00:11:47.120 If I were writing that Star Trek, remember the Star Trek movie where Captain Kirk is being

00:11:53.800 thwarted by Khan?

00:11:55.580 K-H-A-N. 1.00

00:11:56.780 K-H-A-N, Khan. 0.90

00:11:58.680 And there's that famous thing where the bad actor, the bad actor playing Captain Kirk

00:12:05.960 goes, Khan, Khan.

00:12:10.220 Wouldn't that be better if he was fighting Crapo?

00:12:13.140 Crapo! 0.99

00:12:14.540 All right, that's just me.

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00:12:31.560 Well, there's a big Tesla event.

00:12:33.480 I think it's the big annual event.

00:12:34.780 And boy, was there news.

00:12:38.060 Ow! 1.00

00:12:39.780 Plenty of news.

00:12:41.240 Where do we start?

00:12:44.200 Let's see.

00:12:45.060 So apparently there's a video of a robot hand for Optimus that looks so amazing you can't

00:12:55.340 believe that they got hands that good.

00:12:56.720 So somebody, I think it was Mario Knopfel, posted the video of the hand and Elon said, that's

00:13:05.260 version 2.

00:13:06.220 Version 3 is way better.

00:13:07.440 If version 3 robot hand is better than the version 2 that I saw, that's going to be a big,

00:13:14.280 good hand.

00:13:15.320 And I heard Elon talking about it, the hands.

00:13:18.720 And there would be better surgeons than people very soon.

00:13:21.540 Maybe in a year, there would be better surgeons than people.

00:13:23.980 And there would be better dexterity than people with hands.

00:13:29.420 You know, you always thought that, oh, maybe they can see better or hear better or remember

00:13:33.280 better, but their hands will never be as good.

00:13:36.640 Well, apparently we're at the crossover point.

00:13:39.960 So you were born in the age when robots became more capable than people.

00:13:48.460 What are the odds of that?

00:13:50.920 Doesn't that feel like a simulation to you?

00:13:54.780 Like, what are the odds?

00:13:57.460 No, I didn't skip the sip.

00:13:58.720 You missed the sip.

00:14:00.560 Don't blame me for skipping the sip.

00:14:03.320 Sometimes I skip the sip, but I did not skip it today.

00:14:06.660 You're the skipper.

00:14:08.180 I call you the skipper, not me.

00:14:10.280 Skipper.

00:14:11.980 All right.

00:14:13.300 Lots of other Tesla news.

00:14:16.140 Elon says that Tesla is already the biggest robot company in the world, in part because

00:14:21.980 their cars are all robots.

00:14:23.520 They're just robots with wheels.

00:14:25.200 I accept that definition.

00:14:27.140 They are the biggest robot company.

00:14:28.380 Oh, I should tell you, I do own some, not a lot, but I own a Tesla stock.

00:14:35.120 So anything I say about Tesla, you should put under the umbrella of,

00:14:38.440 well, that guy likes that stock.

00:14:40.840 It might go up.

00:14:41.820 So maybe he's trying to drive up the stock.

00:14:44.440 Do not do anything that I do financially.

00:14:47.880 I do not give good financial advice.

00:14:50.580 You should not follow my advice.

00:14:52.040 If I thought my advice was better than other people financially, I'd tell you.

00:14:58.780 I'm not shy.

00:15:00.000 I'd tell you if it was better.

00:15:01.220 It just isn't.

00:15:04.060 Anyway, here are the shocking things.

00:15:07.500 The Elon believes that they're not going to have a way to get enough chips to do all the stuff,

00:15:13.920 you know, the robots and cars and stuff that they need, and they might have to make their own.

00:15:17.520 So they're thinking about building a, quote, gigantic chip factory.

00:15:22.700 What does gigantic mean in Elon's world?

00:15:26.700 Because every time he does something, it's so big you can't even hold it in your head.

00:15:31.540 Gigantic.

00:15:31.980 And I think he said something about working with Intel, but it would make more sense to buy them, wouldn't it?

00:15:40.180 Wouldn't it make more sense for Tesla just to buy a chip company?

00:15:45.880 Then the part I wonder about is that would we have the right skills in the United States to make the right kind of chips

00:15:54.460 when no other country knows how to do it except, you know, Taiwan?

00:15:59.360 If Taiwan's the only place that knows how to make these chips, are they going to help Tesla?

00:16:06.680 Why would they instead of just selling them the chips?

00:16:10.420 So I don't know where that goes, but I do trust that Elon's probably one of the few people in the world

00:16:15.500 that could solve the not enough AI chips problem.

00:16:18.580 Elon also says the entire Earth can be powered by sustainable energy with tech that exists today.

00:16:27.200 And then he talked about the Megapack battery storage plants. 0.98

00:16:31.520 You know, whenever anybody says, Scott, you fool. 0.97

00:16:36.640 You're so behind the times when you don't understand that no matter how much solar power you have, 0.97

00:16:43.180 Scott, did you know? 1.00

00:16:44.540 And I know, Scott, you look like an idiot. 1.00

00:16:46.360 So he probably didn't know this, but I'll talk slowly so you understand. 1.00

00:16:51.560 Scott, the sun is not out at night.

00:16:57.160 Okay, I'm done. 0.99

00:16:59.040 You fool. 0.99

00:17:00.600 Like, how can you think the solar power, the power of the whole world, 0.99

00:17:05.400 when the sun isn't even out at night? 1.00

00:17:07.520 You idiot. 1.00

00:17:08.780 You fool. 1.00

00:17:09.340 Get out of my house. 1.00

00:17:10.640 That's what they usually say to me.

00:17:12.140 But did you know there are things called batteries?

00:17:17.560 Batteries.

00:17:18.880 B-A-T-T-E-R-I-E-S. 1.00

00:17:23.440 Batteries.

00:17:24.120 It's a word you should learn.

00:17:25.620 And apparently what they'll do is they'll store energy.

00:17:29.540 They'll actually store that energy all night long if you want,

00:17:32.860 if you've got a big enough mega factory.

00:17:35.080 So these mega-pack mega-factories are a big part of the structure.

00:17:42.260 But also, those might be as much, you know, for Tesla's own use.

00:17:46.940 They'll need these big factories for their own AI powering. 0.83

00:17:50.800 But did you know that if you add in the Tesla power walls,

00:17:55.120 those would be the big batteries that you could add to your private home,

00:17:58.640 that they're also networked?

00:18:00.440 I guess that's just part of it.

00:18:01.580 So you could store things in your home battery.

00:18:06.200 And if you stored more than you wanted to use,

00:18:08.500 you could donate that to the network if it were set to do that.

00:18:12.780 I don't think it's quite set up to do exactly this,

00:18:15.280 but a couple of buttons and it's ready to go.

00:18:18.660 So they can work together.

00:18:19.880 There's already a million power walls installed.

00:18:22.860 A million.

00:18:25.580 He thinks big.

00:18:27.460 All right.

00:18:27.760 So they can work together as a virtual power plant.

00:18:30.900 And Elon also talked about the age of permanent abundance.

00:18:36.580 I don't know if he used those words, but that's what it meant.

00:18:39.400 And he thinks that robots will basically provide all of our goods and services

00:18:44.060 at what will approach zero cost over time.

00:18:48.120 And everybody will have everything.

00:18:51.920 So poverty will be eliminated.

00:18:54.500 Everybody will have enough food because the robots will just be out there tilling the fields,

00:18:58.920 as robots do, and making us food.

00:19:01.680 And eventually he wants to get the cost of a robot down to $20,000.

00:19:08.660 And here's what's interesting about this.

00:19:10.560 In order for a lot of Elon's predictions to come right,

00:19:18.240 you know, things about robots and things about power and things about cars and stuff,

00:19:23.180 and even things about interplanetary travel,

00:19:25.880 in order for all of that stuff to work, or even any of it to work,

00:19:30.340 he would have to understand human motivation

00:19:32.720 and how people think and how they act and what they care about.

00:19:36.700 Now, how does that fit with the common assumption that he's Asperger's

00:19:43.300 or we don't use it anymore on the spectrum?

00:19:47.500 This is what confuses me.

00:19:49.820 How can you be on the spectrum and also be really good at humor, which he is,

00:19:56.980 and really good at figuring out human motivation, which he is?

00:20:01.480 Those are pretty much as close as you can get to the opposite of being on the spectrum.

00:20:07.540 Or does he compensate, not for the humor part, that's got to be natural,

00:20:12.620 but does he compensate for being different than other people

00:20:18.240 by just learning how they think and just studying them like you study a maze?

00:20:22.780 And then you know how to get out of the maze.

00:20:25.020 It's not your maze, you just study it.

00:20:27.340 So I'm fascinated by that.

00:20:28.680 You know, I've never talked to him in person.

00:20:31.420 It would probably take me five minutes to figure out what's going on in person.

00:20:35.820 But I only hear good things.

00:20:37.900 I only hear good things.

00:20:39.880 So this is amazing.

00:20:41.480 Anyway, but what I thought about while I was reading all these things

00:20:46.340 that he's introducing to the world,

00:20:48.440 that he might be the first human being who could legitimately satisfy

00:20:52.040 the political left and the political right.

00:20:55.140 Now, he can't run for president because he wasn't born here, 0.99

00:20:59.740 but he's really the only one because somehow he made most of the people on the right

00:21:06.320 appreciate him because he helped Trump get elected.

00:21:09.780 But then he also left under tremendous pressure by the left.

00:21:14.920 But what he left, too, was this highly successful company

00:21:19.000 that it looks like it will solve the left's biggest concern, climate.

00:21:24.620 Now, even if you say, but climate is not a crisis, whatever,

00:21:28.660 it's nonetheless true that he's doing exactly what the left would want somebody to do,

00:21:33.640 which is build a bunch of electric solar plants and batteries and electric cars.

00:21:39.400 Now, in the short run, you might argue, but, but, but, but, Scott,

00:21:44.660 don't you know that they use more fossil fuels and regular fuels to build that stuff than they save?

00:21:51.420 I don't even know if that's true.

00:21:53.480 But I do know that in the long run, you would get rid of those other sources

00:21:57.680 and you could use the sun and then everything that Elon's trying to do would come true.

00:22:02.680 The left would be delighted, even if there's no climate crisis, they'd be happy about it.

00:22:07.640 And the right would be happy because they like his general, work hard, build things, America first.

00:22:16.520 I mean, he's very, he's very on point for the right.

00:22:20.280 At the same time, he's very on point for the left.

00:22:23.460 Name one other person in the world who is this perfectly suited for both the left and the right.

00:22:31.280 Now, again, I don't think he's going to write for, he's not going to run for office.

00:22:34.060 That'd be crazy if he did.

00:22:37.640 Even, you know, he's not going to run for senator.

00:22:39.400 That would be too small.

00:22:40.680 And president and senator for each because of the constitution.

00:22:44.440 But boy, do I like him being involved just in general.

00:22:48.200 I guess his trillion dollar incentive package got approved by shareholders with a 75% vote.

00:22:54.900 That means 25% thought it wasn't a good idea to have him properly incentivized.

00:22:59.420 25% thought it was a bad idea to give the most productive person in the history of the planet a little extra if he does a lot extra, a lot extra.

00:23:14.460 You should see the terms of the deal.

00:23:16.560 For him to get a trillion dollars, do you have any idea why he would have to accomplish to get that?

00:23:21.400 Like, we act like that's just going to automatically happen or something?

00:23:25.220 No, you don't automatically just go to work and then one day somebody gives you a trillion dollars.

00:23:30.460 First of all, let me teach you about how the news works.

00:23:35.200 Years ago, when Dilber was newish and we were trying to get attention, I got a multi-book deal with a big publisher,

00:23:43.080 which we reported as a $25 million book deal.

00:23:48.040 Do you think I got $25 million from a book deal?

00:23:52.100 We told everybody it was a $25 million book deal.

00:23:56.280 So wouldn't you think that I, as the author, would get $25 million?

00:24:00.520 Nope.

00:24:02.040 Nothing like that.

00:24:03.360 Nothing like that.

00:24:04.280 That was the biggest number that the publisher would pay under the most optimistic assumptions for, I think, five books.

00:24:14.960 So first of all, it was five books, so it would be $5 million apiece.

00:24:17.980 Second of all, I shared 50% of what I made from Dilber books with my publisher.

00:24:24.560 I'm sorry, with my syndicate.

00:24:26.720 And then I shared what's left with the publisher.

00:24:32.360 And then I paid taxes.

00:24:36.340 Do you know how much was left from the $25 million?

00:24:39.360 I don't know.

00:24:40.060 It might have been five.

00:24:42.040 You know, maybe over the entire length of time, it might have been five.

00:24:45.260 Something like that.

00:24:47.120 So when you see that somebody's got a trillion-dollar pay package,

00:24:52.180 the thing you should first ask is over how many years, the answer is 10.

00:24:56.200 So a trillion dollars over 10 years is $100 billion a year.

00:25:04.280 It seems like he's worth it.

00:25:06.040 But here's what he would have to deliver.

00:25:08.780 Tesla would have to go to $8.5 trillion market cap, and it's only at $1.4 today.

00:25:14.860 Now, in 10 years, could you get there?

00:25:17.620 That would be a 466% increase from today.

00:25:20.680 Do you think he can do that?

00:25:24.720 I think he probably can, but it's not guaranteed, that's for sure.

00:25:29.680 So the first thing you need to know is you can't treat a trillion dollars that you might get

00:25:34.260 the same as a trillion dollars you're definitely going to get.

00:25:37.740 And you can't treat money that's going to be spread over 10 years like it's money that you're getting today.

00:25:45.760 First of all, you know, the value of money declines over time, et cetera.

00:25:51.360 A lot of things could happen.

00:25:52.800 We don't even know if people have automobiles in 10 years.

00:25:56.060 He's got to deliver 20 million vehicles, cumulative.

00:26:00.100 I think that means since the beginning of Tesla.

00:26:02.900 He's got to deliver a million Optimus robots, humanoid robots, sold.

00:26:07.740 They actually have to be sold a million.

00:26:09.440 A million robotaxis in operation and 10 million full self-driving subscriptions.

00:26:15.660 Now, what we don't know is if he gets a portion of the trillion,

00:26:21.280 if he gets a portion of these, but not all of them.

00:26:25.220 That's a big deal.

00:26:26.780 I mean, if he really doesn't get anything, unless he gets all of them,

00:26:31.780 I don't think he would agree to that deal, but it's impressive.

00:26:35.620 And if successful, he would become the world's fullest trillionaire.

00:26:40.680 No, we wouldn't.

00:26:43.600 I think this is just people who don't know how deals work.

00:26:48.980 Nobody's ever going to give him a trillion dollars.

00:26:51.880 There's no check for a trillion dollars.

00:26:54.300 It's over 10 years, and I don't know if there's any sub-payments in the 10 years

00:26:59.540 or if he has to wait the whole 10 years.

00:27:01.800 But even when it's paid, remember, some of it goes to taxes.

00:27:08.660 Nobody's going to get a check for a trillion dollars.

00:27:11.400 All right.

00:27:11.700 But how many of his products that he's working on now

00:27:16.400 could become the biggest in that category forever?

00:27:20.780 All right.

00:27:21.040 Here are just a few things.

00:27:22.240 If Elon starts making chips, and he's the best at manufacturing things

00:27:27.560 that people didn't know how to manufacture,

00:27:29.760 and chips are mostly a challenge of how do you manufacture them.

00:27:33.080 They're just hard to make.

00:27:34.300 So he would be the best person who could ever take on that challenge.

00:27:38.020 So what if he makes the biggest chip company?

00:27:40.640 Totally possible, even if the only person who buys them is his own company.

00:27:45.040 He'd still be the biggest chip maker.

00:27:47.240 What about his power stuff?

00:27:48.820 Could be the biggest in the world.

00:27:50.060 What about his AI?

00:27:51.020 Could be the biggest in the world.

00:27:52.640 What about his robots and his cars?

00:27:54.300 Could be the biggest in the world.

00:27:56.340 Yep.

00:27:56.780 He's worth a trillion.

00:27:58.480 Well, as you know, Nancy Pelosi has announced her retirement.

00:28:01.920 And I wonder what Trump said about that.

00:28:08.240 Now, you might know that it was only recently that Pelosi said some terrible things about Trump.

00:28:13.980 Just terrible things. 0.99

00:28:15.000 He was stealing your democracy, and he's the worst. 0.97

00:28:17.820 I think she said something like he's the worst person in the world 0.97

00:28:20.900 because he's not just bad, but he's the president. 0.90

00:28:24.260 So he has power, plus he's bad. 0.98

00:28:26.360 So he's the worst person in the world. 0.99

00:28:28.380 The worst person in the world. 0.54

00:28:29.500 So Trump pays her back because he's in the press conference there.

00:28:36.740 Somebody asked her about her retirement, and he made sure that he thought this through

00:28:42.780 and gave them a quote which would guarantee that it dominated the news.

00:28:48.300 Did it?

00:28:49.260 Yes, it did.

00:28:50.760 Here's his quote about Nancy Pelosi. 0.98

00:28:53.780 I think she's an evil woman. 1.00

00:28:55.820 I'm glad she's retiring. 0.58

00:28:57.020 I think she did the country a great service by retiring.

00:29:00.960 Now, Trump.

00:29:02.680 About Nancy Pelosi?

00:29:04.120 Oh, yeah.

00:29:04.820 Okay.

00:29:05.300 I'm just repeating the same thing.

00:29:07.400 The dictation services are funny.

00:29:12.560 So my one hand is too paralyzed now to type.

00:29:17.240 So I've been using voice dictation.

00:29:20.360 And I found out that if you want to do the word country, C-O-U-N-T-R-Y, I won't even tell 1.00

00:29:30.400 you what it wrote down.

00:29:32.620 It was so naughty.

00:29:33.980 Very naughty.

00:29:35.580 Well, the Supreme Court made a decision that if you have a passport, you can only list yourself

00:29:42.120 as male or female, there will be no in-betweens or no trans, no anything but male or female. 0.96

00:29:51.940 Now, I have mixed feelings about that, honestly.

00:29:57.140 For adults, we're only going to talk about adults.

00:30:00.960 We're not talking about children.

00:30:02.900 Children should not be, you know, I have the same opinion you do.

00:30:08.080 But most of you, anyway.

00:30:10.600 But for adults, I do think that adults should be able to run their own life.

00:30:15.480 And if they want to be trans, I'm okay with that. 0.71

00:30:19.600 Why wouldn't I be?

00:30:20.440 It's not my life.

00:30:22.020 You know, and if it doesn't bother me, yeah, just do whatever you need to do.

00:30:26.320 If you're an adult and it's not, you know, scaring the horses or something, go ahead.

00:30:30.880 So I'm pro-trans in the freedom sense.

00:30:34.220 It's everybody should have the freedom to do what they do that they need to do because they need to do it.

00:30:41.400 And it's none of my business if it doesn't bother me.

00:30:44.060 And it doesn't.

00:30:45.740 So I do wonder about the trade-off.

00:30:47.800 Because if somebody shows up in their trans identity, 1.00

00:30:52.900 wouldn't that be harder for the passport people to sort that out?

00:30:56.140 So aren't we trying to make sure that it's easier, faster?

00:31:01.760 Easier, faster would be, I'm trans. 1.00

00:31:05.640 And then the person looks at them and they go, oh, okay, you do look, maybe they do look a little bit male.

00:31:11.180 Maybe they got an Adam's apple or something.

00:31:12.880 I'm no expert on any of this stuff.

00:31:14.460 And then that would perfectly explain why they were looking one way but listed as another way.

00:31:21.620 Wouldn't that be safer?

00:31:23.540 If the only thing you care about is how safe you are,

00:31:28.680 wouldn't you be safer if they listed themselves the way they look so you could know exactly what's going on there?

00:31:35.480 No?

00:31:36.440 All right, so I'm a little bit mixed on this one.

00:31:38.060 I think I could be persuaded in either direction.

00:31:40.360 But that's what happened, so I guess it's a done deal for now.

00:31:46.660 Did you see the video of Trump was announcing that they made a tremendous success

00:31:54.360 in lowering the cost of these weight loss drugs?

00:31:58.100 So who was involved?

00:32:03.160 It's less about the pharma, but there were a few pharma companies that got together and vastly lowered.

00:32:09.060 There were costs for the weight loss drug from something like $1,000 to something like $100-something.

00:32:15.160 So a gigantic decrease in probably the most important thing.

00:32:21.100 Now, the news part of it is that Trump is delivering on at least lowering the cost of some important drugs.

00:32:29.740 But here's the part you might have missed.

00:32:31.080 When RFK Jr. was talking about it, he had his moment to talk there at the Oval Office with all the executives assembled.

00:32:39.440 And we'll talk about the guy who passed down.

00:32:42.680 But RFK Jr. is explaining to us what a big lever this is.

00:32:48.220 Because something like half of all of our health care costs are driven by obesity.

00:32:52.800 And we could practically eliminate it with these drugs if they were affordable.

00:32:59.060 And Trump just made them affordable for a lot more people, not everybody, of course.

00:33:04.080 We'll have to figure out a way that everybody can get them.

00:33:07.020 But this goes a long way.

00:33:08.840 It goes a long way to lowering your health care costs because it lowers them two ways.

00:33:13.740 It's not just immediately lowering them because you wanted to take the fat drug, but you couldn't afford it, but now you can.

00:33:20.720 But on top of that, he said that obesity is driving 50% of our health care costs.

00:33:28.820 Had you ever heard that before?

00:33:30.400 50%?

00:33:31.780 I knew it was a lot.

00:33:33.960 But here's what I like about RFK Jr.'s approach to everything.

00:33:38.660 He finds the best lever.

00:33:40.960 He doesn't go for the low-hanging fruit.

00:33:43.720 He goes for the high-hanging lever.

00:33:46.620 Because if you can get that lever, you change everything.

00:33:50.720 Imagine if the United States became not an obese country.

00:33:55.060 50% of it, I think half of all adults are obese.

00:33:59.800 If he took that down to 25% just by this kind of action, that would be one of the greatest accomplishments, certainly of any cabinet member.

00:34:12.400 It may be the greatest accomplishment of any cabinet member.

00:34:15.200 And I don't think it would have happened without RFK Jr., do you?

00:34:19.080 Do you think this would have happened with just some kind of normal, ordinary corporate guy who got the job because he was connected to somebody or something?

00:34:29.840 No.

00:34:31.020 No.

00:34:31.360 Trump took a chance.

00:34:33.080 And now you're seeing that his instinct is good.

00:34:39.460 Trump's instinct that he could go with somebody who's a lifelong Democrat and it would help America?

00:34:46.420 That was a tough choice.

00:34:49.160 Do you even understand how tough that was?

00:34:51.260 If this had not worked out and RFK Jr. had turned out not to be the man that he is, this would be a total problem.

00:35:01.080 But not only is he the man that he is, but he might be more than the man that he is.

00:35:05.540 You might not even understand the level of sacrifice that he's taking and has taken just to get to that point where he could stand in front of the country and say, you're all going to get the fat drug or close to it.

00:35:22.340 Amazing, amazing accomplishment.

00:35:23.860 All right.

00:35:24.280 But the drama was that one of the executives who was there to just attend, who was in the background, he had some kind of medical event.

00:35:31.440 We don't know the details.

00:35:32.540 We don't need to.

00:35:33.180 We're told that he's fine now, but he passed out.

00:35:38.160 Now, what did the Democrats say about this? 0.94

00:35:41.800 Of course, they took one picture and a context to say that Trump must be a psychopath because he's just standing there looking. 0.94

00:35:51.680 What? 0.99

00:35:52.860 What?

00:35:53.520 What kind of standard is that for judging people?

00:35:56.720 All right.

00:35:57.000 Let me tell you what I saw.

00:35:58.460 And then you tell me if that's what you saw.

00:36:00.320 Now, I'm just going to read my post because I liked how I wrote it.

00:36:05.520 So right in the middle of Trump's Oval Office announcement on slashing prices for weight loss meds like Wegovian zip bound, this Novo Nordisk executive, his name is Gordon Finley.

00:36:21.340 So he passed out.

00:36:24.260 Now, here's what all the participants did when the event happened.

00:36:28.400 So the first thing that happened was that the man starts to collapse.

00:36:36.640 You know, he looks like he's unsteady.

00:36:39.280 And the speaker notices.

00:36:41.900 The speaker was one of the CEOs.

00:36:45.260 So the first thing that the speaker does is he stops what he's doing and he turns his attention to the person who looks like he's having a medical problem.

00:36:52.880 Was that the right thing to do?

00:36:54.820 Yes, it was.

00:36:55.480 Yes.

00:36:56.020 Yeah.

00:36:56.320 So as gigantic as this moment was for both the pharma and for Trump, everybody knew to stop what they're doing and give their full attention to whatever this was because it was more important at the moment.

00:37:09.400 The people standing next to him that just happened to be closest, they saw him going down and they grabbed him and they protected him as he fell.

00:37:21.100 So they protected him so he went gently down to the floor where you'd want him to be if he can't stand and didn't hit his head or anything.

00:37:28.140 They just gently put him down.

00:37:29.960 So they acted immediately to his service.

00:37:33.540 As soon as the guy hit the floor and even before he was on the floor, Dr. Oz, who I believe was the closest doctor, was already on it.

00:37:45.280 He had already rushed in and was starting to give whatever doctors do when they get there first.

00:37:51.660 So Dr. Oz rushes in.

00:37:53.920 If you watch the video, you see the RFK Jr. who would be standing in the back immediately moves in the other direction away from the guy.

00:38:01.940 What do you think he was doing?

00:38:03.540 I don't know.

00:38:04.920 But if I were RFK Jr., I would know that there is always medical staff on the other side of the wall from wherever the president is, right?

00:38:14.520 There's no way there wouldn't be a gurney and an ambulance and a medical staff right on the other side of the wall because they wouldn't be in the room, but they would be right nearby.

00:38:24.800 Now, RFK Jr. probably, and this is just a guess.

00:38:27.820 I can't read his mind.

00:38:29.020 Probably said, we'd better make sure that those guys, the medical people with the gurneys and the ambulance, better make sure that the door is unlocked and they know to come in.

00:38:37.880 So probably, he did the thing that is the smartest thing he could have done, which is make sure they had already been alerted.

00:38:45.600 And if they had been alerted, just open the door.

00:38:48.680 Just open the door and let them in.

00:38:50.860 Because maybe somebody needs to hold the door.

00:38:52.660 So RFK did exactly what he should do because he's not the doctor.

00:38:56.540 Dr. Oz did exactly what he should do because he is the doctor.

00:38:59.920 And then Trump, what should Trump do in this situation?

00:39:04.320 Should Trump push them away and administer CPR?

00:39:09.020 No.

00:39:09.460 No, no, he's got a room full of people who probably included more than one doctor.

00:39:15.620 And probably there were doctors on the other side of the door, as I said.

00:39:19.640 No, what he should do, because Trump is not in charge of that patient.

00:39:25.200 Trump is in charge of the room.

00:39:27.960 He's in charge of the room and also the country.

00:39:32.300 So what did you want him to do as the guy who's in charge of the room?

00:39:37.160 I'll tell you what I wanted.

00:39:38.320 I wanted him to stand up to show the respect that this situation demands.

00:39:44.460 He stood up.

00:39:45.680 I want him to look at what's happening because this situation demands that he look at it

00:39:51.540 and assess what's going on and decide what, if any, involvement he should have.

00:39:58.520 Having looked at it and stood, he was then in charge of the room, not the patient.

00:40:04.600 He was in charge of the room, not the patient.

00:40:08.860 And the room didn't know what was going on.

00:40:11.400 But having your president standing up there, resolute, and knowing that he's trusting the

00:40:17.260 experts behind him to do what needs to be done, and they did.

00:40:20.820 And fortunately, the gentleman appears to be fine.

00:40:24.120 We don't know this problem.

00:40:25.140 But that's what I wanted him to do.

00:40:28.260 I wanted him to show respect, wait, and know when it's his time.

00:40:33.380 So what Trump knew is that this was not his time.

00:40:38.620 This was not his time.

00:40:40.360 And so he stepped back.

00:40:42.020 What do you want that's better than that?

00:40:44.540 You know, he's getting, people are calling him a psychopath because he didn't, you know,

00:40:48.160 rip the guy's shirt off and give him the, give him some kind of a treatment or something.

00:40:53.660 What exactly was he supposed to do?

00:40:55.500 Was he supposed to push Dr. Oz away and say, I got this because the cameras are rolling?

00:41:01.740 No, he did exactly what I want my president to do.

00:41:05.280 Not only did he hire competent people who immediately acted in exactly the right way,

00:41:10.620 but he knew when to stay out of the way.

00:41:13.740 You can't beat that, really.

00:41:17.000 Now, some of you might recognize how biased I am on this, on this topic.

00:41:23.220 Did you pick that up?

00:41:24.300 Did you pick up any obvious bias from me on this topic?

00:41:27.940 Oh, I have bias.

00:41:29.800 So here is my real, my real situation.

00:41:33.360 So I, you know, I was busy most of the day.

00:41:37.180 So I was catching up with the story, you know, the story about the guy who collapsed in the office.

00:41:42.500 And I'm reading about how Dr. Oz was the first one to step in.

00:41:45.820 And now Dr. Oz was also, he also was one of the people that Trump asked to get involved in my situation when I needed a little, little boost with my healthcare provider.

00:41:59.820 Now, I don't know if, you know, I still don't know the reality of what did or did not happen.

00:42:06.020 So I'm not blaming Kaiser for anything.

00:42:08.640 Just that I had a lack of information for a while.

00:42:11.860 And it took longer than I thought.

00:42:13.720 That's all I know.

00:42:15.440 That took longer than I thought.

00:42:17.080 And I didn't know why.

00:42:18.120 So Dr. Oz solved that for me.

00:42:22.320 And as I'm reading the story about how he had also jumped in to fix this guy, I'm thinking to myself, why is it that these Trump related people have learned that they can do more than regular people?

00:42:36.220 How do they get so much done?

00:42:38.160 Like, how do they, it's just, how do they get so much done?

00:42:42.560 And as I'm reading about Dr. Oz, and I'm thinking, you know, fondly about how he had helped me personally, maybe he kept me alive.

00:42:50.040 I don't know.

00:42:50.720 Maybe he made the difference between life and death.

00:42:53.260 Could have been.

00:42:54.900 My phone rings.

00:42:57.040 And it's Dr. Oz.

00:42:59.000 I swear to God, this really happened.

00:43:01.020 I'm reading about him for the first time, about this incident for the first time.

00:43:05.380 And Dr. Oz calls me, and he asks me how I'm doing and if I'm getting enough help from my medical providers, because that's what he made sure happened.

00:43:14.840 And the answer is yes.

00:43:16.540 Yes, I am.

00:43:17.480 I'm getting great, great reaction from my medical care, Kaiser, Northern California.

00:43:22.920 So I'll give them a shout out.

00:43:24.840 You know the way I judge everything?

00:43:27.420 The way I judge everything is not by any mistake.

00:43:32.020 I judge everything by reaction.

00:43:33.440 What did you do when somebody complained?

00:43:37.860 If I judged Kaiser by how happy I was, you know, a month ago, that would be different from how happy I am now, because the way they reacted to it was excellent.

00:43:47.300 So they're doing a great job at the moment.

00:43:52.700 So that's my thing.

00:43:53.820 Now, do you realize how weird it is to be me, that you're reading a story in the news, and then the subject of the news calls you as you're reading the story?

00:44:06.340 It's so weird.

00:44:07.980 It's totally weird.

00:44:10.100 But we're a simulation, maybe. 0.99

00:44:12.240 All right, so I guess after all that, Democrats will claim that Trump stole their democracy by not giving CPR to the guy who fell down or some damn thing.

00:44:22.680 Moving on, even John Fetterman, he preys on Trump, said that Trump did a great job on slashing that weight loss drug price from $1,000 to as low as $149. 0.77

00:44:39.100 And he told his story about being a stroke survivor, and apparently he used Mongero for his heart health, which I believe is one of the drugs involved.

00:44:52.940 And he said, I've called to make these drugs more accessible, blah, blah, blah.

00:44:56.380 All right, here's my take, if you're not tired about me talking about Fetterman too much.

00:45:01.180 I get it.

00:45:01.840 I get it.

00:45:02.280 He's on the other side.

00:45:03.880 You don't want to give him attention, blah, blah, blah.

00:45:06.000 But I'm going to talk about his persuasion game so that you can learn that, okay?

00:45:11.340 So this is about learning persuasion.

00:45:13.720 It's not about me wanting Fetterman to be my next president or anything like that.

00:45:18.300 Just focus on the persuasion part.

00:45:20.560 You'll be fine.

00:45:21.600 So I love the fact that he found his own lane, meaning that as soon as the president does something that you could sort of imagine a reasonable Democrat might be in favor of,

00:45:32.960 and this would be obviously something a reasonable Democrat should be in favor of, the press knows to go to him first, not only because he's good at the quotes that they can use,

00:45:45.660 because he speaks in abbreviated, non-word salad way, maybe because of the stroke, maybe.

00:45:53.800 Maybe he was just always brief.

00:45:55.320 I don't know.

00:45:55.700 But he's good at being brief, and that makes better quotes.

00:45:59.380 So he's carved out this little niche where he will always get attention from, I don't know, maybe half of all topics that will come to him first.

00:46:08.480 That is so good.

00:46:10.360 And persuasion-wise, if you can camp out as a person they have to talk to first because everybody expects you to,

00:46:16.860 then you've accomplished the Trump first and most important play.

00:46:23.380 Remember in 2015, everybody said, well, you can't win just by getting the most attention.

00:46:30.860 Can't you?

00:46:32.540 Maybe you can win by getting the most attention.

00:46:35.180 Now, that's not enough.

00:46:36.680 You still have to have a lot going for you.

00:46:38.280 But he solves for one of the problems, that you've got all these other politicians.

00:46:44.040 Maybe a lot of them would like to be president someday.

00:46:46.960 But he's figured out how to make them come to him.

00:46:49.880 That's what Trump does.

00:46:51.540 He makes them come to him just by being more interesting and by doing something that's not the same freaking thing that everybody else is doing.

00:46:59.580 So in terms of attention-grabbing, A+.

00:47:03.540 So learn that lesson.

00:47:05.460 Learn that lesson.

00:47:06.600 But there's more.

00:47:08.280 Here's the bigger lesson.

00:47:13.300 Do you remember in the first term and really into the second election cycle, the Democrats were all about Trump's bad personality?

00:47:24.320 It's like, oh, he says bad things about people.

00:47:28.320 Oh, our allies will not trust us as much because he can't be trusted.

00:47:34.480 Oh, he told four gazillion, bazillion, 14 gazillion lies.

00:47:39.820 And it was all about his character and his personality.

00:47:44.540 When was the last time you saw the enemy press, enemy to Trump, when was the last time they reported the number of lies he's told?

00:47:53.380 Did anybody notice they stopped doing that?

00:47:57.800 They just stopped.

00:47:59.460 Wasn't it the number one thing they reported all the time?

00:48:02.800 Well, he's got five more lies today and three were in this sentence and two were in this.

00:48:07.940 And they don't even bother fact-checking him.

00:48:10.340 Do you know why they don't fact-check him?

00:48:14.060 Because people got used to it.

00:48:16.480 Remember the Virginia Adams rule?

00:48:18.760 People can get used to anything if they do it long enough.

00:48:22.560 Anything.

00:48:23.380 So I think the world just got used to Trump.

00:48:26.480 He was normalized.

00:48:27.260 And, of course, it only helps because, you know, he did a good job as president.

00:48:32.440 You wouldn't want to normalize something that was bad.

00:48:35.040 But he's totally normalized.

00:48:36.740 So now when he says something like he's dumping on Nancy Pelosi, like earlier, can you imagine any other president doing that?

00:48:44.700 You can't.

00:48:45.960 But in the old days, they would have said no other president would do that.

00:48:49.900 And therefore, it was a mistake for him to do it.

00:48:53.080 Do they do that now?

00:48:54.580 No, they don't.

00:48:55.300 Now they just say, eh, it's just what he does.

00:48:59.340 So once you've normalized it, you have this superpower.

00:49:03.660 So Trump can simply say and do things that other people can't say and do because he got you used to it.

00:49:09.720 Fetterman's doing the same thing.

00:49:11.500 I don't know how conscious this is.

00:49:13.500 But what Fetterman is doing is making the Democrats get used to the idea that he could agree with the Republicans.

00:49:21.280 The first 20 times he does it, they won't be used to it.

00:49:26.080 Maybe the first 50 times, they won't be used to it.

00:49:30.760 But somewhere around the hundredth time, you know, because you can repeat the same things over and over.

00:49:35.980 Somewhere around the hundredth time, they're just going to want to think about something else.

00:49:40.700 And they'll just get used to it.

00:49:42.080 And then he'll be the only person who can do this.

00:49:45.200 And we'd be used to it.

00:49:47.120 That's when he becomes dangerous.

00:49:49.080 If we get used to this, meaning Democrats specifically, he's going to have a little superpower there in persuasion.

00:49:56.020 And just watch that.

00:50:01.460 There's another guy named John Shuchuk.

00:50:05.800 I think he's at Climate Craze.

00:50:08.320 One of the things he does is he looks for data recording stations, temperature recording stations, that are out of service but have not been reported as out of service.

00:50:20.140 So, so far he's found his post on X, 196 ghost stations where the NOAA fabricates temperatures.

00:50:30.740 In other words, they just estimate the temperatures because the actual data doesn't exist.

00:50:36.020 Now, how comfortable do you feel if I tell you that 196 temperature stations are not even real?

00:50:43.360 And if you don't have the right data for temperature, then you have trillions of dollars that could be wasted because you had the wrong temperatures.

00:50:53.840 All right.

00:50:54.380 I'm watching the comments to see if you know where I'm going on this.

00:50:59.060 Do you know where I'm going on this?

00:51:01.480 How many times have I told you?

00:51:04.720 You're going to be mad at yourself if you didn't get this one before I tell you.

00:51:09.020 What's it mean when they tell you the number without the percentage?

00:51:11.520 What's it mean if they tell you the percentage but not the raw number? 0.99

00:51:17.040 It means it's bullshit. 0.95

00:51:19.920 Now, I hate the fact that this guy's on my side because I think that the temperature measurements are probably pretty sketchy. 0.99

00:51:27.220 So, I'm on his side in general.

00:51:29.940 But if you're looking at it just as persuasion, when somebody gives you a raw number without the, what's the total number of?

00:51:38.340 Now, if I had to ask you, how many do you think there are?

00:51:41.280 How many temperature measurements stations are there?

00:51:46.480 What do you think?

00:51:48.840 196 were ghosts that exist.

00:51:51.680 But how many do exist?

00:51:54.240 In America, it's over 10,000.

00:51:57.580 In the world, it's over 20,000.

00:52:00.400 And already, according to Grok, I'm going to assume that's true.

00:52:03.360 So, that would be 1.85% of just the U.S. measurements.

00:52:13.500 If 1.85% of the U.S. measurements were interpolated, you know, just took an average of what was around it, would you get necessarily a terrible answer?

00:52:24.740 I don't know.

00:52:25.400 Well, I don't know.

00:52:26.640 But it makes a big difference if you think 196 is a big number versus less than 2%.

00:52:32.500 But the bigger problem is, really, there's 10,000 of these measurements in the U.S., but only 20,000 in the rest of the whole world.

00:52:41.140 I mean, that would be another 10,000.

00:52:45.040 Does that mean that what happens in the U.S. just sort of naturally counts for more?

00:52:49.900 And wouldn't that distort things?

00:52:51.520 So, I just have a question mark about that.

00:52:55.840 All right.

00:52:57.760 So, I don't want to criticize John because I do love his work, meaning that if he's really finding the number of ghost stations, that could only be good.

00:53:08.780 I mean, there's no downside to that.

00:53:10.400 So, that's good work.

00:53:11.880 Appreciate it.

00:53:12.640 But just know that I'm teaching my audience that the raw number without the percentage, that's not good.

00:53:20.520 And vice versa.

00:53:26.920 I have to drink like Trump did in that one video where we have to use both hands.

00:53:35.500 I also have to stay hydrated, get all the radiation out of me.

00:53:40.680 All right.

00:53:42.620 Here's something I taught you on persuasion, but I'm going to give you another example, which should be helpful.

00:53:48.140 I call it the category problem.

00:53:53.280 Have you ever been talking about this?

00:53:54.800 If you're trying to decide if something is true or false, you see something in the news, the first filter I put on it is what I call the category problem.

00:54:02.700 Now, the category problem is that has something that sounds like this ever been true?

00:54:10.560 Not this, but things that sound like it.

00:54:13.840 For example, if you got an email that a Nigerian prince had this deal for you and it was going to give you a bunch of money if you floated them a little money in advance, would you consider that likely to be true or likely to be false?

00:54:31.380 Well, the category is false every time.

00:54:35.580 But that doesn't mean there couldn't ever be a Nigerian prince, right? 0.64

00:54:40.680 Like maybe they're all false until they're not.

00:54:44.320 No, it's best to assume it's false because the category is just such a big red flag.

00:54:50.180 Like, here's another one.

00:54:51.640 If somebody says they have a universal cancer cure in the form of a pill and it already works on rats, are you going to get that cancer pill in a few years?

00:55:02.200 No, you're not.

00:55:03.520 No.

00:55:04.280 Because how many times has cancer been cured in the news but not in reality?

00:55:08.420 Thousands of times.

00:55:09.980 So that category, I just like, there was one in the news today exactly like that.

00:55:14.460 Oh, we've got a cure for all cancers.

00:55:16.300 I didn't even post it because it's a category that's just never true.

00:55:21.480 Here's another one.

00:55:22.680 A pill that reverses aging.

00:55:24.360 If you see a story that the scientists have now come up with a pill, the reverse is aging, that's in the category of things that are never true.

00:55:35.620 I don't know anything about that particular pill, but the category, never true.

00:55:41.580 And that brings us to my next story.

00:55:43.240 Some scientists in China claim they've invented a pill that gives you the same benefits of exercise in terms of your overall health.

00:55:55.060 You know, exercise is good for you in all the different ways.

00:55:57.920 But they allege they've created a pill that would give you the same benefits of exercise.

00:56:02.960 You still have to exercise if you want bigger muscles.

00:56:05.220 It doesn't give you muscles.

00:56:06.720 So just to be clear, it doesn't make your muscles bigger.

00:56:10.320 It gives you just some of the health benefits that exercise would give you.

00:56:14.680 Do you believe that's true?

00:56:17.400 Category problem.

00:56:18.900 It's a big category problem.

00:56:21.340 No, I don't believe it's true.

00:56:23.360 I do not believe that as soon as they're done testing it on the rats, you know, in say three years or whatever,

00:56:29.900 that they're going to have a pill that makes you young again or makes you feel healthier again.

00:56:35.220 In all the ways that youth does.

00:56:37.540 I doubt it.

00:56:40.280 Well, the other big question.

00:56:43.240 Oh, and then Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are, believe it or not, they're on the A16Z podcast,

00:56:51.620 which I haven't seen yet, but I imagine is an amazing podcast because that would be amazing people involved.

00:56:57.540 So I guess Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were on, Dr. Priscilla Chan,

00:57:05.320 and they've created this initiative where they're trying to basically cure and prevent and manage all disease by the end of the century.

00:57:13.060 All disease?

00:57:13.980 By the end of the century?

00:57:17.540 Well, that'll take some work.

00:57:19.560 Anyway, do you think that they will cure all disease by the end of the century?

00:57:23.820 I don't know, but I'm in favor of them trying.

00:57:27.480 Sure.

00:57:28.500 You know, I always say that's the beauty of the American billionaires.

00:57:31.940 If you're an American billionaire, you have a lot of pressure to invest in things that could be big benefits to the world,

00:57:41.600 but the government isn't on it for some reason.

00:57:44.260 I mean, I would feel that if I were a billionaire.

00:57:46.640 So that's the good thing our billionaires can do.

00:57:48.640 James Carville said that he would, quote, bet a lot of money, the Democrats will win in 2028,

00:57:55.940 get the presidency and the House, and that they would pack the Supreme Court to 13 people so they could control it.

00:58:04.880 He says at first they would do the normal bureaucracy thing where they would just have some committee,

00:58:10.960 and the committee would come back and say, oh, yes, the fairest, best thing we can do is 13 people on the Supreme Court.

00:58:19.500 And then he says they'll definitely do it, and he says the Democrats will definitely win the presidency in 2028.

00:58:27.740 What do I say in response to that?

00:58:33.260 The Democrat will definitely win the presidency in 2028?

00:58:36.940 Now, we're hearing also from a lot of pro-MAGA people, I think I saw Mike Cernovich say something on this topic on X,

00:58:49.140 that we don't really have a Republican Party that's strong.

00:58:53.320 There's a MAGA faction that's strong, but even the MAGA faction is empty without Trump.

00:59:00.200 So that it's really just a Trump party,

00:59:04.140 and if he leaves, that we don't really have anybody who could win.

00:59:08.420 Is that true?

00:59:09.860 Do you think J.D. couldn't win?

00:59:14.180 A lot of people act like he's the obvious choice.

00:59:17.240 I've also acted like he's the obvious choice,

00:59:19.800 but that doesn't mean he'll be the choice.

00:59:22.300 It just means he's the obvious one from this point of view at this time, etc.

00:59:27.100 And his skills are impressive.

00:59:29.880 His skill stack's impressive.

00:59:31.300 He's not Trump, though, right?

00:59:35.440 And so what I say to James Garville is challenge accepted.

00:59:42.720 I believe that a Republican can win in 2028,

00:59:46.460 but that we have not necessarily identified that Republican.

00:59:49.780 Not necessarily.

00:59:50.500 But they would need some persuasion training,

00:59:54.140 which I believe none of them have.

00:59:56.460 I'd be happy to give it to them if they need it.

00:59:59.820 But trained properly in persuasion,

01:00:02.700 I think a Republican who is at least Trumpy enough in policies

01:00:08.980 could win.

01:00:11.640 But it would take tremendous skill.

01:00:14.080 It would take a lot of skill.

01:00:15.020 I do believe that Vance is somebody who could pick up a talent stack in an hour.

01:00:23.200 That's the kind of intelligence we're talking about.

01:00:26.480 Somebody who could learn a whole thing in an hour.

01:00:29.180 Like a complicated thing.

01:00:31.280 And if they play it right, they can win this.

01:00:35.260 But they don't have anybody, in my opinion,

01:00:38.820 they probably don't have anybody who's the right person

01:00:41.240 with the right training right now.

01:00:45.740 Like if they had the election today,

01:00:47.740 I don't think a Republican would win.

01:00:50.180 But could they win in 2028 with the right positioning, etc.?

01:00:55.220 It's doable.

01:00:57.340 It's doable, but it's going to be hard.

01:01:00.380 Like really hard, but doable.

01:01:04.340 Here's the weirdest part about 2028.

01:01:07.320 The weirdest part is if Trump solves too many problems during his term,

01:01:12.260 and he's on the verge of doing that,

01:01:14.120 there won't be enough problems left to solve for a potential Republican.

01:01:18.560 If the reason you voted for Trump is because of the border,

01:01:22.880 and it's just solved,

01:01:24.640 why would you vote for the other Republican?

01:01:26.900 You'd need another reason.

01:01:28.640 The border was a real good reason, 1.00

01:01:30.540 because that was just so scary and so big,

01:01:32.960 and it just had so much impact on everything.

01:01:36.200 But what's the thing after that?

01:01:37.980 Unfortunately, it's affordability.

01:01:40.420 And the Democrats are owning affordability at the moment.

01:01:43.680 So there's going to have to be some problems that Trump doesn't solve

01:01:49.160 just so that the next Republican candidate has something to talk about.

01:01:53.840 They're running out of things to talk about, right?

01:01:58.000 I mean, if it turns out that, you know, three years from now,

01:02:02.040 everybody smart agrees that tariffs were a tremendous idea,

01:02:05.080 and they brought in money, and it didn't break too many things,

01:02:09.140 well, then whoever the Republican is will just keep doing it.

01:02:11.920 But it's not like a winning strategy or anything.

01:02:17.040 So you've got to find the thing that everybody understands needs to be solved.

01:02:21.840 And unfortunately, I would hate to say that the only thing left to solve

01:02:25.960 would be the debt,

01:02:27.400 because I don't know what the hell you do about that.

01:02:30.880 Anyway, maybe it's the tariffs that solve the debt.

01:02:35.400 So, but Jon Stewart,

01:02:38.580 I think we're at the phase where everybody's worried about their own team.

01:02:42.320 Jon Stewart said that Democrats are still a mess

01:02:44.880 after the last election.

01:02:48.600 And he says, I truly believe they're a mess.

01:02:51.640 And then he says, I tried to capture the essence of this quote.

01:02:56.040 I might have missed a word.

01:02:57.360 He said, there's an underlying energy in the country

01:03:00.240 that none of us could have imagined,

01:03:02.880 and that needs to be channeled.

01:03:04.280 None of us could have imagined.

01:03:09.380 I'm pretty sure every Republican imagined it.

01:03:12.780 That's why Trump's the president.

01:03:14.900 The Republicans were totally imagining it.

01:03:17.260 They didn't have to imagine it.

01:03:18.560 They felt it.

01:03:19.200 They were in it.

01:03:19.820 They were part of it.

01:03:20.680 So, I guess he's talking about Democrats had no idea

01:03:23.560 what the country is really like.

01:03:25.560 Now, I love Jon Stewart as an entertainer,

01:03:30.560 and I think he adds a lot even to the political process,

01:03:33.080 despite being an entertainer first.

01:03:35.560 But he never is, he looks like a guy 0.98

01:03:40.280 who's never had, like, a regular job.

01:03:43.140 Has he?

01:03:45.320 Because there's some things he's just sort of missing

01:03:47.460 that feel like you would not be missing

01:03:50.360 if you had a regular job with coworkers and stuff.

01:03:53.600 You know, maybe being around normal people.

01:03:56.840 The people who work in comedy, I think,

01:03:59.520 hang around with people in comedy more than anything else.

01:04:02.140 Anyway, so when he says there's an underlying energy

01:04:09.860 in the country that none of us could imagine

01:04:11.500 needs to be channeled,

01:04:12.720 to me, that's just a word-salad way

01:04:14.600 of saying your policies are bad.

01:04:17.940 If the Democrats had better policies,

01:04:20.440 you don't think they would own everything?

01:04:22.900 I think they'd be in charge.

01:04:24.720 They just need better ideas.

01:04:26.980 So, every time they think it's not

01:04:29.080 that their candidates are bad

01:04:31.100 and their policies are bad,

01:04:32.340 they're just lost.

01:04:33.820 They're going to have to say,

01:04:34.920 our policies are bad, our candidates are bad.

01:04:37.380 Get a better candidate.

01:04:39.060 Do something.

01:04:40.560 Anyway, apparently every state has now applied

01:04:43.560 for the $50 billion, or a piece of,

01:04:45.840 the $50 billion Rural Health Fund,

01:04:48.840 which was approved in the big, beautiful bill.

01:04:52.280 The Hill is writing about this.

01:04:54.080 Nate Wakesle.

01:04:55.880 So, I guess they all had to apply for their part,

01:04:58.400 but they all have done it, so that's good.

01:05:00.120 And that's the money that would transform rural health

01:05:03.780 so that they can get health care to poor people

01:05:09.160 in rural places that don't have,

01:05:11.800 I guess it's people who don't have health care.

01:05:14.580 So, each state has to say how they're going to use the money

01:05:17.620 and get it approved.

01:05:20.160 And that was the backstop

01:05:21.760 against whatever's going to happen.

01:05:24.100 Now, if J.D. or any other future Republican

01:05:30.280 could figure out a real workable plan

01:05:33.040 that would either make food substantially cheaper

01:05:36.620 or make health care substantially cheaper,

01:05:39.220 I don't think Trump's going to solve those.

01:05:42.560 I think he'll take a bite at him.

01:05:44.760 You know, I think he'll do what's doable,

01:05:47.920 but there's always going to be something left over

01:05:49.660 that's not doable easily.

01:05:52.040 So, getting everybody health care,

01:05:55.000 I think, is worth doing some way.

01:05:58.400 But there's got to be a Republican way to do that,

01:06:00.700 or I'll call it, let's say, an independent way to do it.

01:06:04.760 I don't want to do it just by giving more money

01:06:06.780 to people who can pay double for Obamacare.

01:06:10.820 There's got to be some just fundamental reworking

01:06:14.980 of how we do stuff.

01:06:16.060 And then maybe AI.

01:06:18.040 I've always thought that the government should offer the...

01:06:21.980 Let me run this idea by you.

01:06:23.500 I don't know if I've ever mentioned this before.

01:06:25.340 But I always had the idea

01:06:26.360 that maybe everybody could have what they want,

01:06:29.120 which is, what if the people who want to be socialists

01:06:33.840 didn't want to get cheap food and all that,

01:06:36.260 what if the government gave it to them

01:06:37.720 and said, all right, you guys are going to live

01:06:42.800 the socialist path,

01:06:45.440 and the rest of you will pay as you go,

01:06:48.980 but you won't have to pay for the socialists somehow.

01:06:51.620 Is there any way

01:06:52.660 that you could have the socialist plan work somewhere

01:06:57.980 where if you really, really wanted that to be your life,

01:07:01.060 you could go to, you know, let's say some part of some state

01:07:05.540 and you can move there and say,

01:07:07.340 look, you could have everything you asked for.

01:07:09.740 We don't know if that'll be good for you,

01:07:11.580 but you're adults.

01:07:13.220 You get to pick.

01:07:14.780 So if you live here,

01:07:15.700 you get to have a, you know,

01:07:17.500 a community garden

01:07:18.860 and you'll share some food

01:07:20.300 and maybe you won't have a car for everybody

01:07:22.900 and maybe you don't mind

01:07:24.680 that you have to walk everywhere, right?

01:07:29.900 But it seems like there's some way

01:07:32.060 you could carve out the people

01:07:33.900 who aren't going to get healthcare

01:07:36.300 under a current costly system

01:07:38.300 or even enough food under a costly system

01:07:40.920 and just put them in their own little bucket

01:07:42.940 with fewer choices.

01:07:44.260 So I think they'd be okay

01:07:46.360 if they had fewer choices,

01:07:47.720 if the alternative is not having anything.

01:07:53.240 Yeah.

01:07:54.340 Anyway.

01:07:57.880 An appeals court is going to let Trump

01:08:00.520 revive his bid to overturn criminal convictions

01:08:04.000 in that hush money case.

01:08:06.460 The hush money case of 34,

01:08:08.840 34 convictions on that.

01:08:11.540 So Just the News is writing about this.

01:08:15.520 So the Second Circuit Court,

01:08:18.760 we're going to let him keep going on that.

01:08:20.960 So we'll see if that ever gets overturned.

01:08:22.660 It was a three-judge panel.

01:08:25.500 And the three-judge panel said

01:08:27.120 that the court had bypassed

01:08:28.620 what we consider to be important issues

01:08:30.540 bearing on the ultimate issue of good cause.

01:08:35.820 So they did not rule

01:08:37.240 on whether Trump is guilty or innocent.

01:08:40.280 They just ruled on...

01:08:41.660 They ruled on ruling, basically.

01:08:46.280 Here's a funny comment

01:08:47.500 from somebody on Twitchy,

01:08:49.520 Doug P.

01:08:50.740 He notes that Momdami 0.96

01:08:52.200 is asking people to send him money

01:08:54.100 so that they could get free stuff in return.

01:08:59.260 Which is a funny way to frame it.

01:09:01.600 And it's exactly right.

01:09:02.920 So the candidate who's promising you free stuff

01:09:05.420 can't give you free stuff

01:09:07.200 until you give him money.

01:09:08.140 Wait, that's not free.

01:09:11.240 Well, I guess you don't have to personally give him money.

01:09:13.920 But unless a lot of people give him money,

01:09:16.360 he won't be able to give you money back.

01:09:18.700 Now, I guess the promise is

01:09:20.600 if you give him enough money

01:09:21.940 and then he gets elected, which he did,

01:09:25.240 he would help you get some money back.

01:09:28.200 So basically, it's just a money laundering operation

01:09:30.880 that he's disguised as a candidacy.

01:09:34.940 That's what it looks like.

01:09:38.200 Anyway, that's what's happening there.

01:09:40.880 And then Fox News is reporting

01:09:48.920 that the reason the Democrats won big

01:09:51.700 on those three big elections recently

01:09:53.840 is that they focus on domestic economic policy.

01:09:58.660 Emma Bussey's writing this on Fox News.

01:10:01.000 Do you think that's it?

01:10:02.540 Do you think it's because they focus on domestic stuff

01:10:06.020 as opposed to international stuff?

01:10:08.320 I don't know.

01:10:08.920 I didn't really see that happening.

01:10:10.760 I don't remember anybody bringing up...

01:10:13.680 Oh, maybe they did

01:10:14.380 if you're talking about specifically Israel.

01:10:16.840 Yeah.

01:10:17.600 I'll withdraw my comment.

01:10:20.100 Yeah, it did turn into a lot of Israel talk

01:10:22.800 when it could have been a lot more about affordability.

01:10:25.940 Now, when I was praising Momdani's communication skills

01:10:31.540 about the word affordability,

01:10:33.380 somebody pushed back on me on X and said,

01:10:37.080 Scott, politicians have been promising affordability

01:10:40.440 since the beginning of time.

01:10:41.980 Why is that so new?

01:10:43.980 To which I said, really?

01:10:46.300 Which politician was using the word affordability?

01:10:50.040 Can you think of one?

01:10:52.220 Can anybody think of one who used the word,

01:10:54.580 not the concept?

01:10:56.060 I'm talking about the word affordability.

01:10:58.540 I don't remember anybody doing that.

01:11:01.320 They may have used it in a sentence once,

01:11:03.120 but it was never a key part of any platform

01:11:05.700 that I'm aware of.

01:11:07.860 And so my critic, after I said,

01:11:10.900 I'm not aware of anybody who used it,

01:11:13.080 said he did a search

01:11:14.820 and he put affordability in quotes

01:11:17.220 and asked if anybody had pushed affordability in quotes

01:11:20.680 as a politician.

01:11:22.660 And guess what?

01:11:23.240 It turns out that if you put it in quotes,

01:11:26.680 people have done it.

01:11:28.240 But that's not the same thing.

01:11:30.040 I'm talking about the actual choice

01:11:31.660 of the specific word affordability.

01:11:35.120 It doesn't count if you were talking about lowering costs.

01:11:39.560 You had to use the actual word.

01:11:40.960 I don't remember anybody doing it.

01:11:43.500 I saw some people saying Kemp and Clinton,

01:11:46.840 but I was alive then.

01:11:48.220 I don't remember that.

01:11:51.040 Don't remember it at all.

01:11:52.120 All right.

01:11:53.540 There's a study,

01:11:54.900 University of British Columbia,

01:11:56.180 Tom Leslie's writing about this,

01:11:57.960 that if you talk with your hands,

01:11:59.900 there's a way to do it

01:12:00.740 that makes you more persuasive.

01:12:03.140 Ooh.

01:12:03.800 But it's not just moving your hands randomly.

01:12:07.320 So I have a child lifting my arm now.

01:12:10.140 But if you were just going blah, blah, blah,

01:12:11.780 randomly with your hands,

01:12:12.780 that doesn't add anything.

01:12:14.200 But if you use your hands to tell the story,

01:12:17.520 apparently that registers quite strongly

01:12:20.440 as making you more persuasive.

01:12:21.900 So the example they use is if you caught a fish

01:12:25.260 and you're telling the story,

01:12:27.400 it helps to use your hands to show the size of the fish

01:12:30.780 because then it becomes like a visual slash verbal story.

01:12:34.540 So you kind of just asked me,

01:12:37.340 Scott,

01:12:37.740 if you use your hands to make the story more visual,

01:12:42.080 will it be more persuasive?

01:12:43.460 Yes.

01:12:44.340 I've been teaching you for years

01:12:46.000 that visual beats purely audio.

01:12:48.600 If you add the two of them together,

01:12:50.480 it's better than either one by themselves.

01:12:55.360 Japan's going to team up with the U.S.

01:12:57.100 to mine some rare earth in the Pacific.

01:13:01.320 So Bloomberg's reporting this.

01:13:03.240 That seems good.

01:13:04.100 They're going to go into that rare earth rich mud

01:13:06.120 that's 6,000 feet down.

01:13:08.180 I don't know how much work the U.S. is doing on that,

01:13:11.700 but I'm pretty happy

01:13:13.240 at how the administration is capitalizing on our allies,

01:13:19.320 which might be leaning on them.

01:13:22.600 We might be leaning on them a little bit,

01:13:24.580 but they need the rare earth too.

01:13:26.800 So if us plus them can get us both more rare earth,

01:13:31.200 win-win.

01:13:31.720 And I don't think there was a better way to do it.

01:13:35.460 Don't think there was a better way to do it.

01:13:37.900 But let me give you an instant prediction

01:13:40.600 that I've never made before

01:13:41.660 because I never thought about it until right now.

01:13:44.480 If the biggest problem in the world

01:13:46.400 turns out to be not enough rare earth minerals,

01:13:49.620 how long will it be

01:13:50.720 before Elon Musk looks at all of his assets

01:13:54.560 and says, you know,

01:13:57.420 robots could dig a lot of rare earth materials.

01:14:00.300 You know,

01:14:02.580 then electric cars could carry them away.

01:14:04.500 And now he's introducing the electric,

01:14:08.160 the all-electric big trucks,

01:14:09.960 the big rigs.

01:14:11.280 So he can transport it.

01:14:12.680 He can dig it.

01:14:13.940 He can dig it.

01:14:14.960 I don't know if they need satellites to locate it,

01:14:17.000 but he's got those.

01:14:17.780 And he would be the best engineer

01:14:21.560 to figure out how to do it safely,

01:14:23.360 maybe just with robots.

01:14:26.400 So my prediction is this.

01:14:28.140 If we don't get on top of this problem soon,

01:14:33.480 I think there will be pressure on Elon to solve it

01:14:36.920 because people will say,

01:14:38.620 we're pretty sure nobody else can solve this.

01:14:40.700 It would just be capability.

01:14:42.340 He'd be able to do it.

01:14:43.960 Maybe nobody else could.

01:14:45.560 They would just ask him to step in.

01:14:48.840 Could happen.

01:14:49.380 And let's see.

01:14:52.520 As you know,

01:14:53.720 the Columbian is reporting,

01:14:55.180 Kelly Livingston,

01:14:56.480 that the Department of Energy

01:14:57.800 wants to quadruple our nuclear power

01:15:00.340 over the next 25 years,

01:15:03.340 but that would require tripling our workforce

01:15:06.980 that are trained in nuclear stuff.

01:15:10.180 We are very underskilled for nuclear

01:15:13.300 compared to how much we want to build it out.

01:15:15.800 And so does that seem solvable?

01:15:21.460 I think if you took a bunch of engineers

01:15:23.360 or engineering students,

01:15:25.480 you said you got three or four years

01:15:27.780 to learn nuclear,

01:15:30.360 they'd be in pretty good shape

01:15:31.560 after three or four years.

01:15:33.180 So as long as we're producing them at the source

01:15:36.400 and then enough people are signing up

01:15:38.540 for those majors, we'll be fine.

01:15:40.300 Oh, here's some good news.

01:15:41.680 Kazakhstan is joining the Abraham Accords. 0.96

01:15:44.380 Kazakhstan.

01:15:46.720 Now, a lot of you are waiting for this.

01:15:48.540 A lot of people have said to me,

01:15:50.040 you know, I like those Abraham Accords, 0.76

01:15:52.980 but where's Kazakhstan?

01:15:54.680 Why is Kazakhstan so silent over this?

01:15:57.260 Well, Elbonia is also silent.

01:15:59.000 We have heard nothing about Elbonia,

01:16:00.660 but Kazakhstan, they're in.

01:16:04.680 Maybe there'll be more later.

01:16:06.340 We'll see.

01:16:07.860 All right.

01:16:09.380 People, people,

01:16:10.400 that's my one-handed show.

01:16:12.740 No, not what you think.

01:16:14.540 But it took me a little longer

01:16:15.800 to get it all done today

01:16:18.040 because I'm literally using one hand.

01:16:20.500 We're hoping that some of the treatments

01:16:21.980 will fix the other hand,

01:16:23.160 but I don't know.

01:16:24.400 Maybe, maybe yes.

01:16:25.540 I might be done drawing

01:16:26.800 because I can't draw with my left hand.

01:16:29.820 And at the moment,

01:16:31.500 I'm pretty sure I can't draw with my left hand,

01:16:34.060 but I'll try it today just to see.

01:16:36.120 So I might be retiring today

01:16:37.620 or I might be taking a month off

01:16:39.860 to see if I can get my muscles back.

01:16:43.780 But I'm going to have to work this out.

01:16:46.260 So we'll work it out together

01:16:48.820 one way or the other.

01:16:50.040 I can always sketch it more generally

01:16:53.320 and then have my art director finish it.

01:16:56.220 So there's always a plan.

01:16:59.440 It won't necessarily mean there's less Dilbert.

01:17:02.100 It might mean there's less of my artwork

01:17:04.800 that goes into the first draft, probably.

01:17:08.640 Probably.

01:17:09.480 And you already know

01:17:10.320 that I switched from right-handed

01:17:11.600 to left-handed to draw

01:17:12.600 because I burned out my right hand

01:17:14.360 just from regular drawing.

01:17:15.340 And yeah, well, you know,

01:17:23.300 nothing's perfect.

01:17:26.140 Nothing's perfect.

01:17:28.500 Everybody's got a problem.

01:17:30.220 All right, I'm going to say a few words privately

01:17:32.020 to the local subscribers

01:17:33.920 if I can get my one defective hand

01:17:37.020 to click the right place.

01:17:38.940 Let me get this hand.

01:17:42.180 One hand doesn't lift up

01:17:44.260 and the other hand is too weak.

01:17:48.200 All right.

01:17:49.900 So everybody else,

01:17:51.840 I'll see you, I hope, tomorrow.

01:17:54.200 I hope you got something out of the lessons.

01:17:57.720 Man, I wish I could find my cursor.

01:17:59.560 There it is.

01:18:01.140 And we're going to go privately

01:18:02.620 with your local supporters in 30 seconds.

01:18:14.260 Thank you.

01:18:16.060 Thank you.

01:18:18.120 Bye-bye.

01:18:18.700 Bye-bye.

01:18:19.900 Bye-bye.

01:18:20.180 Bye-bye.

01:18:26.360 Bye-bye.

01:18:28.780 Bye-bye.

01:18:31.220 Bye-bye.

01:18:31.500 Bye-bye.

01:18:33.720 Bye-bye.

01:18:34.920 Thank you.

01:19:04.920 Thank you.

01:19:34.920 Thank you.

01:20:04.920 Thank you.

Real Coffee with Scott Adams - November 07, 2025

Episode 3011 CWSA 11⧸07⧸25

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